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CHURCH THE MAGAZINE OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF OHIO WINTERe 2016 SPECIAL BICENTENNIAL EDITION CHURCH THE MAGAZINE OF THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF OHIO THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WINTER 2016 • VOL. 120 NO. 4 IN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION A global community of over 80 million members in 44 regional and national member churches. The Most Rev. Justin Welby e Archbishop of Canterbury IN THE UNITED STATES A community of more than 2 million members in 110 dioceses in the Americas and abroad. CONTENTS Established 1789. The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry 4 200th DIOCESAN CONVENTION Presiding Bishop The Bishop's Episcopal Address IN THE DIOCESE OF OHIO ELECTION RESULTS A community of 16,000 baptized members in 86 9 parishes in the northern 48 counties of the State of Ohio. Established 1817. 9 PARISHES CELEBRATING BICENTENNIALS Four parishes also celebrating 200 years BISHOP OF OHIO The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr. 10 BICENTENNIAL TIMELINES 200 years in the life of The Diocese of Ohio CHURCH LIFE MAGAZINE E-mail: [email protected] WHAT'S YOUR 200? The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., Publisher 34 Committing to a new century serving God's mission Jessica Rocha, Editor & Designer Rita Rozell, Assistant Designer 35 BE ALERT. BE AWAKE. BE AWARE ©Church Life! Magazine (ISSN 8750-8613) Youth spend a weekend looking beyond the exterior Published four times per year in March, June, September, and December 36 BELLWETHER FARM GROUNDBREAKING by The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio The groundbreaking and naming ceremony for our new camp and retreat center 2230 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44115-2499 38 SNAPSHOTS Stories of inspiration & ministry from around the diocese Postmaster: Send change of address to Church Life! Magazine HOW WILL WE MEASURE OUR YEAR? 2230 Euclid Avenue 40 Cleveland, OH 44115 A season of giving Periodicals postage paid at Cleveland, OH 41 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS and at additional mailing offices. Testimonies from parishioners and attendees Member of the Episcopal Communicators. 42 ECW NEWS AND NOTES IMPORTANT All households of the Diocese of Ohio should 43 DIOCESAN CALENDAR, BISHOPS' VISITATIONS, AND CLERGY CHANGES receive Church Life! Magazine. If you are not currently receiving it, or if you need to change your delivery address, please contact the Communications office with your name, address, and parish. Phone: 216.774.0459 Cover photo by: Shelley Magyar E-mail: [email protected] A New Church Year The Rt. Rev. Mark Hollingsworth, Jr. and a New Century as Bishop of Ohio the Diocese of Ohio It is a fortuitous safe place in our souls where coincidence that we we welcome the Christ who begin the Diocese comes often as the stranger, the of Ohio’s yearlong other, to make us more whole bicentennial and more holy. In Advent, we commemoration at the are particularly attentive to start of a new church our Christian vocation to make the world a safer place for all of year. The season of God’s beloved. Advent provides us with a spiritual focus Since Election Day, some people have been wearing safety pins and discipline that will to signify their desire to provide a safe place for those feeling serve us well as we look at renewed risk or insecure. The practice began in the United toward the future that Kingdom last June following the “Brexit” vote, when Great God dreams for us as Britain found itself similarly a diocese. It invites a divided and some of its more posture of expectation vulnerable communities as we anticipate feeling threatened. A safety how Christ will be pin on one’s lapel or sweater born anew in the third century of our diocesan life together. or blouse states a willingness Recalling our history and taking stock of our present, we make to listen, to provide a safe ourselves available to what is yet to be, to the next chapter of our context for another’s sharing, engagement in God’s mission, and to our role, as the body of regardless of that person’s Christ, in bringing heaven to earth in northern Ohio. perspective or concern. In this season of new possibility, we prepare for Christ to be born Perhaps a fitting sign of our again in each of us – in our hearts, our minds, our ministries, commitment to providing a and our lives. Advent calls us to provide a safe place, like the safe place for the vulnerable, one provided in the the anxious, and the fearful stable in Bethlehem – and for the infant Christ two millennia ago, for to be born again in our midst – would be a safety pin through the spirit of Christ to the front of our church. It might be a sign to those around us be renewed within each that there is room for them by the manger, no matter who they of us. A safe place in an are, room for them to draw near to the incarnate love of God uncertain and fearful in Christ. As well, it might remind us of our responsibility to world. A safe place in our make each of God’s children safe, not by compromising one’s politically and socially own convictions or the other’s, but making room by listening polarized nation. A safe and seeking to understand who they are and by what star they place in which we can got here. embrace hard realities about the life we share, safe enough for us to With every Advent blessing, confront truths about our own lives that may warrant repentance. A WWW.DOHIO.ORG I 3 200th Diocesan Convention The Bishop's Episcopal Address Sisters and brothers in Christ, Our two provinces have been companions as well in responding to social issues in our respective ministry contexts, facing many Good evening. It is wonderful to be gathered together on of the same difficult challenges both within our individual the campus of Bowling Green State University for our 200th ecclesial structures and in relationship with other provinces of Diocesan Convention. I thank you and I thank God for your the Anglican Communion. These common struggles that have presence and commitment to our shared vocation as servants of shaped us as contemporary Christians have also deepened the God’s mission in our congregations and Mission Areas, as The bonds of affection that were forged more than two and a quarter Diocese of Ohio and The Episcopal Church, and with our sibling centuries ago. Bishop Chillingworth and our own President provinces of the Anglican Communion around the world. Your of the House of Deputies, companionship is a continued blessing and your fidelity to the Gay Jennings, have served church is an inspiration. together on the Anglican As we begin the Diocese of Ohio’s bicentennial year, we are privileged and grateful to have with us Mrs. Alison Chillingworth and the Most Rev. David Chillingworth, Bishop of St. Andrews, Consultative Council, one of the “instruments of unity” of the Dunkeld and Dunblane, and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Anglican Communion, which has provided them with a warm Church. While my friendship with the Chillingworths is fairly collegial relationship and affection. We will all join with them recent, facilitated by having two of our children go to college in tomorrow morning for a plenary discussion with Convention their diocese, my sense of relationship feels long and deep. delegates about the role of Episcopal churches like ours in meeting the particular challenges of our time. As was commemorated in our worship this evening, the first Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Samuel Seabury, was ordained Alison and David, thank you for going to the extreme effort of to the episcopacy in Aberdeen on November 14, 1784. English traveling to be with us at this important moment in the life of our bishops were unable to ordain anyone who could not swear diocese. We are very grateful. As an expression of that gratitude allegiance to the crown, but bishops of the Scottish church were and affection, I have a couple of gifts I’d like to present to you. not so constrained, as a result of their predecessors’ break from (Honey from Bellwether Farm; Sailor’s Cross scarf and necktie.) William and Mary following the deposition of James II. Because Seabury’s ordaining bishops were the Bishop and Bishop The 200th anniversary of the Diocese is, by the standards of Coadjutor of Aberdeen and the Bishop of Ross and Caithness, our church and country’s history, a significant mark. As the the apostolic succession of bishops in the America church was first diocese of The Episcopal Church established beyond the established. As part of this early companionship between our two thirteen colonies, the Diocese of Ohio was at the forefront of the churches, The Episcopal Church modeled its Eucharistic Prayer growth of our church. Following the early settlers who traveled on that of the Scottish Episcopal Church, which continues to west, principally from Connecticut, Jackson Kemper, Joseph inform our Eucharistic worship to this day. Doddridge, Roger Searle, and Philander Chase were among 4 I CHURCH LIFE WINTER 2016 those itinerant clergy who came to Ohio in its first two decades, of BEST, the network of Bishops’ Executive Assistants (Bishops’ assisting congregations of faithful Christians in forming parishes Executive Secretaries Together). Brad Purdom serves on the that together would become, in 1817, the Episcopal Diocese of Task Force on Clergy Leadership in Small Congregations. Percy Ohio. Some of you here tonight represent those first Episcopal Grant writes curriculum for CREDO, and Sarah Shofstall, Betsey parishes established before there was a diocese – St. James Bell, Elizabeth Moosbrugger, Amy Speidel, Sally Bear, Denny Boardman, St.