Mission Covenant Church Conference

Fro0m 13-17 june, I was at the annual conference of our church. Together with over 500 representants of our local churches as well as a lot of other people we looked back and made decisions for the year to come. Apart from formal gatherings there were lots of seminars and meetings. Guests from all overthe world were also with us.
One of the good things was to look back on the agreemant with the Church of Sweden, which is now in place, to decide on steps towards more close relationships with the Baptists and the Methodists, as well as to learn about the new agreement with the Catholic Church on recognizing each others baptism.

Important for me was the fact that the Meeting declared support for the Sámi people in their demand to get back skeletal remains that Swedish institutions are storing and many of which were actually stolen from e.g. graves during the 19th century, and to have them reburied. We urge the Government and the institutions to cooperate with the Sámi parliament in this, as well as our local churches to cooperate in this reburial whenever this is asked.

A number of new pastors and deacons were ordained and people were sent out to the mission field. More on the conference can be read (in swedish) at www.missionskyrkan.se, there are also pictures to see.