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ALMA Annual Report 2014

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Bp Dinis and Lina Sengulane

2014 ALMA Highlights

4th Angolan Diocesan Synod held in Benguela. Site of the new school blessed and started (a London Lent Appeal & St John’s Pinner Project).

Blessing of Xai Xai Church, Lebombo (helped by Hammersmith & Fulham Deanery Synod).

Bishop Paul Williams is the new London ‘Bishop for ALMA’ & Archdeacon Rachel Treweek is the new Chair of ALMA London Strategy Group.

Bishop Dinis, the Anglican Communion’s longest serving Bishop, retired in March after 38 years as Bishop of Lebombo, and renowned peacemaker.

Opening of Bernard Mizeki Church, T3, Maputo (Hammersmith & Fulham Deanery Synod project).

Bp ErnestoBishop Manuel Ernesto (with his wife)
 
Bp Carlos
Bishop Carlos Matsinhe

Consecration of first Suffragan Bishop in Niassa in June. Bishop Manuel Ernesto will have responsibility for Lurio & Zambezia and training.

ALMA Sunday celebration services in London and Luanda. ALMA Partnership enters 17th year.

ALMA London awarded grant for developing RE educational resources based around the school links within the ALMA partnership.

Three ALMA Reps Meetings in London — with Helen Van Koevering, on the WASH project, on RE with Soul,  and an afternoon tea for Reps with Bishop Dinis and Lina on ALMA Sunday.

Consecration of Bishop Carlos Matsinhe as new Bishop of Lebombo in September.

Banners displayed on ALMA Sunday in St Paul’s Cathedral reach Lichinga and Mecanhelas.

Visits

See the list of visits in 2014 here.

ALMA Life, Links and Projects

Being Church Together is the defining characteristic of the ALMA partnership. We are not an NGO nor a mission agency but a companion link - sharing and learning from each other as we try to live as authentic 21stccentury Christians. Aware of the huge economic disparity between us we acknowledge the particular challenge we in London face in living Gospel centred lives, and that we have much to learn from our partners who have very rich human and spiritual resources alongside the economic, social and environmental challenges they face

In 2014, out of the 187 countries listed in the Human Development Index, the ALMA partners were ranked:

    Income per capita
UK 14 $35,002
Angola 149 $6,323
Mozambique 178 $1,011

The 60 connected ALMA parishes and schools learn something of walking in one another’s shoes. Visits, and increasingly regular facebook contact make this sharing ever more real and rooted.

Small scale local projects like the Magumeto nursery solar powered water supply, the Good Seeds Project in Mandimba, contributions to church building and clergy housing projects, impact on each link parish and their local witness.

SCHOOLS’ WORK

ALMA London was awarded a significant grant by Culham St Gabriel’s to create web based RE curriculum resources on global citizenship and loving our neighbour.

RE with Soul logo

The modules draw on our Diocesan partnership, building on the Twyford School Link with Maciene School in Lebombo, and the Southall churches & Blair Peach Primary School banner project for Lichinga. The website is a creative resource to help schools and churches work together to teach RE and to develop Diocesan companion links.
www.rewithsoul.co.uk

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William Perkin School Choir singing on ALMA Sunday

ALMA Facts and Figures 2014

Donations to ALMA in 2014:

Unrestricted Donations
(ALMA General Fund)
£13,780.69

Restricted Donations
(includes Special Projects Funds, link parish and school programmes)

This includes

  • £19,396 from the 2014 Diocesan Lent Appeal ‘Helping Children Be Children’ which will be used for ALMA’s Children work. Particular thanks to Revd Bertram Olivier for his marathon fundraising effort
  • the significant grant received for the RE with Soul project
£76,276.00
Donations remitted to ALMA Partners in 2014 £142,462.00