CWM Life-flourishing Creation and Economy-Africa Region

09/04/2026

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Professor Jooseop KeumGeneral Secretary for Council for World Mission and Professor Extraodinarius at UNISATopic:Eudaimopolitics vs Necropolitics: Witnessing...

04/04/2026

You are warmly invited to join the Council for World Mission (CWM) and the University of South Africa (UNISA) for what promises to be one of the most impactful, inspiring, and transformative partnerships. Through this collaboration, we envision training a new generation of global PhD students in Transformative Ecumenism, while also providing scholarships to deserving students in support of this important initiative. We invite you to attend this event in person to hear first-hand about the vision, purpose, and opportunities that this partnership seeks to create. Kindly RSVP and join us for this significant occasion.

26/03/2026

The second day of the Revisioning Mission Consultation with the Presbyterian Church of Mauritius continued with rich reflection and honest engagement as Rev. Dr. George Marchinkowski from the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) shared on the experience of the UPCSA in its journey with the Council for World Mission.

Drawing from the UPCSA’s own walk with CWM, Rev. Dr. Marchinkowski encouraged the church to move beyond a maintenance orientation toward a more courageous and faithful missional orientation. His presentation challenged participants to see the church not merely as an institution to be preserved, but as a living witness called to participate in God’s transforming mission in the world.

In a time when many churches can easily become preoccupied with survival, structures, and internal concerns, the call to become missional is a call to renewal, boldness, and deeper engagement with the realities of our communities. It is a call to be a church that listens, discerns, responds, and embodies the Gospel in ways that nurture justice, dignity, and life in fullness.

As the consultation continues, we remain grateful for these shared ecumenical insights that strengthen the church’s witness and deepen our collective commitment to God’s mission.

25/03/2026

The first day of the Revisioning Mission Consultation with the Presbyterian Church of Mauritius opened as more than a gathering; it was a call to discern anew what faithfulness demands in a world wounded by injustice, ecological devastation, and deepening inequality.

We were privileged to begin with a keynote by Dr Kapambwe Kondolo, whose contribution challenged the church not to remain captive to safe and comfortable understandings of mission, but to recover its prophetic vocation in the midst of the cries of the people and the groaning of creation. His reflections reminded us that mission cannot be reduced to maintenance of institutions, but must be embodied as courageous witness, justice-seeking discipleship, and solidarity with communities pushed to the margins.

In a time marked by economic exclusion, environmental destruction, and the ongoing violence of empire, the church is called not merely to observe the signs of the times, but to respond with boldness, hope, and transformative action. Revisioning mission, therefore, is not an abstract exercise. It is a spiritual, theological, and ethical imperative.

As the consultation continues, we pray that this shared journey between the Presbyterian Church of Mauritius and the Council for World Mission will renew the church’s commitment to God’s mission of justice, peace, and life in fullness for all creation.

11/03/2026

A work visit to the CWM Office by the UCCSA General Secretary Rev.Kudzani Ndebele CWM Independent Director /NPC Chair for the Africa Office.

03/03/2026

Today at the CWM Africa Office! ✨🌍
We had the honor of hosting a meeting to discuss the upcoming Black Theology Leadership Institute (BTLI) conference happening in Johannesburg from June 14th to 17th with South African Coordinator for BTLI Dr Cliff and Dr. Latimore, the BTLI Director ( Princeton Theological Seminary ) USA . CWM believes in building a partnership that amplifies the important work that is in pursuit of justice and transformation.

BTLI and the conference: BTLI is a dynamic initiative rooted in the commitment to create a critical thought and action around Black theology and its intersection with pressing global issues.

18/02/2026

Ash Wednesday

We Remember What Empire Made Us Forget

Today ashes are placed upon our bodies not as ritual performance, but as resistance to illusion.

We are reminded that we are dust. Not masters of the earth, but participants in its sacred life. Yet empire teaches us to forget this truth. It teaches us to consume without restraint, to accumulate without accountability, and to live as if the earth exists only to serve human ambition.

Ash Wednesday exposes this lie.

It reminds us that the same dust that forms our bodies forms the soil, the forests, the rivers, and all living beings. To violate the earth is to violate ourselves. To destroy creation is to deny our own sacred origin.

Lent begins as an invitation to repentance not only from personal wrongdoing, but from the systems, economies, and habits that deny life to creation and to the most vulnerable among us.

Today, we turn back to God.
Today, we turn back to the earth.
Today, we begin again.

Prayer:
God of dust and breath, humble our hearts, restore our relationship with creation, and guide us back to your ways of justice and life. Amen.

04/02/2026

Applications are now open for the Council for World Mission (CWM) internship programme 2026, a six- to 12-month immersive opportunity for young adults seeking to explore faith, leadership, and mission within a global and intercultural context.

12/12/2025

As the School of Intersectional Ecotheology and Eco-Justice Witness comes to a close today, we pause in gratitude and hope.

From months of online engagement to three weeks of intense, embodied learning together in Johannesburg, this journey has been a sacred pilgrimage of thought, struggle, prayer, and action. We concluded not in a lecture hall, but in an outdoor worship service under open skies, with the earth as our sanctuary affirming that theology must always return to the land, the people, and the cries of creation.

We give thanks for the faculty who walked with courage, generosity, and prophetic clarity, and for the participants who did more than study: they read in order to resist, conversed in order to heal, and learned in order to transform the world.

This school was not about accumulating knowledge, but about forming witnesses, rooted in justice, accountable to the earth, and committed to life-flourishing communities.

As we go forth, the work continues.
Another theology is possible.
Another world is necessary.
And together, we dare to live into it.

15/10/2025

At the 27th General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Council for World Mission (CWM) joined the global Reformed family in a prophetic workshop on Campaigning for Justice in the Economy and in the Earth.

Representing CWM, Mission Secretary for Life-Flourishing Creation and Economy (LFCE), served as one of the panelists engaging participants on how faith communities can respond to the intersecting injustices of economic exploitation and ecological destruction.

The workshop affirmed that ecological and economic crises are inseparable, both rooted in systems of empire that exploit people and plunder the Earth. Participants reflected on the call of the Accra Confession and the New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) process, urging churches to resist these systems and to embody economies of life grounded in justice, equity, and planetary flourishing.

Through such engagements, CWM continues to live out its mission to challenge empire and promote life-affirming alternatives that seek justice in the economy and justice for the Earth.

29/08/2025

From 18–29 August 2025, faith leaders and activists from every corner of the globe met at the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management for an Economy of Life (GEM School).

This was more than a classroom—it was a kairos space, a meeting of hearts, minds, and spirits seeking to dismantle systems of death and reimagine pathways towards an Economy of Life.

In Pocheon-Si, they interrogated the idols of our age—unchecked growth, inequality, ecological destruction—and rediscovered wisdom from theology, ecology, feminist economics, and indigenous traditions. They were challenged to resist the false narrative that “there is no alternative,” and to embody instead Sabbath, Jubilee, and shared abundance as acts of holy defiance.

Rev. Dr. Park Seong-won reminded the gathering: “If you unite wealth, you divide the people; but if you divide wealth, you unite the people.”
Dr. Chang Yoon-Jae urged to reimagine development beyond endless growth, and to embrace rhythms of rest, balance, and sufficiency.

Each participant left committed to shaping concrete projects in their own contexts—projects that resist empire and nurture life-flourishing communities.

The GEM school is an ecumenical movement of the Council for World Mission, World Council of Churches, Lutheran World Federation, World Methodist Council, and World Communion of Reformed Churches.

The struggle continues, but so does the vision: another world is not only possible—it is breaking in among us.