The congregation of 110 voted overwhelmingly to leave the Episcopal Church with 80 percent of the potential voters present moving to leave immediately. "All the families came with us and moved to accept an overseas Primate. The average attendance of 100 to 110, jumped to 147 when we met first at Tatesbrook Baptist Church last Sunday. The church renamed Apostles Anglican Church will take up temporary residence at Veterans Park Elementary School, said Gornik.
Read more"I did this because we were reaching people who were not going to church, had not been going to church, evangelizing them, standing up and preaching one gospel while the Episcopal Church preaches another gospel," he told VirtueOnline. McCurry has been received into the Province of Rwanda by Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini. His local (interim) bishop is T. J. Johnston.
Read more"The Reformed Episcopal Church has a long history of commitment to evangelical faith in the Anglican tradition. As we continue to step out in faith in the world mission context, we are finding easily formed, spiritually rich relationships in the Anglican Global South," said Ecumenical Bishop Ray R. Sutton.
Read moreAnd the urgency is reflected in the preaching, teaching and numerous workshops that these Evangelical Anglican leaders offer to the true believers gathered here.
Read moreIn a flurry of phone calls with his wardens and lawyer Bob Kuhn, Mr. Hird reaffirmed his lawyer's contention that Michael and the Diocese of New Westminster have no legal interest in the St. Simon's community, and they will vigorously oppose any attempt to put a rector in at the church while the legitimate rector is absent.
Read moreThe archbishop then said that because polygamy was a form of racism that he and his bishops from his province, along with the Archbishop and bishops from the Province of Uganda would never have attended the next Lambeth Conference in 2008 if it was going to be held in South Africa. (It has now been moved back to Canterbury.)
"We would never have gone to South Africa for this conference because they have the same thinking as Frank Griswold and I and my bishops would not attend."
Read moreAlas it is not going to happen. The American Episcopal Church is rife with corruption, is morally blind, spiritually bankrupt; is fast isolating itself from the rest of the Anglican Communion while living off dead men's money, with the latest figures revealing that it is slowly, but surely, dying.
Read moreWhat sort of a God is it that winks and nods at sin? The Bible is full of God's judgment, sometimes swift, sometimes delayed. But it always comes. God's wrath and judgment is sure - but the timing is always His.
And so the question must be asked again, what sort of a God would not judge the Episcopal Church?
How many outright lies, distortions and half truths can be told before God comes in judgment against the Episcopal Church?
Read moreAnd this from a movement spawned by Rowan Williams with crucial American support by Frank T. Griswold its U.S. patron and C. Christopher Epting, Bishop of Iowa its co-patron.
Read moreBrenner, a self-described modest priest, said that as unbelievable as it may sound, rarely does he speak out at events of the larger church. "At the five diocesan convocations I've attended in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, I don't believe I've ever spoken on the floor of convocation. At deanery events and greater gatherings of the clergy, I'm not known as one for giving voice."
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