Mission FOCUS Annual Review 2004 Volume 12 Editor Walter Sawatsky Book Review Editor Titus Guenther Consulting Editors Lois Barrett Delores Friesen Nancy Heisey Alan Kreider Address correspondence to: Mission Focus: Annual Review 3003 Benham Ave. Elkhart, Indiana 46517-1999 USA waltersawatsky@cs.com Send Reviews to: tguenther@cmu.edu Subscription rate: $8.00 per year hhoover@ambs.edu Mission Focus: Annual Review is published annually Contents Editorial ............................. 3 Some Key AIMM Decisions of the Past ............ 6 Jim Bertsche Ten Years with AIMM - Reflections on Trends and Possibilities ................................. 9 Garry Prieb Big Changes coming to AIMM ................. 21 Dave Dyck Partnership Africa - A New AIMM Structure ...... 23 Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission ‘But if it Dies, It Bears Much Fruit’ - A Word for North American Mennonite Missions Agencies? ........ 37 Peter Rempel A Personal Look at African Spiritual Churches - Reflections, Challenges, Hopes ................. 46 J. Bryan Born Conversation and Community: Sharing Gifts in the Global Family .................................... 56 Tim C. Lind Reflections on Mennonite Ministries ............. 59 Waldo Neufeld From Refugees to Ambassadors: Mennonite Missions in Brazil, 1930-2000 ............................ 71 Victor Wiens Mennonite Mission Work in Europe ............. 88 J. Robert Charles Revelation and Reconciliation: The Vision of Concord in Abrahamic Traditions ......................... 94 Roy Hange Mennonite Middle East Witness as Reconciling Presence - A Review Essay ............................ 104 Alain Epp Weaver