Bishop Robert’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bishop-robert-cac/
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For starters, do you want to say a bit about the Confessing Anglican Church?
Sure. So the Confessing Anglican Church is a church that walks in all three streams of historic Christianity. By that I mean we are fully sacramental, fully evangelical, and fully Pentecostal Charismatic. So we believe in the efficiency and effectiveness of the sacraments of Eucharist and Baptism. We believe in the gospel – that people must have a relationship with Christ in order to be free from their sin and forgiven. And we believe in the present-day operation of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. So, we believe words of knowledge and wisdom, and we believe healings continue, and we see them. And we believe that God leads us through gifts of faith and insight. So that’s the overview. So what does that mean in terms of what is the Confessing Anglican Church? What it means is that we are a church that relies on the three foundational power elements in history to be an effective church in today’s society. It means we address issues of holiness and righteousness. We address issues where people’s lives are threatened and where people’s situations require intervention. That might mean stepping in on the ground in Afghanistan. It might be working with people in Nigeria. It might be the homeless in your own community. But it means that we are engaged with our community because we believe that that’s what the church is called to do. So we’re the church. We’re not here to be served. The church isn’t serving us. We’re the church, and we serve the world.
Can you say a bit about the veteran charities and your involvement with them?
I’ll give you one key example, and that’s what has become known as the Moral Compass Federation. Because of my military background and other connections, I had friends and acquaintances in the special forces community, and when Afghanistan fell, we were having conversations about it. We realized pretty quickly that there were a lot of really good people doing a lot of really good things, but there wasn’t a lot of coordination at that point. And so I spoke with one of the individuals who’s the head of the Special Forces Association of America, and a couple of other individuals with other groups, and I said, “Look, we need we need a tier one group. We need we need you know leaders who can coordinate efforts, and we need leaders who can communicate on how to work together, have been trained how to work together, and aren’t concerned who gets the credit because we’re used to working and not getting credit anyway. It doesn’t make any difference. So we actually began a group. I think I think initially I called it Tier One. That was a bad choice given the normative military application of that term, and it very quickly resolved and changed into the group name that was chosen was the Moral Compass Federation. But at one point, that was I think 28, 30 different groups like Operation Pineapple, the Pineapple Express, and you know Black Feather, and different other special forces groups that were working together and cooperatively, sharing information, sharing resources, processing resources. So there were some things that one group was better at than another, and we leveraged those capacities. So I, as an individual, because of my faith and my military background and my you know my love for people, but also our church, because of my function as a Bishop, I was able to involve the church. We were able to have a very significant impact in Afghanistan in that that situation. That’s a good example situation. It’s not the only one. We’re working in other nations where there’s persecution going on right now. I won’t go into too much detail, but we have individuals who are on the ground in the Middle East who are in very precarious situations and are working very effective ministries. I was in Nigeria earlier this year. We’ve been working on a on a plan to help address issues in Nigeria. We’ve got churches in Africa. I’ll use the example South Sudan and DRC, where our clergy are literally under threat of death, and but they continue to work.
Is there an OSINT component to your work? And is there is there are there ways that people in faith communities can get involved in OSINT?
Sure. So there. is an OSINT component to my work because we have some key leaders utilizing, I’ll just say, secure communications channels. I mean, you know, we’re on one right now, so you’re pretty aware of which channel I’m speaking of, and we monitor a vast number of posted boards to give us up-to-date information in various areas where we have people working, we provide them information when and where possible. I’ll not identify the country, but we have clergy in a particular country where persecution is rampant, where churches are regularly destroyed, where people are killed. And earlier this year, I had the opportunity to meet with some very interested individuals from the State Department, and their questions were, are you able to provide us with valid intel that tells us who are the people behind these sorts of persecution? Because the State Department is not without its tools. So we’ve been working to do that, but literally getting that information out of that country in a way that doesn’t put either the remaining individuals in country or even the couriers at risk has proven to be a very challenging situation. And so providing information so that other organizations and even governments can take effective action on is one way churches need to be doing their part in in helping to save lives. Secondarily, churches, at least in the United States, have freedoms of operation that are similar in many ways, but different to other nonprofit organizations. So, a 501c3 organization in the United States, for example, a nonprofit organization, is limited in some of the ways with which it can distribute funds for programs, and it is very it is a difficult and challenging process for a 501c3 to be able to distribute money to specific individuals in specific instances. Churches do not operate under any such restriction, so you know you might think to yourself, well, Afghanistan is a past issue. That was, you know, 2021, and you know here we are at 2026. But literally yesterday, we received some funds that were targeted to be delivered to a specific individual in a specific location in a country near Afghanistan, where they’re in hiding and they’re waiting to get transition out to a safe country. Something we’ve done with literally hundreds of individuals, and we transferred those funds. And as a church, we’re not restricted from sending money to a specific individual for a specific humanitarian purpose, and so I think churches need to be willing to do that. Does it involve extra work? Of course it does. Does it involve some element of risk? Sometimes it does.
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