CWM is a partnership of churches in mission. CWM has 31 members who are committed to sharing resources of money, people, skills and insights globally to carry out God's mission locally.
CWM was established in 1977 in its present form. It grew out of the London Missionary Society (LMS, founded 1795), the Commonwealth (Colonial) Missionary Society (1836) and the (English) Presbyterian Board of Missions (1847). Most member churches have backgrounds in the Reformed tradition and many are united churches.
Foundation to CWM is the conviction that no particular church has a private supply of truth, or wisdom or missionary skills. So within the circle of churches which we serve we seek to encourage mutuality. This is in recognition that to share in international mission, every church is both a receiver of help and a giver of its talents.
The Council has four permanent programmes – financial sharing, personnel sharing, mission programme and mission education – which give encouragement, provide training opportunities, share information and give practical help to the churches' mission programmes.
Please visit CWM at: http://www.cwmission.org
