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of life, lead us to justice and is the theme of the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, which will meet from 30 October to 8 November 2013 at Busan, Republic of Korea. The WCC assembly meets every seven years to set the future agenda of the council, to elect governance officials and to speak with a public voice on behalf of churches. It is also an opportunity for the whole fellowship of churches, mission bodies and other partners in the ecumenical movement to come together in prayer and celebration. Moreover, through the assembly, worldwide churches and Christian communities will read the signs of times and listen to the words of God. At the heart of the assembly stands the assembly theme, which will guide theological and spiritual reflections for the future of the ecumenical movement. The theme has been chosen by the WCC central committee because of the urgency of life today. The struggles for life, the cries of suffering people and creation are not decreasing; yearnings for a better world are louder than ever before. In this context, the theme is a prayer to the Triune God, who is the creator, redeemer and sustainer of all life, to lead the whole world to of life. The phrase justice and peace refers to God's way of affirming and saving all life in every dimension. It is also an invitation for the whole creation to the vision of the reign of God who came that they may have life, and may have it in all its fullness (John 10:10). Indeed, it is a missional theme. There will be strong emphasis on mission and evangelism at the Busan assembly, more so than at recent WCC assemblies. Particularly, the new WCC mission statement, Together towards Life: Mission and Evangelism in Changing Landscapes, will be presented and discussed in one of the main plenary sessions. There will also be two focused ecumenical conversations on mission and evangelism on how to implement the new vision, concepts and directions in the statement into the policies, strategies and actions of the various mission actors, from mission practitioners and local congregations to international mission organizations. Therefore, contributions to this issue of the International Review of Mission read the assembly theme from missiological perspectives. Eight leading missiologists and theologians from contexts in all six continents and diverse Christian traditions offer their reflections. The issue will be one of the mission contributions to the whole assembly. In addition, there is an article on dialogue and Orthodox mission today from an Orthodox perspective. With this issue we gratefully acknowledge and welcome the contributions and participation of IRM's new International Board of Advisors, each of whom is briefly introduced here: Dr Geevarghese Mor Coorilos is Metropolitan of the Niranam Diocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India. He also serves the World Council of Churches as moderator of its Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) and as chairperson of the Student Christian Movement of India (SCMI). Dr Stephen Bevans is currently Louis J. Luzbetak, S.V.D., Professor of Mission and Culture at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, USA, and the Faculty Moderator for Catholics on Call. He is a Roman Catholic priest in the Society of the Divine Word, an international missionary congregation, and served for nine years (1972-1981) as a missionary in the Philippines. Rev. Dr Meehyun Chung, a theologian from the Republic of Korea, was the head of the Division on Women and Gender of Mission-21 in Basle, Switzerland, before taking office, in March 2013, as the Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the United Graduate School of Theology and the University Chaplain of Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Dr C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell is a theologian from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is Executive Director of the World Evangelical Alliance--Theological Commission and also works as New Testament editor for the Comite Latinoamericano de Literatura Biblica. …
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