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Posted by Craig Uffman
Where Did the Donations to the Network Go?

Thursday, February 05, 2009 at 9:33 am

Tags: communion partners, acna, acn, network

Channel: Stand Firm

  
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In a series of posts at Stand Firm, a commenter (EmilyH) provides background about the transfer of assets from TEC to ACNA. It's worth noting her full post for the details she provides. Her conclusions are below.

[The TEC] middle includes +Stanton +Howe and +Love. It is clearly broad enough for their witness in TEC. I value the “Communion Partners” initiative as just that. In the last year, the “leadership” of the Network, changed its mission, grabbed ALL of its assets, THEN declared it no longer relevant and disolved it. If I were a communion conservative, a donor to the Network (which interestingly never reported its income or finances), or +Stanton, +Howe, etc., I’d be pretty ticked. +Duncan and his ACNA bunch took the money and ran, and left these folks nothin.



When the Network moved to support Common Cause and Common Cause clearly planned to create ACNA, TEC bishops +Howe and Rio Grande removed themselves. This left Common Cause bishops in the “leadership” role of the Network. It then “voted” to transfer all assets to the office of the new “primate” of the ACNA, i.e. of course, Moderator and “primate”+Duncan.

So much for the mission above of the Network, representing conservative/orthodxy position within TEC. So much for the money donated for this purpose to the Network. It has been diverted by its “leadership” to ACNA.


There is no question that organizations change their mission over time...just watch the banner line of The Living Church for the last couple of years, even their theology and the courts (cf Presbyterian v. Hull) might even support that. But, I assert that monies that were pledged for use for one purpose, opposition to TEC from within TEC, have been diverted to use for another, the creation of a competitive province to TEC, ACC and, I guess The Iglesia Anglicana de Mexico? in North America. Since +Duncan had for many years recommended that funds that might otherwise be sent to TEC be sent to the Network, then 1. Who has control of the money? 2. Is there any money? 3. Does anyone other than +Duncan have control over the money? If so, who? Will the money be used to fulfill its original function, support of the orthodox from within TEC? Or, will the funds be used exclusively to promote the separatist 2nd province effort of ACNA? Although the Living Church article was clearer about what the resolutions included, "Network leadership approved a resolution to incorporate its finances and operations into the new province ...." and I don't have the entire transcript of what happened at the meeting and only the statements I was able to find at one church website, I accept that the report was probably accurate. We're not talking about a couple of secretaries here. We're talking about underwriting the administrative costs of a whole new province and its primate.
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