Disciples News Service Release

Title: Disciples to take part in world evangelism conference
November 12, 1996
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: news@cm.disciples.org 

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     GENEVA, Switzerland (DNS) -- Three Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) members are among 50 U.S. church
leaders participating in a World Council of Churches
Conference on World Mission and Evangelism in Salvador,
Bahia, Brazil.

     The conference, which takes place Nov. 24 through Dec.
3, is the latest in a series which began in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in 1910. The last conference was held in San
Antonio, Texas, in 1989.

     Disciples leaders slated to be in attendance are the
Revs. Patricia Tucker Spier, president, Division of Overseas
Ministries; William J. Nottingham, retired DOM president,
Indianapolis; and Rodney Page, executive director, Church
World Service, New York. 

     Under the theme, "Called to One Hope -- The Gospel in
Diverse Cultures," delegates will consider the results of
the WCC's extensive five-year, worldwide study process of
gospel and culture.

     The conference takes place at a historic time in church
mission and evangelism work as Christianity continues to
attract vast numbers of converts in the Southern hemisphere,
and as Orthodox Christians confront missionary activities by
other Christians and sects in areas of Asia and Eastern
Europe that are no longer dominated by Communist
governments.

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Posted: July 16, 2004