Dear Friends, Colleagues and Partners in the ministry,

I must say that I am greatly thrilled to share this inaugural brief as we launch the NEW LOOK CAPA Website.

Indeed, we are living in the Age of Information and there is a real challenge for us, especially in Africa, to embrace the new information technologies that are being developed daily. That is why, together with our partners in Trinity Church New York, we have established a communications unit at CAPA secretariat to help strengthen and propel the Anglican Church in Africa to re-engineer its communication, in order to improve its mission in the new millennium.

Talking about our mission as the Church of Christ, we as the Anglican Church in Africa are conscious of the fact the thousands of our brothers and sisters are dying daily from the deadly AIDS scourge. This has prompted the Church, through the Primates, to come up with the All Africa Anglican AIDS Planning Framework that gives specific attention to prevention, pastoral care, counselling, death and leadership. CAPA being the coordinating structure of the Anglican Church in Africa has therefore made HIV/AIDS one of the priority programmes alongside Bishops Training and Communication.

I invite you to navigate through this site with us in order to catch a glimpse of the activities that we are undertaking at CAPA and to stand with us in prayer and support. Please do feel free to contact me, or any of the officers that I work with, to respond to any questions or further information that you may require.

May the Peace of God be with you,

REV CANON JOHN L KANYIKWA
CAPA GENERAL SECRETARY
NAIROBI, KENYA