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M. L. Daneel | African Initiated Churches & African Earthkeeping Movements | Graham Joseph Hill

Rev Dr Graham Joseph Hill OAM
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M. L. “Inus” Daneel and Graham Joseph Hill discuss the growth, dynamism, challenges, and contextualization of African Initiated Churches (AICs) and African Earthkeeping Movements. Professor Daneel is an inspiration, having spent much of his life serving & living among African initiated churches. On www.theglobalchurchproject.com In the early 1980s, the movement he started planted around 15 million trees, produced 100,000 seedlings per year, and mobilized a “green army” seeking to heal the land and the population after the devastation of war. This involved planting trees, conserving land, forging peace, seeking reconciliation, and encouraging forgiveness. The earth-and-people-healing ministry provided new impetus and direction to church life and mission, as well as numerical church growth. These churches excel in developing original, contextualized theologies at the grassroots of African society. M. L. “Inus” Daneel is a professor of missiolo …...more
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M. L. Daneel | African Initiated Churches & African Earthkeeping Movements | Graham Joseph Hill
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M. L. “Inus” Daneel and Graham Joseph Hill discuss the growth, dynamism, challenges, and contextualization of African Initiated Churches (AICs) and African Earthkeeping Movements. Professor Daneel is an inspiration, having spent much of his life serving & living among African initiated churches. On www.theglobalchurchproject.com In the early 1980s, the movement he started planted around 15 million trees, produced 100,000 seedlings per year, and mobilized a “green army” seeking to heal the land and the population after the devastation of war. This involved planting trees, conserving land, forging peace, seeking reconciliation, and encouraging forgiveness. The earth-and-people-healing ministry provided new impetus and direction to church life and mission, as well as numerical church growth. These churches excel in developing original, contextualized theologies at the grassroots of African society. M. L. “Inus” Daneel is a professor of missiology at the Boston University School of Theology. Born on a Dutch Reformed mission station, Dr. Daneel is a well-known ecumenical figure who functions as a bishop in an African-Initiated Church, the Ndaza (Holy Cord) Zionists. A patron of the Network of Earthkeeping Christian Communities in South Africa, he is committed to environmental preservation and African contextual theology. Daneel spends six months a year in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, and six months a year in Boston. Graham Joseph Hill is the Founder and Director of The GlobalChurch Project (website https://theglobalchurchproject.com). The GlobalChurch Project films Christian leaders and churches from Africa and Asia and Latin America. We also film in the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, First Nations, Indigenous communities, the Middle East, and Oceania, and in diaspora and immigrant communities. Today, these non-Western cultures are the Majority World. The GlobalChurch Project presents resources to support these films. Small group resources. Curriculum for college classes. Books. Training videos. A blog. Coaching. Consultancy. College and short courses.

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Rev Dr Graham Joseph Hill OAM

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