Church of the Holy Spirit, Ashburn VA, Realigns with Biblically Orthodox Anglicans
Press release
February 6, 2006

Ashburn, Virginia - Church of the Holy Spirit (CHS), a Biblically faithful congregation in Ashburn, voted unanimously yesterday in a congregational meeting to end their affiliation with the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) and the Diocese of Virginia. They requested and have already received jurisdictional oversight from the Anglican Church of Uganda. The Rt. Rev. Benezeri Kisembo, Bishop of the Ruwenzori Diocese, is the new bishop providing spiritual oversight to this church of 230 people. CHS has now returned to full communion with a large majority of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has declared either broken or impaired communion with ECUSA.

CHS was founded in 2001 as a mission of Truro Church of Fairfax. CHS does not own any land or buildings. As a result of this realignment, Truro Church will receive the assets of CHS.

Church of the Holy Spirit (Anglican) is loyal to the traditional life-giving teachings of the Bible and the Anglican Communion. It is a “Three Streams, One River” church, meaning that it is evangelical, charismatic and sacramental.

“We believe in what the Church has always taught, so we have learned how God’s love changes us to be more like Jesus. However, ECUSA’s leadership is endorsing an expanding array of non-Christian beliefs and behaviors. ECUSA leaders have been given ample opportunities through many reasoned pleas to repent, both privately and publicly, but they have not. Our consciences have compelled us to seek spiritual oversight from an orthodox Anglican Province,” said Ron Doucette, a lay leader at CHS.

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