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

Oct. 21, 1997
ANGLICAN COMMUNION NEWS SERVICE
Canon Jim Rosenthal, Director of Communications
Anglica Communion Office
London, England

[97.10.1.5]

ENGLAND: BISHOP LAUNCHES COMMUNITY INITIATIVE

(ACNS)  The Bishop of Wakefield, the Rt Revd Nigel McCulloch, last
weekend launched Church in Community,  a new initiative aimed at
highlighting existing links and forging new relationships between the
church and community.

"People often say to me that the church is out of touch, increasingly
irrelevant, no longer meaningful.  But Church in Community  will
highlight the extraordinarily diverse links that the Wakefield Diocese
and indeed the whole Church of England has throughout the community it
serves," said the Bishop of Wakefield this week.

During 1999, in time for the next millennium, Bishop McCulloch also
intends to visit every parish in his Diocese and hopes that Church in
Community will set the scene for a period of solid bridge-building
between various sections of the community including education, industry,
the arts, police and emergency services.