when we refocused our work and team in post christian britain we retained our mission focus at the edges encouraging pioneers and pioneering churches. that is what we have done well and are passionate about. but we also discerned three particular areas to prioritise and encourage - younger people, people experiencing poverty and diasporas.
i am excited to let you know about a new piece of work that has grown out that third focus of our cms team in britain - acts 11. acts 11 is a centre for global witness and human migration. harvey kwiyani is one of our team leaders and is the visionary who has developed the idea. we have a launch event over two days - 26-27 september. the first day is a conference aimed at anyone interested. the second day is a conversation for those involved in theological education or missions organisations. all the details and how to book are here. you can book into one or other or both days. you can also sign up virtually too.
at cms we often say the gifts of the world church are already here and celebrate that. but we then don't seem to quite know how to make the most of that. it's been my friendship with harvey that has helped me work out how to practically put some legs on that. the fruit of that has been adding in an african and asian pathway to our training (and we hope latin american in the future too), and now this acts 11 centre which will be involved in resources, research, training, gatherings, networking and so on. we hope the fruit is also new understandings of collaboration, decolonised mission and so on.
we had lined this up before the riots in the uk in august. but now this seems more timely and more important than ever. please do come. and do spread the word about it. you can book here