Missionary Gospel – the challenge of changing contexts
In the summer of 2002 my family and I moved to Zambia, where my wife Lyn and I were to work as a lecturers in the Anglican Seminary of St. John the Evangelist in the Copperbelt city of Kitwe. That sentence, a simple statement of fact, is problematical. What do I mean by summer? An Irish summer is somewhat different from the tropical rainy season which constitutes Zambia’s summer. But the real problem with that statement is that it does not actually tell you at what time of year we moved from Ireland to Zambia. The two countries being in different hemispheres, what is summer in one place is winter in the other. So I have to be more precise and say that we moved sometime towards the end of June, mid-summer in Ireland, mid-winter in Zambia.
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Keith Scott
Incumbent of Rathkeale, Diocese of Limerick, and inter-faith officer for that diocese.