The International Missionary Council (IMC) was an ecumenical Protestant missionary organization established in 1921, which in 1961, merged with the

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most ju ...

(WCC), becoming the WCC's Division of World Mission and Evangelism.Arthur P. Johnston, ''World Evangelism and the Word of God'', Bethany Fellowship, 1974.

History

A continuation committee was established following the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, which culminated in the creation of the International Missionary Council in 1921 in London. Like the Edinburgh conference, it was created to continue ecumenical efforts towards Christian mission through a series of meetings: * 1928 in

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* 1938 in

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(near Madras, India) * 1947 in

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* 1952 in

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* 1958 in

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(near Accra, Ghana) * 1961 in

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It was in the final 1961 meetings when the IMC was integrated with the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the

, forming the Division of World Mission and Evangelism.

Records

The IMC archives are held at the World Council of Churches in

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. Microfiche copies can be found in various library records. At

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MRL12: International Missionary Council records, 1913-1962

References

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