'ANGLICANS ABLAZE'-History,Growth And Testimonies in SA

Anglicans Ablaze is one of Africa's largest and most popular Christian gatherings. What began as a two day meeting to "seek and listen to God's will" for the Church in Southern Africa has become a major conference for the whole Church.In 2010, around twenty leaders from across the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) met in the city of Kloof in South Africa reports allAfrica. After time spent in prayer and worship they received words and pictures regarding this conference.

"God spoke to us and we began to plan," said the Revd Trevor Pearce, Director for the provincial church growth institute called Growing the Church (GtC) which is organising the Anglicans Ablaze conference."Our first conference was a provincial leaders conference and took place in the city of Durban in October 2011. The aim was to listen to the needs of our people, share the vision for a life-changing event, inspire people and prepare for a much larger event to take place in 2012," he added.The team's common denominator was having a passion for mission, evangelism, church planting and church growth. "This was the challenge that we put before them: 'What is it that God wants us to do together, which we will not be able to accomplish on our own?'"

Primate of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba said the first conference in October 2012 had been "a wonderful and inspiring time.""It was an amazing celebration of the goodness of God, and of our distinctive though challenging Anglican calling," he added. More than 1,400 Christians gathered at the New Life Conference Centre in Johannesburg South Africa to be "anchored in the love of Christ, committed to God's mission and..more brief

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