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All Souls Anglican Church
For the last three years, All Souls has been under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Mission. The Vestry made the decision in August to transition to the Gulf Atlantic Diocese under the authority of the Rt. Rev. Neil Lebhar. We trust that they will be officially received by Synod on November 6th.
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up Anglican congregations and communities of faith across North America
to reach people with the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
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Anglican 1000 Chairman,The Rev. Canon David Roseberry personally invites you to Summit 2011 and
gives a brief update about the progress of the Anglican 1000 Movement.
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Israel
Familiarization Trip
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February 22- March 4, 2011 With Optional Ministries
Extension March 4-8
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Jesus the Messiah,
There are very few experiences that have changed our
lives more than traveling to Israel. And very little in our discipling of others
has had a greater impact than bringing them to Israel.
We therefore want to share with you an exciting
opportunity for you to experience Israel and also learn how to lead future
Israel groups.
You are invited to join us for special leaders' Israel
trip sponsored by Shoresh Tours, a ministry based at Christ Church (Anglican) in
Jerusalem. Shoresh Tours is part of the historic work of CMJ (see www.CMJ-Israel.org).
Let us share some key reasons why this is the best
possible trip to familiarize you with Israel:
*The
Leadership The trip is created as a ministry to clergy and lay
leaders, and will be led by committed believers in the Messiah, Yoel and Laura
Seton. Yoel directs Shoresh Tours and both have a great heart for God's Kingdom.
Shoresh is not a tour business; it is part of an extensive ministry throughout
Israel and beyond.
* The
Focus We focus on the Jewish roots of the Christian faith,
helping people to understand the Kingdom of God and the culture of Jesus' time
on earth. Along with the Setons, we have an experienced licensed guide who is
Messianic believer trained in the Scriptures and the history of
Israel.
*The
Training We will spend time teaching you how to recruit and
prepare groups for Israel travel. We have participated in over thirty Israel
trips, leading most of them. We have just returned from leading a group of 63
people.
* The
Cost The price is set very low. This is to make the program
accessible to as many potential future tour leaders as possible. To keep costs
low, we will be staying at CMJ ministry centers throughout Israel, thus learning
firsthand what the Lord is doing there now. At $2100 from Newark, this
familiarization trip, including airfare, costs less than many programs charge
for only the land portion. (You may also make your own air arrangements and pay
for the land portion separately, but our direct flight from Newark to Tel Aviv
is very convenient.)
*Your Fellow
Travelers Because this trip is only for Christian leaders and their
spouses, all will be united in their desire to grow in their own faith and to
better disciple others. You may join us if you have been to Israel before but
need training in trip leadership. We will have limited space, so we encourage
people to sign up as soon as possible.
*The
Goals Our primary goal is to help you understand Jesus better-
his teaching, ministry lifestyle, death, resurrection, ascension and kingdom. We
also want you to be enabled to bring many followers of Jesus to Israel so that
their faith may be strengthened. We have seen our own parish grow much deeper in
the faith as many of its teachers and leaders went to Israel and brought home
what they learned. Finally, we want you to see how the Lord is drawing many
Jewish and Arab people to himself so that you can pray for and encourage the
expansion of the Kingdom of God in the land where Jesus walked. The Optional
Extension after the basic tour is unique opportunity to see even more ministries
in Israel.
Please let us know if we can be of any help as you consider joining
us.
And please pass this letter on to any leader who could
bring others to experience the Lord in Israel.
As is said at the end of every Jewish Passover meal, our
hope is that you can join us "Next Year in Jerusalem!"
In the Messiah,
+Neil and Marcia Lebhar The Rt. Rev. Neil G. Lebhar and Marcia P.
Lebhar
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Mobilize Your Church For An Unreached People Group
The Question: In Revelation 5:9, we read that Jesus "ransomed men for God from every tribe and tongue and people and nation..."
Currently, there are people (ethnic) groups who will not be
represented in heaven. Your church can work together with other
believers to bring Christ and the Church to a specific people group.
Which one?
1) Get informed: Contact Anglican Frontier Missions for guidance in becoming a partner church (804-355-8468)
2) Pray for the church leadership and obtain their support
3) Pray and talk with several members of your church about having a partnership with an unreached people group
4) With AFM's assistance, select the specific unreached people group
5) Contact Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM) for guidance on the details
which includes prayer, communication with other believers who are
focusing on this people group, missionaries, and assisting in locating
resources.
6) Form a partnership committee to guide the church on the next steps
7) Educate and involve the church (AFM has prepared materials)
8) Notify AFM and formally begin the partnership
9) Regularly involve the entire church in the prayer, communication, and assistance with the people group partnership
10) Celebrate the positive steps that take place among your people group and the outreach to them
11) Patiently pray and serve your people group within your partnership
and in collaboration with other believers. Trust the Lord to work, in
his time, among the people
12) Praise God in all circumstances
For more information, contact:
The Rev. Canon Dr. B. W. Pete Wait
III & Dr. Shirleen S. Wait
Pastors to
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"A4Dayers" made history coming together from Canada and the US for the first Provincial Ultreya of the Anglican Fourth Day Movement in North America
The Holy Spirit showed up as "A4Dayers" arrived at St Vincent's Cathedral in Bedford, TX, hosting the first Provincial Ultreya for the Fourth Day movement of the Anglican Church in North America on Friday, August 13th and 14 th.
Attendees represented the Anglican Fourth Day from across the US and Canada coming from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to Bellingham, WA from two provinces of Canada to the western deserts of Texas, from California to Massachusetts, from Ohio to Florida.
Bishop Jack Iker, of the Anglican Diocese of Ft. Worth greeted the "A4Dayers" and led the assembled in Morning Prayer before the rest of the day's activities began.
Archbishop Robert Duncan stopped by prior to his evening address to listen to some of the presentations. He asked Ken Herbst, A4D Board President, if he could speak to the assembled. When he went to the microphone the first word out of his mouth was, "Ultreya!" and the place broke out into pandemonium as the A4D'ers greeted the Archbishop. (The word "Ultreya" means "on-ward and up-ward.")
The worship team from Christ Church XP (Chi Rho), Anglican Church of Montgomery, AL was an outstanding success in bringing everyone into the presence of the Holy Spirit as the group worshipped throughout the Ultreya. In addition to the worship music the team was a hit as they entertained with music and songs from the 70's during the breaks.
We Did It!
"A4Dayers" made history coming together from Canada and the US for the first Provincial Ultreya of the Anglican Fourth Day Movement in North America
August 18, 2010
Volume 1, Issue 7
Friday evening Archbishop Duncan celebrated Holy Communion and spoke to the congregation about the importance of the fourth day movement in the new church to help develop leaders and play a role in meeting the goal set in Anglican 1000 to plant new churches in the next five years.
During the Ultreya the Board of Directors appointed The Rev. Dr. Tom Tirman (Noblesville, IN) and Jack Duffy (Attleboro, MA) to the Board.
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Bishop Neil  | Alleluia. Christ is Risen!
I am excited to see where the Lord Jesus will lead
us in the days ahead as we continue our ministry together in this new Gulf
Atlantic Diocese. We will be sending out regular email newsletters to enable us
to be more faithful in the Lord's call for us to be servants in his everlasting
kingdom. Please pass this information on to all who are part of our diocese.
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We are inundated with change
By the time I have finally figured out a piece of technology, it has to be
replaced, and the process of adjustment begins again.
The same holds true of much bigger areas of our lives. Our relationships
are remarkably fluid, as we gain new friends and others somehow drop out of
sight. Or Bishop Neil | misunderstanding, or moving away, or even death abruptly end
relationships we have depended on forever.
Our culture changes just as rapidly, with new values and networks replacing
ethics and institutions that once seemed unchangeable.
It isn't surprising then that when it comes to the church that we find
change most difficult. We feel like we need a place of refuge from change. And
after all, the foundations of the Church remain the same. Jesus is the same
yesterday, today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). The Church is built on apostolic
teaching and all the rest of the Scriptures which never change (Ephesians 2:20,
Matthew 24:35). The gospel is itself eternal (Revelation 14:6).
Yet we must consider necessary changes in lesser things. I could easily
make a very long list of things in our ministries that will need to change - the
way we share the faith, our willingness to serve those in need outside the
church, our readiness to teach the basics of the faith to those who know much
less than we can imagine, etc. As bishop looking at the big picture, I am just
beginning to realize how differently we will need to think and act if there is
hope for a new Great Awakening to Christ within our culture.
I hope we are learning to distinguish between those things from God that
cannot change (we do not have the power to change them), and those things which
we must change if we are going to live out the gospel faithfully now.
But today in the midst of almost overwhelming waves of change, I want
instead to encourage you to focus on the Lord who remains exactly the same -
holy, glorious, powerful, righteous, just and merciful, whose "steadfast love
endures forever" (repeated over twenty-five times in Psalm 136 - read it and
rejoice in God's greatness.)
The truth is that we cannot fruitfully bring others the gospel that will
change them unless we ourselves have deeper confidence in the Lord who remains
the same.
So let me close with a question. What difference would it make in your
ever-changing life if you had a greater comprehension of God's eternal nature
and purposes?
Please don't just read the question. Please reflect and pray about
the answer. In the process, may the unchanging God change us for the sake of his
kingdom.
In the Messiah,
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Welcome to All Saints Anglican Church  | All Saints Anglican Church Click the link above to view the website.
About All Saints Anglican Church, Tallahassee
Florida
All Saints
Anglican Church is the Anglican presence in northwest Tallahassee.
God has placed us in a small shopping plaza to be a shining light and
make disciples. The church started on
July 2, 2006 and moved to its present location on Christmas Eve, 2007. Our community life at All Saints is ordered
by the following affirmations:
1. That
Christ is Head of the Church, which is His Body.
2. That
Christ is present and active in the life of His Church and in the life of each
Christian through the Holy Spirit, His own first gift for those who believe.
3. That
Christ imparts to each believer gifts of the Holy Spirit to be used for
ministry and the building up of the Church.
4. That
all Christians are to confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his
resurrection, and share in his eternal priesthood.
5. The
Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be God's Word written, to
contain all things necessary to salvation, and to be the ultimate rule and
standard for Christian faith and practice.
6. The
Apostles' Creed, as the Baptismal Symbol, and the Nicene Creed as the
sufficient statement of the Christian faith.
7. The
Sacraments and other sacramental rites, as sure and certain means by which we
receive spiritual grace.Fr. Gil & Mtr. Trina  |
8. The
efficacy of prayer, including prayer for healing of body, mind and spirit.
9. That
all Christians are justified by grace through faith in Christ and are called to
holiness of life, employing spiritual disciplines that enable Christ to be
formed in them.
10. That
Christian community is essential to Christian maturity and is most effectively
experienced in a small group gathered for prayer, scriptural reflection, and
sharing of their lives for support and encouragement.
11. That
as disciples, we are commissioned by Christ to go forth and make disciples of
all people through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Our worship is best described as joyfully
reverent, sacramental, and biblically centered.
The music our All Saints Communion Band provides is clearly based on
specific scriptures. Members are
encouraged to engage in daily meditation, scripture reading and prayer, and to
come to communal worship ready to praise God and rededicate themselves to
him. Also, weekly Adult Sunday School
offers a variety of topics to assist members in Christian growth and
development.
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Discipleship Journal
by Marcia Lebhar
Eavesdropping
This summer Neil and I had the decidedly unhappy task of admitting to ourselves
that the shrubs to one side of our front door were dead and must be removed. A
small team of people with hatchets and shovels made relatively quickMarcia Lebhar  | work of
the removal. Then we had a lovely, empty patch of dirt, all raked and ready to
be replanted. But we were interrupted by the daily afternoon downpour. When the
rain ceased and we came out to resume the work, there in the dirt was a perfect
illustration of my latest biblical rumination...
The water had poured off the roof in sheets, creating in the
un-mulched dirt a distinct, deep line along that side of the house, under our
front windows, as if someone had drawn it precisely with a stick. I wish I had
taken a picture of it! That morning, I had been thinking of the places in the
Scriptures where God seems to be eavesdropping.
It is a crazy idea, I suppose, since he is omnipresent and even hears all our
thoughts. But still, there are Bible stories that suggest the idea, so I had
looked up the word. The root, as you can
guess, is that someone stands at your window, as close as the line where
water drops from the eaves of your house, and therefore
hears all you say inside.
Remember the wonderful scene of mutual eavesdropping in Genesis 18? The Lord, through three
visitors, meets Abraham outside his tent and promises that Sarah, his wife, is
soon to become pregnant. Abraham and Sarah were about a hundred years old at
the time. Sarah is eavesdropping from inside the tent and has a good laugh at
the thought. "After I have grown old, and
my husband is old, shall I have pleasure?"(v.12, RSV) But God is
eavesdropping on her eavesdropping! He challenges her for laughing. In what I
have always heard as an affectionate conversation, Sarah denies laughing, but
God insists that he heard her, and promises both Abraham and Sarah that He's not joking!
2 Kings 6 records another great eavesdropping scene. The
king of Syria
makes plan after plan to attack Israel.
But each time the Lord warns the prophet Elisha, and Elisha tips off the king
of Israel.
Furious, the king of Syria
accuses his leadership of spying for the enemy. "Which of you is the traitor?" (v.11, NLV)
Desperate, they reply, "It's
not us... Elisha, the prophet in Israel, tells the king of Israel even the
words you speak in the privacy of your bedroom!" (v.12, NLV)
Why do these scenes intrigue me? Several times over the
years God has gently challenged me that even though I can be assured that he
hears my every thought, he would still like me to direct my cries to him. As well, the Scriptures have
taught me that we have the power to encourage the Lord, and even the saints and
angels, as they eavesdrop on us!
Years ago I faced a stressful time in ministry work. I lacked
the skills I needed. I lacked the people I needed. I lacked the money I needed.
I began to awaken in the middle of each night, coiled with anxiety. One night I
gave up trying to sleep and made my way to the kitchen to make herb tea. One of
my daughters had brought a box of Christian
tea home from college. Though I detest the idea of selling tea for twice its
value because it has a Bible verse on each teabag's cardboard dunker, still I reached for it. As I
steeped my tea, I absent-mindedly read my teabag. I was taken aback. Here is
what it said: "My people wail on their
beds in the middle of the night, but they don't cry out to me from their hearts!" (Hosea 7:14) I would have told you that I was
praying as I tossed and turned each night. But it was not prayer... only a vague
awareness that God was eavesdropping...
that I was somehow struggling in His
presence. He was challenging me to direct my angst specifically to
him, even if it meant crying out! It is a subtle, but a fundamental
distinction. Chastened, I directed my cries to him, and within hours in the
next work day, my situation changed radically.
Confirming this lesson is a now favorite scene in the book
of Malachi, chapter 3. The people of God are complaining to each other that their faithfulness to him seems to be doing them
no good. The passage implies that they are suffering in some way, while the
arrogant and faithless ones 'get rich'! What's up with that? God is eavesdropping and he challenges them: "'You have said terrible things about me,'
says the Lord." They deny it, just
like Sarah! But the Lord persists, playing their conversation back to them. He
provokes them to complain to his face. What is the point here? God can hear our
grumbling to each other, even our inner wrestling. But he wants us to direct
those comments to him. Only then can
we receive his answers and appreciate his purposes.
But the best part is
still ahead. Malachi continues, "Then
those who feared the Lord spoke with each other, and the Lord listened to what
they said. In his presence, a scroll of remembrance was written to record the
names of those who feared him and loved to think about him." (v.16, NLV) Imagine! Not only is God
listening, but our thoughts toward him and our conversations with each other about him have the power to encourage him. He makes a list! He promises to reward them!
There's more. The writer of Hebrews tells us (12:1) that we are surrounded by a huge crowd of saints
who have gone before us.The saints
of the Hebrew Scriptures longed to see our day, when the Messiah, Jesus, had
accomplished the redemption they could only see from a distance. Like onlookers
who have been part of a relay race, they cheer us on, encouraging us to keep
our focus on Jesus, our savior and bridegroom, as we all await our final reunion
with him. Peter tells us "that even the
angels are eagerly watching these things happen." (1 Peter 1:9 NLV) Along with
the Lord, they watch and listen until we are all at the wedding banquet
together.
God, and the heavenly hosts with him, is listening to us!
The heavenly pencil is sharpened and the list of those who treasure him and
turn their faces toward him has begun. Let's turn our thoughts, and even our
cries of complaint, to him, and make sure our names are on that precious list.
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Clergy Continuing Education
with The Rev. Dr. Leslie Fairfield
What can you learn about church planting from a young,
aristocratic woman being gored by a wild cow in 3rd century Carthage?
Or from a half-educated missionary bishop in 5th century Ireland? Or
from an Italian playboy turned beggar-monk who wrote songs about "Brother Son"
and tried to convert the Sultan of Egypt in the midst of the Crusades? As it
turns out, an enormous amount. The Rev. Dr. Leslie Fairfield(retired professor
of Church History at Trinity School fro Ministry) joined 15 of us
from Dr. Les Fairfield  | Tallahassee, Gainesville, Moultrie and Valdosta (Jacksonville and Savannah
being sadly missed) for three days of teaching and reflection on how the Church
was able to expand in three very different environments: within a hostile pagan
culture (Perpetua in 3rd century Carthage), within a receptive pagan
culture (Patrick in 5th century Ireland) and within a superficially
Christian culture (13th century Assisi, Italy).
All of us walked away inspired by the radical witness of
these saints, encouraged by the power of the Gospel to change lives and
challenged to rethink our understanding of evangelism and Christian formation.
If you want to experience second-hand something of the power of these days,
check out the careful notes that Travis Boline took on Les' lectures and read
the books that were assigned.
Trinity is hosting another continuing education experience
for clergy and laity in January (13-15). Dr. Bill Lyons, professor of biblical
studies at Regent University, will be leading us in a three-day reflection on
the message of the Hebrew prophets. Put the dates in your calendar.
The Rev. Jim Hobby
Rector, Trinity Anglican Church, Thomasville, GA
www.TrinityAnglicanThomasville.org
Canon
for Congregational Development, Gulf Atlantic Diocese
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ARCHBISHOP DUNCAN JOINS ANGLICAN LEADERS AT ALL AFRICA BISHOPS CONFERENCE
2nd ALL AFRICAN BISHOPS' CONFERENCE (AABC)
August 23-29, 2010 - Entebbe, Uganda
Bishops from all of Africa as well as Anglicans from around the world are meeting together in Entebbe, Uganda, for the Second All Africa Bishops Conference August 23-29.
The conference, which is organized by the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA), calls together bishops and archbishops from 400 dioceses in Africa. Invited guests from around the Anglican world are also present.
Archbishop Robert Duncan, Bishop Martyn Minns, Bishop John Guernsey and Bishop Bill Atwood are among the Anglican Church in North America leaders who are attending the event. "The Anglican Church is expanding everywhere in Africa. There are now some 400 dioceses spread across the continent. As Archbishop I am here to learn and to stand in solidarity with this vigorous gospel mission," said Archbishop Duncan. As the leader of the Anglican Church in North America, Archbishop Duncan was included with the other Anglican primates (leaders of Anglican provinces) during the opening Eucharist, and shared in the distribution of communion, as did the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
Archbishop Williams told the gathered bishops that the 21st Century may well be the "African Century."
Archbishop Duncan, as well as Archbishop John Chew of Southeast Asia, have also been invited to sit with the primates of the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa (CAPA) during their meetings.
To learn more about this important meeting, visit the conference website: http://www.africanbishops.org
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Harris G. Willman
Administrator
Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the ACNA
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