FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT ANGLICAN CHURCHES OF NORTH AMERICA
How important is unity when excessive diversity is causing polarization?
WHO’S WHO?
Archbishop
Dorian Baxter
Archbishop Baxter was born and raised in Kenya, emigrating to Canada as a teenager. He started his career as an educator teaching in both public and private schools. He then entered seminary at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. He went on to be ordained in the Anglican clergy. Since his youth, he was an admirer of Elvis Presley, especially his gospel music. He went on to become a prize-winning Elvis Tribute Artist. That proved to be his “tentmaking” activity, a side-gig but one that has endured. In 2003, he founded the Federation of Independent Anglican Churches of North America, and its first church plant — Christ the King, Graceland.
Missionary Bishop
Chuck Stephens
Chuck Stephens was born and raised in the Belgian Congo, where his parents were medical missionaries from Canada. He started school just across the border in Uganda, at Kabale. This was his entry into a lifetime engagement with evangelical Anglicans. In 1999, he was among the prime movers of a leadership institute in South Africa, which is known as the Desmond Tutu Centre for Leadership. The archbishop emeritus gave his permission for his name to be used. For 25 years, Chuck has served as director at C4L. He is the author of a dozen books and has a voice in the local media.
THOUGHTS
CLERGY TEAM
St. Peter writes that God is building His church with “living stones.”
Therefore, the emphasis of our clergy team is on deploying and serving people, rather than building structures. After all, we now minister in a post-Christian world that is very different from the Christendom that raised many churches and cathedrals. That era, in turn, was quite different from the Early Church, which was often banned and persecuted. The Federation is adapting to the new age in which we live and work.