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Sunday service, Arusha conference on world mission and evangelism, Tanzania, 2018, Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

Sunday service, Arusha conference on world mission and evangelism, Tanzania, 2018, Photo: Ivars Kupcis/WCC

In 1961, the International Missionary Council and the WCC integrated at the WCC assembly in New Delhi, India, and the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism was founded.

To mark this centenary and to gather the mission legacy of one hundred years, the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, with partners, has started a global ecumenical study process related to missionary cooperation and unity. The commission will also organize an ecumenical missiological centenary event in November 2021, either in-person, hybrid, or entirely online. The three-day conference, planned for 16-18 November, will be organized in cooperation with, and supported by, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Methodist Church (USA), the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, the Protestant Association of Churches and Mission from Germany, regional ecumenical organizations and various study centers around the globe engaged in the study process.

"The study process has three foci", Rev. Dr Risto Jukko, director of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism highlights."Cooperation and unity in mission; creating and encouraging sharing and interaction between the regions and theological traditions; and contributing to discussions on mission and unity at the next WCC assembly in Karlsruhe, Germany, in September 2022."

The study process will conclude in June 2022. Its outcomes will then lead to a number of publications of theological and missiological reflections.