Welcome to the Anglican Fellowship in Manassas VA "Grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all"
So begins our worship each Sunday at our Manassas campus.
Please take time to look through this blog to find out more about our project to establish an Anglican presence in the City of Manassas. We welcome you insights and hopefully your involvement.
The Anglican Fellowship in Manassas is a mission project of Church of the Word in nearby Gainesville. Apart from news about the project you may also find articles of general interest and links to some wonderful resources.
Worship Sunday 4 pm at Crossway Fellowship on Plantation Lane in Manassas.
About Pastor Robin Adams Native of N. Ireland and living in the USA for the last 20 years. Ordained in Ireland 30 years ago and experience serving in 5 parishes. Love Science Fiction and hikes.
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A study on John’s gospel. 
Wednesday evenings we meet weekly in the home of Dave and Lee Kulic in Manassas to study John’s gospel under the leadership of Vince McLaughlin. Start time is 7pm and for the address and directions please call Lee or contact Pastor Vince. We are also praying for the needs of Manassas and sharing ideas about how best to grow the Anglican Fellowship in Manassas and its ministry. Monthly worship services continue on the third Sunday of each month. We hope that in the fall we can get back to a weekly pattern.
Dave and Lee Kulic at 703-335-6404
pastorvince@comcast.net
While we are still on a monthly schedule our next AFiM worship will be at Crossway on 5/20 at 4pm Theme is the assension of Jesus. An ofter overlooked part of the Jesus story. We see Jesus risen ascended and glorified! 
April 2012 – The One Grand Miracle
 C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis’s spiritual journey went from childhood belief in God, to atheism, to agnosticism, to theism, and finally to belief in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. His own search for truth gave him the ability to communicate the key distinctions between Christianity and other religions. In an essay entitled, The Grand Miracle, Lewis gets to the heart of why the miracle of the incarnation and resurrection is essential to Christian faith. Lewis writes:
One is very often asked at present whether we could not have a Christianity stripped, or, as people who asked it say, ‘freed’ from its miraculous elements, a Christianity with the miraculous elements suppressed. Now, it seems to me that precisely the one religion in the world, or, at least the only one I know, with which you could not do that is Christianity. In a religion like Buddhism, if you took away the miracles attributed to Gautama Buddha in some very late sources, there would be no loss; in fact, the religion would get on very much better without them because in that case the miracles largely contradict the teaching. Or even in the case of a religion like Mohammedanism, nothing essential would be altered if you took away the miracles. You could have a great prophet preaching his dogmas without bringing in any miracles; they are only in the nature of a digression, or illuminated capitals. But you cannot possibly do that with Christianity, because the Christian story is precisely the story of one grand miracle, the Christian assertion being that what is beyond all space and time, what is uncreated, eternal, came into nature, into human nature, descended into His own universe, and rose again, bringing nature up with Him. It is precisely one great miracle. If you take that away there is nothing specifically Christian left. There may be many admirable human things which Christianity shares with all other systems in the world, but there would be nothing specifically Christian. Conversely, once you have accepted that, then you will see that all other well-established Christian miracles-because, of course, there are ill-established Christian miracles; there are Christian legends just as much as there are heathen legends, or modern journalistic legends-you will see that all the well-established Christian miracles are part of it, that they all either prepare for, or exhibit, or result from the Incarnation. Just as every natural event exhibits the total character of the natural universe at a particular point and space of time; so every miracle exhibits the character of the Incarnation.1
Do you believe in miracles? Are you captivated by the miraculous work of Christ? To be Christian is to accept the one grand miracle and to believe that the God who was, and is, and is to come, can and will continue to work the miraculous in our lives and in the life of the church.
If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.
I Corinthians 15:13-14 (NIV)
1 C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock. (Grand Rapids: Eerdman’s, 1970), pp. 80-81
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After Easter on Wednesday April 11th we will have an evening Bible study in Manassas.
This will be an oppoturnity to deepen fellowship, pray for our City and plan for our Church planting effort. Vince McLaughlin will lead devotions on the Gospel of John.
Contact us for more details. 703-754-9673
Join us on april 15th for our monthly worship meeting at 4pm in Crossway. We will also be starting a mid week fellowship group for those interested in becoming the core of our new congregation.
This year our church is offering these daily devotionals for the season of Lent. You can purchase them for $10 from the church office.
Lent for Everyone: Mark, Year B provides readers with a gentle guide through the Lenten season, from Ash Wednesday through the week after Easter. Popular biblical scholar and author N. T. Wright provides his own Scripture translation, brief reflection, and a prayer for each of the days of the season, helping the reader ponder how the text is relevant to their own life today.
Suitable for both personal and group reflection, Wright’s guide through Lent will make the Bible–and the season–come alive in inspiring new ways.
As multi-layered as an onion, Professor N T Wright‘s new book on Mark draws you in at once with its matter-of-fact, chatty, deceptively simple prose. Each ‘chapter’ covers one day between Ash Wednesday and Easter Saturday. Using the prescribed lectionary for the day, Professor Wright focuses on a few verses and offers us his translation, and his exegesis. If, like me, you prefer a more traditional version of the bible, I suggest you begin by reading the passage in that version before plunging into the Wright text. Like all the best teachers, he makes some of the expected points about each passage, so that you are to some extent lulled into thinking you are keeping up well (if not actually ahead of him), but he then slips in an explanation, a twist or a new perspective, which sends you back to the beginning of the chapter to start again. I do not mean to suggest that the text is difficult, far from it, but there is a good deal more meat on the bones that you might anticipate at first glance. From The Lay Anglican review.
All books have now been sold! PTL for an excellent turnout for Ash Wednesday a full Church.
“You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.” Acts 10:36
Come join us next Sunday!
Sharing Jesus Christ is the mission indeed the passion of our community. We believe that Jesus is the word of God, ‘in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. All things were made through Him’
We also know that Jesus is the hope of the world for ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself’. Jesus said of himself, ‘I am the bread of life’.
Advent is the season of hope as we think about the ‘advent’ or arrival of Jesus in the three biblical senses of the incarnation 2000 years ago, the receiving of Jesus into a persons life today at conversion and the imminent return of Jesus Christ to be the judge of the living and the dead. Advent is not just about getting ready for Christmas but ready for Christ in each of these three senses.
Therefore Church of the Word in Gainesville, is establishing an extension campus in nearby Manassas to help further our mission. read on…
AFiM is an extension campus of Church of the Word, Gainesville. It is another worship site for that congregation and most ministry is available through our programs there. We are not currently a part on the Anglican Church in North America, though as soon as this option becomes available to us we will be delighted to return home. Meanwhile we are anglican in style and substance, but more importantly simply Christian, as N.T. Wright might say.
 We meet at 4pm at the Crossway Fellowship Church location on Plantation Lane near Prince William Hospital, in their side chapel which has easy access from the front parking lot.
For directions and a map
Music: So far we have decided to use ‘Renew’ hymnal, described like this, ‘Born in the worship renewal, this songbook brings together the best from traditional and contemporary worship. Following the biblical and historic fourfold pattern of worship Gathering, The Word, Offering Thanksgiving (Eucharist) and Dismissal.’
Liturgy: Our liturgical worship booklet is drawn from the 2004 Irish Book of Common Prayer because it is the most modern of Anglican Liturgies but yet keeps the integrity of the classical principles of our tradition. We have the service printed on a booklet for easy use. Even if you are not experienced in liturgy you will find this approach helpful in bringing you closer to God in worship.
Participation: Your participation and ideas are welcome. This fellowship is being shaped by those who are becoming involved. Later we will have a more formal launch of the service. We will become more visible in Manassas with local mission projects and fellowship opportunities. look within this website for upcoming events, or suggest one yourself!
We appreciate the invitation from our brothers and sisters in Christ at Crossway fellowship to meet at their excellent facility.
Please feel free to e-mail me Pastor Robin with your questions
To see how ancient christian songs can be given new life check out Glory to God on you-tube a modern setting of the ‘Gloria’ written by our Gainesville team ‘Braeded Chord‘!
Continue reading What is AFiM all about?
Church of the Word is offering the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University 13 week course starting Sunday Jan 22nd @ 5pm in Gainesville. A preview will be offered on Sunday Jan 8th at 5pm.
general overview of FPU
14215 Lee Highway, Gainesville, VA 20155
Class Begins: Jan 22, 2011
Class Meets: Sunday at 5:00 PM
Preview: Jan 8th at 5:00 PM
Coordinator: Donna Adams, for contact info, directions and how to register online go to
http://churchoftheword.net/fpu2.html
For testimonies from ordinary people struggling with your issues see http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu/testimonies/
The NALC was constituted on August 27, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, at a Convocation organized by the church reform movement Lutheran CORE. One year earlier, a similar gathering of Lutheran CORE had directed its leadership to develop new organizational alternatives for faithful Lutheran Christians in North America. In response to numerous requests from congregations for the creation of a new Lutheran church body, Lutheran CORE developed ‘A Vision and a plan’ for the North American Lutheran Church and Lutheran CORE, published in February 2010. Six months later, our new church body was formed.
The constituting Convocation was attended by nearly 1,000 members and visitors from across North America. A number of other church bodies sent leaders to greet the Convocation, including the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, and the Anglican Church in North America. Bishop Benson Bagonza of the Karagwe Diocese, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, preached at the closing worship and along with retired Bishop Ken Sauer, installed the Rev. Paull E. Spring as the first Bishop of the NALC.
The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) http://thenalc.org has been blessed with extraordinarily rapid growth. At the time of the constituting Convocation in August 2010, seventeen congregations had voted to join the NALC. One year later, that number had grown to more than 250 congregations. Of those, roughly 35 were mission congregations, reflecting the priority placed on missions and evangelism by the NALC. We give thanks to God for all that has been accomplished, and seek His guidance as we move into the future with excitement.
This movement among Lutherans is simular to the reform taking place among Anglicans today in North America. As the two movements are very simular in doctrine and worship look for lots of co-operation at the local level.
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