Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference
Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference
Agenda Volume 2 - Methodist Conference
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38. Report of the <strong>Methodist</strong> Missionary Society<br />
Working Party<br />
i. To bring about the full<br />
integration of the One<br />
Mission concept into, and its<br />
implementation throughout, all<br />
levels of the church.<br />
ii. To make specific<br />
recommendations to the<br />
2014 <strong>Conference</strong> as to how<br />
One Mission is overseen,<br />
promoted, held accountable<br />
and embedded into the life of<br />
the <strong>Methodist</strong> people and the<br />
<strong>Methodist</strong> Church in Britain.<br />
iii. To recommend to the 2014<br />
<strong>Conference</strong> changes to<br />
Standing Orders including<br />
a new Part within Standing<br />
Orders to incorporate One<br />
Mission.<br />
iv. To support relevant<br />
Connexional Team staff as<br />
they continue to educate,<br />
communicate and encourage<br />
<strong>Methodist</strong>s throughout the<br />
Connexion, enabling a better<br />
understanding and practice of<br />
One Mission.<br />
7 Conclusion<br />
7.1 Perhaps for the first time in our<br />
recent history there is the real<br />
possibility of bringing the strands<br />
of overseas and home missions<br />
together. Without contradicting the<br />
terms of use for the restricted World<br />
Mission or the Mission in Britain<br />
funds, we have a unique opportunity<br />
to assert the understanding that<br />
the mission of the Church is one in<br />
which work at home and overseas is<br />
essentially the same mission. One<br />
Mission expresses the intention to<br />
work with partners, at home and<br />
across the world, to engage with God<br />
in this mission. The work of the All<br />
Partners Consultation in 2010 took<br />
the British <strong>Methodist</strong> Church further<br />
in our thinking about mission in the<br />
twenty-first century than we had<br />
dared to hope. Now is the time to<br />
move those thoughts into action as<br />
we continue to grow as a worldwide<br />
family transformed by God’s love.<br />
***RESOLUTIONS<br />
38/1. The <strong>Conference</strong> receives the report.<br />
38/2. The <strong>Conference</strong> encourages <strong>Methodist</strong> people to engage with Churches across<br />
the world, in a spirit of partnership, collaboration and mutuality, through prayer,<br />
the interchange of personnel and through continuing support for the World<br />
Mission Fund and the Mission in Britain Fund.<br />
38/3. The <strong>Conference</strong> encourages local Churches, Circuits and Districts to engage with<br />
the Vision Statement for Mission, the Purpose for Mission Statement for Mission<br />
as adopted by the 2012 <strong>Conference</strong> and the One Mission Statement (paragraph<br />
<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>Agenda</strong> 2013<br />
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