As the culmination of a year-long study process, 46 church leaders, theologians, scholars, clergy and lay people attended the East African regional Edinburgh 2010 conference on 'Christian communities in contemporary contexts' (Theme 7) held at the Carmelite Center Karen, Nairobi on 26-28 May 2009. They came from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia and included Protestants, Catholics, Evangelicals and members of African Initiated Churches.

The study process entailed 'a critically honest evaluation' of Christian mission in East Africa and an assessment of the mission situation globally. The conference concluded that Christian mission is 'proactive engagement in empowering not disempowering; peace-building, healing and reconciling not causing conflict, injuring and segregating; loving and all inclusive not marginalising', and also involves proclamation and presence. Read the conference statement attached below.