However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

We shall not make a decisive advance in the ecumenical movement until such a church begins to see itself not merely as a haven of comfort and peace but as a base of Christian witness and mission to the world.

In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

In this mission Ealdred was somewhat successful and obtained insight into the working of the German church during a stay of a year with Hermann II, the Archbishop of Cologne.

Albinus, the abbot of the monastery in Canterbury, provided much information about the church in Kent, and with the assistance of Nothhelm, at that time a priest in London, obtained copies of Gregory the Great's correspondence from Rome relating to Augustine's mission.

It is clear that a single bishop was expected to lead the church in each centre of Christian mission, supported by a council of presbyters ( a distinct and subordinate position ) with a pool of deacons.

# Paul is planning to travel to Rome from Jerusalem and to spend some time there before moving on to Spain ; he hopes the Roman church will support his mission to Spain.

The practice of apostolic succession both ensures the legitimacy of the church's mission and establishes the unity, communion, and continuity of the local church with the universal church.

The Kansas City area is home to nine Eastern Orthodox churches, including three Serbian Orthodox churches, two Greek Orthodox parishes, two parishes of the Orthodox Church in America, an Antiochian Orthodox church, and a mission of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Mormons dedicate large amounts of time and resources to serving in their church, and many young Mormons choose to serve a full-time proselytizing mission.

After Smith led a mission, known as Zion's Camp, to recover the land, he began building Kirtland Temple in Lake County, Ohio, where the church flourished.

Many LDS young men choose to serve a two year proselytizing mission, during which they dedicate all of their time to the church, without pay.

One of the contentious issues was, whether the Catholic Church in the Netherlands after the Reformation was a continuous church or a mission of Rome and governed by the Pope.

In April 2007, the congregation voted to change its name to Spring Life Church to re-emphasize the mission of the church which is to " Cultivate, Plant, and Grow ".

All other church matters such as the budget, personnel matters, and all programs for spiritual life and mission, are the responsibility of the session.

In general, their responsibilities ( G-12. 0102 ) might be summarized as: developing and implementing the mission of the church throughout the region, facilitating communication between presbyteries and the General Assembly, and mediating conflicts between the churches and presbyteries.

# to set priorities for the work of the church in keeping with the church's mission under Christ

# to develop overall objectives for mission and a comprehensive strategy to guide the church at every level of its life

# to provide the essential program functions that are appropriate for overall balance and diversity within the mission of the church, and

In 1818, Father Norbert Provencher founded a mission on the east bank of the Red River in what was then Rupert's Land, building a log church and naming it after St. Boniface.

Elders are given the authority to preach the Word of God, administer the sacraments of the church, to provide care and counseling, and to order the life of the church for ministry and mission.

They may be appointed to ministry within the local church or to an extension ministry that supports the mission of the church.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

And ( D ) all action of a physical kind pertinent to the mission is relegated to the line of men on the lower rank.

Vincent Berger's mission is a failure because the Ottoman nationalism on which Enver Pasha counted does not exist.

Through trade and travel across the seas the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America with friendly nations across the seas ; ;

On the other hand, many a pastor is so absorbed in ministering to the intimate, personal needs of individuals in his congregation that he does little or nothing to lead them into a sense of social responsibility and world mission.

A crucial question, therefore, is what evangelism and mission actually mean in metropolitan Protestantism.

The transmutation of mission to co-optation is further indicated by the insignificance of educational activities, worship, preaching, and publicity in reaching new members.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

And the major part of my mission to your nest is to make a treaty between your race and mine.

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

Today its focus is on ethics and it is known as the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, whose mission is to be the voice for ethics in international affairs.

The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is " to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

Geologists believed prior to the mission that both of these formations were volcanic in origin ; however, samples returned from the lunar surface have since proven this hypothesis is incorrect.

He is the first human to die during a space mission.

* 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.

The nature of these services is described in ARIN's mission statement:

A brief account of Christianity in Roman Britain, including the martyrdom of St Alban, is followed by the story of Augustine's mission to England in 597, which brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.

He was heavily injured both physically and psychologically, and the " Armitage " personality was constructed as part of experimental " computer-mediated psychotherapy " by Wintermute ( see below ), one of the artificial intelligences seen in the story ( the other one being the eponymous Neuromancer ) which is actually controlling the mission.

It was the first time in USPO history that the design was actually spread over two stamps ( one which featured White, the other his Gemini capsule, the two connected by a tether ), which was considered befitting the " twins " aspect of the Gemini mission.

Mariner 5 was actually built as a backup to Mariner 4, but after the success of the Mariner 4 mission, it was modified for the Venus mission by removing the TV camera, reversing and reducing the four solar panels, and adding extra thermal insulation.

During the mission, strange spherical droids appear and take Vuffi Raa away, for he is actually a scout for this strange culture.

In 1797 most of the Indians from the immediate vicinity of the mission site had actually already been baptized at Mission Santa Clara, 13 miles to the south, during the 1780s and early 1790s.

According to the New Testament, many Pharisees objected to Jesus's mission to outcast groups such as beggars and tax-collectors, but Rabbinic texts actually emphasize the availability of forgiveness to all.

Skylab 1, the mission to actually launch the space station, was launched on 14 May 1973, but was damaged during the flight, losing one of its solar panels and a meteoroid thermal shield.

A hostage rescue mission on the planet Graveyard proves to be illusory and that they have actually been lured into a weapons proving ground, in order to pit genetically engineered creatures against them to see how they fare.

This footage is usually mistakenly attributed to the Apollo 11 mission, when it was actually filmed on the flights of Apollo 4 and Apollo 6.

The one-armed Phil Cassidy from GTA III appears in Vice City as well, with both arms intact, and one mission actually explains when and how he lost his arm.

He accomplished that by actually lifting the knife with the intention of carrying out his mission.

Their mission, which ends in, culminates in the discovery that power is actually wielded more or less entirely by a man in a shack.

It is not clear how much time he actually spent in his see: documents show him on mission in Perugia for the pope in 1283 and dictating his will there.

In the third episode of Bruen's Jack Taylor series, Jack Taylor is given a mission: " Find the Angel of the Magdalene ," actually a devil incarnate nicknamed Lucifer, a woman who " helped " the unfortunate martyrs incarcerated in the infamous laundry.

A surviving, unpaved stretch of the road has been preserved next to the old Spanish mission in San Juan Bautista, California ; this road actually follows part of the San Andreas Fault.

The frame was actually used for only one 5. 7-year mission.

Although Marcus states that " What actually happened will not be known until information from the French archives becomes available ," Fitawrari (" Commander of the Vanguard ") Tekle Hawariat Tekle Mariyam, a fervent reformer and a onetime friend of Iyasu, states in his recently published autobiography that the Djibouti trip was something of a vacation for Lij Iyasu, and that he spent much of his time consorting with Muslim notables in the city and consuming large amounts of qat as well as completely depleting the funds of the Ethiopian mission in the French colony.

The novel actually ends with the launching of Prometheus ; the entire plot consists of scientists, engineers and administrators showing Dr. Dirk Alexson how the mission was planned and how the technology will work.

It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerika Bomber mission, which started out in the spring of 1942 being focused solely on trans-Atlantic range piston-engined strategic bombers, like the Messerschmitt Me 264 and Junkers Ju 390, the only two airframe types actually built and flown for the competition.

Carpenter is thus forced to reveal that this is not simply a rescue mission ; the station is actually a highly-equipped listening post, keeping watch for nuclear missile launches from the Soviet Union.

After a rescue mission, Sydney's sister is taken by Sloane so he can get the formula that was stored in her brain by Rambaldi ( actually her unique nervous system can replay the graphical hand movements encoded in the Rambaldi Fluid-protein strands that cause unconscious, movements like handwriting ).

During the course of APO's first mission, to bring down a terrorist and assassin-for-hire, she learns the man was actually hired to kill her-by Irina.