Summary
Washington Post – For many immunosuppressed, churches stopped being a safe place – For centuries, Christians have met in sacred places that also provided safety for those seeking asylum
John Deere – The Soil and the Soul – Elizabeth DeRuff’s ministry is rooted in farming. Divine inspiration strikes in all sorts of ways and all sorts of places.
The Georgetowner – Mapping Georgetown: A Story of Love Stretching Back to The Mayflower – This sweet story is made doubly so because it threads together more than several centuries of connections back to those married at Plymouth Rock.”
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For many immunosuppressed, churches stopped being a safe place
Washington Post – Washington D.C.
For centuries, Christians have met in sacred places that also provided safety for those seeking asylum, including runaway slaves and undocumented immigrants. But those same sanctuaries where many sing and embrace each other have become anxiety-inducing, and possibly dangerous, for many Americans who are considered higher risk for covid-19.
More than 7 million Americans have weakened immune systems that make them more vulnerable to contracting the coronavirus and can make covid-19 more deadly.
The Soil and the Soul
Healdsburg, CA
Divine inspiration strikes in all sorts of ways and all sorts of places. For Rev. Elizabeth DeRuff, an ordained Episcopal priest who describes herself as an agricultural chaplain, a field of wheat is a perfect place to connect with God.
At a California family camp where she served as chaplain and dean, DeRuff met a woman in 2003 who declined communion because of her bread allergy. That prompted DeRuff to begin exploring the connections among land, health, regeneration, and wheat.
Mapping Georgetown: A Story of Love Stretching Back to The Mayflower
Georgetowner – Washington D.C.
I want to share this sweet story. It is truly an American love story that began with those who came a long time ago to our shores and finds its way through the ages to a boy and girl by a stream sharing a cup of water who lived happily ever after in Washington D.C.
The boy and girl were my grandparents. Harold Whiting Burnside met Enid Holden when he was a young man of 15 and she, a little tow head of 12. While Harold was picking strawberries in the field below Enid’s Grandpa’s house in Hyattsville Md and drinking from the pasture spring, she showed him where they hid the drinking cup. Grandpa said he was smitten right then and there. They married in 1917 and lived over fifty years in the District.
St. John’s Episcopal Church Women to host Two Sip ‘n’ Paint Workshops
Pine Island Eagle – St. James City, FL
Local artist Mary Linden Ragains will guide participants through a water color session on Monday, Feb. 28, and an acrylic painting class on Monday, March 14, both from 2-4 p.m. in St. John’s Comfort Hall, 7771 Stringfellow Road, St. James City. To register for either or both of these classes, please call Janet Pinnell at 239-558-8135 for tickets. The watercolor class is $25, the acrylics class is $30, with all materials provided, as well as coffee, wine and hors d’oeuvres.
Triennial News
Registration for the 80th General Convention will open on Friday, March 18 and will be a two-part process. In March, diocesan coordinators, other authorized persons, and individuals who register for attending the entire convention will be able to pre-register those attending as deputies, alternates, bishops, ECW delegates, and visitors.
Resolved, the Joint Standing Committee on Planning and Arrangements adopts the following vaccination policy for all attendees of the 80th General Convention: Read the full resolution.