We decided that individuals would phone a gathering from the week-end regarding the Investiture of your brand new Presiding Bishop. Then on August 9, I got an e-mail from Lisa Fox from Jefferson City whom announced that she had simply guaranteed a blogsite for all of us. It, she said, we should just let her know, and she would forget about it if we didn’t want. I am able to actually state that if it weren’t for Lisa Fox, We don’t think we’d be here now because within three months we had 7,000 visits to your weblog and up to now over 29,000. Term begun to distribute, and our email list expanded to ensure that around the very first of i was sending an e-mail to you all when AOL kicked me off-line september. They thought I happened to be a spammer! I became panicked. We thought We had lost every thing. But our techno-geek, Jeffrey, stumbled on our aid and overnight sat up a web page which had most of the bells and whistles – The Episcopal Majority took another step that is giant.
Therefore, right here we’re. Over 100 of you, from 45 dioceses, have actually committed yourselves to being part of this gathering, and we also wish it should be {the start of|the sta movement to protect and support our church.
Ideally, we can get a start on responding to some of those concerns today.
You’ll see we now have a keynote that is wonderful today that will be introduced by Mark Harris. You’ll additionally observe that a series is had by us of workshops which will meet beginning at 3:30. The purpose of this time together is to prepare strategy and action that people may take in the foreseeable future. You want to get really particular in those workshops and report on our progress once we get together again as a combined group at 5:30. We’ll meet until about 7 this and then break for the day evening. Continue reading “Most of us just knew one another by email, but we started planning and working together.”