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IdeaStreamTracey Lind’s Spiritual Quest To Capture ‘Eroded Beauty’ – Her attraction to images of “eroded beauty” came during her previous post as rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Lancaster OnlineHow St. John’s Episcopal is helping students and parents with virtual learning – Monday morning at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster, school children are busy doing online classwork
The Brandon Western World‘Childcare desert’: Coos Bay preschool access remains limited despite new spots – The preschool at the Emanuel Episcopal Church has seen a “death and resurrection” in 2020, according to the Rev. Patti Hale, the Parish’s priest-in-charge.

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Tracey Lind’s Spiritual Quest To Capture ‘Eroded Beauty’

IdeaStream – Northeast Ohio

A new photo exhibition, “Eroded Beauty,” features images of battered buildings with flaking paint and broken concrete. These pictures of deterioration have a deeper spiritual meaning for photographer Rev. Tracey Lind. She served at Cleveland’s Trinity Episcopal Church for nearly two decades before stepping down four years ago due to a diagnosis of early-onset dementia. In a recent conversation, she discussed the connections between her life and her photography.

 How St. John’s Episcopal is helping students and parents with virtual learning

Lancaster Online – Lancaster, PA

On a Monday morning at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster, school children are busy doing online classwork and enjoying lunch in the church meeting hall.

Not far away, their school, Fulton Elementary School, is operating virtually. When the 2020-21 school year opened in September, the School District of Lancaster decided that classes would be held remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“That meant that Fulton students would be learning at home,” says the Rev. Amanda Knouse, rector of St. John’s, at 321 W. Chestnut St.

‘Childcare desert’: Coos Bay preschool access remains limited despite new spots

The Brandon Western World – Coquille, OR

SOUTH COAST — The preschool at the Emanuel Episcopal Church has seen a “death and resurrection” in 2020, according to the Rev. Patti Hale, the Parish’s priest-in-charge.

“It’s not what we were imagining, but we’re thrilled,” Hale said. “2020 is not how any of us imagined it would be.”

The preschool at Hale’s church operated for 18 years, serving as many as 42 students a year with early learning programs. But during the pandemic, church leadership realized that unemployment expenses made the preschool too financially unstable to continue.

Parishioners mourned the loss of the preschool — but new state funding and a partnership with the Coos Bay School District has given the school a chance to stay open in a different form.