Predicting "a lot of movement" this month by Episcopal congregations either remaining with the Episcopal Church or splitting, ALF asks survey respondents how they would personally vote and how they think their parish would vote when given the choice between the Episcopal Church or Anglican alternatives. ALF expects responses from the survey to demonstrate what the upcoming months and years will look like for both the Episcopal Church and the conservative Anglican movement.
ALF clearly states that it makes "no apologies for its own conservative point of view".
"It (ALF) has assigned to itself the task helping the laity to know the mind of Christ as they struggle with this fateful decision," reads a statement.
Controversy had heightened when The Episcopal Church consecrated its first openly gay bishop in 2003. After years of warnings not to consecrate another openly gay bishop or bless same-sex unions and efforts to keep the worldwide Anglican Communion together, many predict the global body is now on the brink of schism with little hope left for unity.
This month, the Common Cause Partners' meeting will come on the heels of a meeting between The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops and Anglican Communion's spiritual head, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams.
US Episcopal head Katharine Jefferts Schori had urged a meeting with Dr Williams "to hear directly from us about our concern for all members of this church, those we agree with theologically and those with whom we disagree, gay and lesbian members of our church and those who find it difficult to countenance blessing unions or ordaining gay and lesbian people".
Confirming his acceptance in April of the invitation by Episcopal bishops, Dr Williams said, "These are difficult days because I think the [worldwide Anglican] Communion in recent years has had to face the fact that the division on certain subjects, especially human sexuality, has been getting much more deep and bitter and threatens to divide us.
"My aim is to try and keep people around the table as long as possible on this, to understand one another, and to encourage local churches on this side of the Atlantic and elsewhere to ask what they might need to do to keep in that conversation, to keep around the table," he added.
As an association of churches in full communion with the Church of England, the Anglican Communion is currently the third largest church body in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. It considers itself as being both Catholic and Reformed.
