News

CWM Assembly: New Trustee Body elected

Friday, 26 June 2009 15:00

On 26 June 2009, the CWM Assembly entrusted leadership of CWM for the next three years to the following

CWM Assembly: New Moderator and Treasurer appointed

Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:14

The CWM Assembly has appointed Rev Dr Prince Dibeela as Moderator to lead CWM’s Trustee Body for the next three years.

CWM Assembly: openness to change marks opening worship

Monday, 22 June 2009 17:44

CWM’s Assembly 2009 has opened with a service of celebration and worship encouraging participants to be open to God's transforming will and to live with integrity.

CWM Assembly: a time of mission exploration begins

Saturday, 20 June 2009 14:34

CWM Assembly delegates and guests from Africa, the Caribbean, East Asia, Europe, South Asia and the Pacific have been welcomed and introduced to CWM’s Assembly in Mamallapuram, south India.

CWM Moderator Rev Dr Roderick Hewitt from Jamaica welcomed the delegates and introduced the Assembly as a meeting that is structured around listening to each other. “This Assembly is a gathering of the owners of this mission enterprise to identify concerns that are happening. Our time will be rooted in sharing,” he said.

CWM Assembly: delegates gather in India

Wednesday, 17 June 2009 15:29

More than 150 Christian delegates from across the globe are set to gather in Chennai on the south east coast of India for the 2009 Council for World Mission Assembly between 20 and 27 June.

Hosted by the Church of South India, the week-long event will see representatives meet from each of CWM's 31 member bodies worldwide to reflect on its partnership in misson over the last three years and focus on the challenges for the future.

CWM meets as an Assembly once every three years. Four delegates from each of CWM's members attend, with guests from CWM's ecumenical partners and kindred bodies.

CWM Assembly is a special opportunity for people from very different cultures and experience of Christian living to come together, to pray, learn from each other and to build mission partnerships.

CWM Trustee Body meets in south India

Thursday, 11 June 2009 17:00

The Council for World Mission Trustee Body is meeting from 16 to 19 June in Mamallapuram, south India, to guide and direct the work of CWM.

The Trustee Body – made up of 31 trustees drawn from each of CWM's member churches – is elected by CWM's Assembly to serve for three years. This is the last time Trustees will meet before new trustees for 2009–2012 are elected at Assembly in south India the following week.