ABSTRACT
Institutional faith-based discourses of development written or established in ways of speaking aim at leading and influencing practices. The processes of operationalisation are however unpredictable and complex and depend on individuals’ interpretation and negotiation. The operative staff in Iglesia Evangelica Luterana de Bolivia (IELB) and Mision Alianza de Noruega en Bolivia (MAN-B) were mediators positioned in between institutional faith-based discourses on one side and the Andean communities on the other. Operative staff in IELB and MAN-B was in their daily work placed at the centre of the contentious debate on evangelisation and development practice. The theological perspective of integral mission sees proclamation and service as the double role of the Church in the world, in which individual staff was given a key role. There was an internal expectation in IELB and MAN-B that the staff should use their Christian identity as resources in the daily work.
