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Uganda Anglican Church project British Parliament votes 'Yes' on The Australian FIRST PUBLISHED women deacons IN 1880 Can now be appointed by Canon law CHURCH 106 years serving the Gospel and its ministry What has been seen as the crucial vote Sir William van Straubenzee (The in the passage of the Deacons Second Church Estates Commissioner, (Ordination of Women) Measure took representing the Church Commissioners, place in the House of Commons last who was moving the motion, accepted week. that for many, "looming behind this issue RECORD The Measure was passed by 303 votes is the question of the ordination of DECEMBER 15, 1986 Registered by Australia Post Publication No. HARI 678 Telephone 264 8349 PRICE 70 CENTS to 25. General Synod had previously women to the priesthood". 1864 approved the Measure by 36 votes to nil and it had also been approved by 42 out Disagreed of the 44 diocesan synods. He disagreed, however, with a statement by art Gow (Eastbourne) that if Affirmed the Measure were passed a deaconess 1 The new Summer Deaconess Evelyn Hughes, who chairs would only be one step away from the the Deaconess Committee, said, "I am priesthood. "This is a matter," said Sir Appellate Tribunal delighted at how the House of Commons William, "separate and distinct from any affirmed women in the Church of question of the ordination of women as England ministry!' She did point out, priests. School of Ministry however, that the Measure had still to go Status before the House of Lords on Tuesday of Decision February University venue this week. "Supporters of the Measure include If this Measure is passed it will give the persons who have strong views hostile to Legal Focus on the Ordination of Women The Katoomba Christian Convention has decided to hold a two-day "Summer School General Synod power to appoint women the ordination of women as priests. of Ministry" for clergy and full-time Christian workers. deacons by canon law. At present "Surely it is out of keeping with a 1986 Was a new piece of church history toeing written in the auditorium of Si. deaconesses can carry out all the duties view of women that they should be Andrew's House, Sydney, on Saturday, December 6? of a deacon except officiating at a accorded a status inferior to men." This Summer School will be held on teaching gifts were greatly appreciated on There was an emotion charged Principles? marriage. They would be allowed to do (CEN) the Wednesday and Thursday following his two previous visits to Australia. atmosphere within the auditorium as the this. The requesting members came from the Katoomba Youth Convention. A child of Baptist missionaries in parties concerned gathered before the both the Adelaide and Sydney dioceses. Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Katoomba has undergone a major Quebec, Don spent some time in church The Adelaide group is lead by the Rev. resurgence in recent years. The Annual planting before undertaking post Church of Australia when it met to John Fleming, Rector of Plympton. Hebrew bible computerised consider whether or not the ordination of Youth Convention has become one of graduate study in Cambridge. His women as deacons is consistent with the The Sydney members are: the largest Christian gatherings in concern for ministry is well tempered by Constitution of the Anglican Church. Mr. W. R. Bailey Australia and a fixed point in many both practical experience and theological Editorial work completed church diaries. teaching. It remains to be seen whether history Rev. B. Ballantine-Jones PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. — Headed by computerized texts, introduced in the was being written, but new ground was Dr. A. M. Bryson The Convention has been instrumental Other speakers include Rev. Reg Piper, Assistant Professor ). Alan Groves, process of transliterating 4.5 million indeed being broken. Canon J. C. Chapman in encouraging many people into the Rev. David Cook and the Rev, Dr. Peter scholars working in the Old Testameht characters from Hebrew to coded Rev. V. R. Cole ministry of the Gospel — at home and O'Brien. Mr. Piper will also be speaking at The average Anglican layman may find department of Westminster Theological equivalents. The Westminster group Mr. J. H. Foxton overseas. Its.Summer School will be the Katoomba Youth Convention. He is Self-help kits being distributed to farmers in the Diocese of Mukono, Uganda. Each it hard to come to terms with the Seminary recently completed final spent more than two years correcting the Bishop R. H. Goodhew aimed at the continued encouragement the minister of possibly the largest kit includes a bush knife, a hoe blade and a blanket. The packs are intended to help Appellate Tribunal. Most would not even editorial work on a computerized version text, and have produced a more accurate Rev. S. A. Horton of evangelical ministry. Anglican church in Australia, Holy Trinity, farmers get started again after the destruction caused by twenty years of civil war. of the Hebrew Bible. Computer-assisted version of the most recent publication of have heard of it. Rev. R. E. Lamb Adelaide. The Anglican Church, which is distributing 20,000 of these kits through a scheme Rev. Dr. Don Carson, the Professor of research in the Hebrew Bible has been in the Leningrad Codex, the oldest, most' Committed Christian parishioners are Mr. I. Miller New Testament at The Trinity Evangelical The venue for the Summer School will funded by World Vision, hopes that they will contribute to the long-term solutions progress for a number of years, but there complete ancient Hebrew manuscript primarily concerned with matters of faith, Rev. Dr. P. T. O'Brien to local problems. Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, is to be be the University of New South Wales. are thousands of errors in existing (EPNS) teaching, ministry and fellowship. They Archdeacon V. W. Roberts the key speaker. The programme will run from 9.30 am to want to know what it means to be a Mr. R. Tong 9 pm on the 28th and the 29th of January, disciple of Christ and to be helped in an Mr. Carson is speaking at the 1987- Lunch and dinner will be provided Three basic points understanding of what the Scriptures Katoomba Youth Convention and has in one of the University colleges. There Russian Orthodox Christian back Bibles for Cuba have to say about day to day living and to The Fundamental Declarations make agreed to stay for this New Summer will be accommodation available for School. be prepared for the eternal kingdom yet three basic points: those who wish to stay overnight Amazing increase in demand to come. Mr. Carson is a well known author, • The Anglican Church holds the For more information about the writing and editing books on Divine in prison The United Bible Societies have sent The Cuban Bible Society was closed in These are theological issues. What, the Christian faith as professed by the Summer School, contact: KATOOMBA 200,000 bibles to Cuba for the Roman 1968, but there have been several imports parishioner may well ask, do such Church of Christ from primitive times Sovereignty, The Sabbath, Scripture, Life's appeal to all christians SUMMER SCHOOL OF MINISTRY, PO Box Catholic Church there. of Bibles to Cuba since then, from 1969 questions have to do with lawyers and a and in particular as set forth in the Exegetical Fallacies, as well as 225, Kingsford, NSW 2032. Telephone: legal tribunal? Why should a group of commentaries on Matthew and the The shipment marks a considerable onwards. Apostle's and Nicene Creeds. (02) 663 1478. News has reached Keston College that manuscript were confiscated. He was judges, Queen's Counsel, eminent Sermon on the Mount His preaching and increase of Bible work into Cuban The most recent shipment prior to this • The Church receives all the canonical (RAMON WILLIAMS) Orthodox Christian PAVEL PROTSENKO arrested on 4 June after returning to his barristers and solicitors be meeting to authorities. year occurred in 1974, when the UBS sent scriptures of the Old and New has been transferred to prison in Kiev examine an issue such as the ordination home town of Kiev and charged with Testaments as being the ultimate rule after spending one month in an ordinary "slandering the Soviet State and Social 12,000 Bibles and 900 Bible dictionaries to of women? and standard of faith given by the psychiatric hospital under examination. the Evangelical Churches of Cuba and the System". inspiration of God and containing all He was pronounced "normal" by a panel Cuba Biblical Commission. A matter of law He then spent some time in an ordinary CLASSIFIEDS things necessary for salvation. of psychiatrists. Protsenko's transfer may The answer lies in the fact that the SMBC Graduation 1986 psychiatric hospital, presumably to face a • have been connected with a telegram Constitution of the Anglican Church of The Church will ever obey the panel of psychiatrists to determine if he is Classified advertisements may be left al the oHice or phoned Emphasis on the preaching ministry received by the hospital from several o 264 8349 up to noon 14 days before date of publication . Australia is embodied within a legal commands of Christ, teach His "responsible" to stand trial. Witnesses Charge is S5 00 or, 1-0,1111111 ceolnnetre FOR SALE organisations of psychiatrists in the statute — it is a matter of law. Section 57 doctrine, administer his sacraments of questioned about his case, including his I Holy Baptism and Holy Communion, United States. Victor Plano E400 or near oiler Phone 567 2140 of the Constitution says that the stepson, have been asked about his follow and uphold His discipline and Protsenko (31) was searched by the "mental stability" and his "psychological Church Services Appellate Tribunal (for which provision is made in the Constitution) shall consist of preserve the three orders of bishops, Militia at a Moscow railway station on 29 state".