The 2024 Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS) Annual Conference on the theme “See, I Am Making All Things New”: Towards a Missiology of Hope was held on February 16-19, 2024 in a hybrid format. Roughly half of the participants gathered in person in the usual CEEAMS conference venue at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia, while the other half represented online participants. Some fifty theologians, missiologists, clergy, reflective practitioners, and other professionals registered for the event who not only wanted to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Theology of Hope by Jürgen Moltmann but also put the notion of ’hope’ in the foreground as a key category for theological-missiological reflection in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and beyond. Through the Christ event, God gives rise to the hope that a different world is possible. In Moltmann’s words, God revolutionises and transforms the present…

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