The next World Mission Conference of the WCC will take place in Arusha, Tanzania, in March 2018, it was announced last week.
01 July 2016
A regional director of the Anglican mission agency Mission to Seafarers has received the coveted Dr Dierk Lindemann Welfare Personality of the Year Award.
01 July 2016
Ambitious plans to recruit 1,000 new missionaries to follow in the footsteps of pioneers like William Wilberforce and Samuel Crowther have been unveiled by the Church Mission Society.
01 July 2016
The Anglican mission agency Mission to Seafarers has launched a Corporate Partnerships Portfolio with suggestions for how the maritime industry can deliver on corporate social responsibility.
14 June 2016
Issues of refugee migration by sea and its effect on crews caught up in the humanitarian crisis is the focus of a presentation by the Mission to Seafarers today (10 June) in Piraeus, Greece.
10 June 2016
Only two per cent of Anglicans in England and Wales are converts, a new study suggests. Research by Dr Stephen Bullivant, published this week, suggests that in a group of 100 Anglicans, 93 will have been brought up as such, five will have started life in another Christian denomination, and only two would have belonged to no religion.
27 May 2016
The Presiding Bishop of the US-based Episcopal Church, Michael Curry, brought his message of the Jesus Movement to the 21st Global Episcopal Mission Network conference in Puerto Rico: Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find [some] bread,” he said, offering a quote from by the Ceylonese Methodist pastor, D T Niles.
19 May 2016
The Mission to Seafarers has been chosen as the nominated charity of this year’s Posidonia Cup sailing regatta and have been given the use of a yacht to compete in next month’s race off the coast of Athens. Now, the Anglican mission agency is looking for a crew to help them compete.
05 May 2016
The Anglican Consultative Council has called on “every province, diocese and parish” in the Anglican Communion to “adopt a clear focus on intentional discipleship” as part of a “season of intentional discipleship” to run for the next nine-or-so years.
22 April 2016
The Church of England’s Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Revd Stephen Cottrell, has suggested that churches should “renegotiate the Sunday contract” to include adult Sunday schools and eating together. The bishop made his comments during a plenary discussion on discipleship at the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting ACC-16, in Lusaka.
14 April 2016