LETTER TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY IN AMIA

The Director of Communications of AMiA, Cynthia P. Brust, posted a letter at the AMiA website to the clergy and laity of the group with information on the latest events. Along with Primatial Vicar Chuck Murphy, Bishops Sandy Greene, Todd Hunter, TJ Johnston, Philip Jones, Doc Loomis, John Miller, Silas Ng, and John Rodgers, resigned from the Rwanda House of Bishops.

During this interim period, the Anglican Mission is under the oversight of our founding Archbishops Emmanuel Kolini, Moses Tay and Yong Ping Chung until we have a new provincial home within the Anglican Communion.

I've been concerned about the priests and laity in AMiA, some of whom must have had a sense of being adrift since the announcement of the resignation of the bishops by which act the parishes are apparently no longer under the oversight of the Anglican Church of Rwanda. I wonder if the bishops by their resignations actually take all the parishes out of the Church of Rwanda. Do the parishes have a say in whether they leave the oversight of the Church of Rwanda?

I don't know the answer to the questions, but I pray that the clergy, laity, and bishops of AMiA find their places to settle.