John was telling me that the Kenyan prayer book did not have a rite for the celebration of a new ministry or induction as he called it. When John discovered such a rite in the BCP of The Episcopal Church, which he received as a gift from Bexley Hall Seminary before he returned home, he recommended it to his bishop for adoption in the Diocese of Thika. And so it was!
In The Episcopal Church, I've been in a number of churches that have used prayers in "Our Modern Services" of the Anglican Church of Kenya. In a church where we often say, "If you want to know what we believe, see how we worship," perhaps borrowing from each others prayer books which are both mostly adaptations of the 1662 BCP shows we really are much more alike in our beliefs than loud voices and news media would suggest.
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