DISPATCHES is our monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared priorities and initiatives across the diocese.

Our priorities are: Youth & Family Ministry, Leadership Development & Clergy Care, Global Mission, and the Reawakening of New England

Becoming Whole Conference: March 27-29, 2025

A conference for all who seek to know the transforming love and power of Jesus in their lives and relationships

Reawakening Conference: October 17-18, 2025!

Guest Speaker

We are so excited that The Rev. Ethan Magness will return as our plenary speaker this year!

He will be speaking on the conference theme: "The Power of the Promise"

Faith does not exist on its own.  It only comes into existence when a promise is given. Our God is the Great-Promise-Giver.  He has promised you life! "For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you...was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him." - 1 Corinthians 1:19-20

You can view recordings of Rev. Ethan’s 2024 sessions on our Youtube channel!

ADNE Spring Teen Retreat! – Rev. Kate Norris

Teen students and their leaders are invited to join us for a retreat at Pilgrim Pines Camp and Retreat Center (Swanzey, NH)! 

6th - 12th grade students who want to have a blast in nature and experience the love of Jesus - join us!   Music, art, games, outdoor adventures, general ridiculousness, and talks are all ways you will experience the grace of Jesus Christ where you need him most.

Small groups will be based on the group you came with and grade (and divided by gender for cabins). 

Every 8 students must have an adult youth leader with them or a parent.

$150/person

• Friday, May 16, 20257:00 PM - Sunday, May 18, 2025 10:30 AM

Pilgrim Pines Camp and Retreat Center

220 West Shore Road Swanzey, NH, 03446

Don’t hesitate to reach out to Revs. Kate or Sean Norris with any questions!

kate.norris@adne.org | sean.norris@adne.org

Join the preaching group!

Please join us on Tuesdays at noon to discuss the lectionary readings for the upcoming Sunday.  You are welcome to invite others, for example lay leaders and pastor friends who would benefit.

SAME ZOOM LINK EACH WEEK:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89633694558?pwd=FNjhzzEM7kSWenpNwurs84ft5eCcvP.1

Each week, we look at the pastoral problem and relate it to ourselves and our church and culture.  We identify the word of conviction and how that leads us to the grace of Jesus Christ finished at the cross.  Thus we pull out how every passage leads us to Christ and the power of His cross and resurrection.  We finish with how we might give Christ's promises to our people from these particular Scriptures.  The fellowship is very rich. We'd love to have you!

Contact the Rev. Kate Norris with any questions: Kate@dandelionministries.org

Stories of Leadership

Does your church or mission have someone doing great work for the gospel?

Do you have someone is the diocese that has grown tremendously in their calling and gifting?

We’d love to appreciate them and let their story encourage all of us, spurred on toward love and good deeds!

Contact Micah (Micah.thompson@adne.org) with someone you’d love to see highlighted (with permission and contact information), and we’ll set up a quick interview.

Guatemala Vision Trip

Cn Leah Turner and Natalie Ryan are traveling to Guatemala on a visioning trip. They will be building relationships with Hope of Life International: learning how to plan medical missions and creating opportunities for mission in Guatemala.

Well at AthiRiver is completed!

The ADNE’s largest project to date has been completed. A small team will travel to Kenya in May for the commissioning of the well and an open air mission to the community who will benefit from the well.

Church of the Redeemer heads to Tanzania in November!

Cn Dan Sylvia will lead a team to Tanzania in November. Stay tuned for pictures and stories!

By The Rev. Kate Norris

The “Ordination Discernment Dinner with special guests from Trinity Anglican Seminary” really served both the needs of the diocese and Trinity! As a diocese, it gave us an opportunity to assist pastors who are encouraging leaders to “take the next step” - people in whom they’ve seen a gift for ministry but have not yet officially entered the parish discernment process. It also gave an intentional space to attend to those who feel a call to ministry but not sure what form it might take. Over dinner, the guests had a chance to explore their thoughts and feelings, express them to others who have wrestled with similar callings, and hear one another’s testimonies. It was a valuable step before the “interview” context of parish and diocesan discernment committees. 

I was also pleased that it served Trinity too. I am grateful this is a seminary focused on the ACNA. I appreciate its evangelistic legacy, sharing the grace and power of Jesus Christ with an exhausted and hurting world. As the daughter of former Dean and President, The Very Rev. Dr. Peter Moore, I remember the sacrifices its leaders have made to preach the cross of Christ in every culture and continent. When I received the announcement for The Rev’d Canon Dr. Brian Hollon to become Dean of Trinity, I loved the picture of his family; I was the teenager on the Dean’s family picture years ago. In so far as the school proclaims the grace of Christ, I aim to support it - no longer as a teenager serving punch at Trinity board meetings, but as an ordained Anglican minister, former church planter, artist, evangelist, servant in the Anglican Diocese in New England, and alumnus. 

I loved partnering with the Director of Leadership Development, The Rev. Alex Banfield Hicks and the New Testament scholar, The Rev. Dr. Jacob Rodriguez in ministering to future leaders. Everyone seemed nervous and many were in the existential crisis that is a hallmark of the work of the Spirit in our lives. As we shared introductions, both Jacob and Alex disarmed the nervous energy, and set the right tone – not as super smart people but as sinners who have been found, forgiven and held by Christ - one through a heritage of faith, the other in the midst of a secular intellectual context. This kept the intellectual offerings at Trinity grounded in giving Christ crucified to our suffering world.

Bp. Drew welcomed us and cast the vision for Gospel preaching and an entrepreneurial spirit to serve and start churches in New England. We all split up for a delicious meal graciously donated by our hosts, Josh and Ashleigh Vanada. During the meal, we each took turns sharing our testimony of why we came to the dinner, and what desires the Spirit is putting on our hearts in ministry. There was a wide range of testimonies – each unique as the people themselves. Likewise, there was a wide range of calls to ministry – from chaplaincy to special needs individuals, to church planting, to gift-giving evangelism. Sharing testimonies in partnership with Trinity was the highlight of the evening and probably did more to encourage people in their call than anything. 

Over dessert, we all gathered together to listen to Jacob open up Hebrews 5. He led us to compare the Old Testament human high priestly office with Christ’s high priestly office. He ended with proclaiming and encouraging us with Christ’s all sufficiency to perpetually work his salvation in us and through us. Then Alex walked us through the academic offerings at Trinity, as laid out on the website and in the handbook (which we took home). The certificate for diaconate studies will be very useful for our diocese. For some with families and the need to work in our diocese, the option to pursue a Masters of Divinity from your home church, travelling to Trinity only for two weeks out of the year makes seminary within reach.

We ended with prayer, hearts full, and ears open.        

You can find all the steps in the process to ordained ministry on the ADNE website under "Ordination". Please do not hesitate to ask any questions.

Please feel free to contact The Rev. Alex Hicks with any questions regarding Trinity Anglican Seminary, the only seminary dedicated to the ACNA: alex.banfieldhicks@tas.edu

“It was such a rich experience to gather and have the opportunity to listen to how the Lord is leading our people in discerning a call to ordained ministry. I could see Jesus honoring each person as they shared. It felt to me that the Holy Spirit was present to affirm and embolden us all.” - Bishop Drew

The Rev. Kate Norris

dandelionministries.org

ADNE Director of the Gospel for Every Generation

Thanking and celebrating Scott Delong

– From Bishop Drew...

As the ADNE communications baton is passed to our marketing team, Taylored Digital Solutions, I wanted to take the opportunity thank and celebrate Scott Delong. 

Scott was a part of the team from the earliest days, rolling up his sleeves and creating the 2019 ADNE website in his first months of our working together. Over the following six years Scott’s role has increased in complexity and breadth but as his role increased, he has always worked s to value the story being told and demonstrate a sensitivity to how any of us might respond to having our story shared.  

Scott is also a very gifted writer. In preparing a story he has always listened well and gathered the right information needed to tell the story. And of course, it was Scott who enabled us to run our ADNE business meeting via Zoom with digital voting, video and power point. 

All of us have witnessed and enjoyed Scott’s aesthetic gifting. Simply, he makes our ADNE marketing materials beautiful. Over the years, has been able to take the Reawakening conference and develop a consistent aesthetic theme. It was also Scott who created and displayed over eight hundred slides per Reawakening conference to keep us all in the same worshipful space. 

It really has been a huge blessing to work with someone of such gifting and character. Scott is a man of great faith and in all our meetings his heart for where the Holy Spirit is leading us has been really cherished.

 Thank you for supporting the ministries and priorities of the Anglican Diocese of New England.  

The Anglican Diocese in New England wants to be on mission together: every parishioner, every member of the clergy, and every church. As a family of churches reaching across the breadth of New England, God is calling us to serve in the reawakening of the Northeast.

We can do so much more in God when we work together.

As of January 22 2025, our online giving is now through the platform Aplos. The portal will look different, but is legitimate and secure.

To access your previous giving account through the Realm portal, click here. We ask that all recurring gifts set up in Realm be transferred to Aplos by March.
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