T HE E UROP E AN A NGLICAN N OT ANG E LS BUT A NGLICANS I N TH E ST E PS OF S AINT A UGUSTIN E A SSISI AS IT WAS P AG E ANT R E CR E AT E S I TALY ’ S HISTORY T WITT E RS , TW ee TS AND F AC E BOOKS T H E CHALL E NG E OF N E W T E CHNOLOGY S HARING , PRAYING AND L E ARNING “ O UR MAN IN B RUSS E LS ” O RDINATION JOY M AINTAINING OUR M INISTRY FREE N o . 4 7 AUTUM N 2 0 1 0 2 B arbe CU E S an D B L E SSI N GS T HE E UROP E AN A NGLICA N M ee TING AND E ATING TOG E TH E R The Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe The Rt Revd Geoffrey Rowell Bishop’s Lodge, Church Road, Worth, Crawley RH10 7RT Tel: +44 (0) 1293 883051 Fax: +44 (0) 1293 884479 Email: [email protected] The Suffragan Bishop in Europe The Rt Revd David Hamid Postal address: Diocesan Office Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1160 Email: [email protected] The Diocesan Office 14 Tufton Street, London, SW1P 3QZ Tel: +44 (0) 207 898 1155 When the Meteorological Office in Fax: +44 (0) 207 898 1166 Britain predicted a Barbecue Summer Email: diocesan.office@europe. last year they were roasted for getting c-of-e.org.uk their forecasts so wrong – one of the few things to be roasted during a cool Diocesan Secretary Mr Adrian Mumford and unpredictable English Summer. Assistant Diocesan Secretary Mrs Jeanne French Finance Officer Summer this year in many parts of Europe The Gospels tell us that although Mr Nick Wraight has allowed time for the barbecues to Jesus did not have a house of his own he Diocesan Website be lit and the opportunity of “Al Fresco” regularly received hospitality from other www.europe.anglican.org living. Sharing meals and hospitality is people. And while he was eating and Editor and Diocesan an important part of our ministry in the sharing meals people would be talking Communications Officer variety of climates and landscapes where about God and life and asking questions The Revd. Paul Needle our congregations are to be found. But we because they knew he had the answers Postal address: Diocesan Office follow a noble and holy tradition. to matters of eternity. Email: [email protected] In God’s Hymn Book (better known as In this issue you will find the church Tel: 0034 662 482 944 The Psalms) we are told to enjoy good food in celebration (with ordinations and joyful Friends of the Diocese and wine and to see it as a mark of God’s gatherings), commitment to respond goodness and love for us. At the opposite to the needs of the hungry (with our Secretary: The Revd. Philip Warner Email: [email protected] end of the scale the Old Testament emphasis on Creation-tide and the prophets remind us of people in trouble environment), hospitality with initiatives Design when crops fail, harvests are poor and there such as the Alpha or Emmaus Course Adept Design, Norwich is famine. Because of our global media we used by many churches to expand and Printer cannot ignore this division all over the world grow, as well as the most important Norwich Colour Print today. When this Autumn we celebrate shared meal of all which recalls Our Distribution harvests it is not enough to thank God for Lord’s breaking of the bread and blessing CoDEStorm plc all His love and enjoy what we have. We wine – the Holy Communion which is have a world responsibility to remember celebrated across our churches week Cover photo: those who could have food if we shared, by week. Learning how other people live. As we report on this page, these cared and made a fuss about the political In these glimpses of our church life youngsters from the Algarve in intrigues that often prevent aid getting to we hope you will find that even outside Portugal lived rough during a 30 the right people and places. Our feature on barbecue season our shared mission to hour “Fast for Peru” to raise money the Algarve youngsters going without food feed body, mind and spirit is much in and focus attention on the work of highlights one instance of positive action. evidence. the church in South America. Paul Needle Editor, The European Anglican Ma KI N G fa STI N G F U N I N 3 T he A LG ar V E M AKING A “ FAST ” BUCK IN S OUTH E RN P ORTUGAL M ee TING AND Haynes Hubbard, Senior Chaplain of St Vincent’s writes Children in Western Algarve accepted a challenge and met it with a smile, a laugh and success. Three years ago St. Vincent’s Lily’s Team show later that day. The next day we E ATING TOG E TH E R Kids Club began in Praia da Luz, with Fasting for 30 returned the clothes to the charity shop € three or four children playing games and hours is a struggle, so the shop made 15 profit. having chats in the local church. It grew, especially for us Overall it was a really fun experience. and kept on growing, and now there are teens. Fourteen of The best part was the pizzas after the 30 two groups: younger ones and older us, between 11 and hours. We hope we save a lot of lives in teenagers, meeting separately each week, 15 went for 30 hours without eating a Peru after our hard work. for sports, talks, prayers and events. They single thing, except for a few people regularly lead Sunday worship for the with medical issues. To pass the long Emily’s Team English Anglican services in Luz, go on time without eating we did activities In our groups we all went to the camp-outs to Sagres in the Spring and Fall, such as volunteering to help tidy the Orphanage in Lagos have led worship for the Archdeaconry orphanage in Lagos, just after they had to help out and Synod in Vilamoura and, most recently, had lunch and collecting food for the meet the children the older Youth Club participated in a 30 homeless. Although we did a lot of there. We washed hour Fast, in aid of a Child Protection voluntary work we also played a lot dishes and swept Program in Lima, Peru. of fun games as a group, and cooled the floors inside and A year ago €2,500 was raised to send to down by going swimming at the end outside. Some of the children showed us a school in Malawi to provide the 500 of the day. their rooms and then when we were students there with one mosquito net Every 7 seconds a child dies of leaving, looked very sad. We asked why each. The Anglican priest in the parish, Fr. hunger, they don’t have a choice and learned that they had thought we Mponda, told us his school’s need and the whether to eat or not, so we decided were coming for a sleep-over! We were Kid’s Club responded with a Walk for to raise money to help an organisation all quite emotional (even the leaders) but Malawi and a dress up day at the which gives children in Peru a place to felt very happy and moved by the Barlavento School in Espiche. Funds were eat, sleep and play. Each of us was experience. soon on their way and 500 children’s lives sponsored and we have raised Throughout the day we played € were safer because of the children in approximately 1,600. games, watched bits of movies, sang, Algarve’s desire to help. All fourteen children said it has been prayed and kept our cool by visiting a In the autumn of 2009 a talent show an amazing experience, and would like friend’s pool. We slept: sort of, because was held in Burgau, in the style of Britain’s to do it again, to help the children who the girls decided to raid the boy’s Got Talent: “Algarve’s Got it Too!” was a have no choice. Many of us said we bunkhouse during the night and spray huge success, and massive fun. €2,000 was could have fasted for longer. them with perfume. Then it was more the result, which was then taken to the activities: but slower ones, because we Anglican Bishop of Lima, Peru, to be used Izzy’s Team: were running out of steam. We watched to feed hungry children in the food- “We never thought a powerful and moving movie about programs run by the church there. The we’d do it, South America, called ‘The Mission’. team from all over Spain and Portugal especially with We know we haven’t solved the world’s worked on various projects in Peru and McDonalds being 5 problems. We know there is still hunger returned with a desire to do more, yet minutes away!” and tremendous poverty. But we also wondering how to do so. Fourteen kids split up into 3 groups know that, in our little, tiny way we The Kid’s Club and Youth Club, and with 2 adults fasting for some Peruvian have made a difference. And for that, we their leaders, principally Emma Laherty strangers.