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The Mission Council meeting in June 2014 in Gwangju, Korea, focussed on EMS as a web of "holy spiders". The network reflects the growing potential of non-hierarchical information, communication and action-taking throughout the world. Widely spread groups can easily contact each other, develop ideas and programmes. The governing system and the institutions of EMS are in such a much wider and broader network, junctions with their specific functions. Other junctions and parts of the web - youth, women, volunteers, missionaries, students, and seminaries - can find ways of interacting among themselves and with the wider web. By confining institution-building and the formalization of relations to a minimum, EMS will be able to encourage and empower groups within its web to find each other. Bilateral and multilateral relations shall be encouraged. The Secretariat in Stuttgart works on behalf of the EMS Fellowship and will - continuing with the given tasks of promoter and supporter of programmes and projects - further develop into
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