Resourcing Mission Forum Hayes Conference Centre Swanwick, Derbyshire

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Resourcing Mission ForumHayes Conference
CentreSwanwick, Derbyshire

• WORLD CHURCH GRANTS
• Presented by
• John Nutt
• (Mission Education Co-ordinator)

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Fund for World Mission

• Currently supports
• General grants to partner churches
• Special project grants to PCs
• Mission Partners
• Experience Exchange Programme
• Scholarship Leadership Training SALT
• Nationals in Mission Appointments NMAs
• World Church work in Britain

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World Church Grants

• From September 2008
• Outcomes from Team Focus Project 12
• Grant making all in one place
• An integrated grant-making process

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World Church Grants

• Levy allowed to be charged
• For admin costs may be greater than 5 as
  originally proposed?
• Remaining will be spent in its entirety for
  work overseas

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World Church Grants

• How will these areas be interpreted?
• Scholarship programme (SALT) much of this
  training is now south to south but partner
  churches do want some training to take place here
  eg PHDs and Masters Degrees
• Mission Partner training at SOCMS currently
  funded via FWM

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World Church Grants

• Some grey areas?
• Work with ethnic minority churches in this
  country provision of chaplains etc
• Who will initiate this work?
• If the response is from Britain should the
  funding come from FWM?
• If requested by a partner church eg Ghana, Korea,
  Zimbabwe etc can it come from FWM as now (130k
  spent on both categories in 07/08 from FWM)

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World Church Grants

• FWM grants from September 2008
• More information from further slide-show
• World Church Relationships staff to present
  grants below 30k, prior to being reported to
  streams for authorization

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World Church Grants

• Expected but not agreed yet that WCR staff can
  allocate grants up to 20K and then reported to
  streams as at present
• Other streams can be added as and when needed
  to the structure eg FIWM (administered via SOCMS)
• Grants Officer proposed for CCEA cluster in
  reconfigured team job description pending.

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World Church Grants

• Important to note that WCR has been working with
  proper controls and scrutiny from outside eg
  World Church Committee and World Church Action
  Group in the past
• New arrangements are a welcome development

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World Church Grants

• New committees (see following slide show) are not
  yet complete advertising underway
• The future will World Mission Forum (replaced
  WCC) and World Mission Group (replaced WCAG)
  continue?
• A work in progress!