News from the Diocese
News from the Diocese
There is an indescribable joy that fills a church when a soul comes home. Recently, our Cathedral family was privileged to witness this firsthand as we celebrated the baptisms of four incredible adults. Seeing the Holy Spirit actively drawing people to saving faith is a profound reminder that the Gospel is alive, active, and moving in our community today.
A report from Audrey Patra
In May 2025, a mission team from the Anglican Diocese in New England (ADNE) witnessed a dream become reality. Through the generous support of the Anglican Church of the Redeemer in Norwood, the Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF), and partner ADNE churches, a borehole well was commissioned at ACK St. Paul’s Church in Athi River, Kenya.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
On Saturday, June 13, ordained and lay leaders from across New England gathered at All Saints Cathedral for the Diocese's annual Missional Planning Summit — a day devoted to seeking the Lord's heart for His Church in our region.
The Anglican Arts in Missions Network has launched! This network is co-led by The Rev. Dr. Winfield Bevins and The Rev. Kate Norris.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
72 kids and 26 leaders from New York to Maine gathered for a weekend at Pilgrim Pines to “Meet the Real Jesus.”
How did Jesus break through to a guy who thought he was better than everyone else (The Rich Young Ruler in Luke 18)? How did Jesus uplift a guy who others thought was worse than everyone else (the blind man in Jericho in Luke 18)? How did Jesus save a woman who thought she was worse than everyone else (Woman at the Well in John 4)? How did Jesus redeem a guy who everybody agreed that they hated (Zacchaeus in Luke 19)? Sean began and ended the retreat. Bishop Drew and I took the middle talks. Volunteers leaned in. We couldn’t have done it without them.
"For you I am a minister, but with you I am a Christian. The first is an office accepted; the second is a grace received." — St. Augustine
This spring has been a profound season of growth and celebration for the Anglican Diocese in New England. We have witnessed the Holy Spirit at work across state lines, calling forth new leaders to serve God’s people.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
The Lord has been good and an excellent team has answered the call to serve in Uganda this August. We will be preparing for the mission trip by studying together, meeting and praying together, and learning about the area in which we will serve. We will also be working hard to raise money for the school and water project. The details are included below. If you would like us to visit your church to share about the upcoming trip and the mission work of the ADNE, please contact me at leah.turner@adne.org. We need all your prayers, support, and yes - funds. This is the largest project we have attempted but we know the Lord can do it. Enjoy reading about Centenery School and God Bless!
The Anglican Diocese in New England recently inaugurated its “Gospel Integration Seminar Series,” a scholarly and pastoral initiative designed to navigate the turbulent waters of our modern reality. By applying a rigorous theological lens to the most sensitive issues of our time, the series seeks to equip the Church to recover its voice—not through the frantic efforts of cultural commentary, but within the finality of God’s redemptive word.
This April we invite you to discover the heart of healing prayer and learn how to minister with confidence, compassion, and the power of the Holy Spirit at the ADNE’s Prayer Ministry Training Conference.
We begin this morning in the pre-dawn gray of a garden, walking alongside a group of women who are carrying the heaviest weight a human being can bear. Luke 24 tells us they came "very early in the morning," carrying spices they had prepared. We must understand the heartbreak of those spices; you do not bring spices to a wedding, a baptism or a birthday party—you bring them to a corpse. Those spices were the "perfume of decay." They represent the resigned acceptance that death is the final word, and that the "laws of the grave" are the only laws that truly matter.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
We are building community with artists who want to use the arts to share the grace of Jesus with those outside the church. Of course, we want to bring healing and encouragement to those inside the church too. But when you aim beyond yourselves, you end up doing both!
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
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.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
Dispatches is a monthly update that seeks to keep you advised of news, developments, and resources that support our shared mission across the diocese.
The Reawakening Conference last weekend was testimony to the Unbound Gospel. We needed it. We continue to. Last weekend, the annual Reawakening Conference hosted by the Anglican Diocese of New England gathered 340 people from over 37 churches. We were entirely focused on sharing the Power of God’s Promise to save and redeem through the grace of Jesus Christ.
Twenty Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, deployed to Novo Selo Training Area, joined the Municipality of Kotel and local residents Sept. 20, 2025, in support of Bulgaria’s national volunteer initiative “Let’s Clean Bulgaria Together.”
Canon Leah Turner and the Reverend Doctor Jeff Dorn embarked on a life-changing journey. This journey took them to prison, the homes and businesses of over twenty parishioners, a women’s seminar, a youth seminar, and Sunday services at ACK St. Paul’s and ACK St. Mary’s churches in the Machakos Diocese.
In February 2012, a small collection of worshippers was preparing for the launch of a new church in the Greater Bangor region of eastern/central Maine. That church would be known as Imago Dei Anglican Church. Now thirteen years later, it is receiving a new name…
Bishop Drew is chairing the ACNA Music Task Force. This month the task force convened in Charleston. The hope is to provide the province with a digital tool offering churches across the ACNA worship music resources through the lens of the Sunday lectionary week by week.
We hosted a one-day training in communication and listening skills that have greatly blessed us in our marriage and other relationships. We use them to do our pre-marriage counseling: we teach these skills to the couple and then facilitate their active listening on all the key topics. We introduce these skills in our “Better than Wine: Building and Rebuilding Intimacy” Marriage conference. Last weekend, we were hosted by our friends at Anglican Church of the Redeemer, Franklin, MA (thank you Rev. Dan and Lisa Sylvia!) We dove in with a pilot group of couples. It is our hope to bring this workshop and/or the entire marriage conference to you one day!
Early in 2024, Redeemer Franklin embarked on a year-long project to prepare for Advent, which became known as The Isaiah Project. The initiative was designed as a study of the book of Isaiah and included the development of artistic responses created by many of the artists and creators at Redeemer. From the beginning, the vision for the project was a collaborative effort that would produce music, visual arts, prose, and drama—all culminating in a mid-Advent celebration of the coming of Christmas.
Over 30 individuals contributed to the project, which developed throughout the spring and summer before blossoming into the final presentation in December. Musically, the project was spearheaded by Isaiah Sylvia, Music Director at Redeemer, along with the Redeemer band members and some guest collaborators. Together, they created a six-song EP, all self-written and composed.
The joy of Christmas.
St. Paul's Anglican Church (formerly in Waltham, and now located at 9 Westminster Avenue, Arlington, MA) celebrated Christmas in a trinity form: three congregations came together to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ on Sunday, December 22.
Operation Sleigh Ride was formed in late 2024 as an effort to encourage families of children impacted by Hurricane Helene. To facilitate providing toys for 800 children, drop sites were set up all over the Northeast.
Saint Nicholas House, which describes itself as a house of hospitality and prayer, joined the efforts by choosing to have a community gift drop box on the front porch of their Brookline, NH house.