What will be the Global Network of Mission Structures?
It seems very strange that while global level meetings of like-minded people are common, and church people often gather to discuss theology and/or many different kinds of ministries, it seems sometimes that people are less enthusiastic when mission people want to gather on the global level, even on the national level. In the United States, the Foreign Mission Conference of North America did not start until 1891, which was 90 years after mission agencies (denominational or interdenominational) began to emerge. After a few years the FMCNA decided that only denominational agencies were legitimate, asking interdenominational agencies not to vote. This, in 1917, virtually forced into being the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association, when the CIM, SIM, AIM etc. were still fairly young. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, was present at the 1910 meeting but there were in those days far fewer interdenominational agencies. In 1925, 75% of American missionaries were sent
