From the Very Revd Robert Jeffery
Sir, - Canon David Winter is correct (Diary, 19 July). MECCA
was the Missionary and Ecumenical Council of the Church Assembly,
and was set up on 1 January 1964.
It was the amalgamation of the Council for Ecumenical
Co-operation and the Overseas Council of the Church Assembly. The
chairman was Sir Kenneth Grubb, and the dynamic secretary was Canon
David Paton.
I joined the staff on its first day. Since the recent death of
the Revd Barry Till, I am now the only person alive who was there
in those early days.
But it is quite right that the title would never be considered
today.
ROBERT JEFFERY
47 The Manor House
Bennett Crescent, Cowley
Oxford OX4 2UG
