Forward in Faith North America Assembly 2008

Just a quick note to say I'll be at the Forward in Faith North America annual assembly this week.  Pictures & write up to follow...

This will be my first conference with this key Common Cause partner group.  My wife and I recently joined Forward in Faith because of their strong stance on traditional faith and practice.  FIFNA is different than other Common Cause partners in that they take the strongest stand for real unity with the church universal--unity with the millions who have come and gone before us as well as maintaining the potential of unity in the future with other, faithful constituencies of the "one holy catholic and apostolic church."

Of note, among those attending from San Diego we have Fr. Keith Acker (not to be confused with Forward in Faith Bishop, Keith Ackerman), of Blessed Trinity, Alpine who handles communications like the one excerpted below for FIFNA, Fr. Lawrence Bausch of Holy Trinity Ocean Beach, and John Witt, former city attorney for San Diego who will be speaking at this year's assembly.  All in all, I believe San Diego will be represented by 5 or 6 total.

Blogging will be a little slow from my end this week.  Maybe some of our new editors will take up the slack.  Commenters, keep them in check, while I'm away.

More about the assembly and Forward in Faith here (bold emphases toward the bottom mine).

“We are looking at a new day dawning for faithful Anglicans in North America. Together, in our prayer, in our mission, in our witness we are seeing unity in Jesus Christ.”
FiFNA President — The Rt. Rev. Keith L. Ackerman

Our Lady of the Snows IL

Among the normally quiet and liturgical Anglicans of the United States and Canada, a Second Reformation continues to take shape. A new Anglican province is emerging as faithful Anglicans are working together. While form and structure takes time, members of the Common Cause Partnership (CCP) are acting in cooperation to live out the Gospel commission and  in fellowship with the mainstream of the worldwide Anglican Churches. Forward in Faith NA welcomes all of its Common Cause Partners to the 2008 Assembly in the suburb of Saint Louis.

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The Assembly will hear from world church leaders, and leaders from many parts of the Anglican Church in the USA and Canada. The annual gathering will include noted preachers Right Rev. Donald Parsons, and Rev. Dr. Arnold Klukas, both of whom are professors at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin; the Right Rev. John Broadhurst from the UK will give an update on the English front; and education sessions by Lay Teachers Sister Mary Charles, All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, and Mr. John Witt, a former city attorney of San Diego.

The three day Assembly will focus on moving “forward together in mission: celebrating Common Cause” cooperation in working for the renewal of Christian witness to Gospel of Jesus Christ and upholding the Faith and Order of the Undivided Church.