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DIOCESAN PILLAR UPDATE
Part of being the Episcopal Church is belonging to something known as the Diocese. Emmanuel is part of the Diocese of Missouri. Our diocese stretches from Kirksville in the northeast corner of the state to Poplar Bluff and Sikeston to the south and west to Jefferson City. There are forty-two congregations in our diocese.
Here at Emmanuel we participate in the Emery Washington Convocation (a gathering of several churches in the metro area). We have 3 elected delegates that attend meetings to work on community building and resolutions as they are brought forward. Also under this pillar is Deaconess Anne House, Rockwell House, United Thank Offering, Companion Diocese of Puerto Rico, and Latin X Ministries. More on all of these in future newsletters.
This week we highlight the work of Episcopal City Mission (ECM). ECM provides chaplains to work in the St. Louis City and County Juvenile Detention Centers as well as some facilities of Missouri Division of Youth Services. The chaplains have group meetings, prayer services, grief groups, etc. Emmanuel is a sponsoring church, which means we sponsor birthday parties twice a year at the city and county detention center. With the support of Emmanuel and other churches in the metro area, there are monthly birthday parties celebrating any youth who has a birthday.
For the birthday parties, we provide pizza, snacks, drinks, ice cream, candy for bingo prizes and a birthday gift for each child having a birthday. We sponsor in January and February. If you would like to support ECM individually we invite you to become a donor or attend the annual gala Moment in Time which will be October 19, 2023. More details will be available in the upcoming weeks. For more information you can contact Mary Jane Kuhn, Emmanuel’s Parish Ambassador.
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