Anglican Network in Canada NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1 April 2010
Moncton, NB – The province of New Brunswick will see its first Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) church when Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church holds its inaugural service in Moncton on Easter Sunday, April 4. This is also the first ANiC church in the Maritime provinces.
“We are delighted to welcome Christ the Redeemer Church into our growing family of Anglican Network in Canada parishes,” said the Right Reverend Charlie Masters, ANiC’s national director and suffragan bishop for Eastern Canada. “We are excited about working with this enthusiastic congregation as they minister in New Brunswick.”
The congregation will meet each Sunday at 10:30am in the Moncton Wesleyan Church building (2nd floor, Family Centre room), 945 St George Blvd, Moncton.
“It is very exciting to be part of this Gospel movement knowing that we are not only a member of the Gospel-centred Anglican Church in North America, but also in communion with the vast majority of active Anglicans worldwide,” said the Rev Don Hamilton, pastor of Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church.
In the coming weeks, Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church plans to open satellite churches in three other New Brunswick communities. Although details are still being worked out, satellite churches are expected to be established in or near: Saint John, Sussex and Miramichi.
The Anglican Network in Canada now numbers 36 parishes and eight forming congregations in North America – primarily in Canada – with more than 3500 in church on an average Sunday. Members of the Anglican Network in Canada are committed to remaining faithful to Holy Scripture and established Anglican doctrine and to ensuring that orthodox Canadian Anglicans are able to remain in full fellowship with their Anglican brothers and sisters outside North America.
ANiC is under the Episcopal authority of Bishop Donald Harvey and is one of 28 dioceses in the Anglican Church in North America which unites 100,000 faithful Anglicans in the over 800 churches across this continent. ANiC is also affiliated with South America’s Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, one of the 38 Anglican Churches in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The Anglican Church in North America has been growing at a rate of three churches per week since its inception and has set itself the goal of planting 1000 new churches within five years – primarily through reaching unchurched North Americans with the life-transforming good news of Jesus Christ.
For JW in Moncton:-
I have yet to see any shred of evidence to support your claims. My note #48 is quite clear. The issue that brought about ANiC is the clear rejection of both the authority of Scripture and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ by many so-called bishops and the failure of the Primate or the House of Bishops to take appropriate action against the apostates within their group. The authority of Scripture is NOT subject to any majority vote at Synod or elsewhere and any bishop doing his duty would NOT allow any motion that is contrary to the Word to appear on the agenda. The apostates do NOT serve the Master but have changed their loyality to another master and I have no doubt that you will understand. We do pray for their conversion and repentance but there can be no unity between apostasy and orthodoxy.
It seems to me that the vote at Synod was directly in line with what you want. Where is the apostasy?
A specifc idea is legal in canada. The question was asked at Synod, to check the church’s response. The church agreed to ignore the secular law, so far as it concerned the church. Where is the apostasy?
http://www.reallivepreacher.com/node/623
I don’t know anyone who behaves like that, JW. It’s just another stereotype.
JW, if you can set your concern about gays aside for a moment, what is your view of the Bible?
PS – please don’t refer me back to RLP (who I’ve followed on and off for the past five years). I’m interested in your view of what the Bible is – not how you use it.
JW Near Moncton, have you left the field? I would suggest that you have, without personal investigation or discrimination, accepted the ACoC position concerning the ANiC. You have repeated ACoC stereotypes about why the ANiC exists, what it stands for and where it is going. If you really care, you owe it to yourself to do more research (and this blog, as much as I like it, probably isn’t the best place to start). If you are honest and willing to lay aside personal bias, I think you will find that statements like “we’re holy and you aren’t” and “rushing off in all directions screaming about gay cooties” have no basis in fact. I know it is fun to build strawmen arguments and then torch them, but doing so does not bring clarity to a discussion.
Hey there,
Not intended to be a testimonial here but I have been with my partner for 15 years and we celebrate the joy of life and love in Christ every day… We would like to share that with others but are struggling to find others that are open to the other half of “share”. The part that dissapoints me most is the continued focus on politics and “law” vs. personal inspiration in faith. The Church is not (or should not be) about the organization or the method…. More about the reach and impact it has on those who are looking for, can benefit from and contribute to it’s insight. What would the world be like if we all stopped asking “how can communion serve me” and ask more “how can I serve the communion?”
I am hugely dissapointed in the dialogue below. I came across this site as a Christian (gay) man looking for a place in shared faith. I put a Capital on the the Christian and a lower case on the gay for a reason. Even in our lives, there are things that take priority…
Sad that I have not found a communion here:-(
R
Personal inspiration in faith always has to be checked through the Bible. Otherwise, how can we know that the inspiration came from the Holy Spirit and not some other source?