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Anglican Church of the Redeemer
Welcome and Support from the AMiA Family
Blessings on your new ministry. I am from Memphis originally and so am always glad when anything good comes out of the Diocese of Tennessee [now East Tennessee] since it was never an Evangelical bastion!
You have the prayers of those fellow journeymen in Lower Alabama.
In Christ,
The Reverend M. Scott Davis
Rev. M. Scott Davis
Grace Anglican Church
Fairhope, AL
Dear Saints in Chattanooga,
Grace and peace to you from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
I have been in prayer for you for sometime as Steve Kelley is a very good friend of mine. Ever since I heard that he was initially coming to meet you and speak with you I have been praying for the work of the Holy Spirit to give guidance and courage. I am beyond excited that Steve is coming to be with you. You are receiving an extraordinary man of God to lead you and you are very blessed for sure. Love him, follow him, and support him as he watches over you as one who must give account (Heb. 13:17).
I welcome you warmly and wholeheartedly into the family of the Anglican Mission In America. May God bless your work for his Kingdom in Tennessee. I give you this charge: Preach the Word in season and out of season- the warm fluffy parts and the difficult divisive parts. Guard the good deposit that has been entrusted to you. Be strong and of good courage as you hold out the word of life. And finally, love one another- this is how others will know that you are disciples of Christ (John 13:24,25). Be an open community that loves each other more than can be imagined and is focused on bringing new people into your community of faith through knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Our unity is not in the name of the organization AMiA, it is the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ. Our bond is one that is deeper that Anglicanism, Provinces, politics, or geography. We are brothers and sisters in Christ united in faith, in belief, and in mission as laid out for us in the Gospel of our Lord. May you see many lives change in your midst through the power of the Holy Spirit. May Chattanooga experience a revival of faith like it has never before seen. Claim Chattanooga for Christ. God bless you in your endeavor.
If there is ever any way that The Church of the Apostles or I can help you please do not hesitate to call.
In Christ,
The Rev. Dan Alger
Rev. Dan Alger
Church of the Apostles
Hope Mills, NC
Greetings in the name of the blessed Lord Jesus!!
As a native Chattanoogan, it is a great joy to me to hear of your partnership in the ministry of the Gospel. I believe that the fields are indeed ripe for the harvest in the Scenic City.
Having been part of the Anglican Mission in America since its inception, it is always wonderful to greet new congregations and a particular delight to greet one in my hometown. The possibilities for the work are boundless if we lean not on our own understandingor our strengths but on the wisdom and the power of God. We have seen here in Asheville that a little water poured on a dry ground which has not heard the gospel in a long season has borne great fruit and that is my hope and prayer for your work in Chattanooga.
I look forward to working together with you and to worshipping with you in the near future. I thank God that He has brought you into our fellowship of churches and am anxious to share in your success.
My prayer for you is that of St. Paul for the church in Ephesus:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he maystrengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with allthe saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for everand ever! Amen.
Under the mercy,
John Greene - St. Paul's Asheville
Rev. John Greene
St. Paul's Anglican Church
Ashville, NC
Welcome to the AMIA! Reading your story I can definitely see God moving to bringing about this new mission in Chattanooga. I am looking forward to years of ministry with you all. God is doing a new thing in America and I think AMIA churches are a part of that. God bless you all and may His kingdom come!
Doug McCurry
Pastor, The Legacy Anglican Church
Montgomery, Alabama
Rev. Doug McCurry
The Legacy Church
Montgomery, AL
To the Anglican Fellowship of Chattanooga
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Welcome, one and all, to the fellowship of the Anglican Mission in America and the Anglican Province of Rwanda. This past Sunday, June 26th, I had the distinct pleasure of announcing your arrival upon these proverbial shores to our congregation. You were met with thunderous applause, I assure you.
Please know that you are in our prayers, and we look forward to expanding our fellowship with you. In fact, we would like to send a delegation to join you in Sunday worship, at your convenience and at a date of your choosing. Please let us know when we might pay a call.
Once again, you are blessed and a blessing to us. We look forward to generations of fellowship to come
Sincerely,
Thomas+
Rev. Thomas McKenzie
Church of the Redeemer
Nashville, TN