摘要：My personal contact with Asian Pentecostalism began when I read the publication edited by Wonsuk Ma and Robert Menzies.2Impressed by the freshness of the viewpoints expressed (not all from Asians), I contacted Ma and received the response, "Who are you." From that has risen a happy (if rather long-distance) friendship which I believe will culminate in a long partnership in Pentecostal theological education and research. Since then it has become obvious to me that Asian and African Pentecostal scholars are natural partners, since we face many similar issues. Not least of these is the continual frustration of working with a dominantly North American and European Pentecostal theological establishment which, while it recognizes the essentially "non-western" nature of Pentecostalism, appears to do little to reflect this in much of its work. The final straw for many of us was the Society for Pentecostal Studies conference in 2000 in which the overwhelming majority of presenters were from the United States —and that when the topic was "Pentecostal Mission: Issues Home and Abroad."
