Anglican Mainstream

Thursday, August 26, 2010

We are delighted to announce that the annual conference will take place at St Saviour’s Church Walmer , Port Elizabeth from 16h00 Wednesday 27th to midday Friday 29th October 2010.

The conference this years will focus on the “The Gospel, Culture and Mission” as well charting the way forward for Orthodox Anglicanism in this region.

The Speakers will include:

Archbishop Dr. Eliud Wabukala of Kenya and a member of the GAFCON Primates council.

“GAFCON was never conceived as an alternative to Lambeth. We cannot go there (Lambeth) so what is the alternative then? We need to recover accountability in the church. We need to re-establish confidence in the church. While we believe dialogue has ended over sexuality issues not all the orthodox believe that dialogue with Lambeth has ended. Many believe it has ended and we are among them. Some orthodox want to continue to talk and dialogue. We are in a period of discernment for the orthodox, but we cannot do that by going to Lambeth, it would compromise us…

Rt. Rev. Dr.Joseph Lawrence Bishop of Nandyal Diocese and a member of the Theological Resource Group of GAFCON.

Bishop Lawrence is a mission activist. He has a great story to share about the way he has seen evangelism, church planting and transformational development take off in his diocese which is the only entirely SPG/Anglican diocese in the Church of South India and resisted joining it from 1947 to 1972.It has high Anglo Catholic liturgy,Charismatic and theologically Evangelical. He and Dr Vinay Samuel will be starting an Anglican Mission Society in India soon to mobilize orthodox Anglican development.

Rev Dr Vinay Samuel Founder and past Executive Director of Oxford Centre of Mission Studies

Rev. Samuel is recognized internationally as a missiologist and theologian. Dr. Samuel’s commitment to equipping leadership in the field of development has grown into the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS), a training center for mission practitioners form the Global South.

§ At the launch of the FCA South Africa, Canon Dr Vinay Samuel of India told participants:

“Can you bring the biblical resources of faith to shape the heart of South Africa’s agenda. Will its agenda be shaped by simply an ideology of rights and use the iconic status of leaders such as Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela to silence any other view? That is not a great gift to the world from South Africa. You will draw on the best of South Africa’s journey of social transformation. But you are called to the prophetic stance of the obedient disciple, rather than the stance of political people who have become messianic with the new universal of human rights which is now being imposed, claiming that these rights are self-evident –and if the Bible teaches anything different it is to be rejected. They own the Bible, and claim the Holy Spirit, for the service of this ideology. That is based on power, not on obedience.”[2]

Rev Dr Chris Sugden Executive Secretary of Anglican Mainstream

The Jerusalem declaration and statement restates what the Anglican church has always affirmed. Its importance for Anglicans is summed up by the many who said that Gafcon Jerusalem 2008 was one of the most significant weeks of their lives, the most fulfilling Anglican Conference they had attended, and where they discovered the reality of the global Anglican fellowship, united in seeking to live in obedience to the Bible.

Inquiries about Registration

Email: Neville Lobb

lobbsa@lantic.net

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