Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

At its annual meeting in London on September 8th and 9th, over 90 members of the Compass Rose Society, which provides financial support to the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council, heard the Bishop of Haiti, the Right Reverend Jean Zaché Duracin, say of this year’s earthquake, “in just 35 seconds, what we had built up in over 200 years was completely destroyed.”

Describing the terror and destruction of the day of the quake the bishop said, “we see January 12 as a day of baptism; we have been reborn for a new creation" and he noted that, “everyone who is alive in Haiti today has a story to tell.” Of the recovery effort he said, “we rely on our Gospel story of faith, courage, and vision and our Episcopal Church in mission."

Compass Rose Society President the Right Reverend Philip Poole, Bishop of York-Credit Valley, Ontario, Canada, said that the Society would donate $10,000 toward the Haitian recovery effort.

In his remarks to the Society, Bishop Poole observed that since its founding 16 years ago the Society has provided over $6.5 million to various ministries throughout the Anglican Communion. (Details of these gifts can be found here). Along the way, the Compass Rose Society has broadened its mission and now supports the ministry of the Archbishop of Canterbury, its patron, in and though the Anglican Communion.

“We have come to see ourselves as much more than a source of funds for various ministries,” said Poole. “In fact one of the largest threats to the Society’s ministry is the impression that we are only about money. But those who are engaged in this ministry and who have journeyed with us to other churches in the Communion know the life changing experience of meeting with, praying with and supporting Anglicans with whom otherwise we would have no connection. Our visits to Churches in the Communion help bring Anglicans together.”

The Compass Rose Society, founded in 1997, takes its name from the symbol of the Anglican Communion. Its Web address is www.compassrosesociety.org. New members are welcome.

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