Our Moravian, Lutheran, and Anglican traditions are each historic communities of faith in Jesus Christ, which have roots in the ancient common tradition of the apostolic Church. We were also each shaped in many ways by the reforming impulses of 15th and 16th century Europe. At various times in our early histories, we found important points of contact and collaboration.

Today, we find ourselves as neighbours in various parts of our respective global communions. In Canada, the Moravian Church in North America, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, and the Anglican Church of Canada have a number of congregations that live and minister alongside one another. Local ministry collaborations have developed to varying extents and degrees, and increasingly so in recent years. These emerging grassroots connections, along with a growing sense of the need for churches to walk faithfully together as disciples into an uncertain future, call us to seek full communion and deeper ministry partnerships together according to the prayer of our common Saviour.

(Most of the text above has been excerpted, with minor edits, from One Flock, One Shepherd, the proposed Lutheran-Anglican-Moravian Declaration.)