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Learning in an igloo Training church leaders in the Arctic Hope in the midst of war Church offers new skills to Sudan’s youth
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Never stop learning
AS MEMBERS OF THE GLOBAL CHURCH and disciples of Jesus Christ we never stop discovering new things as we learn more about what it means to follow Christ. Studying the Bible together and sharing our stories of faith with one another is an essential part of being a Christian in today’s world. Prayer is also the lifeblood of the church and I’m pleased to be supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s invitation for the Anglican Communion to join in his Evangelism task force prayer initiative next year. The story of what happened this Pentecost through the prayer initiative Thy Kingdom Come is covered in this issue. I hope many churches and individuals will take up the opportunity to be part of this exciting wave of global prayer in 2017. The Anglican Church across the world has always been at “This is an exciting time to be an the forefront of education, establishing schools and training as part of its mission in local communities. Today the Anglican, to be learning from one centres church is still actively promoting life-long learning and in this another, to be praying” issue of Anglican World there are many examples of how it is helping transform lives through training and education. In Sudan a dynamic training programme has been going to young people where they are and giving them the skills and confidence to change their lives. Many have missed out on education because of the years of war and unrest, but the mobile skills training is giving them a chance to make a living despite the threats and violence within the country. On the other side of the world in the Arctic communities face different pressures with many people feeling isolated and cut off. The church here is launching a new theological training course for its potential leaders, aiming to give them solid teaching as well as practical experience in ministry and what it means to be Jesus’ hands and feet in the harsh conditions of the Arctic. This is an exciting time to be an Anglican, to be learning from one another, to be praying and to be seeing God’s kingdom come wherever you are in the world. Lastly, we want to learn from you, as we plan for the future of Anglican World magazine. Please take a moment to complete the questionnaire on page 23 – or fill it in online. Thank you.
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ARMY PRAISE CHURCH RESPONSE The Diocese of Northern Uganda has been praised by the country’s armed forces for its crisis response in support for the thousands of refugees streaming across its borders from South Sudan. More than 38,000 people were reported to have fled from South Sudan during just one week in July, including Kenyans and Rwandans. South Sudanese nationals fleeing the violence were received in Elegu and transferred to the Refugee Camp in Adjumani. The diocese responded to the crisis with an emergency mobilisation of support people providing refugees with water, biscuits, and medical kits. A small medical team from the diocese’s St Philip’s Health Centre
Diocese of Northern Uganda team off-loading water and biscuits for evacuees
provided emergency first aid, while an ambulance was provided to help those seriously injured. The Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF) presented a certificate of
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The opening service for the youth gathering
Some 160 young people from across the West Indies met in Grenada in July for the third Provincial Youth Gathering. The theme for this premier youth event of the Church in the Province of the West Indies was Anglican Youth – Co-workers with Christ: Living the Faith. Speakers
at the six-day event included Archbishop John Holder, Primate of the West Indies, and the Revd Canon John Kafwanka, Director for Mission at the Anglican Communion Office who talked about the Five Marks of Mission.
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CLERGY TACKLE HIV STIGMA Christian leaders in the Philippines have undergone public HIV tests as part of a campaign against the stigmatisation of people with HIV/AIDS. The Revd Rex Reyes Jr, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP), told a press conference at the World Council of Churches’ Central Council meeting in Trondheim, Norway, in July that it was part of an ‘aggressive educational awareness programme’. Reyes, a priest of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, said that the ‘strong religious flavour’ in the 4
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The Revd Wilfredo Ruazol from the Philippines gets tested for HIV infection at the 2016 International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa.
country was a defining issue in the way some people behave towards people living with HIV; and that
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the public HIV tests were part of a ‘more practical way’ of dealing with the stigma.
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NEW COMMITMENT ON CLIMATE JUSTICE
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Anglicans from around the world have made a new commitment to fight for climate justice. The commitment was made at the conclusion of an international consultation in Fiji organised by the Anglican mission agency United Society. The society’s global relations director, Rachel Parry, said ‘While affirming the current direction and areas of mission with which the United Society is engaging around the world, this consultation allowed us to focus more deeply on mission priorities in the different contexts from which delegates came, and highlighted some particular areas on which we will endeavour to focus in the coming three years.’
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ARCHBISHOP’S SUPPORT FOR REFUGEES The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has welcomed a new scheme to allow community groups to directly sponsor a refugee family. Archbishop Justin Welby said the scheme would allow churches and other civil society groups ‘to provide sanctuary to those fleeing war-torn places’. The Full Community Sponsorship
scheme was launched in July by UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Archbishop Justin Welby at Lambeth Palace. The scheme will enable charities, faith groups, churches and businesses to take on the role of supporting resettled refugees in the UK.
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Archbishop Justin Welby launch the Full Community Sponsorship scheme at Lambeth Palace.
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JOINT ORDINATION AT CHRISTCHURCH Some 600 people jammed into Christchurch’s Transitional Cathedral on Saturday to take part in the first joint ordination between the Diocese of Christchurch and the Anglican Maori Diocese of Te Wai Pounamu. Eight people were ordained as deacons – five by Bishop Victoria Matthews, and three by the Vicar General of Te Pihopatanga, Bishop Kito Pikaahu. That new southern spirit of inter-tikanga co-operation had shown itself at the General Conference, held in Napier in May, immediately before the General Synod.
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One group that graduated at Kala
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A PRACTICAL TRAINING programme in the Diocese of KajoKeji in South Sudan has been giving new hope to young people afraid for their future after the effects of war. Many have been learning new skills alongside finding a new faith in God. A former teacher, now ordained in the Church Army, the Revd Capt Jonathan Soro Buly helped set up a special mobile training scheme with the support of Alasdair Hogarth who founded Kajo-Keji Education Trust Africa. The charity aims to ‘reach, empower and equip vulnerable young people in rural areas to attain holistic sustainable transformation through life and trade skill training and discipleship.’ Jonathan said, ‘In addition to the insecurity in the region, with abductions and violence still rife, the country is facing an economic
“We thank God that he is protecting everyone and the training is going very well.”
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challenge as a result of the war with prices rising daily. Many children have been left without parents and young people have missed out on education because of the war.’ The Mobile Skill Training (MOST) has already worked with over 150 young people who attend the camps run in cooperation with local chiefs and the church. The mobile project moves from one rural community to another aiming to reach out to young people who have not gone to school, had to drop out or who are orphans. Jonathan said, ‘The instructor has enough time for person to person contact during the training and the training is done in their local language. Trainees pay nothing, and are provided with breakfast and lunch every day. Their recruitment is not based on the educational background but on the interest the person has in the skill.’ He said, ‘It is very exciting for me to see how their lives have changed because I’ve worked with young people now for more than 10 years. One young man who we worked with has set up his own shop selling salt and sugar. Because he was able to get work with his practical building skills, he was able to build up capital and set up a business.’
Recent training in the Gederu area in April included 21 young people who learned brick laying and concrete work. Jonathan said, ‘It took us some time to decide whether to go ahead or not to due to the security situation, but local church and community leaders encouraged us to carry on. We thank God that he is protecting everyone and the training is going very well. Among those enrolled, two are female, making it the second group of trainees to include girls. In Liwolo, the three girls who took part are now doing a tremendous work and supporting themselves.’ The trainees are also able to take home the tools they are using at the end of the course as a start-up toolkit. Jonathan said the skills they learned had turned their lives around. ‘I keep thanking God and I feel satisfied because I see the results and what comes out of this. It has changed people’s minds, some of the young people think there is nothing they can do. Now they are people who have never gone to school, but are able to do construction. It gives them very strong self-esteem and confidence and they are thinking, ‘I am able to be useful.’’ ‘We run this training along with discipleship, wherever we go we give them the tools and we give them Bibles. We have devotion in the morning and in the evening we have Bible studies. We have seen lives changed. There are those who give their lives to Christ and make a serious commitment. It is not confrontational, it is just that as they learn it becomes natural.’
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Some of the activities done by the trainees
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Professor Matowanyika
“AUZ aspires to develop graduates who do not seek only their own personal growth.”
Education for all in Zimbabwe SEVENTY PER CENT of the population of Southern Africa is under 35 years old – yet less than one per cent has access to a university education. Professor Joseph Matowanyika, of Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe, says only five per cent of school leavers can access university level education compared to 40 per cent among their counterparts in Europe. This is just one of the reasons why the Diocese of Harare, part of the Church of the Province of Central Africa, is planning to open the first Anglican university in Zimbabwe. Prof Matowanyika, who is Director of the Institute of Lifelong Learning and Development Studies, said there is a big demand for university space in Zimbabwe
and the surrounding countries, where many skills are lacking, especially in science, technology and mathematics. He said, ‘The new Anglican University in Zimbabwe (AUZ) will aim to make a contribution to closing the gap in skills development for the region, especially with biomedical sciences.’ The vision for the new university will be ‘a growing Anglican Christian family committed to living, preaching and teaching the Gospel and engaged in holistic education guided by the Holy Spirit’. Founded on lifelong learning and guided by the Christian faith the university will aim to foster a spirit of conscious community activism, addressing community needs and promoting the university as a catalyst for transformation. Prof Matowanyika said, ‘AUZ
aspires to develop graduates who do not seek only their own personal growth.’ He said students would be encouraged to be sympathetic to community needs in a fast changing society. In the first 25 years the university expects to offer teaching and research in food and environment, health and wholeness, technology and innovation and business enterprise and economics. The professor said he hopes the global Anglican community will support the university through exchange programmes, partnerships, offers of professional services and donations. He said, ‘We have set a firm foundation egged on by our motto: With God all things are possible (Matthew 19.26).’
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Thy Kingdom Come Learning to pray again
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The Beacon Event at St Paul’s Cathedral
“this has linked us back into the church worldwide and put prayer front and central”
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APPARENTLY IT’S NEVER too late to learn something new, and earlier this year the Archbishops of Canterbury and York encouraged everyone to discover something new about prayer. Now, following a phenomenal response to a Pentecost prayer invitation across the UK this Spring, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has invited the Anglican Communion around the world to join in. In the nine days leading up to Pentecost Sunday (15 May) the Archbishops invited Christians to join a national call to pray. Taking a line from the Lord’s prayer, the initiative Thy Kingdom Come called on people in the UK to pray for the
evangelisation of the nation. The Archbishop’s Evangelism Task Group Project leader, Emma Buchan, said, ‘We were astounded by the take up. We had over 100,000 people involved, which we believe was God at work.’ In a letter sent out to all the Primates of the Anglican Communion this summer, the Archbishop wrote, ‘We are hoping that next year, we might expand Thy Kingdom Come to take place not only in England but across other provinces of the Anglican Communion that wish to be involved… When we pray with sincerity and with joy, there is no imagining the new ways in which God can use us to his glory.’
Churches up and down the country, from every tradition, from inner-cities to rural areas, got involved, in response to a personal letter from the Archbishops sent out to every serving parish priest in the Church of England. Many churches hosted whole weeks of 24/7 prayer – some for the first time. Schools put on special assemblies, and engaged in other creative ways. Archbishop Justin said, ‘It is impossible to overstate the life-transforming power of the Lord’s Prayer. It is famous enough to be spoken each day by billions in hundreds of languages and yet intimate enough to draw us ever closer into friendship with Jesus Christ. It is simple enough to be memorized by small children and yet profound enough to sustain a whole lifetime of prayer.’ The time of prayer culminated in six national Beacon Events over Pentecost weekend at cathedrals in different parts of the country. At Winchester demand was so great overspill areas with big screens had to be organized and at Canterbury a live stream was set up for people to join in on the internet. By July it had received 300,000 views. Emma explained, ‘What Thy Kingdom Come did was give people time and space outside their normal worshipping patterns to come closer to God. Some people got up to pray at 2am and said they didn’t know that an hour of prayer could change their life. I think some of us have forgotten the importance of praying regularly and intentionally for our friends to come into a relationship
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The Bishop of Bermuda was joined by others on a prayer walk across the island
Kite flying in Bermuda… How Thy Kingdom Come took to the air on an island EACH GOOD FRIDAY in Bermuda the tradition is kite flying. The kites are often in the shape of a cross as a reminder. This year the kite strings took on a special meaning as many were made into prayer wristbands, with extra knots added in as a prompt to pray for different people. According to the Bishop of Bermuda, the Rt Revd Nicholas Dill, the diocese is desperately in need of prayer. So when he read about the Archbishops’ call to prayer in the Anglican Communion News Service he was thrilled. ‘We’re undergoing a strategic review and it seemed that this was good means of encouraging people to pray,’ he said. ‘Also in Bermuda we’re very isolated… and I’m trying to connect the Church to see itself in the light of the broader fellowship of the Anglican Communion and this was a way of participating in something the Church is doing. It was small beginnings, I invited all the churches to be holding different prayer events and about half took that up, some churches did something every day and at the cathedral they had prayer every lunch hour.’ with Jesus Christ and this has helped many discover new ways of praying.’ Although Thy Kingdom Come 2016 was a UK initiative, there was interest from Christians across the world from New Zealand, the Falkland Islands, Belgium the USA and many others. Emma said, ‘Every day dozens more stories continue to pour in. We know from diocesan champions that what we’re hearing about nationally is only the tip of the iceberg.’
On the Wednesday before Pentecost, Bishop Nick set out with a small group from the diocese on a prayer walk from one end of the island to the other, trekking 26 miles and visiting the island’s 17 worship centres. ‘We began with Morning Prayer on one side of the island and ended with Compline on the other,’ he explained. ‘It was delightful to be a part of that, but also encouraging for those who participated.’ On the Sunday the diocese held its own version of the Beacon Events with a special service in the Cathedral when the Archbishop of Canterbury’s video message was shown on a big screen. The Bishop said the prayer focus was not a one-off for Bermuda and is continuing in local churches and the Cathedral, which is now holding special prayer services each week in addition to its regular services. ‘I feel this has linked us back into the church worldwide and also put prayer front and central, not everyone is supportive - I think people are tired. But I think God is doing something.’
In 2017 the initiative aims to demonstrate that the unity of Jesus Christ crosses national boundaries, particularly after the British vote to leave the European Union. The hope is for prayer meetings to take place in as many European capitals as possible. For more information on They Kingdom Come email: emma.buchan@ lambethpalace.org.uk or see the website: http://thykingdom.co.uk
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St Jude’s Cathedral in Iqaluit, the Diocese of the Arctic
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Preparing for ministry in an igloo THE REVD JOEY ROYAL is a priest in the Canadian Arctic. He recently moved from Yellowknife some 1,300 miles to Iqaluit in the eastern part of the country. There are no roads and travel is either by plane or skidoo. Temperatures here can drop to -27°C in January and only rise to about 8°C in July. It’s in this harsh icebound context that Joey is beginning to train people for ministry. The Diocese of the Arctic is part of the Anglican Church of Canada and has been training people to become deacons, priests and bishops or to take on other leadership roles, for more than 40 years at the Arthur Turner Training School (ATTS). Joey
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“a priest is a central person...called on in all sorts of circumstances” Royal (35) was appointed this year to become the school’s new director. The school will be based in the newly-built Igloo Cathedral, St Jude’s in Iqaluit, since its previous base at a former mission hospital in the south Baffin community of Pangnirtung, became too dilapidated. Five new students are already enrolled to start the course in September 2016. ‘It’s an exciting
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time,’ said Joey, ‘and it’s the culmination of a lot of work. Our students will have opportunities to be part of both the smaller parish at St Simon’s church as well as the Cathedral services. They will start each day with Morning Prayer and end each day with Evening Prayer, and there will be a Eucharist on Wednesdays. There will be a focus on discipleship, clearly linking between the Bible, theology and how that links with our daily lives and our daily following of Christ.’ The school offers a two-year diploma in Arctic ministry with a practical element between each year when students go into the
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local community to gain hands-on experience in the hospital, the prison, and local homes. Joey said the school would have to fit its lessons around the Cathedral’s programme, with some classes in the room above the worship space. ‘As most services and funerals are in the afternoon there won’t be too many clashes,’ he said. ‘But we will cope with the variables. We’re good at that in the north – we improvise! We’ll be studying the Old and New Testaments, Anglicanism, theology, church history, and worship and we have a partnership with Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. They have been a great help providing the basic materials we need for the curriculum.’ The main goal of the school will be to train and empower indigenous people, who make up the majority of the Arctic population, primarily for ordained ministry. But ordained ministry in the parishes of the Arctic is very different to most other parts of the world. Joey explained, ‘Many of our ministers act as first responders… and I don’t mean medically, but they are called on by the community to be present in all sorts of different moments in people’s lives. A community in the Arctic is often small, in fairly remote areas and a priest is a central person who is called on to care for people in all sorts of circumstances – to attend community events and to be a community leader. That presents a lot of pressure. There is an intensity about ministry in the north.’
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A service of Communion at St Jude’s Cathedral
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‘I fell in love with the place, its rugged beauty and the people. Then we found a home here.’ There are high rates of suicide in the diocese. Joey said one woman priest told him, ‘If you’re a priest in the north, one thing you do a lot is bury people.’ It will be Joey’s job to prepare his students for the challenge of the work ahead. ‘A large part of that will be allowing students to tell their stories,’ he explained, ‘to share where they come from, where their family is, what situations they face and what is important to them. I think in doing that you can see the unique ways that God works in their lives and makes us his own.’ He said the indigenous people were very resilient and there were ways to try to tackle issues like isolation for clergy. ‘We make regular phone calls which help alleviate some of that and now with Skype and Facetime, where communication has improved, that can help a lot too,’ he said. ‘But ministry is hard anywhere. It’s tough and what you need above all is a relationship with God and a trust in God which sees you through it – as well as people who support you too.’ The school will be billingual, offering classes in both Inuktitut and English. Its new base in the multicultural city of Iqaluit – a regional transportation hub – will offer more opportunities for lay leaders or clergy visiting the city to sit in on lectures. Joey said he was
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Lecture spaces and study rooms in the Cathedral
committed to learning and adapting the course as it moves along. ‘I will be drawing in a local priest who knows a lot about the history of the church in the north and has written books on the topic. There are other clergy who have a unique gift and speak the language so we will have them in as well. It’s a culture that values elders, so we will get some elders in to share what life was like and share the traditional ways. A lot of that is going to mean learning and adapting to the needs of the people we are serving,’ he said. Joey came to Yellowknife for a summer to work and to visit his parents who had moved there. He said, ‘I fell in love with the place, its rugged beauty and the people. Then we found a home here.’ He is married to Jenn and they have a four-year-old son called Ben. Joey said they were now settling into life in the Eastern Arctic. And although he doesn’t live in an igloo he must be the only theological trainer to take lectures in one.
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The Communion at a glance EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST: Wales
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A diocese of the Church in Wales is using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, in a pilot project to map centuries-old churchyards. For hundreds of years, burial records have been confined to written registers, books, and hand drawn maps and plans. But cutting edge technology is helping to produce a more interactive and accurate record. The Diocese of
Llandaff is piloting the scheme in four parishes. Images taken by the drones will be combined with photographs of headstones and scans of handwritten records going back hundreds of years. Pupils from St Nicholas Church in Wales Primary School were involved in the project by helping to photograph headstones in their local churchyard.
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AMERICA St Alban’s Episcopal Church in Indianapolis has set up a street-side farm field that also serves as a memorial to the city’s murder victims. White crosses stand amidst the crops that have been planted to provide fresh food for local people. In some cases, the crosses themselves have become tools of the gardener, supporting strings of peas and taller herbs, like dill. The church’s goal, with the help of a United Thank Offering (UTO) grant, is to harvest 10,000 pounds of produce from this former baseball field by the end of the growing season and distribute it to several local food pantries. The ministry, which has been years in the making, invokes a passage from Micah. It is called The Swords to Plowshares Peace Garden. It intends to show that, with God’s help, the barrenness caused by violence can be transformed into ‘life-giving food’ for the church’s poorest neighbours.
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AFRICA The Anglican Church of Southern Africa will launch a Decade of Intentional Discipleship at its biennial renewal conference, Anglicans Ablaze, later this year. It follows the call from the Anglican Consultative Council, at their meeting in Lusaka in April (ACC-16), for ‘every province, diocese and parish’ in the Anglican Communion to ‘adopt a clear focus on
intentional discipleship’ as part of a ‘season of intentional discipleship’, to run for the next nine-or-so years. The launch of the Decade of Intentional Discipleship will ’signal the start of a season of vision sharing and preparation ahead of mobilisation,’ said The Most Revd Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town.
AFRICA: Southern Africa
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A challenge to a Lutheran bishop by young Anglicans in Southern Africa has led to the formation of an ecumenical partnership to fight climate change. The Young Green Anglicans group made the challenge at a Lutheran youth conference in June; and since then the new Green Lutherans group has been launched at an ecumenical service in Swaziland. During the
youth conference the Young Green Anglicans presented a fig tree to the Lutheran bishop, challenging the Church to go green. The invitation to the youth conference came in response to regular invitations to Lutherans to take part in Green Anglicans’ events.
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The Diocese of Madurai-Ramnad in the Church of South India (CSI) has opened a new peace centre in Mandapasalai, on the border of the ‘ever sensitive’ Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram districts. The diocese says that they are working for peace and reconciliation at a time when ‘the media, both print and visual media, sensationalises the news of conflict everywhere fanning further divisions among groups, communities and peoples’. From the new centre, the diocese will run ‘an all-important and unique initiative of Peace’ that covers 60 villages in the areas served by the eight pastorates in Mandapasalai and its neighbourhood – an area within a radius of 25 kilometers.
OCEANIA: Australia The Bishop of the Northern and Western Region in the Diocese of Melbourne, Philip Huggins, has been installed as the eighth president of the ecumenical group the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA). The NCCA brings together 19 Christian denominations, including Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Lutheran, and Congregational churches. ’At the heart of our ecumenical work is
friendship in Christ,’ he said. ’It is this which gives meaning and direction to our work.’ Bishop Philip was ordained in 1977. Since 2004 he has served as regional bishop in the Archdiocese of Melbourne where he ministers to the people of northern and western Melbourne and Geelong.
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Transformation through training Children taking part in a CCM project in the Diocese of Kirinyaga, Kenya.
ANGLICAN ALLIANCE
How two initiatives are offering people ways to change their communities themselves Equipping people with the skills to run their own self-sustaining projects has been a transforming experience for two communities in different parts of the world. Facilitated through the Anglican Alliance, people in the Solomon Islands and in Kenya have been putting their ideas into action through two complementary programmes. THE TWO PROGRAMMES – Umoja and Agents of Change – aim to bring about transformation in communities and are rooted in the belief that God wants people to have abundant lives. Agents of Change is a tool the
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Anglican Alliance has developed to help Anglicans tackle poverty. Its manager, Dr Elizabeth Perry said, ‘Agents of Change starts with an individual and their project idea and is for a person who wants to bring about change. Using a distance learning course with a series of modules it equips them with the knowledge and skills to set up a development project, accompanied by a mentor. The course looks at every stage of the process, from coming up with an idea, to planning, and to managing a project.’ One of the first people to complete the Agents of Change* course was Dennis Kabekabe in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Originally from Papua New Guinea, Dennis now lives in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands and is married to Tagolyn, the Anglican Alliance’s Pacific Facilitator. He has led the course with a community of Franciscan brothers
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to help them develop a skills training centre – teaching carpentry, poultry rearing and pig rearing. Now they are planning to share their new skills with the wider community. Dennis, who has experience in agriculture and management, said, ‘I have seen there is gap in the system where people need information to help their livelihoods or small businesses. I took up Agents of Change because it is aimed at the local community for rural people to gain knowledge, which is directly useful, helping them make changes.’ Dennis worked on the course alongside a Franciscan, Brother Lent, who wanted to help pass on skills and training to younger brothers in other communities. He said, ‘The young people really need the things I have learned from Agents of Change.’ He said many of them lacked purpose and didn’t know what to do. ‘The course gave me the courage to put more effort into continuing to speak
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on behalf of those who really need to study and I could encourage them to continue, even when it’s hard.’ Brother Lent had the vision for a reforestation project, replacing grasslands with trees to help tackle climate change. He said, ‘I am concerned about the environment and my background is forestry. I also wanted to share my knowledge with other [younger] brothers.’ The project took off and the brothers were able to grow seedlings while working with another community too. They also researched which trees would be suitable for their site so that they could nurture the appropriate seedlings. Dennis said the course had started something that would have long lasting benefit for the communities in the Solomon Islands. Umoja is an approach to community development adopted in many Anglican provinces which starts in the local church. Umoja – which means ‘together’ in Swahili – aims to engage everyone through an envisioning, participatory process led by a trained facilitator, who is able to offer help and advice. Umoja, also known as Church-Community Mobilisation (CCM), has already been shared across dioceses and provinces in Africa. The Anglican Alliance has been helping connect the provinces and agencies like the Mothers’ Union and other missions and development agencies to share experiences and spread the vision. In 2015, the it worked with CAPA to convene a meeting of over 100 facilitators from across Africa. The Revd Fedis Nyagah is the Umoja Coordinator for Anglican churches in Africa, based in Kenya. She said, ‘CCM helps me to see the big picture of ministry. The way we do
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Agents of Change inspires an agricultural project in the Solomon Islands
A couple in Kenya helped improve cow breeding inspired by Umoja
Bible studies, valuing and involving everybody in the church, helped build people’s confidence, self-esteem and gave them ownership and support for ministry.’ Some of the practical ways people have been able to help themselves includes a project rearing rabbits in a community to help meet people’s nutritional needs. In another area families brought together by Umoja collected stones, timber and sand and then worked together on building a new secondary school to stop students having to walk two hours to school. They successfully lobbied with the local government to provide teachers. Fedis said Umoja enabled the church to stand with their local community, creating a forum where people could look at their issues and find solutions. Facilitators and volunteers are also now being trained to work alongside communities. She said through Umoja people now have an opportunity to decide their destiny for themselves. ‘They have the skills; they only need to be encouraged,’ she said. Other parts of the Communion are also embracing this approach, which is known as Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), including churches from the
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“They have the skills; they only need to be encouraged”
Philippines, Bangladesh, Myanmar, to Wales and the US who are finding it is transforming their experience of mission. The Revd Rachel Carnegie, CoExecutive Director of the Anglican Alliance, said, ‘This approach to holistic mission – with local church and community working together – has extraordinary potential to transform lives. The vision is spreading across the Communion. Church members come to see themselves as part of God’s holistic mission and participants also discover the gifts in skills and assets which already exist in their communities which become the building blocks of hope and action.’ * The Agents of Change distancelearning programme was developed by the Anglican Alliance in collaboration with the UK’s Open University. It is free to access. After the pilot period it is due to be re-launched in early 2017. Anyone interested should contact the Anglican Alliance.
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Supporting family life …for 140 years “loving God, loving each other, but always looking to the needs of others”
MEMBERS OF THE Mothers’ Union (MU) are marking the charity’s 140th birthday this year and they have plenty to celebrate. Since 1876, when Mary Sumner first brought together parents in her own parish to build their confidence in bringing up their children, the MU has grown to an organization of over four million women – and men – in over 80 countries of the world. Communications Manager for the
MU, Fiona Thomas, said, ‘This year over 500,000 people will benefit from Mothers’ Union support for family life. There has never been a more challenging or more exciting time to be part of Mothers’ Union. Our hope is to train more members to help more families; to encourage greater outreach across those countries and communities where family life is under greatest threat.’
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The Mothers’ Union (MU) is active all over the Anglican Communion, and in Argentina membership has been growing rapidly. Church Mission Society partners Catherine Le Tissier and her husband the Rt Revd Nick Drayson, the Bishop of Northern Argentina, have been working in the area for more than 20 years. Catherine, who is an occupational therapist, writes… AMARE is the Argentine branch of the Mothers’ Union and this is the story of how it has grown from 50 members to more than 800 members in a few short years. The diocese of Northern Argentina is vast, culturally complex and facing massive changes as industrial interests encroach upon the land and its people. In this context, a fast-growing movement of women is leading ‘a quiet revolution of love in action’. When my husband Nick and I arrived in 2009 for him to take up the role of diocesan bishop, we met women who believed in the power of prayer and who were praying fervently for their families. We discovered too that there were historic links with Mothers’ Union and that even though these links had lapsed, the MU had faithfully prayed for the women of northern Argentina for more than 60 years. Building on the work of Isabel Vilte, a Wichi woman who had run biannual women’s conferences for many years, we formed a small leadership team of Wichi, Toba, and Criolla [settler] women, as well as Church Mission Society partner, Shelley Stokes. This became the beginnings of AMARE. AMARE stands for Anglican Women’s Group Renewed in the Spirit. The acrostic describes
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its mission: Animar, to encourage, Motivar, to motivate, Afirmar, to affirm, Renovar en el Espiritu, to renew in the Spirit. In AMARE we are looking for people to make a commitment to ‘love in action’; the name works too as a response to Jesus’ command to ‘Love the Lord your God, and your neighbour as yourself’ (Matthew 22.37-40) since amare means “I will love.” As we met with local women, we heard their concerns for their families and we saw the reality. Their simpler way of life has been eroded by western influences, leaving them on the margins. Western education occupies so much of the children’s time that parents rarely teach life skills to their children. Whereas the indigenous culture valued family time in the evenings, the availability of electricity means television and internet have replaced this. They told us how they felt that they had lost control of their children, how young people no longer respected their elders and the older generation often lacked confidence to be able to relate to young people. As we listened we heard cries for help. There was a need for help, so we accepted MU’s generous offer to run their parenting programme. I was invited to a meeting of MU presidents and met amazing leaders from across the world. I was inspired by stories of rescue, empowerment and practical help. We longed to see this happening in Argentina, and began to work to establishing AMARE. In AMARE, women are encouraged to make a commitment to practical ways of showing love in the family, church and community. In less than two years more than 800 women, both indigenous and urban, have become members. AMARE gives them a sense of belonging, purpose and identity in Christ, as members of the Anglican Church and also of MU worldwide. AMARE brings the women of the four different indigenous groups and the Spanish speakers together, uniting people across the diocese. At a recent gathering of around 200 Toba women, one of the members, Susana said, ‘Since I was
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MU team at the Patron’s lunch in London
Cathedral celebration CELEBRATIONS FOR THE 140th anniversary will culminate on Thursday 22 September when drummers will welcome visitors to Winchester Cathedral. The high demand for tickets has led to an extra service being put on at 10.30am in addition to the 2.30pm event. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, will be preaching in the afternoon and a visiting choir from Zambia will sing at both services. For further details see: www. mothersunion.org/about-us/mothersunion-140#overlay-context=
a child I have gone to church, but always sat near the door to get away quickly. I thought that I was all right, but I did not know God. It was through the AMARE training that I met him and I had to repent. I have stopped gossiping, I am happy and trying to be different and loving and show that I am renewed through his Spirit.’ AMARE is empowering women; there is a quiet revolution taking place. We are seeing a shift from them being the receivers, the poor, the oppressed, to being women with something to give. The AMARE logo (pictured left on the t-shirts) reminds us of that too: loving God, loving each other, but always looking to the needs of others. In July we celebrated our first general assembly and an autonomous executive committee was elected.
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Pacific neighbours
Fijian and New Zealand school pupils perform together
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How an expanding school exchange is taking shape LINKS AND EXCHANGES between Anglican schools in New Zealand and the Polynesian islands are enriching the lives of students from different countries. Chaplain at King’s College in Otahuhu, Auckland, Warner Wilder took 20 students to Tonga on an annual trip in July. He said the visit was a life-changing experience for everyone. The link with St Andrew’s School in Tonga was developed as part of King’s College chapel outreach and combines practical work in the school alongside time relaxing with local families and experiencing the culture. Warner explained, ‘I think it’s important because we talk a lot in chapel about caring for others and caring for our neighbours and we try
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“The families have so little yet their faith is so strong and they have an infectious love for God” our best to put that into practice in our local area. This is saying to the students, our neighbours are more than just our local community. It is seen as part of our Christian outreach, we do it because we are a Christian school and that underpins everything. The experience they have giving to the school in Tonga has a huge impact – they come back
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absolutely buzzing.’ In advance of the trip the school sent a container of school supplies and materials which they presented on their arrival. During the first part of the visit they helped in practical ways, with repairs and maintenance work and also teaching and sharing in lessons and assemblies. The exchanges have been running for the past five years and Warner said it was a two-way thing with benefits on both sides. ‘For the first half of the visit we stay as a group in a guesthouse to get to know each other, then the students are billeted with local families,’ he said. ‘That is hugely important. Tonga’s religion is very important to the people of Tonga and on Sunday everyone
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goes to church. One of the things that impresses our students is that the families have so little yet their faith is so strong and they have an infectious love for God and are so happy.’ New Zealand’s Anglican Schools chaplain coordinator, Anne Van Gend said the links between schools in New Zealand and the Polynesian islands flowed out of the three strand nature of the diocese. She said, ‘The Anglican Church of Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia is a three Tikanga church (Tikanga meaning the Maori custom or way), with Tikanga Maori, Tikanga Pakeha and Tikanga Pasefika (where Pakeha means, essentially, anyone who isn’t Maori or Pasefika). It is three churches under one province and we have three archbishops who function as one – so the three strands are interwoven. Because we’re all part of this one network our church schools have started up partnerships with Anglican schools in Polynesia.’ One of the latest successes, which emerged from a suggestion by one of the Maori students, is the first Anglican Schools’ Leadership Camp for senior students. This April, following a visit by Anne to Basden Anglican College in Newtown, Fiji. Money was raised to enable five Fijian students to join in the camp and link up with their New Zealand contemporaries. Anne said, ‘It’s great for our student to meet with these young people who come from such a different situation and to see how gifted they are
King’s College students present materials to a school in Tonga
“They simply want to know that following Christ will transform them and, through them, their world.”
musically, and how confident they are in leading dancing and singing and speaking about their faith.’ She said the Fijian students were amazed that they sang hymns in Maori as well as English. ‘The lovely thing about the camp is that it was an idea that came from one of the Maori students and they want to have one every year now. It has been a good way of building connections between the schools and churches in New Zealand.’ An Australian volunteer at Basden College, Teri Kemp, who joined the camp, said the trip was the first time the Fijians had taken a flight. She said, ‘A highlight for us was the relationships we formed with the three host families who looked after us in New Plymouth on Thursday and again on Sunday. They accepted us into their homes, gave us scrumptious meals and showered us with gracious hospitality. They even flew the Fijian flag from their flag pole!’ The camp was held at St Mary’s Anglican girls boarding school, nestled under Mt Taranaki in the northwest of the North Island of New Zealand. Nine schools were represented and about 50
male and female students took part. Teri said, ‘The programme included presentations on being a Christian and a challenge from World Vision, along with stories from the various schools and much praise, worship and sharing between groups.’ The Fijian students were asked to lead worship and presented a Fijian Bula meke - a worship dance and some singing – which went down really well. World Vision’s presentation on the refugee crisis in Europe encouraged the students to adopt a project in their own school. ‘Many groups opted for the 40 hour famine model in which they are sponsored for the 40 hours,’ she said. ‘Instead of the usual ‘world hunger’ emphasis, students will fill a back pack, as if they were fleeing like refugees, and spend 40 hours with only their backpack. This is something we would hope to promote in Fiji, perhaps directing the funds raised to our Fiji children who have had to flee the cyclone and floods.’ Looking back on the camp Anne Van Gend said, ‘It was exhilarating to be surrounded by young people who are relatively “unchurched” and who are, in many cases, just exploring the fringes of faith, and yet are searching in Christianity for something that will make a real, active difference to the way they interact with the world… They simply want to know that following Christ will transform them and, through them, their world.’
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MELVIN BAUTISTA
A wedding celebration at Melvin Bautista’s church – Holy Trinity, Makati in the Philippines
When God calls… Two theological students talk about their calling and training Each year churches around the world welcome new deacons and priests to serve in the church – joining in God’s mission wherever they are. Two candidates talk about being ‘called’ and their experience of ordination training… MELVIN BAUTISTA worked at Saint Andrew’s Theological Seminary in Quezon City in the Philippines where he also studied as a seminarian. He now assists as a curate at the Church of Holy Trinity in Makati City. His calling to ordination began in the early 1990s after he joined a young people’s fellowship. He said, ‘God found me there, and I
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felt love and acceptance as I was introduced to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Bible. I was baptized and received into the Episcopal Church. The grace of God that I felt was so great that it overflowed into a desire to serve Him full-time, but it took 13 years more because I still wanted to be sure and waited for the door to finally open.’ Melvin faced many obstacles as he tried to work out his calling. ‘I got a job to support myself as I volunteered in Bible studies, camps and short-term mission trips,’ he said. ‘Along the way I also experienced some terrible problems. I call it ‘times of darkness in the wilderness’. My wife broke up with me because of differences in the way we see things. It’s crosscultural marriage.’ During the years of separation, he resigned from his job and while he was driving around Manila praying, he remembered the Episcopal seminary where he
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had planned to study more than 10 years before. He said, ‘I went to the place and found peace even in its dimly lit corridors. I said to myself, “this is it”. I tried to enrol with barely two weeks before class started and miraculously I was admitted without sponsors.’ But Melvin’s personal fund ran out after the first year so he left to look for a job thinking perhaps he had got it all wrong. Within a few months he was called back to enrol because someone had pledged to support him. Then at the end of his second year of studies, his estranged wife called him and asked if he wanted to come back home. ‘For us who live in the city this is very unexpected because she earns more and I don’t have a job and have nothing to offer because I’m in the seminary,’ he explained. ‘This was another miracle. I finished my studies living by faith and got ordained. God is alive and it’s true
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Michael Horvath, pictued right, with fellow students at the General Seminary, New York.
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that ”all things work together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.”’ Melvin was ordained in 2012 and became a priest in 2014 in Central Diocese of The Episcopal Church in the Philippines. He said he enjoyed his visit to the UK in May with other seminarians. ‘For the first time, I really felt what it means belong to the Anglican Church,’ he said. ‘It inspired me to help keep its unity. Spending time together and doing things as one group helped foster a sense of camaraderie, understanding and unity. We all gained a broader perspective by listening to different points of view. I believe the positive, shared experience during our pilgrimage at Canterbury Cathedral and other
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places could create a ripple of change through what we share back home.’ *
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MICHAEL HORVATH was a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and private equity investments. He is now training at the General Seminary in New York, USA. He said, ‘My calling was more of a slow burn, rather than a flash of light. After I left legal practice, I spent a year discerning what I wanted to do next, and considered everything from becoming a landscape architect to getting an MBA and working on the commercial side of deals. These were nice ideas, but I didn’t discern a call to the work. At the same time, I was deeply involved with my parish and I spent a lot of time nurturing my spiritual and prayer life, and realized that perhaps this is where God wanted me. So, I discerned that calling and here I am, a Senior at the General Seminary.’ Michael believes it is important to connect with other seminarians within his province and around the world because it helps him grasp the breadth and scope of shared Christian experience. He has enjoyed the depth of academic and practical experience, while spiritual formation and chapel life has also brought him immense joy. ‘For me, the intentional integration of
Michael Horvath
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academics, placement experience, and regular worship has helped me keep things in balance,’ he said. ‘I also simply love being part of the General Seminary community.’ In terms of how the training has changed him, he said, ‘There is a personal clarity of vocation that theological training has helped me to discover and affirm, as well as an understanding that God’s work, and our role in it, is not always so clear cut. There is room for ambiguity, for mystery, for the further opening up of ourselves to one another. This is significant because lay and ordained leaders are being asked to lead a changing church in a changing world, and I believe this requires us to be receptive to God’s continuing revelation in our lives.’ ‘The ordained ministry context allows me to share the Good News with others in a way that is grounded in scripture, tradition and reason, but hopefully in a way that speaks profoundly to our lives today.’
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the last word
Treasure in Jars of Clay by stephanie taylor
AS INFORMATION AND Knowledge Manager at the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) I am passionate about the potential of information sharing to facilitate connection, collaboration, and learning. In order for this to happen we need to tell our stories. Speaking at ACC-16 the Archbishop of Canterbury talked about the importance of memory. He said to tell the story alone is not enough, rather we need to be equipped and to continue the work of Christ in our mission of setting lights shining in every community. In Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll writes, ‘It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.’ In other words we remember to move forwards. The Archbishop said we needed to tell our story to learn from the past and to shape our future. In my role I have been caring for the Anglican Communion’s oldest documents. For some, archives may be seen as dusty old repositories of boxes of old papers; something to be forgotten about, or thrown away, but archives are so much more than a set of dusty old papers. ‘But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.’ (2 Corinthians 4.7) In ancient times, sacred scrolls or valuable documents were rolled up and placed inside clay jars and hidden for safekeeping.
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“people today can learn a lot from the faith others used to have” Something precious stored in something fairly ordinary. So what treasure are we storing in our clay jars? The archive records of the ACO include documents about the Instruments of Communion including the Lambeth Conference, and the inception of the Anglican Consultative Council in 1968. Papers include provincial correspondence; ecumenical reports; and records on mission, women’s ordination, marriage and the family, conflict, refugees and migration, AIDS, and the United Nations. Archives tell the story of who we are, why we are here and what we want to achieve. They are crucial to our sense of identity and a huge strategic resource for mission, outreach and renewal. They are not just historical records but our collective ‘corporate memory’ and a living resource; a source of knowledge to be used, moving forward, for mission. These archives are the Communion’s story and the records and documents within them are treasures. In Rwanda a collection of church records in French, Kinyarwanda and English have
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been restored, charting the history of the life of the church from its earliest beginnings in the 1940s. It includes minutes of Mothers’ Union meetings, correspondence between church leaders and government officials, parochial reports, attendance statistics, reports on the church’s work of reconciliation after the 1994 genocide, and many other fascinating items. The Revd Dr Jesse Zink, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, says archives help to shape and form the understanding of how history speaks to our world. He said, ‘The church in the past had people who had the life of the church at their heart. People today can learn a lot from the faith others used to have.’ I believe these precious stories from the past need to be listened to, remembered and learnt from and I am delighted the Standing Committee has resolved to develop an archive at the ACO on behalf of the Communion. The treasure hidden in clay jars will one day be hidden no more, it can be used in our mission of setting lights shining in every community. 2 Corinthians 4.6 tells us: “For it is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” I’m looking forward to seeing the light of that knowledge break free and shine forth from our clay jars.
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