For More Information

To learn more about how you or your parish could become involved, or to arrange a speaker, please be in touch with David and Liz Rivers, Committee Co-Chairs, at (215) 376-0173 or revdave@aol.com

• Companion Diocese Committee
• About the Ministry

About the Ministry

Some hopes with which we began:

• To strengthen ties within the Anglican Communion through shared experiences across cultural and geographical boundaries within the Body of Christ.
• To build relationships in which each partner both gives and receives through parish-to-parish relationships, exchange visits, youth involvement, and shared prayer lists.

Some of our accomplishments to date:

• Prayer calendar in use by parishes in the dioceses of Pennsylvania and Guatemala.
• Initiating visits by bishops of each diocese to diocesan convention of the other.
• Linkage of every congregation in Guatemala with fourteen parishes in Pennsylvania.
• Exchange visits between several of these companion congregations by clergy and/or laity.
• "Encuentro" extended visit by 11 Pennsylvania clergy and laity to Guatemala in 1998.
• "Encuentro" extended visit by 17 Guatemalan clergy and laity to Pennsylvania in 1999.
• Launching of newsletter Companeros.
• Aid provided for some church schools and for Hurricanes Mitch and Stan relief.