A new Partnership Agreement between the Diocese of Armagh, the Diocese of Gitega, Burundi and CMS Ireland
was inaugurated at the Armagh Synod on Tuesday this week.
This exciting venture fits with the vision set out by the Most Revd. John McDowell in his Presidential Address
when he encouraged parishes to re-examine their vocation to bear witness to God in holiness and loving-kindness.
Jenny Smyth (CMSI Mission Director) commented, “In the epistle read at the Synod’s Holy Communion Service St Paul writes to the Ephesians that ‘In Christ Jesus the whole structure (of the household of God) is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God’ (Eph 2:21-22). Through this partnership there is an open invitation to explore where God is at work in Burundi in and through his Church in Gitega, and to ask how we can draw alongside one another in ministry, and what can we learn in order to be more effective witnesses in our own communities."
