the twentieth century, the tide of decolonisation led to the scaling down and rethinking of activities in Africa and India. BCMS/Crosslinks has participated in two trends common to most Western missionary societies: Missionaries are as likely to come from the Global South as to go there. Given the distribution of Anglicans, this has tended to mean African mission partners joining Crosslinks. The West is now seen as a mission field. Crosslinks brings African pastors to England and Ireland, it has an environmental protection programme in Western Europe (A Rocha) and starts new churches in urban England as it traditionally did in rural Africa. The Crosslinks name emphasises the society's principle that Mission is from everywhere to everywhere. The name also helps to make possible work in some of the 60 or so countries where Bible, Church and Missionary are not acceptable. Since 2000, the CEO and mission director of Crosslinks has been Andy Lines. See also Church Mission Society History of Christian missions Notes References . . External links Crosslinks – God's Word to God's World This is the official Crosslinks web site, and is frequently updated with news from mission partners. Publications are also available on-line. An RSS feed for site additions is available. List of BCMS/Crosslinks archives at Birmingham University, including list of missionaries Church of England missions Church of England missionary societies Church of Ireland Evangelical Anglicanism Evangelicalism in the Church of England Christian organizations established in 1922