Dear Friends,

What a Sunday we had on Nov 15! Many thanks go to those of you, family and friends, who made the trek to Modesto. I am grateful for your encouragement and support for my ordination as a presbyter (priest) in the AMiA. I also want to express my gratitude to Bishop Sandy Greene and his wife, Gigi, as well as Canon Missioner Keith Andrews, leader of our Network, for their willingness to travel from out of state to continue to build the Anglican Mission’s presence in Northern California. What a set of anniversaries we can now celebrate– the same week in November marks my ordination as priest, the week my family joined the church, and our parish’s anniversary (15 years and counting as “Christ the King”).

Now we begin to press in all the more toward the mission goal we have: make disciples, reach the lost, worship God. There’s so much to do, but we need not do everything all at once. One step at a time, steady and sure, one after the other, and before long we shall find ourselves in new territory! I feel no pressure to address “everything” at the same time. It’s just not realistic. But what is realistic is to look at opportunities God would open for us to expand our ministry and to pursue those things. I want to urge you to think big, expansively, a “taking ground” sort of thinking. Dream for more than simply rebuilding our numbers on a Sunday. Pray earnestly and frequently for God’s blessing upon us. Pray for a hunger in your soul to grow into a steady, unquenchable yearning for God’s glory and Kingdom to expand all around us– and to draw in many who need to know the Lord Jesus as devoted disciples.