This year, Pentecost Sunday at Restoration in Arlington, VA included a special art installation.

Pentecost Around the Diocese

Have you desired to visit the Holy Land but were waiting for the right opportunity? I invite you to join me and our Faith Pilgrimage partners based in Israel for an 11 Day Pilgrimage to the Holy Land to "Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus" (not to mention the Old and New Testament saints) January 22 – February 1, 2024. 

Why is pro-life relationship education an important effort of Anglicans for Life and the larger Church, especially when it comes to the next generation? 

Acess Leadership Initiative (AcLN) seeks to discover, develop, and deploy leaders working to build communities of belonging for those with and without disabilities in parishes across the ACNA. Read the latest from the network below and consider participating in the next Zoom even to learn about resources available to your ministry.

On the Sunday closest to Memorial Day, Church of the Epiphany in Chantilly, VA uses two chalices from military chaplain communion sets. 

This workshop satisfies the diocesan training requirements for clergy, vestry members, staff and volunteers who work with youth or children.

There is no charge for this training, but registration is required.

It’s been just a year since a few lay leaders with a vision for an Anglican church in Frederick, Maryland, attended the Always Forward Church Planting Intensive training in Baltimore. Since then, Frederick Anglican Fellowship has become a small but vibrant community of folks committed to an Anglican church in Frederick.

We recently celebrated the Feast of Pentecost and we’re now in the long liturgical season of Ordinary Time which will last until Advent. Though the season is called ordinary, it’s anything but that because it is the time of the Holy Spirit.

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.

Alpha’s Leadership Conference

FREE & Online | 24 & 25 May 2023

Watch the best of LC23, hosted live for a free, global experience - across various times

The "Love in Action Challenge" is a virtual race that was organized last year in honor and in memory of the Rev. Jack Grubbs (former Canon for Ordinations for the Diocese), an avid runner, and Board Chairman of Shade, an organization that helps children with albinism who are mistreated or in danger.

Retired Archbishop of the ACNA, The Right Rev. Robert W. Duncan, celebrated and preached at Christ Church Accokeek on May 14, 2023 as they observed the 325th anniversary of their founding.

Our Synod is more than just a “business” meeting. It’s a joy-filled opportunity to gather as a diocese for worship, fellowship and spiritual growth. Come and be re-energized and refreshed by the worship, Bible teaching, testimonies and breakout sessions on topics central to our churches’ ministries and mission. In addition, many mission agencies are on hand in the exhibit area, offering us a wide range of resources.

In April 2023, 1,300 Anglicans from around the world gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) to chart a new course for Global Anglicanism. The final Conference statement (the Kigali Commitment) calls for “resetting” the Anglican Communion on the foundation of Biblical authority and classic Anglican principles of doctrine, discipline and worship, as articulated in the Jerusalem Declaration (2008).

During Lent, All Souls in Richmond, VA had art installed over the altar. You can read about it here. For Easter, the artwork was transformed.

The month of May is designated as Asian Heritage Month. But in Korea, May is designated as the Family Month where we honor our parents on Parent’s Day and celebrate our children in Children’s Day. And it is my honor to share the wondrous works God has been doing with our Family in Christ.

On this Ascension Day, may your heart be drawn upward in worship of our Ascended Lord. In leaving this earth to enter heaven, he is now King of kings and Lord of lords.

My prayer for the Anglican Communion and my prayer for our diocese comes from Titus 2:11-14: “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

On April 3, 2023, the Committee on Nominations for Bishop (“DCN”) submitted their Concluding Report, pursuant to Canon 5.4.F.viii of the Canons of the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic (“DOMA”).