After Jamaica confirmed its first COVID-19 case on 10 March, the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) encouraged their congregants to seek new opportunities to be the church in a needy world, [...]
The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) Moderator Right Rev Fakaofo Kaio commended their country’s fighters, military personnel and others with relevant skill sets for having responded with aid and resources during the bushfires, [...]
As the world deals with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and so much is being re-shaped, the Moderators of the United Reformed Church (URC)'s General Assembly Rev Nigel Uden and Derek Estill are offering the following [...]
19 March 2020 Singapore – CWM has announced the postponement the upcoming Assembly until June 2021. The decision was made at a special meeting held with CWM’s Board of Directors, who took into account [...]
“I, exist!” is the theme for this year’s Easter reflections - where this year, we invited six Black women to share their Easter reflections through a very different rendition and interpretation of the crucifixion by [...]
Given the continuing decline in church attendance and the closure of chapels, The Union of Welsh Independents (UWI) General Secretary Rev Dyfrig Rees challenged churches to “take innovative action to halt the potentially terminal decline” [...]
The Valedictory Service of Rev Ian Booth as the Interim General Secretary of United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) was held on 19 January 2020 at St Lukes congregational church, North of Durban. The [...]
“To provide a loving and nurturing atmosphere where hurts are healed and hope is nurtured, so that the children may maximise their potential and fulfil their purpose with the engagement of all partners”. This is [...]
Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) General Secretary Rev Lungile Mpetsheni laid out the focus for 2020 to the Presbyteries, congregations and fellowships earlier this year. He emphasised the need to develop into a [...]
By Adele Halliday Through my staff position as the Team Leader for Discipleship & Witness at the national office of The United Church of Canada1, I was involved in a CWM Legacies of Slavery hearing [...]
Rev Nigel Uden and Mr Derek Estill, Moderators of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, and Mrs Yvonne Campbell, General Secretary of the Congregational Federation (CF) were among the leaders of British Church denominations [...]
He is no stranger to the CWM family, and has journeyed and served in various capacities. And now, Rev Dr Michael Jagessar begins a new chapter with us as the Mission Secretary for Europe. Known [...]
The 36th Session of the Synod Council meeting of the Church of South India (CSI Synod) began a day after a welcome ceremony where presbyters of Valparai District Church Council danced along with the beating [...]
Update (20 March): The deadline for submission of papers has been extended to 14 April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Discernment and radical engagement (DARE) are at the heart of the mission that makes CWM [...]
Almost 100 participants from a wide range of church backgrounds, denominations and nationalities attended the Mission Consultation of the Hong Kong Churches 2019 at All Saints’ Cathedral in Mongkok, Kowloon towards the end of last [...]
President of the Union of Welsh Independents (UWI), Rev Jill-Hailey Harries, has emphasised the importance of spiritual solidarity post-Brexit, as it is key to allaying fears and suspicion during this uncertain period. “As Brexit severs [...]
The February issue of INSiGHT showcases a range of voices. You’ll read about marginalisation of market vendors in Jamaica; climate justice for vulnerable rural communities in Pakistan; a perspective from Belgium on inter-connected global challenges [...]
Update (16 March 2020): This year’s YWET programme to be held 1 - 31 July in Kingston, Jamaica is cancelled in light of the COVID-19 epidemic (Coronavirus Disease 2019). Following a surge in confirmed cases [...]
At 34, Sanna Marin became Finland’s prime minister last December, making her the youngest head of government in the world. Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, 17, is the youngest individual to be named Time Magazine’s [...]
Even though migration is at the heart of God’s mission, migrants continue to be targeted and demonized, unless they come from dominant colonial communities. Indigenous people continue to face violence and denial of land and [...]
Applications are now open for Young Adults Training for Religious Amity (YATRA), to be held between 15-27 May 2020 in Fiji. Themed “Young People in the Frontline of Transformation”, the inter-religious training programme will offer [...]
Current and future church leaders are invited to apply for the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM School) for an Economy of Life from 17 – 28 August 2020, tentatively to be held [...]
Applications are open for Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face To Face with the many poor and the many faiths in Asia. This will be held on 30 March to 10 May 2020 and conducted at the India Peace Centre in Nagpur, India. CWM’s six-week Face to Face Programme [...]
The Board of Directors of Council for World Mission, meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, expresses its deep concern for the citizens of Hong Kong in the violence they face at this particular time. The Board [...]
Council for World Mission has received the news of the passing of Professor Vuyani Vellem with deep sadness. We knew of his illness and were in constant prayer and dialogue with him. We did not [...]
During Advent, we await God’s incarnation where God was made flesh and dwelt among us (John 1:14). These four Sundays before Christmas, we prepare to welcome the coming of Jesus into Mary’s arms, into our [...]
Inclusive communities. Worship and Discipleship. Interfaith relations and ecumenism. Militarisation and Conflict. Climate change. CWM’s programmes 2016-2019 such as our flagship Training in Mission (TIM) Programme have been designed and developed around nine such global [...]
In line with its vision of Fullness of life through Christ for all creation, CWM has committed that young people should be included in the life and witness of their churches and communities, not merely [...]
The Season of Creation is an annual celebration of prayer and action to protect creation, observed from September 1 to October 4. Christians worldwide organise events in their communities ranging from prayer services to litter [...]
CWM, in partnership with WCC and WCRC, launched the Zacchaeus Tax campaign as a side event at the United Nations (UN) High-level Political Forum on the Sustainable Development Goals in New York recently. This global [...]
2016 marked the formal celebration of Etaretia Porotetani Maohi (EPM) entry into the Council for World Mission partnership. It is also a homecoming as the Islands of Maohi Nui were the first islands to which [...]
23rd July, 2019 Dear friends, brothers and sisters in Christ I greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and pray God’s richest blessings on you and the community of faith you [...]
Ala, in her womb holds the ancestors, they lived, they loved, they tilled, they danced and told stories. Our father journeyed and settled on her, she became their identity, her forests were bounty for meat, [...]
In this issue of INSiGHT, we continue with Fallen Is Babylon – the set of bible studies to read God’s word in the context of empire. You will also hear a young voice from Taiwan [...]
My journey as Partner in Mission (PIM) started in April 2003. It was such an exciting time for me to take this new big step. I worked in Madagascar for eight years at Akany Avoko [...]
“The first of May will always be remembered as the day the world grew 11 countries smaller for 11 young individuals that crossed the bridges constructed by the Council of World Mission (CWM) connecting different [...]
Discernment and radical engagement are at the heart of the mission that makes CWM what it is. Attentive to the signs of the time and in response to imperial powers and powerholders that exploit, divide, [...]
“Focus on being ‘face to face’ with engagement spirituality, economic justice, economics of the poor and ecumenism at the grassroots. You will see this aplenty in India”. This was the challenge posed by Rev. Asir [...]
The recently concluded Members’ Mission Forum (MMF) of the Council for World Mission (CWM) Caribbean region was challenged to consider whether the church would be more faithful to its roots as a movement than as [...]
Scripture and Resistance contains reflections by authors from East, West, South, and North — on resistance and the Christian scriptures regarding a rainbow of concerns: the colonial legacies of the Bible; the people (especially native [...]
https://youtu.be/zoWtxcNLEPE Recognizing the lacuna of young women within our ecclesial structures, the Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) Programme is a Council for World Mission (CWM) initiative specifically directed towards the building of a collective of [...]
Brief history The history of the Congregational Union of New Zealand (CUNZ) started in 1842 when a Mr. Jonas Woodward commenced services in his home in Wellington, New Zealand. The first Congregational Church at Auckland [...]
On behalf of Council for world Mission, and on my own behalf, I join the international ecumenical community in expressing sadness at the sudden and unexpected passing of our dear sister, friend and colleague, Robina Winbush. We [...]
Council for World Mission joins the rest of the world as it pauses, this day, to celebrate the gift of women, whose hardworking, tireless, devoted and industrious initiatives all around the world makes life livable [...]
SCRIPTURE: John 17: 20-23 Reflection: Today there are many denominations. The Church splintered through the centuries not only because of doctrinal differences but also due to greed, power, money and other interests. We talk about [...]
We are a diverse community of reformed Christians led by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, prayerfully seeking the will of God for our lives together and the world. Our Vision To be [...]
The February 2019 issue of INSiGHT brings you perspectives on slavery. You’ll find stories about the many faces of slavery that cast a long shadow on the present; viewpoints confronting racist powers, privilege and systemic [...]
CWM is pleased to stand in solidarity with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) through the Taiwan Ecumenical Forum in which CWM General Secretary, Rev Dr Collin Cowan, serves as Co-Convener. In February 2017, the [...]
Twenty current and future church leaders will be selected to attend the Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) for an Economy of Life in Jakarta, Indonesia next August. Jointly initiated by Council for [...]
154 ecumenical leaders and youth representatives from Taiwan and worldwide gathered at the Presbyterian Bible College in Hsinchu, Taiwan on 28 November for the Taiwan Ecumenical Forum (TEF). Themed “Asia Pacific Kairos: A prophetic call [...]
In Taiwan, the cultures and languages of indigenous people are disappearing and little is known about these real and original inhabitants of Taiwan. Through CWM’s Hearing God’s Cry Programme, the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) [...]
Discernment and radical engagement (DARE) are at the heart of the mission that makes CWM what it is. Through DARE, CWM partners with committed and creative thinker-practitioners of our time, signaling to ourselves and to [...]
INSiGHT is a CWM bi-monthly publication that seeks to provoke, challenge and inspire. Be Empowered, Equipped and Challenged! Click here for our inaugural issue.
The United Church in Jamaica and The Cayman Islands (UCJCI), is called to witness to the love of Christ not only through words, but through deeds. Meeting the needs of people, is, therefore, an [...]
The Union of Welsh Independents (UWI) is a voluntary Union of over 400 churches mainly located in Wales within the United Kingdom. Though the overwhelming majority worship and communicate through the medium of Welsh, there [...]
The Council for World Mission invites expressions of interest to join the staff team for the position of Deputy General Secretary - Programme. To be based in its global office in Singapore, this role is to [...]
This is my sharing in the context of the Legacies of Slavery Hearings held by CWM (Council of World Mission) in London, Accra, Kingston and the US. I was also invited to attend the [...]
Like-minded and interested Biblical scholars and activists from all over the world will meet to discern and engage each other on a selection of biblical and theological issues at this year’s Council for World Mission [...]
Speaking in the Spirit - songs of protest and the new reality Pentecost Reflections Council for World Mission has produced worship reflections on Empire for Advent, Holy Week and Easter and this production completes the [...]
