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ACNS LC063 - 29 July 1998

Lambeth plenary will target youth issues

by Lisa Barrowclough
Lambeth Conference Communications

Prayer, praise, celebratory song and champion cheerleaders
promise an energetic "Youth" plenary Friday morning.

The Ascension Eagles, a team of European champion cheerleaders
from inner-city London will start their demonstration at 11:15
a.m. precisely.

 "The Connected Generation," a video about youth culture, and
"Speak Out," a video on youth ministries in challenging
situations, will set the scene for a series of discussions with
youth workers. First, however, Dean Borgman, professor of youth
ministries at an evangelical seminary in the United States and
consultant to Section Two, will share his vision of
"incarnational, contextual youth ministry."

Opportunities will be offered twice during the plenary to listen
in on conversations. First, Lindsay Urwin, Bishop of Horsham
(England) will chat with Pete Ward, youth advisor to the
Archbishop of Canterbury, and two youth workers about "an
incarnational theology of youth ministry and praxis." Later in
the session, five bishops will reflect on good experiences of
youth ministry in their own dioceses.

A multicultural and ecumenical group of young "Bible dancers"
will portray the story of the feeding of the 5,000 from John's
Gospel. They will also remember the Dunblane tragedy that took
the lives of Scottish schoolchildren.  

The session will conclude with a celebratory song, which all will
be invited to sing, and a challenge from Bishops Urwin and David
Moxon, Bishop of Waikato (New Zealand).  

"Our message to the bishops," says Bishop Urwin, "is that they
themselves should go out and talk to the young people in their
dioceses!" 

The evening service Friday at 5:45 p.m., part of the day's focus
on youth, will be led by young people from the Diocese of
Chichester (England). A youth band will lead the service of
praise. 

For further information, contact:

   Lambeth Conference Communications
   Canterbury Business School
   University of Kent at Canterbury
   Telephone: 01227 827348/9
   Fax: 01227 828085
   Mobile: 0374 800212

   http://www.lambethconference.org