Appeals Forwarded by Bayne
Diocesan Press Service. February 7, 1964 [XVIII-3]
Appeals for partnership with the Episcopal Church in nearly 30 projects in younger Anglican churches around the world were forwarded Jan. 16 by the Anglican Executive Officer to the Church's four principal agencies for such help. Some $8000, 000 in capital funds, and $90, 000 in annual support, is involved in the appeals. They are the first to be transmitted in 1964 to the Good Friday Offering, the Overseas Department, the Committee on World Relief and Inter-Church Aid and the United Thank Offering.
The largest single request is for $315, 000 for the diocese of Hong Kong, which would provide four new centers, including three churches, two youth centers, a workers' hostel and a children's meal station. This appeal is shared with the Anglican Church of Canada. The diocese of Karachi in West Pakistan presented a five-unit building program, also shared with Canada, covering new school buildings, a youth center, hostel and a nurses' home. Schools in Iran, a mission house in South West Africa, and a youth center in British Guiana were also among the projects presented.
Bishop Bayne, in forwarding the requests, noted "we are in a transition period, in the Anglican Communion, in which the older system of a multiplicity of separate and private appeals is gradually being replaced by the kind of planning and cooperative programming represented by 'Mutual Responsibility in Africa: I'. This directory, published in November, 1963, included 169 projects in the five African churches. It was the first comprehensive program of new work to be prepared following the Anglican Congress and the summons to 'Mutual Responsibility'."
The current list is supplementary to that, and includes a number of continuing needs, some of which have been met in previous years by the Episcopal Church. More comprehensive programs, along the lines of the African directory, will eventually supersede this type of annual appeal. In the meantime, projects of both types are periodically forwarded to the churches of the Anglican Communion by the Executive Officer, after consideration and evaluation.