Meet Our Bishop
Alan Hawkins was born in 1970 in Wichita, Kansas, the youngest of three children. He was principally raised in Perry, Oklahoma. His parents became regular church attenders, and Alan was baptized at age five in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. Alan came to Christ in 1989 while studying at Oklahoma State University (OSU) and became involved with CRU, a non-denominational parachurch organization. He married his wife, Angela Kaye, in 1993 after he graduated from OSU and she graduated from Texas A&M. They have five children.
Alan began serving in ministry as a staff member with Cru. He received an M.A. in theological studies from Reformed Theological Seminary in 2002 as well as an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Montreat College in 2021.
In 2008, Alan and his wife planted the Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro as part of the Anglican Mission in America. The church began as a small group in the Hawkins’ living room and grew to an average Sunday attendance of over 500 people.
Alan envisioned the church as a “parish, park, farm, and an abbey”. In 2017, Redeemer moved to a new eight-acre campus in north Greensboro on the site of a former nursery and landscape design company.
In addition to serving as rector of Redeemer from 2008 to 2021, Alan held numerous roles at the diocesan and provincial levels. He served as an AMIA network leader for churches in North Carolina, east Tennessee and southern Virginia. He was a founding leader in PEAR-USA and served as canon missioner in the Diocese of Christ Our Hope from 2015 to 2021. He led the diocese’s church planting strategy, built a system for missional partnership proposals that has funded several million dollars’ worth of mission activities, and designed the diocese’s regional deanery operational plan.
In 2012, Alan was appointed vicar, or provincial director, of Anglican 1000, the ACNA’s province-wide church planting initiative with a goal of making church planting the “norm” for ACNA dioceses and churches. The initiative responded to a call by Archbishop Robert Duncan to plant 1,000 new churches in five years. Through Anglican 1000,Alan championed a “1-2-3” model, challenging each of the ACNA’s 950 congregations to commit to planting one church within the next two years using one of three church planting methods.
In 2014, the newly elected archbishop, Foley Beach, named Alan as Canon for provincial development, where he helped raise $1 million annually to support provincial initiatives. In 2018, Alan was named chief operating officer for the ACNA, overseeing the church’s financial and communications offices in Ambridge, PA and the ACNA’s initiatives on leadership development, diversity, youth leadership, global partnerships, justice and mercy ministries, church planting, and generosity. At the communion level, Alan also led GAFCON’s church planting network.
On April 29, 2021, Alan was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Christ our Hope. He was consecrated by Foley Beach at Redeemer in Greensboro on November 5, 2021. He succeeded Steve Breedlove as bishop ordinary at the diocesan synod in November 2024. Bishop Alan Hawkins also serves as the Program Director for the Clergy Financial Wellness Initiative (CFWI) for the Anglican Church in North America.