Guiding emerging Anglican leaders toward their full potential during a three-week retreat in Charleston, South Carolina and other locations around the globe

  • "Leadership training is a long neglected component of biblically faithful Anglicanism, so the knowledge that the Anglican Leadership Institute is now to be born is exceedingly good news. Without wise and imaginative leadership congregations cannot flourish, nor can any vision of spiritual advance be sustained. In our age of spiritual drift a potential significance of leadership training is enormous." ”
    — James I. Packer | Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
  • "A laudable and most needed project for the future of the Church. I offer myself to be part of it..." ”
    — The Most Rev. Benjamin Kwashi | Archbishop of Jos, Nigeria
  • "Good news for the Anglican communion. The Institute is crucial to equip new leaders who can help the church grow and the Gospel to spread." ”
    — The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Anis | Bishop of Egypt, North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Archbishop of the Middle East
  • "Exactly in line with one of my passions...I am with you 200%...May God grant real fruitfulness and effectiveness in this wonderful initiative to encourage, equip and resource key leaders!" ”
    — The Rt. Rev. Kenneth Clarke | Mission Director SAMS UK and Ireland, and former Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh
  • "This sounds wonderful and will help shape the next generation of Anglican Leaders from around the world...It also will encourage theological education for young clergy around the Anglican Communion." ”
    — The Most Rev. Foley Beach | Archbishop, Anglican Church in North America
  • "It sounds like a wonderful project...that would give us an opportunity to encourage some of the excellent leaders that are already in the ministry in many countries." ”
    — The Rt. Rev. Henry Scriven | Mission Director for South America, Church Missionary Society, UK

Vision

In his 2014 Convention Address, Bishop Mark Lawrence called for the creation of a leadership training initiative that would bring future leaders together for study, teaching, reflection, and nurture.

our Commission

We offer men and women, with a proven track of ministry, a chance to spend three weeks in community under the guidance of expert leaders who have exercised faithful and effective ministry in their own contexts.

The SeSSION

Global Anglican leaders will nominate participants with distinctive leadership potential to attend A.L.I. Once chosen, A.L.I. will cover the costs of travel, training and residential expenses to attend.

Strangers No More

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Once each year, for a full three weeks, fifteen to eighteen men and women arrive from the four corners of the earth to live together, and work to break the culture barrier that would naturally keep them apart. None of them have ever met, many will never come this way again, and few have ever experienced the culture and customs that shaped their classmates. The only common factor is that they are all ordained Anglican priests. Some are bishops, and others are relatively new to ministry, but most fall somewhere between the 35-55 age group and are open to learning about leadership in the modern world.

Each Institute brings together emerging Anglican leaders for a unique learning experience with teachings in the principles of leadership based on the foundation of the Anglican Formularies and the Jerusalem Declaration. In addition to lectures on the Bible, culture, and preaching, they are also given tools to assess their gifts, character, and leadership styles. A.L.I. has graduated more than 160 fellows from over 30 countries. The participants are exposed to faithful teachers and gifted CEOs from around the globe. With the twin emphases of “competence” and “character,” these emerging leaders wrestle with uncovering God’s vision for their life and their ministries, while immersed in a tight-knit community that eats, sleeps, prays, laughs, and learns together.

NEW A.L.I. DIRECTOR ANNOUNCED

The Anglican Leadership Institute announces the Rev Dr. Frog Orr-Ewing as the new A.L.I. Executive Director beginning in September 2023. He is preceded by A.L.I.’s Founder and the 2023 Interim Director, Bp. Mark Lawrence and Executive Director, the Rev. Dr. Peter C. Moore, 2015-2020.

Frog says: “It is a great honour and weighty responsibility to be asked to join the A.L.I. Team through this next season.  The aim of the Institute has been to combine generous hospitality with spiritual refreshment, practical equipping and theological depth to the next generation of leaders from the global church, and to do so especially for those who have responsibilities in the Anglican family of churches, provinces and congregations. These are enormously challenging times, with many churches facing acute poverty and persecution, whilst others face more philosophical and cultural challenges, all set within a rapidly changing technological landscape.  All who have responded to the call of Christ to serve will resonate with the desire of this Institute to identify, support and gather ‘good shepherds of the flock’.  I am grateful to the Board of A.L.I. and to the Alumni who have so warmly welcomed me into this new role.”