What is this Confirmation Thing All About? Last Sunday several members of our Restoration family were confirmed or received into the Anglican tradition! While it is a blessing to hear of God’s gracious working, confirmation may confuse those who did not grow up in a tradition which practiced confirmation and infant baptism. It is likely that many at […]
Every three years Anglicans in North America gather for an amazing conference: … and it’s coming up soon: April 7-10, 2016. We would love to see a small team of people attending from Restoration. The Blaines will be there as well as many other folk we are encountering and working with globally. On the last day […]
I find much of Anglicanism to be awkward. I was chatting with one of my coworkers yesterday about the word choices in the 1979 prayer book compared to the new ACNA liturgy (please don’t stop reading this if that sounds like a really boring conversation). He mentioned that the response “and with your spirit” feels awkward. I agreed. […]
Save the date! When? 7.30pm THURSDAY Oct 22, 2015 Why? Jesse Blaine’s Ordination to the Transitional Diaconate Where? Restoration Anglican Church After party? Sure… come along and we’ll tell you where! So who is Jesse Blaine? Jesse and Sarah Blaine have been members of Restoration since the beginning of time… well, at least as long […]
I am sitting in IAH– the Houston airport– waiting for a flight to Austin. I have been asked to serve on the steering committee for a conference in February 2016 called The Anglican Justice Gathering: contending for shalom. I am joined by my good friends Cliff and Christine Warner, Bill Haley, and Sami DiPasquale. We are […]
And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into […]
Church of Christ our Peace (CCOP) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia is the Anglican church where Restoration missionaries Jesse and Sarah Blaine and their girls worship. Every year during Easter week at Restoration we follow a regular discipline of giving away the offerings to an overseas partner, and this year we are delighted to be able […]
We’ve just begun a new year, a time where we pause to take stock of our lives. If you’ve been reflecting on where you are in your growth as a follower of Jesus, maybe you feel like there are some ways you could go deeper in your understanding of what our faith teaches. Maybe you […]
Looking for a way to give this Advent? The Anglican Relief and Development Fund (ARDF) is working to provide clean water to rural communities in Burundi and you can get alongside them. What is the Anglican Relief and Development Fund? ARDF partners with the global church to meet the needs of the poor. The […]
On Saturday, September 20, we consecrated our new building. We welcomed Bishop John Guernsey, The Reverend John Yates who preached, clergy from our diocese who came to offer their support, Kenny Sieber who was our job superintendent, Charles Sinclair who was the former pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, and David Hunter who works for Arlington […]