CWM Global Youth Forum

05/03/2018

The deadline of application was extended to 16 March, so you still have time to prepare the documents! Gogogo!

Theme: Agents of Change – Women, Mission and Transformation Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand In collaboration with Trinity Methodist Theological College and CWM member churches and ecumenical partners, A New Face is a CWM programme conducted for women in ministry. This full-time residential immersio...

26/08/2017

Newsletter on 25 August😍😍😍

24/08/2017

23 August Newsletter😃😄🤣

23/08/2017

[Immersion] Group 2 visit Mandela House.

22/08/2017

[Council for World Mission Global Youth Forum] is about to start!
The forum will be held from 22-28 August in Johannesburg, South Africa. We are going to live stream 4 sessions, one Keynote Presentation by Rev. Dr. Collin Cowan and three Thematic Presentations for three Sub-themes: Addressing Empire, Growing as Disciples, and Re Imagining Church via Rev. Philip Peacock, Dr. HyeRan Kim-Cragg, and Rev. Kraig Kristopher De Leon Diedrick. Please check out the Live Streaming Schedule for more information!😍😍😍

22/08/2017

The planning committee is working hard to organise this great week for you .

19/08/2017

Mr Maina Talia
Mr. Maina Talia is an Islander from Tuvalu married with two children. Talia started working for the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu (EKT) as a climate change officer since 2011 until June 2017 under the department of Peace and Justice. In his tenure of work, he coordinated the construction of the EKT theological statement called “Dancing with God in the rainbow.”
Talia is currently holding the position of Tuvalu Climate Action Network (TuCAN) Secretary and also the National Focal point of Pacific Indigenous Network (PIN) in Tuvalu. Mr. Talia at present is serving as a Board Member of the Pacific Islands Climate Action Network. In his capacity as the climate change officer during his time with the Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu and currently for TuCAN, his work specifically focuses on climate Justice and Theology.
Talia has attended several United Nations trainings including a one-month Fellowship program organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva on Indigenous Rights. He was also part of the Tuvalu Government delegation to the Conference of the Parties (COP) 18 in Doha and COP21 in Paris and will also be part of the Tuvalu Government delegation to COP23 in Bonn this coming November. He has published a few articles in “Theologies and Cultures” a Journal published by the Formosa Christianity and Culture Research Centre in Taiwan.
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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017

19/08/2017

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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017

19/08/2017

Ms Nikhila Henry
Too young to be a journalist. That’s what she has heard throughout her 10-year long career which she spent writing for two national dailies in India; first The Times of India for eight years and now The Hindu for two years. She thinks she might hear this friendly taunt which fellow journalists and senior bureaucrats pass on for a few more years to come. For her, however, being young while reporting stories which concern this generation and the coming one will always be the thing she cherishes the most in her writing career. Not because blazing ephemeral youth is to be reminisced forever, but because these stories, the ones she has reported and the ones she hopes to report, constitute an account of the turbulent times that we live in. A record of sorts which will explain why the future turned out the way it did.
When she started writing, print media was different from what it is now. Though those who have spent more than three decades in this world might not call this change drastic, she believes from 2007 till 2017 during which she covered youth agitations of varied kinds, a new language of writing was invented. A language which young people who struggled to change their lives and archaic laws and practices which govern society developed. To explain herself and her work, she will hence have to explain the struggles of this generation who forced a change in the media climate across the globe.
When she started reporting in Hyderabad, she concentrated mostly on educational institutions. Everyday she wrote stories on governmental policies and academic curriculum.
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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017

10/08/2017

[[[Spotlight on....CARIBBEAN!!!]]]
As a member of the Guyana Congregational union and a Youth leader, I have great expectations of the youth forum. Firstly, I expect to meet and interact with Christians from different parts of the world and also to learn about their various cultures. Secondly, I expect the facilitators and presenters of the youth forum to create an environment where the participants of the forum will be able to exchange their views, share thoughts and dialogue with each other on the topics that will be presented on throughout the forum; and at the same time gain knowledge that we the participants can take back to educate persons in our local churches.

My favourite activities are Reading and Listening to music. I love reading because It engages my critical thinking and imagination skills. When I read, I learn more and I am entertained. I enjoy listening to music because sometimes it speaks for me. I believe most songs has a story or memory behind it and that is what I love. My interests are Sports, music, Government and politics, Arts and Culture. My favourite bible scripture is 1Timothy 4:12 and it says, "let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers in the word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith and in purity. Currently I'm serving as the secretary of the Guyana Congregational Young People's Union and I am also a Youth leader in my own church. ☺️🤩😃
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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017

08/08/2017

As part of CWM’s 40th anniversary celebrations we are looking to the future as much as reflecting on the past. Because of this later this month we are running the Global Youth Forum (GYF) an event which will bring youth representatives from all of our member churches together to learn, share and explore faith together. The forum will be exploring the theme of: ‘Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church’. We are bringing speakers from around the world to share and inspire our young people with the hope that they will bring back a new bold vision of how church can be in the 21st Century to their communities and contexts. As a way of inspiring and encouraging our young people we have commissioned a local South African artist to design a logo which we are exicited to share with you now. We asked her to share why she chose the different aspects and her is what she said:

•The dove
The dove symbolises the Holy Spirit and God’s love covering the world in the mist of all the life’s denying forces, it is a reminder that we should be able to see God in the mist of life’s negative forces and hope for completeness in the earth’s brokenness.

•The fractured earth
The fractured earth signifies the brokenness, the sickness, the groaning and the failure to steward what the Lord has entrusted in us (Genesis 2:15). It’s the evidence of the empire’s power, theft division and ruin.

•The raised fist
The raised fist symbolises a rising generation of disciples engaging with the denials of fullness of life, confronting, claiming back and taking control of what the empire has killed, stolen and destroyed. It’s a hand fighting against oppression, economic injustice and ecological destruction. It is raised for life affirming inclusive communities, bringing about healing, reconciliation, restoration and paining a new image of God’s church.

•The African Safari
The African Safari is a preview of the African hospitality and journey towards a life of peace and a glimpse of the possibility of hope towards a peaceful and life-giving environment.
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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017

08/08/2017

[[[Spotlight on....PACIFIC!!!]]]
I am Asiasiga Leti Pelesala from Tuvalu, Funafuti. I am a student major in Information Technology. My favorite Bible verses is John 3:16. I like to play volley ball. And..........I am single!😍😍😍
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John 3:16 New International Version (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
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Global Youth Forum 2017
Building Disciples in the context of Empire: Reimagining Church
Johannesburg, South Africa
22-28 August 2017