Date: August 25, 2019 United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) minister, Rev Dr Roderick Hewitt, became the President of the International U...
Date: August 19 – 30, 2019 Call for Applications: Ecumenical School on Governance, Economics and Management (GEM) 2019 Twenty current and future chur...
Date: August 1 – 10, 2019 The CWM Asia Youth Initiatives 2019 brings young adults from the South and East Asia member churches to Bangkok, Thailand. ...
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 becam...
Date: June 30 – July 31, 2019 Recognizing the lacuna of young women within our ecclesial structures, the Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) P...
Date: June 19 – 27, 2019 Discernment and radical engagement (DARE) are at the heart of the mission that makes CWM what it is. This annual CWM forum p...
Date: June 3 – 6, 2019 The upcoming Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM) hosted by The Congregational Christian Church in Samoa (CCCS) will provide an...
Date: May 1 – November 30, 2019 Training in Mission (Diploma in Mission Studies) 2019 The Council for World Mission (CWM) has been investing in equip...
Recognizing the lacuna of young women within our ecclesial structures, the Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) Programme is a Council for World Miss...
Date: April 8 – 11, 2019 Held annually in each CWM region, member church representatives, CWM directors, trustees and staff will gather to read the c...
Date: March 9 – 14, 2019 Held annually in each CWM region, member church representatives, CWM directors, trustees and staff will gather to read the c...
Date: February 22 – April 5, 2019 Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face to Face with the many poor and the many fai...
SCRIPTURE: John 17: 20-23 Reflection: Today there are many denominations. The Church splintered through the centuries not only because of doctrinal differe...
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With the civil war in Syria and Iraq, people started to try and emigrate to Europe. This led to thousands of people trying to reach the European Mainland t...
This militarization consultation intends to gather activists and public intellectuals who are political analysts and scholars of religions engaged in resis...
A Story of Unity and Witness One Church in Five Countries The United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) is a transnational, multi-cultural an...
CWM General Secretary Collin Cowan spoke on the theme “Healing Relationships: Hope for a New Spirituality” in his keynote address at the CWM So...
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Speaking in the Spirit – songs of protest and the new reality Pentecost Reflections Council for World Mission has produced worship reflections ...
The ten member churches of the CWM Pacific Region met on the 2nd to 4th May at Novotel, Nadi for the Regional Assembly guided by the CWM sub-theme “H...
Shaking up the international financial architecture and infrastructure. This was the clarion call sounded by CWM, together with the World Council of Church...
Brief history PCI had its beginning in the year 1841, with the coming of Rev. Thomas Jones I and his wife who arrived at Sohra on 22nd June, 1841 as ...
New York, NY, April 22 – The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) took place on Apr...
Photo: The NIFEA Joint Planning Team from CWM, WCRC, WCC and LWF. The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a NIFEA is in progress in New York to co...
Introduction and History The date of 1840 is the year generally given for the beginning of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ). It was ...
Thirty-five representatives from member-churches of Council for World Mission’s (CWM) Pacific Region attended the second NIFEA Pacific colloquium hel...
Twenty persons drawn from member churches and ecumenical movements in the Caribbean region of Council for World Mission met for a Regional Assembly themed ...
Who we are The Protestant Church in the Netherlands is the largest protestant church in the Netherlands in terms of membership. It is the continuation of t...
Dear friends, It is Eastertide once again, that time of the year when the Christian community pause to affirm a central tenet of our faith – the resu...
On the 12th to 15th March, the European member churches met for their Regional Assembly at the Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire, UK. It was a small co...
As a way to further explore Mission in the context of Empire, CWM Mission Development has produced a series of reflections on ‘stations of the resurr...
HKCCCC is the abbreviation of the Hong Kong Council of The Church of Christ in China. We are one of the founding members of CWM in 1977 as well as presentl...
To mark Holy Week, CWM’s Mission Development Team has produced some reflections which use the pattern of the stations of the cross to reflect on the ...
The UCZ is known to have existed in unity and social action for more than fifty years, hence living up to its tagline “All One in Christ&rdquo...
Guyana Congregational Union (GCU) celebrated 210 years of rich Congregationalist history and inspiring legacies in a commemorative worship service held in ...
“As someone who lives in a place of privilege, a Pākeha (colonizer) New Zealander in postgraduate education, it is natural for me to be holistic...
Introduction Biggest Protestant church in India, Missional United and uniting Church on a pilgrim journey from past 70 years with the motto: That they all ...
Brief History Since the arrival of the first missionaries of the London Missionary Society (LMS), to bring the Gospel, the Church has been known by the nam...
Today, 20th February is the United Nations‘ (UN) World Day of Social Justice is observed annually to encourage people to look at how social justice a...
Introduction We are the United Reformed Church. We are based in Britain, with over a thousand congregations across Scotland, England and Wales, and a few i...
The Council for World Mission invites expressions of interest to join the staff team for the following positions: 1) Communications Associate &...
Our History PCS was set up by missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society to Singapore some time in the 18th century to spread the Gospel to immigra...
Theme: Agents of Change – Women, Mission and Transformation Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand In collaboration with Trinity Methodist Theological ...
A group of theologians, church leaders and activists gathered in Elmina, Ghana, (7 – 12 Jan 2018) to engage in the second hearing within the CWM Lega...
An Overview on the History of the FJKM The 200th anniversary of the arrival of the first Protestant missionaries sent by the London Missionary Society (LMS...
We are one of the oldest mainline churches in Bangladesh, which has contributed immensely to shaping people’s lives before independence and till now....
Introduction A brief history of the early accounts of the LMS mission arrangement to further its field work to the part of the world in the southern hemisp...
GCU Theme: “GCU On The Move: Creating The Right Image” Guyana Congregational Union (GCU) is the body representing the union of Congregational C...
In the name of Jesus Christ, whose birthday we celebrate at Christmas, I offer greetings and best wishes to everyone. The Council for World Mission (...
A group of 25 evangelism practitioners, scholars and church leaders from Orthodox, Pentecostal and Protestant perspectives gathered in Bangkok, Thailand fr...
Introduction Our name is the Congregational Federation (CF). We are known nationally for bringing together many independent churches for their mutual suppo...
CWM has been engaging our member churches to work on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) through regional colloquia for the pas...
By Rev Dr Cliff Bird, Mission Secretary for Pacific region The Pacific Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) regional training workshop organized by t...
Council for World Mission (CWM) has recently concluded the South Asia region consultation on Discernment and Radical Engagement (DARE) Context Reading Reso...
Introduction The Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) is the oldest and biggest denomination in Taiwan. It was founded in 1865 with the arrival of medical m...
By Research and Capacity Development Team “We need young people who will not compromise their faith for comfort; we need young people who will not de...
Ten young people from member churches of Council for World Mission spent seven month-long intensive Training in Mission in four different countries t...
CÂR DI The General Secretaries and staff missionary secretaries of CWM met in Cardiff, the capital of Wales in September 2017. As part of their intro...
By Rev Johnstone Ndogolo, General Secretary, CCM Introduction The name of the denomination is Churches of Christ in Malawi (CCM) which is found in Malawi...
“Moving from one holy site to the other, I saw the faithful from all over the world coming to view where everything begun. But in all these, God is n...
Advent, the time of the Church calendar year where we prepare our hearts for Christ’s coming at Christmas. During these four Sundays before Christmas...
The church where I grew up had annual missionary evenings. The first one I attended sticks in the memory not just for the excitement of being allowed to st...
Nine participants from within the CWM community of churches, colleges and ecumenical partners explored migration and human trafficking issues in the 2017 F...
We, a hundred and twenty young people representing four continents, 35 countries, from six regions of the Council for World Mission (CWM) gathered in ...
By Church of North India INTRODUCTION Mission Statement: The Church of North India as a United and Uniting denomination together is committed to announce t...
We are delighted to inform you that we are once again accepting applications for the Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face To Face with ...
The Training in Mission Programme is one of CWM’s initiatives with the youth and will be held on 1st May to 30th November 2018. The deadline of submi...
By Renita Barnes, Training in Mission (TIM) 2017 Participant Throughout the TIM Programme, there has been a recurring theme of listening or recognizing the...
by Dr Preman Niles, former CWM General Secretary (1991 – 2002) Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! Forty years is not long in the life of an organ...
By Rev Dr Des van der Water, immediate past CWM General Secretary (2002-2011) In 2007, CWM celebrated 30 years of Christian mission witness. At that occasi...
By Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan, CWM General Secretary (2011-Present) On Tuesday 16 May, I had the honour and privilege of spending a good part of the day wi...
By Rev. Vavatau Taufao, General Secretary, CCCS INTRODUCTION Our church is known as the Congregational Christian Church Samoa (CCCS) or Ekalesia Faapotopot...
By Rev Bernard Thorogood, Former CWM General Secretary (1970-1980) Christian mission, as far as I can understand it, always has to combine idealism and rea...
Hello, I’m Ian Rowe. I’m 22 and from the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom (UK). When my last exam for my history degree ended back ...
By CWM Europe office The European and Caribbean regions of CWM met in Reading UK last week for the second NIFEA colloquium to share and develop ideas for a...
By Mission Development team Earlier in the year, an invitation was extended to member churches to share their mission stories as parables of mission in the...
“Discipleship in the context of Empire does not call for passive bystanders … it calls for young people committed to radical discipleship; youn...
By Simon Peters, United Reformed Church I’m not really a breakfast person, but as I sat amongst a group of young, black South Africans eating cereal ...
Over 100 youth from the 32 member-churches of the Council for World Mission are coming together for the Global Youth Forum on 22-28 August 2017 in Johannes...
Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan offered this challenge at the inaugural worship of the DARE Global Consultation that just concluded in Bangkok: “I call us to b...
The Diploma in Eco-Justice Ministries Program (DEM), a one-year global online program jointly organised by The Council for World Mission (CWM) and The Unit...
In his address on “Strengthening Communion” to the 2017 General Council of World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan d...
In 2017, CWM celebrates 40 years of our shared partnership in mission. This important milestone in our journey together will be marked by a series of event...
“I thank God I am useful where He has called me to serve for the benefit of the people in need of my skill and help.” These words sum up the pe...
“To build life-affirming communities in Oceania there is need for a life-oriented vision. Re-vis[ion]ing demands two tasks: to revise and to re-visio...
The Council for World Mission invites expressions of interest to join the staff team for the position of Mission Secretary – Communicatio...
The Directors and Trustees of the Council for World Mission (CWM), meeting in Singapore on 2 June 2017, express profound sadness and regret at the Presiden...
This year’s Training in Mission (TIM) Programme began on 1st May as participants from Taiwan, Samoa, South Korea, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands, Zam...
Rejoice with us as we celebrate 40 years of our life together in God’s mission since CWM’s inauguration 40 years ago. We recall God’s unc...
Grassroots practitioners, academics and evangelism project managers gathered from 6-12 May in Johannesburg, South Africa, where they renewed their understa...
The first ever CWM Caribbean Members’ Mission Forum began with a celebration of CWM’s 40th anniversary, and was held 26-29 March 2017 in Kingst...
I’m Kerry Anne Cort, a member of the Smith Memorial Congregational Church in Guyana, South America, who recently completed a scholarship programme availa...
The Council for World Mission invites expressions of interest to join the staff team for the position of Programme Associate –South Asia....
A new approach to missions saw the inauguration of CWM forty years ago, and we will celebrate this milestone built around the theme Healing the Broken Body...
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep – Myanmar Context “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor f...