Links to other Men's Organisation and Groups

Strength is gained through association with other Christian men’s organisations.

The Scottish Baptist Men’s Movement (SBMM) promotes work amongst men in the Baptist churches in Scotland. The secretaries of the SBMM and BMM are ex-officio members of each other’s Councils. The support of missionary projects and the holding of annual conferences at St Andrew’s University are important features of SBMM work. SBMM officers frequently attend the BMM Swanwick conferences and BMM officers are often present at the St Andrew’s SBMM conference.

Although the Church of England Men’s Society has now been disbanded, there are still a number of men’s groups meeting in Anglican churches, and local links have been forged with local men’s groups within BMM. There are also regular exchanges between officers and members of the Methodists for World Mission, and the Roman Catholic Knights of St Columbia (KSC) and BMM at Annual Conference and local events.

These ecumenical links are also evident in a very close relationship with the inter-denominational Brotherhood Movement. On a wider basis BMM is represented at the biennial conference organised by the Conferences of European Churchmen’s Work. As well as representatives of BVMM, MWM and KSC, this Conference includes men from the Catholic and Lutheran Churches of Denmark, France, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Germany.

Within the Baptist “family” there are also links with the Yugoslavian Baptist Co-workers and with the Danish Baptist Men’s Movement, which, amongst other work, promotes Operation Plough (similar to Operation Agri BMM) and pensioner’s holidays. There is no men’s committee at the moment within the European Baptist Federation but there are seats for two laymen on its Council and a committee is under discussion.

World-wide links are encouraged through the work of the Men’s Department of the Baptist World Alliance whose headquarters are in Washington, USA. They organise a Baptist Men’s World Day of Prayer and Witness on the 4th weekend in April each year which includes a telephone prayer link around the world in which various BMM groups take part.

The BWA Men’s Department has normally appointed vice-presidents in each continent.

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