The Present
In the year 2000 the organisation EMA changed its name to Global Connections and membership was extended to include agencies whose mission focus was primarily the UK and churches involved in mission. This was done in response to continuing changes in the mission world. These included the growing size and development of the church outside the West and the false dichotomy between the West and the developing world. Mission was now from everywhere to everywhere.
The UK itself was now becoming a mission field with mission partners travelling there from other nations. Furthermore, increasing ethnic diversity was changing the face of the UK. At this time many local churches were becoming involved in mission directly. The organisation wanted to reflect these profound and diverse changes and to develop the understanding of mission and it’s variety of expressions.
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Famous quotes containing the words the present and/or present:
“The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.”
—Mary Webb (1881–1927)
“Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.”
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I furnish with the meat of a fable;
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An upright man in the antipodes
Or spray-based and rock-chested sea:
Over the past table I repeat this present grace.”
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