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The first draft of a new mission statement for the World Council of Churches (WCC) was at the centre of a 5-day meeting recently held by the 25-member Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) on the campus of the University of Ghana near Accra.
The draft statement will find its way to a larger mission and evangelism pre-assembly gathering in Manila in March 2012 and ultimately be placed before the next WCC Assembly in Busan, Korea in 2013.
During its Ghana meeting, 22-26 November, the commission also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the integration of the former International Missionary Council (IMC) into the WCC and the subsequent formation of the CWME, a development which started in Achimota, Ghana in 1958 and was completed in 1961 at the 3rd Assembly of the WCC in New Delhi.
The formation of the CWME was marked by a process that continues today attempting to bring greater unity between autonomous mission agencies and the church as a whole. This is necessary
