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Seven to be Ordained to the Vocational Diaconate June 11
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Written by SCDiosAdministrator
The Standing Committee and Commission on Ministry have approved the next class of candidates for ordination to the Vocational Diaconate. The ordination service will be held at 11 a.m. on June 11, 2016 at the Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul in Charleston. All are welcome to this joyous occasion. Clergy are to wear red stoles. A reception will follow.
All of the following candidates have demonstrated servant ministries outside their local parish that both affirm a servant’s heart and a calling to a diaconal ministry. Each has completed a two-year process of instruction, under the direction of Canon Mike Malone, to prepare them for this ministry. The course of study involved meeting together one Saturday a month for instruction from invited priests and deacons of the Diocese. Each comes with his or her own unique spiritual journey and consequent gifts for ministry.
Jim Cato
James A. Cato (Jim), a member of the Parish Church of St. Helena, Beaufort, retired in 2008 after 39 years as a journalist -- 28 years at The Beaufort Gazette where he served as editor, publisher and editorial page editor. Jim has been involved in various ministries and missions including Kairos (prison ministry), intercessory prayer team, and visiting shut-ins, residents in assisted living homes and hospitals and nursing homes, the parish’s 37-year-old community Thanksgiving Day Dinner and Service. Since 2004, he has served on missions to Asia (the unreached people groups), the Dominican Republic and Uganda. Jim feels called to many ministries/missions, but his passion is to the unreached people of the world -- especially Asia. He is a U.S. Army veteran, a graduate of the Defense Language Institute and the University of South Carolina. He served in Vietnam in 1968. He has been married to Susan for 46 years. They have three children and two grandchildren.
“It’s About Relationships” New Wineskins, International Visitors, Diocese Pursues Partnerships
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Written by Joy Hunter
In early April, 2016, more than 100 parishioners and clergy from the Diocese of South Carolina attended the New Wineskins missions conference in Ridgecrest, NC., where they not only learned about missions but connected with Anglican missionaries from around the world. Just prior to and immediately after New Wineskins the Diocese hosted numerous visiting Anglican Bishops and leaders who spoke in Diocesan churches. On April 11, the Cathedral hosted “Voices of the Anglican Communion: a Gathering of Friends from Africa and South America” where 10 Bishops and Anglican leaders from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile spoke about the ongoing ministries in their own countries.
What is the impetus behind this movement?
In part it’s driven by Bishop Mark Lawrence’s vision to “Make Biblical Anglicans for a Global Age,” and his challenge for our Diocese to pursue mutually enriching missional relationships which help shape emerging Anglicanism in the 21st century.
“It’s about relationships,” said the Rev. Bob Lawrence, Chair of the Diocese’s Anglican Communion Development (ACD) Committee. “These experiences give us an opportunity to know people face-to-face, person-to-person. It’s not just another Diocese, it’s Geison and Rose or Elias and Grant. We share a common faith in Jesus Christ and together we’re living that out day to day in an Anglican context.”
A Gathering of Friends from Africa and South America, April 11
On Monday April 11 at 6 p.m. the Diocese will host an event at the Cathedral in Charleston where a number of honored guests from Africa and South America will speak about their work. A soup reception will follow. No reservations needed. All are encouraged to join us for this unprecedented gathering. Download the poster.
• Bishop Rob Martin, Diocese of Marsabit, Anglican Church of Kenya • Rose Kanyunyuzi, head of the Go Project in Uganda • Bishop Joseph Abura, Diocese of Karamoja, Anglican Church of Uganda • The Rev. Raymond Bukenya, the Diocese of Karamoja, Anglican Church of Uganda • Bishop George Kasangaki, Diocese of Masindi-Kitara, Anglican Church of Uganda • The Rev. Paul Ssembiro, recent past Provincial Coordinator for Mission and Evangelism in Uganda, and the present Country Team Leader of African Enterprises • Bishop Elias Chakupewa, Diocese of Tabora, Anglican Church of Tanzania • Bishop Rafael Samuel is the Bishop of Boliva • The Rev. Geison Vasconcellos, Diocese of Recife, Brazil • Bishop Nelson Ojeda, Auxiliary Bishop of Chile
Bishop Lawrence's Address to the 225th Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina
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Written by The Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence
Bishop’s Address to the 225th Annual Diocesan Convention
Delivered by the Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence XIV Bishop of South Carolina, at the Cross Schools Campus, Church of the Cross, Bluffton, SC on March 12, 2016. Note this printed version may vary some from the audio version. Download a printable version. Listen to the address.
“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19)
A fascinating study for a student of the Bible is to compare the different narratives of St. Paul’s conversion. It is told four times in the New Testament—thrice in The Book of Acts and once in the apostle’s Letter to the Galatians. In the verse I’ve cited above St. Paul describes his experience to King Agrippa. He also recalls the words the Risen Lord used to commission him—including the call to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles. Earlier in the Acts of the Apostles Paul tells a hostile Jewish crowd that as he was praying in the Temple in Jerusalem that he fell into a trance and saw Jesus saying to him: “Go, for I will send you far away to the Gentiles.” Even earlier in Acts 9 Ananias is instructed by the Lord to go pray for Paul who is in prayer, fasting on a street called Straight. When Ananias hesitates because of Paul’s reputation of persecuting Christians, God tells him: “Go, for he [Paul] is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.”
The Reverend Frederick William "Bill" Lantz, 75, of Mount Pleasant, SC, died Wednesday, June 1, 2016. His funeral will be held Saturday, June 18, 2016 [ ... ]
Jim Cato
A Gathering of Friends from Africa and South America, April 11
“Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision” (Acts 26:19)
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