Sentences with phrase «international missionary»

Some situations that could occur and coverages available to help are listed below for international missionary volunteers.

At the meeting of the (Protestant) International Missionary Council at Madras in A.D. 1938, among the regularly appointed delegates non-Occidentals were practically as numerous as Occidentals, the first time at one of these world - wide Christian gatherings where this has been the case.

In December 1938 nearly 500 delegates from around the world gathered at Madras Christian College in Tambaram, South India, for the third world conference of the International Missionary Council.

No one could have attended the meeting of the International Missionary Council at Jerusalem during the two weeks ending on Easter Day without discerning that momentous changes are taking place in foreign missions.

In order to make certain that such statements as these should have more than ephemeral significance, it was proposed that the International Missionary Council should establish, as a part of its organization, a «bureau of social and economic research and information» on problems arising from the contact between Western civilization and undeveloped countries.

The word «dialogue» (also «encounter») has become popular with the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council, Geneva, as well as in less formal or authoritative circles.

He reports here on the International Missionary Conference held in Jerusalem in 1928.

K.S. Latourette, «Ecumenical Bearings of the Missionary Movement and the International Missionary Council», in Rouse and Neill (eds.)

2, (New York, International Missionary Council), 276.)

I did so by tracing the understanding of church and mission through the International Missionary Council meetings from Edinburgh to just after Willingen.

These debates took place in and around the International Missionary Council (IMC) meetings.

William Paton, «The Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council», International Review of Missions, Vol.

It is the understanding of mission that the early SVM and the International Missionary Council assumed and followed.

Report of the Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council, Vol.

After the war, an enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council took place in Whitby, Ontario in Canada in 1947.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An historical study of the ecumenical discussions on mission as expressed in the conferences and assemblies of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

Eventually, from these developments, the International Missionary Council was formed in 1921, which in 1961 was integrated into the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the New Delhi Assembly.

Since that was the fundamental debate of the International Missionary Council meetings for the first 60 years of the last century, it is there we will turn next time.

The World Mission of the Church: Findings and Recommendations of the Meeting of the International Missionary Council, Madras, 1938.

In 1938, the International Missionary Council saw the church as a missionary church, as an indigenous church, and as a church centered on mission, and focused on God's mission.

In an e-mail Chuck Van Engen wrote (refer to my last post to understand the references to the International Missionary Council):

Responsible religious leadership — such as the recent meetings of the International Missionary Council, to which Radhakrishnan himself refers, 31 represent — is well aware that there are pressing tasks which require the wholehearted cooperation of the faithful of all religions.

Other expressions of the ecumenical movement are found in the International Missionary Council, which correlates the work of many denominational mission boards around the world, and in the United States we have the National Council of Churches and many state and local councils.

It was significant that the language of most of the Protestant international missionary gatherings was English.

The International Missionary Conference born of the Edinburgh and Jerusalem meetings had created national missionary councils in a large number of countries.

But the consciousness of the global nature of poverty and exploitation in the world today, the knowledge of the interdependence between nations and the understanding of the international missionary responsibility of the Church - all invite, in fact oblige, every church and every Christian to think of ways and means to share the Good News with the poor of today.

(How Christianity is to relate, as a minority faith, to pluralistic environments is one of the key topics to be taken up at this month's celebration of the 50th anniversary of Tambaram — the meeting in that city near Madras of the International Missionary Council which included the Third World in a way that anticipated the current influence of the «newer churches» in the World Council of Churches.)

After the war, at its meeting in 1946, the Joint Committee recommended several common projects between the International Missionary Council and the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches.

The problem had taken on a new shape with the separate development of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches as two distinct organizations.

The third, the missionary movement as represented by the International Missionary Council did not join World Council of Churches at that time.

The rest of the document dealt with the implications of the recognition of the relation between unity and mission for the life of the church, for the world missionary task and the relationship between the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

The statement of Rolle was of great historical significance as it influenced the subsequent ecumenical discussions on unity and mission which finally led to the integration of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

Recalling the vision behind the act of integration of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches, and the commitment made in New Delhi, Arias said «we have not always been faithful to our recognized calling; we have not always given priority to what ought to be our priorities; we have not always been worthy of our predecessors from Edinburgh 1910 to Mexico 1963; and we have not always fulfilled the hopes which gave rise to the WCC and its merging with the IMC».

The Assembly authorized the Administrative Committee of the International Missionary Council to take steps to implement the resolution.

The statement called on the member councils of the International Missionary Council to further the cause of Christian unity and to consider fresh ways of relating their experience and concern for unity to the deliberations and actions of the churches within their membership, and to the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches.

The new emphasis on the world challenged the hitherto church - centric view of mission that had been developing in the International Missionary Council and the ecumenical movement in general.

When the World Council of Churches (WCC) was formed (by the coming together of the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements in 1948), the International Missionary Council (TMC) did not join it.

Others feared that the mission of the International Missionary Council would be lost in the World Council of Churches.

This issue was discussed further at the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957/58.

By Madras 1938, there had developed a church - centric view of mission in the International Missionary Council, and in the ecumenical movement as a whole.

For different reasons, the Orthodox churches viewed with apprehension the closer relationship between the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

It was pointed out that this danger existed especially in Africa and Latin America where the membership of certain councils had prevented their joining the International Missionary Council because of its association with World - Council of Churches.

The Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council, having reviewed the steady growth of the relationship of association between the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches and having considered with care the opinions of delegates and those of the Christian Councils whose views have been presented, accepts in principle the integration of the two Councils, and desires further steps to be taken towards this goal.

Consequently, one sad result of the integration was that several of the evangelical groups, who were associated with the International Missionary Council, and through it with the ecumenical movement as a whole, now felt alienated from the ecumenical movement as represented by the World Council of Churches.

Further, it was not possible to say that the International Missionary Council simply represented the calling of the church to evangelism and the World Council of Churches its calling to unity.

The question of the integration of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches was the main consideration of the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council which met from December 28, 1957 to January 8, 1958.

In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

John R. Mott, J.H. Oldham and William Paton, who were the leaders of the International Missionary Council, were also involved in the work of the other two movements.

The World Mission of the Church: Findings and Recommendations of the Meeting of the International Missionary Council Meeting at Tambaram 1958, p. 154.

This dream did not then come to fruition, but it anticipated by a little more than a century the formation, shortly after the next general European war, of the International Missionary Council, which was to undertake this very function.