Continuing Indaba Project News
Anglicans from the Diocese of Toronto who participated in the Anglican Communion’s one-year indaba process believe it can have a transforming effect upon the church if it is used more broadly.
Bishops of the Anglican Church of Kenya have resolved to forge a united front in advocating for a transformed and united nation in the run up to the 2012 elections.
An informal link that has existed for the past few years has now been made official after the Diocese of Llandaff was “twinned” with the Church of Bangladesh. 
Ghanaian bishop Festus Yeboah-Asuamah told a recent meeting of Ghanaian theologians that while the challenges facing the Communion were “complex”, and that the answers may yet be “far away” there was hope in unity. Speaking at the latest Continuing Indaba ‘hub’ meeting, Bishop Festus said, “There is hope! We should try as much as possible to keep the Anglican Communion together – we are one family.”
Last week the bishops of Ho in Ghana, Mbeere in Kenya and Saldanha Bay in South Africa gathered at St Julian’s in Limuru, Kenya, to discuss their and their dioceses' involvement in the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba project. After a dynamic and vibrant three days the bishops said they were returning to their dioceses with "excitement and hope for the future of the Communion".
Bishops from dioceses as far apart as Hong Kong, Jamaica and Toronto gathered last week to discuss the next steps of the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba project.
Chinese proverbs offered a Hong Kong-based group some helpful insights into ways Anglicans might best talk and work through their differences.
"Jesus Christ is the standard for discerning the path between authentic cultural expression and flawed syncretism, between ensuring we do not quench the Spirit and yet properly testing what we believe may be the Spirit's leading," said Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
Alexandria, VA– The Center for Anglican Communion Studies (CACS) at Virginia Theological Seminary hosted one of the Anglican Communion’s Resource Hubs this week as part of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams’, Continuing Indaba project. Indaba, a Zulu term used to describe a meeting for purposeful discussion among equals, was adopted by Williams prior to the 2008 Lambeth Conference to describe a move away from traditional plenary meetings and voting on formal resolutions.
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The arrival of Continuing Indaba on the Internet as part of the Anglican Communion web site makes visible the preparatory work already in hand for the series of pilot conversations between dioceses from different parts of the Communion to take place during 2010 and 2011.
“It came as a surprise to find myself in a room with people gifted in all areas,” said Stuart Burns, Head of the School for Ministry in the Leicester Diocese, on the first meeting of the UK and Ireland Resource Hub for the Continuing Indaba Project.