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> Continuing Indaba: web pages now available

Posted On : April 30, 2010 1:23 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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The Continuing Indaba project sponsored by the Archbishop of 
Canterbury and endorsed by the Anglican Consultative Council has 
launched its new presence on the World Wide Web at 
<http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ministry/continuingindaba>http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ministry/continuingindaba

The arrival of Continuing Indaba on the Internet as part of the 
Anglican Communion web site makes visible the preparatory work 
already in hand for the series of pilot conversations between 
dioceses from different parts of the Communion to take place during 
2010 and 2011.

Visitors to the new site will find an outline of the project,, which 
explains its origins as located within an African conversational 
method for resolving real or potential conflict through mutual 
listening and debate. The process emerges from the Indaba-style 
format used at the 2008 Lambeth Conference which is now being 
expanded to enhance the world-wide Anglican Communion in its quest to 
intensify relationships in the cause of shared mission.

These pages carry news of the initial series of 'hub' meetings around 
the world during late 2009 and early 2010 whose remit is to develop 
resources which can guide and inform the model conversations between 
participants from dioceses from across the world.

There is also a growing library of the resource papers generated from 
and through the 'hubs' in order to make them as widely available as 
possible for those wishing to follow the development of the 
Continuing Indaba conversations planned for 2010 and 2011. This 
library will expand and grow as the project develops in the hope that 
a growing and continuous process of conversation will be ignited 
throughout the Anglican Communion.

It is intended that the Continuing Indaba web presence will carry 
reports from each stage of the project and specifically from each of 
the pilot conversations as they are planned and take place. It will 
become a universally-accessible resource, not only for those 
participating or taking an interest in the programme of events 
planned for the next two years, but also for those who may be 
inspired by the project to embark on their own journeys of 
conversation across the Communion, and who may in turn be able to 
contribute their own resources and stories to the site.

Continuing Indaba Project Director the Revd Canon Dr Phil Groves 
said, "Continuing Indaba seeks to draw upon biblical models of 
engaging in conversation across difference and upon a diversity of 
cultural insights to energise local and global mission. It aims to 
restore trust so we can listen to one another and the insights we 
bring so that Christ can be made known. Our new web presence is an 
invaluable tool because it gives to this project a virtual meeting 
place complete with notice boards, news bulletins and a library, open 
24 hours a day to anyone online anywhere in the world. Best of all, 
for many interested people it is making Continuing Indaba visible for 
the first time, showing what has already been done and what's going 
to happen next."

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba says "I believe Continuing Indaba will 
enable us to hear one another on numerous issues which may confront 
and challenge us in our global communion."

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For more information about Continuing Indaba, please contact Jan 
Butter on 07889400899 or jan.butter@anglicancommunion.org