Becoming a missional church : the struggle of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa or Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Meadowlands, Soweto
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Kganyapa, Leonard Tsdiso
Kgatla, Selaelo Thias
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AOSIS Open Journals
Abstract
The existence of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA) and Paris
Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the western areas of Johannesburg, South Western
Township (Soweto) and, more poignantly, Meadowlands and their forced removal experience
are succinctly captured. The struggle of the LECSA and PEMS Meadowlands Parish in
becoming a missional ecclesia in a sea of missional challenges in her context is vividly spelt
out. They, inter alia, include constitutional matters, language policy, finances, ministerial
preparation, lay-ministry development, institutionalisation of ministry, unity issues, prophetic
ministry, mission and evangelism. The researcher, then, proposes an intervention – of course
not a perfect one – that perhaps will galvanise the LECSA and PEMS Meadowlands Parish
members to improve on what they have been doing and become a missional ecclesia in her
context, Meadowlands.
Description
This article represents reworked aspects of the MA thesis of Rev L.T. Kganyapa, titled ‘The struggle of the Lesotho Evangelical
Church in Southern Africa (LECSA)/Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in Meadowlands, Soweto, in becoming a missional
ecclesia in a local context’, completed under the supervision of Prof. Dr T.S. Kgatla, Department of Science of Religion and Missiology,
Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Keywords
Missional challenges, Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA), Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS), Missional church
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Kganyapa, L.T. & Kgatla, T.S.,
2016, ‘Becoming a missional
church: The struggle of the
Lesotho Evangelical Church in
Southern Africa or Paris
Evangelical Missionary
Society in Meadowlands,
Soweto’, HTS Teologiese
Studies/Theological Studies
72(4), a3777. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v72i4.3777.