St. John's leaves Episcopal Church over theological rift

Congregation will form St. Mark's Anglican Church
July 31, 2012
Staff Reports The Moultrie Observer

MOULTRIE — Father Will McQueen announced today that he and members of his congregation at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Moultrie are leaving their denomination and planting a new Anglican church in Moultrie.

In a statement to his congregation on Sunday, July 29, Fr. McQueen stated that he can no longer remain in the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia due to serious theological differences with the diocese and national Episcopal Church. He invited all who were “willing to make a stand for the historic Christian faith” to join him in stepping out in faith to form a new church, St. Mark’s Anglican Church.

“It had reached a point for me personally where I believed that my adherence to the traditional, historic, catholic faith in a number of matters had been so compromised that I could not stay in the Episcopal Church. Though it is painful to leave the denomination in which I was baptized, confirmed, married, and ordained, I have no reservations about leaving. I firmly believe that God has been preparing me for this very day for a long time,” said Fr. McQueen. the rest

St. Mark’s Moultrie will join the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Founded in 2009, the ACNA consists of around 100,000 members and 500 congregations all over the United States.

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