Bishop vonRosenberg's
Letter to the Diocese
Our being together at convention symbolizes
our unity as a diocese....

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'What Better Christian Witness?'

As Chairman of the Board of the Interfaith Hospitality Network in Kingsport, the Rev. Lee Schaefer, rector, St. Timothy's, Kingsport, oversees eleven host churches and 29 support churches, representing nine denominations, working together to house the homeless.

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Two Denominations,
Two States, One Priest

The Rev. Wendie Jekabsons, new priest-in-charge at the joint Lutheran-Episcopal congregation of The Savior, Newland, North Carolina, credits her “strange journey” and various twists in her secular and spiritual life with her new position in the small mountain parish.

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Sixty Years of Ordained
Ministry is Not Enough

The Rev. John Howard Rhys, Th.D., professor emeritus at the School of Theology and currently priest-in-charge at St. John the Baptist Church in South Pittsburg, celebrated the Eucharist in the Chapel of the Apostles recently in observance of the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.

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Open Letter to Diocese
from Archdeacon Doty

It is my pleasure to announce that I have been called to be the next Rector of the Church of the Holy Cross in Tryon, North Carolina and that I have accepted that call.
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Bullard Declared 'Perfect Match' at St. Matthew's, Dayton

The Rev. Carol Ann Bullard believes part of what she is trying to accomplish at St. Matthew's, Dayton parallels the start of a new church.

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Visitors from Diocese of South Dakota Participate in Convention

The Rt. Rev. Creighton Robertson, Bishop of the Diocese of South Dakota, his wife Ann Clare Stanage, and the Rev. Martin Brokenleg, were guest of the Diocese of East Tennessee at the 18th Annual Diocesan Convention in February.

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