In Service: The Role of Deacons in Global Mission was the theme of the first Mission Thursday of the fall on Sept. 11. Sponsored by the Global Episcopal Mission Network, the webinar featured a number of Episcopal deacons sharing how their role as deacons and their experiences in global mission came together in Holy Spirit […]
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Missio attendee Joshua Garcia describes Missio 2025 conference as ‘life changing’
Missio attendee Joshua Garcia describes his experience of Missio 2025 conference as life changing.
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Cameron Spoor joins GEMN staff as Promotion Coordinator
The Rev. Cameron Spoor has joined the GEMN staff as part-time Promotion Coordinator, starting in the position on July 8. In calling for the position, the GEMN Board said, “The Promotion Coordinator will help amplify the Church’s witness in global mission through storytelling, outreach and development support. This role helps tell the Good News of […]
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GEMN Board elects officers for 2025-26 ministry year
Four officers have been elected by the Board of the Global Episcopal Mission Network at its monthly meeting in June. The Rev. Paul Rajan, vicar of Good Shepherd Church in Wantage, N.J., was reelected as President, having been reelected to a second three-year term on the Board at the network’s Annual Meeting on May 1, […]
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Jaime Briceño and Troy Elder are elected as new members of GEMN’s Board
Two new members were elected to the Board of Directors of the Global Episcopal Mission Network at its Annual Meeting held May 1 during Missio, the annual world mission conference that the network convened with the Diocese of Honduras, meeting in San Pedro Sula. The Rev. Jaime Briceño serves as Rector of St. Michael and All Angels […]
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Past GEMN leaders congratulate network on its 30th anniversary
Congratulatory greetings from past leaders of GEMN were shared at Missio 2025 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on the last evening of the core conference, May 1. From the Rev. Dr. Canon Mark Harris A former missionary in Haiti and Mission Personnel Officer at DFMS, Mark was one of the founders of GEMN in 1995 […]
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Missio 2025 in Honduras addressed evangelism, empowerment & climate action across cultural boundaries
“Missio 2025 in Honduras was sacred ground for the themes we chose,” said GEMN president Paul Rajan. “I sensed the readiness of the ground to receive the seedlings of evangelism empowerment and climate action. It was a holy exercise for world mission leaders to gather on such ground and grow in the mission of God.”
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75 people hear about work in Haiti and Ecuador at annual World Mission Symposium in Diocese of Upper South Carolina
Upper South Carolina’s symposium can be a model for other dioceses in organizing an annual gathering to highlight global mission.
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“Nuns and Monks Abroad: Religious Orders in World Mission” was focus of June 12 Mission Thursday
“Nuns and Monks Abroad: Religious Orders in World Mission” was the theme of the Mission Thursday on June 12. Nuns and monks have been prominent in the missional outreach of the Christian movement for many centuries, and the contemporary religious orders of the Episcopal Church follow in that tradition. Yet, although the Episcopal Church has […]
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“Mission amid Crisis in Haiti” was topic of April 24 Mission Thursday
“Mission amid Crisis in Haiti” is the theme of the Mission Thursday sponsored by GEMN on April 24, 1-2:30pm Eastern on Zoom.
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