Tag: Parishes

Episcopal candidates on walkabout in Minnesota reflect on using pastoral sensibility at the end of the congregational life cycle.

Bishop Cathy Roskam wrote these wise words. Try this prayer before your next vestry meeting: God our true perfection: Grant us brevity and resolution to do only those things which should be done, and keep from all that we ought not to do, to say all things needful, and not more.

Trinity Wall Street reports $2 million in grants in 2008 going to Anglican Communion partners in the provinces of Uganda, Kenya, Central Africa and Sudan, among others.

On Wednesday, March 11, the California Supreme Court dismissed the petition for review that had been filed by the former members of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Fallbrook. “I am overjoyed with this result which will finally allow the Episcopalians of St. John’s to return to their church,” said Bishop Mathes.

A mysterious stranger with a conscience left a cashier’s check for $3,255 at Dallas’ Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, explaining in a note that he was trying to atone for crimes of his past. Two other times this year, the financially strapped church has had scatterings of $20 bills turn up unexplained in the vestibule, apparently stuffed through a gap in locked front doors.

How one small parish in the city center of Allentown, Pennsylvania, renovated their sanctuary into ”a beautiful, practical and liturgically useful” space that has also expanded the capacity of the parish to minister in their neighborhood.

Charles Olsen notes that we often bookend church meetings with perfunctory invocations and benedictions. He suggests that if we redefine activity of the people of

Getting a parish to think of themselves beyond the “four walls” of their church and engaging the community is a critical step of having a vital, active congregation that proclaims Christ. Doing that effectively requires that the congregation nurture their relationship to the community they live in.