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Video Tape Launches Lambeth Planning

Episcopal News Service. August 7, 1986 [86169]

LONDON (DPS, Aug. 7) -- Following a preview in Toronto for the Primates of the Anglican Communion in March 1986, a 22-minute video-tape entitled "Lambeth '88 -- The Call", is going into worldwide circulation. Designed as a resource for stimulating discussion throughout the Church, the video tape will be sent to all diocesan bishops -- 584 of them -- in the Communion.

Episcopal Church bishops will see the tape together during their annual interim meeting. A copy will be show Sept. 22nd to the bishops, and then each diocesan will be given a copy to take back to his diocese.

In October 1985, the Archbishop of Canterbury gathered representative leaders from the Communion at Lambeth Palace in London to discuss the themes and issues of the next Lambeth Conference (July 16 to August 7, 1988) and to collaborate on the production of the video. Eight co-chairmen spent three days focusing on issues that the Church will need to consider in its preparation for the Conference, while a crew of professional film makers from Trinity Parish, New York City, followed their conversations and engaged each chairman in personal interviews.

The video is designed to assist each diocesan bishop in opening up discussion with their diocesan leadership about the issues and to help them "to bring their diocese with them" to the Lambeth Conference. It presents an overview and history of Lambeth Conferences, identifies the themes and introduces the conference leadership. The four theme areas, Mission and Ministry, Dogmatic and Pastoral Concerns, Ecumenical Relations and Christianity and the Social Order, are presented in the video in turn by the co-chairmen of each theme area, which is expanded and enlarged upon by newsreel footage and commentary from a wide cross-section of men and women interviewed "on the street."

The production was produced and co-ordinated by the Rev. Robert T. Browne, special assistant to the secretary general of the Anglican Consultative Council for media resources. Included with the video is a use-guide, which has been made available in English, Spanish, Swahili and Japanese and which will help groups focus on specific questions related to the four themes.

The video is introduced by the Archbishop of Canterbury and is the first undertaken by the Anglican Consultative Council and a new network of Anglican film and television producers.

Professionals from 11 provinces and organizations participated. Trinity Parish, New York City, provided major funding for the project.