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The Good News of discipleship
IN THE 165 COUNTRIES where our Communion is found, there are millions yearning for the Word of God and to see the Holy Spirit at work in their lives. In a recent sermon I asked whether the challenge for the Body of Christ today was not that people were unready to receive the Good News, but rather that the Church was not ready to proclaim the Gospel. This issue of Anglican World lifts up Good News of people around the Communion who are ready – who are taking up Christ’s call to be his disciples. They are seeing people the way Jesus did, feeling compassion for them as Jesus did, transforming lives for the glory of the Lord. And they are doing so together, as the Body of Christ. “[Is] the challenge for the Body of Christ The Anglican Alliance looks back on four years of joint mission providing relief to those suffering from today that...the Church [is] not ready war, violence and natural disaster, sharing experiences to proclaim the Gospel?” of effecting change and empowering communities. The Church in the Seychelles reaches out to people on the streets in a ministry of presence and prayer. The Church in South India re-tells Jesus’ message to bring healing to all of God’s creation. The Church in Hong Kong walks in the compassion of Christ with those affected by HIV, while the Church in Canada witnesses to those struggling for freedom from addiction. Police chaplains offering comfort; new Christians stepping out in faith; youth doing community service and host families welcoming them; young people committing to monastic-inspired community and taking on leadership roles; churches offering hospitality to refugees; ecumenists healing division in the Church. All are stories from our Anglican Communion of the intentional choice to walk daily as disciples of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit – a choice of life, proclaiming the Good News of God’s Kingdom.
Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
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Archbishop Justin Welby and Ghanaian anti-slavery activist and former child slave James Kofi Annan. CREDIT: ANGLICAN ALLIANCE
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Climate change – What would Jesus do? 12 ¢ WORLD VIEW
The Communion at a glance 14 ¢ PROFILE
Shepherd of a different flock 16
ACC-16 host youth look to take the lead 20 ¢ ANGLICAN YOUTH
Lessons in welcome and hospitality 22 ¢ THE LAST WORD
Fishing for the new creation 23
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Making AIDS a thing of the past 17 Stepping out in faith as a church newbie 18
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ARCHBISHOP WELBY INVITES PRIMATES TO MEET The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to all the Primates of the Anglican Communion to invite them to a special gathering of discernment concerning the future of the Communion. In his invitation on 16 September, Archbishop Justin Welby proposed a meeting in January 2016 in Canterbury for joint reflection and prayer. He noted the need to consider both recent and past developments but also to take a fresh look at “ways of working as a Communion and
especially as Primates”. The agenda will be set by common agreement with all Primates encouraged to send in contributions. He said the way forward needed to be guided by the Holy Spirit and the “absolute imperative for the Church to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, to make disciples and to worship and live in holiness, and recognising that the way in which proclamation happens and the pressures on us vary greatly between Provinces”.
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PRIMATE TRANSITIONS IN ASIA AND OCEANIA Two provinces in the Communion, South East Asia and Melanesia, are marking leadership transitions. Bishop of West Malaysia Datuk Ng Moon Hing was elected Primate of the Anglican Church of South East Asia on 2 September. The Province comprises the dioceses of Kutching, Sabah, Singapore, and West Malaysia. The Archbishop-elect’s term of office will begin in February 2016 and continue to 2020. He will
succeed the Most Revd Bolly Lapok as Primate. The Anglican Church of Melanesia marked the official retirement of the Most Revd David Vunagi as Primate in a farewell service on 6 September. Bishop of Guadalcanal Nathan Tome will provide leadership until elections of a new Archbishop are held in February 2016, with enthronement scheduled for April 2016.
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(L to R) The Rt Revd Datuk Ng Moon Hing and The Most Revd David Vunagi.
The retiring Archbishop became Primate in 2009 after serving for nine years as the Bishop of Temotu.
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LAUNCH OF MONASTIC-INSPIRED COMMUNITY FOR YOUNG CHRISTIANS
LAMBETH PALACE
Archbishop Welby and the new members of the Community of St Anselm.
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A group of 36 young people have embarked on a year of monasticinspired life in community at Lambeth Palace with a special commissioning service presided by Archbishop Justin Welby on 18 September. The members of the Community of St Anselm are committing themselves to a Rule of prayer, study and service to the poor. The 16 residential members of the Community – from countries around the world including Australia, Kenya and the USA – will be joined by 20 London-based, non-
residential members. The Community is open to young people aged 20–35 from any Christian denomination, with Anglicans, Methodists, Pentecostals and Roman Catholics among this year’s intake of members. Archbishop Justin is prioritising the renewal of prayer and religious communities in his ministry. His prayer for the Community is that it “speaks God’s truth to itself and the world – in other words, that it is prophetic”.
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ECUMENICAL LIGHTS FROM THE EAST It has been a productive time with recent dialogues with Oriental and Eastern Orthodox. The Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission (AOOIC) published an Agreed Statement on Christology – what we believe together about the person of Jesus Christ – at its meeting 5–9 October in Wales that helps to heal the oldest continuing division within Christianity. The statement addresses the split between the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Byzantine and Western Churches over the incarnation of Christ following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD. AOOIC also made substantial progress on issues concerning the
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Holy Spirit. The International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue (ICAOTD) is publishing a statement on theological T anthropology – what we can say together about the meaning of human personhood in the divine image – following its 19–25 September meeting in Buffalo, New York. The agreement lays a foundation for continuing dialogue on ethical decision-making.
Both statements will be available on the Anglican Communion website.
heologians officially representing the Churches of the Anglican Communion and the Oriental Orthodox Churches made history in 2014 by signing an agreement on their mutual understanding of Christology: what we believe together about the Person of Jesus Christ.
This agreement addresses a major point of theology that divided Christians following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD, leaving the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Byzantine and Western Churches separated from one another.
Christology Agreed Statement
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The work to seek agreement between Anglicans and Oriental Orthodox on Christology began in the 1990s. By 2002 an Agreed Statement on Christology had been prepared by the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission (AOOIC) which was sent to the participating Churches, with an updated statement that was circulated again in 2013.
At their 2014 meeting in Cairo, the AOOIC members were able to finalise the document, which the co-chairs of the dialogue, Bishop Geoffrey Rowell and His Eminence Metropolitan Bishoy of Damietta, signed on behalf of their Churches.
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ANGLICANS RESPOND TO REFUGEE NEEDS
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Visiting refugees in Athens’ Victoria Square.
In the face of an all-time high 59.5 million people displaced by conflict and disasters, Anglican Communion member churches are
living out the gospel mandate to welcome the stranger. This includes churches along the routes Syrian and other refugees are taking to find safety in central and northern Europe. In Athens, the Anglican chaplaincy (Diocese in Europe) is working with ecumenical partners to provide practical support to thousands of migrants each day. In Rome, the Episcopal Church’s long-standing initiative, the Joel
Nafuma Refugee Centre, offers food, clothing and advice to asylum seekers. Churches across Europe and in other parts of the world are active as well. For example, Refuge Egypt (Diocese of Egypt) welcomes up to 500 refugees a day, with practical support and health care. And Anglican churches in Rwanda, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo are welcoming refugees from Burundi.
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ANGLICANS ON THE ROAD TO COP21 The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) from 30 November to 11 December could be a game changer in the race to avert a crisis, say the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN) and the Anglican Alliance. Viewing climate justice as a moral issue, Anglican Communion church leaders will be present in Paris, including the ACEN chair and Southern Africa Primate, and
bishops from the Church of England and The Episcopal Church. The Anglican Alliance will host several events including a webinar giving the opportunity to participate in discussions with church leaders, activists and policymakers. In radio broadcasts people from coastal communities will talk about climate change impact on their lives, and a theatre show will raise a compassionate call to action.
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The Episcopal Church in the Philippines helps rebuild after Typhoon Haiyan.
Pilgrims will walk or cycle to Paris to show solidarity with communities impacted by climate change.
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Archbishop Justin Welby & Ghanaian anti-slavery activist and former child slave James Kofi Annan. ANGLICAN ALLIANCE
Transforming lives together The Anglican Alliance four years on... by andy bowerman and rachel carnegie
The first-ever global alliance of Anglican churches and agencies for development, relief and advocacy launched in 2011. Since then it has been supporting the Communion to transform the lives of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
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Lambeth Conference recommends setting up body to support development, relief and advocacy work in the Anglican Communion
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ACC-14 passes resolution to form the Anglican Alliance
Relief response: Japan earthquake, Horn of Africa food crisis
Communion wide consultation on the kind of organisation that would add value to the work of churches and agencies
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Regional facilitators recruited in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Global consultation on economic development
Advocacy initiative on rights of garment workers in Bangladesh
Global consultation on response to modern slavery.
Aid distribution in Burundi, July 2015.
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How are communities improving their lives and empowering themselves for change? The Alliance shares best practices throughout the Communion so that churches can respond holistically, and draw on existing strengths and knowledge.
When humanitarian crises strike, the Alliance serves as a platform for the local church to connect with agencies and churches across the Communion for prayer and practical support. This includes skills for peace and reconciliation.
Ending modern slavery
Supporting humanitarian response
MARIAM*, A MOTHER OF TWO, is from a poor family from Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2012, she responded to an advert offering well-paid work abroad as a domestic. When she arrived, she was locked in a room, raped repeatedly and forced into sex work. 18 months later she managed to smuggle out a message to her family. The Church in Bangladesh worked with a human rights group and the embassy to rescue her. “The Church has helped me find my life again,” says Mariam. Now she helps local churches educate communities about human trafficking. In November 2014, Mariam’s Church of Bangladesh programme worker participated in an Anglican Alliance consultation with others from the Communion working to end modern slavery. Joined by ecumenical participants, the group shared experiences to build an understanding of effective church responses: promoting local awareness on trafficking risks, supporting survivors, working with authorities to rescue victims and prosecute perpetrators, shaping national legislation. To share such learning within the Communion, the Alliance organised a webinar for over 200 people. The Alliance has co-produced a study and action resource, Freedom Sunday, for local churches. A digital map will show Anglican and other faith-based initiatives that can offer help in cases of human trafficking. The Alliance also was involved in December 2014 when global faith leaders, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, signed a Declaration to End Modern Slavery. The struggle continues. In the coming year, the Alliance will facilitate workshops in Latin America, Southern Africa and South Asia to enable churches and agencies to challenge together this crime against humanity.
ANNE* LOOKED ANXIOUSLY at her small baby. “I cannot feed her myself. Since the crisis, I have not been able to work. We have little food for the family and my milk has dried up.” Fortunately for Anne, she was telling her story to Mothers’ Union President Mathilde Nkwirikiye, who was able to offer practical support. Since the political crisis began earlier this year, fear of violence has marked life in Burundi. By September tens of thousands had fled to other parts of the country; nearly 200,000 had sought refuge in neighbouring countries. Internally displaced persons are particularly vulnerable, along with their host families. “They are indeed [facing] dire conditions,” says the provincial development team. Food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter and health services are lacking. The Anglican Church of Burundi has responded quickly, creating parish-level emergency committees. The Church did a rapid needs assessment to inform its response, particularly support to children and women. The Alliance has been sharing the Church’s first hand analysis of the situation and prayer requests with Anglican and Episcopal partners and agencies. This has enabled the Church in Burundi to concentrate on its humanitarian response, knowing its partners will come together in support. “We know we are not alone; we are with brothers and sisters around the world praying for us.” Through the Alliance platform, the Communion can stand in solidarity as One Body at times of humanitarian crisis.
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Anglican Alliance Board of Trustees established with Archbishop of Central Africa, Albert Chama, as Chair Relief response: Philippines cyclone, Brazil floods Launch of Agents of Change distance learning programme for community development skills
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Global Advisory Council meets Relief response: South Sudan conflict, West Africa Ebola, DR Congo, Iraq, assisting refugees with disabilities
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Regional forums meet in Africa, South Asia and Pacific
Regional forum meets in Latin America Global consultations on response to modern slavery and conflict prevention Oceans of Justice advocacy campaign at G20 summit in Australia
Relief response: Melanesia cyclone, Nepal earthquake, Burundi conflict, Pakistan bombing, Tanzania drought, Syrian refugees Europe regional consultation
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Transplanting crops due to soil salination, Solomon Islands. ANGLICAN CHURCH OF MELANESIA
Advocacy Together we have a stronger voice. The Alliance connects Anglican leadership and affected communities and equips them to speak out more effectively for action on lifethreatening issues such as climate change.
Speaking out on climate justice MARY AND GEORGE* live in the village of Rarumana in the Solomon Islands where rising sea levels and the eroding shoreline are visible to the naked eye. Some villagers have had to move their homes to higher ground, Mary says. Some are forced to emigrate. George adds that weather patterns are changing and they now have more storms. Salt water has flooded the land and affected the soil, so their crops do not grow. Mary and George have joined a community meeting, convened by Anglican Alliance Pacific regional facilitator, Tagolyn Kabekabe, to discuss their response to such impacts of climate change. The community decides on action to take, such as planting mangroves along the shoreline to counter erosion. But they have come to understand that some action must happen elsewhere, by those causing the climate change. “We don’t want people to throw money at us and say ‘Now fix your problem’,” says Tagolyn. “What we need is people to put their feet in our shoes and really understand how we are affected by climate change so that they can respond positively with a sustainable impact.”
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Like Mary and George’s community, Anglican Pacific churches have become passionate climate justice advocates. They were shocked when they learned that the world’s richest twenty countries, the G20, were to meet in Australia in November 2014 to discuss sustainable economic growth – but climate change was not on their agenda. With the help of the Alliance, a coalition of Anglican churches and agencies in Oceania came together to raise the voice of Pacific islanders at the G20 Summit. Meanwhile, the Alliance launched the Oceans of Justice campaign, gaining signatures from across the Communion to petition the Australian government to put climate change on the Summit’s agenda. Tagolyn spoke at civil society events, and Archbishop Winston Halapua (Polynesia) preached a powerful sermon at the time of the Summit and presented the Anglican Alliance petition. The Anglican voices, combined with others worldwide, achieved their goal: the G20 committed to tackle climate change. Meanwhile, the Alliance is linking with the Anglican Communion Environmental Network to support Anglican leaders. It also is working with an interfaith coalition, Our Voices, to build momentum towards the UN Climate Change Summit in December. Anglican participants will join a pilgrimage to Paris, carrying banners with Communion voices calling for climate justice. *Names changed for security reasons.
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Latin American & the Caribbean forum.
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THE ANGLICAN ALLIANCE? Who: Churches and agencies of the Anglican Communion.
Global priorities 2014-2016
Where: Across the global Communion, in every region – Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the Pacific.
Promoting equality: Supporting the empowerment of women and youth, including sustainable livelihoods and gender justice.
What: A shared mission to respond to human need, promote justice and reconciliation, and safeguard creation. An initiative of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion. When: Born from the vision of the 2008 Lambeth Conference. Secretariat established in 2011. How: Secretariat based at the Anglican Communion Office. Network of regional facilitators. Global Board of Trustees and Advisory Council.
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Responding to the most vulnerable: Working to end human trafficking and modern slavery, raise the rights of migrants and refugees, and support those affected by disasters and conflict. Building a just and sustainable world: Advocating for climate justice and sharing strategies to lessen and respond to the impact of climate change, and to secure food supplies. From Alliance regional consultations, with reference to Anglican Consultative Council resolutions
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Seychelles Night Pastors take to the streets VICKY HOWARD
The Night Pastors on duty in Victoria. by vicky howard
THE SEYCHELLES IS known for its beaches, wildlife and coral reefs. But what sounds like paradise also has a very dark side. The Indian Ocean archipelago has the highest incidence of heroin addiction in the world. There are many cases of HIV and Hepatitis C, but no available medicines. Many sex workers are heroin addicts and many are homeless. An estimated 1% of the population is in prison. At the same time, the Seychelles is a very God-centred society. Christianity is a part of the culture and people are open to having someone pray for them. Thus, knowing that I had helped to set up a church outreach scheme for people on the streets in Penzance in the UK, Bishop of the Seychelles James Richard Wong Yin Song was keen to establish something similar in the Seychelles capital city, Victoria. Enter the Night Pastors – Paster Lannwit in Creole. We launched on 8 May with 30 volunteers committed to lending a listening ear to people on the streets and praying for them.
Each Saturday, from 9:30pm until 2am the next morning, four Night Pastors walk the streets, while two volunteers remain at our base praying for the people we meet. One man grew up in a children’s home. When we first met him he was high on drugs or alcohol. But over the weeks as we talked and prayed with him, he started getting better. Now he is usually sober. It seemed an answer to prayer when he found a job as a casual labourer. Not every story is a success, of course. Another man, an ex-addict, also managed to sober up and find a job, but he was fired when his colleagues discovered he was living with HIV. We talk to many sex workers. One tried desperately to come off heroin. An attempt to go cold turkey at a clinic proved too much. She wanted to try again but disappeared soon after. What the Night Pastors offer isn’t a small thing; many of the people we meet have no one to listen to them. However, it is a sad reality that many who really need help are not necessarily able to receive it.
All the Night Pastors can do is be there and trust that the love we offer will linger, perhaps planting a seed for the future. Retired occupational psychologist Vicky Howard spent nine months in the Seychelles, her country of birth, with Us’ (formerly USPG) Journey with Us programme. The Diocese of the Seychelles is exploring possible further outreach through the Night Pastors scheme, including a specific ministry to sex workers.
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A fresh start
Breaking the stigma and shame of addiction by andré forget
THE CANADIAN ATLANTIC province of Newfoundland may be characterized in the minds of many by its remote outports, bucolic fishing villages and slower way of life, but these picturesque communities are dealing with a distinctly modern problem: abuse
“The Church needs to realize that [in] a couple or family, everyone is going to need help…just to break the stigma.”
of prescription and illegal drugs. “Everybody has known that alcohol was a problem in Newfoundland because there are more alcoholics per capita [here] than most of the other provinces”, said the Revd Curt Clark, a hospital chaplain who has been working with people with mental health problems and addictions for over 20 years. “But now it is drugs that are the problem.” Clark noted that the problem goes beyond the individual with the addiction. Communities need to be open and honest about the reality of addiction, and how wide-reaching the effects can be. “The people in relationship with the alcoholic or the addict—they’re hurting, too,” he said. “The Church needs to realize that if there is
a couple or a family, everyone is going to need help… just to break the stigma.” Fighting the stigma that comes with addictions is work that Rick Tessier has been doing for many years. A quiet, thoughtful Newfoundlander who spent much of his adult life in Nova Scotia, Tessier is the layperson in charge of prison ministry and aftercare at St Thomas’ Anglican Church in St John’s. He has been sober since 2000, and since 2001 he has been involved in helping others along the road to recovery. “People are becoming more aware of [stigma] in a slow process,” he said, “but sometimes we do a good job of talking the talk but not walking the walk.” He noted that while some people in church are Æ
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Æ very supportive, “there are others that quite frankly look at [people struggling with addiction] rather questionably”. Increased drug abuse, however, has driven some of the problems more into the open. “The inmates are getting younger. Street drugs and prescription drugs are becoming more prevalent,” said Tessier. He cited the example of a 24-year-old, now serving time in Stephenville’s West Coast Correctional Centre. “His grandmother says to me, ‘I don’t know what happened to him. He was brought up in such a good environment. We didn’t have this sort of thing.’ But that’s what we’re facing today. This touches everyone. There are no borders.” Tessier also criticized the failure of the justice system to deal with addiction in a constructive way. “These people… come out of the prison, and first of all, they have nowhere to go… And unless they have direct supports within the system, they are probably going back to the same place,” he said. “That is the cycle that has to be broken.” For Tessier, that means getting people into a healthy and supportive community as well as providing for their material needs. “I’ve been bringing guys from the halfway houses to church, picking them up on Sunday morning for five, six, seven years,” he said. He also takes them to the church’s coffee hour and lets them integrate “into a ‘normal’ society… that they may not be seeing otherwise”. For similar reasons, Tessier is a great proponent of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous, which seek to build strong relations of accountability among those in recovery. “Being an alcoholic and a member of AA, consequently I made it part of my ministry to take people… to the meetings in evenings and so on, and to try to help them try to resolve their addictions in a spiritual way,” he said. Recovery, he stressed, is about more than just abstaining from substances. This was an important point for
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Clark as well, who emphasized that addiction has to be replaced with something positive. “You can’t just have abstinence,” he said. “That doesn’t have a longlasting effect, usually.” The reason for this, he explained, is that abstinence allows all of the negative emotions that drug use kept submerged to rise to the surface, and with them, the unprocessed shame connected with the negative things done while under the influence. Clark believes that the ugly things that surface with sobriety can only be combated through a positive spiritual reckoning. “One of the things Jesus did for us was to take away our shame, so that can help people… go for a fresh start,” he said, a point that Tessier, who made this journey himself, recognized as well.
“Abstinence allows all of the negative emotions to rise to the surface, and with them, the unprocessed shame.” “They’re human beings, they’re children of God and they’ve got to perceive themselves that way—and they all deserve a second chance.” Abridged from an Anglican Journal story published online on 21 April: http:// www.anglicanjournal.com/articles/ breaking-the-stigma-of-addiction.
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Climate change: WWJD?* How the Church of South India is preaching the Good News to all of creation CSI
W.W. J . D ? *What Would Jesus Do? by mathew koshy punnackad
“GO INTO ALL the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.” This is the mission of the Church. But how will you proclaim good news to the whole creation when there is no water to drink? According to scientific predictions, by 2070 each human being will have only two glasses of water to drink per day. By 2035 the Ganga, Brahmaputra and Indus rivers will disappear. The weather pattern has already changed. There is no longer rain during what used to be the rainy season, and in the usually arid summer there are floods. Saltwater is moving into the groundwater in coastal areas, endangering wetlands and inundating valuable land. Hot periods are becoming more deadly. A scorching heat wave in India caused extreme dehydration and heat stroke and killed more than 1,500 people in 2015 as temperatures soared above 47C.
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“It is quite shocking to note that Christians [in India] are responsible for much environmental destruction.”
Climate change is going to affect all of God’s creation. We have to do something to mitigate this imminent disaster - we have to preach good news to the whole creation, not to human beings alone, and we have to protect the Earth from environmental degradation. Generally speaking, the Church in India shows little interest in environmental matters. Most Christians have a very commercial mindset and believe that Christianity came to India as a subset of trade and business. In fact, it is quite shocking to
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note that Christians are responsible for much environmental destruction. Because humanity is seen as the crowning glory of creation, there is a total disregard for the rights of other parts of creation. A fundamental change of attitude towards the Earth from an exploitative to a deeply spiritual one is needed. But this change can only come from inside the community. Ecology is a matter of faith for the Church of South India (CSI), a mission mandate. Already in 1992 the CSI Synod established an ecological concerns committee. It later incorporated ecological concerns into its constitution, the only Church in India to have done so. A Department of Ecological Concerns was created in 2011, and now 24 CSI Dioceses have a department or committee devoted to ecological ministry. Yet many parishioners still ask why the Church is involved in protecting the environment when so many other agencies are already in this field. They may not see how planting a sapling is only one expression of faith, or may not recognise the need for the Church
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to adopt a green lifestyle in all of its life and work. This begs the question of how to reach as many of the four million individual members of CSI as possible with the call to live responsibly. We think eco-theology, giving theological responses to current global environmental questions, is one answer. A group of fifty young CSI presbyters are creating an “eco-sermon” resource – easy-tounderstand sermons addressing one of 30 ecological issues experienced today in India by using the Bible to imagine what Jesus’ response would be. These grassroots sermons aim to listen and respond to biblical texts from the standpoint of Earth
World Environment Day
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“We are not worshipping Jesus who lived 2000 years ago; we are following Jesus living with us today.”
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input from a Christian viewpoint. To this end we’re holding a workshop in early November with 20 clergy and 20 teachers. The aim is to equip them to retell the parables of Jesus from an eco-perspective, resulting in what should be a unique, international publication that can serve as a resource in other areas. We also are encouraging the members of diocesan ecological committees to get involved in ecological conservation programmes with the support of local environmental groups. And we are organising eco-leadership training programmes for clergy, teachers, youth and women. In CSI we are in the process of building up a network of environmentalists from all over the world. To fight against large multinationals which are promoting modern development slogans, we have to join together to work for an eco-friendly world. Being a Christian is a way of life. Accepting Jesus as our Lord and Saviour should be reflected in our lifestyle. We are not worshipping Jesus who lived 2000 years ago; we are worshipping and following Jesus living with us today.
as a subject in the text with which we seek to relate empathetically rather than as a topic to be analysed rationally. Two volumes of Earth Bible Sermons have already been published and a third is slated to appear next January. “Eco-parables” are another way we’re striving to reach people and effect change at the local level. This means starting young with environmental education for school children, by preparing material with
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The Communion at a glance Championing young vocations in Europe The Diocese in Europe has appointed a Young Vocations Champion as part of the Church of England’s network to encourage young people to consider ordained ministry. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Canon Prof. Jack McDonald will feed ideas for good vocations practice into parishes and chaplaincies in the diocese.
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Indigenous parishes get communications boost
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The Anglican Church of Canada is looking to strengthen ties between Indigenous leaders through donated laptop computers. Nine community leaders who either had no computer or an old one will be able to communicate and minister more effectively now with the new notebooks.
Cathedral tops Trip Advisor
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New teaching and learning tool for provincial college Academic staff and students at the College of the Transfiguration have been trying out a new piece of technology this semester. The Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s e-reader project donated tablet computers to the province’s residential seminary to explore new teaching and learning methods. 14
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The Anglican Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Hamilton, Bermuda, has been awarded a certificate of excellence by Trip Advisor. Visitors gave the Cathedral top ratings on the internet travel advice site as a welcoming and worthwhile place to visit on the island.
Kenyan bell ringers visit Kent Four Anglican bell ringers from Kenya recently spent two weeks in the Diocese of Canterbury improving their change-ringing technique with fellow ringers in Kent. The Kenyan band came from St Thomas at Kilifi, the only church in the country where bells are rung in the English style.
Safe house protects girls from FGM
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MUGUMU PROJECT
The Diocese of Mara of the Anglican Church of Tanzania is working to turn the tide against Female Genital Mutilation. The Diocese has established a safe house for girls threatened with FGM, where they can learn vocational skills and receive support in negotiating a safe return to their families.
Army chaplain history wins Christian book award ANGLICAN CHURCH IN AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND & POLYNESIA
New logo for Anglican schools
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A history of Australian Army chaplains by Anglican scholar Dr Michael Gladwin was named this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year by SparkLit. While researching Dr Gladwin says he was struck by the profound affection and respect for chaplains and chaplaincy from their beginnings in the Army to today.
For the first time, the 46 Anglican schools in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia have a symbol uniting them. The winning logo competition design by year 8 student Jack Lawson interweaves the schools’ Anglican foundation, educational mission and the province’s three unique cultural identities Maori, English and Pasifika.
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The Revd Dan Connor.
Shepherd of a different flock Ministering as a police chaplain in New South Wales by dan connor
WE HAD JUST sat down for a Sunday lunch when my mobile rang. “Padre, we’ve got a real bad one here. We need you on scene.” I looked back across the room toward my friends and family as the sergeant from one of the local Commands explained the scene. A car accident on the way to the beach. All family members have perished. The first responders were affected by what they encountered at the scene, and the sergeant wanted me on site to provide support. I glanced at my own young children and said a silent prayer for wisdom and strength as I put on my uniform and left for the accident scene. As a parish minister I saw my role as one of bible teacher and “Shepherd of the Flock”. As a police chaplain I simply aim to be a loving, Christ-like presence bringing 16
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encouragement and support to law enforcement officers in what can be very dark places. There are the parish-like rituals of baptisms, weddings, and funerals. There are moments where I am called to teach from the Scriptures. But the day-to-day work is quite different. I am not a “spiritual leader” as such; I’m merely a follower of Jesus who focuses his attention on caring for police and their families in both the mundane and the traumatic. Police are faced with death and serious injury every day. They see things that people normally have to go to war to see. For them, the violence doesn’t occur on a battlefield; it happens in someone’s living room or by the side of a busy road. Even the most mundane of situations can rapidly become one where they are required to use lethal force to protect themselves and the public.
The stress of the job understandably affects many officers and their families. Some look for comfort in unhealthy and unhelpful places. Some want to reconnect or rediscover a Christian faith that has long lain dormant. In Australia they find help from the Bible Society, which provides a Police Edition of the Scriptures with formal prayers and study aids to assist officers as they reach out to God for strength to perform their duties without fear or favour. Pray that we police chaplains can continue to hold before them the gospel of Jesus Christ, the true source of all comfort and hope. The Revd Dan Connor is Senior State Chaplain with New South Wales Police Force. First published in an expanded version in The Anglican Encounter, August 2015.
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Getting to zero
Hong Kong’s Anglican cathedral works to end AIDS by elijah fung
WHEN THE HIV VIRUS was identified in the 1980s, it was considered a killer disease. Fears, stigma and taboo abounded. Some regarded it as a punishment from God. Religion only rarely offered spirituality, love and care to those affected. Many AIDS patients died without the support of their loved ones. Children living with HIV were banned from schools. In 1995, St John’s Cathedral in Hong Kong opened an HIV education centre to raise awareness and support people living with HIV. Early efforts focused on women from Mainland China, and South Asian domestic workers. Over the last two decades the Centre has run countless workshops, and advocated for
adequate health care and the lifting of travel restrictions. Since the Centre was founded antiretroviral treatment has greatly reduced the AIDS-related death rate. However, people and governments are becoming complacent. While there is now more focus on treatment, prevention efforts are lacking in many communities. Stigma remains a stumbling block to open communication. In recent years there has been a resurgence in new HIV infections. Statistics from the Hong Kong Department of Health’s Centre for Health Protection are alarming: a 67% increase in new cases over the past five years. Increasingly it is young people who are affected. Cases among people younger than 25 more than doubled between 2010 and 2014.
Winning logo designs “Ending AIDS Together” by Mr Tang Man Ho and “Inclusion” by Miss Poon Yan Ting.
ST JOHN’S CATHEDRAL HIV EDUCATION CENTRE
Contest participants with awards ceremony guests.
In light of this, the Centre is giving top priority to education efforts among young people, with a variety of programmes around sexual health, HIV, stigma and discrimination. Developing well-being and health services for young people is also on the agenda. To mark 20 years of ministry, the Centre invited young people to design a logo representing the work of “Getting to Zero”: zero new infections, zero discrimination, zero AIDS-related deaths. A total of 168 entries were received from individuals and secondary schools. A charity concert on 10 November will thank supporters and remember friends who died of AIDS, whose wisdom and stories transformed our lives and community. Ms Elijah Fung is Manager of St John’s Cathedral HIV Education Centre. http://www.sjhivctr.com
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Step of faith
CHRISSY ALLEN
For a newbie, church can be an intimidating place. But as one self-proclaimed “baby Christian” has discovered, the important thing is simply to keep showing up.
“Church can be an intimidating place for those unused to its protocol, language and traditions.”
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18 MONTHS AGO you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming to a church service. Now I’m there (almost) every Sunday. I love being at church. I love the feeling of calm I have when I leave. But it hasn’t been an entirely smooth road. My journey into the Christian faith has been like gliding through still waters, calm and joyful – it’s church itself that’s been the challenge! You see, church can be an intimidating place for those unused to its protocol, language and
traditions. And it can feel like there is a lot of all these when you start out. The first few months I would simply heave a great sign of relief that I’d managed a whole service without embarrassing myself. When I started attending church as an adult in late 2013 – my first service since I was a child – I was lucky to have a personal guide in the shape of my fiancé. I was excited but also a nervous wreck, in case I stood in the wrong place or said something out loud when I wasn’t supposed to, or didn’t say something out loud when I was supposed to. But I knew he wouldn’t let me down.
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It was in the middle of the normal 9:30am Sunday service. The vicar said, “May the peace of the Lord be with you”, and all replied “And also with you.” Lovely, and I really meant it. Then the vicar instructed us to share a sign of peace with each other. Panic! I turned to my other half and fiercely whispered, “You didn’t tell me about this; what do I do?” “Just do what I do,” he said. He shook my hand, gave me a kiss and said, “Peace be with you”. So, when the lady in the pew in front of me turned around, shook my hand and said, “Peace be with you”, I pulled her towards me and planted a big kiss on her cheek. Looking horrified into her startled eyes and then at others around us, I realised… he kissed me because he’s my fiancé; everyone else is just shaking hands. But these are the kinds of things that can catch you by surprise. The time during the Eucharistic Prayer when someone helpfully points out that you’re looking at the wrong prayer. Or when I was asked to “do the elements” for Holy Communion. I enthusiastically agreed. Then spent the rest of the service panicking because I had no idea what that meant. Or other minefields to overcome when you first start going to church. Where to sit, for example. Everyone has their usual spot, and woe betide the unknowing newcomer who pinches it. What if I don’t wear the right clothes and people think I look scruffy? What if I make a faux-pas? On one occasion, my fiancé was first out of the pew to go up
“I’ve slowly learned to embrace my own personal experience of church.” to receive Communion and rather than stepping back and waiting for the rest of us to file out and walk up ahead of him he just marched off up the aisle, eager for his bread and wine. I managed to best this, however, on a visit to Salisbury Cathedral for a Sunday service. I, not being aware of the protocol, took myself off for Communion before the Steward instructed me to and managed to cause a bit of a hole in the line-up. If you’re going to make a mistake, go big and do it at a cathedral. The thing I’ve started to grasp, though, is that people don’t care. They don’t care if you sit in their
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normal seat, or if you wear jeans and a t-shirt, or if you don’t stand up for a gospel reading. They won’t judge you if you can’t follow the tune of a hymn and just mime the words, if you think a lay reader is the vicar, or if you call the pew sheet the service leaflet and the service leaflet the pew sheet. The important thing is that you’re there. Everything else will come in time. I quickly learned that when I’m lost all I have to do is ask, and there’s always someone willing to point me in the right direction. I’ve slowly learned to embrace my own personal experience of church, and not to worry if I can’t reach the high notes, or if I don’t know what apostolic means. In the end, it’s what brought you to church that matters, not what you do when you get there. Chrissy Allen attends All Saints’ Church Martock in the Diocese of Bath and Wells, England.
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Taking the lead CPCA
Zambian youth evangelism team.
Youth from Central and Southern Africa will meet just prior to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-16) in Lusaka, Zambia, in April 2016. Anglican World talked to youth conference organiser the Revd Robert Sihubwa to find out more. AW: Tell us about the gathering. RS: The conference will take place 5–8 April 2016 with 100 youth, 25 from Zambia. Participants are coming from the Province of Southern Africa as well. The age focus is 30 and younger. AW: Is there a theme? RS: The conference will address two issues: providing leadership for effective intentional discipleship and developing champions for a green environment. AW: The four countries that make up the Province of Central Africa are quite diverse – is this a challenge for such a gathering? 20
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RS: Our province uses the same liturgy and lectionary which is also used by the Province of Southern Africa so there should not be major differences. Generally young people have warmed up to “free worship” (like in local church traditions) so there will be a mix of worship. English is our common language; all countries in the province have a very strong command of English. In this global world, the cultures that young people have adopted are quite similar across countries so they are able to engage without much difficulty. AW: What is the face of Anglican youth in Zambia? Their concerns,
challenges, vision for mission? RS: Zambia is a young country, with 65% of the population below the age of 35. The Church has many young people compared to the number of adults. Youth play a big role in Zambia. A major concern for youth is that the Church has been slow in embracing the life of young people in the Church, especially in ways of expressing themselves in worship. We have made much progress but there is still room to improve. Also, the Church has not intentionally worked to empower young people through survival skills and equipping them for life in general.
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AW: How are youth a unifying factor for the province as a whole? RS: Zambia has five dioceses, each independent of the other, so the work is specific in each diocese; at the national level we only gather for consultation and mutual inspiration. But generallyspeaking, across the country we have all adopted discipleship as a major focus for the next three years. This is accompanied by evangelism initiatives. In most congregations young people sit in parish councils, they teach Sunday school, they are the reserve from which clergy are selected, and most worship is led by the youth through praise and worship teams and church choirs. AW: Is there interaction with youth from other parts of the Communion? RS: This has been growing lately with youth travelling to other parts of Africa and beyond: recently youth from Botswana were in the USA, and young people from northern Zambia were in
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Praying for the province.
Rwanda. In December we are gathering youth from 15 countries in Zimbabwe. We had an African youth leadership consultation in July to prepare for a youth congress in 2017 that will bring together 1000 youth from across Africa. AW: How will this gathering link with the ACC-16? RS: We will be speaking to the ACC-16 through a meeting on 8 April with Archbishop Justin Welby to reflect on the outcomes of the youth conference. We will be looking at ways of providing leadership in the areas of discipleship and making our faith visible through the green campaign. We plan to place short questions from the youth conference on the walls each day at the ACC-16 meeting place, which we hope will provoke discussion. We will volunteer as stewards during the ACC-16. During breaks the stewards will be engaging delegates in conversations on themes from the conference. Also, I am the Vice Coordinator of the host organising team and I am a young person, which shows that the Church is placing confidence in us. AW: What excites you about this gathering? RS: I believe the young people will use this opportunity to make their voices heard and demonstrate their capacity. It will be a time to establish further links among the young people and to broaden their understanding of the life of the Communion.
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Another exciting thing is that we will witness the first Youth and Children’s Ministry Awards being given at the ACC, sending a very strong statement in the Communion. This means that young people’s potential and aspirations will in some way take centre stage.
Young volunteers at ACC-15.
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ACC-16 AT A GLANCE Date: 8–19 April 2016 Place: Lusaka, Zambia Theme: Intentional Discipleship in a World of Differences Host: The Church of the Province of Central Africa The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) is one of the four Instruments of Communion. It facilitates the co-operative work of the churches of the Anglican Communion, advises on Communion organisation and structures, and seeks to develop common policies with respect to the global mission of the Church. ACC-15 took place 27 Oct–7 Nov 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand.
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RACHEL AND SIMON TIPPING
The greatest of these… Lessons in welcome and hospitality
by sapati apa-fepuleai
Auckland teenager Sapati ApaFepuleai had a different kind of school holiday this year. The King’s College chapel sacristan travelled to Polynesia through her school’s community service programme and discovered that speaking a common language doesn’t always require words. WE DIDN’T QUITE KNOW what to expect when we hopped off the plane and set foot in this new land of Tonga. We were seventeen quite privileged kids coming from New
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“These families did not come from luxury, but even if they had very little, they did their best to give us everything.” Zealand. Some of us had been on trips to Europe, some to America and others to Asia but this trip is one that will be etched in our minds forever. We joined the group of St Andrew’s High School students in various activities; however the most memorable part of the trip didn’t take place on the school grounds. We stayed with families of the prefects. They took us in, and made us one of theirs, and even though language was a problem, warmth, welcome and hospitality was not. These families did not come from luxury, but even if they had very little, they did their best to give us everything. One of the members of our group was billeted in the home of a family that had one bed in the entire house. He was given this bed
to sleep on. We became very close with our billet families and the student body at St Andrew’s Church. We really began to understand the privilege that we have in New Zealand. There are so many basic things that we take for granted. In Tonga it isn’t normal for an eighteen-year-old to have their own car, an iPhone 6, or even a laptop. Some barely had their own room, their own bed, their own space. We all learned a great deal about ourselves and each other on this trip. We learned that God has blessed us with many great gifts, talents, people and other numerous blessings which we should not take for granted. But I believe that He also taught us about love. On this trip, the only language that could be spoken universally was love. Whether that was giving a stranger the only bed in the house, or something small like offering the last Oreo biscuit to someone else, we learned how important it is to show love. These were the riches that the Tongans had – they were so rich in love.
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The Way of intentional discipleship and disciple-making
b y j o h n k a f wa n k a
The best decision anyone can ever make, at any point in life, in any circumstances, whoever they are, wherever they are, is to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. Archbishop Justin Welby THE FIRST INVITATION Jesus offered listeners who took seriously what he taught was to follow him, and that was quite literally what they did on the roads and through the villages of ancient Palestine. But it was not just a physical following. In the Gospels we observe that ‘following’ Jesus involves a μετάνοια, a radical turning around, of life-style, worldview and spiritual orientation, a transformation of the self so complete that Paul is led to say: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here” (1 Cor 5.17). The nature of discipleship is defined by the character and mission of the One we follow. Our daily walk as disciples of Jesus Christ requires an intentional choice in response to the outpouring of the life of God – a choice of life rather than death, a deliberate rejection of
one life-style in favour of another. Intentionally following Jesus Christ is radically transformative. It places demands upon us as individuals and as a community of faith, our relationships, the way we handle money, our attitude towards employment and leisure activities, our use of the environment, our political choices and much more. Discipleship can never be about just a single aspect of our lives. It is by definition about the whole of our lives as Christians and the whole Christian community: young and old, lay and clergy. To be a disciple-maker, then, is to have been transformed through our following of Him who calls us so that we share in the calling and life-long transformation of others. “Follow me and I will make you fishers of [people]” (Mt 4,19). Intentional disciple-making means giving deliberate priority to equipping, mentoring, forming, teaching and maturing those who follow Jesus Christ, individually and as a Church. Making disciples (or even more disciples) is not the goal of discipleship; it is a natural expression and outcome of mission. Making disciples and discipleship
“Our daily walk as disciples of Jesus Christ requires an intentional choice – a choice of life rather than death.”
is part of the journey, ‘the Way’, towards the eternal goal, which is to honour and glorify God – experienced as God’s reign in the lives and actions of the disciples.1 Will you follow Him? The Revd Canon John Kafwanka is Director for Mission of the Anglican Communion. Adapted from a report to the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, September 2015. 1 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.” (Jn 15,8)
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