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[Audrey Whitefield <a.whitefield@quest.org.uk>]

August 26, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon James Rosenthal, Director of Communications,
Anglican Communion Office
London, England

ACC 1309 

THE GATHERING:INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN YOUTH MEET FOR PRE-LAMBETH
CONFERENCE CONSULTATION

(ACNS) Nearly 200 young people and church youth workers have come to
Great Britain in the hopes of having their concerns and ideas shared
with the Lambeth Conference in 1998.  Representing almost every Province
of the Anglican Communion, the delegates come with stories and
expectations that are representative of the global nature of the
Anglican/Episcopal family of churches.  They form what is called the
International Youth Network of the Anglican Consultative Council.

First stop for the pilgrims was Greenbelt, complete with its showers of
blessing in the form of continuous rain! Korean youth in national dress,
others with their specially designed tee-shirts with the Compass Rose,
others in Japanese kimonos, and Americans in designer shirts, all
enthusiastically joined in the opening Communion Service with Bishop
John Sentamu as the preacher.  Already moving stories have been heard
from representatives from Iran, Rwanda and the USA during a session at
Greenbelt.

The young Anglicans will journey to Lampeter University in Wales for
extensive meetings and lectures. Pete Ward, the Archbishop of
Canterbury's youth officer and Bishop Lindsay Urwin, who will be part of
the Lambeth Conference 1998 presentation on youth, will meet with the
group in Wales. Many delegates will be invited to various dioceses for
work in parishes next week; the gathering closes with a Eucharist in St
Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey with the Archbishop of Canterbury
and tea at Lambeth Palace on September 10th.

The Church Mission Society (CMS) has supported the Anglican Communion
project as well as major support from the Anglican Church in Wales.
Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, welcoming the gathering, said, "we are
coming together in the presence, the strength and the company of Christ
Himself". Archbishop George Carey said, "One of the things I long for,
both in my own province and throughout the Communion, is that the voices
of young people should become more prominent".

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