[The Advocate] 4 Jul 2008--After years of American churches sending waves of missionaries to evangelize Africa, one mainline denomination is seeing a tide of African missionaries coming here to lead.
Why? Controversies raging in the U.S. Episcopal Church such as homosexual clergy and theological divisions over bedrock biblical doctrines are straining relationships in the worldwide Anglican Communion and fracturing congregations and dioceses in America.
In the past year, about 40 Baton Rouge Episcopalians joined together to form a new congregation. The All Saints Anglican Church of Baton Rouge is part of the Anglican Mission of the Americas, AMiA, a missionary outreach of the more fundamental Episcopal Church of Rwanda.
“When my church, the Episcopal Church, became something I couldn’t recognize, especially when they questioned the deity of Christ, it was a very isolating feeling,” All Saints member Rose-Louise Harrell said. “They went beyond taking the church off the tracks, they hijacked the train and we resent them forcing their heresy down our throats.”
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