Turns out that a global pandemic is not the best time for parishes to look for a new priest. “The normal search process would have been to interview a number of candidates at a distance, then narrow the field,” says Susan Williams, who co-chairs the search committee at Trinity Church in Bloomington with Jim Skomp. […]
At its regular meeting on May 9, the diocese’s Executive Council approved a revision to the 2020 diocesan budget designed to ease pandemic-related financial strain on congregations. The revisions, which are highlighted in the new budget document, free up approximately $455,000 for congregational financial relief, said Brendan O’Sullivan-Hale, canon to the ordinary for administration and […]
Dear Ones: I am so grateful for your leadership in the trying months that we have been out of our church buildings. I often refer to our congregations, scattered about central and southern Indiana as aid stations of hope and healing, and that description and mission has never been more true than it is now. […]
Dear People of God in the State of Indiana, As you may have heard, Governor Holcomb this afternoon sketched out a five-phase roadmap that he hopes will return our state to pre-pandemic levels of openness and activity by July 4. Under this plan, communities of faith can return to worship in their buildings beginning on […]
“we are both out of work and have little money for food” A note left at the Little Free Pantry at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Martinsville In 2016, parishioners at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Martinsville, built a tiny wooden pantry in a lighted alcove just outside the front door, and hung out a sign […]
On the afternoon of April 5, Bishop Jennifer held an online conversation with the people of the diocese to answer questions and provide updates on mission and ministry during the pandemic. Watch the video at the link above or on YouTube.