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Anglican Diocese in New England
Annual Synod 2012
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Morning Session: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm10:00 am Holy Eucharist
• Pastoral Address• Peace and Greetings
Bishop Thad Barnum, The Rev. Dr. Roberto Miranda, and Bishop Gideon Thompson
• Offertory• Holy Communion
12:00 pm Break for Lunch (Bag lunch or Local Restaurants)
Afternoon Session begins at 1:30 PM
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Afternoon Session 1:30 pm until Closing Prayer
• Introduction of New Clergy• Celebration of Imago Dei’s new Status
• Testimony – Imago Dei, Orono, ME• Ministry of Development and Stewardship
Report: Development – Ann ConteReport – Treasurer – Gail Gardner
2013 Budget
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Continuation of Afternoon Session• Testimony – All Nation, New Haven, CT
• Ministry of LeadershipReport: 2012 Ministry of the Standing Committee, Robert Brochu, Chair
Election for Diocesan /Provincial Ministries
• Standing Committee• Ecclesiastical Court
• ACNA Council• ACNA Assembly
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Continuation of Afternoon SessionTestimony – St. Timothy, Burlington, VT
• Other Business
• Bishop’s Final Comments
• Closing Prayer5
Anglican Diocese in New England
Bishop’s Address6
Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012
• Greetings to all and to our honored Guests• The Mission of the Anglican Diocese in New
England is to reach out with the transforming love of Jesus Christ.
• “So that people, communities, and cultures are conformed to the fullness of Christ.” (Standing Committee and Ministry Leaders September 2012)
• Are we doing that?7
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• The Church in New England: How are we doing?
• Gallup Poll suggests we are at 40% weekly attendance in US. Others think it is worse…
• We are at only half of what Gallup is projecting
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• Startling Facts: An Up Close Look at Church Attendance in America
• “ Less than 20% of Americans regularly attend church—half of what the pollsters report. While Gallup polls and other statisticians have turned in the same percentage—about 40% of the population—of average weekend church attendees for the past 70 years, a different sort of research paints quite a disparate picture of how many Americans attend a local church on any given Sunday.”
• Rebecca Barnes and Lindy Lowry, Outreach Magazine 2010 9
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• The Academics have questioned the numbers for a long time.
• American Sociological Review concludes, “We have shown that American Church Attendance rate is probably about one half of what everyone thinks it is.”
• ( Kirk Hadaway, United Church Board of Homeland Ministries, Penny Long Marler, Stanford University, Mark Chaves, University Notre Dame) 1993
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• The current numbers from the 2010 Gallup poll for New England average weekly church attendance are:
• Maine 31• Massachusetts 31• Rhode Island 28 • Vermont 24• New Hampshire 24
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• This is the link to the Gallup numbers online• http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-att
endance-lowest-new-england-highest-south.aspx#2
Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012What does this look like at the local level in New England?• Example, Amesbury: Out of population of 16,283, if we
were at half of the 31% Gallup says we would get approximately 15% of the total in church every week.
• Actually, we are at a number that looks like less than 8 out 10 people are in church. Throughout New England, which Gallup recognizes as the lowest per capita church attendance in the nation, we are actually in a more difficult situation than Gallup suggests.
• EX. If it was 31% in Amesbury, our 10 churches would be averaging over 504 people per Sunday. (Not even close)
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• What is the difference between how Jesus did his ministry of Disciple Making and how we are doing it?
• Discipleship and Mission are the way Jesus sent us to build His Church:
• Are we Building the church that Jesus is building? Are we making disciples the way he made disciples? Jesus what‘s the difference? We all are committed to Matt.28:19, 20. We understand the 3, the 12, the 70, and the crowds… But what’s the difference?
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• Jesus and Disciple Making in John’s Gospel Backwards from the Resurrection– John 20:21 …”Even so I am sending you” – John 14:12…”do the works that I do and greater
works” – John 5:19 …”the Son can do nothing of his own,
but only what He sees the Father doing.”• John 5:30 ...”I can do nothing on my own but
as I hear I judge
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• Jesus, what is the difference? • How do we work more directly with you in
your manner of disciple making? Are we building the church that you are building?
• What is the relationship between apostle and disciple in this process?
• Matt.16:13-20
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Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012The Break through for Peter: • Jesus asks the Question. Disciples answer.• Jesus asks again. Peter answers.• Jesus blesses. Peter hears from the Father. • Jesus declares. The faith, the content and the
manner of Peter’s confession is to be a rock for building the church.
• Jesus promises that the Gates of Hell will not prevail.
• Jesus gives authority .17
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Jesus is building His Church through apostolic discipleship that is sent to see and hear what the Father is doing and follow His call and leading to the edge of our capacity and then stepping beyond.
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• Apostolic Leadership and Disciple Making
• A creedal definition of apostolic…. Just as we understand catholic as an adjective to describe the nature of the church, so apostolic is a description of content, teaching and method of leadership development in ministry.
• When does the church begin to be apostolic?19
Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012• The breakthrough of apostolic awareness in Peter’s
life looks like :– Hearing the Father – Confession of Faith – Risk of Obedience – Receiving a Blessing
• Jesus builds his church through developing apostolic leaders, sent to see and hear what the Father is doing, who respond in faith and obedience, and disciple others in the same manner.
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• After the Breakthrough then the work begins: – Peter misses the next one; Jesus rebukes him– Peter continues to go with Jesus as one of the 3.– Peter walks on water, is at the Transfiguration, denies
Jesus on Maundy Thursday.– Is restored in the Upper Room – Peter preaches at Pentecost.– Acts 3 , Peter heals the lame man at the temple.
• Jesus builds his church through a supernatural partnership of faith that expects divine assistance and direction in day to day work of following Christ on mission in the world.
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Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012• Jesus training the Apostles looks different than from our
discipling programs: – In Mk 3:14: The Apostles are called to be with Him that
he might send them– Mk 6:7-13: They are sent 2x2, with authority over
unclean spirits, proclaiming good news, casting out demons, healing the sick by anointing with oil.
– Matt.10: 1-5, Lk.91-6;10:1-17: The 70 are told to do the same.
– Jesus training of disciples in apostolic ministry was on-the job-training, 1/3 of which was within the capacity of human ability and 2/3 of which was always beyond human capacity.
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• A quote from Radical ,by David Platt page 50• “But what is strangely lacking in the picture of the
(church) is desperation for the power of God. God's power is at best an add-on to our strategies. I am frightened by the reality that the church I lead can carry on most of our activities smoothly, efficiently, even successfully, never realizing that the Holy Spirit of God is virtually absent from the picture.”
• Performances, personalities, programs,& professionals, are all that is needed for church?
Bishop’s Address to Synod 2012• What if we focused on the 2/3 factors in the apostolic
approach to disciple making and church building that Jesus used?
• What if we as ADNE/ACNA Christians used the three streams to help us?– Reformed /Catholic stream, learning to watch and listen.
• (Canon Skillen and Spiritual Formation)
– The Evangelical Stream based in the Word and a passion for the lost.• (ADNE Mission Events)
– The Charismatic Stream living and ministering in the power of the Spirit.
• (Canon Mueller/Deb Baldini intercessory and healing prayer conferences)
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• Apostolic discipleship training is like learning to trust your “Garmin.”
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• Apostolic discipleship training is like learning to trust your “Garmin” because it asks for: – Awareness that grows out of Obedience. (Luke 6:46)– It is a life of waiting for the invitation.– It is a life dependent on God.– It is a life of expectation and discovery.– It is a life that follows illumination and insight. – It acts with obedience and authority. – It seeks to act always in right order.
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It is like going to Mordor.
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Going to the gates of hell, where we lose control and pursue a task that we know we cannot complete on
our own.28
It is abandonment to Divine Providence29
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• Apostolic discipleship training happens in community– ADNE Mission Events– ADNE Mission Groups – ADNE Mission Stations– St Aidans Institute– Prayer and Healing Ministry– Spiritual Direction/Formation Ministry– Deliverance Ministry Trainings
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• What does this change?– We will partner with Jesus in building the church
that He is building in the ways He has always built His church.
– Jesus is building His Church through apostolic discipleship that is sent to see and hear what the Father is doing and follow His call and leading to the edge of our capacity and then step beyond.
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Remarks from Honored Guests• Bishop Thaddeus Barnum
– PEAR USA, Fairfield CT
• The Rev. Dr. Roberto Miranda– Lion de Judah, Boston MA
• Bishop Gideon Thompson– Jubilee Christian Church
• Boston and Stoughton
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ADNE Synod 2012
LUNCHBe Back by 1:15 PM and NLT than 1:30 PM
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Afternoon Session 1:30 pm until Closing Prayer
• Introduction of New Clergy• Celebration of Imago Dei’s new Status
• Testimony – Imago Dei, Orono, ME• Ministry of Development and Stewardship
Report: Development – Ann ConteReport – Treasurer – Gail Gardner
2013 Budget
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Continuation of Afternoon Session• Testimony – All Nation, New Haven, CT
• Ministry of LeadershipADNE Ministry and Ministry Leaders
Report: 2012 Ministry of the Standing Committee Robert Brochu, ChairElection for Diocesan /Provincial Ministries
• Standing Committee• Ecclesiastical Court
• ACNA Council• ACNA Assembly
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ADNE SYNOD 2012 SCHEDULE
Continuation of Afternoon SessionTestimony – St. Timothy, Burlington, VT
• Other Business • Bishop’s Final Comments
• Closing Prayer
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ADNE New ClergyPriests
The Rev. Timothy Clayton
Rector Christ the Redeemer Danvers MA
The Rev. Daniel MochampsVicar
St. Michael’s Church Rochester NH
The Rev. Alan WilmotVicar
Church of the Resurrection Brewster MA
The Rev. Justus MunyasyaAssistant
St. Paul’s Lawrence
The Rev Dr. John Simpson
Interim VicarChurch of the Good Shepherd
Forestdale MA
The Rev Ben Rey Non-parochial
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ADNE 2012 Ordinations• Priests
– The Rev. Evan Pillsbury– The Rev. Dr. Nathan Baxter– The Rev. Barbara Lachance– The Rev. Bonnie Brown
• Deacons– The Rev. Matthew Brench– The Rev. Shanon Cotta– The Rev. Benjamin Giuffrida– The Rev. Adam Rick– The Rev. Piper Runnion-Bareford
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ADNE 2012 Newly Licensed Clergy
• The Rev. Ian Montgomery Peru• The Rev. Sam Leonardi Tremont Parish ME• The Rev. Clayton Gilly Tremont Parish ME• The Rev. James Hairston CANA Army
Chaplain
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ADNE Synod 2013
IMAGO DEI Celebration
and Testimony
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Anglican Diocese in New England
Ministry of Development and Stewartdship
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ADNE Synod 2012
DevelopmentAnn ConteTreasurer
Gail Gardner
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ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalRevenue $434,000.00
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CongregationTithes
224,000.00
IndividualDonations
200,000.00
Sub-Total 424,000.00
Ordination Discernment fees
1,000.00
St. Aidan’s usage Fees 9,000.00
Total 434,000.00
ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalAnglican Church in North America Tithe
$42,400.00
• Annual $42,400• 10 percent of
every deposit from
Congregation and Individual
Donations to the Diocesan
Operating Budget.44
ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalPAYROLL $285,199
• PAYROLL
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Salaries 135,000.00 Benefits Health/Dental 28,440.00 Benefit Housing 85,000.00
Pension 30,959.00
Employer FICA 3,640.00
Quick Book Payroll Fees 600.00
Total 284,299.00
ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalAdministration $81,226
Office Supplies 4,000.00 Phone & Internet & Conference calls 6,000.00
IT Support 500.00 Ordination Discernment Expense 1,000.00 Bank Fees/Finance Charges 2,000.00 Key Man Insurance 3,500.00 Total Administration 81,226.00
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Conferences & Meetings 4,700.00 Dues & Subscriptions 300.00 Equipment Purchase 500.00 Postage &Shipping 1,000.00 Printing 200.00 Accounting & Audit 7,000.00 Legal Services 1,000.00
Rent 44,526.00
Insurance 5,000.00
ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalTravel + Transportation $18,989
Travel
Other Travel Expenses 2000.00
Meals 2,000.00
Lodging 2,000.00
Conference Travel 3,189.00
Total 9189.00
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Transportation Air Fare 3,000.00
Auto Rental 450.00
Local Transport 350.00
Mileage 1,000.00
Auto Lease 5,000.00
Total 9,800.00
ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalSt. Aidan’s House $13,906
St. Aidan's Electric 2,300.00
St. Aidan's Gas 3,056.00
St. Aidan's Telephone 1,830.00
St. Aidan's Care & Maint. 5,720.00
St. Aidan's Water/Sewer 1,000.00
Total St. Aidan's 13,906.00
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ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalTotal Expenses $440,820.00
Category Totals
ACNA 42,400.00
Payroll 284,299.00
Administration 81,226.00
Travel 18, 989.00
St. Aidan’s House 13,906.00
TOTAL Expenses 440,820.00
Net Operating Income
(6820.00)
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ADNE 2013 Budget ProposalRevenue and Expenses $5000.00 surplus
2013Revenue 434,000.00Expenses 440,820.00
Total ($6,820.00)
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2012 (10/31) Projected End of 2012Revenue 10/31 384,265.00 483,618 (estimate)Expenses 10/31 355,993.38 427,192 (estimate)2011Revenue 474,978.25 ------------------------------------
Expenses 466,652.76 ------------------------------------
2010Revenue 322,109.81 -------------------------------------- Expenses 330,658.50 -------------------------------------
ADNE Synod 2013
All Nations New Haven, CT
Testimony
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Anglican Diocese in New England
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Ministry of Leadership
ADNE Bishop’s Office6 Allens Court
Amesbury, MA 01913978 388-0650
The Rt. Rev. William MurdochBishopbmurdoch@ad-ne.org
The Venerable Donald RobertsArchdeacon droberts@ad-ne.org
Ann ConteDevelopment Office Coordinatoraconte@ad-ne.org
Marylyn RobertsTemp. Administrative Asst.ad-ne@ad-ne.org
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ADNE Diocesan Ministry Leaders
Boston Fellows Rev. Dr. Kelly Madden
Healing and Prayer Rev. Dr. Canon Andrea Mueller
Intercessory PrayerDebra Baldini
The Outreach Joshua Burns
Spiritual FormationRev. Canon Susan Skillen
St. Aidan’s Institute Very Rev. Michael Bickford
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ADNE Officers and Standing Committee 2012
The Rt. Rev. William MurdochPresident
The Venerable Donald P. RobertsSecretary
Robert Brochu ChairGail Gardner
TreasurerRev. Canon Ross Kimball
Chancellor Clergy Members:The Rev. Jack Potter ‘12The Rev. Alex Cameron ‘13The Rev. Deborah Leighton ’13
(Bishop appointee) The Rev. Geoffrey Little ’14 Lay Members:Robert Brochu ‘12 William Hogan ‘13 William Dowling ’13
(Bishop Appointee)Kathy Carpenter ’14
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School Ministries within ADNE
All Nations Christian Academy
355 Lenox Street, New Haven CT 06513
Director : Blanca LittleK- 4th Grade203 467-6083
www.allnationschristianacademy.org
Blanca Little with her husband,
Rev. Geoffrey Little
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Outreach Ministries to Universities and Colleges to within ADNE
– Gordon College The Rev. James Arcadi– Fitchburg State The Rev. Matthew Brench– Salem State The Rev. Dr. Nathan Baxter– U. Maine The Rev. Justin Howard– U. Maine SE The Rev. Evan Pillsbury– U. Vermont The Rev Alex Cameron
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ADNE Synod 2012
Standing Committee Chair’s Report Bob Brochu
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ADNE 2013 Elections Standing Committee
Vote for 1 Clergy and 1 Lay Person• Clergy• ____ Rev. Justin Howard Imago Dei Orono ME
• ____ Rev. Canon Dr. Andrea Mueller ADNE Healing + Prayer Ministry
• ____ Floor Nominee______________________________________________
• Laity• ___ Peter Smick Christ the Redeemer Danvers
MA
• ___ Floor Nominee _____________________________________________ 59
ADNE 2013 ElectionsEcclesiastical Court
(Vote for 5: 3 clergy, 2 laity)• Clerical Nominee:• ___ Rev. Brian Barry Christ the Redeemer Danvers MA• ___ Floor Nominee _____________________________• Re-elect for Second Term:• ___ Rev. Dr. L. Giuffrida All Saints Attleboro MA• ___ Rev. Canon Ross Kimball ADNE Chancellor• ___ Dr. Timothy Sherratt All Saints’ Amesbury MA• ___ Gerry Dorman Resurrection, Brewster MA
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ADNE 2013 ElectionsACNA Provincial Council
(Vote for 5: 1 clergy delegate, 1 clergy alternate, 2 lay delegates, 1 lay alternate)
• ___ Rev. Leah Turner All Saints, Attleboro MA Clergy Delegate
• ___ Rev. Dr. Malcolm Reid Christ the Redeemer, Danvers MA Clergy Alternate
• ____ Rick Brown All Saints’, Amesbury MA Lay Delegate
• ____ Bob Brochu Grace, Newport NH Lay Delegate
• ____ David Greening Christ the Redeemer, Danvers MA Lay Alternate
• ____ Clergy Floor Nominee ______________________ Delegate• _____Clergy Floor Nominee ______________________ Alternate• ____ Lay Floor Nominee ______________________ Delegate• _____Lay Floor Nominee _________________________ Alternate
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ADNE 2013 ElectionsACNA Provincial Assembly (2014)
• Vote for 7: 2 clergy delegates, 1 clergy alternate, 2 lay delegates, 1 lay alternate, 1 youth delegate, 1 youth alternate
• ___ Rev. Timothy Clayton Christ the Redeemer Danvers, MA Clergy Delegate
• ___ Rev. Justin Howard Imago Dei Orono ME Clergy Delegate
• ___ Rev. Dr. Canon Andrea Mueller ADNE Healing and Prayer Clergy Alternate
• ___ Ann Conte All Saints’ Amesbury MA Lay Delegate• ___ Bob Brochu Grace, Newport NH Lay Delegate• ___ Rick Brown All Saints’ Amesbury Lay Alternate• ___ Todd Connor Imago Dei, Orono ME Youth Delegate• ___ Natalie Rodrigues Redeemer, Franklin MA Youth
Alternate
• ___ Clergy Floor Nominee __________________________ Delegate• ___ Clergy Floor Nominee __________________________ Alternate• ___ Lay Floor Nominee __________________________ Delegate• ___ Lay Floor Nominee __________________________ Alternate• ___ Youth Floor Nominee __________________________ Delegate• ___ Youth Floor Nominee __________________________ Alternate•
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ADNE Synod 2013
St. Timothy Burlington, VT
Testimony63
ADNE SYNOD 2012
Election ResultsOther Business
Bishop’s Final RemarksClosing Prayer
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
What we are looking like
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ADNE Congregations• Connecticut
– All Nations New Haven – New Hope Anglican
Waterbury – Mission initiatives
• Spirit Wind ,Stonington• Mary of Bethany ,Norwalk • Oratory of the Little Way
New Milford • Norwalk Nucleus • Newtown
• Rhode Island- Mission Initiatives:
• Church of the WayLincoln RI
• Emmanuel Church– Pawtucket
• Vermont– St. Timothy Burlington – Mission initiatives:
• St Timothy Middlebury• Upper Valley Anglican
Quechee
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ADNE Congregations cont.
• New Hampshire:– Missions:
• St. Michael’s Church– Rochester
• Grace Anglican , – Newport
• Mission Initiative:– Resurrection
Portsmouth
– Affiliated Congregation• Andover Congregational Andover
• Maine– Imago Dei Orono – Affiliated Congregation
• Tremont Parish Tremont
• New York– Church of the Good
Shepherd Binghamton
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ADNE Congregations cont.Massachusetts
– All Saints’, Amesbury– All Saints, Attleboro– Church of the Redeemer,
Franklin– Church of the Redeemer,
Norwood– Redeemer, Amherst– Christ the Redeemer,
Danvers– Church of the
Resurrection, Brewster
– Church of the Good Shepherd, Forestdale
– Grace, Fitchburg– St. Luke’s, Medford– St. Paul’s Namirembe,
Waltham– St Paul’s, Lawrence– Mission Initiatives:
• Crossroads, Salem• Good Shepherd,
Lexington • Lion of Judah, Boston
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
Together …• We are reaching New England with the
transforming love of Jesus Christ through Mission Events.
• Discovering and developing the missionone event at a time
• one new mission group at a time one new mission station at a time
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Bishop’s Closing RemarksADNE Mission Events
The Concept ADNE team event and ADNE prayer event
The Preparationplanning and praying together
The Implementationdiscovery and harvest…
celebrating togetherThe Follow up
developing new mission initiatives … hoping together
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
New Mission GroupsWe will meet regularly with clergy and lay pastors from each of the new
mission stations in greater Boston, Connecticut and Maine (and around New England as we grow new mission groups) for:
Prayer TrainingNetworking Celebrating new harvestsCollaboration
We will access resources and support from the Bishop, ADNE staff, Anglican 1000 and ACNA.
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
New Mission StationsThese are the basic building blocks of the church’s mission…• • Small groups of committed disciples, establishing
community, praying into the call of God for their neighborhoods and towns
• Evangelism, prayer and healing, community development and spiritual formation are all outwardly focused, Holy Spirit dependent.
• Hospitality and servanthood define our lives and the culture’s concept of the church. (Matthew Parties)
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
Developing/Training LeadershipADNE is committed to training both our clergy and lay leadership
for the mission of the gospel. • New mission groups are a great front-line context for training
of local leadership with a focus on skill development and content.
• A crucial element is a concentration on prayer and healing of leadership by and for each other.
• Mentoring the coaches who oversee lay pastors or new clergy in each of the mission stations is key.
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Bishop’s Final Remarks
Sustaining the MissionPrayerful dependence on the direction of the Holy SpiritConnection with other ADNE ministries through
communicationshared contactsknowing and celebrating what God is doing in ADNE ministries throughout New Englandstewardship and generosity (“the gospel is free but we have to pay to pipe it in”.)
Development of an ADNE develop office for long term planned giving.74
Bishop’s Final Remarks
New ADNE Initiatives 2012,2013,2014St. Aidan’s Institute for
• gathering clergy and lay faculty for teaching and training• building an accessible Institute for training in ministry and• preparation for ordination at the local church level.
New Mission Groups to share what they are learning of the Mission of Christ in New England.
ADNE Development Office to find funding to provide ministry resources for the mission.
ADNE Mission Events where the whole Diocese comes to a local Church to work together to advance that church in ways they could not alone.
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Till We Meet Again
Closing Prayer
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