In July next year, many of the worldwide Anglican Communion’s bishops will be coming to England for their Lambeth Conference at the University of Kent on the outskirts of Canterbury. These gatherings have been held since 1867, normally every ten years, and provide a special opportunity for reflection, fellowship and discernment.

The use of technology has divided the waters in the Christian world. Some remain skeptical and conservative, while others are jumping into all the exciting opportunities technology offers without giving it a second thought. Of course, there are also many who are in between these two extremes, and today we see how technology is gradually being integrated in church services and mission activities all over the world.

Relay 200 is an ambitious twenty-year programme launched this year to provide the bishops of the 200 most impoverished dioceses in the Anglican Communion with the capacity to train grassroots leaders, often laity.