Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism : Communique : 11 December 2003
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article31019
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2004 New Year (2003 / 2004)
- Issue
- 112
- Page
- 39
- Notes
- The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism (IASCOME) met at Runaway Bay in Jamaica from 1-11 December 2003. It will meet once more in February 2005 before reporting to the Anglican Consultative Council Meeting in that year. "In our work together, we discussed the ongoing tensions and difficulties for Christians living under the shadow of war and terrorism, violence and poverty. Stories from across the Communion testify to the variety of creative responses Anglican churches are making to effect peace, justice, and community development. Our discussions drew particular attention to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS, globalization, United States led military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Islamisation". The Commission also affirmed the two consultations of Provincial Co-ordinators of Mission and Evangelism held in Nairobi in 2002 and Larnaca in 2003 as well as the gathering of Anglican Contextual Theologians [ACTs] held in Cambridge, Mass., in May 2003. "We were saddened that the Anglican Communion is currently living with deep tensions and disagreements over certain issues in human sexuality such that there is impaired communion between some of the churches in the Communion. Members spoke honestly about how recent actions by, and reactions to, the Episcopal Church in the United States have caused hurt, anger, and pain to many across the world and the Anglican Communion. We believe, however, that how we relate as a Communion in mission offers hope and healing to this fractured family of churches. We commit ourselves to living together in mission. We offer our stories and relationships in mission to the Anglican Communion as signs of God's transforming love". Dr. Ellie Johnson, is the Anglican Church of Canada member on the Commission.
- Subjects
- Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Mission and Evangelism
- Evangelism - Anglican Communion - Congresses
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Location
- General Synod Archives