2 responses to “Synod – Overseas Committee”

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   John Riches

   17/06/2008

   It’s not a straight choice between paying for theological education in Africa and in Scotland. The Overseas committee’s funds very largely come from legacies specfically given for overseas work so couldn’t be spent on training Scottish clergy. If we wanted seriously to spend more on that (an excellent idea in my book), then we would have to raise quota or find some other source of income.

   And, I think, theological education in Africa is particularly important in light of the remarkable growth of the African churches. If there is not good theological education for the leaders of the churches in Africa we will have poorly trained African church leaders which is bad for the church in Africa and can only make attempts at communion wide understanding more difficult.

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   kelvin

   17/06/2008

   Thanks John – I had forgotten about the legacies. You are right, there are two separate funding issues here.

   I agree that we need good theological education for the whole Communion.

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