Churches Group for Evangelisation

The group brings together those in our Member Churches who take responsibility for portfolios of mission and evangelism in their denomination. It also draws on the expertise and giftings from our Charities and Networks in Association and other parachurch organisations...

Mission Research Network

This body is a CTE co-ordinating group being committed to ecumenical missiological reflection and sharing insights with the churches in England to enable them to make better-informed decisions regarding mission-shaped strategies. In August 2022 the Mission Research Network re-worked their...

Churches Group for New Housing Areas

Welcome to this web area about how the churches in England, local, regional and national, are responding to the new housing agenda. The CTE New Housing Areas (NHA) group exists to help churches in England understand and engage effectively with...

Churches Rural Group

After a period of listening by members of the Rural Churches Group during 2022 the group was formally closed in a meeting on 21 October 2022 via Zoom. Some former members of the Group continued to be involved at a...

Urban Mission Alliance

The Urban Mission Alliance (UMA) is a group which revived some of its past work in March 2022. Revd Dr Ben Aldous from CTE and Dr Aimi King from the Estates Evangelism Task Force seek to gather, ecumenically, those folk who...

UK Christian Youth Work Consortium

The Christian Youth Work Consortium brings together denominations, Christian youth agencies and training providers. It gives a voice to Christian youth work on regional and national bodies and provides information about youth work training in the UK.Its aims are to: affirm, encourage...

Stories

Mission Research Library

If you have a thesis you'd like to suggest for this library, please contact CTE's Ben Aldous.

Coordinating groups (Mission)

For a wider list of all our CTE working groups, visit our working groups page.

What is mission?

Across England, churches are working together in mission in surprising, creative and collaborative ways – sharing the love of God with their communities. You can find out more in our topical mission pages, ranging from food to sport, social action to unity movements, and elderly people to...

Delegates at the 2026 Missionary Disciples Conference

Delegates are listed in alphabetical order by last name. Dr Benjamin Aldous is the Principal Officer for Mission and Evangelism at Churches Together in England. He helps bring together church leaders who reflect on mission and evangelism in urban and...

Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry – the ‘Lima’ text

This famous text, adopted by the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission at its plenary meeting in Lima, Peru in 1982, explores the growing agreement – and remaining differences – in fundamental areas of the churches' faith and...

Remembering Not Strangers But Pilgrims

Cardinal Vincent Nichols became General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference in January 1984, just as the Churches were beginning to re-evaluate the British Council of Churches.  Listen to his reminiscences below, and read more about what happened in our...

County Ecumenical Officer Directory (Intermediate Bodies)

County Ecumenical Officers (CEOs) are appointed ecumenically to support and encourage local ecumenism (churches working together) across a particular county, metropolitan area or large city.  These umbrella ecumenical Intermediate Bodies encourage and support churches of different traditions as they seek to work, worship and witness together. If you’re...

National Ecumenical Officer Directory

NEOs are appointed by a number of CTE’s national Member Churches to have responsibility for ecumenical relationships – helping their own church tradition to work ecumenically, and representing their church in national ecumenical settings. In smaller church denominations someone (often the General Secretary) will have ecumenical relations...