Mission News

The General Council of Edinburgh 2010 met in Scotland from 15 to 17 April to further develop plans for the celebration of the centenary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference, which is widely recognised as the parent of the contemporary ecumenical and world missionary movement…More

In 2000, an idea was born to commemorate the 1910 conference. Since 2002, several preparatory meetings were held, and a series of conferences based around the 1910 eight (8) commissions have been organised in Edinburgh as a way of celebrating and preparing for the Edinburgh 2010 celebration…More

The recent international Mission Conference in South Africa (7-14 March 2007), under the broad theme ‘Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM), attracted over 350 participants from around 56 countries, and representing more than 30 Provinces of the Anglican Communion. There was also a parallel-link programme of 43 young people from around the Communion meeting in the same venue…More

The recent Partnership for World Mission (PWM) Conference under the theme: “Hospitality – a way into understanding Mission”, attracted a wide range of church workers within the Anglican Communion. Although the Conference “traditionally” hosts mission and development officers from the dioceses in the Church of England, this year’s conference also had many link partners, who were invited to come and share and inform the practices and understanding of hospitality in their particular and various contexts …More

Nearly 200 members from the global Anglican community attended the opening session of the annual event on Monday 30th October, which has been expanded since 2004 to incorporate World Mission issues as well as companion relationships between dioceses. As well as guests from UK, Partnership for World Mission (PWM) was delighted to welcome delegates from and representing Botswana, Canada, Estonia, Kenya, India, Ireland, Malawi, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Uganda, US, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia

In a new co-operative venture with the Church Mission Society (CMS), the Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) is delighted to announce the appointment of the Revd John Kaoma Kafwanka as Mission and Evangelism Desk Officer for the Anglican Communion

A selection of stories from the forthcoming Mission & Evangelism book 'Communion in Mission' …More

The first article 'The Gift of Knowledge' talks about how a good of individuals got together to help support primary school children in Kenya …More

From 'Communion in Mission' Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism (IASCOME) Report …More

The Diocese of Gippsland, Australia, has completed the first stage of a community development project in its companion diocese of Gahini, Rwanda.

With Rwanda still recovering from the effects of genocide a little more than ten years ago, Gippsland Anglicans were looking for a practical and sustainable project to help their brothers and sisters in what is still one of Africa's very poor countries.

From 'Communion in Mission' Inter Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism (IASCOME) Report to ACC 13 2005 …More

On the shore of the Aegean Sea, a small craft delivered a cross of olive wood from Bethlehem at morning prayer on the first day of the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) near Athens

Several dioceses around the Communion are looking for new Companion Links …More

Kibera slum is home to one million Kenyans on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are no legal water or electricity supplies, the sewers run through the middle of the mud “streets”, and when it rains, the corrugated iron shacks – single rooms that sometimes house more than ten people – flood with garbage and human excrement. Every few months, fires destroy large numbers of these shacks, killing and injuring their inhabitants. “This is an illegal settlement, it doesn’t exist,” said the Revd Richard W Mayabi, the priest of St Jerome’s Anglican Church in Kibera to the delegates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) Mission and Evangelism Conference last week. “Because Kibera doesn’t exist, its people also don’t exist.”

A major conference held in Nairobi last week for representatives from across the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) has called for an Anglican renewal in the continent, both through prayer and a dynamic approach to mission and evangelism.

Mission and evangelism coordinators, clergy and lay representatives from all of the 12 Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) and the Diocese of Egypt will gather in Nairobi from Easter Monday, 12-16 April, to develop the region’s strategy for mission work in Africa.

A fund that has helped hundreds of clergy and their families with medical bills worldwide for 25 years is facing financial crisis. The Personal Emergencies Fund, set up by the late Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Coggan in 1979, is supported by donations from individuals and churches, and interest from investments. “Over the past year, it has helped 35 people,” said Marjorie Murphy, the Director for Mission and Evangelism at the Anglican Communion Office in London. “But the needs have been so very great the money is drying up fast.”

Clergy training in the Church of England must give higher priority to understanding Islam, a consultation by the 11 member-agencies of the Anglican Partnership for World Mission (PWM) has concluded. The consultation, held at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire, 2-4 February, called for national guidelines to ensure clergy were competent in understanding Islam and capable of dealing with questions that their church members might raise in an era when inter-faith issues were so crucial.

The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), one of the Church of England’s major world mission agencies, has appointed the Rt Revd Michael Doe, Bishop of Swindon, to be its next General Secretary. Bishop Michael, who has served in Swindon since 1994, succeeds the Rt Revd Mano Rumalshah who returned to Pakistan at the end of last year to become the Bishop of Peshawar.