Church Army USA
Captain Steve Brightwell (National Director)
Anglican Initiative for Mission
The Rev. Nancy Scammacca (Acting Director)
Titus Institute for Church Planting
The Rev. Tom Herrick (Director)
From the Scriptures
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Colossians 3:12-17 (ESV)
A Guiding Prayer
O LORD, we beseech thee to keep thy Church and household continually in thy true religion; that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy heavenly grace may evermore be defended by thy mighty power; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
“The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany,” The Book of Common Prayer (USA, 1928)
A Heritage Reflection
“The Church’s witness and service minister to people’s deepest spiritual, physical and social needs. But in carrying out this mission the Church’s stance should be one of continual vigilance, as it lives ‘in the world’, but is ‘not of the world’ (John 17.11-16) and as it seeks to be faithful to Christ the true witness and servant.”
Anglican-Orthodox Dialogue: The Dublin Agreed Statement (1984)
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