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  <updated>2018-04-30T09:06:12Z</updated>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5425</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:06:12Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:06:12Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SOUTH&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SUDAN&lt;/span&gt;: Maridi Diocese (with Olo)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pray for the diocese as it faces huge changes due to the election of their bishop to archbishop.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 01 May 2018</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5424</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:05:26Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:05:26Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;RWANDA&lt;/span&gt;: Shyogwe Diocese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Bishop Jered and the diocese are looking forward to receiving a &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; Team this year. Give thanks for the strong partnership shared with the Church in Ireland and pray for the bishop as he makes plans for visitors from three link parishes in August.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 30 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5416</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:05:18Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:05:18Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/29/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;RWANDA&lt;/span&gt;: Shyogwe Diocese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Give thanks for the Bible and Development School, in particular the Leadership Training Programme that equips evangelists and lay leaders in ministry. Pray for participants who have completed this training as they work in their parishes and for those in Nyarugenge Archdeaconry who will receive training this spring.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 29 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5415</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:04:53Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:04:53Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/28/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;UGANDA&lt;/span&gt;: Madi West Nile Diocese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Thank God for the progress on the refurbishment of the Old Cathedral to become a meeting place for children and a centre for youth discipleship. Pray that the lives of children and youth in Madi West Nile will be transformed for the glory of God.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 28 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5414</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:04:22Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:04:22Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;UGANDA&lt;/span&gt;: Madi West Nile Diocese&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pray for Mickey Aibaku and his colleagues Moses and Mark as they work to extend Child and Psycho-Social Support Programmes to four further refugee camps within the diocese. Particularly pray for safety as they travel on rough and dusty roads for long distances.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 27 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-30:5413</id>
    <published>2018-04-30T09:04:01Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-30T09:04:01Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/26/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;UGANDA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Uganda is currently hosting more than one million refugees from South Sudan. In addition to this a fresh influx of refugees has been streaming into Uganda from DR Congo. Pray for the government, NGO’s and the Anglican Church of Uganda as they respond to this crisis.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 26 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-25:5423</id>
    <published>2018-04-25T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-25T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="yei"/>
    <category term="Madi West Nile"/>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The final report from our Yei Team who have now safely arrived home.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday 21st April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Today was a day for relaxation after a busy two weeks, and before going to two churches in the Rhino Camp on Sunday. We spent it visiting the Vocational Training Centre and Craft Centre that Billy and Jenny Smith were involved in in Arua, where we met Karl who now manages the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;VTC&lt;/span&gt;. We also visited Arua&#8217;s market, and the Cathedral of Madi West Nile.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sunday 22nd April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Today we travelled again to the Rhino Camp (Ofua Zone) to take part in two church services, with Sam, Paula and Martin at Bethlehem church, and Denis, Margaret and Jill at Jerusalem church. These were again lively services that we were welcomed at, and it was good to meet with a number of the Pastors who had been at the Retreat.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monday 23rd / Tuesday 24th April&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We travelled home with flights from Arua to Entebbe, Entebbe to Amsterdam, and Amsterdam to Dublin, and then bus from Dublin to Lisburn arriving home late morning. The trip then ended, with us all finding that we had learnt much about the work of Abaana in Kampala, and &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/span&gt; Ireland in Arua / Rhino Camp, and that we all trust that we have made a contribution to the lives of those we came in to contact with.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our thanks go to all those who have organised and helped us during our time in Africa, and made our trip so enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At each church that we have visited, and also at the Retreat, Dean Sam Wright brought greetings from the Bishop of Connor, the Right Reverend Alan Abernethy. The Bishop had led the last Pastor&#8217;s Conference held in Yei in 2013. Dean Sam also brought greetings from the people of Connor, who have been receiving photographs and reports of this Pastor&#8217;s Retreat, and have been praying for them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;We&#8217;re all home safe and sound. Thank you for your prayers.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Welcome home</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-16:5412</id>
    <published>2018-04-16T08:12:57Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-16T08:12:57Z</updated>
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<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;NEPAL&lt;/span&gt;: The Zimmerman Family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Give thanks for the move of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;KISC&lt;/span&gt; to its new spacious location on the outskirts of the city. Pray for the continued settling in to the new site, and for the senior students, including Zachary Zimmerman, who are taking international exams and making decisions about their future studies at this time.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 25 April 2018</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-10:5410</id>
    <published>2018-04-10T08:53:16Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-10T08:53:16Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/24/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;NEPAL&lt;/span&gt;: The Zimmerman Family&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Give thanks for the move of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;KISC&lt;/span&gt; to its new spacious location on the outskirts of the city. Pray for the continued settling in to the new site, and for the senior students, including Zachary Zimmerman, who are taking international exams and making decisions about their future studies at this time.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 24 April 2018</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-10:5409</id>
    <published>2018-04-10T08:53:06Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-10T08:53:06Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/23/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;NEPAL&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pray for Nepali migrant workers who leave home to find employment in countries such as Qatar, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Many receive lower monthly salaries than promised and become trapped in a vicious cycle of debt and exploitation. Pray that the Nepal government will enforce legislation to clamp down on unscrupulous recruitment agencies.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 23 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-10:5408</id>
    <published>2018-04-10T08:52:22Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-10T08:52:22Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/prayer_diary/2018/04/22/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;IRELAND&lt;/span&gt;: &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; Events&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pray for the initial processes of planning and publicity for CMSI’s Ignite event in September. Give thanks for the success of this event in recent years and ask God to bless the plans for the 2018 event. Pray that many will respond positively to the promotional material.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Prayer Request: 22 April 2018</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Yei 2018</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-20:5419</id>
    <published>2018-04-20T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="south sudan"/>
    <category term="Yei Diocese"/>
    <category term="cmsi teams"/>
    <category term="Lisburn Cathedral"/>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/04/20/learning-together-2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tuesday 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We were at the Clergy Retreat again, and the pastors expressed their thanks for our presence with them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The pastors appear to be settling in together, are opening up to us, and are telling us their stories of what they went through in South Sudan, and then on their journeys to Arua. This has been a steep learning curve of our knowledge of what these pastors have been through.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some of the pastors are starting to bridge the gap between the rawness of the journey from Yei, and the place of strength that they need to be in to guide their flocks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wednesday 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sam and Denis talked at the retreat again, covering items such as the history of the Anglican Church and the presence of God. Today was a half day, with talks up to lunchtime.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ladies spent the day preparing for their trips to Rhino Camp on Thursday and Friday to talk to gentlemen in the camp about the &#8216;dignity packs&#8217; that had been prepared for the Yei Trip in 2016 (that had to be cancelled in light of the security situation).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Linda spent the time filming videos of some of the pastors as they shared the stories of their escape from Yei in South Sudan, and their journey to Arua in Uganda.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Martin spent time with diocesan and college staff, helping them with develop their use of Word and Excel packages.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The afternoon was spent taking tea with Bishop Hilary, Mama Joyce, and their close staff. Following this we had supper at the home of Shelvis and Nancy Smith-Mathers, who are from the Reconcile Peace Institute, and are assisting in the presentation of the retreat. Both of these were most enjoyable times.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thursday 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sam led the morning devotion at the retreat, and then he and Denis took much of the rest of the day for final preparations for what will be a long Friday for them. They then gave the 4pm to 6pm session on salvation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ladies and Linda (with Martin as photographer) joined Mamas Joyce, Joanne, Agnes and Anna from the Mothers&#8217; Union, for their first visit to present the Dignity Packs in the Rhino Camp.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Learning together</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Yei 2018</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-18:5417</id>
    <published>2018-04-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="south sudan"/>
    <category term="Yei Diocese"/>
    <category term="cmsi teams"/>
    <category term="Lisburn Cathedral"/>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/04/18/church-in-the-midst" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We travelled on an early morning Eagle Air flight from Entebe to Arua, on a small 19 seater plane. For most of us, this was the first time we have landed on a soil runway. The baggage handlers were two men who loaded the bags into the back seat and boot of a car, and then drove it to the car park to be the &#8216;carousel&#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the afternoon we met Bishop Hilary and others involved with the course to be run this week. Bishop Hilary could not overemphasise that the Church of Yei in South Sudan, and in exile in Uganda, would not be where it is without the commitment of &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMS&lt;/span&gt; Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sunday 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Today we visited the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OCEA&lt;/span&gt; Zone of the Rhino Refugee Camp, where we were welcomed by children waving small, leafy branches which they then laid on the road up to the church as they sang: “We welcome you Bishop / visitors with a clean heart”. We were reminded of the palms waved and laid as Jesus as he entered entered Jerusalem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dean Sam, Paula and Jill took part in the service at Unity Church with Bishop Hilary, whilst Denis, Margaret and Martin took part at Peace Church (about half a mile away). As was the case in Kampala, the structure of the service is based upon the Anglican liturgy, albeit with a very definite African twist.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bishop Hilary has made it clear that our visit here is hugely significant for his people here. In a letter he sent before we came, he wrote: &lt;em&gt;“While they have endured great tragedy, your visit will remind them that are not forgotten.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One other thing we noticed is the pivotal role that the Mothers&#8217; Union plays in the Church life in Africa, and that their standing in the Church is comparable to that of honoured visitors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On our travel to Rhino Camp we got a sense of real, rural Uganda with mud huts (Tukuls) and thatched roofs. However, our expectation that the camp would be a tightly packed seething mass of humanity, was completely wrong. There is a well ordered community with well spaced Tukul throughout the different districts that make up each zone in the camp. The camp as a whole is so large that we were driven for some 1½ hours, and were yet still only just beyond the centre. The camp has a current population of some 87,800 people &#8211; mainly women and children, as lots of the men have been killed or have stayed behind in South Sudan to fight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The big issues for the South Sudanese in exile, are that Rhino Camp is not their true home, there is uncertainty how long they will be there, and that they do not know what they will return to when they do go back to South Sudan. While they do have a community, it is only one that can survive on a temporary basis; long term there would need to be a better structure of schooling, farming and business. But this is not what they want. They want to go home. However, while things in Yei Town seem to have settled down, the surrounding areas are still not safe enough for them to return.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monday 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Linda from &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; joined in during the morning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today was the first day of the Clergy Retreat For Refugee Church Leaders. This is a week-long residential conference for pastors from the South Sudan Zones of the Rhino Camp, which is being attended by some 24 pastors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is the first opportunity that these pastors have had to be able to all meet together like this since they left South Sudan some two years ago. This week will be a time for them to meet together, and to have fellowship to support and strengthen each other.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We heard many heart rendering stories of people losing their homes, family members, their churches being burned, and having to hide in the bush for up to two years before eventually arriving at the refugee camp in Arua.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Please pray for Sam and Denis as they teach at the retreat and for the other team members as they support them and join in with the Days For Girls programme.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Church in the midst</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Iain McAleavey</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-16:5411</id>
    <published>2018-04-16T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="egypt"/>
    <category term="diocese of egypt"/>
    <category term="step"/>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/04/16/different-flavours-common-ground" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I have had a busy few days here in Cairo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been getting to know the different programmes that the Church runs such as the Refuge Egypt project, the variety of spiritual assistance that is given to local Arabic Christians, European ex pats and ambassadors, Burmese Christians and the South Sudanese congregation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had a meeting with Bishop Mouneer where we discussed the contrast between church life in the east and that in the west.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have spent time with the Arabic congregation and participated in a Bible study with them, thanks to my translator, Carlos.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have also visited a few Coptic churches and observed the few differences and the many things we have in common. I have been really encouraged by the visible Christian witness here. Life was not always easy for them. But they love Jesus and it really shows.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I also visited the last synagogue in Cairo which is no longer used by the Jewish community but stands as a monument.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We visited the largest mosque as well and this was a very interesting visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am already so encouraged to be here and the congregations here are so friendly and loving.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Different flavours, common ground</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-04-02:5394</id>
    <published>2018-04-02T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/04/02/zambia-reflections-part-3" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Theological Training&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I thoroughly enjoyed my time spent at the Church of Ireland Theological College (as it was called then) from 2004-2006, but I’d be lying if I said that those of us studying there didn’t occasionally grumble about the experience. There was a degree of financial challenge – especially for those with mortgages to pay and families to support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Frankly, after a couple of weeks in St John’s Seminary in Kitwe, I realise just how much I need to repent of that grumbling! Our training in the Church of Ireland is fully funded, and although that funding is rightly subject to scrutiny, there is no doubt that the Church of Ireland will find and spend the money to properly train its leadership. The Province of Central Africa, and the Church in Zambia, does not have that luxury. St John’s runs on a shoe string, and yet many dioceses simply cannot afford to send students to train there. However, without good training, strategic leadership development in the Church just doesn’t happen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; has 19 global partners. In the past few years, every single one of them has highlighted with us the importance of resourcing leadership development. I am glad to have had a chance to see that need, and to see it being met, first hand in Zambia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I will be praying for Keith and Lyn, for Archbishop Albert and for the students and staff I met in the college.  I’ll also be praying for Amy and Doug, who run the charities we connected with at the guest house.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I’ll be praying that God will resource his work in Zambia, and that he will raise up new link parishes for Keith and Lyn, so they have new avenues of financial and (more importantly) relational support.  And I’ll be praying more fervently for all CMSI’s global partners as they develop leaders in the weeks and months to come. Perhaps you’ll join me?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Collect for Mission&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Almighty God,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;who called your Church to witness&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;that you were in Christ reconciling the world to yourself:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Help us to proclaim the good news of your love,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;that all who hear it may be drawn to you;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;through him who was lifted up on the cross,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;one God, now and for ever.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amen.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Zambia Reflections (Part 3)</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-03-31:5395</id>
    <published>2018-03-31T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-03-31T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/03/31/zambia-reflections-part-2" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Relationship&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I’m very privileged to have had a variety of different roles within the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; setup, and I’m presumptuous enough to feel that I’m part of the furniture now. Our mantra in &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; is that our mission partnerships are exactly that – partnerships, based on real relationships. I know that to be true, I’ve never really doubted it. Yet, I understood it more completely after this trip than I think I had previously.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My two previous trips were ‘work’ trips. That is, we were building, painting and teaching. At the end of two or three weeks there was something physical to testify to the ‘success’ of our visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This trip had a different flavour. Its value was entirely in the ongoing development of relationships, and these took different forms. There was the ‘formal’ relationship between &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt;, the Diocese of Northern Zambia and the Seminary. There was the less formal nature of the links between Jenny and me as we renewed our friendship with the Scotts. There was the development of a friendship between the two archbishops, which began a few years ago at an Anglican Consultative Council meeting. And there was the plethora of new relationships, with students, clergy and others.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the two personal highlights for me were in moments whose value is largely unquantifiable.  The first was at the guesthouse where Archbishop Richard and I stayed for the first couple of days of the trip. The guesthouse, and attached café, are social enterprises which each support projects that work with at risk Zambian young people.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On our final morning in the guesthouse, at the invitation of our hosts, the archbishop was delighted to bless the work of the projects, and to ask for their blessing on his ministry in return. A little moment, but a personal highlight because it was about person-to-person contact between Christians of different denominations, different backgrounds but all part of the same kingdom work.  Relationships that open doors – and now I have some new names on my prayer list.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The second little highlight came on a day I spent ministering with Father Stephen Chibubi, one of the seminary staff who also has responsibility for a couple of parishes. He showed me round some of the work his churches undertake. This included a really exciting early years project that is ready to mushroom once the next phase of building is completed – a great example of that moving forward in faith I mentioned in “my previous reflection”: . We then paid a couple of pastoral visits, including one we hadn’t expected to a home that had suffered a bereavement.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This Zambian wake involved prayers, hymn singing, painted faces, and all of this as we sat on the floor of the house’s main room. I stuck out like a sore thumb: the big white guy in the clerical collar (Father Stephen hadn’t expected to be making this visit and wasn’t in clericals). There was no chance of my slipping into the shadows. I got a few sideways glances, but the truth is that no one really batted an eyelid at my presence. I was with the parish priest, and because I had a relationship with him and he had a relationship with the people in that home, my presence there made sense.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Relationships that open doors – I will think of that day with Father Stephen often as I go about my day-to-day pastoral work.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Zambia Reflections (Part 2)</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-03-29:5392</id>
    <published>2018-03-29T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-03-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="zambia"/>
    <category term="diocese of northern zambia"/>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/03/29/zambia-reflections-part-1" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I’ve been back from Zambia for a couple of weeks now. In hindsight, I’m grateful for the snow at the beginning of March, which saw Archbishop Richard and me delayed for 48 hours in Addis Ababa. As my wife, Anne pointed out – those 48 hours were a gift, affording me time to reflect on the visit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My previous frame of reference for &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; in terms of Mission Experience is in the form of two trips to Kenya, one in 2003 and one in 2015. I was keen to see something a little different on the trip to Kitwe, which is the second city of Zambia.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Warmth of welcome&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It never ceases to amaze me how much warmth there is within the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; family. We were struck by the welcome we received from our friends Keith and Lyn Scott, from the students in the seminary, in the different churches we visited…indeed, wherever we went, we were warmly welcomed. It became clear to us that Zambia is a nation full of warm people who are very proud of their country – of its relative stability and its role in the wider life of the continent.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faith in poverty and the lesson we can learn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Of course, that warmth of welcome was set against a backdrop of relative poverty. Kitwe may be the second city and in the lucrative copper belt region, but its infrastructure is fairly basic, and we were told there is a high level of unemployment. This presents challenges on a number of levels, but it is a real issue for the Church. Archbishop Albert explained that, although his people are not lacking in generosity they are lacking in material resources. This makes it very difficult to plan strategically as a Church, and it is so very different from life in the Church of Ireland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know from experience the level of planning that would go into, say, building a new church hall here in Ireland. Indeed, such a project would not be undertaken here without some sense of certainty as to funding. To apply that kind of thinking in a context like Northern Zambia would be just unrealistic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When we visited some churches in Chingola (about 50km from Kitwe) with Archbishop Albert, he was surprised in almost every one to see a new boundary wall, or the next bit of a classroom or some other small job completed. But that’s the only way such projects can ever happen – stepping out in faith and proceeding a small step at a time. I wonder if we in the Church in Ireland are possessed of such faith, of such patience?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Familiar faith&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I had to smile when, after traveling 5000 miles, one of the first things we sang in the chapel at St John’s Seminary was a great modern Irish hymn, In Christ Alone. I joined the students most days for Morning and Evening Prayer (and Wednesday Morning Eucharist) and these services, alongside Sunday Worship, had a distinct Zambian flavour but also felt entirely familiar. Indeed, not having a local prayer book wasn’t really a problem as we went through the liturgies. (The seminary doesn’t have enough prayer books– another example of the challenge they face in terms of basic resources).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The idiom of worship in Kitwe is more ‘high church’ than I experience most of the time in my parishes. It was a joy to witness and join in the dignified (but never dull) rituals of worship and be blessed by the very real value of a broadly universal liturgy that unites Anglicans worldwide.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Zambia Reflections (Part 1)</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Keith and Lyn Scott</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-03-27:5389</id>
    <published>2018-03-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-03-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <category term="Palm Sunday"/>
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    <category term="zambia"/>
    <category term="diocese of northern zambia"/>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/03/27/palm-sunday" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It’s Palm Sunday and, of course, a special Sunday service to celebrate Jesus riding that donkey into Jerusalem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These days I am filling a gap in the diocesan roster over at Luangwa parish. It has three congregations, and today my duties took me to the main congregation, St. Luke’s Luangwa. Like most cities in the world, certainly all of them in Africa, Kitwe is suffering from urban drift and its inevitable consequences, urban sprawl. Luangwa is one of those &#8216;sprawl&#8217; parishes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In some parts of the sprawl out of the city there are new buildings, reasonably large houses on fair sizes plots, built or being built by people with a job and a little bit of money. Luangwa is still not quite there, but it is a thriving, growing community, although one would not rush to suggest that there was a lot of spare money about the place.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Like the wider community, St. Luke’s is growing, thriving and not particularly wealthy. There is a small old church, very scruffy and run down. The roof trusses have been eaten by termites, and today I was given to wondering exactly how long it will be until they collapse. Not that they are actually supporting much. The &#8216;roof&#8217;, like most church rooves in Zambia is G.I sheet, or rather was. It is more rust and holes than actual roof. So much so that the church is usually awash during the rainy season. It does not do to sit down on any of the softer seats either, as they are beyond slightly damp.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To be fair the parish is trying to build a new church. They have managed to get to roof level, and part of my job will be to encourage them to get the roof on and the building usable. Happily, the rains are fading out now, and wellington boots were not required for this morning’s procession. Hopefully by next year&#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of our students and myself travelled together to the service. Along the route we saw several congregations of various flavours out waving palm branches with all the necessary singing and dancing. We arrived to be greeted by a large pile of palm branches ready for us to do the same.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We gathered together and processed around the church to huge excitement, lots of noise, singing, dancing and those curious African ululations. The noise increased as too much congregation crammed into too little building, in what seemed to be an exceptionally lively game of sardines.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Like most Zambian parishes we have a praise band and a choir. Like most Zambian parishes the congregations is astoundingly young. 60 odd out of 180 people attending today were young children. Most of the rest seemed to be hardly out of their teens. Needless to say, the energy levels are high. There was singing and dancing throughout the service with the various singers taking it in turns to lead.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/261974279&quot;&gt;Palm Sunday Zambia&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com/discovermission&quot;&gt;Discover Mission&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href=&quot;https://vimeo.com&quot;&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We got to the communion and I passed the cup and paten to the readers as I took a brief break, before blessing those 60 odd children and the adults who are not confirmed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The children tend to come up in family units. An older brother, about 10 years old, with a much younger sister carefully tucked under his arm so that she could not escape. Girls about 8 or 9 carrying the baby of the family tied up in a cotton &#8216;chitenge&#8217; cloth.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As one of the characters in Barbara Kingslover’s &lt;em&gt;The Poisonwood Bible&lt;/em&gt; comments, “the gap between being carried on someone’s back and carrying someone on your back is not wide”. All through what seemed to be an endless procession of children, the choir and praise band keep up the singing, dancing and drumming. The noise, intense as it was close up and personal in a small space, did not seem to bother any of the small children, although the idea of a direct encounter with something as strange as a white man did bother one enough to cause her to flee in tears.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When the crowd queuing for a blessing cleared, the energy levels hit maximum. The whole church exploded into a singing and dancing mass of excitement, waving palm branches, and drumming. As the student with me commented “the people have celebrated today”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Even when life is thin and hard we need to celebrate. Today the people of Luangwa did just that.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Palm Sunday</title>
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  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-03-08:5369</id>
    <published>2018-03-08T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-03-08T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/03/08/in-praise-of-march" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March &#8211; a bridging month between Winter and Spring, a time of looking forward with hope…to brighter evenings, to warmer weather and to the celebration of Easter.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love this time of year. I enjoy the lift in spirits of friends and colleagues who, unlike me, hate the Winter. I relish the increased likelihood of outdoor exercise. I&#8217;m thankful for the return to daylight commutes to and from the office. This morning, I had to use my sun visor on my way to work!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In work, March generally offers me some space to invest creative time in new things &#8211; preparing for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cmsireland.org/events/2018/04/21/shine-2018-annual-members-day&quot;&gt;Shine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, starting the process of planning and promoting &lt;em&gt;Ignite&lt;/em&gt;, finally joining Rachel with all work she&#8217;s been doing on the new website (which is coming soon).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But above all, I love the countdown to Easter &#8211; especially Holy Week, which I always take off.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our culture seems pretty adept at helping us overlook this most important of holidays. We need to work hard to participate, to celebrate, to care. Easter isn&#8217;t a big deal in our society. For years, Northern Ireland has chosen to prefer Easter Tuesday over Good Friday as a public holiday. How did that happen?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;March is the month when we can choose a different path &#8211; a month when we can return once again to the story that changes everything. It&#8217;s a story of total loss and absolute gain, a story of renewal, hope and redemption. It&#8217;s a story that connects us to our God and connects us to each other&#8230; a story that lies at the heart of all that &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; does and all that our partners do, as they transform lives and communities.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And it&#8217;s a story that invites each of us in and that sends us out: in, to rediscover God&#8217;s great gift of grace; out, to share this gift with our world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In what remains of this fine month, may we each make choices that bring life to us and to those God has called us to love.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Happy March!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>In Praise Of March</title>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <author>
      <name>Roger Cooke</name>
    </author>
    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2018-03-05:5366</id>
    <published>2018-03-05T00:00:00Z</published>
    <updated>2018-03-05T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <link href="http://www.cmsireland.org/news/2018/03/05/standing-firm" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/>
<content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sunday 4th March&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The music has just started up for church, so the service may begin within the next hour.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The lectionary readings are from Jeremiah and Philippians: Jeremiah pays the price for speaking truth to power and ends up in a deep cistern in the mud; Paul writes from prison convinced that all his sufferings are worth it for the privilege of knowing Jesus and making Him known.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am preaching today in St Barnabas, Oltiasika. The neighbouring congregation, St Patrick&#8217;s, is coming along too, walking the 11kms through the hills. Reading through the passages, it&#8217;s very revealing to try to see them through Maasai eyes, eyes of a people whose culture and context is so very different.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeremiah in his water cistern in danger of starving to death… Well, people are only too familiar with hunger and there are three huge new ground water tanks not 500 metres away &#8211; the danger of falling in and being trapped is easy to imagine. Paul facing fierce opposition as he bucks the cultural and religious trend&#8230; Christianity has challenged some cultural norms here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;God’s living Word resonates with people’s daily experience here too. Obedience to God’s Word can be hard and costly, but God is always faithful to His people. Through Ebed-melech, he rescued Jeremiah and Christians sent help to Paul in prison. God appointing His people to help each other in times of need, God setting the right people in the right place at just the right time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ronnie and Maggie Briggs, our mission partners here, are so clearly God’s people in the right place, working alongside folk here to encourage, build up and strengthen the Church as it expresses God’s care in very practical ways. They have built up strong relationships with the local community and under the direction of Ven Naftaly, they are planning a range of projects.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The water catchment tanks are almost complete and will provide year round accessible water for 2000 people. The shamba is productive and brings in an income, the goat herd provides quality stock for the local market, the guest house is a retreat and training centre and Maggie is in discussion with the women about literacy classes and income generation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As I arrived here in Oltiasika, in the Chyulu foothills, the rains came. It has rained steadily through each night, bringing much rejoicing after two failed harvests due to drought. Rain has bought problems too. With the river too full to cross, the tomato traders cannot collect the harvest from the &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;MRTC&lt;/span&gt; shamba. The roads have been washed away and returning to Nairobi for my flight home will be challenging. However folk here know how to support one another and with the Church as a focal point real transformation is possible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many folk here cannot read the Bible for themselves, so I ended my sermon with a memory verse: &lt;strong&gt;Philippians 1:27&lt;/strong&gt;&#8230;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stand firm in one spirit with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel and don’t be frightened.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;CMSI&lt;/span&gt; is privileged to stand firm in one spirit and strive side by side with folk here as the life bringing good news of Jesus is demonstrated through word and deed.&lt;/p&gt;</content>    <title>Standing Firm</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2016-09-12:1832</id>
    <published>2016-09-12T16:24:19Z</published>
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      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2016-08-31:1833</id>
    <published>2016-08-31T14:38:02Z</published>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2016-08-31:1831</id>
    <published>2016-08-31T14:18:32Z</published>
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    <author>
      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2016-07-05:1787</id>
    <published>2016-07-05T15:01:25Z</published>
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      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2015-11-03:1631</id>
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    <id>tag:www.cmsireland.org,2015-10-19:1629</id>
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      <name>Rachel Brittain</name>
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