The GAFCON primates have a number of questions they intend to ask during the next meeting of the primates which is tentatively scheduled to be held early in 2009. An exact date and location for the meeting has not yet been announced. Among the questions he and other GAFCON primates hope are discussed Bishop Venables said are what happened to the pastoral scheme that the primates proposed in their communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 following the previous meeting of the primates in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in February 2007? Is that proposal dead and if so who made that decision?<\/p>\n
Bishop Venables said he and several other primates\u2019 council members have additional concerns about the format of the primates\u2019 meeting as proposed by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in his post-Lambeth pastoral letter to Anglican bishops. The proposal to include Indaba small-group discussion was a particular concern, Bishop Venables added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is up to the primates to decide how they are going to do things,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we can be told ahead of time what type of meeting we are going to have or how we are going to talk.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n