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Bishop Travels to Companion Diocese in Curitiba, Brazil an edition of THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CHURCH THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA June 2008 PACIFICNEWS VOL. 19 No. 6 Bishop travels to companion diocese in Curitiba, Brazil By Sean T. McConnell n March 31, 2008, Bishop Marc and Sheila Andrus arrived in OCuritiba, Brazil, as guests of the Anglican Diocese of Curitiba— companion to the Diocese of California —and their bishop the Rt. Rev. Naudal Alves Gomes. It was a brief visit, a portion of which Bishop Marc spent at the Special Convention held May 10 meeting of the House of Bishops of the Province of Brazil, but the impressions Adopts Beloved Community vision and canon changes; made by the people and sites of Curitiba Charleston named ethnic and multicultural missioner on the Andruses were deep and lasting. At California’s annual convention and assistant bishop in October of 2007, the diocese By Monica Burden including a comprehensive governance overwhelmingly approved a resolution n May 10, 2008, the Diocese review and entering into a companion to enter into a companion relationship of California met at Grace diocese relationship with the Diocese with the Diocese of Curitiba. The two OCathedral in San Francisco of Curitiba in the Province of Brazil. dioceses will enter a mission partnership, in special convention to consider the The bishop then identified five areas for and Andrus has recommended that this results of the Beloved Community the diocese to focus on over the next partnership be viewed through the lens Visioning Process and to discuss and five years: embodied justice, church of the Millennium Development Goals vote on proposed changes to the canons. vitality, rooted spirituality, organizational (MDGs). Both Curitiba and California The special convention voted on three development, and inclusive community. are forming diocesan committees to resolutions and three amendments to the “This is a beautiful vibrant coordinate and deepen the relationship The Rt. Rev. Naudal proposed canon changes. At the end of vision,” said the bishop. “It paints and to begin to tell their stories, one to the the meeting, the Rt. Rev. Marc Handley a picture of a Beloved Community, other, within the framework of the MDGs. Alves Gomes, bishop Andrus introduced the Rt. Rev. Steven one that we recognize as being both of the Diocese of Charleston, current president and dean ourselves as we currently are, loved 4Curitiba: Page 6 Curitiba, Brazil. of Episcopal Divinity School, as the by God, and also a community yet to new ethnic and multicultural missioner be, our home in the fullness of our and assistant bishop for the diocese. call to be the Body of Christ.” The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus attended the meeting of After opening the meeting with Andrus continued by calling for the House of Bishops of the Province of Brazil in April. Sheila prayer and a hymn, Andrus delivered an this vision to be implemented broadly address reporting on the outcomes of the through Area Ministry, the model of Andrus accompanied him on the trip to visit the Diocese of Beloved Community visioning process. shared ministry being pioneered in the California’s companion diocese, the Diocese of Curitiba. The process began with a diocesan- Diocese of California. Area Ministry wide meeting at Grace Cathedral on teams will be developed in emergent May 5, 2007, and continued with four regions of the diocese with support regional meetings. These five events of diocesan staff and using formation enabled the diocese to come together resources developed in collaboration with as a community and envision what the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. future of the diocese might look like. Additional support will be used to create More than 800 people participated in intentional communities to provide low- the process, both in person and online. cost housing for young adults who will Andrus began his address by commit to service within area ministries. describing a number of actions taken “A life-giving shift in the by the diocese in the past year toward flow of energy into mission rather becoming the Beloved Community, 4Convention: Page 2 Also in this issue: Praying in Iran Pages 4-5 Ararat Armenian Tehran fruit stand The Jamkaran Mosque The mountains of Tehran Cultural Center The liberating power of love him” too well (meaning not really at all)— long winter march. Our hero said that he Deputies comment on covenant he can do very little there in his mission. had two great friends, both of whom lifted I thought about this negative power, his spirits when he completely despaired, By Vanessa Glass and how debilitating it is in our lives, even of the presence of God. Where did n May 15, the Diocese of how we are held back and bound by his friends get the strength themselves California’s elected deputation others’ narrowing, limiting images to lift their friends low-burning spirits? Oto General Convention met of us, and how we return the favor This is what happened to one of to respond to the request of Bonnie to them or pass the negativity on. them, “We were marching through a city, Anderson of the House of Deputies Destructive as this negative binding the guards were separating us prisoners to comment on the latest version power is, we must believe that the from the passersby. There were three nuns (St. Andrew’s Draft) of a proposed liberating power of love is greater. I walking by, and when they saw us, one of covenant for the Anglican Communion. remembered an exhibit Sheila and I them pushed her way past the guards and President Anderson seeks input from saw at the Yerba Buena Center a couple came up to one of my friends. She took his all deputations, to give those bishops of months ago, called “The Missing hands, and looking him in the eyes spoke allowed to attend this summer’s Lambeth Peace;” 80 artists from around the rapidly and urgently to him. My friend Conference the mind of the clerical and world focusing on the meaning of the understood not one word she was saying, lay leaders of The Episcopal Church. Dalai Lama, what he symbolizes to but when she let go of his hands and then A covenant is a statement of common the artists and to millions of people. cupped her hands together before him, beliefs, which in this instance includes As we were looking at the exhibit, he understood her message, ‘We are all a means of enforcing compliance. Sheila remarked to me, “Think about in God’s hands.’” It was this message of While a more detailed statement is how if a whole community believed hope and love that lifted our hero’s friend being prepared by the deputation that any child carried divine capacity up, and allowed him to give comfort and our initial comments follow: for leadership, what could be unlocked support to one who had lost all hope. y We affirm that The Episcopal within that child, abilities that God We are each given opportunities Church is a credal church, n Saturday, May 19, I confirmed, created there, but given room by the to be the messengers of God’s love in not a confessional one. received and heard the positive expectations of the community.” another’s life each day. God is seeking y The proposed covenant is Oreaffirmation of baptismal vows And that put me in mind of a story to give you this same message of love, discordant with the polity of of 109 people at Grace Cathedral -- people told to me by a World War II veteran through other human lives and through The Episcopal Church. coming from congregations all over the who is an active member at St. Paul’s, all that God has made. I hope we can y The language of the covenant Diocese of California, and including Walnut Creek. He was a flyer, operating remember that such love takes in, is culturally conditioned so as a group from the cathedral itself. out of England. Shot down, he was taken comprehends, and transforms even the to invite interpretations that The Gospel text for the service was prisoner in Germany. It was near the end most limiting boundaries that seek to are potentially divisive. from Luke, and describes Jesus going of the war, and the Germans decided to hem in and distort the creatures of God. y The proposed covenant intends to his hometown of Nazareth near the move the prisoners in the bitter winter. to bind the communion together. beginning of his ministry. He has been What was supposed to be a three-day We see it as a means to change the moving about the region, healing and walk turned into an eighty-six day nature of Anglicanism which would teaching, and being recognized as a person nightmare as the Germans were more ultimately result in the exclusion who has the authority of God with him. and more harassed by the Russians. The Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus of The Episcopal Church from But in Nazareth Jesus is hampered by To support one another, each prisoner Bishop the Anglican Communion. the negative regard of people who “know of war bonded with a companion on the 4Convention: From page 1 create a new Executive Council that would procedures for transitioning to the as a leading advocate for justice issues be the board of directors and council of new governance structure passed and spiritual renewal in the church. than maintenance is the heart of the Diocesan Corporation. Other proposed by unanimous voice vote. Another In what he called “a refreshing Area Ministry,” said Andrus. changes to the canons seek to make resolution, establishing a task force to spirit-filled moment,” Charleston spoke Following his address, the bishop governance of the diocese transparent and examine the mission, scope, purpose, briefly to the special convention, saying asked participants to discuss the report accountable, in keeping with the vision and structure of the deaneries and make “I’m coming here full of enthusiasm with their neighbors and to respond in of the Beloved Community.
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