Way Forward

by Rachel Koopmans

Thousands of people have engaged with the Way Forward project’s face-to-face and online district information gatherings around the LCANZ, the final three of which are being held in New Zealand over the next week.

In the wake of the release of the Way Forward Detailed Framework, LCANZ members have attended local information sessions in encouraging numbers. More than 500 people have attended the seven face-to-face gatherings held so far.

Almost 70 people met in a spirit of mutual respect at Cummins in South Australia on Sunday, for the first face-to-face gathering of the Preparation and Prayer phase of the LCANZ’s Way Forward project.

In June, the General Church Board and the College of Bishops resolved to remove the Conference component from the Way Forward proposed framework.

Feedback from church members has been critical in helping to refine the LCANZ’s Way Forward framework to go to General Pastors Conference and General Synod for deliberation and vote later this year.

framework by which the LCANZ could operate as one church with two different practices of ordination has been released for information, engagement, and discussion in church communities. The Way Forward Framework will be refined and finalised by mid-June.