ANGLICAN COMMUNION OFFICE ANNUAL REVIEW 2012
Annual Review 2012 Anglican Communion Office 1
ANGLICAN COMMUNION OFFICE ANNUAL REVIEW 2012
Contents 3 Foreword 5
The Anglican Communion Office
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Anglican Alliance
9 Communications 11
Continuing Indaba
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The Networks of the Anglican Communion
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The Bible in the Life of the Church Project
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The Office of the Anglican Observer at the United Nations
18 Mission 21
Unity, Faith and Order
22 Finances
Cover photo: The Revd Maxwell Kapachawo. Credit: Us/Stephanie Mooney
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Foreword By Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
2012
has been a packed year for Anglican Communion Office staff, not least because they were preparing for October’s Anglican Consultative Council’s meeting in New Zealand. This was no small event: more than 100 delegates and guests met at Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral for ten days of prayer, worship, fellowship and Anglican Communion business. The ACC is a very important moment, when lay and ordained Anglicans and Episcopalians reflect on the present moment of our common life together. It is also an opportunity for the ACO to collaborate with members of the hosting province, in this case the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The feedback from those in attendance was that ACC-15 was one of the best meetings to date. Considering the significant amount of other work featured in this year’s review, this is surely testament to the commitment, hard work and dedication of our staff to all aspects of the life and ministry of our Anglican Communion.
Other than preparing for the ACC, my own priorities this year have included saying farewell to one Archbishop of Canterbury and welcoming the appointment of another. I have also made formal visits to parts of the Anglican Communion including the Anglican Church in Doha, Qatar which is building a large church complex there not only for Anglican worship, but also many other Christian communities in the city. I also travelled to Kuching in Malaysia for the installation of Bishop Bolly Lapok as Primate of South East Asia and spent some days visiting some thriving parishes in that diocese. Wherever you are in the Anglican Communion, I hope you enjoy reading this Annual Review. All of us at the Anglican Communion Office look forward to working with you in the coming year.
Kenneth Kearon The Secretary General’s Office is responsible for the management of the work of the Anglican Communion Office and for carrying forward the meetings and programme of the ACC, the Primates’ Meeting and the Lambeth Conference.
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The Anglican Communion Office By Jan Butter, Director for Communications
The Anglican Communion Office (ACO) exists as the permanent secretariat for the Instruments of Communion: the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ Meeting and the Anglican Consultative Council. But what does this mean in practice? Well, more than 20 staff from countries including Colombia, Japan, Wales, Jamaica, Zambia and Canada work out of the London office and locations including New York, Geneva, Brasilia and Lusaka to support the Anglican Communion as it carries out its part in God’s mission. Work supported by ACO staff includes facilitating and co-ordinating meetings, projects, committees and networks in such areas as ecumenical dialogues; inter faith work; mission and church growth; development, relief and advocacy—all at an international level. The ACO is also the place where news and information about the life and work of our global faith is gathered and shared.
Our London office, St Andrew’s House, is a place where members of the Anglican Communion from Nigeria to New Zealand come to stay at our guesthouse, to take part in meetings, and also to catch up with the staff who are supporting them. You will read in the next section about the broad range of work undertaken by this office and will see in the finance section that most of the funding for it comes from the inter-Anglican budget contributions. This is money given annually by Member Churches (according to their means) that allows our staff to support Anglican Communion groups to carry out work requested by the Instruments of Communion. We are sure that as you learn more about the wide range of work we do here and about the positive impact it has across the Anglican Communion, you will consider it money well spent.
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Anglican Alliance
Development, relief and advocacy Snow
was falling as four Anglican education administrators from Ghana, Nigeria, Solomon Islands and St Vincent and the Grenadines arrived in London in January to start a nine week professional training programme organised by the Alliance. It was funded by the UK Government through the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission as part of the Commonwealth Professional fellowship programme. It included placements with diocesan and local education authorities, church and state schools, and ended with a special course at Nottingham University. Our fellows have kept us updated on their progress since returning home, and their course has been replicated for health administrators. They have produced real benefits for schoolchildren in their home countries. The review of the Anglican Alliance’s governance was completed in May, and the ACC standing committee subsequently agreed to the Alliance being constituted as a charitable company with a global board representative of all regions of the Anglican Communion as well as the different areas of expertise in international development.
The Alliance works with a range of provinces including Pakistan on development, relief and advocacy issues.
Our first major regional advocacy programme took place in June at the Rio+20 Conference in Brazil. The Alliance Latin American and Caribbean facilitator organised a series of activities that raised the profile of Anglicans and reached out to one of Brazil’s most marginalised communities – landless people. The same month saw the Anglican Alliance speak out at the G20 meeting of the world’s richest
LEFT: Anglican Alliance director Sally Keeble in conversation with Bishop Eraste Bigirimana of Burundi
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from Latin America, Africa, Bangladesh and the Philippines gathered to look at different models of providing access to finance for the very poor. In the area of relief the Alliance launched guidelines to facilitate church-to-church giving, providing support to churches in disaster-hit areas, while also providing accountability to church donors.
AC Kenya’s Peter Nyorsok and the Lambeth Trust’s Humphrey Norrington at the Nairobi workshop
nations meeting in Mexico, with the provincial secretary attending as part of civil society. Young Anglicans from Latin America, Asia and Africa met at Lambeth Palace in June for a workshop on peacebuilding. They spent time in placements with different communities around the UK, and then finished with a workshop in Coventry run in partnership with the Community of the Cross of Nails. Economic empowerment was the subject of the Alliance’s first capacity-building workshop organised in Nairobi in September by our Africa facilitator. Anglicans involved in micro-finance and co-operatives
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The year ended with the launch at Lambeth Palace of the Agents of Change programme, an innovative distance-learning programme provided for the Anglican Alliance by The Open University. The assembled guests heard a warm tribute to the work of the Alliance from Archbishop Rowan Williams, and also heard from one of the Agents of Change students based in Lusaka, Zambia. The Agents of Change course teaches community development skills, and was overwhelmed by applications.
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Communications Our 2012 focus
was strengthening systems and structures for improved intra- and extraCommunion communications. Activities included appointing the first ever Communications Officer to source stories exclusively from the Africa region. Funded for three years by a grant from Trinity Church in New York, former radio station chief Mr Bellah Zulu began his work in November, after completing an MA in film making in Los Angeles, USA. The Anglican Communion News Service (ACNS) increased its coverage of such key Communion moments as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to step down and the news of his successor; the appointments of new primates for such provinces as Uganda, West Africa and South East Asia; plus stories of relief, development and advocacy; of ecumenical and inter faith relationships, and life-changing evangelism and church growth. ACNS’s Twitter feed has now doubled to more than 4,500 followers. 2012 saw the relaunch of Anglican World magazine – a year earlier than planned. The first of the fullcolour 24-page magazines – presented to Archbishop Rowan Williams at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in New Zealand – was made possible thanks to support from Tarsila Burity from Brazil, and
Bellah Zulu captured the moment Zimbabwe Anglicans returned to their cathedral after years of exile
Saskia Rowley Fielder from the Anglican Church of Canada. Described at England’s General Synod as “a very good read” a complimentary copy was sent to every Anglican Communion bishop (900+) with an invitation to subscribe. The ACO’s Communications Department also supports communications around the Communion. In 2012 it did this through face-to-face meetings with communicators from Burundi, Canada, Scotland, New Zealand, England and the US. A new Facebook 9
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the production of first ever Anglican theology of communications.
group for Communion communicators was also established. Staff at the Anglican Communion Office and representatives of the Communion’s official Networks also received advice on communications planning and activities. Several departments and Networks have now begun communicating effectively via social media channels.
In addition to reporting on the 2012 meetings of the Standing Committee, the Director for Communciations led a communications team comprising members from the ACO, Canada and New Zealand which reported on this year’s Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) gathering in Auckland. A cornucopia of news, features and audio/visual material was shared via anglicancommunion.org, ACNS, a range of social media channels and also the secular media—more than ever before. Thanks to a generous donation, we produced a video of the welcoming ceremony and opening Eucharist which has been watched many times on YouTube.
The ACO also facilitated a communications meeting at St Andrew’s House in March to discuss the challenges of church communications, and how the Communion might capitalise on digital technology. Members attended in person or via Skype from England, India, Hong Kong, Mexico, Southern Africa, Sudan, and the US. One output of the meeting was
We were pleased and proud of the achievements in 2012. However, it is important to say that none of this could have been achieved without the goodwill and support of Anglicans and Episcopalians around the globe, the growing network of global communicators, our donors and other supporters, and the grace and mercy of God.
Experts met to consider the future of Church communications
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Continuing Indaba Indaba
build community so that genuine conversation on matters of significance can energise mission.
is a Zulu word describing a community process for discernment on matters of significance. Such processes are common throughout Africa, Asia, the Pacific islands and the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Their aim is to further community life, not to solve issues. Continuing Indaba uses journeys to establish relationships and
It is not a quick fix for difficult problems – it takes time and energy. It requires commitment to Christ and to one another in his body. It does not minimise differences, rather it emphasises the Lordship of Christ and places trust in his ability to reconcile all things to himself. The Pilot Conversations, undertaken in 2010/11 have shown that we can walk together, recognise Christ in each other, and undertake mutual mission together even though we have strong differences. Those who have participated in Continuing Indaba journeys speak of the transformational value of the transcultural process. Following their experience of learning, praying and worshipping together, the language of conflict and accusation is replaced with a new language of partnership in diversity. During ACC-15 the representatives were asked to guide the future of Continuing Indaba in the Anglican Communion. The individual representatives of the ACC did more than support ď ´
ACC members were asked to consider the future of Continuing Indaba
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a resolution on Continuing Indaba. They expressed a deep desire to see the process applied in their own dioceses and provinces as well as in meetings of the Communion. They hoped that ‘in an atmosphere of prayer it will propel us to do something’. The message from ACC-15 was that the Council understands Indaba to be a process of honest conversation that seeks to build community, energise mission, and provide a context in which conflict can be resolved. They wanted it to be used effectively in the Anglican Communion and where appropriate for it to be applied in provinces and dioceses. In order for this to happen we must listen carefully to those who are successfully using such models, to offer insights and construct models for contextualisation. We must be effective in the communication of the model, and ensure there are trained facilitators and maintain the commitment to evaluation.
Continuing Indaba drew together people from across the Communion
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The Networks of the Anglican Communion Environmental ›› Health ›› Women’s ›› Peace and Justice ›› Youth ›› Refugee and Migrant ›› Family ›› Francophone ›› Indigenous ›› Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion ›› Safe Church Consultation
The Networks have been making a vibrant contribution towards the life, mission and unity of the Anglican Communion. The Communion has eleven international, themed Networks: Environmental; Health; Women’s; Peace and Justice; Youth; Refugee and Migrant; Family; Francophone; Indigenous; Safe Church; and Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion. Through a variety of means such as email listservs, social media, occasional regional and international gatherings, and the publication of on-line and printed newsletters, reports and resources, the Networks tell the stories of grass roots experience; share news, theological and liturgical material and share information about models of mission, ministry and good practice. They join together in the role of advocacy where there are common concerns, and provide briefings to the Instruments of Communion. Here are some highlights from 2012: ›› The International Anglican Family Network began promoting the churches’ role in overcoming obstacles to birth registration as a means of ensuring that children have access to the benefits and protection of citizenship. Its on-
Green Anglicans have been making their voices heard on environmental issues.
line briefing material, blog and Facebook page offer lots of information and ideas. ›› The Anglican Communion Environmental Network continued to focus on water, sustainable food, agriculture and renewable energy, and published a series of reflections on the meaning and praxis of Sabbath and how it might shape human society in a manner that is consistent with the wellbeing of creation. The Network’s new Facebook page Green 13
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Anglicans now connects hundreds of eco-friendly Anglicans. ›› The Anglican Health Network developed a multi-stranded Promoting Healthy Communities initiative concerned with the promotion of the Church’s centuries-long holistic and communitybased care of the sick and its reconnection with mainstream medical care. ›› Members of the Anglican Francophone Network gathered in Cameroon and considered regional challenges, not least those associated with the legacies of conflict. The Network again emphasised the need for translated materials. ›› The Anglican Indigenous Network drew attention to the importance of Indigenous leadership and the reality of historic trauma among indigenous communities. Culturally appropriate processes are needed for discerning leaders, providing training, and enabling restoration.
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›› The International Anglican Women’s Network elected a new steering group and stepped up its vital efforts in challenging the churches to speak and act against gender based violence. A prime concern has been to find champions among men and boys to work with them. ›› The Anglican Peace & Justice Network began an exploration of Anglican engagement with truth and reconciliation commissions and related activities and is surveying Anglican provinces in order to find out how networking can support this. ›› The Anglican Refugee and Migrant Network continued to build up and is now ready to set up a global steering group which will assist with priority-setting for the years ahead. ›› A number of the member institutions of the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion Network celebrated significant anniversaries during 2012. The Network produced on-line newsletters and encouraged provinces and dioceses to interact with colleges and universities with an Anglican identity – which requires effort if it is to be retained.
Networks had stands at ACC-15 to share with members their work and priorities
›› The Anglican Communion’s Safe Church Consultation was recognised as a formal Network during ACC-15. Its proposed Charter for the Safety of People within the Churches of the Anglican Communion was sent out to the provinces with an ACC recommendation that it be adopted and implemented by the Churches.
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The Bible in the Life of the Church Project Mandated by the ACC during its meeting in Jamaica in May 2009, the Bible in the Life of the Church project has now reached its half way stage. In Phase 1 the project sought to discover how Anglicans read the Bible, recognising the very diverse contexts that are inevitably brought to this reading. This work was reported to the ACC in November and its work
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can be seen on the Anglican Communion website. At that meeting the ACC mandated Phase 2 of the project which, as well as publishing the report on Phase 1, will explore models of how we might embed its thinking – being more intentional about the processes we use to engage with Scripture – into the life of the Anglican Communion at all levels.
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The Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations Staff and volunteers
based at the Anglican Communion Offices at the UN (ACOUN) in New York and Geneva facilitate an interface between the Anglican Communion and the United Nations. Highlights from this past year include Anglican Communion women’s engagement with the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW). This year, UNCSW’s priority theme was the empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development, and current challenges. Cognisant of the focus, the Anglican Communion team included women who live in rural areas, women farmers, women executives in organisations that help to eradicate gender inequalities, and women with positions in the Church. Since 2007, Anglican women have been central to the ever-growing awareness that girls and young women who participate in UNCSW must be part of the Commission’s deliberations. Beth Adamson has been instrumental in this process. She founded the Working Group on Girls, comprising more than 80 affiliates that promote human rights of the girl child.
Several indigenous Anglican women participated at the Eleventh Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May. The special theme was The Doctrine of Discovery: its enduring impact on indigenous peoples and the right to redress for past conquests. Anglicans and Episcopalians have long been concerned with environmental issues and many strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and to sustain and renew the earth. Programme Director for Environmental Issues at the ACOUN, the Revd Dr Jeff Golliher, monitors and encourages such efforts across the Anglican Communion, in particular he works closely with the Anglican Communion Environmental Network. His focus has been on education and advocacy in three principal areas, all in connection with our sacramental life: l. energy and energy use in the sacred space of our church buildings, 2. the water we use in Holy Baptism, and 3. food/agriculture as it relates to the Holy Eucharist. We integrate this work with related UN conferences.
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Mission The ACO’s
Mission Department continues to champion the holistic and integral nature of God’s mission and thus hold the broader picture of mission. It exists to promote and encourage interdependence and collaboration in Anglican mission and to provide platforms for mutual sharing of experience and good practice for local and global mission. A major target for the Mission Department in 2012 was the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in New Zealand. Much of the year’s work was showcased at that event. For example, the book Life-Widening Mission: Global Anglican Perspectives written by young Anglican leaders following the Edinburgh 2010 conference was launched in Auckland. Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams – who wrote the foreword to the book – spoke at the launch, as did one of the authors the Revd Dr Irene Ayallo from Kenya. The book, which focuses on the Marks of Mission, inspires and challenges current mission thinking and practice in the Communion and the worldwide Church.
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Right: The Mission Department helps Anglicans build their Churches in many ways
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Left: The Revd John Kafwanka presents to the Anglican Consultative Council
Mandated by the Instruments of Communion, the Evangelism and Church Growth Initiative has continued as a grassroots initiative, promoting evangelism, fostering mutual learning, and sharing good practice and principles of evangelism and church growth across the Anglican Communion. Supported by a core group made up of 14 people representing nine regions of the Communion and some specialised global mission initiatives, it currently relates to almost 1,000 people through a variety of channels. These include its newsletter Witness6.7, and Facebook group Anglican Witness. At ACC-15 the name of the initiative was changed to Anglican Witness: evangelism and church growth in the Anglican Communion, it received a renewed mandate with new specific emphasis to focus on resourcing those with a ministry to children and young people in the Communion. Following a resolution from ACC-14, Jamaica, 2009 to add a sixth Mark of Mission relating to peace, conflict and transformation to the existing five, our department worked with Anglicans and Episcopalians to prepare a proposal for the members of ACC-15 to consider. It was decided at the Auckland meeting to integrate this emphasis
The Mission department promotes sharing of evangelism and church growth best practice between provinces
into the existing fourth mark of mission, and thus produce a new fourth mark of mission which now reads: To seek to transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and to pursue peace and reconciliation.
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Unity, Faith and Order The Department
for Unity, Faith and Order is responsible for strengthening relations among the Churches of the Anglican Communion and between those Churches and other Christian traditions. The department staffs and services the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity Faith and Order (IASCUFO) and acts on behalf of the Communion in multi-lateral ecumenical contexts, such as the World Council of Churches and the Global Christian Forum. It staffs all the bilateral ecumenical dialogues in which the Anglican Communion is engaged: with Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists, and it is responsible for relations with churches in communion with the Anglican Communion, including the Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht. IASCUFO met for the fourth time in Dublin, Ireland in September 2012. It prepared a report for The Anglican Consultative Council in October 2012 on the theological understanding of the Instruments of Communion, together with a report on the process of reception for the Anglican Communion Covenant.
(l to r) Holy Trinity’s Canon Howard Leigh and World Methodist Council’s Professor Robert Gribben
Eight sessions of ACC-15 were given to the work of IASCUFO. IASCUFO also reviews ecumenical dialogues to ensure consistency among them. In new work IASCUFO is considering the ecclesiologies of various expressions of contemporary Anglicanism and will try to articulate an ecclesiology for a postcolonial Communion.
Top left: IARCCUM Co-Chair Bishop David Hamid greets Pope Benedict, Top right: Director for Unity, Faith & Order Alyson Barnett-Cowan joins other attendees at the Global Christian Forum, Bottom left: UFO staff member Neil Vigers, Bottom right: (l to r) Archbishops Hector Zavala Muñoz and Thabo Makgoba, members of IASCUFO.
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Finances Unrestricted Income 2012 £1.4 mILLION Miscellaneous Income
81%
Investment Income Other Donations Compass Rose Donations Inter-Anglican Budget Contributions
13%
Total Income 2012 £2.1 mILLION Restricted Unrestricted (General and Designated)
42% 58%
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Total income 2005 -2012
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Total £ Millions
Unrestricted Restricted
2 1.5 1 .5 0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Expenditure £2.4 mILLION Support Costs***
18%
Governance** Continuing Indaba UN Observer’s Office Theological Studies IT
17%
8%
10%
5% 6%
9% 14%
Secretary General/ Instruments of Communion* Unity, Faith & Order Mission Alliance
Communications * This includes facilitating meetings including the Standing Committee, the Lambeth Conference and the Anglican Consultative Council. ** This includes Staff support to the Trustee meetings and Trustees travelling expenses. *** This includes such things as offices expenses, maintenance of premises, utility costs, depreciation, audit fees, other professional fees, and exchange losses.
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The Anglican Communion Office St Andrew’s House, 16 Tavistock Crescent, London, W11 1AP, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)20 7313 3900 Fax: +44 (0)20 7313 3999 Email: aco@anglicancommunion.org www.anglicancommunion.org
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