The 2012 CEEAMS meeting and conference cancelled

Dear CEEAMS friends and colleagues, many greetings to all of you. We hope that you are doing well and succeeding to do all the responsibilities and tasks which the new semester has been challenging us with. As most of you would know, our annual CEEAMS meeting and conference was scheduled for 28-30 November 2012 in Budapest. However, we are very sorry to inform you that due to financial and organizational issues the meeting had to be cancelled. It means that there will be no annual CEEAMS conference this year. We apologize for this unfortunate development and for any inconveniences it may cause, but we hope very much that there will be a CEEAMS meeting/conference again next year. On the positive side, there has also been some encouraging development within CEEAMS. First of all, it seems that our journal, Acta Missiologiae (AM), is on the right track to become a full-fledged academic journal. Recently, it has been accepted for indexing in the ATLA Religion Database. Also, Scott Klingsmith, editor, and Valentin Kozhuharov, editor assistant, announced that they have already gathered enough material to have the next issue out early next year. The whole AM team has been working hard and they deserve our appreciation. Moreover, their work is bearing fruit. However, maintaining and further improving the good standard of AM is the responsibility of all of us as CEEAMS members. Therefore, we would like to encourage you to continue submitting your articles and book reviews to be published in AM. In addition, if you have colleagues and/or students, whose field of research is relevant for the scope of AM and who might be interested in publishing in our journal, please encourage them to contact the editor (Scott Klingsmith, sklingsmith@gmail.com; for book reviews, please contact the book review coordinator Pavol Bargár, bargarp@yahoo.com). Secondly, some of the CEEAMS members participated in the IAMS 2012 conference and general assembly in Toronto last August. It was a very fruitful and successful conference. We have established many new contacts and friendships. We hope we succeeded at least a tiny bit in giving our IAMS colleagues a better understanding of what is going on in missiology in CEE. In addition, we took about a dozen copies of AM to the conference to distribute to people, and we are happy to say that there was a great interest in it! We believe that this positive development will inspire and encourage all of you in your research and ministry. Once again, our apologies for the canceled conference this year, but we hope to meet all of you (and maybe some new colleagues) next year. In the meantime, please visit our website (www.ceeams.org), which we will try to keep updated. With all the best wishes and blessings, on behalf of the organizers, Pavol Bargár (Secretary of CEEAMS)

2012 IAMS Assembly in Toronto

Dear friends and colleagues, as you would know, a major missiological event took place a few months ago, namely the quadrennial IAMS assembly and conference (15-19 August 2012, Toronto). Some of the CEEAMS members also participated in this event. You can visit the Assembly website at https://sites.google.com/a/iams2012.org/toronto-2012/. There you can find some more information as well as photos from the Assembly. For the report of the Listening Committee, see http://missionstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/listeners-report.pdf. For further information on the Assembly as well as more general information on the IAMS, please visit http://www.missionstudies.org/.