About the Network
Visuals
Our mission is to build a biblical, missionary, and united Anglicanism in North America. Here are some visuals to help you wrap your head around what that means.
Our Mission (video)
Transformation
Bell Curve
Timeline
Background Information
- We are faithful
- We have resolved to be faithful to Jesus Christ, whatever the cost. We are committed to the "faith once delivered to the saints." We are faithful to the promises of Holy Scripture and the tenets of the Creeds. We are faithful as Anglican Christians. We are faithful to what the Episcopal Church has, at its best, always been: evangelical, catholic and charismatic.
- We are united
- We are currently ten dioceses, six convocations and the international conference stretching from coast to coast, border to border. As of January 2007, ACN dioceses and parishes count 200,000 laity and 2,200 clergy in more than 900 congregations, and the number of affiliated congregations grows weekly. We have received support throughout the Anglican Communion, including encouragement from the Archbishop of Canterbury at our formation. Fourteen leaders of the international Anglican Communion, representing 75 percent of the world's 60 million Anglicans, have offered their recognition and pledged the full weight of their ministries to the Anglican Communion Network.
- We are a missionary movement
- We exist to bring the good news of Jesus Christ, as expressed in the Anglican tradition, both to those who have never heard it, and to those in our Church who have been given a "different gospel." We are committed to missionary work and church planting in North America and throughout the world. We especially seek to support the spiritually vibrant but materially poor ministries of our fellow Anglicans in the Global South.
- We invite your fellowship
- Dioceses, as well as individual parishes in non—ACN dioceses, can affiliate with the ACN. Those in holy orders can also affiliate individually. Because we are "ecclesial" in nature rather than a membership organization, individual laity affiliate through their dioceses and parishes or by forming new congregations or fellowships.