This past week saw delegates from the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) gather in North Carolina for their second assembly after the group was inaugurated in 2009. While delegates heard from religious liberty advocate Baroness Caroline Cox and Anglican Archbishops from Africa, Asia and South America, the unmistakable emphasis was on the development of the local congregation.
Election of a new bishop (Steve Wood, rector of St. Andrew’s Mt. Pleasant, SC) and recognition of new dioceses in the Carolinas and Texas were also on the agenda, but most of the keynote addresses were on how to grow churches and plant new ones.
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