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By: Nate Beasley

“That they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you”  (John 17:21).  How Jesus must have been rejoicing as he saw a packed room of church-planting leaders, representing 32 organizations and 23 denominations gather together to share visions, ideas, and strategies the last few days together in Nashville, TN!  Ed Stetzer (speaker at the last Anglican 1000 conference) organized top church-planting Lutherans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Pentecostals, Wesleyans, and other denominations at the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship (CPLF) to dialogue about how to raise up, by the power of the Holy Spirit, a church-planting movement in North America.  Among other great speakers and teachers, Ed Stetzer asked Father (both by ordination, and well… he’s also my Dad) William Beasley to speak on Monday night about how the Anglican Church is raising up lay leaders from the harvest to plant congregations.  If anyone knows Fr. William – this was a soft ball. 

As Fr. William shared the Spirit-filled story of the East African Revival and the East and West African Anglican Church’s rapid growth through lay-catechists and evangelists from the harvest planting churches connected to ordained clergy, he envisioned what it would look like for the American Church to contextually follow suit.  Of course, he not only shared it in vision, but by the example of what the Lord is doing right now in the Upper Midwest with the expansion of Anglican congregations.  These Church-Leaders were truly blown away by Fr. William’s words.  They were both encouraged and challenged:  encouraged to see what the Lord is doing in the Anglican church by restoring orthodoxy, raising up leaders from the harvest to plant, and seeing an example of how multiplication of the Church and the Historic Order are not at odds; and yet challenged to think through new models they had never before considered. 

In fact, Ed Stetzer added an extra Q & A session in the conference for Fr. William because these leaders of church planters hungered to learn more about what the Lord is doing through Anglican 1000.  The questions for Fr. William ran the gamut of “How do you credential potential lay-church planters” to “Why is it that so many people are moving toward the Anglican Church”?  On the latter question, not only did Fr. William answer, but Rick Warren decided to chime in on how the Anglican Church is so important to reaching our generation.  I’ll write that again.  At a multi-denominational church-planting gathering of leaders, Rick Warren spent about 5 minutes explaining why Anglicanism is essential to reaching North America today.  Brothers and Sisters, the Anglican 1000 initiative is being noticed as a work of the Spirit by the greater church of America.  The Lord is moving. Keep praying.  Pray both for Anglican 1000 and all the other church-planting movements of faithful denominations.  May we support each other, united together on common mission by multiplying churches bearing much fruit and so giving glory to God (John 15:8)!

“Glory to God, whose power working in us can do more than we can ask for or imagine: Glory to him from generation to generation in the Church, and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen” (Eph. 3:20-21)!

Twenty year-old Nate Beasley is a junior at University of Illinois, majoring in Communication.  An active leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, he served six weeks this summer with them in East Asia.  Last summer he ministered 4 weeks in Idaho, helping a new Anglican Church plant.  When not out-of-state on missions or in school, Nate runs a small business, performing with Catch This! Juggling, to earn money for college.

UPDATE: Details about the event and downloads from the various presentations are now available on Ed Stetzer’s Blog.  Click here to access the info!

Posted on August 20, 2010

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