Jackie Bruchi
1,000 Christian Leaders, 280 Bishops to GAFCON in Jerusalem
Monday, May 12, 2008 =95 7:39 am
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Issued by the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) 2008
Press Release
For Immediate Release
12 May 2008
1,000 Christian leaders, 280 bishops to GAFCON in Jerusalem
Over 1000 senior leaders from seventeen provinces in the Anglican
Communion, representing 35 million church-going Anglicans, have
registered for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in
Jerusalem at the close of the online registration process. They
include 280 bishops, almost all accompanied by their wives. Final
attendance figures will depend on smooth processing of requested
visas, and other factors.
GAFCON leaders have met in the period leading up to Pentecost with the
leaders of Anglican, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic
churches and Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews in Jerusalem to
brief them on the nature and purpose of GAFCON. GAFCON is concerned to
affirm the continuing presence of the Church in the Holy Land.
Archbishop Peter Jensen of Sydney, the chair of the Programme
Committee re****ts that the programme is almost complete. "Our
programme will focus on the transforming love of Christ. We will be
drawing from the scriptures of the Old and New Testament in our
pilgrimage, and their relevance to the challenges facing the church
globally today. These include secularism,
other religions, poverty and HIV/Aids as well as moral and theological
issues."
Pilgrims will visit traditional sites in Jerusalem during the
pilgrimage June 22 =96 29, 2008 including Mount of Olives, the Garden of
Gethsemane and the Ophel Gardens and Temple steps where at the first
Pentecost Peter preached and people of all nations responded. The 1000
pilgrims will travel to Bethlehem to the Church of the Nativity and
Shepherds' Field, and then to Galilee.
The goals of the GAFCON conference in Jerusalem are to:
1. Provide an op****tunity for fellow****p as well as to continue to
experience and proclaim the transforming love of Christ.
2. Develop a renewed understanding of our identity as Anglican
Christians.
3. Prepare for an Anglican future in which the Gospel is uncompromised
and Christ-centered mission a top priority.
Pentecost 2008
For further information:
Rev. Dr. Arne H. Fjeldstad, GAFCON Head of Communications: (+47) 97 56
16 96, US phone (SkypeIn): (202) 580 8685, E-mail: fjeldstad
[at]crpl.org or arnefjeldstad [at] yahoo.com
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