ANGLICAN CHURCH OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

INVITATION TO DESIGN A LOGO

Can you design a logo to express our Church’s commitment to ACT?

We are in search of a design that communicates that the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is

            Anchored  - in the love of Christ;

            Committed  - to God’s mission; and

            Transformed  - by the Holy Spirit.

The search for a logo is part of a continuing process of developing a Vision and Mission Statement for our Province that will be considered at Provincial Synod at the end of September.

Details of the visioning process as it now stands are below (incorporating the decisions of Provincial Standing Committee last year). You should be guided by these in creating a design.

This invitation to submit ideas is open to all the members of ACSA.

The Archbishop and a small committee will receive the submissions and develop the best of these for presentation at Provincial Synod. Synod will then conclude the process.

Please let us have your submissions by Friday July 9, 2010. If you want further clarification of what is required, please contact the Revd Allan Kannemeyer at peointern@anglicanchurchsa.org.za

                        DESCRIPTION OF THE ONGOING ENVISIONING PROCESS

Vision

The Anglican community in Southern Africa seeks to be

·        Anchored – in the love of Christ

·        Committed – to God’s mission

·        Transformed – by the Holy Spirit

Mission statement

Across the diverse countries and cultures of our region, we seek:

·        To honour God in worship that feeds and empowers us for faithful witness and service

·        To embody and proclaim the message of God’s redemptive hope and healing for people and creation

·        To grow communities of faith that form, inform, and transform those who follow Christ

Priorities

To make this vision a reality, and to help us to form a comprehensive response to the many inter-relating socio-economic challenges we face in our region, we commit ourselves at Provincial level to these priorities for the years 2011 to 2020:

1.     Liturgical renewal for transformative worship

2.     Theological education

3.     Leadership formation

4.     Health: HIV and AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis

5.     The environment

6.     Women and gender

7.     Protection and nurture of children and young people

8.     Public advocacy

Why a Provincial Vision and Mission Statement?

We are familiar with the idea of organisations – including some parishes and dioceses – having visions and mission statements. But is it possible for a body as widespread and diverse as our Province to devise a Vision and a Mission Statement that is distinctive without being too narrowly-focused, and all-embracing without being too vague?

Provincial Standing Committee thought that such an exercise was both possible and necessary, and called for a Provincial Vision and a Provincial Mission Statement to be developed. In 2008 the Archbishop appointed a Vision Task Group to work on this. They looked at a range of diocesan and parish visions and mission statements; they took note of the Archbishop’s Enthronement Charge; they reflected on what Anglicans in Southern Africa hold in common, and on how we differ; and they examined the many challenges facing our diverse Province.  They reported back to Provincial Standing Committee (PSC) in September 2009, and – with a few small changes – PSC approved the draft Vision and Mission Statement for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, and asked for further work to take this forward to Provincial Synod in September 2010.

Identity and purpose

The Vision and the Mission Statement are an attempt to ‘brand’ our Province – that is, to give us an identity and purpose that all Anglicans in Southern Africa can own, built on the inheritance we have received, and rooted in our different local contexts. The Vision and the Mission Statement are meant to be placed alongside diocesan and parish visions and mission statements, not to displace them.

The eight Provincial priorities are those issues and concerns that are properly addressed at Provincial level, to strengthen and support effective implementation at parish and/or diocesan level.