{"id":63999,"date":"2017-10-01T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63999"},"modified":"2017-10-01T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-01T18:49:19","slug":"archbishop-theo-makgoba-to-the-laos-to-the-people-of-god-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63999","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Theo Makgoba&#8211;To the Laos &#8211; To the People of God \u2013 October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"western\" align=\"justify\">I am writing this as I prepare to travel to Canterbury, where I will attend\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/primates-2017.aspx\">a meeting of [some of] the Primates<\/a><\/u><\/span>\u00a0of the Anglican Communion over the next week. Following that I will chair a meeting of the Lambeth Design Group, a body which oversees planning for the next Lambeth Conference, to be held in 2020. Our Province is committed to faithfully showing up and participating in these key meetings of the Communion, doing so because our reward is to be faithful servants of God and God&#8217;s witness and mission in the world. Please pray for both meetings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/null\" name=\"OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION\"><\/a>The Communion meetings follow a busy week of debates and decisions, first at the second session of the Synod of Bishops this year, then at the annual Provincial Standing Committee (PSC), at which bishops, clergy and lay representatives from every diocese in the Province are represented. The Dean of the Province, Bishop Stephen Diseko, \u201cembarrassed\u201d me, almost marketing my new book to both meetings by congratulating me on it. I appreciated it but as you all know me, I always try to push attention to Jesus, the church and not me.<\/div>\n<div class=\"western\" align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"western\" align=\"justify\">The bishops dealt with a wide range of important issues, including the election of a new bishop for Mthatha, the situation in the Diocese of Umzimvubu, the future of the College of the Transfiguration and the Archbishop&#8217;s Commission on Human Sexuality. You can read the details in\u00a0<span lang=\"zxx\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanchurchsa.org\/pastoral-letter-from-the-synod-of-bishops-september-2017\/\">our Pastoral Letter<\/a><\/u><\/span>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archbishop.anglicanchurchsa.org\/2017\/10\/to-laos-to-people-of-god-october-2017.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing this as I prepare to travel to Canterbury, where I will attend\u00a0a meeting of [some of] the Primates\u00a0of the Anglican Communion over the next week. Following that I will chair a meeting of the Lambeth Design Group,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=63999\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64001,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63999\/revisions\/64001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}