april 2015 // volume 17 number 1 www.angmissions.org.nz • CO CE M N M E O R N E F L N 2015 I F O E C M S I S N S I O contents 3 // Mission Together Looking forward to CLMC 4 // Mission Together Looking forward to CLMC 7 // Decade of Mission Bishop Richard Ellena writes CLMC 2015 9 // Go Thoughts about the journey Can I afford to miss the Missions speakers, bible scholars, mission 10 // Lenten Appeal Conference this year? partners and leaders from overseas churches together for you to learn from, Inspirational projects In our ‘time-poor’, ‘success-obsessed’, and mingle with. We hope to have ‘do-it-now’ culture, finding time and 14 // Lasting Legacy church leaders from Africa, Papua New The NZ / Egypt link motivation to attend a 4-day mission Guinea, Melanesia, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, conference may seem daunting. It can South East Asia, the Middle East, be difficult to say “Yes”, “Definitely”, England, Australia, Canada, USA and “Amen” – “I’m Going!” If this is the case other parts of the world in addition to for you, you are probably asking yourself Anglican Missions Board of the Church some of our own Mission partners. in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia the wrong question. The question you 32 Mulgrave St // PO Box 12012, should be asking is “Can I afford NOT “Being” a Missional community Thorndon, Wellington 6144, New Zealand to go to the Missions Conference?” What we do as a missional church is Tel 64 (0)4 473 5172 Here are 5 reasons why you cannot an expression of who we are as the [email protected] afford to miss the Common Life people of God. Coming together for this www.angmissions.org.nz Missions Conference 2015. conference allows us the opportunity to Designed by: Marcus Thomas live together as a missional community Cover Photo: Credit Diocese of Egypt The World is coming to Aotearoa to for the duration of the conference. “Mission Together” We will be worshipping, eating, We are bringing world renowned dreaming, sharing, encouraging, 2 • CO CE M N M E O R N E planning, listening and learning together to dream new dreams – perhaps a dream F L N 2015 I F O in a missions focused environment. that may seem impossible in your present E C M S I S N S I Hopefully new Mission models, alliances, circumstances and capabilities. The “Go ye therefore, O partnerships, networks and friendships conference may encourage you to dream and teach all will emerge as we share together. dreams that can only be made possible Nations, baptising through the grace of God. Let’s dream them in the name Refocusing on our “Core-Calling” Mission dreams together as we plan for a Our “Core-Calling” for Mission has “Decade of Mission”! of the Father, the not changed. It stems from the Great Son, and the Holy Commission that Christ passed on to Launching a Decade of Mission Ghost” his disciples in Matthew 28. “Go ye Dreaming dreams is one thing, but therefore, and teach all Nations, baptising stepping out in faith to take action during them in the name of the Father, the Son, a ‘Decade of Mission’ is another. In and the Holy Ghost”. This mandate mission action terms, my sincere hope has been passed on from generation to and prayer is that this conference will generation of Christians, and is still the encourage our Church to take our game Great Commission for us today. Coming to a new level as we launch a “Decade of together at this conference will help us Mission” together. By taking time out to refocus on the Great Commission as be a part of a missional community for we listen, learn and rediscover our 4 days, to refocus on our ‘Core-Calling’ “Core-Calling”. while rubbing noses with key missions people from around the world and Dreaming Dreams dreaming dreams of what could be Sometimes we focus too much of our made possible by God’s Grace – energies on ‘doing things right’ and hopefully this will inspire us to not enough on ‘doing the right things’. unite in Mission together! Coming to this missions conference may Rev Robert Kereopa encourage you to think outside the box, Executive Officer 3 COM • M E O C N N E L R I F E E F N 2015 M O I S C S I S O N A CALL TO MISSION The Anglican Missions Board has coordinated Common Life Missions Conferences (CLMC) on behalf of our Provincial Church in recent times. These conferences are a celebration of Mission, calling together Church and Mission people from our Province, and from across the globe. This year we are expecting 1,000 people to gather from many different countries, cultures, and contexts. THEME: MISSION TOGETHER We encourage everyone not only to gather together, but also to learn about serving in Mission together. CLMC2015 gives us the opportunity to eat, drink, COMMON LIFE MISSIONS CONFERENCE breathe, sleep, learn and dream Mission together, 6–9 October 2015 while forming new mission alliances, partnerships and networks. We will become a Missions King’s College, Auckland Community together. ANGLICAN CHURCH IN AOTEAROA, NEW ZEALAND AND POLYNESIA THE 5 MARKS OF MISSION The primary focus for CLMC2015 will be the Anglican Consultative Council’s Statement of Mission now incorporated into the Constitution of our Province but also a uniting feature of the World wide Anglican Communion. The 5 Marks of Mission are: 4 C E • OM C M N O E N R E L I F F N 2015 E O M C I S S S N I O ›› Proclaiming the Gospel on VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION with Evangelism ideas and strategies across ›› Nurturing Believers possibilities for MISSION TOGETHER. the Province and across the Asia/Pacific MISSION TOGETHER can be within region? What Mission Targets should ›› Responding to Human Need a congregation, a school, youth group, we set for my Parish/Rohe/Diocese/Hui ›› Transforming the Unjust Structures women’s group etc; or across Tikanga, Amorangi? Who is God calling us to be in Society, and Parish to Rohe, diocese to Hui Amorangi and what is God calling us to do in our ›› Caring for Creation or Tikanga to Tikanga; or cross-culturally context for this 10 year period? nation to nation; or ecumenically. We MISSION INNOVATION 50 WORKSHOPS are encouraged to ask the question There will be up to 50 workshops focusing “How can we Mission together?”; “What CLMC2015 seeks to encourage mission on different aspects of the 5 Marks of Mission targets should we set?”; “What is innovation, with a “Decade of Mission” Mission, including presenters from all God asking of us for our context in this providing a window of opportunity to over the world and Mission Partners generation?” and “How do we plan and trial new methods and new models of mission. We hope this will usher in a new serving in different parts of the globe. organise to get there?” wave of Mission Innovation where new KEYNOTE SPEAKER MISSION TARGETS and old models of mission are trialled in The Keynote Speaker is Prof. Christopher Targets that promote MOBILISING different contexts and experiences shared. Wright… THE CHURCH IN MISSION, while also New ways to mission together can be encouraging MISSION TOGETHER can tried and our stories shared. A DECADE OF MISSION be set for a “Decade of Mission” by any MAJOR SPONSOR CLMC2015 will also launch a “Decade interest group within the Province, and We thank the St John’s College Trust of Mission” for our Province, with the across the Globe. These targets could be Board for providing a substantial grant purpose of placing mission as the central focused on the 5 Marks of Mission with to advance Mission Education in the theme of our Province for the period the added encouragement to work and Province. Advent 2015-Advent 2025. All are invited mission together. For example, “How to participate, with an invitation based can we encourage the sharing of Canon Robert 5 5 • CO CE M N M E O R N E F L N 2015 I F O E C M S I S N S I Rev Dr Chris Wright O Chris Wright was born in Belfast, Langham Partnership is a group of Northern Ireland and was nurtured ministries committed to strengthening as an Irish Presbyterian. He studied the church mainly in the Majority World at Cambridge University and started through providing resources for training his career as a schoolteacher. After evangelical theological educators to doctoral completing a doctorate in Old Testament level, providing and helping to create economic ethics at Cambridge, he evangelical Christian literature, and training was ordained in the Anglican Church pastors and lay leaders in biblical preaching. as an honorary member of the staff team. of England in 1977 and served as an In addition to his primary role in the assistant pastor in the Parish Church of St. leadership of Langham Partnership, he held Under his full name, Christopher J H Peter & St. Paul, Tonbridge, Kent. various positions including, Chair of the Wright, he has written several books, including: A son of missionary parents, he started Lausanne Theology Working Group (2005- his foreign mission service work in 1983 2011), Chair of the Statement Working Old Testament Ethics for the People of God. when he took his family to India, as a Group at the Third Lausanne Congress in (IVP) mission partner, and taught a variety Cape Town 2010, Chief Architect of The The Mission of God’s People (Zondervan) of courses at BD and MTh levels at the Cape Town Commitment.