ST. PETER’S PARISH, FERNANDINA

A Pastoral Letter from the Bishop of Florida
to be read in all congregations of the diocese
at each worship service on
Sunday, June 25, 2006

My dear friends in Christ:

As I reflect on the past two weeks of our General Convention in Columbus, there are a number of issues important to our life together which I want to share with you. I want to share our success in adopting the Millennium Development Goals as a wider church. Eradication of poverty, illiteracy, and terrible diseases in our lifetime is now closer than two weeks ago thanks to the actions of General Convention. I want you to know of the resolution passed in substantially moving The Episcopal Church toward full communion with The United Methodist Church. Jesus so frequently prayed that we “should all be one.” This week we are a little bit closer to the fullness Jesus yearns for us. I also want you to know we adopted a $150 million budget, most of which is going for outreach and mission to a world sorely in need of the saving Good News of Jesus Christ.
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June 19, 2006

The 75th General Convention in Columbus is now more than half-way past and I wanted to take this opportunity to offer a few reflections on our work here.
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St. Peter’s Church - May 8, 2006

Fr. George Young opened the meeting at 6:05 p.m. Present: The Rev. Lisa Flores, Toby Atkinson, Cheryl Smith, Cathy Kaltenbach, Ginger Mock, Lynn Grant, Bill Dickson, Neil Frink, Francis Flood. Neil Blalock, Early McCall, John Dyal and Ben Stephens were absent.

Following Toby Atkinson’s “centering” meditation, Cathy Kaltenbach shared spriritual reflections.

NEXT MEETING: June 5, 2006 @ 6 pm; Devotional: Neil Frink
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