guarding and proclaiming the unchanging truth
Dear Friend
This Sunday, 25 June, is Gafcon Sunday. As you reflect on why Gafcon was necessary, join with sisters and brothers around the world in taking a lead from the Kigali Commitment and prepare for a future in an Anglican Communion that is faithful to God’s call on us to take his gospel to the world.
Gafcon Sunday commemorates the 15th anniversary of the first gathering of faithful global Anglicans in Jerusalem in 2008. It was there that the historic Jerusalem Statement and Declaration was given as a gift from God to those gathered. The Jerusalem Declaration has become the statement which faithful Anglicans affirm as they hold to the unchanging truth in a changing world. This Sunday please take the opportunity, both personally, and corporately in churches, to recommit to the historic truths of the Bible as set out in the Jerusalem Declaration. There are some helpful resources here.
It is now two months since GAFCON IV concluded in Rwanda. The Kigali Commitment calls on faithful Anglicans to hold firm to God’s good Word, recognising it as the rule of our lives as disciples of Jesus and as the final authority in the church. It carries God’s own authority, is its own interpreter, and it does not need to be supplemented, nor can it ever be overturned by human wisdom.
The Kigali Commitment calls for orthodox Anglican groupings to work together towards a resetting of the Anglican Communion. The Commitment asked churches and dioceses to join together in seven gospel priorities for reaching out to our lost world.
There is much to do, and your support is greatly needed!
Please assist by giving financially this Gafcon Sunday. Click here or on the button below to find out how you can give towards the work of Gafcon.
We also ask for your prayers. You may like to use the Gafcon Collect in your church prayers this Sunday, or sign up for the daily prayer posts.
The Lord be with you,
