El Camino Real Sees Reasons for Hope

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The Diocese of El Camino Real adopted its 2008 budget Oct. 27 by unanimous voice vote, a turn of events that was a pleasant surprise to those who recall past annual conventions at which every line item was cause for extensive debate.

Bishop-elect Mary Gray-Reeves, who has been in the office for six weeks, attributed the unanimity to the amount of money there was to fight over.

“We don’t have a lot of money,” she said in an interview during a break in the convention.

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Posted October 29, 2007 at 4:27 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Br. Michael wrote:

Among her first decisions was to make no change to the diocese’s position to allow private celebrations of same-sex unions. She also says she does not want to see the break up of the Anglican Communion.

Ok.  I am sure that the ABC and the AC will manage to ignore this too.

October 29, 5:58 am | [comment link]
2. Statmann wrote:

An interesting diocese. Fired the last bishop in 2004. Now has a new one. Good time for a rest. Diocese was one of the few that was growing from 1996 to 2002, about 4 percent. Since 2002 membership has fallen about 17 percent. Plate & Pledge was soaring by 33 percent between 1996 and 2000, way above inflation. But since 2000, Plate & Pledge has only grown by about 12 percent, well below inflation. With this checkered recent history a quiet convention is indeed good news.  Statmann

October 29, 7:11 pm | [comment link]
3. Janis wrote:

Diocesan Convention 2007 - Resolution for Wonder

Diocesan Convention 2007

RESOLVED, this Convention joins our bishop in dedicating ourselves to encourage all members of the Diocese to spend the coming year in wonder; we commit ourselves to listen to God’s call and expand our thinking, searching for mind-changing, limitless ideas and raising up leaders from all congregations.

October 30, 1:49 pm | [comment link]
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