Episcopal News Service November 1, 2006
Lambeth Conference preparations continue as the St. Augustine's Seminar approaches
Lambeth Conference 2008 Press Media Release no. 3
[Source: Anglican Communion News Service] The St. Augustine's Seminar, to be held next week in London, has as its task the fine-tuning of the program of the Lambeth Conference 2008.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, said in a recent pastoral letter: "The St. Augustine's Seminar, in a new format, will be digesting what emerges from the process and working towards a full program. The Lambeth Conference 2008 should reflect the discernment of the wider Communion, and it is essential that your agenda should be addressed, in a way that is fruitful for everyone. The proposed focus on theological formation and development is a way of trying to encourage you to explore what are your own most important needs, as individual bishops and as churches, not to impose a plan from outside."
The first session of the seminar will begin on November 5 and will include some 30 participants from various parts of the Anglican Communion, including Africa, India, Mauritius, Australia, Pakistan, South America, New Zealand, Canada, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, USA and the UK. Staff from Lambeth Palace and the Anglican Communion Office will also be present.
From the Anglican Communion office at St Andrew's House, London,
preparatory work has begun by the Lambeth Conference Manager, Sue Parks, and her new assistant, David Craig. Members of the Lambeth Conference Design Group and members from Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC) will also attend. Design Group member Bishop Thabo Makgoba of Grahamstown in South Africa, and Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary of the Lambeth Conference and secretary general of the Anglican Communion, will serve as co-chairs for the seminar.
Parks said that participants may want to address one specific question from their own experience by asking: "In which areas of Episcopal ministry do you discern bishops in your Province, and more generally, require additional training/formation? How best might such deficits be addressed?"
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