On the morning of October 8, just under 200 delegates (including 80 clergy) from all over New England gathered at Northpoint Bible College in Haverhill, MA for the ADNE’s 2021 Reawakening Conference.

The two years following the ADNE’s 2019 Synod have seemed long and tumultuous for many of our churches in New England. Last year, the diocese gathered on the lawn of Gordon-Conwell Seminary for an outdoor morning worship service, but this year, Bishop Andrew wanted to provide a more comprehensive opportunity to not only worship and fellowship together as a family of churches, but to invest in our region’s lay people and clergy - those on the front lines - by providing more scriptural teaching, prayer ministry, and practical equipping over two days.

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“Lord, how do you want me to use this new energy in my life?” prayed Tess McKinley… At first, the experienced actress, director, and teacher was afraid to even acknowledge the answer. She reflected, “do you ever have a desire so deep and precious you dare not speak it?” For Tess, that desire was to create a redemptive theater company that would produce classic works that share the Gospel story without preaching it; a welcoming theater where both the churched and unchurched could encounter redemption through the arts.

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“Each time we had sixty people show up to our home. We were welcoming new people, hearing people’s stories, and getting the chance to pray for people outside the church.” explained Trevor Gordon of St. Albans, Maine and leader at Imago Dei Anglican Church.

He wasn’t talking about a Bible study, small group, or Alpha course he ran; he was talking about his beer tastings.

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Two years ago Lori Taylor found herself needing a family to pray with her and support her. Today, weekly dinners in her home allow others to redeem the idea of family in a healing community. The sense of family is what really defines the unlikely group: they call themselves “The Chosen Family.” Lori explains, “no one in our core group grew up in Christian families; we’ve all come from very challenging backgrounds, but we call it the Chosen Family because we get to choose this family… none of us got to choose the families we were born into, but here we choose to show up, to be there for one another, to really love each other!”

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Earlier this month, over 50 clergy and lay leaders from across New England gathered to dream, strategize, and collaborate together at the ADNE’s first Missional Planning Conference. This two-day event was offered for leading clergy of our churches and missions along with 1-2 of their key assisting leaders to answer the two questions: what is God’s vision for the church He has called us to lead, and how shall we put His vision into action?

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On Trinity Sunday, the ADNE celebrated the launch of our newest church, Trinity North Shore. This community, led by the Rev. Cn. Tim Clayton, is eager to be on the North Shore for the North Shore. Canon Tim explains, “we want to be a church that meets the world embodying the incarnation of Jesus, choosing to walk into the pain and the valid questions of the world… [knowing] the answer to the world’s questions is found in the person and work of Jesus.”

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This Spring, our family of churches has expanded to include the “frontier” of upstate New York, and we’re so happy to welcome two priests and their churches into the diocese. Rev. Arthur Peters of Church of the Holy Spirit in Granville and Rev. David Beaulac of Holy Trinity Anglican in Queensbury are joining us from the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.

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The Anglican Diocese in New England is glad to welcome the Rev. Laura Peckham as a new resident priest. Rev. Laura comes to the ADNE after nearly 10 years of ordained ministry and decades of service to her local parish and community, from leading small groups to starting a clothing bank ministry in the Augusta area. Since becoming a Christian as a young adult, Rev. Laura’s passion has been to read, study, and discuss the Scriptures, a passion that ultimately led her to the Anglican Church in North America.

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Rev. Brian Barry wasn’t looking to start a new chapter of life and ministry, but in late 2019, the assistant rector of Christ the Redeemer, Danvers received a new and unexpected invitation to dream. He describes the experience as, “we went from exercising contentment to having permission to imagine something else.” The result of that dreaming is what the Barrys have discerned to be their purpose in Brookline: “inviting children into a joy-filled, healing environment where every child may know what it means to be deeply treasured and freely loved by this house of hospitality and prayer.”

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For Rev. Geoff and Blanca Little, navigating their church through Covid-19 was only half the battle; this ministry couple has done an exceptional job leading their school through the educational challenges a pandemic poses to children and families of New Haven, CT. All Nations Christian Academy, now in its fourteenth year of providing inner-city, low-income families with the opportunity for high-quality private Christian education, has maintained an enrollment of just under 30 elementary-age students this academic year…

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When asked about the partnership between the Every Tribe and Nation Network and the ADNE, Rev. Leah’s passion came through: “We live it!” she exclaimed, “We live it because the ADNE has been willing to live as the Church of Christ, and to open their hearts and doors to our East African brothers and sisters…. New England in many ways has become a model for the province for how to integrate ethnic churches into the life of the diocese and value the distinctions they bring to us.””

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Every day fifty-five people from around the country stop and pray for Rise Church – a new ADNE church plant – and the people of Portland, Maine, at 10:02 a.m. That time of day harkens to Luke 10:02 where Jesus instructs his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest fields.” In the fall of 2020, God answered this prayer for laborers in an unexpected and exciting way.

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In his devotional for January 1, Bishop Andrew Williams began 2020 by quoting poet Minnie Louise Haskins, “‘And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’” When we passed through that gate into a new year of mission and ministry, we could not have foreseen the many circumstances and challenges that would face us, but as we look back over the last 12 months, we can see the truth: the Hand of God did lead us, protect us, comfort us, and unite us…

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In the midst of these unprecedented times faced by our churches, our nation, and the world, Synod 2020: The Upward Call challenged the Anglican Diocese in New England to recenter on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to press into its mission for the reawakening of New England. On Saturday, September 26, an eager team of volunteers assembled in the early morning while mist still hung in the air to transform a grassy, sloping lawn on the campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary into a beautiful outdoor cathedral…

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Vacation Bible School always involves a great deal of organization, creativity, and energy from the leaders, but this year despite facing the added challenge of not being able to bring the children together in one space, St. John’s organized and conducted a very successful virtual VBS via Zoom in which 72 children participated with their parents! The theme of the week, based on Proverbs 22:6, was “The Hidden Treasure,” and was led by Rev. Eliud Mwangi and his wife Leah, Mary Sutton, and their team of volunteers.

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Bishop Andrew will be addressing members of the United Nations this week at the United Nation’s annual Prayer Breakfast on September 15 as the United Nations celebrates seventy-five years of global service. Bishop Andrew commented, “It was a great honor to be with the UN delegates in December 2019 at their annual Christmas Dinner, hosted by the Christian Embassy. I was delighted that they invited me back!”

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