by adotsadmin | Jun 30, 2020 | Clergy, Mission, Updates
ADOTS would like to offer its congratulations to Fr. Jake Stum, who has been named the new Executive Director for the Anglican Relief and Development Fund! The organization’s previous Director, Canon Bill Deiss, retired at the end of June. Fr. Jake is...
by adotsadmin | Jun 10, 2020 | Churches, Mission, Resources, Updates
Many of our congregations are now finding ways to gather again in person. So why is it important to master the tools for digital ministry now? In his conversations with other pastors and parishioners, Fr. William Glass, Executive Pastor of Mission Chattanooga,...
by adotsadmin | Jun 10, 2020 | Clergy, Ministries, Mission, Updates
Overcoming Barriers in Ministry in the Age of COVID By Fr. Dale Hall, a pastor at Mission Cleveland, TN and minister to the homeless of Chattanooga as chaplain for the Chattanooga Community Kitchen. As well as being a priest in the local church, I am also a chaplain...
by adotsadmin | Jun 3, 2020 | Prayers, Updates
Dearest People of God in the Anglican Church in North America: I write you with a tremendous heaviness in my spirit and soul as I observe and participate in what is happening today in the United States of America. If ever there is a time for the people of God to fall...
by adotsadmin | Jun 3, 2020 | Prayers, Resources, Updates
Archbishop Beach has commended the following prayers for this week of Prayer and Fasting for North America from BCP 2019. FOR OUR NATION Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage: We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people...
by adotsadmin | Jun 1, 2020 | Churches, Updates
“Light of Christ has been a family, quite literally. I’ve been in many churches where visitors were made to feel like outsiders, but Light of Christ was different.” Like its signature sanctuary cross — one large cross made up of many individual...