Annual Meeting Themes, Places and Presidents

Year	Theme	Place	Presiding
1973	Salvation Today	St. Louis, MO	Gerald H. Anderson
1974	Communication (no formal theme)	Wheaton, IL	Gerald H. Anderson
1975	Missiological Implications of Lausanne-Rome-Nairobi	Dubuque, IA	Gerald H. Anderson for (Donald M. Wodarz, SSC)
1976	American Missions in Bicentennial Perspective	Deerfield, IL	Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD
1977	Christ, Salvation and the World's Religions	North Park, IL	J. Herbert Kane
1978	Credibility and Spirituality in Mission (Joint Meeting with IAMS)	Maryknoll, NY	Ralph D. Winter
1979	For God's Pluralistic World--An Ultimate Gospel	Techny, IL	John T. Boberg, SVD
1980	World Evangelization Today: Convergence or Divergence?	Wheaton, IL	M. Wendell Belew
1981	Problems of Church and State: The Churches' Common Witness	Ft. Worth, TX	Charles W. Foreman
1982	Emerging Agendas in World Mission	Evanston, IL	Joan Chatfield, MM
1983	Spirituality for Mission	Wheaton, IL	Arthur F. Glasser
1984	Third World Theologies and the  Mission of the Church	Princeton, NJ	W. Richey Hogg
1985	Urbanization as a Mission Challenge	Deerfield, IL	Janet C. Carroll, MM
1986	Vital Signs of the Church	North Park, IL	Charles R. Taber
1987	Forecasting the Future in World Mission	Pittsburgh, PA	Samuel H. Moffett
1988	The Holy Spirit and Mission	Techny, IL	Joseph Lang, MM
1989	Good News for the Poor?	Techny, IL	Alan Neely
1990	Mission and Joint Witness: Basis and Models of Cooperation	Techny, IL	James A. Scherer
1991	Missionaries in Situations of Conflict and Violence	Techny, IL	Robert J. Schreiter, CPPS
1992	1492-2092:  Shifting Paradigms in Mission	Techny, IL	Lois McKinney
1993	North America--Peoples and Their Cultures in Transition: Toward a Missiology for a New Era	Techny, IL	H. McKennie Goodpasture
1994	Images of Church--Images of Mission	Techny, IL	Mary Motte, FMM
1995	Mission Studies:  Taking Stock, Charting the Course (Joint Meeting with the APM)	Techny, IL	Wilbert R. Shenk
1996	Contextualization:  Witness and Reflection	Techny, IL	Dean Gilliland
1997	Marginalization and Mission	Techny, IL	Angelyn Dries, OSF
1998	Tools of the Trade:  Missiological Reference for Church, Academy, and Missionary	Techny, IL	Jonathan J. Bonk
1999	The New Millenium and the Emerging Religious Encounters	Techny, IL	J. Dudley Woodberry
2000	Creative Partnerships for Mission in the 21st Century: Possibilities and Pitfalls	Techny, IL	Anne Reissner
2001	Missionaries for the 21st Century: Their Recruitment and Training, Ministry and Roles, Care and Attrition	Techny, IL	James Stamoolis
2002	Migration: Challenge and Avenue for Christian Mission	Techny, IL	Samuel Escobar
2003	Racial Justice and Christian Mission: Redressing the Counterwitness of Racism	Techny, IL	Margaret Eletta Guider, OSF
2004	Collaboration: The Missing Link in the World Christian Mission	Techny, IL	William R. O'Brien
2005	The Mission of Public Theology	Techny, IL	George R. Hunsberger
2006	Pentecostalism and Mission: From Azusa Street to the Ends of the Earth	Techny, IL	Stephen B. Bevans, SVD