Three Streams United – A New Website To Connect Us! (Please Read)

Brothers,

As we enter this next chapter of communicating the life of our communion, we are launching Three Streams United — a unified effort to amplify the story, worship, and witness of the Charismatic Episcopal Church across modern platforms. Our mission is simple: to share with clarity, beauty, and Spirit the works of God happening in our parishes throughout the nation. This ministry depends entirely on participation from our churches. We cannot tell the story of the CEC without the voices, sermons, testimonies, photos, and written reflections of our people. We are asking you, our clergy, to serve as the first filter and encouragers of this effort. Please review the forms below and share them with those in your parish who can help generate meaningful content.

 

Why Your Participation Matters

From the earliest days of our movement, the CEC has carried a prophetic call to bear witness to the fullness of Christian worship — the convergence of the evangelical, charismatic, and sacramental streams. In past decades this message spread through books, cassette ministries, conferences, and worship albums. Today, that same message must be carried through YouTube, Instagram, podcasts, and written digital publications. Every submission — whether or not it is published — helps us see how God is moving in our communion. Not every piece can be selected for publication, but every piece informs the editorial teams and strengthens the collective picture of life in the CEC. Our goal is not volume, but faithful representation of what God is doing in our churches.

 

Submission Forms

Below are the three forms that will allow your parish to contribute to the YouTube channel, the Sermon of the Week, Instagram/Facebook highlights, and the Substack publishing arm of 3SU.

1. Sermon of the Week / Video Submissions (YouTube & Podcast)

Submit weekly sermons for consideration for the Sermon of the Week and long-form video/podcast content.

Link: https://forms.gle/auRpBaFmA2MHFULSA

 

2. Photos, Parish Spotlights, Testimonies, Events, Social Media Content (Instagram/Facebook)

Submit parish photos, short videos, testimonies, event highlights, feast-day moments, and anything visually capturing the life of your church.

Link: https://forms.gle/Hz6rzVNznPXzFucG7

 

3. Written Articles, Testimonials, Event Write-Ups, Prophetic Words (Three Streams Publishing / Substack)

Submit written content for review by our editorial team, including teaching articles, devotionals, testimonies, event journalism, or reflections.

(Please see the attached submission guide referenced in the form.)

Link: https://forms.gle/6AjJzMY8z3tKeqKu6

A Final Word

The CEC is experiencing a fresh stirring of the Spirit. We have seen it in our churches, in our young adults, and in gatherings like Three Streams Ignited. God is pouring out on our churches and part of stewarding that outpouring is making the works of God visible across our communion. We are deeply grateful for your partnership. Please encourage your parish leaders, worship teams, writers, photographers, and storytellers to participate. Your leadership will make all the difference as we “write the vision and make it plain” for all our people.

If you have any questions, or if you’d like help discerning what to submit, please reach out at 3su@cec-na.org.

In Christ,

Three Streams United

Healing Service at Transfiguration Church!

Last Tuesday the 6th of January, 2026 Bishop Rob Northwood, Father Jim Ball, Deacon Mark Carico, and Uriah Northwood went down to Williamsburg to our new church building for Transfiguration church to partake in its first healing service! The church was beautiful, thriving and God was moving! Glory to God!

Update on Our Mission Church, Christ The Redeemer in Pigtown Baltimore, MD

Robotics Team

Christ the Redeemer Ministries has been serving our community by
coaching a First Lego League Challenge team, Shark Frenzy!, for the
past 5 years. This year’s team is made up of 5 elementary and middle
schoolers from around Baltimore City. Musa, Tahrir, Aarya, Nathan, and
Vincent competed against 16 teams at the Anne Arundel Community
College qualifier in December. They took home 4th place overall as
well as a trophy for their Innovation Project! Shark Frenzy is now
able to move on to the state qualifier at University of Maryland
Baltimore County on February 21st. Come out and support our team!


Over the years, the team has looked different. We started as a team of
2, made up of 2 families from Pigtown. In recent years, we have had
more interest from families all around Baltimore. We have been able to
serve a total of 6 families over the last 5 years, but keep our roots
in Pigtown. Christ the Redeemer continues to host the only First Lego
League team in Baltimore City that is not school-based, but open to
the community. We meet every Saturday at the church to practice
programming, research, and teamwork. Christ the Redeemer has been able
to serve these families in a wide range of ways over the years,
providing spiritual guidance, Christmas presents, canoe trips, and
recovery options to families in need. We continue to see blessings
flow as we serve Baltimore families using our combined gifts of
teaching and engineering under the leadership of Fr. Terry.

Bikes for Christmas

Fr. Terry worked with John and Julia Flagg, a couple who restore used
bikes, to provide two local families with bikes for Christmas. One
family attends Christ the Redeemer church services and was gifted 3
bikes. Another family is a part of the First Lego League team that
meets on Saturdays. They were also gifted 3 bikes. John and Julia
Flagg restored some bikes and donated others to help the church
provide for the families this Christmas.

Confirmation Sunday!

Yesterday, 1/11/26 at the Cathedral Church of Reconciliation, we had confirmation! Welcome to all of our wonderful confirmands! Kurtis, Sarah, Yurri, and Olivia!

                                                

Freedom Conference 2025 In Review!

 

The Freedom curriculum starts out with a reintroduction to our Lord; it helps us to see Him as our beloved, faithful Pursuer and to stop viewing Him as an angry God looking for a reason to damn us. The 12 week course teaches us to live a transparent, repentant, relationship fueled lifestyle; a lifestyle Freedom describes as living in “the Tree of Life.” Every week, my wife, Amber and I have had the pleasure of teaching, using the format of fellowship, prayer, worship, discussion, and Holy Spirit inspired, intentional individual prayer. 

We were able to bring a group to the Freedom Conference in Midlothian, VA. To use a coffee metaphor, the curriculum is like good old fashioned drip coffee, picking up strength over time. The conference was like a few shots of espresso—strong and concentrated in a small amount of time. It was so powerful. The format was similar to the curriculum; praise, a teaching, a group agreement with truth and disagreement with lies, and individual prayer.

This curriculum alongside the conference was so powerful! The testimonies were abundant. Our group has unburied and repented of old weights and hindrances, forgiven wrongs, and had our eyes open to the promises of scripture. This is how God designed us to live. Freedom.

The Freedom Conference 2025 was a powerful weekend of growth, rediscovery, and healing. Sixteen members of the Cathedral Church of Reconciliation joined together at a church near Richmond, VA for nine deeply focused sessions aimed at uncovering the past and present burdens that can keep believers from fully experiencing the abundant life promised in Jesus Christ. Teams of believers—each of whom had previously walked their own journey of healing through past Freedom Conferences—devoted their time, prayers, and gifts to serve. They covered the event in intercession and led the room in heartfelt praise and worship. From the very beginning, the atmosphere was filled with expectation and reverence. 

Throughout the weekend, participants were invited to lay down emotional baggage and trust that Christ—through His Word, united with faith and prayer—can truly transform anything. Many were profoundly touched and left feeling lighter, freer, and renewed. Praise God for the freedom found only in the Holy Name of Jesus!

Introducing Transfiguration Church!

Transfiguration 

Church in Williamsburg, Virginia 

TCW.Life

We are very excited here in Williamsburg with a new facility and a new name! We also have embraced a New Song as our experiences with the Lord expand. 

Transfiguration a feast celebrated on August 6th is a revelation of the glory of God the Son. It records Jesus talking with Moses and Elijah in preparation for His passion. Then a voice from Heaven pronounces the Father’s  pleasure with the Son and stresses the importance of obeying Him. A great revelation of His Deity. 

It is very interesting on how this name change came about. Bishop Robert Northwood and I were discussing the possibility of a name change. We discussed some possibilities and agreed to spend some time in prayer about them. Upon visiting a shut-in from our congregation a couple of weeks later (a long time member named Sandy Sullivan), I was proceeding with prayer prior to serving her holy communion. She put up her hand to signal me to stop and said—“He wants the name changed.” I slapped my thigh in amazement—because she had no way of knowing about the discussion that I had had with the Bishop. I looked at Eddie Sluka who had accompanied me on this visit and we both smiled! 

Our new facility is beautiful and is still in progress as to its readiness for all ages. We are working very hard and we covet your prayers for our expansion and outreach. I have many new programs planned for the new year—so that many different people can find a way into our community. Prayer meetings not being the least. We conducted a “Grief Share” program recently which was very well attended. We intend to continue to reach out to this grieving community. We do however have one need that has been persistent over the years and that is for a Worship Leader. Please pray with us to that end. We have spoken to several people over the years—but with not much fruitfulness.

We are taking a more assertive approach with the help of the Diocese—because we realize without this expression we cannot convey the three streams which converge into the one river effectively. Please pray for us for this victory. Thank you.

 

Father Michael Pacella III, PhD

Let’s Pray

In late October the clergy and several lay persons of the diocese gathered at the cathedral church in Bel Air, MD to pray. That was the entire agenda, just pray. Bishop Northwood called the event a mountaintop prayer gathering and gave no agenda to the prayer, although he did state that it was neither politically driven or topically inspired. The purpose of this gathering was to hear God’s voice and to pray and call upon His name in the year so many have called “A year of foresight” “A year of 20/20 vision”.

Of the gathering Father Michael Pacella of Williamsburg, VA wrote:

 There was great anticipation in the air because we have not been able to meet regularly since the eruption of Covid-19. The Bishop provided great leadership and guidance which enabled the Holy Spirit to flow freely. Truly it was the fire in the fireplace! The worship and preached words were rich and up-lifting. I received a word from the Book of Ezekiel about the dry bones living again and being resurrected into a great people. This can be found in Ezekiel 37. 

Many similar words were given which brought much edification to all.

The fellowship was excellent and fruitful too. We are truly a team and a growing family. The honor of having so many young people among us was also a blessing. I was refreshed spiritually and affirmed by the ministry that the Bishop provided for all who desired prayer. 

God is moving mightily in the Mid-Atlantic Diocese. We are truly blessed to have such a fine and spiritually sensitive leader, as we do in Bishop Rob Northwood.

Father Terry Murphy of Christ the Redeemer in Baltimore:

As we were praying after our lunch, I had a vision of a memory from my past. I was in the backyard on the alley side of our row home in the city. When a saw a familiar sight of a man carrying a bag and wearing a knapsack, with his tools. This man would occasionally come through the neighborhood and ask if anyone wanted their knives sharpened. I then saw Jesus stopping by each church asking if they wanted their “knives” /gifts sharpened. The impression I got was some churches were not interested.

During worship and Fr. Jim singing “Power in the name of Jesus “ I saw the Bishop take his crozier and smash the chain in the center of the link…and the link exploded with force…Bishop Rob asked me to wait after Fr Jim sang “O Come to the Altar” and worship at Jesus feet. The Bishop Rob asked me to share…I did and I said we all have chains…and asked him to break mine…The Bishop asked me to come forward….it was powerful and Bishop Rob prayed over me in proxy for Fr. Rob and Meg….later I saw Bishop Rob use his crozier again breaking another enemy stronghold.

The prayer began on Friday morning and concluded Saturday. Both days it continued well into the late afternoon, with words being given and confirmed, praises being sung, and ministry to many individuals. Praise God for a powerful movement in such a strange hour as this! It was refreshing for all to see and receive a fresh wind from the motion of the Holy Spirit and inspiring to see such fire within the sanctuary and “the fireplace” of apostolic authority.