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• I have been fully committed to the Anglican Communion for 45
It must also navigate profound questions concerning human sexuality and relationships, the authority and interpretation I of Scripture, and our identity and unity within the worldwide Anglican Communion.
I am a member of the Anglican Communion’s Old-Catholic Council and have been invited to apply for the Archbishop’s College of Evangelists.
I also have real connections with the wider Anglican Communion, having been regularly invited to GAFCON and Communion Partners gatherings.
Having been baptized and confirmed in Jerusalem and raised across the Middle East and the former USSR, I am a child of the Anglican Communion and have made supporting persecuted Christians one of my personal priorities.
My faith was strengthened by the wise support and guidance of significant people in my life and has been nurtured by many traditions within the Anglican Communion, from liberal catholic through to evangelical, all of which have helped me to be the person I am now.
I am inspired by the Anglican Communion’s Five Marks of Mission:
At the international level, I am on the Executive and a Trustee of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion.
These experiences have given me a deep appreciation for the richness and challengers within the Anglican Communion and for the importance of learning from Christians across traditions, cultures and contexts.
Recently I had the great honour of taking part, with representatives from across the world-wide Anglican Communion, in the prayerful process of nominating the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
The World-Wide Church We are blessed by our brothers and sisters throughout the Anglican communion.
We claim to belong to the Church of England and The Anglican Communion, but on the ground, from a financial perspective, we are on our own.
For ten years, I served as a Trustee and then Chair of St Augustine’s Foundation, which funds theological education in the Anglican Communion, particularly in the global south.
I am also a Director of the Fellowship of St John (UK) Associate Trust, a charity that works across the Anglican Communion to support the mission and ministry of the church.
My faith has been a guiding force throughout my life and has led to active involvement within the wider Anglican Communion, including connections with the Diocese of Kaduna in Nigeria and St Michael's Church in Malawi.
My vocation has been shaped by different parts of the Anglican Communion.
This has come from my settled understanding that they do not have a biblical mandate and because of the major division that their use would cause within the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion.
I am a committed (adopted) northerner with a strong emotional and spiritual attachment to the Anglican Communion and the central and southern African church.
global, multi-cultural perspective to national debates on social policy, mission, and the global Anglican Communion.
As I have prayed over this summer, I have been most compelled by the responsibility for communicating and cultivating alignment within our own church and our global Anglican Communion.
I currently serve as one of the 5 core members of the Anglican Communion Commission for Evangelism and Discipleship.
It is a culmination of work across a range cultural and theological contexts and which has also been expressly developed with the Safe Church network within the Anglican Communion.
My own missional life experience, my current contextual priority and my cross-cultural work across many provinces in our Anglican Communion, means that I often bring different assumptions and perspectives to critical
I previously served as the Fellow for Public Theology at the Centre for Anglican Communion Studies at Virginia Theological Seminary and continue to engage in research and advocacy in areas of public theology.
Governance: I have served as a lay person, clergyperson and bishop across the General Synods of two provinces in the Anglican Communion.
I have been an incumbent in west Norfolk for five years, and have had wide experience in the Anglican Communion, both in the Church of England, the Diocese in Europe and the Church in Wales.
Global Perspective: Experience working with an NGO supporting treatment for a tropical disease in remote parts of Uganda last summer deepened my understanding of the global reach and diversity of the Anglican Communion.
I love the traditions and beauty of the Anglican Communion and want more and more people to come to know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.
That this is extended internationally and across the globe recognising that we are members of the Anglican communion and the world wide community.
I’ve been committed to serious, doctrinally-informed ecumenical engagement, serving on the Council for Christian Unity, and on the Anglican Communion’s new dialogue group with the Assyrian Church of the East.
In London, Gerard Hargreaves and the late Fr William Taylor helped me find my Anglican home at St John's, Notting Hill, where I was received into the Anglican Communion in 2012; Fr William later supported my application to the Community of St Anselm at Lambeth Palace.
I have also worshipped at Holy Trinity, Platt and Holy Innocents, Fallowfield in the North West, St Nicholas Sutton and St Andrew’s Hove in the South East, where I was a member of the PCC as well as some time at St Alban’s Tokyo, so I have experienced much of what the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion has to offer its worshipping community.
I am eager to deepen our Anglican Communion relationships and currently serve as a consultant to the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). In all our debates in the Church of England, I want to see an end to harsh language and political posturing, so that all our conversations are grace-filled and attractive to a watching world.
and other churches throughout the Anglican Communion, to help build up God’s Kingdom in our present time, to stand up for peace and justice, and to encourage civility and integrity in public life.
My experience of ministry across Nigeria, the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion gives me an intercultural perspective which I believe can make a valuable contribution to General Synod.
As part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, we have much to learn from one another.
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Having served outside of the Church of England for the last five years, I have a wider experience of the Anglican Communion.
If I were to be elected, I would use my long-standing experience as an Ecumenical Adviser to actively promote Unity within the Church of England, as well as our relationships with brothers and sisters from the Anglican Communion and other Denominations.
I want the Church to maintain a confident public presence in our schools, universities, communities and national life, while continuing to play a constructive role within the Anglican Communion and the wider
I am a trustee of the Anglican Trust and the Evangelical Fellowship of the Anglican Communion (EFAC), founded by John Stott in 1961, with the aim of encouraging biblically faithful fellowship, teaching and mission throughout the Anglican Communion.
Founding member and international mission experience with the Anglican Compass Rose Society and the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion.
• Experience of the wider Anglican Communion - Visited the Diocese of the Free State in
I love the Church of England, my ‘adoptive province’ in the wider Anglican Communion.
“The business of our lives is not to please ourselves but to please God.” (Matthew Henry) How I hope to serve the Church of England I have loved and happily served the Anglican communion all my life, fully upholding the Nicene Creed (together with other Christian denominations of the worldwide catholic body of Christ, His church).
I want to see everyone fairly represented on General Synod, both those with more- conservative and those with more-liberal views, a Church in which everyone can live happily together, moving on with greater harmony and unity from the divisions which have too often been synonymous with the Anglican Communion in recent years.
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I was received into the Anglican Communion at Guildford Cathedral in a wonderful service led by Bishop Andrew.
Why I’d like your vote I love the Church of England: its reformed and catholic heritage; its Scriptural, liturgical and sacramental worship; its commitment to pastor and evangelise through the parish system; and its place within the worldwide Anglican Communion.
I will promote and celebrate the breadth of the anglican communion.
It seems to me a vitally important part of the witness of the national church to the nation, that an accommodation is both sought and achieved which respects polarised but sincerely held views, which leaves all parties feeling they have a future in the Church of England, and which gives a model for future debates across the wider international Anglican communion.
I have links across the Anglican Communion, particularly across the Atlantic, and am committed to a process of listening and decolonisation in the Communion.
Our shared identity with the global Anglican Communion I hold these convictions with clarity, but also with kindness and respect for others.
This includes the Anglican Church locally, where I have lived and served, nationally as partners, where the Church of England agreed at General Synod to become one of the early partners of STOP THE TRAFFIK, and alongside the Anglican Communion raising awareness of the issue globally and finding ways to take action locally.
I want to work to gain support across various traditions and restore our relationship with the Wider Worldwide Anglican Communion.
The experience of church life in my own parish (central / liberal catholic tradition), at university (evangelical) and while in America (Anglo-Catholic) has given me a deep appreciation of the great richness which comes from the diversity encompassed within the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.
Urge the Church of England to stand in active solidarity with our Anglican sisters and brothers around the Anglican Communion in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis.
From 2009-14 I served as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Secretary for Anglican Communion Affairs, based at Lambeth Palace supporting the
Archbishop’s ministry in the Anglican Communion.
This gave me a strong sense of the particular vocation of the Anglican Communion to live out our communion in Christ through embracing difference of culture and ethnicity and even of strongly held views I hold a strong ecumenical commitment as a Bossey Graduate from the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches, Geneva, and having studied in Brimingham, Rome and Toulouse since my theological training in Oxford.
I would also love to be a voice for the many people like me within the Anglican communion, and General Synod is an opportunity for me to be that.
These parishes are diverse and multi-cultural which helps to shape a wider worldview, not just of place but the whole Anglican Communion of its present and its future as being lived out in the Diocese of Manchester.
Through genuine Caritas, one for another, we will I feel be able to grow and be a blessing to the life of God’s Church on earth and in heaven and especially to our nation as a national church and the wider Anglican Communion.
I also have significant experience of the wider Anglican Communion (GS usually has visiting Anglican Communion reps present).
I have experience of the wider Anglican Communion from my time as a teenager living in Kenya as a missionary family with MAF, and I have represented Anglicanism at a Roman Catholic seminary as an ordinand on an ecumenical placement.