As we turn the page into a new year, I find myself giving thanks for the many signs of God’s favor upon the American Anglican Council (AAC) this past year. In 2025, more than 225 clergy found fellowship, accountability, and prayer support through over 40 Clergy Care Groups. Anglican Revitalization Ministries came alongside 46 parishes and clergy, leading eight Revive workshops that strengthened local mission. The Rev. Canon Andrew Rowell began his leadership of Anglican Governance Ministries, offering wise and needed counsel to the province, and through Renew, we prepared for a new season of provincial renewal with a major conference planned for 2026. These are only glimpses, yet they point toward the work still before us: regional Revive weekends, continued development of Title IV, wider support for the Global Anglican realignment, and the hope of bringing continued health to even more clergy in the coming year. In light of these mercies, it is fitting to recall where we have been and what God may yet call us to do. Twenty-three years ago, the AAC’s leadership, especially Canon David Anderson, Treasurer Frank Trane, and myself, Bishop Bob Duncan, were considering whether we might have to cease operations because of bleak financial projections. The major start-up gifts from a private foundation and other catalytic disciples allowed us to bear witness at the 1997 and 2000 General Conventions and to prepare for Minneapolis in 2003. Coupled with the heavy costs of global rescue efforts, however, those investments nearly exhausted our resources. Then came the events of Minneapolis that August, which in turn led to the AAC’s Plano Conference the following October. In response, believers gave more than a million dollars to the AAC as the one organization able to “bring clarity out of confusion.” Much of that generosity helped underwrite what would eventually become the Anglican Church in North America. Two decades later, during this season of leadership transition, the AAC faces a threatening financial challenge. The need to bring clarity out of confusion – particularly the role assigned to the AAC by the province as the ministry partner championing healthy leadership, healthy churches, and healthy governance – is as important now as it’s ever been. Twice before, in 1996 at our founding and in 2003 as we entered an uncharted future, believers saw the need and responded with sacrificial, catalytic giving. The moment before us now calls for the same. The clarity that has emerged from past confusion remains the undiminished call of the American Anglican Council. Whatever your giving has been in years past, a catalytic gift this year would be both timely and farsighted. Please join Nara and me in doing what you can, and thank you for your continued support and prayers. May the Lord grant you a Blessed Christmas and a Grace-filled New Year. Faithfully Yours, | 
