AAC-Oregon Chapter Responds to General Convention
Source: Email from AAC-Oregon

RESPONSE TO GENERAL CONVENTION 2006 FROM THE AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL OF OREGON

“Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut.” (Rev. 3:7b)

Dear Friends of AAC Oregon,

The American Anglican Council, Oregon Chapter, responds to recent events in TEC, including the election of the new Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori; former assistant rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, Oregon, and a graduate of Oregon State University:

It is not for us to expound on the analysis and summaries of events from key orthodox leaders of the faith. If you have been following the news articles and web blogs, you have more than likely accumulated an archive of printed material inches deep. With decisions made at GC03 and confirmed at GC06, the Episcopal Church as we have cherished it has chosen to “walk apart” and is disintegrating. We are deeply troubled by TEC’s insistence on pursuing unilateral agendas at the expense of communion with the majority of the Anglican World. The middle ground between the revisionists and the orthodox has disappeared. The AAC Oregon Chapter intends to move now directly into the mission field to build up the Church. To quote the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, “The war is over; it is time to build the Church.”

As a chapter of the American Anglican Council, we are committed to the vision and goals of the national organization led by the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson and his staff. As to our specific goals in Oregon, we have at least two choices. We can continue to commiserate the state of affairs brought on by TEC that is tearing the fabric of the Anglican Communion, or we can roll up our sleeves and focus on the ministry opportunities at hand; we choose the latter the rest.