The universal mission of the church of Christ : a discourse / delivered at Hanley, Staffordshire, August 4, 1884, being the Fernley lecture of 1884, by Benjamin Hellier.

http://www.archive.org/details/universalmission00helluoft

The mission of the church. Translated from the French by A. V. Littledale.

http://www.archive.org/details/missionofthechur013324mbp

The story of the Fuh-Kien mission of the Church missionary society, by Eugene Stock ...

http://www.archive.org/details/thestoryofthefuh00stocuoft

Hindrances to the work of the church in the world : a series of sermons / by the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells ... [et al.]

http://www.archive.org/details/hindrancestothew00unknuoft

The church of Christ [microform] : its life and work : an attempt to trace the work of the church in some of its departments from the earliest times to the present day /

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Consecrated talents; or, The mission of the children of the church.

http://www.archive.org/details/consecratedtalen00tuthrich

The missionary nature of the church; a survey of the Biblical theology of mission.

http://www.archive.org/details/missionarynature013246mbp

After fifty years : or, An historical sketch of the Guntur mission of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the General Synod in the United States of America /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sowing and reaping : a year of expansion and ingathering in the North India Mission of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

Last page folds out to 32 cm. and is a list of "present members of the mission."

The Africa mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church /

Mode of access: Internet.

The church's life; a study of the fundamentals of the church's mission,

Mode of access: Internet.

A Hand-book of the church's mission to the Indians : in memory of William Hobart Hare, an apostle to the Indians.

Compiled by a committee consisting of Elizabeth H. Lane, Matilda Markoe and Julia L. Schulte.

The Church and Its Boundaries : A Study of the Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC

The relationship between the Orthodox Churches and the World Council of Churches (WCC) became a crisis just before the 8th Assembly of the WCC in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1998. The Special Commission on Orthodox Participation in the WCC (SC), inaugurated in Harare, worked during the period 1999 2002 to solve the crisis and to secure the Orthodox participation in the WCC. The purpose of this study is: 1) to clarify the theological motives for the inauguration of the SC and the theological argumentation of the Orthodox criticism; 2) to write a reliable history and analysis of the SC; 3) to outline the theological argumentation, which structures the debate, and 4) to investigate the ecclesiological questions that arise from the SC material. The study spans the years 1998 to 2006, from the WCC Harare Assembly to the Porto Alegre Assembly. Hence, the initiation and immediate reception of the Special Commission are included in the study. The sources of this study are all the material produced by and for the SC. The method employed is systematic analysis. The focus of the study is on theological argumentation; the historical context and political motives that played a part in the Orthodox-WCC relations are not discussed in detail. The study shows how the initial, specific and individual Orthodox concerns developed into a profound ecclesiological discussion and also led to concrete changes in WCC practices, the best known of which is the change to decision-making by consensus. The Final Report of the SC contains five main themes, namely, ecclesiology, decision-making, worship/common prayer, membership and representation, and social and ethical issues. The main achievement of the SC was that it secured the Orthodox membership in the WCC. The ecclesiological conclusions made in the Final Report are twofold. On the one hand, it confirms that the very act of belonging to the WCC means the commitment to discuss the relationship between a church and churches. The SC recommended that baptism should be added as a criterion for membership in the WCC, and the member churches should continue to work towards the mutual recognition of each other s baptism. These elements strengthen the ecclesiological character of the WCC. On the other hand, when the Final Report discusses common prayer, the ecclesiological conclusions are much more cautious, and the ecclesiological neutrality of the WCC is emphasized several times. The SC repeatedly emphasized that the WCC is a fellowship of churches. The concept of koinonia, which has otherwise been important in recent ecclesiological questions, was not much applied by the SC. The comparison of the results of the SC to parallel ecclesiological documents of the WCC (Nature and Mission of the Church, Called to Be the One Church) shows that they all acknowledge the different ecclesiological starting points of the member churches, and, following that, a variety of legitimate views on the relation of the Church to the churches. Despite the change from preserving the koinonia to promises of eschatological koinonia, all the documents affirm that the goal of the ecumenical movement is still full, visible unity.

Sermon XIV; Preached at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, May 20, 1790

A sermon preached to the General Assembly reporting on the mission efforts of the church.