Wednesday, April 25, 2012


Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Primate’s Council calls for GAFCON II

[Ed. Note:  The Leaders Conference begins today as 200+ arrive from around the communion.  this is a closed meeting and press was not invited or admitted.  The Rev. Dr. Russ Powell of Sydney willl send updates and they will be posted here.  It is great news that GAFCON II is now in the planning stages.  We attended GAFCON (Jerusalem 2008)  and it was a foretaste of heaven.  Cheryl M. Wetzel]

Contact: Russell Powell   media@gafcon.org

FCA/GAFCON Media Team

The Most Rev’d Eliud Wabukala
Chairman, GAFCON Primates
Primate, Anglican Church of Kenya
The Most Rev’d Peter Jensen
Council General Secretary, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia

Leaders Conference, London
23 to 27 April 2012

The Primates Council of  the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans met over three days, April 19th-­‐ 21st  in London.  With great anticipation we greet the delegates to the first FCA Leaders Conference as they gather in London. Over two hundred leaders from thirty countries will hear God’s word and commit to one another for the preaching  and defence of the  Gospel of  the Lord Jesus Christ in and through the Anglican Communion.

From this meeting will emerge key networks and commission capable of strengthening the worldwide churches and delivering the Christian message to the world. We pray for those responsible for the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury that they will look for a godly leader of God’s people. We believe that in the future development of the Anglican Communion the chair of the Primates Meeting should be elected by the Primates themselves. We believe that the future of our Communion relies on adherence to Scriptural authority, faithful and Christ-­‐centred preaching of this word, the blessing of God’s Holy Spirit, godly leadership and the spiritual commitment of God’s people. These spiritual realities and the reality of worldwide Anglicanism should be reflected in the structures of the Anglican Communion.

From the beginning the thrust of our FCA movement has been forward-­‐looking. We have therefore confirmed the decision to call GAFCON II for May next year in a venue shortly to be announced. We believe  that  the  joyful  meeting  of     orthodox Anglicans from all over the world will be a dynamic force for restating the gospel of Jesus Christ in the face of revisionist attempts to change basic doctrines and turn Christianity merely into a movement for social betterment. It is the preaching of the Gospel of Christ crucified which saves men and women and transforms the world.

Contact: Russell Powell  FCA/GAFCON
Media Team
media@gafcon.org

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