As some of you have heard, my retirement as the fifth Bishop of Brandon lasted about three weeks. Since September 2001, I have travelled from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island, in my new ministry as Ambassador for Anglican Renewal Ministries. By the time you read this, I will have visited twenty-one dioceses, and participated in a variety of renewal events.

Just in case you are not familiar with my ministry, and as I am now developing my 2004-2004 itinerary, I have felt led to inform you about the various dimensions of renewal that I feel competent to speak about. My "Ambassdor's Menu" includes the following topics:

1. Evangelism: Motive, message and biblical foundations.

2. The Local Parish as an Evangelizing Community: The church that God can use for evangelism; the ten vital signs of a healthy parish, helping a parish to evaluate its potential for evangelism.

3. Personal Evangelism" Practical guidelines for witnessing, "Telling ones story - sharing ones faith."

4. The Personal, Corporate and Public Dimensions of our Faith Journey: The call to Christ, the call to live out our faith in Christian community, the call to Servant Ministry in the wider community.

5. Life in the Body of Christ: Cell groups, lay leadership, cultivating a servant heart.

6. Spiritual Gifts: Description, discernment, and use.

7. Leadership for Clergy: Styles of leadership which are condusive to growth, the parish priest as enabler and equipper, new models of ministry to include all of the baptized - Total ministry.

8. Bible Study: Small, non-threatening Bible studies using an aboriginal circle method.

9. The Person, Power and Release of the Holy Spirit: Experiencing a personal Pentecost.

10. My Own Personal Faith Journey: In addition to the above, I have also been privileged to speak to Anglican Youth, lead Clergy retreats, and I incorporate much of the above menu in parish missions, and on one occasion, a Diocesan Synod. I was also invited to teach a credit course, earlier this year, on Evangelism and Discipleship, at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad in Saskatoon.

ARM has also compiled a list of Missioners, who can be called upon to lead parish events, and who have a variety of gifts to offer.

If any of the above whets your Spiritual Appetite, please contact me at: 17 Durum Drive, Brandon MB M7B 3M3, mharding@mts.net.

- Blessings, Bishop Malcolm Harding

Bishop Malcolm is the ambassador of ARM Canada and was formerly the Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Brandon.

The Rt. Rev. Malcolm Harding
Episcopal Visitor to ARM