April 2008
Three Anglican Mission clergy in Texas launched The Anglican Initiative for Mission (AIM) in 2007. The Rev. Ron McCrary was named AIM’s Executive Director.
An AMiA email says that “…senior pastors the Rev. Matt Kessler (Mesa Community Church, Austin); the Rev. Clark Lowenfield, (HopePointe Church, The Woodlands) and the Rev. Canon David Roseberry (Christ Church Plano) to join hearts and hands, targeting 200 church plants in the region. The secondary goal of AIM is to develop an exponential growth model that can be replicated around the nation.”
June 2008
1184 Anglican leaders met in Jerusalem for Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). Participants from 19 provinces affirmed the Jerusalem Declaration and formed the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans—a movement to defend and promote the biblical Gospel. The Primates’ Council of seven primates formed and called for the formation and recognition of a new North American province for members of the Common Cause Partnership.
August 2008
Todd Hunter meets with Chuck Murphy and AMiA leaders at Pawley’s Island about church planting on the West Coast. He is asked, “Do you think you could help us make Vineyard-like churches on the West Coast?” (Hunter) (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-are-vineyard/id1601786519?i=1000621623101)
September 2008
TEC HOB voted 88 yes, 35 no, 4 abstain to depose Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan for abandonment of communion prior to the diocesan vote to realign. The canonical requirement of a majority of those eligible to vote was not met.
October 2008
The Diocese of Pittsburgh voted 240 for, 102 against to realign the diocese with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.
December 2008
Common Cause Partnership drew up constitution and canons for the new Anglican Church in North America.
January 2009
Todd Hunter presents at the AMiA Winter Conference and joins AMiA as a network leader and church planting director on the West Coast.
June 2009
The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is formed. The inaugural Provincial Assembly is held in Plano, and adopts the constitution and canons drawn up at the December convention.
September 2009
Todd Hunter consecrated as a missionary bishop in the AMiA. He also assumes oversight of the Anglican Coalition in America (ACiA), the arm of AMiA that ordains women. Hunter “…leads Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO), a church planting movement and Mission Network designed to develop leaders committed to planting Kingdom-based Anglican Mission churches located primarily, but not exclusively, on the West Coast of the US. C4SO is guided by a vision for planting 200 churches in 20 years.” (AMiA press release)
2009
In approximately 2009 it came to the attention of the Rwanda HOB that for several years the annual financial statements of the AMiA showed about $300,000.00 per annum being given to the Province of Rwanda under this 10-10-10 tithing arrangement.
January 2010
Bishop Chuck Murphy, in consultation with theAM’s Council of Bishops, appoints the Rev. Kevin Donlon to serve as Canon for Ecclesiastical Affairs. “Kevin will assist in promoting a greater understanding of the norms of the Church in general and Anglicanism in particular with a focus on how the Province of Rwanda relates to the wider church.” (AMiA Currents newsletter 18 Jan 2010)
10 February 2010
The General Synod of the Church of England affirms ACNA’s desire “to remain within the Anglican family.”
March 2010
St. Andrew’s Church, Mt. Pleasant (SC) votes overwhelmingly to leave The Episcopal Church and affiliate with ACNA.
Joins under Bishop John Guernsey, then affiliated with the Diocese of the Holy Spirit. (Link)
18 May 2010
The AMiA steps back from integration in ACNA, moving towards becoming a Ministry Partner instead. The ACNA press release says:
The Archbishop’s Cabinet has been working since February with the leadership of the Anglican Mission (theAM) in the Americas to clarify the Anglican Mission’s structural relationship within the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). This consideration came as a result of a January resolution by the Rwandan House of Bishops objecting to the dual membership of Rwanda’s missionary bishops in the North American College of Bishops. The Anglican Mission, one of the founding entities of the Anglican Church in North America, was established as a North American missionary outreach of the Province of Rwanda following the consecrations of Bishop Chuck Murphy and John Rodgers in the year 2000.
The Constitution and Canons of the ACNA were written so that theAM might be practically integrated in the structure of the ACNA as a jurisdiction, while sustaining identity as a missionary outreach of Rwanda. The jurisdictional approach has led to a number of areas of confusion for bishops and congregations of the Anglican Mission. Consequently, it has been agreed by the Executive Committee of the ACNA (presently also the Archbishop’s Cabinet, and formerly the lead bishops of Common Cause) that the Anglican Mission will petition the June meeting of the Provincial Council for status as a Ministry Partner, a status provided for in the Constitution and Canons of the North American Province and agreeable to the Province of Rwanda.
The Ministry Partner option will clarify the existing confusions. The Primatial Vicar of the Anglican Mission, appointed by the Archbishop of Rwanda, serves as chief liaison between the Province of Rwanda and the Anglican Church in North America. Representatives of the Anglican Mission continue to sit in the Provincial Council. The ACNA and its Ministry Partners remain fervently committed to Anglican 1000 and church-planting. Local congregations continue to work together in ministry, and are free to transfer between the Anglican Mission in the Americas and the Anglican Church in North America (or vice versa) in consultation with the bishops concerned. Clergy of theAM remain canonically resident in the Province of Rwanda and subject to their Norms, Prescripts, and Disciplines, but Ministry Partner status does provide canonically for clergy of theAM and the ACNA to minister in both ecclesiastical entities provided they are in good standing. The most significant change brought by Ministry Partner status is that AM Bishops would no longer be regular members of the ACNA College of
Bishops.
Bishop Chuck Murphy, Primatial Vicar and Bishop Chairman of theAM made the following comment concerning the future of the Anglican Mission as a Ministry Partner within the Anglican Church in North America: “We are delighted that the Anglican Church in North America is now successfully up and running. As one of the founding members of the ACNA, we in the Anglican Mission have invested significant time and energy into its formation and we remain strongly supportive of the Province and Archbishop Duncan’s leadership of this important new work.” Archbishop Duncan noted, “The vision of a biblical, missionary and united Anglicanism in North America remains the vision of every North American Anglican. Jurisdictional integration also remains a future hope as Rwandan canons do provide for the transfer of the Anglican Mission to the Anglican Church in North America when the time seems right.”
2010
Bishop Terrell Glenn discusses leaving AMIA for ACNA according to some reports.
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