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https://umcmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1500x500-In-Focus-Missionaries-2019.02.27.jpg1500500In focus for the month of April is the Bicentennial of Methodist Mission, a celebration of Methodism’s 200 years of mission ministry and missionaries at work since the 1819 founding of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Thomas Kemper, general secretary, reflects on the continuities he sees in mission then and now.