Still waiting on God...

Well, we are still actively looking for a site to hold worship. There are a couple promising leads, one with a Christian school and the other with a church. Please keep those in your prayers. In the meantime we will begin having some fellowship events. Watch out for an announcement about those in the next few days or so. Until then, cheers.

In case we've never met, this is what I look like.

Waiting on God

Well, we thought we were going to be ready to launch our first public service next Sunday (Sep. 18). But apparently God has another plan. The one major obstacle that still stands between us and that objective of meeting together for worship is a location. We still need a physical location to meet in. Please pray for us as we continue to hit the streets and look for a Sunday morning worship space that can accomodate both our main worship service as well as a place for children. Until God provides such a place public worship is on hold.
In the meantime I will just hang out with my fellow priests here and kill some time...

Updates on Katrina

Fr. Jay Greener the director of communications for the Anglican Mission has set up a web link to keep us updated on stories from our sister churches on the ground around the Gulf coast and Texas who are meeting the needs of those affected by Katrina. He writes:

I want to let you know that I have added a page to our web site where I will be posting the various messages and photos that come in related to hurricane response and the work of our churches. That way a larger audience can have access to these. You can access the page from the front of our website, www.theamia.org It will function sort of like a bulletin board, except that I will be adding the content as it comes in.
Blessings!
Jay

Please Join us on our journey following the Path of Christ 

sph 

Katrina Relief

Epiphany Anglican is partnering with Anglican churches in the Houston area to get much needed aid into the hands of the displaced people who have been shuttled there from the disaster zones of the Gulf Coast. All of the gift cards that Epiphany collects will be sent directly to a coordinator on the ground who will see to it that they are put directly into the hands of the people that need them most. Checks can also be made out to Epiphany Anglican Fellowship with Katrina Relief appearing on the memo line. These will go into a specially designated fund and Epiphany will in turn send these donations on to our national Anglican Mission in America office where their relief fund will disperse them to the various relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. Here are two communiques I have received detailing the effort.

Important notice about relief efforts in Houston:As you know, tens of thousands of refugees are making their way to the Houston area to either the Astrodome or to shelters set up through out the city. Hundreds of others are filling all the motels in the area. All three groups are coming with little to no clothing, no job or home to go back to, and with very little resources.The Christian Churches in Houston are ministering among all three groups of people. The Red Cross, State Government, Military, large corporations and large churches are focusing on the needs of the Astrodome, which as you can watch on television is overwhelming even those experienced organizations.What is currently falling through the cracks are the people in the shelters and motels. The Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit and the All Saints Anglican Church are taking part in the Christian relief effort to the hundreds of families who have found themselves uprooted and homeless. But we need your help!
Here are the most effective ways you and your congregation could collect and give to immediate need relief!!!
Buying/Gift Cards from Walmart, Sam's or Target
Gas Buying Cards
Long Distance Phone Cards**Many families we have already spoken to are still trying to locate missing loved ones. The astrodome will have phones provided, but the shelters will have to rely on phone cards.
If you choose to give through the fund set up at the Mission Center in Pawley's, please do so quickly, since the need is real and present.
If you choose to collect buying cards as an offering, please send them to the following address:
The Anglican Church of the Holy Spirit
c/o Loranne Johnson
719 Sawdust Road Suite 103
Spring, Texas 77380
Our covenant is that every resource you send will be effectively used to meet the needs of refugees.
Yours faithfully in Christ,
Clark WP LowenfieldLead PastorThe Anglican Church of the Holy Spiritcwpl@genuinehope.organd
Fr. Augustine OgbunugwuRectorAll Saint's Anglican Churchogbunugwuai@aol.com

From the National Office of the Anglican Mission in America:
Katrina Relief Fund
Jay L. Greener
Sep 1, 2005
A relief fund for the hurricane devastated areas of the Gulf Coast has been established through the Anglican Mission in America. Individuals and congregations can send checks payable to the Anglican Mission in America, designated for Katrina Relief Fund, to AMiA PO Box 3427 Pawleys Island, SC 29585 Follow-up will come shortly on ways those funds will be disbursed and utilized, and perhaps other ideas on supporting those displaced by the hurricane. We urge people to pray for those in the wake of this storm, for a return to normalcy as quickly as possible, and for those who will provide comfort and aid. Questions may be addressed to info@anglicanmissioninamerica.org, or at 843-237-0318

Thanks to all who feel led to contribute!

Fr. Steve

Welcome

To anyone who might be viewing this web log thus far.  This is a new blog to communicate information about the emergence of the Fort Collins gathering of Epiphany Anglican Fellowship.  Epiphany is a new kind of church on the Front Range of Colorado.  I say new because unlike other churches with one building and one or two services a Sunday we have 4, soon to be 5 services in 5 different communities.  Fort Collins will be the fifth gathering to be a part of this one church.  We are still working on a location for our first service which is slated to launch September 18.  Keep checking back, details will be forthcoming.