From the Times and Transcript:

Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, New Brunswick’s first member congregation of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), held its first service on Sunday and is moving forward.

Rev. Don Hamilton says about 30 people attended the first service, held at the Moncton Wesleyan Church building on St. George Boulevard. Service will be held each Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

Christ the Redeemer is the first ANiC church in the Maritime provinces. Future congregations are planned for Saint John, Sussex and Miramichi areas.

Hamilton says the ANiC is a return to the principals of Anglicanism, which is growing around the world.

“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 Hamilton.

The Anglican Network in Canada now numbers 36 parishes and eight forming congregations in North America — primarily in Canada — with more than 3,500 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 1,000 new churches within five years.