Diocese of Bethlehem

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]