Continuing my memoir, ‘Nourishing Memories’, in Chapter 9, ‘Called to be Missionaries’. I describe the BBC Radio interview which led to Alison and I becoming members of the Church Missionary Society, our call, training in Birmingham and preparations for moving to Kenya.

Republished with permission from Covenant: link to original, 7 Oct 2024, is here. For other chapters of Nourishing Memories, see the Contents Page here.

My chapter studies the interweaving theologies of mission of Max Warren and John V. Taylor, who, as successive General Secretaries of the CMS, had such a profound influence on the worldwide Anglican Communion and in particular its inter-faith relations. It was published originally in Kevin Ward and Brian Stanley (eds), The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999 (Eerdmans, 2000) and then in Graham Kings, Nourishing Mission: Theological Settings (Brill, 2022).

In preparation for the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society in 1999, I was asked to write the CMS News-Letter for June, July and Aug 1998. It is called an Occasional Paper since only General Secretaries of CMS write the News-Letter.