Episcopal Life Online Newslink October 29, 2007
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife.
Today's ELO Newslink includes:
* TOP STORY - South Carolina Bishop-elect Mark Lawrence receives necessary consents * TOP STORY - Executive Council reviews mainline mission, membership trends * DIOCESAN DIGEST - FOND DU LAC: Diocesan convention celebrates ecumenism * WORLD REPORT - ENGLAND: Archbishop of York awarded 'Yorkshire Man of the Year' award * FEATURE - Recipe for success: Kansas City culinary program helps change lives
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TOP STORIES
South Carolina Bishop-elect Mark Lawrence receives necessary consents
By Mary Frances Schjonberg
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced October 29 that the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence had received the consents needed for him to become the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
The consecration will be held January 26, 2008 at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jefferts Schori has been invited to visit the diocese February 25-26, 2008. "This will give us an opportunity to state with clarity and charity the theological position of this diocese in a manner similar to when we met with [the] Most. Rev. Frank T. Griswold shortly after his installation as presiding bishop," the diocese says in a statement on its website.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91401_ENG_HTM.htm
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Executive Council reviews mainline mission, membership trends Areas of vitality, challenge noted in current statistics
[Episcopal News Service] Latino and Asian populations are among the fastest-growing in North America, and should become greater priorities for Episcopal Church evangelism, members of Executive Council said October 27 while reviewing church membership and attendance statistics for the year 2006.
Overall U.S. Latino/Hispanic population is projected to grow by 34%, and Asian by 33%, in the decade 2000-2010, compared with 13% Black, 7% White, and 3% White, non-Hispanic, according to statistics presented by Kirk Hadaway, the Episcopal Church's director of research.
Multicultural mission is essential in these contexts, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the Council, gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, for its regular fall meeting.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91421_ENG_HTM.htm
More Top Stories: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife
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DIOCESAN DIGEST
FOND DU LAC: Diocesan convention celebrates ecumenism http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_91419_ENG_HTM.htm
More Diocesan news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_ENG_HTM.htm
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WORLD REPORT
ENGLAND: Archbishop of York awarded 'Yorkshire Man of the Year' award http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_91417_ENG_HTM.htm
More World news: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81808_ENG_HTM.htm
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FEATURES
Recipe for success: Kansas City culinary program helps change lives
By Melodie Woerman
[Episcopal Life] Culinary cornerstones looks a lot like other cooking schools. In 12 weeks, a trained chef teaches the basics of classic French cuisine -- everything from the ingredients in hollandaise sauce to how to braise lamb shanks.
Students wear standard cook's garb of double-breasted white coats and black-and-white checked pants, and they never set foot in the kitchen without a tall paper chef's hat. They learn the proper techniques for chopping and slicing and keep an instant-read thermometer handy to check for correct food temperatures.
But Culinary Cornerstones isn't like other cooking schools. It's operated by Episcopal Community Services in Kansas City, is housed in the Community Kitchen at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral and recruits students other programs never would consider -- people who have done time in prison or been homeless or suffer from significant emotional illness.
Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_91410_ENG_HTM.htm
More Features: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/78936_ENG_HTM.htm