Hi everyone,
higgs2 asked me to make a thread and introduce myself, and give you all a chance to know me, and I you... I've just come back to the Anglican Church after being away for twenty years.
I grew up Anglican in Australia, but drifted away as a teenager. In my twenties I made a personal commitment to Jesus and joined the Salvation Army for a couple of years, then moved to a little town way up north on the very top tip of Australia called Weipa. The only church was a co-operating parish.. three years Anglican and then it changed to three years Uniting Church. Those first three years in the Anglican Church were for me the best years I've ever known. I was confirmed there by a Bishop Jamieson, who is now Bishop in Bunbury, Western Australia, I believe.
Since then I've been involved in Pentecostal churches, left the church to be involved in the Hebrew Roots movement, and left that a couple of years ago...
I married an American man last year and I'm here in Illinois on a twelve month visa before having to go back to Oz to do the immigration process. Both of us are involved with a group who does a church service for the physically and intellectually handicapped on Sunday afternoons. The group picks them up from homes, does church for them and then feeds them a two course meal before taking them home (this is in another town a fair drive from where we live). Quite often my husband is ill and being new to the US I don't have a lot of friends. So, I decided to go to St Pauls Episcopalian Church here in this town.
The first Sunday I went, I felt like I'd come home. The liturgy is so rich compared to the service in other denoms, and the people are loving and accepting. I love it. I believe I've come full circle back to where I belong.
Other than that, this is my third marriage. My first husband passed away when three of my children were very young. I married way too early again and then experienced twenty years of... well.. the Lord used it to deal with me.. We divorced about six years ago, and I met my now husband here in the old CF. He doesn't post at the moment as he's nearly blind.. but it will improve. He's not Anglican and probably won't be, but he supports me... he's a good egg.. 
I have four children, and my tenth grandchild was born two days ago... I have to wait until March to see her! I miss my kids, but I know that I'll get to see them once a year in the future, and the phone and email make it seem they're not too far away.
I love 4U... it was better as CF. I try to leave sometimes but always come back, I love the people here, and the format of the place. So... that's me.
PS.. from what I've read online I think there's a little bit of a difference in the Anglican Church in Oz to the Episcopalian Church in America... but I'm not going to concern myself with it.
God bless ya's...
higgs2 asked me to make a thread and introduce myself, and give you all a chance to know me, and I you... I've just come back to the Anglican Church after being away for twenty years.
I grew up Anglican in Australia, but drifted away as a teenager. In my twenties I made a personal commitment to Jesus and joined the Salvation Army for a couple of years, then moved to a little town way up north on the very top tip of Australia called Weipa. The only church was a co-operating parish.. three years Anglican and then it changed to three years Uniting Church. Those first three years in the Anglican Church were for me the best years I've ever known. I was confirmed there by a Bishop Jamieson, who is now Bishop in Bunbury, Western Australia, I believe.
Since then I've been involved in Pentecostal churches, left the church to be involved in the Hebrew Roots movement, and left that a couple of years ago...
I married an American man last year and I'm here in Illinois on a twelve month visa before having to go back to Oz to do the immigration process. Both of us are involved with a group who does a church service for the physically and intellectually handicapped on Sunday afternoons. The group picks them up from homes, does church for them and then feeds them a two course meal before taking them home (this is in another town a fair drive from where we live). Quite often my husband is ill and being new to the US I don't have a lot of friends. So, I decided to go to St Pauls Episcopalian Church here in this town.
The first Sunday I went, I felt like I'd come home. The liturgy is so rich compared to the service in other denoms, and the people are loving and accepting. I love it. I believe I've come full circle back to where I belong.
Other than that, this is my third marriage. My first husband passed away when three of my children were very young. I married way too early again and then experienced twenty years of... well.. the Lord used it to deal with me.
. We divorced about six years ago, and I met my now husband here in the old CF. He doesn't post at the moment as he's nearly blind.. but it will improve. He's not Anglican and probably won't be, but he supports me... he's a good egg.. I have four children, and my tenth grandchild was born two days ago... I have to wait until March to see her! I miss my kids, but I know that I'll get to see them once a year in the future, and the phone and email make it seem they're not too far away.
I love 4U... it was better as CF. I try to leave sometimes but always come back, I love the people here, and the format of the place. So... that's me.
PS.. from what I've read online I think there's a little bit of a difference in the Anglican Church in Oz to the Episcopalian Church in America... but I'm not going to concern myself with it.
God bless ya's...
