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The Missiological Society of Ghana (MSG)/West Africa Missiological Society (WAMS) is organizing its advertised 4th Biennial International Conference as follows:

Dates: October 04 and 05, 2023
Venue: Trinity United Church (TUC: On the Trinity Theological Seminary Campus)
Theme: “Christian Mission, Corruption, and the Church in Africa.”
Time: 9.00 am prompt, each day.

The following are to be noted:

• The Conference is being organized under the distinguished Chairmanship of Archbishop Torto, the Archbishop of the Accra Diocese of the Anglican Church who will chair the Opening Ceremony on October o4, 2023.
• Rev. Professor B. Y. Quarshie, the Rector of the Akrofi-Christaller Institute at Akropong-Akuapem will deliver the Keynote Address.
• The Conference Registration Fee is GHC250.00.
• Members are to pay their annual subscription of GHC100.00 at the Conference ground during the opening ceremony.
• Members and the general public may pay their registration fee and annual subscription fee in the account of the MSG. Payment Details are:
  Bank: ECOBANK
  A/C NO: 3074492812001
  BRANCH: A & C Mall, East Legon.

So far members and others who have submitted their Abstracts and are working on their
presentations include:

• Rev. Dr. Nii Aboagye Aryeh
• Mr. Frank Quainoo
• Mr. Jhonny Peprah
• Rev. Dr. Ransom Affram
• Mr. Israel Adewole
• Mr. Jeane-Ive Abraham-Appiah
• Mr. Christian Tsekpor, and
• Rev. Dr. Yaw Attah Edu-Bekoe.

Counting on the cooperation of ALL.

RSVP: Rev Dr Yaw Edu-Bekoe (General Secretary)

Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS), North American Board has voted to pursue an affiliation with the MSG/WAMS for the next 3 years. They have asked Dr. Enoch Wan to be the liaison between the EMS and MSG.  Ed Smither, the current President and EMS Board envision collaborating with MSG in the following ways:

• Mutually consulting on facilitating missiological conversations. This could be in the form of people like General Secretary (GS) joining us in Dallas for the annual EMS meeting or perhaps EMS members from North America participating in the West African meetings. I hope Dr. Wan might be able to join MSG for the next conference. Also our former President Bob Priest has been cooperating with African missiologists on some projects and he might also have interest in joining MSG for a future conference in Ghana. Since the GS participated with us in Dallas, we invite him to offer his input on how we approach missiology to conduct our conference, and the themes and topics that we address.
• Collaborate on some publications. We would invite our African colleagues to contribute articles to the EMS Occasional Bulletins. I am copying editor Allen Yeh and EMS Publications VP Anthony Casey for this. If the MSG has a publication that some of our members could contribute to, then we could share that as well.
• Sharing information and resources. We can make the mp3 audio files of the EMS 2019 conference available to our West African colleagues. Should MSG colleagues put something online in open source we would love to link to that as well.

In short, the EMS and MSG envisage mutually encouraging one another, sharing resources, and collaborating as they have the opportunity.

The MSG successfully organized its 2^nd Biennial International Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM)—01-03 October, 2019—with theme, “Migration and the Church in Africa: Facing Up to a Contemporary Challenge in Christian Missions.”

The conference was under the distinguished chairmanship of Apostle Prof. Opoku Onyinah, the former Chairman of the Church of Pentecost in the Trinity United Church (TUC). The following speakers played major roles in making the conference highly successful:

Keynote Speaker: Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, Chairman, National Peace Council.

Plenary Speakers:

• Very Rev. Prof. Kwabena Asamoah-gyadu, FGA, President, Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS).
• Rev. Prof. B. Y. Quarshie, Rector, Akrofi-Christaller Institute (ACI), Akuapem-Arkopong.
• Apostle Emmanuel Anim, Principal, Pentecost Seminary, Gomua-Fetteh.

The General Secretary (GS) attended the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS—North America) Conference—September 13-15, 2019—at the International Linguistic Center, Dallas, TX. The Theme was “Mission Amid Global Crises” with a sampling of tracks as:

• Biblical, Theological Historical Perspectives;
• Global and Strategic Perspectives;
• Arts Perspectives;
• Research Methodology in Missiology;
• Women and Mission Amid Global Crises.

The General Secretary made a presentation titled, “Brain Drain or Gain? Theological and Socio-Economic Analysis of African Migration/Diaspora and Missions in the 21^st Century” during the EMS conference.

The General Secretary, Yaw Attah Edu-Bekoe, published the Revised, Expanded, and Domestic edition of his book, Scattered Africans Keep Gathering: A Case Study of Diaspora Missiology on Ghanaian Migration and Protestant Congregations in the USA by the Missiological Society of Ghana (MSG).

It was launched on September 27, 2019 at the Trinity United Church (TUC) under the distinguished chairmanship of Mr. T. K. Gyau, a private businessman and the CEO of Okuman Co. Ltd.

In April, 2018, the MSG successfully published its maiden compendium titled Rethinking the Great Commission: Emerging African Perspectives. The volume consisted of 11 articles made up of the Presidential Inaugural Address by Rev. Prof. D. N. A. Kpobi, Plenary Address by Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, and nine (9) articles from the presentations from the 2017 Biennial International Conference. It was edited by Prof. Emmanuel K. Asante and Prof. David N. A. Kpobi.

Date: Tuesday November 28, 2017
Venue: Trinity Theological Seminary (TTS)
Time: 9.00 am
Highlights of Events:

• 20 Minute Paper Presentation – Rev. Sylvia Owusu-Ansah (Vice-President) 
• Reflections on the 500 Years of the Reformation – President 
• 2016/2017 Presidential Address 
• General Secretary’s Report for 2016/2017 
• Financial Report 
• Funding for Publication of the Presentations in the 2016 Conference 
• Elections

DATE: October 19 & 20, 2016

VENUE: Trinity Theological Seminary

THEME: \”RETHINKING \’THE GREAT COMMISSION:\’ Emerging African Perspectives.\”

RESEARCH AREAS:
Local Histories of Churches
Academic Biographies of Evangelists, Catechists, Pastors, Lay Leaders
Issues of Missiological Importance Relevant for Our Contemporary Period
Surveying the Broad Spectrum of the Nexus Between Missiology and Other Fields of Human Endeavor such as Music, Literature, Economics, Politics, Science, Migration, and Culture in their Manifold Dimensions.
A Critique of Missiology as Mediated to us from Sources Relevant for Mission Studies.
Annotation of Bibliographies and Archival Sources Relevant for Mission Studies
Exploiting the African Dimension in the Great Commission.

PRESENTATIONS: Possibly, about 14 Full Quality Papers received will be presented at One Conference Hall. These include an International one from Prof. Enoch Wan, the Immediate Past President of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS), North America (USA & Canada).

CONFERENCE FEE: GHC100.00

BANK DETAILS
BANKERS: ECOBANK
BRANCH: A & C Mall
ACCOUNT NAME: Missiological Society of Ghana
ACCOUNT #: 0153074492812001

The theme of the conference is “RETHINKING ‘’THE GREAT COMMISSION’’: EMERGING AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES.”

CONFERENCE RATIONALE

Kenneth Scott Latourette has described the period 1800-1900 as “the Great Century”; this period in ecclesiastical history witnessed a massive thrust of missionary activity into Africa and the rest of the two thirds world.  Two major mission conferences that occurred in the 20th century following the Great century are significant for students of missiology, particularly those on the African continent. Edinburgh 1910 has gone down in history as the mission conference that reinforced the misconceptions and stereotypes that many in the western world held about Africa. The Le Zoute Conference of 1926 struck a more positive note; it was more affirming of African religions, culture and heritage. Several other mission conferences have taken place ever since; to what extent was the African dimension a prime concern in these conferences? In other words, to what extent was the agenda in those conferences informed by the realities of the African situation? When Jesus said his disciples should go and make disciples of all nations, he must be understood to mean that the nations, apart from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, include those in Africa as well. After all the baby Jesus sojourned in Africa for a brief period of his infancy, and we are aware that Christianity made inroads into Africa in the 4th century, precisely in the Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum, a couple of centuries before it got to Europe. Unfortunately much of the modern history of the church, south of the Sahara, beginning from the 19th century is lost to us; what this conference aims to do is draw awareness to this hiatus and encourage students of missiology to turn attention more to this aspect of our history. A lot needs to be told of the exploits of local natives, many of them catechists, evangelists and lay people, who blazed the trail in the spread of the gospel to their own kith and kin. The other objective of the conference, which derives from the primary aim, is to explore and discuss the sources in which most of these stories lie buried. 
DATE: October 19 & 20, 2016

VENUE: Trinity Theological Seminary

RESEARCH AREAS:
Local Histories of Churches
Academic Biographies of Evangelists, Catechists, Pastors, Lay Leaders
Issues of Missiological Importance Relevant for Our Contemporary Period
Surveying the Broad Spectrum of the Nexus Between Missiology and Other Fields of Human Endeavor such as Music, Literature, Economics, Politics, Science, Migration, and Culture in their Manifold Dimensions.
A Critique of Missiology as Mediated to us from Sources Relevant for Mission Studies.
Annotation of Bibliographies and Archival Sources Relevant for Mission Studies
Exploiting the African Dimension in the Great Commission.

PRESENTATIONS:
Possibly, about 14 Full Quality Papers received will be presented at One Conference Hall. These include an International one from Prof. Enoch Wan, the Immediate Past President of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS), North America (USA & Canada).

CONFERENCE FEE: GHC100.00

BANK DETAILS
BANKERS: ECOBANK
BRANCH: A & C Mall
ACCOUNT NAME: Missiological Society of Ghana
ACCOUNT #: 0153074492812001