Ministries - Continuing Indaba

A journey of conversation to strengthen relationships for mission

The Most Revd Thabo Makgoba

Archbishop of Cape Town

‘I believe Continuing Indaba will enable us to hear one another on numerous issues which may confront and challenge us in our global communion.’


  •  Intensifying relationships across the Communion
  •  Energising local and global mission
  •  Enabling genuine conversation across difference

Frequently asked Questions:

Is this the same as the Listening Process?

The Listening Process was established to facilitate listening to gay and lesbian Christians in order to learn of their experience and to help us listen to one another and the insights we bring. Continuing Indaba is concerned with mutual listening.


Current News Items

The first three-day Indaba process specifically designed for women to discuss the issue of violence has been hailed a success by participants.

A wide variety of members presented the report from the Continuing Indaba program at the meeting today of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Auckland, New Zealand.

Enabling conversation across difference has been the main objective of the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening Process. 

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Michael Perham, the Bishop of El Camino Real, the Rt Revd Mary Gray-Reeves and the Bishop of Western Tanganyika, the Rt Revd Sadock Makaya, have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury reflecting on their Indaba process, stressing the importance of the project and the hope that it will be expanded within the Anglican Communion.

An initiative to enable mission by strengthening relationship between parishes, dioceses and Provinces has been celebrated by participants and evaluators as “an important tool” and “wonderful gift” for the Anglican Communion.

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Featured Area: Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening

The ACC at its recent meeting in Jamaica received a report on the Listening Process and welcomed a proposal for a Continuing Indaba Project urging its implementation as soon as possible. It is a biblically based and mission focussed project designed to develop relationships within the Anglican Communion by drawing upon cultural models of consensus building for mutual action.

 



 

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