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Code of Conduct for the Danish Missionary Council (Dansk Missionsrad).

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Introduction

Mission means sending. The missionary organizations have come into existence as a framework for mission crossing borders and barriers, individuals being sent to give witness to the Christian truth in word and deed in new ethnic and cultural contexts. Christian missionary staff are to understand their mission as servants to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Missionary praxis must be evaluated and continually reformulated on that basis. This Code of Conduct is to be viewed in this overall perspective. This document outlines guidelines for good stewardship agreed upon by the members of the Danish Missionary Council (DMC). They apply to the practices of the DMC members both in Denmark and globally.

A. Aims and methods

1. Partnership

In the DMC usage of the word partnership it expresses that churches and missionary organizations as well as Christians around the world each represent equal parts of the body of Christ. The missionary organizations and their staff" are to plan, carry out and evaluate their work together with their local partners. Their cooperation is based on the principle of neither party dominating the other. The partners choose freely to work together and each contributes in whatever form considered desirable and feasible. We are conscious of the fact that any form of relationship will develop and change and that the partners are free to draw whatever conclusions from such changes they consider appropriate. It is not a question of liberating oneself from one another, but letting the partnership develop into new areas.

2. Human rights

In their activities the missionary organizations and their staff should respect internationally accepted human rights (the human rights conventions of the United Nations and the Council of Europe) and should seek to ensure that these rights are respected.

3. National legislation

The missionary organizations and their...

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