Gafcon ireland launch day booklet a5 20pp draft for review

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Welcome Faithful Ministry—The Gospel Message Worship, interview, talk from Vaughan Roberts

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Coffee

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Faithful Courage Singing, interview, video, talk from Bishop Greg Venables

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Lunch

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Faithful Anglicans Singing, interview with Archbishop Peter Jensen & Charles Raven, talk

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Tea break

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Faithful Ministry – The Gospel Life Singing, Jerusalem 2018, interview with Bishop Andy Lines, talk

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very short break

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The Launch of Gafcon Ireland including sermon from Archbishop Ali Buba Lamido and prayers

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Conclusion

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

FRO NT AND WEL COM E TO THE WA TER IREL AND !

THE LAU NCH OF GAF CON t s a fresh movement of the Holy Spiri I trust that this gathering today mark nd.

Irela ion and service throughout to renew the people of God in miss of God long to be Faithful to the purposes we tion mina With others in our deno e to ienc obed in ther toge grow to r we wish in the decades to come. In particula the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and has been given to me. Go therefore ‘All authority in heaven and on earth and er Fath the of e nam the in izing them make disciples of all nations, bapt have teaching them to observe all that I of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, age’ the of end with you always to the commanded you. And behold, I am (Matthew 28.18-20). us.

His gospel, and His presence amongst We move forward with His authority, fore, ed in the Lord’s work. We hope there Perhaps you are weary and discourag ‘with joy word the of stry mini the and p wshi that today through song, prayer, fello of salvation’ (Isaiah 12.3). you will draw water from the wells Thank you for joining us.

In Christ

Revd. Tim Anderson Chair, Gafcon Ireland

COUNCIL Revd Tim Anderson Dundonald Ms. Ruth Bridcut Irish Church Missions Dublin Bishop Ken Clarke Retired Bishop of Kilmore and Mission Director for SAMS Ireland Revd Trevor Cleland Ballinderry Revd Trevor Johnston Belfast Revd David Luckman Crosslinks Ireland Team Leader Ven David McClay Willowfield and Archdeacon of Down Revd David Martin Irish Church Missions Dublin Revd Canon Bryan Martin Waringstown Revd Bill Press Knockbreda

THE ISLAND OF IRELAND WAS ONCE KNOWN AS

The land of saints and scholars B U T T H AT I S N OT T R U E TO DAY

Northern Ireland has a honoured reputation for sending missionaries to all corners of the globe but not to its very own people, on its own island.

People here – on our doorstep – are dying without hearing the great news of Jesus’ message of salvation, or the Bible taught faithfully, as is the case in many Anglican churches.

For example, in the Republic of Ireland, there are: 70 towns with a population of 5000+ with no evangelical witness of any sort

53 towns with a population of 7,500+ with no evangelical witness of any sort

30 towns with a population of 10,000+ with no evangelical witness of any sort 6 towns with a population of 20,000+ with no evangelical witness of any sort

The Republic of Ireland has the lowest percentage Evangelical population in the English-speaking world.1 The Lord Jesus commands us to: ‘Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.’

1 Research findings from Aontas ‘The State of the Irish Evangelical Church’ 2013

GAFCON

IRELAND

IS

FA I T H F U L TO T H E

OF JESUS CHRIST AND

UNCHANGING, TRANSFORMING

PROCLAIMING HIM ON THE

GOSPEL

ISLAND OF IRELAND

Gafcon Ireland believes, therefore, that our first priority must be to make disciples.

This means the movement is committed to: 1 PROCLA IM Gafcon Ireland is passionate about bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to areas of the island of Ireland, especially to areas where it has been obscured or lost.

2 PA RT NER Gafcon Ireland partners with those who share the very Anglican passion for spreading the gospel on this island and around the world!

3 PLANT We will partner with mission organisations to get people out proclaiming and begin planting new church gatherings on the island of Ireland. We hope to plant 50 churches in the next 50 years!

4 PREPA RE Theological education for all Christian people is essential for the growth and stability of a church and groups of churches. This is so foundational that Gafcon Ireland started this work even before its launch – creating TheologyIreland. Our plan is to grow this into a faithful training centre that will prepare people for ministry where they find themselves, and also prepare people for full-time Christian service.

OUR SPEAKERS REV’D VAUGHAN ROBERTS Vaughan came to faith as he read through Matthew’s Gospel for himself as a teenager. After studying law at University and a brief spell doing student ministry in South Africa, he moved to Oxford to study Theology at Wycliffe Hall and has lived in the city ever since.

In 1991 he joined the staff of St Ebbe’s Church to lead the student ministry and since 1998 he has been Rector. He is also the Director of The Proclamation Trust, an organisation that encourages and equips Bible teachers, and the author of many books. In his spare time Vaughan plays tennis and golf.

ARCHBISHOP GREG VENABLES Greg is the Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of South America and Bishop of Argentina. He is much in demand as a Bible teacher and spoke at the Diocese of Down and Dromore’s Bible Week in 2017. He and his wife Sylvia have been missionaries in South America for almost 40 years, with one son, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

Born and raised in England, Greg was a computer systems officer and a school teacher before beginning his ordained ministry and serving with the Anglican Church in Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina. He was ordained to the episcopate in 1993 when he became the Auxiliary Bishop of Peru and Bolivia, served as the Primate of the Southern Cone in South America from 2001-10 and the diocesan bishop of Southern Argentina since 2002. He was installed as primate and obispo presidente of the Anglican Church of South America in 2016.

ARCHBISHOP PETER JENSEN Dr Peter Jensen is the former Archbishop of Sydney, and Principal of Moore Theological College. He is recognised as a key leader in the worldwide Anglican Church and was one of the organisers of the Anglican Future conference (Gafcon) in Jerusalem in 2008.

Peter has published a number of books and articles and his At the Heart of the Universe is used worldwide as an introductory text on Christian Doctrine. He has lectured and addressed conferences in England, Ireland, Eastern Europe, South Africa, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, United States and Canada.

Peter is married to Christine. They have five adult children and 25 grandchildren.

ARCHBISHOP ALI BUBA LAMIDO The Rt Rev’d Ali Buba Lamido is the Bishop for Wusasa Diocese, in the Anglican Province of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria where he has a special ministry amongst Muslim people. We are honoured and delighted that he has been able to travel to Belfast to help launch Gafcon Ireland today.

FA I THF UL MINIST RY — T H E G O S P E L M E S S AG E VAUG HA N ROB ERTS Titus 1.1-9 (ESV) Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began 3 and at the proper time manifested in his wordthrough the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;

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To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

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This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer as God’s steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. 9 He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.

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FA I THFU L COU RAG E G R E G VE N A BL E S 2 Corinthians 1.1-10 (ESV) Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

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Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead. 10 He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.

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FA I THF UL A NG LICAN S P E T E R J E N S E N 1 Peter 1:22-2:12 (ESV) 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for

“All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25

but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

2 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture:

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“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

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So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,

“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” 8

and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”

They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

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Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

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FA I THFU L MINIST RY – T H E G O S P E L L I F E VAUG HAN ROB ERTS Titus 2.1-10 (ESV) But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. 6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 7 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, 8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. 9 Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, 10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

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SERM O N A RCH B I SH O P A L I BU BA L A M I D O

T H E LO R D ’ S P R AY E R Our Father in heaven,

Ár nAthair, atá ar neamh,

hallowed be your name,

go naofar d’ainm,

your kingdom come,

go dtaga do ríocht,

your will be done,

go ndéantar do thoil

on earth as it is in heaven.

ar talamh mar a dhéantar ar neamh.

Give us today our daily bread.

Ár n-arán laethúil tabhair dúinn inniu.

Forgive us our sins

Agus maith dúinn ár bhfiacha,

as we forgive those who sin against us.

mar a mhaithimidne dár bhféichiúna féin.

Lead us not into temptation

Agus ná lig sinn i gcathú,

but deliver us from evil.

ach saor sinn ón olc.

For yours is the kingdom,

Óir is leatsa an ríocht,

the power and the glory,

agus an chumhacht, agus an ghlóir,

now and for ever.

trí shaol na saol.

Amen.

Áiméan.

Material is reproduced from The Book of Common Prayer under licence number 110401, copyright © RCB 2004.

CONFESSION Most merciful Father, our Creator and Judge, we acknowledge and confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word and deed.

We have not loved you with all our heart; and we have not loved our neighbours as ourselves.

We earnestly repent, and are truly sorry for all our sins.

For your Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake forgive us, and strengthen us to serve and obey you in lives wholly renewed by your Spirit; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

An English Prayer Book © The Church Society 1994

THE NICENE CREED We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation, he came down from heaven, was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

Amen.

A P R AY E R A Prayer for the Advance of God’s Kingdom

Urnaí le haghaidh dhul chun cinn Ríocht Dé.

Heavenly Father,

A Athair Neamhaí,

we beg you to pour out your Spirit in these days.

iarraimid d’achainí ort do Spiorad a dhoirteadh amach sna laethanta seo faoi láthair.

Awaken the unconverted and revive those who love you.

Dúisigh as a gcodladh na daoine nár iompaigh chuig Críost go fóill agus athbheoigh an dream a bhfuil grá acu duit.

Grant your people a true vision of your glory, a renewed faithfulness to your Word, and a deeper consecration to your service so that through their witness your kingdom may advance and all peoples be brought to fear your holy name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Deonaigh do do phobal léargas fíorcheart ar do ghlóirse, dílseacht athnua do do Bhriathar agus seirbhís a dhéanamh duit le fíordheabhóid ó lár a gcroí.

Deonaigh é seo chun go mbeidh de thoradh ar a bhfianaise duit go rachaidh do Ríocht chun cinn agus go mbeidh eagla ar na ciníocha uile roimh d’Ainm Naofa; trí Íosa Críost ár dTiarna. Áiméan.

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