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2019 Projects Booklet 2019PROJECTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS IN 2019 Contents 3 Introduction 4 INFORMATION FOR PARISHES 6 Water for All Diocese of Polynesia 8 House of Sarah Diocese of Polynesia 10 Ministry Outreach/Clergy Support: Evangelism & Discipleship Diocese of Polynesia 14 Tanzania Archbishop Pastoral Visits 15 Overseas Missions – Tikanga Pākehā 17 Golden Oldies Mission to Fiji 18 Tikanga Māori Missions Council – Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa 20 Sharing our Ministries Abroad (SOMA) NZ 21 NZCMS 27 Lenten Appeal 2019 29 Spring Appeal 2019 30 General Support for Overseas Mission Above: Boy in new home, Maniava, Fiji Cover photos: Top: Arab Episcopal School, Jordan Bottom: Women of Faith, Diocese of Polynesia 2 2019PROJECTS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS IN 2019 INTRODUCTION This booklet provides information on projects currently supported by Anglican Missions, the gateway to global mission for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The purpose of the booklet is not only to provide you with details on how donations are being used, but to offer some ideas on how to target your support to a project that you feel particularly passionate or strongly about. We hope this will in turn help to make missions-giving for you even more meaningful. Each project has been developed in partnership with those who will directly benefit. Selecting and then funding projects to be supported is decided annually by the Anglican Missions Board in line with our projected budget. Each project aligns with one or more of the ‘5 Marks of Mission’ which encourages all churches to: • Evangelise (proclaim the good news of the Kingdom); • Nurture (teach, baptise and nurture the Christian faith); • Serve (respond to human needs by loving service); • Preserve (preserve the integrity of creation for future generations); and • Transform (transform unjust structures of society, challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation). 3 INFORMATION FOR PARISHES: • Please note that donations made to support certain projects form part of your parish’s annual Tikanga giving target; • Once you have chosen a project (or projects) and advised the Anglican Missions Office, you will be sent further details; • If the project you have chosen is oversubscribed, Anglican Missions will get in touch and see if you are willing for your donation to go to another similar project. If you would like further information, or wish to advise what particular project you would like to support, please contact Anglican Missions at [email protected] or write to us at PO Box 12012, Thorndon, Wellington 6144 or phone (04) 473 5172. We hope you are encouraged and challenged when you read about these projects. Please continue to pray for Anglican Missions and its many partners and all those we seek to help. Please get in touch if you would like to support us financially this current year. This year (2019) Anglican Missions celebrates its centenary. Established in 1919 and incorporated as a Charitable Washing in Maniava, Fiji Trust in 1922, Anglican Missions encourages churches to pray, give, go, and support overseas mission by raising funds for a wide range of activities. Anglican Missions was set up partly because the Primate at the time, Bishop Samuel Nevill of Dunedin, was concerned that mission was “irregular…without direction…and spasmodic”, and that in most parishes, there were no “missionary meetings… no missionary organisations and in 69% of parishes, “no support had been given to any missionary working overseas.” He went on to say in 1919 that “little is really given to, and done, for missions: how poor is the work done for the extension of Christ’s kingdom. Now is the church’s opportunity…” 4 One hundred years on, while there is so much to be thankful for, the harvest remains ripe and the need for the projects described in this booklet remain critical. Please prayerfully consider how you can help. Do visit our website [www.angmissions.org.nz] to read more about the agency, our work, and plans for the centenary celebrations. 5 Water for All Diocese of Polynesia NZ$25,000 Water is a fundamental human right. If there is no water, then there is no life on earth. Accessing safe and continuous water supplies is increasingly difficult for some isolated rural communities in Fiji. As a result of increasing population, poor land- use planning and the growing impact of climate change, traditional water supplies in some areas no longer meet needs. Anglican Missions has been supporting the provision of safe water for a number of years and this year, the following five communities in Vanua Levu, along with Holy Trinity School in Suva, will directly benefit from this project: • Vatia/Labasa: while there is a piped water system, most of the time water is simply not available. The project will provide clean water via a new tank to 5 Anglican and 3 Hindu families. • Koronibalagi: this community currently uses water from a creek which is drying up. The project will provide a water tank in order to secure a reliable supply of clean water. • Kasavu: while the village has moved to a new location in order to access a reliable water source, ten families (58 people) currently walk 2 kilometres to collect water from the neighbouring village of Qaraniduna. The project will deliver a new tank in the village. • Vucivuci: a rural farming community that currently drinks water 6 from a creek. The creek is not safe and is drying up. One tank will be provided to ensure a safe and reliable source. • Levuka Lailai: six families have relocated closer to the road in order to access water delivered by Government tanker trucks. • Holy Trinity School, Suva: like many other parts of Suva, the school, which has 796 students, experiences regular water disruptions. The current two water tanks are not adequate. Anglican Missions funding will provide one new tank (the local Parent Teachers Association will fund another). All up, six water tanks will be procured and installed through this project. It is our hope and prayer that, as people come to draw water from these tanks, they will also experience the living water spoken of in John 4:14 “Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Amen! 7 House of sarah SUPPORT FOR CARERS Diocese of Polynesia NZ $25,000 For many years, Anglican Missions has provided funding to the Christian counselling and support ministry of the House of Sarah in Fiji. The vision of the House of Sarah is to provide “a listening ear, a warm heart and a helping hand”. In 2018, the House of Sarah was able to extend its ministry to Vanua Levu and Viti Levu West and appoint a full-time Support Officer to provide Sarah Carers with logistical and training support. Sarah Carers are often first-responders and support women who are facing difficulties in their relationships. Many of these women, and their children, are in very vulnerable situations and by coming alongside, Sarah Carers are able to help facilitate better outcomes; help in building support networks, and assist in growing the women’s faith. Funding in 2019 will be used to implement a workshop that aims to develop and build the knowledge and skills of Sarah Carers who are all volunteers. A second workshop later in the year will explore gender-based theology. Funding will also support the Christian Talanoa Network (CTN) which designs liturgical resources for the annual ‘Break the Silence’ Sunday and the 16 Days of Activism which takes place across the country in late November. This is a powerful awareness-raising initiative House of Sarah staff 8 Women of Faith meet at the Diocese of Polynesia towards eliminating gender-based violence that has strong ecumenical support and is delivering strong outcomes. A third area of funding is for a new initiative, ‘Women of Faith’ which works with women of other faiths who are also engaged in the elimination of violence against women and children. We pray God’s blessing on the Sarah Carers, the Break the Silence campaign Sarah Carer, Luseani Leba and all the women and children who will be assisted through this project. 9 Ministry Outreach/ Clergy Support: EVANGELISM AND DISCIPLESHIP Diocese of Polynesia NZ $50,000 At the end of Matthew’s Gospel, in the Great Commission, Jesus says: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”. (Matthew 28: 18-20). Jesus calls every Christian to take Christ’s mission into the world. This is at the heart of Anglican Missions and our projects have this as a central goal. Each year Anglican Missions provides a grant that contributes funds to clergy in the Diocese of Polynesia. This is particularly helpful as clergy are mostly not paid and are expected to carry out their ministry duties as well as being the main provider for their families. The church’s mission and outreach is growing and taking on different approaches. For example in Sigatoka, where the Rev Daniel Sahayam is serving, and in Labasa, parishes run kindergartens that are open to the whole community. At St Christopher’s Church in Nadi, during times of disaster, the church provides assistance to everyone irrespective of their faith, political affiliation or ethnicity. The priority in both examples is always sharing the Word of God.
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