21st March 2009 09:30—15:30
The Albany Learning and Conference Centre
44 Ashley Street Glasgow G3 6DS
Join delegates from around Scotland to exchange ideas on how to strengthen our Companion Links with Dioceses overseas, building on relationships developed at the Lambeth Conference.
Enquiries to Gill Young:
Phone: 0141 332 2160
E-mail: info@companionstogether.org.uk
Bishop Idris Jones will open the discussion with a scriptural introduction to companion linkages and a reflection on what he has brought back from his overseas experiences, and a discussion exploring what global links are for.
Other speakers will include Revd Canon Edgar Ruddock, Director of the International Relations Team at USPG: Anglicans in World Mission. He will speak about how mission works in practice in today's world and how has it changed.
Rev. Canon Stephen Lyon, currently the General Secretary of PWM (Partnership for World Mission), will offer some practical advice for making Companion Links work and lead a discussion on what can we do to respond to the agendas.
A number of speakers from within our own Province will also share their experiences of Companion Links in the Scottish context.
- Deepen the quality of Diocesan Link relationships.
- Seriously engage with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Five Marks of Mission
- Live out the challenge of the Lambeth Conference of 'listening and learning'
- Renew and refresh relationships
- Develop stronger more informed prayer links
- Build on successes – by sharing stories
09.30:- 10:00 Registration and coffee
10.15 Welcome.
10.30 – 11.30:Most Rev Dr Idris Jones
A scriptural basis for companion links
11.45 – 12.45 :Rev Canon Edgar Ruddock, USPG
How does Mission work in practice in today's world
12.45 – 1.30: Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 : Rev Canon Stephen Lyon.
Practical advice for Companion Links
14.30 – 15.00: Stories of how Scottish churches have linked :
15.00– 15:30: Summing up by Stephen Lyon
Closing worship
Getting to the Venue
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