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A statement issued by a group of "bishops, women leaders and young leaders, united by a passion for climate justice, gathered during the Season of Creation 2018 at the Good Shepherd Retreat Centre in Hartebeespoort, South Africa." The participants, from 17 dioceses in 14 African countries, met under the auspices of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network and produced this statement after discussing "Adaptation, Mitigation, and the Witness of the Church in an Era of Climate Change".

The meeting of Anglican Primates, the senior bishops of the Anglican Provinces, took place in Canterbury between Monday 2 October and Friday 6 October at the invitation of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. 

I bring you greetings from the wider Anglican Communion; and they are real greetings in the Spirit-- warm and heartfelt. You – the Church of England – can never be just one of the 38 provincial churches of the Anglican Communion. As the very word ‘anglicana’ implies, there is a living tradition of faith in the Gospel as this church has received it, from the missionary work of St Augustine of Canterbury 1,420 years ago, to the particular experience of renewal in the English Reformation and beyond.

An Anglican Guide for Christian Life and Formation

PDF of the bookmark listing the Five Marks of Mission featuring baptism

A bookmark of the Five Marks of Mission featuring a girl caring for the environment