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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

>Episcopal News Service
>May 3, 2009

* TOP STORY - In Jamaica, thousands attend Anglican Consultative Council
Opening Eucharist
* MULTIMEDIA - Video: Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at ACC Opening
Eucharist
* MULTIMEDIA - Image Gallery: ACC Opening Eucharist

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In Jamaica, thousands attend Anglican Consultative Council Opening  Eucharist

Archbishop of Canterbury calls church to focus on mission

>By Mary Frances Schjonberg

[Episcopal News Service -- Kingston, Jamaica] The Anglican Church must
challenge itself and challenge its neighbors to respond the material and
spiritual needs of the world, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams  told
more than 6,000 people May 3 who attended the Caribbean-flavored opening
Eucharist of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) meeting here.

Williams' message reiterated remarks he made to ACC the day before when  he
called for a "proper focus on theology and our mission" and called  mission
"one of the elements that most securely and profoundly binds us together  as
a communion, not just an assembly of local enterprises."

The Anglican Communion is made up of around 77 million members in 44
regional and national member churches around the globe in 164 countries.  The
14th meeting of the 40-year-old council is being held in Kingston from  May
2-12.

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_107264_ENG_HTM.htm

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>MULTIMEDIA

Video: Archbishop of Canterbury preaches at ACC Opening Eucharist

[Episcopal News Service] Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams  preaches
May 3 at the National Arena in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of the Opening
Eucharist of the Anglican Consultative Council.

Video: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81231_ENG_HTM.htm

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>Image Gallery: ACC Opening Eucharist

[Episcopal News Service] An image gallery of the Opening Eucharist of  the
Anglican Consultative Council is available at
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81991_107253_ENG_HTM.htm