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Fall 2012

M E S S A G E F R O M O U RP R E S I D E N T

DEAR FRIENDS,

I have just returned to Canada ater a wonderul

series o meetings with the Compass Rose Society

at Canterbury in the UK - my last as your president.

Elsewhere in these pages, you will receive a ullreport o a rich and diverse meeting. Thereore, I

propose to simply oer some snaps shots o our

time on the grounds o Christ Church Cathedral,

the mother church o the Anglican Communion.

Hospitality at Canterbury

Under the leadership o Dean Robert Willis,

the sta at Canterbury oered us a radical brand

o Christian hospitality, welcoming us warmly

into their lives. Dean Willis has a well-earned

reputation or modeling a culture o yes, there-

by oering pilgrims rom around the world, a rich

an experience as possible. A couple o examples:

I you ask Canterbury sta or directions

instead o simply pointing the way, they ac-

company you to your destination;

When the central photocopier broke down

preparing all the documents needed or our

AGM instead o throwing up their hands in

despair and sending us to a local commercial

outlet, the sta took our documents to other

ofces in the Cathedral Close to have them

reproduced - all with a smile;

Saturday night prior to the liturgies o Sunday (a

time when most clergy seek some down time)Dean Willis graciously

led us on a candlelight

pilgrimage o the Cathedral

beginning at 8:30 p.m.! He

began by welcoming all o

us to your Cathedral.

It takes a lot o eort to

develop a culture oyes in a

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BISHOP JUSTIN WELBY

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DESIGNATE

Editors Note:On November 9, CRS President Philip Poole sent this announcemenin an email to the membership. Its reprinted here in case you were not able to view ithen. Above, Bishop Welby and his wife Caroline at Lambeth Palace.

As many o you may know by now, the announcement o theselection o the new Archbishop o Canterbury has been made in London

today. The Right Reverend Justin Welby, currently Bishop o Durham

has been appointed by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II to serve the

Anglican Communion as its senior bishop, with the titles o Primate o

All England and Bishop o the Diocese o Canterbury.

Ater the 2011 Annual General Meeting, members o the Compass

Rose Society were ortunate to meet Justin Welby (story here http://bit

ly/bpwelbyinterview) and his wie, Caroline when we visited Liverpoo

Cathedral. The Welbys were extremely gracious and inormative hosts

Please go to http://bit.ly/Ur3I5v to access our Fall 2011 Communicato

newsletter, where we eatured this visit, including some pictures o

Liverpool Cathedral and a picture o then Dean Welby celebrating a

Eucharist or his Compass Rose Society visitors.

We look orward to continuing to support the Archbishop o

Canterburys outreach ministries around this worldwide Anglican

Communion and wish our new archbishop and his amily every

blessing as he begins his new ministry.


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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2012 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

By The Rev. Terry Noble

The 2012 Annual General Meeting o the Compass RoseSociety began on the aternoon o Friday, October 5th with an

address by Bishop Philip Poole, who steps down this year as

Society president. Bishop Poole thanked the Society or the

opportunity to experience so much o the Anglican Commu-

nion during his tenure. He noted that as a child o an Anglican

rector, he never imagined that such an opportunity would be

his. Bishop Poole told members that Dr.Williams had asked or

no personal gits to be given as he ends his term as Archbishop

o Canterbury. Instead, a scholarship has been set up to und

those who otherwise could not go on Communion visits that

the Society makes annually.

Secretary General o the Anglican Communion, Canon

Kenneth Kearon, explained to members that he believes the

Communion has moved rom being simply divided in two parts

to having a broad middle, with extremes on both sides. Canon

Kearon described those in the broad middle as being a very

diverse group whose common attribute is the ability to

acknowledge that those with whom they disagree are also

ellow Christians o integrity.

Members heard that the Board o Directors has elected the

Rev. Canon John Peterson to succeed Bishop Poole as president

o the Society, eective January 1, 2013 (article below.). Canon

Peterson was instrumental in establishing the Society while he

was Secretary General.

Archbishop Rowan Williams joined the meeting to take part

in his annual question and answer session with members. He

spoke with particular candor in answering questions that covered

topics such as: his proudest accomplishment; most difcult crisis;

the viability o requiring the Archbishop to ulfll multiple roles

simultaneously; and what he is most looking orward to in his

uture. Archbishop Williams own pain was evident when he

spoke o the cost to others o some o the decisions that were

made during his tenure.

The emotional highlight o the meetings came that evening

as members sat in Canterbury Cathedral during Evensong on

Friday evening, awaiting an anthem commissioned to honourArchbishop Williams. When Society board member, Marsha

McReal frst approached composer Peter Hallock to write

music to honor the archbishop, Hallock was uncertain o the

task but agreed to read some o Dr. Williams poetry. McRea

checked in with Hallock some time later to see i the muse

had struck. Dr. Hallock responded that the Muse was with

the archbishop when he wrote Advent Calendar and said tha

he was beginning to hear a French horn as music started to

come to him.

Society members heard that French horn sound with distan

immediacy in the immense space o the Canterbury quire as

the choristers o the Cathedral, under the direction o Dr. David

Flood, began to sing Archbishop Williams poem set to Dr

Hallocks music. The words and music combined to create a

powerul sense o the expectant nature o Advent. The words

o a Welsh poet, set to American music and sung by an English

choir, provided a ftting tribute to the service Archbishop

Williams has given to our worldwide Communion.

Members reassembled on Saturday morning and heard

Fr. Nicholas Wheeler speak o his ministry in the City o God

district o Rio de Janeiro. Members o the Society traveled to

Brazil in April 2011 and saw frst-hand the results o Fr. Wheelers

ocus on Missio Dei in this troubled yet vibrant community. Fr

Wheelers address was an opportunity or a larger number o

members to hear how the Anglican Church has created space

or both worship and a number o important community initiatives

including a health project, psychotherapy, music education

and a womens group dedicated to peace initiatives.

The meetings were concluded on Saturday evening with the

spiritually-rich experience o a candlelight pilgrimage through

Canterbury Cathedral, led by Dean Robert Willis. Members

Bishop Poole addresses the Societyfor the nal time as its president

Secretary General the Rev. CanonKenneth Kearon discussed

the state of the Communion

Archbishop Williams answeredquestions from the membership

The Rev. Canon Nicholas Wheeleraddressed the meeting and described

his work in the City of Godneighborhood in Rio de Janeiro


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started at the ront doors and moved through the cathedral while being led

through the prayers o Compline. At the Chair o St. Augustine, Dean Willis

explained that during the service which marks the retirement o each Archbishop

o Canterbury, the Archbishops pastoral sta is returned to him to be passed to

the incoming Archbishop.

Dean Willis noted that some archbishops hand the sta over with some

reluctance, whereas others seem quite prepared to relinquish it. We memberso the Society let Canterbury with some reluctance, but encouraged by our

time spent together there.

Advent Calendar

He will come like last alls lea all.

One night when the November wind

has ayed the trees to the bone,

and earth wakes choking on the mould,the sot shrouds olding.

He will come like rost.

One morning when the shrinking

earth opens on mist, to fnd itsel

arrested in the net o alien,

sword-set beauty.

He will come like dark.

One evening when the bursting red

December sun draws up the sheet

and penny-masks its eye to yield

the star-snowed felds o sky.

He will come, will come,

will come like crying in the night,

like blood, like breaking,

as the earth writhes to toss him ree.

He will come like child.

Rowan WilliamsEvensong at Canterbury Cathedral featured the premier of Peter Hallocks anthemAdvent Calendar, a gift from the Society to Archbishop Williams.

NOTES FRO M ASIAPAC Beore Today, Beyond TomorrowBy Alice Wu

When I frst heard about an academic conerence, held justthis past summer, was in the works rom The Rev. Proessor Philip

L. Wickeri, Proessor o Church History at the Hong Kong Sheng

Kung Hui Ming Hua Theological College (Ming Hua) and Advisor

to the Archbishop Dr. Paul Kwong (a Compass Rose Society

member) on Theological and Historical Studies, I was surprised.

I was surprised because what the organizers Hong Kong

Sheng Kung Hui (HKSKH) Standing Commission o Theologi-

cal Education and Ming Hua essentially planned to do wasto commemorate the centenary o the ounding o Chung Hua

Sheng Kung Hui (CHSKH; the name, literally translated, is: The

Holy Catholic Church o China), which no longer exists

because o history, by examining its history. To say that this

history is complex is an understatement. It seemed to me an

incredible eat to look back at the history o Anglicanism in

China alongside the incredible events that occurred.

It would be impossible to examine it without doing so in

the context o the most turbulent century in Chinese history. It

would be equally impossible to understand how what had

once been perhaps the largest diocese in the world became t

smallest, and only on the periphery o a New China.

We are talking about the last Chinese century still sueri

rom the atermath o the Opium Wars, the First Sino-Japane

War, and Boxer Rebellion; began with the end o Imperial Ch

with Dr. Sun Yat-sens 1911 Revolution, and spanned over t

chaos o a sel-proclaimed Emperor and Dr. Suns second revo

tion, the Chinese Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, t

ormation o the Peoples Republic o China, the Cultural Revotion et al. And the Archbishop is correct, when he said, at

opening ceremony o the conerence, that the history o HKSK

cannot be understood without knowing the history o Chin

HKSKH was ounded by an English Bishop and missionary o t

Church o England, but its roots were planted in China.

And so, to me, Learning rom the Past, Looking to t

Future: Anglican-Episcopal History in China and its Impact

the Church Today (the name o the academic conerence),

tests to the ambition and commitment the Church has or its m

sion in what I call a post-traumatic but ever so complicate

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At the Fall board o directors meeting held in early October at Canterbury Cathedral, the RevCanon John L. Peterson was elected as the Societys new president succeeding the Rt. Rev. Philip

Poole who has served as president since 2005.

Most recently, Peterson was Canon or Global Justice and Reconciliation at the WashingtonNational Cathedral where he organized a program o education, alliance building, resource gathering

and communication to address the acute global issues o violence, poverty and disease. He has been

a driving orce in the establishment o the Cathedrals Christian Muslim Summit initiatives.

Canon Peterson served as the Secretary General o the Worldwide Anglican Communion

headquartered in London rom 1995 to 2005, heading the The Anglican Communion Oce which

provides support and counsel to the Anglican Consultative Council, the Primates Meeting, the

Lambeth Conerence and the role and person o the Archbishop o Canterbury. It was during Petersons

tenure as Secretary General that the Compass Rose Society was established.

Beore his appointment as Secretary General, Peterson was the Dean o St. Georges College,Jerusalem

or 12 years. He is also the Anglican Canon at St. Georges Cathedral in Jerusalem and is an

Honorary Canon in St. Michaels Cathedral, Kaduna Nigeria, All Saints, Mpwapwa, Tanzania, as well as

St. Dunstans Cathedral, Benoni, South Arica. He is also an Honorary Canon o St. Stephens Cathedrain Harrisburg, PA.

Among his numerous academic achievements and honors are degrees rom Concordia College,

Harvard University, the Chicago Institute or Advanced Theological Studies, Virginia Theologica

Seminary, the University o the South and Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. He has also studied

at the American University and the Near East School o Theology in Beirut, Lebanon.

Canon Peterson serves as a board member o the Spaord Childrens Center in Jerusalem and

the American Friends o the Spaord Childrens Center. He is a member o the American Friends

o the Diocese o Jerusalem and serves as an International Advisor to the Anglican Bishop

in Jerusalem. In addition he is a requent participant on the American Religious Town Hall and a

member o the Planning Committee or the Religious Leaders section o the US-Islamic World Forum

sponsored by the Brookings Institution.

John begins his tenure as president in January.

Peterson Elected President of the Compass Rose Sociey; Directors in PlaceBy Norris Battin

The Rev. Canon John Peterson,incoming president o the CompassRose Society.

Your Contribution Will Help the Lifeblood of the Anglican Communion to FlowBy Jan Butter

Editors Note: Supporting the communications work o the Anglican Communion haalways been an important objective o TheCompass Rose Society. In act, 45 perceno our cumulative gits to date have been

directed toward this eort. In this articleJan Butter, Anglican Communion Ofce Directoor Communication, discusses the need or aredesigned Anglican Communion website sothat it becomes not only a source or must-haveinormation, but a place o dialogue, sharing andellowship.

The cost to redesign this key vehicle othe Anglican Communion is $104,000 owhich $54,000 has already been raised. At itsApril meeting the Compass Rose Society boardgenerously agreed to raise $50,000 towards thiproject. CR has raised more than $15,000 to date

and urther contributions are welcome.

The cost to redesign this key vehicle or the Anglican Communion is $104,000o which $54,000 has already been raised. At its April meeting, the CompassRose Society board generously agreed to raise $50,000 towards this project. To date

Compass Rose has raised nearly $15,000 and urther contributions are welcome.

Jesus Christ has called every member o our Anglican Communion to share withothers the most exciting and important Good News o all time. Thereore, communi-

cating is at the very heart o our identity and calling as Christians.In the past, our ability to share this message o reconciliation and salvation was

limited to our immediate amily, riends, neighbours and colleagues. But we now live

in a digital age where there is widespread access to mobile phones or the Internet (orboth in the same device) so that our circle o infuence is limitless beyond geography,class, and even language.

This Inormation Age o ours has even amplied the impact o more traditionalmedia; it has acilitated cheaper, aster printing, and allowed the man in the street

to create and broadcast radio and even television that can be consumed by millionsaround the world. Media has become social. Journalism is now done by citizens.


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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

New members since the Spring 2012 editiono the Communicator are as ollows:

Berkeley Divinity School at YaleNew Haven, CT, United States

Christ ChurchGreenwich, CT, United States

Mr. John A.D. Hamilton & Mrs. Jane C. HamiltonBualo, NY, United States

The Rt. Rev. Philip Poole & Mrs. Karen Poole(Honorary Members)Toronto, ON,Canada

Dr. Rowan Williams & Mrs. Jane Williams(Honorary Members) Canterbury, Kent, UK

Board of Directors:

The ollowing were elected to the Societys boardo directors to serve terms as specifed in the by laws:

B. Norris Battin, Newport Beach, CA;

Robert Biehl, Houston, TX;

The Rev. Sarah Buxton-Smith, Bualo, NY,

rector St. Andrews Church Bualo, NY;

The Rev. Canon Jan Naylor Cope, Washington, DC,

vicar Washington National Cathedral;

The Rt. Rev. George Councell, Trenton, NJ,

Bishop o New Jersey;Joey Fan, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong;

The Rt. Rev. C. Andrew Doyle, Houston, TX,

Bishop o Texas;

Robert Foltz, Bonita Springs, FL;

Constance Fraser Gray, Winston Salem, NC;

The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, London, UK,

Secretary General o the Anglican Communion;

The Rev. Rick Lord, Vienna, VA,

rector Holy Comorter Church, Vienna, VA;

Marshal McReal, Seattle, WA;

Carlos R. Muoz, White Plains, NY;

The Rev. Canon John Peterson, Hendersonville, NC,

ormer secretary general o the Anglican Communion

and incoming president o the Society;

Janie Stevens, Houston, TX;

Della Wager Wells, Atlanta, GA;

Antonia Wong Tuen-Yee, Central Hong Kong;

Beverley Paterson Wood, Aurora, ON.

Sadly, despite some good isolated eorts, our AnglicanCommunion as a whole has not ully grasped what an historicopportunity this is or its (marks o) mission, or or strengtheningand developing its bonds o aection. Strategic communicationtechniques and skills, and the sheer power o digital networkingare rarely taught in our seminaries and theological colleges

Too ew Provinces and dioceses dont employ paid, qualifedcommunicators. Too ew individual churches proactivelyinclude strategic communications as part o their day-to-daylie and work.

An inormal survey o communications capacity across theAnglican Communion carried out in 2011 revealed that o the33 Provinces (and 3 dioceses) that responded:

71% didnt have paid communications sta. 37% consideredthe (oten overburdened) provincial secretary their maincommunicator, compared with just 29% who had a paidemployee(s) to oversee communications.

Only 9% o responding Provinces issued news or inormationmore than once a month.

These are just a ew o the reasons why the new websites othe Anglican Communion www.anglicancommunion.org andwww.anglicancommunionnews.org will be absolutely criticato the lie and mission o our global aith tradition. It is nosurprising that inormation sharing has been described as thelieblood o our global body.

I cannot thank the Compass Rose Society enough or youcommitment to provide $50,000 to this project, a gesture thaemboldened us to sign on the dotted line and launch therebuild.

Once complete, the Anglican Communion will not onlyhave a much improved website with a strong search acility

document library archive, prayer wall and many other interactive eatures, it will also have a purpose-built stand-alone newwebsite. This will serve as the go-to site or the latest newsviews and inormation rom around the Anglican Communion

I am glad that CRS members are excited to strengthen ouChurchs digital uture and invite you send comments andthoughts about the new sites when they are up and running.

Jan Butter has been the Anglican Communions Director or Communicationsince 2010. His passion is to see all members o the Anglican Communionequipped to share, with each other and the world, the story o their partin Gods mission. Beore joining the Anglican Communion Ofce he wasHead o Global Advocacy Communications or one o the worlds largesrelie, development and advocacy organizations, World Vision, in the UK

Sri Lanka and New York. He started out lie as a print journalist.

COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY GIFTS TO DATESince it was established, The Compass Rose Society has do-

nated more than $7.3 million to support the Anglican Communionwith three quarters o the unds directed to the work o the AnglicanConsultative Council, and sixty percent o that supporting Communioncommunications projects. Fiteen percent o the donations have beendirected to the work o the Diocese o Jerusalem and the Middle east.

In 2012 through August 31, $143 thousand has been raised tosupport these organizations: Anglican Consultative Council $120thousand; international Anglican Womens network - $8,350 and TheDiocese o Kaduna, Nigeria - $15,000.


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Society Attends 77TH General Convention of the EpiscopalChurch and 15TH Anglican Consultative Council Meeting

In early July, The Episcopal Church held its 77TH triennial convention in IndianapolisIndiana. The Compass Rose Society occupied a small exhibit space where we greetedguests rom all over the world and met with other exhibitors who share our interest in

mission work throughout the Anglican Communion.The convention oered a good opportunity to introduce many delegates to our work

and to establish new alliances throughout the Anglican world.In October, board member Joey Fan attended the 15th Anglican Consultative

Council (ACC) meeting in Auckland, New Zealand and presented a summary o the Societyswork to the delegates. You can see his presentation here: http://slidesha.re/RnpGjl.

The ACC is one o the our instruments o communion, the others being the Archbishopo Canterbury (who serves as president o the ACC), the Lambeth Conerence o Anglicanbishops, and the Primates Meeting.

The role o the Council is to acilitate the co-operative work o the churches o theAnglican Communion, exchange inormation between the Provinces and churches, and

world, which is not to be conused with an intention to promote

Anglicanism in Mainland China or be a spokesperson or the

Mainland churches. The purpose o the conerence, as outlined

by the Archbishop, was to encourage international scholars whether they are rom Anglican, Christian or purely academic

backgrounds to better understand the history o CHSKH in thecontext o Chinese history, culture and society, to reect on HK-SKHs role serving as a bridge between China and the West,

and to learn rom the parallel histories o the church and China,or the uture.

Just as international scholars met in their eort to contextu-alize history as a source o strength and wisdom or the uture

or the Church, the Archbishop Dr. Paul Kwong, in his capacity

as the current chairman o the Council o Churches o East Asia

(CCEA) brought history back into the consortium o Churches

o the region in its 2012 Bishops Meeting earlier this month

(October) in Taiwan. I the history o just one Asian country was

complicated enough, imagine that o the region!

Beore the 18 Bishops rom Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan,

Korea, Malaysia, Sabah, Kuching, Australia, and the Philippines

met, Archbishop Dr. Paul Kwong shared a precious piece o his-

tory, ound in his personal library, The First Years: Being the early

history o the Council o the Church in South East Asia by the

Rt. Rev. R.O. Hall (ater whom Ming Hua Theological College

was named) with participants o the Council meeting. The Arch-

bishop elt that it was crucial or members today to relearn why

the Council was ounded in order not to lose sight o its purpose.

Since its inception, in 1933, the Council (then named the

Council o the Church in South East Asia) had come a long way

in history. The ounding o the Council was by no means simple,

as one can easily imagine how decolonization and the turbulentevents o modern history had contributed to that complexity. But

its purpose, to take counsel together on common problems in

this region, is needed today as much as it was eighty years ago

But as geopolitical changes have resulted in the ounding

o individual and independent dioceses since the Councils

ounding, and rom that, the changes in membership and the

needs o member dioceses o the council, the Archbishop elt thathe fty year-old CCEA constitution was out o step with todays

realities and doesnt quite do justice to the ellowship nature o

the Churches to strengthen in ellowship, in common concerns

in mutual help and in approach united and the time is ripe or it

to be updated. From understanding the ounding o the council

the renewal o its purpose and to addressing the needs or change

the CCEA has drawn rom their history a clear way orward.

2012 has been a year o looking back on history or many

o us here in Hong Kong. Not only did the CHSKH centennia

provide a rare opportunity to fnd our roots and learn how the

Church had evolved in the most tumultuous o times in Chinese

history, the CCEA, led by HKSKHs Archbishop, has reached backinto time to explore news ways o strengthening ties and ellow

ship. My own beloved church St. Marys Church (a Compas

Rose Society Parish member http://dhk.hkskh.org/stmary) has

just celebrated our 100th birthday. Vicar Revd Chung Ka-lok had

also reached back into time and shared remnants o the church

history with parishioners. Learning rom our pasts, as a parish

a diocese, a province, and region, has contextualized and

anchored my aith in more ways than one and history, is a rare

and precious git.

Alice Wu and her husband Ben Cheung are Compass Rose Society member

living in Hong Kong where Alice is a current aairs columnist or the South

China Morning Post. She was ormerly associate director o the Asia PacifcMedia Network at UCLA.

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The Anglican Consultative Council metin late October in Auckland, New Zealand


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community. Thank you, Dean and Canterbury or your warmChristian hospitality.

By the way, i you have never been to Canterbury, pleasesee that it goes on your bucket list. I hope that all who readthis article will someday make their own pilgrimage to Canter-

bury and to our Cathedral. (For more inormation, please visittheir website: www.canterbury-cathedral.org ).

Archbishop and Mrs. Williams

A highlight o our annual meetings is always our time withthe Archbishop and Mrs. Williams. In one o their last eventsbeore they take up a new post in the new year, we were oeredthe opportunity to say, God bless and to thank them or theirlove and support o the past years.

During our quite intimate question and answer time, some-one asked the Archbishop i there was anything he might havedone dierently during his term in ofce. He paused, smiledand said, I might not have said, yes so quickly!

The Compass Rose Society oered the Archbishop and Mrs.Williams a number o gits o thanks. During Evensong in theCathedral, our Compass Rose Society commissioned anthemwas oered - elegantly sung by the Choir o CanterburyCathedral. The music was the git o Peter Hallock, a well-known American musician, who set Rowan Williams poem,Advent Calendarto music. (As were in the season, Ive quotedit at the end o this article). We hope this will be an enduringcontribution to the corpus o music at Canterbury and a tributeto its author.

Additionally, a scholarship has been named ater Rowanand Jane with the purpose o enabling someone to accompany

the Society as it makes its communion visits to other parts othe Anglican world. These visits are so ormative and the Boardlooks orward to naming the frst recipient o the WilliamsScholarship. The Canadian Compass Rose Society oered awool point blanket, an iconic Canadian symbol or warmthon cold winter nights. O course, it was with great pleasure thatwe named the Williams as lie members o the Society with thehope that we will stay in contact with them over the years.

When I arrived at Heathrow prior to the meetings, I wasquestioned by a customs agent concerning my purpose in be-ing in England. I said that I was attending meetings o an in-ternational charity that supports the work o the Archbishopo Canterbury. I dont like him the agent said sharply. He

spends too much time in politics and should stick to religion!Have you ever met him? I enquired. No, came the reply.I let it there wanting to have a successul entry into England!Contrast this experience to two days later while my wie, Karenand I were enjoying a London Walks event where I asked ourtour leader who he thought the next Archbishop might be. Ireally like the current Archbishop.

He is so good at engaging our country on issues that reallymatter. I think he is absolutely brilliant. And so it goes. Arch-bishop Williams, in my view, will go down in history as one othe fner Archbishops o Canterbury.

His depth o spirituality, his awesome intellect, his gentle,

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humble nature, his warmth o personality and prolifc writing

- to say nothing o his challenging leadership in difcult dayshas beena treasure.

Jane Williams is similarly a git to our church. A produco the rectory and the child o a bishop, she well knows thechallenges that ace clergy households. She co-led the SpouseConerence at the Lambeth Conerence in 2008, providing alistening, caring ear, a depth o spirituality and an understandingo the unique ministries so many spouses experience. I suspecshe is the worlds expert on clergy spouses!

Together they present, in a time when so many marriagessadly ail, a compelling and attractive example o Christianmarriage. I will not soon orget seeing them, in the busynessand stress o the Lambeth Conerence 2008 sneaking a little

quiet time with each other, walking hand- in-hand across theUniversity o Kent. While the Compass Rose Society will missthem both, we will continue to support the ministry o the Archbishop o Canterbury in and through the Anglican Communion

The Compass Rose Society Members

Canon Kenneth Kearon has on occasion spoken about whahe understands members o the Compass Rose Society to be likeCrediting Kenneth, here are a ew things I have learned about CRSpeople. Our members are people who care about their churchlocal but also the church catholic. They are oten engaged leaders in their home church. They are people with a wider view o

church. Compass Rose people are those who are more than jussympathetic toward this precious vessel o the Anglican Com-munion. While they hold issues passionately, they come togetheor mission. They invest their time and their resources visitingother parts o our Communion, valuing relationships, makingconnections, and praying with purpose or our church universal

They are people who tell the story o this vehicle oconnection, networking and unity within our CommunionCompass Rose olks have passion or ministry and are willing tomake a dierence in the lives o others. Compass Rose peopleare generous, compassionate, riendly and engaged in Godsgreat git o lie.

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Bishop Poole with the chasuble and stole presented to him as a giftof thanks for his service as president of the Compass Rose Society.


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BECOME A COMPASS ROSESOCIETY MEMBER

Join as an individual member or orm a parish, diocesan or cathedral chaptero any number o members. Share in the annual meeting - typically dinnerat Lambeth Palace with Compline in the archbishops chapel - meet ellowAnglicans on communion visits throughout the world or study our Anglicanheritage on location.

Individual membership includes an invitation or the member (or couple)

and up to two guests to attend the Societys events in London and com-munion visits or study trips scheduled each year.

With a parish membership, the rector and guest and two designatedparish members may attend. Four members o a chapter may attend. Witha diocesan membership, the bishop, a guest and two designated membersmay attend.

For more inormation, contact the Right Rev. Philip Poole, presidento the Society, at [email protected]; or president

elect, the Rev. Canon John L. Peterson at [email protected].

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Join the Compass Rose Society Facebook Groupwww.acebook.com/groups/CompassRoseSociety/

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THE COMPASS ROSE SOCIETY:Supporting the global mission o the Archbishop o Canterbury

in and through the Anglican Communion.

THE COMPASS ROSE COMMUNICATOR:An bi-annual publication o the Compass Rose Society

Norris Battin, Communications Committee Chair, editor;photos by Compass Rose Society: David Hill, M.D., the Rev. Rick Lord,Norris Battin, Joey Fan, and the The Rev. Canon Dr. James Rosenthal;

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The Afterword

Mere words will not allow me to adequately express myproound gratitude to you, to the members o the Board pastand present, to the dedicated and hardworking sta o Lam-beth Palace and the Anglican Communion Ofce, or theprivilege in serving as President o the Compass Rose Society.

This has been a ministry in which I have rejoiced. I am letwith rich memories, many riends and a deeper passion or themission o Jesus Christ in our world.

I will treasure the gits I was given during our meetings butmost particularly, the blue Compass Rose chasuble blessed bythe Archbishop. I will wear it with pride holding you in myheart as I oer the Eucharist to God. I will speak oten aboutthe mission o the Society.

The president-elect, The Reverend Canon John Peterson,the ormer secretary general o the Anglican Communionand a ounder o the Society will provide excellentleadership in the next chapter o this work. A born teacher, asuperb storyteller, a scholar and yes, a und raiser, John will

give dedicated and determined service as your President. Iwill, o course, give whatever help I can to him to ensure asmooth transition and more importantly, a stronger presencein the lie o our church.

Thank you or your support o this ministry and I hope ourpaths cross again soon.

Yours in Christ,

Bishop Philip PoolePresident, Compass Rose Society

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help coordinate common action. It advises on the organi-

zation and structures o the Communion, and seeks to

develop common policies with respect to the world mission

o the Church, including ecumenical matters.

Formed in 1969, the ACC delegates include clergy, lay

people and bishops, rom one to three persons rom each o

the Communions 38 provinces, depending on the numerical

size o each province. Where there are three members, there

is a bishop, a priest and a lay person. Where ewer members

are appointed, preerence is given to lay membership. Thecouncil generally meets every three or our years.

Joey Fan tellsthe ACC about the

work of the CompassRose Society

fall 2012 communicator

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