Image: Ships on a Stormy Sea by Willem van de Velde the Younger (c. 1672), Royal Opera House Covent Garden via Flickr
The world of mission is changing profoundly. It’s changing in ways that significantly challenges institutions that seek to fund the achievement of mission. And that’s true whether mission is defined by faith or secular ethos, articulated environmentally or articulated culturally: presenting the arts, maintaining cultural heritage, creating social identity. It’s true whether the organisations envisage themselves as charitable ventures or as non-profit institutions or as advocacy organisations or, very often, a mix of those.
