Anglican Teens Summer Work Camp: June 20-28, 2008
Are you looking for something more challenging for your teens this summer? Join us in putting Christian faith into action by providing valuable home repair for the elderly and disabled residence of southern Georgia.
As a precursor to camp we will all gather at the ProCathedral in Athens, GA for a day of fun and team building. Workcamp is for teens (age 14 to 20) and will be held in Valdosta, Georgia.
For more information, e-mail upperroomlisa@gmail.com.
African Diocese Received, New Bishops Appointed for Australia & New Zealand at Provincial Synod
At the 17th Provincial Synod, the Rt. Rev. Wilson Garang and his Diocese of Aweil in Sudan were received into the the Anglican Catholic Church. Archbishop Haverland appointed the Rt. Rev. Brian Iverach as his Metropolitical Episcopal Assistant for Australia and East Africa, and the Rt. Rev. Denis Hodge of New Zealand was received as a member of the College of Bishops.
In his charge to the Synod, Archbishop Haverland said, "We should remember that our mission is universal and that our perspective should be global. We build our parishes by building the whole Church, even as we build the whole Church by nurturing healthy parishes. Successful parishes have a heart for missions. Churches with missions tend to have successful parishes."
Letter from Archbishop Haverland to Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion
Dear Archbishop Hepworth:
In June 2007 my predecessor, the Most Reverend Brother John-Charles, F.O.D.C., and I each issued a statement bearing on ecumenical relations. Both statements were made with the foreknowledge and approval of the College of Bishops.
My statement was primarily directed towards the Anglican Province of Christ the King (APCK) and the United Episcopal Church of North America (UEC). This statement since has been affirmed and endorsed by the Most Reverend James Provence, Metropolitan of the APCK, and the Most Reverend Stephen C. Reber, Presiding Bishop of the UEC. The effect of this joint statement has been to affirm or reaffirm that among these three Churches there is a state of full communio in sacris and that we agree jointly that we should encourage unity both among ourselves considered collectively and also within each of our Churches considered separately. We also have agreed to the principle that we are not and cannot be in a state of full communio in sacris with ecclesial bodies that are part of the Lambeth Communion, or indeed with ecclesial bodies that are indirectly in such full communion.
Statement from the Metropolitan Concerning Church Unity
For the past twelve years, the Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has had an official policy of seeking unity among Continuing Anglicans in general, but of seeking it first with the Anglican Province of Christ the King (APCK) and the United Episcopal Church of North America (UEC), which are the other two Churches that share our beginnings in the Congress of Saint Louis (1977), in the Affirmation of Saint Louis, and in the "Chambers Succession" of consecrations of bishops in Denver (1978).
Fom the Most Reverend John-Charles, F.O.D.C, Retired Archbishop & Metropolitan
To all Bishops of Churches Adhering to the Affirmation of St. Louis
In the love of Christ and with all fraternal respect.
Brethren,
It has become a matter of urgency to me that I write to you concerning unity among Continuing Anglicans. As age wearies and I find my physical faculties diminishing, I am constantly reminded that there is less time ahead of me than behind me. While I am now retired and no longer a Bishop Ordinary, it remains the case that by year of consecration I am the senior bishop of the Continuing Churches. This is no cause for pride or self-assertion, but I do feel that it lays upon me the responsibility of doing whatever I can in the time left to me to break down barriers between us, foster concord and repair communion.
ACC and United Episcopal Church Sign Communion Agreement
On Ascension Day, May 17, 2007, The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) and the United Episcopal Church (UECNA) entered into a communion agreement. Archbishop Stephen Reber of the UECNA and Archbishop Mark Haverland of the ACC signed the agreement at Saint Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, Athens, Georgia, to restore or reaffirm the state of communio in sacris between the Churches. This agreement came into immediate effect, though it still needs to be ratified by the ACC Provincial Synod and the UECNA Convention.