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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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