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Fran McKendree comes to Orlando, Maitland and Melbourne

Singer and songwriter Fran McKendree is returning to Central Florida for a concert in Orlando and two evening worship programs to start the Lenten Season.

A Fran McKendree concert to benefit the Episcopal Counseling Center will be at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27 at Christ the King Episcopal Church, 26 Willow Drive, Orlando, FL 32807

Check the Episcopal Counseling Center's Facebook page (http://tinyurl.com/eccenterfb) for updates, song requests and a silent auction of your...

VIDEO: Bishop Howe's Diocesan Convention Address, January 21, 2012

Bishop John W. Howe's Address to the 43rd Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. The convention was held at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne, Florida on January 21,2012.

VIDEO: Bishop Gerard M'Pango's sermon for the Diocesan Convention Eucharist 2012

Bishop Gerard M'Pango gave the sermon for the Eucharist at the 2012 Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida. The convention was hosted by Holy Trinity Episcopal Academay in Melbourne Florida on January 21, 2012.

Honduras Commission rolls out new website

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VIDEO: Bishop-elect Brewer Comments Jan. 21, 2012

Bishop-elect Greg Brewer sharing his joy and hopes for his coming work as diocesan bishop, at the Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida on January 21, 2012, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in Melbourne Florida.

NOTE: At point 3:53 in the video, Bishop-elect Brewer paused to show a video from Deidox, a company that makes short documentary films exploring the faith of everyday people. The film, "Ludmilla," is about an elderly Czech...

In the community

Diocese of Central Florida Lenten Retreat 2010: Stewardship, Part 2 of 2

Bishop Howe leads a Lenten retreat at Canterbury Retreat & Conference Center, Oviedo, Florida in March 2010. This is Part 2 of 2. This clip and Part 1 are Bishop Howe's introduction to the retreat. To see the full DVD of the two-day event, call the diocese at (407) 423-34567. The...

Diocese of Central Florida Lenten Retreat 2010: Stewardship, Part 1 of 2

Bishop Howe leads a Lenten retreat at Canterbury Retreat & Conference Center, Oviedo, Florida in March 2010. This is Part 1 of 2. This clip and Part 2 are Bishop Howe's introduction to the retreat. To see the full DVD of the two-day event, call the diocese at (407) 423-34567. The two-DVD...

Mental health counselor reflects on 'storms of life'

This is one in a series of articles about “encouragement,” written by Episcopal Counseling Center counselors. The title of the sermon could have been “The Storms of Life.” Many years have passed since those days of idealism when I did not fully realize that indeed life was...

From the Bishop

Bishop's Address to the 43rd Annual Diocesan Convention, Melbourne, Florida

The Bishop’s Address
Forty-Third Annual Convention
of
The Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida
Held at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy
Melbourne, Florida

January 21, 2012
The Right Rev. John W. Howe

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 1:2)

Welcome to the Forty-third Annual...

From Episcopal Life

Around the common table

[Diocese of Southern Ohio] Erin Koepke found that the bond of food, of breaking bread together, transcends geography, age, race and culture. A longtime camp counselor in the Diocese of Southern Ohio and member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Dayton, Koepke joined micro-farmers from South Africa and two colleagues to create a cookbook using locally [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Jonathan Myrick Daniels was a 26-year-old seminarian when he heard the televised appeal of Martin Luther King Jr. for students and clergy to join the struggle for civil rights. Inspired by the words of the Magnificat about the God who “hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the [...]

[Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta] Victor Catanzaro can’t see, and he can’t walk. And he doesn’t have a lot of strength in his upper body. But he can serve as an acolyte in an Episcopal church. How can this be? Well, it takes a parish. About three years ago, Betsy Jones, who serves as acolyte master [...]

[Episcopal News Service] Six priests have been nominated to stand for election to become bishop suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. They are: The Rev. Randy Alexander, 45, rector, Christ Church, Pelham (Diocese of New York); The Rev. Canon Susan Goff, 58, canon to the ordinary, Diocese of Virginia; The Very Rev. David May, [...]

[Ecumenical News International] A diocese of the Church of South India (CSI) is preparing an appeal against a court order that has virtually stripped it of more than half its churches and institutions, inherited from the Basel Mission church. “We are preparing a strong appeal to get this order quashed. We are hopeful that our [...]

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