Episcopal News Service March 1, 2007
Listening: Archbishop of Canterbury to visit South Africa, Angola
TEAM conference will focus on church's commitment to the MDGs
[Lambeth Palace] The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, is scheduled to be in South Africa and Angola March 5-13 as part of an official visit to the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, one of the 12 Anglican Provinces on the African continent.
The visit, announced in the Archbishop's Presidential Address to the Church of England's General Synod on February 26, will begin in Boksburg, South Africa, where Williams will be a keynote speaker at the Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM) (http://www.team2007.org) conference that will focus on the church's contribution to achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals.
Hosted by Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town, TEAM will bring together delegates from around the Anglican Communion to focus on ending extreme poverty, stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS, and ensuring proper care and treatment of those affected by the virus. Around 350 people are expected to attend from across the Communion to discuss how the church can do more as one of the world's largest grass roots development networks.
A key theme of TEAM is the Christian faith as a powerful component in the transformation of motivation needed to end poverty and face the issues of climate change both in the affluent North and global South. "It is upon the grass roots delivery networks of the churches in Africa that achieving the Millennium Development Goals will depend, to a very great extent," said Williams, who will preach at the opening Eucharist in Tsakana and give a keynote address at the Conference on March 7 on the biblical principles for social activism and programs by the church.
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