Anglican Communion Office programme directors report progress to ACC members

May 10, 2019 by Jill

from ACNS:

Directors of programme areas at the Anglican Communion Office have spoken to members of the Anglican Consultative Council to report on their work over the past three years. The seventeenth meeting of the Consultative Council (ACC-17) brought together more than 100 members from the 40 provinces of the Anglican Communion in Hong Kong for a week of prayer, discussion, and fellowship.

On Tuesday 30 April, three Directors in the “Mission Cluster” – Canon Terrie Robinson, the Director for Women in Church and Society; Jack Palmer-White, the Anglican Communion’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations; and the Rachel Carnegie, the Executive Director of the Anglican Alliance; presented their reports.

In what was Terrie Robinson’s last report to the ACC – she is concluding her ministry with the Anglican Communion at the end of this month – she shared a number of stories, some very graphic, that had taught her about the question of power and how that may be misused and abused. Robinson told the meeting that the women’s desk “could become a point of contact for any woman or any man in the Anglican Communion who was doing something or wanted to do something about violence against women and girls.”

Her work is dedicated to raising awareness of the prevalence of violence against women and girls, to share information and to reach out to survivors. She highlighted programs which have contributed to this work: The 16 Days of Activism, Thursdays in Black and White Ribbon Day and a new work called “God’s Justice: Just Relationships between Women and Men, Girls and Boys” that she hopes will find its way into seminaries and other places of learning throughout the Communion.

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