The world of mission and evangelism experiences big changes
Rev. Dr Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu speaking at the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism meeting in GhanaThe world has changed since 1958. In that year members of the International Missionary Council (IMC) met in Achimota, Ghana and proposed to move their operation into the World Council of Churches (WCC), then one decade old.
The change took place in 1961 with the creation of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME). Last week members of the CWME met again in Ghana to commemorate their 50th anniversary and mark the profound changes that have taken place in Christian mission and the realities of a world in which it is impossible to speak of Christianity without, for example, taking full account of Africa.
In 1958, explained the Rev. Dr Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, missionary work was widely understood as a movement of
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