Welcome
Through this site we invite visitors to share a glance of their personal story of life-giving Mother Earth (natural environment from which we all originate).
We suggest to think (¡from your present day experience!) of one or more key-notions, such as:
– Shore,
– Fellow-Pilgrim,
– Senses,
– Story (maybe a blend in which Shore, Fellow-Pilgrim and Senses ‘call into life’).
In doing so we question our customary loyalty to nation-state and corporate administration, as they tend to fraction our sense of the Whole.
Click on the entries of the two fellow-pilgrims (Miguel and Jacob) who dreamt up this project.
In searching this site there may be plenty evidence of sacred beauty (life), as wel as of broken promise (death).
Meaning
‘WAYANA’ is the name of a remnant of ancient indigenous people, right there where the modern nation states Surinam, Brasil and French Guyana hit upon each other. This remnant of Wayana-people is very much under threat of modern extraction of mother earth: gold mining being only one of its expressions. They make only one of the numerous many communities in state of destruction-by-indifference.
As many other native tribal names, their name Wayana matches in a sense the old Hebrew concept of ‘Adam / Adama / Earth / Natural Environment in which we originate’.
About us
‘Wayana-Call’ is a joint project of:
– Algemene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit / Doopsgezind WereldWerk (Netherlands)
– Consejo Latino Americano de Iglesias – Articulación Ecuménica Latino Americana de Pastoral Indígena (CLAI-AELAPI Latin America)
– Consulta Anabautista Menonita de Centro-America / RedPaz
– Leden van de Nederlandse Raad van Kerken
Origin
‘Wayana-Call’ arose in preparation for the 11th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Karlsruhe Germany 2022): fruit of 11 years of intense pilgrimage of members of especially CLAI-AELAPI and Peace Church Tradition.
Purpose
‘Wayana-Call’ aims to be a voice of Life:
– Focusing forst of all on healing and peacemaking amidst forces of extraction,
– Providing forum for meeting with ancestral (indigenous) wisdom,
– Doing justice to the spirit of the past 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, thus providing for broader exposure and feed back.
