Welcome
Welcome to the SEM Forum. It is hoped that visitors to this page will feel free to make comments, not only about the activities of the Seaford Ecumenical Mission, but also about matters of concern to the local Seaford Community and in the wider world.
In the life of the Church SEM represents the complexities of the interaction between different Christian denominations as the members of the partner churches seek to find ways of working together for the sake of the Gospel. At the same time they are very aware of the barriers which still remain between the different traditions.
The SEM Centre, too, is set at a crossroads in the community, situated as it is on the Town Square surrounded by Schools, Library, Recreation Centre and Shopping Complex and with Grand Boulevard, the main thoroughfare of Seaford winding around the building.
What are the concerns of the Church and Society which you would like to share with us?
Archive for May 2009
In 1809 a Presbyterian minister from Ireland who was ministering in Pennsylvania at the time, Thomas Campbell, produced a document known as \"Declaration and Address\" in which he saw the divisions in the Christian Church as a sin which impeded the proclamation of the Gospel. He called for Christian Unity based on the New Testament, setting aside human traditions.
This was the beginning of the \"Restoration Movement\" of which the \"Disciples of Christ\" and the \"Churches of Christ\" are a part.
Two hundred years later Christians are still divided and the proclamation of the Gospel is weakened. Pray for Christian Unity.