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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Thursday, June 2, 2005

Episcopal News Service: Diocesan Digest

* LEXINGTON -- Berea College to host Episcopal Youth Event
* MASSACHUSETTS -- Diocese celebrates increased access to affordable
housing
* OREGON -- Diocese to host convocation, synod July 17-21
* SOUTHWEST FLORIDA -- Standing Committee to suggest coadjutor election
in
December 2006

LEXINGTON -- Berea College to host Episcopal Youth Event

[ENS, Source: EYE] -- The 2005 Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) will be held
July
26-31 at Berea College in Kentucky. EYE describes itself as "a
celebration
to inspire our deeper faith in Jesus Christ, and a renewed commitment to
mission and ministry." Designed and led by a team of youth and adults
who
represent the rich diversity of the Episcopal Church, EYE invites each
diocese to send a delegation to participate fully in the creative
worship,
music, program, and recreational opportunities that make this 6-day
experience life-changing.

Further information: http://www.eye2005.org

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MASSACHUSETTS -- Diocese celebrates increased access to affordable
housing

[ENS, Source: Diocese of Massachusetts] -- Low-income elders in Boston's
Fenway neighborhood now have increased access to affordable housing,
thanks
to the newly completed $10-million expansion to Episcopal City Mission's
Morville House.
	The renovation project added 30 new handicapped-accessible units to
the 12-story building's existing 147 rent-subsidized apartments. And,
bright, airy rooms in the building's new senior center provide space for
fitness activities, arts and crafts and television, with a separate
library
area and rooms for health care services and a hair salon.
	On May 12 Massachusetts bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE gathered with
city and state officials in a windy courtyard for the renovated
building's
grand opening ceremony, while residents looked on from inside.

Full story by Tracy Sukraw:
http://www.diomass.org/diomass/index.cfm?objectID=D6940186-3048-2B1B-C6F08A6
7C651B8DA

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OREGON -- Diocese to host convocation, synod July 17-21

[ENS, Source: Diocese of Los Angeles] -- Province VIII of the Episcopal
Church -- which includes dioceses in California, Oregon, Washington,
Alaska,
Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Navajoland and Taiwan -- will hold
its
convocation and 69th synod July 17-21 at Reed College in Portland,
Oregon.
	A variety of workshops, program ministry network meetings and other
programs will take place during the convocation July 17-19. The synod,
which
will meet July 20-21, will feature a panel of bishops of the Province
who
will discuss the Windsor Report, the subsequent actions of the Primates
of
the Anglican Communion, and the House of Bishops, as well as other
meetings
and programs.

Full details: http://www.provinceviii.org

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SOUTHWEST FLORIDA -- Standing Committee to suggest coadjutor election in
December 2006

[ENS, Source: Diocese of Southwest Florida] -- The Standing Committee of
the
Diocese of Southwest Florida has announced it will recommend that
diocesan
convention set a December 9, 2006, date for the election of a bishop
coadjutor.
	At a meeting May 17, the committee accepted a new timetable proposed
by the Nominating Committee that would delay accepting names of
potential
candidates until June 22, 2006, the day after the Episcopal Church's
General
Convention adjourns.
	The Nominating Committee plans to meet quarterly and continue work
on a diocesan profile which they hope to post on the diocesan web site
by
September, according to co-chair Judy Stark.
	The committee will also develop screening criteria, refine its
interviewing techniques and confer with its paid consultant, the Rev.
David
Segar, canon to the ordinary in the Diocese of Northern Indiana.
	Bishop John Lipscomb called for the election at the 2004 diocesan
convention when he announced his plans to step down in 2009. The
coadjutor
will serve as an assistant bishop until Bishop Lipscomb resigns.

Full story by Jim DeLa:
http://www.dioceseswfla.org/ezine/electiondelay3.htm

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