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I bring you greetings from the wider Anglican Communion; and they are real greetings in the Spirit-- warm and heartfelt. You – the Church of England – can never be just one of the 38 provincial churches of the Anglican Communion. As the very word ‘anglicana’ implies, there is a living tradition of faith in the Gospel as this church has received it, from the missionary work of St Augustine of Canterbury 1,420 years ago, to the particular experience of renewal in the English Reformation and beyond.

An Anglican Guide for Christian Life and Formation

A bookmark on the Marks of Mission featuring a child and mother

Partnership in Mission is at the heart of relationships within both the Anglican Communion and the wider Church. The Anglican Consultative Council, meeting in Dublin in 1973, noted that while the responsibility for mission in any given place belongs primarily to the local church in that place, each part of the worldwide church also carries responsibility for mission in every other place.

The first World Missionary Conference held in Scotland 100 years ago brought together diverse Christian denominations and mission agencies to define and plan world mission. Attendees aimed for "The evangelisation of the world in this generation." 

The 11th ACC meeting in 1999, Dundee in Scotland, established the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism (IASCOME)

This publication contains the report of the Inter Anglian Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism 2001-2005, Travelling together in God's Mission