The East Asian Christianity Conference will explore comparative research on Christianity’s development and significance in East Asia for application to church ministry and mission today. Scholars from East and West will interact around important themes to further a deeper, more comprehensive understanding of East Asian Christianity with all its promise and problems, vitality and vicissitudes.

Asian and Western Church leaders together will gather to re-imagine and foster creative Christian outreach and leadership drawing upon both the most current academic research and the lived practice and ministry of those in front-line ministry.

Through this collaborative endeavor, prominent scholars from East and West, church leaders, and front-line missionaries along with students and faculty from the Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI), will engage in critical discussions about Christianity’s place and promise in East Asia. The reimagination of Christian outreach and leadership will be informed by both academic research and practical ministry experiences. The conference will also include times of corporate worship and prayer.