The Global Episcopal Mission Network has received a visionary gift from the Rev. Elizabeth “Beth” Frank, a mission activist in the Diocese of Ohio, who died in January of 2022 at age 62. The gift, over $833,000, is the largest in GEMN’s quarter-century history. The bequest enables GEMN to establish an endowment that will […]
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Mission Reflection: Holy Land pilgrimage with Friends of Jerusalem Diocese was revelatory
A mission reflection by Judy Quick Why does the Holy Land draw me in? What is it about Jerusalem that holds my heart? I’ve had the privilege of making the traditional pilgrimage to the Holy Land since the mid 1990s, walking the footsteps of Jesus in the Galilee and in Jerusalem. These pilgrimages to ancient sacred sites […]
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Nativity greetings! – Christmas proclaims God on mission
Nativity, with Children, by Indian artist Frank Wesley (1923-2002) Dear Friends in Mission, The marvel of Christmas is that it includes everything – everything! Everything in the mission of God. That’s not surprising. After all, the God of the cosmos – infinite and all-encompassing – comes to us distilled in an infant in a particular […]
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General Convention commended GEMN, suggested membership support, and allocated $50,000
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church offered moral and financial support to the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) at its meeting last summer. In passing Resolution A028, which was submitted by the Standing Commission on World Mission (SCWM), the churchwide legislative body celebrated GEMN’s 25 years of encouraging global mission. It singled out for […]
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Global Mission News 7/28/22: Mission in the Lambeth Calls – an analysis
A missional commentary on the Lambeth Calls by Titus Presler, GEMN Executive Director What is the Lambeth Conference? As Anglican Christians we’re part of a highly organized church that, yes, has a hierarchy headed by bishops, people consecrated to shepherd the flocks in their dioceses. Since 1867, active Anglican bishops, now numbering around 1,000, gather about […]
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2022 GEMN Annual Meeting to be held Friday, May 13
The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Global Episcopal Mission Network will be held in conjunction with the May 12-14 Global Mission Conference. The meeting will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Eastern via Zoom on Friday, May 13. The Day 2 Conference session will follow at 1 p.m. Eastern. All conference attendees are invited and welcome […]
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Videos from 2021 Global Mission Conference now available
Videos from the 2021 Global Mission Conference, “Earthkeeping: Creation Care in Global Mission” are now available! The conference took place April 22-24, 2021, and was held entirely online, a first for GEMN. This online format helped make the conference more accessible to international participants, and we heard from many inspiring speakers who are engaging with […]
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Joy in mission: Janice Price reflects on her 12 years of world mission leadership in the Church of England
By Titus Presler “I’m encouraged by the joy we have in our mission relationships,” Janice Price said of the current state of mission in the Church of England and in the Anglican Communion. “That makes a difference. Joy is no incidental thing. It’s at the heart of it. I realized this early on when […]
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Meredith Crigler is elected to GEMN Board as GEMN officers are selected
The Rev. Meredith Crigler, chair of the World Mission Board of the Diocese of Texas, was elected as a new member of the Board of Directors of the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) Board of Directors at the network’s annual meeting on April 23. Like the Global Mission Conference that was held April 22-24 on […]
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2021 Mission Formation Program offered online, May 24-27
Registration has opened for the annual Mission Formation Program to be held in four online sessions, Monday-Thursday, May 24-27. The online format that was so successful in 2020 is being offered again this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) has announced. “We are so pleased to offer […]
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