Evaluation of CEEAMS Budapest 2010 -- Ft. Dr. Vladimir Fedorov

My evaluation of the Annual CEEAMS conference Budapest 24-26 November, 2010.

Dear CEEAMS President Dr. Anne-Marie Kool,

Many thanks to You and to all organizers for the preparing and holding of our Annual CEEAMS conference Budapest 24-26 November, 2010.
The very fact of carrying out Annual CEEAMS conference makes a member of Association and a participant of the conference grateful to you. To prepare a conference is a hard job, involving finding financial support, gathering participants from about all of the East and the Central Europe.
It is obvious that such meetings of missiologists from various countries representing the basic Christian Churches are always very actual (especially for us post-communist countries who have so much in common). But it is especially actual in the year of a centenary of the conference in Edinburgh. The choice of a theme of a meeting and structure of work of conference proved successful. It is joyful to see new and young participants that testifies to significant development of our Association.
Inclusion in the program «Symposium Edinburgh 2010 and the Future of Theological Education in the 21st Century in Central and Eastern Europe» and invitation Prof. Dr. Darrell Guder, dean emeritus at the Princeton Theological Seminary, with the report «An overseas perspective» was especially important.
Work in the groups was exclusively interesting and promising, proposing new missionary projects and presenting necessary applications.
And par excellence I'd like to acknowledge my gratitude for the given opportunity to receive as a gift and get both in a private use and for our libraries theological literature. A lack of missiological and theological literature in European languages in general is one of the main problems in the post-communistic countries.
As always, inspiring were personal meetings of participants from different countries. Being in contact with, say our Romanian and Bulgarian colleagues, I was happy to talk with the participant from Georgia, missiological and cultural dialoguing with whom enriched me with fresh and very important experience.
A special gratitude to all those your colleagues who participated in preparation and carrying out the conference (Gabriella, Monika and others, I feel guilty I cannot call everyone by name).
I wish all of you further growth and prosperity of your institute and Association.

With hope to participate actively in its work,
Yours in Christ and in missiology
Archpriest Vladimir Fedorov