A Glimpse of the Future Arwen: "You have the gift of foresight. What did you see?" Elrond: "I looked into your future and I saw death!" Arwen: "But there is also life. You saw there was a child, you saw my son!" Elrond: "That future is almost gone." Arwen: "But it is not lost." Those among the orthodox remnant in ECUSA often play the role of Elrond, but we've recently had an Arwen moment. In Atlanta, GA, the bishop of Bolivia re-affirmed over 330 people at 2 services. This included 6 baptisms, 38 confirmations, and 44 receptions. In other words, there were 88 people not previously associated with Anglicanism that found Jesus through the Anglican Way. And all this in a congregation that meets in a school cafeteria. For too long evangelism in American Anglicanism has had the millstone of the National Church to contend with. Now we see a non-ECUSA (yet still Anglican, via Bolivia) parish exploding in growth (the priest expects to double in the next 18 months). And clearly this is not all angry Episcopalians, but new converts to Christ and to Anglicanism. I pray this is a glimpse into the future, the future of a non-ECUSA Anglican Communion in the United States and Canada. Amid all the recent nonsense, especially the "marriage" of Bishop Otis Charles, we see death and the future looks almost gone. But as Atlanta shows, there is also life. The future is not lost.