Anglicans Propel Vision to Plant 1,000 Churches

Tue, Feb. 23 2010
By Lillian Kwon
Christian Post Reporter

Conservative Anglicans, who began their own church less than a year ago, are moving with greater momentum to answer the call of planting 1,000 churches.

Hundreds gathered in Plano, Texas, on Monday for the Anglican Church in North America's summit where they were told that they could be the leading church planting denomination in America if they succeed.

They could even break the logjam in North American Anglicanism, said Fr. David Roseberry, rector of Christ Church in Plano, according to VirtueOnline.org.

The vision for Anglican 1000 was cast by ACNA's archbishop, the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan, last summer when some 700 parishes that cut ties with The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada constituted the ACNA. Though there were existing Anglican provinces in the United States and Canada, the breakaway parishes established their own North American province as they sought to establish a traditionally Anglican and biblically-centered body (that would still be tied to the worldwide Anglican Communion). the rest