The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) is the latest African church to reject financial aid from individuals and organizations which supported the New Hampshire consecration.

ACK recently terminated a six-year partnership with Trinity Parish, Wall Street, which had funded the ACK’s Theological Education by Extension program.

Administered by ACK’s provincial office and validated by Carlisle College in Nairobi, the program has more than 4,000 students enrolled in its basic course. There are more than 450 students in its certificate program with Trinity, Wall Street, covering the administrative costs.

The British evangelical group Reform, in conjunction with the Crosslinks missionary society of London, has pledged to replace the funds to the province following its decision not to accept additional money from Trinity, Wall Street.

In July, Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi of Kenya asked David Williams, a Crosslinks missionary and principal of Carlile College, to take over the theological program as the ACK could no longer, as a matter of conscience, accept funds from Trinity.

Alan Purser, Crosslinks London regional team leader, told The Living Church the organization was “fully supportive of” the actions taken by Kenya and other churches in refusing funds from the U.S. At this point, the “initiative now rests with individual [congregations] to participate if they so wish, and I expect there may be others outside of the Reform constituency who might also wish to do so,” he stated. At its national conference in October, Reform pledged to “commit itself, in partnership with Crosslinks,” to replace the funds “that ACK has forfeited by virtue of their principled stand in declining funds from ECUSA.”