The World Council of Church’s Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) have just announced that the next World Mission Conference will be hosted by the Lutheran community in Tanzania in 2018 (on a date yet to be agreed).  CWME

 

 

 

 

 

The CWME director, Rev. Dr Jooseop Keum, speaking about the theme of the conference, reflected that, “We need to reintroduce the aspects of radical transformation in the values of God’s kingdom in today’s troubled world. To this end, CWME intends to focus on three thematic areas as we move toward the 2018 WMC: transformation and discipleship; Holy Spirit and empowerment; the missional movement and the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace”.

See the full WCC report here.

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