NAMS Network 
The information on this page was last updated 6/11/2024. If you see errors or omissions, please email: [email protected]
Summary
The New Anglican Missionary Society (NAMS) is a global Anglican order of missionary Companions and Sisters that inspire, equip, assist and plant new churches that are submitted to Christ Jesus, and his Word.
Contact information
Mailing address:
NAMS Network
P.O. Box 3046
Georgetown, SC 29442
Website: Namsnetwork.com
Phone: 843-867-3719
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 273731123
CEO/President: Jon Shuler
Chairman: Jon Shuler
Board size: 6
Founder: Jon Shuler
Ruling year: 2011
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 12/31
Member of ECFA: No
Member of ECFA since:
Purpose
Our charge is to preach and teach "Jesus Christ and Him crucified;" to plant new churches wherever God opens the door; always to obey the Holy Spirit; and never to break the Word of God.
Mission statement
Our call is to follow Jesus Christ as NAMS Companions and Sisters obeying the Final Command, as members of an "order of Church Planters."
Statement of faith
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/65f378cc91070667ec85f070/t/66194ece199dc6521a39b193/1712934606731/NAMS_Rule_2024.pdf
Donor confidence score
Transparency grade
D
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Evangelism Support
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 868 of 1111 | 27 of 36 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 980 of 1113 | 34 of 36 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 1089 of 1113 | 35 of 36 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 143 of 1111 | 4 of 36 |
Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2022 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 6% | 14% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 6% | 14% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 99% | 100% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 6% | 17% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 1% | 0% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2022 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 84% | 59% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 97% | 81% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 84% | 48% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 3% | 19% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 3% | 69% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 12% | 24% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2022 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 1.20 | 3.03 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 1.33 | 1.00 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 1.72 | 3.03 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2022 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 39.39 | 0.00 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.02 | 0.00 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 6.78 | 3.96 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2022 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 5% | 0% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 78% | 33% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |
| Assets | 2022 |
| Cash | $105,459 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $0 |
| Short-term investments | $0 |
| Other current assets | $0 |
| Total current assets | $105,459 |
| Long-term investments | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $0 |
| Other long-term assets | $0 |
| Total long-term assets | $0 |
| Total assets | $105,459 |
| Liabilities | 2022 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $0 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $0 |
| Debt | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $0 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $0 |
| Total liabilities | $0 |
| Net assets | 2022 |
| Without donor restrictions | $105,459 |
| With donor restrictions | $0 |
| Net assets | $105,459 |
| Revenues and expenses | |
| Revenue | 2022 |
| Total contributions | $392,701 |
| Program service revenue | $0 |
| Membership dues | $0 |
| Investment income | $17 |
| Other revenue | $0 |
| Total other revenue | $17 |
| Total revenue | $392,718 |
| Expenses | 2022 |
| Program services | $189,915 |
| Management and general | $75,958 |
| Fundraising | $53,919 |
| Total expenses | $319,792 |
| Change in net assets | 2022 |
| Surplus (deficit) | $72,926 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | $72,926 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Manik Corea | Vice President | $36,000 |
| Sam Horowitz | Secretary | $11,328 |
| Jon Shuler | President | $5,000 |
Compensation data as of: 12/31/2022
Response from ministry
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History
NAMS was born in 1993 as the North American Missionary Society. However, it was conceived in 1973.
I was walking the dog and playing with my two young sons in the park in Durham, England. While enjoying a Saturday break from my Ph.D. research, I seemed to "hear" a voice. It impressed these words into my spirit: "There needs to be an Anglican order of Church Planters."
Initially, I alone thought this voice was from the Lord. No one in England or North America affirmed this call until 1993. That year, the then-bishop of Pittsburgh, Alden Hathaway, challenged me to start NAMS:
"We need a missionary society that will plant new Great Commission churches in North America like SAMS does in South America."
I was convinced that what I "heard" twenty years before was true and applied to this invitation. Two other bishops, Alex Dickson of West Tennessee and James Stanton of Dallas, concurred with +Alden, and the three laid hands on me and commissioned me as the founding leader.
In my mind and heart, the order was born that day. However, when the first board meeting convened, they believed we should organize like every other Anglican missionary agency. Outvoted 4 to 1, having no money and no history, I, of course, submitted. Our work began in North America, and we quickly found a diocese that wanted our help. We would share vision, find and train planters, raise support, and give ongoing guidance and temporary oversight before handing the work over to the diocese. Thirty years have now passed, and we serve in over forty nations.
To tell the story of these years briefly, it is helpful to think in terms of three stages.
1993-1997
Though most of our work in the first years was in either the USA or Canada, my theological training, ordination, and graduate study in England had left me with many relationships. Among those friends was George Carey. In 1992, he had invited me, as a priest committed to the renewal of the Anglican Way, to serve with him in the Diocese of Canterbury. Renewal had quite passed that diocese by, he said, and I gladly accepted the invitation.
I began to travel back and forth across the Atlantic several times a year, and by 1994, I was sharing the work and ministry of NAMS in England as well. For a season, we had the blessing of Canterbury. That led to many queries: "Why is the North American Missionary Society serving in England?" In 1996, we changed our name to the New Anglican Missionary Society, and the global call on NAMS became clear.
1997 - 2009
1997 was a year of significant change for Anglicans in America, as a group of presbyters took a stand opposing the theological drift that was advancing rapidly in the Episcopal Church. The "First Promise Movement" grew out of their stand, and soon, a loose consortium of ministries gathered together to support a demand for disciplined biblical correction. The movement appealed to overseas bishops for help, and many came to our aid. NAMS was among those ministries and the dispute and schism that eventually resulted deeply affected our welcome in North America. Meanwhile, our global work was expanding, and in 1998, the Archbishop of Southeast Asia, Moses Tay, took me in as a priest of his diocese and agreed to be Archbishop Guardian of NAMS in his province. It opened the door to NAMS serving the global Anglican family.
NAMS now began to be the servant of many clergy, laypeople, and a few bishops in the Episcopal community of America as we were discovering a new way forward. From 1997 to 2008, we helped, either directly under our care or in partnership with others, over two hundred new Anglican congregations to begin. Many, but not all, were groups reconstituting themselves after being forcefully ejected from their diocese or choosing to leave.
An Anglican Order of Church Planters
We were growing worldwide, but our North American work was "labeling" us throughout the Anglican world. Traditional and conservative dioceses and provinces supported us, and others did not. We experienced the Anglican family breaking in two. However, we tried, and we still do, to bridge the schism with our mission and ministry wherever we find the Church submitted to Christ and his word.
When the Anglican Church in North America was born in 2009, out of the GAFCON Movement, it became clear that another transition was upon NAMS. The ACNA was embracing church planting as a part of its founding DNA. Indeed, at the Founding Synon in Denton, Texas, Archbishop Bob Duncan called for the ACNA to plant 1,000 new churches. After a season of prayer and broad consultation, NAMS returned to the words from 1973 and reconstituted itself as "an Anglican order of Church Planters."
2010 - 2023
Refounding NAMS as an order under rule led to many developments in our mission. We covenanted together as Missionary Companions with the prayer and desire to unite as a "band of brothers and sisters on mission" in every nation where the Lord opened a door. We restructured our global work into continental divisions and began to build a truly global cross-cultural leadership team. By 2013, we had embraced a missionary strategy that focused on raising up church-planting leaders in fifteen "mega-regions" of the world, as had been suggested to us by Patrick Johnstone in his magisterial work, The Future of Global Christianity.
2023 again finds NAMS in a pivotal transition from its founding season to an ongoing ministry serving the Anglican Family and, through them, the whole church of the Lord Jesus. We pray that this transition will prepare us to serve faithfully the glorious gospel as long as the Lord desires it of us.
Jon Shuler