Episcopal News Service

The words on the blackboard in an open-air Port-au-Prince classroom for disabled children summarize the Episcopal Church of Haiti's vision of ministry: "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine."

For Christmas this year, consider giving a goat. Or a flock of chickens. Or medical care for infants, or education for AIDS orphans, or a well to provide clean water for an entire village.

Delegates attending the 26th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth on November 15 overwhelmingly approved realignment with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

Delegates to the 26th annual diocesan convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth voted Saturday to realign the diocese with the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone.

Weaving themes of shepherding, tending to flocks and the critical nature of the ecosystem, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori addressed the importance of pastoral responsibility at the September 30 Hobart lecture.

Parts of New York City September 25 were more awash than usual with diplomats, business leaders, royalty, advocates young and old, Episcopalians and Anglicans as the United Nations convened a day-long "high-level event

Celebrating 100 years of ecumenical cooperation in the U.S., the National Council of Churches (NCC) and Church World Service (CWS) annual general assembly convened November 11-13 in Denver, Colorado, and the Episcopal Church's participation was highly visible.

Shortly before members of the Diocese of Quincy's governing synod are expected to consider voting to leave the Episcopal Church, diocesan Bishop Keith Ackerman announced his retirement, effective November 1.

In her message to the Episcopal Church marking All Saints' Day, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori suggests that Episcopalians look for the saints who minister all around them every day.

Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for November 9 contain excerpts from the sermon preached by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at the Day of Repentance during which she offered an apology for the Episcopal Church's historic collusion in the institution of slavery.

Shortly before members of the Diocese of Quincy's governing synod are expected to consider voting to leave the Episcopal Church, diocesan Bishop Keith Ackerman announced his retirement, effective November 1.

In her message to the Episcopal Church marking All Saints' Day, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori suggests that Episcopalians look for the saints who minister all around them every day.

Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for November 9 contain excerpts from the sermon preached by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori at the Day of Repentance during which she offered an apology for the Episcopal Church's historic collusion in the institution of slavery.

The Episcopal Church's Executive Council October 23 renewed its ongoing support of dioceses in which the leadership has left or plans to leave the church, and pledged the church to seek reconciliation "without precondition on our part." Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told council members that she appreciated their sense that irreconcilable differences are inconsistent with the gospel