Footnotes- Stakes of Mission Engagement:
1 Fohle is from the Democratic Republic of Congo. After having served with Congo Evangelical Covenant Church for fourteen years as pastor in three local churches, seminary teacher, administrator and mission director, he was set apart in 2003 to start the Centre Missionnaire au Coeur d’Afrique (Mission Center in the Heart of Africa—www.cemica.org). He also serves as visiting lecturer on mission and leadership in two interdenominational universities in Congo, Centre Universitaire de Missiologie in Kinshasa, and Université Shalom in Bunia. He contributes to the French version of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.dacb.org), and is writing a Doctor of Ministry dissertation at Beeson International Center of Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky, USA. He wants to produce a practical model of training leaders for mission-minded churches that restore, transform and multiply. He is married and has five growing children, two sons (22,20) and three daughters (17,15,14), living in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Contact:cemicago@yahoo.fr
2 Cited by Timothy Yates, Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century. (London: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
3 Lee Strobel, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993), p.162-163.
4 George Hunter III, “New Ways of Thinking About Church Growth,” in Maxie Dunnam
and Steve G. W. Moore, eds, A Thoughtful Faith: Cultivating Thinking Theologically (Franklin, TN: Eds. Providence House Publishers, 2005), p.28.
5 Today, in February 2008, the Restoration Missionary Church is a denomination of twenty-seven local congregations with about twenty-nine pastors and 4,000 members.
6 I am referring to Ralph Winter who has discussed the issue of understanding missiology in its three dimensions: intracultural missiology, transcultural missiology and cross-cultural missiology.
7 Patrick Johnstone, The Church is bigger then you think. Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1998.
