The Binga Outreach : towards intercultural mission in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe
Date
2011
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Publisher
Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust
Abstract
This article addresses the challenges that confront the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe
(RCZ) in reaching out to other groups of people in Zimbabwe. They discovered that
they were defaulting to the missionary paradigm of the Dutch Reformed Church
(DRC) that founded the RCZ more than a hundred years ago. In reaching out to the
Tonga people in the Binga area south of the Zambezi River and the Kariba Dam, their
basic approach is described as a cross-cultural mission. The principles of intercultural
mission, based on passages such as Acts 15, challenge this approach. The article
deals with the implications in practice and the challenges that still confront the RCZ.
Description
CITATION: Munikwa, C. & Hendriks, H. J. 2011. The Binga outreach : towards intercultural mission in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe. Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 52(3):453-464, doi:10.5952/52-3-55.
The original publication is available at http://ngtt.journals.ac.za
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
The original publication is available at http://ngtt.journals.ac.za
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
Keywords
Missions -- Zimbabwe, Binga District (Zimbabwe), Reformed Church in Zimbabwe, Tonga (Zambezi people)
Citation
Munikwa, C. & Hendriks, H. J. 2011. The Binga outreach : towards intercultural mission in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe. Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 52(3):453-464, doi:10.5952/52-3-55.