From Connecticut-
For the Rev. Geoffrey Little and his wife, Blanca, it’s time to leave one spiritual home and build a new one.
Today will be the Littles’ last day at St. James Episcopal Church on East Grand Avenue, but they’ll continue to serve the Latino community in Fair Haven and Fair Haven Heights.
This week, they’ll open a new evangelical parish, worshiping in a banquet hall at 229 Grand Ave.
Blanca Little, who has run St. James Christian Academy, will open a new school in the fall, running it out of their home on Lenox Street.
“We’re going to open a new church in Fair Haven,” Geoff Little said. “It’s going to be called All Nations Christian Church and it’s going to be associated with the new Anglican Church of North America.”
That affiliation is important to the Littles, because the change is much more weighty than just changing addresses. For Geoff Little, it means resigning as a priest in the Episcopal Church.
The ACNA will give him a refuge as an Anglican who does not accept what he sees as the Episcopal Church’s departure from biblical authority and moral principles, including acceptance of homosexuality.
Little’s main focus has been on spreading the good news of Jesus Christ and bringing new people into the church, an emphasis he believes the Episcopal Church has lost.
“We believe it’s a leading from God,” Little, 49, said of the decision to start a new parish. “It’s a call from God to stay, as we did for 16 years in this parish, and it’s a call from God to leave, and we sense that the Lord was saying our time in the Episcopal Church and with St. James was done and to move on.”
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http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/06/27/news/new_haven/doc4c26ccdb2160b662047540.txt
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