By Neva Rae Fox Recognizing that the pandemic affects all people in all places, the Fund for the Diaconate is stepping up with emergency grants for Episcopal Church deacons. In a ground-breaking move, the Fund has created a special Emergency Grant Program to aid deacons affected by the Covid-19. “This is the first new grant program we have created,” said fund president … [Read more...] about Fund Offers Support Grants For Deacons in Need
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Southwest Pilot Becomes a Deacon
Melany Cox reports for the Temple Daily Telegram in Texas: Rebecca Sparks wears two very different uniforms. The first includes the clerical collar she donned as the new deacon at Christ Episcopal Church in Temple. The second uniform is the one she wears while sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 as a pilot for Southwest Airlines. Because of her family’s dedicated … [Read more...] about Southwest Pilot Becomes a Deacon
Jonathan Aitken Now a Deacon
A former Cabinet minister who spent 211 days in prison for perjury was ordained a deacon June 30 and intends to work in prison ministry. Jonathan Aitken was jailed in 1999 for lying under oath in a libel case against The Guardian. He sued the newspaper when it said he allowed members of the Saudi royal family to pay his £1,000 hotel bill at the Paris Ritz in September … [Read more...] about Jonathan Aitken Now a Deacon
Bishop to Ordain Young Deacon
The youngest-ever candidate for ordination in the Church in Wales has received permission to be ordained by the Bishop of St. Asaph. Dominic Cawdell from Mold is 22 – a year younger than the usual age set for ordination – and required a dispensation from the Archbishop of Wales for his ordination at St. Asaph Cathedral on June 30. Cawdell studied theology at Cambridge … [Read more...] about Bishop to Ordain Young Deacon
Videos Honor Deaconess Alexander
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry honored the memory of Deaconess Anna Alexander (1865-1947) during the Diocese of Georgia’s Fearless Faith, Boundless Love revival. She was born to recently emancipated slaves on Butler Plantation in McIntosh County, Georgia, and was the first African-American set aside as a deaconess in the Episcopal Church in 1907. In July, the 79th General … [Read more...] about Videos Honor Deaconess Alexander
A Manual for Deacons
A Manual for Deacons from The Episcopal Diocese of NC on Vimeo. The Bishop’s Committee on the Diaconate in the Diocese of North Carolina has compiled a deacon’s manual that covers such topics as discernment, formation, ordination, and ministry. The Rt. Rev. Anne Hodges-Copple interviewed the Rev. Deacon Jan Lamb as part of the diocese’s Please Note series. The manual … [Read more...] about A Manual for Deacons