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Date(s): October 6--10, 2008. Album by Sue Edison-Swift. Photos by Sue and Paul Edison-Swift. 1 - 10 of 10 Total.
enlarge 48KB, 640x425 2 DSC 0064-2Edit After Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu gave opening remarks at the World Association of Christian Communication (WACC) 2008 Congress (Capetown, South Africa), he was presented with a birthday cake; his birthday is tomorrow, October 7, 2008. Tutu said, od is a communicating God. ...We are called to be peacemakers, not peace lovers. Learn more at www.waccglobal.org Photo by Sue Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 48KB, 425x640 3 DSC 0012-2Edit Fredrick Nzwili, Kenya, at the opening session for the 2008 WACC Congress (Capetown, South Africa). Photo by Sue Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 63KB, 640x425 4 DSC 0014-2Edit Harriet Musinguzi (Uganda), Ekabe Etienden (Cameroon), and Gertrude Maasodong (Ghana) prepare for the opening session of the World Association of Christian Communication 2008 Congress in Capetown, South Africa. Communication is peace: Building viable communities is the Congress theme.Edit
enlarge 57KB, 640x425 5 DSC 0017-2Edit The Rev. Zelma and Pat Pattillo of New York City. She is a hospice chaplain; he is director of the Communication Commission of the National Council of Churches USA.Edit
enlarge 44KB, 640x425 7 DSC 0065-2Edit Riding in the hotel elevator after the WACC 2008 opening session, the young man who presented Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with an anticipatory birthday cake was complimented on his presentation. magine being 13, being here [in Capetown, South Africa for the Congress], and being chosen to present Bishop Tutu with a birthday cake!said his mother. The young man and his mother are from the Netherlands. Learn more at www.waccglobal.org Photo by Sue Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 55KB, 640x425 8 DSC 0072-2Edit Oct. 6, 2008, Capetown, South Africa. Sue Edison-Swift (left) and Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro have a reunion hug after the opening session of the World Association of Christian Communication 2008 Congress. Kanyoro, WACC president, is from Kenya. Like the prophets, she said in her opening remarks, the African continent celebrates and laments. She closed by saying Karibu! Welcome! Edison-Swift serves as communication director for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal. Edison-Swift and Kanyoro met in 1994 through a Lutheran World Federation program. Photo: Paul Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 42KB, 640x427 9 DSC 0075-5Edit The Rev. Dr. Samuel Meshack (left) with Dr. Paul Edison-Swift at the 2008 World Association of Chrisitian Communication Gathering (Capetown, South Africa). Meshack, prinicipal of Gurukul Lutheran Theological College & Research Institute (Chennai, India), offered the WACC Asia Region perspective on the opening day's theme: communication rights. Edison-Swift, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America director for interactive media and networks (Chicago, U.S.A.), serves as the treasurer for WACC/North American region. Photo by Sue Edison-Swift.Edit
enlarge 59KB, 640x425 10 DSC 0078-2Edit It's a short walk to return to the hotel after attending plenary sessions at Life Church. The Rev. Randy Taylor (center) is WACC secretary general.Edit
