anglican diocese in new england annual synod 2012 1

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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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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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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Continuation of Afternoon SessionTestimony – St. Timothy, Burlington, VT

• Other Business

• Bishop’s Final Comments

• Closing Prayer5


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


• 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


• 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


• 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


• This is the link to the Gallup numbers online• http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-att

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-attendance-lowest-new-england-highest-south.aspx



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


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.


• 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)


• 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


• 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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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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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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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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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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Ministry of Leadership

ADNE Bishop’s Office6 Allens Court

Amesbury, MA 01913978 388-0650

The Rt. Rev. William [email protected]

The Venerable Donald RobertsArchdeacon [email protected]

Ann ConteDevelopment Office [email protected]

Marylyn RobertsTemp. Administrative [email protected]

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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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http://www.allnationschristianacademy.org/

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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


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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