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The Spring issue of the Albany Episcopalian is out. Inside This Issue...From the Editor, Standing Committee Communique February 2021, “Citizenship in Heaven” – The Ven. Christopher Brown, Ph.D, On a Mission from God – The Rev. Jacob Evans, Beaver Cross Summer Camp and more!
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WRVO’s Ellen Abbot interviewed Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe and other faith leaders for “Looking back: How the pandemic changed the way people pray.”
Episcopal Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe said the streamed services and online prayer groups have drawn more people to the faith and she doesn’t see a time where parishes go back to all in-person worship.
“I’ve encouraged priests and lay leaders to envision always having a hybrid option, so we can continue to be a ministry to people who have stepped forward and want to be a part of community,” Duncan-Probe said.
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Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe | Trinité Magazine: the Spring 2021 edition is here! What is inside? Coming out of the Wilderness: Reflections on Change, Youth in Stewardship, Getting by with a Little Help from Our Friends, Junior Guild centennial: celebrating good work, good friends, Thomas Cromwell: the genesis of the English Church through the pages of Mantel’s trilogy, and more! | |
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HEMOS VISTO AL SEÑOR!!!
Desde Cuba un gran abrazo en la Pascua de Resurrección
+Griselda
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Honoring Haiti’s First Bishop, and Seeking the Next
By J. Fritz Bazin
March 13 marks the 110th anniversary of the death of James Theodore Holly, the first Bishop of Haiti and the first African American bishop of the Episcopal Church. Holly worked tirelessly in the most difficult situations to proclaim the gospel to the people of Haiti.
More than a century after Holly’s death, Haiti does not have a bishop diocesan after years of internal conflict. The diocese, which has more baptized members than any diocese in the Episcopal Church, struggles with self-governance and its relationship to the broader church.
Read the article in The Living Church >
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Zion Episcopal Church has partnered with the non-profit RIP Medical Debt in a campaign to forgive $1,000,000 in medical bills weighing on the most vulnerable.
By partnering with RIP Medical Debt, Zion will be able to purchase the medical debt of those who are most burdened by it—for a penny on the dollar. The church will then forgive that debt as an expression of their faith that grace triumphs over greed and that love overcomes the forces of death. Read more >
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Summit on Building and Equipping the Beloved Community
April 17 @ 10 a.m. - Register Now
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin? Isaiah 58:7
Join us for an engaging forum grounded in sacred scripture that will educate, inspire, and energize all participants for active engagement in the work of building and equipping the “Beloved Community” by addressing the root causes of poverty and injustice. This Second ECS Summit will use Isaiah 58:7 to focus on food insecurity.
Keynote Speaker: Adele LaTourette, Director, Hunger Free New Jersey
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St. Mark’s Cross Memorial in a Pandemic Year: Zoom slideshow and outdoor services at the church’s annual focus on the victims of gun violence - Guided by the Christian moral compass of “love thy neighbor” and treating others equally as children of God, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery has been working towards racial justice and human rights for over 50 years. Read the story >
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Are you looking for a way to create a safe environment to talk about racial justice? Several congregations have found exactly that through the Sacred Ground dialogue series, created by The Episcopal Church.
Read the story >
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Congregational Development during the Pandemic – A conversation about Grief – Thursday, May 6th at 6:30 pm. Even as there are hopeful signs on the pandemic horizon, the reality of the losses we have all experienced in some ways feel heavier. Congregations have been unable to gather in our usual ways to grieve the deaths of family members and friends, missed connections with members, and in some ways have lost a year of their life and ministry together. How can we grieve these losses, help our members process their grieves, and begin to heal as congregational life slowly returns to normal?
Congregational leaders (lay and clergy) are invited to join us for a conversation about pandemic grief and congregational life.
Find out more >
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Pastoral Message Easter Sunday
Sunday the 4 th of April 2021
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The Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York & Northwestern Pennsylvania | |
Challenging Conversations 2021 Webinar on April 24
The Bishop Holly Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians program will host an online gathering for white people of faith who are committed to racial and economic justice on Saturday, April 24 from 9:30 a.m. to noon.
Challenging Conversations 2021 will include a keynote address by Cláudio Carvalhaes of Union Theological Seminary (at right), a panel discussion with Rev. Michelle Buhite of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, New York; the Rev. Canon Cathy Dempesy-Sims, Rev. Kirk Laubenstein of the United Church of Christ, and Gladys Gifford, an elder at University Presbyterian Church in Buffalo.
The gathering will focus on ways that white people can deepen their commitment to racial justice and share their viewpoint with members of their families and congregations.
This event is cosponsored by New York State Council of Churches, WNY Peace Center, Interfaith Peace Network, the Social Justice Committee and Anti-Racism Team of St. Joseph’s University, the Justice Ministry Team of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo, Buffalo Quaker Meeting, and Burning Books bookstore.
Register online by midnight on April 23 to receive the Zoom invitation.
Email Gabrie’l Atchison for more information.
Photo: Cláudio Carvalhaes
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Opportunities, Grants, Resources | |
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This is just a partial list of what you will find if you click the button above!
Opportunities
- Episcopal Youth Event/Evento de Jóvenes Episcopales Research Project Early Spring 2021
- Evangelism Matters audioconference
- Episcopal Asiamerica Ministries, Church Planting announce virtual “Church Planting in the Asian Diaspora” conference
- Upcoming ONLINE Offerings through VTS
- Resources
- The Good News of Rogation
- The April Good News Gardens Zoom Gathering
- Episcopal Church Year in the Life web series explores challenges of past year
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President: The Rev. Dahn Dean Gandell (Rochester) - on a leave of absence
Vice-President: The Rt. Rev. Dr. DeDe Duncan-Probe (Central New York )
Secretary: Canon Paul Ambos, Esq. (NJ)
Treasurer: Canon Phyllis Jones (NJ)
Provincial Coordinator: Ms. Neva Rae Fox (NJ)
Lay Representative to Executive Council: Canon Noreen Duncan (NJ)
Clerical Representative to Provincial Council: The Rev. Johnnie E. Ross (Rochester)
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Clerical Representative to Executive Council: The Rev. Lillian Davis-Wilson (Western New York)
Lay Representative to Provincial Council: Yvonne O’Neal (New York)
Episcopal Representative to Provincial Council: The Rt. Rev. William H. (“Chip”) Stokes (New Jersey)
Webmaster, Editor, InProv2 Ms. Jan Paxton (NJ)
Chair, Synod Planning Committee Dorothy-Jane Connolly (Albany)
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Visit the 12 Dioceses of the province at their websites:
Albany, Central New York, Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, Cuba (no official website yet), Haiti, Long Island, New Jersey, New York, Newark, Rochester, Virgin Islands, The Episcopal Dioceses of Western New York & Northwestern Pennsylvania
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