The 1,200 member congregation was informed at Sunday services yesterday.
Pastoral duties are now being provided by the church's Rector Emeritus, the Rev. Canon David C. Anderson, and by its Associate Rector, the Rev. Richard Menees.
Anderson told VOL; "I will commute one or two Sundays a month to provide continuity and stability."
Read moreThe priest of the parish is the Rev. Ron Gauss, a converted Jew. This parish along with six other congregations has been on the outs with Smith going back to 2005 when they wrote and informed Smith that while he would be welcome in their parishes it would be inappropriate for him to preach or to preside at the Eucharist.
Read moreIt was the first rude awakening for the young African Christian when police at the airport confiscated his Bible and Prayer Book. Tolerance for his religious beliefs he quickly learned were nil in this strictly Muslim country.
Read more"We are seeing 400 new Anglican churches open each week around the world. In the Province of Nigeria there are more Anglicans in church on Sunday than all the UK, North America and Australasia put together," he told a stunned audience, many of whom live with revisionist Episcopal bishops who no longer have a biblical gospel to proclaim.
Read moreThe bishop's wife and their six children had their home broken into back in February by a gang of people looking for the bishop who had been preaching so vigorously about Jesus and the gospel that she grew afraid for his life. "The bishop was out of town at the time. He was booked for a wedding and could not return," she said.
Read moreLebhar said that all but a handful of parishioners, which had been prepared for this day, would leave the church properties valued at some $4 million.
Read moreNot surprisingly, the most outspoken of the reports came from the Archbishop of NIGERIA, the Most Rev. Peter Akinola, who reiterated his view that homosexuality should be seen as "an acquired aberration". To argue that it is "a God-given urge and inclination is “a blatant lie against Almighty God”, he said.
Read more"This left me fearful for our future in the Communion," wrote Bennison in a letter to his diocese. "On the other hand, his statement that he did not know when a decision would be made reassured me that no one is rushing to judgment or desirous to dismiss us."
Bennison said these demands were hanging in the air when the Boksburg conference convened, and seemed to hang over everything that went on at the conference.
Read moreLike the former Presiding Bishop, Frank Griswold, Bruno also blames the Internet in part for the divisions in the Episcopal Church. At Mrs. Schori's consecration, he said: "The sad fact is that the Internet primarily 'jacks' people up, gets them upset." It hasn't occurred to him that it is precisely the Internet (read VOL) that won't, any longer, allow him to get away with lies, spin and false teachings.
Read moreIn 300 years of American Episcopal Church history, there has never been a single sign outside an Episcopal Church in the U.S. reading; "Gays not Welcome...go join the Metropolitan Community Church." You never will see one. When an Episcopal Church announces it is an "inclusive" or "rainbow church," what it is actually saying is that this parish will tolerate non-celibate homosexual relationships which is contrary to Holy Scripture, The Prayer Book, tradition and history.
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