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Join our life-changing academies and Refresh Your Vision for Ministry.
Expected to do it all, with nowhere to turn.
Expected to do it all, with nowhere to turn.
Expected to do it all, with nowhere to turn.
You feel like you're expected to do it all on your own.
You feel overworked, under-supported, and overwhelmed.
You feel ineffective and may be a risk of moral failure.
Supported in God’s call and growth in Christ.
Equipped to stand in the face of challenges and opposition.
Strengthened to remain faithful on your journey.
We know how challenging ministry can be, so we have been providing clergy care and leadership training to hundreds of ACNA clergy since 2012.
Each of our academies is designed to be relevant to the real needs of real church leaders.
And connect with other leaders to unlock your potential through fellowship, prayer, and spiritual growth.
Find mutual encouragement, education, and prayer with resources on engaging today’s culture, training for vestry members, courses on evangelism, and more.
Resources that focus on spiritual disciplines and ministry leadership practices for new clergy, those in transition, and those preparing for retirement.
A multi-day learning and formation gathering for bishops at all stages of ministry.
No. The AAC is an independent nonprofit organization centered primarily on advocacy, education, counsel and advice (legal and otherwise), and education. We do not carry out ordinations or consecrations and are considered a non-ecclesial body that comes alongside dioceses and provinces to aid in strengthening biblical orthodoxy across ecclesial lines.
The American Anglican Council, which began in 1996, played an important role in helping to found the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). The ACNA officially began December 3, 2008, at the culmination of a three-day meeting of the Common Cause Council, a leadership assembly that included three representatives from each of the nine Common Cause Partners Federation members. The council unanimously adopted a provisional constitution and nine initial canons that governed the church until a Provincial Assembly met June 22 – 25, 2009 in Bedford, Texas. That meeting amended and provided final ratification of the constitution and canons and installed the ACNA’s first Archbishop, Bob Duncan of the Pittsburgh diocese. The current Archbishop is the Most Rev. Dr. Foley Beach. Several Anglican provinces have recognized the Anglican Church in North America and are in full communion with them. These include:
Lambeth 1.10 was a “resolution on human sexuality” passed by the 1998 Lambeth Conference; it has since been upheld by each of the other three instruments of Anglican unity as the Communion’s mind on human sexuality. The resolution upholds, among other things:
