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Bishop Alan M. Gates has appointed a six-member design team to initiate the process that will lead to a new mission strategy for the Diocese of Massachusetts.Members of the design team include three Diocesan Council members, Billy Boyce of Grace Church in New Bedford, Jim Daniell of All Saints…

On a gorgeous Sunday morning in May, even the most sleepy-eyed observer could hardly miss the first clue that the 10:15 a.m. service would be different: Most members of the congregation were dressed in their pajamas.Soon, the reason for their garb became apparent. The 12 members of the children’s…

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The Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd is a Diocese of Massachusetts deputy to General Convention and chairs the Committee on Program, Budget and Finance (PB&F), charged with finalizing the Episcopal Church’s three-year budget for General Convention’s approval.  The current draft budget for 2016-2018 is…

The Rev. Dr. Cameron Partridge of the Diocese of Massachusetts is a member of the Task Force on the Study of Marriage, which is proposing to the General Convention changes to the Episcopal Church's marriage canon.  Partridge served on the task force's subcommittee focused on the biblical and…

Matthew Cavanaugh ECM's acting executive director, Bishop Bud Cederholm, with Bishop Burgess's daughters, Margaret Harrison and Julia Burgess About 450 friends and supporters of Episcopal City Mission turned out for the…

The young people of the Diocese of Massachusetts will be well represented at the 2015 General Convention this summer. In addition to the Official Youth Presence delegate Allegra Robinson, from St. John's Church in Franklin, two youth observers, Megan Lightcap and Michelle St. Francis, are traveling…

Allegra Robinson is a member of St. John's Church in Franklin, and will be serving as an Official Youth Presence delegate at the 2015 General Convention, taking place in Salt Lake City June 25-July 3.  Two youth represent each of the Episcopal Church's provinces on the Official Youth Presence,…

Grace Church in New Bedford has joined a national movement to provide something that is taken for granted by many, but sometimes out of reach for the homeless and working poor: clean laundry.  South Coast Mission Hub Life Together intern Victoria Laskey learned of the nationwide Laundry Love…

Bishop Gates at Trinity, Concord Trinity Church in Concord opened its new parish house on the church’s 130th anniversary, May 31.  Bishop Alan M. Gates joined the parish for the anniversary celebration and to dedicate the new parish house. The Rev. Tony Buquor has…