A community of like-minded parishes in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area.
 
 

What we can do together
When communities come together so many new things may be accomplished.  The following are some initial ideas...what ideas do you have?
  • Join in Evensong together every three months, hosted each time by a different parish
  • Contribute to this web site
  • Directory of parishes and clergy in the AFDV
  • Share tracts, papers, church school curricula
  • Joint training -where possible- of church school teachers, layreaders, catechists, permanent deacons
  • Start a publishing company like Preservation Press
  • Retreats, quiet days
  • Community picnics
  • Shared performances, recitals, plays
  • Eastertide Evensong with mite box collection and a preacher from the missions
  • Sponsoring missionaries and charitable works and clergy or parishes in need
  • Covering for clergy vacations and other absences
  • Refer people to each parish; grow the community
  • In our own parishes, each of us meet with neighboring Roman Catholic, Orthodox, evangelical and pentecostal clergy, as opportunity arises
  • Tapestry Ministry of Bonnie Shannonhouse: an orthodox and ecumenical prayer ministry
  • AFDV Newsletters
  • Much more!