The triennial conference, which brought participants to the Blue Ridge mountains from dozens of nations, marked its 50th anniversary, first founded as the Episcopal Church Missionary Community in 1975.
As a central hub in the ACNA, Trinity seeks to broaden beyond the low churchmanship that historically characterized it, and recently opened an event and conference space.
“We’ve grown in every category that we track,” said Dan Hassler, the ACNA’s director of administration and operations. “We are at highest attendance and membership of all time.”
In a service marked by pageantry, prayers, and celebratory bagpipes, the Anglican Church in North America received its new Archbishop and Primate this week.
“Roughly 130 million people in America do not know Jesus Christ,” Archbishop Wood said. “That is the most animated aspect of who I am: I want everyone to come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ.”
