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Church of the Reconciliation Manenberg Celebrates Its 49Th Anniversary E TH THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE DIOCESE OF CAPE TOWN • ANGLICAN CHURCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA Church of the Reconciliation Manenberg celebrates its 49th anniversary Page 2 Greetings from China: Noise in the silence Page 3 From the Vicar General’s Desk On Trinity Sunday, 7 June 2020, the Church of the Rec- growing congregation was under the leadership of the onciliation Manenberg celebrated its 49th anniversary. Revd Louis Bank, and he, together with the hardwork- Page 6 The church building was initially dedicated on 3 March ing congregation was quite instrumental in getting a Literacy packs and 1971 and was named Church of the Reconciliation. church building for the Anglicans in Manenberg. Their seedlings The name was adopted to reflect a broken and griev- hardwork finally paid off with the completion of the ing people. who were being reconciled to God and one building and its subsequent dedication on 3 March another and to become a unified parish. A brokenness 1971. and grief that was caused by the forced removals of the apartheid regime. In 1972, the Revd Bob De Maar was appointed the first rector of the parish and it has had seven rectors since According to records Manenberg was formally estab- then namely Revds Philip McMinn, Patrick Cornelisen, lished in 1966 and was gradually filled by families from Clifford Felix, Bertie Salo, Joshua Louw, Donovan Meyer Claremont, District Six, Constantia and Sea Point. Dur- and Marcus Slingers. We give God all the praise for their ing those early years the Anglican faithful met in homes faithful services to Manenberg and its people. across Manenberg, while many continued to worship in the places from which they were dispersed. In 1969, The church is currently under the incumbancy of the Page 7 the Anglican faithful made petitions to have services in Revd Derrick Cloete and has a total of sixteen church or- Clean-up blessing for one of the local community centres and the Druiwevlei ganizations and ministries that supports the parochial Holy Cross Nyanga during lockdown Centre was then granted to host Anglican services in ministry in the community. Manenberg on Sundays. During those early years the continues on page 3 VOL 63VOL NO. 7005 NO.05 FIRST PUBLISHED PUBLISHED 20 20 DECEMBER DECEMBER 1950 1950 JULY 2020 MARCH 2013 Page 2 THE GOOD HOPE JULY 2020 CLASSIFIEDS Editor: Rebecca Malambo EDITORIAL Address: Archbishop’s The Good Hope Under threat or stress, we naturally turn inward but the PO Box 1932, Education needs of those around us require our time, love, prayers Endowment Fund for and energy. We need to move outward to give of our- Cape Town 8000 Theological Education selves although we might feel strained and exhausted. Tel: 021 469 3766 (In office Thursdays only 10h00-14h00) Please support the Archbishop’s Today marks 101 days of our national lockdown. Our Fax: 021 465 1571 Education Fund so that we can reality has changed so much during the past 3 months. E-mail address: continue to train priests for the Dealing with the trauma of a pandemic, losing loved future of our church. Thank you for [email protected] all donations received. If you would ones, financial strains, balancing our spiritual and emo- like to contribute please consider a tional equilibrium - no one is exempted. donation. We are getting used to living in the now and facing the A sum of challenges that each day presents. God is at work in this R1 483 201.67 crisis. We can find peace, justice and purpose in chaos, it has been raised thus far. is what God has always intended. Bank: Standard Bank Scan QR code with your mobile and learn Branch Code: Go and make disciples but be a disciple first. more about the Diocese of Cape Town Thibault Square Printed by: Branch Number: 020909 Love and Light, Rebecca Account Number: 070332428 Greetings from China: Noise in the silence Lockdown created a space for us to be alone. The hands of poverty are tighter around our The sounds of normality have been silenced. necks... Our usual has been turned into abnormality, in that our daily routines had to be re-invent- Here in China it has been about staying within ed into the new normal. Living with silence. the plan... Keeping within the boundaries set Isn’t that what God actually desires for us to be for survival... Carrying your passport, wearing exactly in a state of quietness and know that a mask,... Being tested for your temperature He is God? Be still and know that I am God. The on every corner and entrance of a shop as you noises of the world now not audible to our ears go out for food supplies. Adjusting to online from human interaction but blasting into our work and being patient with colleagues and minds and visual memory bank through end- management as you have to survive for in- less Social Media Facebook posts, Instagram come and your livelihood... photos, LinkedIn messages and the maze of YouTube videos. It shows what the current ca- I guess the answer is that we have to stay in tastrophe of this COVID-19 is. It demonstrates the boundaries of God’s Divine Plan... Do not what it is doing to humanity, the potential You turn to your abilities and talents and re- haste and attack God and say He is procras- healing or destruction of the earth, universe orientate your daily life. Fill it with a new rou- tinating... As Psalm 31 said... He wants us to and our planet ... Silence is what God requires tine, learn new ways of living ... Cooking, bak- be in His presence and within that enclave He ... Running to Him ... Is what He desires ... Trust- ing and cultivating plants and flowers ... You provides... In that silence He gives us wisdom ing His guidance ... Resting in Him and hiding live each day to embrace the new normal and to navigate the noise of the world within our in His enclave ... Our lockdown should be in silence the noise from the outside world ... lockdown spaces and the opening spaces be- His hiding place ... ing created. The situation in South Africa is getting to peo- Psalm 31:1-5 ple.. Job losses, food shortages and an une- We all are building our story each day of the qual economic system now crippling the poor lockdown. Desperate sounds in the silence: and the marginalized to their knees. Our hearts are bleeding with thunderous In the silence of our beings and as we navigate emotions which have erupted from this global God does rescue... Everytime... As Michael W through the outside noise may we hear His storm we are in. Alone, frightened and with- Smith sings... The shouts and hunger cries... thunderous voice... out sufficient information... Worsened by the The tears in silence... And the noise of children fact that you in a foreign country and you in lockdown little homes, shacks, flats and A voice thundering in marvellous ways! don’t understand the sms’s from the Chinese rented apartments and homes which people government and you don’t understand what can’t pay for... Those are the noises vibrating The full poem can be found on my Facebook you will do now to keep yourself healthy and at this time... page @Sedrico’sStories protected from this new virus... Alone... Fright- ened... Scared... This thing is out to get us... - Selah Sedrico Husselman Philip Sydney “The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance, open-air, easy labour, and little care.” THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE DIOCESE OF CAPE TOWN Page 3 From the Vicar General’s Desk Dear Sisters and Brothers to clergy. As you can see, our work is becom- Some thirty years ago, as ing much more demanding rather than less a young priest, I was given so in these perilous times. We are navigating a copy of Time Magazine through the unchartered waters of a Cov- by one of my parishioners. id-19 pandemic into an unimagined future This dear parishioner was that awaits us. After all, despite our frailties fully aware of the stresses and strains that go and vulnerabilities, clergy are expected to be hand in glove with the pressures, responsibili- made of sterner stuff. ties and demands of the busy life of a parish priest. “You still have a long way to go in your We are familiar with the disgraceful treatment ministry, Father. Read this article and take of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the good care of yourself,” she cautioned me. The hands of the Apartheid regime. In an attempt article had the picture of a rather haggard to threaten, intimidate and silence him, mon- and worn out looking priest, accompanied by key foetuses were attached to the gates of his the siren headline: “Clergy Find The Church A dwelling at Bishop’s Court. It made headline Hard Cross To Bear.” At the time, this was the grace in their daily prayers, I am confident that news. Bishop Tutu however used the dis- outcome of research done to establish the many of you are doing the same for our bish- tressing situation to remind the clergy to pay top ten most stressful jobs. The results placed ops, priests and deacons with renewed vigour. careful attention to their prayer life and spir- the role of a parish priest at the very top of Let’s be honest, we are all taking strain and we itual life. “You will receive many painful jabs in the list. If this research was to be done today, all need to plunge into the depths of prayer your ministry that will hurt like crazy but you clergy might well be off the scale.
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