January Dispatches
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
Priority: Global Mission
2026 Uganda Mission Application is Open!
Come join us in August of 2026 as we travel to the Diocese of Muhabura in Southwest Uganda. This will be our second multi-generational mission trip to East Africa. I am so excited to see teens ministering to children and youth, and to have our ministered to in ways they cannot even imagine. The same is true for the clergy and adults who feel called to go. You will be changed for the better.
We will be hosting VBS for the diocese, and completing a building project for the Centenary School. This project will provide a new school block with a roof strong enough to hold a water harvesting system. This system will provide fresh water for drinking, cooking, and washing. This school provides education to the least and the lost of this area and is funded completely by the diocese. These children greet us with smiles, song and dance we come without expecting anything. They are filled with joy that they have been found. Truly they are at the heart of Jesus and his command to care for the least of these. There are several ways that you can help:
1. Give to the diocesan campaign 200 for $200 for Global Mission to raise funds for the building project and water harvesting project
2. Support one of the missionaries traveling next summer through prayer and financial support
3. Pray for the safety of the participants and the Lord’s guidance during our preparation and while we are in the field.
4. Buy candy, soccer balls, hand air pumps, jump ropes, colored pencils, and other supplies we send updates for.
All donations, prayers, and funds are needed. While there are those called to go, we need the support of those who will send us.
Thank you all for everything you have already done and for everything the Lord is calling you to do in the future.
May the Lord bless you all richly.
Leah+
Director – Global Mission, ADNE
leah.turner@adne.org
diocese update
Update on the ADNE Clergy Pastoral Care Team
A Message from Bishop Love
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
One of the ministries Bishop Drew has asked me to take on in my role as his Assisting Bishop, is to Chair the ADNE Clergy Pastoral Care Team. As many of you know, this was a position held by the Rev. Canon Dr. Susan "Susie" Skillen until just recently, when she felt the need (for personal reasons) to step down as Chair. I join Bishop Drew in thanking Canon Susie for the outstanding job she has done these past few years in leading this dedicated group of clergy to help provide pastoral care to their fellow deacons and priests in the Anglican Diocese in New England. Fortunately for all of us, Canon Susie will remain on the Clergy Pastoral Care Team, where we can continue to benefit from her invaluable experience and love for the clergy of the Diocese.
The Clergy Pastoral Care Team remains dedicated to assisting Bishop Drew in reaching out and ministering to the clergy of the Diocese who intern sacrificially give of themselves day in and day out ministering to the people of the Diocese. It has been said that a parish and diocese is only as healthy as its clergy. As deacons, priests and bishops, it is important to remember that we can't properly shepherd those entrusted to our care, unless our own souls are regularly fed and nourished. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Chief Shepherd, said, "I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
If we are not careful, we can become so busy carrying out ministry, that we find ourselves choked off from the Vine that feeds, empowers, and equips us for the life and ministry we have been called to by our Lord. No longer nourished and refreshed, we can find ourselves slowly withering, spiritually exhausted, and frustrated, perhaps even questioning our sense of call. That is a scary place to be.
One of the ministries of the Clergy Pastoral Care Team is to check-in periodically with our fellow deacons and priests to see how you are doing -- NOT to snoop or spy on you, but to support and encourage you; to pray with you and let you know you are not alone; you haven't been forgotten; you are very much loved and appreciated.
As the Christmas season draws to a close, this is a good time for each of us to check our spiritual thermometers to see how we are doing. Are we in a healthy place? If not, what things in our life and ministry need to be tweaked, or perhaps pruned to help us become spiritually refreshed and reenergized after the busy Christmas season?
In the near future, one of the members of the Clergy Pastoral Care Team will be reaching out to each member of the clergy, if they haven't already. That would be a wonderful time to share with one another, the joys of ministry, as well as some of the struggles and frustrations. Dear friends, we are all in this together. At every baptism and confirmation, we promise to support and uphold one another in our life in Christ and at the ordination of every deacon, priest and bishop, we promise to uphold one another in our unique ministries. We are all part of the One Body of Christ. May our lives and all that we do, be to His honor and glory and the benefit of His Church! Amen!
Faithfully Yours in Christ,
+Bill
Rt. Rev. William H. Love
Assisting Bishop, ADNE
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 leader, 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.