During March, you are invited to enjoy a variety of opportunities and resources created by women and for women.

In service to the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), the ACNA Governance Task Force presents to you this video explaining the proposed changes to the ACNA canons for approval (or not) at Provincial Council 2024. We have also included this link to the PDF of the proposed canonical changes if you would like to download them. 

Join the Antioch Leadership Network for a conversation with Rev. Claude Atcho, ACNA church planter and author of Reading Black Books: How African American Literature Can Make Our Faith More Whole and Just.

Let World Mission Sunday be a day of inspiration, collaboration, and purpose as you celebrate and support global missions.

We serve a global God with a boundless heart for each of the 17,000 people groups on the globe.2 As World Mission Sunday for the ACNA on February 4 is fast approaching, I want to remind our Province of the tried-and-true global Anglican mission partners with  whom ACNA churches can partner.  

Anglicans For Life (AFL) is the only global Anglican ministry dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia through ministry, education, pastoral care, and biblical advocacy and in partnership with churches in the Anglican Communion.

This year’s Life SUMMIT is focused on providing resources and tactics for individuals to utilize, alongside their god-given gifts, to protect the Sanctity of life. We encourage every member of our diocese to attend this year’s event.

The Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic is thrilled to congratulate winners of the 2023 Archbishop’s Annual Summer Essay Contest: The Venerable Canon Justin Murff (currently serving as Interim Rector at Incarnation Anglican in Williamsburg, VA) and Todd Milton, parishioner at Church of the Good Shepherd in Lynchburg, VA.

If you were unable to attend the October event titled “ Imago Dei in the Church: Autism and Communities of Belonging”  sponsored by Access and Women’s Leadership Networks of the Next Generation Leadership Initiative, the recording is now available! ‘

ARDF is partnering with CMJ-Israel to bring aid and support to survivors of the conflict. CMJ-Israel is providing relief, spiritual care, trauma counseling, and coordinating housing for displaced families. Donate to support much needed relief efforts, and please keep them and all who are suffering from this violence in your prayers.

On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Greenbrier Baptist Church in Arlington, VA, DOMA global mission and outreach leaders are invited to hear from Bishop Chris Warner and to share an update on global partnerships.

On September 11, 2023, residents of the coastal city Derna in Libya awoke to the explosive sounds of two dams breaking, releasing a wall of water that quickly destroyed sections of the city and killed thousands.

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Peak fire conditions have characterized much of Hawaii for some time, so when blazes broke out on Maui the fire swept across the land in a deadly blaze. At least 106 people have died so far. ARDF is collecting funds to support survivors, and Anglican Churches are helping survivors find shelter. They are also providing food and emergency kits.

Policies for the protection of the children in our churches are vital, but training and the ongoing creation of a safe church culture is what makes those policies effective. Kick-off a new season well! Please join the Family Leadership Network for a presentation titled: Safeguarding: Training Volunteers via zoom on Wed., Aug. 16, 11 a.m.-12 noon EST.

Registration is now open for the Mere Anglicanism Conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, January 18-20, 2024.

The Provincial Council is an annual business meeting for elected delegates that also includes international speakers and guests, as well as public worship services. This year Provincial Council was held here in the at the Provincial Pro-Cathedral, Christ Church Plano outside of Dallas, Texas. Bishop reflected on Provincial here. The Province shares a recap here. Here are reflections from our Diocese delegates.

It’s clear to me that the COB is not a perfect institution. How could it be? It’s populated by people including me. But in my observation, it is a prayerful, godly, wise, biblically-committed, and canonically-oriented group. It is both apostolic and catholic in its orientation and I look forward to working within the College in the years to come.

Among dioceses reporting the largest attendance increases are the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina up 2,722 (48 percent), the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic up 1,756 (53 percent) and the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) up 2,540 (46 percent)

The Kigali Commitment (2023) asserts that the primates who align with the statement “represent the overwhelming majority (estimated at 85%) of Anglicans worldwide.” The accuracy of this number has been publicly challenged, and so an explanation is in order.