Denomination Treasurer Kurt Barnes told the Episcopal Executive Council, meeting at St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin, that he does not expect a continuing decline.

Rather, he predicted a 3.7 percent increase - about $1 million - in diocese giving to the national church this year, and another 4 percent rise in 2006.

While Father Moyer's consecration may well be a way to bring the Continuum closer together, a good and laudable goal, that consecration will also be perceived by many as a stumbling block to the building up of an orthodox Anglican Province within these United States. We recognize the reality of that perception, and therefore express reservation as to the timeliness of an action which does not have any prior approval of Forward in Faith, either here or abroad.

The authors say that the report is "an honest attempt to grapple with the current problems facing the Anglican Communion", but decry its lack of comment homosexuality as "a fudge". They insist: "The New Testament is quite clear. A person who practises homosexuality has no right to presume that they are 'in Christ' at all, nor that they are part of God's mission to the world."

Burns organized parishioners to make Anglican prayer beads, a variation of the rosary that omits Catholic devotions to Mary. The group sent about 100 sets, and the project got some parishioners interested enough to try the rosary.