During my first week here, I have learned so much. The extraordinary experience of community here will inform my ministry for years to come. I eagerly look forward to continuing my recovery in your midst. Once again, God is proving His desire and ability to bring an Easter out of Good Friday. Please keep me in your prayers and know that you are in mine.

Your Brother in Christ,
+Gene

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February 13, 2006

Forward in Faith also notes with pleasure that all attempts to amend the resolution before Synod, including suggestions that the TEA proposal should be replaced by a single clause measure and code of practice, were soundly defeated.

The full text of the motion moved by the Archbishop and so overwhelmingly passed was as follows:

'That this Synod

Commenting on the move, Bishop Keith Ackerman, Quincy, who also serves as president of FiFNA said, ""We've tried it going separately, and it didn't work. We've come to the table together. We can not go back to our divisions. We stand as Anglicans united, and we will stand!"

The first resolution commended Anglican leaders who produced the Windsor Report, which details how Robinson's ordination created problems in the Anglican Communion.

The second resolution voiced the council's "strong protest" of bishops from other areas of the Anglican Communion taking action "at odds with the recommendations of the Windsor Report." Those actions included visits by two African bishops to the Diocese of Mississippi.