Our vision:

The global church equipped to participate in the realisation of God’s transforming mission through research and applied scholarship.

Our mission:

To advance study, education and research in God’s mission and to convene practitioners, scholars and leaders in creative and prophetic dialogue.

We do this by:

• equipping individuals, leaders, churches and institutions, prioritising those on the cutting edge of God’s transforming mission
• responding to issues identified by the church with timely, strategic and rigorous research
• fostering spaces where scholarship and practice interface for mutual learning
• ensuring the fruit of scholarship is accessible to reflective mission practitioners
• seeking to hear and give voice to reflective practitioners who might otherwise not be heard
• working in partnership with like-minded individuals and institutions

Motto:

Transforming mission through research and scholarship

• Notes for the Journey

  I look forward to seeing new students arrive at OCMS to begin RIS not only because it reminds me of my own journey, but also because there is a certain sense of excitement in seeing the ways that incoming students step into the world of research.

     In my own journey I arrived feeling that I was a fool to think I could ever do a PhD.  I struggled with 'imposter syndrome'.  The first piece of advice that stuck out [...]