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Editorial 127 Editorial When this issue of MISSION STUDIES is published, it is less than a year to go to our VIII IAMS Conference to take place in Hawaii, August 4-11 (12),1992. We hope you have already taken note of this important date. Some have raised the question why we go to Hawaii which has the reputa- tion of being the pleasure ground of the rich. Is this a good place for an international conference of missiologists to meet? Allow me to share some of the considerations which made the IAMS Executive take this decision. Those present at our last conference in Rome might recall that two proposals were tabled in regard to the venue of our next conference: Honolulu and Recife. There was an official invitation from the Hawaii Council of Churches and the Hawaii Loa College to hold the next congress in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Another proposal was presented by an active member of IAMS to go to Olinda, Brazil, on oral invitation by Dom Helder Camara. In the plenary there were arguments in favor of both places. Some argued in favor of having the next congress in Latin America in view of the 500th anniversary in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mission Studies Brill

Editorial

Wietzke, Joachim
Mission Studies , Volume 8 (1): 127 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0168-9789
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127 Editorial When this issue of MISSION STUDIES is published, it is less than a year to go to our VIII IAMS Conference to take place in Hawaii, August 4-11 (12),1992. We hope you have already taken note of this important date. Some have raised the question why we go to Hawaii which has the reputa- tion of being the pleasure ground of the rich. Is this a good place for an international conference of missiologists to meet? Allow me to share some of the considerations which made the IAMS Executive take this decision. Those present at our last conference in Rome might recall that two proposals were tabled in regard to the venue of our next conference: Honolulu and Recife. There was an official invitation from the Hawaii Council of Churches and the Hawaii Loa College to hold the next congress in Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Another proposal was presented by an active member of IAMS to go to Olinda, Brazil, on oral invitation by Dom Helder Camara. In the plenary there were arguments in favor of both places. Some argued in favor of having the next congress in Latin America in view of the 500th anniversary in

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