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The first large-scale gathering in the Anglican Churches of the Americas will be a February 2009 conference on “mutual responsibility and mission.”<\/p>\n
The organizers hope the gathering will help “to continue to celebrate our relationships through friendship, prayer, common worship, and to focus on God\u2019s common mission in the world,” according to the draft of a “save the date” letter.<\/p>\n
The conference will take place during the week of February 22 in San Juan, Costa Rica. Exact dates during that week are still to be determined.<\/p>\n
“I would hope that the Anglican Churches in the Americas can come to a common understanding of our mission work together going forward from the conference,” House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson recently told ENS.<\/p>\n
Anderson is one of the group’s organizers. The other is Francisco de Assis da Silva, provincial secretary of the Episcopal Anglican Church of Brazil.<\/p>\n