July 10  - Deutsches Pfarrerblatt (Germany)

Zum Jubiläum der Weltmissionskonferenz in Edinburgh 1910–2010. Mission in Hoffnung und mutiger Demut
by Christine Keim and Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse 

Am 6. Juni 2010 fand in Edinburgh die Hundertjahrfeier der Weltmissionskonferenz von 1910 mit Delegierten und Gästen aus aller Welt statt. Christine Keim und Ulrike Schmidt-Hesse berichten von den Feierlichkeiten und nutzen die Gelegenheit, über Mission im aktuellen internationalen Kontext nachzudenken.

Auf den Fotos von der Weltmissionskonferenz in Edinburgh von 1910 ist eine Halle mit mehr als 1.200 Menschen zu sehen, hauptsächlich Weiße und Männer, unter ihnen 200 Frauen und nur etwa 20 Personen, die aus der südlichen oder der östlichen Hemisphäre kamen. Die meisten Teilnehmenden vertraten protestantische Missionsgesellschaften aus Nordamerika und Europa.

To read the full article go to Deutsches Pfarrerblatt. Search for the article in the archive.

1 June 10 - Vatican Radio (The Vatican)

Missionary Conference to Open in Edinburgh

“Witnessing to Christ today” is the theme of a major missionary conference taking place from June 2nd to 6th in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hundreds of delegates from all the main Christian denominations will discuss ways of working more effectively together in spreading the Gospel message “to the ends of the earth” as the first disciples were instructed to do by Jesus himself. The conference will conclude with a celebration in the same venue where the first World Missionary conference took place exactly a hundred years ago – a founding moment for the modern ecumenical movement. Bishop Brian Farrell, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, is heading the Catholic delegation to the conference.

To hear an interview with Bishop Brian Farrell, click here.

31 May 10 - Christian Today (India)

Mission leaders to mark historic World Missionary Conference

History will repeat itself this week as mission leaders from across the globe including India will convene at Edinburgh, UK to celebrate the centenary of the World Missionary Conference and cogitate on reinforcing Christian mission in the 21st century.

To read the full article, please click here.

30 May 10 - BBC Radio Scotland (UK)

Sally on Sunday

Dana Robert, keynote speaker at the E2010 Conference and Professor for World Christianity and History of Mission at Boston University, and Ken Ross, delegate of the E2010 Conference and Scottish parish minister, are speaking about the significance of the 1910 World Missionary Conference, and the upcoming Centenary.

To hear the show, click here.

30 May 10 - Adventist News Agency (USA)

Adventists to participate in Edinburgh World Missionary Conference

Seventh-day Adventists will contribute to an historic mission conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 2 to 6. The Edinburgh event marks 100 years since the last Edinburgh World Missionary Conference when 1,355 Christian delegates, including 208 women, representing western Mission societies of numerous faiths and countries gathered to discuss the future of mission. One hundred years later, the 1910 conference is recognized as a significant event in modern mission.

To read the full article go to APD.

29. May 10 - Ekklesia (UK)

Edinburgh conference will highlight huge turnaround in mission

There was only one black African and 19 Asians among more than 1000 delegates present 100 years ago at the historic World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh - writes Trevor Grundy. The demographics of those present in early June for an event to mark the centenary of that conference, will, however, reflect more of where the centre of Christian gravity is heading in the 21st century.

To read the full article go to Ekklesia.

May 10 - Lausanne World Pulse (USA)

Connecting Local and Global Church: A Preview to Edinburgh 2010
by Kirsteen Kim

On 6 June 2010, there will be a gathering in the Assembly Hall in Edinburgh to remember the famous World Missionary Conference which took place one hundred years ago. It will also be a celebration of the fact that, partly as a result of the efforts of the missionaries of 1910, we recognize today that the Church is global.

To read the full article, go to Lausanne World Pulse.

27. May 10 - Ecumenical News International (Switzerland)

Church mission to be viewed through different prism 100 years on
by Trevor Grundy

There was only one black African and 19 Asians among more than 1000 delegates present 100 years ago at the historic World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh.

The demographics of those present in early June for an event to mark the centenary of that conference, will, however, reflect more of where the centre of Christian gravity is heading in the 21st century.

There will be fewer delegates, however, when more than 300 people representing 30 traditions from 60 countries gather in the Scottish capital on 2 June at the start of the five-day 2010 World Missionary Conference.

To read the full article, please visit the ENI website.

17. May 10 - Edimburgo 2010 e sua influência na América Latina (Portugese)

Edinburgh 2010 and its Influence on Latin America

A realidade latino-americana apresenta múltiplos desafios e oportunidades para as igrejas protestantes, que tentam fielmente desempenhar a sua missão transformadora e a tarefa de evangelização no meio do povo.

Têm crescido cada vez mais os problemas sociais, políticos e econômicos decorrentes da globalização neoliberal, entre outros fatores. Só para citar alguns: migrações (tanto internamente como para o exterior), a pobreza, que tem aumentado nos últimos dois anos (36,5% da população); a injusta distribuição da riqueza; o tráfico de drogas, o tráfico de seres humanos; a insegurança na região e o aumento das bases militares dos Estados Unidos, a exploração dos recursos naturais por empresas estrangeiras, com alto custo humano e ecológico; a mudança climática e os desastres naturais, a violência doméstica, entre outros.

Para ler o artigo na íntegra clique aqui.

12. May 10 - Tokyo 2010 (Japan)

Japan Times marks E2010 and Tokyo2010

From June 14 to 23, 1910, some 1,200 representatives of 176 Christian missionary societies and church mission boards gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland, to attend the World Missionary Conference. This conference spearheaded the modern ecumenical movement to promote cooperation and unity among different Christian groups — Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox churches.

To read the full article please visit the Japan Times Website.

10. May 10 - Week of prayer for Christian Unity (in Polish)

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Można mówić o istniejącej niegdyś rywalizacji między misjonarzami, wysyłanymi z różnych Kościołów, ale to właśnie oni byli pierwszymi, którzy zrozumieli, jaką tragedią jest podział w chrześcijaństwie.

Read more at niedziela.pl.

07. May 10 - Episcopal Church (USA)

Young Episcopalian chosen as winner of Edinburgh 2010 youth writing contest

Andy Thompson, an Episcopalian from New Haven, Connecticut, and former Young Adult Service Corps volunteer, has been selected as the winner of the youth writing contest for Edinburgh 2010, a major ecumenical mission conference set for June 2-6 in the Scottish capital. His prize -- a sponsored trip to the conference.

To read the full article please visit episcopal life online.

06. May 2010 - Missionaries of Africa (in English and in French)

World Churches to mark Century of Ecumenism

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May 10 - Evangelical Alliance Scotland (UK)

Evangelical Alliance Scotland dedicates newsletter to E2010

The newsletter contains interviews with Kirsteen Kim and Stephen Smyth, both E2010 staff, amongst other articles on the conference.

To read the newsletter visit 2getherscotland.

Countdown to Edinburgh 2010 conference is underway

'Witnessing to Christ today' is the theme of the Edinburgh 2010 COnference, which will see a broad partnership of Scottish churches welcoming 300 delegates from over 60 countries to Scotland's capital city in June.

The Edinburgh 2010 Conference, which begins on June2, is the culmination of an international and multi-denominational study process inspired by the transformational 1910 World MIssionary Conference, also held in Edinburgh.

To order a copy of the full article please visit scottishcatholicobserver.org.uk.

08. April 10 - The Iona Community

Edinburgh 1910 and 2010 by Murdoch Mackenzie

As an ecumenical Community, the Iona Community owea part of our inheritance to the Ecumenical Movement. It had its origins in the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The conference was a serious attempt at a systematic and business-like analysis of what Protestant missions had already achieved and of what remained to be done. It followed on from the suggestion of William Carey for such a conference in Cape Town in 1810. Alexander Duff, who held the first Chair of Mission Studies in the English-speaking world, promoted the idea during his celebrated lecture tour of the USA in 1854. Conferences were held in Liverpool in 1860, in London in 1878 and 1888 and in New York in 1900.

To read the full article please visit iona.org.uk.

Mutuality as a Call, Covenant and Clothesline By Glory E. Dharmaraj

As church leaders convene in a centennial mission gathering this summer, mission grows at the margins of society.

I am fascinated by clotheslines. Wet clothes hanging from them flap in the gentle breeze or slightly stronger winds sprinkle water drops on bystanders, inviting them into the circle of the water-washed and wind-blessed community.



Every year in early summer, my husband and I make sure the two poles in our backyard are strong enough to hold the clothesline when we put our wet clothes out for drying or airing in the summer sun. Though tight at the ends, the clothesline often sags in the middle due to the weight of the rugs, bed covers, clothes and kitchen stuff. It a is reminder of what mutuality is all about.



In the Global South where I come from, clotheslines provide space to talk with neighbors as they, too, put out their washed wet clothes, fold them when dry and take them inside their homes.

To read the full article please visit the United Methodist Women's website.

Centennial of Ecumenical Conference Puts Spotlight on Christian Mission by Elliott Wright

New York, NY, March 23, 2010--A hundred years ago this coming June, a Protestant ecumenical conference in Scotland provided major incentive for Christian mission in the 20th century. The centennial of that event is putting a spotlight on mission today and into the future. The theme is "Witnessing to Christ Today."

To read the full article please visit gbgm-umc.org.

7. March 10 - Bayerischer Rundfunk (Germany)

100 Jahre Ökumenische Bewegung: Geschichte und Geschichten zur Ökumene

Die Ökumene ist ein Kind aus Schottland. In Edinburgh fand vor 100 Jahren die erste Weltmissionskonferenz statt, der erste Versuch von Kirchen nach Jahrhunderten, Jahrtausenden von Trennung, Spaltung und Feindschaft wieder etwas zusammen zu machen, in diesem Fall christliche Mission. [Listen to radio feature in German]

01. March 10 - ChrsitianWeek.org

Article on Faith, E20010 and the G8 Summit in Winnipeg

London, Moscow, Munich, Tokyo, Rome...and now Winnipeg (sort of). Each year the much-ballyhooed G8 Summit brings together the world's major advanced economies," Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. A lesser-known fact is that since 2005, groups of religious leaders have also been coming together to send a moral message to these most powerful citizens of the world.

To read the full article please visit christianweek.org.

 Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ in Humility and Hope by Daryl M Balia

The Edinburgh 2010 project serves as a platform to engage all churches in the centenary celebrations of the World Missionary Conference and rethink their commitment to mission as a consequence. It is inevitable that comparisons will arise but, lest mistakes repeat themselves, it is worth recognising how the missionary era has dramatically changed so that our sense of nostalgia is tempered with a dosage of realism about the present, especially when diversity and decline are often present. Hope for a better future is possible if we better understand what it is that we wish to remember about the past and what exactly we welcome about the present.

To read the full article please visit sage journals online's website.

March 10 - The Expository Times

The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910: Sifting History from Myth by Brian Stanley

The World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh in June 1910, will be widely celebrated this year as a milestone in both ecumenical and missionary history. This article seeks to delineate more precisely in what respects the conference did mark a new departure. Whilst some of the claims made for its significance are inaccurate, it remains the case that participants in the event returned home captivated by a more expansive vision than was allowed for in the conference’s original terms of reference.

To read the full article please visit the expository times website.

Interview with Sr Elizabeth Moran, the Roman Catholic representative on SCoT

Sr Elizabeth reminds us that as a country Scotland has 'always been very concerned with the missions'. She feels strongly that much can be gained from the churches together taking a reflective look back.

"Most of us from childhood have some connection with the missions', she said. "We hear the stories when we meet the representatives in our local churches. Perhaps we join a society or we contribute some of our own resources to mission."

To order a copy of the full article please visit scottishcatholicobserver.org.uk.

07. February 10 - Fanatic for Jesus blogspot

Roots of WCC, the Modern Missionary Movement, and the Link to Freemasonry

The 1910 World Missionary Conference, also known as the Edinburgh Missionary Conference, was held June 14 to 23, 1910. It has been seen as both the culmination of 19th century Protestant Christian missions and the formal beginning of the modern Christian ecumenical movement.

Chairing the proceedings of the conference was American John R. Mott, who was a long-serving leader of the interdenominational YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF).  

To read the full articlu please visit fanaticforjesus.blogspot.com.

Preparations have started for the celebration of the centennial of the Edinburgh conference. From 2-6 June 2010, a commonly owned celebration and conference will take place in Edinburgh. WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism decided to be fully involved in this common experience of “wider ecumenism”.

In 1910, Edinburgh was the venue for the historic World Mission Conference. This was a gathering which caught an epoch-making vision of the church as a truly global missionary community...

To read the full article please visit orthodoxherald.com.

February 10 - Vidimus Dominum

The Edinburgh Missionary Conferences 1910-2010

Edinburgh 1910
The seeds of unity and peace can take a very long time to sprout and grow. It is easy to lose confidence in the power of growth. Maybe the emerging shoots are in a place we did not expect, or they are not familiar to us, so we do not really see them. However, that is not the case this time. The growth is there, clearly visible, to be gathered up and put to use. One part of that growth is the ever-clearer sense that mission and unity are intimately connected. It does seem obvious that those who set out to carry a message of reconciliation from God for all of humanity need first to experience reconciliation themselves, and yet the history of Christian mission has included a great deal of conflict and struggle. In June 1910 in Edinburgh there was a remarkable Conference of 1200 church and mission leaders who met to pray and think together about the world-wide mission of Christian communities. Many of them had experience of living as missionaries in another land. Most of them were English-speaking men coming from the Protestant Churches of the West, though there were also representatives from other areas of the world. Their gathering around the themes of mission, with its prayerful process of study and reflection, is still recognised today as one of the most important occasions in the growth of the modern ecumenical movement.

To read the full article please visit the vidimus dominum website.

Pope Ends Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with Call for New Evangelisation

Pope Benedict XVI presided over vesper this evening marking the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul in the ancient papal basilica of St Paul's Outside-the-walls. [...] Looking forward to the centenary celebrations of the Edinburgh Conference in June in Scotland, The Pope concluded by calling for 'a new, intense work of evangelization, not only among people who have never known the Gospel, but also among people for whom Christianity is part of their history.' [Read the full article and listen to the voice of the Pope]

Pope Praises Pioneers of Edinburgh Conference

At his general Audience this week and again at his Sunday Angelus, Pope Benedict spoke of the one hundredth anniversary of the Missionary Conference of Edinburgh in Scotland, which is seen by many as a defining event for the birth of the modern ecumenical movement. An interview with Mitchell Bunting is available here.

20. January 10 - Pope Benedict XVI talks of Ecumenism and Edinburgh 1910 (Vatican)

"Today’s Audience takes place during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, when the Lord’s followers are asked to reflect on the tragedy of their divisions and to pray with him “that they may all be one ... that the world may believe” (cf. Jn 17:21). The theme chosen for this year – “You are witnesses of these things” (Lk 24:48) – brings out this close bond between Christian unity and evangelization. This was a major concern of the Edinburgh Conference, which marked the beginning of the modern ecumenical movement one hundred years ago" (Pope's Weekly Address, 20/01/10)

To read the full article please visit the vatican radio website.

20. January 10 - Episcopal Life Online (USA)

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity celebrates beginnings of modern ecumenical movement

 The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity includes a Scottish flavor this year as Christians around the world remember the 100th anniversary of the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh that is widely regarded as a major milestone in the modern ecumenical movement.

Each year, an ecumenical group in a different part of the world prepares the materials for the annual prayer week, which runs Jan. 18-15. For the 2010 Week of Prayer, a Scottish ecumenical group, brought together by Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS), helped to develop the resources.

To read the full article please visit episcopal life online.

Missionary leaders to gather for Tokyo evangelism meeting

Pentecostal and other Christian leaders from around the world are due to hold a four-day global mission consultation in Tokyo in May 2010 to mark the centenary of a landmark World Missionary Conference that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland.

"This is a preparation for a great revival," said the Rev. Minoru Okuyama, a Japanese Pentecostal mission expert, who chairs the event's Japan host committee, in a statement on the meeting's Japanese-language website. "The great revival will surely come to all the Japanese, and I believe that the churches in Japan will surely be able to contribute to the achievement of the world mission."

To read the full article please visit the Uniting Church insights website.

Week of Prayer Focuses on Missionary Calling
by Dennis May

Believers in the northern hemisphere will be spending eight days of prayer and reflection starting on Monday to meditate on the missionary calling Jesus has for his disciples as a part of the 2010 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. [...] The 2010 theme, chosen in Scotland during preparations for the anniversary of the 1910 World Mission Conference, is taken from Luke's account of Christ's final words before his ascension: 'You are witnesses of these things'. [Read the full article]

18. Jan 10 - Insights from the Uniting Church (Australia)

Christians pray for unity, remember 'unexpected' insights of pioneers

Christians around the world are remembering the 1910 World Missionary Conference in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh as a key initiative that led to the ecumenical movement seeking the unity of the Church.

"The unexpected intuition to flash forth from the conference was the awareness that Christian disunity is destructive to the very mission of the Church, and the corresponding search for Christian unity began," said the Rev. John Gibaut, director of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.

Read the full article at nsw.uca.org.au.

A century on the path to unity by Robert Loesch

The start of the second decade of the 21st century marks the 100th anniversary of the worldwide ecumenical movement, which most church historians agree began in 1910 with the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.

My first experiences of Christian unity began in high school and continued in college and seminary ecumenical groups in the 1960s. I have always sought to avoid proselytizing others and to respect and understand their personal views.

I accept the fact that religions have caused discord. But the best practices of all religions can foster a better community. This requires a commitment to learn from each other.

Part of the solution is learning. The more individuals positively experience different religious traditions, the more they will learn about how to live together with deeper understanding and caring.

To read the full article please visit timesunion.com.

15. Jan 10 - Missionaries in Mwandi, Zambia

Ida and Keith Blog about E2010 and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

This year’s theme was chosen in Scotland, in honour of the hundredth anniversary of the 1910 Edinburgh World Mission Conference. It is in answer to that conference’s theme "Witnessing to Christ today” that the above verse was chosen. Edinburgh 1910 really marked the start of the modern ecumenical movement.

The United Church of Zambia, like many of the other United and Uniting Churches worldwide, stems directly from this watershed conference. The London Missionary Society, the Church of Scotland Mission, the Union Church of the Copperbelt and the Copperbelt Free Churches came together in 1965 as the UCZ making their unity in Christ more visible.

To read the full article visit Ida and Keith's blog.

Quo Vadis - Ecumenism? by Dr. Mani Jacob

Is ecumenical unity making steady progress or is it getting retarded? This is a difficult question to answer. But one can safely assert that, it is vociferously articulated on platform, albeit consigned to a frigid shelf frequently in practical situations of mission and witness. The birth of the year 2010 provides a fertile setting for the promotion of ecumenism since the new year marks the 100th anniversary of the World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in 1910...

To find out more about AIACHE please visit aiache.net.

To read the full article please email Dr Mani Jacob to request a copy.

The World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh, 1910
by Christie R. House and Helen Sheperd

This year, the Protestant Christian church marks the 100th anniversary of an extraordinary conference that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from June 14 to 23, 1910. 'The World Missionary Conference to Consider Missionary Problems in Relation to the Non-Christian World,' its full title, was quickly and thankfully shortened to 'The World Missionary Conference.' It was held in the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland (the 1900 union of the United Free Church and the United Presbyterian Church). [Read the full article]

Jan 10 - The Edge Scottish Episcopal Magazine (UK)

EDINBURGH 1910 - Robin Boyd looks at the history of this famous event

Semaine de prière pour l'unité des chrétiens

Durant la Semaine de prière pour l'unité des chrétiens 2010, les fidèles du monde entier écouteront ensemble la promesse et le commandement donnés par le Christ dans ses derniers mots avant son ascension: "C'est vous qui en êtes les témoins."

Célébrée traditionnellement du 18 au 25 janvier (dans l'hémisphère nord) ou à la Pentecôte (dans l'hémisphère sud), la Semaine de prière s'intègre dans la vie des paroisses du monde entier: on procède à des échanges de chaires et on organise des cultes oecuméniques spéciaux.   

Le thème pour 2010 a été choisi en Ecosse, où les Eglises préparaient les célébrations pour l'anniversaire de la Conférence mondiale des missions de 1910 - qui a marqué le commencement du mouvement œcuménique moderne - sur le thème "Témoigner du Christ aujourd'hui".

S'il vous plaît lire l'article complet.

Jan 10 - Edinburgh 2010 (UK)

Church of Scotland Interview with Andrew Anderson

"...(1910) I think, marked the end of the expansion of the western church and the beginnings od the growth of the indigenous churches all over the world." (Andrew Anderson, E2010 General Council Chairperson)

To read the full article you can purchase the January 2010 edition of Life and work by visiting churchofscotland.org.uk.

Fra Edinburgh 1910 til Edinburgh 2010
by Knud Jørgensen

'One of the most creative events in the history of the Christian church.' Det ble i 1910 holdt en misjonskonferanse i Edinburgh, som satte dype spor i misjon og kirkeliv i det 20. århundre. Konferansen som samlet 1200 misjonsledere, løftet fram temaet 'Verdens evangelisering i dette slektsledd'. [Read the full article]

Gebundelde inspanning van christen in Afrika
by Louis Peeters

In juni 2010 is het honderd jaar geleden dat in Edinburgh The World Missionary Conference (WMC) werd gehouden. Thans worden er plannen uitgewerkt om dat feit met de missionaire bewegingen van alle christelijke kerken groots te gedenken en nieuwe impulsen te geven.... [Read the full article]

World church leaders head for the Capital

Hundreds of senior religious leaders from across the world are to meet in Edinburgh next year to commemorate the 1910 World Missionary Conference. The five-day, multi-denominational summit will take place between 2 and 6 June at the Church of Scotland Assembly Hall on the Mound and Pollock Halls on Holyrood Park Road.... [Read the full article]

Edinburgh 2010 can achieve 'lasting good', says organiser
by Jenna Lyle

The chief organiser of a historic mission conference in Edinburgh next year is optimistic the gathering will achieve 'lasting good' for world Christianity. Edinburgh 2010 will bring together 250 mission leaders from across the globe when it takes place in the Scottish capital next June. Another 900 local and international visitors will join in a time of worship on the last day.... [Read the full article]

Ecumenical youth meet in Kolkatta to commemorate Edinburgh 1910

Hundreds of youth from different Christian denominations and religious traditions will converge next year in Kolkatta for a 'National Ecumenical Assembly (NEYA)'.... [Read the full article]

WARC pilot mission project gets Results

Pastors and lay leaders from three continents meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina last week shared stories of how they interpret mission in their context today.... [Read more]

Van telegraafkabel naar internetverbinding
by Reina Wiskerke

Westerse kerken maken de dienst niet meer uit in de wereldzending. Daar moeten ze nog mee leren omgaan, zegt missioloog Kenneth Ross. Hij is betrokken bij de voorbereidingen van een zendingscongres in 2010 in het Schotse Edinburgh, honderd jaar na de grote wereldzendingsconferentie in dezelfde stad... [Read more]

‘Dialogue between theology and literature is urgent,’ says Puerto Rican theologian Luis Rivera Pagán
by José Aurelio Paz and Jerry L. Van Marter 

Matanzas, Cuba, and Louisville - “The modern Latin American literary production has such evident tangencies and religious resonances, that my perplexity is awakened by the lack of attention on the part of the theological community,” Puerto Rican theologian Luis Rivera Pagán told a recent gathering here of church leaders from throughout Latin America... [Read the full story]

Tokyo 2010 to Model After First Global Missions Conference
by Michelle A. Vu

... Because of the global significance of Edinburgh 2010 to the overall Christian community, a total of four key conferences is planned next year to commemorate the meeting’s 100th anniversary. They include the Global Mission Consultation and Celebration in Tokyo on May 11-15; the Edinburgh 2010 on June 2-6; the Lausanne 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa; and a conference for divinity schools and universities in Boston on Nov. 4-7... [Read the full article]

June 09 - Mission Round Table

Mission round Table Magazine and E2010

In  the June 2009 Mission Round Table, the occassional bulletin of OMF Mission Research there was an ad for E2010 and the study themes involved.

For more info on Round Table, OMF and their missionary opportunities please visit the mission round table website.

World churches to mark 100 years of landmark mission event
by Juan Michel

As the centennial of a landmark mission event approaches in 2010, a global study process is mobilizing churches, theological institutions and mission bodies around the world. The World Mission Conference that took place in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1910 brought together some 1,200 representatives mainly linked to the Western missionary movement. In addition to its focus on evangelism, the historic gathering emphasized cooperation and unity... [Read the full story]

Theologians prepare for Edinburgh 2010
by Jenna Lyle

Bible scholars, mission theologians and mission leaders from around the world gathered in Bossey, Switzerland, over the weekend to draft a paper on mission ahead of Edinburgh 2010... [Read the full story] 

May 09 - The Birth of Roman Catholic Ecumenism

Roman Catholic Input to Edinburgh 1910

"...one far-sighted Catholic priest, Bishop Geremias Bonomelli (1831-1914) of Cremona took a personal initiative to send the World Missionary Conference a strong message of support. This intervention, although not sanctioned by higher authority, marks the tentative beginning of the Catholic Church’s eventual involvement in the Ecumenical Movement. " (taken from an article by MICHAELT R B TURNBULL for the Open House publication).

To read the whole article please download the pdf here.

Edinburgh 2010 - Witnessing to Christ Today. Centenary of the Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference
by Paul Stadler

From June 2^nd to 6^th in 2010 over 1,000 delegates will gather in Edinburgh, Scotland, to mark the centenary of the World Mission Conference that took place here from June 14-23, 1910, and later was praised as “one of the great landmarks in the history of the Church” (Kenneth Scott Latourette)...  [Find out more about Forum Mission]

ASIA Christian leaders look forward to centenary of ecumenical conference

SEOUL (UCAN) -- Church leaders are preparing for an international ecumenical conference in Edinburgh, Great Britain, 100 years after a pioneering inter-Church gathering there. Sister Clemens Mendonca says she hopes the representatives of all Christian Churches attending "Edinburgh 2010" will discuss doing mission work from the point of view of marginalized people and the socially weak... [Read the full story]

Churches on a mission to celebrate centenary of historic conference
by Mark McLaughlin

It saw queues stretching round the block at St Giles' Cathedral and is widely viewed as one of the most important gatherings in the history of modern Christianity. Now the preparations for next year's centenary of the World Missionary Conference, which was held in Edinburgh in 1910, are entering the final stages. [Read the full story]

16. September 08 - LWF Youth Blog (Switzerland)

Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ today (I)
by Roger Schmidt

Is it possible to recreate great impulses? The World Missionary Conference in 1910, the first of its kind, had a major influence on church history in the 20th century. Many see it as an important milestone in the ecumenical movement, it certainly had greatly facilitated the coordination of the work of mission organizations... [Read the full story]

26. June 2007 - Lausanne III and E2010

Tall Skinny Kiwi - Christian Blog

I have been thinking about Edinburgh 2010 for 6 years. In 2001, I gave an emerging church presentation at the Great Commission Roundtable in Malaysia where the two groups, Lausanne and WEA, came together with AD2000. We talked about the 2010 conference in Edinburgh as a hundred year celebration of mission partnership...

Read more at tallskinnykiwi.

World Church: Adventist Missiologist Joins Edinburgh 2010 Planning Group

The year was 1910. The place was Edinburgh, Scotland. The subject was missions."Edinburgh 1910," as the event is now known, was the first worldwide missionary conference representing most denominations... [Read the full story]