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 [...]
The World Day against Trafficking in Persons is commemorated on 30 July every year. This year, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the vulnerability of many to human trafficking as people have lost jobs, or have [...]
UN Women and the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) have inked a partnership deal to address the regional epidemic of gender-based violence. The project comprises a regional mapping of faith-based responses to Violence Against Women [...]
The All African Conference of Churches (AACC) has called upon African churches to tackle the issue of unsustainable population growth and challenges associated with population explosion in the Africa continent. A high-level webinar consultation on [...]
Applications are now open for Young Adults Training for Religious Amity (YATRA), to be held between 15-27 May 2020 in Fiji. Themed “Young People in the Frontline of Transformation”, the inter-religious training programme will offer [...]
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, [...]
In line with its vision of Fullness of life through Christ for all creation, CWM has committed that young people should be included in the life and witness of their churches and communities, not merely [...]
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), [...]
Brief history The history of the Congregational Union of New Zealand (CUNZ) started in 1842 when a Mr. Jonas Woodward commenced services in his home in Wellington, New Zealand. The first Congregational Church at Auckland [...]
In 2016 Council for World Mission (CWM) chose as its Assembly theme, “Healing: Hope in Action”. Over the years since then, we have been focusing on different aspects and expressions of that theme, believing that [...]
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 in that year that the first systematic provision of [...]
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 [...]
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 in the outlying islands of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle [...]
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 Rev Dr Cliff Bird, Mission Secretary for Pacific region The Pacific Young Women Enabling Transformation (YWET) regional training workshop organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) Research and Capacity Development and Pacific Region [...]
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 destroy their soul for bread; and who will not collude [...]
We, a hundred and twenty young people representing four continents, 35 countries, from six regions of the Council for World Mission (CWM) gathered in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the first ever CWM Global Youth Forum. [...]
We are delighted to inform you that we are once again accepting applications for the Building Life-Affirming Communities: Face To Face with the many poor and the many faiths in Asia. This will be held on 12 February to 24 [...]
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 submission of applications is on 15th November 2017. [...]
By Rev. Vavatau Taufao, General Secretary, CCCS INTRODUCTION Our church is known as the Congregational Christian Church Samoa (CCCS) or Ekalesia Faapotopotoga Kerisiano Samoa (EFKS). We have the highest church membership in Samoa despite the [...]
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 in May after I finished partying I started [...]
“Discipleship in the context of Empire does not call for passive bystanders ... it calls for young people committed to radical discipleship; young people who are committed to learning about the Jesus of Nazareth who [...]
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 a discussion about what they would do if [...]
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 Johannesburg, South Africa. As part of the CWM’s 40th [...]
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 events, programmes and publications, beginning with the launch of [...]
This year’s Training in Mission (TIM) Programme began on 1st May as participants from Taiwan, Samoa, South Korea, United Kingdom, Cayman Islands, Zambia, South Africa and Kiribati arrived in New Zealand to commence the Programme. [...]
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 [...]
“Poverty eradication is not going to happen by just handing out charity to the poor, however helpful that is. What is required is a well organised systemic rearrangement of how resources are accumulated and distributed. [...]
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 CWM) Training in Mission (TIM) participants arrived in Fiji from Taiwan on 1 July 2016 to continue their mission training. Fiji, is a small Pacific island country famed for being a tourist destination. Like [...]
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 [...]
Ten (10) participants of this year’s Training in Mission Programme (TIM) arrived in Taiwan on 2nd May for the commencement of the Programme in Taiwan. The Programme will run until 26th November in four (4) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
