Spring 2010 The Diocese of Arizona Welcomes You

All Saints • Safford Good Shepherd of the Hills • St. Christopher's in the West Valley St. Paul's • Payson 928-348-9430 Cave Creek • Sun City 928-474-3834 vtc.net/~saints 480-488-3283 623-972-1109 stpaulspayson.or goodshepherdaz.org stchristophers-az.org All Saints of the Desert • Sun City St. Paul's • Tombstone 623-974-8404 Grace Church • Lake Havasu City St. Francis-in-the-Valley • Green 520-255-3435 desertsaints.org 928-855-2525 Valley tpauls.azdiocese.org grace-episcopal.net 520-625-1370 All Saints' Church and Day School • stfrancisgvaz.org St. Paul's • Winslow Phoenix Grace St. Paul's • Tucson 928-289-3851 602-279-5539 520-327-6857 St. George's • Holbrook stpaulsmission.azdiocese.org allsaints.org gsptucson.org 928-524-2361 stgeorge.azdiocese.org St. Peter's • Litchfield Park ASU Campus Ministry • Tempe Iglesia Episcopal de San Pablo • 623-935-3279 480-967-3295 Phoenix St. James the Apostle • Tempe stpetersaz.com ecmasu.org 602-255-0602 480-345-2686 inglesia.azdiocese.org stjamestempe.org St. Peter's • Casa Grande Catedral de la Trinidad • Phoenix 520-836-7693 602-254-7126 NAU Episcopal Canterbury St. John the Baptist • Glendale stpeterscasagrande.azdiocese.org trinidad.azdiocese.org Fellowship • Flagstaff 623-582-5449 928-774-3897 stjohnsaz.org St. Philip's • Parker Christ Church of the Ascension • nau-canterbury.org 928-770-4589 Paradise Valley St. John's • Bisbee stphilips.azdiocese.org 602-840-8210 Prince of Peace • Glendale 520-432-7006 christchurch-az.org 602-501-2339 stjohns.azdiocese.org St. Philip's In The Hills • Tucson popaz.org 520-299-6421 Christ the King • Tucson St. John's • Globe stphilipstucson.org 520-297-2551 Saints Philip & James • Morenci 928-425-5160 ctktucson.org 928-865-4385 stjohnsglobe.org St. Raphael in the Valley • Benson vtc.net/~saints 520-20-1166 Church of Our Saviour • Lakeside St. John's Episcopal-Lutheran straphael.azdiocese.org 928-537-7830 St. Alban's • Tucson Congregation • Williams thechurchofoursaviour.org 520-296-0791 928-635-2781 St. Stephen's • Douglas stalbansaz.org stjohnslutheran.azdiocese.org 520-364-7971 Church of St. Matthew • Tucson ststephensmission.azdiocese.org 520-298-9782 St. Alban's • Wickenburg St. Jude's • Phoenix saintmatthewstucson.org 928-684-2133 602-575-7904 St. Stephen's • Phoenix stalbanswburg.net mystjudes.com 602-840-0437 Church of the Nativity • Phoenix ststephens.org 480-307-9216 St. Andrew's • Glendale St. Luke's • Prescott thenativity.net 623-846-8046 928-778-4499 St. Stephen's • Sierra Vista standrewsglendale.azdiocese.org stlukesprescott.org 520-458-4432 Church of the Advent • Sun City ststephensaz.org West St. Andrew's • Nogales St. Luke's at the Mountain • 623-584-0350 520-281-1523 Phoenix St. Thomas of the Valley • Clarkdale adventepiscopalaz.org standrewsaz.org 602-276-7318 928-634-8593 stlukesmountain.azdiocese.org st-thomasotv.org Church of the Apostles • Oro Valley St. Andrew's • Sedona 520-544-9660 928-282-4457 St. Mark's • Mesa Trinity Cathedral • Phoenix apostleschurch.net saint-andrews.org 480-964-5820 602-254-7126 stmarksmesa.org azcathedral.org Church of the Epiphany • Flagstaff St. Andrew's • Tucson 928-774-2911 520-622-8318 St. Mary's • Phoenix Trinity Church • Kingman epiphanyaz.org standrewstucson.org 623-930-1140 928-753-5658 stmarysinphoenix.org trinity.azdiocese.org Church of the Epiphany • Tempe St. Anthony on the Desert • 480-968-4111 Scottsdale St. Matthew's • Chandler Trinity Lutheran-Episcopal epiphany-tempe.org 480-451-0860 480-899-7386 Congregation • Willcox st-anthony.net saintmatthewschurch.org 520-384-2155 Church of the Nativity • Phoenix willcox.azdiocese.org 480-307-9216 St. Augustine's • Tempe St. Michael and All Angels • Tucson thenativity.net 480-967-3295 520-886-7292 UofA Emmaus Collegiate Chapel • staugustine.azdiocese.org smallangelstucson.org Tucson Church of the Transfiguration • 520-623-7575 Mesa St. Barnabas on the Desert • St. Michael's • Coolidge ua-canterbury.org 480-986-1145 Scottsdale 520-723-3845 transfiguration-mesa.org 480-948-5560 stmichaels.azdiocese.org saintbarnabas.org Epiphany on the Desert • Gila Bend St. Paul the Apostle Sudanese 520-299-6421 Church • Phoenix epiphanydesert.azdiocese.org 602-253-4094 stpaulsapostle.azdiocese.org The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona • 602-254-0976 • 800-420-1500 • 602-495-6603 FAX • www.azdiocese.org The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona www.azdiocese.org

Established in 1959, The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona has 35,000 members in 12,500 households in 67 congregations. We are part of spring | 2010 The Episcopal Church and the worldwide . Inside this issue: Diocesan House 114 W. Roosevelt St. Phoenix, AZ 85003-1406 602-254-0976 Diocesan directory page 2 800-420-1500 toll free Contents page 3 602-495-6603 FAX E-pistle: Tweet if U ♥ Jesus page 4 The of Arizona From refugees to pancakes page 5 The Rt. Rev. Kirk Stevan Smith [email protected] It Happened again pages 6-8 Flashmob: Youth Ministries page 9 Canon to the Ordinary The Rev. Canon Timothy Dombek Your 17 cents: EBM page 10 [email protected] Episcopal News Quarterly pages 11-22 Dean of Trinity Cathedral Diocesan events page 23 The Very Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely Trinity Cathedral back cover [email protected]

Canon for Outreach & Social Justice The Rev. Canon Carmen Guerrero [email protected] Canon for Administration Cathy Black [email protected] Canon for Finance Vicki Hohnbaum [email protected]

Canon for Communications On the cover: A cactus wren Greta Huls gorges on fresh saguaro fruit [email protected] while watching for predators. The Rev. Glenn Jenks/St. Canon for Youth & Young Adults James, Tempe Matt Marino [email protected] Application to Mail at Periodicals Postage Prices is Pending at New York, NY. The Arizona Episcopalian is published four times per year in January, April, July and Canon for Childrens Ministries October by The Domestic & Foreign Missionary Society of The Episcopal Church, Nancy Shumaker 815 Second Ave, New York NY 10017. Postmaster send address changes to: P.O. [email protected] Box 2050, Voorhees NJ 08043. |3 E-pistle Tweet if U ♥ Jesus The Rt. Rev. Kirk S. Smith those goals. We also explored ways tions. Bishop of Arizona in which we can be more mutually supportive. Some of these resolu- In addition to the Diocesan The priests of the Dio- tions you will be hearing more fan page (we've closed the group about in coming months and at page since many people can't ac- cese and I gathered for our an- Convention in October. I am happy cess groups through their smart nual two-day retreat Jan. phones), we now have two 26-28 at Chapel clergy Facebook group pages: Rock Camp one for priests and one for dea- and Conference cons. They are only accessible to the active clergy of the dio- Center in cese. So far more than 40 Prescott. Our priests and almost as many theme this year deacons are up and running. was Increasing (Clergy, if you are not yet a Collegiality. Clergy spend a member of either page, please contact either Greta Huls at lot of time talking to their [email protected] or Cathy congregations about the need Black at [email protected] for unity, mutual support, and ask to be "invited" to the and being a parish “family,” appropriate group.) but we are often guilty of not I believe that Facebook is practicing what we preach. one of the greatest free tools for The pressures of the job, communication and networking time constraints, and some- that God has given the church times even competitiveness in many years. Unlike most can make it difficult for websites, it is easy to set up a Facebook page for your parish or Image from BeliefNet clergy to work together, and can mission outreach group, requires foster a kind of “lone ranger” at- no "webmaster" and you will be titude towards our work. to report that we departed camp surprised how convivial such an feeling closer as colleagues in min- easy and casual method of commu- We all realize our need to istry. nication can be. If you have any do better, especially in a time of trouble at all with the technical as- such great societal stress. We can One easy yet important pects, find the nearest 12-year old no longer afford, emotionally or fi- way that we can heighten our fel- and they can do for you it in a nancially, to "go it alone." lowship is through such internet in- minute. I urge all of you to use stitutions as Facebook and Twitter these tools as ways of drawing At our retreat, we spent (as in "send me a Tweet"). Face- closer together in the bonds of most of our time with a professional book gives us a confidential place Christ. consultant who trained us how to be where we can gather to share per- "peer counselors" to one another. sonal and prayer concerns as well Bishop Smith writes a We practiced listening attentively as to exchange resources and and non-judgmentally, goal-setting, maybe even a joke or two. Twitter is weekly E-pistle that is sent out via e-mail to subscribers. Please and holding each other accountable also a great way of keeping in touch contact Greta at greta@azdio- for taking steps toward achieving with each other and our congrega- cese.org if you are interested in 4| Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 www.azdiocese.org receiving the E-pistle. From refugees to pancakes Life has been case manager to receive the family Then we headed back by at the airport and took them to the train and bus. My son, a high transformed for a apartment that the church had fur- school junior, drove some back in Bhutanese refugee family nished. Now they are enjoying de- the van so the younger kids could veloping a relationship with this get back sooner. Everyone seemed Rob Smith family and other Bhutanese as well. happy to get out and do something. Outreach Chairperson Here is a report from the resettle- The person I spoke to most, be- Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix ment team. cause he had the best English, said any activities around the community Forced to flee their home “We had would be good to do. about 16 refugees in in Bhutan, the Dhital family ar- our group - the Dhital I talked to the head rived at a refugee camp in Nepal family plus other of the Phoenix Zoo, told in 1992. At that time the couple Bhutanese residents him what we’re doing, and had a one-year old son. They from the apartment he sent me eight free ad- lived in the refugee camp for complex, including a missions and eight tram few who spoke English rides for the Zoo, so that’s our seventeen years and had two and helped translate. Trinity bought next outing with the family. Mean- more sons. Realiz- 20 round-trip bus/train while, another member of the team ing that there was The Trinity Out- tickets, so we handed is taking some of them to the library no hope of return- reach Ministry of Trinity them out to everyone today. It’s fun, rewarding and obvi- ing to Bhutan and Cathedral is estab- (and gave the extras ously much needed. We learned to the Dhital family at that other families at the apartment no future for them lished to support and encourage involvement the end). We walked complex without a church sponsor or their children in in advancing the care to the nearest bus, have a much rougher start and the the camp, they ap- of God’s creation, jus- rode to the train and apartments, because of financial plied for resettle- tice for all people, serv- rode the rails together constraints, don’t have nearly the ment and arrived ice for those with to Trinity Cathedral for nice furnishings and amenities that our Shrove Tuesday we provided our family. in the United compelling human need, and participation pancake supper and States in January in the Millennium De- race. Just as we ar- Also, we hear that there is of 2010. velopment Goals cam- rived we saw the a need for shoes among many at paign. Bishop compete on a the apartments, so I’m working with Their life is short race with the one of our priests who gets donated being transformed. Dean, both wearing shoes to see how we can help.” Lutheran Social Services of the aprons and flipping pancakes on a Southwest Refugee and Immigra- plate out and back across the The church, in partnership tion Services of Phoenix provided a labyrinth. It was both unusual and with LSS Refugee program, is mak- case manager, an apartment and fun, then we went into the line for ing a difference in the lives of these has taken them to get all their the food, and everyone ate pretty newly arrived refugees and living needed services. LSS recruited a well. We gave them a tour of the out the Biblical mandates to ìwel- church to co-sponsor the family church, and then walked around the come the stranger, practice hospi- which adds additional level of care neighborhood for a few blocks. tality and care for those in need.î and teaching, helping the family in- tegrate into the community and One highlight for the The Rev. Donna Buckles of learn more about American culture. mother was seeing an exercise stu- Lutheran Social Services of the The church, Trinity Cathedral, dio with people pumping away on Southwest, Refugee and Immigra- Phoenix, recruited a resettlement the machines. She laughed and tion Services contributed to this. team who was trained by LSS. said she’d seen this on TV but never in person. The Trinity team helped the www.azdiocese.org Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 |5 It Happened again: To San Diego and back

Greta Huls Canon for Communications

It is said you can never go back again but, while you can't, I did get to go back with the youth of the Diocese when they made a roadtrip the week- end of March 5-7 to attend San Diego Happening #54.

I attended Arizona Hap- pening #4 the weekend of Oct. 26-28, 1979 and was there for San Diego Happening #1 on Sept. 24-26, 1982. Happening literally changed my life. I discov- ered God and made friends at my Happening weekend that are Westward ho! Kids, parents and sponsors arrive at All Saints’, Phoenix on Friday, among my oldest, closest and dear- March 5 at 7 a.m. to make the journey to the Diocese of San Diego for Happening est friends ever. I still attend the #54. Greta Huls/Diocese of Arizona Episcopal church and even work for with their teens, and then put to- We both attended the national Hap- the Diocese. gether a weekend that was in the pening conference in 1992 in Dal- Episcopal tradition and called it las/Ft. Worth, Texas. According to the national Happening. Happening website, the program Happening disappeared known as Happening originated in Wyck Chew, Mike Donald- from the Diocese of Arizona about Dallas, Texas in the mid-1970s. It son, Linda Garza, Jon Sands and 15 years ago. I started hounding began when some high school The Rev. Todd Sorensen made the Matt Marino, the Canon for Youth aged teens in the Dallas area saw trip to Texas in 1978 to attend Hap- and Young Adults, to restart Hap- the change that Cursillo made in pening #14 and bring it back. It pening practically our first day work- their parents lives and wanted to lasted here in Arizona until about ing for the Diocese. I was delighted have the same life transforming ex- 1995 and we assisted the dioceses when he said the youth were going perience. of San Diego, Los Angeles, El to San Diego to get it restarted. Camino Real and Idaho start their Because they were not old Happening movements. I asked to go along as a enough to attend a Cursillo week- driver since I had a vested interest end, the parents decided to create My mom, The Rev. Pat in seeing Arizona Happening's re- a program for their teens based on Huls of St. Stephen's, Phoenix, was birth. I also thought it would make the Cursillo model, but in a format so impressed with Happening that an interesting story since we had relevant to high school students. she became involved with Happen- started them and now San Diego They assembled a team of clergy, ing both locally and on the national was returning the favor. adults and teens to explore what Happening board for many years. other denominations were doing I have heard from dozens 6| Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 www.azdiocese.org Happened cont. page 7 Happened cont. from page 6 * Greta Huls, Canon for Commu- nications of old Hap- * Tanaya Jimenez, St. Jude's pening * Lane Klassen, St. James the friends once Apostle, Tempe word of its * Ellie Marino, St. Jude's return started * Matt Marino, Canon for Youth to spread. and Young Adults Most shared * Francine Mercado, St. Jude's what Happen- * Trip Rivera, St. Jude's ing had meant * Gabby Robbins, All Saints', to them but Phoenix one stood out * James Schmidt, St. Barn- for me. The abas Very Rev. Mike * Kate Steider, St. Barn- Kinman, the abas youth director son of The Rev. Top: Arizonans * Luca Ticshhauser, St. Tom and Jacque- Gabby Robbins, Barnabas line Kinman of Ellie Marino and * Mario Ventura, St. Jude's Tucson, attended Lane Klassen * Bo Vogtritter, St. Barn- Arizona Happening draw each other abas #16 and is now the closer while * Alex Vinger, St. Barnabas Provost of Christ singing on Sat- Church Cathedral urday, March 6. On the trip over the kids Bottom: Arizo- in St. Louis, Mo. were focused on their elec- nans Bo Vogtrit- (He was our ter (holding tronic devices and rarely con- keynote speaker at green paper) versed. They complained the 2007 Diocesan and Niki Hig- because we fed them too often. convention while gins (gray he was the execu- hoodie) partici- Happening changed all that tive director for pate in a small and more. Episcopalians for group activity Global Reconcilia- on Sunday, When we got to San Diego March 7. tion.) He wrote, we went to Mission Beach for two Greta Huls/Diocese hours so the kids could stretch "Happen- of Arizona their legs. Some played football ing was a wonder- on the beach. Some went shop- ful community and an intense lead." ping. Still others went for a quick experience of God's love. But it was sail. more than that. Because Happen- It was a fascinating ing was always youth-led, it was my journey to San Diego. Twenty-one As for Happening, it has first experience of the church telling people of varying ages piled into changed - both in the past 15 years me that I was valuable not just as two 15-seat passenger vans: and since we started them in 1982. cheap labor or sitting in a class or in But while it has changed (and many a pew but as a leader and a creator. * Dustin Bahamundi, St. Jude's, of the changes are for the good) it Happening encouraged me to take Phoenix was still recognizably Happening. ownership of the church and be a * Noah Briggs, St. Barnabas on part of God's continual remaking of the Desert, Scottsdale The participants heard talks it (and us!) ... not just accept what * Chanel Carver, St. Jude's during the Happening weekend was handed to me and go mutely * Carlos Garcia, St. Jude's from their peers and a few adults. along. I'm not sure I would have * Tyler Eastman, St. Barnabas Many seemed visibly shaken when stuck around in the Episcopal * Samantha Greer, St. Jude's they learned that about a dozen of * Nicole Higgins, St. Jude's Church if it weren't for experiences Happened cont. page 8 like Happening where I was trusted enough not just to participate, but to www.azdiocese.org Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 |7 Happened cont. from page 7 those present knew Chelsea King, Councelor applications a San Diego area girl who was re- cently murdered.

& camp registrations are We laughed, we sang, we prayed, we cried. We ate great food. We got lots of exercise and at www.chapelrock.net sleep.

I watched our kids draw closer together throughout the weekend. Some seem excited by what they were seeing and hearing. I saw them reach out to others with a friendly hug or reassurance.

On the way back there was loud conversation and laughter in the vans. We shared music from iPods on the van's stereo system at deafening levels. (We even listened to some of the "Oldies" I listened to 28 years ago when I drove to San Diego.) Ticshhauser is an exchange student from Switzerland and on the ride back the others felt com- fortable enough to interrogate him about cultural differences.

While many were dismayed by a car accident that delayed our late return to All Saints', others re- joiced at the opportunity to stay with their new friends just a little bit longer.

Klassen wrote on her Face- book page shortly after getting home that she "had quite possibly the greatest/most inspiring week- end ever."

Friends - both old and new. It's such an important part of Hap- pening.

But most importantly, we all (re)discovered God's unconditional love for us. Both then and now. More photos and a video can be found online at: http://az- diocese.org/dfc/newsde- 8| Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 www.azdiocese.org tail_2/796 Flashmob What does the Youth Ministry department do?

Matt Marino Canon for Youth & Young Adults

Mission: to raise-up a Biblically-faithful generation that is leading the church and chang- ing the world.

The Youth Ministry (YM) Depart- ment recruits, trains, and deploys youth ministry professionals and provides opportu- nities and options to increase the depth and breadth of our ministry to students. We do this by:

1. Youth Ministers Network: a. Monthly YM Day b. Fall Planning Retreat c. Spring Youth Workers Retreat d. YM Volunteer Training e. Summer Camp Assignment

2. Events for Students: a. Diocesan Youth Events b. Youth Council: AZ Council of Teens (ACT)

3. Youth Camping - Summer and school-year: de- signed to build parish programs.

4. Parish Consulting: a. Help parishes find youth ministers b. Help parishes move to a missional ministry model through parish visitation, seminars and training materials

5. Missional Experiments: Multi-ethnic church for unchurched youth and young adults: http://www.mystjudes.com

www.azdiocese.org Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 |9 Your 17 cents Episcopal Border Ministries I was a stranger and san House for more information.) every human being...."

you welcomed me. EBM is an outreach min- * Provide Experiential opportuni- Matthew 25:35 istry of the Episcopal Diocese of ties to learn more about border and Arizona seeking to build bridges immigration issues through the vari- and community along the US/Mex- ous ministries already taking place Greta Huls ico border. EBM offers intensive through several churches in the Canon for Communications consciousness raising opportunities Diocese, such as: for people of all faiths through bor- CASA GRANDE - About der tours and immersion experi- * Clinics on the Border - Naco 200 religious leaders and heads ences. EBM also engages in border Clinic, Nogales Clinic, etc. of major denominations gathered advocacy on behalf of comprehen- in Casa Grande on Jan. 22 for a sive immigration reform and hu- * Trips and Pilgrimages - St. An- Statewide Clergy Convocation to mane treatment for migrants. Our drew's, Nogales takes groups educational efforts foster a deeper across the Border to Hermosillo to urge Immigration Reform. understanding of the complexities experience work days; St. John's, Among those were Bishop Kirk of the current immigration crises Bisbee takes trips to key places Smith and The Rev. Seth Polley, and encourage faith communities to across the border; Cathedral Health vicar of both St. John's, Bisbee engage in border issues in order to Services also provides experiential and St. Stephen's, Douglas as promote justice and human dignity. learning opportunities across the border. well as the Episcopal Border The mission of the Border Ministries Program Group con- Issues and Immigration Program * Other opportunities are made vener. Group program group is to: available through groups such as Humane Borders at humanebor- Smith wrote about his sup- * Educate Episcopalians about ders.org and No More Deaths at port for comprehensive immigration the realities of immigrants, mi- nomoredeaths.org. reform in the Jan. 26 E-pistle. But grants, and refugees by providing what is a Program Group, what do them with retreats, workshops, and "Bishop Smith's call to ac- the Episcopal Border Ministries do, resources. tion at Friday's conference of Com- and how do your 17 cents support prehensive Immigration Reform it? * Advocate for broad humane im- encouraged and renewed my own migration reform by visits to legisla- commitment to this critical reform," First of all, each tors, making people aware of the said Polley. "As faith leaders, he Vestry/Bishop's Committee selects Public Policy Network of the Epis- asked us to relinquish our need for one or more Program Groups, and copal Church, and working along- status and affirmation and to use the congregation will provide each side the Arizona Interfaith Network our influence and voice to speak Program Group one participant and (which sponsored the Jan. 22 con- out and act, regardless of conse- cover their expenses if necessary. vocation), Pima County Interfaith quences, on behalf of those without Council, and Valley Interfaith Proj- voice and influence. I'm proud to Also, each active clergyper- ect. call him my bishop and serve the son is to select one Program Group Episcopal Diocese of Arizona." in which to participate. * Empower people on both sides of the USA/Mexican Border to live For more information on Members of each congre- our Baptismal vows (Book of Com- how Episcopal Border Ministries gation may choose to participate in mon Prayer - page 305) to "...strive can assist your community of any of the Program Groups as visi- for justice and peace among all faith, please contact The Rev. tors. (Visitors should contact Dioce- people, and respect the dignity of Seth Polley at either [email protected] or 520-236-8561. 10| Arizona EPISCOPALIAN spring 2010 www.azdiocese.org episcopal+ news quarterly

episcopalchurch.org/ens spring 2010

CHURCH AIDS HAITI’S REBIRTH By Mary Frances Schjonberg

EASTER’S PROCLAMATION OF resurrection will sound poignant in the streets of Port-au-Prince when it arrives almost three months after the Jan. 12 magnitude-7 earthquake that devastated a wide swath of Haiti. After climbing over the ruins of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti’s Holy Trinity Cathedral Feb. 8, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said that the dio- cese’s physical nature would rise again, albeit undoubtedly in a changed form. Episcopalians across the church have aided the beginnings of that resurrection. Contributors have been “incredibly and wildly generous,” Episcopal Relief & De- A girl looks out from her wooden bed under a makeshift tent at an Episcopal Diocese of Haiti camp for earthquake survivors set up at College Ste. Pierre, a now-ruined diocesan school in velopment President Robert Radtke said. Port-au-Prince. Photo/Julie Platner Dioceses and congregations large and small have staged fundraisers from spa- DIOCESAN DIGEST CHURCHWIDE WORLD REPORT ghetti suppers and concerts to an effort in Minnesota priest’s Church begins to Archbishop Williams Virginia to supply the Haitian diocese with pop art challenges phase in health visits 10 “small and fierce” trucks to deliver aid stereotypes insurance plan and Gaza to remote villages. Executive Council recently challenged p.15 p.18 p.21 the entire church to raise (to page 14) THE PRESIDING BISHOP’S MESSAGE EASTER MOVES US TO STRETCH OUR FAITH by Katharine Jefferts Schori

“THE PEOPLE WHO sat in darkness The people of Haiti are fi nding new of worship. That people developed a have seen a great light.” life in the midst of death and struggle. As community that could practice its faith The Diocese of Haiti has observed a nation and a people, they repeatedly in a strange land, insisting that God Lent in a very different way this year. have practiced resurrection through cen- was present among them even in exile. When Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin and turies of slavery, oppression, invasion, Jesus insists that that light is present I spoke just before Ash Wednesday, corruption and privation. The joy of their even in the midst of Roman oppression we talked about how this year art forms – music and painting in par- and that he will gather a community to would be different. He noted ticular – gives evidence of the hope remember that light and practice seeing that the people of Haiti would that is within them as a people. and discovering it. need to practice saying “Al- They know, deep in their cultural The Christian community is meant leluia” so that when Easter DNA, that God is continually to be a mutual hope society, with each came they could enter in with bringing new life out of death. Yet one offering courage to another whose joy. In the midst of grief and each person must discover and hope has waned, insisting that even in darkness, it can be exceedingly nurture that hope. It is made far the darkest of night, new life is being diffi cult to believe that resurrec- easier in community. prepared. That work is constant – it will tion is a possibility. The shared hope of a community is not end until the end of all things. Nora Gallagher makes a similar point essential. Most human beings cannot And still the community persists, year in her book “Practicing Resurrection.” long survive the evil and death of solitary in and year out, in time of earthquake We are not born with the ability to confi nement or a concentration camp. It and war and fl ood, in time of joy and insist on resurrection everywhere we is the shared sense of suffering and the new birth and discovery. Together we turn. It takes the discipline and repetition shared nurture of even tiny embers of can shout, “Alleluia, he is risen! Indeed, that forms an athlete – in this case, a hope that offer life. The greatest cruelty he is risen, Alleluia!” even when some spiritually fi t Christian. We practice our of places like Guantanamo and Abu among us are not quite so confi dent as faith because we must – it withers and Ghraib is the removal and destruction others. For indeed, the body of Christ is atrophies unless it’s stretched. We must of such hope. The absence or discon- rising and risen when even a small part continue to give evidence of the faith that nection from other people as sources of of it can rejoice and insist that God is is within us. hope leads to suicide and even that mys- renewing the face of the earth and light Easter prods and provokes us with terious ailment in young children called has dawned upon us. an immense stretching exercise. God “failure to thrive.” Alleluia! Keep practicing that joyful has renewed a life given to the evil of The Christian community is about shout. Someone needs to hear its truth. this world on behalf of those with no shared hope in resurrection. The prom- Alleluia! other helper. That earth-shattering and ise quoted at the start of this article, tomb-shattering rebirth has planted the fi rst made in Isaiah 9:2 and recalled in seeds of hope in each one of us. Yet Matthew 4:16, fi rst buoyed hope among those seeds do not produce fruit without a people exiled in a foreign land, without struggle. the support of familiar leaders or places The Episcopal Church 12 episcopal news quarterly spring 2010 episcopalchurch.org/ens welcomes you THE HOUSE OF DEPUTIES PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE A CHURCH BEYOND THE END OF THE ROAD

by Bonnie Anderson

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH has re- over the years. It is natural response to current needs. sponded to the devastation caused by for these congregations in In addition to continued gen- the magnitude-7 earthquake in Haiti with the Episcopal Church to want to erous giving to Episcopal Relief & unexpected and astonishing generosity. do everything possible to assist their Development, we need to be advocates Building upon a partnership that began brothers and sisters in Haiti. However, for Haiti. It is important to understand that, before the Jan. 12 earthquake, Episcopal Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin asked just as the relief and rebuilding effort will Relief & Development has experienced in a Jan. 21 letter that, unless the people unfold in stages over the coming months a generosity of giving from Episcopalians who want to come and help are “certified and years, so will the advocacy effort, and that has enabled its relief effort to secure professionals in relief and recovery, they that is where Episcopalians can assist food, water, vehicles for supply deliveries, must wait.” best, right from home. fuel and shelter. In his letter to Robert Radtke, Epis- Even as Haiti stories recede from the Many congregations in the Episco- copal Relief & Development president, front pages of our newspapers, we must pal Church have forged important and Duracin added: be aware that the political and policy mutually supportive relationships with “We will need them [people who want debates about how best to assist Haiti’s congregations and individuals in Haiti to come to Haiti] in months and years to rebuilding will require our voices in the come, but at this point, it is too dangerous arena for the foreseeable future. We will and too much of a burden for our people need to rely on Duracin and the people to have mission teams here.” of the Diocese of Haiti to tell us how they Duracin has appointed a 15-mem- want to rebuild and how our advocacy ber commission that is assisting him can help them. in coordination and organization of the For the rebuilding of Haiti, it is evident diocese’s rebuilding effort as well as its that the involvement of the (to page 20) Editor’s Note WELCOME TO Episcopal News Quarterly – the revamped Best of Episcopal Life. On these pages, you will find a condensed collection of news that has appeared on the Episcopal News Service’s website (www.episcopalchurch. org/ens) and in our Episcopal News Monthly print publication. With each issue, you will get a slice of the life, mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church. This new publication is just one medium we use to tell the story of how Episcopalians live out the gospel. Those ways range from the traditional ink-on-paper medium to the church’s 140-character- This depiction of the nativity of Jesus was per-tweet Twitter page (http://twitter.com/iamepiscopalian). The media multiply; our goal part of the world-famous reredos fresco in the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti’s Cathédrale Sainte remains the same: Tell the story in compelling, surprising and engaging ways. Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Port-au- The Rev. Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Quarterly editor Prince. Photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg

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HAITI, FROM PAGE 11 $10 million for the diocese’s rebuilding. country’s intellectual capital have ham- we have done for 149 years we will do for Meanwhile, Jefferts Schori has dis- pered the efforts to serve its people. another 149 years.” couraged dioceses and congregations “The Diocese of Haiti has had a major The Rev. Canon Oge Beauvoir, a Haiti from deciding on their own to rebuild a impact for 150 years on the nation of Haiti,” native and another Episcopal Church specific Haitian church or diocesan minis- Jefferts Schori said. “They will again, but missionary working with the diocese, said try building, or from going to Haiti too soon. it’s going to be a number of years before that, faced with destruction, loss, death “The priorities are going to need to they are able to function at the same level and injury all around him, “if we are still come from the Diocese of Haiti – the they were before the earthquake.” here today, the Lord has a mission for us: priorities and the strategy – and it’s going Haiti’s future may well look very much to show his love and care.” to be some months before they begin to like its past in one very important aspect: emerge,” she said, adding that the dio- its service to the Haitian people. HOW TO HELP cese would not be ready to host mission Since Eglise Episcopale d’Haiti’s There are three ways to donate to trips in the early months after the quake. founding in 1861, it has preached and Episcopal Relief & Development: “It is very difficult for us to plan for the practiced a “gospel of wholeness,” • Go to www.er-d.org/donate-select.php future now because we have so many according to Duracin and others. The • Call 1-800-334-7626, ext.5129 people who have been injured, so we Rev. James Theodore Holly, one of the • Mail a gift to Episcopal Relief & have to take care of them,” Haiti Bishop Episcopal Church’s first African-American Development, PO Box 7058, Merrifield, Jean Zaché Duracin told ENS via tele- priests, founded the diocese and became VA 22116-7058. Please write “Haiti phone from Port-au-Prince on Feb. 4. its first bishop after leaving New Haven, Fund” in the memo of all checks. In mid-February, the diocese was car- Conn., for Haiti with 100 emigrants. ing for 25,000 to 30,000 survivors in more “For 149 years, the diocese has taken than 60 settlements, according to Abagail the lead in caring for the people of Haiti FRAUD WARNINGS ISSUED Nelson, the development agency’s senior through our schools, through our medical CHURCH OFFICIALS HAVE warned vice president for programs. clinics, our feeding programs, our water about fraudulent e-mails soliciting money Even before the earthquake, Haiti was programs, through our churches, through in the name of Episcopal Diocese of Haiti the poorest and least-developed country in the music program, through taking care of Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin to help vic- the Western Hemisphere, with 80 percent abandoned handicapped children,” said tims of the magnitude-7 earthquake that of its people living on less than $2 per the Rev. Lauren Stanley, an Episcopal devastated parts of Haiti on Jan. 12. day. Its history of violent political instability Church missionary to Haiti and Duracin’s The Rev. Lauren Stanley, an Epis- and a diaspora that included much of the liaison in the United States. “Everything copal Church-appointed missionary to Haiti and Duracin’s liaison in the United States, told ENS Feb. 12 that she learned of the latest scam from the Rev. Chris Dobson, ecumenical and global ANGLICANS ASSISTING CHILE partnership officer for the Church of By Matthew Davies England’s Diocese of Bristol. The e-mail Dobson received was not from Duracin, AT PRESS TIME, the Anglican Diocese of “There has been no loss of life, the postal address listed did not belong Chile was responding to the urgent needs although there is some structural damage to the bishop or the diocese, and the e- of its members after a magnitude-8.8 to buildings which will need to be repaired mail address given was fake, she said. earthquake on Feb. 27 claimed almost 800 during the second stage of recovery,” In late January, the Rev. Charles lives and affected nearly 2 million people. Chile Bishop Héctor Zavala reported four Robertson, canon to Presiding Bishop The region most affected is Concep- days after the earthquake. Katharine Jefferts Schori, also warned ción, Chile’s second-largest city, located Episcopal Relief & Development said of fraudulent e-mail asking for money in 71 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter, it would disburse emergency funds to Duracin’s name. Donating to Episcopal where three Anglican congregations – help the diocese buy critical supplies and Relief & Development is “the far safer way two Spanish-speaking and one English- stood ready to help as additional needs to support the people of Haiti,” he said. speaking – share two church buildings. were assessed.

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Carolyn Lee Anderson in an introduction to the exhibit. “Hokah!” is a popular greeting at pow- MINNESOTA PRIEST’S wows and other gatherings, according to Heid Erdrich, owner of the Ancient Trad- ers Gallery, which POP ART CHALLENGES hosted the exhibit as part of its 10th-anni- versary celebration. STEREOTYPES For Two Bulls, it means: “Let’s go, By Pat McCaughan let’s do it.” The Rev. Robert Two Bulls “I chose the war THE REV. ROBERT Two bonnet and red blanket images in profile Bulls uses pop art to because it’s a well-worn, universal im- deliver a powerful message age … an image used famously by Hol- about persistent Native- lywood,” said Two Bulls. Although such American stereotypes as images date back more than a century, well as painful chapters in they persist in contemporary culture church history. “as images most folks will now conjure Decades of personal up when thinking of what an American encounters with non- Indian looks like,” he added. Native people, from “the “An elderly lady my wife and I would irksome offensive call-out give rides to would oftentimes say, ‘Hey, Chief’ to ‘I really like ‘You would look great in buckskin and your profile,’” became the feather,’” Two Bulls recalled. “I would inspiration for his brightly respond, because she was an elder, colored self-portrait, “Chief with, ‘Thanks.’” What-They-Want-Me-To- Another portrait by Two Bulls, exhib- Be,” Two Bulls said. ited in nearby St. Paul at the Undercroft The 16- by 20-inch Gallery of St. Matthew’s Episcopal acrylic on canvas was Church, incorporates church history, included in Hokah!, an “38 Tears of Bishop Whipple,” with its noose-like tears, is the depicting Henry Whipple, the first bishop Rev. Robert Two Bulls’ recollection of the Episcopal bishop’s exhibit of self-portraits by efforts to convince the U.S. government to spare rebellious of Minnesota in 1859. more than 25 contem- Dakota from execution in 1862. Whipple advocated for Native porary Native-American artists shown Self-portraiture “gives American-Indi- Americans against what he considered recently at a south Minneapolis gallery. an people the power to reflect back what abusive and corrupt federal policies Two Bulls, vicar of All Saints Indian Mis- we see in ourselves and to put ourselves toward them. “He is a major figure in sion in Minneapolis and an Ogala Lakota within a context that the general public is church history and was a huge player in Oyate, recalled his quick reply when com- not used to seeing, thereby overcoming Minnesota history,” said Two Bulls. plimented on his profile: “Like the nickel?” these stereotypes,” said guest curator He is remembered for (to page 16)

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POP ART, FROM PAGE 15 his clemency pleas for 303 Dakota who fought against the United States govern- ment in the Dakota War of 1862 along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota. Ongoing treaty violations and unfair prac- tices had created increasing hardship and hunger for the Dakota, a group of whom decided to drive white settlers out of the area. There is no official report of the number of settlers or Dakota killed dur- ing the four-month conflict. At Whipple’s urging, then-President Abraham Lincoln pardoned 265 Dakota. Eventually, 38 were hanged December 26, 1862, at Mankato, Minn., “the largest mass [government] execution in American Debating deacon ordained history,” said Two Bulls. Hence the title of The Rev. Lee Harris recently was ordained a deacon during a Eucharist at St. Mark’s the acrylic on canvas: “38 Tears of Bishop Episcopal Church and School in Upland, Calif., where he teaches religion and coaches Whipple.” It depicts Whipple, in a purple the debate team. Here, he poses with team members and their trophies after a Feb. 6 competition. Photo/Mike Brown cassock, and 38 tears or nooses – de- pending on the viewer’s interpretation. “I used actual cord on the canvas and then drop-painted the blue onto it,” said Two Bulls, who holds a bachelor’s N. MICHIGAN STARTS ANEW degree in American history with a special emphasis on Ogala Lakota and Native- by ENS staff American history. THE DIOCESE OF Northern Michigan and set out the framework for con- “I have always known about this has chosen an 11-member committee ducting a second search. The search tragic story in America – one that is, sadly to guide the search for its next bishop committee’s regional representatives enough, rarely told,” he said. “I remem- and suggested a timeline for the search. were chosen after each congregation ber reading once that executions were “The Standing Committee was com- discussed potential candidates with presented as a public spectacle, having mitted to having a search committee its congregational representatives and a circus-like atmosphere ... [as] a cheap that is representative of our diocese’s identified up to two candidates. Con- form of entertainment. To put to death all geography and diversity,” said Linda gregational representatives then met 38 in unison is still mind-boggling. Piper, Standing Committee chair. by region to discuss and vote on the “It might shock people to know that The diocese’s previous search for proposed names. 37 of the 38 hanged were baptized a bishop ended in July 2009, when the The Diocesan Council and Standing Episcopalians.” Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, a priest of Committee followed a similar process. Two Bulls, the son of an Episcopal the diocese, did not receive the neces- The convention gave the Standing priest, hails from a family of artists and sary consents from the wider church. Committee the authority to appoint ad- painters and combines vocations by The diocese has been without a bishop ditional members to the committee to teaching art and spirituality classes. In re- since Bishop James Kelsey died in ensure that it was representative of the cent years, he has transitioned from fine an automobile accident in June 2007. diocese. art and watercolors to tribal and pop art. Bishop Tom Ray, who preceded Kelsey, The Standing Committee suggested He sums up his self-portrait “Chief serves as assisting bishop. a search timeline, with names submitted What-They-Want-Me-To-Be” in seven Diocesan Convention met in October by May and an election in November. words: “They can’t put us in a box.”

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they are in growing communities, have a clear mission and purpose, follow up with visitors, have strong leadership and are COUNCIL CALLS CHURCH involved in outreach and evangelism. • Approved a revised 2010 budget based on the 2010-2012 budget General TO STAND BY HAITIANS Convention passed in July. • Issued the church’s first statement on by Mary Frances Schjonberg the war in Afghanistan. Rooting it in the EXECUTIVE COUNCIL RE- Episcopal Church’s “longstanding belief CENTLY pledged to stand by that war is inconsistent with the teachings the Diocese of Haiti as it con- of Jesus Christ,” the resolution remem- tinues to minister to earthquake bers “with sorrow those on all sides of the survivors and plans its long-term hostilities in Afghanistan who have been rebuilding efforts, while challeng- wounded, traumatized or killed”; supports ing the church to raise at least the goal of a just and lasting peace in $10 million to help pay for that Afghanistan; calls on the Afghan govern- rebuilding. ment to end corruption and strengthen Meeting Feb. 19-22 in its security forces; and prays for the well- Omaha, Neb., the council said being of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. that “Haiti’s recovery and recon- • Passed a lengthy resolution on struction must be directed by the Middle East peacemaking efforts, ac- Haitian people” and affirmed the knowledging “the tragic histories of the authority of Haiti Bishop Jean Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico Bishop David Alvarez Jewish and Palestinian people as victims Zaché Duracin and the lead- receives the Communion cup Feb. 19 from the Rev. Terry of injustice, wars, dispersion and exile, Star, a fellow Executive Council member from the Diocese ers he appoints “to request and of North Dakota, at the start of the council’s four-day the existential fear and insecurity this has direct the resources required meeting in Omaha. Photo/Mary Frances Schjonberg created for both peoples and the distress to rebuild the damaged institutions and sentially our flesh.” their conflict has caused throughout the impacted congregations of the diocese.” In her opening remarks, Presiding Middle East” while recognizing the com- The $10 million challenge, proposed Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, council mitment of Israelis and Palestinians to the by outgoing council member and Diocese president, said of Haiti that “our destinies land they regard as their homeland and of Connecticut Bishop-elect Ian Douglas, and, I would say, our salvation are tied up respecting their national aspirations. grew out of his colleague the Rev. Mark with each other.” She encouraged Episco- • Accepted a 2010-2012 strategic Harris’ call to the council to set aside a palians “to learn about the history of our plan for itself and established a strategic- tithe from the rest of the church’s 2010- relationship between the United States planning committee. 2012 budget toward reconstructing the and Haiti. There is much there to repent The 40-member Executive Council church in Haiti. “The hurt to the family” in of, and there’s much to learn from.” carries out the programs and policies Haiti, he said, “requires a pledge on our Also during the meeting, the council: adopted by General Convention. part that doesn’t come from the largess • Heard that church membership and Additional coverage of the meeting or the abundance of our lives, but comes Sunday attendance continued to decline is available at from the core and, I would suggest, es- in 2008 but that congregations grow when http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ens/. episcopalchurch.org/ens episcopal news quarterly spring 2010 17 CHURCHWIDE

supporting local leadership throughout the transition, according to Jim Morrison, CPG executive vice president for health, CHURCHWIDE HEALTH PLAN TO life and risk management services, and Laurie Kazilionis, Medical Trust vice presi- BE BUILT ON DIOCESAN CHOICE dent for account management. During the second half of 2010, the Medical Trust will By Mary Frances Schjonberg continue that enrollment work and help participating groups renew coverage. AGAINST THE BACKDROP of The Medical Trust already has helped the health-care reform debate the church and its employees save across the United States, the money under the denomination-wide Episcopal Church has begun plan. The average rate increase in 2010 changing how it provides em- for participating church employers is 5.7 ployee health-care benefits. percent, it reported, compared with a U.S. General Convention in July average of 9 percent. gave the Episcopal Church Effective Jan. 1, those insured through Medical Trust, an affiliate of the Medical Trust’s plans have no co-pays the Church Pension Fund, on annual in-network physicals and eye three years to implement a exams, and those with dental insurance denomination-wide insurance are entitled to three free cleanings and plan. Dioceses, congregations related exams each year. (including cathedrals, parishes Jim Morrison, Church Pension Group executive vice “We’re really focused on wellness. and missions) and other official president for health, life and risk management services, One of the best ways we’re going to church agencies are required by explains how a denomination-wide health insurance plan will work. Photo/Church Pension Group reduce costs is to increase the health and canon to provide benefits to all wellness of our members,” said Kazilionis. clergy and lay employees who to health insurance. “The bottom line is that we need to con- work 1,500 hours (30 hours a week) or The Medical Trust administers ap- vince the Episcopal Church’s employees more per year in the church’s domestic proximately 19 health-benefit options for to take better care of themselves.” dioceses (including Puerto Rico and the 87 of the church’s domestic dioceses. Re- The organization is trying to balance Virgin Islands). Employees who work 20 search indicates another nearly 30 plans diocesan autonomy and choice with con- hours or more a week may participate were used by 14 dioceses not in the vention’s requirement for a denomination- voluntarily according to guidelines their Medical Trust as of January. More than wide plan. employers will set. half of those dioceses are talking with the “We’ve said we’re not the health- The Church Pension Group told the trust about possibly joining in 2011. benefits police,” said Kazilionis. “We want 2009 convention that the church could In January, five new “regional relation- to win dioceses and groups on price and save $134 million in the first six years ship managers,” based in the church’s service.” after replacing the current voluntary provinces and responsible for about 20 However, she and Morrison said, the and fragmented system with a denomi- dioceses each, began talking with every requirement of participation remains. national health plan as well as mitigate diocese to determine how best to help “Adhering to the canons is part of inequities between lay and clergy em- dioceses and parishes not now participat- being an Episcopal parish or institution,” ployees and improve employees’ access ing to move into the Medical Trust while Morrison said. “That ultimately is the issue. If you’re not Episcopal, then you  For more news and multimedia: don’t have to follow the canons.” + www.episcopalchurch.org/ens A long-term health-care benefits solu- + Receive Episcopal News Service in your inbox: tion for nondomestic dioceses, largely from www.episcopalchurch.org/ensdaily Province IX, continues to be developed.

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tions between faith communities,” according president emeritus to a news release. Guibord is involved with of Middlebury PEOPLE interreligious matters at a national level and College in Vermont, ( is a consultant for the Episcopal Church as the school’s 16th Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious president and vice Concerns. chancellor. McCardell RETIRING: BISHOP HENRY PARSLEY JR. will begin work July Diocese of Alabama’s bishop, Parsley AWARDED: ARCHBISHOP OF 1. A history professor announced he would retire at the end of CANTERBURY ROWAN WILLIAMS at Middlebury, McCardell chaired the Division 2011. He was elected coadjutor in 1996 and In February, Williams received the Woolf III Presidents’ Council of the National become diocesan bishop in 1999. Under Institute of Abrahamic Faiths’ Building Bridges Collegiate Athletic Association in 2003-04. his leadership, six new congregations were Award in recognition of his “commitment to He also founded Choose Responsibility to established, 13 churches were built, seven addressing contemporary cultural and inter- foster debate about the effects of legislation parishes underwent major expansions, an faith issues,” a news release said. The institute mandating a legal drinking age of 21. Episcopal school was founded and two free is dedicated to teaching, research and dialogue medical clinics were established. Parsley re- among Jews, Christians and Muslims. APPOINTED: JO GANTZER established the diaconate in the diocese and The new provincial coordinator for Province was instrumental in calling the diocese’s RETIRING: BISHOP V, Gantzer is associate for Christian first Hispanic missioner and establishing its JOHN BRYSON formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church first freestanding Hispanic congregation. He CHANE in Barrington Hills, Ill. Previously, she was was a nominee for presiding bishop in 2006 Diocese of canon for lifelong learning for the Diocese and founded the Alabama Faith Council, an Washington’s bishop of Michigan. She is program chair of the ecumenical and interfaith organization. since 2002, Chane education and formation network for the announced he would province and is the new director of the HONORED: IRVIN MAYFIELD retire in the fall of Living Stones Partnership, a network of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and Mayfield 2011. He has spent the last 38 years in congregations and dioceses committed to received a Grammy for Best Large Jazz ordained ministry. Chane is known for his the ministry of all the baptized. Ensemble Album for their debut album, “Book outspoken support of marriage equality for One,” on Jan. 31. Trumpeter Mayfield, 31, gays and lesbians. Under his leadership, the RESIGNED: BISHOP founder and artistic director of the 15-piece diocese quadrupled its Spanish-speaking orchestra and artist-in-residence at Christ membership and opened a school to provide The president bishop of Church Cathedral in New Orleans, composed free education to underprivileged boys in and the and arranged the music included in the album the district’s poorest neighborhoods. He is Middle East, Anis for “All the Saints,” a 2008 concert commis- the co-founder of the Episcopal Church’s announced in a Jan. 30 sioned and hosted by the cathedral. According Working for a Just World. letter his resignation to Dean David duPlantier, the concert intended from the Standing to communicate hope and celebration for the CONSECRATED: THE REV. GRISELDA Committee of the Anglican Communion, city’s wounded citizenry. Mayfield’s music ex- DELGADO DEL CARPIO saying that his presence has “no value what- plores post-Hurricane Katrina stagnation, the On Feb. 7, Delgado was soever” and that his voice is “like a useless financial crisis and falling in love again. The consecrated bishop co- cry in the wilderness.” Anis, bishop of the cathedral hosted four annual “All the Saints” adjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Egypt, said he had “come to the concerts from 2005 to 2008. Church of Cuba. The sad realization” that the Standing Committee former rector of Santa and the Anglican Consultative Council had HONORED: THE REV. Maria Virgen in Itabo, “no desire … to follow through on recom- GWYNNE GUIBORD Delgado will work mendations that have been taken by other The National Associa- with Bishop Miguel instruments of communion to sort out the tion of Interchurch and Tamayo of the Anglican Church of Uruguay problems which face the Anglican Commu- Interfaith Families gave as he completes his work as Cuba’s interim nion and which are tearing its fabric apart.” its annual World Inter- bishop. She will become diocesan bishop faith Leader Award to upon Tamayo’s retirement this fall. Her ORDAINED: THE REV. JOANNA Guibord of the Diocese installation is scheduled for Nov. 28. PAULINE HOLLIS of Los Angeles because she “demonstrated The first Anglican Bermudian woman to extraordinary national leadership, courage APPOINTED: JOHN M. McCARDELL JR. become a priest, Hollis was ordained Dec. 10 and a capacity for inspiring in others the The Board of Trustees of the University of the at Trinity Episcopal Church in Santa Barbara, urge of interfaith dialogue and cordial rela- South, Sewanee, Tenn., appointed McCardell, Calif., where she is associate rector.

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BONNIE ANDERSON, FROM PAGE 13 international community will be neces- sary, ensuring that rebuilding efforts are not piecemeal and left to the whims of OBITUARIES individual donors, but rather are cohesive ARCHBISHOP JABEZ BRYCE He served for more than 26 years as a and coordinated with the wishes of the Haitian people. Last summer, Haiti’s Archbishop Jabez Bryce, 75, died judge advocate in the United States Navy government produced a well-acclaimed Feb. 11 in . He had led the Diocese and Navy Reserve, retiring in 1992. He development strategy brief for the World of Polynesia for almost 35 years and was consecrated bishop in May 1989 Bank and the International Monetary Fund. was, when he died, the longest-serving and served as coadjutor until 1991, In the wake of the earthquake, such a bishop in the Anglican Communion. In when he became the diocesan bishop. strategy is more important than ever. The 2006, he became one of the three lead- Rowley served on the Presiding Bishop’s long-term effort will require a concerted ers of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, Council of Advice and was Province III international effort to rebuild the Haitian New Zealand and Polynesia. Through- resident from 1993 to 2002. He was a government’s own capacity both to lead out his priesthood and episcopacy, nominee for presiding bishop in 1997. and to provide adequately for basic rede- Bryce was a keen ecumenist, building velopment needs such as social services, bridges among Christian denominations NELSON FAMADAS education and infrastructure. in the Pacific. He served the Pacific Con- Episcopal Relief & Development The U.S. government should make ference of Churches for many years and board member and Puerto Rico and this a diplomatic priority in the coming was a president of the Pacific region of southeast Florida businessman Famadas months and years. This is an area where the World Council of Churches. died Jan. 25 in Miami. Famadas was every Episcopalian can be an advocate also a member of the board of Our Little with our own government on behalf of our V. NELLE BELLAMY Roses Ministries, a home and school for brothers and sisters in Haiti. The Episcopal Archivist for the Episcopal Church for orphaned and at-risk girls in San Pedro Church’s Office of Government Relations more than 30 years, V. Nelle Bellamy, Sula, Honduras. In his native Puerto in Washington, D.C., is equipped to assist 87, died Dec. 23. From 1959 to 1992, Rico, he was a founding member of and us in our advocacy efforts. she lived in Austin, Texas, where she a teacher at the University of Puerto Our continued support for Haiti is most worked as an adjunct professor at the Rico’s Graduate School of Business. important. By expanding our idea of what Seminary of the Southwest and as the it means to be family, even those congre- archivist of the Episcopal Church. STEVE DE GRUCHY gations that have long-term relationships South African with congregations and individuals in Haiti BISHOP ROBERT ROWLEY JR. theologian, author can see new ways to be involved and in The Diocese and activist Steve partnership that embraces and encour- of Northwestern de Gruchy, 48, ages a new and sustainable Haiti. Pennsylvania’s drowned Feb. 21 For now, let us all set aside our own seventh bishop, while river tubing personal needs to be of assistance and Robert Rowley with his son. instead concentrate on hearing what is Jr. died Jan. 18 De Gruchy was a minister in the United asked for and on praying for new and and was buried Congregational Church of Southern expanded visions of partnerships. Let at Arlington National Cemetery. Rowley Africa and professor of theology and Episcopal Relief & Development do the announced he was taking a “terminal development at the University of work it is so good at doing on our behalf. sabbatical leave” in July 2006, which KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg. First relief, then development. ended at his previously announced The author of more than 20 books and Sit tight. We don’t know yet what God retirement date of Aug. 31, 2007. He research papers, he also served as head will ask us to do, but let’s prepare our- was a lawyer before he earned a master of the School of Religion and Theology selves for the long haul with Haiti. of divinity degree from the Seminary of at the university and editor of the Journal the Southwest in Austin, Texas, in 1977. of Theology for Southern Africa.

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Jackson toured the newly renovated St. Luke’s Hospital. In Nablus, Jackson described the ROWAN WILLIAMS ministry at St. Luke’s as “nothing short of inspirational. Despite tremendous short- ages of equipment and medicines, St. VISITS THE HOLY LAND Luke’s serves the whole of the community without exception, to the very best of its By Matthew Davies capacity and with a dedication which is humbling to witness.” ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY In Gaza, Williams and Rowan Williams spent four days in the Dawani rededicated the Holy Land in February meeting with hospital’s newly renovated political and religious leaders and visiting St. Philip’s Chapel, which had church-run institutions throughout the been damaged during the West Bank and Gaza. Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Williams was received in Jerusalem “In the face of the very by Israeli President Shimon Peres. They grave situation facing the discussed the current state of relations inhabitants of Gaza, the Ahli between and Palestine, the contribu- hospital provides desper- tion of Christian communities and their ately needed health care,” the institutions – especially schools and hospi- press release said. tals – the importance of interfaith dialogue “We seek to bring hope to and a range of environmental issues, a the hopeless and bring good Lambeth Palace press release said. news to the poor,” said Hos- Accompanied by Anglican Bishop in pital Director Suheila Tarazi. Jerusalem and Church “Ahli is a tangible sign of how of Ireland Bishop Michael Jackson of Christians can serve their fel- Clogher, Williams also was hosted by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, right, and Angli- low human beings in love.” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad can Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil Dawani talk with a patient at During a three-week Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Photo/Lambeth Palace at a reception in . Williams and military operation that ended Fayyad spoke about the challenges fac- ian community, regardless of faith,” the in January 2009, Israel tried to target ing the Palestinian community in the West Lambeth release said. Hamas-allied militant Palestinians who Bank, the state of the peace process St. Luke’s is among 35 institutions run were firing rockets into southern Israel and prospects for continued economic by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem, from Gaza. Israel continues to impose improvements. including hospitals, clinics, kindergartens a blockade on Gaza that began in June Fayyad “spoke warmly of the vibrant and other schools, vocational training pro- 2007, resulting in an ongoing humanitar- and important contribution made by grams and services for the deaf, disabled ian crisis for the 1.5 million residents, 80 the Christian community and Anglican and elderly. percent of whom are unemployed. institutions such as St. Luke’s Hospital Williams and Dawani visited Al Ahli Williams “urged a greater aware- in Nablus to the whole of the Palestin- Arab Hospital in Gaza on Feb. 23 while ness of the humanitarian (to page 22)

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American Anglican Council President David Anderson, a former Episcopal priest, said that he was pleased with the ENGLAND REJECTS FULL outcome, although he and other ACNA members had hoped Ashworth’s motion COMMUNION WITH ACNA would carry. The AAC is a founding mem- ber of ACNA. The Rev. Colin Coward, By Matthew Davies director of Changing Attitude, a U.K.- based LGBT advocacy group, said that THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND has said the process of reception with groups Hill’s amendment “kicks ACNA’s desire for it recognizes and affirms the Anglican like ACNA,” said Hill, a member of the recognition into the long grass. But it did Church in North America’s desire to Anglican Consultative Council, the commit to something that is generous in remain in the Anglican family but that it is communion’s main policy-making body. recognizing their desires, but understand- not ready to be in full communion with the Passing the motion didn’t resolve all ing that more needs to be done.” breakaway entity. the issues, he added. “It leaves the doors The ACNA is composed of individuals Amended legislation passed Feb. 10 open but makes it clear that the church and groups that left the Episcopal Church by General Synod, the Church of has to deal with these matters with due and the Anglican Church of Canada, as England’s main governing body, said process and not in an ad hoc way.” well as those who never belonged to that ACNA’s desire required further Hill’s amendment also invites the arch- those provinces. exploration by the “relevant authorities” bishops of Canterbury and York to report in the Anglican Communion. further to the synod in 2011. The debate was charitable, said Dio- The original motion submitted by Lorna CANTERBURY, FROM PAGE 21 cese of Bristol Bishop Michael Hill, who Ashworth of Chichester had called on crisis and isolation which had ensued, to proposed the amendment. the synod to “express the desire that the ensure that the people of Gaza were not “While it leaned towards issues of Church of England be in communion with forgotten,” the Lambeth release said. human sexuality, the real issue is about the Anglican Church in North America.” Williams pledged the continuing prayers and support of the Anglican Communion and his personal support and prayers for “peace and for justice for all the people of the region,” it said. Williams also met with the three most senior heads of churches in Jerusalem and, along with Dawani and Jackson, led the Anglican delegation in the fourth meeting of a dialogue with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Williams and Dawani also were received by King Abdullah II of Jordan at the culmination of a two-day visit to the kingdom. In the presence of more than 750 Anglican parishioners, mainly from Amman, Williams blessed the foundation Visit empowers Liberian girls stone of the Great Church of St. John Bromley Episcopal Mission School Principal Maureen Johnson Hutchinson, Presiding the Baptist to be built at the site of Jesus’ Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Hutchinson’s grandson and Liberia Bishop Jonathan B.B. Hart tour Bromley’s campus during Jefferts Schori’s January visit to Liberia. The visit marked baptism by John the Baptist in the River the first time she was the official guest of an African church. Photo/Lynette Wilson Jordan on land donated by King Abdullah.

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