Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-328) and index

Living and writing the vision: the missiological pilgrimage of Wilbert Shenk /Walter Sawatsky --pt. 1.Mission history in global perspective: for a shared view of the Missio Dei: Wilbert Shenk, mission historian.Encounter with Christ: Luke as mission historian for the twenty-first entury /Dana L. Robert --Evangelical and ecumenical: the rise and fall of the early church model /Andrew F. Walls --What if the three worlds of Christian history converged? /Walter Sawatsky --Global Mennonite History Project: what are we learning? /John A. Lapp --God's mission through migration: African initiatives in globalizing mission /Jehu J. Hanciles --pt. 2.Issues in evangelical and ecumenical mission theology: Wilbert Shenk, mission administrator and theologian.Evangel as gospel of peace /Willard M. Swartley --"And they marveled ...": Mammon as miracle in western missionary encounter /Jonathan J. Bonk --Critical theologizing: knowing God in multiple global and local contexts /Charles E. Van Engen --World congresses of mission: reconvergence under what perspective? /James J. Stamoolis --pt. 3.Exploring trends in mission and ecclesiology: Wilbert Shenk, the churchman.Church growth theories and Indonesia /Lawrence M. Yoder --Anabaptist perspective on conversing with Muslims /Jon Hoover --Authentic witness, authentic evangelism, authentic church /Arthur McPhee --Toward a pneumatological-spiritual missiology /Pablo A. Deiros --Reflections on relating long term to messianic communities /David A. Shank --Missional practice: a Pasadena Mennonite Church story /James E. Brenneman --pt.Mission to the West: missional church perspectives and challenges: Wilbert Shenk and mission to the West.Sociocultural theories and mission to the West /Paul G. Hiebert --Defining missional church /Lois Y. Barrett --Postmodern forms of the church /Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger --Contours of ministry in a postmodern age /Alan J. Roxburgh --West Europe in missional perspective: themes from Mennonite mission, 1950-2004 /Alan Kreider --Mission in Europe: reflecting on the missiological legacy of Wilbert Shenk /Neal Blough --pt. 5.Facilitating the conversations.Beyond sodalities and modalities: organizing for mission in the twenty-first century /Paul E. Pierson --Wilbert Shenk and the American Society of Missiology /Darrell Whiteman --Evangelical and ecumenical dimensions of walking with AICs /James R. Krabill --Unanticipated journey for sharing an Anabaptist and liberationist perspective on the gospel /John Driver --Member care /Al Dueck.