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The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
A letter from the bishop ... [full text] September
2001
Special report: Eyewitness to DisasterThe terrorists' attacks The Rev.
'Bo' Lewis His first experience with Episcopal camp programs was in 1951. The Rev. Albert “Bo” Lewis, new director for the Diocesan Camp and Retreat Center on Watts Bar Lake near Kingston. Backpacks
Given More than 650 backpacks that were loaded with pencils, paper, notebooks, erasers, scissors, glue, and pens by churches all across the Diocese of East Tennessee were delivered to Campbell County school children. Bookshop
Turns Page, Amy Hodges Morehous became the new manager of the bookshop when the previous manager, Georgia Knazovich, moved to New Mexico. Episcopal Appalachian Ministries Work Camps “I can’t tell you how much we appreciate you all
coming and working here. God answers prayers and you are one
of the answers.” Vileta Winebarger
Hosanna Community Completes New House Bishop vonRosenberg led a service of thanksgiving and a blessing of the new house in June. The house cost $600,000 to build and was debt-free at the time of its blessing. Simplicity,
Moderation, Order, Balance and Wholeness, Rule Order Fifteen hundred years ago, when St. Benedict founded his “school for the Lord’s service,” he probably did not expect to have “students” in East Tennessee. But for more than five years... Six Receive
Bishop Recipients of William E. Sanders Scholarship Fund awards were recently announced. Church of Ascension J2A Class Makes Pilgrimage to Taize, A French Monastery Before Taize, I thought about religion almost scientifically. I justified my religious beliefs with religious texts and worshiped God in a purposeful but not terribly deep manner... Camp Billy Johnson Sets New Record for Campers This summer’s Camp Billy Johnson was a wonderful success. There were 31 staff members and 26 children, allowing for complete and undivided attention for the campers that attended. Men Try
to Answer, 'What will your legacy More than 500 men met on the mountain for fellowship and renewal. Meeting once each year since 1947, the Tennessee Episcopal Laymen's Conference is one of the largest, if not the largest, such gathering within the Episcopal Church and possibly in the Anglican Communion. The Bahama
Experience: On the mission trip, I was most deeply affected by the people’s ability to live in such a stage of happiness when they have very little in material wealth. This also shows who money seems to have corrupted... Date Set for ETEC-27 East Tennessee Episcopal Cursillo Number 27 - ETEC-27 - will take place Thursday October 18 through Sunday October 21, 2001, at Camp Carson, near Newport, Tennessee.
Extensive Video Resources Now Available to Diocesan Congregations Go to etdiocese.net/video to access a searchable database that contains a listing of the 2,330 available videos. The Diocese of East Tennessee now belongs to the Video Resource Program at the Center for the Ministry of Teaching, Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. |
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