Mission Across Europe in 2022

The Fund for Mission in Europe has supported over 40 projects across Europe this year from women's refuges to drug addiction support to Christian festivals.   It is a fund supported with a grant from the World Mission Fund. You can support these mission projects and similar projects across the world by giving to the World Mission Fund here.

Priorities of the Fund
When Methodist church leaders in various parts of Europe were asked about their priorities, they stated repeatedly the following areas:

• Working towards sustainability (WTS)
  We would like to increasingly stand on our own feet in terms of personnel and content, as well as financially. Additionally, we would like to bring ourselves, as giving communities, complete with our own identities and the wealth of our faith experiences, into the worldwide Methodist family.
• Education and Leadership Training (ELT)
  In a time of tremendous social changes, we would like to engage in our mission tasks in creative, believable ways and be 'the Church for others'. In order to achieve this aim, we need well educated pastors and lay leaders.
• Being a learning church (BLC)
  We are not called to do today, what has always been done, while using those instruments, which have always been used. Rather, we aim to forge a reliable connection to new ideas and experiences, to learn from one another, and to find new activities, which bring the timeless message of God’s love to the people of today and tomorrow.
• Diaconal work (DW)
  We cannot be a credible church without hearing the voices of those who cry out because of their needs. Without seeing those who already suffer silently. Without helping people regardless of their
  background. Without awakening a new hope for a better future. However, we do not desire to be engaged in ministry for the poor but in ministry with them.

This is why the Fund for Mission in Europe primarily supports programs and projects related to one of these four priorities. You can read all the inspirational project summaries here and you will find indications about the main priority of each project at the end of the corresponding description.