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ACiC Press Release October 5th 2006
Rising from the Sea on the Sunshine Coast
Pender Harbour, BC -Pender Harbour on a calm, sunny day provided the perfect setting, as the crowd gathered for the arrival of their new Church building. A flotilla of boats, with members of the congregation, made its way outside the harbour entrance to escort the new church building. The sense of expectation was immense, as people waited patiently for the barge to arrive. Several onlookers were struck by its similarity in appearance to Noah's Ark. Nickel Brothers' large truck reversed onto the edge of the platform, and slowly the church building was brought to terra firma.
Seldom has this community of Pender Harbour witnessed such an event. The size and magnitude of the building filled the carpark. Both the congregation and onlookers were dwarfed by this new facility.
The Pender Harbour community has clearly welcomed the arrival of this church building. We expect the new premises to transform the impact of Christ the Redeemer congregation. Just eighteen months ago, the Rev. Barclay Mayo hit the front page of many newspapers as his Christ the Redeemer congregation was evicted from their church building over their stand for the traditional definition of marriage. They walked away from a building of 2,400 square feet seating 90 people. Yesterday their new building arrived, and last night was moved along the highway to its new home. Once the basement is completed, it will form part of a new 4,800 square foot facility, seating 140 people.
Initiatives like this now characterize the life, health and vitality of the congregations of the Anglican Coalition in Canada, who have been set free by their five sponsoring Primates to be both faithful and fruitful.
Direct oversight for the Anglican Coalition in Canada is provided by Bishop Thomas (TJ) Johnston, a missionary bishop of the Province of Rwanda and the Anglican Mission, with the Rev. Paul Carter serving as the ACiC Network Leader. Archbishop Yong is one of the five Archbishops on the ACiC Primatial Council.
A video presentation of the ACiC story is available online at http://acicanada.ca/documents/acic.ram . For information on possible affiliation, please click on http://acicanada.ca/affiliate .
A small CD introducing the work of the ACiC is available free of charge and newly released DVD's of talks from Bishop Johnston sharing the vision, passion and DNA of the ACiC are available on request. The ACiC is committed to evangelism, church health and church planting.
For further information about the Anglican Coalition in Canada, please contact the Rev. Paul Carter, ACiC Network Leader at paul@acicanada.ca or (604) 222-4486 or The Rev. Ed Hird, ACiC Communications Officer at ed_hird@telus.net or (604) 929-5350.
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