Who we areWe are found celebrating mass in beautiful chapels from the 1800s, and we’re found developing core church planting teams in rented theaters. We are communities of the Karen people of Myanmar organized as house churches in the USA.
We are from generations of Anglican families, and we’re “first generation” Anglicans growing deeper through the rich traditions of the church. We are catholic, evangelical, missional, and charismatic all at the same time, because the faith handed down to us encompasses all of these things. We are the rooted and growing and dynamic Diocese of Quincy. |
Our MissionSo many church groups talk about making disciples. But not everyone is committed to the get-your-hands-dirty work of intentional disciple making—it’s just talk. Not us. We’re getting our hands dirty. The Greek word for disciple means learner. That’s appropriate, for a disciple was one who followed a rabbi, meaning teacher. The Hebrew concept of learning is best understood as experiential learning. A disciple doesn’t just learn facts. A disciple learns a lifestyle.
A rabbi imparted to his disciples both his knowledge and his lifestyle. Disciples followed their rabbi through their daily lives, learning the complete lifestyle of the rabbi. Making disciples is what rabbis do. Rabbis were once disciples themselves. Making disciples is a highly-relational and highly-intentional process of imparting to others the lifestyle of following Jesus. The Diocese of Quincy is committed to making disciples. |
At the Diocesan Synod in 2008, the diocese voted a move within the Anglican Communion from the Province of the Episcopal Church to the province of the Southern Cone, a temporary move until the new province of the Anglican Church in North America was established.
The Anglican Church in North America unites 132,000 Anglicans in 1,004 congregations across the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a single Church. On April 16, 2009 it was recognized as a province of the global Anglican Communion, by the Primates of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. The Most Rev. Dr. Foley Beach is the Archbishop of the Church.
Members of the Anglican Church in North America are in the mainstream, both globally and historically, of Christianity – the biblically-faithful way of following Jesus and being part of the “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.” As Anglicans, this orthodoxy is defined by and centered on our church’s classic formularies – the Book of Common Prayer, including the Ordinal, and the Thirty-nine Articles – which all point back to the authority of the Holy Bible and articulate foundational principles of the Anglican tradition throughout the world. We wholeheartedly embrace the The Jerusalem Declaration [PDF], the founding declaration of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
Members of the Anglican Church in North America are in the mainstream, both globally and historically, of Christianity – the biblically-faithful way of following Jesus and being part of the “One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.” As Anglicans, this orthodoxy is defined by and centered on our church’s classic formularies – the Book of Common Prayer, including the Ordinal, and the Thirty-nine Articles – which all point back to the authority of the Holy Bible and articulate foundational principles of the Anglican tradition throughout the world. We wholeheartedly embrace the The Jerusalem Declaration [PDF], the founding declaration of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
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Global Anglican Futures Conference |
The GAFCON movement is a global family of authentic Anglicans standing together to retain and restore the Bible to the heart of the Anglican Communion. Our mission is to guard the unchanging, transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ and to proclaim Him to the world. We are founded on the Bible, bound together by the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration of 2008, and led by a Primates Council, which represents the majority of the world’s Anglicans.
GAFCON works to guard and proclaim the unchanging, transforming Gospel through biblically faithful preaching and teaching which frees our churches to make disciples by clear and certain witness to Jesus Christ in all the world.
The GAFCON journey began in 2008 when moral compromise, doctrinal error and the collapse of biblical witness in parts of the Anglican communion had reached such a level that the leaders of the majority of the world’s Anglicans felt it was necessary to take a united stand for truth. A crowd of more than one thousand witnesses, including Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, clergy and lay leaders gathered in Jerusalem for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). The GAFCON Jerusalem 2018 Conference represented the majority of the world’s Anglicans with 1,950 delegates from 50 countries. Its impact was amplified as over 730,000 people from 64 different countries engaged with the conference online.
GAFCON works to guard and proclaim the unchanging, transforming Gospel through biblically faithful preaching and teaching which frees our churches to make disciples by clear and certain witness to Jesus Christ in all the world.
The GAFCON journey began in 2008 when moral compromise, doctrinal error and the collapse of biblical witness in parts of the Anglican communion had reached such a level that the leaders of the majority of the world’s Anglicans felt it was necessary to take a united stand for truth. A crowd of more than one thousand witnesses, including Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, clergy and lay leaders gathered in Jerusalem for the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). The GAFCON Jerusalem 2018 Conference represented the majority of the world’s Anglicans with 1,950 delegates from 50 countries. Its impact was amplified as over 730,000 people from 64 different countries engaged with the conference online.
Some of the nearly 2000 delegates who attended
GAFCON 2018 in Jerusalem
GAFCON 2018 in Jerusalem
