Founding Rector Fargo Anglican Church Plant launch team forming Anglican Church in Fargo

Fargo Anglican Church Plant
The Opportunity

Fargo Anglican is the working name of a proposed Anglican church plant in Fargo, North Dakota. The group of lay people who make up the launch team are seeking a church planter to establish and lead the new church under the initial sponsorship and oversight of Church of the Cross in Minneapolis, a member of the Diocese of the Upper Midwest, Anglican Church of North America.

No ACNA churches currently exist in the state of North Dakota; the closest ACNA congregations are in the Twin Cities in Minnesota and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

We envision this new Anglican church plant as a community where:

• People come to know and experience God through reverent and joyful worship, marked by devotion to God’s Word and the weekly celebration of the Eucharist.
• All generations are invited to grow in mission, generosity, and care for their neighbors.
• There is a demonstrated value for beauty, the historical practices of the church, and the riches of both contemporary and traditional music.
• The strong entrepreneurial and strategic culture of Fargo is strengthened for Kingdom effectiveness.
• Effectual and transformative prayer is practiced, rooted in trust in the work of the Holy Spirit today.

This is an opportunity for a Spirit‑led, gifted, and motivated Anglican priest who has a vision for Christlike transformation and wholeness, both for individuals and for the broader Fargo community.

The initial steps toward an Anglican church plant in Fargo began with meetings among interested lay people in Spring 2025 for discussion and prayer. These were followed by Zoom meetings with Molly Ruch, Canon for Church Planting of the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest, and Christian Ruch, Rector of Church of the Cross in the Twin Cities. They agreed to offer ongoing oversight and support, with Church of the Cross acting as the sponsoring church.

In May 2025, the launch team hosted two prayer meetings to introduce Anglican liturgy and worship, share the vision, and teach key distinctives of the church. About 60 people attended. From these gatherings, the launch team grew.

The team began reading together and continued meeting with Molly and Christian to discuss next steps and Anglican distinctives. Daniel Bixby was designated as team leader, responsible for liaison work, organizing meetings, and assigning responsibilities.

In October 2025, the team hosted an Anglican Eucharistic worship service at Plymouth Congregational Church in Fargo with approximately 60 attendees. The launch team continued to grow and established a fund through Church of the Cross for designated giving to the Fargo work. In January 2026, and again in March, additional services were held with similar attendance. Future services are being planned.

Several of the core leaders have met with other area churches who have shown an interest in allowing a new church plant to use their facilities for worship.

The team continues to meet regularly, focusing on next steps, Fargo’s context, Anglican formation, outreach, and the process of calling a church planter. The core group continues to expand as more families and individuals show genuine interest and commitment to starting an Anglican church in Fargo.

We seek an ordained Anglican male priest who, through the power of the Holy Spirit, can plant and lead a viable new church and guide a growing congregation.

This candidate will be Godly, prayerful, relational, a strong preacher of God’s Word, committed to sacramental and liturgical worship, and gifted in pastoral leadership.

The Fargo church plant is beginning as a mission of Church of the Cross (Hopkins, Minnesota), and receives supervision and oversight from the Rector and Vestry. The Bishop of the Upper Midwest Diocese and the Rector of Church of the Cross, in collaboration with the Fargo launch team, will guide and approve the search process and hiring of the planter. Compensation will follow diocesan and Church of the Cross guidelines.

• Ordained in the ACNA (or ordained in another denomination and coming into the ACNA);
  Master of Divinity or equivalent
• Meets diocesan church planter…