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Working Together, Reaching Beyond” to Make a Difference Here in Virginia and Around the World Working Together, opalian Reaching Beyond C pis e Virginia of Virginia Diocese Magazine of the Episcopal Quarterly The Fall 2014 2 #ShoutIt and Shrine Mont 4 Our Diocesan Identity & Community 10 Immigration and the Church 15 Youth Gather for Triennial Conference 22 Stories from Clergy Couples For Christ. For this time. For all time. letter to the Editor Who We are As a Palestinian-American whose roots go back to the early the episCopal DioCese oF Virginia Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, and who now is an For Christ. For this time. For all time. Episcopalian, I want to share my outrage at the continuous murder of civilians in Gaza. Our Church has always stood for the mayo memorial Church house: peace and conciliation. 110 West Franklin St. 800-DIOCESE I visited relatives in Gaza a few years ago and witnessed Richmond, VA 23220-5095 804-643-8451 first-hand the dire conditions under which they live. The Fax 804-644-6928 Tarazi family is Christian. They have lived around their Muslim neighbors in peace for generations. Their suffering is due The Episcopal Diocese of Virginia is a part of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the to the deprivation and fear caused by the apartheid policy Episcopal Church. We are a community of 80,000 baptized members and 425 clergy in 38 of Israel, which does not discriminate between innocent counties and serveral cities of central, northern and northwestern Virginia, serving the world civilians and those who are resistant fighters. I worry about through 182 congregations, six diocesan schools, two diocesan centers and six diocesan homes, the Tarazis, and am frustrated that I cannot do much to help and home to the largest Anglican seminary in the world. Our episcopal seat is the Cathedral them. The Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem includes Gaza. I Shrine of the Transfiguration, Orkney Springs. Organized 1785. wonder if our Diocese has reached out to support them? how to reach the Diocesan staff: I need not describe the horror of life in Gaza. You can see Paris Ball, Director of Christian Formation [email protected] ext. 1042 the destruction on your screens. I urge you to compel our Buck Blanchard, Director of Mission and Outreach [email protected] 1016 government to act to secure a cease-fire immediately at any Mary Anne Bryant, Assistant, Mission and Outreach [email protected] 1017 cost. Precious lives are perishing every day and there seems to Joy Buzzard, Financial Administrator [email protected] 1022 be no end to this. Emily Cherry, Communications Director [email protected] 1021 The Christians in the Holy Land have preserved a heritage Melissa Eadie, Intern, Mission & Outreach [email protected] 1019 that has endured many wars and different occupations. Laura Hicks, Benefits Administrator [email protected] 1040 They are now leaving their country because of the hardships Stephanie Higgins, Bp. Assistant, Congregational Support [email protected] 1031 caused by the occupation. It worries me that there will soon Edward W. Jones, Secretary of the Diocese, Chief of Staff [email protected] 1030 be few Christians to guard the holy places that have inspired Kathlyn Jones, Transition Ministry Assistant [email protected] 1038 worshippers and pilgrims since the time of Christ. We must do Wilbert “Skeet” Jones, Sexton 1028 something to support them. Ed Keithly, Deputy Director, Transition Ministry [email protected] 1015 Please pray for peace in the Holy Land, and urge our Mildred Lofton, Bookkeeper [email protected] 1023 government to be more even-handed at brokering a peaceful Bill Martin, Assistant to the Secretary [email protected] 1025 solution for the Palestinian\Israeli conflict. Kendall Martin, Assistant, Communications [email protected] 1029 Meg Schwarz, Assistant, Christian Formation [email protected] 1043 NINA CuLLers Julie Simonton, Staff Officer for emmanuel, Harrisonburg Congregational Development & Stewardship [email protected] 1035 Karen Smith, Receptionist/Assistant [email protected] 1010 Ted Smith, Treasurer [email protected] 1046 e-News The Rev. Mary Thorpe, Transition Ministry Director [email protected] 1013 Stay connected with the churches in your Diocese. Michael Wade, Asst. to the Director of Christian Formation [email protected] 1027 Sign up to receive the e-Communiqué and other Kate Wettstein, Assistant to Bishop Gulick [email protected] e-news updates from the diocesan offices. 703-241-0441 Amy Williams, Assistant to Bishop Johnston [email protected] 1012 thediocese.net/eCommunique The Rev. Canon Pat Wingo, Canon to the Ordinary [email protected] 1024 Virginia episCopalian Virginia Episcopalian (ISSN 15353621, USPS 019711) is published quarterly by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, periodicals postage paid in Richmond, 23232-9998. Copyright 2014. Fall 2014 Contact the editor for reprint permission. Views expressed in this newspaper are not Volume 123 IssuE 4 official statements of policy by the Diocese. Editorial/advertising policy is set by the editor and Executive Board. Published by the Diocese of Virginia – Circulation 19,400 Bishop: The Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston Postmaster: Send changes of address to the Virginia Episcopalian , 110 W. Franklin St., Bishop Suffragan: The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff Richmond VA 23220. Office hours are 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. Assistant Bishop: The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. Gulick Jr. Editor: Emily Cherry Communicants: $5/year Non-Communicants: $6/year Design/Layout: John Dixon Advertising/Copyediting Assistant: Kendall Martin On the cover: In this and future issues of the Virginia Episcopalian, we’ll explore how our diocesan community is “Working Together, Reaching Beyond” to make a difference here in Virginia and around the world. Illustration: John Dixon Belonging ThE RT. Rev. shannon s. JohnsTon The Gospels agree that Jesus called His disciples together alone could not accomplish. And so, shortly after His baptism, just as He was beginning His public dioceses came to be. ministry. Have you ever thought about why He would call The ministry of bishops evolved disciples to follow Him? Jesus certainly could have conducted to lead them and to serve as the His ministry by Himself. But He didn’t; that was not His will. symbol of their unity as communities No, Jesus called a group of ordinary people to be part of together. This way of living the faith His itinerant life and ministry (and, by the way, those whom together was found to provide the He called held different political and religious beliefs, even strongest way of life as the Christian radically different from each other). Why would Jesus choose Bishop Johnston Church because the communities to form such a group? together thrived with much greater I’m convinced that Jesus did this from the start in order numbers in relative proximity. It was, to show that His Gospel was to be grounded in community as the saying goes, “all for one, and one for all.” Organization – not the kind of community based on conformity or like- by diocese was so successful for the stability and vitality of the mindedness, but community that supports one another in faith that in the year 325, the Council of Nicea decreed that the relationship with God, serving each other and serving the needs diocese (rather than the congregation) is the basic, essential of the world around them. Faith in God was not to be so much unit of the Christian Church. so, the faith was diocesan about individual piety but rather was proved by the qualities of because congregations need each other. mutuality. Personal piety and righteousness are most certainly Now, here we are as the Diocese of Virginia. There is important but, as the Gospels show, these qualities are not no doubt that over the past 407 years, the very same story ends in themselves. Our piety must be directed outwardly for that unfolded in the ancient Church played out in this very the sake of others in order to be truly Godly. It is from Jesus land. From the beginning, in 1607, the colonists formed Himself that we can deduce that the Christian faith, while congregations in order to have a stronger ministry and to always personal, is never merely “individual” and is certainly provide for their common life. When the American revolution not a private matter. From its very origins, the Christian faith is dissolved the formal ties between our colonial churches and communal because people are communal. the Church of England, the congregations that survived those Jesus commissioned the disciples (those who follow) to hard times soon formed a diocese of their own (in 1785), a be apostles (those who are sent). He sent them out to spread witness to that ancient principle that congregations need the Gospel and build up the Church, establishing communities each other. The Diocese of Virginia then became one of the in which people encouraged and helped each other to live nine founding dioceses of the episcopal Church in 1789, again in the Gospel. The charge was clear: Their ministry was to proving the point – this time on a national scale – that the be communally organized. And so, Christian congregations, Church is stronger when it is grounded in a life and witness first as “house-churches,” began to dot the landscape. Those that extends beyond the local context. early Christians found that they were stronger together Over the centuries that have followed, our story has been than they were on their own. They found that ministries that more and more a witness to that “all for one, and one for all” were organized from the larger community were much more commitment to each other. From 1785 until about 1814, we effective than anything a single person could accomplish. And had a timid and therefore weak beginning as a diocese, but so, congregations came to be.
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