2024 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology
The American Society of Missiology honors
Al Tizon
As the 13th recipient of the annual Book Award for Excellence in Missiology
His book
The Rich, the Poor, and the Mission of the Church
Published by Orbis Books in 2023 is recognized for its significant contribution, and is noted for how it will affect how mission studies are examined, understood, and interpreted.
Presented June 15, 2024, Notre Dame, Indiana
2024 Lifetime Achievement Award
The American Society of Missiology presents this award to
Darrell L. Whiteman
For his commitment as a missiological anthropologist to incarnational identification as a model for cross-cultural ministry, and for a lifetime of teaching, writing, and training people as they cross cultures with the Gospel, and join God’s mission throughout the world.
Presented June 15, 2024, Notre Dame, Indiana
by Benjamin L. Hartley, ThD, President and Darren Duerksen, PhD, Secretary
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given annually to a member of the American Society of Missiology who has made a significant contribution to mission through their service to the ASM, mission practice, and missiological scholarship. The selection is made by the American Society of Missiology Board of Directors.
Fall meeting of Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission, Nov. 1-2, 2024
Students and professors from across the eastern United States are invited to attend the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission meeting Nov. 1–2, 2024. For a second consecutive year, “Mission Networks” will be the theme. Dr. Soojin Chung, the OMSC director, will lead a panel on the missional implications of the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, which will be held Sept. 22–28 in South Korea. The fourth Congress will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Lausanne Movement (https://lausanne.org/gathering/seoul-2024). Dr. Margaret (Meg) Guider, OSF, Associate Professor of Missiology at Boston College will lead a panel on the missional implications of the Synodality Movement in the Roman Catholic Church (https://www.synod.va/en.html). Dr. Aaron T. Hollander, associate director of the Graymoor Institute on Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations, a retreat and conference center in Garrison, N.Y., will discuss the Institute’s missional implications. He is president of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, editor of the bimonthly journal Ecumenical Trends, and adjunct faculty at Fordham University. The annual gathering will be held for a second year at the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement (https://www.atonementfriars.org/), at Graymoor.
For details about the meeting and registration, email convener Dr. Titus Presler, executive director of the Global Episcopal Mission Network, [email protected].
Posted 26 March 2024.