Global South Anglican

This was delivered to the Anglican leaders of the Global South in November.

“We are hoping that after the primates’ meeting in Tanzania next month, we will have a clearer vision of what we have. If the Lambeth Conference is worth attending, we must put this problem behind us,” he said.

The Rt. Rev. C. Christopher Epting, Presiding Bishop’s deputy for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations and retired Bishop of Iowa, will join the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh and moderator of the Anglican Communion Network, and the Rt. Rev. D. Bruce McPherson, Bishop of Western Louisiana and president of the Presiding Bishop’s Council of Advice. They will speak to the state of The Episcopal Church, according to sources in London who spoke with a reporter for The Living Church.

In trying times, St. Paul instructs us not only to be steadfast and immovable, but also to “abound in the work of the Lord, knowing that in Him [our] labor is not in vain.” All of us need to stay focused on the mission: locally, regionally, nationally and globally.

One of the largest Anglican Churches in the USA has affiliated with the Anglican Mission in the Americas

By the time the church got to the Reformation it had learned to retain its New Testament moorings through a threefold appeal to Scripture, antiquity, and general councils. “Those are the ways in which the universal dimension survived. But the question is, what now? “We need to learn again how to be a worldwide church.” He opined that the Anglican churches will need more than just the relatively recent “instruments of unity” espoused by upper echelons of the Mother Church in England. (Mere Anglicanism Conference)

The Rt. Rev. D. Bruce MacPherson, Bishop of Western Louisiana and president of the Presiding Bishop’s Council of Advice, has accepted an invitation to attend the primates’ meeting in Tanzania on Feb. 14. He joins the Rt. Rev. Robert W. Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh and moderator of the Anglican Communion Network, as the other voices from The Episcopal Church that Archbishop of Canterbury proposed including in an Advent letter to the primates.

In an open letter dated November 17, 2006 the president of the diocesan Standing Committee promised that congregations which decided to disaffiliate from the diocese, would be able to part ways ““within a context of mutual understanding and compassion.” There is still time to fulfill that promise.

In North County, Lyons oversees St. Anne’s in Oceanside, Holy Family in Vista, Church of the Resurrection in San Marcos, Sts. Timothy and Titus in Poway and Good Shepherd in Encinitas. Creating a new American province would mean those churches would no longer have to turn to a foreign diocese for oversight, and Lyons would tend only to his five churches in Bolivia. Lyons oversees 35 congregations in the United States, including the five North County churches and Holy Faith in Bonita.