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MMS(I)'s Mission Conferences

MMS(I) holds 3 conferences throughout Ireland each year.

• Global Vision
• Dublin District Mission Conference
• Midlands and Southern District Mission Conference

Nearly 600 Methodists attend these events in total.

Global Vision:

Engaging in mission; overseas and on your doorstep

Saturday 14 th February 2009

Lismore Comprehensive School, Craigavon (map) (directions)

Keynote speaker: Rev Val Ogden

Adults, youth and children encountering world mission

All are called to be ‘mission partners', working with others to share Good News in word and deed. This year's theme is “Engaging in mission” and the event will give opportunities to meet and hear those who are involved in mission in all sorts of ways. You may see how you can become more involved. MMS(I) hope you and your family can join with over 300 other Methodists for GV09.

Keynote Speaker

The Revd Val Ogden worked in ecumenical training and as a programmer/presenter in commercial radio before entering the Methodist ministry. She served as a minister of the United Church of Zambia in the 1990s, followed by a Circuit appointment in Wolverhampton .

Since 2000 she has been involved in full time global mission education, at the United College of the Ascension, Selly Oak, Birmingham and is presently Director of the Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies (sponsored by USPG, Anglicans in World Mission and the Methodist Church). Val, a graduate of the Irish School of Ecumenics, is always delighted to catch up with friends in Ireland . Her address is entitled “never the same again; what happens when we really engage in God's mission”.

Dublin District Mission Conference

7th February 2009 Wesley College, Dundrum (map)

Keynote speaker: Ruth Watt (returned mission partner)

Seminar and children's programme.

For details contact Rev Conrad Hicks email

Midlands and Southern District Mission Conference

21st February 2009 Gurteen College, Birr (map and directions)

Keynote speaker: Rev Ken Todd (Papua New Guinea)

Workshops and plenary sessions

For details contact Rev Laurence Graham email