The Network’s Ministry Initiatives
In the coming weeks, we will be marking a bittersweet transition at the Network. On May 15, we will be officially “spinning off” our very successful Good News Initiative and the Young Anglicans Project. After years of sharing workspace, Mrs. Jenny Noyes, who directs the Good News Initiative, and the Rev. Dr. Jack Gabig, who directs the Young Anglicans Project, will become less common faces around our Pittsburgh office.
Both ministry initiatives, like other Network initiatives we have incubated and spun off over the years, will certainly continue their work. The Good News Initiative has engagements scheduled in California, and Pennsylvania over the next few months. The Young Anglicans Project is preparing for a very important symposium on the Anglican Catechism this June in Ambridge, PA. The Network will continue to support, rely upon and promote the work of both initiatives, just as we rely on the Anglican Relief and Development Fund and the Titus Institute, which we have previously spun off.
We expect the Good News Initiative and the Young Anglican Project will also benefit by being available to the entire Common Cause movement, instead of closely tied to just one of the partners. We have certainly seen that happen with other ministry initiatives the Network has sent out over the last few years. The Anglican Relief and Development Fund, for instance, clearly has a place in the work and ministry of many, if not most, Common Cause jurisdictions. Its leadership is pan-Anglican and it has only become more effective since its founding in 2004.
Both the Good News Initiative and the Young Anglicans project are well into planning their independent future. Jack will be forming the Young Anglicans Project Center for Christian Formation. The new organization will continue work on new curricula, the catechism and connecting Anglicans who minister as children’s workers and youth workers. Jenny will continue to coordinate Sharing Our Faith Conferences and this fall will be co-teaching an evangelism and church planting course at Trinity seminary with Jack and the Rev. Tom Herrick. Tom is the founder of The Titus Institute, a ministry that provides church planting training and other services for Common Cause Partners since being spun off from the Network in 2007. In addition, Jenny will continue the work of developing strategic partnerships among evangelistic organizations and helping to train lay evangelists in cooperation with the Titus Institute.
The success of the future ministry of the Good News Initiative and the Young Anglicans Project depends on Anglicans across the nation and across jurisdictional lines financially and prayerfully supporting what they are doing. We will certainly be supporting them at the Network. We are excited to see how God will use these ministries to fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.
Faithfully yours,
The Rev. Canon Daryl Fenton
Chief Operating Officer
Anglican Communion Network