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The conference inspired further regional conferences in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Australia. Against a background of deep concerns among evangelicals regarding the doctrinal and missiological developments in the World Council of Churches , Billy Graham reiterated many of the major concerns of the 1966 Wheaton Congress.
Urbana 61 had a change in format from previous conferences. It featured a "plenary panel" about mission work, a "plenary forum" that involved a question-and-answer time with various Christian leaders, elective courses on specific topics related to missions, missionary sessions, and a pastoral group. The theme was "Commission—Conflict ...
The International Conference on Missions (ICOM) is a non-denominational, non-profit, Christian organization that organizes an annual conference on missions for the Unaffiliated Christian Church/Church of Christ congregations around the world. It was originally known as the National Missionary Convention (1954-2011).
A continuation committee was established following the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, which culminated in the creation of the International Missionary Council in 1921 in London. Like the Edinburgh conference, it was created to continue ecumenical efforts towards Christian mission through a series of meetings: [3] 1928 in ...
The World Mission Workshop is an annual gathering of students of missions, missionaries and professors of missions associated with Churches of Christ. The workshop meets each year at a college campus. The 2010 workshop, the 50th meeting, was held at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where the first workshop was held in 1961.
Ecumenism (/ ɪ ˈ k juː m ə ˌ n ɪ z əm / ih-KYOO-mə-niz-əm; alternatively spelled oecumenism) – also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalism – is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. [2]
IAMS was founded in 1972, but came from the vision of the late Olav G. Myklebust, then director of the Egede Institute in Oslo. In 1951, Myklebust produced a thirty-five-page proposal entitled “An International Institute of Scientific Missionary Research.” He looked to “the establishment of an international association of missiologists (and others engaged in the scholarly study of ...
The General Conference Session is the official world meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held every five years.At the session, delegates from around the world elect the Church's World Leaders, discuss and vote on changes to the Church's Constitution, and listen to reports from the Church's 13 Divisions on activities going on within its territory.