Anglican Communion News Service

As a follow up on the aspirations and desire of the Bishops at the 2008 Lambeth Conference "to develop a worldwide vision and strategy of church planting, growth and mission", taken forward by the Joint Standing Committee of the ACC and the Primates, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, The Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, invited a diverse group of people from around the Communion...

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Nearly 200 members from the global Anglican community attended the opening session of the annual event on Monday 30th October, which has been expanded since 2004 to incorporate World Mission issues as well as companion relationships between dioceses. As well as guests from UK, Partnership for World Mission (PWM) was delighted to welcome delegates from and representing Botswana, Canada, Estonia, Kenya, India, Ireland, Malawi, Malaysia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Uganda, US, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia

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In a new co-operative venture with the Church Mission Society (CMS), the Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion Office (ACO) is delighted to announce the appointment of the Revd John Kaoma Kafwanka as Mission and Evangelism Desk Officer for the Anglican Communion

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On the shore of the Aegean Sea, a small craft delivered a cross of olive wood from Bethlehem at morning prayer on the first day of the Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) near Athens

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Kibera slum is home to one million Kenyans on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are no legal water or electricity supplies, the sewers run through the middle of the mud “streets”, and when it rains, the corrugated iron shacks – single rooms that sometimes house more than ten people – flood with garbage and human excrement. Every few months, fires destroy large numbers of these shacks, killing and injuring their inhabitants. “This is an illegal settlement, it doesn’t exist,” said the Revd Richard W Mayabi, the priest of St Jerome’s Anglican Church in Kibera to the delegates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) Mission and Evangelism Conference last week. “Because Kibera doesn’t exist, its people also don’t exist.”

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A major conference held in Nairobi last week for representatives from across the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) has called for an Anglican renewal in the continent, both through prayer and a dynamic approach to mission and evangelism.

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Mission and evangelism coordinators, clergy and lay representatives from all of the 12 Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) and the Diocese of Egypt will gather in Nairobi from Easter Monday, 12-16 April, to develop the region’s strategy for mission work in Africa.

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A fund that has helped hundreds of clergy and their families with medical bills worldwide for 25 years is facing financial crisis. The Personal Emergencies Fund, set up by the late Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Coggan in 1979, is supported by donations from individuals and churches, and interest from investments. “Over the past year, it has helped 35 people,” said Marjorie Murphy, the Director for Mission and Evangelism at the Anglican Communion Office in London. “But the needs have been so very great the money is drying up fast.”

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Clergy training in the Church of England must give higher priority to understanding Islam, a consultation by the 11 member-agencies of the Anglican Partnership for World Mission (PWM) has concluded. The consultation, held at Launde Abbey in Leicestershire, 2-4 February, called for national guidelines to ensure clergy were competent in understanding Islam and capable of dealing with questions that their church members might raise in an era when inter-faith issues were so crucial.

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