Webinar: The Future is Multicultural – So What’s the Problem?
Webinar: The Future is Multicultural – So What’s the Problem?
Location: Online
Date: Monday 18 May 2026, 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Explore the challenges of the multicultural church, how we can overcome them and discover hope too.
Open days 2026
Meet us on site or online to discover more about the training options open to you, including our streams focused on African Christianity, Asian Christianity, children’s, family and youth work and more…
On site in Oxford: 10.30am to 2pm
- Tuesday 30 June
Online: 7pm to 8.30pm
- Tuesday 30 June
- Monday 20 July
About the webinar
The future of both the church and mission is undeniably multicultural – shaped by migration, global Christianity, and shifting cultural realities. Yet for many leaders, this future feels more complicated than hopeful. Why is that?
In this webinar, Harvey Kwiyani, CMS Pioneer Mission Training African Christianity Programme Lead and lecturer, explores the deeper challenges beneath the surface of “diversity,” including questions of power, belonging, leadership, and theology.
Drawing on his wider work on cultural diversity and decolonising mission, he will offer a fresh vision for understanding cultural difference not as a problem to solve, but as a gift to receive – alongside practical insights for leading churches into a more shared, participatory life in God’s mission.
Dr Harvey Kwiyani
Harvey is African Christianity Programme Lead and Acts 11 Centre Lead.
He is a Malawian missiologist and theologian who has lived, worked and studied in Europe and North America for the past 20 years.
He has researched African Christianity and African theology for his PhD, and taught African theology at Liverpool Hope University.
Harvey is also founder and executive director of Missio Africanus, a mission organisation established in 2014 as a learning community focused on releasing the missional potential of African and other minority ethnic Christians living in the UK.
