CANA Offers Support for New Anglican Constitution & Canons

HERNDON, Va. (December 3, 2008) ­ The Convocation of Anglicans in North
America (CANA) issued a statement of support for the provisional
constitution that will unite orthodox North American Anglicans under a new
province. CANA leaders, including Missionary Bishop Martyn Minns joined
representatives of the Common Cause Partnership, a federation representing
more than 100,000 orthodox Anglican Christians in North America, in Wheaton,
Ill., on December 3 to introduce the provisional constitution for the new
province.

³This constitution represents a major component of the new Anglican
province¹s structural and spiritual foundation. We support this constitution
as it reflects the very qualities that all of us in CANA and in Common Cause
have hoped for in the new Anglican province: biblically grounded,
Christ-centered, mission driven, outwardly focused, committed to evangelism
and discipleship, and proudly Anglican.,² said CANA Missionary Bishop Martyn
Minns.

Bishop Minns continued, ³There is a division in the Anglican Communion that
we hope to overcome with this outlined set of traditional Anglican beliefs.
We have already proven in North America that we can come together as
Anglicans of faith with a passion for mission. We will continue to pray for
Christ¹s guidance as we work to establish this singular province that will
advance the Good News of Jesus for the least, the last, and the lost.²

The landmark Wheaton, Ill., event follows the June 2008 gathering of the
Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) in which leaders representing
half of the world¹s 77 million Anglicans called for a new Anglican body in
North America as part of a formal declaration of faith.