A Church and a People

Most churches are happy if they reach one person in their neighborhood with the gospel. Grace Anglican Church in Edgeworth is trying to reach an entire people group on the other side of the world.

This parish has adopted a people group in southeastern Turkey and is committed to bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to them.Earlier this year, The Rev. John Porter, rector of Grace Church, traveled to Turkey for an exploratory mission trip in the southeastern part of the country, near the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He was joined by The Rev. Julian Linnell, director of Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM) who is also a priest of this diocese, and DT Stoddard, a former Trinity School for Ministry student with over ten years of mission and church-planting experience among the Turks.

The trip was the outcome of a process that began with prayerful consideration of Archbishop Duncan’s challenge to the diocese, in which he urged the diocese to “put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch” (Luke 5:4). At its 2009 retreat, the vestry of Grace Church committed to working with AFM to adopt an unreached people group from among 25 such groups of over a million people who have little or no exposure to the gospel.  Read Complete Article at phttp://www.pitanglican.org/

By David Trautman
Director of Communications
Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh

Summary used with permission by the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh