Monday, August 1st, 2011
Lynne Young and Marcia Beat have been working every weekday night for a month, painting panel after panel—a forest in winter, a glorious springtime, witch trees with eyes. All of this work is in preparation for vacation bible school at St. John’s Epicopal Church, Fort Smith. The theme is “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” [...]
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
By ENS staff, June 28, 2011 [Episcopal News Service] Sharing resources and ideas for congregational development across Episcopal Church dioceses is as the heart of a June 26-July 2 conference at the Duncan M. Gray Conference Center in Mississippi. Participants are studying and discussing models for organizational development in congregations, developing leadership, facilitation and assessment [...]
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Three churches in Forrest City, Christ Church Episcopal, Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, and Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, will host over 50 youth from five visiting youth groups for the week of June 12-17. The visiting Episcopal groups are from Calvary Episcopal/Bastrop, Texas (in the Austin area), St. Thomas/Springdale, AR, St. John’s/Fort Smith, AR and St. [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Ray Brown, a parishioner at St. Michael’s Church in Little Rock, was ordained as a transitional deacon at that church at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31st. Ray was formerly an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ Church and currently works at Presbyterian Village Residence Center in Little Rock. Ray will become the deacon [...]
Saturday, May 28th, 2011
On Friday, May 27, Stephen Kidd was ordained as a priest. Bishop Benfield was the ordaining bishop on behalf of the bishop of Dallas, where Stephen is canonically resident. Many of Stephen’s friends from Texas joined the celebration, which was concluded, appropriately, with a barbecue dinner. Stephen will continue to work on the staff of [...]
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