District of the West Convocation 10/2019. Mr Bartlett kneeling to Right
Call for an Anglican Minister * Our Class Leader * Our Preaching Points
Please join us! We are part of a network of families and Protestant homes, aka. Church of God (p. 546, 1928 BCP), in northern California (Fremont, Auburn, & Sonora). We keep keep class meetings and use the American prayer book, being a connexion in the United Episcopal Church (UECNA) for lone persons in the West. The Society has ranks for class leaders, exhorters, preachers, and Helpers if aspiring. New members begin with a societal Ticket, an edition of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and handbook for our General Rule.
We are also searching an episcopally-ordained Anglican minister to provide local leadership. We are in the process of calling a minister to fill some of the above roles, right in learning and godly conversation ( p. 536, 1928 BCP). Contact us if ye be a deacon or priest, even an enrolled seminarian, interested in mission work in northern California as well as further afield. For information call 408-564-2435.
We are also searching an episcopally-ordained Anglican minister to provide local leadership. We are in the process of calling a minister to fill some of the above roles, right in learning and godly conversation ( p. 536, 1928 BCP). Contact us if ye be a deacon or priest, even an enrolled seminarian, interested in mission work in northern California as well as further afield. For information call 408-564-2435.
Opening for an Anglican Minister. We are looking for a bivocational minister to lead the extension of the United Episcopal Church in northern California, adorned with true Doctrine and innocency of life (p.. 237, 1928 BCP). Most of the work is in the south Bay Area and nearby, going to the highways and byways of the Far West. Please contact the Presiding Bishop for actual qualifications.
Our Class Leader. The Rev. Mr. Casey Fargo has been our class leader since 2017. He also occasionally preaches at Fremont's UE chapel-in-formation. Mr. Fargo was ordained to the diaconate in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) in 2013 and enjoys promoting biblical discipleship. He's currently forming prayer meetings for the OPC in Angels Camp and Sonora CA. The Fargo family have been ministering to the sick and elderly for over ten years, mostly in San Francisco.
Our House-Keeper. Mr. Charles Bartlett was confirmed in the UECNA in 2010. He's been a Reader for the UE in the South Bay since 2014, keeping a bare public worship at a local Quaker Meeting House. He continues to lend his home as a preaching point. Three of Mr. Bartlett's six children were baptized by United Episcopal priests (and one by the Rev Mr Fargo) during local visitations over the years. He enjoys meeting other Christians in the Far West and loves old Oregon & California history.
"O God, who dost ever hallow and protect thy Church; Raise up therein, through thy Spirit, good and faithful stewards of the mysteries of Christ, that by their ministry and example thy people may abide in thy favor and be guided in the way of truth... Amen" (1928 BCP, p. 562)