Category Archives: Dr. Wan’s Writings

Global People and Diaspora Missiology, From Edinburgh 2010 to Tokyo 2010

Enoch Wan. On the occasion of Tokyo 2010 being a centennial celebration of Edinburgh 1910, it is fitting to propose “diaspora missiology” and “relational realism” as new paradigms to supplement “traditional missiology” to cope with the new reality of “global people” (i.e. people moving on a global scale orglobal demographic trends) in the 21st Century.Continue reading “Global People and Diaspora Missiology, From Edinburgh 2010 to Tokyo 2010”

The Phenomenon of the Diaspora: Missiological Implications for Christian Missions

Enoch Wan. Diaspora in a large scale is a recent phenomenon of short history, of several decades; yet with strong socio-cultural impact on many countries and people groups. It is important to provide definition of some key-terms and state the assumptions of this paper at the outset. Etymologically, “diaspora” (from Greek) means scattering and theContinue reading “The Phenomenon of the Diaspora: Missiological Implications for Christian Missions”

Missions from the Majority World: Progress, Challenges, and Case Studies

Enoch Wan and Michael Pocock, eds. The churches from the whole world are joined in the effort to reach the whole world. Although it has been documented that Western missionaries serving outside their countries still comprise the majority of world missions workers, the growth rate of majority world missionaries far out paces that of theContinue reading “Missions from the Majority World: Progress, Challenges, and Case Studies”

Scattered Africans Keep Coming

Yaw Attah Edu-Bekoe and Enoch Wan. The purpose of this book is to provide an ethnographic description of Ghanaian Diaspora and Protestant congregations in the USA. This book on African diaspora is a “case study” of diaspora missiology in action. Two African diaspora congregations in Europe and five Ghanaian Presbyterian congregations in the USA areContinue reading “Scattered Africans Keep Coming”

Engaging the Secular World through Life-on-Life Disciple-Making in the British Context: Relational Paradigm in Action

Enoch Wan and Shane Mikeska. The purpose of this book is to propose a contemporary approach to engage the secular world through relational “life-on-life disciple-making” in the British context as a way to illustrate relational paradigm in action.

Serving China’s Internal Diaspora: Motive, Means And Methods

Enoch Wan and Joe Dow. This paper is different from earlier publications, because it is neither general in scope on Chinese diaspora  nor on urban centers in the US;  but on internal diaspora in China’s urban centers. The purposes of this paper are: first to analyze some of the issues facing China’s internal diaspora thenContinue reading “Serving China’s Internal Diaspora: Motive, Means And Methods”

Inter-Disciplinary and Integrative Missiologicial Research: The ‘What,’ Why,” and ‘How.

Enoch Wan. This paper will begin with defining key terms, followed by explanation of the “what,” “why” and “how” of inter-disciplinary and integrative missiological research. Hopefully Christian scholars of multiple disciplines will collaborate in conducting research and Christian leaders will become better stewards of resources and opportunities by making informed decision based on validly collectedContinue reading “Inter-Disciplinary and Integrative Missiologicial Research: The ‘What,’ Why,” and ‘How.”

Conflict Paradigm for Theology of Religions

Enoch Wan and Samuel Wang. In the early 1990s, the renowned missiologist David Bosch observed that “the revival religion is not only a Christian phenomenon. On the contrary, it would seem that it is especially the other religions that are experiencing revitalization.”  According to http://www.religioustolerance.org, a website promoting religious tolerance rather than just one religion,Continue reading “Conflict Paradigm for Theology of Religions”

The Practice of Diaspora Missions in Local Congregation: From Beginning to Base

Enoch Wan. Local congregation is an excellent place to first begin then become the base of diaspora missions in metropolitan context. This paper will begin with a study of the Book of Acts for historical precedence then propose practical ways to practice diaspora missions. http://ojs.globalmissiology.org/index.php/english/article/view/1951/4375

Diaspora Missiology and International Student Ministry (ISM)

Enoch Wan. The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of diaspora missiology for the sake of applying it to “international student ministry” (ISM) which is a reference to Christian ministry among internationals (foreign passport holders with a student or work visa) within an academic context. The theoretical framework as explained in thisContinue reading “Diaspora Missiology and International Student Ministry (ISM)”