Anglican World Issue 130

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The next Archbishop of CanterburyWhat do we know about Justin Welby?

100 years of Anglicans in IranA century of highs and lows for laity and clergy

Global Anglicans gather in New Zealand

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The coming year will certainly be one of change, and this edition of Anglican World reflects that. One obvious change will be the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Justin Welby. I have had the privilege of meeting him in the past both during his time at Coventry Cathedral and while Dean of Liverpool, and I very much look forward to his time as the Focus of Unity for the Anglican Communion and President of the Anglican Consultative Council.

The Middle East is very much in our prayers at the moment with the unfolding tragedy in Syria and the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine uppermost in our minds, but there’s another side to the Middle East. One cause for celebration comes from Qatar, one of the smaller Gulf States, where Anglicans and indeed Christians of many traditions will be able to worship in one of the most impressive buildings of modern times open in Doha.

This quarter we’re pleased to welcome a new colleague, Mr. Bella Zulu, who has become the Communications Officer for Africa, based in Zambia. Further change comes with news from England of the long-established mission agencies, CMS and USPG, now known as Us, and the new things they are doing.

I’m also glad that some things remain the same! You might be surprised to learn that the Diocese of Iran has marked its centenary this past year. The traditional hospitality which is so much a part of our ACC meetings reached a new high in Auckland, New Zealand last October/November, as we received the warmest of welcomes from our hosts in this three tikanga church. That set the tone for a prayerful, hard working meeting, as Anglicans from across the globe formed new and lasting friendships as they worshipped, ate and worked together. I hope you enjoy reading about this important Communion gathering and seeing some of the images from that event. Further resources from this meeting are available on our website www.anglicancommunion.org.

Please let me take this opportunity to wish you, wherever you are, a

peace-filled and joyous 2013.

Canon Kenneth Kearon Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

The traditional hospitality which is so much a part of our ACC meetings reached a new

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Inside this issue

Cover photoBishop of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands dr Howard Gregory in AucklandPHOTO: ACNS


The next Archbishop of CanterburyWhat do we know about Justin Welby?

100 years of Anglicans in IranA century of highs and lows for laity and clergy

Global Anglicans gather in New Zealand

Anglican World

Magazine of the anglican coMMunion • issue 130 january 2013

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100 years of the Diocese of Iran 18USPG becomes Us 20a new deacon for Brazil 21

¢ ThE lAsT wordWhat history can tell us about communion 22

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8ACC ResourcesACC members at the Maori king’s palace, Turangawaewae


The Most Revd Stanley Ntagali was enthroned as the 8th Archbishop of the Church of Uganda on Sunday, 16th December, at St Paul’s Cathedral, Namirembe. More than 3,000 people attended the colourful ceremony, including political leaders, business leaders, and all the bishops of the Church of Uganda.

Primates from other Provinces in the Anglican Communion were also present – from Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, Indian

Ocean, Nigeria, Jerusalem and the Middle East, England, and Scotland – along with other archbishops and bishops from Kenya, Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Australia, the United States of America, and England. The President of the Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, attended the function and addressed the gathering, urging the Church to increase its ministry to young people and to guide the youth in moral, upright, and productive living.

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This year, tens of thousands of Christian migrant workers in Doha, Qatar will finally have a permanent worship space thanks to a new Anglican church facility that can accommodate 3,000 worshippers at once. When complete, the anglican centre will be able to simultaneously host between 12–18 congregations of various sizes, worshipping in different languages, from a broad spectrum of countries and from different liturgical and non-liturgical backgrounds.

Fr Bill Schwartz, the Episcopal

priest overseeing the multi-million dollar project, explained it was built following an unprecedented 2005 decision by the conservative Islamic government to allow Christian churches to be built in Qatar. More than 10,000 Protestant Christians from 37 denominations already worship in the Anglican Centre and many more are waiting for space to become available when it is complete.

“We eventually expect to host around 80 congregations each

ChurCh oF ENGlANd ThINKs AGAIN ABouT womEN BIshops

England’s Archbishop’s Council announced that a process to admit women to the episcopate would be restarted at the next General Synod in July 2013. There was agreement the Church of England should resolve this matter through its own processes “as a matter of urgency”. In December the Church of England’s House of Bishops announced the formation of a working group from the three Houses of Synod on the issue that would advise the House on legislation at the Synod.

Shock and sadness greeted the General Synod, not least

in the secular world, after the November vote to reject draft legislation allowing women to become bishops, particularly after several media outlets mistakenly reported the Church of England had “rejected women bishops”. In fact the Church has already made

it clear that it supports women becoming bishops. There were, however, those pleased that the legislation was rejected because they believed it did not sufficiently provide for those opposed to women in the episcopate.

Australian’s first female bishop, Kay Goldsworthy

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weekend at the Anglican Centre,” Fr Bill said. “At capacity, we expect to accommodate up to 3,000 worshippers at any given time on a Friday, and cumulative through the day on Friday we anticipate 15,000 people praying in the building.”


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Expect to see more stories coming from Anglican churches across Africa after a communications officer was hired to support regional communications. Bellah Zulu was a radio station manager in Zambia and recently completed a Masters Degree in Film Making in Los Angeles. In a collaboration between the Church of the Province of Central Africa and the Anglican Communion Office, (with funding from Trinity Church, Wall Street) he was hired to undertake communications for the Province and the region.

His main role is to liaise with

communicators and senior members of the Provincial churches across Africa and share their stories of anglican life and mission with the Communion and beyond. Bellah said, “I am excited about my new job as Communications Officer for Africa. I hope that my background in media and my passion for church communications will help the whole Anglican Community understand and appreciate the life of fellow Anglicans from Africa.” Contact him at [email protected]

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In one of his last acts as Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams commissioned Mrs Lynne Tembey as the new Worldwide President of Mothers’ Union’s four million members worldwide in December 2012. Speaking during the service, Archbishop Rowan called Lynne Tembey to a service of obedience to meeting the agenda of the needy, and commended Mothers’ Union’s outgoing president, Rosemary Kempsell, for doing just that during her six years in office.

Lynne, a Mothers’ Union member for the past 33 years, will head up the most culturally diverse Board of Trustees in the organisation’s 136 year history, with six elected trustees from Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, DR Congo, Guyana and Isle of Man joining with nine trustees from the UK and Ireland to form the new

Mrs Tembey at her commissioning

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after years of waiting, hoping and praying, Anglicans in Zimbabwe sang and danced as their bishop reclaimed the Anglican cathedral in Harare stolen from the Province by an excommunicated bishop and followers. Thousands of Anglicans flocked to St Mary and All Saints Cathedral on 16 December to see Bishop of harare chad Gandiya reclaim the cathedral and hold a special service marking the Province’s return to their properties.

It followed the Church of the Province of Central Africa’s recent victory in a long-running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Dr. Nolbert Kunonga who broke away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. He and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanges and other CPCA properties claiming they belonged to him. Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court eventually ruled he should return all the properties to the Diocese of Harare. Bp Chad recalled the challenging times that the church went through. He said that, “all those five years we were driven from our churches and went into

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Board from January 2013. Elected representative members from Tanzania and Mozambique will sit on advisory committees to the Board.

exile, life was not easy but God was with us. We survived and found grace in exile.”

To watch a video of Anglicans returning to the Cathedral visit http://www.youtube.com/user/theacoffice


ACC-15 A long, expected journey

LOCATED APPROxIMATELY 1,200 miles east of Australia and 4,550 miles south of Hawaii, New Zealand is a very long way from its neighbours, let alone countries like Wales and Burundi. Considering the hundreds of thousands of combined miles they travelled, plus the fact there was no sight-

seeing or free time figured into the meeting programme, you get a sense of how seriously the more than 80 delegates took their commission as members of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC).

Before and during the twelve days of the ACC meeting, much was required of those appointed to the Council by their Member Churches. They had more than 20 reports to read on such subjects as Continuing Indaba, theological education, the anglican alliance and the international anglican Networks. Once in Auckland they heard many presentations, and were involved with as many plenary discussions and group reflection sessions.

The ACC is the only Instrument of Communion that comprises both ordained and lay members. Due to the relational nature of our Communion, this Instrument is consultative, but it does make strong recommendations regarding decisions and courses of action to the Member Churches. By the end of the meeting, members reviewed and voted on 41 such resolutions.

One called for all Communion Churches adopt a Safe Church Charter protecting vulnerable people. Australian Garth Blake, convener of the Communion’s Safe Church Network, explained that society is watching to see what the Communion is doing about abuse in churches. “There has been a disconnect between what churches say and what has happened,” he said. “People have been severely harmed in our churches. Trust has been lost. The charter is designed to rebuild that trust.”

Other ACC recommendations include Member Churches reviewing their current communications capacity and taking steps to improve it. ACC members were warned that many Provinces were letting the secular media and agenda-driven bloggers tell the Church’s story for them.

“In today’s world, of instant, global communications almost everyone within reach of a mobile phone or computer can

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tell their own story,” said the Anglican Communion’s Director for Communications Jan Butter. “Member Churches can now, more than ever before, ensure that other Communion Churches hear the truth about their life and mission.”

The acc also threw its weight behind anglican efforts to end gender-based and family violence. In one of three public evening sessions (the others were on the environment and Christian witness) around 250 Aucklanders and ACC members heard a local expert in this field, the Revd Charles Waldegrave, reflect on peace as a theological concept. Peace, he said, flowed from the notion of covenant, and from right relationships. Abuse, he added, was “non-peace”, and a violent relationship with a partner or child was an assault on the fundamental covenant between people and God.

Other presentations to the ACC included one on the Communion’s relationships at the global level with other Christian traditions. Several representatives from Churches including the Roman Catholic Church and the worldwide Methodist Church attended the ACC as guests. New Zealand bishop the Rt Revd Victoria Matthews (a Canadian) spoke on the history and progress of the Anglican Communion Covenant. A member of the Commission mandated to review the unity, faith and order of the Communion, Bishop Matthews explained it was not the Commission’s task to promote the Covenant, but rather monitor its reception.

The ACC also heard about the results of three-and-a-half years’ of research into how Anglicans around the world use the Bible. It revealed that Anglicans share “a high common ground” regarding the essential place and use of Scripture in Anglican Life. It also revealed evidence of ‘gaps’ between the ‘received wisdom’ of the Church (about Scripture) and what actually happens in practice. One example was Biblical knowledge of scholars or priests not always getting to the ordinary Christian.

There were reports, presentations, reflections and conversations on Mission and Evangelism; Anglican relationships with other faith groups; Anglican thoughts on Christian Zionism; and the other international Networks including those focusing on the family, health, indigenous peoples, peace and justice,

For those not familiar with a Maori welcome, the traditional challenges by warriors wearing wild-eyed grimaces and wielding long wooden clubs were a sight to behold.

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Æ refugees and migrants, the colleges and universities of the Communion, women, youth, and French speakers.

Underpinning the ACC’s work was daily corporate worship and Bible study. The ACC always aims to connect with the local church whenever it meets, and so, on the 4 November, members joined parishes around the country for their Sunday morning services.

Perhaps the most dramatic and emotional moments for the Commission members were the opening and closing ceremonies and services. For those not familiar with a Maori welcome, the traditional challenges by warriors wearing wild-eyed grimaces and wielding long wooden clubs were a sight to behold. Also, the three Primates of the one host Province celebrating the opening Eucharist together was a visual testimony to Communion. This was Archbishop Rowan Williams’ final ACC too, and this meeting was an ideal opportunity for both him and those present to say their farewells and final words.

It might have been a very long journey to New Zealand, but the warm, generous welcome of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, Polynesia and New Zealand and of Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral more than made up for any jet lag. Add to that the chance to meet with, work with, eat with, pray with and fellowship with Anglicans and Episcopalians from around the world, it became what the host Province said it would be: a once in a lifetime event.


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Learn more about ACC-15, its members, the reports and recommendations...


1 Watch a short video of the official welcome and opening ceremony here http://bit.ly/SnzjUr

2 Want to find out what the committees, groups, networks and project groups of the Anglican Communion have done over the past three years? Visit http://www.aco.org/communion/acc/meetings/acc15/downloads/index.cfm

3 Interested to know who represented your Province? Visit http://www.aco.org/communion/acc/meetings/acc15/participants.cfm (or http://bit.ly/UcnVKs) Want to see what they did in Auckland? Then check out the photos: http://bit.ly/14yvUWG


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4 read the news highlights and hear podcasts from the meeting here http://www.aco.org/communion/acc/

5 Watch interviews with several Network representatives here: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAcoffice

6 Learn more about the history of the ACC here: http://www.anglicancommunion.org/communion/acc/about.cfm


Journeying with the Orthodox

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FOR THE LAST 37 years, I have been a member of the International Anglican-Orthodox dialogue. This has taken me to some of the most exotic places that I have ever visited and been marked by some of the most pressing political and ecclesiastical issues of the times.

The journey began for me in Moscow in 1976. The commission had started its work in Oxford in 1973 and we were to sign an agreement which would lay the foundations for theological union between our two communions. Hopes were high. The commission was co-chaired by Robert Runcie, then bishop of St Alban’s, and archbishop athenagoras of Thyateira and Great Britain. The draft documents dealt with central questions of the faith: knowledge of God, scripture and tradition, the councils, the church and the eucharist. Above all, they would attempt to remove one of the major causes of division between East and West: the filioque clause. This refers to the phrase which speaks of the Spirit ‘proceeding from the Father and the Son’, which

was not in the original but was subsequently added to Western forms of the Nicene Creed.

Things worked out remarkably well. We met in the (very Stalinist) Hotel Ukraina. We had fierce and passionate debate about central questions of theology and about minor points of phraseology in the minutes, all of which must have puzzled the security forces who seemed to take a close interest in us. We Anglicans agreed that the filioque should not be included in the Nicene Creed and this brought great joy to the Orthodox. The way was open for full communion between our churches. The celebrations were memorable. There were banquets with high office bearers of church and state, a joyous meal with the staff and students of the Academy at Zagorsk, and much Georgian sparkling wine, and we anglicans were offered a choice of trips to different places in the Soviet Union. Six of us travelled to Tashkent in Uzbekistan, where we enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of the local Orthodox bishop and

were entertained to lunch by the Grand Mufti of Central Asia. Finally we flew on to Samarkand to visit Tamburlaine’s tomb. We left with glowing memories of Tashkent, with its main streets running with water (all, alas, pumped from the Aral Sea), its Moorish style architecture and markets full of melons. As Robert Runcie put it, at dinner in the bishop’s house served by the priests’ wives, ‘Until now Tashkent was just a place on the map; now it has a place in our hearts.’

Unfortunately for our dialogue, while we had been dismantling one barrier to union, the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church of the United States rapidly replaced it with another. The Orthodox felt deeply hurt. The Orthodox only agreed to meet again in 1978 in order to debate the issue and to ensure that their views would be put to the Lambeth Conference later that year. So we moved to Athens to Pendeli Monastery and I was asked to present the paper explaining why Anglicans thought it right to Æ

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The Rev Canon Professor John Riches reflects on almost four decades of Anglican-Orthodox relations.


ordain women. I spent a frantic few months trying to find and review any article for or against the ordination of women to the priesthood. The paper was unduly long but at least it uncovered some very dodgy arguments against the ordination of women and tried to show that this was a movement with a long pedigree in the church. It took particular issue with the notion that because the priest is the ‘icon of Christ’ he must necessarily be male. Why, I asked, was Christ’s maleness an essential aspect of his humanity as opposed say, to his Jewishness, his first century outlook and beliefs, the language he spoke etc? Did not christ, in his incarnation embrace all humanity, not just male humanity? The Orthodox issued a communiqué warning the Anglican Communion of the grave consequences of proceeding to the ordination of women. ‘By ordaining women Anglicans would sever themselves from continuity in apostolic faith and spiritual life.’ Archbishop Athenagoras denounced those who advocated women’s ordination as disciples of the devil. He did however present me with a large water melon and invite me to join the Orthodox delegation at dinner in a beautiful house in the woods outside Athens. As he confided: ‘We are all sinners’.

Despite all this, the conversations continued. And we continued to travel despite a major international crisis. On 1 September 1983, a Korean Airlines flight from New York to Seoul strayed into Soviet airspace and was shot down. All 269 passengers and crew on board died, including a US congressman. All Western European airline flights to the Soviet Union were suspended with the exception of those from Austria, which could not take such action because of the terms of its peace treaty with Russia. international tension rose as at few other times during the Cold War. We were due to be meeting in Odessa, and after much discussion about breaking the ban on travel to Russia decided to fly. Our journey took us to Vienna, then up to moscow and then down to odessa

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on the Black Sea where we stayed in the Monastery of the Dormition where the Moscow Patriarch has his summer palace. It was a place of great tranquillity and slightly decaying charm – we were put up in little summer houses in the gardens whose paths were shaded by vines and where foxes ran around at night. At the Liturgy in the cathedral in odessa on the Sunday morning we realised how high emotions were running in the Ukraine. It was as if we were some token that all was not lost on the slide into war. As we left the building, people were holding on to us, reluctant to let us go.

So what has happened since 1984 when we signed another agreement in Dublin? Meeting first in 1989 in New Valamo in Finland (lakes, midnight sun and saunas), we spent 16 years working on the doctrine of the church, a process designed to provide a solid doctrinal base for dealing with questions of ministry, not least of the ordination of women. Our discussions rose to a rare height, as Rowan Williams and John Zizioulas (a distinguished Orthodox theologian and former colleague at Glasgow) engaged in lively dialogue. The document, from the monastery of Kykkos in the Troodos mountains of Cyprus concluded, after giving anglican reasons for ordaining women: ‘While appreciating the pastoral motivation which has led the Anglican Communion to ordain women to the priesthood, the Orthodox think that the theological dimension of this matter remains open, and deserves

The orthodox issued a communiqué warning the Anglican Communion of the grave consequences of proceeding to the ordination of women.

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further and deeper consideration and study in ecumenical dialogue.’ It was a long journey from Moscow to Athens to Kykkos but for those who read carefully, the changes in tone and attitude and the greater openness are there to be seen and they are what makes dialogue worthwhile, despite all the frustrations and, often, tedium.

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Engaged in lively dialogue

And the future? A new group has been meeting now for four years (at Crete, Oxford, Albania and Chester), discussing practical and ethical issues: bioethics, the ecology and human rights. This is an exciting development for this kind of bilateral conversation. Instead of trying to resolve doctrinal differences, it is the attempt to make a joint contribution to the pressing issues of our times. It’s a very tall order but there is a collegiality about the discussions which is stimulating and refreshing. The journey continues.

The Revd Canon Professor John Riches is a priest and theologian, and animateur of many fairtrade activities. The original article appeared in The Scottish Episcopal Church’s Inspires magazine.


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“SING A NEW song!” proclaimed Brighton malasa, the energetic and youthful bishop in charge of youths for the Church of the Province of Central Africa (CPCA).

He was speaking to more than 50 delegates from across the Province in Zambia’s capital Lusaka in December for a Provincial Youth Leaders Conference. Organised by CPCA’s Bishops Conference it aimed to address, among other things, youth participation in the church and to develop the Province’s first ever Youth and Children’s Policy.

Bishop Brighton’s call to being positive and proactive came after some young attendees had complained that they felt sidelined in the church, and that their issues were often not well addressed by church leaders.

“An old song can have prejudices, a lack of belief in oneself and having fear of the unknown,” the Bishop explained. He was challenging young anglicans to realise they are also

called to be servants of God and should not dwell on the negatives.

But some young Anglicans felt most parishes did not value youth programmes and that excuses were made when it came to funding youth programmes. “The youths felt that the church values other things rather than youth programmes,” the Revd Kudakwashe Madzime told delegates after a group discussion with other young people from Zimbabwe.

The young people did, however,

praise the church for addressing issues that affected them. Tafadzwa Chimbetete, from the Diocese of harare, said, “there are a lot of young clergy, which shows that the diocese is affording us an opportunity.” Nevertheless he said there were still significant gaps in communication between young people and church leadership.

What was clear from the conference was that young people believed they were making a significant contribution to the life of the church in the Province and Africa as a whole.

The conference delegates agreed that young people are the cornerstone or, as one person called them, “the backbone” of the church. Nevertheless there were concerns the church might be losing this energetic age group.

“We are losing out a lot of the young people to the secular world and other churches,” said the Youth Chairperson of the Diocese of Central Zimbabwe, Munashe Dicha. “We are suggesting that we be allowed to have a youth service that is relevant to the youths as

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a way of accommodating and keeping the youths in the church,” he added. Asked to explain how the service can be made more relevant to the youths, the vibrant young man said, “We [use] traditional instruments such as drums and tambourines, but young people nowadays are interested in guitars and keyboards and the introduction of such instruments would be of so much help.”

Hosnney Tumisung, the Diocesan Youth Treasurer from the Diocese of Botswana observed, “The Anglican Church is known to be traditional so the youths have brought life to the church by way of music and dance. We’re bridging the gap between the Pentecostal churches and our traditional Catholics because we’re losing most of our members to the Pentecostal churches”.

One recurring issue was the lack of adequate funding to implement youth programmes in the Province. The establishment of a Youth Fund could therefore not have come at a better time. The

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involved and are optimistic about the future. The Archdeaconry Children’s Ministry Co-ordinator for Lusaka, Gift Kasanda said, “If you look at attendance, you will find that most of the people that are found in the church are the youths and we’re the ones leading the praise and worship and even doing the tithing.”

it was hoped that the new Youth and Children’s Policy and the appointment of the Executive Committee to the Youth and Children’s Council would help address some of the many issues raised by the youths.

Some of the major highlights of the Youth Policy include the desire of the youths to “mainstream young people’s participation in all aspects of operations in the Province” as well as to “to make leadership development among the young people in the province a priority.”

The Youth Co-ordinator for Zambia Fr Robert Sihubwa was optimistic that “a Provincial Youth Office will be set up at the Zambia Anglican Council in Lusaka but the resolutions of the conference will be passed on to the archbishop for further consideration with the Bishops Conference.”

The enthusiasm for such new initiatives was evident with many young attendees making pledges of money and other materials. One of the youths even pledged to donate a laptop, and another his cellphone, to help kick-start the Provincial Youth Office.

young people themselves came up with a plan for how every youth member will be called on to donate an agreed amount of money on a monthly or quarterly basis towards the fund.

“Finance is always a challenge because most of our members are school-going children so they don’t have the money to fund our programmes,” admitted Hosnney. “But the Youth Fund is basically for all the age groups within the parameters set aside by the policy—that is from 12 years to 35 years—and with it we hope to raise funds to help with the day-to-day running of the diocese and Provincial programmes.”

Despite the challenges that face them, youths in the church appreciate opportunities to be

“Finance is always a challenge because most of our members are school-going children so they don’t

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Diocesan youth treasurer from the Diocese of Botswana

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mission to seafarers help stranded tugboat crew

A Honduran crew of six who were stranded in canada after their boat was caught in a strong storm system in the north Atlantic are going home. Anglican charity Mission to Seafarers provided the crew with food, clothing, lodging and moral support, and a public appeal eventually raised enough air miles points to pay for the six to fly back to their families.

1,400 Anglicans Ablaze in southern Africa

Around 1,400 Anglicans of all ages, colours, and church traditions attended the historic anglicans Ablaze Conference in Johannesburg in October. It was the sub-continent’s largest gathering of Anglicans in living memory and was described as “a launch pad for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to move forward in unity of purpose not felt in many years.”

The Revd Canon Nicholas Wheeler, Priest Missioner in one of Brazil’s more notorious areas, Rio de Janeiro’s City of God, has thanked Anglican Communion members for their prayers, financial support and hard work after the Church of Christ the King was restored and recently rededicated by the Bishop of Rio de Janeiro, the Rt Revd Filadelfo Oliveira.

The Communion at a glance

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Episcopalians reached out to Sandy’s victims

It is finished! Brazilian Anglicans celebrate church restoration in favella

Churches and church organisations, such as Episcopal Relief and Development, in the United States and the Caribbean have responded after Hurricane Sandy claimed more than 100 lives in October. Examples of the assistance in affected areas included providing

food and drinks to people queuing for petrol, plus organising three meals a day and places to sleep for those left homeless by the storm. Other churches welcomed people seeking support; whether Wi-Fi access, coffee, phone charging or prayer.

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SHAR-RON KüNZ AND CHRISTOPHER KüNZ


Church leaders, members, friends and partners gathered at CNI Bhavan, New Delhi, in November to celebrate 42 years since six denominations joined together to form the Church of North India. It’s Moderator the Most Revd.

Dr. Philip Marandih spoke on John 17:21a “That all of them may be one…” underscoring the CNI motto ‘Unity, Witness and Service’.

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melanesian Brothers have new spiritual home

The melanesian Brotherhood at Tabalia together with the church members, family and friends attended the blessing and dedication by Primate of the Church of Melanesia, Archbishop David Vunagi of their new $1.3m 600-seater Saint Luke Chapel at MBH headquarters. Support for it came from Melanesia and around the Anglican Communion.

More than 1,500 people have so far signed an online petition by the episcopal Diocese of New York calling on President Obama and Congress to ban assault weapons. The move came after a gunman shot and killed 20 young children and seven adults. The petition challenges the US’s leaders to take steps “that have the real promise of averting such an atrocity in the future.” Find the petition at http://bit.ly/xt5hLw

Church of North India celebrates 42 years of unity

1,500+ people sign Ny diocese’s gun petition

New community centre for African Australians

The Brotherhood of St Laurence and The Anglican Parish of Footscray have proudly launched the African Australian Community Centre, in a heritage-listed bluestone church building in Footscray. This joint venture—between the Brotherhood, Church, community and local government, will assist African migrants and refugees in Melbourne’s west to settle in their new country and build a positive future.

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When Dr roWan Williams announced he was stepping down as Archbishop of Canterbury, the media, the Internet and churches everywhere were abuzz with guesses and hopes as to his successor. Not long afterwards, the Crown Nominations Commission (CNC)—the Church of England’s 16-person body tasked with identifying suitable episcopal candidates—set to work.

For the first time in history, the CNC decided to ask members of the worldwide anglican Communion for their views on the priorities for the ministry of the next Archbishop of

Canterbury. Their invitation—sent via email, letter and the Anglican Communion News Service—said this would “enable the members of the Commission to have as rich a picture as possible as they begin their work.”

Hundreds of replies were received from Anglicans and episcopalians worldwide and, according to non-voting CNC member Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Canon Kenneth Kearon, their contents became part of the background that assisted the Commission in its work.

Another first was that an Anglican Communion Primate was asked to join the CNC and, in the weeks before the CNC’s first

meeting, Primate of the Church in Wales archbishop Barry morgan was elected by the members of the Standing Committee.

An open secret

Eight months later the British government announced Bishop of Durham Justin Welby would be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. This came as no real surprise—the name had already been ‘confirmed’ by the media two weeks previously after bookmakers stopped taking bets on Bishop Justin getting the top spot. What did raise eyebrows was that this clergyman, only very recently raised to the position of bishop, should be called to the

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as Bishop of Durham—barely a year—meant the media struggled to report anything other than the bare facts about him. These included his education at Eton, Cambridge and Durham; his former life as an oil executive; his evangelical leanings and links to England’s Holy Trinity Brompton; and his position as a Benedictine oblate. The 56-year-old is married, the media told us, to Caroline. The couple have had six children, one of whom died in infancy. His parents divorced when he was a child. His father was a bootlegger in America.

They noted his time as a Canon at Coventry Cathedral and Dean of Liverpool Cathedral, followed by his year as Bishop of Durham.

Cross-cultural experience

Perhaps most interesting to the Anglican Communion were reports of his significant exposure to other cultures notably African and Middle Eastern, thanks largely to his work with the oil industry and later with Coventry Cathedral, where as Dean he led its ministry of reconciliation.

An expert on the politics and history of Kenya and Nigeria, Bishop Justin has also lectured on reconciliation at the US State Department and, with Canon andrew White, reopened the Anglican Church in Baghdad. Bishop Justin was also appointed a Pastoral Visitor by Archbishop Rowan and, as a result, visited The

Episcopal Church and The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) on several occasions.

The future

Bishop Justin’s Wikipedia entry is not much more informative and it’s perhaps fair that for most people the next Archbishop of Canterbury is an unknown quantity. But what is known is how much he values being part of a global communion. He recently told Anglican World that his appointment means “an awful lot” to him.

“It means the most extraordinary sense of privilege to be able to work with churches all over the world and have all these international links,” he said, “I’d never have dreamed I’d have the chance to do that. That really is the most exciting part of it because it’s seeing the global church at work. That’s amazing.”

The archbishop designate said that in his new role he was faced with “a challenge for the imagination”.

“What do we mean by the Anglican Communion and how does it contribute as a blessing to the world in which we live in its present circumstances? That’s something that I think Rowan has been brilliant at, so have the Primates generally, and the ACC, as we see from the range of subjects covered in New Zealand. It’s something that we need to continue.

“That challenge to the imagination is something that is constantly renewed and we need to be very reactive to it, and not

allow ourselves to get bogged down in looking inward.

he said that the strength of the Anglican Communion was its universal coverage: “Its bridging between the more catholic and more protestant traditions in Christianity. Its ability to reach almost every part of the church in one part or another and to build bridges and make links. Even in places where it’s a small minority it has the ability to influence government policy and action, to be an agent of reconciliation and of blessing. That’s really significant.”

When asked about his priorities for his role as the Communion’s Focus of Unity he replied: “I think the key thing in the early period is meeting people and understanding how to serve the Communion most effectively; it’s a listening role initially.”And his message for the Anglican Communion? “At the core of it it’s ‘Be confident in the gospel of Jesus Christ and in every way look to live and share that.’”

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From very early on, the Workgroup had set out the key objective of the new website - to strengthen the identity of the hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui by telling our community and the world who we are and how we fulfil our missions. The website should facilitate and encourage church members and others to reach us, whether they are looking for place to worship, a school or social service. The new website should also be the central platform which pulls together Echo, our provincial news service with information and updates from our three dioceses and the Macau Missionary Area. Finally, the website should link up with popular social networks with flexibility of adding new content and features in the future.

The result is a bi-lingual website that both looks vastly different and offers a lot more than its predecessor. It features a pictorial history of Sheng Kung Hui, introduction to Anglican liturgy, plus sections on Spirituality and Fellowships. The search function enables any visitor to look for a nearby Anglican church, an Anglican school or one of the 170+ social service units associated with the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council. The common Church Diary shows events from each diocese. Photos from events such as the Provincial Sports Day are now available from the online photo album. Finally, news articles from Echo, the provincial bulletin (published weekly in Chinese and several times a year in English.

Please visit the new Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui website at www.hkskh.org and send us your comments and suggestions to [email protected].

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HONG KONG SHENG Kung Hui (HKSKH) greeted New Year 2013 with the launch of its new website. When the clock struck midnight (GMT+8) on 1 January, 2013, the new digital portal into the anglican Church of Hong Kong and Macau appeared.

The new website was 15 months in the making. Back in September 2011, a new committee, the HKSKH Information and Communications Workgroup was formed comprising communications and IT experts from around the province. The Workgroup formulated the development strategy, design preferences and content of the new website. A university intern from one of the parishes then worked through the summer of 2012 to collect, verify and input

‘the content, which was contributed by historians, clergy and leaders of various ministries. Staff from the provincial office, including the editorial team from the Echo bulletin, underwent training in September 2012 on how to upload articles, photos and maintain the online directory. Then after a three months’ testing and nursing period, the website was finally launched for the New Year.

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2012 MARKED THE centenary of the formation of the Diocese of iran and the bi-centenary of the death of Henry Martyn, the forerunner of Anglican missionary work in Iran. He lived in Shiraz for eleven months from 1811-12 to translate the New Testament into simple and direct Persian.

But it was not until the consecration of the Revd Charles Stileman in July 1912 as the first Anglican Bishop in Iran that a diocese could be formed. CMS began work in the country in 1869 when the Revd Robert Bruce on his way to India stopped in the Julfa suburb of Isfahan to help Armenian Christians at a time of famine. He was charged by CMS with revising Martyn’s translation and eventually produced a translation of the whole Bible in 1895.

Between 1875 and 1900, CMS began medical and educational work in four southern Iranian cities, Isfahan, Yazd, Kerman and Shiraz. Small congregations were formed and these cities (along with some outlying villages), with the addition of Tehran in the 1950s, remained the focus of diocesan work during the 20th century until the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

Bishop Stileman retired because of ill-health in 1915 and after the First World War was succeeded in 1919 by Bishop James Linton who made the development of an Iranian Episcopal/Anglican Church and the training of clergy and lay leadership a priority. This policy was continued by his successor Bishop William Thompson who, in the early 1950s, ordained a number of young Iranian men from Jewish, Muslim and Zoroastrian backgrounds to lead the congregations. And it was from among their number that the first Iranian Bishop, Hassan Dehqani-Tafti (in 1961), and his successor, Iraj Muttahedeh, were consecrated.

During the 1960s and 1970s Iranians took on the leadership of the Church, its congregations and institutions. The Church developed a more Iranian character. Bishop Dehqani-Tafti was a notable poet, hymn-writer, author, pastor, preacher and leader. He became the first President Bishop of the newly created Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East in 1976 handing on that role after ten years. The diocesan medical and education work and its ministry among blind people flourished and were well received as they sought to express the values of the gospel in practical care.

With the 1979 Islamic Revolution came what Bishop Dehqani-Tafti called ‘the hard awakening’. A week after the February revolution, the Revd Arastoo Sayyah was murdered in Shiraz. In the following months the diocesan hospitals and other institutions

in Isfahan and Shiraz were expropriated and other diocesan property seized. In October there was an attempt on the life of Bishop Dehqani-Tafti and his wife, which they miraculously survived. On attending meetings of the Anglican Communion later that month, he was advised by trusted colleagues inside and outside Iran to remain outside the country.

In 1980 his secretary, Jean Waddell, was wounded by intruders, and a week later the bishop’s only son, Bahram, was brutally murdered in Tehran. The bishop’s remarkable prayer for forgiveness for his son’s murderers was widely circulated and moved many. In August 1980 seven members of the Church were arrested including the Revd Iraj Muttahedeh, and released in February 1981.

Bishop Dehqani-Tafti remained outside Iran for the rest of his life. He devoted himself to completing his time as Presiding Bishop, to support for the Church in Iran and to writing extensively in Persian to provide resources for Iranians, including a three-volume study of ‘Christ and Christianity among Iranians’.

He retired in 1994 to be succeeded by Iraj Muttahedeh who had been consecrated to be assistant Bishop in iran in 1986. With the retirement of Bishop Muttahedeh in 2004 the President Bishop invited Bishop Azad Marshall, from Pakistan and an Assistant Bishop in the Province to be Vicar-General of the diocese and to visit regularly. In 2007 Bishop Azad was installed as Bishop in Iran. Although not able to reside in the country he visits as often as possible to provide encouragement and pastoral oversight.

Today congregations of Christians continue to worship regularly in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz. They may be few in numbers but they deserve the prayers, support and encouragement of Christians across the world.

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reBranDing – The very word conjures up negative connotations. There is a sense that well known and much loved institutions are being cast aside in favour of the new, the trendy, the glib and the slick, and that the very nature of an organisation is being tampered with and its ethos please marketeers and focus groups. Baby and bath water – all gone leaving supporters or customers the worse.

Faced with declining numbers of supporters, we knew we had

to communicate and engage with anglicans in Britain and ireland in a way that would increase our support for global mission and the churches and communities we work with around the world.

This has been a year of deep change for Us. We started the year as USPG (United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) – a

name largely devised in 1701 – and end the year as ‘Us’. Reflecting on our journey as an organisation, i feel happy, energised and optimistic about our future, but also challenged – in a good way!

Before we embarked upon this process, as trustees, directors and staff, we determined that our gospel values would remain at the very heart any decision we might make. We went on to consult as widely as possible. Of course consultation and decision-making are two separate processes. Some remained unhappy at the prospect of our name change, but in such situations we endeavoured to explain personally to allay concerns.

Choosing the name was difficult. In the end we chose to amend our name to United Society, essentially a truncation of our previous name that nicely abbreviates to Us. And what a gift this name has turned out to be – our new name is both aspirational and inspirational. In a world that is increasingly individualistic, it speaks to community and inclusion.

I have worked at the nexus of mission and development for a long time. I have seen how access to healthcare, education, women’s empowerment, economic development and food security can help people to grasp the full life promised by Jesus (John 10:10). For me, our new name

reinforces the understanding that development work is most effective when it is owned by the community – locally and globally – when it is owned by ‘Us’. It is only when we acknowledge our inter-dependence – and stop thinking in terms of ‘us and them’ – that we can truly empathise. And it is out of this sense of solidarity, rather than a sense of pity or guilt, that we can most effectively stand alongside each other in facing the challenges we all face. Put another way, in this journey of life, we are in it together. And this sense of inclusion is contagious! It’s you. It’s me. It’s your neighbour. It’s local. It’s global.

In 1701 – the year we were founded – ‘propagating the gospel’ was the right language to communicate our understanding of God’s mission. In 2013, it’s about sharing, learning, listening and seeing God in each one of us.

By Janette O’Neal, Chief Executive, Us (formerly USPG)


Choosing the name was difficult. in the end we chose to amend our name to united society, essentially a truncation of our previous name that nicely abbreviates to Us

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A unique path to the city of Godb y j e r e m y w o o d h a m, c m s

CHRISTIANS IN BRAZIL and Britain have forged stronger links thanks to a recent ordination service at the Church Mission Society [CMS] base in Oxford, England.

Mark Simpson, a CMS mission partner, was ordained a Deacon at the CMS centre; the first step on the road to priesthood in the Anglican Church. What is unusual in Mark’s case is that he will serve in Rio de Janeiro, not a British parish.

In fact, with his wife Jess, he is off to the city of god (cidade de Deus), made famous in the 1997 Paulo Lins novel and subsequent film.

But where those told the story of organised crime and violence, Mark will be working alongside

someone telling a different story, one of potential and hope. The Revd Nicholas Wheeler, a British Priest Missioner, is the first full-time priest of the Parish of Christ the King in the City of God. The church plays a central role in the life of the now-infamous favela.

Mark is also set to work with the Revd Ben Phillips, a CMS mission associate and the English chaplain of Christ Church Rio, and assist at the anglican cathedral in Rio. The two priests will supervise Mark during his curacy.

As well as being an example of great partnership across the Anglican Communion, this is a teaming up of three missions. Nicholas is supported by Us (formerly USPG), and Ben is sent through the Intercontinental Church Society.

Mark and Jess have both loved South America for many years, since their gap years in Peru, and have felt God calling them in that direction as mission partners.

In the UK, Jess has been working for Happy Child, a Brazilian NGO working with children at risk. She has also supported the development of the Alpha Course in Latin America.

In 2012 Mark finished training at St Mellitus’ College and also completed an MA in Biblical Studies at King’s College. Long term, it is envisaged he will support

theological education work in South America.

Jess hopes to continue working with children at risk, as there is an ongoing need for concerted action in caring for Brazil’s poorest and most marginalised children.

The unusual ordination was performed—with all the necessary permissions—by the Rt Revd Christopher Cocksworth, Bishop of Coventry and CMS’s Episcopal Visitor. The Bishop of Rio, the Rt Rev Filadelfo Oliveira who was present at the ordination said Mark “would expand the Church’s mission in Rio”.

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by ja n bu t t e r, an g l i c a n wo r l d e d i to r

Recently I have thought a lot about how communications impacts communion. The worldwide Anglican Church, of course, has communion at its heart. At the heart of communion is connection and there can be no connection without communications.

Communion is important for many reasons, not least because Jesus himself prayed that all his disciples “may be one”; between the persons of the Trinity there is co-operation, collaboration and communication.

As Communications Director at the Anglican Communion Office my task is to support and encourage the Anglican Church to engage in communication that promotes communion. I thought this mandate was a fairly recent initiative – perhaps necessitated by increased globalisation and rapidly improving technology. In fact, I discovered it goes back to at least the 19th Century. At the 1848 Lambeth Conference, the bishops wrote:

“It appears that the want has been much felt of some centre of communication among the Churches in England, Ireland, Scotland, America, India, the colonies, and elsewhere, through which ecclesiastical documents of importance might be mutually circulated, and in which copies of them might be retained for reference”.

They called for a Communications Department “supported by special contributions” based at the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK). This initiative was sadly later downscaled to the production of an ‘encyclical letter’ for bishops worldwide. Still, here is proof positive the Anglican Communion’s earliest bishops wanted better connections, better relationships through improved communication.

A century later, the 1948 Lambeth Conference commissioned a twice-yearly publication to help “maintain and strengthen the bonds of affection between bishops of the Communion”. That magazine, Pan-Anglican was eventually replaced by Anglican World magazine, aimed

Enhancing communion: A lesson from history

at an ordained and lay readership. After 150 years, we still

need effective inter-Anglican communications to support our global communion and invite others into it. What has changed is the plethora of communications channels available to us, allowing our messages greater speed, reach and impact.

In our search for church growth, perhaps a challenge for every Christian should be to think strategically and intentionally how we can best communicate with each other and the world to promote and enhance communion to the glory of God.

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