More than one million people in the southern Madagascar are in dire need of emergency food and nutrition support due to a catastrophic shortage of food resources. Since September 2020, Madagascar has been trapped in [...]
Council for World Mission celebrates the news of the election of its Moderator, Rev Lydia Neshangwe as the Moderator-elect of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) 2023 – 2025. The General Assembly, at [...]
Rev Dr Jooseop Keum has now assumed office as the 6th General Secretary of Council for World Mission, on 1 July 2021, following his appointment at a Special Members’ Meeting held on 31 March 2021. [...]
At its Annual Members’ Meeting, held electronically on 15-17 June 2021, Council for World Mission (CWM) reflected on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peoples and countries around the world, with particular attention given [...]
The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that at a Special Members’ Meeting, held on 31 March 2021, Rev Dr Jooseop Keum was appointed as the next General Secretary of Council for World Mission [...]
This Easter message is intended to greet us with hope and to assure us of life amid the relentless onslaught of challenging circumstances. It is an affirmation that the God of life beckons us to [...]
We salute you on this International Women’s Day (IWD), which is celebrated each year on March 8 since the early 1900s, to shine the spotlight on women and their rights. The theme of 2021 is [...]
13 July 2020 The Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of 20 (G20) Your Excellencies: Our organisations, the World Council of Churches (WCC), World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), Lutheran World Federation [...]
‘I can’t breathe!’ These were the terrified and terrifying words of George Floyd, as he was pinned to the ground by a white policeman in an illegal act of police violence and extra-judicial murder in [...]
CWM has received the very sad news of the sudden death of Mr Biango Buia. Biango died peacefully in the early hours of 6 June, 2020, while still in active service as Acting Assembly Secretary [...]
The current Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of our lives in a world already plagued with immense human suffering. In response, four organisations – the World Council of Churches (WCC), the World Communion of [...]
Council for World Mission has received news that Rev Bernard Thorogood has died. The 92-year-old patriarch, who served faithfully and with distinction, as a missionary of the former London Missionary Society and the first General [...]
A series of two e-conferences held on 17 and 24 April, brought together some 25 participants to reflect on the socio-economic-ecological impacts of the COVID-19 crisis and how it offers the world an opportunity to [...]
Dear sisters and brothers, Greetings in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. We are facing an unprecedented crisis throughout the world at this time as we grapple with the impact of the COVID-19 [...]
Council for World Mission (CWM) pauses to express solidarity and to offer the assurance of our prayers on behalf of all those who have been infected with the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) and with the families [...]
On Monday, 10th February 2020, the General Secretary of Council for World Mission (CWM), Rev Dr Collin Cowan led a delegation, comprising Rev Wayne Hawkins, Deputy General Secretary, Mrs Rose Wedderburn, Board Director, and Mr [...]
A new year breaks with fresh opportunities and possibilities for those who are prepared to imagine a future, transformed by the grace of God, which compels us to acknowledge and repent of our wrong and [...]
In the spirit of Christmas and in the name of the one whose birthday we celebrate, Jesus of Nazareth, Council for World Mission salutes you. We pray that yours will be a peace-filled season, marked [...]
The celebration of Easter cannot be done with integrity unless we are prepared to set it within the context of life’s pain and suffering. An acknowledgement of the bruises, the scars and the damage we [...]
The Members’ Mission Forum of the Council for World Mission (CWM) meeting in Blantyre, Malawi, from 19-21 February 2019 has been deeply disturbed to learn of the ongoing ritual killings of persons with albinism (PWA), [...]
Friday, 15 March 2019 Council for World Mission (CWM) shares the pain and grief of the people of New Zealand in this time of unprecedented tragedy in that country. There can be no way to [...]
The current discussion by Christian and other religious bodies, whereby consensual sexual relations between male adults is a criminal act punishable by law in 72 countries and carries the death penalty in eight, have prompted [...]
CWM welcomes and gladly partners with the Thursdays in Black movement, with its roots in the women’s movements, peoples’ movements and ecumenical movement. At its meeting in Singapore in Feb 2019, the CWM Board reiterated [...]
New York, NY, April 22 - The 3rd meeting of the Ecumenical Panel on a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) took place on April 21 and 22, 2018 in New York to coincide [...]
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 connect with the United Nations (UN) [...]
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 resurrection story of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus was [...]
The Programme Associate role reports to the Mission Secretary for Africa, and is based in the Republic of South Africa. The programme team works closely with CWM member bodies across 41 countries, governing bodies when [...]
The Programme Team has an opening for the position of Programme Associate for Mission Programme. The Programme Associate role reports to the Mission Secretary for Programme Development and is based in Singapore. The programme team [...]
The Partners in Mission Associate role reports to the Deputy General Secretary for Programme. Based in Singapore, this role was created in 2015 to work closely with the Deputy General Secretary for Programme; providing coordination, [...]
CWM is pleased to present the 2016 Assembly logo which was unveiled following a service of prayer and worship attended by CWM staff led by the General Secretary in Singapore. The next four-yearly gathering of the [...]
Photo: Ms Veronica Chua with General Secretary, Rev Dr Collin Cowan. CWM welcomes Ms Veronica Chua as a member of the staff team in her role as Deputy General Secretary for Finance and Administration. Veronica, [...]
Council for World Mission wishes to express its commitment to solidarity with the people in the Middle East in their struggles. This Christmas our thoughts and prayers are with the people in Palestine. Our Christmas [...]
The message and the miracle of Christmas is that God’s love greeted a perishing world wrapped in the simplicity of a child, born of ordinary parents in a lowly stable. Some two thousand years ago [...]
Aiwo Congregational Church, Nauru 29th November Nauru made history on the 29th November 2015 by ordaining their first women ministers: Pastor Wanda Joleen Hiram and Pastor Ruth Omodien Garabwan. Our Pacific Regional Secretary Rev. Fei [...]
Image Caption: TIM students with the mural they painted for the children's room at Presbyterian Support Family Works in Manurewa. The mural incorporates the flags and images of the student’s cultures intertwined with NZ imagery. Anne [...]
We, the participants of the Asia Pacific Regional Workshop on “Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response” organised by CWM and PCT with technical assistance of ACT Alliance representing the member churches of CWM: PCI, EKT, NCC, [...]
CWM welcomes the Climate Change negotiations towards a long term deal to limit carbon emissions happening in Paris beginning 30 November 2015. The timing is right and with some 170 countries expressing commitment towards the [...]
We the participants of the consultation on ‘Interfaith engagement towards building life-affirming communities’ held in Kolkata between the 6th and 8th of November 2015 recognise the inevitable need to build life-affirming communities and acknowledge that [...]
“What separates us is not the theology of our faith but its politics” said Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan while delivering his key note address at the Interfaith Consultation held in Kolkata that was inaugurated on [...]
This is an extract from the November 2015 edition of Reform Magazine. There can be no denying that evangelism, or the proclamation of the good news of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is central to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWAqdv_g2M At the invitation of the Council for World Mission, a global community of churches together in mission, we gathered on 28–31 October 2015 in Bethlehem – in occupied Palestine to consider “Mission in the [...]
The Council for World Mission is pleased to invite expressions of interest to join the staff team in the following positions: Head of Finance and Administration Head of Programme Communications Manager Mission Secretary (Mission Development) [...]
Bethlehem was host to a conference convened by the Council for World Mission (CWM). Twenty international and ten Palestinian scholars committed to the praxis of the marginalized - those people of the earth perpetually destined to [...]
2015 South Asia Regional Round Table Meeting From 22-25 October member churches of South Asia Region, namely Church of South India, Church of North India, Presbyterian Church of India and the Church of Bangladesh gathered [...]
Four of the eight participants slated for the A New Faith and Culture Exposure programme have begun a week of orientation in Kingston, Jamaica. It is anticipated that four other participants will join the group [...]
“We dare to claim that there is need to address the economic globalisation, marked by unregulated free market enterprise, systems designed to maintain the social pyramid requiring the majority to serve the minority. We acknowledge [...]
03 October to 16 November, 2015 Location: India The Council for World Mission’s (CWM) Face to Face Programme aims to invite the youth participants in cultural, social, theological and contextual realities for them to [...]
Directors of the Council for World Mission voted to elect the Very Rev Pamela Tankersley Moderator of CWM Ltd with effect from August 2015. Rev Tankersley will serve as Moderator until the CWM Assembly in June [...]
26-30 September 2015, Bangkok, Thailand The CWM Mission Enabling Team and World Council of Churches – Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in partnership with the Church of Christ in Thailand are currently organizing a [...]
CWM Caribbean/CANACOM Youth Forum on Human Trafficking 29th July – 1st August 2015, Georgetown, Guyana Forum One: A Shock to My Consciousness “Even though I have done my own research on human trafficking this forum [...]
On 17 - 18 September, 2015, the Council for World Mission conducted a consultation to look at the Partners in Mission programme, evaluating its impact on the life and mission of CWM members. Representatives from CWM member [...]
Face to Face Netherlands 2016 The Face to Face: Mission in the Context of Empire through the Lens of Migration and Human Trafficking (Face to Face Netherlands) is now accepting applications for 2016 intake. The Programme will [...]
General Secretary’s Greetings at the Council Meeting of the Union of Welsh Independents Rev Dr Collin Cowan, Council for World Mission 25 September 2015 It is with immense delight and great joy that I greet [...]
16th -30th August 2015 For two weeks in August young people from the European and Caribbean Region took part in the Exploration Programme in the Netherlands. The theme of the 2015 Exploration Programme was church [...]
5-13 September 2015, Sydney, Australia The CWM Mission Enabling Team, World Council of Churches Commission for World Mission & Evangelism, together with the Uniting Church in Australia are currently holding the first of a series [...]
Training in Mission 2016 The Council for World Mission is pleased to inform you that we are now accepting applications for the Training in Mission (TIM) 2016 Programme. The Training in Mission (TIM) Programme aims [...]
We have been experiencing the pioneer church of Kerk Op De Kop. By leading the monthly celebration with the church we met the group and by talking to the wider community at a local bbq [...]
21- 28 August, 2015 From 21-28 August, eight representatives of CWM churches are gathering in Harare, Zimbabwe for a week long leaders training and debriefing session. The training is part of CWM’s Team Visit Programme [...]
23 - 28th July, Apia, Samoa On the 24th July 2015, the Pacific Region met in Apia, Samoa for their Regional Round Table. As part of our immersion experience in the context of Samoa we [...]
The Directors of the Council for World Mission have appointed the Rev Dr Collin I. Cowan to a second term as General Secretary at the annual Council meeting hosted by the United Church in Jamaica [...]
