From Bishop Sean: The Listening Has Just Begun

by | Mar 11, 2015 | Bishop Sean

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ: Two weeks ago, the diocese issued the report of an independent consultant who had conducted a “listening process” that the Standing Commission had initiated as the 17-year episcopacy of Bishop Paul Marshall came to an end.  The...

Praying for Miracles, Working for Results

by | Mar 5, 2015 | Kajo Keji

“One prays for miracles but works for results,” said Augustine. During our January trip to Kajo Keji we saw both. The miracles of New Hope: that we would raise $4,000,000, build six schools, a college and that there would be a sustained period of peace in Kajo Keji....

Listening Report Released

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized

Last spring, the diocese asked the Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Johnson of the Episcopal Moment consulting firm to conduct a “listening process” as the 17-year episcopacy of Bishop Paul Marshall came to an end. In a letter to the diocese in July, the Standing Committee described...

Standing on Holy Ground at Church of the Mediator

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Uncategorized

Last November, a member of our new neighborhood choir, a soft-spoken girl of about nine, stood next to me as we looked at the small altar of remembrance in the entry of Church of the Mediator in Allentown, where I am the missioner. Parishioners had been invited to...