My wife Julie and I traveled to Hastings for the weekend of Passion Sunday. Thanks to Bishop Hustwick and his wife Susan, Deacon Nick Acker, Liam Hartson, Beth Lepak, and others for welcoming us and making the visit so enjoyable. It was a great opportunity for me to practice the Offices, conducting Evening Prayer Saturday, and Morning Prayer Sunday before assisting the Bishop along with Liam during the Holy Communion Service at Saints Andrew and Matthias Church.
This past Sunday afternoon we had a tour of our neighbor, the First Baptist Church. I shot some video which can be viewed here:
Our Bishop, The Rt. Rev. David T. Hustwick, joined us for our Sunday worship on June 8th. A highlight of his visit was the Reaffirmation of Faith made by several parishioners.
Several of us met on-line this past Wednesday for our regular, mid-week evening prayer service. Father Winston led us from The Book of Common Prayer (1928) including The Litany.
This has been a nice addition to the life of our Church. As an extra treat, our snowbirds in Florida, Marva and Tim, have joined us for some of these. Join us as you are able using the link in Alan’s invitation e-mail. The meeting code remains the same.
We braved the weather to meet at the Golden Fellowship Hall in Interlochen to explore the new web site and demonstrate basic editing in WordPress.
We celebrated 12th Night for the 16th year at All Saints this past Sunday, January 5. It so happened that we could celebrate also the 80th birthday of our Rector, Father Kurt Henle. Happy Birthday, Father!
Ordination of Deacon Winston Rowlett,
Saturday September 19, 2020, to the Priesthood in the UECNA
with a Reception for him in the Undercroft of the Temple
on Sunday, September 20, 2020
Published in TC Record-Eagle newspaper, Sunday, Jan 6, 2019.
Beloved Wife of Fr Henle died December 29, 2018 at home in Traverse City, MI. A Memorial Service took place on March 18, 2019, 2PM, conducted by Bishop Hustwick at the Reynold-Jonkhoff Funeral Home in TC.
The Rt Rev David Hustwick, together with Bp Jackson Worsham and Fr Michael McDonald and his wife Nancy visited All Saints Anglican Church on Sunday, September 16, 2018. Selected pictures from the morning worship service and the following Parish luncheon are shown below.
Anglican Affiliation of All Saints Anglican Church
All Saints Anglican Church was founded under the oversight of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA). When the AMiA broke away from the Anglican Church of Rwanda, we were transferred into the continuing work of Rwanda in America with the acronym PEAR-USA.
In 2016, the Anglican Church of Rwanda asked their American bishops to become independent. Once again we lost oversight and had to find a new home. The Anglican Church of North America (ACNA) absorbed most of the former PEAR-USA.
However, the ACNA has failed to provide a traditionally evangelical Anglican COMMON Prayer practice, leaving decisions about liturgy, holy Orders, and theology to each diocese individually. The failure to provide a common Anglican life, faithful to the history & practice of Reformed Catholicism, has moved us to seek oversight from the United Episcopal Church of North America (UECNA), a continuing Anglican jurisdiction that has clearly remained faithful to Anglican life and order.
The parish in Traverse City voted on November 12, 2017 to affiliate with the
Diocese of the Great Lakes (DGL) under Bishop Hustwick,
which is our regional diocese within the UECNA (see “resources“).
The newsletter of the DGL can be viewed in full HERE