Welcome to Edinburgh 2010!This year the world church celebrates the Centenary of the World Missionary Conference, held in Edinburgh in 1910. Christians from all over the world will join in unity and explore different ways of Witnessing to Christ today. The Conference runs from June 2nd to 6th with a Centenary Celebration on Sunday 6th June. Around the world other conferences and celebrations will be taking place throughout the year.
The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910 was not the first attempt to pull together all the many missionary endeavours world-wide. Several conferences were held during the previous hundred years, following the call by William Carey for an interdenominational world missionary conference to be held in Cape Town in 1810. Indeed there were half a dozen such conferences before Edinburgh 1910.
And yet the World Missionary Conference held in 1910 in Edinburgh is regarded as the most significant missionary event amongst all those previous conferences. Much of the credit goes to two men: John R Mott, an American Methodist minister who chaired the conference, and J H (Joe) Oldham who worked feverishly behind the scenes. It is universally agreed the modern Ecumenical Movement had its birth at Edinburgh 1910. To find out more about Edinburgh 2010,
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