This weekend I spent a day with the Anglicans in Charlotte, NC.

A few years ago, Bishop Chuck Murphy asked me to come and speak at the Anglican Mission in Americas (AMiA) annual meeting in 2005 and 2006. I made some friends there and built some relationships and now I am occasionally invited to lend a hand.

While at the Winter Meeting, I was also privileged to meet Archbishop Kolini and to hear his passion for the church and the gospel.

You will hear a lot more in the news about AMiA and CANA leader Archbishop Akinola in the coming weeks. Pray that the Episcopal Church will respond to the calls for repentence from faithful Anglican Christians around the world.

I am impressed with the character and persistence of these Anglicans. So many of these pastors and leaders have left historic buildings, pensions, and security because they believed in the orthodox gospel.

These orthodox Anglicans are coming under the jusdiction of leaders from what is called the Global South.

That is interesting in two ways:

1. American Christians are now under the authority of African bishops who are more orthodox than their American counterparts.

2. It is Christians in the two thirds world who are now leading the charge for the evangelization of North America.

The Anglican Mission in America are building their denomination around networks that can be either geographic or affinity based. In much of evangelicalism, these networks are gaining influence-- but AMiA is making that a part of their strategy. It will be interesting to see how that develops.