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“...South India.
(Photographer: Klaus Hennig-Damasko)
Participants at the 1895 LMS centenary celebrations event.
(Photographer unknown/CWM Archives)
Sailing in the Pacific, taken from on board the John Williams VII LMS missionary ship $
c.1968. This last of the famous ships which promoted Christianity in the Pacific was
decommissioned in 1971.
(Photographer unknown/CWM Archives)
Lourdino Yuzon, a Filipino Christian working with churches in New Zealand, presents a
paper to a CWM Partnership in Mission Consultation held in the UK in 1995. It was an
occasion for representatives of CWM churches and ecumenical partners to review
CWM’s vision, 20 years after its inception.
(Photographer: S Andrew Morton)
Children at the Little Pre-School and Care Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1995.
This project of the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa provides learning,
love and security for children both of whose parents are forced by the economic
situation to seek work.
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From: The Lord Napier and Ettrick, KCVO _
I write to thank you for your letter on the .
subject of the Bicentenary Celebrations of the
Council for World Mission, formerly the London
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I have had an opportunity to lay your letter /
before Princess Margaret, and Her Royal Highness Fe
remembers with pleasure the launching of the S
mission ship ‘John Williams VI’ at Tower Bridge
in London in 1948, and she was so pleased to know
how the Society has evolved since then. .
The Princess bids me send best wishes to you all -
for the Bicentenary Celebrations which are to be
held from 12th until 14th July, and Her Royal eS
Highness hopes that the Mission will go from i
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“...a shortage of people with specific
gifts and skills. I dream that we will more readily understand the positive value and
joy of one part of God’s family sharing with another. What a difference it might make
to Christians in their local fellowships to learn first-hand of something of the hopes,
as well as sorrows and perplexities, of those in another part of our CWM family! By
ensuring that many more experiences are shared our local churches will learn more of
the blessings of partnership in mission.
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Celebration, Pacific Style - Tuvalu.
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“...recognise that God’s mission is not pri-
marily about the giving and receiving of money. I dare to dream what our relation-
ships would be if money was not part of them. What, for example, would CWM mean
to some churches if it meant not having to give money? Or receive it? The question
really needs to be faced: to what extent has the traditional paternalistic approach to
mission really disappeared from our local churches?
I dare to dream that all our member churches will be revitalised as they engage in liv-
ing and proclaiming the Gospel. Let it be acknowledged that mission is proclamation
but never propaganda. It is certainly not proselytising for God does not proselytise.
God calls and waits and judges. God seeks and serves and suffers. Mission involves a
costly effort to enter the world of the other person. It is only then that we can see the
saviour in the midst of us, fully real and relevant. My dream is that we will recognise,
as did people like Hans Ruedi-Weber, that mission is not concerned...”
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CWM is an exciting new development in mission — a worldwide community
of Christian churches committed to partnership in mission. CWM was inau-
gurated in 1977, although its origins lie in the London Missionary Society
(1795), the Colonial (Commonwealth) Missionary Society (1836) and the
(English) Presbyterian Board of Missions (1847).
As from July 1995, CWM has 31 member churches in Africa (5), the
Caribbean (2), Europe (6), South Asia (4), East Asia (6) and the Pacific (8).
They are united in proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to all people
in all places, sharing their resources of people, money, gifts, faith and under-
standing in achieving that end.
The “Council” is the governing body of CWM, comprising representatives
from all the member churches, which meets every two years. It appoints an
Executive Committee which meets every six months to oversee the work. A
small team of staff service the Council and Executive and are based at
Livingstone House, London, UK.
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“...and 1995 there was another occasion in the mission history to which we
belong, when people dared to dream. It was in 1975 at Singapore. Moved by the
Spirit, the participants at this consultation agreed that each church was a missionary
church in its own right. The Council for World Mission had to become an internation-
al partnership in which churches would support each other in the task of mission.
They agreed that in this partnership resources of ideas, personnel and money should
be held and shared in common. The Council was reconstituted to allow all churches
to have an equal share in making decisions. This time the boundary to be crossed was
not geographical. Rather, it was the boundary of power. A boundary that lay between
the old sending churches with their financial resources and the financially poorer
churches founded in the former colonies.
The crossing of the boundary of. power released enormous resources for the task of
world mission. A new movement began. Churches started to...”
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neighbours on matters such as freedom from debt that concern the development of
the whole society. In undertaking this mission to bring hope in the midst of despair,
it establishes trust between communities and makes reconciliation a reality.
(ii) We live in a world in which global economic and communication networks hold
sway. These propagate their own values based on greed and consumerism. While the
rich get richer, the poor get poorer. The Churches of Christ in Malawi is a poor
church in a poor nation. Yet, with the help of the common resources of CWM, it is
working on several schemes of self-reliance. One of these is to set up maize grinding
mills. The charges are reasonable. The people also gain. The church is seen as a bless-
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“...full-colour Dare to Dream design. Medium, large and
X-large sizes. Limited edition of 200.
Price: £7.99
White cotton tea towel with full-colour Dare to Dream print |
Price: £2.99
Be sure to reserve and buy your own piece of history with these limited
edition keepsakes. All items — and others — are available throughout the
London Celebrations or from CWM Communication Unit, Livingstone House,
11 Carteret Street, London SW1H 9DL. While stocks last. P&P extra on all items.
Celebrating 200 years of mission |
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“...13th July |
9.30am
City Temple, Holborn Viaduct
Marketplace and Workshop Day
A major exhibition by CWM churches and related organisations about their
life and work, with a range of workshops running throughout the day:
Music and Worship ¢ Bible Study and Prayer in Mission
Simulation Games and Role Play ° What makes a missionary? e Who Runs
the World? (Debt, Aid, Trade and World Development) ¢ What is CWM?
Whatever happened to Mrs Livingstone? (The role of women in mission)
Youth Forum ¢ Children’s activities
6.30pm
City Temple, Holborn Viaduct |
Panel on Mission
Question-time and debate on Christian mission today. |
With panel members: Pauline Webb (UK), Christopher Duraisingh (India), |
Wendy Esau (South Africa), Maitland Evans (Jamaica), Lee Ching Chee
(Hong Kong), Bernard Thorogood (Australia), Peni Vai (Western Samoa)
14th July |
2pm
Westminster Central Hall |
Celebration Worship
Preacher: Rev C M Kao (Taiwan)
During this event, the Congregational Christian Church in American Samoa...”
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The Council for World Mission (CWM) produced a special logo to mark the London
| Missionary Society bicentenary. It depicts an arc of six dancing figures under the
theme title, “Dare to Dream”.
While past achievements have undeniably influenced the different histories of the
| CWM member churches, the theme — “Dare to Dream” — looks forward to the possi-
1 bilities the future holds in store. Since for many in CWM’s churches 1995 has also
meant another year of economic hardship, political tension and uncertainty it is good
} to be reminded of the hope the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings.
The logo tells this story of hope. The figures represent the six world regions — Africa,
Europe, East Asia, South Asia, Pacific and Caribbean - where CWM’s churches are
| found. A sense of celebration is well expressed by the dance, a potent symbol of life,
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This prayer is available on a special bookmark, |
available during the London Celebrations and |
from the Council for World Mission, price 75p. }
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Give thanks to Christ who calls us tobe one _Pray that the Holy Spirit will pro(!)ceed
and learn to use the future tense today empowering us to see Christ’s mission through:
to keep the dream alive, the vision clear: transform the dream to speech, en-act the Word,
a world at peace, the human race at play. put flesh on hope, make God’s intent come true.
| Let not, O God, the vision we have caught
fade as we rise, nor let it die away
give us the faith with passion to pursue
| that dream’s fulfilment in the light of day.
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Text by Fred Kaan. USA © 1995 Hope Publishing Co, Carol Stream, IL 60188, USA.
All other countries ©1995 Council for World Mission, Livingstone House,
11 Carteret Street, London SW1H 9DL, UK.
Music © 1995 Maggie Hamilton. All rights reserved.
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“...Wire-bound.
This is the source-book for the hymns used in worship during the London
Celebrations. Already being called “The CWM Song Book”.
Price: £4.50
Drawn to the Wonder: Twenty hymns and songs
from the book on tape
Performed by Kopanang and directed by Maggie Hamilton, project worker
for Counterpoint, a world music project sponsored by Christian Aid. An
ideal aid for teaching the hymns to congregations.
Price: £4.99
People Changing Places: Six Bible Studies on
Sharing People in Mission
By Andrew Prasad. Commentaries, stories, questions and activities based on
the New Testament, for use by ministers and church groups.
| Price: £2
Praying With CWM Churches 1996
| Points for prayers from all CWM’s member churches, for use in private and
congregational prayer.
Price: 25p
All items — and others — are available throughout the London Celebrations or from
CWM Communication Unit, Livingstone House, 11 Carteret Street,
London SW1H 9DL. While stocks last. P&P extra on all items....”
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“...The story of the London Missionary Society |
| and the Council for World Mission
he Evangelical Revival in Britain at the end of the 18th century, with the pas-
sionate preaching of John Wesley and George Whitefield, led to the setting up
of numerous organisations. Within the Christian community a conscience was
created to preach the Gospel and save the lost in sin and misery at home, but it also
produced a sense of responsibility towards the wider world. Interest in the wider
world had been stirred by accounts of travellers, such as Captain Cook in the Pacific.
Leaders among the independent churches joined forces with Anglican and
Presbyterian clergy and laymen to form a Missionary Society in 1795 whose object
| was “to spread the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened
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“...LMS missionaries at any one time was about 250. Many sin-
gle women were appointed as well as married couples where the husband was
regarded as “the missionary” though wives assisted or were responsible for much of
the work. |
Between 1895 and 1945 LMS appointed around 800 missionaries of whom a little
more than 100 were from churches other than Congregational. Likewise, most LMS
financial support came from Congregational churches in Great Britain, Ireland, |
Australia and New Zealand. In each mission field, but especially in the Pacific, the
indigenous churches contributed finance to the Society’s work as well as providing
teachers, evangelists, pastors and others for their expanding work.
Financial crises between 1920 and 1945 saw a trimming back of LMS’ work and in
| places like the Pacific and north India, other missionary organisations took over some
of what LMS started. In spite of all the difficulties of the war years (1939-1945), the
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“...British colonies became
independent states, as did Madagascar, a former French colony. The devolution from
mission too gathered pace. It started in 1927 with the formation of the Church of
Christ in China; the unifying of the Church of South India in 1947 was succeeded by
many self-governing national churches in the 1960s. Far-sighted missionary leader-
ship in China in the 1850s had called for self-supporting, self-governing and self-
propagating churches, but it took the Communist revolution to force this develop-
ment on the missionary societies. Departing missionaries from China, the largest of
the LMS mission fields, went elsewhere to strengthen the work of training leaders
and devolving responsibility.
Meanwhile, LMS’ ecumenical nature saw it supporting the creation of National
Councils of Churches in India, Zambia, Papua New Guinea and Madagascar. Slogans
such as “Church and Mission are one”, following the establishment of the World |
Council of Churches in 1948, greatly influenced LMS...”
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“...the creation of the
united Church of South India.
Constituent bodies and churches were then asked if they wished to participate in a
restructured Council for World Mission. All except the Congregational Unions of
Ireland and Australia (which was about to become part of the Uniting Church in
Australia) said “Yes” and the new CWM was inaugurated on 18th July 1977 with 22
constituent bodies. To the slogan, “Mission in Six Continents”, real shape had been
given so that churches round the world could share fully together in world mission.
Barrie Scopes
Gales of Change: The story of the London Missionary Society
1945-1977
Edited by Bernard Thorogood. 345pp. Co-published with World Council of
Churches publications, Geneva.
The post-war changes in LMS and the churches it served, leading up to the
formation of the Council for World Mission.
Price: £11.50 plus £1.50 p&p.
Available throughout the London Celebrations or from CWM Communication Unit,
Livingstone House, 11 Carteret Street, London SW1H 9DL...”
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