Crosslinks: 90 years and counting

October 27 marks the 90th anniversary of the launch of the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary Society (BCMS), now called Crosslinks.

This is a landmark shared with the FIEC. As we look back with thanks to God, it is also salutary to ponder the continuing need for such a society.

Actually 1922 was not the year that the story of the society began — for that we have to go back to the closing years of the 18th century and the founding of what is now known as the Church Mission Society (CMS). The story begins in a London coffee house on April 12 1799. Gathered together on the 12th, in a room on the first floor of the Castle and Falcon in Aldersgate Street, are a group of 16 Church of England clergymen and nine laymen united in their shared commitment to the cause of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.