Lambeth 2020: President a Conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury

Winter | Spring 2019

MESSAGE FROM THE LAMBETH 2020: PRESIDENT A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Recently, Compass Rose Society communications team member Canon Jim Rosenthal asked the Archbishop of Canterbury how the Society can help him with the arrangements and especially the funding of the forthcoming Lambeth Conference.

The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle

A LOOK BACK

2019 is my fifth year to serve as president of the Compass Rose Society. JoAnne and I have been honored and fortunate to be invited into this beloved global community. As I reflect on these past years as your president, and the whole of the eleven years as a member, my heart is full. Gratitude frames this season in the life of the Society. I am grateful for the answer of so many of you to help support the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Welby at Canterbury with St. Nicholas (Canon Rosenthal) The Anglican Consultative Council’s mission, and and the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral (The Very Rev’d Robert Willis) the Secretary General. The relationships of people at this year’s annual holiday parade. (literally) from all over the world. The high points have been the trips on your Canon Rosenthal: From its inception, the Compass Rose Society has behalf to places as diverse as Ghana and Hong seen their role as one to help fund and support the ministry of the Kong, Cuba and the cross-country visit to Archbishop in his Anglican Communion role. How can we help you in Canada. I have represented you to The Anglican making your Lambeth 2020 vision a reality? Consultative Council’s meeting and in the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In every place, to Archbishop Welby: One of my key objectives for this Lambeth many a variety of people, I have shared verbally Conference is to gather as many of the bishops and their spouses from and financially the support of the Compass Rose across the whole Anglican Communion as possible. I am very aware that finances to attend and the additional travelling costs are simply Continued on page 19 out of reach for approximately half of those who have been invited.

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1 Continued from page 1 ~ Lambeth 2020: A Conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury

My prayer is that sufficient funds may be raised to provide bursaries for all those in need, so that lack of finances does not preclude anyone being able to attend Lambeth 2020. The funds required run into millions of pounds sterling, and any and all contributions to this fund are enormously appreciated.

Canon Rosenthal: You had mentioned that I Peter was to be the Biblical focus at the Lambeth 2020. Can you share with us some of your thinking and that of the planning team on this powerful biblical challenge? And are there specific prayer intentions that can be shared with our CRS folk?

Archbishop Welby: I love 1 Peter because it is about the message of hope. We are called into holiness and hope, following the example of Christ. It continues to encourage us to be resil- ient, proclaiming Christ in every situation showing hospitality to all and oversight in Christ. With the help of a team of New Testament scholars, we will thread the many themes of 1 Peter Caroline and Justin Welby while visiting China in 2015. throughout the conference to build one another up in Christ. We will worship, pray, share and have time together – bishops and spouses. It is my fervent hope and prayer that this will be a significant moment in the history of our extraordinary global family as we witness to our shared love in Jesus Christ, attentive to the call of the Spirit and prayerfully seek God’s direction for an Anglican Communion equipped for the 21ST century.

Some Communion Bishops will need Canon Rosenthal: Can you share any thoughts when you financial assistance to attend Lambeth 2020 celebrate the Eucharist at the Cathedral in Canterbury and stand in front of the Compass Rose, placed in the nave at the 1988 Lambeth Conference.

Archbishop Welby: The Compass Rose signifies to me that in every direction that God calls and sends us we are to spread THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY the good news, however far, difficult or challenging. The good RAISE $1 MILLION IN FINANCIAL AID. news of Jesus Christ must reach every corner of our planet, every Our goal is to fund 100 $10,000 scholarships by May 2020. place where His light needs to shine. We think and give thanks To contribute, please read the details at for every brother and sister in Christ who has gone before us compassrosesociety.org/lambeth2020 having heard the command to go in the power of His Holy Spirit. A full $10,000 scholarship Today, we continue His commission, to bring His hope, His earns a Compass Rose Society membership. life-giving Spirit wherever there is despair, to bring His joy where there is sadness, transform lives in our communities with the love of Christ. THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY 1225 Texas Avenue | Houston, Texas 77002 Canon Rosenthal: Be assured of our constant prayers for you www.compassrosesociety.org and Mrs. Welby as you seek to share Christ with our world.

2 SOME MUSSING ABOUT THE Lambeth Conferences By the Reverend Canon John L. Peterson

In another article in this edition of the Communicator, our President, Bishop Andy Doyle, presents the need to financially support the bishops and spouses of the Anglican Communion so that all of them can attend next year’s Lambeth Conference. YOU can have an important part in Lambeth 2020 by contributing to this support. After all, there is nothing more important in our global family than being able to MEET. When that happens, barriers that divide us are broken down. Please go to this website and donate www.compassrosesociety.org/lambeth2020. In my article below, I’ve written some interesting historical tidbits about the Lambeth Conference.

Ever since 1867 when Arch- Conference managers expect that bishop Charles Thomas Longley the 2020 Conference will be larger called the first Lambeth Conference, than 1998’s. the Conference has met once each Each Lambeth Conference has decade (except during the two world dealt with the important theological wars). Seventy-six bishops (18 English, and social issues of the day which 5 Irish, 6 Scots, 19 Americans, 24 from influence the ministry of the Anglican the colonies of the British Empire) Communion. At the 1978 confer- attended the first meeting which the ence, led by Archbishop Donald Archbishop hosted at Lambeth Palace Coggin, an important resolution in London. recognized “the autonomy of each The first Lambeth Conference of its member churches and the legal was organized in response to the right of each church to make its own Canadian Church’s concern that if decisions” about women priests. they were governed by different can- In 1988, under Archbishop Robert ons than those governing the Church Runcie, the big issue was the ordi- of England, the Anglican Church of nation of women to the episcopate. Canada could be considered an in- Only months later, on February 11, dependent branch of the Catholic 1989, the Reverend Barbara Harris Church instead of in communion of Massachusetts became the first with the Church of England. It is also women ordained as a bishop in the interesting that there were 114 bishops Bishops from throughout the world gather Anglican Communion. at the Lambeth Conference. in the Anglican Communion in 1867, During Archbishop George Carey’s but only 76 bishops attended the first Lambeth Conference in 1998, heated Lambeth Conference. The most conspicuous bishop missing discussions centered on the complex issues of human sexuality at the first conference was the Archbishop of York and his -- in particular, homosexuality. It was the most controversial Suffragan bishops who felt “so doubtful as to the wisdom of Lambeth Conference in recent history. The conference’s Reso- such an assembly” that they refused to attend the Conference. lution 1.10 called for a “listening process” to hear the different Over the decades, attendance at the Lambeth Conference voices in the Communion and found that “homosexual practice” has grown, exceeding the capacity of its venue three times. The (not necessarily orientation) is “incompatible with Scripture.” smallest conference was the first, and the largest was in 1998 The official photographs of each Lambeth Conference show when 749 bishops -- including 11 women bishops -- attended. Continued on page 19

3 GOD’S KINGDOM FROM THE BACK OFFICE: A Report From the 2018 Annual Meeting & Some Thoughts about The Compass Rose Society

By the Reverend Della Wager Wells

The Rev. Della Wager Wells is a recent graduate of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and currently a Porter Fellow and Episcopal Church Missionary at St. George’s College in Jerusalem. She was ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. The week before she departed for the Middle East, she wrote this note in her blog Living Stones and Holy Hills. Della is the Secretary of the board of directors of the Compass Rose Society and is its legal counsel.

I spent last week in London, away from Jerusalem, attending its connection — through unity without seeking unanimity. the international board meeting and annual membership meeting Ubuntu. of the Compass Rose Society. Compass Rose is an international One of the updates I look forward to most each year is mission organization, with concentrations of membership in the report of the Secretary General, Archbishop Josiah Idowu- Hong Kong and North America. Formed a little over 20 years Fearon, on the Anglican Communion. A highlight of his cover- ago by then-Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey and his age this year was plans for Lambeth 2020, and I was inspired Lambeth Palace staff, Compass Rose responds to needs in the to hear that Archbishop Justin has chosen 1 Peter for Lambeth global Anglican Communion by supporting the Archbishop of 2020’s bible study. Canterbury’s ministry of relationship and connection. 1 Peter (the Biblical focus of the upcoming Lambeth The Archbishop of Canterbury remains the patron of the Conference) is a passage that has had special meaning for me Compass Rose, and the Secretary General of the Anglican since my time in Tanzania during the Diocese of Western Communion is an ex officio board member. The Compass Rose Tanganyika’s Jubilee, with its themes of cornerstones and the Society is not a relief organization – that’s for Episcopal Relief Ebenezer stone. 1 Peter is a holy rock collection, with every & Development, Primates World Relief & Development Fund, stone in scripture stacked in a pile in a single chapter, and others. Compass Rose also is not specifically about including the only mention I’ve ever been able to find of living education, consultation, and coordination of Anglican relief stones. Come to [Jesus], a living stone… and like living stones, organizations – that’s the brief of the Anglican Alliance. let yourselves be built into a spiritual house. Instead, Compass Rose’s focus is on connection, on raising In the kind of coincidence, I’ve come to expect in the past and distributing resources to promote communication and six weeks in Jerusalem, living stones is also the popular dialogue and strengthen the bonds of affection within and pilgrimage term for today’s Palestinian Christians. I look among the provinces of the global Anglican Communion. I’ve forward to the study and reflection this passage will yield. always liked to think of Compass Rose as the unofficial fifth We also heard from Phil George, the new CEO of the instrument of communion, right behind the actual four instru- Lambeth 2020 Conference, whose focus is the mechanics and ments – the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primates Meeting, logistics of Lambeth 2020, and whose presence permits the Lambeth Conference, and the Anglican Consultative Council. Archbishop Josiah to be, in his own words, an evangelist That the Society is unofficial, based solely on relationships, rather than an administrator. And it was a privilege to meet and seems so very Anglican to me. I think of the African concept speak with the newly elected primate of Tanzania, Archbishop of Ubuntu that Archbishop Desmond Tutu has often described Maimbo Mndolwa, and to meet the Chief Moderator (Primate) in the context of Anglicanism: we are who we are because of of the Church of South India, Bishop Thomas Oomen. others, and we belong in the great bundle of life. Compass We also heard from the charismatic and competent Rose’s holy opportunity in mission is to participate in that great Michela Southworth, the new Director of Finance and bundle. And to help, where it can, to bring the great bundle of Resources. Straight from the upper reaches of the private sector, life that is the Anglican Communion together and strengthen Michela brings sophisticated experience, a fresh eye, and a

4 servant’s heart to her work. On meeting her, I was like Dorothy It seems to me that in Jerry McGuire – she had me at hello – I’m a former invest- the kingdom of God must ment banker. It’s Mi- always be built from the chela, with her lovely back office and mixed dark blue hair (she and baked in the kitch- calls this her I’m never en. It’s real and alive, going back to I-bank- and all about life, love, ing hair), who sees her bread, wine, and Jesus. work as building God’s In a lot of ways, it re- kingdom from the back minds me of Jerusalem, office. the holy city itself. Holy I think this is a Sepulcher, where Jesus perfect description of was laid in the grave the Compass Rose but walked again, is a Society’s work. Our wild place, untamed Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s focus for the past year, sight, and like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy and a little dangerous. and through 2020, will priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5 And yet Coptic priests be gathering resources walk around with gal- for scholarships for the estimated over 50% of the 950 bishops lon plastic bottles of corn oil, filling the lamps that smoke and around the global Anglican Communion who cannot afford flame with holy fire. They wash down the altars in front of Gol- to attend the Lambeth Conference. The Lambeth Conference gotha by throwing buckets of soapy water onto the stone and is a great workhorse of Anglicanism, one of the four official scrubbing the floors with common mops from the market in the instruments of communion in addition to the unofficial fifth Old City. It’s as real and alive and everyday as it is holy. Where instrument of the Compass Rose, and it cannot do its good else but the back office or the kitchen would you start building work while missing over 50% of its great bundle of life. God’s kingdom? It’s where all the real stuff happens.

CRS Board in the garden at the Anglican Communion Office with AGM guest speaker The Most Rev. Thomas Oommen, Moderator of the Church of South India.

5 NOTES FROM ASIAPAC By Alice Wu, Hong Kong

The Hong Kong chapter welcomed Society members at the celebration of the 20TH anniversary of the Hong Kong province.

On September 14TH (Holy Cross Day), the Compass Rose Society Hong Kong Chapter held its first event, Hong Kong Chapter Night, attended by close to 30 CRS members, most of whom joined CRS this year. At this dinner event, CRS board member David Tse welcomed all participants on behalf of CRS and shared the vision and purpose of setting up a Hong Kong Chapter. It is through recruiting more members, and participation in more CRS events, that the Hong Kong Chapter aims to raise awareness amongst The Anglican Church in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui or HKSKH) members on the work of the Communion in different parts of the world; and in the active participation of Hong Kong CRS members, Hong Kong members can help the Communion better understand the needs and concerns of Anglicans in the Asia region. Also, David shared with members how CRS Hong Kong Chapter, in response to the Society’s call, raised US$29,849.39 for The Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre for children with disabilities. CRS President Bishop Andy Doyle had written to Archbishop Paul Kwong to express his thanks for the support of and contributions made by the Archbishop and CRS Hong Kong Chapter. David appeals to all present to join others in contributing to the al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Next, CRS Vice-President, The Rev. Canon Samson Fan, spoke on the latest CRS updates and happenings, which includes the six-member CRS delegation from the United States and St. Mary’s church in Hong Kong is built in the Chinese temple style.

6 CRS members visiting the Children’s Department in the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui (HKSKH) Welfare Council. From left to right: Kirsten Peterson, Antonia Wong, Dean Samson Fan (President of the Hong Kong Chapter of the CRS), Canon John L. Peterson, Pauline Maxwell, Bishop Andy Doyle (President of the CRS), Neil Maxwell. Missing from the photo: Bishop Michael Ingham.

In addition to training ordained ministers, the College also provides laity and continued education for clergy programs. And on top of Sunday services, the College runs an orphanage, founded in 1996 and named Grace Home for the Needy Children — providing orphaned or abandoned children with Canada, including Society President Bishop Andy Doyle and basic education, equipping them with skills for living. It also former Secretary-General of the Anglican Consultative Con- offers vocational training for abandoned mothers. ference the Revd Canon John Peterson, celebrating the 20TH Since 2010, the College has commenced its decade long Anniversary of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui. The Revd Canon expansion plan — to provide a master’s program, enlarge the College library, construct a College complex, enhance facili- Samson Fan encouraged all present to take part in the four-day ties for children and teens and enhance the software of the tour the Chapter has already planned for the delegation and be College. The College aims to raise funds totaling US$600 good hosts to our guests and to enjoy the fellowship of and as thousand, of which 40% will be raised by the Myanmar Province members of the international CRS family. and 60% — HK$2.8 million — by overseas contributions. The Revd Canon Samson Fan (whose Hong Kong photos Members also heard Debbie McGowan of St. John’s are published in this article) pointed out that one of the reasons Cathedral share her volunteer service experience in Myanmar. for setting up Hong Kong Chapter is to raise the awareness of She taught English for free at Taungoo, Myanmar and shared and bring focus to the work of the Church in Asia within the the fruits of years of collaboration the Cathedral had with the Communion. And thus, he shared a possible “Asian” fundrais- Diocese of Taungoo. ing project — the expansion of the Holy Cross Theological Finally, one more happy news worth a mention is this: College in Yangon, Myanmar. Canon Samson made a merry Hong Kong Chapter Organizing Committee members Alice quip on his sharing about Holy Cross Theological College and Ben Cheung were one of the reasons why the first Hong on Holy Cross Day, saying “It must have been God’s will!” Kong Chapter Night was held in Kowloon Tong. We chose Holy Cross Theological College is the sole divinity school in a venue close to the hospital where their baby was to be Church of the Province of Myanmar. The College, founded delivered. After the dinner, Alice and Ben went straight to the in 1934, trains ordained ministers and mission workers and hospital, sent off with our blessings and laughter to welcome runs a B.Th program. It currently has only four classrooms, their 7.3lb baby son! We ended our first Hong Kong Chapter with a capacity of 10-15 students per class; the library holds Night full of thanksgiving, joy, and blessings. Please continue 20 thousand books. On average, the College has 50 students to pay attention to and pray for CRS Hong Kong Chapter and attending every year. our work.

7 MORE ASIAPAC NOTES

“[HKSKH] EXEMPLIFIES THE SAYING ‘SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL’.” -- ANGLICAN COMMUNION SECRETARY GENERAL DR. JOSIAH IDOWU-FEARO

The Hong Kong Sheng mission. …We seek to be a Kung Hui (HKSKH) celebrated Church for the city and with the its 20TH anniversary with a series city in Hong Kong and Macau.” of commemorative events and The commitment to education programmes throughout 2018. and social welfare has always While the Province is only 20 been an essential feature of the years young, the history of the mission of the Church in Hong Anglican Church in Hong Kong Kong right up to the present and Macau goes way back, to and will continue. the mid-nineteenth century The Compass Rose Soci- when the Diocese of Victoria ety delegation was among the was established in 1849. The guests from around the world HKSKH is small, compris- who joined the special cele- ing only three dioceses: Hong bration of the Eucharist to mark Kong, Eastern Kowloon, and the occasion and the thanks- Western Kowloon and a mis- giving dinner. CRS President sionary area of Macau. Steeped Bishop Andrew Doyle spoke of in history, it has long known the work and generosity of the what it’s like and what it takes Archbishop Paul Kwong Primate of Hong Kong HKSKH and described it as a to be a part of something and chair of the Anglican Consultative Council model of virtue for the Anglican significant. It was once the Communion. Diocese of South China (Dio- cese of Kong Yuet) of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui. DID YOU KNOW? The bishops of the HKSKH, reminded their flock of its The Revd Canon John L. Peterson, former secretary general “beginnings,” in their pastoral letter marking the anniversary, of the Anglican Communion and past-president and current that “Twenty years ago, we took up the mantle of our forebears board member of CRS played an instrumental role in estab- and sought to continue their work. As we look back upon lishing the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, 38th Province in the the past two decades, we are thankful, not only because of Anglican Communion. the joy that ‘institutionally’ our Church has been ‘elevated’ CRS President Bishop Andrew Doyle was said to have from a diocese to a province, but more importantly, we praise been very much impressed by the “feeding of the 3000” at the God for our inheritance of the service to which our forebears October 6TH Celebration of the Eucharist at the Asia-World dedicated their lives.” Expo, noting the preparation required. The altar cloth for the The forebears of HKSKH have made mission at the heart extra-large altar table used was sourced and stitched together of the province. The strong partnerships with schools and by CRS Member Mrs. Nancy Lo. social service agencies to serve the people of Hong Kong and Macau strengthened in the past two decades, but the seeds were sown, countless challenges overcome, and the firm foundation of mission extend beyond 20 years. At the October Alice Wu, her husband Ben, and son Christian are members of 6 thanksgiving dinner — the concluding event — Archbishop the Hong Kong Chapter of the Compass Rose Society. Paul Kwong reminded all that, “We were formed in and for

8 Archbishop Suheil Dawani with staff from the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre after confirmation that it had secured its second consecutive accreditation from the JCIA. JJERUSALEM PRINCESS BASMA CENTRE SECURES SECOND SUCCESSIVE INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATION

The Diocese of Jerusalem’s rehabilitation centre for children with disabilities, which the Compass Rose Society supports, has obtained its second consecutive audit from the Joint Commission International Accreditation (JCIA). The Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre, on the Mount of Olives, provides a structured program of holistic care for Palestinian children from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. In December 2015 it received its first three-year JCIA accreditation, becoming the first – and to date, the only – Palestinian rehabilitation centre to receive such international accreditation. It has now completed its second audit, gaining accreditation for the next three years.

“ This accreditation is essential and is a testimony that safety, quality delivery of clinical care, and overall patient the Centre continues to provide high quality services for support.” patients according to international standards,” the organization The JCIA provides accreditation to hundreds of health care said on its website. organizations in more than 100 countries worldwide. Its The General Director of the Jerusalem Princess Basma accreditation is the gold standard seal of approval. Centre, Ibrahim Faltas, thanked all staff at the Centre for their The Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre provides rehabilita- hard work and persistence in achieving the accreditation for tion treatments to more 700 children a year, creating positive the second time. “We are one of the lead organizations that changes in their lives and the lives of their families. It is one work on developing knowledge and expertise in the field of of several health care ministries operated by the Anglican child rehabilitation,” she said. “Receiving this accreditation Diocese of Jerusalem. In December, the Archbishop in Jeru- is clear evidence of the high level of scientific and clinical salem, Suheil Dawani, has issued an emergency appeal after competence and a clear commitment for quality of service the outpatient’s clinic of the diocese’s al-Ahli Arab Hospital in provision for our patients.” Gaza collapsed. Violette Mubarak, the Director of the Centre, added: “Our equipped and skilled team is committed to providing high The latest edition of Anglican World magazine – the last quality rehabilitation services to our patients. By achieving edition of Anglican World in its current format—featured this accreditation, the patients and their families will have the work of the Jerusalem Princess Basma Centre. confidence that the facility has met strict criteria in patient’s

9 Anglicans TAKES OFF IN AFRICA By the Reverend Rachel Mash

Green Anglicans is the environmental at the Commonwealth Youth Forum in London. He shared movement of the Anglican Church some of the challenges of climate change in Mozambique. of Southern Africa. They are one of the projects being He met the Archbishop of Canterbury and was able to spend supported by the Compass Rose Society. some time with the youth of the diocese. Inspiring Anglicans to take up the challenge of the fifth mark The Eco-bishops gathering was a wonderful conference of mission, they started five years ago, and with the support where 17 bishops, with women and youth reps gathered to of the Society they have been able to grow the movement share their experiences of mitigation and adaptation – they into the Province of Central Africa and the Anglican Students came from fourteen dioceses across Southern, Central and Federation just launched Green Anglicans in Kenya. East Africa. Climate change is really hitting us in Africa and there is a growing awareness of the centrality of the gospel mandate to preach the good news to “all creation” not just the human beings. Some of the highlights have been the invitation to present at the CAPA Youth Conference in Nairobi (an All Africa Anglican conference) which got youth from many countries excited!) A workshop held in Malawi with a group from Mozambique present made it to the National Malawian TV. Bishop Ellinah our chairperson and Canon Rachel Mash were invited to the Diocese of Washington to run forums sharing the impact of climate change on Southern Africa at several churches including the National Cathedral. The visit also included a round table discussion with Some Green Anglicans at work. six members of the State Department, some lobbying on the Hill and a visit to the South African embassy to discuss the recent climate change impact Three of our dioceses have formed a partnership with report by the IPCC. National Anglican Youth conferences the Interfaith Centre for Sustainable Development and took up the theme of Creation Care in Lesotho, Namibia and Gigawatt Global to place small scale solar farms on church Swaziland and Botswana: young people are enthusiastically land. Canon Rachel was invited to present at the Parliament committing to plant trees, save water, embrace climate smart of World Religions. agricultural methods and reduce plastic pollution. The Green Anglicans movement has taken up the Youth from the Anglican Green Church movement in challenge of plastic pollution with a “bring your own bag” Harare joined forces with the Friends of the Environment campaign, creating jobs and reducing plastic. The goal is to for a Walkathon – planting 120,000 trees across schools push for a national ban on single use bags. and churches. Canon Rachel was invited to address the Diocese of The Anglican Communion has just gained accreditation Oxford on the impact of climate change. with the United National Environmental Programme and David Junior, Green Anglican from Mozambique, was so we are planning to send a delegation to the Assembly in Nairobi in March. one of the three representatives of the Anglican Communion

10 UPDATE ENDOWMENT FUND CAMPAIGN By Alfred Moore

The Compass Rose Society is actively soliciting gifts for its $10 million endowment fund. THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY Society President Bishop Andy Doyle first presented plans for the endowment fund at the 2015 annual meeting. He told members that the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican Consultative Council, and secretary general do not lack opportunities to meet the challenges of reconciliation, mission, and the need for ever-deepening spiritual growth presented by the global church. “The question remains,” said the bishop, “who will stand in the breach between the needs of the Anglican Communion and the resources to undertake its ministry? The Compass Rose Society is looking for partners to join us and meet this need squarely with the financial donations required to undergird the vision of Communion to which I firmly believe God has invited us.” Two years on, the Compass Rose Society has now launched the endowment fund, and a working group has begun ENDOWMENT FUND fund-raising. The members of the working group are the Rev. Canon John Peterson, the Rev. William Fowler, Society treasurer Bob Biehl, Norris Battin, and chair Alfred Moore. Other Society members will be invited to join the group. and other charities and local government bodies, including The endowment fund will generate income to support the the Anglican Consultative Council. Society’s annual commitment to the Anglican Consultative Welcoming the move, the Archbishop of Canterbury Council. “As the endowment fund grows, new memberships and Justin Welby said: “I greatly appreciate the commitment that annual member contributions will then support mission initiatives the Compass Rose Society has made to the global ministry throughout the Anglican Communion,” said Bishop Doyle. of my office and the Anglican Communion. The Society has “As a former secretary general of the Anglican Communion, supported several of my predecessor’s initiatives, including I know first-hand how important such an endowment is,” said the Anglican Observer to the United Nations, the Bible in the Life the Rev. Canon John Peterson. “This endowment will allow the of the Church, and theological textbooks for seminary libraries Anglican Communion to initiate new unbudgeted programs and, during my tenure, the Continuing Indaba project. between ACC meetings or respond to humanitarian crises.” “The Society’s Endowment Fund will both offer support A trust fund established as an English charity, with the to ongoing Communion programmes and will allow the Anglican Communion Office as sole beneficiary, holds the Communion to respond more generously to our future global endowment. The Compass Rose Society’s board of directors initiatives. I urge all members to remember the Compass Rose and its finance committee will oversee the endowment, Society Endowment Fund in their estate planning endeavors and five trustees, two of who are Society members, will as well as in their annual charitable giving.” supervise the trust. The trust manager will be the company The secretary general of the Anglican Communion, The Most Churches, Charities and Local Authorities Investment Man- Revd. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, also welcomed the creation of the agement Limited (CCLA), an ethical fund manager who fund, describing it as “a great gift for our global family that oversees the funds totaling £7.842M at March 31, 2018, will enable the Communion to support its different ministries held by the Church of England’s Central Board of Finance for decades (and hopefully centuries) to come.”

11 REVISITADO From the Anglican Communion News Service By Amelia Brown

THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY VISITED TWO DIOCESES IN BRAZIL IN 2011 The Diocese of Rio de Janerio and the Diocese of the Amazon in Belém (see Compass Rose Communicator Summer 2011). Ruth de Barros did much of the hard work on the ground to make our visit successful. This article from the Anglican Communion News Service lets us know more about Ruth and what she’s been doing. It’s reprinted with the permission of the ACNS which now produces weekly news bulletins in French, Spanish and Portuguese. We kept the original British spelling in the article.

Falling in Love With – and in – Brazil

When Ruth de Barros went to Brazil on a short-term mission placement, she was told: “You’re going to fall in love with Brazil, and Brazil is going to fall in love with you.” Now, having served for 25 years as a missionary, a community organiser, a faith-leader, a wife and mother, she reflects on those words in an interview with Amelia Brown. During her quarter-century in Brazil, she taught English, fell in love, ministered to prostitutes, got married, created community centres, started classes, ministered in the Amazon, and raised her son. Ruth’s story starts in her early 20s, in a jazz bar in England. Ruth de Barros at St. Jose da Pedras Church Pratinha favela, Belém, Diocese of Amazon, Brazil. Photo Credit: Leah Gordon / USPG Raised as a nominal Roman Catholic, Ruth’s faith had faded. She couldn’t see where people of faith impacted or understood the real world. This particular night, she found herself chatting She started out teaching English in the seminary. Quickly, Ruth’s with someone who she was shocked to learn was a Christian. colleagues realized that her heart longed to be outside, working After assuring her that it was perfectly normal to be a Christian, in the community. She joined a ministry to prostitutes, providing have a drink and listen to jazz, he went on to invite her to his health appointments and helping them apply for ID cards. Anglican parish church. “Basically, we supported them. These women suffer a lot of “So I agreed to go to his church,” Ruth recalled. “It was violence from the police and the public. It’s a lot of abuse...It’s so open and so welcoming that I thought ‘this is the family I the kind of job that’s never going to go out. It’s been with us for want to be a part of.’ And that’s why I decided I wanted to do years, and these women need to be treated a little better, with something more for the Church.” Faith rekindled, Ruth looked a little more respect.” for ways to share it. After nine months in Brazil, USPG and the Church in Brazil “I decided to go to Brazil because I had recently come back invited Ruth to extend her mission. Her immediate excitement to the Church after being away for a long time and I wanted made staying an obvious choice. So for another year, Ruth to do something useful in mission. I didn’t want to just go to ministered in Porto Alegre, putting down deeper and deeper church on Sundays; I wanted to do something meaningful.” roots in Brazil, including marrying Saulo de Barros. With that in mind, she signed up with the mission agency, Saulo met Ruth when she was teaching English, during her USPG. In October 1992, Ruth found herself serving in Porto first weeks in Brazil. A few years later they would have their Alegre, in the Southern Diocese of the Episcopal Church of Brazil. son, Thomas.

12 One of the people who invited Ruth to extend her stay was be thousands of miles, demanding a week of travel on the river. the Bishop of the South Western Diocese, in Santa Maria, who Diocesan clergy were stretched thin. hired her a year later to run her choice of community develop- Communities struggled with development, literacy, and ment projects. medical support. But Ruth and Saulo also saw change occur “I picked the one that was more challenging because I love under their watch. Over time a few more clergy arrived. A a challenge,” Ruth explained. Indeed, the project was a chal- course that Ruth began in 2013, facilitating discussions on lenge. It encompassed an organic garden and a community topical issues such as racism, chauvinism, and leaderships bakery, offering employment opportunities. The facility also skills, expanded into Río, and continues on to this day. was home to a school and nursery, as well as literacy classes Ruth just as honest about the challenges she personally for adults. In her spare-time, Ruth worked on a suicide preven- faced, particularly as her mother grew ill with Parkinson’s over tion hotline, gave English lessons, and sang in the local church time and she herself was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2005. choir. “Saulo had to remind me that I still had a husband at “It strengthened my faith, I think. I mean, yes. At times it home,” Ruth laughed. was wavering. When things were really difficult, I often

Ruth de Barros in Pratinha favela, Belém, Diocese of Amazon, Brazil. Photo: Leah Gordon / USPG

In 2000, the family relocated to Olinda in the Diocese of wondered and used to say to God ‘Do you want me to stay Recife. Two years later Ruth, Saulo, and their young son Thomas and carry on here?’” relocated again to the Amazon, to a community called Belém. In the face of these challenges, she found strength in family, They stayed there for the next 15 years. It was during this time both family in the UK and in Brazil. “We know that you love that Ruth learned some of her most important lessons: to slow your mother and that you want to be with her, but we would down and to let go. be so sad if you left!” the people would cry. Her family’s “I’ve always been that person who thinks ‘Oh! I’ve got support of her work in Brazil and the kinship created with the to do this; I’m the missionary, I’m being paid, I’ve got to do congregations there gave Ruth the resolve to continue. everything!’ But I’ve learned that isn’t so good. I think one of the major lessons I learned was to hold back and listen more, and to just be with people rather than doing everything.” She was candid about the struggles they faced in their ministry: how Saulo was one priest responsible for five-to-six CRS Past President Bishop Philip Poole preaching parishes, about the poverty facing the communities in the at the church of Amazon, and about the sheer distance between communities. Christ the King in the Diocese of Rio de Janeiro in 2011 In 2005, Saulo became the first Bishop of the newly organized Diocese of the Amazon, and these problems became more poignant. The distance between parishes could

13 FinancialREPORT The Society Continues to Enable Communion Ministry

The year 2018 will be remembered as a milestone year for the Society as preliminary figures indicate that our collective donations pushed our total to more than $1 Million (USD), a 35% growth in giving over 2017. With strong support from the new Hong Kong Chapter and an upturn in Canadian giving, the Society will for the first time in some years meet our giving target for 2018. Hong Kong led the Society in new memberships in 2018 although the US and Canada also had strong growth. The generosity of our members has provided more than $550,000 for the ACC in support of its mission and ministry. We were also able to meet critical needs throughout the Communion with more than $210,000 to support the Diocese of Jerusalem in their aid to those in need in the Middle East. Also, the Society supported the Church of South India, the Diocese of Tanzania, Canterbury Cathedral and the Diocese of the Cape Coast as well as other Anglican dioceses and entities. Our members have so far allowed the Society to exceed $11.5 million in donations since our founding. Operating expenses for the Society grew in 2018 primarily as a result of increased expenses for the Annual General Meeting in London which was not as well attended as past meetings. Expenses were less than had been budgeted due to reduced requirements for the Endowment’s start-up and overall expenses were less than 15% of the Society’s revenues. I am pleased to report that the Society has raised over $150,000 in contributions and pledges for the Endowment Campaign. The Endowment Committee continues to work towards our goal of providing a trust fund to endow the Society’s annual commitment to the ACC budget. The flexibility offered by this fund would then allow the Society to widen its giving to the pressing needs of the provinces within the Anglican Communion. As you can see, the Society continues to be an important part of the Anglican Communion’s support. We will be finalizing these financials over the coming months and will post final statements for 2018 on the website www. compassrosesociety.org after the spring Board Meeting in April. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Respectfully submitted, Robert J. Biehl, Treasurer 2018

14 SUPPORT THE BISHOP ACKON BISHOP ACKON MEMORIAL CHRISTIAN EYE CENTRE By the Reverend Kofi deGraft Johnson

A generous Society member has offered to match gifts to the Bishop Ackon Memorial Eye Centre in Ghana up to $7,000 to pay off the debt remaining on the passenger van they recently purchased using a donation from the Society and a loan for the funds required to complete the purchase. The van is used to transport patients to and from the Centre and for other outreach activities. The Rev Canon Kofi deGraft Johnson who administers the Bishop Ackon Centre wrote this in thanks for our gift. “…To the glory of God, we have procured a brand-new Toyota HiAce 15-seater bus from Toyota Ghana. The bus was delivered to the Centre last Friday, and on Sunday, the Bishop dedicated the bus for our use.” To contribute, sent a check with a note “Bishop Ackon van match” to The Compass Rose Society, Attn: Tami Hawkins, donate online from the Society

The Rt. Rev. Victor Atta-Baffoe Bishop of Cape Coast in the province of Ghana website, or scan the QR code and com- consecrates the passenger van at the Bishop Ackon Eye Clinic in Ghana. plete the donation form.

BOOKS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY

Bishop Doyle comments: For us to understand the future shape of vocations in the church we must first wrestle with the vocation of the church itself. I have attempted to do both in Vocãtiõ. I believe that God has a mission. God’s mission has a church -- a community -- and we are that community of beloved apostles. As such, how do we stop fumbling over institutional trappings and get to the business of our mission? What are the theological and spiritual imperatives that mark the work before us? And what are the economies that force us to rely on outdated models of being and doing church? I have explored these questions in previous books, sharing the con- versations I have been having as a priest and then bishop of the Episcopal Church with my diocese and beyond. I have come to believe that some aspects of our formation for the future lie in how the Church functioned in the past. I firmly believe that there is a great tide that washes through the Church both from the past and the future. If we look carefully at our past, we can see the seeds of our becoming. I believe that the Holy Spirit draws us forward. Discernment and conversation cost what they will and lead where they may, are essential for leadership and strategy. All of creation flows out of the community of the Divine Trinity and is a reciprocation, a return to God, of this divine gift. We are part of that eternal return. As an institution filled with people, we also wander adrift, blown by winds that lead us elsewhere. (Ephesians 4:14) In every age, therefore, we examine the faith we have received to make necessary course corrections to ensure that we are traveling with the tide of God’s Spirit and not futilely rowing against it.

15 Compass Rose Society Communion VISITS & STUDY TRIPS AROUND THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

Diocese of Kaduna, 19 Northern Nigeria 99

Jerusalem

2000 Cuba Spain & Portugal Diocese of Mpwapwa, 20 Tanzania 01

Hong Kong & Mainland China Diocese 2002 of the Highveld,

Province of Southern Africa Scotland & Wales 2003

(Study Trip)

2004 Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

Ireland 2005

(Study trip)

2006 Rome (Study Trip)

Mexico 2007 Salisbury, UK (Study Trip)

2008 Cyprus

16 Compass Rose Society Communion VISITS & STUDY TRIPS AROUND THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

Diocese of Southern Malawi 2009

2010 Paris (Study Trip, the Convocation of Episcopal Churches) Liverpool (Study Trip) 2011

Anglican Church in Brazil (The City of God in Rio & Belem in the Amazon) 2012 No Trips

Diocese of Cape Coast, Ghana 2013

Province of Southern Africa 2014 and the Diocese of False Bay

2015 No Trips

Communion Visit to Hong Kong, Shanghai 2016 & Nanjing China

Visit to Anglican Center in Rome 2017 Jubilee Celebration No Trips Visit to Hong Kong to Celebrate the 20TH 2018 Anniversary of the Diocese

17 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

All Saints Parish Mr. and Mrs. Ian McCulloch Conception Bay South, NL Diocese of Ontario Chapter, Kingston, ON

Mr. Wing Nang Chan Mr. and Mrs. Robert McGaughey Hong Kong Diocese of Ontario Chapter, Kingston, ON

The Very Reverend and Mrs. Kurt H. Dunkle The Reverend Katherine Sharp McLean Orange Park, FL New Orleans, LA

The Rt Revd Rayford B. High, Jr. Mr. Kai Chung Poon, Ms. Lillian Ng Lok Yee, Carl Poon Shing Hau, and Cian Poon Shing Hun Razim-Normand Texas Chapter Hong Kong Holy Trinity Cathedral Mr. and Mrs. Ken Stewart Hong Kong All Saints Atlanta Chapter, Atlanta, GA

Mr. Michael R. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Tin Tak Von Huene-Chan Kanuga Conferences Chapter, Hendersonville, NC Hong Kong

Ms. Leslie Lenny Mr. Sing Wah Wong, Ms. Lam Yeun Chau, Arlington, VA Mr. Wong Hong Chun, and Ms. Wong Hong Yau Hong Kong Mr. Howard Lo, Ms. Isabelle Lo, Natasha, Chase and Marcus Lo Hong Kong

WE ARE DEEPLY SADDENED TO REPORT THE PASSING OF

Mr. William Christopher Burgess The Rev. Daphne Grimes Atlanta, GA Cody, WY

The Right Rev. George Edward Councell Canon Miriam Hoover Pennington, NJ Glencoe, IL

Ms. Janet McCully Seattle, WA

Mr. Ed Treadway Scarborough, ON

Jack W. (Sandy) Smock Duarte, CA

18 Continued from page 1 ~ Message From the President

Society for the greater Anglican mission. Compass Rose their jurisdiction. For mission areas where provincial bishops Society members over the years have enabled our brothers are the most economically stretched this would be impossible. and sisters in economically and politically challenged With our help, we can insure that bishops make connections environments, remote in both distance and common ex- for the greater health and vitality of mission globally. This perience from our lives, to know that they are part of a larger gathering puts bishops together not only in prayer and in reflec- community. Bob Biehl provides a full review of our 2018 gifts tion about our common future as a communion, but it is also a and funding priorities in this Communicator. Let me hit the way of empowering the greater network of mission. As one of high points. the instruments of communion, the Lambeth Conference will The year 2018 will be remembered as the year the help us to strengthen our ties and mutual mission leadership. Society first received 1 million (USD) in member’s contribu- Please join me and my diocese in funding scholarships. tions -- a 35% growth in giving over 2017. Our new Hong You can donate by check or through our website at www. Kong Chapter led the way in new memberships for 2018. compassrosesociety.org/lambeth2020. This generous level of support from our members provided Again, thank you for your annual support of the mission more than one-half million dollars for the ACC in support of the Anglican Communion. JoAnne and I are grateful, and we of its mission and ministry. Also, the Society also met needs look forward to welcoming many of you to London for our in the Diocese of Jerusalem which was hard hit by the US 2019 annual meeting and dinner hosted by The Most Reverend government’s cut-off of aid to the Palestinian Authority. The and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury Society also continued to support various dioceses within and Mrs. Caroline Welby. the Communion in Asia and Africa. Since its founding, the Society’s members have enabled it to make gifts exceeding I remain your faithful servant, $11.5 million. A major Society project is to support the Lambeth conference. The Lambeth Conference is a significant event C. Andrew Doyle in the life of the Anglican Church. It brings together all IX Bishop of Texas ~ President of the Compass Rose Society active bishops and their spouses from across the worldwide Anglican Communion – that’s more than 165 countries. The aim is to seek God’s direction for the future of the Anglican/ Charles Andrew Doyle (Andy) is the ninth Bishop of Texas. He served five Episcopalian Church for the decades ahead. You can read years as canon to the ordinary prior to his election. Bishop Doyle holds more about the conference here: www.lambethconference. a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas and served at org/en/. Every $10,000 US dollars raised will help bishops St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, Austin before receiving his M. Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1995 and travel to the UK for this once in a lifetime experience. For priest the following year. He served at Christ Church, Temple and many bishops, this will be the first time they travel outside St. Francis, College Station.

Continued from page 3 ~ Some Mussing About the Lambeth Conferences a noticeable increase in ethnic and racial diversity of the at a Lambeth Conference is that the archbishops and bishops bishops between the 1988 and 1998. During that decade, MEET. They pray together; they worship together, they eat not only did the Communion expand its membership with together, they meet in small groups together, they participate more dioceses, but also most of the bishops attending the in plenary sessions together, they have fellowship together. 1998 conference were indigenous. No longer were bishops Many bishops serve in isolated dioceses in the Anglican appointed from the global north to serve in the global Communion, and suddenly at the Lambeth Conference, they south. This will certainly be true at the 2020 Conference are no longer alone, but they are a part of something far hosted by Archbishop Justin Welby. greater -- they join the great diversity that distinguishes the While all aspects of the Lambeth Conferences are impor- Anglican Communion. tant, I believe that the most important thing that happens

19 BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY Supporting the mission of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Communion.

The Right Rev. Jane Alexander Diocese of Edmonton AB BECOME A COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY MEMBER The Right Rev. Andrew Asbil Join as an individual or form a chapter of several members. There are Diocese of Toronto, ON parish, diocesan, and cathedral chapters within the Society. Share in Robert J. Biehl the annual meeting: visit Lambeth Palace or Canterbury Cathedral; join Treasurer of the Society, Houston, TX in a question and answer session and dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury. Meet fellow Anglicans while traveling on Communion Visits Michael J. Brown throughout the world or study our Anglican heritage on location. Montevideo, Uruguay Individual membership includes an invitation for the member (or The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope couple) and up to two guests to attend the Society’s annual events Provost, Washington National Cathedral and Communion Visits. First Vice President of the Society, Washington, DC With a parish membership, the rector and guest and two parish members The Right Rev. C. Andrew Doyle may attend. Four members of a chapter may attend. With a diocesan Bishop of Texas, President of the Society, Houston, TX membership, the bishop, a guest, and two members may attend. Attendees pay their travel expenses. The Very Rev. Chun Ho Samson Jeremiah Fan Vice President of the Society, Dean of All Saints’ Cathedral, Hong Kong For more information or to update your email address and other contact information, please email [email protected]. The Rev. Canon Michele V. Hagans Washington, D.C. COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY SOCIAL MEDIA & INTERNET ACCESS: Mark Hemingway Website: www.compassrosesociety.org Toronto, ON Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/CompassRoseSociety The Most Rev. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon (click “Like” to join the community) Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, London, UK Twitter feed: @CompRoseSoc The Rev. Andrew T.P. Merrow (click “Follow” to join the community) St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA Instagram: instagram.com/comprosesoc/ Ann M. Moore OTHER WEB LINKS: Minneapolis, MN The Anglican Communion: www.archbishopofcanterbury.org Carlos R. Muñoz The Anglican News Service: www.anglicannews.org White Plains, NY Episcopal News Service: www.episcopalnewsservice.org The Rev. Canon Benjamin Musoke-Lubega Forward Movement Publications: www.forwardmovement.org Trinity Church Wall Street, New York, NY The Rev. Canon John L. Peterson MISSION PARTNERS: former Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, The Anglican Church in Southern Africa: www.anglicanchurchsa.org Vice President of the Society, Hendersonville, NC Diocese of Cape Coast, Ghana: www.capecoast.anglican.org The Right Rev. M. Philip Poole Diocese of Southern Malawi: www.angdiosoma.org Vice President of the Society, Barrie, ON Diocese of Jerusalem: www.j-diocese.org Diocese of the Highveld: www.diocesehighveld.org.za The Right Rev. Gregory Rickel Green Anglicans: www.greenanglicans.org Bishop of Olympia, Seattle, WA Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil: www.ieab.org.br Charles M. Royce La Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico: www.anglicanmx.org Greenwich, CT The Rev. Pamela Cottrell Shier NOTE TO MEMBERS: Mount Morris, PA To receive the Communicator by email only, contact James W. Stevens [email protected] Houston, TX THE COMPASS ROSE COMMUNICATOR: David Sik Hung Tse Published periodically by the Compass Rose Society, Norris Battin, Hong Kong Communications Committee Chair, editor. Photos by the Rev. Canon James The Rev. Della Wager Wells Rosenthal, Kofi deGraft Johnson, and the Very Rev. Samson Fan and Secretary of the Society, New Haven, CT several CRS pilgrims. Comments welcome to [email protected]. An electronic edition of the Communicator is available on the Society’s website www.compassrosesociety.org.