Reps Circular
From Sheenagh Burrell, ALMA Co-ordinator
almacoordinator@london.anglican.org T: Tuesdays: 020 7932 1231
Thank you for all your creative and energetic support of the Lent Appeal ‘Giving Ministry Wheels’. As well as donating bus and tube fares you have hosted and supported Lent Lunches, and even a 24 hour cyclethon - photos from Holy Trinity Northwood in due course! It’s still not too late if you want Lent Leaflets, Posters or Gift Aid envelopes – do email Helen for these. The need for a reliable second hand 4x4 vehicle for each partner diocese is real and acute. Please look at the power point presentation ‘Journeys with our Partners’ on the Lent Appeal page. Bishop Mark Van Koevering can also share more about this in September.
25 April World Malaria Day. The theme for 2012 is "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria" It focuses on the critical need for continued investment in malaria control to safeguard the gains that have been made over the past decade and to promote health and development in malaria-endemic countries.
8 July ALMA Sunday
Mid-end July Hopefully a Welcome service and afternoon tea with the Angolan and Mozambican Olympic teams
4 September ALMA Reps and Friends meeting with Bishop Mark Van Koevering. 6-8 pm Main Hall, London Diocesan House. Refreshments from 5.40pm. Please put this important date in your diaries now and make it a priority if you possibly can.
8 September MANNA AGM
I greet you in Christ our Lord and Saviour. I am sending the actual list of priests and parishes of this diocese for your records and prayers. New appointments and transferences have been made for the good of the work, to give a new dynamic in the work of God, and I am sure that this will help people and clergy to know that Jesus is calling and sending us for his work in different places. Please pray for that.
+André
National Director of Community Health - Dr Matondo Alexandre
National Director of Anglican Schools - Revd Kiaku Avelino
Theological Education Director - Revd Simão Adolfo
Missionary Areas Priest Supervisor - Revd Kiaku Avelino
The Diocese of Angola is growing! Important areas of the church's mission will be strengthened by these new appointments of diocesan directors for community health, Anglican schools and theological education, and a priest supervisor for the missionary areas in the south of the country.
On his appointments as National Director of Anglican Schools and Priest Supervisor of the Missionary Areas, Revd Kiaku Avelino has relinquished his role as parish priest of St Augustine’s, Viana in Luanda.
Revd Garcia Kazayilawoko has been appointed Archdeacon of Lukunga Loge.
The full diocesan staff list is here
Please pray for the Holy Spirit to be at work through these new ministries in the Diocese of Angola.
The Mother’s Union and Equipa da Vida have been very involved in flood relief work with Rosa (MU) and Mario (Equipa) off again for the next phase in the flood relief Tearfund project in Zambezia. They’ll be gone a month. Mario will be training the church committee groups to reach out with teaching on sanitation and health through basic Umoja techniques: Rosa will work more specifically with women now, as a great opportunity to be with the remotest churches and MU groups. MU Niassa is supporting ten most vulnerable children and sick in each of seven communities with mosquito nets and 100 of most vulnerable elderly women with our diocesan capulana.
It is also possible to see some of this work and the seriousness of the floods in a Tearfund compilation video.
‘About 300 men, the bodyguards of Renamo leader Afonso Dhlakama, had been living for weeks in makeshift shelters outside their party headquarters in Nampula.
The ex-rebel movement said the officers shot at unarmed men, but the police say they came under attack first. It is the first time police and ex-rebels have exchanged direct gunfire since the civil war ended 20 years ago. Renamo fought a bloody 16-year war with the ruling Frelimo party’.
“Your intervention is an example of collective action, involving both Mozambicans and foreigners, who, through coordination rather than fragmentation and duplication, have been transforming the national and world panorama in the fight against malaria”, he said. He added that these partnerships, which have been expressed in a wide range of interventions, have helped reduce the number of deaths from malaria. By way of illustration, Guebuza said the number of malaria cases diagnosed in Mozambique fell from about six million in 2005 to three million in 2011. The number of deaths had also halved in the same period – from 4,000 in 2005, to about 2,000 last years. The decline in malaria cases has also had an impact on child mortality, Guebuza added, and would be of key importance for attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of the MDGs is to cut the mortality rate among children under the age of five by two thirds between 1990 and 2015
John has teased out some interesting things from them and has issued a challenge: Whilst daily struggles for subsistence and basic goods continue for most people in Angola and Mozambique, do you know which country …
Answers next Circular?
Wishing you and your families a truly blessed Easter
Sheenagh Burrell
ALMA Co-ordinator
Tel: 020 7932 1231 Tuesdays Diocese of London, London Diocesan House 36, Causton St, London SW1P 4AU.