Saturday, September 25, 2010

BATON ROUGE, LA: All Saints Anglican Church finds home

BATON ROUGE, LA: All Saints Anglican Church finds home
Anglican group's building just latest step of growth

By MARK H. HUNTER
Special to The Advocate
http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/103747644.html?showAll=y&c=y
Sept. 25, 2010

The congregation of All Saints Anglican Church has come a long way in a few short years.

A small gathering of believers who met initially in a public building without a priest has grown to several dozen meeting in a leased building with a full-time pastor.

About a dozen local Episcopalians, disaffected and dismayed by what they see as the liberal direction of the Episcopal Church USA under the leadership of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, found each other in April 2007, and began worshiping at the Burden Conference Center at the Rural Life Museum.

Meeting under the auspices of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, a missionary outreach of the fundamental Episcopal Church of Rwanda, the small group slowly gained members.

Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org

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