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Diocesan mission continues with two Gulf Coast
parishes hit by Hurricane Katrina last August. Last
month, 13 young people and six adults from the
Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, St.
Stephen’s Church in Boston, St. Stephen’s Church in
Cohasset and St. James's Church in Cambridge spent
four
days assisting one family and clearing the church site
at the Church of the Redeemer in Biloxi, Miss., (its
historic church building was washed away by the
hurricane) and two days at Trinity Church in New
Orleans.
View a video clip of
the trip. (To start the video, remember to click the
small arrowhead located on the left side of the
control bar, which will appear in the center of your
screen.)
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Meeting in General Synod last week, the Church of
England voted to affirm women bishops—in principle.
Read
more...
In his address to General Synod, Archbishop of
Canterbury Rowan Williams made further comment
on “unanswered questions” regarding the Episcopal
Church’s place in the Anglican Communion following
decisions of last month’s General Convention and
subsequent requests from several U.S. dioceses for
alternative pastoral oversight. Read Archbishop
Williams’ full address.
 [ENS] A CBS Nightly News profile of
Presiding Bishop-
elect Katharine Jefferts Schori is scheduled to air
nationwide during the 6pm newscast on Sunday, July
16, unless pre-empted by breaking news. Clergy and
lay leaders may wish to make this announcement in
congregations during July 16 Sunday services.Follow-up coverage, photos, resources and news
from the General Convention are available at www.episcopalchurch.org/gc2006news and www.diomass.org.
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On Saturday, June 24 more than 100 people from 22
parishes in four deaneries braved the rain to walk the
Minuteman Bikeway to raise money for AIDS relief in
Africa. The walk teams and their sponsors raised
more than $20,000 for diocesan-supported home-
based health care and orphan feeding programs in
Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. At the close of the
walk Bishop Tom Shaw and the Rev. Maggie Geller led
a worship program at the Church of Our Redeemer in
Lexington. Donations are still being accepted via
www.junejubilee.org. And, the
organizers can’t wait
to get walking again: they’ve already set the date
for next year, so mark your calendars for June 23,
2007.
Thank you to Bob Filmore and David Miller for this
photo.
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