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October 18, 2007
Bible Study - 10:30am
Archbishop Ndungande Speaks at Trinity
Thursday, Oct 18, 7 pm in Trinity Hall
The Most Rev. Njongonkulu Ndungane, Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Province of Southern Africa will be at Holy Trinity Thursday, October 18 for a Town Hall Meeting.
The event will open with traditional African music and a video of the TEAM (Toward Effective Anglican Mission) conference in Boksburg which was attended by Bishop Marc and a number of California pilgrims. He will discuss Millennium Development Goals and Global Mission in the Anglican context. The program will end with a question and answer period and a reception.
"We need to shout from the rooftops that AIDS is not God's punishment of the wicked. It is a virus and not a sin, and the stigma that society has created around the epidemic is causing people to die instead of living positively."
Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of South Africa, speaking on the occasion of AIDS Awareness Day, December 1, 2002.
We must learn to recognise God at work in people who are not ‘one of us.’We must not be like Joshua, who can only accept those who are prophesying under Moses’ direct oversight. Rather, we should be like Moses, who sees that God is at work in Eldad and Medad, and generously says ‘Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets!’
It is not easy to live with a spectrum of perspectives – it is challenging even when we are fully confident we are all firmly within the Anglican heartlands.
But this wrestling together offers us the possibility of treasures that cannot be found in more monochrome approaches.
As individuals, congregations, Dioceses, Provinces, and as a Global Communion, we grow best when we have that level of complimentary difference which can indeed ‘provoke one another to love and to good deeds’ (Heb 10:24).
Archbishop Ndungane preaching at Southwark Cathedral in Oct. 2006.