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This devotional guide is the work of the Bridge Working Group of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches as a follow-up to the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, which took place in Arusha, Tanzania, on 8-13 March 2018.

What is so important in the International Missionary Council (IMC) and its historical successor, the World Council of Churches' (WCC) Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, that they will have their own centennial volume? By reading this book, the reader will gain a better understanding of how important and crucial they have been in the development of the ecumenical movement and of what today is often called World Christianity. This volume aims to highlight how, in the course of the past century, structured efforts to foster unity in mission cooperation have shaped not only Christianity but even the world.

With its sister volume, this book is a must for anyone, academic, pastor, or mission practitioner, interested in knowing how Christianity was considerably expanded in the 20th century, through churches' mission and missionary work, and was transformed into World (or Global) Christianity. The book is divided into two parts. The first part contains the introduction-background reading for the reports of the study process produced by the IMC Centenary Study process. The second part of the book includes 13 regional reports. Contributions from all over the world analyse and evaluate the impact-or the absence thereof-of the IMC and the CWME from 1921 until today.