Heads Up! New Hope Campaign Total: $3,710,851.45
Lambeth Conference July and August - 2008 A New Look For the past five years, the Lambeth Conference Design Group has been dedicated to designing a new type of conference with twin goals: equipping bishops as leaders in God’s mission thereby strengthening the mutually responsible and interdependent life of the Anglican Communion in service to God’s mission. The result is three daily programmatic aspects of the conference. The first is study groups made up of eight bishops from different contexts. It is hoped they create a safe, face-to-face Christian community where honest and deep conversation can develop. The scond will be Indaba Groups where 40 bishops will engage common issues before the Anglican Communion. The third aspect will be afternoon Self-Select Sessions where bishops are free to chose among a variety of workshops, panels, lectures, etc. designed to equip the bishops as leaders in God’s mission and will be organized around the 10 issues of the Indaba Groups.
NOTE: There is no plan for plenary sessions where resolutions are debated and voted upon using parliamentary procedure.
The Lambeth Conference is taking a decidedly more conversational and prayerful approach to engaging difficult issues. Plan on keeping track of the progress of the conference and pray that the bishops will be better equipped to serve God’s mission in the world. [Taken from Episcopal Life Weekly]
| | Living Water:Gushing in Bethlehem, FLowing in Kajo Keji Archdeacon Howard Stringfellow and Charlie Barebo,chair of the New Hope Campaign and member of Diocesan Council, visited our companion Diocese of Kajo Keji in Southern Sudan on behalf of the New Hope Campaign and the Diocese of Bethlehem to strengthen the ties between our dioceses, meet with the person who is to be Bethlehem's representative in Kajo-Keji during the Campaign's construction of schools and the Canon Benaiah PoggoCollege, and inspect the progress of those constructions. [Taken from website of Diocese of Bethlehem] |