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Bishop Kevin’s 2023 Holy Week Message
Bishop Kevin shares his 2023 Holy Week message from his 2023 sabbatical. How might you be entombed? How might we confront the structures of injustice that keep the most vulnerable among us from knowing the fullness of the Beloved Community? This week Jesus reminds us...
Pastoral Letter from Bishop Kevin
Ash Wednesday, 2023 Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth: grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life; through Jesus...
Bishop Kevin’s 2023 Sabbatical
Bishop Kevin shares details about his 2023 Sabbatical in this video. https://youtu.be/1X3NZXt-_-U
Expanded Partnership with New Bethany Ministries
The Diocese of Bethlehem’s partnership with New Bethany Ministries has recently expanded through the sharing of unused living and working spaces in Diocesan House. New Bethany Ministries was founded in 1985 as an interfaith ministry to relieve poverty within Southside...
“Straight Talk About Parish Finances” Online Webinar
Join our upcoming online webinar on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with finance and audit professionals from across the diocese to answer your most vexing concerns about parish financial management. During this session, we hope to provide...
Reunification Discernment Committee Named
Bishop Kevin, working with the Standing Committee and Diocesan Council, recently shared the Diocese of Bethlehem members that will join the Reunification Discernment Committee as set out in the 2022 Diocesan Convention Resolution #5. The. Rev. Rodney Conn – Cathedral...
Clergy Transitions
Bishop Kevin announces the following Clergy transitions in the Diocese of Bethlehem. In sharing this news, he spoke of the extraordinary Pentecost Dawns moment that is before us as we welcome over 20 Clergy leaders serving in new calls across...
Lambeth Conference – God’s Church for God’s World
On July 26, Bishop Kevin D. Nichols will be joining other bishops within the Anglican Communion at the Fifteenth Lambeth Conference in Canterbury. This gathering which occurs every 10 years provides a space for bishops to confer and express their collegiality, as well...
A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Kevin
Pentecost 2021 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Acts 2:1 Pentecost dawns. That moment when God’s Spirit is so ever-present and transformative that the only option for...
Save the Date: Convocation Meetings
We are excited to invite you to a Convocation meeting with Bishop Kevin to hear about upcoming efforts to enhance the mission and ministry of the Diocese of Bethlehem during the next five years. Bishop Kevin will discuss our Five Priorities, the goals of Convocations,...
Good Friday Crosses
https://vimeo.com/532369399 Good Friday Message- Bishop Kevin Nichols Like our young Artists we enter the story of Christ’s Passion and death. We bring the tapestry of our own lives... Our joys and our burdens? What have these last few months or this past year...
A Statement from Bishop Kevin
January 7, 2021 Dear beloved of the Diocese of Bethlehem, Even there your hand will lead me and your right hand hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me, and the light around me turn to night,” Darkness is not dark to you;...