Urban Rural Mission

The Urban Rural Mission{{cite web|url=http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/mission/urm.html|title=Urban rural mission (M&E)|website=www.wcc-coe.org}}{{cite journal|title=An Introduction to Urban Rural Mission|first=Kenith A.|last=David|date=1 July 1987|journal=International Review of Mission|volume=76|issue=303|pages=319-323|doi=10.1111/j.1758-6631.1987.tb01534.x}}{{cite journal|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/religion-past-and-present/urban-rural-mission-urm-SIM_025111?s.num=9|title=Urban Rural Mission (URM)|journal=Religion Past and Present|first=Wolfgang|last=Gern|date=April 2011}} is a programme of the World Council of Churches. It started with the Council's third assembly in New Delhi (1961), when concerns were raised about mission in urban and industrial societies.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KQ0ZBwAAQBAJ&q=%22urban+rural+mission%22&pg=PT96|title=New Directions in Mission and Evangelization 1: Basic Statements 1974-1991|first1=Stephen B.|last1=Bevans|first2=James A.|last2=Scherer|date=11 March 2015|publisher=Orbis Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9781608330645}}

In the late 1990s, URM Canada funded several activities including story-telling circles in Black Nova Scotian communities, hosted an intercultural women’s day and organized a wilderness retreat for Aboriginal youth, among other activities. It later produced a video entitled “This Is Our Story and We Live By Telling It - Storytelling as Community Development.”[https://www.anglican.ca/news/wcc-supported-film-will-share-stories-of-canadas-poor/3006360/ Anglican Church in Canada website]