ACNS 4823 Weekly Review 5 March - 18 March, 2

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ACNS 4823 Weekly Review 5 March - 18 March, 2011

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A weekly roundup of Anglican Communion news plus
opinion, reviews, photos, profiles and other
things of interest from across the Anglican/Episcopal world.
This week's edition is a bumper edition that
covers the last two weeks. It includes...
·         This week's Anglican Communion news
·         Anglican Life - Global Alpha training takes off
·         Anglican Life - Communion theologians
in Jamaica for CMS 150 anniversary
·         Anglican Life - Zambia trains election monitors
·         Anglican Life - 400 years of the English church in Germany!
·         Anglican Life - Levelling the playing field for all in Burundi
·         Comment - USPG's new chief speaks
·         Publication of the week - Online daily social media 'newspapers'
·         Bookshelf - The 'madness' of St Paul...
·         Video - iPhone worship?
·         Images - Cathedral choir plays key role in memorial service
·         The coming week's Anglican Cycle of Prayer.


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ANGLICAN NEWS
·         Japan - "Easter will be a time of hope,
a small shoot amongst the rubble."
·         Anglican Alliance - Anglicans, Christian Aid renew partnership
·         Global - Communion responds as
Anglicans, Episcopalians seek to give to Japan
·         South Africa - Churches Outraged by
Threats Against SACC President & Anglican
·         England, Pakistan - No gentle death:
memorial service for murdered Christian Pakistan politician
·         South Africa - Churches Outraged by
Threats Against SACC President & Anglican bishop
·         Indian Ocean - Diocese of Mauritius:
Archbishop encourages a Lenten journeying with young people
·         Ireland - Church of Ireland launches
Lent ?Creation? Bible Study Project
·         New Zealand - National Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council to host gathering
·         USA - Income trends for female clergy mirror US averages
·         Japan - Pastoral Letter from Bishop
John Hiromichi Kato, diocese of Tohoku
·         Japan - A statement from the Archbishop
of the Anglican Communion in Japan
·         Japan - Bishop of tsunami-hit diocese is safe, but uncontactabl e.
·         Lambeth - Archbishop of Canterbury's
letter to the Primates of the Anglican Communion
·         Japan - Archbishop of Canterbury's prayers for the people of Ja pan
·         Japan - The Anglican Communion responds to the Japanese earthqu ake
·         Indian Ocean - Archbishop warns that
strains caused by "ethnic fragmentation" too great to be ignored
·         Philippines - Philippines' women
celebrate International Women's Day with protest and prayer
·         Indaba - ?The Anglican Communion is one
family? Ghanaian bishop tells theologians.
·         Nigeria - Anglican Church Organizes Guber Debate
·         USA - Honduran sewing factory helps men
and women living with HIV/AIDS
·         Ireland - Special Meeting of the
General Synod of the Church of Ireland
·         Canada - Anglican priest achieves doctorate in snowboarding
·         Middle East - Bishop of Jerusalem to
take court action over visa refusal
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ANGLICAN LIFE
Global Alpha training takes off
From Alpha News
More than 500 Global Alpha Training (GAT) teams
travelled around the world in 2010 to train
church leaders to run Alpha courses -- a 70 per
cent increase on the previous year.
The GAT project--which involves volunteer members
of churches with Alpha experience travelling to
train potential Alpha leaders in other
locations--is now set to grow exponentially in the next few years.
The teams are provided with training and
transcripts to enable them to give the GAT talks
with very little preparation. A range of two,
three or four-day conference programmes are
interactive and include sketches and illustration
to assist with explanations. Each GAT gives
delegates the opportunity to experience and practice elements of the course.
The average amount of GAT guests last year was
73, resulting in many new Alpha courses around the world.
In January a GAT team from St Michael le Belfrey
and Christ the Light Churches in York travelled
to Burundi to lead three days of training in the southern city of Makamba.
Rev'd Canon Roger Simpson, Archbishop's
Evangelist to the Northern Province and Rector of
St Michael le Belfry, said: "Having just been
part of an Alpha GAT team to Burundi I am
overwhelmed by the potential of Global Alpha
Training to spread the good news of Jesus Christ
to the nations and to re-inspire the local
mission of UK churches sending GAT teams."
Team member Christine Bayne said, it was amazing
working with the gifted young Alpha Burundi team
and watching God at work. The delegates were
hungry for all we had to share and already
courses are planned to start this month and next
in all three areas by those who caught the vision."



West Indies, English theologians to attend
Jamaica CMS celebration of 150 of service
From The Gleaner
Two Anglican theologians will visit Jamaica to
participate in an ecumenical symposium next
Monday, to mark the 150th Anniversary of the
Jamaica Church Missionary Society (JCMS).
They are the Reverend Drexel Gomez, retired
Anglican Archbishop of the West Indies, and the
Reverend Canon Paul Avis, general secretary of
the Church of England's Council for Christian
Unity. They will join members of the local
Christian community in exploring new approaches
to missionary activity, in keeping with the changing social environment.
The symposium at the Jamaica Conference Centre in
downtown Kingston is part of the year-long
anniversary activities, which will be launched on
Sunday, March 20, with a service at the Spanish Town Cathedral.
The JCMS is the recognised missionary agency of
the Anglican Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
To read more click here


Zambia Church trains monitors

By George Conger, The Church of England Newspaper
The Anglican Church in Zambia has launched a
programme to train election monitors in the
run-up to this year's general elections forestall
political violence and potential polling fraud.
It was better to "get involved and be prepared"
in the political system "rather than crying foul
after the election results have been announced,"
Lusaka diocesan secretary the Rev Jackson Katete
told the Zambian Post on March 7.
Zambia's constitution requires President Rupiah
Banda to call a general election this year for
representativesto the National Assembly and for
the presidency. On August 19, 2008 President Levy
Mwanawasa died in office, and an election was
held on October 30 to fill the remainder of his five-year term.
Acting-President Banda of the ruling Movement for
Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) stood for election
against Michael Sata of the Patriotic Front (PF)
party and a number of regional candidates ina
hotly contested, and sometimes violent, race.
Ultimately Banda was sworn in to office.
The Anglican Church in Zambia has been a strong
critic of government corruption and inefficiency,
but has avoided direct involvement ni partisan politics.
To read more click here

Celebrating 400 years of the 'English Church' in Hamburg
By Monica Schofield in the Diocese of Europe's The European Anglican magazi ne
2012 is not only the year of the London Olympics
and the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' final
concert in the Star-Club in Hamburg, it is also
the 400th anniversary of the founding of the
'English Church' in Hamburg: the first legally
established Anglican Church in Europe outside the
British Isles, and the first non-Lutheran church
to be permitted religious freedom within the city
walls of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
To claim to be the oldest or first of anything in
Europe is always fraught with the risk of
challenges but we make the claim above in italics
and await counter claims! It was in the interests
of trade, something so precious to the lifeblood
of the Hnase that religious principles can be put
aside, a contract was made in 1611 between the
Senate and the English overseas traders guild,
the Merchant Adventurers, permitting the founding
of an Anglican church in Hamburg. The Senate even
provided a building. The first sermon was
preached by the Revd John Wing in January 1612
setting a precendent for religious freedom.
The 400th anniversary of this event provides a
significant opportunity for celebration. the
congregation of St Thomas Becket, which nowadays
comprises a host of nationalities including many
Germans, is using this opportunity to engage with
a wider community of people in Hambury and
further afield to strengthen the fellowship of
its members, and promote the mission of the
church. a year-long celebration series of events
is being planned for the whole of 2012 with
activities ranging from concerts to dance, from
art exhibitions to walks and talks. Further
information can be found on the website www.stbecket400.de
To read more click here

Burundi diocese launches project to level playing field for all.
By EAB Press, the newsletter of the Episcopal Church of Burundi.
On the 9th February the Bethesda Project was
officially launched in Muyinga diocese. The
project?s vision is to bring disabled and
non-disabled people together as equal partners using outdoor activities.
At the opening ceremony young people with
disabilities were canoeing on Kavuruga Lake
alongside bishops and government officials and
demonstrating newly acquired archery skills.

The Bishop of Muyinga, the Rt. Rev. Eraste

Bigirimana, welcomed guests who included Peter
Sanders, the Project Director of The Kepplewray
Centre in UK. The Province and the local
administration pledged support for the project.
Sister Gareth, who represented the Saint John
Bosco Centre for Physical Handicaps in Muyinga,
praised Bethesda for helping children with
disabilities to enjoy life and feel valued.
See more news and photos at
http://www.anglicanburundi.org/  and short videos at EABBurundi on You Tube.
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COMMENT

First full interview with USPG's new Chief Executive
From USPG's website
In her first full interview since being appointed
as USPG?s new Chief Executive, Janette O?Neill
says ?working in partnership? is a mission imperative.
Janette joins USPG from Episcopal Relief and
Development ? the international development arm
of the Episcopal Church of the United States. She
replaces General Secretary Bishop Michael Doe, who retires this summer.

Janette, who was born in Wales and studied at
Bangor and Warwick, is the first woman to take
the helm at USPG, and the Society?s first
non-ordained General Secretary since the early eighteenth century.

Question: How did you start out in mission and faith-based development?

Janette: I began my career in Lesotho, working on
development programmes with Save the Children and
then with the Anglican Church. After nine years I
had a good understanding of how the church, the
big NGOs and aid programmes in general operated ?
and there was a lot that didn?t seem to work! In
the church, for example, I sometimes felt so
frustrated that the bishops and priests had so
few resources to support their work. This was a big lesson.

How were you able to implement these things you were learning?

Yes. My next job in development was in the USA,
working for Episcopal Relief and Development
(ERD). I was their Director for Africa, so I was
able to make use of all the things I had been
learning about the importance of listening and working in partnership.

I joined ERD at a significant time. The

organisation was going through major change. The
policy at ERD had been receiving applications,
deciding what looked good, and sending many small
grants totalling millions of dollars ? with very
little follow-up or evaluation. No wonder this
wasn?t working: how can people sitting at a desk
in New York know what?s best for villagers in
Africa? So I made it my aim to implement some new
ways of working that had more to do with
listening and responding to grassroots issues.

But then, in 2003, Bishop Gene Robinson was

consecrated to become the first openly gay bishop
in the Anglican Communion ? and this sent shock
waves throughout the Communion, particularly in
Africa. After this, there was a need in our
relationships to respect our differing contexts,
and concentrate on the many shared values and
common goals. Nevertheless, we continued to
support community development, enabling parishes
to live out their own vision for God?s work.


What is your vision for USPG?



To read more click here
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PUBLICATION OF THE WEEK
Online 'newspapers' available for Communion
members with social media news to publish
http://paper.li is a website that lets you read
and offer your favourite Twitter and Facebook
messages in a newspaper format. Take a look at
the Compass Rose Daily, the paper.li of the
Compass Rose Society an International
Organization which seeks to support the ministry
of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican
Communion. The over 270 members from 10 countries
make common cause in providing resources for our
Anglican brothers and sisters in different parts of the world.
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VIDEO

US Christian musicians using the iPhone to show
that the church has come a long way from using lyres, harps and cymbals.

ACNS is not sure this will catch on, but it

certainly shows people are thinking of new ways of making music to the Lord!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaJ4A7mXJH8
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IMAGES

The Christchurch Cathedral Choir played a key
role in the National Memorial Service in which
New Zealand remembered those killed and affected by the earthquake.
They sang the final blessing to music by the
contemporary English composer John Rutter:
The Lord bless you and Keep you
The Lord make his face to shine upon you
To shine upon you and be gracious
And be gracious unto you.
And one of their number, Patrick Manning, who is
a student at Christ?s College, sang Pie Jesu as a
duet with Dame Malvina Major. The February 22
quake smashed the cathedral that is the choir?s musical and spiritual hom e.
So when they gathered in the Christ?s College
music theatre at 9:30 on the morning of the
memorial service, it was the first time they?d
rehearsed together since that jolt.
Lloyd Ashton, ANZP communicator, recorded their day with his camera.
See the pictures here:
http://anglicantaonga.org.nz/Features/Cathedral-Choir-plays-key-role
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BOOKSHELF

The Madness of St Paul - How St Paul rediscovered the Love of God
By Richard Dormandy
(Information from the publisher Redemptorist Publications)
In his book, Richard Dormandy charts with
compassion the journey of St Paul through the
'madness' of fear and self-loathing to a profound
dependence on God's grace and love. This unusual
and perceptive reading of St Paul will be of
interest to all students of the New Testament.
But it will also be profoundly liberating to all
Christians who have faced challenge, criticism
and burnout in their ministry. As St Paul
discovers the love of God in Christ Jesus, he
offers his own hard-won insights to all who struggle to trust in hard times.
The Revd Richard Dormandy is an Anglican Priest
and the vicar or Holy Trinity, Tulse Hill, in
London, and for several years taught New
Testament in Southwark and London dioceses, as
well as Birkbeck College, University of London.
He was twice shortlisted for The Times Preacher of the Year Award in the 19 90s.
Visit the Redemptorist website to hear an audio
introduction to the book by the author:
http://www.rpbooks.co.uk/product_details.php?category_id=0&search_string 
=madness&search_all=1&item_id=1505


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ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER Click here for the full ACP
Friday 18-Mar-2011
Psalm: 13    Job 6:1-13
Missouri - (Province V, USA) The Rt Revd George Wayne Smith
Saturday 19-Mar-2011
Psalm: 15    Job 6:14-30
Mityana - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Dunstan Bukenya
Sunday 20-Mar-2011     Lent 2
Psalm: 32:1-7    Ro. 4:1-12
Mombasa - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Julius Robert Katio Kalu
Mombasa - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Lawrence Dena
Monday 21-Mar-2011     Thomas Cramner Liturgy
Psalm: 112    Ro. 4:13-25
PRAY for the International Anglican Liturgical
Consultation and its mission to resource and
communicate liturgical issues across the Anglican Communion.
Tuesday 22-Mar-2011
Psalm: 12:1-6    Ro. 5
Monmouth - (Wales) The Rt Revd Dominic Edward Walker
Wednesday 23-Mar-2011
Psalm: 19:7-end    Ro. 6
Montana - (Province VI, USA) The Rt Revd Charles Franklin Brookhart
Thursday 24-Mar-2011
Psalm: 143:1-6    Job 7
Montreal - (Canada, Canada) The Rt Revd Barry B Clarke
Moosonee - (Ontario, Canada) The Most Revd Caleb James Lawrence


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