Anglicans in Chile are part of the Province of the Southern Cone. Bishop Zavala has traveled extensively in North America and has been a consistent friend and supporter of the Anglican Church in North America. More information about the Anglican Diocese of Chile is also available here.
Checks may be sent to:
The Anglican Relief and Development Fund
PO Box 3830
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-3830
...with the word “Chile” in the memo line.
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The movement has also launched a new website that provides information, community and church planting resources.
“This website will be our ‘meeting place’ for many things: Information, Connections, Networking, Resources, Great Ideas, Theological Analysis, Anglican Tools and Tips, and anything else that you think can serve the cause of planting or raising up 1000 and more congregations, churches, and communities of faith,” wrote the Rev. David Roseberry, a key leader in the Anglican 1000 movement and rector of Christ Church in Plano, on the website’s weblog.
A live video feed of the Anglican 1000 conference is also available through AnglicanTV.
Anglican 1000, an initiative of the Anglican Church in North America, is hosting a church planting summit in Plano, Texas to launch this cooperative movement. Summit participants will share best practices, learn from some of the top leadership in church planting, and hear real church planters and planting churches tell their story from the mission field. This is a unique chance to hear why Anglican Church Planting is ideally suited and positioned to reach North America. The featured speaker is Ed Stetzer, a nationally recognized authority on church planting. Other plenary speakers include Archbishop Duncan, Bishop Doc Loomis, the Rev. William Beasley, the Rev. David Roseberry, the Rev. Ray David Glenn, Dean Robert Munday, and Dean Justyn Terry. The Rev. Jim Salladin, an incredibly gifted, young Canadian, will lead Bible Study each day.
The Anglican 1000 Church Planting Summit 2010 will be held in Plano, Texas from February 22-23. The cost to register is $130 with limited scholarships available to full time seminarians. For more information, visit http://www.Anglican1000.org. To register for the summit, click the “Sign Up Now” Button on the web page to go to a registration page. There are already over 250 people registered from all over the United States (with 27 states currently represented) and Canada (over 30 registrants already).
There are bishops, clergy, and laity from all parts of the Anglican Church already registered and coming to this Church Planting Summit. Don’t miss out on this chance to ignite a movement to raise up Anglican congregations and communities of faith to reach North America with the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
]]>The Most Rev. Robert Duncan, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America, thanked Mrs. Lorna Ashworth of Chichester for bringing the church to the attention of the General Synod. “We are very grateful to Mrs. Ashworth and the scores of other friends in the Synod of the Church of England for all they did to give us this opportunity to tell our story to the mother church of the Anglican Communion. It is very encouraging that the synod recognizes and affirms our desire to remain within the Anglican family.” said Archbishop Duncan.
A private member’s motion, put forward by Mrs. Ashworth, and subsequently amended by the Synod, states that “this synod…recognize and affirm the desire of those who have formed the Anglican Church in North America to remain within the Anglican family.” The motion passed by a resounding 309 – 69 margin (with seven abstentions).
The motion was amended by the Right Reverend Michael Hill, the Bishop of Bristol. His purpose, in his own words, was “(1) to encourage those who are part of the Anglican Church in North America; (2) to commend the process of recognition afforded by the Instruments of the Anglican Communion; and (3) to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to report progress back to Synod in a year’s time.”
The discussion at Synod presented an important opportunity for members of the Anglican Church in North America, joined by many friends in the United Kingdom, to share the vision and mission of the church with fellow Anglicans. “We are deeply thankful that we were given the opportunity to tell the Synod about our church, and our vision for reaching North America with the transforming love of Jesus Christ. This chance to speak directly to our Anglican family was very rewarding. We look forward to working with the friends we made and reaching out to others in the years ahead,” said Bishop Donald Harvey, who, with Mrs. Cynthia Brust, Dr. Michael Howell, and the Rev. Dr. Tory Baucum, represented the Anglican Church in North America in preparation for the Synod vote.
The Anglican Church in North America, founded in June of 2009 with 703 congregations, today unites 800 Anglican congregations across North America. The church’s mission is to reach North America with the Transforming Love of Jesus Christ.
]]>Archbishop Williams’ original doctoral research (in the 1970s) focused on Vladimir N. Lossky, a mid-20th-century Orthodox theologian. Later while teaching at Oxford University, he examined students on the Orthodox faith. He spoke at St. Vladimir’s on “The Image of Humanity in the Philokalia,” a collection of Orthodox monastic texts spanning 11 centuries. Prior to his lecture, the Archbishop received an honorary doctorate from the seminary.
The ACNA bishops were invited to attend by the seminary’s Chancellor, Fr. Chad Hatfield, as part of an ongoing ecumenical conversation. In June 2009, Metropolitan Jonah, head of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), was a guest speaker at the ACNA inaugural Assembly at St. Vincent’s Cathedral in Bedford. He used the occasion to announce that the OCA would cease to have an ecumenical relationship with The Episcopal Church, following years of impaired relations due to the election of a partnered homosexual bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions, and to invite the ACNA to explore the possibility of full communion with the OCA. A further meeting was held in October at Nashotah House Seminary, which signed an agreement to work with St. Vladimir’s.
]]>According to Nancy Norton, executive director of Anglican Relief and Development Fund, the organization is partnering with World Relief, a large and well established evangelical Christian relief agency. Working with World Relief ensures that these donations have an immediate positive effect in Haiti, where current estimates are that more than 200,000 have died and more than a million people are without shelter in the aftermath of the earthquake.
World Relief has had a long presence in Haiti, empowering the local church with health, economic and social development projects. World Relief’s Disaster Response team is providing urgent medical care to hundreds of injured people at the Kings Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s devastated capital. They have also set up feeding centers in partnership with local churches, providing thousands of hot meals to hungry earthquake survivors. Volunteers from local Haitian churches are operating the centers. World Relief can feed a person two meals a day – lunch and dinner – for less than $2. It costs approximately $375 to feed 200 people rice and beans at lunch and milk porridge for dinner.
“Thank you to everyone who contributed through Anglican Relief and Development to help in Haiti. The generosity of our donors has been overwhelming. This financial outpouring will allow us to not only assist in immediate relief work, but also to be part of the rebuilding process through development projects in Haiti later this year. The needs in this terribly damaged nation will continue,” said Norton.
Donations for our continued work there can be made online at www.anglicanaid.net or by sending a check to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund at:
ARDF
PO Box 3830
Pittsburgh, PA 15230-3830
The Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF) is working with our partners to respond with assistance to the victims.
“Having led several medical missions to Haiti in the 1970s and 80s, I am particularly concerned for our response to those good and suffering people in our hemisphere’s poorest country. We Anglican Christians need to respond to the devastation both with our prayers and resources,” said Archbishop Robert Duncan.
You can help Haiti now. Please give generously to the Anglican Relief and Development Fund.
A simple pdf bulletin insert is available here.
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Archbp. Edmund Akanya is Bishop of Kebbi in northwest Nigeria, in a 70% Muslim, sharia-compliant state where public preaching is outlawed. In the face of persecution, the gospel is being preached and churches are being planted as Christians are challenged to pray, reach out, build bridges of friendship with hitherto very hostile communities, and live Christ-like lives that incarnate the gospel.
Christians are called to reach out to those of other faiths (or none), and we also have a responsibility to pass on the faith once received to our children and grandchildren. This legacy is being challenged in many parts of the world, including our own, by militaristic and political Islam. Baroness Caroline Cox, a member of the British House of Lords and founder of HART, The Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust providing advocacy for the persecuted, will speak on resurgent Islam and how to respond to it.
The Rev. S.D. Ponraj of Bihar Out-Reach Network (BORN) will share how the gospel has been spreading among youth, castes, and tribal groups as churches work together to reach the unreached and plant 10,000 churches by the end of this year in Bihar, a northern state in India.
There are 70,000 Anglican Christians in Myanmar (formerly Burma). The Most Rev. Stephen Than, Archbishop of the Province of Myanmar and Bishop of Yangon (Rangoon), will tell us about the work of the church in Myanmar.
In their own legend about creation, God forgot the Batwa pygmies giving them the only gift he had left, the Bwindi Impenetrable forest. In 1992 that forest was taken away from the Batwa making them conservation refugees. Forced to live in a world where their hunter-gatherer lifestyle, their knowledge, and their language were useless, the Batwa were dying at an alarming rate. Dr. Scott Kellerman will share how God’s living word addresses the needs of mind, body, and soul and is saving some of the most impoverished people on the planet.
The Rev. Miguel Uchoa, rector of the Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit, near Recife, Brazil, will lead us in daily Bible studies on the mission of the Church. The Church of the Holy Spirit is reaching its community and has grown since 1996 from 25 people meeting in a former nightclub to 1,400 - 65% of whom have come to faith in the last 9 years.
Dr. Bill Taylor, former director of the Mission Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance (a network of churches in 128 countries), is preaching on commitment, and the Rev. Qampicha Daniel Wario of northern Kenya, now studying at Trinity School for Ministry, is celebrating Holy Communion using a Kenyan liturgy.
Testimonies from missionaries will remind us that Jesus is the pearl worth any price and turn our hearts to prayer. Worship will be led by Jonathan and Sarah Blamire (formerly of Wellspring) and the Prince George Winyah, SC, worship group, using traditional, contemporary and international music. The use of both modern and classical instruments gives a beautiful blend - all aimed to help us encounter the living God through worship.
Over 60 workshops are being offered. Missionaries and exhibitors from major Anglican agencies will be available to talk with participants. Bring a team from your church to this encouraging, eye-opening, and life-changing conference!
Register online at http://www.newwineskins.org. Contact New Wineskins for conference brochures, Sunday bulletin inserts, and 4-minute highlight DVDs.
New Wineskins Missionary Network
P.O. Box 278, Ambridge, PA 15003
724-266-2810
http://www.newwineskins.org
info@newwineskins.org
The December meetings of the ACNA College of Bishops and Provincial Council identified the need for a dean to support the Primate and ease what was quickly becoming an overwhelming engagement schedule. In his new capacity as dean, Bishop Harvey will work closely with Archbishop Duncan and will be available to represent the Primate and ACNA when needed.
Bishop Harvey, who has nearly fifty years of ordained ministry, has worked closely with Archbishop Duncan for many years, as they together with others provided leadership to Biblically-faithful North America Anglicans and Episcopalians. He is well known and respected by global Anglican leaders and has built relationships with a number of Primates.
“I am delighted that Bishop Harvey has agreed to take on this new responsibility,” said Archbishop Duncan. “When the Executive Committee unanimously recommended that we create the role of “Dean of the Province”, and the Provincial Council concurred, I immediately began sounding out the members of the Executive Committee. There was unanimous sentiment among all consulted that the one senior bishop who could most easily and acceptably stand in my place was Bishop Donald Harvey.”
While Bishop Harvey will continue as Moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), the recent appointment of three suffragan bishops for ANiC provides him with the flexibility to support Archbishop Duncan in the role of ACNA dean.
The Anglican Church in North America was launched in June of 2009, uniting 12 distinct Anglican groups and 703 arishes. Today, ACNA comprises some 100,000 Anglicans more than 765 parishes organized into 28 dioceses and spans the Canadian-United States border.
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