Welcome to C4S0 Churches For the Sake of Others

Our Team

Porter Taylor
Director for Clergy Credentialing and Communication

Canon Missioner
Phone: (760) 828-3321

Our Field

Younger adults and those Americans who live in the Western part of the United States are much less likely to believe in God than are those living elsewhere.

The highest number of atheists and agnostics live in the western USA.

One quarter of western U.S. adults claim no religious affiliation.

Gallup and Pew Research, 2008

Our Mission

God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.

The Great Commission,
The Message

Recent News

Bishop Todd Hunter answers some question regarding the move to ACNA. [VIEW VIDEO]

May 4, 2012

Over the past many months there has been much talk, publicly and privately, about who each of us will dance with in terms of Anglican connections. I have been slow in this process, like an awkward junior-high kid at his first dance, struggling to discern direction from God. I realized in the past day or so that I was asking the wrong question, that jurisdictional issues were not on the top of God’s mind for me.

Apparently I needed to seek God regarding more fundamental issues, matters of first cause. In so doing I realized that I am to “dance with who ‘brung’ me”— Unity and Mission. I brought Mission with me to this dance. We have been “friends from childhood”. When I walked across the dance floor and was introduced to Anglicanism three years ago I was told repeatedly that we were all working toward one, unified, missional, kingdom-oriented, Spirit-enabled Anglican church in North America. I took that vision into my heart and have pondered it since.

Today I am pleased to announce that I have brought unity and mission back together through the up-coming re-launch of Churches For the Sake of Others.
This morning I had warm and collegial conversations with Archbishop Bob Duncan, Bishop Chuck Murphy and Bishop Terrell Glenn. I articulated for each of them my vision of C4SO becoming a servant to all the various Anglican entities within North America. C4SO will happily plant churches in partnership with PEARUSA, TheAm and the ACNA.

I will carry out this work under the canons of the ACNA as a special bishop given a specific task under Archbishop Duncan.

Attached is my best attempt today at some anticipated questions. I will soon go to Pittsburgh to clarify as many small details as possible. But before we get to that, I’ve got a couple of related issues I would like to make public.

First, I have written Archbishop Rwaje asking his forgiveness for my part in actions, attitudes or communications that were hurtful to him or to my brother bishops in Rwanda. His Grace responded with a most gracious letter, forgiving me, stating his love for me, blessing me and releasing me to ++Duncan.

Second, a word about Chuck Murphy. In spite of our recent disagreements, I have respect for the positive aspects of Chuck’s leadership over the years. I refuse to be dismissive of anyone, to allow “dissing” in my heart at all. As my friend, Dallas Willard, has taught me over the past twenty years, “Our projects are not God’s projects. We are God’s project. The only thing God and we get out of this life is the kinds of persons we become as we execute our various tasks of ministry.” I am grateful to Chuck for his acceptance of me into the Anglican world, his investment in C4SO and his willingness to have a cooperative organization-to-organization relationship between theAM and C4SO.

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:57

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Following Jesus for the Sake of Others

It's an old story. People have been following Jesus for the sake of others since the time of the apostles. Followers of Jesus have gathered and formed churches wherever they find themselves. C4SO continues this ancient tradition of forming churches, focusing on the West Coast of America.

Forward thinking. Backward growth.

It's a bold initiative. Launched by the Anglican Mission in the Americas, and called to the Anglican Church in North America in 2012 under the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) is growing churches from the mission field backward. Read More

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It's all about the Kingdom.

If you join us on this journey, you will be planting churches with a heart for the Kingdom of God, making apprentices of Jesus - people who do and say as he taught was best, and do it all for the sake of others.

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Kingdom focus, missional encounters.

Todd Hunter is uniquely gifted and equipped for this ministry. Todd’s tremendous passion for, and experience with, planting churches shaped around Kingdom-based, missional encounters with contemporary culture is just what we need for our West Coast Initiative.