Interim cathedral gets go-ahead; Anglicans welcome International Development Select Committee’s report on South Sudan; Final call for participants from Asia and Latin America for young peacebuilders’ scheme; Anglicare CEO Lynn Arnold moves on to study and to seek ordination
Interim cathedral gets go-ahead
ACNS – A Transitional Cathedral for Christchurch, New Zealand – designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban – will be built in Latimer Square on the site of St John’s Church. The $4.5m cardboard structure, to be completed by Christmas, will be used for worship and community events until a new permanent cathedral is built. It will then become the worship centre for St John’s Parish.This “symbol of hope” was announced today by Richard Gray, representing the Transitional Cathedral Group, and Bishop Victoria Matthews. With 400 parishioners, St John’s is one of the larger parishes in the diocese and now worships at Mairehau High School and St Saviour’s, Sydenham.
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/4/16/ACNS5087
Anglicans welcome International Development Select Committee’s report on South Sudan
ACNS – UK Parliamentary recommendations on the Church’s role in education and peacebuilding have been welcomed by Anglican Alliance partners in the UK and South Sudan. The recommendations come in the report from the UK Parliament’s International Development Select Committee who held an inquiry into prospects for peace and development in the world’s newest country. The Anglican Alliance brought together the Episcopal Church of Sudan, the Diocese of Salisbury and Lambeth Palace to provide evidence to the inquiry. Rebecca Coleman, representing the Episcopal Church of Sudan, and Canon Ian Woodward of the Diocese of Salisbury, gave oral evidence to the Select Committee, focusing especially on the church’s education services in South Sudan, and the role played by the Church, in particular by Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul Yak, in peace-building.
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/4/16/ACNS5086
Final call for participants from Asia and Latin America for young peacebuilders’ scheme
ACNS – Applications are now open for young Anglican peacebuilders in to take part in a unique workshop on conflict resolution in the UK in July. The ten day programme, The Peacebuilders’ Exchange: Transforming Conflict, Changing Lives, is designed to develop the peacebuilding skills of young Anglican leaders. Run in conjunction with the Community of the Cross of Nails, it will explore the challenge of conflict as a barrier to pro-poor development and allow participants to share examples of best practice in conflict transformation across the Anglican Communion. Applications are now open for your peacebuilders from Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Philippines in Asia, and Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in Latin America. There are four fully funded places available. Applications for Africa have already closed.
http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/4/17/ACNS5089
Anglicare CEO Lynn Arnold moves on to study and to seek ordination
ACNS – After more than four years successfully leading Anglicare SA Dr Lynn Arnold will leave his position of Chief Executive Officer on June 30 to begin full-time study of theology and seek ordination. A previous Premier of South Australia, Dr Arnold has been exploring many areas of faith and spirituality and has for some time been in conversation with Archbishop Driver about moving into ordained ministry. At the age of 63 Lynn Arnold feels it is now time and will begin a year of full-time study at St Barnabas’ Theological College from the beginning of semester two in July. Reflecting on the values and compassion Lynn Arnold has brought to his role, Archbishop Driver said Anglicare SA had brought hope to thousands of South Australians under Lynn’s leadership.
http://www.aco.org/acns/digest/index.cfm/2012/4/17/Anglicare-CEO-Lynn-Arnold-moves-on-to-study-and-to-seek-ordination