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BMS World Mission

Church Group:
Baptist Church
Membership Type:
Full

BMS World Mission is a Christian mission organisation, working in around 40 countries on four continents. BMS believes in holistic mission, an approach that stays true to the Christian call to evangelisation without neglecting the duty to take care of the physical needs of the poor. BMS works through long, medium and short-term workers, teams and volunteers, as well as a large number of supported national partner workers around the world, providing people, funding, training and expertise in the core areas of our work:

  • Church planting
  • Development
  • Disaster relief
  • Education
  • Health
  • Media and advocacy

As one of the world's oldest Protestant mission organisations (founded in 1792 by William Carey, the father of modern mission) BMS has longstanding relationships with partner organisations, umbrella mission agencies and local church unions in the countries in which it works. This, along with a long-term approach, ethical policies and supreme cultural sensitivity, has made BMS one of the most trusted names in mission worldwide.

Contact Details

PO Box 49
129 Broadway
Didcot
Oxon OX11 8XA

Phone:
01235 517700
Fax:
01235 517601
sbrown@bmsworldmission.org
http://www.bmsworldmission.org
Ethical Investment Policy

In this ethical investment policy, we seek to hold together our legal responsibility to optimise the return on our investments, with our Christian understanding of God in relationship with creation; the Church’s responsibility to care for the world; the values and beliefs of our supporters; and the specific needs of those communities around the world whom we seek to serve.

In partnership with our investment managers, and observing the normal rules of sound financial management, we will seek to:

  • Support that which is good. Usually known as ‘positive screening’, we aim to invest in well-managed companies, with particular emphasis on demonstrating responsible employment practices, conscientious environmental performance, and sensitivity to human rights.
  • Avoid investing in companies whose products or practices we regard as unacceptable. In particular we will not support companies with a significant interest (normally more than 10% of sales) in armaments, alcohol, gambling, pornography or tobacco, or whose record on employment, the environment or human rights is poor.
  • Engage constructively with companies, in order to encourage them to maintain and improve their social, environmental and ethical practices. This we will do through our investment managers, by our participation in the Church Investors Group, and by actively exercising our votes at company meetings.

19th September 2007

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