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Forward Movement is a ministry of the Episcopal Church in the United States, whose mission is to reinvigorate the life of the church. Since 1935, Forward Movement has published the quarterly devotional ''Forward Day by Day'', as well as books and pamphlets that foster spiritual growth and encourage discipleship. As a self-sustaining agency of the church, Forward Movement relies on sales and donations to carry out its work. == History == Forward Movement was created during a time when many people understood the Episcopal Church to be weary and divided. It was chartered by the 51st General Convention in 1924 and charged to “reinvigorate the life of the church and to rehabilitate its general, diocesan and parochial work.” In that year, the Convention appointed the Forward Movement Commission, chaired by Bishop Henry Hobson of Southern Ohio. The Commission, consisting of five bishops, five priests, and ten laymen, was charged to plan and launch this new effort. Thus was born Forward Movement. Although it received a small subsidy from the National Council during its first three years, Forward Movement soon became a self-supporting ministry, largely through sales of literature. By the 1937 General Convention, Forward Movement had produced twenty-five tracts and booklets in addition to ''Forward Day by Day''. All this was achieved through mostly volunteer labor, with the Diocese of Southern Ohio providing office space and support staff. The 1937 General Convention sought to integrate Forward Movement into the larger church by naming the new presiding bishop, Henry St. George Tucker, as chair of the Forward Movement Commission, with Bishop Hobson continuing to oversee operations in Cincinnati. Gilbert Symons became the first editor of Forward Movement, a post he held until 1950. He wrote many of the early issues of ''Forward Day by Day'', in addition to dozens of other titles. The Diocese of Southern Ohio paid Symons’s salary, though he devoted nearly all his time to Forward Movement. The diocese also provided rent-free office space (though expenses were shared) in downtown Cincinnati until 2004, when the scope of Forward Movement’s ministries called for more spacious quarters. By 1940, Bishops Tucker and Hobson felt a renewed level of trust in the church had reached a point where the National Council could assume many of Forward Movement’s ministries. At the General Convention of that year, therefore, the Forward Movement Commission was not discharged. But Forward Movement’s success as a publisher led Tucker to ask that the executive committee continue publishing literature for the church. To indicate more clearly the nature of its ministry, the name of the organization was changed in 1949 to Forward Movement Publications. Bishop Hobson retired as bishop of Southern Ohio in 1969 but continued to chair the Forward Movement executive committee until 1976. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forward Movement」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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