GAFCON recently announced a New Anglican Mission Society. AMIE has been established as a society within the Church of England dedicated to the conversion of England and biblical church planting.
The Anglican Mission in England (AMIE) held its inaugural event on Wednesday June 22 during an evangelical ministers’ conference in central London. There is a steering committee and a panel of bishops. The bishops aim to provide effective oversight in collaboration with senior clergy.
The AMIE has been encouraged in this development by the Primates’ Council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (GAFCON) who said in a communiqué from Nairobi in May 2011: “We remain convinced that from within the Provinces which we represent there are creative ways by which we can support those who have been alienated so that they can remain within the Anglican family.”
The AMIE is determined to remain within the Church of England…
http://www.gafcon.org/news/new_anglican_mission_society_announced/
This society is, it appears, a renaming of: http://www.saintaugustinesociety.org/
Fulcrum – an organisation devoted to “the renewal of the evanelical core” of the C o E in a statement expresses serious concern at the launch of the Anglican Mission to England (AMIE) and calls for immediate dialogue within the entire evangelical constituency over this development, for reasons including:
• A name reflecting breakaway movements in the USA inviting the conclusion that this is the true purpose of the new society
• The creation of a society with a conservative evangelical ‘political’ agenda not simply mission
• The creation of a panel of bishops that signals the intention of offering alternative oversight without collaboration with senior leaders of the Church of England
• Indications that the society will take its own path in the authorisation of ministry, as evidenced by its approval of the recent secret ordinations in Kenya, which is an escalation of the earlier regrettable Southwark ordinations