- Postponement
Hello friends, I have spoken to many of you and have told you Wendy and I were going to Africa very soon. It is with great disappointment that I share that our trip this spring ... read more2 weeks ago - Up-and-Up Dates
While I’m reclining on my porch, eating bonbons, basking in the sunshine and drinking Mint Juleps (a lovely story of the retiree at leisure . . . perfect in every way except that it’s not ... read more1 month ago - The Last Days of this VisitTuesday/Wednesday, 13-14 February. Hardly the Last Days of Pompeii, these two days marked the closing of a great week+ here in La Republica Dominicana. Tuesday was a mini-travel day — checked-out of the Whala!bocachica and ... read more2 months ago
- Monday Meeting (or Meeting Monday)Monday, February 12th. The annual meeting of the DDG commenced at 11:00am (Atlantic Standard Time) . . . mas o menos. Following a hearty breakfast, we moved outside for morning prayer to begin the day. ... read more2 months ago
- Zabloni’s ordainment gifts
My friend Zabloni was ordained as a priest in September. In honor of the occasion, my home church, St. James in North Providence, RI, gifted him a chalice. My fellow missionary Wendy and I gifted ... read more5 months ago - New cradleThis couple had never seen a cradle before receiving this one I made for them at the college! Godspeed, Peter ... read more5 months ago
- Speaking up, after a long silence: grateful that life at FSRL goes on!
WAVES OF ADVERSITY: We are living through strange and stressful times in our world, and that is 150% true of life for students and staff in Haiti. I have not written any blogs for many ... read more1 year ago - Day nine: The Communion Forest
Thursday began with daily eucharist led by Archbishop Michael Lewis, Bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf and Primate of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, and Archbishop Hosam Naoum, ... read more2 years ago - Day eight: The Mandala**(Or the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury invited 1,451 people over for lunch.)
The giant inflatable globe ... read more2 years ago - Day seven: Help, Thanks, Wow
The last six minutes and twenty seconds of discussion on the Reconciliation Call. New York Times bestselling author ... read more2 years ago - How on earth to think about the stark contrast between difficult, maybe impossible, stressors in Haiti, versus the fact that good things continue to happen in the learning community of FSRL?The reason I posted the photo essay (just before this) by the UN Humanitarian Council is to try to reconcile the contrasting messages that we are receiving and observing: the same messages we are passing ... read more2 years ago
- A photo essay by the UN Humanitarian Outreach group2 years ago
- Bishop of Peshawar reports on killings and declares church will continue to be ‘Living Epistle of Christ’ in Pakistan
Peshawar Bishop Humphrey Sarfaraz Peters yesterday wrote to the board of Bridges to Pakistan about the Jan. 30 targeted attack on leaders in the Diocese of Peshawar: The Rev. Patrick Naeem, our Diocesan Mission Secretary ... read more2 years ago - Women in Mission to be theme of May 12-14 Global Mission Conference onlineWomen in Mission will be the theme of the 2022 Global Mission Conference sponsored by the Global Episcopal Mission Network, and it will be held May 12-14 online via Zoom. Ideas about how to ... read more2 years ago
- Humility, Inclusion, Companionship – Board identifies three core values of GEMNHumility, Inclusion, Companionship – these are the three core values that the Board of Directors of the Global Episcopal Mission Network focused on at their annual extended board meeting, which was held online on October ... read more2 years ago
