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From: "Andy Figueroa" <figueroa@...>
To: <ORTHODOXANGLICAN@...>
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: [ORTHODOXANGLICAN] Courage breeds courage in Dayton


> Dayton Daily News, 11/21/2003, (full story follows below)
> Episcopalians quit Fairborn church, Oppose ordination of gay NH bishop
> Spotlight on Front Page, Story on cover of "Local" section (B1)
>
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/1121episcop
al.html
> By Mara Lee
> mlee@...
>
> Almost three dozen Episcopalians are leaving their Fairborn congregation
> because of the national conference's decision to ordain a gay man as
> the New Hampshire bishop.
>
> Andy Figueroa of Beavercreek said he found a new place for these
> Episcopalians, who believe the church has left them behind as it has
> become more liberal.
>
> They will attend Christ the King Reformed Episcopal Church, at 925 N. Main
> St., Dayton. The Reformed Episcopal Church split from the Episcopal
> Church in the late 1800s, when its leaders felt the denomination was
> becoming too Roman Catholic. Today, it is more conservative than the
> Episcopal Church U.S.A. ? it does not ordain women and it says sex
> outside of marriage is sinful in all circumstances.
>
> Figueroa expects some members of other local congregations will attend
> Christ the King, but probably just another dozen or so. Figueroa, 56, has
> been an Episcopalian since 1976. He used to work for the diocese as its
> Web master, but resigned in August because the gay man's ordination. He
> is unemployed.
>
> Figueroa, like other traditionalists, hopes the liberal U.S. conference
> will split from the worldwide Anglican Communion, and that congregations
> who wish to follow the Bible more literally can join those Anglicans.
>
> The Rev. Wayne McNamara, who leads Christ the King Reformed
> Episcopal Church, said he feels sorrow for Episcopalians who feel
> disenfranchised. But he's pleased his church, which has about 110
> members from 30 households, can be a place they can sojourn as the
> conflict continues.
>
> (God have mercy upon us.)
>
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> Andy Figueroa
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> figueroa@...
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