Asamoah-Gyadu, Johnson Kwabena (2006) African Initiated Christianity in Eastern Europe: Church of the “Embassy of God” in Ukraine. International Bulletin of Mission Research, 30 (2). pp. 73-75. ISSN 2396-9407
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Changing paradigms in Christian mission challenge standard definitions of African Initiated Churches as "churches established by Africans in Africa for Africans." This essay revisits the older definitions in light of the ministry of Nigerian-born Pastor Sunday Adelaja, founder of a new type of African Christian initiative in Eastern Europe. He is the head of The Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, a neo-Pentecostal church in Kiev, Ukraine. The significance of this new type of ministry is understood against the backdrop of the "mission in reverse" theory. Unlike the majority of African Initiated Churches in the diaspora, God's Embassy is not predominantly African in membership. More than 90 percent of its 20 000 adult members in the Ukraine are indigenous Europeans. This fact has turned Pastor Adelaja into a religious icon in the country.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | "Mission in Reverse", African Pentecostal Church in Ukraine |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Conversion C Types of Christian Ministry > Church Planting D World Christianity and Central Eastern Europe > Europe G Christian traditions/Denominations > Pentecostal |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2020 20:16 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Nov 2021 11:02 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1778 |
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