John Stott is one of my heroes and I had the privilege of meeting him several times. Among the vast number of signifi-cant things that he achieved in his life was the founding of the Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion in 1961.
EFAC has the clear aim and purpose to encourage and develop biblically faithful fellowship, teaching and mission throughout the Anglican world. Such an all-encompassing purpose must necessarily be honed down to goals that are realistic.
My first real encounter with EFAC was as a very new and young bishop at the 1998 Lambeth Conference. EFAC arranged a conference before the main gathering which very helpfully brought together evangelical bishops from around the Communion. This then extended throughout the conference in the form of supporting those of us who wanted to maintain an orthodox, evangelical position on the issues of the day.
