With recent events, such as the killing of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter demonstrations provoking a national conversation on race, one church made a big effort to bring people together to discuss a way forward. As profiled in the Nov.-Dec. 2020 issue of the Central Florida Episcopalian, The Rev. Jeremy Bergstrom of St….
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On Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, The Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, bishop of the Diocese of Central Florida, conducted a service at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in downtown Orlando ordaining four candidates to the Transitional Diaconate. The diaconate is one of the three clerical orders in the Episcopal Church: deacons, priests and bishops….
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Join Bishop Gregory O. Brewer at the 52nd Diocesan Convention as he reviews the highlights and challenges of an unprecedented year in the life of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. Bishop Brewer delivers a stirring address as he expounds on his convention theme of Weaker, Deeper, Stronger. Throughout Scripture, we witness a pattern of…
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“Weaker, Deeper, Stronger.” Those words not only form Bishop Brewer’s theme for the Feb. 6, 2021, annual Diocesan Convention but provide both context and clarity for the event. “The theme is profound,” says diocesan Director of Communications Erik Guzman. “I think the annual convention, and what we’re doing in putting on an all-virtual convention, is…
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John Pfeiffer had his life all figured out. A retired computer programmer, he describes himself as a “good Episcopalian” who went to church on Easter, Christmas and whenever his late wife, Lynn, asked him to attend. She served as the longtime church organist and choir director at St. Mary’s, Belleview, and urged him to come…
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The lives of immigrant children in Marion County, Florida, will be enriched and impacted thanks to the efforts of Ocala’s Grace Episcopal Church, which recently received $10,000 in grants from The Episcopal Church and the David and Lisa Midgett Foundation. The monies, awarded for churches addressing racial disparity in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, will…
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The Rt. Rev. Gregory O. Brewer, bishop of the Diocese of Central Florida, conducted a service ordaining The Rev. Jennifer Lynn Grady into the priesthood on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in the diocesan chapel. Grady has ministered since 2012 at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, Kentucky, where she serves as children’s ministry…
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The youth group at St. Elizabeth’s, Sebastian, has started a new ministry. Adopt a Grandfriend pairs a young person with an elderly retired person. In the early fall, Joanne Knott, the church’s youth minister, began thinking of a project that would involve the youth group and the parish seniors. Knott said, “Our parish is predominantly…
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“O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquility the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which had grown old are being made new, and that all…
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WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. (EST) COST: $15 REGISTER: https://radvo-digital-sept2020.eventbrite.com RADVO ignites clergy and anyone exploring a vocation in ministry by gathering the best theological minds in the Anglican tradition to guide a conversation that proclaims Christ to a broken world in need of healing and redemption in the 21st century.
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