Statement by the NW Recife Clergy Cluster on GAFCON & the North American Anglican Province

August 11th, 2008
Anglican Mainstream

We are clergy and lay leaders of the NW Recife cluster, along with guests from other Anglican Groups (Anglican Province of America, Diocese of the West; Communion of Christ the Redeemer; Anglican Coalition in Canada), gathering in retreat in Spokane, August 6, 2008, the Feast of the Transfiguration.

1. We give thanks to God for the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit in GAFCON resulting in the Jerusalem Declaration, which we affirm as the basis for our unity and mission together in Christ’s Name.

2. We give thanks for the courageous and visionary leadership within Common Cause for beginning the process of uniting our continuing and newly emerging Anglican groups in North America.

3. We give thanks for the call to the GAFCON Primates’ Council to form a North American Anglican Province and fully endorse the formal request from the leadership of the Common Cause Partnership to move in this direction. the rest