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TEAM Meeting - 5th - 9th March 2007
'Towards Effective Anglican Mission (TEAM): An International Conference on Prophetic Witness, Social Development and HIV/AIDS.'
International Development is not something that stands isolated from
mission, but is integral to it. The TEAM meeting represents the best opportunity
Anglicans will have in the coming year to put the extraordinary human resources
of our Communion at the service of the most vulnerable in our world and
our own local communities. It will be a time to share successes and frustrations;
to celebrate our strengths and to address our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
As primates we committed ourselves through the Dromentine meeting in 2005
to playing our part in encouraging leaders of the nations to meet the Millennium
Development Goals. How we prepare for the Conference and make our various
contributions to it will be of great importance in the coming months. I
am delighted at the prospect of attending with my Secretary for International
Development to listen and to offer something of our own experiences of
faith based advocacy and service delivery in education, HIV/AIDS and in
post conflict reconstruction.
The vision of the conference is that people of the Anglican Communion will meet in a context of prayer and theology; sharing diverse experiences and views on specific social issues; renewing the church’s commitment and capabilities to respond to God’s call to service in the 21st Century.
Capability is affected by other factors too, such as age, gender and disease, but abject poverty - exacerbated by HIV and AIDS or other diseases, natural disasters and environmental degradation - limits any potential for holistic human development and robs people of their basic right to human dignity.
The Steering Committee has outlined seven objectives, which include the sharing of the African experience with others in the Anglican Communion, critically reviewing the response of the Anglican Communion to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and encouraging others to further collaborative efforts towards achieving the Goals.
Its main aims are
- To encourage a prophetic articulation for an Anglican theology which supports witness and action for social justice
- To explore the Role of the Anglican Communion and how its Witness and Mission can be affected by the Local context and the part it can play as a Global Communion
- To review critically the response of the Anglican Communion to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) and to encourage further collaborative efforts toward achieving the goals.
- Assessing the first Pan African Anglican Consultation on HIV and AIDS, which took place in August 2001 in South Africa.
An opportunity presents itself for the Anglican Communion to explore fresh and innovative strategies towards poverty eradication, through the sharing of lessons learnt and experienced.
Hoped-for outcomes include creating a sense of urgency and the possibility for action to achieve the MDGs, securing resources mobilization and disseminating strategy for programmes that achieve the MDGs, producing a consensus document reflecting lessons learnt on each MDG and to providing background material and information for the 2008 Lambeth Conference.
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