Episcopal News Service updates the 38th annual convocation of The Episcopal Church’s Navajoland Area Mission. From the article:
In a liturgy at Good Shepherd Mission here, filled with traditional Navajo and Episcopal symbols, Navajoland Bishop David Bailey on June 14 ordained Cathlena Arnette Plummer and Leon Sampson to the transitional diaconate.
Then during the convocation’s business meeting on June 15 the members elected only Navajos as deputies to the 78th triennial meeting of General Convention, set for June 25-July 3, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Those deputies are:
Clerical order
The Rev. Leon Sampson
The Rev. Cornelia Eaton
The Rev. Cathlena Plummer
The Rev. Inez Velarde
The Rev. Paula Henson, alternate
Laity order
Anna Fowler
Marieta Buck
Margaret Benally
Arnold Joe
Dorothy Redhorse, alternate
“This is believed to be a historic action of the election of an all-Navajo deputation,” Eaton, who was ordained to the transitional diaconate in December and is Bailey’s canon to the ordinary, told Episcopal News Service via e-mail, after the meeting. “Most certainly to be true in the election of all Navajo clerical deputation.”