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THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, et al. § IN THE DISTRICT COURT § v. § TARRANT COUNTY, TEXAS § FRANKLIN SALAZAR, et al. § 141ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT

AFFIDAVIT OF JACK L. IKER

On this day personally appeared before me Jack L. Iker, who, after being placed under oath, stated the following: (1) My name is Jack L. Iker. My business address is 2900 Alemeda Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76108.

(2) I am Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (“the Diocese”), and have served in that capacity since January 1, 1995, after being consecrated as bishop coadjutor on April 24, 1993.

(3) I am a custodian of the records of the Diocese and am familiar with the manner in which its records are created and maintained by virtue of my duties and responsibilities. Exhibits 1 through 7 attached to this affidavit and described below are true and correct copies of the original records of the Diocese. It is the regular practice of the Diocese to make and/or keep these records in the course of the regularly conducted business of the Diocese based on information known to or transmitted by a person with personal knowledge of the matters therein at or near the time they occur or are received.

(4) The Diocese is an unincorporated Texas nonprofit association formed in Fort

Worth, Texas by local clergy and laity on November 13, 1982.1 It is governed by

1 JA00097, -101 (1982 FW Const. Preamble). “JA” citations refer the parties’ Joint Appendix.

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its Constitution and Canons as amended from time to time,2 and by its Annual

Convention.3

(5) After it was formed, the Diocese was admitted into union with TEC on December 31, 1982.4 TEC did not form the Diocese, has never been an officer or member of it, and has never exercised any direct control over it.

(6) Under the Diocese’s Constitution and Canons, title to all real estate acquired for the use of churches in the Diocese is vested in a corporation known as “Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth” (“the Corporation”), and is held in trust for the use and benefit of the individual congregations using those properties.5 The Diocese’s Constitution and Canons have never had any provision creating a trust for the benefit of TEC.

(7) Attached as Exhibit 1 are excerpts from the Journal of the Diocese’s 1989 Convention, which reflect the adoption of amendments to the Diocese’s Constitution and Canons that expressly repudiate any trust in favor of TEC.6 TEC’s rules required the Diocese to forward a copy of this Journal to representatives of TEC’s General Convention and to TEC’s archives in Austin,

Texas.7

(8) Attached as Exhibit 2 are excerpts from the Journal of the Diocese’s 1992 Convention, which reflect my election as Bishop Coadjutor, with the right of

2 See JA00097–164 (1982 version); JA00165–246 (2006 version).

3 See JA00102 (1982 FW Const. Art. 2); JA00174 (2006 FW Const. Art. 2).

4 See JA00063

5 See JA00113 (1982 FW Const. Art. 13); JA00186 (2006 FW Const. Art. 14).

6 See Exhibit 1, pp. 21-22, 26-27, 70-71.

7 See JA00396 (1979 TEC Canon I.5.3); JA00457 & JA00483 (2006 TEC Canons I.1.1 & I.6.5).

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succession as Bishop of the Diocese, in accordance with the rules of the Diocese. In accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese and of TEC, election by the Diocese’s convention is the only procedure for selecting a Bishop for the Diocese.8 According to the records of the Diocese, no other person has been elected Bishop of the Diocese since my election. I have at no time resigned or abandoned my position as Bishop of this Diocese. Nothing in the Diocese’s charters allow removal of the bishop by anyone. Nothing in TEC’s charters allow removal of a local bishop by the Presiding Bishop of TEC.

(9) Attached as Exhibits 3 and 4 are excerpts from the Journals of the Diocese’s 2007 and 2008 Conventions, respectively. They reflect that delegates to those Conventions voted overwhelmingly to remove references to The Episcopal Church from the Constitution. At the 2007 Convention, the proposal to remove accession to the Constitution and Canons of TEC passed by a vote of 69 to 14 among resident clergy (83%) and by a vote of 95 to 28 among lay delegates (77%).9 After “laying over” for a year as required by the Constitution,10 the same amendment was adopted at the 2008 Convention by a vote of 72 to 19 among resident clergy (78%) and by a vote of 102 to 25 among lay delegates (80%).11

(10) No special convention was called in 2009 by me as the Diocese’s Bishop or by the Standing Committee of the Diocese. According to the records of the Diocese, the members of the Standing Committee at that time were Judy Mayo, Dr. Franklin

8 See JA00189 (2006 Const. Art. 17); JA00116 (1982 FW Const. Art. 16).

9 See Exhibit 3, pp. 80, 93 (vote on Amendment D).

10 Amendments to the Diocese’s Constitution (but not Canons) must be approved by majority vote of delegates at two consecutive Annual Conventions. See JA00117 (1982 FW Const. Art. 17); JA00190- 191 (2006 FW Const. Arts. 18 & 19).

11 See Exhibit 4, pp. 49, 82 (vote on Amendment to Article I).

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Salazar, Walter Virden, the Rev. Christopher Cantrell, the Rev. Timothy Perkins, and the Rev. Thomas Hightower. All were lay persons in good standing of a parish or mission in the Diocese or members of the clergy canonically resident within the Diocese.

(11) Attached as Exhibit 5 are excerpts from the annual Journals of the Diocese from 2004 through 2014, which show the following Defendants were elected as Trustees of the Corporation for five-year terms beginning in the years noted:

2005 JoAnn Patton 2010 JoAnn Patton 2006 Chad Bates 2011 Chad Bates 2007 Dr. Franklin Salazar 2012 Dr. Franklin Salazar 2008 Walter Virden, III 2013 Walter Virden, III 2009 Rod Barber 2014 Rod Barber

Each of these persons is and has been at all relevant times a lay person in good standing of a parish or mission in the Diocese. No other individuals have been elected as a Trustee to the board of the Corporation, and none has been removed by majority vote of the board nor resigned.

(12) None of the Individual Plaintiffs who are alleged to be Trustees of the Corporation have been either lay persons in good standing of a parish or mission in the Diocese or members of the clergy canonically resident within the Diocese since 2009. According to the records of the Diocese: (a) the Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr. has never been canonically resident within the Diocese; (b) Robert M. Bass, Cherie Shipp, and Dr. Trace Worrell are members of parishes that are no longer in union with the Diocese; and (c) the Rev. James Hazel and the Rev. John Stanley withdrew from the Diocese following the 2008 Annual Convention, were removed from canonical good standing in the Diocese on February 5, 2009, (see Exhibit 6), and have not requested readmission to canonical residency since then.

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(13) None of the Individual Plaintiffs who are alleged to be Trustees of the Endowment for the Episcopate have been either lay persons in good standing of a parish or mission in the Diocese or members of the clergy canonically resident within the Diocese since 2009. According to the records of the Diocese: (a) Robert Hicks, Floyd McKneely, Shannon Shipp, David Skelton, Whit Smith, and Anne T. Bass are members of parishes that are no longer in union with the Diocese; and (b) the Rev. James Hazel withdrew from the Diocese following the 2008 Annual Convention, was removed from canonical good standing in the Diocese on February 5, 2009, (see Exhibit 6), and has not requested readmission to canonical residency since then.

(14) None of the remaining Individual Plaintiffs who are alleged to be officers of the Diocese are qualified to serve as such, as they have been neither lay persons in good standing of a parish or mission in the Diocese nor members of the clergy canonically resident within the Diocese since 2009. According to the records of the Diocese: (a) Margaret Mieuli, Walt Cabe, Anne T. Bass, and Kathleen Wells are members of parishes that are no longer in union with the Diocese; and (b) the Rev. J. Frederick Barber, the Rev. David Madison, and the Rev. Christopher Jambor withdrew from the Diocese following the 2008 Annual Convention, were removed from canonical good standing in the Diocese on February 5, 2009, (see Exhibit 6), and have not requested readmission to canonical residency since then.

(15) From many years of prior service, I am very familiar with the Constitution and Canons of TEC in effect from 1982 until November of 2008. My review of those documents reflects the following:

 it is a voluntary affiliation of dioceses, with no provision for membership by individual persons or parishes;  it prohibits anyone but the locally elected authorities (either the local bishop or the local Standing Committee) from performing “episcopal acts” in the diocese, such as calling a diocesan convention:

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 it does not prohibit a diocese from disaffiliating with TEC;  it contained no requirement for dioceses to make an “unqualified accession” to TEC until January 1, 1983;  it contains no provision creating an irrevocable trust over local church property for TEC’s benefit;  it contains no provision allowing the Presiding Bishop to remove a local bishop solely on her own authority;  it contains no provision that a diocese or parish forfeits its property to TEC upon disaffiliation or removal of a local bishop;  it contains no provision addressing a local corporation that holds a diocese’s property; and  it contains no provisions for control of such a corporation or its directors, and does not impose a confidential or fiduciary relationship in favor of TEC upon them. (16) The Defendant Congregations have never had any confidential or fiduciary relationship with TEC. Only dioceses enter into union with TEC.12 Individual congregations are formed solely by the Diocese, and enter into union solely with the Diocese.13 As the Corporation holds title to the property used by the Defendant Congregations, the latter make no fiduciary commitments to hold property for TEC’s benefit.

(17) Exhibit 7 attached is an order from TEC purporting to remove the priests, rectors, and deacons who have shepherded many of the Defendant Congregations for many years.

I swear under penalty of perjury that all of the foregoing statements are based upon my own personal knowledge and are true and correct.

12 See JA00490.

13 See JA00109 (1982 FW Const. Art. 9), JA00142 (1982 FW Canon 22); JA00181 (2006 FW Const. Art. 9), JA00217 (2006 FW Canon 22).

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Exhibit 1 - 1989 Convention

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T H E P R 0 C E E D I N G S

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

Page #

Bishop:

Address ••••••• ...... • • 34 Official Acts ...... •• 83 Clergy List ...... 1

Convention:

Proceedings ••••••••••• •••••••••••••• ..14 Bishop•s Appointments •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 22 Bishop•s Nominations ••• • •••• 23 Convention Committees ••••••• •••••• ..24 Tabulations of Votes to Elect ••• • ••••••••••• 18 Courtesy Resolutions •••••••••••• • •••••••• 30

Reports: Corporation ...... •• 25 Finance Department ...... • • 28 Standing Committee •• . .. . 0 0 0 •• 0 0 0 ...... 0 .87 Executive Council 0 • 0 . .. . . • 0 ...... 91 Other Reports ...... 82-105 Appendices:

A. Rules of Procedure B. Constitution & Canons c. Receipts & Disbursements as December 31, 1988 D. Receipts & Disbursements as August 31, 1989 E. Proposed Budget for 1990 F. Assessment Formula & Tables for 1990 I 141-252083-11 I R 0 S T E R 0 F C L E R G Y 99 Canonically Resident Clergy on I 31 December 1989

I The Right Reverend Clarence c. Pope, Jr., D.D. Bishop of Fort Worth Consecrated January 5, 1985

I The Rev. Laurens Ray Williams (6/20/61) 1/1/83 Rector, All Saints' Parish, Weatherford I Dean, Southern Deanery The Rev. Gene Moore Haddock (9/1/69) 1/1/83 Vicar, St. Mark's Mission, Bridgeport I Vicar, Ascension Mission, Decatur The Very Rev. John Douglas Payne (1/15/73) 1/1/83 Rector, All Saints' Parish, Wichita Falls I Dean, Northern Deanery

The Rev. Cecil Dow James (6/16/73) 1/1/83 I Vicar, St. Paul's Mission, Olney Vicar, St. Thomas' Mission, Jacksboro

The Rev. Ronald Eugene White (6/15/73) 1/1/83 I Rector, St. Elisabeth's Parish, Fort Worth

The Rev. James Arthur Rogers (6/17/75) 1/1/83 I Rector, Good Shepherd Parish, Wichita Falls

The Rev. John Stanley, Jr. (9/1/75) 1/1/83 I Rector, Trinity Parish, Fort Worth The Rev. William Harper Risinger, Jr. (9/5/75) 1/1/83 I Rector, St. Michael's Parish, Fort Worth The Rev. William Archibald Campbell Crary, Jr. (6/22/76) 1/1/83 I Vicar, St. Lawrence Mission, Grapevine The Rev. William Komstedt (4/1/77) 1/1/83 I Rector, St. Francis Parish, Willow Park The Rev. Marion Roy McClain (6/24/77) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Luke's Parish, Stephenville

I The Rev. Louis Ludvik Tobola, Jr. (6/26/77) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Vincent's Parish, Bedford I I I 1 141-252083-11 I

The Rev. Radford Bonnie Allen, Jr. (6/78) 1/1/83 Rector, St. John's Parish, Brownwood I

The Rev. Thomas Alvin Powell (11/1/78) 1/1/83 Curate, St. Andrew's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. Douglas Lee Alford (6/10/79) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Simon's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. Frank Bryan Reeves (6/28/80) 1/1/83 Vicar, St. Martin's-in-Field Parish, Southlake I The Rev. William Robert Belury (8/31/80) 1/1/83 Rector, St. John's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. Vernon J. Raschke (9/80) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Stephen's Parish, Wichita Falls

The Rev. Edward Leonard Busch (6/20/81) 1/1/83 I Rector, St. Christopher's Parish, Fort Worth

The Rev. Ralph Philip Cooke (6/20/81) 1/1/83 I Vicar, St. Gregory's Mission, Mansfield The Rev. Stephen Dickinson Carter (3/16/82) 1/1/83 I Rector, St. Andrew's Parish, Breckenridge

The Rev. Morris Lynn McCauley (6/26/82) 1/1/83 Rector, Holy Apostles Parish, Fort Worth I

The Rev. Efrain Huerta (6/30/82) 1/1/83 Vicar, San Juan Apostol Mission, Fort Worth I The Rev. Allan Hawkins (8/3/82) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Mary the Virgin Parish, Arlington I The Very Rev. Charles A. Hough, III (9/5/82) 1/1/83 Rector, St. Andrew's Parish, Grand Prairie I The Rev. Lyle MacRostie (11/3/82) 1/1/83 Rector, Good Shepherd Parish, Brownwood I The Rev. Courtland M. Moore 8/1/83 Rector, St. Alban's Parish, Arlington

The Rev. Jeffery Logan 8/4/83 I Rector, St. Luke's Parish, Mineral Wells The Rev. Vernon Gotcher 4/13/84 I Rector, St. Stephen's Parish, Hurst I I 2 I I 141-252083-11 The Rev. Richard McHenry 7/16/84 I Canon, All Saints' Parish, Fort Worth The Rev. Thomas Hightower 9/11/84 I Rector, St. Peter & St. Paul's Parish, Arlington The Very Rev. Gayland Pool 3/13/85 Rector, St. Luke's-in-the-Meadow Parish, Fort Worth I Dean, Eastern Deanery

The Rev. Canon David Bristow 5/29/85 I Canon, All Saints' Cathedral, Fort Worth The Rev. Robert Bosworth 9/15/85 I Chaplain, All Saints' Episcopal School The Rev. James Rooney 6/17/85 I Vicar, Holy Cross Mission, Burleson The Rev. David Nyberg 9/30/85 I Vicar, St. John's Mission, Burkburnett The Rev. Henry Mayer 10/15/85 Vicar, St. Mary's Mission, Hillsboro I Vicar, Our Lady of the Lake Mission, Laguna Park The Rev. James Ronald Baker 11/24/85 Vicar, St. Mary's Mission, Hamilton I Vicar, Trinity Mission, Dublin The Rev. Stephen Haywood Smith 2/21/86 Vicar, St. Matthew's Mission, Comanche I Vicar, Holy Trinity Mission, Eastland Dean, Southern Deanery

I The Rev. Bryan Keith McKenzie 7/12/86 Vicar, St. Joseph's Mission, Grand Prairie I The Rev. Donald H. Dinwiddie 10/24/86 Rector, Christ the King Parish, Fort Worth

The Very Rev. William D. Nix, Jr. 11/30/86 I Dean, All Saints' Cathedral

The Rev. John G. Twyman 1/1/87 I Rector, St. Paul's Parish, Gainesville

The Rev. William Ted Stanford 7/25/87 I Vicar, Trinity Mission, Henrietta Vicar, St. Patrick's Mission, Bowie I I 3 I 141-252083-11 I

The Rev. Vance Charles Page 7/25/87 I Curate, Church of St. Peter & St. Paul Parish, Arlington The Rev. Joseph H. Schley 9/4/87 I Vicar, Our Lady Of The Lake Mission, Laguna Park The Rev. Samuel Lee Edwards 9/15/87 Rector, St. Timothy's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. Martin Nelson 10/29/87 Rector, St. Anne's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. Jesse George Smith 12/23/87 Curate, St. Stephen's Parish, Hurst I The Rev. William J. Taylor, III 2/15/88 Curate, St. Alban's Parish, Arlington I The Rev. Joseph Norman Davis 7/14/88 Rector, Holy Spirit Parish, Graham Priest-in-Charge, St. Peter by the Lake, Possum Kingdom I The Rev. William c. Cantrell 12/28/88 Curate, St. Christopher's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. David W. Cardona 12/28/88 Curate, St. Vincent's Parish, Bedford I The Rev. Herbert (Sandy) Herrmann 12/28/88 Curate, St. Mark's Parish, Arlington I The Rev. Michael D. LaRue 12/28/88 Curate, St. John's Parish, Fort Worth The Rev. Alan E. McGlaughlin 8/17/89 I Curate, St. Andrew's Parish, Grand Prairie The Rev. Keith L. Ackerman 8/28/89 I Rector, St. Mark's Parish, Arlington The Rev. Bradley A. M. Barber 9/1/89 Rector, Good Shepherd Parish, Granbury I The Rev. Jeffery Steenson 9/29/89 Rector, St. Andrew's Parish, Fort Worth I The Rev. David McLaren Allen 10/4/89 Rector, Holy Comforter Parish, Cleburne I I I 4 I I 141-252083-11

I N 0 N P A R 0 C H I A L C L E R G Y

I The Rev. Bruce Coggin (6/15/66) 1/1/83 Fort Worth

The Rev. V. Stanley Maneikis (10/27/68) 1/1/83 I Chaplain, All Saints Hospital, Fort Worth

The Rev. James Alfred Hazel (8/25/74) 1/1/83 I Fort Worth

The Rev. Bertrand Needham Honea, Jr. (9/27/74) 1/1/83 I Fort Worth The Rev. Alfred F. Laveroni (10/20/75) 1/1/83 I U. S • Army ( Ret . ) The Rev. James Ulyeses Norwood (9/14/77) 1/1/83 I Fort Worth The Rev. Michael Floyd (12/5/79) 3/10/83 I ETSSW Austin, Texas The Rev. Canon R. Brien Koehler 5/1/84 Canon To The Ordinary

I The Rev. Robert Ripson 5/14/84 New Jersey

I The Rev. Rex Perry 7/15/84 Dallas

The Rev. Ralph N. McMichael, Jr. 9/5/85 I Nashotah House

The Rev. William Lansing Hobart 5/7/87 I Asst. Chaplain, All Saints Hospital, Fort Worth

The Rev. Louis H. Hayden 10/6/88 I Headmaster, All Saints' Episcopal School, Fort Worth I I I I 5 I 141-252083-11 I

R E T I R E D C L E R G Y I

The Rt. Rev. A. Donald Davies 6/22/70 Granbury I

The Rev. John Leatherbury 12/1/47 Fort Worth I The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr. 1/31/49 Fort Worth I The Rev. Walter Harrison Beste 12/20/49 Fort Worth I The Rev. George Moore Acker 6/20/52 Fort Worth I The Rev. John C. Worrell 7/1/53 Fort Worth

The Rev. Russell Clapp 10/22/56 I Fort Worth

The Rev. George c. Kershaw, II 9/21/63 I Bonham The Rev. John Hildebrand 1/17/69 I Fort Worth

The Rev. Canon Billie R. Boyd 6/20/70 Fort Worth I

The Rev. Thomas A. Harris 4/1/73 Fort Worth I The Rev. A. Blanchard Boyer 1/27/78 Arlington I The Rev. Ray Woods 1/1/79 Fort Worth I The Rev. Earl Heverly 8/1/83 Florida I The Rev. Grover Fulkerson 8/7/84 Oklahoma

The Rev. John Arthur 9/11/84 I Tennessee The Rev. William Barrett 1/18/85 I Fort Worth I 6 I I 141-252083-11

The Rev. Joseph Chillington 5/27/87 I Hillsboro

The Rev. Bill Kennedy 8/6/87 I Arlington The Rev. Donald Kreymer (3/16/81) 1/1/83 I Graham

I D E A C 0 N S

The Rev. George Straight I Staff, St. Andrew's Parish, Grand Prairie (10/27/76) 1/1/83

The Rev. Oliver Wolcott Smith (2/25/79) 1/1/83 I Ministry with the Aging, Fort Worth The Rev. Babs Schmidt (8/6/80) 1/1/83 I Fort Worth The Rev. Arthur Noel Marsden 7/30/86 I Staff, St. Lawrence Mission, Southlake The Rev. Lana Katherine Farley 7/25/87 I Associate, Christ the King, Fort Worth The Rev. Patricia D. Masterman 2/1/88 Staff, All Saints' Catherdral I Representative, Presbyterian Night Shelter The Rev. H. Jay Atwood 8/24/89 I Curate, All Saints Parish, Wynnwood, PA I I I I I I 7 I 141-252083-11 I 89 C L E R G Y R E G I S T E R E D I I POPE, CLARENCE C., JR. MCCAULEY, M.L. ACKERMAN, KEITH L. MCCLAIN, M.R. (SAM) ALFORD, DOUGLAS L. MCGLAUCHLIN, ALAN E. ALLEN, DAVID MCLAREN MCHENRY, RICHARD E. I ALLEN, RADFORD B. MCKENZIE, B. KEITH ATWOOD, H. JAY MOORE, COURTLAND BAKER, RONALD NELSON, MARTIN L. I BARBER, BRADLEY A.M. NIX, WILLIAM D., JR. BELURY, WILLIAM NYBERG, DAVID BOSWORTH, ROBERT PAYNE, JOHN D. BOYER, A. BLANCHARD PERRY, REX D. I BRISTOW, DAVID L. POOL, M. GAYLAND BUSCH, EDWARD L. POWELL, ~HOMAS A. CANTRELL, WILLIAM C., JR. RASCHKE I VERNON J • * I CARDONA, DAVID W. REEVES, FRANK B. CARTER, STEPHEN D. RISINGER, WILLIAM H. CHILLINGTON, JOSEPH ROGERS, JAMES I CLAPP, RUSSELL ROONEY, JAMES COGGIN, BRUCE SCHLEY, JOSEPH H., JR. COOKE, PHILIP SMITH, JESSE CRARY, WILLIAM A., JR. SMITH, OLIVER W. I DAVIS, JOSEPH SMITH, STEPHEN H. DEWOLFE, JAMES P., JR. STANFORD, WILLIAM T. DINWIDDIE, DONALD H. STANLEY, JOHN H. I EDWARDS, SAMUEL L. STEENSON, JEFFERY FARLEY I LANA K. STRAIGHT, GEORGE W.* GOTCHER, VERNON TAYLOR, WILLIAM J.* I HADDOCK, GENE M. TOBOLA, LOUIS L. HAWKINS, ALLAN R.G. TWYMAN I JOHN G. HAYDEN, LOUIS H. WHITE, RONALD E. I HAZEL I JAMES WILLIAMS, LAURENS R. HERRMANN, HERBERT WOODS, RAY* HIGHTOWER, THOMAS E. WORRELL I JOHN HILDEBRAND, JOHN W. I HOBART, WILLIAM L. HOUGH, CHARLES HUERTA, EFRAIN JAMES, CECIL D. I KENNEDY, BILL KOEHLER, R. BRIEN KOMSTEDT, WILLIAM A. *Not registered on I LARUE, MICHAEL Saturday LOGAN, JEFFERY MACROSTIE, LYLE W. I MANEIKIS, v. STANLEY MARSDEN, ARTHUR NOEL MASTERMAN, PATRICIA MAYER, HENRY C. I

8 I I I 141-252083-11 I LAY DELEGATES REGISTERED *Friday Only I +Saturday Only

ALVARADO - St. Anthony DECATUR - Ascension I Susan Shaw Ann Anderson ARLING~ON - St. Alban DUBLIN - Trinity H. v. Moore B. A. McDonald* Phil Jarvis EASTLAND - Holy Trinity I Judy Marsee Jack Morgan Frank Salazar EULESS - St. Vincent Susan Slaughter Kerwin Wade I Carol Tieman Sharon Jameson ARLINGTON - St. Mark Katy Woodward Clyde Reed Anne Pierce* Judi Richardson George Milyiori I Gloria Banks+ Robert Boyer+ Jim Williams FORT WORTH- All Saints' ARLING~ON - St. Mary the Virgin JoAnn Patton I Jose Hawkins Catherine Smith Jack Kortegast Martha Hubert ARLINGTON - St. Peter & St. Paul Charles E. Hornick I Jennifer Frederick Rick Johnson+ Jack Shawhan Becky Cain Caron Overbeek Robert Thompson BOWIE - St. Patrick Barbara Chowning* I Robby D. Roth+ FORT WORTH - Christ the King BRECKENRIDGE - St. Andrew Gordon w. Parkhill Steven Schooling Roy Farley I Dwain Tolle FORT WORTH - Holy Apostles BRIDGEPORT - St. Mark Don Shipe Charles Mitchell Jeff Kwarsick I BROWNWOOD - Good Sheperd H. B. Roe, Jr. No delegates Horace Booth BROWNWOOD - St. John FORT WORTH - San Juan Apostol Claudia Funderburg Linda Garcia* I Vera Jones Silvia Huerta+ BURKBURNETT - St. John the Divine Ramona Renteria David A. Wiley FORT WORTH - St. Andrew I Ruth A. Wiley James A. Grimshaw BURLESON - Holy Cross Nell Reeder Ronny Meeks w. Abney Cooper Delois Griffith Don Goodwin I CLEBURNE - Holy Comforter Mary Mayer Elton J. Murdock Bob Barcus John Strange James o. Branch I Bill Paden Rex Hunt COMANCHE - St. Matthew I Donald A. Genther I 9 I 141-252083-11 I

FORT WORTH - St. Anne GRAND PRAIRIE - St. Andrew Paul Powers Bob Baxter I Jane Rector Grey Sherwood Joan Polinski Marilyn Hough* Vicki Ball Dr. William Lowry+ I FORT WORTH - St. Christopher GRAND PRAIRIE - St. Joseph Marshall Amis Jane M. Almond Margaret Darmon HAMILTON - St. Mary Brenda Seaver Catherine Randolph I Elizabeth Amis* HENRIETTA - Trinity Johnson Shannon+ Myrle Martin FORT WORTH - St. Elisabeth HILLSBORO - St. Mary I Jay Binyon Gerald Bailey FORT WORTH - St. John HURST - St. Stephen Gene Engleman+ Hugh Briscoe* I Steve Trennick Martha Tomerlin Deborah Evans-Young Alice Monson Bob Ellithorpe Larry A. Votto+ FORT WORTH - St. Luke in Meadow KELLER - St. Martin in Field I Betty Alcon Sharon Parker Jay c. Andrews Martha Horton* Connie Kline Doug Gray+ I Janice Rogers* LAGUNA PARK - Our Lady Margaret Wise+ John Wood FORT WORTH - St. Michael MANSFIELD - St. Gregory Harold Betts Betty Thorson I Peggy Munroe Rollin Wilson Robert s. Jones MINERAL WELLS - St. Luke FORT WORTH - St. Simon Kathy Boswell I Joseph Breedlove David Boswell Frances carlson OLNEY - St. Paul FORT WORTH - St. Timothy No Delegate I James c. Allen POSSUM KINGDOM - St. Peter Margaret List Rix M. Richardson, Jr. Anthony J. Clark SOUTHLAKE - St. Laurence Dequitta Honea Barbara Tipton I FORT WORTH - Trinity Carrie Browning Karen Shepherd STEPHENVILLE - St. Luke Terry Ramsey Al Lilly I John Toohey+ Linda Curtoys Lynne Stanley+ WEATHERFORD - All Saints Elinor Normand+ Ralph Seibert Jim Goldthwaite+ Sue Seibert* I GAINESVILLE - St. Paul Jo Matthews+ Dottie Jarvis WICHITA FALLS - All Saints GRAHAM - Holy Spirit Louis w. Smith, Jr. I Bob Lanier Dorothy Krum GRANBURY - Good Shepherd Dr. Joe Wells Ann Hotopp WICHITA FALLS - Good Shepherd I Chris Mullen Timothy Ebelthite Susan Cowan Susan Ebelthite Linda LaMarca Nelson Tubbs I

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WICHITA FALLS - St. Stephen I Norm Beisel Virgil Howerton WILLOVJ PARK - St. Francis of Assisi I David Sprout Janis Sprout I Melody Bradford I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 11 I 141-252083-11 I I THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH I i of t of CITY CHURCH CoDDB. Del. I

ALVARDO ST. ANTHONY 73 1 ARLINGTON ST. ALBAN 926 6 I ST. MARY THE VIRGIN 137 2 ST. MARK 661 5 ST. PETER & ST. PAUL 249 3 I BOWIE ST. PATRICK 21 1 BRECKENRIDGE ST. ANDREW 171 2 BRIDGEPORT ST. MARK 45 1 BROWNWOOD GOOD SHEPHERD 163 2 I ST. JOHN 195 2 BURKBURNETT ST. JOHN THE DIVINE 101 2 BURLESON HOLY CROSS 103 2 I CLEBURNE HOLY COMFORTER 229 3 COMANCHE ST. MATTHEW 33 1 DECATUR ASCENSION 23 1 I DUBLIN TRINITY 40 1 EASTLAND HOLY TRINITY 30 1 EULESS ST. VINCENT 549 5 FORT WORTH ALL SAINTS 1,557 8 I CHRIST THE KING 146 2 HOLY APOSTLES 401 4 SAN JUAN APOSTOL 141 2 I ST. ANDREW 1,517 8 ST. ANNE 412 4 ST. CHRISTOPHER 364 4 ST. ELISABETH 143 2 I ST. JOHN 485 4 ST. LUKE IN MEADOW 384 4 ST. MICHAEL 333 4 I ST. SIMON 115 2 ST. TIMOTHY 317 4 TRINITY 1,077 7 I GAINESVILLE ST. PAUL 143 2 GRAHAM HOLY SPIRIT 86 1 GRANBURY GOOD SHEPHERD 305 4 GRAND PRAIRIE ST. ANDREW 409 4 I ST. JOSEPH 84 1 HAMILTON ST. MARY 31 1 HENRIETTA TRINITY 29 1 I HILLSBORO ST. MARY 60 1 HUBBARD ST. ALBAN 13 0 HURST ST. STEPHEN 328 4 I JACKSBORO ST. THOMAS 28 0 I 12 I I 141-252083-11 I KELLER ST. MARTIN IN FIELD 136 2 LAGUNA PARK OUR LADY OF THE LAKE 78 1 I MANSFIELD ST. GREGORY 115 2 MER I DAN ST. JAMES 9 0 MINERAL WELLS ST. LUKE 111 2 OLNEY ST. PAUL 23 1 I POSSUM KINGDOM ST. PETER BY LAKE 21 1 SOUTHLAKE ST. LAWRENCE 157 2 STEPHENVILLE ST. LUKE 117 2 I WEATHERFORD ALL SAINTS 167 2 WICHITA FALLS ALL SAINTS 234 3 GOOD SHEPHERD 267 3 I ST. STEPHEN 189 2 WILLOW PARK ST. FRANCIS 241 3 ======I TOTALS: 14,522 145 I PARISHES: 34 MISSIONS: 20 I STATIONS: 3 I TOTAL: 57 I I I I I I I I 13 I 141-252083-11 I PROCEEDINGS I Seventh Annual Convention - Diocese of Fort Worth October 6-7, 1989 I The Convention was called to order at 1:00 p.m. by the Right Reverend Clarence c. Pope, Jr. who opened the meeting with prayers. I Bishop Pope introduced the Rev. David Woodington, Pastor of Christ Our King Church, who welcomed the delegates of the I Diocese of Fort Worth to the Church of Christ Our King and to the City of Southlake. Bishop Pope then introduced the Mayor of Southlake, the I Honorable Gary Thickus, who also welcomed the delegates to the City of Southlake and described some of the features of the city. I The Bishop called upon the Rev. Canon R. Brien Koehler, Canon To The Ordinary, who presented the schedule and agenda for I the Convention. Following Canon Koehler's presentation and announcements, Bishop Pope conveyed the prayers and assurances of the Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Edmond Browning, to the Convention. (Bishop Pope explained that he I had been with the Presiding Bishop the previous day). Bishop Pope called upon the Rev. William Belury, Chairman of I the Credentials Committee, to give his report. Father Belury reported a quorum present: Clerical Order: 102 Canonically Resident I 34 Required to quorum 77 Registered to vote I Lay Order: 54 Parishes/Missions in Diocese 18 Required to quorum 102 Delegates representing 53 I Parishes/Missions registered to vote. The Bishop declared the meeting open and ready for business. I

ORGANIZATION OP THE CONVBNTION I The Very Rev. Laurens Williams was nominated by the Bishop to be Secretary of the Diocese and of the Convention. Convention concurred. I Mr. N. Michael Kensel, Esq. was nominated by the Bishop to be Chancellor of the Diocese and also Parliamentarian for this I Convention. Convention concurred. I 14 I I 141-252083-11 I In place of Mr. Tom Ward who had resigned as Treasurer because of the pressure of business, the Bishop nominated Mr. Ed Casebier to I be Treasurer of the Diocese. Convention concurred. Bishop appointed Mr. Robert Randolph, Esq. and Mr. Robert T. I Langston, Esq. as Assistant Chancellors and Mrs. Leanne Davies and Mr. Tom Ward as Assistant Treasurers. I The Bishop called for a motion to approve the Rules of Procedure (Appendix A) to be used for the conduct of this convention. Motion made and seconded. Convention concurred.

I INTRODUCTION OF NEW CLERGY IN DIOCESE

1. The Rev. Keith Ackerman - Rector of St. Mark's Church, I Arlington 2. The Rev. Jeffery Steenson - Rector of St. Andrew's Church, I Fort Worth 3. The Rev. Bradford Barber - Rector of Good Shepherd Church, I Acton/Granbury 4. The Rev. David Allen - Rector Elect of Holy Comforter Church, I Cleburne INTRODUCTION OF NEWLY ORDAINED DEACONS 1. The Rev. Herbert "Sandy" Herrmann - Curate, St. Mark's I Church, Arlington 2. The Rev. Michael LaRue - Curate, St. John's Church, I Fort Worth 3. The Rev. David Cardona - Curate, St. Vincent's Church, I Bedford/Euless 4. The Rev. William Cantrell - Curate, St. Christopher's I Church, Fort Worth 5. The Rev. Jay Atwood - serving in the Diocese of Pennsylvania I 6. The Rev. Alan McGlauchlin - Curate, St. Andrew's Church, Grand Prairie I REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COIOII'l"l'EE The Bishop called upon the Rev. Thomas Hightower, Chairman of the I Nominating Committee, who gave the following report: I 15 I 141-252083-11 I I

For the Standing Committee: I Clerical Order: The Rev. Canon David L. Bristow The Very Rev. Gayland Pool The Very Rev. Laurens Williams I Lay Order: Mr. Horace Booth Mr. James F. Dempsey, Jr. I For the Executive Council: I Clerical order: The Rev. Stephen Carter The Rev. Cecil Dow James The Rev. William Komstedt, Jr. I The Rev. Courtland M. Moore Lay order: Mr. Chad Bates Mr. Charles V. Mercer, Jr. I Mr. Elton Murdock Mr. Dan o. "Bud" Monroe Mr. Jay Andrews (nominated from floor) I Mr. James 11 Les11 Spencer (nominated from floor) For Clerical Deputy To The General Convention: I The Rev. Keith Ackerman The Rev. Bruce Coggin The Rev. Samuel L. Edwards I The Rev. Charles Hough The Rev. Efrain Huerta The Rev. Jeffery Logan I The Rev. Martin L. Nelson The Very Rev. William D. Nix, Jr. The Rev. Rex Perry The Rev. John H. Stanley I The Very Rev. Laurens Williams For Lay Deputy To The General Convention: I Mr. Jay Andrews Mr. Robert Beadel I Mr. Joseph Bell Mr. James c. Burkett Mr. Lee Kinnebrew, III Mrs. Judy Mayo I Mr. Robert Randolph Mr. Walter Virden, III Mr. Frank Salazar (nominated from floor) I I 16 I I 141-252083-11 I

I For Delegate to Provincial Synod: Clerical Order: The Rev. Robert Bosworth The Rev. Canon David Bristow I The Rev. Joseph Davis The Rev. "Sam" McLain The Rev. Keith McKenzie I The Rev. Frank Reeves The Rev. James Rooney The Rev. William Stanford I Lay Order: Mr. Chad Bates Mr. W. A. "Ab" Cooper Mr. Benton Hall, Jr. I Dr. Al Lilly Mr. Ted Roe Mr. Louis w. Smith I Mrs. Peggy Stevens For Lay Trustee - University of the South: I Mr. Robert Randolph Mr. James B. Vaught, Jr. Dr. James Newcomer (nominated I from floor) The Chair called upon the Rev. Martin Nelson, Chairman of the Elections Committee, who issued instructions on the procedure I for voting and voting was begun. Tellers appointed by the Bishop to tabulate the ballots were: Fathers William Cantrell, David Cardona, Sandy Herrmann, I and Michael LaRue; Messrs. Joseph Breedlove, Charles Hornick, Clyde Reed, Mack Wood, Mark Davies, Anthony Clark, Jason Duval, Glenn Ball; the Rev. Alan McGlauchlin, the Rev. H. Jay Atwood, Mrs. Chris Mullin, Mrs. Betty Reed, and Mrs. Kerwin I Wade. I I I I I I 17 141-252083-11 I ELECTION RESULTS I Ballots 1st 2nd c. L. c. L. I Votes needed to elect: 38 60 37 62 Votes cast: 75 119 73 123 I For Standing Committee: I Clerical Order: Rev. Canon David Bristow 40 53 (Elected) Rev. Gayland Pool 26 52 (Withdrew) Very Rev. Laurens Williams 8 13 (Withdrew) I Lay Order: Mr. Horace Booth 56 85 (Elected) I Mr. James Dempsey, Jr. 19 30 For Executive Committee: I Clerical Order: Rev. stephen Carter 51 65 (Elected) Rev. Cecil Dow James 13 19 I Rev. William Komstedt, Jr. 53 84 (Elected) Rev. Courtland M. Moore 24 42 I Lay Order: Mr. Chad Bates 42 72 (Elected) Mr. c. v. Mercer, Jr. 27 27 8 22 Mr. Elton Murdock 33 53 50 62 (Elected) I Mr. Dan Monroe 18 33 9 19 Mr. Jay Andrews 14 20 4 12 Mr. James Spencer 14 22 2 8 I For Clerical Deputy to General Conyention: Votes needed to elect: 39 60 37 63 I Votes cast: 76 119 72 125 Rev. Keith Ackerman 39 59 44 75 (Elect) I Rev. Bruce Coggin 14 39 (Withdrew) Rev. Samuel Edwards 44 57 46 74 (Elect) Rev. Charles Hough 48 69 (Elected) I Rev. Efrain Huerta 15 37 5 17 Rev. Jeffery Logan 9 22 2 10 Rev. Martin Nelson 40 61 (Elected) Very Rev. William Nix, Jr. 29 50 28 44 I Rev. Rex Perry (Withdrew) Rev. John stanley 21 34 13 25 Very Rev. Laurens Williams 16 24 (Withdrew) I I 18 I I 141-252083-11 I Ballots 1st 2nd c. L. c. L. I For Lay Deputy To General Convention:

Votes needed to elect: 38 61 I Votes cast: 75 120

Mr. Jay Andrews 18 38 I Mr. Robert Beadel 49 76 (Elected) Mr. Joseph Bell 18 26 Mr. James Burkett 5 23 Mr. Lee Kinnebrew, III 17 21 I Mrs. Judy Mayo 52 88 (Elected) Mr. Robert Randolph 44 67 (Elected) Mr. Walter Virden, III 54 62 (Elected) I Mr. Frank Salazar 21 36 For Clerical Delegate to Provincial Synod:

I Votes needed to elect: 39 62 Votes cast: 77 122

I Rev. Robert Bosworth 50 84 (Elected) Rev. Canon David Bristow 51 77 (Elected) Rev. Joseph Davis 44 62 (Elected) I Rev. Sam McLain 29 63 Rev. Keith McKenzie 22 24 Rev. Frank Reeves 19 41 Rev. James Rooney 47 63 (Elected) I Rev. William Stanford 17 30 I For Lay Delegate To Provincial Synod: Votes needed to elect: 39 61 Votes cast: 76 121

I Mr. Chad Bates 47 75 (Elected) Mr. w. A. "Ab" Cooper ,51 74 (Elected) Mr. Benton Hall, Jr. 20 40 I Dr. Al Lilly 29 54 Mr. Ted Roe 49 69 (Elected) Mr. Louis w. Smith 18 39 I Mrs. Peggy Stevens 60 80 (Elected) For Lay Trustee - University of the South:

I Votes needed to elect: 38 59 Votes cast: 74 116

I Mr. Robert Randolph 44 59 (Elected) Mr. James B. Vaught, Jr. 12 36 I Dr. James Newcomer 18 21 19 I 141-252083-11 I I

SUMMARY OF ELECTIONS I TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE: I 1 Cleric 1 Lay The Rev. Canon David L. Bristow Mr. Horace Booth I TO THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: 2 Clerics 2 Lay I The Rev. Stephen Carter Mr. Chad Bates The Rev. William Komstedt, Jr. Mr. Elton Murdock I FOR CLERICAL DEPUTY TO GENERAL CONVENTION: The Rev. Charles A. Hough - Chairman I The Rev. Martin L. Nelson The Rev. Samuel L. Edwards The Rev. Keith L. Ackerman I FOR LAY DEPUTY TO GENERAL CONVENTION: I Mrs. Judy Mayo Mr. Robert Beadel Mr. Walter Virden, III Mr. Robert M. Randolph I FOR DELEGATE TO PROVINCIAL SYNOD: I 4 Clerics 4 Lay The Rev. Robert Bosworth Mrs. Peggy Stevens The Rev. Canon David Bristow Mr. W. A. Cooper I The Rev. Joseph Davis Mr. Ted Roe The Rev. James Rooney Mr. Chad Bates I FOR LAY TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH: Mr. Robert Randolph I I I I 20 I I 141-252083-11

I The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr., Chairman of the Constitution and Canons Committee, reported on the actions of the Committee during the past year and presented the revised Constitution for its second reading and ratification. I Motion was made and seconded to approve the revised Constitution. Convention concurred. (See Appendix B) I Canon DeWolfe then presented the proposed changes to Canons 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 21. After explanation of the various changes in the canons presented for change, Canon DeWolfe called upon the Very Reverend William D. Nix, Jr. to I present the minority report on Canon 12. Dean Nix presented the following report: I MINORITY REPORT I TO THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CONSITUTION AND CANONS PROPOSED CANON 12 I TITLE TO PROPERTY "Sec. 12.4 Property held by the Corporation for the use of a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School belongs beneficially I to such Parish, Mission or Diocesan School only. Ne adwerse claim te sue8 eeHefieial interest by the CorporatioR 1 by the Biecese, er ey t8e Episeepal C8ure8 ef t8e United States ef America is ae1tHewledEJed, aut rat8er expressly deftied. All I other property of the Corporation held for the use of the Church in this Diocese is held for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth for those exempt religious purposes within the I meaning of the Internal Revenue Code, as hereinabove described. Such exempt religious purposes shall be those determined by the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort I Worth and the appropriate officers elected by it. Ne adverse claim te SUCft Beftefieial iHterest ey ~fte Episeepal Cftureft ef t8e UHi~ed States of America is aeknowledEJed, but ra~8er is I expressly deHied." Comments: The statements deleted above conflict with the intent, if not the letter, of Title I, Canon 7, Section 4 of I the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church that property of Parishes, Missions and Congregations is dedicated to the use of the Episcopal Church in this Diocese: "All real and personal property held by or for the I benefit of any Parish, Mission or Congregation is held in trust for this Church and the Diocese thereof in which such Parish, Mission or Congregation is located. The existence of I this trust, however, shall in no way limit the power and authority of the Parish, Mission or Congregation otherwise existing over such property so long as tbe particular I Parish 1 Jt:ission or Congregetion reaains a part of 1 and subject to 1 this Cfl~cJ'l and its constitutions and canons." I (Emphasis added.) 21 I 141-252083-11 I

This being the case, the proposed Diocesan Canon would I conflict with Article I of the Constitution of the Dicoese of Fort Worth: "The Church in the Diocese accedes to the Constitution and I Canons of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and recognizes the authority of the General Convention of said Church." I

The Very Rev. William D. Nix, Jr. I Dean, All Saints' Cathedral There were no resolutions to be presented to the Convention. I Canon Koehler presented the proposed admendments to the Constitution of the Episcopal Church to be acted upon at the next General Convention to be held in 1991. (no action by this I Convention was necessary, but the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church require that such amendments be made known to all diocesan conventions) I

THB BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS I ASSISTANT CHANCELLOR: ARTS & ARCHI'l'BCTURB COMIIITTBB: Mr. Robert Randolph The Rev. William Risinger, Chr. Mr. Robert T. Langston The Rev. Blanchard Boyer I Mr. Charles Fyock ASSlSTA!fr TREASURERS.: Mr. Frank Sherwood Mrs. Leanne Davies Mr. Arthur Weinman Mr. Tom Ward I EPISCOPAL YOURG CHURCHIIBR: '1'IIE CHtJRCH PBNSIOH FURD: The Rev. Robert Bosworth The Rev. Thomas Powell, The Rev. Keith McKenzie I Chairman Mrs. Elizabeth Morris The Rev. M. L. McCauley Mr. John Northcutt The Rev. Rex Perry Mr. John Davis I Mr. Joe·Bell Mr. Ernest Chilton HISPANIC COMMXSSION: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE-: WORSHIP COMMISSION: The Rev. Bruce Coggin, Chr. I The Rev. Charles Hough, The Rev. Gayland Pool Chairman The Rev. Efrain Huerta The Rev. Sandy Herrmann The Rev. William Belury I The Rev. Louis Tobola Mrs. K. w. Seaver, Jr. Mrs. Barbara M. Burton Mr. A. D. Hudson Mr. John Livengood MEMBERS: Mrs. Deborah Clark The Rev. Russell Clapp I Mr. Gordon King The Rev. Courtland Moore Mrs. Marialice Parish The Rev. William Komstedt Mr. Tony Clark Mr. Jorge Lopez-Aguado I Mrs. A. D. Hudson Mr. Archibald Crow Mrs. Jane Roberts I 22 I I 141-252083-11 I CHRISTIAN EDUCATION: HISPANIC COMM. MEMBERS (Con't.) Canon David Bristow Mrs. J. M. Riddell Mr. Jack o. Shannon I AIRPORT MINISTRY: Mr. George Midgley P.ROVINICIAL HISPANIC MIRISTRY CBNTER: The Rev. Efrain Huerta I COMMUNICATIONS: The Rev. James Rooney COLLEGE MINISTRIES: The Rev. John Stanley I URBAN MINISTRIES: The Rev. William Taylor Very Rev. Gayland Pool Rev. courtland Moore EctJIIBRICAL AFFAIRS: I Rev. Patricia Masterman The Very Rev. Laurens Williams MINISTRY WITH THE AGING: COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE: I The Rev. Courtland Moore The Rev. George Straight EVANGELISM: BISHOP'S REPRESENTATIVE The Rev. M. L. McCauley CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF IIAHAGERS: Mr. Jay Andrews I PARLIAMENTARIAN: Mr. Michael Kensel I THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS TREASURER OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: I Mr. c. E. Casebier, III TRUSTEE OF CORPORATION OF EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: I Mr. Robert M. Randolph (Term ending 1994) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE EPISCOPATE: Mr. Gene Engleman, Chairman Mr. Edward P. Munson, Jr. I Mr. c. E. Casebier, III Mr. Robert Randolph Mr. Walter Virden, III COMMISSION ON EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS: I No nominations required. HISTORIOGRAPHER: I The Rev. Samuel Edwards COMMISSION ON MINISTRY (Terms ending 1992): I The Rev. Louis Tobola The Rev. Robert Bosworth Mr. Robert Beadel Mrs. Judy Mayo BOARD OF TRUSTEES. EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF ARLINGTON: I The Rev. Courtland Moore (1992) Rev. Thomas Hightower (1992) Mr. Walter Virden, III (1992) Mr. James Colwell (1992) I CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF DIRECTORS (all to 1992): The Rev. Thomas A. Powell Rev. Randy Melton, St. John, Dallas I The Rev. Keith Ackerman Mr. Ted Roe, Holy Apostles, Ft Worth 23 I 141-252083-11 I

COMMITTEE ASSIGIOIBMTS I Seventh Annual Convention Diocese of Fort Worth october 6-7, 1989 I

CONSTITUTION AND CANONS COMMITTEE (Continuing) The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr., Chairman I The Rev. Canon R. Brien Koehler The Very Rev. William D. Nix, Jr. The Rev. John Twyman I Mr. Robert Randolph, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth Mr. Elton Murdock, Holy comforter, Cleburne Mr. Michael Kensel, All Saints' Cathedral, Fort Worth Mr. Robert Langston, St. John's, Fort Worth I Dr. William T. Lowry, St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE I The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Chairman The Rev. William Risinger The Rev. Thomas Powell The Rev. Robert Bosworth I Mrs. Sharon Jameson, St. Vincent's, Euless Mr. Robert Merrill, All Saints' Cathedral, Fort Worth Mr. W. A. Cooper, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth I Mr. Rix M. Richardson, St. Peter's, Possum Kingdom CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE I The Rev. William Belury, Chairman The Rev. William Crary The Rev. John Stanley Mrs. Barbara Tipton, St. Laurence's, Southlake I Mrs. Carrie Browning, St. Laurence's, Southlake Mr. Doug Gray, St. Martin's, Keller I ELECTIONS COMMITTEE The Rev. Martin Nelson, Chairman The Rev. Deacon David Cardona The Rev. Deacon Michael LaRue I The Rev. Deacon Sandy Herrmann The Rev. Deacon William Cantrell Mr. Charles Hornick, All Saints' Cathedral, Fort Worth I Mr. Clyde Reed, St. Mark's, Arlington Mr. Joseph Breedlove, St. simon's, Fort worth Mrs. Chris Mullen, Good Shepherd, Granbury I RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE The Rev. Allan Hawkins, Chairman The Rev. Canon David Bristow I The Rev. Sam McClain Mr. Steven Schooling, st. Andrew's, Breckenridge Miss Claudia Brummett, Holy Comforter, Cleburne I Mr. Russell Duncan, St. Paul's, Gainesville

24 I I I 141-252083-11 I COMMITTEE ON NEW PARISHES AND MISSIONS The Rev. Charles Hough, Chairman The Rev. Stephen Carter I The Rev. Radford Allen, Jr. Mrs. Delois Griffith, Holy Cross, Burleson Mr. Rollin Wilson, St. Gregory's, Mansfield I Mrs. Sharon Parker, St. Martin's, Keller COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY I The Rev. Joseph Davis Mr. Gordon w. Parkhill, Jr., Christ the King, Fort Worth COMMITTEE ON BISHOP'S ADDRESS I The Rev. Samuel Edwards, Chairman The Rev. Canon Richard McHenry Dr. Al Lilly, St. Luke's, Stephenville I Mrs. Nell Reeder, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth ************************************************************* I The Rev. Stanley Maneikis, Chaplain at All Saints' Hospital spoke to the Convention asking its support for the AIDS Ministry. Father Maneikis introduced the Rev. Susan I Cockrell, Disciples of Christ minister, who addressed the Convention regarding the care Teams which are sponsored by I the AIDS Interfaith Network. The Convention recessed for Evening Prayer and the banquet. The Right Reverend Maurice M. Benitez, Diocese of Texas, was I guest speaker for the banquet. I Saturday. October 7. 1989 The Convention reconvened at 10:00 a.m. this date following the Holy Eucharist held at St. Laurence Church, Southlake. I The Bishop called upon Mr. Walter Virden, III, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese I of Fort Worth, who gave the following report: CORPORATION OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH I am happy to report that the past year has been I extremely productive and healthy for the Diocesan Corporation; thanks be to God and to our dedicated Diocesan I family. In July, Canon Brien Koehler filled the vacancy on the board created by the retirement of Canon Billie Boyd. Other I members of the board of trustees are the Rt. Rev. Clarence Pope, Chairman; Gene Engleman, President; Ed Munson, Vice­ President; Walter Virden, Secretary-Treasurer; Ed Casebier I and Bob Randolph. 25 I 141-252083-11 I

The trustees meet monthly to oversee the investments of I the Endowment for the Episcopate, The Memorial Scholarship Fund, st. Paul's Memorial Fund, Diocesan Funds and the E. D. Farmer Fund. The primary investment objectives continue to be security and maximizing current income. During the twelve I months ended June 30, 1989, $104,843 of earned income was transferred for diocesan support. At year end the combined market value of all invested funds amounted to $1,432,000, an I increase of $25,185 over the previous year. Also, during the year the trustees acted on recommenda­ I tions by the standing committee and approved $422,000 in construction projects and real estate transactions for parishes and missions. A settlement was also reached in the law suit with Hood County concerning property tax exemptions I for Camp Crucis. Faithfully Yours, I

Walter Virden, III I Secretary I The Bishop called upon the Rev. William Belury, Chairman of the Credentials Committee who gave the following report: I Clerical order: 102 Canonically Resident 34 Required for quorum 73 Registered to vote I Lay Order: 54 ParishesjMissions in Dicoese 18 Required for quorum I 121 Delegates representing 51 Parishes/Missions registered to vote I

The Very Rev. Gayland Pool addressed the Convention promoting a walk to support the Presiding Bishops Fund for World Relief I to be held on October 23, 1989, at 2:00 p.m. starting at the T.C.U. Stadium. I The Bishop called upon the Rev. canon James P. DeWolfe, Chairman of the Constitution and canons Committee, to present the business of that committee that was carried over from the I previous day. Canon DeWolfe moved that those Canon changes presented yesterday, with the exception of Canon 12, be amended as presented. Motion seconded. Convention I concurred.

26 I I I 141-252083-11 I Canon DeWolfe then moved that the proposed Canon 12 as presented yesterday and to which the majority of the Committee recommends approval, be approved by the Convention. I At Canon DeWolfe's request, Dean Nix presented the minority report (see page 21), and moved that the amendment to the proposed Canon 12 be approved. I Mr. Randolph spoke to the Convention opposing the amendment. The Rev. Bruce Coggin asked Canon DeWolfe if he had knowledge of any other diocese in the Church that had passed a canon I like Canon 12 or one similar to it. The answer was negative. The Rev. Courtland Moore, Rector of St. Alban's Church, Arlington, spoke for the amendment. I The Rev. Charles Hough, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Grand Prairie, spoke against the amendment. The Rev. Frank Reeves, Rector Elect of St. Martin's-In-The­ I Field Church, spoke for the amendment. The Rev. Samuel Edwards, Rector of St. Timothy's Church, Fort Worth, spoke against the amendment. The Rev. Stanley Maneikis, Chaplain of All Saints' Hospital, I Fort Worth, spoke for the amendment. The Rev. Rex Perry called for the question. Convention I concurred. The Rev. Courtland Moore called for a vote by ballot and by I orders. Bishop Pope asked the Elections Committee to make the necessary arrangements in order that the amendment to Canon 12 be written ballot. Voting was begun and the results I of that ballot was as follows: c. L. VOTES NEEDED TO PASS: 39 68 I VOTES CAST: 76 135 FOR THE AMENDMENT: 28 57 (Failed) I AGAINST THE AMENDMENT: 48 76 VOTES NEEDED TO PASS: 106 (211 eligible to vote) I VOTES CAST: 198 FOR PROPOSED CANON 12: 130 (Passed) I AGAINST PROPOSED CANON 12: 68 Bishop Pope called upon the Rev. Robert Bosworth who presented a report on our companion diocese, The Diocese of I Northern Mexico.

I The Rev. Canon David Bristow, Chairman of the Christian Education Committee, gave a brief report on Christian I Education within the diocese. 27 I 141-252083-11 I The Rev. Thomas Powell, Chairman of the Board of Managers, Camp Crucis, reported on the overall condition of Camp Crucis stating that the year 1989 was one of the best years the camp I had had since its inception. Father Powell, in his capacity as Clergy Trustee to the University of the South, also presented a report to the Convention regarding that I institution.

Mike Dehnisch, Chairman of the Youth Council, reported to the I Convention on the activities of the Youth Qf the Diocese and presented Mrs. Peggy Stevens, outgoing member of the Episcopal Young Churchmen Committee, with a Prayer I Book/Hymnal for her work with the youth of the Diocese. I The Convention recessed for lunch at 12:10 p.m. to reconvene at 1:15 p.m. Following lunch, the Bishop called the meeting to order and I asked for a report from the Committee on New Parishes and Missions. The Rev. Charles Hough, Chairman of the Committee on New I Parishes and Missions, read a petition from st. Martin-In­ The-Fields Mission, Southlake, seeking to be admitted to the Diocese of Fort Worth as a parish. After a brief history of I the mission by the Rev. Radford Allen, former Vicar of st. Martin's Mission, Father Hough moved that st. Martin's-In­ The-Field Mission be admitted to the diocese as a parish. Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ I The Bishop called upon the Treasurer of the Diocese, Mr. Ed Casebier, to make his report to the convention and to present the budget for the year 1990. I Mr. Ed Casebier gave a report on the financial statements of the Diocesan accounts as of December 31, 1988 (see Appendix C), the Record of Receipts and Disbursements as of August 31, I 1989. (see Appendix D). A motion to accept the Record of Receipts and Disbursements for 1988 was seconded. Convention concurred. I Mr. Casebier presented the proposed budget for the calendar year 1990. (See Appendix E). A motion to accept the proposed budget for 1990 was made. I The Rev. John Stanley, after a brief address expressing his concern about the increasing diocesan budget, offered an I amended motion to reduce the proposed budget by $26,618.96 and direct the Executive Council to apply a formula of 15%, 17%, and 19%. The amended motion was seconded. Discussion ensued with Mr. Casebier, Treasurer, explaining that while I the diocese continues to grow, the formula for assessing the parishes and missions has not changed in seven years. I 28 I I 141-252083-11 I Mr. Walter Virden called for the question. By voice vote the Convention voted to end debate. A vote for the amendment failed. I A vote for the proposed budget was approved by the Convention and said budget was adopted. I ************************************************************ The Bishop called upon the Rev. Samuel Edwards, Chairman of the Committee on The Bishop's Charge, who presented the I following resolution: WHEREAS the Right Reverend the Bishop of Fort Worth I has reported to this Convention that a change for the better appears to have taken place in the House of Bishops of this Church, involving a genuine interest I and concern to bring peace to the Church over the vexing questions which have long beset us, and WHEREAS this change involves an expressed commitment I to mutual respect for those who differ substantively on contentious issues even while such issues are being I vigorously debated, and WHEREAS the House of Bishops has clearly stated that those holding traditional convictions concerning the recipients of the Sacrament of Order have a recognized I position within Anglicanism and has affirmed them as loyal members of the Episcopal Church, and I WHEREAS this new atmosphere can provide the opportunity for the more energetic commitment to the sharing of the saving faith of the Lord Jesus Christ, to which the I Bishop of Fort Worth has called this Diocese in his charge to this Convention, be it therefore RESOLVJD that this Convention of the Diocese of Fort I Worth receives with hope and gratitude our Bishop's report of the improvement in the general attitude of I the House of Bishops, and be it further RESOLVED that this Convention expresses its lively hope that this improvement will prove to be substantive and not merely cosmetic, and that it will quickly extend I into all areas of the Church's life, and be it further RESOLVED that this Convention commends the House of I Bishop for its leadership in beginning this change of attitude in this Church, and be it further I RESOLVED that this Convention, on behalf of the Diocese of Fort Worth, expresses its acceptance of our Bishop's I call to do more to put our professed commitment to the 29 I 141-252083-11 I faith of Jesus Christ into practice in the interlocked areas of worship, evangelism, stewardship, service, and mission work, realizing that those who are fired with I the life of Christ never burn out, and be it finally RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be forwarded by the Secretary of Convention to the Presiding Bishop I of the Episcopal Church. ************************************************************ I The Rev. Allan Hawkins, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, presented the following resolutions for the Conventions consideration and approval: I WHEREAS the members of the Diocese of Fort worth have, for many years, loved and honored Mrs. William Paul I Barnds; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Diocese of Fort Worth, I in Seventh Annual Convention assembled, sends its warm greetings to Mrs. Barnds, and that the Secretary of the convention be instructed to convey a copy of this resolution to her. I Convention concurred. ************************************************************* I WHEREAS for many years the Church in the Diocese of Dallas and Fort Worth, and far beyond, were blessed through the preaching, teaching and sacramental ministry I of the Right Reverend Robert E. Terwilliger - a blessing which was acknowledged in the recent visit to him by the Archbishop of canterbury - and I WHEREAS Bishop Terwilliger is now prevented by infirmity from exercising his ministry among us; I BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth now assembled send to Bishop Terwilliger an expression of our warmest I greeting and regard, and the assurance of our continued prayers. Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ WHEREAS the Reverend Canon Billie R. Boyd, after many I years of distinguished military service, entered the Sacred Priesthood and exercised a devoted ministry in the Diocese of Dallas and Fort Worth; and I WHEREAS after eleven years as Rector of st. Luke's, Mineral Wells, he served for six years as Canon to the I Ordinary for both Bishop Davies and Bishop Pope, assisting the former in the great task of establishing the new Diocese and the latter in the early years of his episcopate, caring essentially for the Diocesan I 30 I I 141-252083-11 I Mission Department, and serving as the chief administrative for the Diocese; and I WHEREAS Canon Boyd has now begun his well-earned retirement from the active ministry,

I BE IT THEREFO~ RESOLVED that this Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth (but the first for which he has not carried heavy I responsibility), now assembled, give thanks for his devoted service to the Church in this Diocese, and extend to him and to Doris its greetings and best wishes for a long and happy retirement. I Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ WHEREAS the late Mr. Ted Beaven gave able and devoted service to the Diocese of Fort Worth and to the direction of its affairs through his membership of the I Diocesan Executive Council and Finance Committee; and WHEREAS the Diocese has been sadly deprived of his wise I and committed leadership through his untimely death earlier this year; I BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVID that this Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth, now assembled, record its gratitude for his memory and extend its heartfelt sympathy to his family. I Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ WHEREAS the English writer and humorist A. P. Herbert once remarked that "If elderly bishops were seen leaving the Athenaeum (Club) with jugs of beer in I their hands, the casual observer would form an impression of the character of that institution which I would be largely unjust", and WHEREAS the NCNB Bank, Ridglea, with the comings and goings of two bishops may be thought to be at risk of I a somewhat comparable misunderstanding; BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that this Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth, now assembled, I express its gratitude to Bishop Pope for his wise and gentle leadership of this Diocese, and to Bishop Davies for their courageous witness and service to the wider I Church. Convention concurred. I 31 I 141-252083-11 I

WHEREAS the members of this Diocesan Convention were I charmed, entertained, and above all, challenged in their discipleship by the Bishop of Texas in his speech at the Convention Banquet I BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth, now assembled, expresses to the Right Reverend Maurice M. Benitez its I gratitude for his readiness to be present and to share his vision with us, and sends its greetings to his Dicoese. Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ I WHEREAS the Parish of St. Lawrence, Southlake, in hosting this Seventh Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth, has treated it as Caesar treated all I Gaul: id est by dividing it into three parts; and WHEREAS the clergy and people of st. Laurence, notably coordinated by the magnificent work of Barbara Tipton, I have made efficient and comfortable arrangements for the Convention, and have provided a fine setting for the Convention liturgies in their lovely new church; I and WHEREAS the pastor and people of Christ Our King Church have been gracious in providing the use of their I comfortable facilities for the transaction of the Convention's business; and I WHEREAS inn-keeping is a trade with Scriptural antecedents and is still consumately practiced by the management of the Harvey Hotel, as witness the splendid I arrangements which they and their staff provided for the Convention Banquet; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Diocese of Fort I Worth, in its Seventh Annual convention assembled, express its gratitude to Father Crary and to all the aforementioned parties; and I BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of this Convention be instructed to convey a copy of this resolution to the Parish of st. Lawrence, to the I Pastor of Christ Our King, and to the management of the Harvey Hotel. Convention concurred. I I

32 I I I 141-252083-11 I The Rev. Louis Tobola, Rector of St. Vincent's Parish, Bedford, extended an invitation to the Convention to hold its 1990 meeting at St. Vincent's Parish, Bedford. I Convention concurred. I ************************************************************ There being no further business to come before the Convention, Bishop Pope asked for a motion to adjourn. I Motion made, seconded, and Convention concurred. The Bishop pronounced his blessing upon the Convention after I which the convention adjourned SINE DIE. I I I I I I I I I I I I 33 I I 141-252083-11 I I I

I A P P E N D I C E S

I APPENDIX A - Rules of Procedure APPENDIX B - Constitution and Canons I APPENDIX C - Record of Receipts & Expenditures - 1988 I APPENDIX D- Financial Statement as of August 31, 1989 APPENDIX E - Proposed Annual Budget for 1990 I APPENDIX F - Assessment Tables for 1990 I I I I I I I I I I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

THE CONSTITUTION I OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH I I Preamble

We, the Clergy and Laity of The Episcopal Church, resident in that portion of the State of Texas, constituting what I is known as The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, do hereby ordain and establish the following constitution: I ARTICLE I I AUTHORITY OF GENERAL CONVENTION

The Church in this Diocese accedes to the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church, and recognizes the authority I of the General Convention of said Church. I I I I I I I I I I 45 I I 141-252083-11 Appendix B I ARTICLE 2 I The Diocese of Fort Worth entrusts its legislation to a Convention to consist as follows: First, of the Bishop, when there be one; of the Bishop Coadjutor, when there be one; of the Suffragan Bishops, Assistant Bishops, if there by any; Second, of I all Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese, and not under Ecclesiastical discipline, and who have not in contemplation of removal from this Diocese, applied for their Letters Dimissory; I and Thirc;l, of Lay Delegates chosen by and representing their several Parishes and Missions of this · Diocese. such lay Delegates and their Alternates shall be elected by the I Congregations of their respective Parishes and Missions at the Annual Parish Meeting and shall hold office until their successors are elected. The Rectors of Parishes and Vicars of Missions shall have authority to fill such vacancies as may occur I from the list of Alternate Lay Delegates between the time of such election and any meetings of the Convention. Lay Delegates shall be confirmed communicants in good standing, at least 18 years of I age. Every Parish and Mission in union with the Convention shall be entitled to Lay Delegates determined by the number of I confirmed communicants reported in the Annual Parochial Report for the year ending December 31 next preceding the Diocesan I Convention, as provided by Canon. I I I I I I I I I 46 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

ARTICLE 3 I THE ANNUAL MEETINGS OF CONVENTION I The Convention of this Diocese shall assemble on the first Friday in October. I All meetings of the Convention of this Diocese shall be held in Fort Worth, Texas; provided, however, that an Annual Convention shall have the authority, if it so chooses, to designate the place of the next meeting of the Convention; and I for sufficient cause the Bishop, with the consent of the Standing Committee, may change the date of meeting or appoint some other place for holding the Convention; provided that thirty days • I notice of such change shall be given to each Parish and Mission in union with the Convention. I I I I I I I I I I I I 47 I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE 4 I SPECIAL MEETINGS OF CONVENTION The Bishop, or a majority of all members of the Standing Committee, may call a special meeting of the Convention I upon thirty days' notice thereof.

When there is no Bishop, the Standing Committee shall I have power to call a special meeting of the Convention, giving thirty days' notice thereof. I At any special meeting of the Convention, the only business to be transacted shall be specified in the call. I I I I I I I I I I I I I 48 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I ARTICLE 5 QUORUM I At any meeting of the Convention of this Diocese a quorum necessary to transact business shall consist of one-third of the Clergy entitled to seats therein and Lay Delegates from I one-third of the Parishes and Missions in union with the Convention; but a smaller n.umber shall have the power to adjourn from day to day until a quorum is obtained. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 49 I I 141-252083-11 Appendix B I ARTICLE 6 I PERMANENT OFFICERS OF THE DIOCESE The permanent officers of the Diocese shall be: the Bishop of the Diocese; the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, the I Suffragan Bishop or Bishops, and Assistant Bishop or Bishops, if there be . any: the Standing Commit tee: Secretary; Treasurer: Chancellor: and Registrar. Officers who are Clergy shall be I canonically resident in the Diocese and Lay Officers shall be confirmed communicants in good standing of a Parish or Mission of I the Diocese. Officers, who are not members of the Convention, shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of members except the right to vote. If any officer, except a member of the I Standing Committee, die or become incapable of acting, the duties of such officer shall be discharged until the succeeding Convention by some one appointed by the Bishop and confirmed by I the Standing Committee. 'l'he term of office of all officers, unless provided for either by this Constitution or Canon, shall I be for one year or until their successors are elected. I I I I I I I I I so I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

ARTICLE 7 I PRESIDENT OF CONVENTION I At every meeting of the Convention, the Bishop shall be presiding officer. In the Bishop's absence, or inability to act, the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, shall be presiding I officer. In the absence or inability to act of both the Bishop and the Bishop Coadjutor, the Suffragan Bishops, if there be any, in the order of seniority within the Diocese shall be presiding officer. In the absence or inability to act of any bishop, the I president of the Standing Committee shall be presiding officer. The presiding officer shall not participate in debate I and shall not vote upon any question coming before the Convention nor in any election. The presiding officer may express his views to the Convention upon any subject after debate thereon has been closed and before the vote is taken. I I I I I I I I I I I

51 I I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE 8 I RULES OF CONVENTION At every meeting of the Convention, the Clergy and Laity shall deliberate as one body. Each Cleric present and each I Lay Delegate present shall be entitled to one vote. Unless a vote by orders is determined, required or otherwise provided by the Constitution or Canons, a majority of the aggregate votes I shall be decisive. Whenever a vote by orders is determined, required or otherwise provided, a concurrent majority in both orders shall be necessary. Upon demand of any seven members of the Convention representing not less than three parishes or I missions of the Diocese, the vote shall be taken by orders.

The Convention may adopt rules of procedure to regulate I and expedite the orderly disposition of its business, including elections other than those governed by Article 16 of this I Constitution. I I I I I I I I I I 52 I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I ARTICLE 9 CONGREGATIONS IN UNION WITH CONVENTION I Every Parish and Mission which shall have been created or admitted in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of this Diocese, shall be deemed to be in union with and entitled to I representation in the Convention of the Diocese, unless deprived of such right either through suspension or dissolution. I If a Parish or Mission shall fail to pay its assessment as levied by the Convention, it shall be suspended from the right of representation in the Convention, unless such right be granted by a concurrent majority vote of both orders. I

With the consent of the Bishop, any Parish or Mission which shall fail to conform with requirements prescribed by Canon I or special resolution may be wholly dissolved by a concurrent two-thirds vote of both orders. Such action can be taken only at an Annual Convention. I I I I I I I I I I I 53 I I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE lfJ

I STANDING COMMITTEE

The Standing Committee shall consist of three Priests I entitled to seats in the Diocesan Convention and three Lay Persons who shall be confirmed communicants in good standing in this Diocese at least 18 years of age and who shall possess such I other qualifications as may be prescribed by Canon. When there is a Bishop in charge of the Diocese, the Standing Committee shall be his Council of Advice. If there be I no Bishop canonically authorized to act, the Standing Committee shall be the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese. I The members of the Standing Committee shall be elected by ballot by a concurrent majority of each order at an Annual Convention. Their terms of office shall be for three years or until their successors are elected. At each Annual Convention I one Priest and one Lay Member of the Standing Committee shall be elected. I vacancies occurring prior to the expiration of the term of any member of this Committee shall be filled by the vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Standing Committee. The person so elected shall fill out the unexpired term, constituting I a first term of office.

No member of the Standing Committee may serve more than I two consecutive terms.

The Standing Committee shall keep a record of all its I official acts and shall report them to the Convention. I I I I I I I 54 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I ARTICLE 11 DEPUTIES TO GENERAL CONVENTION I The Annual Convention in the second year preceding a stated meeting of General Convention shall elect by ballot four Priests or Deacons and four Lay Persons as Deputies to General I Convention. The Annual Convention in the year preceding a stated meeting of General Convention shall elect by ballot four Priests or Deacons and four Lay Persons as Alternate Deputies. Deputies I and Alternate Deputies shall take office on the first day of January in the year in which the General Convention is to be held and shall hold office until their successors take office. They shall possess the same qualifications as members of the Standing I Committee and shall be elected by a concurrent majority of both orders. I 't'he Bishop shall assign the Alternate Deputies according to the order of their election to fill any vacancy in the deputation. In case there be no Bishop or he is unable to I act, this power shall be exercised by the Standing Committee. I I I I I I I I I I 55 I I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE 12 I THE SEE CITY AND THE CATHEDRAL The City of Fort Worth is hereby declared to be the See I City of this Diocese. The Bishop and a Parish of the See City may agree to the designation of that Parish as The Cathedral under such terms I as both approve. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 56 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

ARTICLE 13 I TITLE TO CHURCH PROPERTY I The title to all real estate acquired for the use of the Church in this Diocese, including the real property of all Parishes and Missions, as well as Diocesan Institutions, shall be held subject to control of the Church in The Episcopal Diocese of I Fort Worth acting by and through a corporation known as 11 Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.'' All such property as well as all property hereafter acquired for the use I of the Church and the Diocese, including Parishes and Missions, shall be vested in Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. I Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth shall hold real property acquired for the use of a particular Parish or Mission in trust for the use and benefit of such Parish I or Mission. The income from such property shall belong to such Parish or Mission, which will be responsible for expenses attributable thereto. Such property may not be conveyed, leased I or encumbered by Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth without the consent of the Rector, Wardens and Vestry of such Parish or Mission. Upon dissolution of such Parish or Mission, property held in trust for it shall revert to said I Corporation for the use and benefit of the Diocese, as such. All other property belonging to the Diocese, as such, I shall be held in the name of the Corporation known as 11 Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth,.. and no conveyance or encumbrance of any kind shall be valid unless I executed by such Corporation and as may otherwise be provided by the Canons of the Diocese. I I I I I I

57 I I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE 14 I POWER TO LEVY ASSESSMENTS The Convention of this Diocese shall have power to raise money by assessment or other means upon the Parishes and I Missions of the Diocese. The manner of fixing such assessment upon the various Parishes and Missions may either be specified by Canon or by resolution of the Convention. The Convention may by I Canon prescribe such regulations and penalties as it may deem expedient to secure the prompt payment of assessments. I I I I I I I I I I I I I 58 I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

ARTICLE IS I FUND FOR THE ENDOWMENT OF THE EPISCOPATE I There shall be a Fund for the Endowment of the Episcopate which shall be managed and controlled by a Board of Trustees consisting of not less than five, of whom only two may I be clergy, and not more than nine members of the Church in this Diocese who shall be nominated by the Bishop and elected by the Convention at the Annual Meeting. The Trustees shall hold office for one year or until their successors are elected. I

They shall be entrusted with the investment and management of the Fund. They shall make an annual report of the I Fund to the Annual Convention.

After paying the necessary expenses incident to the management of this Fund, ten percent of the net annual income I remaining shall be returned to and become a part of the Fund. The remainder of the said net income shall be applied, so far as may be necessary, toward the support of the Bishop of this I Diocese, and of the Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, and of any Suffragan or Assistant Bishop if there by any. I I I I I I I I I I 59 I I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I ARTICLE 16

I ELECTION OF BISHOPS AND CALLING OF AN ASSISTANT BISHOP I The election of a Bishop, a Bishop Coadjutor, or a Suffragan Bishop for this Diocese shall take place at the regular meeting of the Convention or at a special meeting of the Convention called for that purpose. In the election, the vote I shall be by ballot by orders. A concurrent majority of the two orders shall be necessary to a choice if two-thirds of all the Clergy entitled to vote and Lay Delegates from two-thirds of the I Parishes and Missions entitled to representation are present and voting; otherwise, two-thirds of the votes in each order present shall be necessary to a choice. In any event, the election may I not occur, unless a quorum be and remain present. The Bishop may call an Assistant Bishop in accordance I with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. I I I I I I I I I I 60 I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I ARTICLE 17 CANONS I Canons consistent with this Constitution, and the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, may be adopted, altered, amended, or repealed at any Annual Convention by a I majority vote of the Convention; provided that no new Canon and no alteration, amendment, or repeal of an existing Canon shall be adopted unless the same shall have been filed in writing with the Secretary of the Convention not less than sixty days before the I meeting of the Convention. The Secretary shall, not less than forty-five days before the meeting of the Convention, deliver copies of all proposed amendments or alterations to the Canons to I the Chairman of the Conunittee on Constitution and Canons. The Committee shall report thereon to the Convention on the first day of the meeting. I Where any amendment of a Canon has been so proposed and referred to the Committee, amendments thereto may be made from the floor of the Convention if within the judgment of the I presiding officer of the Convention such amendments are germane to the pending amendment. I No other amendments or alterations to the Canons shall be considered at that meeting except by unanimous consent of the Convention. I Changes to the existing Canons shall take effect thirty days after the adjournment of Convention. Typographical errors may be corrected by the Conunittee on Constitution and Canons and I reported to the Convention. I I I I I I

61 I I I 141-252083-11 Appendix B I ARTICLE 18 I ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION A proposal for an alteration or an amendment to the Constitution shall be presented in writing at an Annual I Convention and shall be referred to and be reported upon by the Committee on Constitution and Canons consisting of at least two members of the Clergy and two Lay Persons. If the proposal, I together with any amendments pertinent thereto, receive the majority vote of the Convention, it shall be printed in the Journal and shall lay over until the next Annual Convention. If approved by a concurrent majority of the vote of both orders at I the next Annual Convention, the Constitution shall be altered or amended accordingly. Such alteration or amendment shall take I effect thirty days after the adjournment of the Convention.

I ENABLING CLAUSE The Constitution shall commence and be in full force I and effect on January 1, 1983. I I I I I I I I I 62 I 141-252083-11 Appendix B I

THE CANONS I OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH I CANON I I MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION

Sec. 1.1 Every Parish and Mission in union with the Convention shall be entitled to Lay Delegates determined by the I number of confirmed communicants in good standing reported in the Annual Parochial Report for the year ending December 31 next preceding the Diocesan Convention according to the following I table: 100 or less 1 Delegate I 101 thru 200 2 Delegates 201 thru 300 3 Delegates 301 thru 500 4 Delegates 501 thru 750 5 Delegates I 751 thru 1,050 6 Delegates 1,051 thru 1,400 7 Delegates 1,401 thru 2,000 8 Delegates I 2,001 thru 2,750 9 Delegates 2,751 and over 10 Delegates

In no case shall a Parish have more than ten (10) Lay Delegates. I

Sec. 1.2 The selection of the Lay Delegates shall be certified in writing by the Secretary or Clerk of the Vestry of I the Parish or Mission: but, in the absence of the Secretary or Clerk, such certificates of election may be signed by one of the Wardens, or by the Rector or Vicar of such Parish or Mission. I The 11 Certificate of Election of Lay Delegates.. shall show upon its face that their election as Delegates has been made pursuant to this Canon. I Sec. 1.3 Each Parish and Mission shall elect Alternate Lay Delegates equal in number to the number of Lay Delegates to which entitled. In the absence of a Lay Delegate, an Alternate I Lay Delegate from the same Parish or Mission shall have all rights and privileges of a Lay Delegate. The election of Alternate Lay Delegates shall be certified in the same manner as provided for Lay Delegates. I

Sec. 1.4 The Rectors of Parishes and Vicars of Missions shall have authority to fill such vacancies as may occur in the I list of Alternate Lay Delegates between the time of such election and any meetings of The Convention. I I 63 I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I Sec. 1.5 Immediately before the meeting of each Convention, the Bishop, or in case of his death or inability to I act, the Standing Committee, shall prepare a list of the Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese, excluding those who have been suspended from the Ministry. The list shall be filed with I the Secretary of the Convention on the first day of its meeting, and shall be prefixed to the Journal.

Sec. 1. 6 All clergy certified under Sec. 1. 5 are I voting members of this Convention. I I I I I I I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 64 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I CANON 4 MEETINGS OF CONVENTION I Sec. 4.1 The Convention of this Diocese shall meet as provided in Article 3 of the Constitution. I Sec. 4. 2 Special meetings of the Convention may be called only as provided in Article 4 of the Constitution. I Sec. 4.3 Whenever a special meeting of the Convention is called, the Secretary of the Diocese shall transmit a written notice to the Clergy entitled to a seat in the Convention and to the Wardens of Parishes and Missions of the Diocese. The notice I shall specify the business to be transacted and the time and place of the meeting. I Sec. 4.4 It is the duty of Clergy entitled to a seat in the Convention and of Lay Delegates duly elected to attend all its sessions. Clergy may be absent from meetings of the I Convention only by permission of the Bishop.

Sec. 4. 5 Not later than thirty ( 30) days before the opening day of each Convention, the Secretary of the Diocese I shall send in some manner to the Clergy and Lay Delegates the agenda, nominations, resolutions, proposals, proposed budget, and other pertinent material. I Sec. 4.6 Except to the extent controlled by the Constitution or Canons of this Diocese or adopted "Rules of Procedure•• the meetings of the Convention shall be conducted in I accordance with the most recent edition of •• Robert • s Rules of Order." I Sec. 4. 7 Before the Convention convenes the Bishop shall appoint a qualified Parliamentarian to advise him on parliamentary questions arising during the Convention. I Sec. 4.8 The Convention shall be held at the Cathedral facilities unless the Convention accepts an invitation to meet elsewhere. Any invitation from a parish to host the Convention I shall be made to the Bishop 30 days prior to the previous year's convention. I I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 65 I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I CANON 5 I ORDER OF BUSINESS Sec. 5.1 At the opening of any Convention, the President shall take the chair and shall declare as the first I order of business the election of a Secretary of the Convention. A report shall follow by the Chairman of the Committee on Credentials as to the number of Clergy and Lay Delegates in I attendance and whether or not there is a quorum. If there is a quorum, the Convention shall proceed to the transaction of business pursuant to the Order of Business recommended by the President and adopted by the Convention. If there is no quorum I the Convention is adjourned until there is a quorum. I I I I I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 66 I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I

CANON 8 I CHANCELLOR OF THE DIOCESE I Sec. 8.1 At each Convention, a Chancellor shall be nominated by the Bishop and elected by the Convention, who shall continue in office until a successor is elected. I Sec. 8.2 In order to be nominated by the Bishop, the Chancellor shall possess the following qualifications: I a. the Chancellor shall be an attorney duly licensed to practice law within the State of Texas. I b. the Chancellor shall be in good standing with the State Bar of Texas; and I c. the Chancellor shall be actively engaged in the practice of law at the time of nomination.

Sec. 8.3 The Chancellor shall have the following I duties: a. in general, to be the legal advisor to the Bishop, I the Standing Committee, and the Corporation of the Diocese of Fort Worth.

b. to answer and respond to all legal questions sub­ I mitted by the Bishop, the Standing Committee, or the Corporation of the Diocese of Fort Worth, including without limitation, any questions con­ I cerning property of the Diocese, validity of any action taken by the Diocese of any of its committees or authorities, or any other matter I submitted for opinion.

Sec. 8. 4 Upon request of the Chancellor, the Bishop may appoint one or more Assistant Chancellors, who shall serve I until the next Convention under the direction of the Chancellor and assist in the discharge of the duties of such office. I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989)

67 I I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I CANON 18 I STANDING COMMITTEE Sec. 10.1 The Standing Committee shall be elected, vacancies filled, and terms of office fixed, as provided 1.n I Article 10 of the Constitution of this Diocese.

Sec. 10.2 The Committee shall choose a President from I among the Clerical members, and a Secretary who shall be a member of the Committee.

Sec. 10.3 Four of its members shall constitute a I quorum to transact business.

Sec. 10.4 The Committee shall perform all the duties I incident to its office, as provided in the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention, and such other duties as are, or shall be, provided in the Constitution and Canons of this I Diocese. Sec • 10. 5 The Commit tee shall not approve any loan which shall obligate the Diocese without the prior approval in I writing of the Bishop, and the Executive Council of the Diocese and the Diocesan Corporation. I Sec. 10.6 The Committee shall monitor all loans that it approves. I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989} I 68 I Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I CANON 11 CORPORATION OF THE EPISCOPAL I DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH

Sec. 11.1 Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is a non-profit and charitable organization organized under I Texas laws, also known as the 11 Diocesan Corporation... In addition to its regular powers, it may receive, hold, manage and administer funds and properties acquired by gift or by will or I otherwise for the use and benefit of the Diocese and any Diocesan Institutions.

Sec. 11.2 The management of its affairs shall be I conducted and administered by a Board of Trustees of five (5) elected members, all of whom are either Lay Communicants in good standing of a Parish or Mission in the Diocese or members of the I Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese in addition to the Bishop of the Diocese who shall serve as Chairman of the Board or may designate the President or other officer of the Corporation I to serve as such. The Board of Trustees shall have the power and authority to conduct the affairs of said Corporation in accordance with its charter and by-laws and in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese from time-to-time I adopted. Sec. 11.3 One member of the Board of Trustees shall be I elected at each Annual Convention and each member shall serve a term of five ( 5) years. The terms of members shall be so arranged that the term of only one ( 1) member shall expire I annually. The Board of Trustees shall fill any vacancy which occurs on the Board until the annual election. The Bishop shall nominate the members of the Board of Trustees. I Sec. 11.4 The Board of Trustees shall adopt its own by-laws and shall elect such officers as its by-laws may require. I Sec. 11.5 The Board of Trustees shall submit a report at each Annual Convention covering 1ts operations for the preceding fiscal year and showing its financial condition. If and when required by the Standing Committee of the Diocese, the I Board of Trustees shall make such additional reports and furnish such additional information as may be requested. The books and records of the Board of Trustees shall at all times be open for I inspection and examination by the Standing Committee of the Diocese or its representatives. I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 69 I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I CANON 12 I TITLE TO PROPERTY Sec. 12.1 The Title to all property now owned and hereafter acquired by the Diocesan Corporation for its use and I benefit and for the use and benefit of Parishes, Missions and Diocesan Institutions shall be held in the name of said Corporation and may only be conveyed or encumbered with the I approval of the Board of Trustees and in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Oiocese of Fort Worth. All of the assets and properties of the Corporation and I accumulations thereof shall be held and administered to effectuate its purpose. In case of the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or by operation of law, the property held by the I Corporation in trust for the use of a particular Parish, Mission or Diocesan School shall be conveyed to the governing body of such Parish, Mission or School. In case of the liquidation, I dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or by operation of law, the other assets or properties of the Corporation shall be distributed in such manner I as the Board of Trustees of the Corporation shall direct, provided, however, that any such distribution shall be such as is calculated to be exclusively to carry out the purposes for which the Corporation is formed or for one or more other exempt I purposes within the meaning of the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, or any similar federal statute then in effect and rules and regulations pursuant I thereto. "The liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation", within the meaning of this Canon and of the Constitution of the Diocese, shall refer to the actual cessation of operation of the Corporation and not to the merger or sub­ I division of the Corporation or the Diocese.

Sec. 12.2 Real property acquired by the Corporation I for the use of a particular Parish, Mission or Diocesan School shall be held by the Corporation in trust for the use and benefit of such Parish, Mission or Diocesan School. It is immaterial I whether said acquisition is by conveyance to the Corporation by a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School now holding title, by the Bishop now holding title as a corporate sole by a declaratory judgment upon division from the Diocese of Dallas, or by I subsequent conveyance to the Corporation, so long as such property was initially acquired by a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School by purchase, gift or devise to it, as a Parish, Mission or I Diocesan School. Such Parish, Mission or Diocesan School shall I I I 70 Appendix B 141-252083-11 I I be entitled to all income from property held for it in trust by the Corporation and will be responsible for the direct expenses attributable to such property, but not for any administrative expenses of the Corporation. Property held in trust by the I Corporation for a particular Parish, Mission or Diocesan School may not be conveyed, leased or encumbered in any way by the Corporation without the written consent of the Rector, Wardens I and Vestry of the Parish, of the Standing Committee in the case of the Mission, or of the Board of Trustees of the Diocesan School for which such property is held in trust. Upon I dissolution of a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School, such property held in trust for it shall revert to the Corporation for the use and benefit of the Diocese. "Dissolution" of a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School, within the meaning of this Canon and I of the Constitution of the Diocese, shall refer to the actual cessation of operation of a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School and not to its merger, reorganization, change of location or I attachment to a different Diocese. Sec. 12.3 Real property held or acquired by a Parish, I Mission or Diocesan School by purchase, gift or devise shall be conveyed by it to the Corporation if an ad valorem tax exemption based on religious or educational use is claimed. Real property held or acquired by a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School need not I be conveyed by it to the Corporation if such property is held for investment or income-producing purposes and no ad valorem tax exemption is claimed. I Sec. 12.4 Property held by the Corporation for the use of a Parish, Mission or Diocesan School belongs beneficially to such Parish, Mission or Diocesan School only. No adverse claim I to such beneficial interest by the Corporation, by the Diocese, or by The Episcopal Church of the United States of America is acknowledged, but rather is expressly denied. All other property I of the Corporation held for the use of the Church in this Diocese, is held for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth for those exempt religious purposes within the meaning of the I Internal Revenue Code, as hereinabove described. Such exempt religious purposes shall be those determined by the Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and the appropriate officers elected by it. No adverse claim to such beneficial interest by I The Episcopal Church of the United States of America is acknowledged, but rather is expressly denied. I Sec. 12.5 If it becomes necessary to sell or lease the property or otherwise dispose of it, the Corporation known as "Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth" with the advice and consent of the Standing Committee is hereby authorized I to execute such legal instruments as may be necessary to convey, lease or effect such other disposition as is herein authorized. I (Revised Oct. 1989} I 71 I I 141-252083-11 Appendix B I CANON 16

I DEPUTIES TO THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD

Sec. 16. 1 The deputies and alternate deputies to the I Provincial Synod shall be those elected as deputies or alternate deputies to the General Convention. I I I I I I I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989)

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COMMISSION ON EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS I Sec. 20.1 There shall be a Cormnission on Episcopal Schools in the Diocese which shall consist of one representative I from each certified school in the Diocese. Each representative shall be nominated by the Bishop and elected by the Convention. The representative shall be the Head of the certified school I unless otherwise designated by the Bishop. Sec. 10.2 The duty of the Commission of Episcopal Schools is to establish quidelines and standards for the I establishment, recognition and certification of any and all Episcopal Schools now, or in the future, operating within the Diocese. I Sec. 10.3 The Commission shall report annually in writing to the Convention. I I I I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 73 I Appendix B I 141-252083-11 I CAJ!lON 21 I DIOCESAN INSTITUTION Sec. 21.1 Diocesan Institutions may be established by resolution and approval of the Annual Convention, which also I shall have the authority to direct, control, alter or dissolve any such institution. I Sec. 21.2 The application for recognition of a Diocesan Institution, or any action to amend a charter, or direct, control, alter or dissolve an existing Diocesan Institution shall be accomplished in accordance with the I procedure used for the amendment of a Canon.

Sec. 21. 3 No less than 60 days prior to the Annual I Convention, copies of the application for recognition of a new Diocesan Institution or any change to an existing Institution contemplated by the previous section, along with copies of its I Charter and/or other implementing documents shall be submitted to the Chancellor, Standing Committee, and Executive Council for written , comments to be appended to the Application for I presentment to the Committee on Constitution and Canons. I I I I I I I I (Revised Oct. 1989) I 74 I 141-252083-11

Exhibit 2 - 1992 Convention

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JOURNAL OF THE TENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH

Fort Worth, Texas

October 2 - 3, 1992 141-252083-11

TABLE OF CONTENTS TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

PAGE # The Bishop: Address • ••.••••••.•..••••••..•••....•• 34 Official Acts ...... 82 Election of Bishop Coadjutor •••••••.•• 18 Clergy List: ...... 1 Convention: Proceedings ...... 13 Bishop's Appointments ••••••••••••••••• 16 Bishop's Nominations ••••••••••••••••.• 15 convention Committees ••••••••••••••••• 13 Tabulations of Votes to Elect •••••••.. 21 Summary of Elections •••••••••••••••••. 23 Courtesy Resolutions •••••.••••••.••••• 28 Reports: Corporation ...... 91 Standing Committee •••••••••••••••••••• 87 Executive Council ••••••••••••••••••••• 89 Mission Department •••••••••••••••••••• 94 Other Reports: ...... 95 Appendices: A. Rules of Procedure •••••••••••••••• 40 B. Constitution and canons .•••••••••• 47 c. Receipts & Disbursements as of December 31, 1991 ••••••••••••••••• 69 D. Receipts & Disbursements as of September 30, 1992 •••••••••••••••• 73 E. Proposed Budget for 1993 •••••••••• 77 F. Assessment Formula & Tables for 1993...... 79 I 141-252083-11PROCEEDINGS Tenth Annual Convention - Diocese of Fort Worth I october 2 - J, 1992 The Tenth Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth met I at the Edna Gladney Center in the Horlock Auditorium, Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, october 2, 1992 and Saturday, October 3, 1992. Registration conducted by volunteers from st. John's Parish began at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, October 2, 1992 and continued until 9:00 a.m. when the Right I Reverend Clarence c. Pope, Jr. opened the meeting with prayers. The Bishop introduced and welcomed the Bishop of the Rio Grande, the I Right Reverend Terence Kelshaw who will be acting as convention chaplain and will be speaker this evening at the banquet. I The Rev. John G. Twyman, chairman for the committee on the Dispatch of Business, directed the convention to the Agenda and explained the schedule and location of various displays. I The Rev. John Belury, Host Rector, welcomed everyone to the convention and invited people to walk through St. John's, particularly noting the Columbarium and the Dorothea Engleman Children's Chapel. He introduced I Mr. scott Brown, Vice-President of the Edna Gladney Center, acting as host. Mr. Scott Brown welcomed everyone to the Edna Gladney Center and talked briefly about the center inviting the convention to tour the I facility that afternoon and to pick up information at the booth. The Bishop called on the Rev. canon David Bristow, Chairman of the credentials Committee, to give his report. Canon Bristow reported that I there are 108 Clergy canonically resident in the Diocese with a total of 83 clergy registered. There are 52 Parishes and Missions in the Diocese. A total of 134 Lay Delegates or Alternate Delegates, I representing 52 Parishes and Missions are registered to vote. The Rev. Canon David Bristow reported that there was a quorum. I The Bishop declared the convention open for business. Bishop Pope nominated the Very Rev. Laurens Williams as Secretary of the Convention. Motion was made and seconded. The Convention I concurred. The Bishop called on Mr. Mike Kensal for adoption of Rules of I Procedure. Mr. Kensel moved the adoption of the Standing Rules of Procedure as presented in the packet. The Bishop asked for concurrence on nominations listed in packet. I Motion was made and seconded. The Convention concurred. I COMMITTEE ASSIGNIIEN'rS FOR TENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE OR THE DISPATCH OF BUSINESS: The Rev. John G. Twyman, Chairman The Rev. Joseph Schley, Jr. I Mrs. cindy Hearne - Trinity, Fort Worth Mr. William Lowery - St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie I Mrs. Melody Bradford - st. Francis of Assisi, Willow Park I 13 I 141-252083-11

I The Rev. Canon David Bristow was called upon to give the four names placed in nomination for Bishop Coadjutor. canon Bristow expressed thanks to those who served on the Nominating Committee. He gave the I following names for nomination listed in alphabetical order as follows: The Rev. Keith Ackerman, Rector of St. Mark's Church I in Arlington, Texas The Rev. Dwight Duncan, Rector of St. Matthias Church I in Dallas, Texas The Very Rev. Richard Hatfield, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Salina, Kansas I The Rev. Jack Iker, Rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Sarasota, Florida I The floor was opened for nominations. The Rev. John Stanley of Trinity Church, Fort Worth nominated:

The Very Rev. John Payne, Rector of All Saints' Church I in Wichita Falls, Texas I Nancy Giles of All Saints', Fort Worth seconded the nomination. The Right Reverend Clarence c. Pope, Jr., Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth on the behalf of the Tenth Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth received the above named priests for nomination I for the office of Bishop Coadjutor and asked for blessing from God for I the actions of that day. The Rev. sandy Herrmann, Chairman of the Elections Committee1was called upon. He informed the Convention that the first ballot would be taken after the Holy Eucharist at St. John's and reminded everyone to go I through credentials again when returning. Bishop Kelshaw will assist as monitor. I Recessed to prepare for Holy Eucharist. The Bishop expressed gratitude to st. John's as host and to the musicians. He stated that he had also spoken with the Presiding Bishop I who sends greetings and is praying for the convention and election and looks forward to welcoming the Bishop Coadjutor of Fort Worth to the I House of Bishops. Following the Holy Eucharist celebrated at st. John's Episcopal Church, during which the Rt. Rev. Clarence c. Pope, Jr., Bishop of Fort Worth, delivered his charge to the members of the Convention and was I Celebrant, the Convention came to order. Father Herrmann, Chairman of the Elections Committee, gave instructions I regarding the ballots and voting. The convention was instructed to add Father John Payne to their ballots. Bishop Kelshaw voiced a prayer and led in a time of silence before voting. The convention placed their I votes and recessed for lunch. I 17 141-252083-11 I

The-convention reconvened. Father Herrmann reported the election I results. There was not an election. A fifteen minute recess was taken to prepare for the second ballot. I Convention reconvened at 1:30 p.m. Bishop Kelshaw led in a time of silence and prayer. Votes were cast. There was not an election. Bishop Terence Kelshaw, Convention Chaplain, led in a time of silence I and prayer as a third and then fourth ballot was taken. There was not a election. I A motion was made and seconded to postpone the election of Bishop Coadjutor to a later date to be determined by the Standing committee with the vote to be taken by paper ballot. The Parliamentarian ruled I that the motion was in order, but that the motion of paper ballot was not. Vote was taken for postponement. There were 53 in favor. Motion failed. Therefore, after a time of prayer, a fifth ballot was taken. There was not an election. I on the sixth ballot, The Rev. Jack Iker was elected Bishop coadjutor. I BISHOP COADJUTOR ELECTION RESULTS I c L c L c L VOTES CAST 86 138 85 138 85 139 VOTES NEEDED TO ELECT 44 70 43 70 43 70 I 1. Fr. Keith Ackerman 19 34 22 33 18 31 I 2. Fr. Dwight Duncan 06 06 00 02 00 00 3. Fr. Richard Hatfield 12 17 02 08 00 00 I 4. Fr. Jack Iker 20 41 32 56 38 69 5. Fr. John Payne 29 40 29 39 29 39 I

c L c L c L VOTES CAST 84 138 86 139 86 139 I VOTES NEEDED TO ELECT 43 70 44 70 44 70 1. Fr. Keith Ackerman 15 21 16 18 12 16 I 2. Fr. Dwight Duncan 00 02 00 02 00 02 3. Fr. Richard Hatfield Withdrew Withdrew Withdrew I 4. Fr. Jack Iker 41 77 42 80 48 81 5. Fr. John Payne 28 38 28 39 26 40 I I 18 I 141-252083-11

Exhibit 3 - 2007 Convention

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TABLE OF CONTENTS THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

The Bishop Address ...... l Official Acts ...... 8 Nominations...... 10 Appointments...... 11 Canonical Clergy...... 13 Clergy Registered -Friday, Nov.16tb ...... :...... 16 Clergy Registered- Saturday, Nov. 1'r"...... 18 DelegatesRegistered-Friday,Nov.16tb ...... 20 Delegates Registered- Saturday, Nov.17tb...... 24 Committees ...... 27 Proceedings ...... 28 Election Results...... 92 Bishop Lyon's Sermon...... 95 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure ...... 99 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2006 ...... 103 Financial Statement -December 31. 2006 ...... ll5 Proposed Budget for 2008 ...... 127 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2008 ...... 131 The 2008 Assessment Formula...... 136

Reports ...... 138 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Eastern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women Christian Education Commission Airport Ministry Canterbury Program -UTA University of the South Committee for Hispanic Ministries Risk Management Committee Youth Ministry Advisory Committee Evangelism Report Armed Forces Report 141-252083-11

Bishop Iker's Address to the 25th Annual Convention of The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth

"25 Years Together in Mission"

Saturday, November 17,2007

Greetings and welcome in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to this 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. It promises to be a momentous one, with long lasting implications for all of us.

I would like to set the tone for our deliberations today by beginning with a quote from St Paul the Apostle in the 16th chapter of his First Letter to the Corinthians: "Be watchful, stand firm in your faith, be courageous, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love." (I Corinthians 16:13- 14) What a wonderful text to guide and direct us as we debate the proposals that are before this Convention.

First, there is a warning - a warning that we must be watchful, for not everything we hear today will be good counsel or of God. Some will seek to mislead us or perhaps even intimidate us. Some will argue that we do not need to take any action, to leave well enough alone, to go along, in order to get along. Beware of those who would lull us into complacency in the face of attacks and assaults on biblical orthodoxy in our Church. St Peter cautions us in the same way in his First Epistle: "Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith." (I Peter 5:8-9a) Wherever Christians gather to take a stand for the Gospel, even in church conventions, the devil will be close at hand, seeking to beguile, divide, and mislead. Watch out!

Second, there is an exhortation - an exhortation to stand firm in the faith, the faith that we have received, the faith of the apostles, "the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints,'' to quote verse 3 of St Jude's Epistle. We must contend for the faith, resisting and repudiating the persuasive innovations of those who pervert the grace of God into immorality and deny the uniqueness of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. In every age and in our own day, there are those who would twist and reinterpret the biblical faith so as to be make it more man pleasing and less offensive to the contemporary secular world Counterfeit Christianity, man-made religion, and revisionist theology must be identified and rebuked for the sake of the unchanging Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the Epistle reading just this past

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Sunday, St Paul exhorted us to "stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter." (II Thessalonians 2:15) Those traditions of which he speaks involve the doctrinal, moral, liturgical and theological teachings of the apostles and are the core of what we know as the Apostolic Tradition of the catholic faith. Sadly, tradition has become a bad word in many quarters of the Episcopal Church, where the historic, biblical position is often ridiculed, persecuted, and dismissed as irrelevant and hopelessly out of date for today' s world. St. Paul does not mince words about the importance of standing firm in the true faith when he writes to the Galatians: "As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ." (Galatians 1:9-1 0) Let us today take a strong stand to remain firm in the faith we have received.

Third, there is the call for us to be courageous and strong. This is never easy, my friends, especially when we are faced by angry opponents and threats of retaliation. This Convention is being very carefully watched today, to see if we have the courage of our convictions. Are we willing to stand up and be counted when threatened by litigation and lawsuits? When warned of inhibitions and depositions? When intimidated with threats of replacement strategies to remove entire Standing Committees, replace the legitimate diocesan authorities, and indeed even to reconstitute new, shadow Conventions in place of the current, constitutional one? Let our ''yes" be ''yes/' and let our "no" be "no," not a garbled yes and no at the same time. Let us not lose our will to stand for conscience and truth, whatever the consequences or the cost. Dare to be a Daniel! Dare to stand alone, if need be! But we are not alone; we are together. And there are many others who stand with us and who look to us, having made a stand on many previous occasions, when all the threatening and intimidating and ridiculing is done - to stand firm in the Lord Jesus Christ, with courage and boldness, and perseverance, not in our own strength, but strong in the grace and the power of the Holy Spirit of God. What better words for the clergy and laity of this diocese than. the word of God to Joshua: "Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9) It was a time such as this, a time of choice about the future, a time of anxiety about what lies ahead, a time to decide to leave the past behind and move forward, that Joshua put it to the people of Israel before entering the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Choose this day, Fort Worth, choose to make and secure a spiritual future for your children and your grandchildren in the church of tomorrow. Be courageous and strong, and don't look back!

Fourth and last, there is the earnest appeal- "let all that you do be done in love.'' Let our watchfulness be done in love, even love for our enemies and our persecutors. Let our frrmness in faith be matched by our commitment to love -love for those who oppose us, love for those who have strayed from the faith, love for members of the same household who disagree with us and differ from us. Let our courage and boldness be expressed in love for all sinners, love for those • who threaten us, showing the sacrificial love of Jesus for a fallen world and for all people, created in the image of God. Let us speak the truth in love, not seeking revenge or harm to anyone, but only the glory of God, the building up of the Body of Christ, and the extension of Christ's kingdom in the world. Pray God that our debates and decisions this day may be marked by the love of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul reminds us: "Love is patient and kind; love is not

2 • 141-252083-11 jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." (I Corinthians 13 :4-7) Whatever comes of our decisions today, let us debate in love, decide in love, and deal with one another in love, as we face the consequences of choices we must make.

It is within this biblical and spiritual context, then, that we consider the weighty proposals that are before us at this Convention. We are mindful that the organizing, primary Convention of a new, as yet unnamed, diocese was held 25 years ago this week, on Nov. 13, 1982, at All Saints' Episcopal Day School, here in Fort Worth. A Special Convention of the Diocese of Dallas on June 19, 1982, approved the request of the Bishop, The Rt. Rev. A. Donald Davies, to divide the Diocese in order to form a new one in the western portion. The General Convention met in September of that year and likewise concurred. As you know, Bishop Davies chose to go with the new Diocese and became our first Bishop, presiding at our very first Convention. A committee had suggested three possible names for the new Diocese, which up to that point had simply been referred to as ''the western diocese." The proposed choices were the Diocese of Fort Worth, the Diocese of Central Texas, and the Diocese of the Rio Brazos de Dios. Canon James DeWolfe of All Saints' Church in Fort Worth suggested the name be the Diocese of the Trinity. A vote was taken, and we all know the results. We chose to be known as the Diocese of Fort Worth. Appointments were made, elections were held, and a budget was approved. A Constitution and Canons were adopted, and a resolution was approved to accede to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, in order to "be admitted into union with the General Convention."

Before proceeding, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge and honor those who are present with us today who were participants in that historic Primary Convention held 25 years ago. Would you please stand? Thank you, and God bless you.

At issue in this Convention today are constitutional and canonical decisions about how we shall chart our course as a Diocese for the next 25 years and beyond. We are preparing a future for our children and our grandchildren. As you know, by way of background, the chancellor to the Presiding Bishop, wrote my chancellor on Oct. 19, 2006, declaring that certain provisions in our diocesan Constitution and Canons were contrary to those of the Episcopal Church and needed to be changed, or else the Presiding Bishop would "have to consider what sort of action she must take in order to bring your diocese into compliance." The following month, on Nov. 15, the Executive Council of the General Convention received a task force report identifying Fort Worth as a "problem diocese" that needed to be monitored. On June 14, 2007, this same Executive Council declared certain constitutional and canonical amendments in this Diocese to be "null and void." Our Standing Committee and I replied by pointing out that such declarations exceeded the authority of the Executive Council, which is responsible for the program and budget of the General Convention, and that they had no legislative or judicial authority to make such a pronouncement. The Council's declaration about the legitimate legislative process in this Diocese is, in fact, null and void.

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And then just last week, the Presiding Bishop sent me an open letter, that she quickly posted on the internet, threatening disciplinary action against me ifl did not prevent this Convention from acting on certain legislative proposals. I believe all of you have seen my reply. What you may not have seen is the Episcopal News Service story saying that ifl did not heed her warning it would (and I quote) "force her to take action to bring the diocese and its leadership into line with the mandates of the national Church." Now hold on there a minute. I don't want to force her to do anything, but I must object to the claim that the Presiding Bishop has any canonical authority in this Diocese or any legitimate power over the leadership of this Diocese. She has no authority to bring Fort Worth into line with the mandates of a so-called "national Church." There is no such thing as "the national Church." We are a confederation of Dioceses, related to each other by our participation in General Convention. From the earliest days of the beginnings of the Episcopal Church in this country, including the formation of dioceses and eventually the creation of the General Convention itself, there has been a strong mistrust of centralized authority that is deeply rooted in our history as Episcopalians. We do not have an Archbishop in this Church, who has authority over other Bishops and their Dioceses. Instead, we have a Presiding Bishop, with very limited canonical responsibilities, mainly administrative in nature. We must object to the tendency in recent years in this Church to create some sort of central bureaucracy at the top that holds power and authority over the various Dioceses of this Church. We do not have a Curia that dictates policy and dogma in this Church. We do not have a Presiding Bishop with papal authority over us, nor do we believe in the infallibility of any Bishop or any council or, indeed, of any General Convention. If I may be so bold to speak on your behalf, dear friends: the leadership of this Diocese does not need to be brought into line with the mandates of some mythical "national Church."

Let us now turn to the first two proposals we will consider today. Proposed Constitutional Amendment A would have us delete that portion of Article 1 that stipulates that "no action of General Convention which is contrary to Holy Scripture and the Apostolic Teaching of the Church shall be of any force or effect in this Diocese." In other words, we are being asked to declare that we will conform to and obey the dictates of the General Convention even when we believe they are contrary to the Bible and to the Apostolic Teaching of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.

Proposed Constitutional Amendment B addresses the issue of the ownership of church property in this Diocese. It would have us declare that all our churches are really owned by The Episcopal Church, not by this Diocese or by our parishes. It would declare that if we belong to TEC, then we are owned and controlled by TEC. Such an understanding is contrary to the Constitution of this Diocese, as it has existed since its original adoption in 1982. The title to all church property in this Diocese is held in the name of the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, for the beneficial use of our parishes and missions. Never once, in the entire history of this Diocese, has the Bishop, the Standing Committee, or the Board of Trustees of the Corporation ever sought (or ever needed) the consent or approval of any person or church body outside this Diocese to buy, sell or encumber any of our properties. We have never needed the authorization of any other authority, ecclesiastical or otherwise, outside this Diocese, in order to start churches,

4 141-252083-11 to close churches, to move churches, or even to sell churches, and we don't intend to start doing so now.

All of the other Proposed Constitutional Amendments coming before us are sponsored by the Standing Committee and are unanimously endorsed by the Committee on Constitution and Canons. Explanations and the rationale behind these proposals have been put before all of you in writing. They have been thoroughly discussed in your deanery meetings, in parish forums, in vestry meetings, and in various other formats. Today they will be debated, prayed over, and then voted upon. However, as you well know, they would not become effective until or unless they were ratified on second reading at our Annual Convention in 2008.

It is important for this Convention to remember what the Standing Committee wrote to us in September as a kind of preamble to the proposals that are before us:

"The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has always been a traditional, conservative diocese, adhering to the beliefs and practices of the historic catholic faith. This means it has often found itself in conflict with decisions of the General Convention, which has continued a series of innovations in liturgy, theology, and the sacraments. For 25 years, the diocese has attempted to differentiate itself from the actions of the General Convention and its ongoing effort to revise and redefme the historic teaching of the Church on faith and morals, as revealed in Holy Scripture.

To submit to and comply with the current direction of the General Convention would mean for us to embrace a distortion of the Christian faith that our forebears would not recognize as a continuation of 'the Apostles' teaching and fellowship.' It would mean driving an even deeper wedge between us and the rest of the Anglican Communion, as well as other Christian bodies, who do not condone recent actions of the General Convention, but rather view them as schismatic and sectarian. We cannot act against our conscience and in violation of the faith once delivered to the saints."

In concluding their report, the Standing Committee wrote:

"We believe it is time for us to take action to secure our future as a diocese. We believe it is time to separate our diocese from General Convention religion and to join an orthodox Province of the Anglican Communion. However, we do not wish to compel any parish in the diocese to remain with us as we pursue this course of action. With Christian charity toward those who differ from the majority, we are offering an amendment to Canon 32 to provide a process whereby parishes may leave the diocese in an amicable and Christian manner."

As the pastor and chief shepherd of this Diocese, I want to underscore that point: the purpose of the proposed amendment to Canon 32 is pastoral. It is intended to provide a process and canonical means whereby a parish that determines that, in good conscience, it must separate from the Diocese, may do so with its buildings and assets. Each case, of course, will be slightly different. Every parish will find some who support the direction of the Diocese and some who

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oppose it, whatever path we choose. The proposed Canon provides a process that would allow for the possibility of reconciliation, and if that is not possible, then an amicable solution to the controversy, where the positions of all sides are respected. It is my fervent hope that no parish will elect to pursue this course and that we will remain together in mission for the next 25 years and beyond. But if separation must come, let it be accomplished without rancor and litigation. Let it be done in a Godly manner, in charity and in peace. Let it be a parting of brothers and sisters in Christ. On numerous occasions, I have said that I cannot make anyone leave the Episcopal Church, nor can I make anyone stay in the Episcopal Church. This is a very difficult time for all of us, and it does not help to demonize one another or to attack the integrity or motives of those who disagree with us. It is not a time for threats, intimidation, or coercion. It is a time for grace, cooperation, and mutual respect. The multiple lawsuits that have been filed across the United States by The Episcopal Church against good Christian people over the ownership of their church property are outrageous. It is a scandal to the Body of Christ, and it must stop! This is not the way Christians deal with one another.

Tomorrow morning, after our votes have been cast today, your local church will remain unchanged. You will have the same priest, same building, same Prayer Book, and all the rest, that you had last Sunday. And I would like to say a word of reassurance to all of you, if I may, that this also will be the most likely scenario next year, following a possible ratification vote on any proposals that we adopt on first reading today. Your church and your priest will still be there for you and your family. The liturgy and worship in your congregation will continue as it has in years past, edifying the faithful and giving glory to God. Any and all who wish to join us will still be warmly welcomed, and we will continue to reach out to the world about us in evangelism and witness to the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. Do not be fearful; trust God to provide. Do not vote today out of fear, but out of conviction, in confidence and in faith.

Last week, I celebrated my 33rd anniversary of ordination to the sacred priesthood. I joyfully reaffirm before all of you my ordination vows "to be loyal to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of Christ as this Church has received th~." In the Spring, I will celebrate the 15th anniversary of my consecration to serve as your Bishop. I joyfully reaffirm before all of you that I will continue to 44guard the faith, unity, and discipline of the Church," to the best of my ability and with God's grace. From time to time someone will ask, ''Why don't you just resign and go away and join some other church where you will be happy?" My reply is always the same; because I cannot forsake the faithful people of this Diocese. I cannot renounce the sacred vows I took when I was called by God to serve as your Bishop. I will not desert the flock that has called me to shepherd them in this Diocese. I will not cease to guard the faith. I will not forsake those who look to me for spiritual leadership and guidance. As Jesus himself said, it is the hireling who, when he sees the wolf coming, runs away and abandons the sheep. The good shepherd remains to defend and lead the sheep entrusted to his protection and care. I am not going to abandon the faithful of this Diocese in the midst of the assaults and threats being hurled at us for standing up for what we believe.

The controversies and divisions that confront us are not about me or about my role as Bishop. • They are about the truth of the Gospel, the authority of the Bible, and the received teachings of 6 141-252083-11 the apostolic Church. My theological positions have not changed on any of the issues that are before us. Likewise, this Diocese has not deviated from the historic faith and order of the catholic Church. We are not the cause of division or schism; we are a part of the solution. We are a part of the realignment that is shaking up and reshaping the Anglican world. We are for preserving the unity of the Church and for mending the tear in the fabric of our beloved Communion. For all these reasons, our commitment to Christian orthodoxy must remain clear and unwavering. We will make common cause with all who share this faith, these values, and this mission. The proposals before this Convention have one clear message: We here in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth intend to be who we have always been, to believe what we have always believed, and to do what we have always done. We will remain an orthodox diocese of catholic Christians, full members of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Above all else, we are committed to serving and obeying the Lord Jesus Christ, as we uphold the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the revealed Word of God and our ultimate authority in all matters of faith, morals and doctrine. If that makes us enemies of some, ifthat brings on threats and intimidations, if that brings on militant opposition- then so be it We will face it together, as God gives us His grace and guidance.

My dream is for a day when we are not under attack by adversaries from within the same church or engulfed in endless religious controversies. I long to be a part of a Province that wants us and values our witness, instead of threatening us and isolating us as a "problem diocese." My hope is for a time when we are not sidetracked from the mission of the Church by endless conflicts, so that we can be truly set free to focus on making disciples, planting new churches, building up the Body, equipping the saints for ministry, encouraging the faithful, and doing the work of Jesus Christ in the world. May God in His goodness hasten the arrival of such a day, such a time, and such a Church.

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OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE BISHOP THE RT. REV. JACK LEO IKER November 6, 2006 through November 4, 2007

Acceptance of Postulants ...... 4 Acceptance of Candidates for Holy Orders ...... 2 Acceptance of Renunciation of Ministry ...... 4 Ordinations to th.e Permanent Diaconate ...... 0 Ordinations to th.e Transitional Diaconate...... 2 Ordinations to th.e Priesth.ood ...... 3 Letters Dimissory Sent ...... 1 Letters Dimissory Accepted ...... 7 Instiru ti. ons ...... 2 licensing of Oergy ...... 16 Consent to Elect a Bishop ...... 2 With.held Consent to Elect a Bishop ...... 0 Consent to Consecration of a Bishop ...... lO With.held Consent to Consecration of a Bishop ...... 2 Consent to th.e Resignation of a Bishop ...... 3 Blessings, Dedications, and Consecration of Churches and Other Buildings ...... 4 Marriage Adjudications ...... 20 Marriage Adjudications disapproved ...... 1 .Annul.ment of Marriage ...... O

8 Bishop's 141-252083-11Official Acts- 2007 November 6, 2006 thru November 4, 2007 Parish/Mission Baptisms Confirmations Rt"eeptions Rellffirmation TOTAL Alvarado, St Anthony of Padua _t t 2 3 Arlington, St Alban 3 ll 2 16 Arlington, St Mark 2 6 1 '.1 Arlington, St Peter & St Paul 21 3 2 26 Arlington, St Philip the Apostle t t 7 8 Bedford, St Vincent 1 tO 1 u Bowie, St Patrick. t 1 I Breckenridge, St Andrew 2 2 Brownwood, Good Shepherd 5 5 Brownwood, St John 7 7 Burkburnett, St. John the Divine t 4 4 Cleburne, Holy Comforter 3 I 4 Comanche St. Matthew's t 3 3 Dallas, St. Francis 2 2 Dublin, Trinity t 0 Eastland. Holv Trinity t 0 Fort Worth, All Saints 2 11 3 3 19 Fort Worth. Cluist the Kin!! (see below)_ Fort Worth, Holy Apostles 4 2 t 7 Fort Worth, Iglesia San Juan Apostol t 17 17 Fort Worth, Iglesia San Miguel t(see below) Fort Worth, St. Andrew 20 20 Fort Worth, St Anne (see below) Fort Worth, St Barnabas t 3 7 2 12 Fort Worth, St Christ()pher's 3 9 t 1J Fort Worth, St Elisabeth t 0 Fort Worth, St John 14 14 Fort Worth, St Luke-in-the-Meadow 1 3 I I 6 Fort Worth, St. Michael 4 5 9 Fort Worth, St. Simon of Cyrene 1 l Fort Worth, St. Timothy t(see below) Fort Worth, TrinitY 20 20 Gainesville, St. Paul 0 Graham. Holy ~irit t 2 2 Granburv. Good Shepherd 7 7 Grand Prairie, St Andrew i 8 9 Grand Prairie St. Joseph t 0 Grapevine, St. Laurence 1 IS 3 19 Hamilton. St. Mary t 0 Henrietta, Trinity t 0 0 Hillsboro, St. Mary t 1 1 Hubbard, St. Alban tt 2 2 Hurst. St. Stephen 8 8 Jacksboro St Thomas tt 0 Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake t 1 t Mansfield, St. GregoJY 3 4 1 8 Mineml Wells St Luke 0 0 Possum Kingdom, St Peter-by-the-Lake t J t Southlake St Martin-in-the-Fields Z1 1 22 Stephenville, St Luke 3 J 4 Weatherford, All Saints 7 7 Wichita Falls, All Saints 0 Wichi1a Falls Good Shepherd 0 WIChita Falls, St Stephen 2 2 Willow Park, St. Francis ofAssisi 0 WISe County, Ascension/St. Mark t 6 3 1 10 Total: 24 276 24 19 343

The Rt. Rev. William C. Wantlalld St. Anne's Fort Worth 15 13 6 34 St. Tunothv's.. Fort Worth 4 1 5 Christ the Kin!!.. Fort Worth 14 14 Iglesia San Mil!uel 18 7 25 Total: 51 21 6 78

DioeesaD Total: 24 327 45 zs 421 9 141-252083-11

THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2007

SECRETARY OF THE CoNVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2009) The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2008) CHANCELLOR The Rev. Sandra McCown (2008) William T. McGee, Esq. Lynn Stavinoha (2008) Jimmy Henry (2009) TREASURER The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2009) Walter Virden, III David Doremus (2010) Doris Gregory (2010) REGISTRAR The Rev. Ann Richards (2010) Susan F. Steele

HisTORIOGRAPHER CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Jason Bontke, Director Rod Barber, Chairman (2008) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2008) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WoRm Jonice Williford (2008) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Mr. Charles Warnky (2008) Jimmy Henry (2009) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT Juleigh Davenport (2009) FOR THE EPISCOPATE Chuck Parmele (2009) Walter Virden, Ill, Secretary (2008) Frank Wagnon (2009) Rod Barber (2009) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) JoAnn Patton (2010) Jane McManus (2010) Chad Bates (2011) The Rev. Stuart Smith (201 0) Rob Shattuck (20 I 0) THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

CONmDTIEEFORTHEP~THOOD The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2009) Tim Cox (2008) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2008) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2008) Toby Matocha (2008) Gene Dugan (2009) Jo Ann Patton (2009) The Rev. Robert L. Young (2009) Susan Bradley (2010) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Mack Wood (201 0) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2010)

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THE BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS 2007

PARLIAMENTARIAN William T. McGee, Esquire

AsSISTANT SECRETARIES DEANS OF THE DIOCESE Susan Steele The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson Melody Mendolia Western Deanery Gala Pryor The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell Fort Worth West Deanery AsSISTANT TREAsURERS The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III Eastern Deanery Jane R. Parrott The Very Rev. Andrew F. L Bradley Southern Deanery VICE CHANCELLOR The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten Rickey Brantley Northern Deanery The Very Rev. Christopher C. Stainbrook Fort Worth East Deanery ALcOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE MINISTRY Bill Parrott, Chair Barbara Bums ARTS & ARCHITECTURE COMMI'ITEE Judy Mayo Ted Mayo The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr., Chair JoAnn Haniman Judy Roberts Frank Sherwood Gale McRay Lois Smerlis Arthur Weinman Diane Snow Dave Bums CHRISTIAN EDUCATION COMMITTEE Kristy Leaseburg, Chair The Rev. David A. Madison CHAPLAIN TO RETIRED CLERGY AND SPOUSES The Rev. Stuart Smith The Rev. Canon Billie R. Boyd Kathy Atwood Susie Wheaton DIOCESAN ALTAR GUILD DIRECTRESS Anne Lange Sue Yarger Sandy Wade Mark Washburn THE CHURCH PENSION FUND Ernest Chilton COMMI'ITEE ON EVANGEUSM Douglas Dickerson The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson DuerWagner ECUMENICAL OFFICER COLLEGE MINISTRIES The Rev. Fred Barber The Rev. Sam McOain - Tarleton State Vacant- Midwestern State ARMED FORCES REPRESENTATIVE The Rev. Jonathan Ogujiofor- TCU The Rev. Robert L Young Brian Pickard - UTA STEWARDSHIP COMMITfEE CHAPLAIN TO DIOCESAN CURATES The Rev. David F. Klein, Co-Chair The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III Bud Munroe, Co-Chair

11 141-252083-11 WORLD MISSION COMMITI'EE YOUTH MINISTRY ADVISORY COMMITI'EE Lollie Twyman, Chair The Very Rev. Scott Wooten, Chair Peggy Bruce The Rev. John Jordan The Rev. Christopher Culpepper Amanda LoPalo Barbara Hautanen Georgette Lopez-Aguado Sharon Kuykendall Matt Maples The Rev. Sandra McCown The Rev. Lee Nelson David Morgan Jim Stubblefield Bill Parrott The Rev. Nancy Weaver Debbie Petta Maryellen Wellbaum Debbie Popielarczyk The Rev. Mark Stockstill RISK MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Rod Barber, Chair COMMITI'EE FOR HISPANIC MINISTRY Don Bendure The Rev. Sergio Diaz, Chair The Rev. Canon Charles Hough Hortensia Atkinson Shae Lucabagh The Rev. De Wayne Adams The Rev. David Madison Martina Alvarez Thorn Murrell Luther Atkinson Janie Parrott Gilberto Hinojosa Ben Richards The Rev. Javier Loyo The Rev. Mark Stockstill The Rev. Burton A. Shadow Cindy Ruiz-Riquer Elizabeth Morris CONSTITUTION AND CANONS COMMITIEE Salvadore Ordonez William McGee, &quire Rickey Brantley, &quire DIOCESAN LITURGIST N. Michael Kensel, Esquire The Rev. Timothy Perkins Cora Werley, Esquire David Weaver, &quire MISSION STRATEGY COMMITTEE The Rev. Dr. R. William Dickson The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr., Chair The Very Rev. Ryan Reed The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, Ill COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER Chad Bates Suzanne Gill SPIRITUAl liFE COMMITTEE DFW AIRPORT MINisTRY Charra Wright, Chair Captain George Midgley Ruth Smith The Rev. Timothy Matkin THE COMMISSION ON EPISCOPAl SCHOOLS Cora Werley Tad Bird, Chair- All Saints, Fort Worth Michele Needham The Rev. Robert Young - St. Andrew, Grand Prairie Edwina Rawlings • Keven Robertson - Episcopal School, Wichita Falls Lynn Buffington - St. Vincent Lower School, Bedford Sharon Mayes- St. Vincent Middle School, Bedford Tina Burris - St. Gregory, Mansfield

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DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Canonical Clergy 2007 105 Priests 12 Deacons

The Rev. DeWayne Adams, Vicar, Ascension/St. Mark, Wise County The Rev. Felix 0. Akinkugbe, Vicar- St. Philip the Apostle, Arlington The Rev. Radford B. Allen, Jr.- Retired The Rev. H. Jay Atwood- Rector, St. Francis of Assisi, Willow Park The Rev. J. Ronald Baker - Retired The Rev. James F. Barber- Rector, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. William P. Barrett- Retired The Rev. Ronald R Baskin - Retired The Rev. B:cyant C. Bechtold - The Rev. William R Belury- Retired The Rev. William E. Blewett- Assistant, St. Laurence, Grapevine The Rev. Canon Billie R Boyd - Retired The Very Rev. Andrew F. L. Bradley- Rector, Good Shepherd, Brownwood The Rev. Melvin A. Bridge- Chaplain, All Saints' Episcopal School, Fort Worth The Rev. Tommy F. Bye- Rector, St. Luke-in-the-Meadow, Fort Worth The Very Rev. ChristopherT. Cantrell- Rector, Holy Apostles, Fort Worth The Rev. Richard A. Cantrell- Assistant, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. William C. Cantrell- Chaplain, USN The Rev. Bruce W. Coggin - Retired The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr.- Rector, St. Laurence, Grapevine (Southlake) The Rev. Christopher P. Culpepper- Curate, All Saints', Fort Worth The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Sergio Diaz- Vicar, Iglesia San Miguel, Fort Worth The Rev. Dr. R William Dickson- Rector, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. James A. Eanes- Assistant, St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie The Rev. David A. Edman - Retired The Rev. William Estes- Curate, Grace Church, Monroe, LA The Rev. Russell E. Fisher, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Randall Foster- Curate, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. W. Crews Giles- Non-parochial The Rev. Vernon A. Gotcher- Retired The Rev. Roger G. Grist- Rector, St. Anne, Fort Worth The Rev. Louis H. Hayden, Jr.- Non-parochial The Rev. James A. Hazel- Non- parochial The Rev. John H. Heidt- Canon Theologian The Rev. Earl D. Heverly, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Hightower- Rector, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. Bertrand N. Honea, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, lli- Canon to the Ordinary The Rev. Charles A. Hough, IV- Diocesan Curate St. Mark's, Arlington The Rev. Efrain Huerta Fierros - Retired The Rev. Christopher N. Jambor- Rector, All Saints, Fort Worth The Rev. Cecil Dow James- Rector, St. Paul, Gainesville The Rev. Jon C. Jenkins- Diocesan Curate, St. Peter & St. Paul. Arlington The Rev. Stephen W. Jones- Rector, Holy Comforter, Cleburne The Rev. Kingsley Obi Jon-Ubabuco- Vicar, St. Philip's, Arlington The Rev. John W. Jordan- Diocesan Curate, St. Vincent's, Bedford The Rev. Terence N. Jordan-Priest in Charge, St. Joseph's, Grand Prairie The Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy- Vicar, St. Patrick, Bowie, Trinity, Henrietta, St. Thomas, Jacksboro The Rev. Walter W. Kesler- Retired

13 141-252083-11 The Rev. David F. Klein- Rector, St. John, Fort Worth The Rev. William A. Komstedt, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Edward F. Kresowaty- Rector, St. Alban's, Arlington The Rev. Donald N. Kreymer- Retired The Rev. Jeffery A. Logan- Chaplain, U.S.N.R. The Rev. I. Javier Loyo- Vicar, Iglesia San Juan Apostol, Fort Worth The Rev. Kenneth W. MacKenzie, Jr.- Rector, All Saints', Wichita Falls The Rev. David A. Madison- Director of Religious Studies, All Saints' School, Fort Worth The Rev. V. Stanley Maneikis- Retired, Interim Priest, Christ the King, Fort Worth The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin-Assistant, St. Alban, Arlington The Rev. Sam McClain- Rector, St. Luke, Stephenville The Rev. Alan E. McGiauchlin- Retired The Rev. Richard E. McHenry - Retired The Rev. Robert 0. Mitchell- Priest in Charge, St. Anthony, Alvarado The Rev. Alex D. Moffat- Retired The Rev. Canon Courtland M. Moore- Retired The Rev. Quintin G. Morrow - Non-parochial The Rev. Davidson R. Morse- Associate Rector, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Lee M. Nelson - Diocesan Curate, St. Laurence, Grapevine The Rev. James U. Norwood- Assistant, St. Gregory, Mansfield The Rev. Canon David E. Nyberg- Retired The Rev. I. Jonathan Ogujiofor- Rector, St. Simon, Fort Worth The Rev. Vance C. Page- Assistant, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. John D. Payne - Retired The Rev. Timothy P. Perkins- Rector, St. Mark, Arlington The Rev. John M. Phelps -Priest-in-Charge, Holy Spirit, Graham, St. Peter by the Lake, Possum Kingdom The Rev. Darryl J. Pigeon- Chaplain, All Saints' Upper School, Fort Worth The Rev. M. Gayland Pool- Retired The Rev. Steven M. Pope- Rector, St. Andrew's, Breckenridge The Rev. Thomas A. Powell- Retired The Very Rev. RyanS. Reed- Dean, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. Frank B. Reeves- Retired The Rev. James R. Reynolds, Interim Priest, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Southlake The Rev. James A. Rogers- Retired The Rev. Zeke L. Rogers - Assistant, All Saints, Fort Worth The Rev. Joseph H. Schley, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Burton A. Shadow- Non- parochial The Rev. Marvin B. Shannon - Vicar, Our Lady-of-the-Lake, Laguna Park, St. Mary's, Hillsboro The Rev. Jesse G. Smith- Retired The Rev. Stuart B. Smith- Rector, Good Shepherd, Granbury The Very Rev. Christopher C. Stainbrook- Vicar, St. Timothy, Fort Worth The Rev. Frank S. StAmour, Ill -Rector, St. Stephen, Hurst The Rev. William T. Stanford- Rector, St. Christopher, Fort Worth The Rev. John H. Stanley, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Mark A. Stockstill-Vicar, St. Matthew's, Comanche and Trinity, Dublin The Rev. J. Stanley Sullivan-Vicar, St. Mary's, Hamilton The Rev. S. Philip Swickard- Retired The Rev. William J. Taylor, lli-Assistant, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. Louis L. Tobola, Jr.- Vicar, St. Barnabas the Apostle, Fort Worth The Rev. Canon John G. Twyman- Retired The Rev. Joshua J. Whitfield- Rector, St. Gregory's, Mansfield The Rev. Canon Laurens R. Williams- Retired The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson- Rector, All Saints, Weatherford The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten- Rector, Good Shepherd, Wichita Falls The Rev. Robert L. Young- Rector, St. Andrew, Grand Prairie

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Deacons:

The Rev. Patricia A. Banks- Deacon, St. John, Brownwood The Rev. Lana K. Farley- Deacon, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. Dennis W. Helbert- Deacon, Good Shepherd, Brownwood The Rev. Sandra W. McCown- Deacon, Our-Lady-of-the-Lake, Laguna Park The Rev. Sharla J. Marks- Deacon, St. Elisabeth's, Fort Worth The Rev. George L. Milyiori, Deacon, St. Stephen, Hurst The Rev. Janet G. Nocher- Deacon, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. R. Mark Parker -Deacon The Rev. W. Ann Richards- Deacon, All Saints', Fort Worth The Rev. Susan E. Slaughter- Deacon, St. Luke-in-the-Meadow, Fort Worth The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade -Deacon, St. Vincent's, Bedford The Rev. Nancy S. Weaver- Deacon, St. Alban's, Arlington

Licensed Clergy 9 Priests 1 Deacon

The Rev. David Allen- Rector, St. Francis, Dallas The Rev. Richard N. Clark- Assistant, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Timothy R. Coppinger- Interim Priest-in-Charge, St. John, Burkburnett The Rev. James T. Horton, Jr.- Priest in Charge, St. Elisabeth, Fort Worth The Rev. John E. Keene- Retired The Rev. Timothy Kline - Retired The Rev. Nelson W. Koscheski- Priest-in-Charge, St. John's, Brownwood The Rev. William E. O'Connell- Assistant, St. Gregory's, Mansfield The Rev. Thomas Shepherd- Retired

Licensed Deacons:

The Rev. John Richards- Deacon, St. Timothy's, Fort Worth

15 141-252083-11 CLERGY REGISTERED AT THE 25TH ANNUAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Adams, DeWayne M. Atwood, H. Jay Baker, Ronald J. Barber, James F. Baskin, Ronald R. Blewett, William E. Boyd, Billie R. Bradley, Andrew F. L. Bridge, Melvin A. Bye, Tommy F. Cantrell, Christopher T. Cantrell, Richard A. Cantrell, William C. Crary, Jr., William A. Culpepper, Christopher P. Diaz, Sergio Dickson, R. William Eanes, James A. Edman, David A. Estes, William T. Fisher, Russell E. Jr. Foster, Randall W. Giles, W. Crews Grist, Roger G. Heidt, John H. Hightower, Thomas E. Hough, m,· Charles A. Hough, IV, Charles A. Jambor, Christopher N. James, Cecil Dow Jenkins, Jon C. Jon-Ubabuco, Kingsley Obi Jones, Stephen W. Jordan, John W. Jordan, Terence N. Kennedy, Thomas B. Kessler, Walter W. Klein, David F. Komstedt, William A. Jr. Kresowaty, Edward F. Logan, Jeffery A. Loyo, I. Javier MacKenzie, Kenneth W. Madison, David A. Maneikis, V. Stanley Matkin, Timothy M. McClain, Sam

16 141-252083-11 McGlauchlin, Alan E. McHenry, Richard E. Mitchell, Robert 0. Moore, Courtland M. Morse, Davidson R. Nelson, Lee M. Norwood, James N. Nyberg, David E. Ogujiofor, I. Jonathan Page, Vance C. Perkins, Timothy P. Phelps, John M. Pigeon, Darryl J. Pope, Steven M. Powell, Thomas A. Reed, Ryan S. Reeves, Frank B. Reynolds, James R. Rogers, Zeke L. Shannon , Marvin B. Smith, Stuart B. Stainbrook, Christopher C. St. Amour, FrankS. ID Stanford, William T. Stanley, John H. Jr. Stockstill, Mark A. Tobola, Jr., Louis L. Twyman, John G. Whitfield, Joshua J. Williams, Laurens R. Wilson, J. Scott Wooten, Scott R. Young , Robert L.

Deacons:

Farley, Lana K. Banks, Patricia A. Helbert, Dennis W. McCown, Sandra W. Marks, Sharla J. Milyiori, George L. Nocher, Janet G. Richards, w. Ann Slaughter, Susan E. Wade, Kerwin K. Weaver, Nancy S.

Licensed Priests: Allen, David M. Clark, Richard N. Koscheski, Nelson W. O'Connell, William E.

Licensed Deacons: Richards, John W.

17 141-252083-11 CLERGY REGISTERED AT THE 25rn ANNUAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Adams, DeWayne M. Atwood, H. Jay Baker, Ronald J. Barber, James F. Baskin, Ronald R Blewett, William E. Boyd, Billie R Bradley, Andrew F. L. Bridge, Melvin A. Bye, Tommy F. Cantrell, Christopher T. Cantrell, Richard A. Cantrell, William C. Coggin, Bruce W. Crary,Jr., WilliamA. Culpepper, Christopher P. Diaz, Sergio Dickson, R William Eanes, James A. Edman, David A. Estes, William T. Fisher, Russell E. Jr. Foster, Randall W. Giles, W. Crews Grist, Roger G. Heidt, John H. Hightower, Thomas E. Hough, III, Charles A. Hough, IV, Charles A. Jambor, Christopher N. James, Cecil Dow Jenkins, Jon C. Jon-Ubabuco, Kingsley Obi Jones, Stephen W. Jordan, John W. Jordan, Terence N. Kennedy, Thomas B. Kessler, Walter W. Klein, David F. Komstedt, William A. Jr. Kresowaty, Edward F. Logan, Jeffery A. Loyo, I. Javier MacKenzie, Kenneth W. Madison, David A. Maneikis, V. Stanley Matkin, Timothy M. McClain, Sam McGlauchlin, Alan E.

18 141-252083-11 McHenry, Richard E. Mitchell, Robert 0. Moore, Courtland M. Morse, Davidson R. Nelson, Lee M. Norwood, James N. Nyberg. David E. Ogujiofor, I. Jonathan Page, Vance C Payne, John D. Perkins, Timothy P. Phelps, John M. Pigeon, Darryl J. Pope, Steven M. Powell, Thomas A. Reed, Ryan S. Reeves, Frank B. Reynolds, James R. Rogers, James A. Rogers, Zeke L. Shadow, Burton A. Shannon, Marvin B. Smith, Stuart B. Stainbrook, Christopher C St Amour, FrankS. ill Stanford, William T. Stanley, John H. Jr. Stockstill, Mark A. Swickard,S.Philip Taylor, William}. III Tobola, Jr., Louis L. Twyman, John G. Whitfield, Joshua J. Williams, Laurens R. Wilson, J. Scott Wooten, Scott R. Young , Robert L.

Deacons: Farley, Lana K. Banks, Patricia A. McCown, Sandra W. Marks, Sharla J. Milyiori, George L. Nocher, Janet G. Richards, W. Ann Slaughter, Susan E. Wade, Kerwin K. Weaver, Nancy S.

Licensed Priests: Allen, David M. Coppinger, Timothy R. Koscheski, Nelson W. O'Connell, William E.

Licensed Deacons: Richards, John W. 19 141-252083-11

DELEGATES REGISTERED ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16,2007

Alvarado, St. Anthony of Padua Brownwood, Church of the Good Shepherd Jerry Shaw Melissa Alward Susan Bradley

Arlington, St Alban Brownwood, St. John's Monica Brown Jimmy Henry Joe Lundy Jim Hays Paul Nelson Don Wheaton Burkburnett, St. John the Divine Keith Allen Kerry Bell Rilla Altman Cleburne, Holy Comforter Dale Williams Arlington, St Mark Rod Barber Walter Virden, Ill Robert Theimer Charles Shelor Comanche, St. Matthew's Arlington, St. Peter & St Paul Christopher Till Lynn Stavinoha Caron Overbeek Dallas, St. Francis Toby Matocha Stephen Chamblee Ruthie Baker Ray Pearce, Sr. John Hall Dick Sandlin

Arlington, St Philip the Apostle Dublin, Trinity None registered Susan Stockstill

Bedford, St. Vincent's Cathedral Eastland, Holy Trinity Robert Boyer None registered Thomas C. Parham, Jr. Don Bendure Fort Worth, All Saints' Joe Kalbfleisch Joel Bailey • Susana Laird Robert Merrill David Boswell Bowie, St. Patrick's Fran McDonald None registered Beth Rubin Chris Swartz Tim Howell Breckenridge, St. Andrew's Lynne Minor John Cook • April Pope 20 141-252083-11 Fort Worth, Christ the King Fort Worth, St. Simon of Cyrene Karon Anable Doris Thurston Andy Perrier Kushina White

Fort Worth, St. Timothy's Fort Worth, Church of the Holy Apostles Charles Warnky Richard Weber Debbie Blount Chuck Bradley Fort Worth, Trinity Fort Worth, Iglesia San Juan Apostol Sandra User Norma Riojas Elinor Normand Margarita Munoz Steve Peglar Karen Parrish Fort Worth, Iglesia San Miguel Jefferson George Elizabeth Lundy Cherie Shipp Mercedes del Pilar Cicalla Judy Graber

Fort Worth, St. Andrew's Gainesville, St. Paul's Judy Mayo Grant Carson Jo Ann Patton Mary Ann Carson Bare Hunter John Perkins Graham, Church of the Holy Spirit Martha Dowling None registered Chad Fillmore Granbury, Good Shepherd Fort Worth, St. Anne's Fred Rauschuber Mack Wood Wilma Curtis Paul Powers Carl Manning Sam Pressler Grand Prairie, St. Andrew's Fort Worth, St. Barnabas Clyde Bargsley Julia Smead Donna Davis Patricia McCarty Mary Wooten

Fort Worth, St. Christopher's Grand Prairie, St. Joseph's Margaret Mieuli James Fogg Tim Stevens Grapevine, St. Laurence Fort Worth, St. Elisabeth's Larry Votto Pam Yarborough Katie Bates Joan Miller Fort Worth, St. John's David Bettis Gerald Gregory Melinda Woody Hamilton, St. Mary's Clay Slaughter Abner Teague Matthew Clemmons Hillsboro, St. Mary's Fort Worth, St. Luke's in the Meadow Cheryl Ross Marsha McClean Veronique Duprey 22 141-252083-11 Henrietta, Trinity Jo Williams Wichita Falls, All Saints' Owanah Anderson Hurst, St. Stephen's Millie Lancaster Kay Stromberg Diane Snow Floyd McKneely Wichita Falls, Good Shepherd Jackie Spragins Keller, St. Martin in the Fields Chris Gore Lisa Neilson Danny Faught Wichita Falls, St. Stephen's D J Mitchell None registered Marty Hitchcock Sue Mitchell Willow Park, St. Francis of Assisi Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake Barbara Mills Gene Berryhill Larry Mills Philip Fraizer Mansfield, St. Gregory's Cheri Davis Wise County, Ascension/St. Mark's Mineral Wells, St. Luke's Cordell Swindle Raf Seibert

Possum Kingdom, St. Peter's by the Lake Tom Harris

Richland Hills, St. Michael's William Welsh

Stephenville, St. Luke's Malcom Cross Milam Hefner Jane McClain

Weatherford, All Saints' Samantha Fowler Nancy Clack

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DELEGATES REGISTERED ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17,2007

Alvarado, St Anthony of Padua Brownwood, Church of the Good Shepherd Jerry Shaw Melissa Alward F. Michael Schultz

Arlington, St Alban Brownwood, St. John's Monica Brown Jimmy Henry Joe Lundy Jim Hays Paul Nelson Don Wheaton Burkburnett, St John the Divine Keith Allen Fern Maxwell Rilla Altman Cleburne, Holy Comforter Dale Williams Arlington, St. Mark Rod Barber Walter Virden, Ill Robert Theimer Charles Shelor Comanche, St Matthew's Arlington, St. Peter & St. Paul Christopher Till Lynn Stavinoha Caron Overbeek Dallas, St. Francis Toby Matocha Stephen Chamblee Ruthie Baker Ray Pearce, Sr. John Hall Richard Beadle

Arlington, St. Philip the Apostle Dublin, Trinity John Onyejiaka Susan Stockstill

Bedford, St. Vincent's Cathedral Eastland, Holy Trinity Robert Boyer Mickey Sargent Thomas C. Parham, Jr. Don Bendure Fort Worth, All Saints' Joe Kalbfleisch Joel Bailey Susana Laird Robert Merrill David Boswell Bowie, St. Patrick's Fran McDonald Joanna Kalhofer Beth Rubin Chris Swartz Tim Howell Breckenridge, St Andrew's Lynne Minor John Cook Greg Pitzer

24 141-252083-11 Fort Worth, Christ the King Fort Worth, St. Simon of Cyrene Karon Anable Evelyn Meeks Andy Perrier Kushina White

Fort Worth, St. Timothy's Fort Worth, Church of the Holy Apostles Charles Warnky Richard Weber Debbie Blount Chuck Bradley Fort Worth, Trinity Fort Worth, Iglesia San Juan Apostol Sandra User Norma Riojas Elinor Normand Margarita Munoz Steve Peglar Karen Parrish Fort Worth, Iglesia San Miguel Cherie Shipp Elizabeth Lundy Judy Graber Mercedes del Pilar Cicalla Kathleen Wells

Fort Worth, St. Andrew's Gainesville, St. Paul's Judy Mayo Grant Carson Jo Ann Patton Mary Ann Carson Bare Hunter John Perkins Graham, Church of the Holy Spirit Martha Dowling Jason McCall Chad Fillmore Granbury, Good Shepherd Fort Worth, St. Anne's Fred Rauschuber Mack Wood Wilma Curtis Paul Powers Carl Manning Sam Pressler Grand Prairie, St. Andrew's Fort Worth, St. Barnabas Clyde Bargsley Julia Smead Donna Davis Patricia McCarty Mary Wooten

Fort Worth, St. Christopher's Grand Prairie, St. Joseph's Margaret Mieuli James Fogg Tim Stevens Grapevine, St laurence Fort Worth, St. Elisabeth's Larry Votto Pam Yarborough Katie Bates Joan Miller Fort Worth, St. John's David Bettis Gerald Gregory Melinda Woody Hamilton, St. Mary's Clay Slaughter Abner Teague Matthew Clemmons Henrietta, Trinity Fort Worth, St. Luke's in the Meadow Jo Williams Marsha McClean Veronique Duprey 25 141-252083-11 Hillsboro, St. Mary's Cheryl Ross Richland Hills, St. Michael's William Welsh Hurst, St. Stephen's Kay Stromberg Wichita Falls, All Saints' Diane Snow Owanah Anderson Floyd McKneely Reg Wilson

Keller, St. Martin in the Fields Lisa Neilson Wichita Falls, Good Shepherd D J Mitchell Jackie Spragins Marty Hitchcock Chris Gore Sue Mitchell Wichita Falls, St. Stephen's Chad Wilson Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake Gene Berryhill Willow Park, St. Francis of Assisi Barbara Mills Mansfield, St. Gregory's Larry Mills Cheri Davis Philip Fraizer Cindy Baird

Mineral Wells, St. Luke's Wise County, Ascension/St. Mark's RafSeibert Cordell Swindle

Possum Kingdom, St Peter's by the Lake Tom Harris

Stephenville, St. Luke's Malcom Cross Milam Hefner Jane McClain

Weatherford, All Saints' Samantha Fowler Nancy Clack

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Arrangements Committee 2sth Annual Diocesan Convention

• Pre-Convention Matters- The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, Ill

• Convention Host Dean -The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell

• Credentials/Registration - The Very Rev. Ryan Reed and The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell

• Convention Facilities Arrangement-The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III, Gala Pryor

• Dispatch of Business and Constitutions and Canons -The Rev. John Twyman

• Nominations- The Rev. Stephen Jones

• Elections- The Rev. Jay Atwood

• Resolutions -The Rev. Robert Young

• New Parishes and Missions -The Very Rev. William A. Crary

• Necrology- Susan Steele

• General Matters of Convention- The Rev. Canon Charles Hough

• Communications - Suzanne Gill

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Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 16-17, 2007

The 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at All Saints' Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, Texas, 76107 on Friday, November 16, 2007.

The Business meeting was held at the Will Rogers Memorial Center on Saturday, November 17, 2007. Registration began at 7:30am. and continued until8:45 a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30am. in the East Texas Room of the Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Bishop Iker: "The 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth will come to order and is now in session. I'd like to begin by making a few announcements. First, if there are any wives of priests here who would like to go to the home of Adeline and Fr. Zeke Rogers for coffee, tea, and conversation, you're invited to do so at this time. The Rogers home is just across the street on the other side, cattycomer from the Chapel here to my left. Remember that tomorrow morning all the packets and information that you have with you for the Convention will need to be brought with you and that you will need to register again in the morning. We are meeting at the Will Rogers Auditorium in the East Room and we begin with Morning Prayer at 8:30 and feast on coffee and rolls and that kind of thing. A light breakfast before, so make sure you have plenty of time to register and be in your seats for Morning Prayer at 8:30. In addition to thanking Fr. Jambor and the parish life commission as I did at the Mass, I neglected to say how grateful we are for the choir. They did a fantastic job. I think they came from about four or five congregations and to come in the middle of the day to serve in the choir is greatly appreciated. I'm also told that Lynne Waltman, a member of the staff here has been instrumental in making the arrangements and coordinating the setup and cleanup and all for our meeting, so we want to thank Lynn for her special service. Now on our agenda we are going to hear a brief welcome from the Dean of the host deanery, the Fort Worth West Deanery, Dean Christopher Cantrell."

Dean Cantrell: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Fort Worth West Deanery I thought I might take about 45 minutes or so to extol the virtues and wonders of the western side of Fort Worth. No, well. Welcome, we are glad you're here. I want to add a word of thanks to the diocesan staff, which made this look real easy. They have worked very hard and they too deserve our thanks for their preparation. Welcome."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, ill as Secretary to the 25tb Annual Convention by acclamation.

SECONDED CARRIED

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Bishop Iker: "I'd like to express the profound gratitude of Bishops and delegates to previous Conventions to the Rev. Canon Larry Williams, who served with distinction as the secretary for many, many years. Thank you Canon Williams. Dean Reed will give the Credentials Committee report, and I hope that everyone who has been careful about registering and seeing that the people in your pew are duly registered."

Dean Reed: "Rt. Rev. Sir, Clergy and Lay Delegates to Convention. -105 clergy canonically resident in the diocese with 79 of 35 required for a quorum. -128 elected lay delegates with 120 of 43 required for a quorum. Rt. Rev. Sir, we have a quorum."

Bishop Iker: "Could you give me the number registered again for the lay?"

Dean Reed: "120"

Bishop Iker: "120. Okay, thank you very much. I will remind you that you will have to register again in the morning. The report now from the chairman of the finance committee, Dean Stainbrook, on Canon 16.7 which provides the congregations in arrears in assessment are not able to be seated with voice and vote at Convention and Dean Stainbrook is going to make the report now."

Dean Stainbrook: "Rt. Rev. Sir and delegates, there is only one congregation this year that is more than 90 days behind in their assessment and apportionment, that's the congregation of San Juan Apostol in Fort Worth, and we are recommending that that congregation be seated with voice and vote."

MOTION The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook

RESOLVED, that San Juan Apostol, Fort Worth are granted seat, voice and vote at this Convention.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. It's customary in our diocese at this time to give the courtesy of a seat and voice at the Convention to any licensed priest, not canonically resident in the diocese whose in charge of a congregation. I know at least two places in which that's the case, so I'd like to ask the Convention at this point to give seat and voice to licensed clergy in charge of congregations in the diocese."

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that any licensed clergy in charge of a congregation not canonically resident in the diocese be granted seat and voice at this Convention.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "The next is a unique situation, which I am delighted to offer before you, and that is the first time we have a delegation and priest from the Diocese of Dallas, which is under my episcopate care for the arrangements through the Dallas Plan. This is the congregation of St. Francis Church in Dallas. Their rector is Fr. David Allen. I've asked them to come to the Convention and I'd like for them to stand so you can see where they are and who they are at this time. Half of their assessment goes to the Diocese of Dallas and half comes to Fort Worth. Fr. Allen is hopeful that he didn't have to go to either Convention since he was in two dioceses, but he ended up having to go to both of them. So I would like for us to have a cordial motion to welcome them."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to grant seat and voice to The Rev. David Allen and delegation from St. Francis, Dallas at this Convention.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Introduction for the Standing Rules and Procedures for the Convention will be given by the Chancellor."

Mr. William McGee: "Ladies and gentlemen, the standing rules are in your packet. They were written for an arrangement other than what we have today, particularly the microphones. We don't have microphones on the floor, as we will tomorrow. So if there is one who will be addressing Convention, you'll need to go to the microphone the others have gone to. Also, in addressing the Chair, when the Bishop is there, it's the Rt. Rev. Sir. When someone is sitting in place of the Bishop, it's Mr. President. Please review those Standing Rules and they will be applicable throughout today's session and tomorrow's as well."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Mr. McGee and thank you for your service as Chancellor of this diocese. In your packet, there are two purple sheets with names, committees, appointments, and nominations. The Bishop's nominations require the approval or consent of the Convention. The Bishop's appointments are simply by way of announcement."

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Our Nominating Committee report will come from Fr. Stephen Jones, the Chairman, and rector of Holy Comforter Church in Cleburne."

Fr. Stephen Jones, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations. Standing Committee- Clerical The Rev. J. Frederick Barber The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell

Standing Committee- Lay Member Mrs. Judy Mayo Mrs. Kay Stromberg

Deputies to General Convention- Clerical- (elect four) The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hightower The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Very Rev. Ryan Reed The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook The Very Rev. Scott Wooten

Deputies to General Convention- Lay member- (elect four) Gerald Gregory Mrs. Toby Matocha Mrs. Judy Mayo Mrs. Jo Ann Patton Dr. Frank Salazar Mrs. Kay Stromberg Walter Virden, III Mack Wood

Ecclesiastical Trial Court - Clerical The Rev. David Madison The Rev. Timothy Matkin

University of the South- Lay member Kent Henning

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Bishop Iker entertained nominations from the floor in each position. There were no nominations from the floor. "Thank you very much Nominating Committee and for those who were willing to stand for election. I would ask now that Fr. Jay Atwood would come forward as chair of the elections committee and instruct us on how we would proceed with balloting. Fr. Atwood is rector of St. Francis Church in Willow Park."

Fr. Atwood: "Rt Rev. Sir, as deacons come forward to pass out ballots, the staff passes out pencils, I would ask that you would request another report from the Credentials Committee, please sir."

Bishop lker: "We need another report already? We've added somebody? We're up to 80 clergy. I wonder if the priest who just arrived is the one I just got a note about? It says there is a car blocking a driveway. Let me just mention, let's be on the good side of our neighbors, and that Fr. Jambor doesn't get protest from his neighbors. It's a Ford Taurus, with a Texas Tech sticker on the rear window, and there are clergy vestments in the rear seat. For the Texas Tech sticker alone, this car is about to be towed. I'm not sure where it is parked, but if you are the guilty one, go move your car. Let's now give our attention to Fr. Atwood."

Fr. Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, ladies and gentlemen of Convention. The deacons will be passing out ballots. The clergy ballots should have stamped on them, Clergy. Delegate ballots should have stamped on them, Delegate. No one who is not registered should have a ballot. That would invalidate the entire first ballot. Pencils are being passed out. n

Bishop lker: "It is my understanding you should not use ink pens on the ballots. Please do not use an ink pen. It may invalidate your ballot on the machine. Please do not mark your ballot until you are instructed to do so."

Fr. Atwood: "Co,.-rect, you need a #2 pencil. "

Ballots were distributed.

Bishop Iker: "Please take a moment to check with the person on either side of you to make sure they are registered to vote."

Fr. Atwood: "You will need to vote, a ballot, pencil and your nomination form. When you look at the nomination form, there are numbers on the left hand side next to each individual nominated. You will need to turn your ballot long ways, up and down, so that the #1 is at the top, not the #51, but the #1. When you vote, you will be darkening in where the number is, not anywhere else on the page. If you mark anywhere else, your ballot will become invalid. To vote for clerical member of the Standing Committee, you elect one, Fr. Barber is #1, Fr. Cantrell is #2, please vote for 1 or 2. For the lay member of the Standing Committee, you elect one, Mrs. Mayo is #5, Mrs. Stromberg is #6, please elect 5 or 6. The clerical member deputy to General Convention, we elect four. Fr. Atwood is #9, Fr. Bradley is #10, Fr. Cantrell is #11, Fr. Hightower is #12, Canon Hough is #13, Fr. Kresowaty is #14, Fr. Reed is #15, Fr. Stainbrook is #16, and Fr. Wooten is #17. Vote for four. If you only vote for one or two, your ballot will be

32 141-252083-11 invalid. Moving on to lay member deputy to General Convention. We elect four. Mr. Gregory is #20, Mrs. Matocha is #21, Mrs. Mayo is #22, Mrs. Patton is #23, Dr. Salazar is #24, Mrs. Stromberg is #25, Mr. Virden is #26 and Mr. Wood is #27. Vote for four. Your ballot will be invalid if you do not vote for four. For clerical member of the Ecclesiastical Trial Court, we elect one. Fr. Madison is #30, and Fr. Matkin is #31. Vote for either 30 or 31."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect Mr. Kent Henning as Trustee to the University of the South­ Lay Member.

SECONDED CARRIED

BISHOP IKER: "That concludes the closing of the first ballot If they can report back to us tonight, they will. The only deacon I do not want to leave the room is Deacon Lana Farley because she will be making a report on behalf of the Deaconate some time soon, and we don't want to have to go searching for her. It's my great pleasure now to direct our attention to the introduction of new clergy. Always new clergy enrich our life, and we introduce them at our first Diocesan Convention. I'd like for them to come and stand in front of the Church beginning on this side and go across. You can stand in front of me. Before I do, let me just say a word of welcome to Kevin Kallsen who is the Anglican TV man, a ministry to the whole Church and Kevin is here videotaping and broadcasting our Convention to the whole world So Kevin, if you could stand up so we could thank you for your ministry and welcome you to our Convention. No, it is not possible for you to go home and watch the Convention tomorrow, you must be here to vote and participate. Our new clergy, the ordination of the Rev. Charles A. Hough, IV, please hold applause until I introduce them all. Fr. Hough was ordained a transitional deacon in March, to the priesthood in September. He is a diocesan curate at St. Mark's Church in Arlington. The Rev. Randall Foster, ordained transitional deacon at the same time, and to the priesthood on September 14th and he is curate at St. Vincent's Cathedral and on the tech staff at St. Vincent's School. The Rev. William Estes, having been ordained deacon last year, ordained to the priesthood on the 25th of June by the bishop of Western Louisiana, our good friend Bishop Bruce McPherson use to be the suffragan in Dallas and I was suppose to go lay hands on Bill Estes and the preacher, who was Canon Heidt, and I were at the airport and all of a sudden our flight kind of disappeared on the American Airlines screen. We said, 'what does that mean?' They said, that means your flights been cancelled and so we had to call some people. Fortunately, Bishop McPherson was on his way to the ordination anyway, so we were okay with that, but poor Dean Reed had caught the earlier flight and was already there, so guess who got called an hour and a half before the ordination, saying, 'guess who's preaching Dean Reed?' Bill Estes is the curate at Grace Church, Monroe, and he and his family have come to be with us at this Convention, we're very pleased. I'm announcing priests that I have received in the last year through letters dimissory. This is a canonical term meaning they have transferred from one diocese to another. We are happy to have them at this diocese. The Rev. Kenneth MacKenzie comes by transfer from the diocese of Northwest Texas and he's the rector at All Saints' Church in Wichita Falls. He previously served in the Bahamas. The Rev. Kingsley Jon-Ubabuco from the Diocese of North Carolina. He's not a native Carolinian I must tell you, he was born in Nigeria, and he

33 141-252083-11 studied at the University of the South, graduated from there, was transferred here on August 1st and he is the vicar at St. Philip's Church in Arlington. By letters dimissory from the Diocese of Dallas, the Rev. Canon John Heidt, Canon Theologian to the Bishop of Fort Worth, does supply work in various places, at St. Alban's in Arlington. The Rev. William Blewett, letters dimissory from the Diocese of Dallas, longtime assistant at St. Laurence Church in Grapevine, celebrates his 80th birthday this month. The Rev. Richard Cantrell, letters dimissory from the Diocese of Georgia, curate at St Vincent's Church in Bedford and the Rev. Terence Jordan, father of our own Fr. John Jordan at the Cathedral. Fr. Terry Jordan and I were at seminary together. He comes from Dallas and he is the vicar at St Joseph's Church in Grand Prairie. In addition to these gentlemen, I want to simply announce and introduce those who have been licensed to function in the diocese, their canonical residence remains elsewhere. The Rev. Canon John Richards, who is a deacon serving at St. Timothy's Church in Fort Worth. I don't think Fr. Thomas Shepherd is here, he assists around the diocese, and he worships at St Stephen's in Hurst. Fr. David Allen, if you could come forward so they can have a look at you. Fr. Allen is rector at St. Francis, Dallas, our collegial parish and then lastly, I don't believe he is here, Fr. Timothy Kline who is retired from Western Kansas and living at Possum Kingdom Lake. Welcome my dear brethrens, we're glad to have you here. You may be seated now, there is no more applause, that's all you're going to get, you just get around of applause. Now we're going to ask for a first report from the Constitution and Canons Committee, there's no surprises here, this is all stuff that's in your hands in advance, but the Canons require a preliminary report for some reason, from the Chairman of the Constitution and Canons Committee saying this is what we're going to take up tomorrow. So this is not a time for debate, this is not a time for getting questions answered, unless it's just a matter of procedure. David Weaver is the chairman of the committee and he is going to make a preliminary report. I think before he does that I'd like to express gratitude to the members of the Committee. In addition to the chairman is the Chancellor, Bill McGee, Vice Chancellor, Rickey Brantley, the Chancellor Emeritus and the first Chancellor of this diocese, Mike Kensel. Cora Worley, attorney from Trinity Church, Fort Worth. Dr. William Dickson, the rector of St. Andrew's Church in Fort Worth. Dean Ryan Reed, the Dean of St. Vincent's Cathedral. The Rev. Canon Charles Hough, the Canon to the Ordinary to the Bishop of Fort Worth. Chad Bates, a member of the Board of Trustees and lay person at St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Arlington. They have worked hard and made a good report to us and we are grateful for their service."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, the Constitution and Canons Committee had a great, busy year. They had a lot of excellent work before them by the attorneys on the Committee as well as other individuals and we would especially like to thank Rickey Brantley, Mr. McGee, Mr. Kensel, and Cora for the excellent legal research that went into some of the background that results in the proposals that will be made by the Committee and the Standing Committee tomorrow. In addition to the canonical changes that are being proposed, we are also proposing constitutional amendments to the Diocesan Constitution. All of those amendments and proposals have been provided to you in your packets and we anticipate there may be some lively debate concerning them and as the Bishop pointed out that will occur tomorrow, at which time, they will be presented to you formally."

Bishop lker: " Thank you very much. I think the plan is to present Canon 32 ftrst and then have that debated, and then the Constitutional proposals in the order in which you have in your packet,

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A, B, C, D and so on. A report now is called for on the agenda from one of our trustees to the University of the South, Fr. Tommy Bye."

Fr. Bye: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates to Convention. In order to move things along I think I' 11 just refer you to the written report that you should find in your packets on the University of the South. One notation for you is that you will see that we have seven students who are currently at the University of the South, who are Episcopalians from this diocese. Financial aide that has been awarded has been $220,000.00. There is some 63% of the students at the University of the South who received financial aide, and I know most of you are aware of the quality of education that's available there and I would encourage you not to be deterred by the cost if there is a substantial amount of fmancial aide that is available through the university."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you Fr. Bye for your report and also for your service and representing us at the University of the South. Now I call on Fr. Scott Wilson, chairman of the Commission on Evangelism for his report"

Fr. Wilson: Report on the Evangelism Committee- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. The next item is report on the diaconate from Deacon Lana Farley, chairman of Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate, the senior deacon of the diocese by date of ordination and years of service. The primary deacon of the diocese, I guess I should say."

Deacon Lana Farley: Report on the Deaconate- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you Deacon Farley, and thank all you deacons of the diocese who serve so faithfully in a variety of ways. I want to make sure before I speak, that Chaplain Logan is in the Church, is he? He's over praying in the Chapel. Let me just say a couple of words. I'm delighted that we have back to the diocese, the first time in many years, Chaplain Jeffery Logan, who is Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy. He recently served a term in Iraq and I realize we have others that I will ask to stand in a few moments who has served as reserved Chaplains and so on, but Jeffery you represent to us the men and women of the armed forces who are serving our country and we stand to honor you and them." (Applause)

Lt. Jeffery Logan: "Thank you very much Bishop. That was totally unexpected and deeply appreciated, so thank you. I did ask the Bishop for just a couple of minutes, I didn't quite expect it to be now, but since I've got the chance. I have been in the Navy for almost 10 years now and one of the things I am doing right now is looking for Chaplains to come into the Navy. It's called recruiting. So what I wanted to talk about is exactly what a Chaplain does, because it is a different style of ministry, than that congregational based ministry that I was raised in and I spent 15 years in and so many of us work out of and enjoy. Whether lay or clergy, it doesn't matter, we're familiar with this particular setting and we know what it looks like. But the beauty of a Chaplain is that we minister to those who are in the uniform and their families. We go with them where they are, when they go, wherever they go. Whether it's in a combat zone, at home,

35 141-252083-11 deployed some place else. The beauty of it is, is that we can represent God and our own individual faith for that matter to those who are in uniform that are doing us this service, serving our country, protecting our freedoms. I mean, just a couple of vignettes that cross my mind, was sitting in Falujah with an Episcopalian that had been deployed for almost a year, and was going to be there for several more months, separated from his family, from his church, being able to do an actual Episcopal service for him, give him the little prayer book that we have, and talk to him that nice Episcopal talk, so that he knows he is not completely separated from his Church, his faith, and his style of worship. Or on the other side, talking to a Marine, who's wondering about the morality of war and what he's doing, and how he's involved in it. And helping him sort through those particular issues. Those are some of the really neat things that can happen when you take ministry outside the walls of the Church. It is ultimately a sort of missionary and evangelical activity in the fullest sense of the word. So I say this full heartily, if you know anybody who's interested in being a Navy Chaplain, please come talk to me before I leave on Sunday or I'll leave contact names and numbers with everybody. Bishop, thank you again for that very warm welcome. That was kind and unexpected and thank you for allowing me to say a few words. God bless you."

Bishop Iker: "Before going to active duty, Fr. Logan, I believe you served at Our Lady at Laguna Park, and then St Paul's, Gainesville, and then St Luke's, Mineral Wells. Is that the correct order?"

Lt. Logan: "I served at more than three actually. Bishop, I was actually at the original Convention for the diocese.

Bishop Iker: "Is that right? You're older than you look. We'll be honoring you again tomorrow, want we? Could I ask all current Chaplains, active duty, reserve, or former Chaplains to stand so we can thank you? Let's all take a brief stretch for the first verse of God Bless America. Thank you very much and our prayers are with those who are serving in active duty and dangerous places. We are now going to take some things out of tomorrow's agenda in order to buy us some time and I'm asking if Lollie Twyman, who chairs our World Mission Committee, will be prepared to make her report now."

Lollie Twyman: "Rt. Rev. Sir, members of Convention, my name is Lollie Twyman and I am so pleased to bring you the report of the World Commission Committee. On behalf of the children of La Gran Familia in Cuauhtemoc, Mexico, thank you for your continued support and love. Our family ties continue to grow strong as teams from our churches visit them and they visit us. There are 32 children now living at La Gran Familia. This year's Mother's Day Ingathering collected over $ll,OOO.OO'towards the day to day financial needs for protecting, nurturing, and tl educating these precious children. A big thank you to all of you for your participation, and we look forward to doing this again next year. Our relationship with Malawi continues to grow strong. Both dioceses are being blessed by this Christian fellowship and ministry together. Bishop Boyle has sent his greetings, which I would like to read to you now.

'My dear friends in the Diocese ofFort Worth. I send you warm Christian greetings, love and prayers from all of us in the Diocese of Northern Malawi as you gather today to begin your Convention. We have been so grateful this year for the many

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blessings to our diocese that have come to us through our companion relationship with Fort Worth. We were truly blessed this summer to have a team of nine men to come and visit us for two weeks. It was a real blessing for us and served to strengthen the bonds of friendship between our two dioceses. We were also blessed to have Mrs. Jane Parrott, from your diocesan office, to come and stay with us for one month, living and working in Mzuzu's diocesan office. Her stay was instructive for our staff here and I hope gave her a good sense of how we live, work, stay, and pray together. We gave thanks this summer for the return of our boat, The Gabriel, after many months away. It is returned and is ready for service. Alleluia! We also give thanks for the times that we have issued a cry for help and you have answered. We pray for the power of God's holy spirit to be with you and guide you as you seek his will at your Convention. Please be assured of our prayers for you, especially during your Convention, but daily as we work together to share the good news of Jesus Christ. Yours sincerely in Christ' service, +Christopher Boyle We have a mighty God and he has a sovereign plan to call all mankind into himself and he has called us to be a part. What an incredible opportunity, what a blessing, but oh, what a responsibility. How can we strengthen our understanding of God's plan for us, our parishes, our diocese? Can our parishes become seedbeds for mission in both word and deed, both locally and globally? Twelve years ago when our diocese entered into the companion relationship with Northern Malawi and the next year we formalized our relationship, which already existed in Northern Mexico, it was a beginning for us. A responding intentionally to the call for global mission. As we began, we knew so very little, but through our experience, the Lord is teaching us much. We've learned the importance of entering mission as servants. We must humble ourselves to servant hood. We are learning to put our agendas aside, and we Americans often have big agendas. We are learning to temper our enthusiasm to solve the problems of others. We're learning that delicate balance of helping, without destroying dignity and creating dependence, less we harm those we come to serve. We continually seek to drop our ambition, even in times of success, so that we don't own or become the plan, but are simply instruments in his plan. How do we accomplish this? I believe it begins with prayer. Personal prayer and corporate prayer. It begins with prayer and it is sustained with prayer. Prayer readies the heart to receive and to do the will of God. We rely on prayer from our Daughters of the King and our prayer teams. We rely on the daily prayers of many as we seek God's will for us. We rely on corporate prayer. We're encouraged that some of our churches now hold weekly mission services. The Litany for Mission is also used weekly in the Diocesan Center. We hope others will incorporate mission services in their weekly services. We see the importance of training. Looking at the first attempts of evangelism in the Gospels, we read the accounts of Jesus sending out his disciples. Having been with Him for some time, witnessing His miracles, learning how to pray and how to live, they were sent to evangelize in the nearby towns and villages. For their first assignment, we notice they were sent locally to the lost sheep of Israel. This was a starting point for them. It was later after the resurrection; they were sent to the ends of the earth. This suggests Jesus' plan for training. There seem to be a dual purpose for the sending out of the disciples. Certainly, laying on Christ heart was the spiritual needs of His people, like sheep without a shepherd. But also, we see the careful training of men. We see the power in the experience of mission. Even today it is often through the mission experience that we are changed. Through our mission experiences, be it locally or globally, through perhaps feeding the ..

37 141-252083-11 poor in a soup kitchen, receiving foreign missionaries or international students in our midst, or for those who are called going to the ends of the earth, it is through these experiences that we are taught. A truth that we have seen continually in our diocese is that mission is not just the evangelism of the masses, but also the transformation of the evangelist. God continues to call the Church to prepare and send laborers into the harvest field both locally and globally. To respond to this call, the World Mission Committee with the help of the Anglican Global Mission Partners is developing a program to train, equip, and mentor parish mission leaders. We've seen the importance of training in many of the ministries in our churches. We train our Stephen ministers, our Altar Guilds, our Lay Readers. Let's not overlook the importance here in training our leaders in mission. It's the goal of the World Mission Committee to have trained mission leaders in all of our churches, so that we can be a diocese that is moving forward in mission, trained, and equipped for ministry. The AGMP certification for parish mission leaders is our offering to churches that want to train mission leaders. This program of training includes four areas; missions overview, short-term mission leadership, short term mission experience, and parish mobilization. This program will begin early next year and anyone wishing to have more­ information please come by the World Mission table tomorrow and let me show you and give you a pamphlet and let you see what our plan is. God's kingdom is growing gloriously. Our calling is clear, and the needs are huge. Our parishes can become seedbeds in which vision and passion for global mission grow strong. We just need to join Jesus' disciples in committing ourselves to prayer, to servant hood, and to good training. In closing, I want to say on behalf of the World Mission Committee that we are humbled and thankful that the Lord has called us to be a part of His plan to bring His love and grace to all his children. The generosity and love exhibited by you, the people of this diocese, to the needs of ~e orphan children in Cuauhtemoc and the people of Malawi assures us that the Lord is blessing our ministry. We are grateful for the leadership and support of Bishop Iker and Canon Hough and this opportunity to be involved in God's great commission, and we want to especially thank the entire diocesan staff for the countless hours they spend supporting these ministries. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "We're very grateful Lollie for your leadership in the World Mission Committee and for the contributions throughout the years from the members. It is incredible the amount of encouragement, support, and other financial ways that goes to the Diocese ofNorthern Malawi and how they'd make it without us, I really don't know. But they give us so much in return, because the work in this commission helps us to remember what the Church is all about, and that is mission. It keeps us focused on mission and doing mission and growing missions. You mentioned in your report that Janie Parrott went and spent some time there, and that there were nine men on a mission this past year. I would ask that Janie and the nine men on the mission please stand at this time." (Applause)

Bishop lker: "We have a report from the balloting committee. We don't have a projector here to put the votes up on a screen, but you will find in your packet an orange colored tally sheet to record the votes. Please give your attention to the committee."

Fr. Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, for the first time in the entire time I have been in this diocese, we have an election in every single ballot! (applause) Our custom has been when we have had those elections, not to report numbers unless you desire, because there is no other reason to report the numbers, but it will be posted or ready."

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Bishop Iker: "Okay, is it okay just to announce the winners?"

Fr. Atwood: "In the first ballot, there were 78 clergy ballots, we need 40 to elect there. There were 119lay ballots, 60 to elect."

ELECTION RESULTS Standing Committee Clerical Member Fr. Christopher Cantrell C-65 L-89

Standing Committee Lay Me~ber Mrs. Judy Mayo C-61 L-67

Deputies to General Convention Clerical Member (1) Canon Hough C-64 L-92 (2) Dean Reed C-61 L-81 (3) Fr. Christopher Cantrell C-50 L-82 (4) Fr. Tom Hightower C-59 L-72

Deputies to General Convention Lay Member (1) Judy Mayo C-58 L-76 (2) Dr. Frank Salazar C-52 L-77 (2) Walter Virden, III C-55 L-74 (3) JoAnn Patton C-58 L-64

Ecclesiastical Trial Court Clerical Member Fr. David Madison C-47 L-74

Trustee to the University of the South Lay Member Kent Henning - by acclamation

Bishop Iker: "While Fr. Dewayne Adams is coming forth to make a report on behalf on the Committee for Hispanic Ministry, let me point out to the clergy that there is yellow sheet, it has to do with the annual retreat for the clergy. Our clergy retreat leader in January, again at Montserrat, where we usually meet, is the Rev. Canon John Heidt, Canon Theologian of the Diocese. If you could start registering now, that would be great The cost and details are on the yellow sheet. You can start registering now through the diocesan center."

Fr. Dewayne Adams: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and delegates." (Written report included in the report

J' section of this journal)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Fr. Nelson, could you come and give a report on behalf of Youth Ministry.~'

Fr. Nelson: "Rt Rev. Sir, clergy and delegates." (Written report included in the report section of this journal)

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Bishop Iker: "I hope you all realized the importance of that report that Fr. Nelson just gave. This really is exciting and challenging. I want to put my full support and endorsement behind what he's just said. It's exciting to think about youth work not just in terms of something that happens, but something we make happen by giving support and leadership as adults and clergy. There is a vision for it; there are goals for it. It's measurable and it's attainable. All the delegates to Convention have responsibility to report back to your congregation on what takes place at diocesan convention and I hope near the top of the list will be to challenge the congregation to respond to this proposal and make youth ministry happen and grow and succeed in every congregation in the diocese. Thank you to the work of the youth advisory committee for putting this before us. Jason Bontke, the director of Camp Crucis. Jason, you are doing a great job and we are certainly excited about what's going on at Crucis, and we would like to welcome you and thank you for your ministry."

Jason Bontke: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and delegates." (Written report included in the report section of this journal)

Bishop Iker: "Well, what a great report, very inspiring and enthusiastic. Thank you for your comments about me. Thank you for your leadership. You know parents are always looking for bigger and better things to do for birthday parties now. It seems to be no limit at what some parents will do for birthday party bashes. I can tell you that Donna took one of our granddaughters down to Camp Crucis with about 8 or 9 little girlfriends, and they bad a horseback riding thing for about an hour. They had cake and balloons and partied. It's a fantastic thing to do. It gets them outside and also exposes them to the interest of coming back to Camp Crucis maybe for one of the Christian theme sessions in the summer. Well we've come to the end of our business for this afternoon. Please listen carefully to a few things I have to say. We are going to the Ridglea Country Club, which is nearby. You must have made a paid reservation in order to attend however; they did have to have a count. There is a process where beginning at 6:30 you can buy a drink in the lobby area. You frrst have to buy a ticket then exchange it for a drink for some reason. When you go in to eat, there is no reserve seating. You can eat wherever you like. A lot of times delegations want to eat together. It's also a good time to meet other people from other parishes. Tomorrow morning we are not coming back here, so don't leave anything here. We are going to be going to the Will Rogers Memorial Center. Registration will start at 7:30 and there will be a continental breakfast provided by Vance Godbey. Enter through the main entrance and keep going down that hallway to the far left to the East Texas Room. There are plenty of visitor seats for anyone who wants to come and be present for the Convention, and remember there will be several displays from congregations in the diocese celebrating the 25th anniversary of the diocese. The main thing to remember is, you all have a nametag on, and you are going to have to take it off now, because when we leave here you are going to have to leave it here. I'm told that there is a basket where you can drop it off, put your nametag in the basket, because tomorrow you are going to have to register again, and we are going to have a real hassle if your nametag is missing. See you at Ridglea. See you in the morning. We are in recess."

Bishop Iker adjourned the Opening Session for Friday evening, November 16, 2007.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

The 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth reconvened with Morning Prayer at Will Rogers Memorial Center in the East Texas Room of the Amon Carter Exhibit Hall in Fort Wo~ Texas, on Saturday, November 17, 2007.

Bishop Iker: "Good morning everyone. This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it A few preliminary announcements and instructions as people are still gathering, we will convene at 9:00 o'clock as the agenda says. First of all, I would like to call your attention to the colorful, festive banner behind me and on the wall above me. It was made by the youth of St. Peter and St. Paul Church in Arlington. I think it's great and I think we should give them a round of applause. I've been asked to make an announcement on behalf of The Living Church, who has a representative here, and he has a couple of deals for you. The Living Church has two offers for those who are attending this Convention. As you know, it's a non-profit, independent, weekly publication that covers the news of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion around the world. We're very pleased to welcome today, as a special guest, their news editor, Steve Waring, who will be reporting on this Convention for that magazine. There's a table set up for The Living Church magazine over in the vendor's area and Steve has kindly prepared for us recent issues of the magazine, and they are available to you without charge. If you are not familiar with The Living Church, I certainly encourage you to familiarize yourself with this offer. The first offer he is making is there will be a discounted rate for new subscriptions, or renewals that are made today at this Convention. The rate is about $5.00 off the annual subscription rate or the equivalent of five issues free over the next fifty-two weeks. Checks, cash, and credit cards are accepted. The second offer is for a prize drawing for a year's subscription to the magazine. This is available either in a form of a new subscription, or an extension to an existing one. Forms for the drawing are available at The Living Church vendor table, or from Steve. He will take all the entry forms back to Milwaukee where the drawing will be conducted next week in secrecy. I added that part The winner and the diocesan office will be notified of the winner's name within a week. The names and addresses collected will not be sold to any mail houses, so completing any entry form will not result in a mailbox full of junk offers. Those who enter the drawing will receive a few free copies of the magazine over the coming year and possibly a follow up offer to subscribe. Thank you Steve, and thank you for The Living Church. The host Dean mentioned yesterday while we were at All Saints' Church how much hard work goes into the preparation for the Convention and follow up afterwards from members of my staff. I'd like to introduce them and ask them to stand so we can express gratitude to them for their labors to this Convention and throughout the year. Please hold your applause until they have all been introduced. The Rev. Canon Charles Hough, the Canon to the Ordinary, and secretary to Convention; The Rev. Canon Billie Boyd, Chaplain to retired clergy and spouses; Mrs. Janie Parrott, Director of Finance and Business Administration; Suzanne Gill, Director of Communications and Planned Giving; Mr. Jason Bontke, Director of Camp Crucis; Susan Steele, secretary to the Bishop and Registrar for the diocese; Gala Pryor, receptionist and secretary to the Canon to the Ordinary; Melody Mendolia, in charge of insurance and finance affairs and Danyl Harrell, financial secretary; and then The Rev. Canon John Heidt, Canon Theologian. Let us thank them. (Applause) Does anyone have a problem fmding a seat, or finding the designated

41 141-252083-11 area where we are asking you to sit? There should be name places for all the congregations, over on your left are seats for the retired clergy and licensed clergy. I hope there is plenty of room for guests. I see some additional chairs being brought in, that's great. All of you have before you an agenda for today. I am going to call the session into order and ask all delegates and clergy to take their seats. The first item for us is the report from the Credentials Committee, chaired by Dean Ryan Reed."

Dean Reed: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and lay delegates to Convention. -105 clergy canonically resident in the diocese with 84 of 35 required for a quorum. -128 elected lay delegates with 125 of 43 required for a quorum. Rt. Rev. Sir, we have a quorum."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. Would you stay here Dean, because I am just about ready to relinquish the chair to you in order to give my Convention address?"

Bishop Iker gave his annual address (included in this journal) with the President of the Standing Committee assuming the chair.

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much for your attentiveness and for your support and encouragement. I am now going to ask David Weaver to come forward and begin on the Constitutions and Canons and I'll defer the Resolutions Committee until later in the agenda."

David Weaver: 44Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates and clergy of the 25th Annual Diocesan Convention. I am here on behalf of the Committee of the Constitution and Canons for this diocese to present the various amendments that are being proposed for your consideration today. Again, let me state as I did yesterday my appreciation for the many hours of work, legal research, historical research, that went into the development of these proposals. The first proposal that is being made is Proposed Amendment of Canon 32, on behalf of the Committee on the Constitution and Canons we present the amendment to Canon 32 set forth in full in the written documents heretofore distributed to all delegates of this Convention as proposed by the Standing Committee. This proposed amendment provides a procedure whereby individual parishes are given an opportunity to explore separation from the dioceses in those instances where for whatever reason a parish wishes to join another diocese or some other fellowship. The amendment has been crafted in such a way as to protect the interest of all members of the descending parish, while at the same time preserving the missionary interest of the diocese. A preliminary draft of specific guidelines that borrow from those guidelines that have been successfully used in Dallas has been distributed to clergy and others from whom input is being sought. Further, as the Bishop has indicated in his address, the amendment provides for a spiritual and pastoral procedure for resolving disputes between any particular parish and the diocese, rather than a mechanical procedure that could be applied in all cases. The rationale behind implementing a spiritual and pastoral procedure as opposed to a mechanical procedure simply is that no mechanical procedure can be devised that would adequately address all conceivable circumstances. And for the further reason, the implementation of a spiritual and pastoral approach more perfectly preserves our historic Episcopal and hierarchal tradition of Church governance. The Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends

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adoption of this amendment, and on behalf of the Standing Committee I move the adoption of the amendment of Canon 32 as proposed by the Standing Committee."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, sir. The proposal is before us now and we will proceed to debate. The rules for the debate are clear to all of us that they are to be done in charity and respect. We will not welcome demonstrations of approval or disapproval. No hissing, booing, stamping of feet, clapping, shouting, whistling, but let the debate go on from side to side. If you wish to speak in favor of Canon 32, please come to the microphone to your right. If you wish to speak in opposition of Canon 32, please come to the microphone to your left. As much as possible, we will rotate from side to side. The rules for the Convention provide that each speaker can speak for five minutes. I hope you won't speak that long, but we will see how it goes. The idea is we will debate this and we will move on to Constitutional changes and we will vote on it by ballot after some other matters have been debated. So before now is the adoption of Canon 32."

Fr. Chuck Hough: "Rt. Rev. Sir. We in this diocese have always had a great view of surety when dealing with political issues, especially those dealing with doctrine and the life of the Church. This canonical change will make it possible for parishes wishing to terminate its relationship with the diocese and the Bishop to appeal to the Bishop for such charity. I think we in the Diocese of Fort Worth have an opportunity here to show the rest of the Church an amicable way forth that displays the sort of love that Christ has called us to, to have for one another. Thank you, sir."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Kathleen Wells: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I rise to a point of war, because we believe that this proposed Canon violates the Constitution and Canons of our own diocese. For example, specifically, Articles 14 and 18 of our diocesan constitution it provides that parish property cannot be conveyed away from a parish without the consent of its rector, wardens, and vestry of the parish, and yet this provides a procedure by which, despite the wishes of the rector, wardens, and vestry, property could be conveyed."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Other side."

Fr. Jones: "Just want to thank those who put this Resolution forward. I do think as you noted in your address, Rt. Rev. Sir, that we are indeed Christians, and this provides a way forward for all of us despite our convictions. To know that we have an opportunity in Christian charity and love to deal with the situations in our individual parishes, but also in our good consciences to be able to support that which goes on later today. I am thankful for the charity, which is going forward here, in giving us the ability for those who are dissenting from whatever course the diocese • decides to take, to have an option to pursue other things. I stand in support of this change."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Sandy Liser: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I too want to express appreciation for the effort in proposing this Canon. I do have some concerns on the very last part of the Canon, and that's 32.5. It is my belief, and I would like to raise a point of order, that that's in direct controversy to our existing

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Canon 25.9, which requires the vestry to determine where the property goes, to the extent that 32.5 takes that authority away from the vestry and gives it either to the Standing Committee or to minority members of the parish. I am concerned that the entire Canon is null and void, because it conflicts with a Canon we already have in effect."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Before we continue along that line, let me just say that this provision comes from the Diocese of Dallas, that was adopted a year ago and has been implemented, and that the Chancellor of the Diocese of Dallas cleared it with the Presiding Bishop's Chancellor, David Booth Beers, who says he believes it is consistent with the Constitution and Canons of the diocese."

Sandy Liser: "I guess my concern, Rt. Rev. Sir, is that I believe in Dallas it's used in the other way. In Dallas it's being used for a Church, the diocese is staying with the Church and there is a Church leaving the Episcopal Church of the United States. So I am concerned it will be challenged by them."

Bishop Iker: "Yes, I understand. I think the intention of the Canon is, however the diocese decides, ultimately on second reading, that it will apply to either side."

Judy Mayo: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I speak in support of the proposed text here in Canon 32.1 am a member of the Standing Committee, and this has been thought through, and prayed through very, very, carefully and prayerfully by many, many people over a period of time. It is pastoral, it is loving, it is a godly way to handle our business. It gives the Bishop and other members of the diocese plenty of room to pray together, to think together about how to handle differences. It is a very loving way to proceed. I speak heartily for it, because it has been thought through and prayed over, and it's dealing with things in a kind, charitable, and loving manner. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Cherie Shipp: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I noticed in your speech today, you referred to your desire to make sure that any Churches that wish to leave do so in an amicable way and I appreciate that. None of us wants to spend the next few years in litigations; none of us wants to spend thousands of dollars on legal fees that get us nowhere. However, short of court cases, there is mediation and arbitration. At the deanery meeting, we were told by one individual this Canon would not allow for litigation or arbitration or mediation. Later, we've been told, if there is no resolution, that there could be litigation. Could you please clarify what the process would be if there is no resolution, or a disagreement with your decision?"

Bishop Iker: "I think I am going to allow the debate to continue. Proposing side."

Fr. Christopher Cantrell: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I rise in favor of this Canon amendment, because I am a member of the Standing Committee, and have been involved in the drafting of it It is an attempt to very much so avoid litigation. Obviously, anyone can bring a lawsuit at anytime they want to go hire a lawyer. This is an attempt for us to establish a procedure within our own structures to deal amiably, to deal fairly, to deal carefully with disagreements that arise among us. Therefore, I heartily recommend its passage. Thank you, sir."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Karen Parish: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I too appreciate all the thoughts and prayers and respectfully submit my observation. There seems to be a conflict of interest in Canon 32 when it comes to a parish having a disagreement with the diocese. For example, the text says the Bishop will call the parties before him to present their facts and arguments, but the Bishop is the representative of the diocese and this would be one of the parties. It further says that the Bishop can ultimately make an order regarding the matter, and the rector and parish will have to abide by it. This just appears to be a conflict because the dioceses, the Bishop, are one of the parties in the disagreement. It seems that it would be the same if there was a conflict, if the rector had a conflict with his parish, and then he decided the outcome of the disagreement. For this reason, I respectfully oppose this amendment."

Bishop Iker: "By way of reassurance I would simply say that I believe that I am the Bishop of all the people of the diocese and of all the congregations of the diocese, and in the event of a controversy between a parish and the diocese as an institution, it would be my position that the Standing Committee and the Corporation lookout for the interest of the diocese, that the parish in controversy, the rector and the vestry would lookout for the interest of that congregation, and the Bishop would be pastor of both sides seeking to mediate an amicable resolution that would never have to go to some kind of court case or judgment by the Bishop that couldn't be resolved, by way of simply reassurance. There's nobody who wishes to speak in favor at this time? We will come back to the opposing microphones."

Elinor Normand: "Rt. Rev. Sir. On October 26th you wrote me a letter in which you stated, 'if the diocese separates from the Episcopal Church, I am committed to fmding a way for parishes that wish to do so, to remain in the Episcopal Church with their property. The whole purpose of the proposed amendments to Canon 32 are to provide a canonical process whereby this can be provided without resorting to litigation.' And incidentally, I put your letter on our website. I'm sorry it didn't arrive to get into the parish paper, but it is on our website. I appreciate you providing for those churches who wish to stay in the Episcopal Church. My problem is that Canon 32 doesn't say that. It talks about a controversy between a parish and a diocese, but it doesn't spell out what that controversy might be. It could be anything. This might open a big can of worms and we don't want that either. So, in all due respect, I propose that we send this change back to the committee to rephrase so it specifically states what the purpose is. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "To refer, you would have to make a motion."

Elinor Normand made a motion to refer the amendments to Canon 32 back to the Constitution and Canons Committee for rephrasing.

Fr. Christopher Cantrell: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I wish to speak against referring this. I think we have worked this through and I think it's a Canon that is needed now. I think to reassure everyone involved that we've got a procedure in place. I think it's worth doing, and it's worth doing today. Therefore, I ask that we vote against referral."

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to refer Canon 32 back to the Constitution and Canons Committee for rephrasing.

SECONDED FAILED

Bishop Iker: "On this side, in favor of the amendment."

Fr. Kingsley Jon-Ubabuco: "Rt. Rev. Sir. The controversy in the Episcopal Church, we know a lot of people look at property and other material things as if they are the business of the disagreement and we know a lot of resources are being wasted on unnecessary litigation and other very unchristian actions. I think that this Resolution, the way it is, I think it is appropriate. It is needed, it is necessary, and it is a godly way of approaching the issues that the Church has. I believe and most people agree with me that the Bishop represents the diocese not a fraction of the diocese. We have a Bishop and we should respect the office of the Bishop and know that the Bishop is there for all sides. The Bishop does what he does, makes decisions by praying and by acting in a Christian way, and as a result, I believe the Resolution as it is, is needed, is necessary and I support it."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Steve Peglar: "Rt Rev. Sir, I just want a little bit of clarification. This is not necessarily against, but at the Fort Worth West Deanery meeting on October 25th, both Rickey Brantley and Dean Cantrell stated that there was a set of guidelines, at the time they were in the process of being created, at least that's how they indicated it, that relate to how disputes outlined in Canon 32 are to be administered and implemented. As of right now, as a delegate, I have not received any guidelines. This would seem to be sort of a core component of this. I was just curious about that."

Bishop Iker: "I'll let the chairman of the committee answer the question."

David Weaver: "It is my understanding that an initial draft of the guidelines has been distributed. I don't know the exact identity of them; I know the clergy have received them."

Bishop Iker: "No, not to all the clergy. What we did, we took the guidelines from the Diocese of Dallas, the Standing Committee did a first draft, and then the Standing Committee clerical members requested the rectors of three parishes who indicated to me that they did not believe their congregations in any circumstances would leave the Episcopal Church, we invited them to a meeting to go over those guidelines, got some helpful feedback from them, and that's where it stands. But no, it wasn't sent out to everybody. For one thing, we decided it would not be a good idea to put preliminary guidelines out to the entire Convention, because it would distract us from talking about the substance of the canonical amendment. Basically, the guidelines are 'how do you go about doing it? What information needs to be gathered? How do you discern in the

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congregation how many favor this side, how many favor that side? Does the congregation owe any money to the diocese? How will they deal with their indebtedness? There would be an indemnification agreement as part of that, so there is several different elements. But the guidelines are a work in process because we didn't feel that as they stood from the Diocese of Dallas they really fit our situation. The guidelines, from the three rectors who spoke to us, felt that they seemed a little "heavy" from the top down and that wasn't the intent we are trying to bring into the conversation how the guidelines can actually be helpful and reassuring, rather than put the parish in question under an overhead threat Does anyone wish to speak in favor of Canon 32 as proposed? Opposition?"

Fr. McClain: "One of the things that I will vote against this is for this reason. Most of you guys know that I like to think in terms of analogies and things like that; I'm not that good at being to legally. So the reality of it, as I read this whole thing, it's based upon a principle like the Diocese • of Fort Worth is in its own right, as an entity unto itself, is leaving the Episcopal Church, I mean that's an assumption, we haven't voted on it yet. It's like moving in a big ship and its moving off, somewhere. It's like when I read this, those of us that want to remain in the Episcopal Church has got to get on the boat with you, so to speak, and then seek ways to get off the boat and go back, as if we want to leave the diocese. The truth of the matter is, and I understand this came from Dallas, but it seems to me there should be some way of stating or at least putting it in the context, there some who want to "remain" in communion with the Episcopal Church as the rest of the "diocese" wants to go off. Instead of us having to say, we've got to somehow, hat in hand or however heavy handed we talked about the other day, can we get out of the diocese. I don't think that is at least the issue as I see this. We want to r~main Episcopalian and the rest of the diocese wants to go into another theological and spiritual place. I also want to say this. This difference between intention and perception is very big. I think the intention behind this and the perception of how we read it is often times quiet far apart. I have talked to a number of people in the Standing Committee and I met with this meeting, and the intention is to be as honorable as possible. This is what I understood. To be honorable and make sure that everyone has an opportunity without litigation, without rancor, to some how say, 'you know, we want to worship in our building, let's take it, the intention behind this is to do just that, okay.' It doesn't say that from my perception, and so the reason I'm voting against it is I perceive that it will have to wait and see during this next year whether or not there is this continual work on the guidelines that really will allow the Churches that want to remain to do so honorably and we integrity. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you father. I couldn't agree more. It looks like we have finished debate on this Canon 32 proposal. Rather than moving to voting right now, what I'd like to do is have a record of the vote by ballot, but it's silly to take a ballot on everything we decide on, so we will take several votes on the same ballot when that time comes.

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on proposed Canon 32.

SECONDED CARRIED

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David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, Constitutional Amendment A which is a proposed amendment to Article I of the Constitution of this diocese was presented last year to the 24th Annual Convention of the diocese, the proposed amendment was referred to the Committee on Constitution and Canons for review, study and recommendation. As the Bishop indicated earlier, the proposed amendment would delete that language contained in current Article I that restricts the submission by this diocese to the authority of the General Convention only to those items not contrary to Holy Scripture and the apostolic teachings of the Church. In other words, the proposed amendment would have the effect of saying that we of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth would agree to go along with whatever theology, doctrine, philosophy of practice legislated by ·the General Convention without reference to scriptural authority, reason, or tradition. In as much as the Episcopal Church and General Convention in recent years have taken actions that represent a substantial departure from the biblical and historic faith delivered to us, including efforts to redefine sin and to incorporate new age philosophies of the faith and practice of the Church, the Committee on the Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends that the proposed amendment be rejected. With our recommendation that the amendment be rejected, we present Amendment A for consideration for this Convention."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Amendment A, revision of Article I is properly before you. Just to clarify, we are speaking in favor of or against the amendment, not the recommendation of the Constitution and Canons Committee. Those who wish to favor adoption of proposed constitutional amendment A will come to this microphone. Those who wish to oppose adoption will come to the microphone on the left."

Tim Stevens made a motion to amend this amendment by inserting the following text, in the United States ofAmerica. The proposed Article I would now read, the Church in this diocese exceeds to the Constitution and Canons ofthe Episcopal Church in the United States ofAmerica and recognizes the authority ofthe General Convention ofsaid Church. This was the original language in this Article approved by the National Episcopal Church in 1982-83 for the newly created Diocese of Fort Worth. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Is it properly seconded to add the words in the United States of America"? It's moved and seconded. Properly before us you've spoken to your amendment. You don't have anything else to add. Is there anyone who wishes to speak against the proposed amendment?

Judy Mayo: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I speak against this amendment because it does recognize the authority of the General Convention in the USA. Having been a deputy to the past seven General Conventions, I can say that there are many things that have happened that are very objectionable in General Convention. Among them, at the last one, by a large majority, the Convention very dynamically deleted a Resolution, or voted it down that Jesus was the one way to Heaven, the one name under whom Salvation comes. This teaching is very contrary not only to our Church, but to all Christendom. So I simply speak against this, because I like what our Article currently says that we simply will not recognize anything that is contrary to Holy Scripture and the apostolic teaching of the Church. I wish we didn't have to have things like this, but from long years of experience, I know I speak for many of us, it's necessary to clarify in this day and time

48 141-252083-11 exactly what we do believe. So I speak against the proposed text of this amendment simply recognizing the authority of General Convention. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Let me just clarify what we are debating now is the amendment to the proposal to add the words in the United States ofAmerica. If you wish to speak on the amendment to the proposal, I'll recognize you, otherwise we are going to move ahead."

Dean Reed: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I believe at the last General Convention, we changed the name of the Church to The Episcopal Church, so I think this as written is reflective of that."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to all those in favor of adding the words after The Episcopal Church in the proposed amendment in the United States ofAmerica.

SECONDED FAILED

BISHOP IKER: "We will return to debating the amendment itself and those in favor of the amendment on this side. Fr. Taylor?"

Fr. Taylor: "Rt Rev. Sir, I speak in favor of this on the point of ordination vows that all of us in the cler~ have made many times and it also gives me the opportunity to congratulate you on your 331! anniversary of being a priest. You're a few years ahead of me on that one, and I congratulate you. All of us have repeated over and over that we solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of The Episcopal Church. Now some of us agree with some of the things, some of us disagree with others, but that is what we have pledged and vowed to do. And Article 8 of the Constitution of The Episcopal Church requires an oath to confirm to the Constitution and Canons. So I am merely asking that all of us who are clergy, I would just ask that we remember that we have all vowed to support the doctrine, discipline, and worship of The Episcopal Church. We get an opportunity to participate at Convention along with everyone else. Our views are heard and aired, and I'm just saying, this is what we have vowed to do. So I am speaking in favor of this."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you father. Would you quote the sentence that precedes the declaration of conformity to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of The Episcopal Church in Article 8 of the Constitution?"

Fr. Taylor: ''If someone has it .....

Bishop Iker: "I solemnly declare that I believe the Holy Scriptures in the Old and New Testament to be the Word of God and to contain all things necessary to salvation. That's the total Article. Thank you. Opposing side."

Dean Reed: "I was going to make that point, Bishop. I speak against Proposal A. My fust Convention that we had up in Wichita Falls, many of you remember, Bishop Iker asked if

49 141-252083-11 someone had a Bible and we all looked around at each other. I've repented and I will not forget one at any Convention in the future. I brought my Bible. The Canons of The Episcopal Church and the Constitution, the Customary, the Prayer Book, anything we craft or create does not stand above and over these words, and therefore I encourage everyone to vote against A." [applause]

Bishop Iker: "No, we are not going to have applause and declarations of support during debate. You can applaud the Bishop, but you can't applaud yourselves. Sorry, let's not ratchet up the tone. In favor."

Karen Parrish: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I wanted to point out that the official records of the primary Convention of this diocese held on November 13, 1982, reflects that Bishop Davies opening remarks included the following, and I quote, 'lastly this Convention will affirm our desire as a new diocese to come into union with the other dioceses within The Episcopal Church in the United States of America by accession to the National Constitution and Canons. With the significant work accomplished this day, we will be ready to launch the newest missionary effort within The Episcopal Church on the first day of January 1983. I say this with a great deal ofjoy and expectation: that it would be my privilege to be your Shepherd and to walk with you all in this, a most exciting Venture of Faith, for our Lord's sake.' I just suggest that we affirm these founding principles and the attempts to take action here today, and in 1997 to qualify the accession is compromised for the trust which this diocese holds and administers Church property and is of no force and effect. For these reasons, I support this amendment"

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, opposing."

Fr. Joshua Whitfield: "Rt. Rev. Sir, for me it is quiet simple that I am a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you came to me tomorrow and said that you had an issue with all or even a portion of Holy Scripture, I would have an issue with you, however much I love you. And I say that for anybody and anyone. To me this is a red flag. Why on earth, why on earth would anyone have a problem with a sentence that affirms Holy Scripture? What in God's green earth is going on? For me it's a red flag."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing."

Kathleen Wells: "Rt. Rev. Sir, again the ordination vows that were referred to are on pages 513, 526 and 538 of our Book of Common Prayer, I know everyone here knows that. Those vows are clear, but even for lay people some of us take vows too, as an attorney you take a vow, when you get married you take a vow. Most of these vows you don't get to pick and choose which you want to obey and which ones you don't. For example, a person can't pick and choose which Articles of the Constitution he wants to enforce. Similarly, a lawyer cannot do that either. As for marriage vows you can't say it's okay if I commit adultery with a blonde, but not a brunette. You can't pick and choose, but with all due respect, the 1997 action that added some vagaries here related to an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons really seeks to pick and choose and to put the diocese in an effort to second guess the Episcopal Church. With all due respect that maybe absolutely what the drafters wanted to do then and what is the intent now. So what do you do when the person or the institution that you made a vow to, changes, or has perceived to have changed? I would urge that the thing to do with integrity is to renounce those

50 141-252083-11 vows to that institution, and with God's help and with prayers of everyone to move in to another Christian expression of that Faith with all integrity. But we don't get to pick and choose our vows. It sets a really bad precedence for lay people as well as clergy. Thank you sir."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Charles Warnky: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I'm not going to quote Scripture, but I would like to paraphrase Plato for a moment I don't know which dialog this comes from but it rings in my mind as I was sitting up front. Plato has a story where he talks about a man who is going off into a far country and he wasn't going to take all his weapons with him and so he left them with a friend and the friend promised to keep them for his rt:turn. When this man returned from the far country, he had in fact gone mad. His friend could no longer be obligated to give him back his weapons because then that mad man would go about killing or hurting someone else or in fact injuring himself. What we have in this expression of this proposed amendment is the same type of thing. It no longer obtains that we in this diocese can express our polity on the basis of what General Convention says. Therefore, this motion should be defeated. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Fr. Barber: "Sir, I move the previous question."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. lker

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on Proposed Constitutional Amendment A, revision of Article L

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "We are prepared to vote on Proposed Constitutional Amendment A when the ballot is distributed to us. We now return to the chair of the Constitution and Canons Committee."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, Constitutional Amendment B which is a proposed amendment to Article 14 of the Constitution of this diocese was presented last year to the 24th Annual Convention of the diocese. The proposed amendment was referred to the Committee on Constitution and Canons for review, study, and recommendation. This proposed amendment purports to altar the character of ownership of all diocesan property, both real property and personal property. Under the proposed amendment all property now existing or hereafter required would be held in trust for the benefit of the Episcopal Church and its constituent bodies, would include all the other dioceses in the country who have submitted to the authority of the TEC. The amendment contains no provision with regard to the use or maintenance of the property and it essentially would strip each parish of any right that it has to continue in the property. Moreover, all endowments, yes, and all other items of personal property currently held by the diocese and by the individual parishes are subject to the provisions of this amendment. Not withstanding the fact that the amendment is silent with respect to the use of an income or

51 141-252083-11 earnings derived from the investment of endowment funds or personal property. It is not inconceivable that under the terms of this amendment a rector and vestry could be evicted from Church property at the behest ofTEC in the event that actions were taken by the rector or vestry with which TEC disagreed. In short, the effect of the proposed amendment would be the unconditional surrender of title to all assets of all parishes and of this diocese to the TEC and the General Convention. For these reasons, the Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends that this amendment be rejected. With our recommendation that it be rejected, we present it for consideration by this Convention."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Properly before us then is proposed Constitutional Amendment B related to Article 14 of the Constitution of this Diocese. We are not voting on the recommendation of the committee to reject. We are not discussing that. We are discussing the proposal itself and those who wish to favor adoption of the Amendment B will come to the microphone on your right and those on the other side to my left."

Margaret Mieuli: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I proposed this Amendment at last year's Convention and happy to see it brought back. The only reason this is brought, is to bring us into alignment again with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. We came with that in 1982 as we were formed as a diocese. In 1989 I was present and voted at the Convention where this was changed. I asked simply that we come back into alignment The properties are not totally surrendered, I don't believe, to the National Church, they are held in trust for those of us who use them."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing?"

Canon Hough: ''Rt. Rev. Sir. I wish to speak against this Amendment simply because of the facts on the ground, which I deal with, one of the 24 hats I wear around the diocese as I shepherd and coach folks throughout the diocese on property issues. We do it all the time. I also want to point out that the former Canon to the Ordinary is here, Canon Billie Boyd. Between the two of us for the most part, we represent pretty much all the 25 years of the history of this diocese. The facts on the ground are very simple. We go through a process to encumber property, to sell property, to purchase property. We go through a permission process. It is a very secure process. It takes about 30 days to go through the three committees. We find out in the end of the process that the property is secured in whatever decision they want to make. Not one time in the history of this diocese have we ever asked, and I reiterate what Bishop Iker has said, because someone other than Bishop Iker needs to say it, and I am saying it, because I deal with it everyday. Not one time, not one time, have we ever asked permission of the National Church to do any of this. Not one time has it ever happened. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Steve Peglar: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I call the question."

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to terminate debate of Amendment B related to Article 14.

Seconded Carried

Bishop lker: "Let us move on to one more and then we will take a ballot We are considering now the next report from the Chair."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir on behalf of the Committee on the Constitution and Canons we present the Amendment to the Preamble of the Constitution of this diocese set forth in full in the written documents heretofore distributed to all the delegates and alternates of this Convention as proposed by the Standing Committee. The proposed Amendment to the Preamble of the Constitution effectively removes any geographical restriction with regard to the ministry of the Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth moreover with the recent change adopted by the General Convention where the Episcopal Church of the United States of America was shorten to just The Episcopal Church, the proposed Amendment more accurately identifies us as clergy and laity of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. The Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends the adoption of this Amendment as proposed by the Standing Committee and on behalf of the Standing Committee I move that the Amendment to the Preamble proposed by the Standing Committee be adopted"

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, sir. Those who wish to speak, go to the appropriate microphone."

Sandy Liser: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I'm responding to this only to the extent, I realize it is a Preamble, but to the extent that it is setting forth the entire diocese leaving the Episcopal Church of the United States. If that is not part of the purpose of the Preamble, then I will sit down. But to the extent that that's what we are setting forward, I am concerned about the exposure that this Amendment might give to all of us as delegates and to the diocese. As you know, Rt. Rev. Sir, I am an attorney and I represent a lot of Churches. The law in Texas respects the hierarchal Churches like ours. They allow us to do what we want as long as it is within the laws of our organization, and there is nothing within the organization that allows our entire diocese to pull away from The Episcopal Church. Individuals can leave, I recognize that, but the entire diocese cannot from my review from the Canons in which we operate. I am concerned that we all have an obligation to the diocese to not expose ourselves to something that is going to cause a lot of litigation, a lot of expense, because of the way the State of Texas will interpret our laws. So I would purpose that we do not except this Amendment."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing."

Fr. Whitfield: "Rt. Rev. Sir. It seems to me, speaking not as an attorney, but as theologically minded person, that this Preamble actually brings us into line with what Archbishop Rowan Williams himself said in a letter just a few weeks ago, saying that the principal unit of ecclesiology in the Anglican communion is the Bishop and the diocese. And the providential structure is something of an abstraction. This brings us into line with an ecclesiology of reformed

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Catholicism more in tuned with Eastern Orthodoxy than with the bureaucracy that you see in Western Catholicism. It seems to me to be an accurate description of what we are as a diocesan body under the pastorate of a Bishop. It seems to be that we are agreeing with the Archbishop of Canterbury."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Fr. Barber: "I had some questions about the removal of any geographical jurisdictions. One thing that doesn't go along with the traditional Catholic view and the orthodox view of the Church is that dioceses are somewhere and have limits and boundaries. If we are no longer a part of The Episcopal Church, how are we going to address the issue of overlapping Episcopal jurisdictions among some of our Common Cause partners? The American Anglican Council, the Anglican Communion Network, the Anglican Mission in America, the Anglican Province in America, Convocation of Anglicans in North America, Forward in Faith in North America, and the Reformed Episcopal Church. Our Bishops currently have jurisdictions over Fort Worth; will we now have jurisdictions over them? Has any agreements been reached among these various groups in The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth where bishops would divide things up, or will we simply be in competition? I think it is a break with Catholic tradition and not only with the tradition of The Episcopal Church to just say we are a diocese, and yet we have no boundaries. And I would raise that for the Convention. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Anybody wish to speak in favor?''

Fr. Maneikis: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I call the question."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to terminate debate in the amendment to the Preamble.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Let me reserve the right of the Chair under our procedures to comment on things after debate has been concluded. You will find no place in the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, any statement to the effect, individuals can leave the Episcopal Church, parishes and dioceses cannot. It's not there. I can tell you where it comes :from. It comes :from the communication officer of The Rt. Rev. Frank Griswold, when he was Presiding Bishop, and the aftermath of the General Convention of 2003 that consented to the consecration of the Bishop of New Hampshire. Within weeks of the Convention, Presiding Bishop Griswold sent a memo to all Bishops saying that it's important that you have this message :from my communication officer. It said, Individuals can leave the Episcopal Church parishes and dioceses cannot. Since when does a memo :from the communication officer of the Presiding Bishop define the polity of this Church? You will look and find no reference whatsoever in the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church that says a diocese cannot secede :from the General Convention. It's my contention that we willingly, voluntarily, associated with the General Convention when we formed as a diocese. We are not owned by the General Convention because of that decision. If

54 141-252083-11 we willing, voluntarily cease to terminate that union with the General Convention, we shall. There will be much screaming and yelling about it, but you won't find it in the Constitution and Canons. Secondly, to say parishes cannot leave the Episcopal Church, is to simply ignore the facts. A number of parishes have left the Episcopal Church, some of them without the approval of their diocese, but many of them with the approval of their diocese. Christ Church Overland Park in Kansas agreed to separate with building ofproperty with agreement that the diocese approved of. There are other places. Now it bears saying that in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, where some eleven or more congregations were negotiating with the diocese, the Bishop, and the Standing Committee to leave the diocese of Virginia, they worked out a protocol, which would allow that to happen. Before the protocol could be approved by the diocese, the Presiding Bishop and her Chancellor called the Bishop of Virginia to 815 Second Avenue in New York and said they didn't approve and they would litigate over it. The result is the Bishop withdrew the offer of a negotiated settlement and they're in court. Now this is not my opinion about what happen, this is the testimony that the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church gave in the court hearing in Virginia, two days ago. A way of going was being finalized, and she declared it wouldn't be permitted. I think that's unfortunate, because now millions of dollars have been spent by The Episcopal Church, the Diocese of Virginia and congregations that can no longer in good conscience remain in The Episcopal Church. That is tragic. The other thing that I would say in terms of Catholic polity of a diocese with boundaries and ancient church that you will find it was under an Orthodox bishop, and ifthere was a heretic bishop, Orthodox bishops provided for the faithful people in those dioceses, and crossed diocesan boundaries. Part of the reason that the Anglican Communion is in such disarray as it is today, is that faithful bishops are crossing diocesan provincial boundaries as a matter of conscience, because they cannot turn a deaf ear to faithful people who are crying out for Episcopal care in the mixed of a church that is causing schism and division. Okay, let's have a little change of pace. I was supposed to allow a video to be shown before we started debating. Is Suzanne Gill here? Can we do that now in this day of multi-media communication, the Standing Committee has put together a video, which will involve other people than themselves, and a statement about where we are and why they are proposing these constitutional amendments. So if we can see the video, then we will hav~ the ballots distributed, if the chairman of the tellers committee will come and do that You may move so you can see. Audience viewed the Standing Committee DVD. Thank you very much for your attention and I want to express our gratitude for those who participated in the taping and the putting together of the video, especially Suzanne Gill, our communications officer. We are now going to ask the chair of the balloting committee to come forward, for the deacons to get the ballots. Please don't mark anything until your instructed to do so. I've also been asked to remind you all to be careful what you say if you are any place close to this camera over here because what you're saying is being broadcast to the whole world So some of you standing close to the camera have been talking about afternoon plans, where you're going to dinner tonight, and people in Connecticut and Nevada and Wisconsin aren't really interested, but they are eaves dropping on conversations."

Fr. Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, we need another report from the Credentials Committee."

Dean Reed: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy, and lay delegates. We have changes. There are now 86 clergy registered and there are 125 lay delegates registered."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you."

Fr. Atwood: "The deacons will be passing out ballots. If you do not have a ballot raise your hand. You will need a #2 pencil."

Bishop Iker: "Brothers and sisters, I would ask you to bow your heads in time of silent prayer, which will be concluded by a prayer I will offer, before we proceed to casting our ballots. 'Oh God, by whom the meek are guided in judgment and light riseth up in darkness for the godly, grant us in all our doubts and uncertainties the grace to ask what thou wouldst have us to do. That the spirit of wisdom may save us from all false choices and that in thou might, we may see light and in thou straight path may not stumble, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."

Fr. Atwood: "We will be voting on four different proposed amendments or constitution and canon changes. Please turn your ballot so you can see the # 1 at the top, like we did yesterday, and listen carefully. If it is hard to see the numbers, count down. We had one ballot yesterday that counted wrong, in terms of what the number was. The first ballot will be Canon 32, the controversy between the rector and the vestry and a parish and the diocese. If you are voting for Canon 32, mark #I. If you are voting against Canon 32, mark #3. The second ballot, proposed Amendment A, Article 1, Authority of General Convention. For, mark #5, against #7. The third ballot, proposed Amendment B, Article 14, Title to Church Property. For, mark #9, against, # 11. The fourth ballot will be proposed Amendment C, Changing of the Preamble. For, mark #13, against, mark # 15. When you are finished with your ballot, pass it to the end of the table and the deacons will pick them up. Rt. Rev. Sir."

Bishop Iker: ''This is going to be your last chance to get your ballot in. Fr. Logan, are you instructing those priests how they should vote or are you just praying together? I just wondered. They respect a man in a uniform and I didn't want you to have undue persuasion. Are all the ballots in? Poll is closed. At the break, I was asked to recognize Canon Larry Williams in a point of personal privilege, and I'm willing to do that at this time."

Canon Williams: "I'm retired and I would like to ask a question of Bishop Wantland, our Assisting Bishop, and a canon expert, on how the General Convention was formed and how we can withdraw from it"

Bishop Iker: " I will allow that. He is a canon law expert, teaches canon law at seminaries. He's a sitting judge for the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma. Why don't you come to this microphone and share with us your perspective on that question."

Bishop Wantland: "Simply as a matter of historic perspective, it is important to know what has happened in the past and not necessarily what someone says happened in the past. General Convention and the Episcopal Church came into being in 1789 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The dioceses, which created the Episcopal Church however, were already in existence, and this is very important. The Diocese of Connecticut for example, had a number of years earlier,

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organized and elected Samuel Seabury as its bishop. Seabury was sent to England to be consecrated. At that time, English law required all bishops consecrated in England to take an oath of allegiance to the crown. Seeing as how the United States independence from England was not recognized until the Treaty of 1783, it would not have been prudent for Samuel Seabury to take an oath of allegiance to George III. So, he went to Scotland and the Episcopal Church in Scotland at that time, was a nonjuring Church, not bound to recognize the king of England, and three Scottish bishops consecrated Samuel Seabury on November 14, 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He came back to the United States as Bishop of Connecticut. Thereafter, parliament amended the laws of England to allow the consecration of bishops for foreign countries. And so, in 1787, the Diocese ofNew York, which was already in existence, elected Provost as their bishop, William Provost. William White was elected Bishop of Pennsylvania and James Madison, cousin of the later President Madison, was elected Bishop of Virginia, and these three men then went to England where they were consecrated at Lambeth Palace in 1787. There were five other dioceses organized, but those dioceses had not yet elected bishops. In 1789, the nine dioceses came together in Philadelphia, with a House of Bishops made up of four members, and created General Convention and adopted the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. So it's important to understand that it was the diocese, which created General Convention, not the other way around. And it's very important, for example in the history of this diocese, 25 years ago, that the dioceses came into being first and then petitioned General Convention to share in communion and union with General Convention in the dioceses that were part of that Convention. May a diocese leave the General Convention? In 1861, the Southern Diocese did just that, and because of the Civil War, they left to create a new province of the Anglican Communion, known as the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America, with their own Presiding Bishop, their own Constitution and Canons, their own prayer book, and they didn't call it General Convention. They were a little more grandiose, it was known as the General Council. So the Episcopal Church has actually had two General Councils. After the war, and the confederacy having been defeated and dissolved, the Church in the confederacy felt it served no purpose to continue, so in 1866 they dissolved. It's interesting to note that the Episcopal Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America took no , action at the time that these dioceses withdrew to create a new province, one way or the other. No lawsuits were filed and no property questions were litigated. It is important to note also, apart from the history of the Episcopal Church, that it is not unknown for a diocese to move from one province to another for a variety of reasons, sometimes with the consent of the departing province and of oourse the consent of the province to which it is now attached, sometimes not. For example, the diocese of Liberia was part of the Episcopal Church and obviously had much more in common with West Africa and so a number of years ago left the Episcopal Church when George Brown was bishop of Liberia to become a diocese in the province of West Africa where George Brown was then elected Archbishop. Likewise, the diocese of Venezuela was originally part of the West Indies, and because it was a Hispanic diocese with little or no shared commonality with the West Indies, Venezuela left the province of the West Indies to become an • autonomous, extra-provincial diocese and then finally associated with the Episcopal Church and voted to become a part of General Convention. So Venezuela, which is now part of the Episcopal Church, was part of the West Indies. So this transfer of diocese from province to province has occurred often in the past, and will undoubtedly occur in the future, but you need to be aware of these historic facts. Does that answer your question sir?"

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you Bishop Wantland. That was very helpful and informative. We will return now to the Chair of the Constitution and Canons for the proposal of the next amendment."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, by the way, thank you Bishop Wantland, that was a very good explanation, very well put. On behalf of the Committee on Constitution and Canons we present the Amendment to Article I of the Constitution of this diocese set forth in full in the written docwnents heretofore distributed to the delegates and alternates of this Convention as proposed by the Standing Committee. Recent actions taken and statements made by the Presiding Bishop and the General Convention have brought the overwhelming majority of us in this diocese who are orthodox, traditional Episcopalians to the point of having to make a difficult and painful decision. And while we must recognize at what is being proposed by the Standing Committee as a course of action many wish we could have avoided, we are once again being called to stand finn for our biblical and historic faith and practices. The proposed amendment to Article I states clearly and unequivocally that we are and shall remain a constituent member of the Anglican Communion. The purposed amendment does not alter our identity in the least. It's a reaffirmation of our traditional identity as Episcopalians in every sense of the word. Instead the amendment removes the heretofore-qualified submission to the authority to the General Convention. The rationale for the amendment is apparent and discussed all morning and has been and likely will continue to be the subject of vigorous debate, but as we were reminded yesterday by Jason Bontke, Fr. Nelson, Deacon Farley and others, the work and ministry of this diocese is a living, thriving, effective example of what Christians can do and what they are doing when they earnestly seek to obey the command of Jesus Christ. The adoption of this proposed amendment does not signal the end of our ministry; rather it heralds the continuation and expansion of it. The Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends the adoption of the amendment to Article I of our Constitution as proposed by the Standing Committee, and on behalf of the Standing Committee, I move that the amendment to Article I, proposed by the Standing Committee, be adopted."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you sir. You all know the routine. This side proposing, this side opposing. Does anyone wish to be recognized to speak? Let's go with the proposing side first, then we will come back."

Christopher Till: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I speak in favor of this, but we are really not leaving the Episcopal Church. The Church has been around for over 20 centuries. As an apostolic tradition that for 75% of that, a mere two centuries that the Episcopal Church has been around, it chose to follow. So for most of the time of the Church, it chose to follow the scripture. I've heard a little bit said about attorneys and litigation. I am an attorney. You can litigate anything, but this proposal is not seeking litigation. This proposal is seeking a continuation of faith, and no matter how the vote goes on this; we've already been left. We have not been given a chance to believe what we believe, which is the scripture. When the Church started to change, we proposed the Dallas Plan. We worked under that as best we could. The Church continued to change, and by the Church I mean the National Church, and then we get a Presiding Bishop that sends a letter to our Bishop that wants us to 'unqualified accession' to whatever they say. Our Church has never been an unqualified accession to anybody other than the scripture and an unqualified accession to Christ. This is a difficult time, but our Church from its beginning has been going through difficult times. In Timothy II, it says, 'the time will come when men will not put up with sound

58 141-252083-11 doctrine, instead suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching· ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to miss.' That was in the frrst century of the Church, now we are twenty centuries later and we are still doing the same thing. These are myths. When our Presiding Bishop says something about that Jesus is the way, the truth, and life, and that's putting God in a very small box, something is very wrong. When we say our Presiding Bishop says, or any Bishop says, that it's okay to sin, it's okay to have a sinful life that is wrong. It has left the scripture upon which we are founded. Now I know many will say, an attorney shouldn't be up here, because I am a sinful man and I will tell you that I am, but this Church welcomes sinners. It welcomes them to come in and except Christ, but then to change, and to repent, and to try and live a Christian life.

Bishop Iker: "Time."

Christopher Till: "Thank you your honor."

Bishop Iker: "Your honor will do. I must say with Bishop Wantland sitting here, I do not consider that a promotion. The contrary side, and you have 5 minutes. Each side will have 5 minutes."

Sandy Liser: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I have almost called you your honor several times today, so I'm glad someone did it first. I'm not going to repeat what I sai~ but I think everything I said to the Preamble applies here, and I want to make it clear that my concerns are not, I'm not trying to say that I agree that we should agree with what the Church is doing, what the Episcopal Church of the United States, I'm not taking a position on the validity of what our disagreements or lack of disagreements. I'm concerned we are taking a step that is going to open up the entire diocese to legal action and we, as delegates should not do. That's my concern and not that we disagree with the philosophy of the presiding bishop. I'm concerned about this step. You've got some very fine lawyers who have been working with you on the committee. Rickey Brantley, Cora Worley, and I believe there are others, and they will tell you there is a huge difference between doing something that is in violation of a constitution and having something in the constitution that allows us to do it. There may not be a specific provision that says a diocese can't leave, I'm certainly going to defer to you Rt. Rev. Sir on what the TEC constitution says. There is nothing that gives us the authority to do what we are being asked to vote on today. I appreciate the history, it was very helpful and there were a lot of items I didn't know, but this diocese was created by the General Convention, so we are a little different than the frrst. I'm not surprised that in the middle of the Civil War that the Episcopal Church didn't go after the Southern Episcopal Church and have a lawsuit. There was a lot going on in the country, and I think it's important to remember that everything else that was discussed about changing provinces or the Christ Church in Plano, that was all done with permission. They talked to the Church, and it was allowed to happen, and we're not asking, we haven't asked permission to my knowledge. So I would vote against this amendment as it stands now, because I'm concerned that we don't have the authority to do that."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, proposing side."

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Larry Votto: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates, visitors. I've been asked numerous times, why do we have to leave? Why can't we just stay and fight it out on the inside? Some here today believe we should stay and be a conservative representative in a liberal church, a burr under the saddle. If you think this is about an old battle between liberals and conservatives, you are sadly mistaken. This is about faithfulness to Jesus Christ. This is about the integrity of this diocese, her clergy, and her people. We have fought for a long, long, time and frankly, I'm battle weary. Furthermore, the Episcopal Church will no longer tolerate us. Our bishop has been the object of ridicule, slander, and now threats of disciplinary action. Our priests have been marginalized. Many American Episcopal Bishops stating rather clearly that they will not license priests from the Diocese of Fort Worth to function in their diocese. In contrast and on a personal note, as a missionary and catechists, bishops from the larger world wide Anglican communion have allowed me to teach in their diocese only because I was a member in good standing of the Diocese of Fort Worth and not because I was a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States. For lay people like me, we are often embarrassed when we let people know that we go to an Episcopal Church. We often have to explain that this is about fidelity to Jesus Christ and inherent to the scriptures and not changing those scriptures to suit secular thoughts of the day. Like many of you, I remember the day that I scraped the Episcopal shield off my car. I hated to do it, but it was necessary because the Episcopal Church no longer represented me. Now, it no longer represents this diocese. The controversy has been a cloud over our heads for many years. It has stifled the growth of our parishes, stifled the growth of our missions, and more importantly, stifled the growth of our evangelism. We must move on. We have made provisions . for those who feel they cannot go with us, and for that, I am glad. I speak in support of this amendment."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you sir, opposing side."

Diane Snow: "Rt. Rev. Sir, when this diocese was formed from the Diocese of Dallas in July, 1982, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church as a condition for ratifying the action, required that the Diocese of Dallas submit proof of the fmancial viability of the existing and proposed new diocese. The diocese submitted the following documents; the Certificate of the Treasurer of the Diocese of Dallas concerning the financial abilities of the continuing diocese and of the new diocese, together with supporting financial data. It's kind of like what Luke said, 'For which of you intending to build a tower does not first sit down and estimate the cost to see whether he has enough to complete it. Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him saying, this fellow began to build and was not able to finish.' Other supporters of this constitutional change not also bound by this wisdom, particularly as trustees of the property of the diocese to do the same good financial planning. Where is the report, the disclosure, the accounting of the financial abilities of the continuing diocese and the new diocese as when this diocese was founded? If there has been any study, then we need to be able to see it and to be able to vote on this proposal based on that. Therefore, I oppose this resolution, this measure, because there is not enough information to make a good judicial decision."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, proposing side."

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JoAnn Miller: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I wish to speak to one of the benefits of this amendment. At our Convention last year, we overwhelming approved the request for alternate primatial oversight The reason behind this request was that we found that Katharine Jefferts-Schori is a person who does not support this diocese in mission and in faith. She and her person represents decent from the Windsor Report. In her tenure in Nevada, the dioceses of Nevada approved same sex blessings. She has stated openly that the Episcopal Church has nothing to repent of, or apologize for in the consecration of Gene Robinson to the episcopate. She has pressed lawsuits upon congregations who cannot in good conscience remain in the Episcopal Church and which have affiliated with other provinces in Anglicanism. A presiding bishop has four canonical duties. First, the presiding bishop is to visit each and every diocese in the Episcopal Church within a nine-year term. Secondly, the presiding bishop is to represent the Episcopal Church to the rest of the primates. Thirdly, the presiding bishop is to determine whether or not charges against bishops should be heard in a trial, as well, she has the power to enact temporary inhibitions against bishops. Fourthly, she is to serve as chief consecrator of bishops. We in this diocese cannot accept this authority. She has shown that she proclaims a religion contrary to the faith held in this diocese. She has been a part of a coalition in the National Church that has labeled this diocese as a problem diocese. We need someone who will truly represent us among the primates. We need an authority who truly believes the faith once delivered. A great man of God asks this question. Do we stand in the faith and walk in righteousness? The witness from our leadership, our bishop and our clergy, shows me that they do stand in the faith once delivered and they do walk in righteousness, right living. By passing this amendment we will be able to move on with the work that our Lord has entrusted to us."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, opposing side."

Cherie Shipp: "Rt. Rev. Sir. In a presentation you gave in London on October 20th you stated the following, and I quote, 'we will be in full communion with only those common cause partners which do not ordain women or receive ordained women into the priesthood. Our core of operation with the bodies that do so cannot extend to communo in sacris, but we cooperated with them in every way possible in a state of continuing impaired communion'. This proposed new version of Article I does not spell out the implications of your distinction between full communion and partial communion. In fact, based upon your comments made in London, our diocese would indeed be an impaired communion even with the Sea of Canterbury. The delegates and Episcopalians in this diocese are not aware of the full implications of impaired versus full communion for the proposed new diocese. Therefore, I speak against this amendment."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, proposing side."

Susan Stockstill: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I wish to speak about what the passage of this amendment would mean for the people and the clergy of this diocese. Up to now, we have spoken of the necessity of this amendment. Why it must be passed now and not later. I want to talk about what will change in your parish and in mine. The answer is very little. What we are doing today is transferring to another province of the Anglican Communion. This amendment enables us to do just that. In my parish, the only thing that will really change is that we will pray for a new primate, and that's about it. We will sing the same hymns. We will say the same prayers. The

61 141-252083-11 same priest will baptize our children and grandchildren. The same Eucharist will be offered. The same programs will be presented in our parishes. This amendment, I believe, procures the future for our diocese. It has been the Episcopal Church for many years now that has wanted us to abandon our prayers, to abandon our worship, to abandon our clergy, and to take on a new religion. We have been forced to choose between Jesus and the Episcopal Church. Some will say we should chaose the Episcopal Church over anything else. Some will say that this choice is a fiction, that Jesus and the Episcopal Church are on the same page, but as I read the scriptures, it is clear to me that Jesus and the Episcopal Church are not on the same page at all. This amendment offers us an opportunity to say loudly and clearly- as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, opposing side."

Steve Peglar: "Rt Rev. Sir. In follow up to my fellow delegates comments regarding your speech in London, I move that this Article be tabled to give the proponents to this change a chance to clearly communicate any differentiation that you have made."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you sir, but you are out of order in that you cannot debate something and then move to table. Sorry."

Fr. Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I rise in support of this proposed change for three reasons. First, we do have authority to change this, that's why we meet in Convention. Secondly, we continue to recognize ourselves as an Episcopal diocese, and thirdly ~s gives us a year of discernment to decide what our ongoing relationship is going to be with the Episcopal Church and with the Anglican Communion. However, I would also like to propose an amendment or a change to the Article as it stands, if I may do so."

Bishop Iker: "It's in order."

Fr. Culpepper:" I would like to propose that we add [to be consistent with our Anglican identity] at the end of the paragraph where it says propagating the historic faith in order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, I would like for it to read [as set forth in the old and new testaments and expressed in the Book ofCommon Prayer. "]

Bishop Iker: "Okay, it is before us then. Would you like to speak to the proposed amendment?"

Fr. Culpepper: "Certainly, thank you. As Anglicans, we have understood ourselves to stand on scripture first, tradition, and then reason. The reason I would like to include [the old and new testaments] is because we have said historic faith and order, our faith being grounded in Holy Scripture, and order being the Book of Common Prayer. I think that keeps the Article consistent and it keeps us consistent in our identity of standing on the principle of scripture."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, you need to put into writing the proposed amendment and bring it to the secretary, and would you read it one more time so everyone can hear it and perhaps jot it down.''

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Fr. Culpepper: "Certainly. Beginning with the last dependant clause, [Upholding and propagating the historic faith and order as set forth in the old and new testaments and expressed in the BookofCommonPrayer."]

Bishop Iker: "Okay, thank you. Now the debate switches away from the original proposal to the proposed amendment and I will only allow people to speak who are speaking to the amendment as proposed by Fr. Culpepper at this time."

MOTION Fr. Barber

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on proposed Amendment D.

SECONDED CARRIED

MOTION Fr. Culpepper

RESOLVED, to add [to be consistent with our Anglican identity] at the end of the paragraph where it says propagating the historic faith in order as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, I would like for it to read [as set forth in the old and new testaments and expressed in the Book of Common Prayer. '1

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: ''Now we return to the Constitutional Amendment as amended We had an advocating side, so Fr. Barber I think you're on as opposing."

Fr. Barber: "Rt. Rev. Sir. My apologies for not starting with Rt. Rev. Sir the last two times. My wife pointed it out to me that I didn't."

Bishop Iker: ''I've noted it right here Father, twice."

Fr. Barber: "I move that the present article be tabled."

Bishop Iker: "Move to table the proposed Amendment D is not debatable, correct? All in favor of tabling, say I. Oppose, no. The motion fails. Proposing side."

Julia Smead: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I rise to speak in favor of the Standing Committees amendment of Article I of our Constitution as Bishop Wantland just reminded us that in 1861 nine dioceses disaffiliated and no action was ever taken against them, nor was any legislation ever adopted to block it from happening again. The Constitution of tl:re Episcopal Church states that no diocese

63 141-252083-11 will be included in a province without its consent, and there is nothing about a diocese terminating that relationship. Provincial alignments are intended for the benefit of the diocese and not the other way around. In any case, I believe that the truth of the Gospel must always take precedent over the structures of the Church. It says in Jude Til, I urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. We must pass on our faith for future generations. It is imperative that we align with a province that will allow us to do this. I urge everyone to vote in favor of this amendment"

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, opposing side."

Marsha McClean: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I've been asked by some of the persons in our Church who attended a meeting to talk about some of the proposed changes to also represent their feelings and ideas on this matter. They do not wish to leave the Episcopal Church. They recognize the differences in theology, in comfort, in newness. They do not wish to leave the Episcopal Church. I have heard some real efforts at speaking in love against those who disagree. I've also heard a number of words that were uttered in a very loving tone, but they characterize the National Church as being enemies, persecutors, strayers in faith. Those who attack and assault, devouring lions, information against the amendments or that support the National Church being characterized as evil, possibly beguiling, or misleading. I do not think this is a reasonable representation of the paradox that the people who both are part of this diocese and still want to live within the National Church that is governed by General Convention lay. I believe that this amendment will put the diocese on a path that may feel very righteous, but that may not serve the needs of the Church as it grows in the world. I do not know that I'm neither an expert in Canon Law nor do I have the vision for mission that some people do in the Church and they may say that this is what we need to grow. This is who we are. But I do not believe we have the authority to do that because I do not believe you would sit as the Bishop of this diocese if it had not been created within the Episcopal Church and if your ordination had not been agreed upon by General Convention. So that puts us in an awkward position. So I respectfully request that this not be passed."

Bishop Iker: Thank you very much. Just one point of fact. (Applause) No, we don't do that The General Convention never consented to my consecration, diocese by diocese consented by The Standing Committee and the Bishop of each diocese which is the proper form in which Bishop's are given consent or not. We are going to stand now for Noonday Prayers. You all stay at your places and we will come back to you, but prayer comes first." NOONDAY PRAYER

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. We now return to the proposing side for debate on Proposed Constitutional Amendment D."

Fr. Bye: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I come to speak in favor of this proposal. Obviously, I come from a divided parish, not of one mind. I've spent a substantial amount of time, a whole ministry trying to stay focused upon each individuals commitment to Jesus Christ in their life and their conversion. I've found that the difficulties and struggles in the Church that most everybody agrees with is an active Satan, and he is about distracting us from the work that he intends us to

64 141-252083-11 be about. Come greater Disciples of Christ, committed in our lives for that. So my work has been primarily trying to avoid the distractions of the Church and to stay centered upon Jesus Christ. Unfortunately, I have come to the place where many have come to before me, I suppose, where we can no longer avoid this discussion, this debate. We are going to speak to the issue of alcoholism in a little bit. I fmd that we have come to that same place of denial in many issues of our lives so when we come to this place of discernment, which is where we are now,I simply come to speak in favor of this as a witness to what I believe to be the work of the Holy Spirit, which has just been questioned. My prayers have brought me to this place where I don't know the way for other dioceses and what they are suppose to do, but I've become convicted in recent days particularly that there is a call upon the Diocese of Fort Worth, and it's a call to lead the Church in a life of repentance and back to the historic faith that is handed down to the Saints in the Church and the Apostles. That is the faith that we honor in Jesus Christ and what he has handed down to us, the disciples of His. And so I come to witness to that today, that I believe that the Spirit is at work in this diocese. As I said, I have no idea about other dioceses, but I believe that there is a call upon this diocese. I don't particularly care for it, and I don't particularly like it, I don't even want to be a part of it, in fact, I think I will just retire. However, I will not retire from the greater Church, the Church of Jesus Christ, and so I do speak in favor of this and believe that Fort Worth has a special call upon them now, and I hope we all can stand up to that call now and be witnesses to the rest of the Church, in Jesus' name."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, father. The other side."

Karen Parrish: "I just going to make my point again, and I won't repeat the quote from Bishop Davies, but I just want to remind that at the original Convention of this Diocese the expressed desire was to be in union with The Episcopal Church of the United States of America. I would like to suggest that we should affirm these founding principles of this diocese in any attempt to qualify its succession and less compromise the trust for which this diocese holds and administers Church property is of no force and effect. For these reasons, I oppose this amendment."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Other side."

Fr. Jones: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates. In discerning and thinking about my favor of this proposal, I am reminded of the words of the one time Archbishop of Canterbury, who stated that the Anglican Communion has no faith or creeds of its o~ and I'm paraphrasing of course, but only of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. So as I identify myself as an Anglican, I have to do so in certain tears. First of all, I am a Christian. Secondly, I am a Catholic Christian. Thirdly, I am a Catholic Christian in the Anglican tradition, and at the bottom of that, I am Catholic Christian in the Anglican tradition living in the jurisdiction of The Episcopal Church. But in that self-identification there can be no contradiction between the points of identification. I am reminded of the teaching of Jesus who warned about the weary household, or the one who is snoozing and the thieves will break in, bind him up, and steal his treasure. I think what this proposal is doing for us in a very spiritual way, not a judicial way, is helping us to stand forth and proclaim that we do fall under the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church as Anglicanism has received it So it is a very positive thing, not a negative thing. It's a thing to be celebrated and be joyful about. So for that, I stand in complete favor of this resolution."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Other side."

MOTION Kathleen Wells

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on the amendment to the proposed Amendment D.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "That concludes the debate on Proposed Constitutional Amendment D. I think we will take a lunch break now and then come back and continue debate on some other proposed amendments."

NOONDAY PRAYERS-LUNCH

DAVID WEAVER: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Committee of the Constitution and Canons, we present the Amendment to Article 12 of the Constitution of this Diocese set forth in full in the written documents heretofore distributed to all delegates and alternates. The proposed amendment to Article 12 removes any reference to any specific number of delegates or deputies that maybe be elected at Annual Convention to attend any meetings, Conventions, or Convocations with which the Diocese wishes to send delegates or deputies. The amendment does preserve the requirement that there be an equal number of lay delegates, and delegates who are priest. It also preserves the procedures for electing delegates and alternate delegates. The Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends adoption of the amendment to Article 12 of the Constitution of this Diocese proposed by the Standing Committee, and on behalf of the Standing Committee, I move the amendment of Article 12 proposed by the Standing Committee be adopted."

BISHOP IKER: "Thank you, it's before us, those in favor of the proposed amendment to Article 12 go to the appropriate microphone.

Cherie Shipp: "Rt. Rev. Sir, when I looked at the title of this amendment, I thought it was just to replace attendance at General Convention of the Episcopal Church with attendance at such similar meetings as are held in the new province. However, I also noted that the amendment proposed by the Committee on Constitution and Canons makes the following additional changes. It eliminates the provision allowing deacons to be part of a clerical order. It removes the requirements that delegates and alternates be elected by ballot, and merely says, elected. It removes the provision that the Bishop will assign the alternate deputies based on the number of votes they received when elected, and allows the Bishop to select the alternates based on unspecified criteria. I have the following questions. Why were deacons removed from the clerical order? Will they be considered laity for the purposes of this election? Who will decide which Conventions we will attend? Since the number of Conventions, Synods, or meetings are unspecified, can you tell me how many of you plan to attend? Since the alternates will no longer be chosen based on the number of votes they received, what criteria will you use to apply to their selection? How will delegates be elected, if not by ballot? Since the current and proposed canon

66 141-252083-11 provides the delegates receive election by concurrent majority of both orders, removing deacons from clergy will result in greater power by ordained priest and selecting delegates. Is this the intent of the proposed change? I oppose adoption of this amendment for those reasons."

Bishop Iker: "The only thing I can respond to by way of information, is when I came to the Diocese we were revisiting the question of having a permanent diaconate, and it revolved partly around the fact that deacons do not, in their charge to ordination, have responsibility for taking their place in the councils of the Church, but priest do. So at that Convention, I think it was in 1995 provision was made that deacons do not have a vote at Convention. So I do not know the answer to the question on why Article 12 did not get changed at the time, but if deacons are not given vote at Diocesan Convention it doesn't make much sense that they would get elected to General Convention, where they would have a vote. So that's the only explanation that I can offer. Maybe the Constitution and Canons Committee has other things. The question about assigning alternate deputies, I don't know about that. I am assuming the Chairman would be willing to accept that provision about by order of their election by a friendly amendment If you could respond to the questions raised?''

David Weaver: "I will try to. That matter was addressed not knowing the nature or extent or the number of delegates or deputies that may be elected or be appropriate for any particular meeting or convocation that may occur that the diocese may wish to send a delegation to, there was a question concerning how the various alternates should be selected and it was the decision when we were drafting this amendment that issue should be resolved by the Bishop. That's the reason why we left out the by ballot That is the way it was proposed and recommended by the Committee."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Fr. Nelson: "Rt Rev. Sir, I rise in full support of this amendment for the sole purpose that we need representation from clergy and laity at larger councils in addition to the General Convention if need be and this proposed amendment is sufficiently vague as to provide for that need. So I would ask the Convention to consider the wideness in this amendment simply for that reason. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Yes, somebody who has more time than I presiding could look through some of the Canons as they exist, but deacons are not elected to the Standing Committee for instance, for the same reason. Deacons don't serve on the Executive Council for the same reason. The only explanation I can offer is when we revisited the question of the permanent diaconate, it is determined since they are assigned by the Bishop, served at the Bishop's pleasure, can be removed at the Bishop's pleasure and so on, and weren't charged with taking their place in the councils of the Church, that was a position for priest of the diocese to exercise as elected representatives, must be the prevailing consideration. Opposing side."

Judy Graber: "Thank you, Rt. Rev. Sir. I also noted that the amendment removes deacons from the clerical order when selecting delegates. One of the things I would like to able to say is that in October of2007 Bishop Iker made a speech in London at the Forward in Faith Conference. In that speech he stated, and I quote, 'Our plan is not only to dissociate then from the Episcopal

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Church, but to officially, constitutionally re-affiliate with an existing Orthodox province of the Communion that does not ordain women to the priesthood. These conversations are very far along, but cannot be announced until the province that is considering our appeal has made their final decision public.' So my questions to you Sir are, how does the Southern Cone province that is considering our appeal view deacons? Are they part of the clerical order? Can current and future women deacons perform the same roles that they currently perform? Will women deacons be allowed in the new order?"

Bishop Iker: "Yes, to all of those I think. When we get around to considering the Province of the Southern Cone, Bishop Lyons will respond to particular questions, but yes, there are deacons in the Province of the Southern Cone, though I think not every diocese in the province ordains women as deacons. I believe the representation at their Synod, which is every three years, there is a Bishop, a priest, and a lay person representing each diocese, but not deacons. Proposing side."

MOTION Fr. Stuart Smith

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on proposed Amendment E.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "We move on to Constitutional F as proposed concerning Article 18 of the Constitution."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Constitution and Canons Committees we present the amendment to Article 18 of the Constitution of this diocese set forth in full in the written documents heretofore distributed to the delegates and alternates. The proposed amendment to Article 18 deletes the requirement that amendments to our Constitution and Canons be consistent with the Constitution and Canons of 1EC, and it eliminates the 30 day waiting period for canonical changes duly approved by the annual convention of this diocese to become effective. Since it is the recommendation of the Standing Committee that this diocese no longer accede to the authority of the General Convention and the 1EC, any requirement that our Constitution and Canons be consistent with the Constitution and Canons of 1EC becomes not only unnecessary, but such requirement could impair the relationship of our dioceses with other constituent members of the Anglican Communion. Further, since no practical or other reason exist for the imposition of a 30 day waiting period before canonical changes become effective after being duly enacted by the annual convention, it was the judgment of the Standing Committee that the 30 day waiting period be eliminated. The Committee on Constitution and Canons unanimously recommends adoption of the amendment to Article 18 and on behalf of the Standing Committee, I move that the amendment to Article 18 proposed by the Standing Committee be adopted."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, it's properly before you. Would delegates or clergy who wish to speak please proceed to the microphones?"

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Sandy Liser: "Rt Rev. Sir, I would like to propose an amendment that we return the 30 day waiting period to that last paragraph."

Bishop Iker: "Moved that we return the 30 day waiting period to the last paragraph. Is it seconded? It's before you, would you like to say anything more about your proposal?"

Sandy Liser: "I would, but since I'm in favor, do I need to move over there?" [Laughter]

Bishop Iker: "I'll cut you a little slack this time."[Laughter]

Sandy Liser: "Thank you, Rt Rev. Sir. I'm a member of a vestry. We meet every month. As a delegate we are suppose to report back to our vestry and our Church what the Convention has done and what the new Canons are. The 30 days allows us to report to our vestry. Allows our vestry to determine what we need to do to comply with the new Canons. If you remove this we are going to have to have emergency meetings on Sunday morning. Parishes may be completely in violation of the Canon without any moment or opportunity to respond to it. I don't think 30 days is very long and I think it gives all the vestries and parishes opportunities to respond to the Canons and comply with them."

Bishop Iker: "Does the Chairman want to say anything about the reasoning behind dropping the. 30 days for Canons taking effect"

David Weaver: "Yes, Rt. Rev. Sir, the discussion was held at the Committee meetings that we held on the Constitution and Canons and it was my understanding at that time, the judgment of the Standing Committee and the Committee on Constitution and Canons was that they could find no rational reason to delay the effectiveness of canonical changes. From our standpoint, the 30 day waiting period, the canonical change goes into effect whatever response may be to any particular vestry or parish is going to be whatever it is, but the canon still becomes effective. So waiting 30 days really serves no purpose as far as the effectiveness of the Canon. And there may be canonical changes in the future and this was also discussed where they should become effective immediately. There may be a pressing reason as to why the Canon should become effective immediately upon the adjournment of the Convention. We, of course, cannot anticipate what that might be at this time, but we wanted to remove that requirement, and if there is a particular Canon that this Convention would want to enact, included in the enactment itself, an effective date that may be 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days, then this Convention would have the authority to do that."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, so if in the future we have a proposed Canon that we don't want to be effective at the adjournment of Convention, the Convention could state the effective date for that particular Canon."

David Weaver: "That is correct"

Bishop Iker: "If you want to speak against the proposed amendment about reinserting the 30 days effective provision go to this microphone."

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MOTION Fr. Jon Jenkins

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on the amendment to the proposed Amendment to Article 18.

SECONDED CARRIED

MOTION The Rt. Rev. JackL. Iker

RESOLVED, to reinsert the 30-day provision to Article 18.

SECONDED FAILED

BISHOP IKER: "We return to the original Article 18 constitutional proposal. Does anyone wish to speak in favor of adoption of Article 18 on Canons? Does anyone wish to speak opposed? Are we ready to vote?

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to terminate debate on Article 18.

SECONDED CARRRIED

BISHOP IKER: "We move on now before taking the ballot to consideration of the final matters to be presented by the Constitution and Canons Committee."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Committee of the Constitution and Canons we recommend that the adoption of the Proposed Constitution Amendment E that we previously have proposed and that we withdraw the Proposed Amendment to Article 12 that was acted upon last year and currently is before the Convention for second reading this year."

Bishop Iker: "It's removed and not before us, correct? Okay, next item."

David Weaver: "The second reading to Proposed Amendment Article 13, Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Committee on Constitution and Canons we present the second reading and ratifying both the Proposed Amendment to Article 13 of the Constitution of this Diocese presented at last year's Annual Convention and included in full in the documents heretofore distributed to delegates and alternates. On behalf of the Standing Committee I move that the ratifying vote occur and that the amendment to Article 13 be adopted."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. Before you is the ratification second reading vote on Article 13 as adopted in the preliminary vote at last year's Convention. Do any delegates or clergy wish to address this issue?"

Sandy Liser: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I would like to propose an amendment where it states that a Bishop and a parish may agree, I would like for it to read that a Bishop and a parish within 100 miles of the Sea City, so we can have some sort of limitation on where our Cathedral will be."

Bishop Iker: "Is it seconded? It's moved and seconded that I not allow a parish more than 100 miles away from my home to be the Cathedral. I earnestly welcome that suggestion. I don't want to influence the debate, but the fact is, St. Vincent's is my Cathedral, and I didn't ask for this proposal to be made last year, because St. Vincent's has been serving as my Pro Cathedral, which means it serves as the Cathedral during the time that I am the Bishop. Constitution and Canons Committee last year wanted to tidy that up, because previously it said that it had to be in the City ofFort Worth and so on. Fort Worth isn't interested in annexing Bedford just so I can have a Cathedral in Fort Worth, but fine. The proposal is that we amend it to say that the Cathedral can't be more than 100 miles away from the City of Fort Worth. Is there anybody who wishes to speak against the proposed amendment?"

Fr. Whitfield: "Rt. Rev. Sir, there are some beautiful Churches in Breckenridge and Wichita Falls that in God's fore knowledge might have chosen to be a Cathedral one of these days. And it's just going to be another thing we are going to have to vote on. I am against it."

Bishop Iker: "In favor of the amendment?"

Fr. Barber: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I'd just like to remind us that one of the things we put forward earlier today was that there were no geographical boundaries to the diocese the way that it is put forward. This doesn't seem like a silly amendment to me that we make sure the Cathedral stays attached more less to what the boundaries of the diocese are now. If we are going to say that it is boundless, we ought to have some restrictions about where our scheduled place of worship is going to be."

Bishop Iker: 4'I apologize to the delegate making the motion if she thinks I was suggesting that it was a silly motion. I didn't intend that It's just that out of my own interest I don't want to drive the 100 miles to the Cathedral either. But I didn't mean it to be offensive."

Fr. Wooten: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I am rector of Good Shepherd, Wichita Falls, 120 miles away from the City ofFort Worth, stiil well within the boundaries of the Diocese ofFort Worth. I would like to suggest instead of being fearful of where God may be leading us, to possibly embrace the Spirit and embrace the fact that Good Shepherd may one day be the Cathedral of the Diocese."

Sandy Liser: "Rt. Rev., 200 miles away would be fine with me, I don't mean to exclude anyone and I fully expect that you don't want to travel more thanlOO miles, but we don't know who your successor is going to be. I would like to have a Cathedral that I could reasonably visit, and that it not be in another state or another country. I just think there should be some limitation about where the Cathedral will be. "

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Bishop Iker: ''Okay, thank you. Opposing the proposed amendment."

Fr. Koscheski: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I have no interest in being the Cathedral. I have a question of order perhaps. Is this a second reading of a proposed change?

Bishop Iker: "Yes."

Fr. Koscheski: "Then an amendment is a vote to defeat"

Bishop Iker: "Yes, it would have to go back and be brought to next year's Convention. That is correct. Before us is the question of amending Article 13 to include a provision that the Cathedral be a parish not more than 100 miles away from the City of Fort Worth. All in favor of the amendment, say I. Opposed, no. Motion carries. And I will certainly respect the wishes of the minority on this one. Are we ready to vote on the second reading of Article 13? Debate is over. The conclusion of the report of the Constitution and Canons Committee is gratefully acknowledged and we're now ready to have ballots distributed. If the deacons could quickly get the ballots distributed throughout. We need lay people to have lay ballots, and clergy to have clergy ballots. We are going to be voting on several things at the same time. Please do not mark your ballot until the Chair instructs you on how to do so. I need to have a report from the Credentials Committee. It's my understanding that two of our priests have left because they had · funerals this afternoon. Dean Reed are you in the house? Could someone at the table back there tell me, have we changed the makeup of the voting members, have any lay people left? Have any clergy besides Fr. Matkin left? I see Fr. Loyo is back. Where is the Dean of the Cathedral? Surely he is not 100 miles away when I need him. Clergy, do me a favor. Have any of your lay delegates left that we should be aware of, because that's going to change the ballots cast. No? Okay, proceed with instructions.''

Fr. Atwood: "Ifyou do not have a ballot, please raise your hand. When we go to vote this time, please listen carefully and don't think ahead, because there were several people who started to erase because they thought I was going to go 1, 2, 3, 4. When you erase, please do so clearly. We had to run the ballots four times to make sure we had the right numbers because of erasers.

Bishop Iker: "Just ask for another ballot if you make a mistake. I think we have enough. This is the last ballot we're taking today. Rather than have your ballot throw us into a delay,just ask for another one."

Fr. Atwood: "On this ballot, the first vote will be taken on Anglican Identity, Proposed Amendment D, Article 1, Authority of General Convention. If you are voting for it, mark #20. If you are voting against it, vote #22. The next ballot. Proposed Amendment E, Deputies to Extra Provincial. If you are voting for it, mark #24. If you are voting against it, mark #26. The third one. Proposed Amendment F, Article 18, changing the Canon. If you are voting for it, mark #28. Against, mark #30. The last one on this ballot will be Article 13, Sea City and Cathedral, Second Reading. If you are voting for it, mark #36. Against it, mark #38.

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When you are finished marking your ballots pass them to the end of the row.

Bishop Iker: "We are now prepared to report on the results of the balloting that was taken earlier in the day on other Constitutional Amendments and Canonical Amendments. I'll wait for everyone to come to order before I ask Fr. Atwood to report on those numbers. I'm asking for Convention to please respond in the same manner as we have for debates when the results of the voting is announced now. If you would turn to Canon 32 you can mark the numbers there by your canonical and constitutional provisions, but we are going to take them right from the order in which they were voted on. If you could give us the numbers in favor in both orders and the percentage. Are you able to do that?

Fr. Atwood: "Yes, sir. Canon 32, Controversy Between a Parish and the Diocese, 85 valid clergy ballots, 75- for, tO-against; 88%. In the lay order, there were123 valid ballots, 2 invalid ballots, 101-for, 22-against; 82%.

Constitution Amendment A- Authority of General Convention All of these had 85 valid clergy ballots, 13-for, 71-against; 83.5% In the lay order, there were 123 valid ballots, 24-for, 99-against; 80.4%

Constitution Amendment B- Title of Church Property All of these had 85 valid clergy ballots, 10-for, 75-against; 88% In the lay order, there were 123 valid ballots, 16-for, 107-against; 87%

Constitution Amendment C -Preamble Revision Clergy vote: 71-for, 14-against; 83.5% Lay vote: 97-for, 26-against; 78.8%

Bishop Ik.er: "Our agenda calls for us to move on to the report of the Resolutions Committee, chaired by Fr. Bob Young. You have two Resolutions before you and we will take them in order of Resolution 1 and Resolution 2."

Fr. Young: "Rt. Rev. Sir, the Resolutions Committee has not received any Resolutions in accordance with Rule 11 ofthe Standing Rules ofProcedure. However, the Committee respectfully submits two Resolutions to the Convention for approval. Resolution I expresses thanks of appreciation for the work and official report by the Panel of Reference created by the Archbishop of Canterbury concerning this diocese and its position. Resolution I was included in the second packet to the delegates, and made available on the diocesan website. I'll now read Resolution I for the benefit of our visitors and observers. REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE RESOLUTION #1 ORATITUDE FOR THE WORK OF THE PANEL OF REFERENCE Whereas the Panel of Reference of the Anglican Communion in its Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury posted on January 8, 2007 has demonstrated its continued support for the position of this Diocese, especially in (a) commending the Dallas Plan to all parties; (b) reiterating that "no diocese or parish should be compelled to accept the ministry of word or sacrament from" a woman functioning as a priest; (c) that "provision has to be made to meet the conscientious

73 141-252083-11 objection to [priestly] ministry by women"; And whereas the Panel has recommended "that it be made clear that it is legitimate for a diocese to ask of candidates for election as bishop that they abide by the particular policy of the diocese in relation to the ministry of women"; "that theological views on the ordination or consecration of women should not be a ground on which consent might be withheld by the Province/House of Bishops"; And whereas the Panel has recommended "that the Archbishop of Canterbury should discuss with the Presiding Bishop"[of The Episcopal Church] clarifying the relevant canon adopted by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church ''to ensure that the permissive" rather than mandatory "nature of the ordination of women is maintained in any diocese"; And whereas the Panel has recommended "that the Archbishop of Canterbury continue discussions with the Diocese of Fort Worth and with the Episcopal Church with the aim of securing the place of Fort Worth in the Communion". Be it resolved that the 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth express its heartfelt appreciation for the faithful, prayerful and godly statements and actions of the Panel of Reference in fraternal support of this Diocese.

Bishop Iker: ''It is before us. Those who wish to speak to this Resolution come to the appropriate microphone. Does anyone wish to speak to this Resolution? I don't see anyone coming forward to speak. All in favor of this Resolution as presented will say I, opposed say no. The Resolution is adopted. Thank you. It seems to be a unanimous consent. Does anybody wish to say that it is not unanimous? Resolution II will be read to you and then I am asking Bishop Lyons to come forward and in anticipation answering some of the questions some of the members of Convention may have."

Fr. Young: Resolution II is response to the recent invitation to traditional dioceses in the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone and express support to the Bishop and Standing Committee of this diocese in pursuing the implication of that invitation with that Province. Resolution II with the accompanying text of that invitation itself is provided for reference and is posted on the diocesan website, but not included in the delegates packets due to the brief time between the Synod issuing its invitation and the beginning of this Convention. Therefore, Resolution II was distributed to the Convention this morning. I'll now read the text of Resolution II for the benefit of our visitors and observers.

Resolution II A Response to the Invitation of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone Whereas, it is the resolve efthe Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth to remain within the family of the Anglican Communion while dissociating itself from the moral, theological, and disciplinary innovations of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America; And whereas, the Synod of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, meeting Nov. 5-7, 2007, voted to "welcome into membership of our Province on an emergency and pastoral basis" those dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America who share this resolve; Therefore, be it resolved, that the 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth extend its sincere thanks to the Synod of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, and to its Primate, the Most Reverend Gregory J. Venables, for the generous and fraternal invitation to join their Province;

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And, be it further resolved, that the Bishop and Standing Committee prepare a report for this diocese on the constitutional and canonical implications and means of accepting this invitation.

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, and now will Bishop Lyons address us in a way that might be most helpful for the Convention."

Bishop Lyons: "Hola. By an overwhelming majority the Synod of the Province of the Southern Cone has invited those dioceses in the United States who feel that they can't continue to participate in the Episcopal Church to seek emergency and pastoral covering in the Anglican Communion under our Province for the time being on an emergency and pastoral basis. Covering, which will allow you, or them, to remain part of the Anglican family. This is not seen as something that will last until Jesus returns necessarily, but will be a help to those dioceses in the United States who feel they cannot continue in the Episcopal Church. This idea wa.S discussed between Bishop Gregory and the Archbishop of Canterbury in September. Bishop Gregory received a positive response, at that point, from the Archbishop of Canterbury. So I think that pretty much speaks for itself."

Bishop Iker: " The question about vestries, elections, women deacons, the Synod was discussed?"

Bishop Lyons: "Yes, all of that. The way that the government of the Southern Cone is accomplished, because we are a different country, each dioceses has its own national law and of course Canons, and so the Primate is a Presiding Bishop, is not jurisdictionally in charge and so the diocesan Canons are really those by which its diocese is governed and the Province doesn't interfere with those diocesan laws. So your Diocesan Canons would really regulate how you live together, as far as that goes."

Bishop Iker: "So questions have been raised about who can be on vestries, lay readers, representatives, Prayer Book usage, Ordination process, all that would be under each dioceses? Is that correct? And not interfered with by the Synod"

Bishop Lyons: "That is correct."

Bishop Iker: "I don't know if that answers questions that some members may have, but we are going to keep the Bishop on hand, he has to leave here pretty soon. We are going to keep him here to answer questions as need be. Those who wish to speak to this Resolution, go to the appropriate microphone. Does anyone wish to speak on Resolution IT that is before you? Are you getting tired of talking and debating? Yes, Father."

Fr. Barber: "Yes, I am. Rt. Rev. Sir, I'm going to vote against this, but I wanted to thank you for your offer and your hospitality. I wanted to say that some of us who are going to be voting against this, I hope you won't take that as a reflection on you, but some of us feel like we are called to stay in the Episcopal Church and to be voices of reason and theological conservatives, and so we'll be voting against this, but many of us will thank you for your jester and your outreach."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Fr. Kingsley: "Rt. Rev. Sir. I am in support of this Resolution, and beyond that, I am here to express my profound gratitude and on behalf of my mission as well. My gratitude goes to the Province of the Southern Cone for the hospitality, for the extension of their brotherly hand to this diocese, at this time. And as the good Bishop has stated, this is just for the situation that we have found ourselves in. This is not a permanent arrangement. This is for the time such as this. I do certainly believe that this is the right thing to do, and I am going to vote in support of this and also with gratitude to the good Bishop of the Southern Cone. Thank you for sheltering us."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side."

Kathleen Wells: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I will make this very short. I object to the Resolution specifically, because it is based in part on erroneous findings related to the House of Bishops within the Episcopal Church. In fact, a report from the joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultant Council and the Primates .....

Bishop Iker: "Excuse me. I will rule out of order debating the Resolution adopted by the Southern Cone that the only Resolution before us is proposed Resolution II, so the substance of their Resolution is not under our review. Thank you."

Kathleen Wells: "Okay, thank you, if I could argue against it, just to reiterate the points already made related to the illegality of this motion as well as the sin~ere concern for discipline of clergy who support this Resolution."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, thank you. Anybody who wishes to speak in favor?"

Matthew Clemons: "Rt. Rev. Sir and members of the delegation. I just feel like it needs to be clarified that we are not voting to join the Southern Cone, but even those who feel that it would not be a good move, should probably welcome what the resolution says, and that's to be provided with a report about canonical implications, and so I just feel that I would like to share that. That we're voting to receive a report from the Standing Committee and the Bishop."

Bishop Iker: "Yes, thank you. It's helpful clarification. It's asking the Bishop and the Standing Committee to explore the offer that's been made and report back to this Convention about constitutional and canonical implications and so on. Oppose."

Reg Wilson: " Bishop Iker~ I'm from the great parish of All Saints', Wichita Falls, Texas. I rise as a loyal member of the Church in opposition to this proposal and ask you to take into consideration certain things. As you recall, in the 1860's the southern states decided they could secede from this union and 600,000 thousand bodies, dead bodies later, found out they could not The only people who can top that as far as the number of dead bodies would be the schismatic of the middle ages. I'm not equating this proposal with that, but we had a history lesson, I wanted to remind us of that history. Secondly, I want to remind us of our need under the millennium development goals to foster equality amongst women and ratification against poverty, as well as being good stewards of our planet. First, I would suggest having the bishop and his staff fly to

76 141-252083-11 the southern cone amidst a great deal of nocuous gases into the atmosphere, which I am opposed. Secondly, I noticed that the :figure of$25,000.00 proposed for litigation and I would suggest that this Convention consider this just as the military does any operation for the worse case scenario. And I don't know whether this Convention is willing to saddle each of these individual parishes with the legal fees that will be incurred in litigation arising from this. I would suggest millions. I for one in my parish know we cannot afford that. I would suggest an alternative course, and I would suggest a rejection of this amendment and resolution. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Proposing side."

Fr. John Jordan: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I call the question."

Bishop Iker: "The question has been called. Is it seconded? All in favor of terminating debate on Resolution II, say I, opposed no. So ordered. Debate is terminated. We are now voting on the adoption of Resolution II as before you. All in favor of adoption, say I, opposed no. The motion carries and is adopted. Thank you very much. Bishop Lyons would you like to be excused now so you can get your things together, or would you like to sit around and listen to us talk about the budget? Thank you very much. That concludes the report of the Resolutions Committee; we express our gratitude to Fr. Young. The next report is the report of the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, Dr. Frank Salazar, the president will be speaking to us. In your packet there is a written report summarizing the past year. lfl could have on deck, up here close, Brian Pickard to speak for Canterbury House at UTA, Fr. Jonathan, and Fr. McClain, if you have anything to say about your campus ministries, you'll be next. And that will be followed by the report on Christian Education, Kristy Leaseburg.

Dr. Frank Salazar: "Rt. Rev. Sir." Report on The Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (Written report included in the report section of this journal)

Bishop Ik.er: "Thank you and thank you to the Trustees for their service. Next on the agenda is the report from the Canterbury House ministries. For what purpose does the delegate arise?"

Kathleen Wells: "For a point of order. Sir, what is the procedure by which to object to the report for the Corporation."

Bishop Iker: "On what basis?''

Kathleen Wells: "For its incompleteness."

Bishop Iker: "Incompleteness?"

Kathleen Wells: "Yes sir."

Bishop Iker: "Go ahead. We will hear you out."

Kathleen Wells: "Thank you, sir. I rise in opposition to the report for the Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. For one thing, nowhere in this report does it disclose the

77 141-252083-11 significant action taken by the Board on August 15, 2006, some 14 months ago, related to substantial amendments to the Articles of the Corporation of the entity. That not only was not addressed at the last Convention of this diocese, but it's totally silent at the report given to this Convention this year. It also doesn't state what types of action have been taken related to the real property that the Corporation holds in trust for each of our parishes. It also doesn't state, and is completely silent as to the value of the real property that is being held by the Corporation. It only addresses certain funds. It's completely silent as to the millions and millions of dollars that it holds related to diocesan real property. I request that the report be withdrawn, that it not be accepted. That the Corporation be required to make a full disclosure of the significant actions it has taken as fiduciaries for the parishes in this diocese, and for the Episcopal Church. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, thank you. I am going to accept the report with our thanks. Note the dissatisfaction of the delegate who just spoke, that it is not as complete as she would like it. I've received a letter from the vestry at Trinity Church asking for additional information from the Corporation and I have forwarded that to the Corporation for their board meeting on the 26th. The members of the board who are here have heard your concern and will address it Obviously, there is no way anybody could give this Convention today the total worth of all the properties held in this diocese. That's a big undertaking. Is there any other way that I can respond to that Dr. Salazar? Is Mr. Virden here, the secretary of the Corporation? Walter or Dr. Salazar do you care to make any response?"

Dr. Frank Salazar: "Rt. Rev. Sir, the materials, the by-laws, etc. from the Corporation of course are not secret. They are not hidden from anyone in the diocese. The things can be made available, for instance, Trinity, but it cannot be done at this Convention. We will take this up at our next board meeting, and after that meeting we will get back to them as soon as possible."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, Mr. Virden, do you wish to add anything?"

Walter Virden: "No, I would just echo what Frank has said."

Bishop Iker: "Can someone help me, because I don't know where it is right away, but where is it in the Constitution and Canons that the Corporation makes a report to the Convention? The question is, and Mr. Kensel is here, as well, the first chancellor. Where could I find in the Constitution and Canons the provisions that the delegate has raised about report to Convention? I'm going to move ahead with the Canterbury ministry reports and come back to the concerns raised by the delegate who just spoke."

Brian Pickard: "Rt. Rev. Sir. Report on St. Anselm-UTA (Written report is included in the report section of this journal)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you for the ministry you have completed there and God bless you in the ministry that you seek to pmsue as an aspirant."

Fr. Jonathan Ogujiofor: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and delegates to Convention. It is no small honor or privilege for me to stand before you every year, for the past 10 years, to give you a report on

78 141-252083-11 the college ministry at TCU. Our mission at TCU is to help nurture and enrich the spiritual life of our young adult Episcopal students. It is to help Christian students stay Christian in college, and enable those who are not Christians to find Christ. The Canterbury ministry brings fresh perspective to the meaning of redemption to students who are seeking to enlarge their faith. While we strain ourselves to educate and acquire knowledge and skill necessary for our future, it is also prudent to make provisions to acquire knowledge for our faith, after all, how can a young woman or man keep his/her will pure? Is it not by getting it according to the word of God, as it says in Psalm 119:9. A few years back, college ministry at TCU use to be exciting, use to be pleasant. If you dispute that, ask Fr. Jones or Fr. Chris Culpepper. In a certain year, we were able to present about six students for confirmation in one service alone. Up to three priests in the Episcopal Church today emerged from the ministry at TCU. In some years we had enough students to participate in community efforts, such as Gospel Union Mission, Habitat for Humanity, Food Bank, etc. But some things are not quiet right. In the past two years, because of the emergency situation with our beloved Episcopal Church, the effects of the campus ministry at TCU have deemed us. Many Episcopal students have gone underground, and refuse to be identified with the Episcopal ministry. Some have even abandoned denomination loyalty, and have crossed over to other denominations so as not to be stigmatized one way or the other. It has become a challenge and a struggle to gather enough brave Episcopalians for song, praise, worship and enjoyable community services. Nonetheless, we still meet every Thursday at 5:30 pm in the student center, room 201. We enjoy pizza and sodas. We are using a book titled, How to Remain Christian in College by an author I cannot pronounce. I will spell it and you can pronounce it any way you want to. Budziszewski. I cannot pronounce it. I thought pronouncing Ogujiofor was hard until I saw this name. There are three students who come consistently and four who are very regular, but we have to work with what God gives us. We do not miss a beat. Sometimes a small number is an advantage for in depth ministry and witness to the grace of God in Christ. Despite all these challenges, we cannot quit. We cannot give up. Our efforts have yielded us fruits in the past, we know our God will be able to do even more abundantly than we can ask or imagine."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Fr. Jonathan. I would like to ask Kristy Leaseburg to come forward while I will now try and respond to the concerns raised by the delegate from Trinity Church. I'll refer you to Canon 17. You may not have it with you, I understand that, but the germane parts are the last two sections. Sec. 17.4 The Board of Trustees shall adopt its own by-laws and shall elect such officers as its by-laws may require.

Sec. 17.5 The Board of Trustees shall submit a report at each Annual Convention covering its operations for the preceding fiscal year and showing its financial condition. If and when required by the Standing Committee of the Diocese, the Board of Trustees shall make such additional reports and furnish such additional information as may be requested. The books and records of the Board of Trustees shall at all times be open for inspection and examination by the Standing Committee of the Diocese or its representatives.

So it appears to me that the by-laws are the concern of the Corporation, not the Convention. And that the request for additional information comes from the Standing Committee, not from the Convention. That being said, I have already forwarded the request from Trinity Church vestry for

79 141-252083-11 additional information to the Corporation, and they will be responding to that. If the Standing Committee wants additional information to be brought to next year's Convention, then the request would originate with them. Okay, thank you for raising the concern and we will try an address it the best we can. Kristy Leaseburg, chair of the Christian Education Commission."

Kristy Leaseburg: "Rt Rev. Sir, ladies and gentlemen of the clergy and the laity. Report on the Christian Education Committee (Written report is included in the report section of this journal)

Bishop Iker: ''Thank you. Excellent work from the Commission on something that is very important to all of us and I certainly want to give my whole heart support to the conference that Kristy is hosting next month. The Episcopal Church Women's Report will be given by the ECW president, Mary Sue Coffman.

Mary Sue Coffman: "Rt. Rev. Sir, members of Convention and distinguished guests." The Report on The Episcopal Church Women (Written report is included in the report section of this journal)

Bishop Iker: ''Thank you Mary Sue. You've had a wonderful term as president and we are very grateful for your leadership and service and hats off to all the members of the cabinet who have worked so hard throughout the past year. Congratulations to Gay as she begins her new term at the first of the year. We have a report from the tellers committee on the last ballot.

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir. The results of the third ballot are as follows. The proposed Amendment D Article I Anglican, those voting in favor, 69 clergy; those voting against 14. There were 83 valid ballots. In the lay order, there were 123 valid ballots. Those voting in favor 95, those voting against 28. The percentages are 83% of the clergy voted in favor, 77.2% of the laity.

In the next, proposed amendment E, Deputies to Extra Provincial, 69 in favor in the clergy order, 14 against. In the lay order, 98 in favor, 25 against. That represents 83% of the clergy and 79.7% of the laity voted in favor.

In the third, proposed Amendment F, Article 18, Changing the Canons, 69 clergy in favor, 14 against. In the lay order, 96 in favor, 27 against. That represents 83% of the clergy and 78% of the laity voted in favor.

The last one, Article 13, a second reading on the Sea City, 75 clergy voted in favor, 8 clergy voted against. In the lay order, 107 voted in favor, 16 voted against. That represents 90.3% of the clergy and 87% of the laity voted in favor of the second reading of Article 13. Rt. Rev. Sir, we submit our report"

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much and hats off to you and the deacons who helped with a very difficult and involved process today. Report on the Ministry on the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse chaired by Fr. Bye."

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Fr. Bye: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates and clergy. I come before you today for this report on Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse is the way its styled in our agenda today, I thought about that when I looked at it and I thought you know, we probably ought to restyle that and state it as a report on the Recognition and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, not so much the prevention, but the recognition and treatment. The reason I say we need to be dealing with the recognition and treatment of alcohol and drug abuse is because if you've got it, you've got it. The old saying is, is that you are born with it This propensity to abuse alcohol or drugs is with an individual from birth, so it's speculated. Well if that's true, those people who are suffering from it are suffering from an affliction in their lives, they are afflicted, as many other people are with other sins in their own lives; now this is also recognized as a disease. But it is also a sign of our fallingness and the problem that we deal with in this whole issue, is an issue of denial. And as the old saying goes, that's not just a river in Egypt, is it? Denial is at the heart of the problem that we have to deal with. It is a spiritual dilemma that we're involved with and the people who suffer from it, suffer from a spiritual dilemma and have a difficult time understanding in how this disease stands between them and God. That's why it's so terribly important for us in the business we're in, to recognize this and deal with it It's understood that the national statistics one in ten or 10% of the people in your congregation, are affected by this disease directly. If you talk about the number of families who are affected by it indirectly, the proportions go up to an astounding number. So it's something that needs to be dealt with in the Church and I want to thank the Bishop and numerous people in this diocese who recognize this and support us dealing with it. It is subtle, cunning, and baffling, and often times right before us, and we want to or tend to look . away and try to find some way not to have to deal with it. An interesting thing that I look at, and a solution to this problem is total abstinence. That is one suffers from a fallingness from an affliction like this and the answer is it is something they are born with, they can do nothing about, but they have an answer in that of total abstinence. Now isn't that interesting in relation to a lot of the discussions we are having today, and what they center around, and what's the solution for someone who suffers from the sin that they can do nothing about from none of their own fault. Well, alcohol and drug abuse, we say the answer is total abstinence. And people live with that affliction in their lives, yet they come to a place that they gain freedom. I hope that all of you keep it in mind. There are a number of people in the diocese that continue to be available to help us with it. Bill Parrott, at St Gregory's will continue to chair the Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Numerous other people are available if you are just not afraid to bring this problem to the surface and move out of that place of denial in your lives, if your family is touched by it and come into that place that Jesus Christ intended for us to be, and that is set free from those things that would drag us down and build us up in the body of Christ. And that's what this ministry is about, about building up the body of Christ. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Fr. Bye, allow me to make a personal word of appreciation for your • ministry and service in this diocese. Fr. Bye is retiring from the active ministry at the end of this month and I know from personal experience how helpful you've been to clergy families who have had abuse problems with their children. I don't know how we are going to replace you, so don't move to far away so we can have you come back as we need you. God bless you and thank you. The report of the treasurer, Mr. Virden."

Walter Virden: "Rt. Rev. Sir, members of the clergy, delegates and distinguished guests. Treasurer's Report (Written report is included in the report section of this journal)

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Cherie Shipp: "Sir, I am the treasurer of Trinity Episcopal Church. I have been a certified public accountant for 20 years. In my role as auditor for a national CPA firm for six years, a writer of materials for CPA's for 13 years and the comptroller of a large non-profit organization for two years, it appears to me that this budget is materially incorrect. As such, I would like to ask you specifically, the chancellor's expenses are $2000.00 last year, and they are budgeted at 25,000.00 for the current year. When I asked at the deanery meeting about those expenses I was told that none of those expenses, although they are legal expenses, have anything to do with litigation arising from this Convention and its actions. I believe that it would be at a minimwn that you would need to consult with attorney's during this next year based upon your positions, and as such, since it's a zero based budget, you will be materially out of balance no matter what the level of expenses are. Also, I believe it is possible to misestimate revenues in a material way and I am concerned that at least at the church level since assessments are done based upon cash receipts from the previous year, that the churches may experience a drop off in revenue that then may impact their ability to pay their assessments and I would ask you whether you have revised the budget based upon those items and in addition whether or not you have plans to revise the budget based upon any additional assessments to say a new province, such as the Southern Cone since currently you have $96,000.00 worth of expenses for the Network budgeted, but there are no additional budgeted expenses for assessments to another province. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Do you wish to address that?"

Walter Virden: "Well, I think it would be helpful if I just review the budget process that we go through. The preliminary budget is prepared by the diocesan staff. Janie Parrott is our business manager. The preliminary numbers are then passed on to the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee reviews them, makes changes, and comes up with a budget that is then passed on to the Executive Council, which consists of approximately 24 representatives from congregations throughout the diocese. The Executive Council finalizes the budget, submits it to the deaneries for review at the deanery meetings. illtimately, it arrives here at the Convention for approval, or disapproval. Along the way, there's ample opportunities for people to have input into the budget process. The actual request for budget proposal starts early in the summer, and continues on until the Finance Committee meets in August. The numbers have been gone over and reviewed many times. There has been ample time to ask questions. As a matter of fact, I believe you have asked some email questions of Janie, of which I collaborated with her, to try and respond to. The point is, the budget, as you well know as a CPA, I am also a CPA, a little bit older than you. Budgets are estimates. They are based on good faith estimates of what we anticipate as income and what we anticipate as out going expenditures. The interim between Diocesan Conventions, the Executive Council meets, any issues dealing with budgets shortfalls are dealt with at the Executive Council, which is a representative body of members of the diocese. Beyond that I can't speculate whether any of the numbers are overstated, understated, or anything else, but I hope that helps answer your questions."

Cherie Shipp: "May I ask for further clarification?"

Walter Virden: "Certainly."

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Cherie Shipp: "So you do not believe then that we will have one dollar of legal expenses in the next year that are not budgeted, because at this point, every dollar since we have zero based, it doesn't take long as you know to get materially out of whack and to require a person to have to reevaluate the program, and the staffing of an organization. So I am asking you, do you feel like since some of these items have come up subsequent to your preparation of the budget in July, is it where you would like to be? If you had created the budget today, knowing what you know today, would you feel comfortable that this is the right amount? Or should a revised budget be prepared?"

Walter Virden: "I feel comfortable with this budget or I wouldn't be up here presenting it, knowing that we do have safeguards incase we are under budget on legal, for instance. Over budget on revenues, we have a mechanism as to where we can address those concerns throughout the year, it's not like pass it now and this is it; live with it or else. We do have the Executive Council and they are the body that is charged with making the operating budget and monitoring it throughout the year."

Bishop Ik.er: "I appreciate your concerns. I think my response would be, it's not my intension to have the Executive Council to budget out of operating expenses, possible litigation costs. I wouldn ~t want to assess the congregations of the diocese to pay for lawsuits. I think that needs to be raised outside the operating budget, not assessed. And I think there are more than enough people in this diocese willing to support the diocese in litigation to make special contributions for that purpose. I don't think we should budget a million dollars for possible lawsuits, in other words. The other thing that I would suggest is that people don't give to a budget and they don't give to 'what ifs', people give to mission, ministry, and a vision for the kingdom of God. And the people in your congregation give on that basis, and if they see the parishes of this diocese committed to mission, ministry, and outreach, and their church is edifying them, they are going to be generous in their giving. The only way the diocese has to budget itself is a portion of what each parish receives, comes to the diocese through assessments. We do have a few people who make contributions directly to the diocese, but we don't have pledges or pledge income to the diocese from individuals. It comes from parishes. So if parishes suffer consequences and have to cut back, then obviously the diocese is not going to spend money we don't have. But the way that's addressed is by the Executive Council who is authorized by the Canons to make adjustments in the budget as the year progresses, based upon unforeseen circumstances. I really appreciate you raising the question, but I don't know how more to respond to it We've budgeted the best we can, based upon what's happened. We can't project what might happen, but we're not going to budget for possible litigation in operating budget."

Walter Virden: "I would also thank you and encourage you to continue asking questions because it is helpful."

Bishop Iker: "Fr. Barber is on the Executive Council, so talk to him every time before and after he gets back about what we're doing about the budget. Any other questions or comments on the budget?"

Lynne Minor: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I have been asking for two years for a break down of the money that we give to the Anglican Network Commission, and I would like to know why we are not

83 141-252083-11 given a break down of the programs, I mean I have a list of the programs that they support, but there is not a money budget breakdown of how that money is spent and maybe most people wouldn't think that $96,000.00 is a lot of money, but I think it is and I would like to know how it's spent, because it is part of my money."

Bishop Iker: "Have you ask the Anglican Communion Network to give you a copy of their budget."

Lynne Minor: "I have."

Bishop Iker: "And they haven't answered?

Lynne Minor: "I've looked on their network, I've asked your office several times and have not been satisfied with a complete answer. I can go on the National Churches .....

Bishop Iker: "But that's not your question of the National Church; you're questioning the network. The Finance Committee gets budget requests from everything we fund outside the diocese and I mean we've got it, we've got a budget from the Airport Ministry, Habitant for Humanity, all kinds of things that we support outside the diocese, but those figures are available. We have not distributed at this Convention all the budgets of all the organizations that the diocese supports. I'm happy to respond to your question if you particularly want to see the information that the Anglican Communion Network submitted in the budget process.

Lynne Minor: "I would like that, yes, please."

Bishop Iker: "Good deal."

Lynne Minor: "I have asked for it several times and I've never gotten it, so I would appreciate it."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, thank you. Would anybody else wish to speak to the budget?

Gloria Long: "Rt. Rev. Sir, since we are so much about mission, in preparing for the Convention, I noticed in the 2006 budget we had $25,000.00 for planting new missions in the Eagle Mountain and Crowley areas. As far as I know, there are no missions in those areas yet. There is another $20,000.00 in this year's budget for planting new missions. Does that mean we now have $45,000.00 to work with for those missions, or how does that work?''

Walter Virden: "I am happy to report that we are in negotiations to buy a tract ofland in that area. The money that's set aside in each annual budget is not the money that it takes to plant a mission. That's the money it takes to operate a mission once it is established. The monies, it takes approximately $100,000.00 to provide a priest, rent facilities and so forth. The money you see in the budget this year is being accumulated in special funds so that when we have the land bought and we are ready to start the mission, we will have upstart money to get it going."

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Gloria Long: "Can you tell me if that is the Eagle Mountain area or Crowley or both? Where are you looking?"

Bishop Iker: "The piece of property that we are looking at, we've made an offer on, is ten acres where the new Hwy121 expressway to Cleburne is, it's at the intersection ofHwy 121 and that main crossroad that goes to 1187. There is a house there that could be used for a vicar, there is a large building that use to be a dance studio and could be used for a Church. There are some other buildings on the property, but if we do this, we don't think we are going to need ten acres in time for a Church, it's usually about five, so we hope in time we might sell half of it and use that to recoup some of the money we put into the land. But the money that is going into the budget for new Church start, is being accumulated and will be used for both land purchases and for the salary of a new priest. If we were going to budget for a new priest, just to go in there and start a new Church, we are talking more about a package of$65,000.00 or $75,000.00 and there's been no point in the last few years where we thought we really were convinced that we needed to budget that. If we get the land, then you may expect in next year's budget there could possibly be a line item for the full package for a priest to do it Yes, the money is held and designated for that new Church start."

Gloria Long: "Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, are we prepared to vote on the purposed budget?

Judy Mayo: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I just wanted to thank Walter Virqen and Fr. Stainbrook and so many people who have worked so hard on the budget, I know that at our deanery meeting last year and this year, there were some very good questions about the budget and they were researched in great detail. I know that a couple of years ago, I had a couple of questions and I found some helpful answers. I do appreciate their time. I do know that there is so many hours that go into this sort of information that is very helpful so that when one does have a question, so I just wanted to commend them and thank them for their assistance."

Walter Virden: "Thank you, Judy."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the 2008 proposed budget be adopted.

CARRIED

Walter Virden: "The next part of the budget is probably the most important part and that's how we fund it The assessment formula for 2008 has been passed around in packets. We are happy to report; on the first $50,000.00 of average parochial income the assessment formula is being reduced from ll.5 to 11%. The amount above the $50,000.00 will stay at the 16.5%. I so move."

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Bishop Iker: "So it is moved and is properly before you, but every congregation in the diocese is getting a reduction of assessment and we continue to hope to move to 10% for that first $50,000.00, but we will see how it goes. Any questions about the assessment formula? Thank you Mr. Virden. I appreciate it. Okay, in the interest of moving things along, the last item on the agenda are courtesy resolutions, I'm getting tired, I don't know about you all, to hasten things along, would it be possible for me to ask that all the courtesy resolutions be read and then voted on together as a body? I don't mean any disrespect to anyone who may be commended, but we will read them all and vote on the body at the conclusion of the report."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the 2008 Assessment Formula be adopted.

CARRIED

Fr. Robert Young presented the Courtesy Resolutions.

COURTESY RESOLUTION I Host Parish

WHEREAS, the Opening Eucharist and Opening Session of the 25TH Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has been hosted by All Saints Church, Fort Worth, and

WHEREAS, the worship and opening session of the Convention was greatly enhanced by the beautiful nave and sanctuary, liturgical ministers, and splendid facilities at All Saints Church, and

WHEREAS, the participation and expertise of the staff and volunteers of All Saints Parish provided a truly hospitable atmosphere,

WHEREAS, the Parish Life Commission of All Saints Church provided delicious refreshments following the Opening Eucharist and before the Opening Session,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention express its appreciation to The Rev. Christopher Jambor, Rector ofAll Saints, his staff, the Parish Life Commission, and to all who were involved in making the Opening Session and Eucharist such an inspiring and joyful experience.

COURTESY RESOLUTION ll Convention Choir

WHEREAS, the Opening Eucharist of this Convention was greatly beautified by the lovely music provided by the combined musicians and choirs of All Saints (Ft. Worth), St. Andrew's (Ft. Worth), St. Vmcent's Cathedral, and St. Mark's (Arlington)

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BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this 25th Annual Convention express its appreciation to the choir directors and choristers ofAll Saints (Ft. Worth), St. Andrew's (Ft. Worth), St. Vincent's Cathedral, and St. Mark's (Arlington) for the melodious and moving music contributed to our Opening Eucharist.

COURTESY RESOLUTION lli Host Deanery & Diocesan Staff

WHEREAS, the 25TH Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has been hosted by the Fort Worth West Deanery, and

WHEREAS, the participation and expertise of the staff and volunteers of the Center for Ministry and of the Fort Worth West Deanery provided a truly hospitable atmosphere,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention express its appreciation to the Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell, Dean of the Fort Worth West Deanery, to the Diocesan Staff and to all who were involved in making this Convention such a profitable and joyous experience.

COURTESY RESOLUTION ill Companion Diocese of Northem Mexico

WHEREAS, The Diocese of Fort Worth and the Anglican Diocese of Northern Mexico have enjoyed a warm and mutually beneficial companionship for the last ten years, and

WHEREAS, the said relationship is nurtured through the support of the La Gran Familia home by the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Fort Worth,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Diocesan Convention re-affirm its solidarity with the Diocese of Northern Mexico and extends its greetings, prayers and pledge of continued support to Bishop Riveria and his See.

COURTESY RESOLUTION IV Companion Diocese of Northern Malawi

WHEREAS, The Diocese ofFort Worth and the Anglican Diocese ofNorthern Malawi have also enjoyed a warm and mutually beneficial companionship for the past ten years, and

WHEREAS, the said relationship continues to be nurtured through the Centurion Program and other donations of time, talent and treasure by the clergy, people and congregations of the Diocese ofFort Worth, and

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Diocesan Convention re-affirm its solidarity with the Diocese of Northern Malawi and extends its greetings, prayers and pledge of continued support to Bishop Boyle and his See.

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COURTESY RESOLUTION V World Mission Commission

WHEREAS, The World Mission Commission of this Diocese had taken leadership in the development of the Centurion Program, the Malawi 500 project and famine relief efforts in Northern Malawi, and

WHEREAS, the Commission has also fostered our ties with the Diocese of Northern Mexico, through the Centurion Program and other donations of time, talent and treasure by the clergy, people and congregations of the Diocese of Fort Worth, and

WHEREAS, the Commission has rendered an invaluable service to the Diocese of Fort Worth in keeping us ever-mindful of the importance of outreach,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this 25th Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth thanks and commends the Chairman of the World Mission Commission, Mrs. Lollie Twyman, and the other members of the Commission for their tireless efforts at deepening our companion diocese relationships.

COURTESY RESOLUTION VI Bishop & Mrs. Davies

WHEREAS, The Rt. Rev' d A. Donald Davies is the founding Bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Davies served our Lord for fifteen years as Chief Pastor and Shepherd of this diocese and of our sister Diocese of Dallas,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, this 25th annual Convention extends greetings, gratitude and our heartfelt expression of love to Bishop and Dr. Mabel Davies.

RESOLUTION VII Bishop & Mrs. Pope

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev' d Clarence Pope faithfully served our diocese as Chief Pastor and Shepherd for ten years, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Pope and Martha continue to be much loved by the people of this Diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, This 25th Annual Convention extends greetings, gratitude and our heartfelt expression oflove to Bishop and Martha Pope.

COURTESY RESOLUTION Vlli Bishop & Mrs. Wantland

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev' d William Wantland continues to honor us by his counsel, support, prayer and presence as our Assisting Bishop, and

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WHEREAS, his ministry and has benefited this Diocese and its people in countless ways, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Wantland and his wife Jan are most highly appreciated, cherished and valued by this Diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention extends its greetings, gratitude, and heartfelt expression of love to Bishop and Jan Wantland,

COURTESY RESOLUTION IX Bishop Iker

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev' d Jack Leo Iker has served faithfully as Bishop in the Diocese ofFort Worth since his consecration in 1993, insuring that this diocese does continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship by guarding the faith and morals of the historic one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, and

WHEREAS, he has manifested the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, great high priest of our confession, and Bishop of our souls in both his life and ministry, and

WHEREAS, the Church is called to stand firm in "the faith once delivered to all the saints", and to proclaim the Gospel to all people at all times,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this 25th Annual Convention extends our ongoing gratitude for our Bishop's powerful and courageous example and witness in the faith, and that we renew our commitment to stand with him and support him in his ministry.

COURTESY RESOLUTION X Donnalker

WHEREAS, Mrs. Donna lker has provided invaluable support and encouragement to our Bishop through out his episcopate, and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Iker has also given superior leadership to the clergy wives of this diocese these past 14 years,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its deepest appreciation to Mrs. Donna Iker for her help and support of our Bishop's ministry and for her own ministry to the Diocesan family.

COURTESY RESOLUTION XI Canon Hough

WHEREAS, the Rev' d Canon Charles Hough has provided thirteen years of exemplary years of exemplary and devoted service as Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of Fort Worth, and

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WHEREAS, he has served faithfully and well the priests, people, parishes, and missions of this diocese, and

WHEREAS, his expertise and leadership has complimented the ministry of our Bishop and been a source of strength for m any in the diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and gratitude to Canon Hough for his faithfulness, leadership, and resolve as Canon to the Ordinary.

COURTESY RESOLUTION m Staff of the Center for Ministry

WHEREAS, the Diocesan Center for Ministry has been blessed with extraordinarily talented, hard-working, and dedicated staff members, and

WHEREAS, the Staff of the Center for Ministry has labored tirelessly throughout the past year to support the ministry of the Bishop, Clergy, and People of this Diocese, their various Committees and Commissions, and

WHEREAS, the Staff of the Center for Ministry has also labored selflessly and tirelessly to facilitate this Convention,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation the entire staff of the Diocesan Center for Ministry.

COURTESY RESOLUTION mi Canon Boyd

WHEREAS, the Reverend Canon Billie R. Boyd has served for the past 5 years as the Bishop's Chaplain to the retired Clergy and their families, and

WHEREAS, Canon Boyd's ministry has been a great comfort, consolation, and strengthening of the retired Clergy and their families,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Reverend Canon Billie Boyd for his ministry to the retired Clergy and their families.

COURTESY RESOLUTION XIV Guest Speaker

WHEREAS, the Rigltt Reverend Frank Lyons, Bishop ofBolivia, has graciously consented to be our special guest for this Convention, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Lyons has served faithfully and well as Bishop of Bolivia,

WHEREAS, in his sermon and address Bishop Lyons wisely reminded us of the

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importance ofevangelism and commitment to send laborers into the harvest to further the cause of Christ, and to strive to proclaim the Gospel against all odds and opposition,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Right Reverend Frank Lyons for his inspiring words and presence among us.

CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, I want to echo everything that you have said. All those in favor of the commendations, appreciations, greetings, salutations, and other resolutions will signify by applause. That concludes the business to be brought before this 25th Annual Convention of the Diocese except for me to announce to you all that the 26th Annual Convention will be held on the 14th and 15th ofNovember, hosted by the Fort Worth East Deanery and the place yet to be determined. One more announcement."

Fr. Young: "For the Reverend Clergy, I have prepared a one page, two-sided summary of events at this Convention which you may use. I have enough copies for all the parishes if you want it. It's not full and complete, but should assist you if you want that help in summarizing for your parishioners what occurred at this Convention."

Bishop Iker: "That is very nice. How do they get it?"

Fr. Young: "Stop by the St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie table. You can run it off yourself for your congregation."

Bishop Iker: "How did you do that? Have you been typing everything as we went along?"

Fr. Young: "Magic fmgers, sir."

Bishop lker: "Thank you. That will be very helpful, because it is important that we all report back to our congregations. Let us stand to sing the doxology and have a concluding blessing. Delegates, take off your name tags and leave them at your table. We will use them again. This Convention is adjourned."

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ELECTION RESULTS

STANDING COMMITTEE Clerical member-The Vy. Rev. Christopher Cantrell Lay member- Mrs. Judy Mayo

GENERAL CONVENTION DEPUTIES Clerical members The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Vy. Rev. Ryan Reed The Vy. Rev. Christopher Cantrell The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hightower

Lay members Mrs. Judy Mayo Dr. Frank Salazar Walter Virden, III Mrs. JoAnn Patton

ECCLESIASTICAL TRIAL COURT Clerical member- The Rev. David Madison

TRUSTEE, UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Lay member- Mr. Kent Henning

Amended Canon 32 -adopted -Controversy Between Rector and Vestry Or Between A Parish and the Diocese clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 75 101 88% clergy/82% lay con: 10 22 two ballots were invalidated

Proposed Amendment A- defeated -Authority to General Convention clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 13 24 con: 71 99 84% clergy/80% lay

Proposed Amendment B-defeated -Title to Church Property clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 10 16 con: 75 107 88% clergy/87% lay

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Proposed Amendment C- adopted- Preamble clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 71 97 84% clergy/79% lay con: 14 26

Ballot 2 -afternoon

Proposed Amendment D- adopted as amended (italicized type) The Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth is a constituent member of the Anglican Communion, a Fellowship within the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, consisting of those duly constituted Dioceses, Provinces and regional churches in communion with the See of Canterbury, upholding and propagating the historic Faith and Order as set forth in the Old and New Testaments and expressed in the Book of Common Prayer. clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 69 95 83% clergy/77% lay con: 14 28

Proposed Amendment E -adopted -Deputies to General Convention clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 69 98 83% clergy/80% lay con: 14 25

Proposed Amendment F - adopted - Canons clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 69 96 83% clergy/78% lay con: 14 27

Second Reading: Amendment to Article 12 - withdrawn To reduce the number of deputies sent to General Convention to two in each order

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Second Reading: Amendment to Article 13 -adopted To allow the cathedral to be located in a community other than the see city clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 75 107 90% clergy/87% lay con: 8 16

Voting on the Proposed Resolutions Reference: Resolution 1 • Resolution 2

Resolution 1 -To thank the Archbishop of Canterbury's Panel of Reference for its work on our appeal passed by voice vote

Resolution 2- To thank the Province of the Southern Cone for its provision of pastoral and emergency care for Anglican dioceses at odds with their provinces, and to ask the Bishop and Standing Committee of this diocese to prepare a report on the implications of accepting this invitation. passed on voice vote

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Exhibit 4 - 2008 Convention

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TABLE OF CONTENTS THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

The Bishop Address ...... I Official Acts ...... 6 Nominations...... 8 Appointments...... 9 Canonical Clergy...... II Clergy Registered -Friday, Nov. 14th ...... 14 ClergyRegistered-Saturday,Nov.lsm...... 15 Delegates Registered- Friday, Nov. 14th ...... 16 Delegates Registered- Saturday, Nov. 15th...... 19 Committees...... 22 Proceedings ...... 23 Record of Opposition...... 62 Election Results...... 82 Bishop Godfrey's Sermon...... 86 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure ...... 92 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2007 ...... 96 Financial Statement -December 31, 2007 ...... 108 Proposed Budget for 2009...... 120 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2009 ...... 124 The 2009 Assessment Formula ...... 128

Reports...... 130 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Eastern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women Christian Education Commission World Mission Committee Canterbury Program - UTA University of the South Canterbury Program - TCU Committee for Hispanic Ministries Risk Management Committee Evangelism Report Armed Forces Report Church Pension Fund Cursillo and Renewal Center Report

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The Bishop's Address to the 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth

"Contending for the Faith"

November 15,2008

"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:2)

As we all know, this 26th annual meeting of our Diocesan Convention is anything but "business as usual." Through a long process of spiritual discernment and prayer over the past year and a half or more, we have come to this historic moment of decision making. The eyes of many others beyond our own diocese are upon us today, and we are deeply grateful for their prayers and support as we deliberate on the matters that are before us.

At our first Convention in 1982, we voted to accede to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and to "be admitted into union with the General Convention." Today, as a matter of conscience and conviction, we will vote to rescind that action and to align ourselves instead with an orthodox Province of the Anglican Communion, the Province of the Southern Cone.

I will not attempt to rehearse all of the reasons and explanations for this course of action. By now, we have heard them many times before, and most of us are tired of debating them. The clergy and lay delegates to this Convention are probably the most well informed and best prepared in the history of this diocese when it comes to the issues that are before us. I doubt that anyone's vote will be changed by any of the debates that take place here today. Our minds are made up. The time for discussion has come to an end, and the time for decision is upon us.

This past year has been a tense and at times contentious period in the life of our diocese. Every one of our congregations has engaged the controversies that are before us, some more than others. Most of our churches have hosted forums and conducted study groups on why we are doing what we are doing. Differences of opinion remain in our church family, but we cannot avoid the decision that is before us. Some can no longer remain within the structures of The Episcopal Church, and others cannot bring themselves to leave TEC, even though they may disagree with the direction it is headed. Some have encouraged us to stay and fight as the faithful remnant in TEC, to work for reform from within. I can only reply by quoting the saying that "the defmition of insanity is to keep on doing the same thing, expecting different results." The time has come to choose a new path and direction, to secure a spiritual future for our children and our grand-children.

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Today we shall make the decision in the only way we can- by the constitutional, legislative process of this Diocesan Convention, which is the only body that can speak with authority on behalf of all the congregations of this Diocese. No Vestry can override or disregard what is decided here today. Once the vote is cast, we have decided what we will do as a Diocese. If some must separate from the Diocese as a result, then so be it. But let the parting of the ways be as between friends in Christ, without rancor or ill will, without trying to punish or force one another to do what we cannot do.

I have chosen "Contending for the Faith" as the theme of this year's Convention, for it speaks to the heart of the matter that is before us. It comes from the Epistle of Jude, a letter written to warn the faithful against false teachers who had made their way into the church of the first century. Though we are not told much about the content of their teaching, we are told that they were immoral and covetous men, who rejected authority and created divisions in the Church of God. St. Jude urges his readers to "contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints" (verse 3) and to stand firm against false teaching and immorality. And so we shall at this Convention, for the controversies that surround us have to do with standing for the truth of the Gospel.

Our consistent witness in this Diocese over the past 26 years has been to contend for the catholic faith in the midst of a church that is increasingly unfaithful and disobedient to the Word of God - a church that has caused division and dissension both at home and abroad - a church that has tom the fabric of the Communion at its deepest level - a church that acts more and more like a rebellious protestant sect and less and less like an integral part of the one holy catholic and apostolic church. It is time to say enough is enough - we will have no more of this. To acquiesce is to allow the slow deterioration of the Biblical faith to continue. This diocese stands for orthodox Christianity, and we are increasingly at odds with the revisionist practices and teachings of the official leadership of The Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church we once knew no longer exists. To contend for the faith as traditional Episcopalians has brought us to this time of realignment in the Body of Christ.

The constitutional and canonical amendments proposed to this Convention offer us a faithful way forward as a traditional diocese of the Anglican Communion. First, we will separate from the errors of General Convention religion. Second, we will affiliate with an orthodox Province of the Anglican Communion. And third we will work with others in the Common Cause Partnership to establish a new Province of the Anglican Communion in North America. In fact, those efforts are already well underway. The future will not be easy, and many will oppose what we intend to accomplish. However, it is my conviction as your Bishop, having struggled with General Convention decisions for the past 16 years, that it is the best way forward for us as a faithful diocese. Now is the time to act.

I realize that for some of you this means that at the conclusion of this Convention, you will no longer recognize me as your Bishop and that the House of Bishops ofTEC will initiate plans to depose me as a Bishop of TEC. However, it is important to understand what such an action can do and what it cannot do. I cannot be un-ordained any more than I can be un-baptized. Holy Orders, like Holy Baptism, bestows an indelible character and imparts a grace that is irrevocable. A deacon, priest or bishop who is deposed may be deprived of exercising his ordained ministry

2 141-252083-11 in congregations of The Episcopal Church, but he is not thereby un-ordained or removed from Holy Orders. The clergy of this Diocese were ordained not just for The Episcopal Church, but for the one holy catholic and apostolic church. We are deacons, priests and bishops of the Church of God, not an American denomination. As the Preface to the Ordination Rites says on page 510 of the Prayer Book, "The threefold ministry is not the exclusive property ofthis portion of Christ's catholic Church." I can assure you that all the clergy of this Diocese, under the authority and protection of the Province of the Southern Cone, will continue to exercise our ordained ministry as deacons, priests and bishops in good standing in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Our Province will change, but the validity of our sacred orders will remain unchanged.

I am certain that in the months ahead, leaders of TEC will move to depose not only me, but every deacon and priest here present who votes for realignment at this Convention. Sad to say, some of you here in this Convention hall will cooperate with and facilitate those plans. It is my belief that such a course of action is not only unreasonable and uncharitable, but violates our ecclesiological understanding of what the Anglican Communion claims to be. If we are a worldwide Communion of Provinces who share a common faith, practice and ministry, then it does not make sense to depose clergy who move from one Province to another. No one is abandoning the Communion of the Church by realigning with another Province. The far better way to proceed would be for TEC to accept the fact that a realignment has occurred, to recognize the transfer of this Diocese to another Province of the Anglican Communion, and to wish us well in the name of the Lord. There is something deeply disturbing about a Church that would prefer to litigate and depose rather than to negotiate a peaceful, amicable separation among brothers and sisters in Christ who can no longer walk together.

I call upon the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church and her colleagues to halt the litigation, to stop the depositions, and to cease the intimidation of traditional believers. Instead, let us pursue a mediated settlement, a negotiated agreement that provides for a fair and equitable solution for all parties, and let us resist taking punitive actions against our opponents. Christians are called to work out our differences with one another, not sue one another in secular courts.

I call upon those who dissent from the decision we make today as a Diocese to remain as faithful worshipping members in your local congregation. If we could welcome diversity and still worship with those who disagree with us before this Convention, then surely we can continue to do so after this Convention. Your church family will still be there for you tomorrow and next Sunday and the Sunday after that. I urge you to remain fully active in your church home, where you have been nurtured and fed, where you are still wanted and loved. I urge you to resist the appeals to go off and find alternative meeting places so that you might worship separately from the rest of your parish family in the weeks ahead. Regardless of the decision of this Convention, there is no reason why we cannot continue to worship together in the future just as we have in the past. Let us strive to maintain the unity of the Spirit, in the bond of peace, in every congregation of this Diocese, where there is room for everyone.

Some have asked, "Will we still be Episcopalians after our realignment vote is taken?" And the answer is, "Well, yes and no- that all depends!" After all, no one can ''un-Episcopalian-ize" you, and no one is being kicked out of the family. We will still be The Episcopal Diocese of Fort

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Worth. We are not changing our name, because we are not changing our identity. We will still have an Episcopal form of polity, which means being in a church that is under a Bishop. We will continue to stand for what our forebears meant when they called themselves Episcopalians. But we will no longer be a part of the ecclesiastical structure sometimes known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, which is governed by the General Convention. TEC is not the only Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion, and it does not own the name "Episcopalian." There are the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, the Episcopal Church in the Philippines, and the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, to name a few. Members of those Provinces consider themselves Episcopalians, but not as members of TEC. In many parts of the world, the word Episcopal and the word Anglican are used interchangeably. You may have even visited a church in another part of the world, like near the Canadian border, where the church sign says "Anglican/Episcopal."

There are various groups of Lutherans- Missouri Synod Lutherans, Wisconsin Synod Lutherans, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America- but they all call themselves Lutherans, and rightly so. They simply are members of different jurisdictions or synods. The same may be said of Presbyterians and Baptists. There is more than one kind of Presbyterian or one kind of Baptist. They both have congregations that are under different judicatory bodies or conventions, but they are entitled to use the church family name that has been theirs over the decades. No one group owns the name, to the exclusion of others.

Regardless of what your vote will be at this Convention, if you want to continue to consider yourself an Episcopalian, by all means, do so. On the other hand, if that label embarrasses you or ifyou want to be free of it because of what it conveys or implies to others, then by all means, proudly call yourself an Anglican. You are entitled to either or both names. Perhaps you prefer to be called an "Angli-palian" or an "Epis-glican!" But to tell you the truth, God does not care so much about denominational labels and what the church sign says out front, as He does for what you believe in your heart, and profess with your lips, and show forth in your lives. And that, my friends, is why we are contending for the faith of the ages in the stance we take at this Convention.

Several years ago my convention address focused on the theme, "The main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing." This is always a challenge for the Church and especially so in times of controversy. I would like to recall us to this theme when today's Convention concludes. The main thing for us, of course, is the saving mission of Jesus Christ in the world. We are a missionary diocese, and our focus is on bringing others into a life changing relationship with Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. I am grateful to Bishop Godfrey for the message in his sermon yesterday afternoon, that mission is the main thing. It has been encouraging over this past year to see how many of our congregations have remained mission focused in spite of the controversies that have distracted us. It was a joy yesterday to license and commission 13 people who have completed a course of training for Lay Mission Leaders. In the past year, missionary trips by a number of groups and individuals have gone out from Fort Worth not only to various parts of the United States, but also to other several other countries- to Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Thailand, Belize and Cambodia, just to name a few. May our new freedom in an orthodox, missionary Province, enhance and foster this kind of missionary zeal and enthusiasm.

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Here at home, within the diocese, I have rejoiced in a number of other signs of vitality and mission, such as the purchase of property for a new mission start in Crowley and the launching of the Christ the Redeemer church plant under the leadership of Fr. Chris Culpepper. We hope to seat them as a new congregation at our next Convention. It was a joy to worship with the people of St. Barnabas the Apostle in the first service in their new building in late August and to see evidence of what is surely a very bright future of missionary growth that is before them. Physical plant improvements have been completed at Iglesia San Miguel and are still underway at St. Alban's in Arlington. Significant building additions are nearly complete at St. Christopher's in Fort Worth and at the Church of the Ascension and St. Mark in Wise County. We commend each of these congregations on their expansion and growth.

In conclusion, I would underscore once again that the proposals before this Convention have one clear message: We here in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth intend to be who we have always been, to believe what we have always believed, and to do what we have always done. We are not going away, nor are we abandoning anything. We are not leaving the Church- we are the Church. We will remain an orthodox diocese of catholic Christians, full members of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Above all else, we remain committed to serving and obeying the Lord Jesus Christ, upholding the authority of the Holy Scriptures as the revealed Word of God and our ultimate authority in all matters of faith, morals and doctrine. I am proud and honored to be the Bishop of this Diocese, and I am deeply grateful for the courage and support of all of you in these challenging times. As we move forward with firm resolve and confident faith, I see a future full of promise and hope. We contend for the faith as we make our stand this day, trusting alone in the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and He will never fail us. Thank you, and God bless you in your witness.

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OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE BISHOP THE RT. REV. JACK LEO IKER November 11, 2007 through November 1, 2008

Acceptance of Postulants ...... 3 Acceptance of Candidates for Holy Orders...... 6 Acceptance of Renunciation of Ministry ...... 0 Ordinations to th.e Permanent Diaconate ...... 0 Ordinations to th.e Transitional Diaconate ...... 4 Ordinations to th.e Priesth.ood ...... 3 Letters Dimissory Sent ...... 3 Letters Dimissory Accepted ...... 5 Institutions ...... 3 Licensing of Clergy ...... 10 Consent to Elect a Bishop ...... 1 Consent to Consecration of a Bishop ...... 8 Consent to th.e Resignation of a Bishop ...... 1 Blessings, Dedications, and Consecration of Churches and Other Buildings ...... 1 Marriage Adjudications ...... 13 Annulment of Marriage ...... 1

6 Bishop's Official Acts .November-n,-2007 - .November I, 2UU8 141-252083-11 Parish/Mission BaDtisms Confirmations Reeentions Reaffirmation Alvarado, St. Anthony of Padua t 0 Arlillgtcln, St. Alban 3 11 1 I 16 Arlington, St. Mark 1 7 1 !) Arli11gton, St. Peter & St. Paul 8 2 10 ArliJ1gtOD, St. Philip the Apostle t 6 6 Bedford, St. Vincent 5 16 3 24 Bowie, St. Patrick t 0 Breckenridge St. Andrew 0 Brownwood Good Shepherd 2 1 3 Brownwood. St. John 0 Burkburnett, St. John the Divine t 0 Cleburne, Holy Comforter !) 5 1 15 Comanche St. Matthew's t 0 Dallas, St. Francis I 0 Dublin, Trinity t 0 Eastland, Holy Trinity 1 0 Fort Worth, All Saints 7 35 3 4 49 Fort Worth, Christ the King 4 3 7 Fort Worth, Holy Apostles 4 4 Fort W<>_rth, Il!lesia San Juan Aoostol t 16 12 28 Fort W~>_rth, I&esia San Mieuel 10 10 Fort Worth, St. Andrew 22 22 Fort Worth. St. Anne 21 1 22 Fort Worth, St. Barnabas t 1 11 2 14 Fort Worth, St. Christopher's 0 Fort Worth St. Elisabeth t 0 Fort Worth. St. John 1 1 I 3 Fort Worth. St. Luke-in-the-Meadow (see below) Fort Worth, St. Michael 0 Fort Worth. St. Simon ofCvrene 2 1 3 Fort Worth St. Timothy 4 4 Fort Worth, Trinity 5 22 4 1 32 Gainesville, St. Paul 0 Graham. Holy Spirit t 0 Granbury, Good Shepherd 1 3 1 5 Grand Prairie, St. Andrew 1 1 Grand Prairie St. Joseph t 0 Grapevine, St. Laurence 11 1 12 Hamilton, St. Mary t 0 Hen~ Trinitv t 0 Hillsboro St. Marv ... 0 Hubbard, St. Alban tt 0 Hurst. St. StePhen 7 1 8 Jacksboro, St. Thomas tt 0 Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake t 0 Mansfield, St. Gregory 6 6 Mineral Wells, St. Luke 0 Possum Kingdo111, St. Peter-by-the-Lake t 0 Southlake, St. Martin-in-the-Fields 1 7 1 9 S~henville St. Luke 7 1 8 Weatherford All Saints 0 Wichita Falls All Saints 0 Wichita Fails, Good Shepherd 0 Wichita Falls St. Stephen 0 Willow Park, St. Francis ofAssisi 0 Wise County, Ascension/St. Mark t (see below) Total: 25 253 42 10 330

The Rt. Rev. WiUiam C. Wantland I Wise County, Ascension & St. Mark t 1 1 2 Fort Worth, St. Luke-in-the-Meadow 2 2

Total: 1 1 2 4

Diocesan Total: 25 254 43 12 334

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THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2008

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONAIE The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2009) Jimmy Henry (2009) CHANCELLOR The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2009) William T. McGee, Esq. David Doremus (2010) Doris Gregory (2010) TREASURER The Rev. Ann Richards (2010) Walter Virden, III The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2011) The Rev. Sandra McCown (2011) REGISTRAR Lynn Stavinoha (2011) Susan F. Steele

HISTORIOGRAPHER CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Jason Bontke, Director Rod Barber, Chairman (2011) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION Jimmy Henry (2009) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Chuck Parmele (2009) Walter Virden, III (2013) Frank Wagnon (2009) The Rev. Joshua Whitfield (2009) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT The Rev. Stephen Jones (20 10) FOR THE EPISCOPATE Jane McManus (2010) Rod Barber (2009) The Rev. Stuart Smith (2010) JoAnn Patton (2010) Rob Shattuck (2010) Chad Bates (2011) Liz Jordan (2011) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Mr. Charles Warnky (2011) Walter Virden, III, Secretry (2013) The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2011)

THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2009) Gene Dugan (2009) Jo Ann Patton (2009) The Rev. Robert L. Young (2009) Susan Bradley (2010) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Mack Wood (2010) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2010) Tim Cox (2011) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2011) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2011) Toby Matocha (2011)

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THE BISHOP'S APPOINTMENTS 2008

PARLIAMENTARIAN COMMITTEE ON EvANGELISM Rickey Brantley The Very Rev. Scott Wilson

Assistant Secretaries Deans of the Diocese Susan Steele The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson Melody Mendolia Western Deanery Gala Pryor The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell Fort Worth West Deanery Assistant Treasurers The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III Eastern Deanery Jane R. Parrott The Very Rev. Andrew F. L. Bradley Southern Deanery Vice Chancellors The Very Rev. Scott R. W oaten Rickey Brantley Northern Deanery David Weaver The Very Rev. Christopher C. Stainbrook Dusty Filmore Fort Worth East Deanery

Alcohol and Drug Abuse Ministry Bill Parrott, Chair Barbara Bums Arts & Architecture Committee Judy Mayo Ted Mayo The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr., Chair JoAnn Haniman Judy Roberts Frank Sherwood Gale McRay Lois Smerlis Arthur Weinman Diane Snow Dave Bums Christian Education Committee Kristy Leaseburg, Chair Diocesan Altar Guild Directress The Rev. David A. Madison Sue Yarger The Rev. Jonathan Duncan Kathy Atwood The Church Pension Fund V eronique Duprey Ernest Chilton Susie Wheaton Douglas Dickerson Diocesan Liturgist DFW Airport Ministry The Rev. Timothy Perkins Captain George Midgley

Mission Strategy Committee The Commission on Schools The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr., Chair Tad Bird, Chair- All Saints, Fort Worth Mary Dickerson - St. Vincent's School, Bedford Communications Officer Tina Burris - St. Gregory, Mansfield Suzanne Gill

Ecumenical Officer The Rev. Roger Grist

9 The Bishop's141-252083-11 Appointments 2008 World mission Committee Risk Management Committee Lollie Twyman, Chair Rod Barber, Chair Peggy Bruce Don Bendure Barbara Hautanen The Rev. Canon Charles Hough Kristi Heffron Shae Lucabagh Sharon Kuykendall The Rev. David Madison The Rev. Sandra McCown Thorn Murrell David Morgan Janie Parrott Bill Parrott Ben Richards Debbie Petta The Rev. Mark Stockstill Debbie Popielarczyk The Rev. Mark Stockstill Constitution and Canons Committee William McGee, Esquire Committee for hispanic ministry Rickey Brantley, Esquire The Rev. Sergio Diaz, Chair N. Michael Kensel, Esquire Hortensia Atkinson The Rev. DeWayne Adams Cora Werley, Esquire Martina Alvarez David Weaver, Esquire Luther Atkinson The Rev. Dr. R. William Dickson Gilberto Hinojosa The Very Rev. Ryan Reed The Rev. Javier Loyo The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Burton A. Shadow Chad Bates Cindy Ruiz-Riquer Elizabeth Morris Spiritual Life Committee Salvadore Ordonez Charra Wright, Chair Ruth Smith Youth Ministry Advisory Committee The Rev. Timothy Matkin The Very Rev. Scott Wooten, Chair Cora Werley The Rev. John Jordan Michele Needham Amanda LoPalo Georgette Lopez-Aguado Edwina Rawlings Matt Maples The Rev. Patricia Banks The Rev. Lee Nelson Jim Stubblefield College Ministries The Rev. Nancy Weaver The Rev. Christopher Culpepper- TCU Maryellen Wellbaum The Rev. Timothy Matkin - UTA

Clergy Retirement Fund Board Walter Virden The Rev. Mark Stockstill Thorn Murrell Richard Kahle The Rev. Andrew Bradley Marsland Moncrief

10 141-252083-11 DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Canonical Clergy 2008 2 Bishops 107 Priests 13 Deacons

The Rev. De Wayne Adams, Vicar, Ascension/St. Mark, Wise County The Rev. Felix 0. Akinkugbe, Vicar- St. Philip the Apostle, Arlington The Rev. Radford B. Allen, Jr.- Retired The Rev. H. Jay Atwood- Rector, St. Francis of Assisi, Willow Park The Rev. J. Ronald Baker- Retired The Rev. James F. Barber- Rector, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. William P. Barrett- Retired The Rev. Ronald R. Baskin- Retired The Rev. Bryant C. Bechtold- The Rev. William R. Belury- Retired The Rev. William E. Blewett- Assistant, St. Laurence, Grapevine The Rev. Canon Billie R. Boyd- Retired The Very Rev. Andrew F. L. Bradley- Rector, Good Shepherd, Brownwood The Rev. Melvin A. Bridge- Chaplain, All Saints' Episcopal School, Fort Worth The Rev. Tommy F. Bye- Rector, St. Luke-in-the-Meadow, Fort Worth The Rev. Mark L. Cannaday - Retired The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell- Rector, Holy Apostles, Fort Worth The Rev. Richard A. Cantrell- Assistant, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. William C. Cantrell - Chaplain, USN The Rev. Norman J. Catir, Jr. -Retired The Rev. Bruce W. Coggin- Retired The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr.- Rector, St. Laurence, Grapevine (Southlake) The Rev. Christopher P. Culpepper- Curate, All Saints', Fort Worth The Rev. Canon James P. DeWolfe, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Sergio Diaz- Vicar, Iglesia San Miguel, Fort Worth The Rev. Dr. R. William Dickson- Rector, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Jonathan C. Duncan- Diocesan Curate, St. Alban's, Arlington The Rev. James A. Eanes- Assistant, St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie The Rev. David A. Edman- Retired The Rev. William Estes- Curate, Grace Church, Monroe, LA The Rev. Russell E. Fisher, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Randall Foster- Curate, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. W. Crews Giles- Non-parochial The Rev. Vernon A. Gotcher- Retired The Rev. Roger G. Grist- Rector, St. Anne, Fort Worth The Rev. Joel E. Hampton- Rector, St. Andrew's, Breckenridge The Rev. Louis H. Hayden, Jr.- Non-parochial The Rev. James A. Hazel- Non- parochial The Rev. John H. Heidt- Canon Theologian The Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Hightower- Rector, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. Bertrand N. Honea, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Charles A. Hough, IV- Diocesan Curate St. Mark's, Arlington The Rt. Rev. Jack Leo Iker- Bishop of Fort Worth The Rev. Efrain Huerta Fierros- Retired The Rev. Christopher N. Jambor-Rector, All Saints, Fort Worth The Rev. Cecil Dow James- Rector, St. Paul, Gainesville 11 141-252083-11 The Rev. Jon C. Jenkins- Rector, Christ the King, Fort Worth The Rev. Stephen W. Jones- Rector, Holy Comforter, Cleburne The Rev. Kingsley Obi Jon-Ubabuco- Vicar, St. Philip's, Arlington The Rev. John W. Jordan- Diocesan Curate, St. Vincent's, Bedford The Rev. Terence N. Jordan- Priest in Charge, St. Joseph's, Grand Prairie The Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy- Vicar, St. Patrick, Bowie, Trinity, Henrietta, St. Thomas, Jacksboro The Rev. Walter W. Kesler- Retired The Rev. David F. Klein -Rector, St. John, Fort Worth The Rev. William A. Komstedt, Jr. - Retired The Rev. Edward F. Kresowaty- Rector, St. Alban's, Arlington The Rev. Donald N. Kreymer- Retired The Rev. Jeffery A. Logan- Chaplain, U.S.N.R. The Rev. I. Javier Loyo- Vicar, Iglesia San Juan Apostol, Fort Worth The Rev. Kenneth W. MacKenzie, Jr.- Rector, All Saints', Wichita Falls The Rev. David A. Madison- Director of Religious Studies, All Saints' School, Fort Worth The Rev. V. Stanley Maneikis- Retired, Interim Priest, Christ the King, Fort Worth The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin-Assistant, St. Alban, Arlington The Rev. Sam McClain- Rector, St. Luke, Stephenville The Rev. Alan E. McGlauchlin- Retired The Rev. Richard E. McHenry - Retired The Rev. Robert 0. Mitchell- Priest in Charge, St. Anthony, Alvarado The Rev. Alex D. Moffat- Retired The Rev. Canon Courtland M. Moore- Retired The Rev. Quintin G. Morrow- Non-parochial The Rev. Davidson R. Morse- Associate Rector, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Lee M. Nelson- Diocesan Curate, St. Laurence, Grapevine The Rev. James U. Norwood- Assistant, St. Gregory, Mansfield Th~ Rev. Chad A. Nusbaum - Diocesan Curate, St. Peter and St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. Canon David E. Nyberg - Retired The Rev. William E. O'Connell- Interim Priest, St. Luke's in the Meadow, Fort Worth The Rev. I. Jonathan Ogujiofor- Rector, St. Simon, Fort Worth The Rev. Vance C. Page- Assistant, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. John D. Payne - Retired The Rev. Timothy P. Perkins- Rector, St. Mark, Arlington The Rev. John M. Phelps- Priest-in-Charge, Holy Spirit, Graham, St. Peter by the Lake, Possum Kingdom The Rev. Darryl J. Pigeon- Chaplain, All Saints' Upper School, Fort Worth The Rev. M. Gay land Pool - Retired The Rev. Steven M. Pope- Rector, St. Andrew's, Breckenridge The Rev. Thomas A. Powell - Retired The Very Rev. RyanS. Reed- Dean, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford The Rev. Frank B. Reeves- Retired The Rev. James R. Reynolds, Rector, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Southlake The Rev. James A. Rogers- Retired The Rev. Sampson Rogers - Retired The Rev. Zeke L. Rogers- Assistant, All Saints, Fort Worth The Rev. Joseph H. Schley, Jr.- Retired The Rev. Burton A. Shadow- Non- parochial The Rev. Marvin B. Shannon- Assistant, All Saints, Fort Worth The Rev. Jesse G. Smith- Retired The Rev. Stuart B. Smith- Rector, Good Shepherd, Granbury The Very Rev. Christopher C. Stainbrook- Vicar, St. Timothy, Fort Worth The Rev. William T. Stanford- Rector, St. Christopher, Fort Worth The Rev. John H. Stanley, Jr.- Retired

12 141-252083-11 The Rev. Mark A. Stockstill-Vicar, St. Matthew's, Comanche, Trinity, Dublin and St. Mary's, Hamilton The Rev. J. Stanley Sullivan -Retired The Rev. S. Philip Swickard - Retired The Rev. William J. Taylor, III- Assistant, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. Louis L. Tobola, Jr.- Vicar, St. Barnabas the Apostle, Fort Worth The Rt. Rev. William Wantland- Assistant Bishop The Rev. Joshua J. Whitfield- Rector, St. Gregory's, Mansfield The Rev. Canon Laurens R. Williams- Retired The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson- Rector, All Saints, Weatherford The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten- Rector, Good Shepherd, Wichita Falls

Transitional Deacon:

The Rev. Micah W. Snell- Curate, St. Mark's, Arlington

Deacons:

The Rev. Patricia A. Banks- Deacon, St. John, Brownwood The Rev. Lana K. Farley - Deacon, St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington The Rev. Dennis W. Helbert- Deacon, Good Shepherd, Brownwood The Rev. Sandra W. McCown- Deacon, Our-Lady-of-the-Lake, Laguna Park The Rev. Sharla J. Marks - Deacon, St. Elisabeth's, Fort Worth The Rev. George L. Milyiori, Deacon, St. Stephen, Hurst The Rev. Janet G. Nocher- Deacon, Trinity, Fort Worth The Rev. R. Mark Parker -Deacon The Rev. W. Ann Richards- Deacon, All Saints', Fort Worth The Rev. Susan E. Slaughter- Deacon, St. Luke-in-the-Meadow, Fort Worth The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade- Deacon, St. Vincent's, Bedford The Rev. Nancy S. Weaver- Deacon, St. Alban's, Arlington

Licensed Clergy 8 Priests 1 Deacon

The Rev. David Allen- Rector, St. Francis, Dallas The Rev. Richard N. Clark- Assistant, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Charles Erlandson- Student Ministries, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth The Rev. Michael Heidt- Supply Priest, Our Lady of the Lake, Laguna Park and St. Mary's, Hamilton The Rev. James T. Horton, Jr.- Priest in Charge, St. Elisabeth, Fort Worth The Rev. Timothy Kline- Retired The Rev. Nelson W. Koscheski- Priest-in-Charge, St. John's, Brownwood The Rev. Thomas Shepherd- Retired

Licensed Deacons:

The Rev. Donald Webb- Trinity, Eastland

13 141-252083-11 CLERGY REGISTERED AT THE 26TH ANNUAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION 11-14-08 Adams, De Wayne M. Nelson, Lee M. Atwood, H. Jay Norwood, James N. Barber, James F. Nusbaum, Chad A. Baskin, Ronald R. Nyberg, David E. Blewett, William E. O'Connell, Wiiiiam Bradley, Andrew F. L. Ogujiofor, I. Jonathan Bridge, Melvin A. Page, Vance C. Cannaday, Mark L. Perkins, Timothy P. Cantrell, Christopher T. Phelps, John M. Cantrell, Richard A. Pigeon, Darryl J. Cantrell, William C. Pool, Gay land M. Crary, Jr., William A. Pope, Steven M. Culpepper, Christopher P. Reed, Ryan S. Diaz, Sergio Reeves, Frank B. Dickson, R. William Reynolds, James R. Duncan, Jonathan C. Rogers, Zeke L. Eanes, James A. Shannon , Marvin B. Edman, David A. Smith, Stuart B. Estes, William T. Stainbrook, Christopher C. Fisher, Russell E. Jr. Stanford, William T. Foster, Randall W. Stanley, John H. Jr. Grist, Roger G. Stockstill, Mark A. Hampton, Joel E. Taylor, William J. Hazel, James A. Tobola, Jr., Louis L. Heidt, John H. Wantland, William Hightower, Thomas E. Whitfield, Joshua J. Hough, IV, Charles A. Williams, Laurens R. Jambor, Christopher N. Wilson, J. Scott James, Cecil Dow Wooten, Scott R. Jenkins, Jon C. Jon-Ubabuco, Kingsley Obi Deacons: Jones, Stephen W. Farley, Lana K. Jordan, John W. Banks, Patricia A. Jordan, Terence N. Marks, Sharla J. Kennedy, Thomas B. Milyior~ George L. Kessler, Walter W. Nocher, Janet G. Klein, David F. Slaughter, Susan E. Kresowaty, Edward F. Wade, Kerwin K. Logan, Jeffery A. Weaver, Nancy S. Loyo, I. Javier MacKenzie, Kenneth W. Transitional Deacon: Madison, David A. Snell, Micah W Maneikis, V. Stanley Matkin, Timothy M. Licensed Priests: McClain, Sam Allen, David M. McGlauchlin, Alan E. Erlanson, Charles McHenry, Richard E. Heidt, Michael Mitchell, Robert 0. Koscheski, Nelson W. Moore, Courtland M. Shepherd, Thomas E. Morse, Davidson R.

14 141-252083-11 CLERGY REGISTERED AT THE 26TH ANNUAL DIOCESAN CONVENTION 11-15-08 Adams, DeWayne M. Maneikis, V. Stanley Slaughter, Susan E. Allen, Radford B. Jr. Matkin, Timothy M. Wade, Kerwin K. Atwood, H. Jay McClain, Sam Weaver, Nancy S. Baker, Ronald J. McGlauchlin, Alan E. Barber, James F. McHenry, Richard E. Tmnsitional Deacon: Baskin, Ronald R. Mitchell, Robert 0. Snell, Micah W Belury, William R. Moffat, Alex D. Blewett, William E. Moore, Courtland M. Licensed Priests: Boyd, Billie R Morse, Davidson R. Allen, David M. Bradley, Andrew F. L. Nelson, Lee M. Erlanson, Charles Bridge, Melvin A. Norwood, James N. Heidt, Michael Bye, Tommy F. Nusbaum, Chad A. Horton, James T. Cannaday, Mark L. Nyberg, David E. Koscheski, Nelson W. Cantrell, Christopher T. O'Connell, William Shepherd, Thomas E. Cantrell, Richard A. Ogujiofor, I. Jonathan Cantrell, William C. Page, Vance C. Coggin, Bruce W. Payne, John D. Crary, Jr., William A. Perkins, Timothy P. Culpepper, Christopher P. Phelps, John M. Diaz, Sergio Pigeon, Darryl J. Dickson, R. William Pool, Gay land M. Duncan, Jonathan C. Pope, Steven M. Eanes. James A. Powell, Thomas A. Edman, David A. Reed, Ryan S. Estes, William T. Reeves, Frank B. Fisher, Russell E. Jr. Reynolds. James R. Foster, Randall W. Rogers, Zeke L. Giles, W. Crews Shadow, Burton A. Gotcher, Vernon A. Shannon , Marvin B. Grist, Roger G. Smith, Stuart B. Hampton, Joel E. Stainbrook, Christopher C. Hazel, James A. Stanford, William T. Heidt, John H. Stanley, John H. Jr. Hightower, Thomas E. Stockstill, Mark A. Hough, IV, Charles A. Swickard, S. Philip Jambor, Christopher N. Taylor, William J. James, Cecil Dow Tobola, Jr., Louis L. Jenkins, Jon C. Wantland, William Jon-Ubabuco, Kingsley Obi Whitfield, Joshua J. Jones, Stephen W. Williams, Laurens R. Jordan, John W. Wilson, J. Scott Jordan, Terence N. Wooten, Scott R. Kennedy, Thomas B. Kessler, Walter W. Deacons: Klein, David F. Farley, Lana K. Kresowaty, Edward F. Banks, Patricia A. Logan, Jeffery A. Marks, Sharla J. Loyo, I. Javier Milyiori, George L. MacKenzie, Kenneth W. Nocher, Janet G. Madison, David A. Richards, W. Ann

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DELEGATES REGISTERED ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14,2008

Alvarado, St. Anthony of Padua Brownwood, Church of the Good Shepherd James Vann Bob Beadel Ann Beadel Arlington, St. Alban Rilla Altman Brownwood, St. John's Keith Allen Jimmy Henry Don Wheaton Jim Hays Randy Sparks Susan Yarger Burkburnett, St. John the Divine Kerry Bell Arlington, St. Mark Walter Virden, Ill Cleburne, Holy Comforter Charles Shelor Dale Williams Rod Barber Arlington, St. Peter & St. Paul Kathryn Baker Lynn Stavinoha Caron Overbeek Comanche, St. Matthew's Toby Matocha Christopher Till Ruthie Baker John Hall Dallas, St. Francis (non voting) Stephen Chamblee Arlington, St. Philip the Apostle Bob Davis None registered Ray Pearce, Sr.

Bedford, St. Vincent's Cathedral Susana Laird Dublin, Trinity Thorn Murrell None registered Don Bendure Robert Boyer Eastland, Holy Trinity Ron Turner None registered Henry Craig Fort Worth, All Saints' Bowie, St. Patrick's John Burk None registered Robert Ferguson Carie Hollis Shannon Worrell Breckenridge, St. Andrew's Nancy Brackett None registered Glenda Ousley Jeffery Payne

16 141-252083-11 Fort Worth, Christ the King Fort Worth, St. Simon of Cyrene Hans Luthi Kushina White Andy Perrier Christy Jack

Fort Worth, St. Timothy's Fort Worth, Church of the Holy Apostles Mark Stewart Richard Weber Debbie Blount Jack Fry

Fort Worth, Iglesia San Juan Apostol Fort Worth, Trinity Fiorino Ruiz Kathleen Wells Margarita Munoz Burr Cordray Judy Graber Fort Worth, Iglesia San Miguel Charles Weidler None registered Steve Peglar Cherie Shipp Fort Worth, St. Andrew's Catherine Wehlburg Judy Mayo Marsland Moncrief Gainesville, St. Paul's Jo Ann Patton Grant Carson Martha Dowling Olin Ragsdale Chad Fillmore Graham, Church of the Holy Spirit Brad Bryan Fort Worth, St. Anne's Mack Wood Granbury, Good Shepherd Greg Ingram Fred Rauschuber Sam Pressler Jason Bontke Norm Snyder Fort Worth, St. Barnabas Julia Smead Grand Prairie, St. Andrew's Patricia McCarty Clyde Bargsley Donna Davis Fort Worth, St. Christopher's Mary Wooten Margaret Mieuli Tim Stevens Grand Prairie, St. Joseph's James Fogg Fort Worth, St. Elisabeth's Pam Yarborough Grapevine, St. Laurence Dessie Young Larry Votto Frank Pittman Fort Worth, St. John's Joan Miller Gerald Gregory David Bettis Melinda Woody Clay Slaughter Hamilton, St. Mary's Matthew Clemmons Nora Katherine Teague

Fort Worth, St. Luke's in the Meadow Hillsboro, St. Mary's Anne Clements None registered Brenda Hathaway 17 141-252083-11

Henrietta, Trinity Jo Williams Wichita Falls, All Saints' Thomas Garey Hurst, St. Stephen's Kay Stromberg Floyd McKneely Wichita Falls, Good Shepherd Carol McCoy Beverley Andrade Dorothy Eason Keller, St. Martin in the Fields Lisa Neilson Wichita Falls, St. Stephen's D J Mitchell None registered Shawn Rees Susan Reeves Willow Park, St. Francis of Assisi Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake Barbara Mills Gene Berryhill Larry Mills Philip Fraizer Mansfield, St. Gregory's Cheri Davis Bill Parrott Wise County, Ascension/St. Mark's Armand Auger Carolyn Peet

Mineral Wells, St. Luke's RafSeibert

Possum Kingdom, St Peter's by the Lake Bruce Camp

Richland Hills, St. Michael's Herbert Campbell

Stephenville, St. Luke's Malcom Cross Jane McClain Cissy Bramlett

Weatherford, All Saints' Susan Ross Charles Carroll

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DELEGATES REGISTERED ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15,2008

Alvarado, St. Anthony of Padua Brownwood, Church of the Good Shepherd James Vann Bob Beadel Ann Beadel Arlington, St. Alban Rilla Altman Brownwood, St. John's Keith Allen Jimmy Henry Paul Nelson Jim Hays Don Wheaton Randy Sparks Burkburnett, St. John the Divine Susan Yarger Kerry Bell

Arlington, St. Mark Cleburne, Holy Comforter Walter Virden, Ill Dale Williams Charles Shelor Rod Barber Kathryn Baker Arlington, St. Peter & St. Paul Lynn Stavinoha Comanche, St. Matthew's Caron Overbeek Christopher Till Toby Matocha Ruthie Baker Dallas, St. Francis (non voting) John Hall Bob Davis Ray Pearce, Sr. Arlington, St. Philip the Apostle John Onyejiaka Dublin, Trinity Bedford, St. Vincent's Cathedral Barbara Bryson Susana Laird Thorn Murrell Eastland, Holy Trinity Don Bendure Mickey Sargent Robert Boyer Ron Turner Fort Worth, All Saints' Liz Ward John Burk Robert Ferguson Bowie, St. Patrick's Carie Hollis JoAnna Kalhofer Shannon Worrell Nancy Brackett Glenda Ousley Breckenridge, St. Andrew's Jeffery Payne Greg Pitzer Sally Satterwhite

19 141-252083-11 Fort Worth, Christ the King Fort Worth, St. Simon of Cyrene Hans Luthi Kushina White Andy Perrier Christy Jack

Fort Worth, Church of the Holy Apostles Fort Worth, St. Timothy's Richard Weber Mark Stewart Jack Fry Debbie Blount

Fort Worth, Iglesia San Juan Apostol Fiorino Ruiz Fort Worth, Trinity Margarita Munoz Kathleen Wells Burr Cordray Fort Worth, Iglesia San Miguel Judy Graber Elizabeth Lundy Charles Weidler Steve Peglar Fort Worth, St. Andrew's Cherie Shipp Judy Mayo Catherine Wehlburg Marsland Moncrief Jo Ann Patton Gainesville, St. Paul's Martha Dowling Grant Carson Bare Hunter Charles Tate Chad Fillmore Graham, Church of the Holy Spirit Fort Worth, St. Anne's Brad Bryan Mack Wood Greg Ingram Granbury, Good Shepherd Sam Pressler Fred Rauschuber Jason Bontke Fort Worth, St. Barnabas Norm Snyder Julia Smead Patricia McCarty Grand Prairie, St. Andrew's Clyde Bargsley Fort Worth, St. Christopher's Donna Davis Margaret Mieuli Mary Wooten Tim Stevens Grand Prairie, St. Joseph's Fort Worth, St. Elisabeth's James Fogg Pam Yarborough Dessie Young Grapevine, St. Laurence Larry Votto Fort Worth, St. John's Frank Pittman Gerald Gregory Joan Miller Melinda Woody David Bettis Clay Slaughter Matthew Clemmons Hamilton, St. Mary's Nora Katherine Teague Fort Worth, St. Luke's in the Meadow Anne Clements Hillsboro, St. Mary's Brenda Hathaway George Harris

20 141-252083-11 Henrietta, Trinity Jo Williams Wichita Falls, All Saints' Hurst, St. Stephen's Thomas Garey Kay Stromberg Clara Latham Floyd McKneely Carol McCoy Wichita Falls, Good Shepherd Beverley Andrade Keller, St. Martin in the Fields Dorothy Eason Lisa Neilson D J Mitchell Wichita Falls, St. Stephen's Joel Walker Brent Walker Shawn Rees Susan Reeves Willow Park, St. Francis of Assisi Laguna Park, Our Lady of the Lake Barbara Mills Gene Berryhill Larry Mills Philip Fraizer Mansfield, St. Gregory's Cheri Davis Bill Parrott Wise County, Ascension/St. Mark's Cindy Baird Carolyn Peet

Mineral Wells, St. Luke's RafSeibert

Possum Kingdom, St Peter's by the Lake Bruce Camp

Richland Hills, St. Michael's Herbert Campbell

Stephenville, St. Luke's Malcom Cross Jane McClain Cissy Bramlett

Weatherford, All Saints' Susan Ross Charles Carroll

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Arrangements Committee 2()ih Annual Diocesan Convention

• Pre-Convention Matters- The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III

• Convention Host Dean -The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook

• Credentials/Registration -The Rev. Christopher Culpepper and Diocesan Staff

• Convention Facilities Arrangement-The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III, Gala Pryor

• Dispatch of Business and Constitutions and Canons- The Very Rev. Scott Wooten

• Nominations- The Rev. Stephen Jones

• Elections- The Rev. Jay Atwood

• Resolutions- The Rev. Edward Kresowaty

• New Parishes and Missions- The Very Rev. William A. Crary

• Necrology - Susan Steele

• General Matters of Convention- The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough. III

• Communications - Suzanne Gill

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Twenty-sixth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 14-15, 2008

The 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, 1300 Forest Ridge, Bedford, Texas, 76022 on Friday, November 14, 2008, followed by the first business session in the St. Vincent School Gymnasium. Registration began at 3:30 p.m. and opening session began at 4:30 p.m. and adjourned at 6:00p.m.

Registration for the second session of business began on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at St. Vincent's Cathedral in the gymnasium at 7:30am. until8:30 am. The Convention reconvened at 9:00a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30 a.m. in the Cathedral.

Friday, November 14,2008

Bishop Iker: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore. The first thing on our agenda is to have the host Dean give us a welcome, Dean Stainbrook of the Fort Worth East Deanery.

Dean Stainbrook: "On behalf of the Fort Worth East Deanery, I am pleased and honored to welcome our delegates and guest to this, the 26th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth. Though the beautiful Cathedr~ of St. Vincent's is in fact outside the hosting deanery of Fort Worth East, I was a curate here years ago in the springtime of my ministry, and from my many happy experiences here, I know that Dean Reed and the Cathedral staff and the hard working, diligent and capable volunteers from St. Vincent's are eager to assist you to make your time at Convention as pleasant and as carefree as possible. Today in the American calendar of Lesser Feast and Fasts is the commemoration of the consecration of Bishop Samuel Seabury as the first Bishop of the American Church, and thus the bestowal of the American episcopate. This historic action marked a new beginning for Anglicans on these shores. Our own Convention today may well also mark a new beginning for Anglicans here. It is my privilege to open it with these words of welcome. Now as I said, it has been some years since I was a carefree and hopefully pleasant curate here at St. Vincent's, I have asked Dean Reed to come to the microphone now with a few words of logistics."

Dean Reed: "Welcome back to St. Vincent's Cathedral and School. I have the most important announcement of the weekend and that is the location of the restrooms. There are numerous restrooms of men and women down the main hall just pass the juice machine and there are restrooms in the locker rooms right outside this door. If all that gets jammed up you can make your way up to the main building and there are multiple restrooms there. I will remind you to silence your cell phones during our meeting times. We also have vendors in the middle school building on both floors. You may take the elevator or if you would like the exercise, there are stairways. Please take time to see the vendors. Finally, for your safety while you are walking on

23 141-252083-11 this floor, do watch where you are stepping. There are a few places where the sheet comes up loose and we don't want anyone falling. The last thing I would like to say is in the morning, get here early and register before Morning Prayer so we can get that taken care o£ Morning Prayer will be up in the Nave. For the clergy wives who are already here today, your coffee will be in the library, which is the first door as you are going back up the hill, the circular building, that's the library there. I will let you know that as we are meeting tonight and throughout the day tomorrow, we do have some volunteers who have come to be intercessors on behalf of the diocese, the clergy, and the delegates, and I wanted to publicly thank them. Lastly the several dozens folks from the Cathedral who have volunteered their time starting last night through tomorrow night, I wanted to publicly thank them as well for all their hard work. Right Reverend Srr.. "

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. How is the sound system working for you? I was getting a little bit of feedback, but it seems like that microphone is a lot louder than this microphone. In addition to the announcements the Dean just made, please allow me to call attention to the policies I've sent for the Convention that no literature is to be distributed on the floor without permission of the Chair. No smoking at any time, and no cell phones or Internet access are not permitted by delegates and clergy on the Convention floor. That being said, we do want to thank Anglican TV for broadcasting our Eucharist and Convention via the Internet. We welcome those who are looking in on us at this time. I want to thank Kevin Kallsen for making this possible. He's not here, he is in New England doing another event up there, but I promised I would make a plug for some fmancial contributions to Anglican TV. You can go online and make contributions if you would like to see this kind of ministry continue, and I certainly hope you will. We are now ready to receive the Report of the Credentials Committee chaired by Fr. Culpepper."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy, and lay delegates to Convention. We have 108 canonically resident in the diocese, 113 of which, or 36 are required for a quorum, there are 69 clergy registered. We have 128 elected lay delegates for this Convention, 1/3 of which or 43 are required for a quorum, there are 113 lay delegates registered. Rt. Rev. Sir, we have a quorum."

Bishop lker: "I am told we have some observers and some rectors, and delegations from visiting congregations outside the diocese who have come to be with us as our guest. Would you introduce them to us if you have their names? We'd ask them to stand wherever they are and I ask that we wait until the end to welcome all ofthem."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt Rev. Sir, we would like to recognize Fr. Riley from Grace Church in Monroe, Louisiana. Fr. Dwight Duncan from St. Matthias in Dallas, and Fr. Chuck Thebeau from Christ our King Anglican Parish in New Braunsfels."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. The report now on the provision of Canon 16, section 7 from the chairman of the Finance Committee."

Dean Stainbrook: "Rt. Rev. Sir and members of Convention, Canon 16.7 says that if any congregation is 90 days behind in their assessment they must apply for seat, voice, and vote at the Convention on recommendation of the Finance Committee. I am very pleased to announce

24 141-252083-11 this year that all of our congregations are current enough in their assessments and apportionments and so we need not make any motion at all at this time. I would like to make a round of applause for everybody at this time."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you and congratulations to everyone on your good stewardship. I would like to entertain a motion at this time to grant seat and voice to any license clergy in the diocese and are here present and in charge of a congregation in the diocese."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that any licensed clergy in charge of a congregation not canonically resident in the diocese be granted seat and voice at this Convention.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: " I'd like to welcome the rector and delegation from St. Francis in Dallas who are with for the second year in a row through an arrangement with Bishop Stanton called the Dallas Plan, and I would like to have a motion from the floor to give seat and voice to the delegates and rector at St. Francis Church."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to grant seat and voice to The Rev. David Allen and delegation from St. Francis, Dallas at this Convention.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "The introduction for the Standing Rules and Procedures for the Convention will be given by the Chancellor, Mr. William McGee."

Mr. William McGee: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I call the attention of all the voting delegates and clergy of the Rules of Procedure for the Convention. I don't think they have changed from year to year. They are in your packet. I urge you read them because there is a meal to follow this session and the microphones have not been set up. They will be set up tomorrow morning. When addressing the Bishop, please begin your remarks with The Right Reverend Sir. When the chair is occupied by Dean Reed, it is Mr. President. Please read the Rules of Procedure and we will follow those rules throughout the Convention. I will be assisted by the gentlemen on my right, who is the assistant Chancellor, Rickey Brantley, from St Andrew's in Fort Worth, and he is going to act as the Parliamentarian this year. Thank you, Bishop."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. I direct your attention now to the packet that you received when you registered today to the purple pages. The purple pages will have the Episcopal Acts and Reports from the Bishop about sacramental acts during the course of the past year. There will also be a list of names, which are nominations of the Bishop, and there is a list of

25 141-252083-11 appointments by the Bishop, which are simply for announcement purposes. Before we go to those, let me make a nomination that Canon Hough may be elected to secretary to Convention so that we may have a record of our proceedings. Are there any nominations from the floor?"

MOTION The Rt. Rev. JackL. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, ill as Secretary to the 26th Annual Convention by acclamation.

SECONDED CARRIED

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "The Report of the Nominating Committee now from Fr. Stephen Jones."

Fr. Stephen Jones, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations.

Nominations for Standing Committee

Clerical- (elect one)

The Rev. Dr. R William Dickson The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Rev. Timothy Perkins The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten

Lay Nominees- (elect one)

Marsland Moncrief Dr. Frank Salazar Larry Votto

Nominations for Alternate Deputies to General Convention

Clerical Deputies (elect four)

The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Rev. Andrew Bradley The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten

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Lay Deputies (elect four)

Toby Matocha Alann Sampson Kay Stromberg Liz Young

Nominees to the University of the South Trustees

Clerical (elect one)

The Rev. Jonathan Duncan

Nominees to the Ecclesiastical Trial Court

Clerical (elect one)

The Rev. Davidson Morse The Rev. William Taylor, III The Vy. Rev. J. Scott Wilson

Lay (elect one)

Hartson 'Dusty' Fillmore Gary Werley

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to dispense of the rules of Convention to have two persons nominated for every position, and proceed with the nominations as presented by the Nominating Committee.

SECONDED CARRIED

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect by unanimous consent those who have been nominated as alternate deputies both in the clerical and lay orders.

SECONDED CARRIED

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect Fr. Jonathan Duncan to the clerical order of the Ecclesiastical Trial Court by acclamation.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Now let us return to the Standing Committee clerical members. I'll entertain nominations from the floor, but if you are nominated from the floor you must have a short resume to pass out to all the delegates at this time. Are there any nominations to the clerical member to the Standing Committee? Then I will declare the nominations closed for that office. Are there any lay nominees to the Standing Committee? The nominations are closed. Are there nominations from the floor for the Ecclesiastical Trial Court, clerical member? Lastly, any nominations from the floor for University of the South, lay member? If not, then we are prepared to vote. My I ask the teller people to begin to pass out the ballots and the ballot committee to come forward to explain to us the procedure."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates to Convention, fellow clergy. You will be receiving a ballot. We have used these for many years. The clergy need to make sure when you get your ballot that it says clergy on it. The delegates need to make sure it says delegate on it. We will be using the side that is numbered 1 to 50, not 51 to 100. You will need to use the #2 pencil that is on your table. If you do not have a ballot, please raise your hand."

Bishop Iker: "As the ballots are being passed out, please take this time to look at the name tag of the person on either side of you and see if there is any reason why they would be ineligible to vote, but every person who is eligible to vote should have a name tag on saying they are a registered lay delegate or a clergy who is eligible to vote, but let's not invalidate a ballot because someone cast a ballot that isn't eligible to do so. So I am assuming that everyone is eligible to vote if you are seated on the floor."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "As you vote, you will also need the yellow sheet in front of you with the nominations, that will help you."

Bishop lker: "Let's have an update from the Credentials Committee."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I'd like to file an amendment to the report. There are now 70 clergy registered and 114 lay delegates registered."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Does everyone have a ballot who is entitled to vote? You will be voting down the strip that says 1-50 in the white area You will need to use the pencil and vote for one person

28 141-252083-11 for the Standing Committee, clerical member. You will vote for 1, 2,3, or 4 in that area The Rev. Dr. William Dickson is #1, the Rev. Edward Kresowaty is #2, the Rev. Timothy Perkins is #3, the Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten is #4. Please vote for the Standing Committee, clerical member.

Standing Committee, lay member, you vote for one. Either 6, 7, or 8. Number 6 is Mrs. Moncrief, #7 is Dr. Salazar, and #8 is Mr. Votto. Vote for one please.

Skipping all the way down to the Ecclesiastical Trial Court, clerical member. You will be voting one time, 30, 31, or 32. Number 30 is the Rev. Davidson Morse, #31 is the Rev. William Taylor, III, #32 is the Vy. Rev. J. Scott Wilson. Vote for one.

Jumping down to the Ecclesiasticla Trial Court, lay member, vote for one. Either #40, or 41. Mr. Fillmore is #40, Mr. Werley is #41.

You should have only 4 marks on your paper. When you are fmished voting, hold it up so it can be collected."

Bishop Iker: "It appears to me that all votes are in, so I will declare the first ballot is now closed, and we will have the tellers go and count them. Bishop Godfrey, before you get away, I see you and Judith are together, let me take this opportunity to introduce Judith, the wife of the Bishop, and to ask the Convention to extend a warm welcome to Bishop Godfrey and his wife. Bishop Godfrey will speak to us tomorrow morning at some point about the ministry of his diocese.

Some other announcements, Fr. Bill Blewett says that someone took his black jacket in the area where the priest were vesting, and he would like to exchange your black suit coat jacket for his. So if you are wearing black, check and see if it's not your cut He originally had written here that it was his trousers, but he scratched that out and put jacket.

Let me take this opportunity before we move forward to take this opportunity to introduce to you the members of the Bishop's staff. They work very hard in making preparations for the Convention, during the Convention, and then seeing that the acts of the Convention are carried out afterwards. They try their very best throughout the year to serve you in the Diocesan Center. Please hold your applause until all of them have been introduced. The Rev. Canon Charles Hough is the Canon to the Ordinary, Janie Parrott, Director of Finance and Business Administration; Suzanne Gill, Director of Communications and Planned Giving; Jason Bontke, the director of Camp Crucis; Susan Steele, secretary to the Bishop and Registrar; Gala Pryor, receptionist and secretary to the Canon to the Ordinary; Melody Mendolia, Benefits Administrator; Danyl Harrell, financial secretary; and Cheri Davis, finance assistant. Thank you very much and we are glad you all are here today. I haven't seen Canon Boyd yet today. Is he here now, or has he not made it yet? Oh, he will be here tomorrow. We are going to be retiring Canon Boyd again tomorrow. The last few years he has been serving as chaplain to the retired clergy and their families, and a few weeks ago he said he just didn't think he was up to it anymore for reasons of age and health. So if someone would remind me tomorrow, we would like to express our gratitude to Canon Boyd.

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One of the things that I enjoy most about my ministry as a Bishop is ordaining people to the diaconate and priesthood and assisting vacant congregations in our diocese with fmding new clergy when that time comes. So it is always a great joy at this annual convention to welcome new clergy who have come into the diocese since the last convention. I am going to ask them to come individually as I call their names. If you could stand here in front of us, facing the camera, and the Internet We will hold applause until you have all been introduced. Fr. Jonathan Duncan, ordained deacon in February and priest in August, serves as diocesan curate at St Alban's Church in Arlington, and he and his wife in just recent weeks are the proud parents of a darling baby boy, baptized on All Saints' Sunday. The Rev. Chad Nusbaum is serving as diocesan curate at St. Peter and St Paul Church, and he too was ordained deacon in February and priest in August. The Rev. Joel Hampton is the newly elected rector at St. Andrew's Church in Breckenridge. He comes to us after a long distinguished military career as military chaplain in the Airforce. He was ordained a deacon in March and to the priesthood in September. The most recent diaconate ordination, The Rev. Micah Snell, transitional deacon. He came to us from the Diocese of Los Angeles as a candidate for Holy Orders, has been ordained in his home parish in Placentia, and he is also the proud father of a new baby boy. He is doing graduate studies at the University of Dallas. By letters dimissory, we have received from the Diocese of Southwest Florida, Fr. William O'Connell, who is serving as the supply priest at St. Luke's in the Meadow. He previously performed that ministry at St. Gregory's in Mansfield. We welcome back to the diocese a priest who served here for a long time with distinction as rector at St. Alban's Church in Arlington, he's now retired, and we received his letters dimissory from the Diocese ofNorthwest Texas, Rev. Mark Cannaday. Then one of those little quirks in the canons of the Episcopal Church is the provision that if a Bishop who is retired, moves to another diocese, he can have his letters dimissory received by the Bishop, and be enrolled as a voting member of the clergy. So for the first time, Bishop William Wantland is entitled to vote at this Convention, because he is now ours. Then we have a newly licensed priest in the diocese, canonically resident, across the boarder in Canada, in the Diocese of Calgary, we welcome Fr. Michael Heidt, licensed to minister in the diocese and currently serving as supply priest for Our Lady of the Lake in Laguna Park, and St. Mary's Church in Hillsboro. Welcome them all please, they are a wonderful addition.

Please check your jacket to see if it belongs to Fr. Blewett. At this time I would like to turn our attention to the first report of the Constitution and Canons Committee to be presented to us by the Chair, David Weaver. None of this will be voted on prior to tomorrow morning. This is a preliminary first report."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates, clergy and visitors. I am at once honored and humbled to stand before you again with the preliminary report of the Committee on Constitution and Canons ofthe Diocese of Fort Worth. On behalfofthe Standing Committee ofthe Diocese of Fort Worth, the Committee on Constitution and Canons will present four constitutional amendments for a vote tomorrow on second reading, together with fifteen canonical changes. These proposals represent both substantive and procedural changes to our Constitution and Canons designed to formalize our secession from the confederation of those dioceses in union with the General Convention of The Episcopal Church in the United States. I say formalize our secession, because theologically, spiritually, and doctrinally, the General Convention of The Episcopal Church separated itself from the diocese some time ago. As those of you who have

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attended General Conventions in the past years know all too well, we have not been a true constituent part of TEC for a long time. Your vote tomorrow will determine whether we make our secession official. In addition, on behalf of the Resolutions Committee, we will present a resolution that will align our diocese with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. This alignment will be temporary, because even as I speak, efforts are progressing rapidly toward a formation of a North American province that will comprise a federation of dioceses that share our commitment to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic faith revealed in scripture. And while this is a time for rejoicing for many of us, it also is a time of deep sorrow, because for reasons that quite frankly I fail to understand, some of our friends, and fellow worshippers have indicated their opposition to, and disagreement with, this historic and clearly appropriate action. Perhaps our theological differences are so deep they can't be reconcilable. Perhaps there is a misguided institutional loyalty to an organization that scarisily resembles the beacon of Christian life that it once was. Perhaps there is a futile hope that remaining and contending within the TEC federation would yield results that have alluded many of us, who for 30 years, have tried to change the direction of TEC leadership that has brought us to these crossroads. Since last year's Convention, faithful Christians have prayed for guidance and discernment. We have discussed the issues that are confronting us; we have taken sides, tomorrow the decision will be made, one way or the other. I am reminded of a passage of scripture that I think is truly applicable to our situation. The Israelites had entered the promise land and they fell victim to the insidious and false notion that social norms should dictate matters of faith. And since the social norm of that time was to worship multiple gods for different reasons, they began to worship the many gods who were living in the region at the time. Confronting his people, Joshua admonished them to 'choose this day whom you will serve', that is the decision that confronts us today. While it is a decision that we all must make everyday, on this day, you are charged with making that decision on behalf of the entire Diocese of Fort Worth. As a member of this diocese, I have only one thing to say. Like Joshua, as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you, Mr. Weaver. We now are going to start with a number of reports. The first one will be the University of the South at Sewanee. Fr. Tommy Bye will be here tomorrow, but if we receive the report now, we won't have to listen to him for twenty minutes to give his report. He may be moved to testify anyway, in which case we will reluctantly recognize him. The Report on Evangelism will be given by Fr. Scott Wilson. If Deacon Banks will be prepared after that with the report on the diaconate, and Lollie Twyman following that for the World Mission Committee."

Fr. Scott Wilson: Report on the Evangelism Committee- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

• Bishop Iker: "Thank you Fr. Wilson. The report of the ministry of the diaconate will be given by Deacon Patricia Banks."

Deacon Patricia Banks: Report on the Diaconate - (Written report is included in the report s~ction of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Lollie Twyman will now make a report on behalf of the World Mission Committee of the diocese."

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LoUie Twyman: Report of the World Mission Committee- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop lker: "Thank you very much Lollie for that wonderful report A great reminder of what Bishop Godfrey was saying in his sermon, that mission is what it's all about, and throughout the year Lollie and her hard working World Mission Committee keeps us mission minded and mission focused. I can't let this opportunity pass by Lollie, without saying just a word about who is not sitting next to me at the head table at this Convention this year. Every year since I've been the Bishop, Fr. John Twyman sat here as the Chairman of the Committee on Dispatch of Business and told me things that I had forgotten and things I needed to announce and how we would get through the agenda, but he died this past year. We remembered him at the Mass in the Church earlier, but I think it would be appropriate for us to stand in a moment of silence and remember him at this Convention.

Remember our servant, John, 0 Lord, according to the favor which thou barest unto thy people and grant that increasing in knowledge and love ofthee, he may go from strength to strength in the life ofperfect service in thy heavenly kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord Rest eternal grant to him 0 Lord and let light perpetual shine upon him. May his soul and the souls ofall the faithful departed through the mercy ofGod rest in peace.

Thank you very much and that will serve as my introduction of Fr. Scott Wooten, who is our new Chair on Dispatch of Business, and he's going to be making a report to us on youth ministry. Let's hear first from the teller's committee. We have a result from the frrst ballot."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and delegates, we do not have a result from the frrst ballot because it will be thrown out There were more ballots than people registered, in each order. There were fewer lay ballots, and way to many clergy ballots. So I'm not sure if lay people voted in the clergy ranks, or whether people not registered voted, but we must take an entire ballot over again. So will the deacons pass out new ballots? Ladies and gentlemen if you are a deputy, a lay person, please make sure your ballot says deputy on it."

Bishop Iker: "I have been asked to announce that representatives of Acorn have been announced and they are on the floor. Please escort yourself from the floor, the dead cannot vote, and those who are not registered at this Convention cannot vote. Fr. Atwood, I'll be interested to know how you think we did that, because I asked everybody to look at each other to see if they were entitled to vote, so they had to have registered-to get a vote. How did we do that?"

Fr. Atwood: "I believe that licensed clergy are not allowed to vote. I don't know if any licensed clergy voted, but licensed clergy, if you have a green stripe on your nametag, you are not allowed to vote."

Bishop Iker: "Let's look around at those clergy back there. If you're licensed, but not canonically resident in the diocese, you cannot vote. If you are retired, and you are canonically resident in the diocese, you may vote. Your nametag should make it clear. There is a green stripe

32 141-252083-11 on it if you are not allowed to vote. Deacons don't have a vote. Transitional deacons don't have a vote. So we are going to try it again.

While the ballots are being passed out, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and welcome back two of our military chaplains who have come from afar to be with us again. Chaplain Jeff Logan and Chaplain William Cantrell over to my right.

I have been asked to clarify the matter of what the Convention adopted at the beginning about licensed clergy who are in the diocese, in charge of a congregation. That motion was to give seat and voice to licensed clergy in the diocese in charge of a congregation, but that did not include vote. So if you are a licensed priest, no matter what capacity you are serving, you don't have a vote at this Convention. I apologize if there is any confusion on that. It appears now Fr. Atwood that we will not be able to have result of this second ballot before we break at 6:00p.m., so we will have a report the first thing in the morning."

Fr. Atwood: "Ladies and gentlemen, the other thing I would ask is there should only be four marks on your paper. We do not need to vote for the alternate deputy to General Convention in either order or for the University of the South. At least seven ballots voted for every position. Those people have already been elected. Hold your ballot up so it can be collected."

Bishop Iker: "You should all cast your votes and turn them into the counters and they will go aWl:!-Y and count again. Are all the ballots in? We will now declare that the second ballot is closed. Fr. Scott Wooten reporting to us now on behalf of Youth Ministry Committee."

Dean Scott Wooten: "Rt. Rev. Sir, fellow delegates, clergy, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Fr. Scott Wooten. I chair the Youth Ministry Advisory Committee. I would at this time like to ask the rest of my committee, we have all been doing various and sundry things over the last year, and everyone wanted to tell you what the committee has been up to. While some make their way up, I would like to tell you a story of what happened to me last night

I was taking my son to look at high schools in Wichita Falls. We have school choice up there and therefore they put on programs for 8th graders to see what school you might want to attend. We were attending one of those programs last night and the culmination of the program, the grand exit so to speak was a big bond fire they had out in the school parking lot. They had asked the kids to stay and hang around with their friends. All of a sudden from across the bond frre, believe it or not, a fight broke out. As I looked around the school, all the students who were there were the best and brightest. They were the ones the school had asked to be there, to show people around the school because of the fact they were the ones in sports. They were the ones who are high in academics. These were the best and the brightest.

As the raucous broke out, about 300 students ran in that direction, either to take part or to cheer the whole thing on. As I looked around and thought to myself, 'oh my gosh, what am I going to send my son to here?' My son looked at me and just said, 'Dad this just happens.' As I thought about what he said, 'this happens', you know in our culture quite honestly, those kids were trying to find truth and authority. They were finding it the only way they knew how. Because our society has told them there is no ultimate truth. There is no absolute truth. Our society

33 141-252083-11 unfortunately has said, 'the only authority we abide by is if it feels good .... do it'. And you know those two kids fighting there, one of the kids thought that night that it would feel good that night to punch that kid. As the other kid received that ill will, he thought in his heart that after receiving that punishment, it would feel really good to punch him back, and there goes the fight.

Truth and authority. We as Christians know where that absolute truth and authority is, it's in God's holy word. But it's that truth and holy word that is barred of course from our schools. It is that truth and authority that is under attack every single day, people pulling apart our bible. People saying this book is right, this book is wrong. Don't read this, do read that. What's left for our kids, but throw up a big question mark and say, 'what is truth, where is authority?' You might say, Fr. Scott, what are we going to do about those two kids? You know, there are bad kids in every school. I agree, there are problem kids and problem issues in every school, but what really bothered me was the 300 kids that streamed to that fight. They weren't streaming there to break it up. They were streaming there, running there to goat it on, to cheer, to take part.

Fortunately for this fight, a brave, small principle leaped into the middle of this group, to stop it really before anything really happened. But you know, those 300 kids were the best and the brightest that high school had to offer. Those are the kids that are in our youth groups. Those are the kids that are sitting in our pews. Those are our kids. Why didn't they know not to cheer that kind of activity on? Why didn't they break that up themselves? Why don't they witness by their actions. If not, witnessing by their words. It's because we're not teaching them. It's because we are failing.

What the YMAC is doing and has done this past year are many things. What I have been doing as a part of that group is working with the Anglican Network, working on a new catechism. Because what we have noticed is, nobody really knows what exactly they are to teach their youth. When we ask youth counselors and youth ministers and even priests along the diocese "What are you teaching your kids?" they say, "Well, we teach whatever we got" Some teach from Roman Catholic, some teach from Baptist, some teach from Lutheran. They really don't know. So what we have been busy with this year is making that one catechism so that we can teach the truth of Jesus Christ to our kids. So that they will be armed and ready, not with a blow of the fist, but they will be armed and ready with the word of God; to change peoples hearts, because there is truth, and there is absolute truth, and there is an absolute authority.

So the YMAC has been charged with bringing this new catechism together and into the diocese, and charged with finding new ways to teach that catechism to our youth, because as we know, all kids learn in different ways. So when we get this new catechism, it won't be a bunch of words that you have to read to your kids. There will be multiple different ways about how you can go about imparting this to your kids. So that we will know that every youth in our pews knows Jesus Christ. Please, the committee is here for you all. If you are having problems with your youth group, if you have questions on how to teach your youth, on how to get them together, please come see us. Fr. Lee, do you have anything to add? Any of the other committee members, do you have anything to add? I think I surprised them since I came up here so early. We are here for you. We are happy to come out and teach your kids on site. We are happy to come out and teach your youth ministers on site, on the best ways to put together a youth ministry in your church. That's what we are here for, is to help this diocese put together youth ministry. Thank you."

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Fr. Scott and the committee. We have a report from the Credentials Committee on updated registration."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir due to an oversight and a miscount, we need to amend our report. There are still 114 lay delegates registered, but there are 79 clergy registered."

Bishop Iker: "And the teller's committee now has this information as they put things together?"

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Yes, sir."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, thank you very much. I think we will begin to move towards closing announcements now so that we can go into recess at 6:00 p.m. All the clergy please take note that there's this yellow sheet in your packet announcing it is now time to sign up for the annual clergy retreat. A retreat for every priest and deacon in the diocese is mandatory, not optional. If you don't come to this retreat, you need to write me and say what you are doing as an alternative. It's now time to register. The dates are on here and Fr. Ralph Walker, rector of St. Michael's and All Angels Church in Denver, Colorado, will be our leader.

In addition to having the joy in welcoming new clergy to the dioceses at this time of the year occasionally we have to say goodbye to someone who will be leaving us. I am delighted to tell you that Fr. Lee Nelson has been elected rector of St. John's Church in Stockton in the Diocese of San Joaquin. He'll begin his new ministry there on the 7th of December, but this is a bittersweet time because Fr. Nelson grew up in this diocese. He is one of those Crucis kids. His parents, brothers and sisters all live here, but he and Ella and their two children will be making their way out to California. We want to pray for their transition to the new ministry. We also want to pray that their house sells and they get a good deal on a house out there, but Father could you please stand so we could thank you and send you off with applause.

Now listen careful about several announcements. The first is to remind you that all of you, clergy and lay, have to re-register in the morning. As Canon Hough reminded you, Morning Prayer is at 8:30, and there really isn't enough time after Morning Prayer for you to register. We will go from Morning Prayer in the Church right into the session here at 9:00am. We will be open for registration and continental breakfast beginning at 7:30 am. We would like to close off the registrations by 8:45am. In order for us to do all of that, you must take off your nametag and leave it right where you are. Please do it now.

The other thing is we are going to be eating at these tables where you are now seated. We want you to take everything with you that is yours. We do not want you to remove the Church signs. You can sit at any table for your meal, but please push the sign to the middle of the table so when we set up in the morning the signs will be there. Please remember to bring back all of your Convention packet material. Nothing is being reprinted for tomorrow.

I want to express our appreciation to several people before we end the day with prayer. First, to Dean Reed and the people at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church and School for hosting our Convention. Secondly, to Thorn Murrell and a number of people who are taking care of

35 141-252083-11 arrangements for the facilities and food committees here at the Convention Hall. Thirdly, Barbara Burton and the members of the choir who sang for us at the Mass. You are invited back here at 6:30p.m. for social time and then the meal will be served at 7:00p.m. Now if you would stand we are going to have some brief closing prayers for devotion."

Bishop Iker adjourned the Opening Session for Friday evening, November 14,2008.

Saturday, November 15,2008

The day began with Morning Prayer in the Church at 8:30 a.m. The Convention reconvened at 9:00 a.m. with an opening prayer by Bishop Iker.

Bishop lker: "The lay delegates and clergy to Convention will please take their seats. Guest and visitors, please go to the observer area in the bleachers. The second session of the 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is now in session. I introduced to you yesterday a couple of our clergy who serve as military chaplains who are with us today. One of our_chaplains on active duty is unable to be with us because he is serving in Baghdad. So, if he happens to be watching us on the Internet, we send our greetings and appreciation to Fr. Robert Young, rector of St Andrew's in Grand Prairie. (Applause) I ask that you stand so we can pray now for our men and women serving in the Armed Forces and I ask that you remain standing after the prayer for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Good morning everyone. Thanks again for the people who arranged our meal last night It was very good. We are going to have a report now from the Credentials Committee. It is important that we get a right count. I regret to announce that the voting machine broke yesterday, so we are going to be counting the ballots by hand. I realize that many of you have an early morning service on Sunday, but we'll try to finish by sundown. Is Fr. Culpepper prepared to make a report from the Credentials Committee?"

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, the Credentials Committee is please to report that today we have a calculator and we're not afraid to use it. - 108 clergy canonically resident in the diocese with 88 of 36 required for a quorum. - 128 elected lay delegates with 126 of 43 required for a quorum. Rt. Rev. Sir, we have a quorum."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. We are ready to go with business. I will ask the president of the Standing Committee to come take the chair while I give the Bishop's Annual Address."

Bishop lker gave his annual address (included in this journal) with the President of the Standing Committee assuming the chair.

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Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much for your attention and the round of applause. Yesterday, I mentioned that Canon Boyd has retired again and we would like to say a word of appreciation for your faithful ministry over the many years, as you have served in various capacities. Secondly, Fr. Tommy Bye is here, but I have not given him permission to speak about the report. We are going to have a report on the elections committee on the ballot that was taken yesterday before we recessed."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, deputies and clerical members, yesterday's second ballot was a valid ballot. There were four positions on that ballot. We had three elections.

Standing Committee - lay member - Dr. Frank Salazar was elected Ecclesiastical Trail Court-clerical member- The Vy. Rev. J. Scott Wilson was elected Ecclesiastical Trail Court -lay member- Hartson 'Dusty' Fillmore was elected

We did not have an election in the Standing Committee clerical member. The tallies were as follows. In the clergy, there was 79 valid ballots cast, 40 votes needed to elect. The Rev. Dr. William Dickson received 9; The Rev. Edward Kresowaty received 6; The Rev. Timothy Perkins received 53; The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten received 8. Under the lay delegate ballots, there were 111 valid ballots cast, 56 required to elect. The Rev. Dr. William Dickson- 11; The Rev. Edward Kresowaty -15; The Rev. Timothy Perkins- 53; The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten- 31. We will have a third ballot."

Bishop Iker: "Are we ready to proceed with that third ballot then?

Fr. Jay Atwood: "We need the Credentials Report one more time."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I do file an amended report. - 108 clergy canonically resident in the diocese with 93 of 36 required for a quorum. - 128 elected lay delegates with 127 of 43 required for a quorum.

Bishop Iker: "Okay, I'd like to recognize Dean Scott Wooten.

Dean Scott Wooten: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I'd like to remove my name from that ballot please."

Bishop Iker: "Accepted."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect by acclamation to the clerical member of the Standing Committee Fr. Timothy Perkins.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop lker: "Congratulations to all of you who have been elected to those offices and thank you for your willingness to serve, and thank you to those who were willing to be nominated,

37 141-252083-11 though not elected. The next item is the second report from the Constitution and Canons Committee and you should be pulling out the packet that was in the second mailing I believe, which has all the constitutional and canonical amendments as proposed."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Committee on the Constitution and Canons we present the following amendment to the Preamble of the Constitution of this diocese as proposed by the Standing Committee. This is the second reading of this amendment. The new Preamble will state: We, the Clergy and Laity of The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, do hereby ordain and establish the following constitution as duly amended. We have four constitutional amendments to be presented for second reading. All of these were voted upon last year."

Bishop Iker: "Yes, let's present all four of them."

David Weaver: "We are proposing the amendment to Article I which establishes our Anglican Identity; Article 12 which establishes the procedure and number and manor in which the delegates and deputies are elected to any extra diocesan conventions or synods that may be held that we choose to attend and be represented at. Finally, proposed constitutional amendment Dis Article 18 is the article involving the effective date of canonical changes. Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Committee on Constitution and Canons for the Diocese of Fort Worth, who has unanimously endorsed and approved these proposed amendments, I move that these amendments be approved on second reading and adopted by this diocese."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. The proposed constitutional amendments are before us now on second reading, and here's how we are going to proceed. We will take one of them at a time and debate them until there is no more debate or until we have a call to terminate debate on that one, then we will go on to the second and so forth. When the debate is finished on all four we will have a ballot distributed and we will vote on. all four separately. The rules for the debate are the same as they always have been, we will alternate between supporting side and opposing. We will go back and forth until the debate is finished. Each speaker is entitled to speak up to five minutes, but if you don't need five minutes, please don't take it If someone has made your point, save us repeating it again. Now the other thing is, I want the Convention to know, last week the rector of Trinity Church, Fr. Barber, and a member of his delegation came to see me, to say they would like to facilitate and simply matters by having a delegate who would make one statement at the beginning, so as not to come back up for all four of them and make similar kinds of statements. The difficulty with this is the statement to be made exceeds the five minutes (we think), unless Kathleen reads very quickly. So, I am making a ruling that I will allow her to make the statement in its entirety and I will wave the five-minute limitation. Likewise, on the next speaker on the proposing side, I will allow to exceed five minutes. Then we'll continue on the rule that each person after that only has five minutes. Does that seem fair to everybody? Now before then will be frrst of all the Preamble. Kathleen, would you like to read the statement at this point?"

Kathleen Wells: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I will not be the delegate reading the statement today. Dr. John Burk will be reading it."

Bishop Iker: "Okay, Dr. Burk, if you would come to this side as the opposing side. Address the Chair in the proper way, and then identify your name and parish."

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Dr. John Burk: "Rt. Rev. Sir: My name is John Burk. I am a delegate from All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Worth. I have been asked to present remarks on behalf of many of your fellow delegates who will remain as members of the Episcopal Church. We thank Bishop Iker for graciously designating a place on the agenda for us to make this summary statement of our continuing opposition to the propositions that are before the convention today and for including this statement as part of the formal record of the convention. As a result, those of us who adopt this statement will not present statements when debate opens on the individual propositions.

Specifically we will vote against, and we urge you all to vote against, the propositions which purport to amend our diocesan constitution and canons and the resolution regarding membership in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. Those of us who will remain in the Episcopal Church respectfully but profoundly disagree that passage of these propositions will in fact "remove" the Diocese itself, as well as church property in the diocese, from the Episcopal Church.

1. The propositions are invalid because they are inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, such as the requirements that each diocese maintain an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and for church officials to act consistently with their fiduciary duty to the Episcopal Church, including recognition of the express trust interest of the Episcopal Church in church property.

2. The propositions violate the fundamental conditions under which the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth was created from within the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas and by which the new diocese assumed the use of and control over Episcopal Church property. These conditions include conformity with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, as our diocesan officials expressly acknowledged in the primary convention of the diocese in 1982 and as they have judicially admitted on behalf of the Diocese in the declaratory judgment entered in 1984 and again in the Holy Apostles litigation in the mid 1990s.

3. The propositions would violate the interests of generations of Episcopalians who, long before this diocese existed, sacrificed to contribute time, talent, and treasure to build up the body of Christ through the ministry of the Episcopal Church, not some other church, in this area.

4. The propositions that seek to remove the geographical definition of the Diocese would violate the historical understanding of a diocese as having geographical boundaries and would apparently permit the cathedral and diocesan center to be located anywhere, even outside of north central Texas.

5. Clergy delegates voting in favor of these propositions may expose themselves to discipline, including inhibition and deposition, for: · Abandonment of the communion of the Episcopal Church;

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· Violating the Constitution or Canons of the Episcopal Church and this Diocese; and · Violating their ordination vows, including the vow to "conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church."

6. Clergy and lay delegates voting in favor of these propositions may violate their fiduciary duty and other legal and canonical duties as church officials in the Episcopal Church.

7. Regarding the Proposed Resolution for Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, · Such an action would violate the Constitution of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, in which Article 2 restricts membership to Anglican dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay; · Such an action directly violates the recommendation of the Windsor Report against boundary incursions; and · The resolution violates diocesan Canon 30 which prohibits use of church property by another church.

8. We believe that the proposed budget significantly underestimates the "shrinkage" which will result from the expected passage of the other propositions today. Under the circumstances it seems unrealistic to assume that all the congregations in the diocese would continue to pay assessments at or above the levels paid in the prior year. Since individual giving will predictably follow changes of church membership, and since assessments are calculated using the prior year receipts but are actually paid from the current year cash receipts, the expected schism within our diocese, joined with the current economic downturn, will drastically reduce the overall revenue to the diocese.

9. Regarding the Report for the Corporation for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, we strenuously object to the continuing inadequacy of the annual reports submitted by the Corporation and the lack of transparency of its deliberations and actions. We continue to object to the attempted effort by the Board of Trustees to amend the Corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws to remove any obligation of the Corporation to comply with diocesan constitution and canons, including its trust provisions, and to bypass canonical procedures to determine who is the bishop of the Diocese. We consider these actions to have no legal effect. By their votes, we believe that the trustees violated their fiduciary duties to the diocese and its individual parishes, missions, and congregations, violated diocesan Article 14 and Canons 17.2 and 18, and violated the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church.

I 0. Regarding the report on church schools, we are concerned that the report continues to be incomplete and fails to acknowledge the critical fmancial condition of certain of our church schools.

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11. We also incorporate by reference any additional comments made in opposition to these provisions on their first reading at the annual convention in 2007.

For these and other reasons, we consider the propositions presented today to be illegal, extracanonical, and of no effect, under canon law or secular law.

We ask that individual delegates signify in writing their votes on these propositions, to become a part of the official journal of this convention, particularly on the proposed changes to Article I of the Constitution, in the same manner as was done when the delegates adopted the unqualified accession at the primary convention of this diocese on November 13, 1982. We believe that it is essential that all church officials publicly and honestly confirm whether they are members of the Episcopal Church, because those who are no longer members of the Episcopal Church may no longer exercise authority on behalf of the continuing Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth.

For those in our diocese who decide to resign their membership in the Episcopal Church and thus their church offices, we will expect that they will immediately discontinue exercising any possession or control over Episcopal Church entities or property, including use of the names "Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth" and "Corporation for the Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth," or continuing to speak for any parish or other church entity of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. While we fully respect your individual right to move your church membership from the Episcopal Church to another church, we cannot recognize your continuing authority to act on behalf of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth if you do leave the Episcopal Church.

Do we each agree with every action ever taken by the Episcopal Church? Clearly not. But we will remain in the Episcopal Church, as the continuing Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and as Anglicans in this place, professing our belief in the Creed every Sunday while striving to live out the Gospel imperatives of loving God with our whole heart, mind, and strength and loving our neighbors as ourselves.

At some point in the future, some of you may discover that you no longer wish to follow the path you take today and decide to return to the Episcopal Church. Please know that we, as the continuing presence of the Episcopal Church in this area, will joyfully welcome your return to worship with us as Episcopalians in the body of Christ.

We prayerfully urge you to oppose these propositions. Their passage will put our diocese into schism and result in a loss of your needed voice and energy in the Episcopal Church.

Thank you again, Bishop Iker, for this opportunity to lodge our respectful objections to the actions which likely will be taken here today and to do so efficiently to avoid exacerbating our differences on these important issues.

Bishop lker: "Thank you Dr. Burk. I would like to say one thing about how we respond to debate and that is to ask that we respond without demonstrable approval or disapproval, so I ask that there not be applause after speakers speak, that there be no catcalls, or hoots, or any verbal

41 141-252083-11 approval or disapproval. The next speaker will come to this microphone in support and is there someone who wishes to read a longer statement? I was told at some point that Judy Mayo had a statement to read. Is that correct?"

Judy Mayo: "Rt. Rev. Sir, this is not a long, long, statement. I speak on several counts here. I speak as a delegate from St. Andrew's, Fort Worth, as the mother of two children, grandmother of six, ages 1 to 14; as Director of Christian Education at St. Andrew's for a number of years, and as a deputy to the past seven General Conventions of our Episcopal Church, one of your elected deputies.

I just speak generally on, I am for the move that we will be asked to make today to the Province of the Southern Cone. It's something I've certainly wrestled with a lot myself, prayerfully. I certainly have been a person that has believed with working within the system for many, many years, and along with your Bishop and deputies have attended many conventions, many committee hearings that went on and on into the night over all these issues. So, I just speak from the heart in that way.

I do echo the words of our Bishop, that there comes a time that you feel you can no longer do that successfully. We have made our witness for many years and many opportunities, many committees, but it appears that our future of the Orthodox cause within the Episcopal Church USA is really nonexistent anymore after much hard work.

I spent a lot of my life teaching young people and so I just address these all generally in that I am for the proposed changes in the Constitution that we will be addressing today, and for the resolution to join the Province of the Southern Cone. In our world today so much is confusing. Our children and teens are bombarded on every side with the world's values. General Convention has made these things more and more confusing.

I was a member of a committee that heard extensive testimony from both straight and gay people. At one Convention I sat on a committee which simply, and I say this lovingly and pastorally, but heard a women who came in and asked over and over again why her husband could not teach Sunday school or could not serve in youth ministry. She felt ousted, she felt upset. The reason being was her husband wore a skirt and heels to church on Sunday. My friends, that is sad. We're all fellow sinners, but to envision your husband who is wearing heels and a skirt to Church should be allowed to teach Sunday school is very troubling, deeply troubling. The anything goes philosophy is pervasive; alternative lifestyles are accepted in many counts.

I was at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, a few months ago where the literature openly says, 'We perform same sex unions here at this Cathedral' for the whole world to see for thousands to visit every single day. Young people in our parish crave a safe haven and sure rock of God's world. Just look at the Bible Churches. Why are they growing? Because they have something secure and steady to offer our young people.

In the past twenty years of attending General Conventions the shifting sands are shifting more and more and more. Committed relationships of every sort are accepted, and I do mean every

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sort. Having been a member of committees that have heard extensive testimony. The train of the Episcopal Church and the Apostolic Faith are just simply on a collision mode now, and I say that with deep distress, again as one who has loved working within the Episcopal Church.

No one has desired us to come to this time, no one. Our Bishop has worked hard. We have all worked hard to remain together, but the time of decision has come. It is time to make a clear and clean break. Nothing will change in our worship. I love the fact that we sang yesterday, Faith of Our Fathers, a great hymn that many of us learned as little children and we will still be singing for years to come. I love the scripture that if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will assemble for battle?

Our children crave the secure teaching of God's word. They crave to do it in a situation where you don't have to explain everything. They deserve our support. If something is morally wrong in Texas my friends, it's wrong in Montana, or California, or Connecticut, or Kentucky. It's either right or wrong according to God's word.

So as far as the canonical changes go, I simply say, I speak for them. They have been very carefully researched and unanimously recommended by our Constitution and Canons Committee. There is nothing that says our diocese cannot depart. We entered into the relationship voluntarily; we can exit the relationship too, in Christian love and charity. and with clarity. I speak for the adoption of these resolutions. Thank you."

Bishop Ik.er: "Thank you, Mrs. Mayo. Before us now for continued debate is the Preamble. Anyone wishing to speak in favor comes to this side, opposed this side."

Fr. Joshua Whitfield: "Rt. Rev. Sir, as a thirty year old rector, kind of brand new, I looked up to Judy Mayo since I was a kid. The previous statement and opposition, as a thirty year old person with thirty some odd years left, hopefully, God willing. It is intimidating and it is scary, all the things proposed that will happen, but not that intimidating. Not so intimidating as for me to want to lead my people on a path in association with those who reject that Jesus is uniquely Lord. A statement not spoken to in the previous statement, which I think is telling. I think if you took a poll of us younger clergy, if you looked at some of the high school kids and took a poll of them, they would be overwhelming in favor of the future of a glorious and orthodox church. I think that's an overwhelming statement on behalf of not just me, but thirty years on down. So I think I speak with my brothers and sisters on that. Thank you."

Bishop Ik.er: "Thank you, opposing side? Does anyone wish to speak on the proposed Preamble? Debate is closed on that and we move to Article I on Anglican Identity. Does anyone wish to speak for or against the proposed constitutional amendment, Article I? Fr. Kingsley, are you coming to the microphone?"

Fr. Kinglsey Jon-Ubabuco: "Rev. Sir, Bishop, it is my delight to be here this morning to speak on these issues of Anglican Identity and the current situation in which we find ourselves. I will be very clear in what I want to say.

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When I came to this country about twenty years ago from England, I looked for a Church where my wife, my children, and myself could worship. Someone said, well in the United States, the Church that represents the African Church is the Episcopal Church. Well with that, we became members of Trinity Episcopal Church in Washington, D. C. area before we went on to North Carolina We brought our children up in this Church, and we still do. One of the greatest problems we had was not really about what the sign outside of the Church, that it says The Episcopal Church, Christ Church, or whatever it said. The problem we encountered with trying to raise our children up in this Church that my grandfather served as a clergy in the Anglican Church. I come from a family that has had generations of Anglican clergy. It was with great pain that my wife and I kept noticing the shifting positions of the Church here in the United States as related to everything that is important to a Christian, as an individual, to an organization as a Church.

It has come to the point where it is absolutely clear to anyone who cares to pay attention, that the General Convention of the Episcopal Church has abandoned what it really means to be a Christian in the first place, and to be Anglican in present and in worship, what we bless and what we condemn. I've listened to the other side in opposition to the proposed changes, and if I missed it, pardoned me, but what I heard were pages of the consequences of going to the Southern Cone as a corporate member, as a diocese in that Communion. What it will cause in terms of money, in terms of property, all this. I did not hear anything about what lead to that, what the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, what it ought to be as a Church? There were no references made to 'why are we here in the first place?' The question is, 'why are we here?' I believe we are here because we are Christians and we believe Christ to be the only way to God, the way to salvation. My grandfather gave his service to the Anglican Church, not just in Africa, but also all over the world.

The Anglican Church brought light to the continent of Africa, to Asia, to all parts of the globe, and it was because they felt they could spread the words of the Gospel to all ends of the earth. They knew, they believed, they had the conviction; they were not in any doubt as to the uniqueness of the Christian faith that they were bringing to everyone. They believed and they were convinced and they took that conviction to the ends of the earth, and we are reaping the benefits. Everyone is benefiting from the clearness, the very articulate nature of what Christianity is, and today we have come to the point where we should take seriously the words of our Lord and whom we have been and who we are going to continue to be. This is the time to make a decision. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you Father. Anyone wishes to speak in opposition to proposed Article I change? I think we're finished discussing this-one then. We will move on to the next, which is the change in Article 12 regarding Deputies or Delegates to Extra Diocesan Conventions or Synods. Does anyone wish to speak in favor or opposed to this proposal? Okay, the next one is proposed Article 18 on Canons. Does anyone wish to speak? Okay, I believe that is all four of them, Mr. Weaver. We've got all four finished now. So we are prepared to vote. May I have a report from the Credentials Committee?"

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, there is no change in status."

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Bishop Iker: "Okay, let's not mess this one up now, if you haven't registered and you don't have a ballot. Did I understand that ballots were distributed as people registered? And there are no Acorn Operatives on the floor of the Convention this morning? Please direct your attention to the Chairman of the Balloting Committee before you vote and vote only in accordance with his directions."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Ladies and gentlemen, this ballot should have a big number 3 on it. Make sure that clergy have clergy ballots and lay have lay ballots. They have all been counted. There should be no extras on the floor. You will need to listen carefully, because we will not be going, one, two, three, and four. So, if you will listen. The first ballot will be for the proposed constitutional Amendment A, the Preamble, the second reading. If you are voting 'for' that, mark #1. If you are voting 'against' that, mark #3.

The proposed constitutional Amendment B, Article I, second reading, The Authority of General Convention/Anglican Identity. If you are voting 'for' that, vote #11. If you are voting 'against' that, vote # 13.

The proposed constitutional Amendment C, Article 12, second reading, Deputies to General Convention/Deputies or Delegates to Extra Diocesan Conventions or Synods. If you are voting 'for' that, vote #21. If you are voting 'against' that, vote #23.

Th~ last one. Proposed Amendment D, Article 18, second reading, Canons. If you are voting 'for' that, vote #31. If you are voting 'against' that, vote #33.

When you have finished voting, lift your ballots and the deacons will collect them."

Bishop lker: "We are not taking a recess now. Let's pass the ballots in as quickly as possible. Let me make an announcement about the balloting procedure. The ballots will be taken and hand counted, because the machine is broken. I am at this time appointing two outside the Convention observers of the balloting process so that they will go and verify that the ballots were accurately counted. Dr. Glen Petta and Fran McDonald, would the two of you be willing to go with the balloters and not participate in counting the ballots, but to make sure that it is done properly and in order and that Acorn is not in there 'stuffing' any ballots. Please go with them. Are all the ballots in? We will declare then that the ballot on constitutional amendments is closed. I think this will be a good time and change of pace to hear from Bishop Godfrey. Bishop Godfrey will tell us a little bit about his ministry in his diocese and he has some slides to show us. Please join me in welcoming Bishop Godfrey."

Bishop Godfrey: "I think I am what's called the light to relief. Peru is my second diocese. My first was Uruguay when I had the privilege of being the first diocesan Bishop. When the Diocese of Uruguay was started, I had no clergy, I had one and a half congregations, and they gave me $5000.00, which was also my salary. They wished me good luck, and that in a way is the vision we so often have about missionary dioceses. It requires an over enthusiastic volunteer to throw himself out of a helicopter and begin. In a way, I reflected that in my own thinking on the day of my ordination when I felt a fraud to be a Bishop with no clergy. I must say it made for a lot of piece in the diocese, because I was always in agreement with my decision. But can I just say one

45 141-252083-11 of the things that helped me so much in the challenge I faced, was when one looked back in scripture, and when one looked back in the history of the Church, there were many missionary bishops who started alone.

One thinks of Paul for example and his missionary journeys and how he founded the Church. To begin with in central parts of Turkey on his way through as he preached the Gospel there he laid hands upon and appointed elders. The Greek word is "presbyteros". He appointed priests for the Church. It's the bishop who is not brought in at the end as it were the crowning glory when a diocese is formed, but one who with all the apostolic gifts, somebody who is sent to begin the Church.

Now as I began to realize this and to see within our Anglican tradition our great Celtic heritage and spirituality, it was the bishop who was the missionary. It was the prior who stayed at home and did the administration. So, firmly within our tradition is the notion that bishops should be the leaders in mission.

In my third Lambeth Conference, this time 2008, and I had the privilege again to gather together some of the missionary bishops, I did the same in 1988, the same in 1998, and the same in 2008. Almost all of the bishops had experienced the same challenge, which is both financial and one of man power, and all of them come to the conclusion very rapidly that they need to raise up local leaders, priests who will take charge of the Church in helping plant the Church. That was exactly the theory of Jackson Kemper, the first missionary bishop of the North American Church who set up the seminary, which we call Nashotah House. He did that not just to train priests, but for them to accompany him in evangelizing the west. So even within the North American tradition, the North American Episcopal - Anglican tradition we see that the missionary bishop is the raising up of local leaders, as priests.

The challenge of fmance is something that has challenged missionary bishops almost since the beginning. What I want to show you now is a twelve-minute video that was made about three years ago, so it's slightly out of date, but you won't notice that unless you know the diocese. It was made by a young man from Dallas. He was 17 when he did the filming and 18 when he made the video. What is there to explain is how we are raising up ministers in our diocese in Peru, that's to say lay ministers, deacons, and priests, who will have the job of extending the Church. When I went there, there were eight congregations and we had five clergy. We now have 25 clergy and we have 40 congregations, so things are moving forward. Things are moving forward way beyond what we see in the film.

I just want to make reference to one other thing before we see it, and that's the notion of what I call 'spider' parishes. I will just take this piece of paper and you can imagine this is Lima's second city, which is Arequipa, which has a million and a half people. Now ifl was to do it the traditional way, in terms of parishes, I could put down maybe 30 parishes and I could spend all of my episcopate founding 30 parishes. You think what a parish is normally for us in the first world. We will have a Church, an expensive Church, we will have Church hall facilities and the most expensive thing of all is a highly trained person to be there. So if I was to do that 30 times in Arequipa it would take up my ministry, I have been there ten years already, I could be there another ten years. If on the other hand we think of our parishes in slightly different ways then we

46 141-252083-11 may have a different approach. My concept of a 'spider' parish is to have maybe one of those strong centers at the heart of the spider, and then to imagine eight legs, each one would be a mission. Maybe worshipping in a garage, or a school, or a community center, or a house. Those missions can be run by lay ministers, by deacons, by the people we have that we can gather and train quickly. They will gather around a central priest, the rector of the spider parish, and he will administer and be in charge of this team of 16 people, two for each mission, maybe three or four people with him at the center. So a spider parish will have the concept of one priest and maybe 20 lay ministers and deacons who will assist him. Seminarians cannot be out on their own doing their own thing, they are instruments of service in the Church. This video is explaining our reason for having a seminary. When this was made we had one seminary in Arequipa We now have two seminaries. The second is now in Lima, it's the mother seminary. We have 70 seminarians. So, things are on the move. Obviously, we need funding to be able to send them out into the different parts of the country. You will get something of the flavor of it.

Now, let me just say one other thing before we begin about Peru. Peru is an incredible beautiful country, geographically in terms of its culture, its people, its music, and so on. It's a fantastic country, but well over half the people live below what the United Nations calls the poverty level. Many people live on less than a dollar a day. It has some of the poorest people in Latin America living there. When we talk about the millennium development goals, we're not talking about something we may do, or that we may be interested in, 95% of our Christians in Peru live in poverty. So we are a poor diocese. We're not a diocese that is interested in 'that' out there, we're interested in it because it's 'us', and because children can't study well, because they are hungry when they go to school. I've started six schools since I have been in Peru. Child hunger in the morning is one of the issues that we face, and somebody said 'why didn't you give them just a little piece of bread, a loaf of bread and a cup of milk?' Right, I can do that for one sol, that's our money. One sol, three sols to the dollar. So I give to three children, so that's one dollar to feed three children in a day. Now, throughout the diocese I have something like 600 plus children in my schools, divided by 3, that's $200.00 a day I need to spend. That's a $1000.00 a week. I have 40 weeks in our academic year, that's $40,000.00. So even giving children a small amount of food so they can study properly, is a massive financial investment. Some of that you will see on this video, but I just wanted to give you a little bit of a background. If anyone wants to ask me questions afterwards, or you want me to expand on anything, I will gladly do that. (Audience watches video)

I hope that's given you just a little insight into what we look like. It would be lovely and I invite Bishop Iker to send teams down to us, come and see, come and be part of us. There is nothing like bringing a team of people. I can remember when Christ Church, Plano sent their flrst team down and they were going to build the foundations of a Church, and these were all sort of regular guys who came down. Most of them go to church every now and then to please their wives. They came down to help build the foundations of this Church and on Tuesday after they got back, Fr. David phoned me up and said, 'what have you done to them?' What do you mean? We've not done anything to them. He said all those guys have just been blown away in their faith, because they were able to see and touch and be up close to Christianity in action. It's made a huge difference and we've seen that over and over again. Whether it's a group of people coming to do a vacation bible school, whether it's people to build things, whether it's medics coming to run a clinic or whatever, we want to be open to people coming to be a part of us and being involved in

47 141-252083-11 us. I believe I'm gratefully privileged to be a bishop where I am. I can't think of a more beautiful place, and the Lord is blessing us tremendously. I am truly thankful for that and regard it as a huge privilege. Thank you Father for giving me this opportunity for sharing. It's been lovely to be here with you. I thank you for that, a great privilege. May the Lord bless you and be with you. I know it's an ordinary Convention, but in another sense it's no ordinary Convention. May the Lord be with you and with us all and guide us along His path. May we be obedient to His will just as our Lord Jesus Christ always wanted to be. Amen."

Bishop Iker: "Very well. Thank you Bishop Godfrey. That was a wonderful video, very inspirational. Let me remind you all that the offering received yesterday afternoon will go to the Diocese of Peru. If you are not here, and you would like to make a contribution, you can certainly do that One way to do that is to bring cash, or make out a check and give to somebody on my staff, or Janie Parrott, or send a check into the diocese earmarked for Peru. Does anyone know if we have a report from the balloting committee? Evidently not I've asked if we can have the Canterbury House ministry reports now by Fr. Matkin, and then Fr. Culpepper. Then Dr. Salazar if you could come up here and be seated to give your report on behalf of the Corporation."

Fr. Timothy Matkin: Report on Canterbury House- St. Anselm (UTA)- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bis~op Iker: "Thank you Fr. Matkin. Fr. Culpepper will talk to us a little bit about what's going on at TCU."

Fr. Christopher Culpepper: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I would like to begin my report by honoring our past. Ifl can have Fr. Ogujiofor come forward please. Fr. Ogujiofor has faithfully served the TCU campus ministry for the last 14 years. He has been a wonderful mentor to many college students and great friend and mentor to me as well as we have worked in ministry. I am privileged to have the position he so wonderfully held the last 14 years and we have a token of appreciation for his ministry and witness on the TCU campus. Fr. Ogujiofor would you come up here please. There are three gifts; a coffee mug in the event he wants to remember the students in the morning; a baseball cap for when he wants to remember them in the noonday sun; and just incase he wants to remember them at night (cocktail glass) .... .laughs. We kept the receipt incase he didn't want to remember them at all, but I don't think that's the case. Could we give him a round of applause once more please.

Report on Canterbury House- St. Edward's (TCU) - (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you for that report and for your ministry at TCU. Dr. Salazar will now give the report on behalf of the Corporation of the Diocese."

Dr. Frank Salazar: Report of The Corporation of The Diocese of Fort Worth- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

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Bishop Ik.er: "Thank you Dr. Salazar and members of the Board of Trustees for your service. Fr. Dewayne Adams will now speak about the work of the Hispanic ministries committee in the diocese."

Fr. Dewayne Adams: Report on Hispanic Ministries - (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Ik.er: "Thank you. I'd like now to have a report from the Christian Education committee by Kristy Leaseburg, from Jason Bontke, director of Camp Crucis; and Gay Marquardt, director of Church Women. Are any or all present?"

Jason Bontke: Report on Camp Crucis - (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Jason for that wonderful report, but more than that for your wonderful ministry and leadership at Camp Crucis. It is good to be reminded that it is a place of spiritual transformation for all ages, and what a great gift it is for our diocese. The elections committee has a report at this time on the constitutional amendments. I'd remind the Convention delegates and clergy as well as everyone in the gallery, that when the results are announced, some will be delighted and some will be dismayed, and I request that you not make any sounds or signs of approval or disapproval as the results are made."

Fr. Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates, and clergy. The third ballot on constitutional changes, proposed constitutional amendments was valid. In the clergy order there were 92 ballots cast, there was 1 invalid ballot. There were too many marks on it and it could not be determined what they were voting for. In the lay order, the delegates there were 127 valid ballots cast."

Proposed Amendment A-The Preamble- second reading - clergy 73 (for), 18 (against) - lay order 101 (for), 26 (against) - 79.35% (for) the clergy, 19.57% (against) - 79.53% (for) lay order- 20.47% (against)

Proposed Amendment B-Article I-Authority of General Convention/Anglican Identity­ second reading - clergy 72 (for), 19 (against) - lay order 102 (for), 25 (against) - 78.26% (for) the clergy, 20.65% (against) - 80.32% (for) lay order, 19.68% (against)

Proposed Amendment C-Article 12 -Deputies to General Convention/Deputies or Delegates to Extra Diocesan Convention or Synods - second reading - clergy 71 (for), 19 (against) - lay order 103 (for), 24 (against) - 77.17% (for) the clergy, 20.65% (against) - 81.10% (for) lay order, 18.89% (against)

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Proposed Amendment D -Article 18 - Canons- second reading - clergy 71 (for), 19 (against) - lay 102 (for), 25 (against) - 78.26% (for) the clergy, 20.65% (against) - 80.32% (for) lay order, 19.68% (against)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much, thank you to the tellers and the observers who went in to monitor the counting of the ballots. Before going ahead, yes sir?"

Fr. Jay Atwood: "One note, the ballot machine was fixed 'after' we hand counted."

Bishop Iker: "Before we continue with the report of the Constitution and Canons Committee, we're going to hear from Gay Marquardt on behalf of the women of the diocese and then Mr. Weaver you will be on to continue your report."

Gay Marquardt: Report on The Episcopal Church Women- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you Gay and thank you to the women's board of directors. We now will return to the Constitution and Canon Committee report looking at canonical changes. Wait a minute, where is the music coming from? What is it? Do we know what it is? (Bishop snickers) Okay, direct your attention to Mr. Weaver."

David Weaver: (David snickers) "Rt Rev. Sir, before presenting the canonical amendments, I would like to acknowledge the members of the Committee on Constitution and Canons for the diocese who worked so hard over the. past year developing this material. First of all, there is Judge Bill McGee, the Chancellor of the Diocese; Rickey Brantley, Vice-Chancellor; also Mike Kensel, the Chancellor Emeritus; Dean Reed, from St. Vincent's; Dr. Bill Dickson, from St. Andrew's, Fort Worth; Cora Worley, and also Canon Hough. Just to give you an idea, there were 170 years worth of combined legal experience on this committee, comprised with lawyers who have been honored and designated as super lawyers in the state of Texas, top lawyers in Tarrant County as well as former judges and distinguished members of their profession. So, while one of us may not have known what we were doing, collectively we have a pretty good shot at getting it right, with that amount of talent At any rate, the canonical changes that are being proposed for the most part, are those canonical changes to make more consistent our canons with the constitutional provisions that we just now passed. You will note from the examination of the amendments, the amendments to Canons 4, 9, 13, 21, 22, 27, 29, 31 and 36 as well as the repeal of Canon 11, are really nothing more than minor textual changes designed to bring the canons into conformity with our constitution as we amended it. Canon 38 is a new canon regarding clergy discipline. It is a new canon that deals comprehensively with all matters pertaining to clergy discipline. It's patterned after the canon that was in place with the TEC, covering the same topic, however, our canon includes additional procedural safeguards designed to protect both the clergy from frivolous allegations, while at the same time establishing investigative procedures aim at efficiently discovering all the facts pertaining to any alleged conduct that might be contained in a presentment or complaint The previous diocesan canons pertaining to clergy

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discipline are Canon 39 and 41, and we are suggesting they be repealed. There is an unnumbered canon in our canons, and I don't know why it's not numbered, but it's the canon pertaining to geographical limitations. The recommendation by the committee is also that prevision be removed so that there is no longer a geographical limitation with regard to the jurisdiction of this diocese. Canon 44 is a new canon developed primarily to deal with matters pertaining to the ordination of deacons and priests. On behalf of the Constitution and Canons Committee of the Diocese of Fort Worth who unanimously have approved and endorsed these canonical changes, I move that these changes be approved and adopted by this Convention."

Bishop Iker: "It's properly before you and we are at the pleasure of the Convention. We can do this the long way, or we can do it the short way. The short way, since the Canons require simply a majority vote of the Convention, is to have one motion to approve all the proposed canonical changes and we vote by a voice vote. The other way is to go through each of them one at a time and debate them and then take a vote by written ballot on each of them. What I am going to say is that the committee has moved all of them and I am calling for a voice vote. Are there objections from any of the clergy or lay delegates to that position? Let the record show that no opposition was raised to the proposal that we vote for all of them by one voice vote.

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to approve all the proposed canonical changes by one voice vote.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "The amendments are adopted. Thank you very much. Now I believe that it would be appropriate at this time for you to present the resolution regarding the Province of the Southern Cone."

David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Resolutions Committee in difference to Fr. Ed Kresowaty, chairman of that committee, the Committee on Constitution and Canons on behalf of the Standing Committee as well, we offer the following resolution. BE IT RESOLVED, that the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, meeting in its 26th Annual Convention, does hereby accept the provision made by the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, and the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth does hereby immediately enter into membership with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone as a full and equal constituent member of such province. This proposal has received the unanimous endorsement of the Resolutions Committee as well as the Committee on Constitution and Canons and I believe also the Standing Committee, so on behalf of those entities, we would move that this resolution be adopted."

Bishop Iker: "The resolution is before us and we are going to go the route of the secret ballot by orders on this one. Anybody who wishes to speak in favor of the proposed resolution, come to this microphone to my left, anyone who opposes come to the right. A question from Fr. Barber first."

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Fr. Fred Barber: "I anticipate the approval of this. We would be moving to the Southern Cone at the end of this Convention, not at the vote, that's correct isn't it?"

Bishop Iker: "That is correct. My ruling would be that to hereby enter immediately means upon adjournment of the Convention. Mrs. Mayo."

Judy Mayo: "Rt. Rev. Sir, I speak for this resolution. I especially like the fact that this resolution in the final sentence says, as we indeed have tried to say in our constitution, it is no different than what we have tried to say for years, and I love the fact that this resolution does in deed say to the extent that we want to move under the Constitution and Canons of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone to the extent that such Constitution and Canons are not contrary to Holy Scripture and the teaching of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I think it's good that we are making this very clear we know the Province of the Southern Cone stands strong on scripture now, but this simply says to the world that if indeed this should ever change, we know it is a temporary arrangement. We know it won't be changing, but if indeed it should, that we want to stand strong, that we will not continue to be under a province that does not stand strong on both scripture and the teaching of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I think that's a very important phrase. I speak strongly in favor of this. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. Opposing side?"

Shannon Worrell: "You will have to forgive me, I have forgotten what I am suppose to call you. Very Reverend, Right, Your Honor? I'm sorry."

Bishop Iker: "Rt. Rev. Father."

Shannon Worrell: "Rt. Rev. Father and delegation. My name is Shannon Worrell. I am from All Saint's Episcopal Church and I've been a member of the church my whole life, and my father-in­ law was Fr. Worrell. I have a question for you, because when this vote takes place and this diocese leaves the Episcopal Church and becomes affiliated with the Southern Cone, when the Archbishop of Canterbury is a woman in 15 or 20 years, who will you be in communion with then, because to me, splitting off because you are not in full communion with a group because what they represent, which is spreading throughout the communion in the Anglican Communion, at some point, it's inevitable that the Archbishop of Canterbury will be a woman. Who will you be in full communion with at that time, or will that all be different?"

Bishop Iker: "I don't see it relevant to the resolution before us. Thank you for stating your concern. Anybody on the proposing side? Looks like we are finished with debate. All in favor of moving to a vote, say I. Oppose, no. So ordered. The tellers are passing out the ballots. The President of the Standing Committee will come up here please. While the ballots are being passed out, I noticed that there is banner put before us with the mission statement of the diocese, the 5th grade students at St. Vincent's School has made this very colorful banner for us and we are very grateful." (Ballots are distributed)

Fr. Jay Atwood: "The matter before us is the proposed Resolution - Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. If you are voting 'for' this Resolution, please mark 41. If you are

52 141-252083-11 voting 'against' this Resolution, please mark 43. Please hold up your ballots when you are finished."

Dean Reed: "As they are collecting the ballots, I am going to put one more plug in for the vendors who are here. Remember there are vendors on the second floor. You can get there either by the stairwells at the end of the hall or by the elevator. Returning to one item of business from yesterday afternoon, Fr. Bill still does not have his coat. Will the clergy in here please check your pockets? You will find a calling card and a Vincentian canon card inside the pocket. If it's in your pocket, it's not your coat. At this time I would like to invite K.risty Leaseburg to come up and give the report on Christian Education."

Kristy Leaseburg: Report on Christian Education. - (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Dean Ryan Reed: "Thank you. May I say a personal word? At the close of this Convention, I will have concluded five years as President of the Standing Committee and I want to thank you for allowing me to serve you in that capacity and I offer my prayers and sympathy to Fr. Perkins as he rolls on."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you Dean Reed for your leadership over the years as President of the Standing Committee. We're going to have Noonday Prayers and then lunch. Another thing for just a matter of clarification, when Mr. Weaver was making his report on Constitution and Canons final amendments, something went off in the gallery back there and it was music, and I thought it was someone's telephone going off, but at the break I was told 'no'. Someone had been thoughtful enough to bring along a tape recording of the music, Hit the Road Jack, and that's what they were playing. The sentiment is not reciprocated. I ask no one to hit the road or depart from this fellowship. (Applause) Noonday prayers. I'm told the host Dean is doing it. Then we will eat. Please return promptly at 1:00 p.m. The Standing Committee is required to come here and have an organizational meeting with me now before you eat. The rest of you we are recessed until 1:00 p.m."

Dean Christopher Stainbrook: Noonday Prayers

Bishop Iker: "If the clergy and lay delegates would take their seats please. Those who are visitors and observers please go to the bleacher seats. A few announcements before we come back into formal session. Yesterday at some point I expressed my appreciation for Anglican TV for helping live stream this Convention and should have mentioned at that time that we are grateful to Ray Cervantes, the video man who has been here taping everything. Would you give Ray a hand? Over to my left has been a taping of the Convention, so that we have an accurate tape of everything that took place here with Mark Dunn, who is volunteering his time from St. Vincent's Church. I would like to express my gratitude to some 50 people who served as volunteers in some capacity to make us comfortable at this Convention. I also need to say a word about a wonderful news resource called Virtuosity. David Virtue is here and as soon as I said you could contribute funds to Anglican TV, he said, 'well, I need some money too'. So, David Virtue is sitting over there, don't give him any cash, he will just go out and spend it on the way home. If you want to go online to Virtuosity and assist with his ministry, I certainly encourage you to do

53 141-252083-11 so. At the end of this session, I will not be staying here to glad hand, if you will excuse that, but I am going to go to the library for a press conference. So if you are a legitimate press person, representing some news media, if you would come to the library, which is between here and the Church we will begin as soon as I can get there. I'm asking that Bishop Wantland and Bishop Godfrey join me in the press conference, as well as Judy Mayo on behalf of the Standing Committee. Don Bendure has graciously offered to take anybody to the airport who needs a ride after this. I'm not sure if anybody applies, but if you do, go to the St Vincent's table where Dean Reed is and tell somebody if you transportation to the airport. Somebody dropped a little brass button, looks like from a blazer, it's silver, okay, come you may have it. Are there other announcements that I promised people I would make at this time? We have a result from the teller's committee on the resolution regarding the Southern Cone. Please give your attention."

Fr. Jay Atwood: "Rt. Rev. Sir, delegates and fellow clergy, on the last ballot, the proposed resolution - Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. - clergy order- 73 (for)- 20 (against)- all valid ballots lay order- 98 (for)- 28 (against)- all valid ballots 78.5% of clergy voted (for) 21.5% of clergy voted (against) 77.7777% oflay order voted (for) 22.2222% of lay order voted (against) If you round those numbers off by adding everybody together 78% of the diocese voted (for); 22% voted (against)

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Father, and that concludes the business of the teller's and we thank you for your time and effort. We are also grateful to the Constitution and Canons Committee because that completes their report. Yes?''

Fr. Jay Atwood: "I would also like to thank Fran McDonald and Glen Petta for observing the ballots as they were counted. I asked each one of them on both ballots if they wanted a recount, they certified 'no'. They felt everything was done proper and they signed off on it. So I want to thank them for their time and effort."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you. I would now like to read a letter to the Convention from the Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Province of the Southern Cone. This is a letter received today from The Most Rev. Gregory J. Venables.

Greetings in the name of our one Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ through whom we have been reconciled with God our father and in whom we are truly one. Please accept a warm welcome to the province into which by resolution of our synod you are received into full membership. In spite of the tragic circumstances which have made your costly decision necessary we rejoice with you at the opportunity to serve God together in His ongoing and glorious mission to extend His Kingdom. Our calling in this is indelible and must take priority. "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you

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are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." John 17:20-21

With my love and blessing, Your primate and brother, The Most Rev. Gregory J. Venables Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone of South America Bishop of Argentina

I do think a round of applause and appreciation for Archbishop is appropriate. Thank you very much and greetings back to you Archbishop if you happen to be watching us at this time on the Internet. We appreciate your steadfastness and your courage and your pastoral care. Walter Virden will now present the treasurer's report. Please refer to your packets."

Walter Virden: Treasurer's Report- (Written report is included in the report section of this journal.)

Bishop Iker: "The proposed budget is before you. Those wishing to speak may go to either microphone. Are we ready to vote?"

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the 2009 proposed budget be adopted.

SECONDED CARRIED

Walter Virden: "The next part of business is the assessment formula for 2009. We are recommending a reduction in the assessment on the first $50,000.00 of net disposable income down to an effective rate of 10.5% on the first $50,000.00 and the 16.5% on the amounts in access of $50,000.00 remaining the same. So the assessment formula proposed is 10.5% on the first $50,000.00 of average disposable income and 16.5% on amounts in access of $50,000.00. On behalf of the committee, so moved"

MOTION The Rt. Rev. JackL. Iker

RESOLVED, that the 2009 Assessment Formula be adopted.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "Anything else from the treasurer?''

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Walter Virden: ''No sir."

Bishop Iker: "Our heartfelt thanks to you for serving as our treasurer and to the Finance Committee."

Walter Virden: "I'd be remiss ifl didn't extend thanks to Janie Parrott and the entire diocesan staff for their assistance in our fmancial management and their hard work in preparing budgets and keeping the diocesan office running smoothly."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. We now have the report of the Resolutions Committee, Fr. Kresowaty and I understand that all the resolutions at this point are in the mode of courtesy resolutions, nothing that is controversial or surprise."

Fr. Edward Kresowaty presented the Courtesy Resolutions.

COURTESY RESOLUTION I Host Parish

WHEREAS, the Opening Eucharist and Business Sessions of the 26TH Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth have been hosted by St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, Bedford, TX, and

WHEREAS, the worship of the Convention was greatly enhanced by the beautiful nave and sanctuary, liturgical ministers, and splendid facilities at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, and

WHEREAS, the participation and expertise of the staff and volunteers of St. Vincent's Cathedral Church provided a truly hospitable atmosphere,

WHEREAS, the volunteers from St. Vincent's parish provided hospitality, constant prayer, dinner and entertainment following the Opening Eucharist and initial Session, breakfast before the Saturday Session, and lunch during Saturday's Session,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention express its appreciation to The Very Reverend Ryan S. Reed, Dean ofSt. Vincent's Cathedral Church, his staff, the volunteers who prepared and served the meals, and to all who were involved in making the Opening Eucharist and all the Business Sessions such an inspiring and joyful experience.

COURTESY RESOLUTION II Convention Choir

WHEREAS, the Opening Eucharist of this Convention was greatly beautified by the lovely music provided by the combined musicians and choirs St. Vincent's Cathedral and St. Mark's (Arlington)

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this 26th Annual Convention express its appreciation to the choir directors and choristers of St. Vincent's Cathedra and St.

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Mark's (Arlington) for the melodious and moving music contributed to our Opening Eucharist.

COURTESY RESOLUTION III Host Deanery & Diocesan Staff

WHEREAS, the 26TH Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has been hosted by the Fort Worth East Deanery, and

WHEREAS, the participation and expertise of the staff and volunteers of the Center for Ministry and of the Fort Worth East Deanery provided a truly hospitable atmosphere,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention express its appreciation to the Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook, Dean ofthe Fort Worth East Deanery, to the Diocesan Staff and to all who were involved in making this Convention such a profitable and joyous experience.

COURTESY RESOLUTION IV Companion Diocese of Northern Mexico

WHEREAS, The Diocese of Fort Worth and the Anglican Diocese of Northern Mexico have enjoyed a warm and mutually beneficial companionship for the last eleven years, and

WHEREAS, the said relationship is nurtured through the support of the La Gran Familia home by the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Fort Worth,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Diocesan Convention re-affrrm its solidarity with the Diocese ofNorthern Mexico and extends its greetings, prayers and pledge of continued support to Bishop Riveria and his See.

COURTESY RESOLUTION V Companion Diocese of Northern Malawi

WHEREAS, The Diocese of Fort Worth and the Anglican Diocese of Northern Malawi have also enjoyed a warm and mutually beneficial companionship for the past eleven years, and

WHEREAS, the said relationship continues to be nurtured through the Centurion Program and other donations of time, talent and treasure by the clergy, people and congregations of the Diocese of Fort Worth,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Diocesan Convention re-affirm its solidarity with the Diocese ofNorthern Malawi and extends its greetings, prayers and pledge of continued support to Bishop Boyle and his See.

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COURTESY RESOLUTION VI Bishop & Mrs. Davies

WHEREAS, The Rt. Rev'd A. Donald Davies is the founding Bishop ofthe Diocese of Fort Worth, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Davies served our Lord for fifteen years as Chief Pastor and Shepherd of this diocese and of our sister Diocese of Dallas,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, this 26th annual Convention extends greetings, gratitude and our heartfelt expression of love to Bishop and Mabel Davies.

RESOLUTION VII Bishop & Mrs. Pope

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev' d Clarence Pope faithfully served our diocese as Chief Pastor and Shepherd for ten years, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Pope and Martha continue to be much loved by the people of this Diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, this 26th Annual Convention extends greetings, gratitude and our heartfelt expression of love to Bishop and Dr. Martha Pope.

COURTESY RESOLUTION VIII Bishop & Mrs. Wantland

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev'd William Wantland continues to honor us by his counsel, support, prayer and presence as our Assisting Bishop, and

WHEREAS, his ministry and has benefited this Diocese and its people in countless ways, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Wantland and his wife Jan are most highly appreciated, cherished and valued by this Diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention extends its greetings, gratitude, and heartfelt expression of love to Bishop and Jan Wantland.

COURTESY RESOLUTION IX Bishop Iker

WHEREAS, the Rt. Rev' d Jack Leo Iker has served faithfully as Bishop in the Diocese of Fort Worth since his consecration in 1993, insuring that this diocese does continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship by guarding the faith and morals of the historic one, holy, catholic and apostolic church, and

WHEREAS, he has manifested the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Good

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Shepherd, great high priest of our confession, and Bishop of our souls in both his life and ministry, and

WHEREAS, the Church is called to stand firm in "the faith once delivered to all the saints", and to proclaim the Gospel to all people at all times,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this 26th Annual Convention extends our ongoing gratitude for our Bishop's powerful and courageous example and witness in the faith, and that we renew our commitment to stand with him and support him in his ministry.

COURTESY RESOLUTION X Donnaiker

WHEREAS, Mrs. Donna Iker has provided invaluable support and encouragement to our Bishop through out his episcopate, and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Iker has also given superior leadership to the clergy wives of this diocese these past 15 years,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its deepest appreciation to Mrs. Donna Iker for her help and support of our Bishop's ministry and for her own ministry to the Diocesan family.

COURTESY RESOLUTION XI Canon and Mrs. Hough

WHEREAS, the Rev' d Cai:ton Charles Hough has provided fourteen years of exemplary and devoted service as Canon to the Ordinary of the Diocese of Fort Worth, and

WHEREAS, he has served faithfully and well the priests, people, parishes, and missions of this diocese, and

WHEREAS, his expertise and leadership has complimented the ministry of our Bishop and been a source of strength for m any in the diocese, and

WHEREAS, Canon Hough and his wife Marilyn are most highly appreciated, cherished and valued by this Diocese,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and gratitude to Canon Hough for his faithfulness, leadership, and resolve as Canon to the Ordinary and that this Convention also expresses its gratitude and heartfelt expression of love to Canon and Marilyn Hough.

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COURTESY RESOLUTION XII Staff of the Center for Ministry

WHEREAS, the Diocesan Center for Ministry has been blessed with extraordinarily talented, hard-working, and dedicated staff members, and

WHEREAS, the Staff of the Center for Ministry has labored tirelessly throughout the past year to support the ministry of the Bishop, Clergy, and People of this Diocese, their various Committees and Commissions, and

WHEREAS, the Staff of the Center for Ministry has also labored selflessly and tirelessly to facilitate this Convention,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation the entire staff ofthe Diocesan Center for Ministry.

COURTESY RESOLUTION XIII Canon Boyd

WHEREAS, the Reverend Canon Billie R. Boyd has served for the past 6 years as the Bishop's Chaplain to the reti!ed Clergy and their families and is retiring once again from Diocesan Ministry, and

WHEREAS, Canon Boyd's ministry has been a great comfort, consolation, and strengthening of the retired Clergy and their families and his ministry has benefited all Diocesan families,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Reverend Canon Billie Boyd for his ministry in this Diocese and to the retired Clergy and their families.

COURTESY RESOLUTION XIV Guest Speaker

WHEREAS, the Right Reverend William Godfrey, Bishop ofPeru, has graciously consented to be our special guest for this Convention, and

WHEREAS, Bishop Godfrey has served faithfully and well as Bishop of Peru,

WHEREAS, in his sermon and address Bishop Godfrey has inspired us and exhorted us to proclaim and keep first the Mission of the Gospel against all odds and opposition,

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED, that this Convention expresses its thanks and appreciation to the Right Reverend Wdliam Godfrey for his inspiring words and presence among us.

CONCLUSION

Right Reverend Father: This concludes the submission of Courtesy Resolutions.

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Bishop Iker: "Concluding announcements before we go. Delegates please take your nametag off and put it on the table before you leave. The Standing Committee is pleased to announce the election of the Rev. Thomas Hightower as President; the Vy. Rev. Christopher Cantrell as Vice President; and Judy Mayo as secretary. For all clergy of the diocese please take special note. A special handout has been prepared for you to take with you and pass out in your church tomorrow. It explains what we have done today, the implications of it, and what we can expect for tomorrow. Whether you voted in favor of the resolutions or not, I think it is valuable information for everybody in your congregation to have tomorrow. On the table where you registered back there, there will be stacks of 100. I'm asking that just clergy in charge of a congregation take a stack. If you have just 50, take half of it If you have three congregations and you need to take three different ones, okay. They are in stacks of 100 so you estimate what you need. It will be posted on the website, but if others would like a copy of it after the clergy have gotten their copy, then you are certainly welcome to have it. I'm grateful for many people including Suzanne Gill for having help assemble these statements. The last thing we have to do before we go is pray together and ask God's blessing upon each other."

After prayers and the Doxology, Bishop Iker adjourned the 26th Convention.

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KATiaEEN WELLS

P.O. Box 101174 Fort Worth, Texas 76185

November 21,2008

Hand Delivered The Rev. Charles A. Hough, ill Secretary to the Convention 2900 Alemeda Street Fort Worth, Texas 76108

Re: Record of certain opposition votes to propositions at 26th Annual Convention

Dear Rev. Hough,

Enclosed please find the original packet of 18 pages consisting of the signed Summary Statement and Records of Opposition Votes, reflecting some of the "no" votes by the identified delegates at the 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, on the proposed changes to the diocesan constitution and canons and the res.olution regarding membership in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

As you and I discussed at the convention, and as Fr. Fred Barber and I discussed with Bishop Iker prior to the convention, I respectfully ask that this document be included in the official record of the convention to reflect these votes. It is possible that other delegates may later ask individually that their "no" votes be similarly recorded, but I am not submitting those documents on their behalf.

Thank you again for your gracious response to our requests regarding recording of these votes.

I will continue to keep you all in my prayers. ~fi~ Kathleen Wells

Cc: The Rev. Fred Barber

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Delegate Summary Statement

26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth

Rt. Rev. Sir: My name is John Burk. I am a delegate from All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Worth.

I have been asked to present remarks on behalf of many of your fellow delegates who will remain as members of the Episcopal Church. We thank Bishop Iker for graciously designating a place on the agenda for us to make this summary statement of our continuing opposition to the propositions that are before the convention today and for including this statement as part of the formal record of the convention. As a result, those of us who adopt this statement will not present statements when debate opens on the individual propositions.

Specifically we will vote against, and we urge you all to vote against, the propositions which purport to amend our diocesan constitution and canons and the resolution regarding membership in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. Those of us who will remain in the Episcopal Church respectfully but profoundly disagree that passage of these propositions will in fact "remove" the Diocese itself, as well as church property in the diocese, from the Episcopal Church. .

1. The propositions are invalid because they are inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, such as the requirements that each diocese maintain an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and for church officials to act consistently with their fiduciary duty to the Episcopal Church, including recognition of the express trust interest of the Episcopal Church in church property.

2. The propositions violate the fundamental conditions under which the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth was created from within the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas and by which the new diocese assumed the use of and control over Episcopal Church property. These conditions include conformity with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, as our diocesan officials expressly acknowledged in the primary convention of the diocese in 1982 and as they have judicially admitted on behalf of the Diocese in the declaratory judgment entered in 1984 and again in the Holy Apostles litigation in the mid 1990s.

3. The propositions would violate the interests of generations of Episcopalians who, long before this diocese existed, sacrificed to contribute time, talent, and treasure to build up the body of Christ through the ministry of the Episcopal Church, not some other church, in this area.

4. The propositions that seek to remove the geographical definition of the Diocese would violate the historical understanding of a diocese as having geographical Delegate Summary Statement Page 1 of4 141-252083-11

boundaries and would apparently permit the cathe

5. Clergy delegates voting in favor of these propositions may expose themselves to discipline, including inhibition and deposition, for: • Abandonment of the communion of the Episcopal Church; • Violating the Constitution or Canons of the Episcopal Church and this Diocese; and • Violating their ordination vows, including the vow to "conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church."

6. Clergy and lay delegates voting in favor of these propositions may violate their fiduciary duty and other legal and canonical duties as church officials in the Episcopal Church.

7. Regarding the Proposed Resolution for Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, • Such an action would violate the Constitution of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, in which Article 2 restricts membership to Anglican dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay; • Such an action directly violates the rec0mmendation of the Windsor Report against boundary incursions; and • The resolution violates diocesan Canon 30 which prohibits use of church property by another church.

8. We believe that the proposed budget significantly underestimates the "shrinkage" which will result from the expected passage of the other propositions today. Under the circumstances it seems unrealistic to assume that all the congregations in the diocese would continue to pay assessments at or above the levels paid in the prior year. Since individual giving will predictably follow changes of church membership, and since assessments are calculated using the prior year receipts but are actually paid from the current year cash receipts, the expected schism within our diocese, joined with the current economic downturn, will drastically reduce the overall revenue to the diocese.

9. Regarding the Report for the Corporation for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, we strenuously object to the continuing inadequacy of the annual reports submitted by the Corporation and the lack of transparency of its deliberations and actions. We continue to object to the attempted effort by the Board of Trustees to amend the Corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws to remove any obligation of the Corporation to comply with diocesan constitution and canons, including its trust provisions, and to bypass canonical procedures to determine who is the bishop of the Diocese. We consider these actions to have no legal effect. By their votes, we believe that the trustees violated their fiduciary duties to the diocese and its individual parishes, missions, and congregations, violated

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diocesan Article 14 and Canons 17.2 and 18, and violated the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church.

10. Regarding the report on church schools, we are concerned that the report continues to be incomplete and fails to acknowledge the critical financial condition of certain of our church schools.

11. ·we also incorporate by reference any additional comments made in opposition to these provisions on their first reading at the annual convention in 2007.

For these and other reasons, we consider the propositions presented today to be illegal, extracanonical, and of no effect, under canon law or secular law.

We ask that individual delegates signify in writing their votes on these propositions, to become a part of the official journal of this convention, particularly on the proposed changes to Article I of the Constitution, in the same manner as was done when the delegates adopted the unqualified accession at the primary convention of this diocese on November 13, 1982. We believe that it is essential that all church officials publicly and honestly confirm whether they are members of the Episcopal Church, because those who are no longer members of the Episcopal Church may no longer exercise authority on behalf of the continuing Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth.

For those in our diocese who decide to resign their membership in the Episcopal Church and thus their church offices, we will expect that they will immediately discontinue exercising any possession or control over Episcopal Church entities or property, including use of the names "Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth" and "Corporation for the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth," or continuing to speak for any parish or other church entity of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. While we fully respect your individual right to move your church membership from the Episcopal Church to another church, we cannot recognize your continuing authority to act on behalf of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth if you do leave the Episcopal Church.

Do we each agree with every action ever taken by the Episcopal Church? Clearly not. But we will remain in the Episcopal Church, as the continuing Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and as Anglicans in this place, professing our belief in the Creed every Sunday while striving to live out the Gospel imperatives of loving God with our whole heart, mind, and strength and loving our neighbors as ourselves.

At some point in the future, some of you may discover that you no longer wish to follow the path you take today and decide to return to the Episcopal Church. Please know that we, as the continuing presence of the Episcopal Church in this area, will joyfully welcome your return to worship with us as Episcopalians in the body of Christ.

We prayerfully urge you to oppose these propositions. Their passage will put our diocese into schism and result in a loss of your needed voice and energy in the Episcopal Church.

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Thank you again, Bishop Iker, for this opportunity to lodge our respectful objections to the actions which likely will be taken here today and to do so efficiently to avoid exacerbating our differences on these important issues . ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1/we adopt this statement which was read by a representative delegate during the 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth:

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26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 15,2008

We, the delegates of St. Christopher Episcopal. Church in Fort Worth, Texas, will vote against the propositions being offered at this convention which purport to amend our diocesan constitution and canons and the resolution regarding membership in the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. Those of us who will remain in the Episcopal Church respectfully but profoundly disagree that passage of these propositions will in fact ''remove" the Diocese itself, as well as church property in the diocese, from the Episcopal Church..

The propositions are invalid because they are inconsistent with the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church, such as the requirements that each diocese maintain an unqualified accession to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and for church officials to act consistently with their fiduciary duty to the Episcopal Church, including recognition of the express trust interest of the Episcopal Church in church property.

We respectfully ask that our opposition to the resolutions referenced above be recorded in the Journal of the Convention.

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Standing Committee- Clerical Fr. Timothy Perkins

Standing Committee- Lay Dr. Franklin Salazar

Ecclesiastical Trial Court- Clerical Fr. Scott Wilson

Ecclesiastical Trial Court- Lay Hartson "Dusty" Fillmore

Trustee, University of the South Fr. Jonathan Duncan

Alternate Deputies - Clerical The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Very Rev. Scott Wooten

Alternate Deputies -Lay Toby Matocha Alann Sampson Kay Stromberg Liz Young

Balloting on the Proposed Amendments

Second Reading: Amendment to the Preamble- adopted clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 73 101 79%clergy/80% lay con: 18 26

Second Reading: Amendment to Article 1 -Authority of General Convention/Anglican Identity- adopted clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 72 102 78% clergy/80% lay con: 19 25

Second Reading: Amendment to Article 12 -Deputies to General Convention/Deputies or Delegates to Extra Diocesan Convention or Synods- adopted clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 71 102 77%clergy/81% lay con: 19 25

Second Reading: Amendment to Article 18 - Canons- adopted clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 72 102 78%clergy/80% lay con: 19 25

The canonical changes all were adopted by voice vote.

Voting on the Proposed Resolution- Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone Resolution 1 -adopted clerical order lay order percentages by order pro: 73 98 78% clergy/80% lay con: 20 28 82 141-252083-11

Ballot Tally Report for Diocesan Positions

Following the Nomination Committee report, a motion was made, seconded, and approved to suspend the Standing Rules of Procedure for Convention and the following people were:

ELECTED BY ACCLAMATION Alternate Deputy to General Convention - Clerical Member The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Very Rev. Scott Wooten

Alternate Deputy to General Convention - Lay Member Toby Matocha Alann Sampson Kay Stromberg Liz Young

Trustee to the University of the South - Clerical Member The Rev. Jonathan Duncan

The tellers passed out ballots for the first ballot following a Credentials Report. When the ballots were collected and counting begun, it was determined that there were more Clergy ballots than registered clergy. This caused the first ballot to be declared INVALID and all ballots were destroyed.

The tellers passed out ballots for the second ballot following a Credentials Report and it was determined that this was a VALID ballot with the following results:

VOTES CAST C-79 L-111 VOTES NEEDED TO ELECT C-40 L-56

Standing Committee- Clerical Member The Rev. Dr. William Dickson 9 11 The Rev. Edward Kresowaty 6 15 The Rev. Timothy Perkins 53 53 The Very Rev. Scott Wooten 8 31

Standing Committee- Lay Member Marsland Moncrief 14 32 Dr. Frank Salazar 50 61 ELECTED LarryVotto 13 16

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Ecclesiastical Trial Court - Clerical Member The Rev. Davidson Morse 13 28 The Rev. William Taylor, III 19 20 The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson 47 62 ELECTED

Ecclesiastical Trial Court- Lay Member Hartson 'Dusty' Fillmore 47 62 ELECTED Gary Werley 27 45

After presenting these results, the Chair recognized The Very Rev. Scott Wooten who withdrew his name from the ballot for the position of Standing Committee-Clerical Member. The chair then entertained a motion to elect by acclamation, The Rev. Timothy Perkins for the position and it passed, so that no third ballot was needed for Diocesan positions.

Standing Committee- Clerical Member The Rev. Dr. William Dickson The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Rev. Timothy Perkins ELECTED BY ACCLAMATION The Very Rev. Scott Wooten Withdrew his name from ballot

This is a true and accurate report ofthe elections results as reported by myself, or as elected by acclamation on November 14, 2008 & November 15, 2008 - all documentation is signed by the actual tellers who counted the ballots.

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Total Registered 93 127 220 Total Votes Cast 92 127 219 Invalid Ballot(s) 1 0 1 Proposed Constitutional Amendment A- Preamble (2nd Reading) c L For (1) 73 101 174 (80%) Against(3) 18 26 44 (20%)

Proposed Constitutional Amendment B -Article 1 (2nd Reading) Autltority of General Convention /Anglican Identity C L For (11) 72 102 174 (80%) Against (13) 19 25 44 (20%)

Proposed Constitutional Amendment C -Article 12 (2nd Reading) Deputies to General Convention I Deputies or Delegates to Extra-Diocesan Conventions or Synods c L For(21) 71 103 174(80%) Against (23) 19 24 43 (20%)

Proposed Amendment D- Article 18 (2nd Reading) Canons C L For (31) 72 102 174 (80%) Against (33) 19 25 44 (20%)

Total Votes Cast 93 126 219 Proposed Resolution -Admission to the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone c L For (41) 73 98 171 (78%) Against (43) 20 28 48 (22%) These results are true and accurate as reported by myselfto Convention on November 15, 2008- all documentation is signed by the actual tellers who counted the ballot. e chair appointed observers who were present for all counting and tabulations.

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The Rt. Rev. William Godfrey Bishop of Peru 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth

November 14, 2008

We adore you most Holy Lord Jesus Christ, here and in all your churches throughout the world, and we bless you because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. Amen.

Before I begin to say what I want to say, I would like to thank Bishop Jack Iker for inviting me. It's a great honor. Thank you dear brother for inviting me, and it's a pleasure to be here. I've been many times in Dallas, but I think this is my first visit to Fort Worth and I greet you all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and bring much love and many prayers from the Diocese of Peru in South America.

Well today is the Feast Day of the first Bishop of the Episcopal Church and the propers were chosen with that in mind, that celebration, the episcopate. And as soon as you look to those Bishops, those who come after the apostles in leading the church, we immediately turn to mission, because each of the three readings this morning have to do with mission. The first one was some of the words Jesus chose in his first sermon when he went back home to Nazareth; the spirit of the Lord is upon me. The second one was spoken to the leaders of a missionary church, a church that Paul himself helped to found. And the third reading, the Gospel reading, records what happened when Jesus was deeply moved with compassion because the people seemed to be like sheep without a shepherd. He prayed to his Father who named the twelve apostles for him, and he called them, and he sent them out on that first practice mission. It wasn't much of a practice, it was the real thing, because they proclaimed the GospeL But never the less, it was in a sense practice for what was to come later as they began the work of the Church, some years afterwards.

I know this is a very special Convention, and I know that some very important decisions have to be made. I am not going to refer to them at all, and I think it is by pure chance that I happen to come from the Southern Cone. What I want to do, as we all must do whenever we have important decisions to make, and we need to discern carefully what God is saying to His Church, we need to go back to first principles. So I want to preach this afternoon about the Church's mission. I am no more a missionary than any of you are. It doesn't make you a missionary because you go to the far side of the world to live out your Christian faith. We are all called to be missionaries wherever we are, and we are all followers of a missionary Jesus Christ who was sent by His Father to save mankind. So we are all following him as missionaries.

I just want to say a word before I go on to the Scripture that I want to use; and to say that the first words of God that we have in the Scriptures asked to be full of mankind was the question, he was calling out to Adam and Eve, who had been called to be in communion with Him, the crown of creation. And when they sinned, a barrier was placed between them and God. And God's first words are, and they are missionary words, 'where are you .. .I am looking for you, I want you ... this isn't right. The rest ofthe Bible is about God bringing us back, and the Scriptures

86 141-252083-11 close with a vision of God with His people, with Jesus, and the bride, the Church, the people of God. And, almost a final invitation of the Scriptures is God calling the lost, but it's the Spirit and the bride. God and His church, he involves us in mission, and he wants us. The Spirit and the bride say, come let anyone who is thirsty, come. So at the beginning of the Scriptures we have God looking for us, at the end, we have God and mankind offering the invitation of life and healing and salvation. So mission is at the heart of what we are as the Christian church. If the disciples were sent out, the twelve apostles were sent out in mission soon after they were called, recorded for us in Matthew 10, then a few months or one or two years later, we have that same group of people minus Judas Iscariot and minus Thomas as well, who wasn't present with the other ten, we have Jesus sending out the apostles, recorded for us in John's Gospel, chapter 20.

"On the evening ofthat day, the first day ofthe week the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear ofthe Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'peace be with you. ' When he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were glad when they saw the Lord, and Jesus said to them again, 'peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, even so, I am sending you. ' When he said this, he breathed on them and said, 'receive the Holy Spirit. Ifyou forgive the sins ofanyone, they are forgiven. Ifyou withholdforgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.' So one of the records of the Great Commission that we have, and of course what I want to say about mission this afternoon is to remind you as the Church here, this local church of Fort Worth; to remind you of what our mission is, and how we must keep our eyes fixed on this mission. And just to pick out one or two things from that Scripture that I hope will be helpful to you.

The first thing is this, that the mission of the Church begins with an encounter with Jesus Christ. In almost every case, in the Old Testament, in the New, mission begins from an encounter with Jesus Christ. If that's so, and we want our Church to be a missionary Church, we should want this anyway, but if we are concerned about mission, then we want people to meet with Jesus Christ. I tell my clergy this, I teach the seminarians that there is no more important thing that you can do when you preside in the liturgy. Preside in any of the Sacraments when you preach the Gospel, that you should bring people closer to Jesus Christ. That's what we are here for, and that's what we must do and everything else will begin to drop into place when that's right If it's the Eucharist, we must celebrate in such a way that people come to know Jesus Christ. The so­ called Real Presence is not important if we don't actually meet with Jesus.

You know, you can have the doctrine, you can say the words, but if people don't meet with the living Lord Jesus Christ, it's not real. It's not the real thing. All the Sacraments, and there are many ways we can define Sacraments, but I believe at the heart of all our definitions is that in every Sacrament we are meeting with Jesus Christ whether we are marrying people, whether we are anointing the sick, whether we are Baptizing or Confirming, or celebrating, whatever we are doing, Jesus is there. He's the grace giver. That's what people must know and receive when we bring them to know Him. When we preach or read the Scripture, it mustn't just be that we all know to stand up and face towards the Gospel book; it must really be that we are longing to hear Jesus speak. It's His words, His actions, and His deeds. We don't often call the Gospel a sacrament, but in a sense it is a sacrament. Jesus is present in His words and in His actions, and by His grace and by the power of the Holy Spirit, we must look to Jesus and His words when we read the Scriptures and especially when we read the Gospel.

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We must bring Jesus to people and whenever we go to visit the sick, or visit a home, when we are doing our ordinary pastoral work as clergy, or as lay workers, Jesus should be there. Of course this is true when we go to the poor. Not to just ask to carry Jesus with us, but He is already there with the poor and the needy and the imprisoned and the sick and the dying and the naked, the hungry. Jesus reminds us so powerfully in the parable of the sheep and goats that in that we did it to the least ofour brethren, we did itfor Him." So, bringing people to meet Jesus is where mission begins.

Our pattern for mission is Jesus. "As the Father sent me, so I send you." Just to think of a few things in the example of Jesus' way of doing mission, would be the motivation. We don't do mission just because it's a churchy thing to do. We do it because our hearts are deeply moved by the love of God and His love for all people. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that all who believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." I think this is the verse that everybody ought to learn, John 3:17. He didn't send His son into the world to condemn the world, but through Him we should have life. Not condemnation. We must be motivated by love. One .of the things I love to teach our seminarians, and the clergy, we all need it is, before you go into Church, you should have a peek around the comer. Look at the people, love them, because they are the ones to whom you must bring the Gospel. We must love, it must be our motive for mission, just as it was in the heart of God in His mission of salvation. And our mission should be Incarnational. I love the first letter of St. John. What we see, what we touch with our hands, what we heard, it is the real thing. When people encounter the Church and our mission, are they encountering the real thing? It's exciting. When we began with the Resurrection and the Incarnation and the Redemption. We didn't begin with theology. We began with the real thing. You know, Him who we've seen, who we've touched. I put my fingers into the holes of His hand, and my hand into His side. We have touched it, we have seen it, we heard it. That's what Resurrection is about, how the real thing leads us to the real truth, and the same with Incarnation. The same with the Redemption, the Atonement. The same with mission. People have got to encounter a real Church that's worth touching and looking upon and listening to, because we are living the Gospel, like Jesus. We must have Incarnational mission. Obviously, very closely related to that, is holistic mission. How can we preach the Gospel if we are not concerned about the well-being, the welfare of the people that we reach out to? I know it's difficult. Some people have a tendency and a natural drawing towards the practical, I am not a man of many words, I would rather do it. Fine, but God also gave us a tongue, and a mouth and a language. Some people are more naturally preachers, and that's wonderful and good, too. But you know your words without actions and your actions without words are lacking so much. We need to place our words and have our words spoken out of the context of care and concern and feeding and clothing and healing and making peace. Holistic mission, we need to be a Church whose mission is holistic.

In our diocese you stop being a parish, not just if you stop paying your quota or whatever you call it, in fact the chairman of the Finance Committee was telling me that if you are not up to date with your payments, you might even have your vote withheld. Well, we have the vote withheld for other reasons, as well. If you are not doing social work, if you are not preaching the Gospel, you can loose your status as a parish. It's not just a money thing, it's a ministry thing as well, because we believe that this is what we should be about as Christians. A mission that is

88 141-252083-11 holistic. And then like Jesus, a ministry that is spirit filled. I was involved in the Charismatic Renewal when I was a younger priest. I hope I still am. I don't call it that, and I know that some people say oh no, that's Pentecostal. What? God the Holy Spirit is just for Pentecostals? God the Holy Spirit is for all of us, and if you go back to Luke's Gospel in the early chapters and underline every time you find the word Holy Spirit, you will find that Jesus was pretty Charismatic too. I will say this that the word Charismatic comes from the Greek word, "charis mata." Charis means grace. Ma, charis-ma means the manifestation, the making real of grace. And "Ta" is like adding an 's' at the end of our words, it makes it plural, so "charis-mata" is the many ways that we make real the grace of God. Now, which of us doesn't want to make God's grace real? That's what we are about. And sometimes when we start doing that we find all sorts of incredible things that start to happen, and the Charismatics have been good in reminding us. One has to have the spirit of God working within us in everything we do so God's grace is present whether we are visiting the sick, celebrating, or preaching, or whatever it is that we are about. Whatever we are doing must be filled with the grace of God, as our Lady was to be able to bring Jesus into the world. So being spirit filled is not just something that Pentecostals do, it's something Christians do, and it must be part of our mission as well.

And then by the end of this section, Jesus' ministry, you want to imitate Him and follow His example. Jesus' ministry was done under authority. He didn't take off on His own and do it. He said that 'all authority on earth and heaven had been given to me, go therefore and make disciples. ' And you know again and again you fmd in the Scriptures that Jesus was saying, "I've not come to do my own will, but the will ofthe one who sent me." In other words, I too am a man under authority.

Our mission and ministry must be under authority. I have a marvelous priest in our diocese, he is called Fr. AI Rayleo, and he loves starting missions. I'll eat my hat when I get back and he's not started another mission. I will say, Fr. AI, I really don't want to see another mission until you have started these others properly, and he always has a little twinkle in his eye, he always laughs and says, "you know you like it Bishop". And I do, I love starting missions. Of course, we have to do something with our missions, not just beginning them; that's his great gift. We have to disciple the people. We have to bring them forward to become mature Christians in the Lord. He does it sometimes without authority; he takes a bit of liberty. Anybody who thinks they should do it without the Bishop. I was reading quite a bit about what Irenaeus wrote, he has one little chapter about, the wickedness of doing things without the authority of the Bishop. I really like that. I am going to have that up in my office so that everybody knows ... no, what he is reminding us of, Irenaeus is that in fact, I don't mean Irenaeus, I mean Ignatius just at the beginning of the second century, I am sorry, Ignatius said those things in his letters, what he is reminding us of is that we must be under authority. We do need to give account to each other. And then the danger is more if we don't do anything, but we fail to do it without proper authority.

So the example of Jesus. Jesus greeted his disciples when he came to them, when he called them and sent them in mission, with words of peace. Jesus is the peacemaker and the peace giver. He said, 'peace be with you, and John tells us that He said it twice while He was with them. I think that is highly significant. Just by His sacrifice, His Sacrificial and atoning death he had broken down the wall of separation between mankind and God. Once more, there was peace between God and man. So we can imagine, Jesus must have been longing to give this. He wasn'tjust,

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'well the liturgical thing to do' you know, ''peace be with you". It was much more important, in fact, it's ''peace I give you". He wants to bring peace to us, and he was expressing what had been impossible since Adam and Eve's death. That is what we want with our mission, too. We want to be peacemakers, peace givers, leading people to God so that they can be at peace with it; so that the wall of sin can be broken down. No wonder Jesus said after he breathed on them to receive the Holy Spirit, he said, "the sins you retain, they are retained The sins you forgive, they are forgiven". Because He wants us to be in this ministry ofbringing people back to God, to be at peace with God, to be one with God. Peace be with you.

Then says St. John; "he showed them his hands and his side". Now you are getting quite use to here in the states to provide a photo identity when you get to the security checking at the airport, and if you are like us before, we in Britain never did anything like that. It's almost against your civil rights to have to carry any proof of who you were and all that is changing.

But in Peru, and Uruguay before that we always have to carry around an identity card and be ready to show it. Now I always thought that when Jesus showed them his hands and his side, he was saying, look, it really is me. Here I am, here are the wounds. I don't know why I thought that, it is so ridiculous. I mean they had only seen him two days before. Some of them had laid him in the tomb. They didn't need Jesus to show them his hands and side. And Jesus knew that they knew who he was. So the question is, why was he showing them his hands and his side? I believe the answer is quite simple and quite profound for mission. He is saying, look, two days ago these were the marks of death. They were bleeding. They pinned me to the cross until I was dead. But now look, they are no longer the marks of death. This is the sign of victory of the Resurrection. The things that take us to death and transform us, so that what we have suffered become the things that become signs of life and hope. So, He was giving his disciples confidence, a message of what God's power can do. it was the power of the Holy Spirit. That's what Paul prayed for the Ephesians. I pray for the same power that raised Jesus from the dead that will be a work in view. That's what we have to take in mission with us. The signs of victory, the power of the Holy Spirit will lead us, will lead all people from brokenness to life.

And when he showed them that, he breathed on them and said, "receive the Holy Spirit". If you go back to Genesis, Chapter 2, and the creation of human beings, you will find that Genesis 2:19, the creation of animals is exactly the same as the creation of human beings. In other words, God takes some of the dust of the earth, and He shapes it. A bird, He shapes it, an elephant, He shapes it, and He shapes the human being. It's almost exactly the same words. But in the case of human beings, Genesis 2:7, it's only half of our creation. Half of us is like any other animal- mammals, but, then God breaths His breath of life into us. And the verse says, and then He became a human being. That's to say, we only become fully alive when we have human, animal life in us, and then God breathes His life giving spirit into us. That's what makes us alive as human beings. Now, if Jesus has just won the victory on the cross, and drove from the power of sin, what's He going to do? He's going to breath back into us what had been missing from humankind since the time of the fall and the coming of sin. And that's what He does. He breathes life into us so we become whole human beings. That's what He wants from His missionaries. All of us to be live human beings; alive in the life and the force from God. There's nothing more about giving and retaining sins, but just thinking of mission.

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All that God wants us to do, you know, its born out of encounter with God. It's about peace. It's about doing it the way Jesus did it, "as the Father sent me so I send you". It's about what God can do with death in our lives. How He can transform us. It's about being made whole before He sends us. It's about dealing with sin, which belittles us and makes us less than God intends us to be.

Dear brothers and sisters of the Diocese of Fort Worth may you be missionaries in this place and beyond this place. May you have your eyes on that when you make important decisions and important discernments. May you keep the important things of what God wants from us before your eyes and may He bless us all with His grace and love. Amen

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THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

The Bishop . Address...... I Official Acts...... 9 Nominations...... II Appointments ...... :..... I3 Canonical Clergy...... I5 Clergy Registered...... I8 Delegates Registered ...... 20 Committees...... 23 Proceedings ...... 24 Election Results...... 55 Appendices Stand~g Rules ofProcedure...... 57 Statement of Financial Position- December 3I, 2004 ...... 61 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2005 ...... 84 Proposed Budget for 2005...... 88 The 2005 Assessment Formula ...... 93 Directed by Faith Capital Campaign...... 95 Reports...... 96 The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Episcopal Church Women The Executive Council Northern Deanery Eastern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery Fort Worth West Deanery Hispanic Committee Center for Hispanic Ministry The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Canterbury Program - TCU Anglican School of Theology University of the South Church Pension Fund Deacon's Report Camp Crucis World Mission Committee Armed Forces Report Arts & Architecture Mission Strategy 141-252083-1111

THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2004

The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION (2006) The Rev. Canon Laurens R. Williams The Rev. Robert L. Young (2006) Susan Bradley (2007) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2007) CHANCELLOR William White (2007) William T. McGee, Esq. The Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2007)

TREASURER Walter Virden, ID

Committee for the Diaconate REGISTRAR Leigh Cariker (2005) Joy M. Gully The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2005) The Rev. Janet G. Nocher (2005) Judy Szydlowski (2005) HisTORIOGRAPHER The Rev. Bryant C. Bechtold, Convener The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook (2006) The Rev. Lana K. Farley (2006) Jimmy Henry (2006) TRUSTEE OF THE CQRPORATION The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2006) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Jane Bauch (2007) Dr. Al Lilly (2009) Doris Gregory (2007) Ken Seaver (2007)

TRuSTEES FoR TQE ENDOWMENT FOR THE EPISCOPATE Committee for Lay Ministry Jo Ann Patton (2005) The Rev. J. Frederick Barber (2005) Chad Bates (2006) Steve Schooling (2005) · Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2007) Kay Stromberg (2005) Walter Virden, ill, Secretary (2008) Mack Wood (2005) Dr. Al Lilly (2009) The Rev. J. Scott Wilson (2005) Gerald Gregory (2006) THE COMMISSION ON MINisTRY The Very Rev. Thomas B. Kennedy (2006) Carol Tieman (2006) Committee for the Priesthood Thorn Murrell (2007) Tim Cox (2005) The Rev. Ann Richards (2007) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2005) Chet Szydlowski, Convener (2007) Dorothy Eason (2005) The Rev. John Payne (2005) CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS Anthony Clark (2006) Executive Director Jo Ann Patton (2006) Rod Barber (2005) The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2005) 24 141-252083-11

TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH November 5-6, 2004

The 22nd annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, 1300 Forest Ridge, Bedford, Texas 76022 on Friday, November 5, 2004.

The Business meeting was held at St Vincent's Cathedral Church, 1300 Forest Ridge, Bedford, Texas 76022 on Saturday, November 6, 2004. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until8:45 am.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30am. in the church.

THE PROCEEDINGS SATURDAY, NOVMEBER 6, 2004 9:00A.M.

Bishop Iker welcomed all to the 22nd Annual Convention and introduced the hosting Dean of this year's convention, The Very Rev. Christopher Allen. Dean Allen: Good morning, Rt. Rev. Sir, honored clergy, delegates and guests of The 22nd Annual Convention of the Diocese of Ft. Worth. It is my pleasure and honor to be able to welcome all of you here on behalf of the Northern Deanery and St. Vincent's · Cathedral Parish and School. I especially wish to thank the volunteers from the Northern Deanery and St. Vincent's for their assistance with registration and the Dean, clergy, staff, and parishioners of the Cathedral for their wonderful hospitality. Rarely, I think has the hosting deanery been the beneficiary of such luxurious and comprehensive aid in _carrying out its task. It is always easier to be the host in someone else's house asswning the least that you don't have to do the washing up. So with all my heart, I thank you for your labors oflove. We were blessed last night with a beautiful mass, an eloquent and inspiring sermon, a delicious dinner, and opportunity for fellowship. This feeding first of our souls and then our bodies was an excellent way to enter into the theme of this convention-Bringing Forth Life and Giving Growth. As it was for Charles Simeon, of whom Canon Harmon spoke, "The Holy Spirit renews us in our life with the Lord as we approach that eternal where we receive the blessed body and life's blood poured out for us by our Savior. There is no truer source of life than this and no better place to seek for real growth of body, mind, and spirit. As we go forward in our work together today, let us always remember that we find our unity only when we submit ourselves to the discipline of sacrifice that Jesus calls us to at His table where we say with joy in our hearts, not my will, Lord, but thine be done. Fr. Allen delivered his welcome in Spanish also.

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canonically resident in the diocese be granted seat and voice at this convention.

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The Chancellor of the Diocese, Mr. William McGee, pointed out that the Standing Rules of Procedure of the annual convention are included in the packet and requested that they be reviewed during the course of the meeting. He also pointed out two rules in particular. When addressing the chai, if the Bishop is in the chair, begin remarks with Rt. Rev. Sir, and when speaking on a short motion use the microphones throughout the room. A lengthy presentation of the speaker sliould come to the stage and speak from that microphone.

Bishop Iker called attention to The Bishop's Nominations and The Bishop's Appointments, which are on the purple sheets in the convention packet. MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker gave his annual address (attached) with the President of the Standing Committee assuming tl,le chair.

Fr. Louis Tobola, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations:

Deputy to General Convention-Clerical The Rev. Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hightower The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough ill The Very Rev. Ryan Reed

Deputy to General Convention-Lay Mr. Anthony Clark Mrs. Judy Mayo Dr. Frank Salazar Mrs. Kay Stromberg Mr. Walter Virden ill

Standing Committee-Clerical The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell

Standing Committee-Lay Mrs. Judy Mayo

Ecclesiastical Trial Court-Clerical The Rev. Timothy Matkin

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THE TWENTY-TIDRD ANNUAL CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS

The Bishop Address...... 1 Official Acts...... 7 Nominations...... 9 Appointinents...... 10 Canonical Clergy ...... :...... 12 Clergy Registered...... 15 Delegates Registered ...... 17 Committees ...... 20 Proceedings ...... 21 Election Results...... 44 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure...... 46 Audit & Statement of Financial Position - December 31, 2004...... 50 Financial Statement- September 30, 2005...... 62 Proposed Budget for 2006...... 74 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2006...... 78 The 2006 Assessment Formula...... 83 Capital Campaign Update...... 85 Reports...... 86 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Southern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery World Mission Committee Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women Church Pension Fund Christian Education Commission Ecumenical Affairs Airport Ministry Canterbury Program - UTA Center for Hispanic Ministry Armed Forces Report Alcohol and Drug Abuse Ministry University of the South Committee on Scouting St. Alban's School Risk Management Committee Youth Ministry Advisory Committee Bishop's Youth Commission I 141-252083-11

I THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2005

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION Committee for the Diaconate I The Rev. Canon Laurens R. Williams The Rev. Bryant C. Bechtold, Convener (2006) The Rev. Lana K. Farley (2006) CHANCELLOR Jimmy Henry (2006) I William T. McGee, Esq. The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2006) Jane Bauch (2007) TREASURER Doris Gregory (2007) I Walter Virden, III Ken Seaver (2007) The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2008) I REGISTRAR The Rev. Janet G. Nocher (2008) Joy M. Gully Judy Szydlowski (2008)

I HisTORIOGRAPHER Committee for Lay Ministcy The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook The Rev. Fred Barber, Convener (2008) The Rev. James R. Reynolds (2006) I TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION Gerald Gregory (2006) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Carol Tieman (2006) JoAnn Patton (2010) Thorn Murrell (2007) I The Rev. Ann Richards (2007) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENQOWMENT The Very Rev. J. Scott Wilson (2007) FOR THE EPISCOPATE Steve Schooling (2008) I Chad Bates (2006) Kay Stromberg (2008) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2007) Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2008) CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS I Rod Barber (2009) Jason Bontke, Director JoAnn Patton (2010) Rod Barber, Chairman (2008) Stephanie Burk (2006) I THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY Jimmy Henry (2006) Cordell Swindle (2006) Committee for the Priesthood The Rev. Ann Richards (2007) I The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2006) Rob Shattuck (2007) Gene Dugan (2006) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2007) Jo Ann Patton (2006) George Wragg (2007) I The Rev. Robert L. Young (2006) The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2008) Susan Bradley (2007) Jonice Williford (2008) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2007) Kelli Brazzel (2008) I Mack Wood (2007) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2007) Tim Cox (2008) I The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2008) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2008) I Toby Matocha (2008) I 9 I I 141-252083-11

Twenty-Third Annual Convention I Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 17-19,2005

I The 23rd Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at All Saints' School Chapel Church, 9700 Saints' Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76108 on Friday, I November 18,2005. The Business meeting was held at All Saints' Gymnasium, 9700 Saints' Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76108 on Saturday, November 19, 2005. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued I until 8:45 a.m. I Morning Prayer was held at 8:30a.m. in the All Saints' School Chapel. THE PROCEEDINGS I SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2005 9:00A.M. I BISHOP IKER led the congregation in The Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of God Bless America. Bishop Iker: "As the host Dean makes his way to the podium to welcome us, I want you all to I know, we're breaking new ground today. For the first time in history a diocesan convention, namely this one, is being broadcast live over the internet. It's called "streaming." I'm grateful to Phillip Shaw and Anthony Clark for the time and talent they have donated in setting it up and I making it possible. So be. on your best behavior because someone is watching you." He introduced the hosting Dean of this year's convention, The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley." I Dean Bradley: "Rt Reverend Sir, honored guest, clergy, delegates and guests of the 23rd Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, it is my pleasure and honor to welcome you here on behalf of the Southern Deanery. I would like to extend a special thanks to the Southern I Deanery volunteers and the All Saints' School and Chapel for their assistance and hospitality. I give thanks for Father Timothy Perkins, Father Mel Bridge, Father Javier Loyo, the people of San Juan Apostle, Mrs. Julie Barber and her committee, Mrs. Susan Steele and the diocesan staff I for all their organizing assistance. The hands of many made the yoke of this one light We began with a beautiful service enriched by the choristers of the diocese led by Mr. Bob Austin. We continue with joy with the building up of the body of Christ as we go forth to shine the light of I Christ in our diocese and in the world. Only as God's servants will we find success. Thank you and welcome."

I Bishop Iker: "Thank you Dean Bradley. In order to do business, we need to elect a Secretary of the Convention. As you know, our long time secretary to the convention has been The Rev. Canon Larry Williams and unfortunately when coming in this morning, he caught his foot some I place on this floor covering and fell down and broke his hand. So, IP.s wife has taken him to the hospital, I think it's going to have to have stitches as well as set the bone. So when he gets back here, he can resume duties, but you know how it is at the emergency room on a Saturday. I just I ddn't know how long he'll be there." I 21 I I 141-252083-11

you. A lengthy presentation of the speaker should come to the podium and speak from that I location.

Bishop Iker called attention to The Bishop's Nominations and The Bishop's Appointments, I which are on the purple sheets in the convention packet. The appointments are a way of informing you who has been appointed to these various positions. The nominations page requires I the approval and consent of the Convention. (Attached) MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

I RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED I CARRIED I Bishop Iker gave his annual address (attached) with the President of the Standing Committee assuming the chair. I Fr. Thomas Hightower, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations: Alt. Deputy to General Convention-Clerical I The Rev" Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley The Rev. Stephen Jones I The Rev. Edward Kreso:waty The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook The Very Rev. Scott Wilson I The Very Rev. Scott Wooten The Rev. Canon Robert Young

I Alt. Deputy to General Convention -Lay Member Mr. Gene Dugan Mrs. Toby Mactocha I Mr. Gerald Gregory Mrs. Jo Ann Patton Mrs. Kay Stromberg I Mr. Ron Turner Mr. Mack Wood I Mrs. Liz Young Standing Committee-Clerical The Very Rev. Ryan Reed I The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook I I 23 I

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I TABLE OF CONTENTS THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION I PROCEEDINGS I The Bishop Address...... 1 Official Acts...... 6 I Nominations...... 8 Appointments...... 9 Canonical Clergy...... 11 I Clergy Registered...... 14 Delegates Registered...... 16 Committees ...... 19 Proceedings ...... 20 I Election Results...... 73 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure...... 84 I Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2005...... 88 Financial Statement- December 31, 2005...... 97 Proposed Budget for 2007...... 112 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2007 ...... 115 I The 2007 Assessment Formula...... 120 Capital Campaign Update...... 122 I Reports...... 123 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee I Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture I The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Eastern Deanery I Fort Worth East Deanery World Mission Committee Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women I Church Pension Fund Christian Education Commission Airport Ministry I Canterbury Program ~ UTA Center for Hispanic Ministry University of the South Risk Management Committee I Youth Ministry Advisory Committee Committee for Hispanic Ministries Report on General Convention 2006 I UTO Report I I I 141-252083-11

I THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2006

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE I The Rev. Canon Laurens R. Williams The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2009) Jane Bauch (2007) I CHANCELLOR Doris Gregory (2007) William T. McGee, Esq. Ken Seaver (2007) The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2008) I TREASURER The Rev. Sandra McCown (2008) Walter Virden, III Lynn Stavinoha (2008) Jimmy Henry (2009) I REGISTRAR The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2009) Susan F. Steele COMMITTEE FOR LAY MINISTRY I HISTORIOGRAPHER The Rev. Fred Barber, Convener (2008) The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Thorn Murrell (2007) The Rev. Ann Richards (2007) I TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION Steve Schooling (2008) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH The Rev. James R. Reynolds (2009) Chad Bates (2011) Gerald Gregory (2009) I Carol Tieman (2009) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT FOR THE EPISCOPATE CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS I Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2007) Jason Bontke, Director Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2008) Rod Barber, Chairman (2008) Rod Barber (2009) The Rev. Ann Richards (2007) I JoAnn Patton (2010) Rob Shattuck (2007) Chad Bates (2011) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2007) George Wragg (2007) I THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2008) Jonice Williford (2008) COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD Kelli Brazzel (2008) I The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2009) Jimmy Henry (2009) Susan Bradley (2007) Juleigh Davenport (2009) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2007) Chuck Parmele (2009) I Mack Wood (2007) Frank Wagnon (2009) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2007) Tim Cox (2008) I The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2008) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2008) Toby Matocha (2008) I Gene Dugan (2009) Jo Ann Patton (2009) I The Rev. Robert L. Young (2009) I 8 I I 141-252083-11

I Twenty-Fourth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth I November 17-18,2006 The 24th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church, 3900 Morris Lane, Arlington, Texas 76016 on Friday, I November 17,2006.

The Business meeting was held at St. Peter and St. Paul in The Great Hall on Saturday, I November 18,2006. Registration began at 7:30am. and continued until8:45 am. I Morning Prayer was held at 8:30 a.m. in the church. THE PROCEEDINGS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18,2006 I 9:00A.M.

Bishop Iker: "The Convention delegates and clergy eligible to vote, please take your seats at the I designated places on the floor. I ask that visitors and guest not be in the designated area where those with right to speak and vote are seated. Let us stand for prayer for this Convention. The 24th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is now in session. Please be I seated, we'll have a welcome from the host dean, Dean Bill Crary."

Dean Crary: "Good morning, Bishop. Welcome to the Eastern Deanery. I am very grateful to I the rector and the people at St. Peter and St. Paul for providing a place for this Convention. They've done a magnificent job arranging for the worship yesterday evening, for the delicious bar-b-que dinner, the breakfast this morning, the table settings, and all the details that have taken I place. We're glad to convene here, and we appreciate the hospitality, and again I welcome you to the Eastern Deanery. Thank you, thank you Bishop."

I Bishop Iker: "Thank you Dean Crary and to the people of the parish of the deanery for hosting this Convention.

I Bishop Iker nominated The Rev. Canon Laurens Williams as secretary of the Convention and then asked for nominations from the floor of which there were none.

I MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect The Rev. Canon Laurens Williams as Secretary to the 24th I Annual Convention by acclamation.

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I you are addressing the chair, with Right Reverend Sir. Give your name and place where you are from and speak from one of the microphones on the floor." I Bishop lker: "Thank you very much. I'd like to make other introductions at this time. You've already been introduced to our Chancellor, Mr. McGee and we're grateful for his service. There are several other people who are serving with us and on my staff that we want to acknowledge at I this time. I'd ask you to acknowledge them with applause and shouts of acclamation of you'd like after I've introduced all of them. The Secretary to Convention, Canon Williams, next to him is the Assistant Bishop of the Diocese, The Rt. Rev. William Wantland. On the side table is I Canon Hough, the Canon to the Ordinary. Janie Parrott, the Director of Finance and Business Administration. Canon Boyd, the Chaplain to Retired Clergy and Spouses. Danyl Harrell, Financial Secretary. Gala Pryor, Receptionist and Secretary to the Canon of the Ordinary. Jason I Bontke, Director of Camp Crucis and Suzanne Gill, some place here is Director of Communications and Planned Giving. The newest change in our diocesan staff is that Susan Steele has become secretary and administrative assistant to the Bishop. I do not see Susan, she I must be working the floor. Let me just say that Melody Mendolia is not here today, she is Insurance and Finance Secretary, but her sister she's not seen for several years, is flying into the airport today, so I said go pick her up and spend the day with her, because that's just the kind of I nice guy I am. Let's have the staff please stand and be recognized. Applause. Thank you very much. We couldn't do it without you. I'd also like to take a moment to say how grateful we are for all their ministry and support, we couldn't do it without them, but speaking of people I I couldn't do without, I saw my wife come in a few minutes ago, and so that I don't forget to welcome and acknowledge her later in the Convention, let me ask if Donna would please stand at this time. Applause. She does not have a seat or vote at this Convention, but I assure you that any I time she wishes to speak, I'm going to recognize her. Before you in your packets dear friends, I hope you all remembered we're trying to conserve cost and putting everything online and having you print things off and reminding you to bring those things with you to Pre-Convention I meetings and also to the Convention, I hope that all of you do have in your possession the last packet that was passed out at registration, and that some place in there you have a couple of purple sheets, one on the Bishop's Nominations to various committees and commissions and the I Bishop's Appointments for various other capacities. I need the approval or consent of the Convention for the Bishop's Nominations. The Bishop's Appointments are simply by way of I announcement. MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

I RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

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Bishop Iker: "We'd like to stay in session as much as possible with minimum amount of I moving about, but at any time you need find your way to the men's room or ladies room, I understand they are both on this floor behind the screen and also on the second floor. The stair access is back there by the door. The coordinator on behalf of this congregation for St. Peter and I St. Paul hosting this Convention is Cheryl Rives. Cheryl are you in the Hall? We thank her and I 22 I

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The Bishop Address ...... l Official Acts ...... 8 Nominations...... 10 Appointments...... 11 Canonical Clergy...... 13 Clergy Registered -Friday, Nov.16tb ...... :...... 16 Clergy Registered- Saturday, Nov. 1'r"...... 18 DelegatesRegistered-Friday,Nov.16tb ...... 20 Delegates Registered- Saturday, Nov.17tb...... 24 Committees ...... 27 Proceedings ...... 28 Election Results...... 92 Bishop Lyon's Sermon...... 95 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure ...... 99 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2006 ...... 103 Financial Statement -December 31. 2006 ...... ll5 Proposed Budget for 2008 ...... 127 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2008 ...... 131 The 2008 Assessment Formula...... 136

Reports ...... 138 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Eastern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women Christian Education Commission Airport Ministry Canterbury Program -UTA University of the South Committee for Hispanic Ministries Risk Management Committee Youth Ministry Advisory Committee Evangelism Report Armed Forces Report 141-252083-11 THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2007

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2009) The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (2008) CHANCELLOR The Rev. Sandra McCown (2008) William T. McGee, Esq. Lynn Stavinoha (2008) Jimmy Hemy (2009) TREASURER The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2009) Walter Virden, III David Doremus (2010) Doris Gregory (2010) REGISTRAR The Rev. Ann Richards (2010) Susan F. Steele

HISTORIOGRAPHER CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Jason Bontke, Director Rod Barber, Chairman (2008) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2008) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Janice Williford (2008) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Mr. Charles Warnky (2008) Jimmy Hemy (2009) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT Juleigh Davenport (2009) FOR THE EPISCOPATE Chuck Parmele (2009) Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2008) Frank Wagnon (2009) Rod Barber (2009) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) JoAnn Patton (2010) Jane McManus (2010) Chad Bates (20 11) The Rev. Stuart Smith (2010) Rob Shattuck (2010) THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2009) Tim Cox (2008) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2008) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2008) Toby Matocha (2008) Gene Dugan (2009) JoAnn Patton (2009) The Rev. Robert L. Young (2009) Susan Bradley (2010) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Mack Wood (2010) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2010)

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Twenty-Fifth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 16-17, 2007

The 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at All Saints' Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, Texas, 76107 on Friday, November 16, 2007.

The Business meeting was held at the Will Rogers Memorial Center on Saturday, November 17, 2007. Registration began at 7:30am. and continued until8:45 a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30am. in the East Texas Room of the Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Bishop Iker: "The 25th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth will come to order and is now in session. I'd like to begin by making a few announcements. First, if there are any wives of priests here who would like to go to the home of Adeline and Fr. Zeke Rogers for coffee, tea, and conversation, you're invited to do so at this time. The Rogers home is just across the street on the other side, cattycomer from the Chapel here to my left. Remember that tomorrow morning all the packets and information that you have with you for the Convention will need to be brought with you and that you will need to register again in the morning. We are meeting at the Will Rogers Auditorium in the East Room and we begin with Morning Prayer at 8:30 and feast on coffee and rolls and that kind of thing. A light breakfast before, so make sure you have plenty of time to register and be in your seats for Morning Prayer at 8:30. In addition to thanking Fr. Jambor and the parish life commission as I did at the Mass, I neglected to say how grateful we are for the choir. They did a fantastic job. I think they came from about four or five congregations and to come in the middle of the day to serve in the choir is greatly appreciated. I'm also told that Lynne Waltman, a member of the staff here has been instrumental in making the arrangements and coordinating the setup and cleanup and all for our meeting, so we want to thank Lynn for her special service. Now on our agenda we are going to hear a brief welcome from the Dean of the host deanery, the Fort Worth West Deanery, Dean Christopher Cantrell."

Dean Cantrell: "Rt. Rev. Sir, on behalf of the Fort Worth West Deanery I thought I might take about 45 minutes or so to extol the virtues and wonders of the western side of Fort Worth. No, well. Welcome, we are glad you're here. I want to add a word of thanks to the diocesan staff, which made this look real easy. They have worked very hard and they too deserve our thanks for their preparation. Welcome."

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, ill as Secretary to the 25tb Annual Convention by acclamation.

SECONDED CARRIED

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MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop lker: "Our Nominating Committee report will come from Fr. Stephen Jones, the Chairman, and rector of Holy Comforter Church in Cleburne."

Fr. Stephen Jones, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations. Standing Committee - Clerical The Rev. J. Frederick Barber The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell

Standing Committee - Lay Member Mrs. Judy Mayo Mrs. Kay Stromberg

Deputies to General Convention- Clerical- (elect four) The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley The Very Rev. Christopher T. Cantrell The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hightower The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Very Rev. Ryan Reed The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook The Very Rev. Scott Wooten

Deputies to General Convention- Lay member- (elect four) Gerald Gregory 1vrrs. Toby Matocha Mrs. Judy Mayo Mrs. JoAnn Patton Dr. Frank Salazar Mrs. Kay Stromberg Walter Virden, III Mack Wood

Ecclesiastical Trial Court- Clerical The Rev. David Madison The Rev. Timothy Matkin

University of the South- Lay member Kent Henning

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The Bishop Address ...... I Official Acts ...... 6 Nominations...... 8 Appointments...... 9 Canonical Clergy...... II Clergy Registered -Friday, Nov. 14th ...... 14 ClergyRegistered-Saturday,Nov.lsm...... 15 Delegates Registered- Friday, Nov. 14th ...... 16 Delegates Registered- Saturday, Nov. 15th...... 19 Committees...... 22 Proceedings ...... 23 Record of Opposition...... 62 Election Results...... 82 Bishop Godfrey's Sermon...... 86 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure ...... 92 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2007 ...... 96 Financial Statement -December 31, 2007 ...... 108 Proposed Budget for 2009...... 120 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2009 ...... 124 The 2009 Assessment Formula ...... 128

Reports...... 130 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Commission on Episcopal Schools The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Fort Worth West Deanery Eastern Deanery Fort Worth East Deanery Camp Crucis The Episcopal Church Women Christian Education Commission World Mission Committee Canterbury Program - UTA University of the South Canterbury Program - TCU Committee for Hispanic Ministries Risk Management Committee Evangelism Report Armed Forces Report Church Pension Fund Cursillo and Renewal Center Report

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SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2009) CHANCELLOR Jimmy Henry (2009) William T. McGee, Esq. The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2009) David Doremus (2010) TREASURER Doris Gregory (201 0) Walter Virden, III The Rev. Ann Richards (2010) The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (20 11) REGISTRAR The Rev. Sandra McCown (2011) Susan F. Steele Lynn Stavinoha (2011)

HISTORIOGRAPHER The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS Jason Bontke, Director TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION Rod Barber, Chairman (2011) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Jimmy Henry (2009) Walter Virden, III (2013) Chuck Parmele (2009) Frank Wagnon (2009) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT The Rev. Joshua Whitfield (2009) FOR THE EPISCOPATE The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Rod Barber (2009) Jane McManus (2010) JoAnn Patton (2010) The Rev. Stuart Smith (2010) Chad Bates (2011) Rob Shattuck (2010) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Liz Jordan (2011) Walter Virden, III, Secretry (2013) Mr. Charles Warnky (20 11) The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (2011) THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2009) Gene Dugan (2009) JoAnn Patton (2009) The Rev. Robert L. Young (2009) Susan Bradley (201 0) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Mack Wood (2010) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2010) Tim Cox (2011) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2011) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2011) Toby Matocha (20 11)

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Twenty-sixth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 14-15,2008

The 26th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Vincent's Cathedral Church, 1300 Forest Ridge, Bedford, Texas, 76022 on Friday, November 14, 2008, followed by the first business session in the St. Vincent School Gymnasium. Registration began at 3:30p.m. and opening session began at 4:30p.m. and adjourned at 6:00p.m.

Registration for the second session ofbusiness began on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at St. Vincent's Cathedral in the gymnasium at 7:30a.m. until8:30 a.m. The Convention reconvened at9:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30a.m. in the Cathedral.

Friday, November 14,2008

Bishop Iker: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore. The first thing on our agenda is to have the host Dean give us a welcome, Dean Stainbrook of the Fort Worth East Deanery.

Dean Stainbrook: "On behalf of the Fort Worth East Deanery, I am pleased and honored to welcome our delegates and guest to this, the 26th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth. Though the beautiful Cathedral of St. Vincent's is in fact outside the hosting deanery of Fort Worth East, I was a curate here years ago in the springtime of my ministry, and from my many happy experiences here, I know that Dean Reed and the Cathedral staff and the hard working, diligent and capable volunteers from St. Vincent's are eager to assist you to make your time at Convention as pleasant and as carefree as possible. Today in the American calendar of Lesser Feast and Fasts is the commemoration of the consecration ofBishop Samuel Seabury as the first Bishop of the American Church, and thus the bestowal of the American episcopate. This historic action marked a new beginning for Anglicans on these shores. Our own Convention today may well also mark a new beginning for Anglicans here. It is my privilege to open it with these words of welcome. Now as I said, it has been some years since I was a carefree and hopefully pleasant curate here at St. Vincent's, I have asked Dean Reed to come to the microphone now with a few words oflogistics."

Dean Reed: "Welcome back to St. Vincent's Cathedral and School. I have the most important announcement of the weekend and that is the location of the restrooms. There are numerous restrooms of men and women down the main hall just pass the juice machine and there are restrooms in the locker rooms right outside this door. If all that gets jammed up you can make your way up to the main building and there are multiple restrooms there. I will remind you to silence your cell phones during our meeting times. We also have vendors in the middle school building on both floors. You may take the elevator or if you would like the exercise, there are stairways. Please take time to see the vendors. Finally, for your safety while you are walking on

23 141-252083-11 appointments by the Bishop, which are simply for announcement purposes. Before we go to those, let me make a nomination that Canon Hough may be elected to secretary to Convention so that we may have a record of our proceedings. Are there any nominations from the floor?"

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, to elect The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III as Secretary to the 26th Annual Convention by acclamation.

SECONDED CARRIED

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's Nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker: "The Report of the Nominating Committee now from Fr. Stephen Jones."

Fr. Stephen Jones, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations.

Nominations for Standing Committee

Clerical- (elect one)

The Rev. Dr. R. William Dickson The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Rev. Timothy Perkins The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten

Lay Nominees - (elect one)

Marsland Moncrief Dr. Frank Salazar LarryVotto

Nominations for Alternate Deputies to General Convention

Clerical Deputies (elect four)

The Rev. H. Jay Atwood The Rev. Andrew Bradley The Rev. Edward Kresowaty The Vy. Rev. Scott Wooten

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The Bishop Address...... 1 Official Acts...... 6 Nominations...... 8 Appointtnents...... 9 Canonical Clergy...... 11 Clergy Registered ...... 14 Delegates Registered ...... 16 Committees ...... 19 Proceedings ...... 20 Election Results...... 61 Report of the Committee on Constitution and Canons/Resolutions...... 62 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedure...... 82 Audit & Statement of Financial Position - December 31, 2008...... 86 Financial Statement -December 31, 2008...... 88 Proposed Budgetfor2010...... Ill Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2010 ...... 115 The 2010 Assessment Formula...... 119

Reports ...... 121 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture Fort Worth East Deanery Eastern Deanery The Retirement Fund Risk Management Committee Report of Ecumenical Relations Committee for Hispanic Ministries World Mission Committee Canterbury Program - UTA Camp Crucis Christian Education Commission The Episcopal Church Women Canterbury Program - TCU University of the South The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Youth Ministry Advisory Committee (YMAC) Brotherhood of St Andrew 141-252083-11

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SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2012) Larry Votto (2010) CHANCELLOR The Rev. Ann Richards (2010) William T. McGee, Esq. The Rev. Timothy M. Matkin (20 11) The Rev. Sandra McCown (2011) TREASURER Lynn Stavinoha (2011) Walter Virden, III The Rev. Randall Foster (2012) Jimmy Henry (2012) REGISTRAR The Rev. KerwinK. Wade (2012) Susan F. Steele CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS HISTORIOGRAPHER Jason Bontke, Director The Very Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Rod Barber, Chairman (2011) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION Jane McManus (2010) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH The Rev. Stuart Smith (2010) Rod Barber (2014) Rob Shattuck (2010) Liz Jordan (2011) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT Mr. Charles Warnky (2011) FOR THE EPISCOPATE The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (20 11) JoAnn Patton (2010) Jimmy Henry (2012) Chad Bates (2011) Chuck Parmele (2012) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Frank Wagnon (2012) Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2013) The Rev. Joshua Whitfield (2012) Rod Barber (2014)

THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD The Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2012) Susan Bradley (2010) The Rev. Stephen Jones (2010) Mack Wood (2010) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2010) Tim Cox (2011) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2011) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2011) Toby Matocha (2011) Gene Dugan (2012) The Rev. Chad Nusbaum (2012) JoAnn Patton (2012)

8 141-252083-11 Twenty-seventh Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 6 - 7, 2009

The 2i11 Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese ofFmt Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Peter and St. Paul Episcopal Church, 3900 Monis Lane, Arlington, Texas 76016 on Friday, November 6, 2009.

The Business meeting was held at St. Peter and St. Paul in The Great Hall on Saturday, November 7, 2009. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until 8:45a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30a.m. in the church.

THE PROCEEDINGS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2009 9:00A.M.

The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker asked the clergy and elected lay delegates to take their seats. He asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and to remain standing for prayers. "We remember in our prayers with thanksgiving today all the men and women of our Anned Forces, especially mindful of those touched by the tragedy at Fmt Hood. We pray for their family members, loved ones, those they serve with, those who have died or are injured. Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our Anned Forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace. Strengthen them in their trials and temptations. Give them courage to face the perils which beset them and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Let us pray for this Convention and this Diocese. Almighty and ever living God, source of all wisdom and understanding be present with those who take counsel in the Convention of this Diocese at this time. For the renewal and mission of your church. Teach us in all things to seek first your honor and glory. Guide us to perceive what is right and grant us both the courage to pursue it and the grace to accomplish it, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Oh God, by your grace you have called us in this diocese to Godly fellowship of faith. Bless our bishops and other clergy and all our people. Grant that your word may be truly preached and truly heard, your sacraments faithfully administered and faithfully received. By your spirit, fashion our lives according to the example of your Son, and grant that we may show the power of your love to all among whom we live, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore. Amen. Please be seated. The 2i11 Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth will now come to order and we are in session. Before we have our official greeting from our host dean, the Very Rev. William Crary, I want you all to know that Fr. Jeff Stubbs was involved in a car accident on his way to the convention this morning. Someone hit him in the side, evidently, and he appears to be okay, but he is shaken up and very sore, so he has been taken to the hospital for evaluation and to

20 141-252083-11 Dean William Crary: "Rt. Rev. Sir, that concludes the report of the New Parishes and Missions Committee."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you so much and it is so exciting to welcome all these congregations and lay representatives from their churches. You enrich us immeasurably. Before us on the agenda now will be the introduction of the Standing Rules and Procedure from Judge McGee, our chancellor."

Judge William McGee: "Ladies and gentlemen you have been provided the Standing Rules and Procedures in your packet. I request that you refer to them throughout the convention. When addressing the Chair state, Rt. Rev. Sir, when the Bishop is occupying the chair. I call your attention to the two microphones on the floor of the Convention as well as one here atthe table. Please go to one of those if it is your tum to speak at a microphone. Thank you."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much Judge McGee for serving as our Chancellor and he is also going to be serving as parliamentarian for this Convention in light of the fact that Rickey Brantley could not be with us today. I tum your attention to the two purple sheets that are in your packet. One ofthem has the Bishop's nominations for various positions that require the consent or the election of the Convention. The other is a list of appointments that the Bishop has made and those are for your information.

MOTION The Rt. Rev. Jack L. lker

RESOLVED, that the Convention approves the Bishop's nominations.

SECONDED CARRIED

Bishop Iker gave his annual address (included in this journal) with the President of the Standing Committee, Fr. Tom Hightower, assuming the chair.

Bishop Iker: "I very much appreciate your encouragement and support by that show of affection. We will now have a report from the Nominating Committee, Fr. Jon Jenkins, is the chair."

Fr. Jon Jenkins, Chair of the Nominations Committee, presented the nominations.

Standing Committee- Clerical Member (Elect one)

The Vy. Rev. William Crary (withdrew) The Rev. John Phelps The Vy. Rev. Ryan Reed

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The Bishop Address ...... 1 Official Acts ...... 6 Nominations ...... 8 Appointments ...... 9 Canonical Clergy ...... 11 Clergy Registered ...... 14 Delegates Registered ...... 16 Committees ...... 19 Proceedings ...... 20 Election Results ...... 54 Report ofthe Committee on Constitution and Canons/Resolutions ...... 55 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedures ...... 62 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2009 ...... 66 Financial Statement- December 3 I, 2009 ...... 68 Proposed Budget for 2011 ...... 78 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2011 ...... 82 The 201 I Assessment Formula ...... 86

Reports ...... 87 Historiographer Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture Fort Worth East Deanery Eastern Deanery The Retirement Fund Risk Management Committee Report of Ecumenical Relations World Mission Committee Canterbury Program - UTA Camp Crucis Christian Education Commission The Episcopal Church Women Canterbury Program - TCU The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Exodus International 141-252083-11 THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2010

SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION Mack Wood (2013) The Rev. Canon Charles A. Hough, III COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE CHANCELLOR The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2012) William T. McGee, Esq. Larry Votto (2013) The Rev. Ann Richards (2013) TREASURER The Rev. TimothyM. Matkin (2011) Walter Virden, III The Rev. Sandra McCown (2011) The Rev. Randall Foster (2012) REGISTRAR Jimmy Henry (2012) Susan F. Steele The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2012)

HISTORIOGRAPHER CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS The Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Jason Bontke, Director Rod Barber, Chairman (2011) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION The Very Rev. Andrew Bradley (20 11) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Mr. Jim Baker (2011) JoAnn Patton (2015) Liz Jordan (2011) Jimmy Henry (2012) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT Chuck Parmele (2012) FOR THE EPISCOPATE Angie Pearce (2012) Chad Bates (2011) The Rev. Ron Drummond (2012) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Jane McManus (2013) Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2013) Ron Overbeek (2013) Rod Barber (2014) George Wragg (2013) JoAnn Patton (2015) The Rev. Nancy Weaver (2013)

THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY

COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD The Very Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2012) Tim Cox (2011) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (20 11) The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (20 11) Toby Matocha (20 11) Gene Dugan (2012) The Rev. Jon Jenkins (2012) JoAnn Patton (2012) Debbie Petta (2013) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2013) The Rev. Joel Hampton (2013)

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Twenty-eighth Annual Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 12-13, 2010

The 28th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at the Church of the Holy Apostles', 3900 Longvue Avenue, Fort Worth, TX on Friday, November 12,2010.

The Business meeting was held at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in the Round-Up Inn on Saturday, November 13, 2010. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until8:45 a.m.

Morning Prayer was held at 8:30a.m. on the floor of Convention in the Round-Up Inn.

Due to the illness of the Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker, the Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell, President of the Standing Committee, presided over the Convention.

The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell: "Good morning and welcome to the 28th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. I am not Bishop Iker! I have never played him on t.v., nor do I ever intend too. I am Fr. Christopher Cantrell, if you do not know me. I am in the last few waning seconds of my term as president of the Standing Committee, which is why you get to put up with me this morning. I hope that we can move through things with dispatch. I hope you will remember to keep Bishop Iker in your prayers this morning for a speedy recovery for him and for Donna. Just a few things we need to take care of right off the bat. I've been asked to direct your attention to your packets. Clergy there are instructions on how to register for the annual clergy retreat. The time to do that has arrived so you should take care of that as soon as you can. Also, the disc that is in your packet, it is the journal ofthe 2009 Convention. Normally it cost a little over $9.00 per book to produce the journal. We've now done it on a disc at the cost of about .50 per copy. There are actually some extra pictures and goodies on the disc as well. So it's incentive for you to take a look at it. You should also have a reminder card about the Bishop's Conference on mission. Looks something like this. Make sure you have one by the end of today. We'd like to begin with a welcome from our host Dean, Fr. Scott Wilson.

Fr. Scott Wilson: "I am Fr. Scott Wilson, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Weatherford. Dean of the Western Deanery, and as Dean I am speaking on behalf of the Western Deanery, we want to welcome you to the 28th Annual Convention of the best diocese in the United States, the Diocese of Fort Worth. (Applause) Doesn't it feel good to be here? I mean it. We welcome you to the Round-Up Inn at Will Rogers Memorial Center, the vendors are over there and the restrooms are right outside that door. It couldn't be more convenient. I expect us to have a wonderful time today even though we are missing our Bishop and Donna, but let us have a good time today in Christ Jesus our Lord who calls us together. May we enjoy our fellowship, one with each other and with Him and may we continue to hear from Him the upward call of God in the mission of His holy Church together. Thank you and welcome."

The Very Rev. Christopher Cantrell: "Thank you Fr. Wilson. We need to elect a secretary to Convention. Canon Hough's name has been placed in nomination. Are there any other

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Reports ...... 89 Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Historiographer The Executive Council Mission Strategy Arts & Architecture Southern Deanery Report of Ecumenical Relations World Mission Committee Hispanic Ministry Elder Care The Episcopal Church Women Anglican Relief and Development Fund Camp Crucis Christian Education Commission Canterbury Program- UTA Canterbury Program- TCU & Baylor The Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Pro-Life Ministry The Retirement Fund SOMA I 141-252083-11

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I SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Christopher Cantrel1 The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener (2012) The Rev. Randall Foster (2012) I CHANCELLOR Jimmy Henry (2012) David Weaver, Esq. The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2012) VICE CHANCELLOR Larry Votto (2013) I Tim Howell, Esq. The Rev. Ann Richards (2013) The Rev. Sandra McCown (2014) TREASURER The Rev. DeWayne Adams (2014) I Walter Virden, III CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS REGISTRAR Jason Bontke, Director I Susan F. Steele Jimmy Henry, Chairman (2014) HISTORIOGRAPHER Jimmy Henry (2012) The Rev. Christopher Stainbrook Chuck Parmele (2012) I Angie Pearce (2012) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION The Rev. Ron Drummond (2012) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH Jane McManus (2013) I Chad Bates (2016) Ron Overbeek (2013) George Wragg (2013) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT The Rev. Nancy Weaver (2013) I FOR THE EPISCOPATE The Rev. Mark Polley (2014) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2012) Susan Ross (2014) Walter Virden, Ill, Secretary (2013) John Stiver (2014) I Rod Barber (2014) JoAnn Patton (2015) I Chad Bates (2016) THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY I Co~EFORTHEPRIESmoon The Very Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener (2012) I Gene Dugan (2012) The Rev. Jon Jenkins (2012) JoAnn Patton (2012) I Debbie Petta (2013) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2013) The Rev. Joel Hampton (2013) I Mack Wood (2013) Tim Cox (2014) The Very Rev. William A. Crary,Jr. (2014) I The Rev. Thomas Kennedy (2014) Toby George (2014) I I 9 I 141-252083-11

I Twenty-ninth Annual Diocesan Convention Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth I November 4-5, 2011 The 29th Annual Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 3600 Fall Creek Highway, Granbury, Texas on I Friday, November 4, 2011.

The Business meeting was held at the Granbury Resort Conference Center in the Ballroom on I Saturday, November 5, 2011. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until8:45 a.m. I Morning Prayer was held at 8:30 a.m. on the floor of Convention in the Ballroom. The Rt. Rev. Jack L. Iker asked everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for the opening prayer. "Oh God, by your grace you have called us in this diocese to a I goodly fellowship of faith. Bless our bishops and other clergy and all our people. Grant that your Word may be truly preached and truly heard, your sacraments faithfully administered and faithfully received. By your spirit, fashion our lives according to the example of your ~on and I grant that we may show the power of your love to all among whom we live, through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the name of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. You may be seated. As I mentioned before Morning Prayer, the host Dean, Fr. Andrew Bradley, I is recovering from some medication to regulate an irregular heartbeat, and so he is not here to greet us. There is a written greeting in your packet from him. We want to thank him and the I people of the Southern Deanery for hosting us. In order for us to organize for business, we need to have a secretary to Convention to record these proceedings. I nominate the Rev. Christopher I Cantrell. MOTION I RESOLVED, to elect the Rev. Christopher Cantrell as Secretary to the 29th Annual Diocesan Convention by acclamation. I SECONDED CARRIED I I am very happy to have Dean William Crary come now to say something on behalf of the Committee on New Parishes and Missions. This is the Dean Emeritus, so treat him with due I respect." The Very Rev. William Crary: "Rt. Rev. Sir, Delegates and Clergy of the 29th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth, and on behalf of the New Parishes and Missions I Committee, we have received the formal acceptance in writing of the Article of Conformity required by Canon 22, that has been signed by at least 50 baptized persons, the majority being confirmed members who are at least 18 years of age, and who wish to formally associate and I become a part of the Diocese of Fort Worth from Christ the Redeemer, Fort Worth, Texas. On behalf of the committee, I move the acceptance of Christ the Redeemer, Fort Worth, Texas, to I I 21 141-252083-11 I

one is the Official Acts, reporting to you episcopal acts during the course of the past year. The I second one is the Bishop's Nominations and the third one is the Bishop's Appointments. The Appointments are for your information. The Nominations need to be ratified by the convention, so I'll entertain a motion to ratify and elect those one the Bishop's Nominations list. I Motion was duly made and carried that the convention approves the Bishop's Nominations. I I'll ask the president of the Standing Committee, Dean Reed, to come and take the Chair so I may give the annual address at this time." I Bishop Iker gave his annual address.

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much and please be seated. Now we are going to move in to the I Nominating Committee and balloting process. We are going to have an update from the Credentials Committee and this is the time for me to remind you that it really messes us up if somebody casts a vote who is not entitled to a vote. So please be careful that if you are a delegate I from a Mission Station, you do not have a vote. And if you are clergy, licensed in the diocese, but not canonically resident, you do not have a vote." I The Rev. Mark Polley: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and lay delegates to the convention, we have 91 clergy canonically resident in the diocese, 1/3 of which, or 30 are required for a quorum. There I are 5·8 clergy registered. We have 105 elected lay delegates for this convention, 1/3 of which, or 35 are required for a quorum. There are 95 lay delegates registered. Rt. Rev. Sir, we have a quorum. I Bishop Iker: "Now we will turn our attention to the Nominations Committee report by Fr. Stuart Smith." I

Nominations Committee Report to the 2011 Diocesan Convention, given by the Rev. Stuart Smith. I

Standing Committee, Cleric (elect one for 3 year term) The Rev. Joel Hampton, Rector of St. Andrew's, Breckenridge I The Rev. Ed Kresowaty, Rector of St. Alban's, Arlington

Standing Committee, Lay (elect one for 3 year term) I Mr. Bob Davis, St. Francis, Dallas Mr. David Johnson, St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie Mr. Dean Tetirick, Christ the Redeemer, Fort Worth I Mr. Ron Turner, St. Vincent's Cathedral, Bedford Mr. Dennis Ward, St. Andrew's, Fort Worth I Ecclesiastical Trial Court, Cleric (elect one for 3 year term) The Rev. Timothy Matkin, Vicar of St. Matthew's, Comanche; Trinity Church, Dublin; and St. Mary's, Hamilton I The Rev. Andy Powell, Rector of St. Andrew's, Grand Prairie I 24 I

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The Bishop Address ...... } Official Acts ...... 9 Nominations ...... 11 Appointments ...... 12 Canonical Clergy ...... 14 Clergy Registered ...... 16 Delegates Registered ...... 18 Committees ...... 21 Proceedings ...... 22 Election Results ...... 45 Report of the Committee on Constitution and Canons/Resolutions ...... 4 7 Appendices Standing Rules ofProcedures ...... 53 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 2011 ...... 57 Financial Statement- September 30, 2011 ...... 59 Proposed Budget for 2013 ...... 73 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2013 ...... 76 The 2013 Assessment Formula ...... SO

Reports ...... 84 Corporation of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth The Standing Committee Historiographer The Executive Council Anglican Relief and Development Fund Arts & Architecture Brotherhood of St. Andrew Camp Crucis Canterbury Program- TCU & Baylor Christian Education Commission Commission on Ministry Commission on Ministry for the Diaconate Diocesan Church Women Diocesan Commission for Youth Ministry (DCYM) Eastern Deanery Elder Care Hispanic Ministry New Parishes and Missions Pro-Life Ministry Retirement Fund Risk Management Committee World Mission Committee I 141-252083-11 I THE BISHOP'S NOMINATIONS 2012

I SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Christopher Cantrell The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener The Rev. Andrew Petta (2015) I CHANCELLOR Pam Rottman (2015) David Weaver, Esq. The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2015) Lenore Rothman (2015) I VICE CHANCELLOR Tim Howell, Esq. The Rev. Sandra McCown (2014) The Rev. DeWayne Adams (2014) TREASURER Larry Votto (20 13) I Walter Virden, III The Rev. Ann Richards (2013)

REGISTRAR CAMP CRUCIS BOARD OF MANAGERS I Susan Steele Jason Bontk.e, Director HISTORIOGRAPHER Jimmy Henry, Chairman (2015) Suzanne Gill Jane McManus (2013) I Ron Overbeek (2013) TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION George Wragg (2013) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WoRm The Rev. Nancy Weaver (2013) I Dr. Franklin Salazar (20 17) The Rev. Mark Polley (2014) Jum Baker (2014) I TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT Catherine Marshall (20 14) FOR THE EPISCOPATE John Stiver (2014) Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2017) The Rev. Greg Crosthwait (2015) I Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2013) Angie Pearce (2015) Rod Barber (2014) Susan Ross (2015) JoAnn Patton (2015) I Chad Bates (2016)

I THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIEsmOOD The Very Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener I Debbie Petta (2013) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2013) The Rev. Joel Hampton (2013) I Mack Wood (2013) Tim Cox (2014) The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2014) I The Rev. Andrew Powell (2014) Toby George (2014) JoAnn Patton (2015) I Gene Dugan (2015) I The Rev. Jon Jenkins (2015) I II I 141-252083-11

Thirtieth Annual Diocesan Convention I Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 9-10,2012 I The 30th Annual Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Vincent's Cathedral, 1300 Forest Ridge, Bedford, TX on Friday, November 9, 2012. I The business meeting was held in the gymnasium at St. Vincent's Cathedral on Saturday, I November 10,2012. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer was held at 8:30a.m. in the Cathedral. I Bishop Iker: "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. If we could ask the clergy and lay delegates to please go to their seats. If you are a visitor, we ask that you be seated in the bleachers or I visitors gallery.lt is time for us to convene. Let's us stand for prayer and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Oh God, by thy grace you have called us in this diocese to a goodly fellowship of faith. Bless our bishops and other clergy and all our people. Grant that your Word I may be truly preached and truly heard, your sacraments faithfully administered and faithfully received. By thy spirit, fashion our lives according to the example of your Son and grant that we may show the power of thy love to all among whom we live, through Jesus Christ our Lord. I Amen. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited and God Bless America was sung. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen. I

Please be seated and I call the 30th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Fort Worth to order. We will have a welcome by our host Dean Reed." I

Dean Ryan Reed: "Good morning. It's a privilege and honor for St. Vincent's to host the 30th annual diocesan convention and we want to welcome everyone. If you need help for anything I today, fmd one of the folks in the black aprons that say St. Vincent's Mission Team and they will do what they can to help you. The clergy wives will have a coffee following Bishop Iker' s address in the library. Lunch will be catered in the gym. Restrooms are down the hall to the right I as well as the vendors. Once again, on behalf of St. Vincent's, welcome."

Bishop lker: "Thank you very much Dean Reed, and while expressing our gratitude to the Dean I let us also say again how grateful we are to the Cathedral for hosting the opening Eucharist last night and today's meeting. Our thanks to Dean Wade for coordinating many of the details oflast nights service, to Fr. Kresowaty who's the diocesan liturgist, who put the bulletins together for I last night and this morning. The people here at St. Vincent's, we want to thank Barbara Hautanen and the St. Vincent's Mission Team who are assisting with registration, meals and various other details, and again Justin Midgley who prepared a very fine dinner for us last night. Thank you all I very much. I I 22 I 141-252083-11 I

which, or 34 are required for a quorum. There are 89lay delegates registered. Rt. Rev. Sir we I have a quorum."

Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. Before we proceed with the Standing Rules of Procedure, I let me entertain a motion from someone to give seat and voice to this convention to any clergy licensed by the bishop to function in the diocese." I A motion was duly made and carried that all clergy licensed to function in the diocese be given seat and voice, without vote at this convention. I "The chancellor will now review briefly the Standing Rules of Procedure." I Mr. David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, good morning. The Standing Rules are in your packets, just a couple of things I would like to point out. First of all, if you have voice and would like to address the chair, or this convention, please move to the microphones and state your name and the parish I that you represent. When addressing the convention, the titles that to use when the bishop is in the chair is Right Reverend Sir. If the bishop is not in the chair, the address should be Mr. President. We are going to be limiting debate with regard to any particular matters to five I minutes per speaker, on alternating sides if there is any dispute or question concerning any matter brought before the convention. Also, one other point, one person shall not speak more than once on any pending matter until all other persons who so desire to speak has had the I opportunity to be heard."

Bishop lker: "Thank you very much. In your packet, you will have two purple sheets, one called I the Bishop's Nominations and the other Bishop's Appointments. The Appointments are for informational purposes, the Nominations require the ratification of the convention. I entertain a motion to that effect at this time. I

A motion was duly made and carried that the convention approves the Bishop's Nominations. I

We have some visiting guests to the convention that I would like to introduce to you at this time from Midland and Odessa. Fr. Eric Vowles and people from Christ Church, Midland are here and I Fr. Steven Kelley from Christ Church, Odessa are here. If you would all please stand, we would like to welcome you. The report of the Nominating Committee, Fr. Jenkins." I The Rev. Jon Jenkins: "Rt. Rev. Sir, clergy and lay delegates to the 30th Annual Convention to the Diocese of Fort Worth, on behalf of the Nominations Committee, I present to you the following candidates for your consideration today, who are all eager to be elected. I

Standing Committee, Cleric (elect one for 3 year term) The Very Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Hightower, Rector of St. Peter & St. Paul, Arlington I The Very Rev. Ryan Reed, Dean of St. Vincent's Cathedral Church I I 24 I

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The Bishop Address ...... 1 Official Acts ...... 9 Nominations ...... 11 Appointments ...... 12 Canonical Clergy ...... 14 Clergy Registered ...... 16 Delegates Registered ...... 18 Committees ...... 21 Proceedings ...... 22 Election Results ...... 44 Report of the Committee on Constitution and Canons/Resolutions ...... 45 Appendices Standing Rules of Procedures ...... , ...... 50 Audit & Statement of Financial Position- December 31, 20 12 ...... 54 Financial Statement- December 31, 2012 ...... 64 Proposed Budget for 2014 ...... 74 Explanation of the Diocesan Budget for 2014 ...... 76 The 2014 Assessment Formula ...... 80

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SECRETARY OF THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIACONATE The Rev. Christopher Cantrell The Rev. Lana K. Farley, Convener I The Rev. Andrew Petta (2015) CHANCELLOR Pam Rottman (2015) David Weaver, Esq. The Rev. Kerwin K. Wade (2015) I VICE CHANCELLOR Lenore Rothman (2015) Tim Howell, Esq. The Rev. Sandra McCown (2014) The Rev. DeWayne Adams (2014) I TREASURER The Rev. Patricia Banks (2016) Walter Virden, III CAMP CRUCIS BoARD OF MANAGERS I REGISTRAR Philip Craig, Executive Director Susan Steele Jimmy Henry, Chairman (2015) I HisTORIOGRAPHER Jane McManus (2016) Suzanne Gill Ron Overbeek (2016) Mark Mecca (20 16) I TRUSTEE OF THE CORPORATION The Rev. Joel Hampton (2016) OF THE DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH The Rev. Mark Polley (2014) Walter Virden, III, Secretary (2018) Jim Baker (2014) I Catherine Marshall (2014) TRUSTEES FOR THE ENDOWMENT John Stiver (2014) FOR THE EPISCOPATE The Rev. Greg Crosthwait (2015) I Dr. Franklin Salazar, President (2017) Angie Pearce (2015) Walter Virden, Ill, Secretary (2018) Susan Ross (2015) Rod Barber (2014) JoAnn Patton (2015) I Chad Bates (2016) I THE COMMISSION ON MINISTRY COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIESTHOOD I The Very Rev. Thomas Hightower, Convener Debbie Petta (2016) The Very Rev. Scott R. Wooten (2016) I The Rev. Joel Hampton (2016) Mack Wood (2016) Tim Cox (2014) I The Very Rev. William A. Crary, Jr. (2014) The Rev. Andrew Powell (2014) Toby George (2014) I JoAnn Patton (2015) Larry Votto (2015) The Rev. Eric Vowles (2015) I I 11 I I 141-252083-11 The 31st Annual Diocesan Convention I Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth November 15-16,2013

I The 31st Annual Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese ofFort Worth began with Holy Eucharist at St. Peter and St. Paul Anglican Church, 3900 Morris Lane, Arlington, TX on I Friday, November 15, 2013. The business meeting was held in The Great Hall at St. Peter and St. Paul Anglican Church on I Saturday, November 16, 2013. Registration began at 7:30a.m. and continued until8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer was held at 8:30 a.m. in the church.

I Bishop Iker: "Let us stand and begin with prayer. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. Oh God by your grace you have called us in this diocese to a goodly fellowship of faith. Bless our bishops and other clergy and all our people. Grant that your word I may be truly preached and truly heard. Your sacraments faithfully administered and faithfully received. By your spirit fashion ours lives according to the example of your Son, and grant that we may show the power of your love to all among whom we live, through Jesus Christ our Lord. I Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. [God Bless America was sung.]

As our first item I would like to ask Fr. Hightower to come and make a formal welcome to the I Convention."

Fr. Tom Hightower: "On behalf of the people and staff and clergy of St. Peter and St. Paul, I I would like to welcome you. If there is anything that you think we could do for you, do not hesitate to let us know. There is a small service charge for any requests, but I'm sure that it is I within reason. We're so glad to have you all here. The bathrooms are located against that wall area and there is another set located upstairs. The vendors are upstairs also. Thank you for I coming." Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much for your welcome and your hospitality. In order to have a record of the business of this Convention, we must elect a secretary and I place in nomination I Fr. Christopher Cantrell. Are there other nominations for secretary to convention? I MOTION RESOLVED, to elect the Rev. Christopher Cantrell as Secretary to the 31st Annual I Diocesan Convention by acclamation. SECONDED I CARRIED Fr. Crary, the Dean Emeritus, will come forward now and make a report on behalf of the I Committee for New Parishes and Missions." I 22 I I 141-252083-11 and I have forgotten where they are .... .Indianapolis? I'm sorry about that. I'm from the Midwest, I but we miss him and we're glad his people are here to serve us lunch. I We will hear from the chancellor who will brief us on the Standing Rules of Procedure." David Weaver: "Rt. Rev. Sir, the Standing Rules and Procedure for the Convention are as follows and they are in your packet. The presiding officer of the Convention is the Bishop and if I anyone wishes to address the Convention go to one of the microphones, state your name, and the parish or mission you are representing and as you address the chair, if the Bishop is in the chair, you address the chair as Right Reverend Sir. If the Bishop is not in the chair, the address should I be Mr. President. The matters concerning debate, if there is any, the time restriction is five minutes and that's just for the purpose of expediting the business of the Convention. Again, they I are in your packet and they are straight forward and what we always do. Thank you." Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much. Before you on purple paper are two items, one the Bishop's Nominations and the other the Bishop's Appointments. The appointments do not need I consent of the Convention, they are for informational purposes only. The nominations do require the consent and approval of the Convention. I'll entertain a motion to approve the Bishop's nominations as submitted. Then we will hear from Fr. Culpepper on an update from the I Credentials Report."

A motion was duly made and carried that the Convention approves the Bishop's I Nominations.

Fr. Culpepper: "We either had a mad rush at the door, or we overlooked a page. Rt. Rev. Sir, I clergy and delegation to Convention, we have 89 clergy canonical resident in the diocese, 113 of which, or 29 are required for a quorum. There are 50 registered clergy. We have 100 elected lay delegates for this Convention, 1/3 of which, or 33 are required for a quorum. There are 90 lay I delegates registered. Rt. Rev. Sir, we do have a quorum."

Bishop Iker: "I've asked the President of the Standing Committee to come forward and assume I the chair so I can address the Convention." I Bishop Iker gave his annual address. Bishop Iker: "Thank you very much and please be seated. Now is the time when a coffee greet I and meet for the priests wives is going to be held. It's at the home of Fr. Vance and Terri Page. The house is behind us here so if you want to go to the exit over there, you will be guided as how I to get there. We hope you have a delightful time together. At this time, I'd like to call on Fr. Zeke Rogers for the report of the Nominating Committee. As he's coming forward, let me hold up a book for you that is hot offthe press. It's a reprinting of I Bishop Wantland's book called Foundations ofthe Faith and due to the initiative of The Parish Press, which Bishop Ackerman and his wife Jo manage, it has been reprinted and is available at a I display table upstairs when we have a lunch break. It's $18.50 in Seminole money, but I think

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141-252083-11 Exhibit A Clergy Canon IV.10. July 2,2009 Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth Last Name First Name Title 1 Adams Dewayne M. The Rev. 2 Atwood H. Jay The Rev. 3 Baker J. Ronald The Rev. 4 Banks Patricia A. The Rev. 5 Blewett William E. The Rev. Canon 6 Bradley Andrew F.L. The Rev. 7 Cantrell Christopher T. The Very Rev. 8 Cantrell Richard A. The Rev. 9 Crabb Melody The Rev. 10 Crary William A. The Rev. 11 Culpepper Christopher The Rev. 12 Diaz Sergio The Rev. 13 Dickson William R. The Rev. 14 Duncan Jonathan The Rev. 15 Eanes James A. The Rev. 16 Erlandson Charles The Rev. Dr. 17 Farley Lana K. The Rev. 18 Foster Randall The Rev. 19 Grist Roger The Rev. 20 Heidt Michael The Rev. 21 Helbert Dennis W. The Rev. 22 Hightower Thomas E. The Rev. 23 Hough IV Charles The Rev. 24 James Cecil Dow The Rev. 25 Jones Stephen W. The Rev. 26 Jon-Ubabuco Kingsley Obi The Rev. 27 Jordan JohnW. The Rev. 28 Jordan Terence N. The Rev. 29 Kennedy Thomas B. The Rev. 30 Klein David F. The Rev. 31 Kresowatty. Edward F. The Rev. 32 Loyo I. Javier The Rev. 33 MacKenzie Kenneth W. The Rev. 34 Matkin nmothyM; The Rev. 35 McCown Sandra The Rev. 36 McGiauchlin Alan E. The Rev. 37 Milyiori George L. ·The Rev. 38 Mitchell Roberto. The Rev. 39 Nusbaum Chad The Rev. 40 Nyberg David E. The Rev. Canon 41 O'Connell William E. The Rev. 42 Ogujiofor I. Jonathan The Rev. 43 Page vance c. The Rev. 44 Perkins Timothy P. The Rev.

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