Delegates from the member churches of CWM Caribbean, Guyana Congregational Union (GCU) and the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI), along with our ecumenical partner CANACOM (Caribbean and North America Council for [...]
Through CWM Capacity Development Programme (CDP)’s Member Church Initiative, basic digital filmmaking equipment was procured last year to enhance The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI)’s worship, advocacy, youth engagement and more. [...]
Long standing partners in mission, the Council for World Mission (CWM) and the Caribbean and North America Council for Mission (CANACOM) renewed their partnership through a revised MOU in a momentous occasion on 7 July [...]
The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) Moderator Rt Rev Gordon Cowans has urged the churches to heed the call to justice, mercy and humility (Micah 6:8). In his New Year Message, [...]
Mark 1:4-11 The reading for today is about repentance and the remission of sins. Repentance is the activity of reviewing one’s actions and feeling contrition or regret for the past wrongs, accompanied by commitment to [...]
Pressing on despite challenging times is probably one of the most difficult tasks in life. However, choosing to continue is an act of hopefulness and requires our faithful response, wrote The United Church in Jamaica [...]
This is a special and significant moment for CWM’s DARE forum as we move to a virtual platform to connect with daring and discerning minds from all over the world. Taking the COVID-19 as an [...]
Through its process of renewal and transformation over the years, the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) has reflected on its complicity in a system propagating and profiting from the enslavement of [...]
CWM's web talk series titled "COVID-19 does not discriminate: People and Systems do" is an ecumenical case study on Suriname, Jamaica and Guyana, to be held on Friday 23 October, 9am - 10:30am (EST). Organised [...]
The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) has urged its congregations to be compliant with COVID-19 safety protocols following the community spread across the island. Jamaica has recently seen increasing deaths, a [...]
From May to July this year, The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) provided grocery baskets of essential food items for 200 families and elderly who had lost their jobs or whose [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a dark cloud over several countries battling the second wave of COVID-19 infections – a threat lurking around the corner for others. Compounding this problem are issues of inequality [...]
Over 100 youths attended the first United Church Young Adults Action Movement (UCYAAM) e-conference, which was themed “Mobilized to Act: For Such a Time as This” based on the biblical story of Esther and the [...]
The Ubuntu Young People Organization (UYPO) supports families in crisis through a Food Hamper Distribution Project. UYPO, is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) operated by young people in Guyana some of whom are members of the [...]
Webster Memorial United Church of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI) affirmed and thanked first responders to the COVID-19 pandemic in a special service on 19 July, where Prime Minister the [...]
UCJCI’s Cayman Islands Regional Mission Council (CIRMC) recently organised a pre-recorded online public forum on the topic “COVID-19: Then & Now”. Moderated by Ms Angela Martins, the guest panelists offered insights into the impact of [...]
‘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 Caribbean and CANACOM will be hosting “Caribbean voices on rising to life with Jesus”, a webinar series where speakers identify concrete ways Caribbean churches can respond to the COVID19 crisis in the areas of [...]
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 [...]
On INSiGHT’s first birthday this October, we rejoice and celebrate the generosity of our writers and readers across the world who have made this publication possible with their contributions. As with every issue of INSiGHT, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Twenty persons drawn from member churches and ecumenical movements in the Caribbean region of Council for World Mission met for a Regional Assembly themed “Healing the Broken Body – Exploring Human Sexuality” in Kingston, Jamaica [...]
Guyana Congregational Union (GCU) celebrated 210 years of rich Congregationalist history and inspiring legacies in a commemorative worship service held in February 2018. Joining them in this historic moment as Guest Preacher and Chief Celebrant [...]
GCU Theme: “GCU On The Move: Creating The Right Image” Guyana Congregational Union (GCU) is the body representing the union of Congregational Churches within the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, South America. The Congregational Christian doctrine [...]
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 actions in the next phase of the [...]
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 Kingston, Jamaica. Past participants, former trustees or directors met to recall their [...]
I’m Kerry Anne Cort, a member of the Smith Memorial Congregational Church in Guyana, South America, who recently completed a scholarship programme available through Council for World Mission (CWM). Through engagements at meetings held within [...]
Council for World Mission (CWM)’s Europe and Caribbean representatives met at the Colloquium for a New International Financial and Economic Architecture (NIFEA) - the first in a series of three, on the Economy of Life, [...]
“Do this everywhere!” That was the verdict of one of the participants in the Roving School of Theology which was held in Georgetown, Guyana November 8-11, 2016. The first in the series of CWM’s Roving [...]
CWM member-church, the United Church in Jamaica and Cayman Islands (UCJCI), gathered a small task force to look at short-term and long-term responses to the devastation caused by the hurricane in Haiti in October 2016. [...]
In the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands we believe that ‘Every Child Counts’! – UCJCI Child Protection Policy Committee At the Synod of 2015 the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman [...]
The plight of children in the Caribbean region is one which receives high priority by member church The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands (UCJCI). On Sunday May 22, 2016 UCJCI launched its [...]
Chairman of the Guyana Congregational Union Rev. Noel Holder paid a courtesy visit to the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands by attending their Convocation on April 16, 2016. Rev. Holder brought greetings [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
