The Council for World Mission is a worldwide community of Christian churches.
The 31 members are committed to sharing their resources of money, people, skills and insights globally to carry out God's mission locally.
CWM works through missionary exchanges, communication networks, community projects, theological study, empowerment of women and youth, and much more.
CWM was created in 1977 and incorporates the London Missionary Society (1795), the Commonwealth Missionary Society (1836) and the (English) Presbyterian Board of Missions (1847).
In 1992 CWM launched the Community of Women and Men in Mission (CWMM) as an important aspect of CWM policy.
The Community of Women and Men in Mission is a Council for World Mission programme encouraging member churches to build:
• Equal partnership between women and men,
• An end to violence against women,
• Economic empowerment for women,
• Equal access to education and health.
Insaka is the Community of Women and Men in Mission's regular newsletter that provides news, features and Bible studies.
The word Insaka comes from Zambia and has a number of meanings: a village council where men, women and youth meet to dicsuss issues affecting the community; a place for communal meals; and it can refer to the skills and instructions given as a preparation for adulthood
The team visit Felicity is leading to the United Congregational Churches of Southern Africa is part of a project of CWM's Community of Women and Men in Mission.
Members of CWM partner churches from New Zealand, Guyana, the UK and South Africa are visiting churches, projects, training institutions, church offices that belong to the United Congregational Churches of Southern Africa.
Their three week programme is taking them to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
This blog contains a digest of the texts Felicity has sent back reporting on the team visit.
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