GEMN wishes you and your family and communitya blessed Christmastide and New Year as you celebrate God’s missionincarnate among us in Jesus the Christ! Next year’s Missio, the annual world mission conference for the Episcopal Church, will be held in San Pedro Sula, April 29-May 2, at the invitation of Bishop Lloyd Allen of Honduras. […]
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GEMN officers elected at May Board meeting
At its May 7 meeting the Board of the Global Episcopal Mission Network elected several officers for the organization: Ms. Ayda Patricia Martin was re-elected as president. A member of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic, she is serving her second three-year term on the Board. Patricia has worked in the diocese’s missionary teams coordination […]
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Five are elected to GEMN Board at 2024 Annual Meeting
Five people from New Hampshire to Texas and from the mid-Atlantic to Florida were elected to the Board of the Global Episcopal Mission Network at the 2024 Annual Meeting that was held on March 21 online at this year’s Missio. The Rev. Jean Beniste was elected for a second 3-year term. Previously a member of […]
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Jerusalem Peacebuilders to present on “Nurturing Peacemaking in the Holy Lands” at Jan. 18 Mission Thursday webinar
Just as Good Friday precedes Easter, a moral reckoning for all parties involved (governments and non-state actors, local and international alike) in this growing tragedy will be necessary before the cycle of violence can abate and healthy political structures that pursue virtue, justice and equality emerge. Such vulnerability and honesty require first addressing the collective traumas that dominate Israeli Jewish and Palestinian identity.
This healing work is the interfaith ministry and mission of Jerusalem Peacebuilders. Founded in 2011, Jerusalem Peacebuilders
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Christmas: God’s missional moment
A reflection from GEMN executive director Titus Presler Dear Friends, Difference. The Christmas event is drenched with difference. The difference between the grandeur of God and the animal smells of a stable. The difference between the plenitude of God and the poverty of Mary and Joseph. The difference between the celestial realm and an audience […]
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GEMN receives major gift from mission leader Beth Frank
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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