By Mary W. Cox, editor Less than a month into his new Bishop Leo Frade and Trinity ministry as the diocesan Canon Cathedral’s Dean Douglas McCaleb Missioner for Immigration were among Anglican and and Social Justice, Canon Episcopal representatives from Fritz Bazin said he sees as around the Western Hemisphere a primary goal of his work the and Europe who attended the creation of a deanery and consecration in June of two bishops parish level network of people suffragan for Iglesia Episcopal de involved in these Cuba. ministries. The Rev. Canon Nerva Cot “I have a very clear Aguilera — the first woman plan to work very closely Anglican bishop in Latin with the America — and Archdeacon deans,” he says. Ulises Mario Aguero Prendes were He will ask to consecrated in a nearly three hour meet with the service Sunday, June 10, at Havana’s clergy in each Episcopal Cathedral of the Holy deanery to urge Trinity. each congregation Anglican and Episcopal bishops to establish a and clergy from such countries as group working Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, • Bishops from throughout the Western Hemisphere and with social justice issues. Guatemala, Haiti, Spain, Canada Europe assist in the historic consecration of the Rev. Canon “Until the whole concept is and the United States were joined Nerva Cot Aguilera — the first woman Anglican bishop in owned by the people in the at the service by representatives Latin America — as bishop suffragan in Iglesia Episcopal pews,” says Bazin, “it will just from a number of Cuban faith de Cuba.

By Mary W. Cox, editor The Ven. Mary Gray- Reeves, 44, archdeacon for The end of July marked a transition at the Duncan deployment for the Conference Center: Fr. Stephen Fregeau retired after nine Diocese of Southeast years as the Center’s executive director and Alison Florida, was elected Walsh began her ministry as the fourth executive June 16 to be the third director in the center’s 22-year history. bishop of the Diocese of El Walsh comes to the Duncan Center from the Diocese of Camino Real in central Central Florida, where she has worked for the past 12 years California. at that diocese’s She was chosen to Canterbury Retreat succeed Bishop Richard and Conference Shimpfky, who resigned at Center in Oviedo, Fla. the end of March 2004, Shortly after after leading the diocese for graduating from the 14 years. Bishop Sylvestre University of Central Romero-Palma, formerly Florida in 1995, Bishop of the Anglican Walsh began as a Diocese of Belize, has been part-time financial serving as assisting bishop assistant at for the diocese. Canterbury, where Her election came on the her father, the Rev. second ballot, when she Paul McQueen, has received a total of 163 lay been executive votes and 91 clergy votes. director for 17 years. Soon she was the full-time One hundred three lay financial manager, and for the past seven years votes and 58 clergy votes has been the center’s director of operations. were needed for a In 2003 she received her certification as a candidate to be elected. Conference Center Professional from the The other nominees International Association of Conference Center Administrators (IACCA). She says coming to the Duncan Center feels like a “really neat move” not only for herself, but also for her husband, who has close friends in the area, • On a June 24 visit to and for her 15-year-old daughter. her former parish, St. Walsh comes from a family with a gift for Margaret’s, Miami Lakes, hospitality. In addition to her father’s ministry Archdeacon Mary Gray- as executive director of Canterbury Center, her Reeves was welcomed mother runs a bed-and-breakfast in an historic with many purple gifts — Victorian house in Oviedo. Her sister assists both including a poster-board parents, working in the b-and-b and also managing miter — in celebration of the bookshop at Canterbury. For six years Walsh’s her election as bishop of husband was director of maintenance at El Camino Real. It was a very important day for the church in Cuba. The presence of so many members of other parts of the Communion was a gift......

— Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori • Archbishop Andrew Hutchison of Canada (left) and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (right) applaud as Bishops Suffragan Ulises Mario Aguero Prendes and Nerva Cot Aguilera are introduced to the congregation at Trinity Cathedral in Havana after their consecration on June 10. Cuba’s interim Bishop Miguel Tamayo [The consecration] was a very stands behind them, second from right. special moment in the life of the Cuban church, a moment in which growth and vitality were being demonstrated. was elected Bishop of Uruguay, and in January and communication difficulties that the Cuban What makes this extraordinary is that 2004 he agreed to serve as interim diocesan bishop church became an extra-provincial diocese under in Cuba, splitting his time between the two the Metropolitan Council of Cuba (MCC). these were bishops of a church that countries. In February of 2006 Frade and a team of clergy has been struggling for years in very Prior to his selection as bishop suffragan, and laypersons from our diocese visited Cuba at difficult circumstances…...... Aguero was archdeacon in Santiago de Cuba the invitation of Tamayo, a longtime friend, to begin and rector of two congregations, St. Mary’s and to establish a relationship between the Diocese of St. Luke’s. Southeast Florida and Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba. — Bishop Leo Frade The 69-year-old Cot was a secondary “For me as a Cuban Christian,” Frade told the school teacher and one of the first three diocesan Executive Board after returning from that Episcopal women priests ordained in first trip, “I believe that this [partnership with the Cuba in 1987. Her daughter, Marianela Church in Cuba] is something we need to respond de la Paz Cot, was ordained in February, and to… it means a lot to people there that people from her husband, the Very Rev. Juan Ramon de la Southeast Florida, where the ‘enemy’ may reside, Paz Cerezo, is dean of the cathedral in Havana. will go there to call them our brothers and sisters….” traditions, including Greek Orthodox and Afro- Another son is a priest and another daughter Cuban clergy. is a church administrator. This report was adapted and expanded from Also present was the head of the Religious Cot promises a new feminine model of an article by Jan Nunley for Episcopal News Affairs Office for the Communist Party of Cuba, leadership for the Cuban church, which has Service. Caridad Diego, who told the BBC her suffered internal tensions stemming from the government was proud that the country had government’s long-term suspicion of religious a woman bishop. Since 1992, Article 8 of the organizations — what she called a “period of Cuban Constitution has stated that the country’s polarization” for the church. communist government “recognizes, respects In addition to attending the consecration, and guarantees freedom of religion.” Frade accomplished two other goals on his five- “It was a very important day for the church in day visit: To introduce the dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cuba,” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Miami, “a city where the majority of the population Schori, who participated in the rites. “The presence is Cuban” to Trinity Cathedral, Havana, and the of so many members of other parts of the roots of the Episcopal Church in Cuba; and to build Communion was a gift.” on a relationship planted in visits last year with the Frade agreed that the consecration was “a very Havana congregation of El Calvario in Luyano, one special moment in the life of the Cuban church, a of the poorest districts in the city. moment in which growth and vitality were being Frade and McCaleb met with El Calvario’s priest- demonstrated.” in-charge, Fr. Ivan Gonzalez, and visited the “What makes this extraordinary,” he continued, property that is the site of the congregation’s once “is that these were bishops of a church that has and future buildings. The previous church building been struggling for years in very difficult collapsed completely, and parishioners currently circumstances.” hold services in the living room of the rectory, next The two new bishops will assist interim Bishop door to the vacant lot where their church once Miguel Tamayo in local oversight of some 40 stood. The parish envisions not only a space for congregations serving Cuba’s estimated 10,000 worship, but also a youth/senior center and a Episcopalians. Cuba is almost as wide as the State guesthouse for parishioners and friends who come of Florida is long, Frade explains, and travel from in from the countryside. one end of the island nation to the other can take After last year’s visit Frade requested donations nearly a day. The church in Cuba is growing rapidly, for the rebuilding of El Calvario. To participate in he says, so the episcopal assistance is much needed. this ministry, go to www.episcopalchurch.org, click Aguero will be based in Santiago de Cuba, in the on “donations” and indicate that your gift is for eastern part of the country, and Cot will be in “assistance for Cuban church,” or mail your Havana, in the west. Both hope that two new contribution to: Diocese of Southeast Florida, 525 dioceses can be established within a few years. NE 15 St., Miami FL 33132-1411. Cot and Aguero were selected in February from The Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba (IEC) traces its among seven candidates interviewed by the beginnings to 1871, when an Episcopal bishop Metropolitan Council that provides provincial visited Havana in the middle of an epidemic and oversight to Cuba. The council, headed by Canadian on his return began lobbying the Episcopal Church • Dean Douglas McCaleb of Trinity Cathedral Archbishop Andrew Hutchison, includes Jefferts to send missionaries to the island nation. and Bishop Leo Frade joined Fr. Ivan Gonzalez, Schori and Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indigenous congregations, led by Cuban clergy priest-in-charge of El Calvario, Havana, for a Indies. trained in the U.S., followed independence from visit to the property where his congregation Tamayo and his wife, the Rev. Martha Lopez, Spain in 1898, and the missionary diocese of Cuba plans to build a new church to replace the are both Cubans who were sent as missionaries to was established in 1901. In 1967, political tensions building that collapsed. Uruguay more than a decade ago. In 1998, Tamayo between the U.S. and Cuba presented such travel It’s in my blood. Even when my father was a parish priest, we always had parties. We love it. This is definitely my calling in life!...... — Duncan Center Director Alison Walsh, describing her heritage of hospitality ministry

• The Duncan Center has named its outdoor labyrinth in honor of retiring Executive Director Fr. Stephen Fregeau and his wife, Pat, who is also retiring as the Center’s supervisor.

On Oct. 2 and 3 the Duncan Center will offer a workshop on Pastoral Crisis Intervention presented by the Rev. Dr. Robert E. Steinke, a Lutheran Canterbury, and his sister is the shepherded to fruition, and which Labyrinth Movement, will return pastor who is director of center’s director of guest has now been named in their to the Duncan Center for a third pastoral care services for Frederick services. honor: The Stephen and Patricia time in December of this year to Memorial Healthcare Systems in “It’s in my blood,” say Fregeau Labyrinth. present a labyrinth retreat and a Frederick, Md. Walsh. “Even when my During Fregeau’s tenure the labyrinth facilitator training. Steinke is affiliated with the father was a parish center conducted a fund-raising Other program offerings at the Department of Homeland Security and the priest, we always had parties. campaign that resulted in the Center have ranged from coaching Frederick County Emergency Management We love it. This is definitely my construction of the long-awaited in parenting skills, to training for Policy Group and was one of the first calling in life!” chapel and an additional spiritual direction, to pastoral crisis responders ministering to those in trauma Fregeau became executive conference building with two intervention. [See stories, this and crisis on Sept. 11, 2001. director of the Duncan Center meeting rooms. Fregeau’s vision page, about upcoming programs]. The workshop is designed not only for in June 1998. In November of for the center included not only Walsh says her two immediate clergy, but also for medical personnel, 2002 he and his wife Pat, who the expansion of the physical goals for the center are to increase social workers, first responders and anyone is now also retiring as the facilities, but also an expansion of donations to make certain that involved in pastoral care. It will provide center’s supervisor, became the the center’s basic mission, from funding will be available for an understanding of the nature of crisis first married couple to be simply providing hospitality for continuing and expanding intervention, a means of care-giving that certified together by the IACCA retreats and conferences offered programs; and to increase weekday seeks to mitigate damage after a traumatic as Conference Center by diocesan, parish and outside use of the facilities by local non- event. This training will also teach how to Professionals. groups, to generating its own profit and community groups. perform a mental status exam, to identify a They plan to divide their time programs for education and “Weekend business is high,” she “Crisis of Faith,” and to listen and respond between homes in Hobe Sound and spiritual development. says. “The challenge for a empathetically. in Rockland, Mass. Both are The outdoor labyrinth was conference center is always to build The sessions will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on Oct. natives of the Boston area and have dedicated in late 2002, and with a up your weekday business.” 2, with lunch provided, and 9 a.m.-noon on many family members there. second labyrinth inlaid in the She is eager to begin visiting Oct.3. The fees are: $45 for both sessions On June 19 the Duncan Center granite floor of the Schofield churches in the diocese to with lunch; $35 for one day with lunch; and Board celebrated the Fregeaus’ Chapel, the center has become a introduce herself and to talk about $20 for the half-day with no lunch. Call 561- ministry with a reception at the nationally-known venue for what the diocesan conference 496-4130 or email Delray Beach Golf Club. The couple retreats and workshops focused on center has to offer. To schedule a [email protected]. was given a plaque bearing pictures using the labyrinth as a spiritual visit, contact Walsh at 561-496- Clergy may earn 15 CEUs for the full 1 1⁄2 of the center’s outdoor labyrinth, tool. The Rev. Lauren Artress, 4130 or day workshop and 7.5 CEUs for one day. which was a dream “Fr. Steve” founder of Veriditas: Voice of the [email protected].

experiences of the graces received God in another person’s life.” The The retreat is a prerequisite for with one another. course will include such topics as the labyrinth facilitator training, • The Spiritual Exercises of The cost for each five-week theology, listening and discernment which is scheduled for Dec. 7-8, 9 St. Ignatius: A Retreat in section is $60, with an additional skills, prayer styles and psychological a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. The goal of Everyday Life $40 per session of spiritual direction. issues. Veriditas is to provide quality Beginning Sept. 5 “a retreat in For additional information call For more information or to training for labyrinth facilitators in everyday life” — an opportunity to 561-496-4130 or email register call 561-496-4130. order to prepare them to introduce practice the Spiritual Exercises of [email protected]. others to the labyrinth. St. Ignatius of Loyola — will be • Labyrinth retreat and The fee for the training is $600. offered on Wednesday evenings • The Sacred Art of Spiritual training Participants must register directly from 6:30 to 8 p.m. There will be Direction The Rev. Dr. Lauren Artress, with Veriditas, www.veriditas.net, four blocks of weekly sessions, each A course in spiritual direction will founder of Veriditas: Voice of the for this. The fee for overnight five weeks long, for a total of 20 begin with a training session Sept. Labyrinth Movement, will return to lodging at the Duncan Center is weeks. 13-15. the Duncan Center to present a $126, which includes five meals. Based on his own conversion “The Sacred Art of Spiritual labyrinth retreat and a labyrinth The fee for meals only is $65. experience, Ignatius designed his Direction: A Ministry Training facilitator training. Early registration for these exercises to be a way of re- Program” will include three “Engaging the Sacred Feminine: events is recommended; call discovering God’s unique love for us subsequent two-and-a-half-day a Labyrinth Retreat” will begin at 561-496-4130 to register for in a heartfelt, experiential way. sessions. 5:30 p.m. Dec. 4 and end at 4 p.m. the retreat or for lodging and Retreat participants will look at the The course is designed to prepare on Dec. 6. The registration fees are: meals for the training. dynamics inherent in the process, those who feel called to the ministry $350 single room, $300 double For more information on these practice the prayer format specific of spiritual direction to “listen with occupancy, $225 commuter. The and all Duncan Center programs, go to the exercises and share the prayer an ear tuned to the movement of fees include all meals. to www.duncancenter.org. The 38th convention of the workshops to be offered on Friday clergy member and two lay members Diocese of Southeast Florida will be morning, Nov. 2, before convention of the diocesan Standing Committee; held Nov. 2-3 at Trinity begins. These will include a two clergy members and one lay Cathedral, Miami, hosted by presentation by the Rt. Rev. member of the Ecclesiastical Trial the North Dade Deanery. Christopher Epting, Court; one lay trustee of the In keeping with the theme, “Make ecumenical officer for University of the South; and one Us One,” the speaker will be Bishop The Episcopal Church, clergy member of the Cathedral Timothy Whitaker of the Florida and a walking tour of Chapter. Council of the United Methodist Trinity Cathedral and Proposed amendments, Church. General Convention 2006 the surrounding resolutions and nominations should approved a relationship of Interim neighborhood. be sent by email to the secretary of Sharing of the Eucharist between the According to convention, Mr. Thomas G. O’Brien United Methodist Church and the diocesan canons, III at [email protected], copied Episcopal Church, and this will be proposed resolutions must be to [email protected], or by mail to Gail an opportunity for the diocese to submitted by Sept. 18. Nominations, McShane, Diocese of Southeast begin, in the words of the with a short biography of the Florida, 525 NE 15 St., Miami, FL resolution, “development of a nominee, are due by Oct. 19. 33132-1411. This is the most holy work common life through Nominations not received by that Additional information about the in which any one of us mutual prayer and support, date must be made from the floor. convention will be mailed to clergy can ever participate, study of the respective Nominations are needed for the and delegates and will also be drawing another into churches’ history and following positions: four clergy available in the online diocesan traditions, joint programs deputies, four clergy alternates, four newsletter Grapevine at the abiding Love of God and use of facilities.” lay deputies and four lay alternates www.diosef.org/grapevine.htm. that we know in Jesus. I Plans are underway for optional to General Convention 2009; one Registration will be available online. cannot wait to join you in this work!......

— Archdeacon Mary Gray-Reeves

The Diocesan School for Christian Studies will effective lay ministry. begin its 2007-2008 academic year on Sept. 15. Fuller says the school’s hope is that “this will provide All courses are taught at the school’s main a larger pool of people on whom rectors may call for campus, St. Mark’s School, Ft. Lauderdale. In education and formation at the parish level.” addition, three of the year one courses, Old He adds that the Diocesan School Board is also looking were the Rev. Paige Blair, 36, rector Testament and New Testament studies and Church at another aspect of education the school wants to of St. George’s Episcopal Church, York History, will also be offered this year via emphasize: spiritual direction. Because of the current Harbor, Maine; the Rev. David Breuer, videoteleconference at two sites, Bethesda-by-the-Sea, revival of interest in spiritual direction, as well as the 60, rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Palm Beach and St. Paul’s, Key need for spiritual directors for Church, Los Gatos, Calif.; the Rev. West. aspirants for holy orders, the Gale Davis Morris, 60, rector of A revised catalog for the • The cost per course at the Diocesan school is exploring ways to Church of the Good Shepherd, Acton, school, including links to School is $100. Scholarship assistance is expand education and Mass.; and the Rev. John Palarine, registration forms for both the available; the deadline for scholarship preparation for spiritual 58, rector of Episcopal Church of Our school course offerings and requests is Sept. 4 for the fall semester direction in order to broaden the Savior, Jacksonville, Fla. Eucharistic Visitor training, is and Jan. 2, 2008, for the spring semester. base of people in the diocese Gray-Reeves is the 15th woman posted on the diocesan website Requests for scholarships and other equipped for this ministry. elected as a bishop of the Episcopal at www.diosef.org/dscs. The questions about the Diocesan School Training for those wishing to Church, and she will be among the registration forms can also be should be directed to the Rev. Dr. Perry be licensed for the ministry of five youngest members of the House found separately at T. Fuller at 561-254-4548 (office) or 561- Eucharistic Visitor (formerly of Bishops. www.diosef.org/register.html. 613-7064 (cell), or by email at called Lay Eucharistic Minister) “God has called, the Spirit has The deadline to register for fall [email protected]. is also available under the guided, instructed and inspired, and semester courses is Sept. 27. auspices of the Diocesan School. the community of Christ has discerned The school’s newly appointed EV classes are held at St. and affirmed this call at each step of director, Fr. Perry T. Fuller, notes that the school has Andrews, Lake Worth, and Trinity Cathedral, Miami, this process,” said Gray-Reeves in her a dual purpose: Its Core Curriculum prepares candidates and at the main school campus at St. Mark’s School, Ft. message of acceptance to her new for the diaconate in the areas of church history, theology, Lauderdale; training for new licenses will be held during diocese, parts of which were also given homiletics, liturgics and a variety of ministry courses; the fall semester and for renewal of licenses in the spring in Spanish. but the school’s course offerings are also a rich resource semester. Registration for these classes is at She expressed gratitude to her for all laypersons who seek a broader understanding of www.diosef.org/register.html. husband, Michael Reeves, and their the faith, as well as training for development as leaders Thomas G. O'Brien, III, is the chair of the school teenage children, Katie and Dorian, in ministry. board and instructor in Old Testament studies. Other as well as “my mentors, friends and He says that a goal for the school is to promote Core Curriculum faculty members are the Revs. Ronald colleagues along the way, in the awareness of this second purpose and increase the Fox, Perry Fuller, Carol Graves, Mimi Howard, James Diocese of Los Angeles, in number of students who are not pursuing holy orders, P. Jones, Patricia Masterman, Jennie Lou Reid, William Aotearoa/New Zealand, and in but are studying for their own spiritual growth and Stomski, Howard Stowe, John Tidy, and Ms. Maggie Southeast Florida.” She gave knowledge of the faith, to equip themselves for more Kreuzberger, Dr. Gay Outler, and Sr. Mary Sharon Riley. particular thanks to Bishop Leo Frade, who, she said, “has mentored me and kept me on this path to the clergy deployment and the process equivalent of a Master of Divinity The Diocese of El Camino Real episcopate.” toward ordination in our diocese. degree) from the Theological College includes the counties of Santa Clara, “To the diocese of El Camino Real, Brenda Rasmus will continue as of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey and today we continue walking together,” secretary for the diocesan deployment New Zealand, in 1994. San Luis Obispo. The youngest diocese she said, “a probable call turned to a office. After her ordination she served as in California, it was formed in 1980 sure reality — an inward and spiritual Frade told the diocesan Executive assistant rector in two parishes in the by the separation from the Diocese of grace, now in the process of becoming Board at its meeting June 19 that he Diocese of Los Angeles before California of congregations from the an outward and visible sign. Today we is “not going to rush to fill the position” accepting the call to be rector of St. deaneries in those counties. Like the begin a tangible and public ministry, of archdeacon for deployment. Margaret’s, Miami Lakes, in December Diocese of Southeast Florida, El united as one in the body of Christ in “Mary has really been a tremendous 1998. She served for six years as rector Camino Real serves an area of great El Camino Real, discovering and blessing to this diocese,” cultural and economic carrying out Christ’s vision for the he said. “It will be hard diversity, from the high- work of God’s Kingdom in this place…. to find someone to fill her tech industry of Silicon This is the most holy work in which shoes.” Parishioners and friends from throughout the diocese Valley in the north to the any one of us can ever participate, Gray-Reeves thanked are invited to an Evensong service, with a reception agricultural areas in the drawing another into the abiding Love the Executive Board for following, in honor of Archdeacon Mary Gray-Reeves on south. More than 14,000 of God that we know in Jesus. I cannot their prayers and Saturday, Aug. 25, at 6 p.m. at All Saints’, 333 Tarpon Episcopalians worship in wait to join you in this work!” support, and said she Dr., Ft. Lauderdale. This will be an opportunity for its 50 congregations, using Under the canons of the Church a looks forward “to sharing everyone to congratulate “Archdeacon Mary” and to say a variety of languages, majority of bishops exercising with El Camino Real the goodbye to her before she leaves for El Camino Real. including English, Spanish, jurisdiction and diocesan Standing joy of collegiality and Tagalog, Laotian, Committees must consent to Gray- having fun while doing Vietnamese, Mandarin, Reeves’ election and ordination; this the hard work of being the church.” of St. Margaret’s and worked closely Cantonese, Sudanese dialects and process is now taking place. Gray-Reeves is a native of Miami- with the bishops and archdeacons in Lakota. The consecration is scheduled for Dade County, born in Coral Gables the process of vision-mission Nov. 10 at in Saratoga, Calif. and raised in the Coconut Grove development and training. For more on the Diocese of El Gray-Reeves plans to begin her section of Miami. Gray-Reeves has served as diocesan Camino Real, the complete texts of ministry in El Camino Real after Labor She graduated from California State archdeacon for deployment since Gray-Reeves’ messages to her new Day, but will be in Southeast Florida University, Fullerton, in 1987 with a January 2005. She was a diocesan diocese and information on plans for through August, working with Frade degree in history, and earned her deputy to General Convention in both the consecration, as details become to ensure a smooth transition for bachelor of theology degree (the 2003 and 2006. available, go to www.edecr.org. The Rev. Dr. James Lemler, the entire conference will earn eight continuing director of mission for the Episcopal education units (CEUs). Church, will be the guest As administrator for the mission program speaker for the annual diocesan groups, Lemler travels throughout the church as clergy conference, Sept. 11-13, a teacher, preacher and conference leader. He has at the Duncan Center. also written extensively on mission, leadership, The conference, which is open to stewardship, spirituality and congregational life all clergy in the diocese, active or and development. retired, will begin on Tuesday evening Registration is available online at and end after lunch on Thursday. Clergy who attend www.diosef.org/register.html.

Episcopal Lawyers, an with Episcopal Charities of Miami-Dade chapter will be an organization designed to provide Southeast Florida, has formed a 8 a.m. breakfast with Bishop Leo fellowship among chapter of the Guild of St. Ives, Frade on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The Episcopalians in the legal named for the patron saint of the breakfast will be underwritten by profession and to legal profession and patterned Northern Trust Bank and held at heighten the awareness after a similar guild in the its offices on Brickell Avenue. of Episcopal lawyers of Diocese of New York. Charlie Ring, president of ways in which they may John Adams of Adams and Episcopal Charities, which has assist their churches Adams and Tom Cookson of fostered the formation of the and parishioners, has Akerman Senterfitt are the co- Episcopal Lawyers’ groups, says, begun forming a chairs of the organizing effort in “We realize the importance that The Office of Disaster Response of the chapter in Miami-Dade Miami-Dade. They hope to lawyers can play in each parish, Diocese of Louisiana is requesting donations County. recruit 150-175 attorneys from and we want to promote not only of Wal-Mart gift cards for its Katrina Episcopal Lawyers of Palm the North Dade and South Dade the Christian fellowship, but to Disaster Relief program. Beach County was established deaneries. link the practice of law with one’s “We use them to supplement our in 2004, and in collaboration The inaugural event for the faith as well.” regular disaster assistance,” says case manager Ann Ball. “The Wal-Mart cards can be used for immediate needs and for needs that fall outside of the parameters of assistance guidelines but are nonetheless necessities.” The cards most needed are for $25. There is still room for additional pilgrims to join Bishop Leo Frade Cards should be sent to: Anthony Johnson, on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, scheduled for Jan. 15-29, 2008. Case Manager Supervisor, Office of Disaster The 2008 pilgrimage includes visits to Jerusalem, Nazareth, Response, Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, 1623 Cana, Capernaum, Mt. Nebo, Jericho and other significant sites. Seventh Street, New Orleans, LA 70115. There will also be a day in Jordan and a day in the historic city of Petra, which was included in a list of the new “Seven Wonders of the World” announced last month. In addition, pilgrims will have an opportunity to visit the Israel Museum, to attend services at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem, to meet leaders of the Episcopal Church in the Holy Land and to have lunch in the home of a Palestinian family. The reservation deadline is Nov. 13, but as of June 1, bookings for the pilgrimage were already at over 50 percent of capacity. The cost is $3,845 per person, double occupancy (additional $595 The 2007 Diocesan Youth Convention will be for single accommodations); included in the cost is a $200 tax- held Sept. 14-15 at the Duncan Center, beginning deductible donation to Our Little Roses Ministries. A deposit of $250 at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and ending with per person is due at the time of booking. dinner on Saturday. For complete information and a reservation form, call Globe Travel, Participants should have dinner before 305-823-3939. A complete itinerary and a reservation form are posted they arrive, because only snacks will be provided at www.diosef.org. at the opening session. Each congregation is encouraged to send five youth representatives: two delegates of senior • The ancient Jordanian city of Petra, recently high age, two alternates of middle school/junior included in a modern list of “Seven Wonders of high age and one observer. There must also be the World,” will be one of the stops on Bishop one adult chaperone for every five young people Frade’s 2008 Holy Land pilgrimage. from a congregation. At the conference the youth will elect the cabinet members (officers) of the Youth Commission (president, vice-president, secretary and administrative assistant). There will also be time for everyone to exchange ideas and plan future events. Our missionaries in Africa, the Rt. Rev. Todd is nearly full, and he will leave Oct. 1, but his wife Those who are interested in becoming cabinet McGregor, area bishop of Tulear in Madagascar, will stay through Nov. 10. She plans to be at our members should send name, email address, phone and his wife, the Rev. Patsy McGregor, Diocesan Convention, Nov. 2-3, and may still have number and the position for which they wish to director of St. Julian’s Center in Limuru, open dates on her calendar during October. be nominated to Mary Cobiella at Kenya, are in Florida this month and will be For an up to date schedule of their visit, contact [email protected]. here, as well as in other parts of the country, into them at: [email protected] (Bishop Todd Registration for the Youth Convention is online the fall. McGregor) or [email protected] (The at www.diosef.org/register.html. Bishop McGregor’s schedule during their visit Rev. Patsy McGregor).

be the words of someone ‘at the diocese’.” project. more independent, raising funds for their own What’s needed, he says, is for each parish to have On Aug. 10 Bazin hosted a “town meeting” at his ministries. He hopes these groups will work together “someone who will keep noticing things and parish, St. Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti, with the to support — with both volunteer work and fund- reminding people.” Haitian Lawyers Association of Miami-Dade raising — the ministries to farmworkers in Belle He envisions the establishment of at least two County, to discuss ways in which members of that Glade. diocesan centers, one in Belle Glade and one in group might work with the diocese to provide Bazin’s concern is not only for those in need of South Dade, providing a variety of immigration assistance for persons who need legal help with social justice, but also for those who are in a position services. their immigration status or other concerns. to facilitate it. He notes that our churches have These would operate two or three days a week Bazin is also committed to ensuring that the some parishioners who wield considerable political in a parish hall, and would be staffed to some extent work of the diocesan Haitian and Hispanic and economic power in our communities. by volunteers, as well as professionals offering pro Commissions, guided for the past five and a half “As we move into advocacy,” he says, “instead bono legal and other services. years by Assistant Bishop James Ottley, will of immediately moving into confrontation, we need He is working closely with the Miami office of continue to flourish. to think about how we help members who are Episcopal Migration Ministries, and has applied In early July Bazin met with Fr. Dwight Morgan, bosses to do the Christian thing. We’re not going for an EMM grant of $7,500 toward setting up chair of the Hispanic Commission, and Fr. Frantz to change the whole class system overnight… There these offices and providing caseworkers and Casseus, chair of the Haitian Commission, and can be cooperation [between those with and without interpreters. He is also seeking other funds for the discussed ways in which these groups might become power], and it will be good for both.” By Mary Frances Schjonberg represented on the Executive Council.” Because of the church’s diversity, she said, the group will do [Episcopal News Service] Nine members of the all it can to ensure that all voices are heard. Episcopal Church’s Executive Council have been The group will work throughout the triennium appointed to draft the Church’s response to as a primary resource to the International Concerns the first version of an Anglican covenant. Standing Committee of the Executive Council and On July 11 Presiding Bishop Katharine the Episcopal Church’s members of the Anglican Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Consultative Council (ACC) as they monitor the Bonnie Anderson announced the appointments, covenant process. Resolution A166, passed by the which were called for in Executive Council 75th General Convention in June 2006, called for Resolution INC021, passed at the council’s June such monitoring. meeting in Parsippany, N.J. The resolution also said that the Episcopal The group is charged with writing a proposed Church supports the process of developing a response of the Executive Council to the draft covenant “that underscores our unity in faith, Anglican covenant for the council, to be considered order, and common life in the service of God’s at its October 2007 meeting in Dearborn, Mich. mission.” During the March meeting of the Part of the material the members of the Executive Council, the members said that Covenant Response Drafting Group will “responding to the draft covenant does not consider as they work are the more than presuppose agreement with the terms and 400 comments the council received by principles advanced in the draft.” way of a covenant study guide it The Windsor Report, released in October 2004, published in mid-April. [The response proposed an Anglican covenant as a possible way By Archdeacon Bryan Hobbs from our diocesan deputies and for the Anglican Communion to maintain unity Executive Board is posted at amid differing viewpoints. The communion’s Ministry in the rapidly changing world of the http://chipstokesblog.blogspot.com:80/ and primates released the first draft during their 21st century is a challenge, requiring all that www.diosef.org]. Although the deadline for February meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the Holy Spirit can give combined with comments based on the Council’s covenant asking for comment from the communion’s 38 the sacrificial effort of our parish leaders study guide has passed, the group’s chair, provinces by Jan. 1, 2008. — and nowhere in our diocese is Rosalie Simmonds Ballentine of the Diocese of The drafting group’s proposed response for the congregational ministry more challenging than the Virgin Islands, said responses are still October Executive Council session is meant to in the small, rural parishes in the Glades. coming into the General Convention office and meet the January 1 comment deadline “so that the Last fall the Diocese of Southeast Florida will be considered. While the group is not voice of our Church will be heard in this process,” was awarded a grant of $16,078 from the actively soliciting more comment, she said “we Ballentine said. Roanridge Trust, which annually distributes would still be open to receiving [any additional It is expected that a revised version of the approximately $200,000 to rural and small- comments].” covenant will be presented to the 2008 Lambeth town ministries in the Episcopal Church, for “I am grateful to the members of the drafting Conference of Bishops, to be followed by a final “specific training for the creation of a multi- group for their willingness to continue this text that would be proposed to the 2009 meeting cultural, multi-generational, multi-parish and challenging work,” Jefferts Schori said July 11. of the ACC. If the ACC adopts the text, it would multi-lingual ministry in a rural, lower socio- “Together we look for a thoughtful and well- offer it to the provinces for consideration. economic, ethnically diverse agricultural area” in reasoned response that reflects the diversity of The members of the Covenant Response the Glades. opinion in the Episcopal Church.” Drafting Group are: Ballentine, Kim Byham These “Roanridge Parishes” are St. John’s, Belle Anderson said that the drafting group will also (Newark), the Rev. Dr. Lee Alison Crawford Glade (two congregations — Anglo and Haitian), “design a process for continuing to gather input (Vermont), the Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas Holy Nativity, Pahokee, and St. Martin’s, from the entire Episcopal Church to aid the (Massachusetts), Canon Victoria L. Garvey Clewiston. Church of the Good Shepherd in Executive Council in its response to subsequent (Chicago), the Rev. Canon Mark Harris (Delaware), LaBelle, though located in the Diocese of covenant drafts.” the Rev. Winnie S. Varghese (New York), Ted M. Southwest Florida, is also participating with us Ballentine said the drafting group members Yumoto (San Joaquin) and Belton T. Zeigler (Upper in the program. These parishes have a unique reflect “quite a cross section of our Church as South Carolina). layer of challenges placed upon them which requires a different type of ministry and training. On Saturday, May 18, the Glades parishes gathered at St. Martin’s, Clewiston, to initiate the parish — conservative, liberal, small, large, mega- review the progress that the Glades parishes have 18-month process outlined in the Roanridge Grant church, wealthy or poor — points to the fact that made and how they have specifically revised their proposal. Twenty-eight clergy and parish leaders the primary determining factors in developing ministry plan to be more relevant and effective. from the five congregations came together for the Godly parish communities are 1) their collective With that in place the parish leaders will then be initial six-hour seminar. encounter with Jesus Christ and 2) their joyful but able to discern what training would be helpful over The purpose of the seminar was to discern the sacrificial commitment to his grace-filled ministry. the next 18 months to enhance these new ministries. present state of each parish’s ministry, as well as This has clearly been our experience in the diocesan The Glades parishes ask the prayers of the whole to begin discovering potential arenas for future Nehemiah Process. diocesan family for their work together Aug. 25- ministries. Prior to the May 18 seminar the parish The next seminar for the Glades parishes will be 26, and as they continue the process of revitalizing leaders had done personal interviews within their held August 25-26. During the seminar we will their ministries. respective communities to discover the “felt needs” of their neighbors. They had examined various demographic data in order to become more aware of trends in their communities, with the specific purpose of discovering people to whom they might be able to minister. The parishes had also reviewed their “best ministry practices” to discern their gifts and talents. The premise behind all of these activities is that through the collective experiences of encountering Christ in their ministries the Glades parishes will discover ways to revise and revitalize their ministries. Together these congregations will seek ways to be more relevant and effective in communicating the grace of Christ in a changing cultural setting. Diana Butler Bass in her new book, Christianity for the Rest of Us, has offered wise advice for those who engage in this challenging and risky process. Through her landmark examination of 50 mainline parishes, she discovered that those who engage in “a process of prayerful discernment, offering radical hospitality, developing new patterns of leadership and experimenting with innovative worship” are turning their parishes around. This is a key learning for all who desire to make their parish community effective, as well as to refute the critics who incorrectly believe that only conservative churches can grow. All of the contemporary research as to what contributes to a healthy • Leslie Neal (right), founder and artistic director of ArtSpring, Inc., leads a session of the Bridging the On Aug. 26 Seafarers’ House, the multi-faith Gap Writing ministry to seafarers at Port Everglades in Ft. Workshop Lauderdale, will observe Sea Sunday with with inmates an interfaith service at 3 p.m. at Berth XX at Homestead at Port Everglades. Correctional Sea Sunday is a day set aside annually by those Institution. involved in maritime ministry to pray for seafarers and to draw the attention of the community and the world to those who work at sea. Bishop Leo Frade is scheduled to participate in the interfaith prayer service, along with Archbishop John C. Favalora of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami and representatives of other faith communities. Members of the community who wish to attend will need a photo ID in order to enter the port. For additional information contact Beth Masino at 954-467-7330.

Vicki Lopez Lukis of St. Philip’s, Coral Gables, talk.” She invited other ex-offenders to talk with knows that women in prison have important the girls, bringing them the stories of women who stories to tell, both to each other and to had “been there, done that” and who desperately the outside world that finds it easy to wanted to save the girls from following in their forget those who have been removed from footsteps. The writing workshop began as a way Got questions about the Episcopal Church? society. for these women to share their stories with the The Communication Office at the Episcopal On Oct. 18 some of these stories will come to girls. Church Center now provides a new online life onstage at Gusman Center for the Performing The workshop program in the two facilities is a resource to help you find the answers: Arts in Miami in a one-time-only 8 p.m. partnership among Lukis and the Florida InfoLine. Go to performance of Any Departments of http://www.episcopalchurch.org/info. One of Us: Words Corrections and From Prison: Miami. Juvenile Justice; the Ticket prices for the Girls Advocacy Project benefit performance • 64: Percentage of girls in detention in Miami- (GAP), an intervention range from $50 to Dade County who report being abused at least one program for girls $250; for information time in their lives (half were abused by a parent). detained in Juvenile call 305-274-4772 or • 59: Percentage of girls in detention who have Detention Centers; and email moved homes five or more times in their lives; ArtSpring, Inc., an arts [email protected]. percentage of girls whose parents are or have been organization that [ENS] The National Episcopal conference for Conceived by incarcerated. works with single adults — Solo Flight — will assemble for its playwright Eve Ensler • 53: Percentage of those girls whose parents underserved and annual meeting at Kanuga Conference and presented by have a history of substance abuse. institutionalized Center in the Smoky Mountains near ArtSpring and • 49: Percentage of all girls in detention who women and girls. Hendersonville, N.C., Aug. 31-Sept. 3. Women’s Fund of report self-mutilation. A documentary film Themed “Flying Solo — on pilgrimage,” the Miami-Dade, the • 33: Percentage of girls in detention who have about the workshop, conference will offer opportunities for single performance will attempted suicide. Bridging the Gap: A Episcopalians, as well as their single friends from feature the writings of • 80: Percentage of incarcerated women who Writing Workshop, other traditions, to grow spiritually, learn and women in prison in are mothers. was shown in April at network with those who share similar values. Florida and around • 90: Percentage of women in prison who have the Bill Cosford Participants will hear from keynote speaker The the country, read by been abused. Cinema at the Rev. Dr. Brett Webb-Mitchell, founder and director successful ex- • 551: Percentage increase of Florida’s female University of Miami, of the School of the Pilgrim and author of Follow offenders, local prison population between 1977 and 2004. and again in July at the Me: Christian Growth on Pilgrimage, and listen performers and South Ft. Lauderdale Film to musician the Rev. J. Bruce Stewart, teacher, Florida community Festival. The entire 28- performer and catalyst for creativity at the Center leaders. Any One of Us: Words from Prison was minute film can be viewed online at for Liturgy and the Arts in Annandale, Va. first performed before a sold-out audience at http://www.reentrymediaoutreach.org/gap.htm. These gatherings offer a form of institutional Lincoln Center in New York last summer. Proceeds from Any One of Us will go to produce support, guidelines and guided participation in Some of the material to be used in the Miami an anthology of writings from the Bridging the making maps in the world of singleness, rituals performance will come from Bridging the Gap, a Gap Writing Workshop, to be distributed to and traditions for the journey, all based in the writing workshop started by Lukis last year for the adolescent girls in detention and to at-risk girls as Eucharist celebration, and the belief that the only inmates at Broward Correctional Institution and a tool for intervention and education; support relationship that will not fail is the relationship Homestead Correctional Institution. Women’s Fund of Miami-Dade grants to programs through Jesus Christ. Lukis, a former Lee County Commissioner who that prevent at-risk girls from entering the juvenile Participants will also join in workshops, was convicted of mail fraud in 1999 and spent time justice system and that reduce recidivism of girls presentations, evening fun and Episcopal worship, in federal prison, calls her incarceration a in detention; fund ArtSpring’s Inside Out including the “Liturgy of Healing and Wholeness “resurrection.” She came out of prison in November expressive arts workshops for incarcerated women and Blessing of Singularity.” 2000 and returned home to Miami-Dade County and Breaking Free workshops for at-risk adolescent Cost of the conference is $415/double with a passionate commitment to work on behalf girls; and support V-Day, a global movement to occupancy, and $495/single occupancy (both of women in prison, girls in detention and female stop violence against women and girls. include meals and program material). ex-offenders who are trying to rebuild their lives. The organizers of the events are seeking To register, call 828-692-9136 or email Her work with girls in detention highlighted the organizations to co-host the performance, as well [email protected]. urgent need to intervene in the lives of these at- as sponsors, individual or corporate, for amounts For more information, email Dr. Kay Collier risk girls to teach them that every action has a beginning at $500. Call 305-274-4772 or email McLaughlin, founder and coordinator of Solo consequence. Each time she told her own story [email protected] for sponsorship information. Flight, at [email protected] or David Perk at about her prison experience, she saw the power of [See Page 13 for more on ministry to women in [email protected]. someone who had “walked the walk and talked the prison.] On Memorial Day weekend guests….” members of Church @ the Trinity Cathedral and Grove, Loxahatchee, Iglesia Episcopal Trinidad stationed in front of said goodbye and thanks on three area supermarkets, July 1 to Fr. Jack Stanton, who handed out over 500 small has “re-retired” after assisting American flags, along with a both congregations at the printed prayer for all those cathedral since 2005. Stanton serving in the Armed Forces, is not leaving Miami or the as well as all those who have cathedral, but is retiring from served. regular Sunday — and weekday • Caroline Hinterberger and Katie Jeffcott dare to touch The youth group at Good — responsibilities. the spear held by “Roman soldier” Robert Olson at Vacation Shepherd, Tequesta, is On July 10 Holy Family, Bible School at Good Shepherd, Tequesta. With the theme planning a two-mile walk-a- Miami Gardens, held a “Marketplace 29 AD,” the VBS program let children thon Sept. 29 on the church “tailgate supper” in the church experience everyday life in Palestine in the time of Jesus, grounds. They’re encouraging parking lot — followed by learning at “Hebrew school” and exploring the work of participation by “runners, “tailgate worship.” merchants, fishermen, carpenters — and even Roman skaters, strollers, wagons, St. Margaret’s, Miami soldiers and tax collectors. wheelchairs, walkers and your Lakes, dedicated its prayer favorite four-legged friend.” garden on June 24. The Proceeds will benefit the parish’s former rector, parish’s youth program, Archdeacon Mary Gray- pilgrimages and mission trips. Reeves, and interim rector Fr. On Pentecost, May 27, St. Tom Shepherd, assisted the Mary’s, Stuart, recognized rector, the Rev. Denise the 98 new or reactivated Hudspeth, and Deacon Ledly members that had joined the Moss with the blessing and parish family since Pentecost dedication of the space, which 2006. These newcomers will be used for small outdoor represent 8 percent of the services, as well as a quiet place current congregation. for personal prayer. St. Mary’s celebrated being St. Stephen’s, Coconut debt-free with a mortgage- Grove, is displaying a banner burning party on July 20. on the front of the church that • Beverly Doyle (left) of Church of the Advent, Palm City, enjoys a fish dinner Church of the Advent, says “A Call to Conscience” and and conversation with her neighbor, Loretta Christie (right) of St. Monica’s, Palm City, is planning a gives the website Stuart, at St. Monica’s monthly Fish Fry on July 20. At the table behind them celebration of its 20th www.savedarfur.org. The are Fr. Jim Spencer and acolyte Milton Lanier. St. Monica’s holds a Fish Fry on anniversary as a congregation parish’s Community Service the third Friday every month except November and December; people come — appropriately, on the first and Outreach Committee from all over the North Palm Beach Deanery to enjoy the food and fellowship. Sunday of Advent, Dec. 2. asked that the banner be Fish are cooked to order by the men of the parish, with side orders and desserts On Sunday, Aug. 19 at 5 displayed to remind the prepared and served by the women. The proceeds are used to pay the mortgage p.m., St. Andrew’s, Lake community of the plight of the on the house that serves as the congregation’s parish hall. Worth, will present its annual people of Darfur and to Chocolate & Wine encourage involvement in Extravaganza, featuring working to end the chocolates from Mexico, Java, humanitarian crisis there. the Caribbean and Africa, with On May 27 St. Matthew wines and foods that enhance the Apostle, Miami, filled a • On July 22 Holy them. Tickets are $25 per hole left by a tree that was Spirit, West Palm person and may be purchased downed in last year’s hurricane Beach, honored charter by calling the church office, season with a new tree, planted member Jeanne 561-582-6609. Tickets must be and dedicated in memory of Robson, whose 90th reserved in advance. All parishioner Lester Nuñes. birthday was July 16. At proceeds will benefit St. The ECW of St. Andrew’s, the birthday party Andrew’s ministries. Palmetto Bay, sponsored a following the 10 a.m. Instead of buying end-of- June 23 evening with the Rev. Sunday service Robson school gifts for Sunday School Marta Weeks, who read from and Holy Spirit’s rector, teachers and youth leaders, St. her memoir, Our Lord Was Fr. Hallock Martin, Paul’s, Delray Beach, Baptized, You Know, and enjoyed the rather sponsored a child at Kamp for signed copies of it. Weeks, who unusual birthday Kids, the summer camp retired this spring, has a long greeting. program in the Diocese of association with St. Andrew’s; Southwest Florida for children it was her parish home before with parents in prison. Each she went to seminary, and she child at St. Paul’s Vacation has assisted there. Bible School was asked to bring Children at St. James a new beach towel to donate to Children’s Center, St. James Kamp for Kids. By the end of the Fisherman, VBS, St. Paul’s had 85 towels Islamorada, held their to donate, VBS families had annual Bike-a-Thon on July 20 sponsored two more children and raised $1,726 for St. Jude’s at Kamp for Kids and the Hospital. The local bank, The church had sponsored another Island Bank of the Keys, in honor of VBS workers. presented goodie bags to the More than 60 members of children who participated. St. James-in-the-Hills, On July 1 St. Francis-in- Hollywood, celebrated the the-Keys, Big Pine Key, “Birthday of the Church” on held a combined Pentecost afternoon with a Eucharist/beach river cruise on Ft. Lauderdale’s cleanup/barbecue at Bahia Jungle Queen. Honda State Park. The Iona • Joseph Cabrera, a young member of St. Ten women at St. James liturgy was used, with hymns Columba, Marathon, congratulates the Rev. Debra were installed June 10 as including “Morning has Andrew Maconaughey after her ordination to the members of the parish’s first Broken,” “All Creatures of our priesthood on July 14. Behind Joseph is his father, chapter of Daughters of the God and King” — and honoring Angel. Andrew Maconaughey had been serving as King. Independence Day, “America deacon at St. Columba since January and is now In a move to make the the Beautiful.” priest-in-charge of the congregation. church more welcoming, St. During the summer Sunday Martin’s, Pompano Beach, School program at St. Paul’s, has removed most of the tables Key West, children — and chairs from its parish hall including a newly baptized in order to encourage baby — had their feet painted • Fr. Frisby Hendricks, priest in charge at All Saints’, Jensen Beach, reviews computer “mingling and socializing” with and made a footprint path materials with students at the Parent Resources Center for Migrant Workers in guests. “Once folks have been toward a shiny cross on a piece Indiantown, Fla. On June 12, Hendricks and All Saints’ parishioners who are volunteer seated,” the parish newsletter of canvas that has now been tutors at the center presented director Doris Saffran (top, green shirt) with a check for explains, “they have a tendency made into a banner that • Fr. Mark Sims, rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Coral Springs, and Lynn Ford (center) $6,000 — a combined grant from All Saints’ outreach ministry, diocesan Human Needs to remain where they have includes the words of the hymn assist as Kathy Sturgis (right) burns the parish’s mortgage on Sunday morning, June Ministry and the Smith Charity Fund of Episcopal Charities of Southeast Florida. The been planted and speak only that was the theme for the 16. The women are among the founding members of the congregation, which recently Center serves migrant families with health and education resources, as well as practical to those around them. This summer program: “I want to raised $40,000 in two and a half weeks in order to pay off the mortgage on the church necessities. All Saints’ has been involved with this ministry for many years. does not lend itself to a high walk as a child of the Light, I building two years early. Sims says the congregation wanted to retire the mortgage to opportunity to greet our want to follow Jesus….” make more funds available for mission, outreach and the parish’s commitment to the Millennium Development Goals. The following is adapted from a sermon asked to leave a Methodist-affiliated college in preached by Bishop Leo Frade at a confirmation the south because of my big mouth. After the service at Trinity Cathedral, Miami, on forced integration of my college, I just couldn’t Trinity Sunday, June 3, 2007. The original understand how people who seemed to be truly text can be found at devoted and committed Christians were able to http//trinitymiami.org. insult, discriminate and even persecute Americans who happened to be “Ring the bells that still can ring. black. There were black persons Forget your perfect offering. from other countries in that college There is a crack in everything. and I never heard a complaint about That’s how the light gets in.” them, but when the first African- American student showed up all hell Those words come from a poem by the broke loose. Canadian poet and composer Leonard Cohen. I As a foreign student, I had been thought that it would be appropriate for your raised in a different culture and I lacked those bishop to remind you this morning of the cracks chips of racial prejudice in my brain. So I decided of this church. that it was OK to challenge southern white …I’ve got news for you. It is not that I don’t know if you know that one of the persons from Kentucky on issues of race. Big easy to be one of us...... hurricanes the year before last caused mistake. considerable damage to the roof of our That’s how I ended up in New York, and it was — Bishop Leo Frade cathedral. Unfortunately, now we have there at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine that a major crack in our roof where we can I became enamored by the beautiful liturgy of see not just light, but even the stars and our church. It was there that I discovered a church the moon…. that doesn’t ask you to leave your brain at the Now the crack in the roof we need door, but allows you come in with your brain in Official publication of the to fix — patch it, cover it and block the order to think and reason; a church that besides Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida light. But there are other cracks that exist in having a firm belief in the Scriptures, and a love Episcopal Communicators’ Award of Excellence our church of which we must be aware. We and appreciation for tradition, is also willing to “General Excellence” for the year 2000 must fix the crack in our roof, but let’s be reason. careful to leave those other cracks alone, so You see, reason is what would not allow us to The Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, Bishop that through them light may get in and shine accept the theory of limbo, or to insist that the to banish the darkness of our world. sun rotates around planet earth and that we are The Rt. Rev. James Ottley I am not only talking about this cathedral, the center of the universe. Reason has helped us Assistant Bishop but also about the many cracks that the to recognize that Blacks and Hispanics are not Episcopal Church seems to have — or as some inferior, that women can be called by God — and The Rt. Rev. Calvin O. Schofield, Jr. may perceive it, the imperfections of our ordained by the church — to be priests and S.T.D., Retired Bishop Episcopal Church. bishops, and that people are not gay and lesbian Yes, we are a church that has many cracks. because they are possessed by demons or have The Rt. Rev. John L. Said We are an imperfect church, and there are many simply chosen an “unnatural” way of life. Retired Bishop Suffragan things that someone from the outside looking in This was and is a church that has encouraged may perceive to be flaws that need to be fixed. I its members to be involved in bringing justice Kathryn Blanton am sure that some may even think that we must and peace in this world and as we promise in our Convener of Communications Ministry be the craziest bunch of believers in all of Baptismal Covenant, “to respect of the dignity Christendom. of every human being.” Today as we look at the Mary W. 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Mail to Mary W. Cox, DoSEF, 525 NE Some may say that this newest crack is And now this American church is being told 15th St., Miami, FL 33132-1411, or [email protected]. different from the ones that occurred in the past, by a considerable number of persons from other but they are just trying to justify their prejudice cultures and nations, as well as from a small THE NET (USPS 787-340) is published bimonthly, six times while demanding their rights. Let me explain group of our own members, that we must patch a year, in February, April, June, August, October and December myself: the crack that we made. That is very easy for by the Diocese of Southeast Florida. Subscription, $5 annually. I became an Episcopalian almost 40 years ago them to say, but if we do that, how will the light Periodicals postage paid at Miami, Fla., and additional offices. because I saw this church as a church that was of justice get in? POSTMASTER: Address changes to The Net, 525 N.E. 15th willing to defend justice and the rights of those I know that by refusing to patch that crack our Street, Miami, FL 33132-1411. being abused. For me it reflected what Jesus “bonds of affection” with some of our brothers Christ taught in the Gospels. I had just been and sisters areare beingbeing strained strained or or even even broken. broken. I I received by meme thisthis morningmorning butbut II wantwant to to know that therethere maymay even even be be other other drastic drastic make sure you knowknow thatthat we we really really mean mean for for consequences. you to keep the promises that youyou areare But every timetime II falterfalter and and begin begin to to think think that that about to make. maybe wewe shouldshould compromisecompromise II rememberremember We really meanmean itit whenwhen we we ask ask you you Jonathan MyrickMyrick Daniels.Daniels. 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By Walter H. Beaman fire by the 1960s sexual revolution, and more avoid the first kind of debate. The idea is not to recently by elders living together outside of win, but to live together…. I have read carefully and with interest [the marriage. Changes may occur. Taking a long view, we should think of a covenant diocesan deputies’ and Executive Board’s] response The current hot-button issue is whether a man as one that will be in place long after the core issue to the proposed Anglican Covenant. I agree in a long-term committed same-sex partnership, identified here has become a thing of the past. almost entirely; but would like to ask whether who intends to continue sexually active in that What will be the covenant’s function then? What you are saying that the debate on the Gene union, should be barred from Holy Orders. Closely will the passage of time have wrought? Robinson matter is over, and if the rest of the related is whether the union may be blessed. The Presiding Bishop’s statement [following the Communion will have to live with our position? The Presiding Bishop has said that there are two Primates Meeting in February of this year] ends by I think a good covenant would provide a firmly held positions on this subject, which she saying that each side in the current dispute has mechanism for a full debate about human sexuality, refers to as justice versus tradition. The justice side been asked to forbear “for a season.” Should not and allow the time necessary for its conclusion. sees the command to “do justice” as requiring non- the “season” be one that gives adequate time for Man has been concerned about limits on the discriminatory treatment of homosexuals and the debate? The diocese’s response quotes the Rev. expression of sexual drive since Eden. The heterosexuals; the traditional view finds in biblical Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who correctly points Pentatuech speaks of incest, polygamy, rape, texts a condemnation of homosexual conduct, and out that time may be used for good or ill. To use it sodomy, adultery, semen-wasting and so on. The maintains that such denial is required by Holy for good we should agree to an ongoing debate Church adopted rules about celibacy, marriage, Scripture…. which the parties commit to finish other than by remarriage after divorce, bastardy, etc. Its position A debate is not the mere statement of positions schism, and during which each side will observe a that all should be either married or celibate is under by each side. That must be followed by a series of moratorium. We must trust in the honesty of both cogent responses. In that sense, sides that the time will be used for good and not the debate necessary to the evil. resolution of the core issue has To summarize: A covenant should 1) affirm the not yet begun. reformed catholicity of the Anglican Communion A debate may be concluded and its balance of unity and diversity, 2) commit when one side has won according its members to the Church’s mission, 3) provide a to the decision of a judge; or it non-judicial, non-curial mechanism for working may end when both sides reach out disagreements without rancor, and 4) require an accommodation; or when one members to renounce schism and anathema. side withdraws because, for example, the issue has been Walter Beaman is a parishioner at Good overtaken by events. We should Shepherd, Tequesta. Parishioners at St. Margaret’s, Miami Lakes, on July 22 could tell from the • Michèle Bazin leads the other members of St. Paul’s Cultural Club beginning that they were in for a in a liturgical dance to a setting of Psalm 150 composed by her grandfather, different kind of Sunday morning Canon Fritz Bazin. Eucharist. Instead of the familiar opening words, “Blessed be God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” the rector, the Rev. Denise Hudspeth, was saying something about the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, and asking the congregation to join her in reading By Mary W. Cox, editor Bishop James Theodore Holly, the first bishop of Step 1: “We admitted we were powerless over Haiti, who “had to bury all the people who trusted addiction….” In October of 1981 the dean of the North Dade him… but never gave up.” A service that begins with those words is Deanery, Fr. J. Kenneth Major, rector of Church of Because of the faithfulness of Bishop Holly, Frade very familiar to members of the diocesan Task the Incarnation, Miami, sent a letter to all said, the church that he planted in Haiti has now Force on Addiction and Recovery, many of deanery congregations, asking for financial grown to be the largest diocese in the Episcopal whom were at St. Margaret’s that Sunday to support — $500 per congregation — for a new Church, with over 150,000 members. When we look help lead the Twelve-Step Eucharist and to ministry in the area. at what we plant, he said, we don’t always see how introduce the congregation to the work of the The letter explained, “Our bishop would like to strong it will grow. Task Force and of Recovery Ministries in the bring a priest to Miami who speaks Creole, Spanish “After 25 years,” he said, “no one can uproot Episcopal Church. and English to be resident at St. Paul’s Church, which Haitian ministry!” The concept of Recovery Ministries began is located in what is now a predominantly Haitian “People have come here, with all their cracks, with a 1979 General Convention resolution community in the inner city, and thus willing to offer themselves to God… St. Paul’s is a requesting that each diocese form a Committee establish a ministry to Haitians in place that with all its cracks lets the light get through, on Alcoholism to provide educational materials Miami.” not only for the Haitian community, but for the on the subject of alcoholism, and to develop The multilingual priest was the Rev. whole multicultural community.” a written policy on alcoholism. Recovery J. Fritz Bazin, who was then serving in Frade commended the sacrifices made by the Ministries today is an independent, nationwide Barbados. With the support of the North congregation for their community, and received network of Episcopal laity and clergy, dioceses Dade Deanery, as well as many others enthusiastic applause when he concluded with his and parishes, schools, agencies and other around the diocese, Bishop Calvin O. concern for the plight of Haitian immigrants seeking institutions — all with a common commitment Schofield, Jr. called him to begin refugee status in this country. to address the use and misuse of alcohol and Haitian ministry at St. Paul’s in 1982. “You have my pledge of continued support,” he other drugs in relation to the On June 16, Schofield joined with his successor, said. church’s mission. Bishop Leo Frade, now-Canon Fritz Bazin, Before communion Bazin invited the congregation The diocesan Task Force on Archdeacon Bryan Hobbs and Haitian clergy at St. to receive anointing, “…for the strength really to do Addiction and Recovery began as Paul et les Martyrs d’Haiti for a celebration of 25 what we need to do.” Many came forward to be our diocesan response to that years of ministry to the Haitian communities in the anointed by the bishops and clergy. 1979 resolution, and is the diocese. Four new members of St. Paul’s were received diocesan arm of Recovery Schofield told the congregation that the into the Episcopal Church at the service, and four Ministries. The current chair of celebration reminded him of St. Paul’s words to the young people made their first communion and the Task Force is Wendy Barraco Corinthians: “I planted, someone else watered, God received a blessing from Frade. of Holy Sacrament, Pembroke makes it grow.” The liturgy was in French — Bazin reminded Pines, who is also the immediate “I give thanks for Fr. Bazin and for Bishop Frade,” English-speaking members of the congregation that past president of Recovery he said. they could follow the service in Le Livre de la Priere Ministries. Another Task Force Wherever he goes, Schofield added, he is always Commune. As is traditional at all diocesan member, Ann Goraczko of St. glad to come back to the Diocese of Southeast Florida celebrations, the Gospel was read in three languages Margaret’s, serves on the because he “loves the richness” of our diversity. — French, English and Spanish. Recovery Ministries board. Frade began his homily with a quotation from There were hymns in French and Creole, and one The Task Force seeks to build poet/songwriter Leonard Cohen that he had used — “Amazing Grace” — sung in English. Liturgical awareness of the pastoral and in a sermon on Trinity Sunday at Trinity Cathedral dancers from St. Paul’s Cultural Club led the spiritual dimensions of alcohol [see Page 10]: “…There is a crack in everything/That’s procession and danced at the offertory to a setting and drug usage — and of the resources how the light gets in.” composed by Bazin for Psalm 150. available in the Church for both the persons “St. Paul’s is a perfect example of this,” he said. At the end of the service Fr. Pierre Constant, head who suffer from the disease of addiction and “I have been here when the cracks in the roof have of the Association of Haitian Episcopal Priests Living their families and friends. produced a lot of water… I have seen the struggles Abroad, brought greetings from that group and Many publications and resources are you have been through — and the struggles you still offered their congratulations to the diocese and the available at the Recovery Ministries website, have ahead of you.” people of St. Paul’s on 25 years of Haitian ministry www.episcopalrecovery.org, for congregations He compared these struggles with the life of in Southeast Florida. and individuals who need information on various kinds of addictions, including not only substance abuse but also such problems as gambling. The website also provides a Recovery Sunday Resource Guide, which gives In preparation for the parish’s the week will highlight the variety Tuesday, Sept. 18 — Men’s Night; step-by-step instructions for a Recovery 50th anniversary in 2008, of Caribbean cultures represented Wednesday, Sept. 19 — Youth Sunday Twelve-Step Eucharist. members of St. Matthew’s, in the congregation. Night; Thursday, Sept. 20 — The diocesan Task Force offers an annual Delray Beach, will celebrate The week will begin with the Women’s Night; Friday, Sept. 21 Twelve-Step Retreat in late spring, and their patronal festival with regular 10:30 a.m. Sunday service — A celebration of the Feast of St. members are available to assist with Twelve- a week of events Sept. 16-23. on Sept. 16, followed by an “Ol’ Matthew; and Saturday, Sept. 22 Step Eucharists and to share their message of The parish is named for St. Tyme Gospel Extravaganza” that — Ol’ Fashioned Curry, an evening experience, strength and hope in parish Matthew, the apostle and afternoon at 3 p.m. of island food and fun. workshops and forums. evangelist, whose feast is observed Weeknight events will be: The week concludes with a For information on any of the resources on Sept. 21. Monday, Sept. 17 — Ol’ Tyme closing celebration on Sunday available from the Task Force contact Wendy The theme of the patronal Religion Night, featuring older evening, Sept. 23. For details call Barraco, [email protected]. festival is “Ol’ Tyme Religion,” and members of the congregation; the church office, 561-272-4143. By The Rev. Kathleen Gannon throughout the weekend as they shared their responses to the talks, drew posters, laughed, talked, “Thin places,” in the Celtic tradition, are times prayed and ate together. Each table was named for and places where the veil between this world and the a woman of courage from the Bible and the women next is very, very thin, and the holy just were encouraged to consider themselves a family, emanates across what is usually a pretty the family of Ruth, Esther, Miriam, Makeda, Elizabeth concrete barrier. or Mary. I was in a “thin place” Our Kairos team and as I participated in the participants joined in the Kairos Prison Ministry regular Sunday morning for a retreat weekend worship, familiar to us as at Broward Episcopalians as it was Correctional led by the prison Institution in chaplain, the Rev. Carol mid-April. Walton, an Episcopal Wikipedia priest. Graciously, the gives us a definition of Kairos, the name chaplain did not offer communion on that Sunday. What was truly startling was chosen by the international, Christian, prison Because many Christian denominations do not ministry organization: recognize each other at the table, Kairos team how similar the women were to each “Kairos is a Greek word meaning the ‘right or members do not participate in communion when on of us on the team, each of us from opportune moment,’ or ‘God's time.’ The ancient a weekend. The chaplain did not want anyone to feel the outside….….... Greeks had two words for time, chronos and excluded and so offered morning prayer with kairos. While the former refers to chronological awesome music, liturgical dance and the grounding — The Rev. Kathleen Gannon or sequential time, the latter signifies ‘a time in prayers that all could share. between,’ a moment or undetermined period of To be sure, the prison environment at BCI is stark, time in which something special happens.” highly controlled and colorless, and the total lack of A team of 40 women from various any freedom at all is very clear. But the prayers of denominations had spent two months preparing the “outside” community — all of you who were for this retreat. Barbara Langham from St. praying and thinking of us that weekend — added to Matthew's, Delray Beach was leader of the team, this environment a dimension of spirit and joy that which included not only Susan Stokes and me from was tangible. The prayer strips — colorful St. Paul’s, but also the Rev. Marcia Beam and four construction paper strips with prayers, scripture and other women from St. Matthew’s: Lavonne Baine, greetings signed by those praying for the weekend The diocesan Hispanic Commission has LaVira Brin, Rose Connie Greene and Thelia Smith- — were looped together into a long prayer chain. It announced an all-day celebration of Hispanic Waite. Ellen St. John of Episcopal Charities was also took eight people to carry the prayer chain as it was Heritage Month Saturday, Oct. 13, at a member of the team. presented and hung from the ceiling of our St. James in-the-Hills, Hollywood. Broward Correctional Institution — commonly community room. It was a constant reminder of how Events are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 10 known as BCI — is a maximum security prison many people cared for these women who live in p.m. housing about 700 women. It is located in the confinement at BCI. The day is designed to offer the community Everglades — three miles west of I-75 on Sheridan On Monday after our return, someone asked me, a festive experience of Hispanic cultures, as Street. New housing development is creeping out “Were you afraid?” I was startled by this really good well as to expand the Hispanic ministry of toward the prison area, but you could still hear question, but I answered, “No, it never once occurred the diocese in Broward County. It will be the extraordinary birds and see the sunset light on very to me to be afraid!” first such large-scale celebration of Hispanic open spaces, yet the smoke cloud of the What was truly startling was how similar the Heritage Month presented by the diocese in Everglades brush fire added a threatening women were to each of us on the team, each Broward County since 2000. shadow. of us from the outside. The women who From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. information and As I walked into the Prison Chapel, participated in the Kairos weekend were a referral services for immigration concerns located in the center of the prison lot like us — all seeking ways to live their will be offered, and a number of Latin campus, I felt a strange sense of peace and lives in God’s grace and peace. American consulates will provide information familiarity, though I’d never been there During our time together at BCI we for their citizens on passports and birth before. The chapel had pews and worship spoke a lot about the nature of forgiveness. certificates. space for about 200, a library, the chaplain’s Experiencing God’s forgiveness is From 3 to 4 p.m. there will be praise and office and a community room where we spent sometimes hard. It can be especially hard for worship music performed by a Hispanic much of our time. someone who has committed a crime for which Christian band and a combined choir from There were 36 inmates who participated in this she is being punished and is incarcerated, where all the Hispanic congregations of the diocese, weekend retreat; the women signed up to attend but of the messages remind her of her transgression. The followed at 4 p.m. by a service in thanksgiving had to be approved to be able to attend. There were weekend brought these women messages of for the uniqueness and diversity of the eight inmates who had participated in prior Kairos forgiveness, of hope and grace for their continued Hispanic cultures represented in our diocese. weekends who worked side-by-side with team journey of reconciliation. Bishop Onell Soto will officiate. servers. Several more Kairos alumnae joined us for Forgiveness is indeed a gift from God. God forgives From 5:30 to 7 p.m. there will be the closing ceremony on Sunday afternoon. us and somehow in that forgiveness we find the grace performances of folkloric dances by dancers The weekend was built around a series of talks to forgive others. Jesus died for my sins and the sins from several Latin American countries, and given by the members of the Kairos team, talks that of the whole world, once for all. Jesus died and rose from 7 to 10 p.m. there will be a variety of shared our own personal stories and witness to the again so that we might be forgiven and live in the traditional Latin foods and a dinner dance power of God in our lives. Then there were way of forgiveness, inside BCI or anywhere. with Latin music. discussions as the participants sat at round tables, All events are open to the public and five from the “inside” and three members of the team The Rev. Kathleen Gannon is associate rector at admission is free. from the “outside.” The women at each table bonded St. Paul’s, Delray Beach.

By Ellen Kentner were the primary readers, and the band rocked! “Yea God!” has become the slogan for the The service at the end of June was an youth group at St. David’s, Wellington — a Evening of Prayer and Reconciliation Inspired response to answered prayers. When by Africa. Deacon Charles compiled the service something amazing and wonderful and which included prayers for greater awareness prayed for becomes a reality, we and compassion for those living with HIV and invariably respond, “Yea God!” AIDS, for peace around the world and in our The Sunday evening contemporary services own communities, and the reconciliation of that evolved this spring at St. David’s seem a all people. The music was diverse, including major “Yea God” feat. After lots of prayer the Bob Marley songs, a song by the Fray, more next step was asking a couple of St. David’s traditional praise music and a little Taize. For parishioners with music backgrounds, the the first time, the service was presented in “two Davids,” to play at a youth service toward Power Point, thanks to St. David’s parishioner the end of Lent. That first service was a Richard Durr. contemporary form of evening prayer (BCP), The number of musicians in the band, the with youth members doing the readings and number of youth readers and the congregation prayers, and David Hietapelto, David Weeks doubled in size from April to June. and Kimberly Gardner leading a few praise The August contemporary service will be a • The St. David’s Band members are (clockwise from songs and a Taize piece. “U2charist,” with a theme of social justice and left) David Hietapelto, keyboard and vocals; Chris We had another service in April with more our band playing the songs of rock band U2. Sheard, bass; David Weeks, guitar and keyboard; music and a Celtic liturgy. Deacon Charles Jonathan Poortman, guitar; Kimberly Gardner, vocals; Cannon designed the liturgy and officiated, Ellen Kentner is youth coordinator at St. and Rob Dully, drummer. the young people approved the music and David’s, Wellington. Aunty Pat, I am writing this letter to tell you that I love you and want you to be like my mother because my mother can’t take care of me. I was bad because I was molested [at 11 years old] by some older boys. So from that day on my family did not want me. Please pray for me so that I can forget about it. • Members of the Outreach Committee at Holy Trinity spent a day Love, Daneisha...... in the cornfields, harvesting corn for the hungry. — Young girl at Granville Place of Safety

The word “gleaning” has a biblical ring: Old could glean,” says Outreach Committee member Testament farmers were reminded to leave some Andrea Thomas. “Plodding through the muck and grain in the corners of the fields and some red ants, this small band of pickers managed to fill grapes on the vines so that the needy might over 100 boxes with corn.” “glean” the leftovers to feed themselves and “We also got to take a few [ears of corn] home their families. for ourselves and neighbors,” she adds. “It was Ruth was a gleaner in the fields of her kinsman delicious.” Boaz — and every child in Sunday School knows C.R.O.S. Ministries coordinates the gleaning the happy ending of that story. project, matching farmers willing to give corn with Fourteen members of the Outreach Committee volunteers wanting to pick. The Daily Bread Food By Pat Colangelo at Holy Trinity, West Palm Beach, recently became Bank lends a truck and hauls the crops (not always modern-day gleaners in cornfields in the Glades, corn) back to its distribution facility. From there, The mission team that left Holy Sacrament, harvesting corn that would be distributed to various local qualifying organizations pick up food supplies Pembroke Pines, at 4 a.m. on June 8 was headed organizations that feed the hungry in Palm Beach and use them in a wide variety of feeding ministries. for a destination familiar to veterans of County. Holy Trinity became involved in the gleaning many previous Friends Reaching Friend “Through the generosity of the growers, our project through its participation in the feeding missions — the Granville Place of Safety group was given ten rows of corn from which we program at St. George’s Center in Riviera Beach. Girls Institution near Falmouth, Jamaica. The girls at Granville have been placed there by the judicial system because of criminal behavior Granville he tirelessly hauled the doctors to their showed them; Craig entertained the girls with or for protection from abusive situations. Although destination at a Methodist facility in town that had pictures he drew; Tim was a prayer warrior and the facility is equipped for 60 girls, when we arrived agreed to let our team use their facilities. empathetic listener; and Troy, echoing the thoughts there were over 60, ages seven to 17, and when we With the approval of the home’s director, Stafford of all of us, wanted to bring all of the girls back in left there were 76 — all part of what many today took the girls into town to the clinic for assistance his suitcase so that they could live a better life. call our “throw-away children,” not only in Jamaica from general practitioners, a child psychologist and All of the boys developed a new-found but all over the world. dentists. Not only did the girls get much-needed appreciation for their homes, their families and This year was the first Granville mission with a treatment, but townspeople and staff members their support. They cleaned toilets, washed dishes, medical component, which gave our team leader were also treated. hauled bags and always filled in where we needed Stafford Lue a much larger group to coordinate. The medical team worked long hours, never them — they came back men! Each day after dropping the rest of us off at complaining as they went from patient-to-patient. Many of us on the team had known each other, Dentists removed painful at least by name, but as we worked side-by-side abscessed teeth, and the and spent time with each other we were able to general practitioners develop a new appreciation of each other and treated such conditions as witness each person’s special gifts. Many of us are diabetes, high blood now new life-long friends. pressure and sexually Our spiritual leader, Père Maud Paraison, rector transmitted diseases. Our of Church of the Intercession, Ft. Lauderdale, gave child psychologist was able us messages each day that would inspire us before to help a 12-year-old girl we set off to our different destinations. who had been raped by her One of the young women at the home always father and was now held her head down. Every day I tilted her head up pregnant. and then hugged her, telling her that she was a This year our team also child of God and that whatever her story was, God included five teenage loved her. boys —to work with a group Before we left she wrote me this letter: of seven-to-17-year-old “Aunty Pat, I am writing this letter to tell you girls. I was a little nervous that I love you and want you to be like my mother about this, and spent many because my mother can’t take care of me. I was bad hours in prayer. What a because I was molested [at 11 years old] by some heartwarming surprise to older boys. So from that day on my family did not see the young gentlemen — want me. Please pray for me so that I can forget and indeed all five were about it. Love, Daneisha.” gentlemen — shine with Another letter summed up why missions are so their particular gifts! important: ”Whenever you are around I feel David mentored a young pleasant and positive, and I honestly wish I could mentally-challenged boy in see people like you every day. Each of you can the neighborhood with positively change someone’s life just because of • Alex Azan, a member of the Friends Reaching Friends mission patience; Alex had a your being there. Love, Samantha.” team, paints the face of a young girl at the Granville facility for at-risk following of the very young girls near Falmouth, Jamaica. girls, who were thrilled with Pat Colangelo is a member of Holy Sacrament, the attention that he Pembroke Pines. You don’t have to pay me back. Just pass it on. Help someone else to achieve his goal for a good education...... — Mary Ellen Sands’ uncle

I am very grateful they touch our lives and we touch their lives, also. They are wonderful people. I would like to say a he’ hee’ to the Fox family and Rios family. May they walk in beauty...... Five years ago when the at registration, the staff designed Cynthia Williams. “Another — Thankful youth in Coal Mine, N.M. Broward County school system a curriculum to address each parent plans to visit our church.” dropped its summer school student’s particular educational The program was initially program for all but failing deficits and strengths. funded with a grant from the students, Mary Ellen Sands, Lunch for students and staff Smith Charity Fund of Episcopal a retired teacher, suggested to her was prepared and served each day Charities of Southeast Florida and fellow-parishioners at St. by parishioner Evangeline continues to be supported by Christopher’s, Ft. Lauderdale, “Vangie” Laramore. donations from St. Christopher’s that the church should fill the gap From the beginning, the parishioners. for neighborhood children. program has had a clearly Sands often speaks of her This summer St. Christopher’s Christian component. Each day gratitude to an uncle who sent Summer Tutorial Program started with brief worship and her to college. She says that when June 16 was a day of celebration for the completed its fifth year of Bible study, and St. Christopher’s she thanked him and told him of Marafiki Global AIDS Ministry in Kenya — and providing a month’s free tutoring, rector, Fr. Leonel Charles, and Fr. her plans to pay him back, he said, for members of St. Benedict’s, Plantation, mentoring and lunch for Kenneth Cochrane, a retired “You don’t have to pay me back. too. neighborhood students. Twenty- priest from Jamaica who assists Just pass it on. Help someone else Fr. John Nganga, Marafiki’s founder, nine students in grades one at the parish, were a regular to achieve his goal for a good came to assist at St. Benedict’s two years ago, through eight were enrolled. presence in the parish hall- education.” and the parish quickly became involved in his The program, staffed by turned-classroom. For five years she has helped mission to provide food, clothing, shelter, medical certified teachers, a guidance The tutoring program has also her parish to be part of that care, education and a safe Christian living counselor, a nurse and a plethora been good evangelism. “passing it on.” environment to children in Kenya orphaned by of volunteers, was individually “Some of the parents whose HIV/AIDS. tailored to each child’s needs. children participated for a time This story was based upon On June 16 Nganga was in Kenya for the Working from specific said that this program was a material provided by Cynthia dedication of several new facilities at the Marafiki information provided by parents godsend,” says parishioner Williams. orphanage, among them a girls’ dormitory funded by St. Benedict’s. Ground was broken last June for the dormitory, which replaces rented facilities and will save the orphanage the substantial cost of rent. Ya’ a’ teeh — hello — and a he’ hee’ — thank you The building was not quite ready — are the first Navajo words mission team members for occupancy at the time of the from St. Bernard de Clairvaux, North Miami dedication, due to heavy rains that Beach, learned on their first trip to Coal Mine, delayed completion of the roof and installation N.M., several years ago. of windows and doors, but the girls were expected “These are the first words they want us to learn,” to move in by Sept. 1. says Alex Rios of St. Bernard — words that help Nganga is already urging his friends at St. new friends talk to each other. Benedict’s and around the diocese to plan for a A combined mission team from St. Mark’s, Ft. special event next year in Kenya: On June 15, Lauderdale, St. Mary Magdalene, Coral Springs, 2008, Marafiki Global AIDS Ministry will St. Stephen’s, Coconut Grove, and Saint Bernard celebrate its tenth anniversary, and Nganga will de Clairvaux, North Miami Beach, has been celebrate the 20th anniversary of his ordination traveling to Navajoland each summer to teach to the priesthood with the publication of the book Vacation Bible School and help with construction he is writing about his ministry, A Covenant With and renovation at St. Mark’s Mission at Coal Mine. God. Last summer the team worked on winterizing some of the Navajo homes, and in October a group • Members of a mission team from St. Learn more about Marafiki at from St. Mary Magdalene and St. Bernard returned Bernard de Clairvaux work with members of www.marafikiglobalaidsministry.com. to winterize the mission, paint and plaster. St. Mark’s Mission in the Navajo community of This summer six members of St. Bernard spent Coal Mine, New Mexico, to build a new sidewalk June 2-12 in Coal Mine, working with youth from in front of the church. • The 2008 mission trip to Marafiki is St. Mark’s Mission to replace an old wooden planned for June 10-23, 2008. Those who sidewalk with a new concrete sidewalk that would plan to go must give their names (as they divert water. They also constructed a patio in front walkway at St. Mark’s in Coal Mine, New Mexico, appear on their passports) to the Rev. John of the parish hall and helped parishioners with is a blessing. The elderly there are so thankful now Nganga by the end of October, along with a plumbing and electrical work. they can go into the church without tripping over $200 non-refundable deposit, payable to On a break from the construction work the St. anything. In that whole week my family and I Marafiki Global AIDS Ministry, Inc. Checks Bernard’s team and 25 of their friends from St. learned a lot of things from what Father Fox and should be mailed to: Marafiki Global AIDS Mark’s took a day trip to Monument Valley in Utah. Alex Rios instructed us to do… I am very grateful Ministry Inc., P.O. Box 667645, Pompano What the mission team continues to build each they touch our lives and we touch their lives, also. Beach, FL 33069. For additional information year is friendship. They are wonderful people. I would like to say a contact Nganga at [email protected]. In a letter to the team one of the young people he’ hee’ to the Fox family and Rios family. May they from St. Mark’s, Coal Mine, says, “The new side walk in beauty.” • Three teens from St. Mary’s, Stuart, and their friend Ethan Ashurst from Church @ the Grove, Loxahatchee, (second from right) enjoy singing at an evening program of music, scripture focus and worship during the two congregations’ mission trip in June. St. Mary’s youth are (l-r) Ariel Saville, Lacy Hamilton and Amanda Worley.

By Ellen Kentner In June, ten members of St. David’s, Wellington, traveled to New Orleans on their The Rev. Holly Ostlund, church planter at Church representing ten different denominations and 12 first mission trip. @ the Grove, Loxahatchee/The Acreage, and Ethan different states,” noted Dot Galfond, St. Mary’s Seeds for the mission were planted last Ashurst, one of the new congregation’s youth, mission trip leader. fall when Matt Holt of the Diocese of joined with 14 teens and two adult advisors Fourteen participants of the combined mission Louisiana (EDOLA) came to St. Joseph’s, from St. Mary’s, Stuart, to participate in a trip team, including Galfond, had participated in Boynton Beach, to encourage outreach mission trip to Valdosta, Ga., the week of missions with Ostlund during the four years she efforts. In November, following St. June 24. served as assistant at St. Mary’s. David’s Youth Group’s annual dinner The theme of the work camp in which “Our St. Mary’s teenagers enjoyed doing mission and silent auction, the senior youth the two North Palm Beach deanery trips so much that I wanted [to have] that experience group began talking of using the congregations participated was for the teens of our new church,” said Ostlund, “but proceeds to go to New Orleans. The “RENOVATE: Jesus makes new.” Based on we were too small at this point to go on our own, so year before, the group sent funds raised at Colossians 3, which speaks of the renovation St. Mary’s let us join forces with them.” the auction to Episcopal Relief and Jesus provides, the week was not only a chance She expresses disappointment that only one of Development for Katrina victims. for participants to renovate the homes of needy the teens from Church @ the Grove who had hoped Considering our “novice” status, age people, but also to experience renovation in their to go was able to make the trip, but says, “When I restrictions, and the fact that most of us are own lives and the lives of those they met. think that there are churches that have never sent unskilled at construction, the current EDOLA “Close to 10,000 volunteer hours were donated anyone on a mission trip, the two of us from Church Coordinator, Susan Foto, scheduled work for during the week by almost 350 teens and adults @ the Grove is not such a small number!” us with the Mobile Respite Care Unit in St. Bernard parish and the Lower Ninth Ward, and debris-clearing and landscaping with the Beacon of Hope office in Lakeview. Susan was extremely helpful and supportive in the planning process, personally checking out places for us to stay when there wasn’t available church housing. She put us in • Members of touch with a newly renovated bed and breakfast, the mission team The Victorian House, offering very special (low, from St. David’s, low) rates to volunteer organizations coming Wellington, set up to help in the city. Our host, Ben Hatfield, gave a mobile respite us a terrific orientation to New Orleans and his care tent in front first-hand perspective of Katrina and living in of a demolished the aftermath. shopping area in I believe what most of us carried away from St. Bernard our experience in New Orleans was a much Parish, La. Left to stronger sense of community. Everywhere we right are Bethany went there was an opportunity to practice a Thomas, Jonnie ministry of listening — everyone had a need to Piedade (partially share a personal story and we were encouraged, hidden), Kendall especially working out of the mobile respite Bierer, Isobel care unit, to be a listening, caring presence. Aitken, Edwin Along with Vienna sausages, laundry detergent Morlu, Elizabeth and water, we offered our names, where we Bates and Leah were from, a welcoming smile and a willingness Thomas. to listen. What seemed strikingly apparent to the group was how open people were and how appreciative — open to communicating, open to giving and receiving. We worked on the unit with girls from the Chapel School in Washington, D.C., experienced some of the worst damage. family, relatives of our assisting priest, Fr. Harvey and a group from Grace Church in New York Clearing debris from elderly homeowners’ lots and Klein, and his wife, Sylvia. The Gauthreauxs wel- City. When we told residents where we came Fleur de Lis Park in Lakeview was our most physically comed us as family and shared stories of the storm, from, that we care about their circumstances, challenging work. Beacon of Hope works to restore their evacuation and the reconstruction of their home, and that all summer long there will be young the physical landscape of neighborhoods and and served us another fabulous New Orleans meal! people coming to help from all over the U.S., it encourage residents to move back, and provides case On our last day we worked in the Ninth Ward and, was not unusual for them to respond with hugs managers for overwhelmed residents to facilitate the as we were driving back to St. Paul’s, asked to stop and, sometimes, tears. reconstruction of homes. Lakeview was home to at the Musician’s Village, an area that Habitat for We were particularly moved by three college many elderly residents before Hurricane Katrina. Humanity is building for musicians who are trying students who had come from different parts of We were invited to a number of community dinners to make it again in the Big Easy. It was exciting to the country to go to school in New Orleans. and participated in St. Anna’s outreach program to see these brightly painted new structures rising up Seeing the need all around them, they quit musicians, which offers a New Orleans-style dinner out of the gray landscape — maybe this will be our school, and now receive a different sort of and jam session featuring local jazz groups. Proceeds next project! education, living with families who request their from the dinners go into an emergency fund for help in restoring their homes. We met these musicians working to stay in New Orleans. Ellen Kentner is youth coordinator at St. David’s, disciples in St. Bernard parish, which We traveled to Kenner to meet the Gauthreaux Wellington.