Archbishops launch evangelism week of prayer
By Tim Wyatt, Church Times:
ALL serving clergy in the Church of England will soon receive a letter from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York asking them to take part in a week of prayer for evangelism at Pentecost.
The event — “Thy Kingdom Come” — will run from 8 to 15 May. Cathedrals and churches across England are expected to hold events to encourage churchgoers to “share their faith with their friends”.
The centrepiece will be “beacon” services in Durham, Canterbury, York, Coventry, St Paul’s, and Winchester cathedrals, led by bishops, well-known worship leaders, and musicians, including the Revd Tim Hughes, and Martin Smith.
“Thy Kingdom Come” is the fruit of two years’ discussion by the Archbishops’ Task Group on Evangelism. Details of the week were given in a report from the group which will be discussed at the General Synod this month.
The Task Group, set up in 2014 and chaired by the Archbishop of Canterbury, includes specialists in evangelism from across the Church. In the introduction to their report, the vice-chair of the group, the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, writes that their hope is to bring the “beauty” of evangelism to every part of the Church.“Sharing the news of the beautiful shepherd is itself beautiful, a delicate, gentle, and rich privilege.”
But, the Task Group’s report emphasises that it cannot evangelise England on behalf of the wider Church. Instead, it offers a series of short articles that reflect some of the discussions and work that they have undertaken in the past two years.
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