Photo courtesy of St. James’s Church, Amesbury.
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Immediately after the January earthquake, the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti used donations to Episcopal Relief and Development to help survivors throughout the greater Port-au-Prince and Leogane area, including the provision of food, water and shelter. That diocese is now serving more than 25,000 people at 60 sites. Click here to give and learn more.
“The earthquake has not destroyed our hope in the future,” Haiti’s bishop, Jean Zache Duracin, writes. Read his letter to the Episcopal Church.
Haiti benefit concert at Church of St. John the Evangelist in Boston on March 17
Episcopal Relief and Development is also reaching out to the Anglican Church in Chile following the Feb. 27 earthquake there. Find updates here.
Photo: Leon A. Brathwaite II
Get out of the “God box” and work on ways to help members “be church away from the church’s buildings,” guest speaker Chip Stokes urged the 150 people who gathered for the diocese’s annual spring learning event on March 6 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.
Photo: Anthony Pretti
Bishop Bud Cederholm ordained six new priests for the Episcopal Church on Jan. 9 at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston.