Convocation Newsletter
October 16, 2021
Our Regular Newsletter
for Members and Friends of
The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe
Comments? Submissions? news@tec-europe.org
In this issue:

New Faces: New neighbors and positions across CECE
Beloved Community: Sharing Survey Results
Creation Care: COP26 Delegation
Convention 2021: Let Us Worship Together
O God, you share your heart and mind with your people,
you give direction and purpose to those who seek you.

Give ear to our prayer and guide us into the future
so that we may glorify you and be a blessing
to the nations to which you have called us.
A Collect for a Year of Listening
The 2020 Committee to Respond to the Bishop's Address
Pray with us in the 2021 Convocation Cycle of Prayer  -  available here
Becoming Beloved Community: Survey Sharing
Today (Saturday, 16 October) at 14:00, members of the Taskforce will present the results of last year's Convocation-wide survey to delegates, officers, and guests of Convention.

We are excited to announce this important informational session is OPEN to the whole Convocation via our YouTube channel.

Click the button below to view the livestream tomorrow at 2pm CEST, or to review the recording after the end of the session.
Introducing New Faces Around the Convocation
Church of the Ascension - Munich, Germany
The Rev. Daniel Morrow
The Rev. Canon Daniel Morrow will be the new Priest-in-Charge at the Church of the Ascension in Munich. He is the Canon for Congregational Life and Mission in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. Dan has a zeal for international church ministry having previously served congregations in Zurich, Switzerland and Paris, France. In addition to parish and diocesan work, he has served at three General Conventions, on non-profit executive boards, and as convocation dean. He teaches at the College for Congregational Development and is a past Missional Leadership Fellow of Luther Seminary. Dan is passionate about community and congregational development, missional engagement, and the Jesus movement that calls us to reconciling work.

He and Teresa are very excited to begin ministry in Munich on November 15th.
Co-Coordinator for Ministry with Children & Youth - Brussels, Belgium
The Rev. Katie Osweiler, US Air Force Captain

The Rev. Katie Osweiler, Curate at All Saints in Waterloo BE has been appointed on of two Co-Coordinators for Ministry with Children & Youth. Katie is well known in the Convocation and has worked extensively in youth ministry since her arrival among us in 2018. I addition to her work at All Saints and now with the Convocation, Katie is also a reserve chaplain in the US Air Force, and was recently deployed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, ministering to Afghan refugees and evacuees.
Co-Coordinators, the Rev. Gregory Stark and the Rev. Katie Osweiler, meeting at the recent clericus gathering in September.
Co-Coordinator for Ministry with Children & Youth - Leuven, Belgium
The Rev. Gregory Stark

The Convocation is happy to welcome the other half of the Coordinator for Ministry with Children & Youth position, the Rev. Gregory Stark, who recently relocated to Belgium from ministry in Ohio to do graduate work in theology. Until August, Greg worked with youth and college ministry in Oberlin and Elyria, Ohio. We look forward to welcoming Greg to the convention next week.
Missioner for Climate and Creation Care - Madrid, Spain
Dawn Baity, Episcopal Volunteer in Mission

The Convocation welcomes Dawn Baity to the Convocation. Dawn is an appointed missionary of the Episcopal Church in the Volunteers for Mission program. She hails from the Diocese of Chicago and is a member of St. James Cathedral. In 2019 she moved to Madrid where she has worked with the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church, focusing the church's work with pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. In the convocation, she will work as Missioner for Climate and Creation Care. Her passion for pilgrimage is still very much in evidence, as she recently met with Task Force on Climate and Creation Care members Stephen Squires and the Rev. Michael Rusk on a pilgrimage route associated with Santa Maria a Ferrano with the Rev. Thomas Muller, near Florence, Italy. Together with Stephen Squires, Dawn will represent the Convocation as part of the Episcopal Church's delegation to the COP 26 conference in Glasgow, Scotland in November. Welcome Dawn to the Convocation and to the upcoming convention!
Church of St. Augustine of Canterbury - Wiesbaden, Germany
The Rev. Robert Vukovic

The Rev. Robert Vukovic was received as a priest in the Episcopal Church by Bishop Mark Edington at his visitation in Wiesbaden on September 12, 2021. Robert was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic tradition in 2010. He worked as a priest in Germany, Croatia, and temporarily in Hawai’i. After leaving the Roman Catholic ministry, he moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where he started a career as funeral director in a local funeral home, and became a member of the Episcopal Church at St. Augustine of Canterbury.

Robert will serve in the ministry of St. Augustine in Wiesbaden and the emerging ministry in Mainz. He has also, at the bishop's request, begun exploring ministry with St. Columban's in Karlsruhe.
Creation Care: 26th UN Climate Change Conference
Representatives from the Convocation Chosen to Serve

Following a church-wide call for applications, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has named 24 delegates—selected from among 70 applicants—to represent the presiding bishop’s office at the United Nations 26th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, also known as “COP26.”
Convention 2021: In Nice (FR) Next Week
Listening in Prayer, Responding in Faith:
God's Call in Mission and the Episcopal Church in Europe

Some of us are now making our journey to Holy Trinity Church and the Forum Jorge François in Nice for our in-person gathering, while others of us are tidying up our desks and praying for strong internet connections among our virtual cohort. Together by God's grace and with patience, we will make one unprecedented and amazing hybrid meeting!

The session structure of this year's Convention is necessarily a bit different from years past. The full agenda is available from our website, tec-europe.org/convention

Congregational Delegates, Alternates, Licensed Clergy, Resident Clergy, Officers of the Convocation, and Ministry Initiative Leaders—both in-person and remote—will participate in the Convention's work through an event platform called Whova.

If you have questions about your Convention access point, please contact Maleah Rios, Coordinator for Digital Ministries, directly via email at connect@tec-europe.org now.
A Call to Worship

For anyone interested in attending, from across the Convocation and the globe, Digital Ministries and the Convention Planning Committee cordially invite you to access and participate virtually in every open session next week:

  • Opening Eucharist, Thursday October 21st at 5pm
  • Celebrant: The Rev. Peter Jackson, Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church, Nice
  • Preacher: The Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome
  • Morning Prayer with the Bishop's Address, Friday October 22nd at 9am
  • Presider: The Rt. Rev. Mark D.W. Edington, Bishop of the Convocation
  • Keynote Address, Friday October 22nd at 12 noon
  • Speaker: The Most Rev. Ian Ernest, Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome
  • Evening Prayer with Presentation of Awards, Thursday October 21st at 6pm
  • Officiant: The Rev. Peter Jackson, Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church, Nice
  • Preacher: The Very Rev. Lucinda Laird, Dean of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Paris
  • Morning Prayer with Homily, Thursday October 21st at 5pm
  • Officiant: The Rev. Mark Barwick, Chaplain of St. Alban's, Strasbourg
  • Preacher: The Rev. Christopher Easthill, Rector of St. Augustine of Canterbury, Wiesbaden

All public sessions can be found in the Convention 2021 Playlist on our YouTube Channel. Click the link below to view every available sessions and recording, and subscribe for notifications when we begin to live-stream!
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...and it shall be that they shall bring to thee every great matter, and that they shall judge every small matter, and they shall lighten the task on thee, and they shall bear it with thee.

If thou do this thing, and God command thee so, thou wilt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

- Exodus 18:22b-23
John Nelson Darby Translation, 1890