7 – 14 March 2007, Birchwood Conference Centre,
Boksburg, SOUTH AFRICA
TEAM 2007
TEAM Vision
The people of the Anglican Communion meeting in the context of
prayer and theology; sharing diverse experience and views on specific
social issues; renewing the Church’s commitment and capabilities
to respond to God’s
call to service in the 21st century.
TEAM Objectives
- To encourage a prophetic articulation for an Anglican theology that supports witness and action for social justice.
- To assess the First Pan African Anglican Consultation on HIV and AIDS (Boksburg I) and share the African experience with the Anglican Communion.
- To critically review the response of the Anglican Communion to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) and to encourage further collaborative efforts toward achieving the goals.
- To design and generate new and relevant models of sustainable development for local and global contexts.
- To encourage opportunities for learning and for transformation through dialogue among people with diverse experiences and perspectives.
- To explore resource mobilisation opportunities and management with a range of partners
- To foster mutual commitments and partnerships within the Anglican Communion.
TEAM Outcomes
- To draw strength from and to inspire confidence in the gospel tradition as we seek to address the Millennium Development Goals.
- To strengthen platforms for information sharing and networking within the Anglican Communion.
- To create a sense of urgency and possibility for action to achieve the MDG’s.
- To secure resources mobilisation and dissemination strategy for programmes that achieves the Millennium Development Goals.
- To enhance frameworks of cooperation within the Anglican Communion on issues of Social Development and Poverty Eradication.
- To create strategies to promote community participation in local programme delivery that seeks to ensure community ownership and sustainability.
- To develop a consensus document reflecting lessons learnt on each Millennium Development Goals from the conference.
- To provide background material and information that motivates and informs those preparing for the Lambeth conference.