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NETWORKING EPISCOPALIANS FOR
MISSION
In response to requests from
grassroots networks of Episcopalians and members of the
Executive Council, the Missionary Society has developed
Mission Centered, a new online-networking platform to
link Episcopalians engaged in
mission work at a local level and
to allow them to communicate
their successes, challenges, gifts,
and needs with one another and
the wider Church. After approximately four months of trial use
with select partners, the platform
will be launched churchwide in
January 2015. Funded primarily through the budgets for the
Fourth and Fifth Marks of
Mission (unjust structures and
care for creation), the site will
also include community-gathering space for work related to the
proclamation of the Good News
of the Kingdom (Mark of Mission
1) and loving service in response
to human need (Mark of Mission
3). We aspire to build it out eventually to include all mission work
undertaken in The Episcopal
Church. The site also will include
an asset map of mission work
across the Church developed in
collaboration with Episcopal
Relief & Development.