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Report of the Strategic Planning Commission
For the 41st Annual Convention
Of the Diocese of Central Florida
January 30, 2010
Around the Episcopal Church
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Communion, Covenant and our Anglican Future
Monday 27 July 2009
Reflections on the Episcopal Church's 2009 General Convention from the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion.
Read the full report at: http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2502
One day after a military coup seized power in Honduras, Honduran Bishop Lloyd Allen e-mailed The Episcopal Church's House of Bishops asking for prayers, while friends and relatives of Episcopalians on mission trips to the Central American country are hoping for a speedy end to the unrest.
From Episcopal Life
For two Episcopal Church women, attending parts of the 54th meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women March 1-12 put the local and the global into sharp focus. The sessions also reinforced for them the scope of work ahead for people of faith, said Marge Christie of Ridgewood, New Jersey, and Karen Longnecker of San Diego, California A historic summit meeting of Christian and Muslim leaders at Washington National Cathedral is the topic of ENS Weekly bulletin inserts for March 21. A group of 24 leaders of the Anglican, Shi'a, Sunni and Roman Catholic traditions met at the cathedral March 1 – 3, culminating in a public dialogue and a call to action for interfaith peacemaking efforts in their faith groups Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin has written to the wider church saying that the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck the country Jan. 12 "was our baptism." |
Around the diocese
Bishop John W. Howe announced to the Diocesan Board in October, 2009, that he had appointed Deacon Kristi Alday to the position of Archdeacon, and that she also would be Dean of the Institute for Christian Studies.
A graduate of Rollins College with a degree in economics, Archdeacon Alday worked in the private financial sector until becoming Chief Operating Officer of Walking the Mourner’s...
The Union of Black Episcopalians, Central Florida Chapter, invites you to a free screening of the film “Bring Your ‘A’ Game,” directed by Mario Van Peebles, Saturday, March 13, 10:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection, 251 East Lake Brantley Drive, Longwood, FL 32779. We encourage you to bring your youth to participate in a post-screening conversation on transforming the...
At the end of 2009, Beatrice Wilder, the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida's beloved historiographer, archivist and librarian, announced her semi-retirement at age 99. Here is the first segment of a multi-part series of interviews with her. This section, recorded Feb. 11, 2010, by Joe Thoma, covers her early years, through high school.
These days, I am in a reflective place, as I contemplate retiring as archdeacon and dean of the Institute for Christian Studies. Perhaps this comes with the territory; I wouldn’t know; I’ve never done this before.
I had a conversation with my father, shortly before he died. He asked me, “How old am I, Lyn?” and I replied, “You’re eighty eight, Daddy.” His...
The Rev. Canon Nelson Pinder might be well known around Florida and The Episcopal Church for his reputation as the “street priest,” the “hoodlum’s priest,” a community leader, a civilrights freedom fighter and other roles, but on Jan. 9, more than 450 of his closest friends filled the Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Orlando, to honor him as their beloved friend.
The...
In the community
This is one in a series of articles about “encouragement,” written by Episcopal Counseling Center counselors.
The title of the sermon could have been “The Storms of Life.” Many years have passed since those days of idealism when I did not fully realize that indeed life was...
At an early morning Eucharist in a cold January dawn at the St. Mary Chapel in the Cathedral Church of St. Luke I was gazing up at the magnificent stained glass window behind the altar when there crossed my mind an incident that occurred during the first years of St. Luke’s founding. (I...
With a theme of “From Generation to Generation,” Central Florida’s 40th Annual Convention renewed the Diocese’s commitment to grow churches, take short-term mission trips, develop contemporary worship and “infuse” the diocese with the theological vision...
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