Speaker 2012
We are pleased to announce that we have recruited CB Samuel as our main speaker at the MICN 2012 conference. 
MICN conferences each year pick up one of our four main areas of concern. CB Samuel will focus on the first though he also has many good insights and a wealth of experience in the others. The four are:
- Theology of mission.
- Contextualisation in church life and mission.
- Mobilising the whole church.
- Incarnational engagement rather than programmes and formulas.
At the last conference Bob Roberts whetted our appetites for two things in particular: (1) the discipleship of Kingdom of God and (2) the challenge of our cities. CB Samuel will take us deeper on the first and we plan to focus on the second at the 2013 conference in Kuwait.
CB Samuel and his wife Selina live in Delhi and are involved in ministries of mentoring younger leaders in mission and Christian living. From 1985-2001, CB was the Director of EFICOR (Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief). Now CB serves as Minister-at-large with Emmanuel Hospital Association and with Inspire India. His role is to provide Biblical resources for leadership and mission. CB is the chair of Micah Challenge in India. CB and Selina have three children and two grandchildren.
CB’s passion? “What excites me most about mission is that the God of the Bible is the God of history and therefore mission is directing history to God purposes. And in this engagement which is wholistic, the Church is central both in discerning God’s work in history and in demonstrating God’s kingdom.”
At MICN we have a passion for what is at the heart of mission: its theology and its holistic transformational breadth that integrates Gospel word and deed? How might we integrate the international church with the mission of God throughout His creation and in the cities where we live? What might it mean to make disciples of such a diverse people who learn the ways of Jesus in the 21st century?
The end depends on the beginning. The answer depends on the question. Mission practice, to be effective and faithful to the Scriptures, needs to move beyond the common secondary questions to the primary core question for all mission; “Who is the God who in Christ is Lord of heaven and earth and what is He doing with His world?” We hope to stimulate good questions and excellent discussion on the Gospel and its impact on persons and communities.
CB Samuel is a renowned thinker and speaker on these questions. He has the on-the-ground experience to ensure depth and substance in his thinking and has contributed at many conferences in different parts of the world. And so we very much look forward to being stimulated and challenged by him at MICN in 2012.
If you’d like to check out articles by CB Samuel before MICN, you can download a pdf of his article on Prayer and Social Transformation or Building a Nation.
