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Mainline Today – Newtown Square, PA – How Two Local Churches Are Combatting Shrinking Congregations – Christ Church Ithan and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church are partnering to strengthen their rectories and charitable programs.
Alabama Life & Culture – Birmingham, AL – First woman bishop takes office for Diocese of Alabama – Bishop Glenda Curry was consecrated in a ceremony on Saturday, June 27, at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.
Taos News – TAOS, NM – Heroes: Feeding the hungry – Daseler is one of the longest-serving volunteers at the El Prado food pantry. ‘In addition to helping with distribution, Sue also sewed masks for all our volunteers at Shared Table,’ said Cheri Lyon, church pastor and Shared Table director.
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Mainline Today
Newtown Square, PA
How Two Local Churches Are Combatting Shrinking Congregations
Christ Church Ithan and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church are partnering to strengthen their rectories and charitable programs.
Churches are in trouble. Upwards of 50 Episcopalian churches close each week in the United States, and other religions are similarly suffering. It’s little wonder given how many places of worship exist.There are six Episcopalian churches in just a five-mile stretch on the Main Line. As a result, congregations are constricting, and ministries are getting creative. […]
Alabama Life & Culture
Birmingham
First woman bishop takes office for Diocese of Alabama
Bishop Glenda Curry was consecrated in a ceremony on Saturday, June 27, at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham.
Bishop Glenda Curry took office on Saturday, the first woman to serve as a bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.
Curry will hold the title of bishop coadjutor, assisting retiring Bishop Kee Sloan, who steps down at the end of the year. Curry will then succeed him as head of the diocese, which covers north and central Alabama and includes about 30,000 Episcopalians in 88 parishes. […]
Taos News
TAOS, NM
Heroes: Feeding the hungry
Daseler is one of the longest-serving volunteers at the El Prado food pantry. ‘In addition to helping with distribution, Sue also sewed masks for all our volunteers at Shared Table,’ said Cheri Lyon, church pastor and Shared Table director.
A continuous line of cars snakes through the parking lot to the parish hall doors of St. James Episcopal Church, on Camino de Santiago.
It’s Thursday, distribution day for the church’s food pantry. Inside the hall, one group of volunteers fills boxes with peanut butter, bananas, beans, soup, a can of tomato paste and a dessert item. Then another group takes the boxes outside where two final items, onions and eggs, are added before they’re handed off to their recipients. […]