Friday
And then there was one. There is a kind of frenetic energy that happens as General Convention winds down. We look at the clock and look at the legislation and it's like those nights in college when your paper was due the next day and you are hoping you can drink enough coffee to get inspired.
Perhaps the most consequential legislation yesterday was to change the diocesan apportionment. Currently it is 19% but in 2016 it will be 18%; 2017= 16.5% and 2018= 15%. Not paying the 15% in 2019 means that dioceses cannot get any grants from the Episcopal Church (like our Mission Enterprise Zone which funds Kairos West).
We also passed a budget which has many exciting block grants---to work on racism and to start new churches and to promote evangelism.
Today will be a flurry. We start with Presiding Bishop Elect Michael Curry preaching at the Eucharist and then hunker down at our tables until 6:00 when we are all done.
It has been an exhausting Convention but a productive and even inspiring one. As always I will be more than glad to come home.
+Porter
And then there was one. There is a kind of frenetic energy that happens as General Convention winds down. We look at the clock and look at the legislation and it's like those nights in college when your paper was due the next day and you are hoping you can drink enough coffee to get inspired.
Perhaps the most consequential legislation yesterday was to change the diocesan apportionment. Currently it is 19% but in 2016 it will be 18%; 2017= 16.5% and 2018= 15%. Not paying the 15% in 2019 means that dioceses cannot get any grants from the Episcopal Church (like our Mission Enterprise Zone which funds Kairos West).
We also passed a budget which has many exciting block grants---to work on racism and to start new churches and to promote evangelism.
Today will be a flurry. We start with Presiding Bishop Elect Michael Curry preaching at the Eucharist and then hunker down at our tables until 6:00 when we are all done.
It has been an exhausting Convention but a productive and even inspiring one. As always I will be more than glad to come home.
+Porter
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