News Around the Church

Wonderful news! An Anonymous Donor has contacted EYMC (Episcopal Youth Music Camp) with the offer to contribute up to $5,000 in matching funds. [Read more...]

Hope As Old As Fire, the new book by the Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, a bishop in the Episcopal Church, is now available. This book is a collection of meditations, but in reality, it is much more than that. It is a spiritual journey. [Read more...]

Dwight Zscheile’s new book People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity just came out (Church Publishing). It’s written for a wide audience, and to be used in church discussion groups. You can learn more about the book and buy it here.

The 77th meeting of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention is being asked to sift and winnow a variety of answers to the question of what to do about the Episcopal Church’s structure that, as one group says, it “no longer needs, nor can it afford.” [Read more...]

The Episcopal Church Finance Office has updated major sections and chapters of the Manual of Business Methods in Church Affairs, available for downloading at no charge at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/manual-business-methods [Read more...]

The Episcopal Church will join with other religious voices in repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery at the 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) beginning on Monday, May 7 through Friday, May 18. [Read more...]

Episcopal Community Services (ECS) received a $5,000 grant from Bloomington Connects earlier this month to create a beautiful garden at Blooming Glen Townhomes.  The gardening project officially kicked off on Wednesday, April 25^th with the dedicated planning of ECS staff, Mary Schatzlein and Lona Hendricks, and the expertise of and guidance from Jim Bizal.  [Read more...]