Welcome to the Gulf Atlantic Diocese Ministry Blog!

In this blog, clergy and lay leaders share helpful resources, ideas, and reflections. The topics range from soul care, to effectiveness, to practical solutions for common issues we are facing. If you have something you would like to submit to be included, please email it to Jessica Jones. We hope these articles are a blessing to you in your ministry.

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Get your Church Healthy and Keep it That Way

February 21, 2023 by The Rev. Mark Eldredge, Canon for Congregational Health

This is often the time of year that many churches have their Annual Parish Meetings, approve budgets, hold Vestry Retreats, and generally think about and cast vision for the church moving forward. As this is a good time of year to be reflecting on these matters, may I suggest that, as you do, part of your vision and goal setting include focusing on how to get and/or keep your church healthy? The church is the living body of Christ, and living things (if healthy) naturally grow as God designed them to. How can you focus on being healthy this year? By focusing on simply doing the things Jesus instructed the church to do. And, what did he tell the church to do? Although you can find the answers to that question throughout the Bible, like in the description of the first local church in Acts 2:42-47, Jesus was kind enough to summarize it for us in two key scriptures: The Great Commandment and The Great Commission....

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Report from New Wineskins 2022

October 6, 2022 by Rev. Canon Keith Allen

Be the one. See the one. Share the ONE. The Gulf Atlantic Diocese, under the leadership of Bishop Alex, is poised to raise up and deploy missionaries to our neighborhoods and to the nations....

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Alex Farmer Consecrated as the Second Bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese

August 27, 2022 by The Rev. Canon Christopher Klukas

Tallahassee, FL (August 27, 2022) - Today at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee, FL, friends and members of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the Anglican Church in North America gathered to witness the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Alex Farmer as the second bishop of the Diocese....

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Camp Araminta 2022

August 10, 2022 by The Rev. Dr. Jessica Jones Canon for Next Generation Discipleship

The Gulf Atlantic Diocese held its 17th annual summer camp, Camp Araminta, in July. It was an incredible gathering of over 250 students and leaders at Lake Swan Camp in Melrose, FL. Camp Araminta was created to provide an intense discipleship experience in community. We welcome students from 4th-12th grade and focus our time on fellowship, outdoor activities, skits, games and crafts, worship, teaching, and healthy rhythms of discipleship such as morning prayer and compline....

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Church Plant Creates Community in the Midst of COVID

June 30, 2022 by Michelle Herbst

After serving for six years at Grace Anglican in Fleming Island, FL, Dan and Carrie Wolf made a radical move to Portland, Maine, the second most post-Christian city in America, in order to plant Rise Church Anglican. The church plant has been a collaborative effort between the Gulf Atlantic Diocese and the Anglican Diocese of New England. Dan has said the question people ask in Portland is not “What church should I go to?” but “Why would I go to church?” Many people don’t know anything about the Bible or God....

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Petra Retreat

June 29, 2022 by Hudson Horne

Petra is a diocesan ministry founded and led by young adults to serve young adults. Built to meet the need for an organized ministry to connect young adults across the Gulf Atlantic, its centerpiece is the Petra retreat, an annual summer event incorporating Biblical teaching and corporate recreation. This year’s retreat, held from May 19 through 22, was based on Ephesians 6:13: “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” Scripture teaches that humanity is involved in a spiritual war of cosmic proportions in which every soul is at stake. To stand, Christians must arm themselves with the armament God has provided them in Christ....

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DEAFCHURCH Together: Planting a Liturgical Expression of the Christian Faith

June 23, 2022 by The Rev. Bob Ayres

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College of Bishops Consents to the Election of the Rev. Alex Farmer as Bishop

June 14, 2022 by Anglican Church in North America

On Monday, June 13, 2022, the College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America consented to the elections of the Rev. Alex Farmer, the Rev. Willy J. Hill Jr., and the Rev. Alex Cameron as bishops for the Gulf Atlantic Diocese, the Diocese of the Southeast (REC), and the Diocese of Pittsburgh respectively....

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Volunteering in the Holy Land

June 2, 2022 by The Rev. Canon Christopher Klukas

Volunteering with CMJ Israel may well be the most rewarding thing you have ever done - after all, you will become part of Israel's present and future with what you do and achieve! Volunteering may (at times) be hard work, but it will also be part of a wonderful adventure, filled with prayer and new experiences right in the heart of Israel - a place where God Himself has placed so much focus, and the very land where Jesus lived and walked....

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Beach Connection Leads to Church Planting in Orlando

May 31, 2022 by The Rev. Canon Taylor Bodoh

Nick Audas spent ten years ministering on college campuses with CRU (Campus Crusade), and more recently, serving on staff at a church plant in New York City. Now he is embarking on a new mission—planting an Anglican church in the heart of Orlando with the Gulf Atlantic Diocese. Bishop Neil and I recently traveled to Orlando to meet and celebrate Holy Communion with about fifteen members of this budding church plant, called The Common Table Church, and the presence of the Lord was tangible in our midst....

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The Weight of the Office

February 23, 2023 by Gulf Atlantic Diocese | Category: Holy Orders

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The Rev. Gabe Holloway was ordained a priest February 11, 2023. He shares his thoughts on what that has meant for his spiritual life....

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Get your Church Healthy and Keep it That Way

February 21, 2023 by The Rev. Mark Eldredge, Canon for Congregational Health | Category: Church Health

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This is often the time of year that many churches have their Annual Parish Meetings, approve budgets, hold Vestry Retreats, and generally think about and cast vision for the church moving forward. As this is a good time of year to be reflecting on these matters, may I suggest that, as you do, part of your vision and goal setting include focusing on how to get and/or keep...

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Through the Prayers of Many

November 10, 2022 | Category: Clergy Blog, Clergy Blog

The ordination service for a priest includes the Examination, in which vows are made with the response, “I will, the Lord being my helper”. How wonderfully often the tangible evidence of the Lord’s help comes through human agents who encourage, exhort and guide us by their prayers to God on our behalf! I thank God that my pathway to priesthood has been so blessed and...

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Report from New Wineskins 2022

October 6, 2022 by Rev. Canon Keith Allen | Category: Ministry Blog

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Be the one. See the one. Share the ONE. The Gulf Atlantic Diocese, under the leadership of Bishop Alex, is poised to raise up and deploy missionaries to our neighborhoods and to the nations....

Keep Reading

Alex Farmer Consecrated as the Second Bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese

August 27, 2022 by The Rev. Canon Christopher Klukas | Category: Ministry Blog

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Tallahassee, FL (August 27, 2022) - Today at St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral in Tallahassee, FL, friends and members of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the Anglican Church in North America gathered to witness the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Alex Farmer as the second bishop of the Diocese....

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Camp Araminta 2022

August 10, 2022 by The Rev. Dr. Jessica Jones Canon for Next Generation Discipleship | Category: Next Generation Discipleship

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The Gulf Atlantic Diocese held its 17th annual summer camp, Camp Araminta, in July. It was an incredible gathering of over 250 students and leaders at Lake Swan Camp in Melrose, FL. Camp Araminta was created to provide an intense discipleship experience in community. We welcome students from 4th-12th grade and focus our time on fellowship, outdoor activities, skits, games ...

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Church Plant Creates Community in the Midst of COVID

June 30, 2022 by Michelle Herbst | Category: The Bare Branch: On Seeing, The Bare Branch: On Seeing

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After serving for six years at Grace Anglican in Fleming Island, FL, Dan and Carrie Wolf made a radical move to Portland, Maine, the second most post-Christian city in America, in order to plant Rise Church Anglican. The church plant has been a collaborative effort between the Gulf Atlantic Diocese and the Anglican Diocese of New England. Dan has said the question people a...

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Petra Retreat

June 29, 2022 by Hudson Horne | Category: Next Generation Discipleship

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Petra is a diocesan ministry founded and led by young adults to serve young adults. Built to meet the need for an organized ministry to connect young adults across the Gulf Atlantic, its centerpiece is the Petra retreat, an annual summer event incorporating Biblical teaching and corporate recreation. This year’s retreat, held from May 19 through 22, was based on Ephesian...

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DEAFCHURCH Together: Planting a Liturgical Expression of the Christian Faith

June 23, 2022 by The Rev. Bob Ayres | Category: Clergy Blog

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How does it feel to be a deaf in a hearing world? Helen Keller, both blind and deaf, compares her experience of each, "Blindness separates me from things; but deafness separates me from people." Deafness is not the actual problem; deaf people can do anything hearing people can do, except hear. Communication barriers create the primary issues, with relational isolation bein...

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College of Bishops Consents to the Election of the Rev. Alex Farmer as Bishop

June 14, 2022 by Anglican Church in North America | Category: Ministry Blog

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On Monday, June 13, 2022, the College of Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America consented to the elections of the Rev. Alex Farmer, the Rev. Willy J. Hill Jr., and the Rev. Alex Cameron as bishops for the Gulf Atlantic Diocese, the Diocese of the Southeast (REC), and the Diocese of Pittsburgh respectively....

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