Just to give you a flavour, we had a story from Alice [Chung Po Chuen] from Madagascar, whose husband has to walk eight hours to church, where there isn\u2019t a public pathway or proper road to do that. He\u2019s away from home for anything up to six weeks at a time; so Alice has to hold together a household and keep the family together. She resigned her job as a leading product-development man\u00c2\u00adager in Mauritius after her husband\u2019s consecration, and relo\u00c2\u00adcated to Madagascar. There is a very painful story, but one that Alice is living and working with great joy and fortitude.<\/p>\n
Then there is the story of Mugisa [Isingoma] from the Congo. Congo suffered many, many years of conflict, and still does, and she and her family felt called to come and exercise a ministry in the role of reconciliation, bringing together two ethnic groups.<\/p>\n
Her husband was arrested and his life was in danger, and had it not been for the intervention of the then Archbishop of Canterbury and others he would not be alive. When you hear Mugisa tell her story, again you\u2019re touched by the passion and commitment with which she feels called to minister alongside her husband.<\/p>\n
It is very humbling, and it has been a good learning experience sharing with our brothers and sisters from across the Communion.<\/p>\n