Summary

Eve – Rev Dr Emily Onyango appointed first woman bishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya – Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) finally appoints a female assistant bishop…

Booth Bay Register – St. Giles Jefferson welcoming new Rector Dana Stivers – The Rev. Dana Stivers is “thrilled to join such a loving and caring community where all are welcome.”

Episcopal News Service – Executive Council reflects on events in Washington, reaffirms church’s reconciliation work – Reactions to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and this week’s inauguration of President Joe Biden dominated the opening remarks of The Episcopal Church’s presiding officers on Jan. 22 as Executive Council gathered online for the start of a four-day meeting.

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Rev Dr Emily Onyango appointed first woman bishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya

Eve – Standard Media – Kenya

The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) finally appoints a female assistant bishop after decades of the church’s existence. Rev Dr Emily Onyango, ACK’s longest serving female clergy, becomes the first woman to hold such a senior position in the church.

Rev Dr Onyango was appointed during the Synod of the Diocese of Bondo, Siaya County, where she has been a priest and canon, and she will deputise Rt Rev Prof David Kodia. The Synod is the Supreme Council of the Anglican Church which meets once every three years. […]

St. Giles Jefferson welcoming new Rector Dana Stivers

Booth Bay Register – ME

After a year-long search, parishioners at St. Giles Episcopal Church Jefferson will meet their new rector in a Zoom service Sunday, Jan. 24. The Rev. Dana Stivers is “thrilled to join such a loving and caring community where all are welcome.”

Rev. Dana will be joining St. Giles after serving several parishes in Connecticut while simultaneously serving as the associate executive director and chaplain of Incarnation Center, America’s oldest Episcopal camp and conference center. Most recently she has been assistant rector at St. James Episcopal Church in New London. […]

Executive Council reflects on events in Washington, reaffirms church’s reconciliation work

Episcopal News Service – NY, NY

Reactions to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and this week’s inauguration of President Joe Biden dominated the opening remarks of The Episcopal Church’s presiding officers on Jan. 22 as Executive Council gathered online for the start of a four-day meeting.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, both mixed expressions of hope for the future with acknowledgements that the church has much work to do in affirming Jesus’ way of love and rejecting the divisive threat of Christian nationalism. Curry quoted Biden’s inaugural address – “’we must end this uncivil war’” – and then connected that political imperative to the Christian call to love one’s enemy. […]

Christ Episcopal Church continues push to give back to those in need around Burlington County

CentralJersey.com – Bordentown City, NJ

“Take to the altar of God and bring that into the community and help our neighbor.”

Those have been the words that the members of Christ Episcopal Church in Bordentown City have gone by since the Rev. Matthew Tucker began his tenure at the parish in 2008.

Tucker and members of Christ Church continued their focus on giving back to the local community and Burlington County last weekend by donating items to organizations they have been involved with over the past few years.

The church supported Newborns in Need, the Burlington County Animal Shelter and Soles4Souls on Jan. 16. […]