A New Venture in Christian Fellowship

Abstract

"ONE of the finest fruits of the Ecumenical Movement is the help given by one part of the Church of Christ to some other part which is passing through times of adversity or persecution. The British Council of Churches has its own strong Department of Inter-Church Aid, and raises some thousands of pounds every year, particularly for work among Refugees

A few months ago Bishop Dibelius of Berlin proposed that under the auspices of the Department small groups of active Church members should visit Berlin twice a year. The first group (of which the present writer was fortunate enough to be a member by the kind invitation of the Bishop of Sheffield, Chairman of the Inter-Church Aid Department) visited Berlin in May. The group was led by the Archdeacon of Doncaster, and included an Anglican Vicar, an Assistant Director of Education, a full-time woman worker in the Anglican Industrial Mission in Sheffield, and a Methodist housewife and mother"