PARTNERSHIP FOR WORLD MISSION

based at Partnership House in London, brings together ten international mission agencies of the Church of England. These are :-

CHURCH ARMY (international work)
Independents Road, Blackheath, London SE3 9LG (020 8318 1226)
www.churcharmy.org.uk

CHURCH’S MINISTRY AMONG JEWISH PEOPLE (CMJ)
30c Clarence Road, St Albans, Herts AL1 4JJ (01727 833114)
www.cmj.org.uk

CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY (CMS)
Partnership House, 157 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8UU (020 7928 8681)
www.cms-uk.org
(including MID-AFRICA MINISTRY [MAM] - www.midafricaministry.org)

CROSSLINKS
251 Lewisham Way, London SE4 1XF (020 8961 6111)
www.crosslinks.org

INTERCONTINENTAL CHURCH SOCIETY (ICS)
1 Athena Drive, Tachbrook Park, Warwick CV34 6NL (01926 430347)
www.ics-uk.org

THE MISSION TO SEAFARERS
St Michael Paternoster Royal, College Hill, London EC4R 2RL (020 7248 5202)
www.missiontoseafarers.org

MOTHERS’ UNION (international work)
Mary Sumner House, 24 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3RB (020 7222 5533)
www.themothersunion.org

SOUTH AMERICAN MISSION SOCIETY (SAMS)
Allen Gardiner House, 12 Fox Hill, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4AG (0121 472 2616)
www.samsgb.org

THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE (SPCK)
Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, London NW1 4DU (020 7387 5282)
www.spck.org.uk

UNITED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL (USPG)
Partnership House, 157 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8XA (020 7928 8681)
www.uspg.org.uk

The ten mission agencies of Partnership for World Mission are involved in various ways in enabling and promoting Christian ministry within the worldwide Anglican Communion. In particular, CMS and USPG work very widely with Anglican and united partners in provinces throughout the Communion, enabling exchange and education, sending (and receiving) missionaries or mission partners, and, through specific and general grants, supporting the Church in ministry and training, education and health work. They are also working to resource the church here in mission and in awareness of our membership of a wider Communion.

Local churches can support this work by

• Giving to general funds, which enables a flexible response to needs as they arise.
  
• Responding to appeals, e.g. in Lent or at Harvest, or for health concerns.
  
• Linking with and supporting a mission partner (CMS) or project (USPG) - other PWM agencies offer similar opportunities for links.
  
• Prayer and study (prayer diaries and a range of study material are available).

PWM agencies also offer opportunities for mission service, and for ‘gap year’ and shorter overseas experience, and can be helpful in enabling parish links, and providing speakers and preachers, resource material etc. Crowther Hall (CMS) and the United College of the Ascension (USPG and the Methodist Church) in Birmingham provide education and training for mission service and for partners from overseas. They also provide opportunities to gain awareness of world mission issues such as relations with other faiths, the challenge of HIV and AIDS, poverty and debt, varieties of worship and the ways in which the Gospel can cross cultural boundaries.

USPG has longstanding links within Hereford’s companion dioceses of Tanga, Masasi and Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania. In Tanga Diocese USPG supports Teule Hospital, Muheza, and the work there of Richard and Karilyn Collins; this is a project to which local churches can link (USPG needs to raise £32,000 for Teule in 2002), as are St Francis Hospital, Kwa Mkono, and Kwa Mkono Polio Hostel, in the same diocese. Other grants have been given recently to Masasi and Tanga Dioceses, for general use and also in support of the Nurses Training School at Muheza, and the Community of St Mary at Masasi. USPG also supports training and theological education within the Province of Tanzania, and in particular St Mark’s Theological College, Dar es Salaam.

PWM agencies have played an important role in establishing and enabling diocesan companionship links, as a vital means towards understanding and partnership within the Communion. Alongside the development of such links, however, their own role continues to be important within the wider Communion - together they form the principal way in which the Church of England expresses its support for, and involvement in, the mission of Anglican Christians worldwide. Prayer requests from the PWM agencies are included in the centre pages of the Diocesan Prayer Diary each quarter.

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