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September 18, 2009

Leadership Update: New Bishops Consecrated

As appears in the September 2009 edition of the Anglican Mission's quarterly magazine, The Wave.

Be My Witnesses

Archbishop Kolini (sitting center) prays over new Anglican Mission "Witnesses" during the Service of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops; (kneeling left to right) Bishops Doc Loomis, Silas Ng and Todd Hunter.

Worshippers from across the US and Canada gathered at the First Church of the Nazarene, Pasadena, California, on Wednesday, September 9, 2009, for the Service of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Todd Hunter, Doc Loomis and Silas Ng. Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini presided at the service, and Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church preached a powerful sermon in which he charged the three leaders to faithfully shepherd the flocks God has placed in their care.

“If God has called you to shepherd His flock, don’t give up that call to do anything else,” Pastor Warren said. “There is no higher calling.”

Drawing on three principles from Hebrews 13:7, he urged the new bishops to “Proclaim a message worth remembering [the Gospel], to live a life worth considering and to build a faith worth imitating.”

Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, and author of The Purpose Driven Life, shares an inspirational sermon.

Todd is the founding pastor of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Costa Mesa, California, and also leads Churches for the Sake of Others, a church planting movement within the Anglican Mission in the Americas designed to develop leaders committed to planting churches located primarily, but not exclusively, on the West Coast of the US.

Since 2007, Doc has been involved with planting new churches, raising up leaders and opening new territory for the Kingdom in the US and Canada. His ministry will center in the Great Lakes region — affectionately known as the “Heart of North America” as well as the mid-west and will extend into Ontario and Quebec.

Rector of Richmond Emmanuel Church in British Columbia, Silas will serve as missionary bishop overseeing the ACiC and Asian Initiative networks.

The new bishops were elected during a meeting of the House of Bishops of the Province of the Anglican Church of Rwanda (PEAR), held in Kigali June 12-13, 2009 and were appointed to serve in the Anglican Mission.

Posted By: Cynthia P. Brust
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