Not just an architectural icon:  The Rev. Beth Grundy takes the lead in a March 12 Herald News story on building styles and uses it to say that Christ Church in Swansea serves people in 11 communities.  Read it here.
 
Faith-based home builders:  St. Elizabeth's Church in Sudbury joins Jewish and other Christian congregations to build a Habitat for Humanity home in Sudbury, reports the March 10 Sudbury Town Crier, here.
 
"Pulling out all the stops":  Christ Church in Quincy discovers it may have the pipes to resurrect its "king of instruments."    

Read the Feb. 24 Quincy Patriot Ledger story. 

 

The bishops invite the diocesan community to join in common prayer during Lent on issues of national concern that they have identified.  This week's prayer, for health care, is offered by the Rev. Anoma Abeyaratne, a registered nurse and chaplain at Children's Hospital in Boston.  Download the prayers here.

 

A barbecue's grill, part of a picture frame, a piece of an accordion, a scrap of plywood:  artist and Hurricane Katrina survivor Lori K. Gordon turned these broken pieces into "Inner Music," a mixed media sculpture featured in "The Katrina Collection" that makes its way to Boston later this month.
 
"Five weeks after the storm, I started sifting through the rubble of my life and began creating something new from the mounds of debris that cover my property," Gordon writes in her blog.  
 
Gordon and her Katrina Collection will be featured March 27-28 at "HeArts Alive!"--the benefit art show at Trinity Church (Copley Square) in Boston, which is being sponsored by the diocesan Gulf Coast Partnership hurricane relief ministry.  Proceeds will support the medical van ministry of St. Anna's Church in New Orleans.  Other artists in this diocese also have pledged work to the show.
 
Join Bishop Bud Cederholm at the artist reception on March 27, 6-8 p.m.  The show continues on March 28, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
 
Watch a film about how the Katrina Collection came about, here.