Wesley’s church in Georgia to splif off: CEN 10.12.07 p 7. October 13, 2007
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The Diocese of Georgia’s “mother church” has voted to quit the Episcopal Church and affiliate with the Church of Uganda, following the US House of Bishops’ failure to conform to the Primates’ request to ban gay bishops and blessings.
The vestry and clergy of Christ Church, Savannah announced on Sept 30 that it was leaving the Episcopal Church and would come under the oversight of Uganda’s US Bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Guernsey.
Founded in 1733, the landmark church in downtown Savannah is the oldest church in the state of Georgia and numbered among its early rectors John Wesley and George Whitefield.
“We have witnessed how the Episcopal Church has separated itself from the historic Christian faith over the last few decades,” senior warden Steve Dantin said.
In February the US Church “received a final call from the Anglican Communion to return to the central tenets of Christianity, and [it] failed to comply with the request by the September 30 deadline.”
Failure to conform meant that it had “abandoned the communion previously existing between [the Episcopal Church] (including the Diocese of Georgia) and Christ Church. This is a sober moment for us, but our first allegiance is to the Lord Jesus Christ and God’s word revealed to us in the Holy Bible,” he said.
Georgia Bishop Henry I. Louttit announced that he had deposed the church’s clergy and replaced the parish vestry. “Even though some parishioners of Christ Church have chosen to leave the Episcopal Church, I will work with those who remain to ensure that they will have newly empowered leaders, vestry members and clergy to lead them and carry forward the ministry and mission of the Episcopal Church at Christ Church, Savannah,” he said.
The Diocese said it would begin litigation to regain possession of the downtown property and told an Oct 7 meeting that if at least 25 of the church’s 500 adult members desired to remain within the Diocese, he would find a new place of worship and supply a priest.
Georgia Camp Director Arrested: TLC 3.22.07 March 22, 2007
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The executive director of Honey Creek, the Diocese of Georgia’s camp and conference center, was arrested on March 21 and charged with possession of child pornography.
Agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested the Rev. James Cox after a camp staffer discovered sexually explicit photographs of young girls on his office computer.
Read it all in The Living Church.
