Sustainability and stewardship are topics circulating with renewed vigor in the Diocese of Missouri.
On Saturday, March 20, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm, at Christ Church Cathedral, attend the Global Warming Cafe: from Conversation to Action. We know that global warming is a dangerous reality, one that will increasingly touch our lives, those of our children and grandchildren, and many of the poorest people on our planet. Serious consequences can already be seen in the form of floods, heat waves, more violent storms and the rise of sea levels. World Cafe is a wonderfully facilitated conversation. (Your editor has a good deal of experience with the conversation cafe movement, and when we were planning the first meeting of the online Episcopal School for Ministry book club mentioned this conversation style to Fr. Rod Wiltse, book club facilitator. Father Rod exclaimed, “Oh, Lectio Divina!”) (more…)
Veronica Kyle, Congregational Outreach for Chicago-based Faith in Place, spoke this past Friday to the Province V gathering at the annual ENEJ (Episcopal Network for Economic Justice) conference. Faith in Place has partnered with over 500 congregations in Illinois—Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Zoroastrian, Baha’i and Unitarian—to promote clean energy & sustainable farming. They’re also part of the national Interfaith Power & Light campaign. Bullet points from the presentation:
We need to merge our efforts to bridge the ecological divide and to bridge the economic divide. Our job should be to educate everyone about issues of sustainability.
The faith community needs to be involved in the conversation about the green economy.
We often think about the secular green organizations, the Sierra Clubs. How can we connect our faith to thinking green? Can we make changing light bulbs and recycling an expression of our gratitude to God? (more…)
One of the duties of the Standing Committee is to consent to the election of bishops in the larger Episcopal Church. This may seem simple, and it often is. Other times, the conversation is more complex. (more…)
A Lenten Gift from St. Martin’s-Ellisville. This year forty-three parishioners contributed to a collection of 46 meditations. The daily readings cover the 40 days – as well as the six Sundays — of the Lenten season. Mary Drastal contributed the original cover image; Ruby Downs and Janet Theiss produced the books in the church office. (more…)
This year, Ashes to Go will be available at the corner of Grand & Arsenal in south St. Louis City from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Ashes-to-Go is an ecumenical, short, Ash Wednesday service with imposition of ashes held on the corner of Grand and Arsenal streets in St. Louis. Now in its fourth year, clergy and laity from St. John’s Episcopal Church-Tower Grove participate. “South Grand neighborhood in the City of St. Louis is a perfect place to bring church to the streets,” says the Rev. Teresa Danieley, rector at St. John’s-Tower Grove. (more…)
St John-TG St. John's Episcopal Church, 3664 Arsenal St., St. Louis, MO 63116, ph 314-772-3970, www.towergrovechurch.org
Hymn Sing for Haiti
4:00 pm., Sunday, February 28, 2010
Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust, St. Louis. Download a flyer
Even before the earthquake, visitors to Haiti had hearts touched hearing hymns sung by the faithful. Now, amid rubble and uncertainty, hymns continue to waft over the tent cities and places of refuge; a people’s response of prayer and determination.
Photos from Episcopal News Service. Cathedral in Nov. 2008, and Haiti’s Bishop Jean Duracin and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, Feb 8, 2010, in front of the cathedral ruins.
The Diocese of Haiti is the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church, and she has lost a cathedral, a convent, schools that educated 80,000 children, colleges, and churches; she has lost parishioners. But the people of Haiti have not lost faith. (more…)
Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103, ph 314-231-3454, www.christchurchcathedral.us
Sunday, February 14, Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 North Mulanix St. in Kirksville, is having a Haitian Kanaval Dinner to raise money for the earthquake victims in Haiti and to mark the beginning of Lent.
“Haitians celebrate three fat days, trois joursgras, or Kanaval, and so will we,” said Scott Alberts, Trinity choir director and the dinner’s organizer. “They go from Mass until Wednesday morning nonstop, so our custom of a Sunday party is perfect. We don’t just want to help Haiti, we want to celebrate Haiti.” (more…)
Trinity-Kirksville Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 N. Mulanix, Kirksville, MO 63501, ph 660-665-6155, www.trinitykirksville.org
Saturday, March 6, 2010,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Registration begins at 8:30)
St. Martin’s, Ellisville.
This year’s annual Leadership Conference for clergy and lay members of the diocese is devoted to Public Narrative; how we effectively, succinctly, and engagingly tell our story.
Keynote and lead presenter will be the Rev. Devon Anderson. In addition to her work as executive director of Episcopalians for Global Reconcilliation, Anderson was the project manager for the Episcopal Public Narrative Project. (more…)
In earthquake-stricken Haiti, an Episcopal bishop is providing relief to as many survivors as he can while they wait for the arrival of official aid. Jean Zache Duracin speaks with WSJ’s Charles Forelle on how he’s trying to help.
Main Haiti information page at Episcopal Relief & Development, including a letter from Bishop Duracin and the Rev. Lauren Stanley, TEC missioner to Haiti.
From 9 am to 5 pm today, the national holiday to celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., you are let the words and images of MLK flow through you in the sacred space of Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust in the city of St. Louis. Provost Mike Kinman began the day’s reading this morning. Readers signed up to cover half hours throughout the day.
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A Lenten Gift from St. Martin’s-Ellisville. This year forty-three parishioners contributed to a collection of 46 meditations. The daily readings cover the 40 days – as well as the six Sundays — of the Lenten season. Mary Drastal contributed the original cover image; Ruby Downs and Janet Theiss produced the books in the church office. 
Sunday, February 14, Trinity Episcopal Church, 124 North Mulanix St. in Kirksville, is having a Haitian Kanaval Dinner to raise money for the earthquake victims in Haiti and to mark the beginning of Lent.
Saturday, March 6, 2010,
