New American mission initiative

Notes: "Facing the hard reality that the number of appointed missionaries of the Episcopal Church has dropped from more than 500 in the 1950s to 25 in 1996, the bishops and diocesan members of the new Global Episcopal Mission network (GEM) are organizing themselves into a new diocesan-based mission network that will `support mutually responsible and inter-dependent relationships among dioceses within the Episcopal Church and within the Anglican Communion".

Subjects: Missions - Episcopal Church; Global Episcopal Mission (GEM) Network; Partnership in Mission - Episcopal Church; Missionaries - Episcopal Church