Pastor Rick Warren Offers Support for ACNA

http://www.livingchurch.org/news/news-updates/2009/1/9/pastor-rick-warren-offers-support-for-acna

[The Living Church] 12 Jan 2009--Pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren has entered the conflict within The Episcopal Church over title to church property, offering his full support to the breakaway congregation of St. James in Newport Beach, Calif., and the third province movement known as the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

In a letter obtained by Christianity Today, Pastor Warren offered the former congregation of the Diocese of Los Angeles shelter on the campus of Saddleback Community Church following the Jan. 5 California Supreme Court decision on church property disputes. The influential minister also pledged his congregation’s support in planting new ACNA congregations in Orange County.

“We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans,” he wrote, and offered the “campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who needs a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County.”

Larry Ross, a spokesman for Pastor Warren, confirmed the authenticity of the document saying it was “a private letter sent out to conservative Anglican leaders” on Jan 9.