THETRINITARIANSM OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF THE ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH / SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2015 T 6 A A L 4 I D H N T 1 D E G 3 T R T L L E S S E I R . C S E T I N A S L QUAKE DAMAGES O E A I N R N T T V A , C I I C C R A S E O I T T A R . H E N 8 Q 0 CHAPEL IN CONGO O 1 U L 2 E I 0 S C BUILDING THREATENED T E C D BY LANDSLIDE — BISHOP H U R Ste.-Trinité Chapel, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of C H Congo, damaged by an earthquake in August, faces a new threat from landslides triggered by heavy rains in early September. The building housing the chapel is in danger of collapsing if some- thing isn’t done quickly, said the Rt. Rev. Steven Ayule-Milenge, Bishop Ordinary of the Missionary Diocese of Congo whose office is located in the damaged structure, in an email dated Sept. 4. The chapel had sustained a 2cm crack in the rear wall by the altar and along the chancel pavement in the quake, which registered 5.6 magnitude and occurred at 3:45am local time Aug. 7. According to the Volcanic Research Centre, the epicenter was in Lake Kivu, about 50km north of Bukavu, the largest city in eastern Congo with about 800,000 inhabitants. A retaining wall under construction was not affected by the quake, Bishop Ayule-Milenge said. The wall, which is funded by a ladies’ tea at St. Matthew’s, Newport Beach, California, U.S.A. as well as a donation from All Saints’, Saluda, Virginia, U.S.A., is built with stone and reinforced by concrete, he explained. No ACC members were injured in the quake, the Bishop said, al- P though three persons were killed and many others injured. There were e U D r N m . P e S o i n . no reports of property damage among Church members, he added. t n A v P N - e o P r I s o r This was the second earthquake to strike Bukavu in recent years. , t o D C . a 5 f g O Crack caused by the earthquake extends from the top i 3 t e A major quake in 2008 caused major damage to the city and sur- 7 of the wall behind the altar to the chancel steps. More 7 Please see QUAKE/5 pictures/5. KENYA SCHOOL GETS COMPUTERS Future projects include work on the ANGLICAN AID school’s kitchen and science laboratory, PROVIDES FUNDS he said. St. Anectus High School began with Newly established St.Anectus High eight students in Forms One and Two. School in Kayole, Nairobi, Kenya There are now 12 students — five boys has acquired computers and a printer, and seven girls. thanks to funds provided by Australia- The number is expected to increase based Anglican Aid Abroad. next year when the school enrolls anoth- er group of Form One students, Father The school, founded and operated by Ndegwa told THETRINITARIAN. the ACC’s Missionary Diocese of “Our target is 80 students in four years,” Kenya, opened in January. he said. With the money, which after conversion Current staff includes four teachers, totaled 263,979 Kenya shillings (AUS$3,572 one cleaner and Father Ndegwa’s wife, or US$2,572), the school was able to Esther, who volunteers as cook. Father acquire six computers with three power Ndegwa is director, together with Eunice backs and an Epson 800-series printer, Nyambura, who is doing her master’s said the Ven. John K. Ndegwa, archdea- degree in education at Mount Kenya con and bishop-elect of the diocese. University. “We were able to distribute electrical Subjects taught include mathematics, power to the lab and to build desks and English, Kiswahili, physics, chemistry, cabinets to make the lab fully equipped,” biology, history, Christian religious edu- he added. Also purchased were a projec- cation, geography, business studies and tor and a white board to be used for con- computer studies. ferences. Upon completion of four years, the stu- The school laid on a small breakfast for dents will be prepared to sit for their final students and parents on July 30 to mark exams, known as the Kenya Certificate of the completion of term, to give thanks to Secondary Examination, which qualifies God and to celebrate the provision of the Bishop-elect Ndegwa observes students at work in St.Anectus School’s newly them for admission to university, Father computers, Father Ndegwa said. equipped computer lab. Ndegwa said. MARRIAGE RULING:THE NEW ORTHODOXY/2 • • • SUMMER CAMP:A VITAL GROWTH TOOL/12 WWW.ANGLICANCATHOLIC.ORG 2 THETRINITARIAN SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2015 METROPOLITAN’S MESSAGE THETRINITARIANSM VOL. XXXIV, NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2015 THE NEW ORTHODOXY THETRINITARIAN, the Official Gazette of the Angli- n late June a bare majority of the United States Supreme and sometimes overbalanced, by other considerations. At can Catholic Church, was first published in April 1979 Court asserted a right to marry for same sex couples present the courts do not usually go so far. But Obergefell as the official voice of the Diocese of the Holy Trinity. and in the name of that right invalidated all state laws shows how quickly the courts can discover new, hitherto un- In 1982, it became a churchwide publication of The An- and constitutional provisions which defined marriage suspected ideas that sweep all before them. If Roman Cath- glican Catholic Church. I in the traditional sense. 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