Lambeth Conference preparations continue as the St Augustine’s Seminar approaches
ACNS Special Report
Lambeth Conference 2008

The St Augustine’s Seminar, to be held next week in London, has as its task the fine-tuning of the programme of the Lambeth Conference 2008. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said, in a recent pastoral letter, ‘the St Augustine’s Seminar, in a new format, will be digesting what emerges from the process and working towards a full programme. The Lambeth Conference 2008 should reflect the discernment of the wider Communion, and it is essential that your agenda should be addressed, in a way that is fruitful for everyone. The proposed focus on theological formation and development is a way of trying to encourage you to explore what are your own most important needs, as individual bishops and as churches, not to impose a plan from outside.’

The first session of the seminar is to begin on the 5th of November where they will be some thirty participants from various parts of the Anglican Communion including Africa, India, Mauritius, Australia, Pakistan, South America, New Zealand, Canada, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, USA and the UK. Staff from Lambeth Palace and the Anglican Communion Office will also be present. From the Anglican Communion office at St Andrew’s House, London, preparatory work has begun by the Lambeth Conference Manager Ms Sue Parks and her new assistant Mr David Craig. Members of the Lambeth Conference Design Group and members from Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC) will also attend, as will Bishop Thabo Makgoba from the Design Group and Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary of the Lambeth Conference who are both the co – chairs for the seminar. the rest