The launch in the UK and Ireland of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), an orthodox Anglican movement for mission at global and local level, is to take place on 6 July in London.
The Fellowship is the outworking of last year’s GAFCON conference in Jerusalem, at which 1,200 delegates signed up to the Jerusalem Statement. Those attending Gafcon 2008 represented some 40 million Anglicans worldwide, 70% of the total active membership of 55 million.
Organisers say the launch event, entitled Be Faithful! – Confessing Anglicans in Global and Local Mission will be held at Westminster Central Hall from 10.30am-5.30pm.
The aim is to encourage and envision Anglicans who are committed to the orthodox teachings of the Anglican Church and who are passionate about global and local mission. It will be the first of regular ‘fellowship’ events both in the UK and across the world.
Speakers at the July gathering, where around 2,300 bishops, clergy and laity are expected, will include contributors from across the Anglican Communion, including Bishops Keith Ackerman (President of Forward in Faith International), Wallace Benn (Bishop of Lewes), John Broadhurst (Chairman of Forward in Faith UK) and Michael Nazir-Ali, Dr Chik Kaw Tan plus Archbishop Peter Jensen, secretary of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans). They, and others yet to be announced, will also lead gatherings in London churches on Sunday 5 July, the day before the launch.
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