File. Mecca Church Assembly Missionary Council

Reference No:
U DMS/4/117
Dates:
2 Jul 1941-18 Nov 1970
Description:
File containing extracts from minutes of meetings of the Missions to Seamen relating to the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church of England and the Church Assembly Overseas Council (formerly the Church Assembly Missionary Council). Includes references to: Church on the High Seas, 1941; society to prepare handbook re their work for presentation at the Lambeth Conference in 1948; reasons for establishment of the Church Assembly Missionary Council, 1949; changes to membership of the council; remit of commission appointed at 1947 High Leigh Conference, 1950; proposed reconstitution of the council, 1950; question of lay involvement in missionary work at home discussed, 1950; Home Council and report 'Growing Together', 1950; 'With One Voice' exhibition, 1951; Council for the Muslim World, 1951; World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council, 1958; Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy, 1958; Overseas Development Fund, 1962; proposed amalgamation of the Overseas Council with the Church of England Council for Ecumenical Cooperation, 1962; The People Next Door plan for joint action, 1966; fusion of the Overseas Council with the Council for Ecumenical Cooperation to form the Missionary and Ecumenical Council three years ago, 1967; ecumenical bias of MECCA meetings, 1967; missionary society membership of MECCA, 1967; problems of a specialist missionary society, 1968; future of MECCA in light of the introduction of Synodical Government in the Church of England, 1970.
Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of the Head Office of the Mission to Seafarers (formerly known as the Missions to Seamen)