A summary of Executive Council resolutions

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] During its Feb. 25-27 meeting here, the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council adopted several resolutions, which are summarized below. Advocacy & Networking for Mission and Finances for Mission Direct Treasurer as to how to vote on a series of shareholder resolutions in keeping with Episcopal Church policies as previously stated [...]

Executive Council resumes Middle East peace advocacy

Resolution responds to direction-setting by General Convention

Editors’ note: This story was corrected Feb. 28 to remove reference to the Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Palestine Israel Network having issued “A Prophetic Challenge to the Executive Council.” The network only publicized the document. [Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council Feb. 27 began its part in the church’s 2013-2015 triennial [...]

Executive Council decries gun violence, trafficking

Episcopalians urged to examine ‘cultural attitudes toward violence’

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council Feb. 27 took a stand against gun violence and gun trafficking, and called on Episcopalians to “repent of our own roles in the glorification and trivialization of violence.” The resolution “really bubbled up from the grassroots,” Byron Rushing, vice president of the House of [...]

Report issued at Executive Council on church enter location

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs -- Press Release] Episcopal Church Chief Operating Officer Bishop Stacy Sauls, in consultation with the Executive Oversight Committee, presented its report, Locating the Episcopal Church Center For Missional Strategy, to the Executive Council on February 26. “I had been asked to head this research and present the report to the [...]

Council considers proposal to stay at church center to further mission

Relocation is ‘only a mask for the real reform needed,’ report says

Editors’ note: Story updated Feb. 27 to include link to “Locating the Episcopal Church Center For Missional Strategy” report. [Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The church’s denominational offices would remain at the Episcopal Church Center in New York if the Executive Council accepts a recommendation it received Feb. 26 from a group of Domestic [...]

Vervynck named to Executive Council

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs -- Press Release] Deacon Jenny Vervynck of the Diocese of San Diego has been named the Province VII clergy representative on the Episcopal Church Executive Council. The announcement was made during the opening session of the Executive Council meeting on February 25 at the Conference Center at the Maritime [...]

Executive Council considers next triennial budget process

Members begin by ‘dreaming, visioning, praying’ about church’s future

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council began its three-day meeting here by examining a process to formulate a proposed budget for the 2016-2018 triennium. The Rev. Canon Charles LaFond, council member from New Hampshire, led his colleagues in a 75-minute exercise that included silence, prayer and 12-minute blocks of [...]

Executive Council pledges to reconsider budget process for 2015

Members adjust communion contribution, offer more support to San Joaquin

[Episcopal News Service – New Brunswick, New Jersey] This may be the first meeting of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council since General Convention in July but, the members looked ahead to the 2015 convention and the 2016-2018 budget. Diocese of Ohio Bishop Mark Hollingsworth, chair of council’s Joint Standing Committee on Finances for Mission told the [...]

Executive Council gets glimpse of work done at church center

Islam, Muslims and immigration highlight diversity training

[Episcopal News Service – New York] The members of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council got a crash course on the work of the church-wide staff Oct. 16 during a visit to the Episcopal Church Center in New York. During the morning, the council split into five groups and toured the building, meeting with members of [...]

House of Deputies president: ‘be bold and visionary disciples of Jesus’

[Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs] “Let’s be bold and visionary disciples of Jesus,” the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies, said in her sermon at the noon Chapel service at the Episcopal Church Center during the meeting of the Executive Council. The Executive Council, meeting in New Brunswick, New Jersey [...]