EAM@40: Remember, Celebrate and Re-Envision Our Mission
March 20, 2013 -- The Episcopal Church Asiamerican Ministry will convene a national consultation to celebrate its 40th anniversary June 20 to 24, 2013, in San Francisco CA.
Focusing on the theme: "EAM@40 Remember, Celebrate and Re-Envision Our Mission," the conference will celebrate the 40 years of Asiamerican Ministry, from its beginnings, when a small group of Chinese and Japanese clergy gathered in San Francisco March 1973.
"What began as modest vision has grown into a conglomerate of diverse ethnic convocations of over a hundred self-identified churches -- Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, South Asian and Southeast Asian," explained the Rev. Dr. Winfred B. Vergara, Episcopal Church Missioner for Asiamerican Ministries.
"Asiamerican" as a term was coined by the EAM pioneers and has evolved into three areas of ministry:
- Ministries to Asian immigrants in America;
- Ministries to American born Asian-Americans; and
- Ministries of bridge-building with churches in Asia and other parts of the world.
At the consultation opening Eucharist two historical Asian American leaders, the Rev. Hiram Hisanori Kano and the Rev. Dr. Winston Ching, will be remembered and honored along with living pioneers.
Fr. Kano, whose name is being considered for "Holy Women and Holy Men" recognition by the church, championed the cause of immigrant farmers in the 1930's and became a spiritual leader in the infamous Japanese Internment Camps during World War II.
Dr. Ching pioneered the EAM and sought to establish links with Asian churches.
Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves of El Camino Real will be the celebrant and Dr. Vergara will preach.
Consultation speakers will include clergy and lay leaders who will emphasize the memory of those who pioneered EAM.
Among key events at the consultation:
• Bishop Stacy Sauls, chief operating officer of the Episcopal Church Center will keynote on "Domestic Mission: Focus on Poverty."
• Dr. Rodger Nishioka, professor of Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, GA, and noted motivational speaker, will keynote on "Global Mission: Focus on Asiamerica."
• The June 23 Eucharist service will feature a multicultural liturgy complete with a Chinese dragon dance, Philippine gongs, Korean drums and other colorful Asian culture displays. The preacher will be Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori; the main celebrant is Rev. Dr. Fran Toy, the first Asian American woman to be ordained in the Episcopal Church.
The conference Registration form is here: https://www.formstack.com/forms/DFMS-eam40
For more information, contact Dr. Vergara: wvergara@episcopalchurch.org
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2/2/13
Lions Dance at Bishop Andrew M.L. Dietsche's Institution Service
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| February 2, 2013, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC |
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1/23/13
The Rev. Debra Low-Skinner named Pastoral Associate in Saratoga, CA
January 20, 2013 -- The Rev. Debra Low-Skinner, who formerly served in the Diocese of Long Island, has been named permanent Pastoral Associate of Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church in Saratoga, CA.
St. Andrew's is a very large parish with 2,000 members and an average Sunday attendance of 450. The rector, the Rev. Channing Smith, and Mother Debra are the only paid clergy on staff.
St. Andrew's also has a parish day school with an enrollment of 330 students, ranging from kindergarten to grade 8.
Between 1983 and 1992, Mother Debra, a layperson at the time and a member of St. Andrew's, was sponsored for ordination by that parish.
When she became engaged to Don Skinner she transferred membership to his parish, St. Luke's in Los Gatos, CA, and completed her ordination process there.
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| Mother Debra several years ago in North Bellmore (Long Island) NY with Don Skinner |
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The Rev. Debra L. Low-Skinner
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
13601 Saratoga Avenue
Saratoga CA 95070
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
13601 Saratoga Avenue
Saratoga CA 95070
Office: (408) 867-3493 ext 244
“Miracles — Both Big and Small — Can and Do Happen”
January 20, 2013
Sermon for Epiphany Two, Liturgical Year C
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga, CA
By The Rev. Debra L. Low-Skinner
Back in the mid-1980s, when I was a layperson and a member of this parish, I remember distinctly a particular time when I was serving as a chalice bearer and assisting Fr. Roger Barney at an 8 a.m. Eucharist in the Chapel.
I stood by him as he was setting the altar during the offertory. After he had laid the wafers on the paten, he took the silver cruet that held the wine. When he began to pour the contents into the chalice, out came water instead of wine. Puzzled by this, he then took the other silver cruet that held the water. He opened the lid and looked inside and saw it held, not wine, but water. After a second of considering what to do next, he calmly, without a big to-do, reached for the ambry key and stepped over to open the ambry door. He reached in for the glass carafe of reserved blessed wine. He then poured some of the carafe’s contents into the chalice. He wryly commented to me that this was just like Cana, where the water had turned into wine!!
Indeed, as we heard in today’s Gospel lesson from John (2:1-11), it was at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, in response to his mother’s request, where Jesus calmly and without a big to-do transformed water into wine. And not just a chalice-full, but over 120 gallons. And not just any ol’ wine, but very good-tasting wine. Immediately those who witnessed this event (including his mother, his disciples, and the servants who had drawn the wine from the stone water jars) recognized this as an extraordinary and amazing feat.
Why, it was a miracle and the person who accomplished this was a miracle worker, or maybe a magician, or at least not your average or normal-type of guy. And what could be the source of his special powers? John explains that Jesus did this sign “to reveal his (divine) glory and (that) his disciples believed in him.” (John 2:11)
Though this particular miracle is found only in the Gospel of John, all four Gospels describe many more miracles performed by Jesus Christ. For instance, there are two dozen stories of miraculous healings. These include healing people who were blind, deaf, paralyzed, had a hemorrhage, had leprosy, were possessed by demons, and had an ear cut off. There are three stories of Jesus miraculously raising the dead, including Lazarus in Bethany and Jairus’ daughter. And there are eight stories of Jesus performing so-called “nature miracles”, when the laws of nature were momentarily suspended. These include when Jesus fed 5000 people, calmed a raging storm while on the Sea of Galilee, walked on water, and multiplied a catch of fish.
Notice how none of these miracles were done by Jesus to show off or to point to himself as a god. Rather these were done to point beyond Jesus to God himself, who is Jesus’ father in heaven. Also, these miracles were done as signs that the Kingdom of God has come, with Jesus Christ’s arrival as God’s earthly agent and emissary of divine love, care, healing, reconciliation, and our salvation from evil and death.
Yet for all the magnificence and awesomeness of Jesus Christ’s miracles and messianic message, I am more struck by the way Jesus went about it all. He did his miracles calmly, without any fanfare or big to-do and without a lot of people around. (Yes, he did feed 5000 people, but only the disciples witnessed him taking the barley loaves and fish and miraculously multiplying them a thousand-fold.) Jesus never acted like Charlton Heston playing Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic movie “The Ten Commandments”. There, with all of Egypt’s army and the multitude of fleeing Israelites watching, and with the help of a lot of Hollywood special effects, Moses lifted his staff and parted the Red Sea with thunderous and spectacular results. Tah-dah!!! Let’s all give Moses a big round of applause!! No, Cecil B. DeMille’s ways are not Jesus Christ’s ways. In comparison, Jesus’ miracles seem more subdued, human-sized, and more up-close-and-personal. At times Jesus even told the people he healed to tell no one about who had healed them.
In addition, Jesus expanded his ministry and entrusted and empowered his disciples to perform miracles in his name. Not only did they pick up their crosses and followed him, they went near and far and did likewise to further spread the Kingdom of God. As described in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus commissioned the eleven apostles to “go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved. … And these signs will accompany those who believe: by my name they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them, and they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:15-18)
Those of us who are baptized and follow Jesus Christ as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”, probably feel that we are mere human beings and totally unable to perform such signs or miracles. (Me touch snakes? Not happening!!) But, again, most of the miracles performed by Jesus were not big and spectacular feats of the impossible made possible.
Rather these signs were what he enabled his sometimes bumbling and imperfect disciples to do: to love one another, to proclaim the Good News of salvation, to heal the sick, to feed the hungry, to encourage the faint-hearted, to give alms, to visit those in prison, and to seek to do good in Christ’s name.
The more cynical or skeptical among us may even think that there are no miracles happening in this day and age. And yet, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there are miracles — both large and small — happening all the time.
Consider some of the following examples:
• A backpack full of school supplies given by this parish to a Santa Maria Urban Ministry child enables her to do her math homework and finally master long division.
• A storybook donated to a youth in a Next Door Solutions house opens up to him the wonderful world of creative writing and fantasy.
• Years of prayers and courageous right actions by people such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., finally end centuries of racial segregation and foster civil rights in this country.
• Prayers and people’s generosity enabled a young girl, Malala Yousafzai, to be flown to a London hospital for life-saving treatment. She miraculously recovers from the brain injury suffered when the Taliban in Pakistan fired on her and her school bus. Her only “crime” in their eyes was being a girl and wanting to have an education.
• A bi-racial young lad from a broken home in Hawaii, with God’s grace and his grandmother’s love and support, manages to study hard, make it into Harvard University and Columbia Law School, and eventually get elected and become President Barack Obama, our 44th President of the United States.
• Finally, with love, faithfulness, and life-long commitment, married couples in this parish hang-in there, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, and are able to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary (like Nate and Caroline Wilson) and even their 66th wedding anniversary (like Jean and Dan Woodward). When so many marriages in this country ending in divorce, celebrating these golden+ anniversaries is a big miracle.
You see, miracles (whether we recognize them as such) really do happen all the time, in big ways and in small. Most of the time, they happen without a big to-do or on the scale of a Biblical movie epic. They are the result of God’s grace and our willingness to love and serve the Christ in one another.
As Jesus said (in Matthew 19:26), what for human beings seems to be impossible, “for God all things are possible.”
Another way of looking at this ministry of ours of working miracles is how Mother Teresa of Calcutta described it:
• “Give yourselves fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.”
• “The miracle is not that we do this work, but we are happy to do it.”
• “We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
So, let us be bold in our faith and expect miracles to happen. Let us give thanks to God for miracles seen and unseen. And let us praise our Lord Jesus Christ for showing us and empowering us to be miracle workers in his name.
Amen.
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The Rev. Debra L. Low-Skinner St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
13601 Saratoga Avenue
Saratoga CA 95070
Office: (408) 867-3493 ext 244
Sermon for Epiphany Two, Liturgical Year C
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga, CA
By The Rev. Debra L. Low-Skinner
Back in the mid-1980s, when I was a layperson and a member of this parish, I remember distinctly a particular time when I was serving as a chalice bearer and assisting Fr. Roger Barney at an 8 a.m. Eucharist in the Chapel.
I stood by him as he was setting the altar during the offertory. After he had laid the wafers on the paten, he took the silver cruet that held the wine. When he began to pour the contents into the chalice, out came water instead of wine. Puzzled by this, he then took the other silver cruet that held the water. He opened the lid and looked inside and saw it held, not wine, but water. After a second of considering what to do next, he calmly, without a big to-do, reached for the ambry key and stepped over to open the ambry door. He reached in for the glass carafe of reserved blessed wine. He then poured some of the carafe’s contents into the chalice. He wryly commented to me that this was just like Cana, where the water had turned into wine!!
Indeed, as we heard in today’s Gospel lesson from John (2:1-11), it was at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee, in response to his mother’s request, where Jesus calmly and without a big to-do transformed water into wine. And not just a chalice-full, but over 120 gallons. And not just any ol’ wine, but very good-tasting wine. Immediately those who witnessed this event (including his mother, his disciples, and the servants who had drawn the wine from the stone water jars) recognized this as an extraordinary and amazing feat.
Why, it was a miracle and the person who accomplished this was a miracle worker, or maybe a magician, or at least not your average or normal-type of guy. And what could be the source of his special powers? John explains that Jesus did this sign “to reveal his (divine) glory and (that) his disciples believed in him.” (John 2:11)
Though this particular miracle is found only in the Gospel of John, all four Gospels describe many more miracles performed by Jesus Christ. For instance, there are two dozen stories of miraculous healings. These include healing people who were blind, deaf, paralyzed, had a hemorrhage, had leprosy, were possessed by demons, and had an ear cut off. There are three stories of Jesus miraculously raising the dead, including Lazarus in Bethany and Jairus’ daughter. And there are eight stories of Jesus performing so-called “nature miracles”, when the laws of nature were momentarily suspended. These include when Jesus fed 5000 people, calmed a raging storm while on the Sea of Galilee, walked on water, and multiplied a catch of fish.
Notice how none of these miracles were done by Jesus to show off or to point to himself as a god. Rather these were done to point beyond Jesus to God himself, who is Jesus’ father in heaven. Also, these miracles were done as signs that the Kingdom of God has come, with Jesus Christ’s arrival as God’s earthly agent and emissary of divine love, care, healing, reconciliation, and our salvation from evil and death.
Yet for all the magnificence and awesomeness of Jesus Christ’s miracles and messianic message, I am more struck by the way Jesus went about it all. He did his miracles calmly, without any fanfare or big to-do and without a lot of people around. (Yes, he did feed 5000 people, but only the disciples witnessed him taking the barley loaves and fish and miraculously multiplying them a thousand-fold.) Jesus never acted like Charlton Heston playing Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic movie “The Ten Commandments”. There, with all of Egypt’s army and the multitude of fleeing Israelites watching, and with the help of a lot of Hollywood special effects, Moses lifted his staff and parted the Red Sea with thunderous and spectacular results. Tah-dah!!! Let’s all give Moses a big round of applause!! No, Cecil B. DeMille’s ways are not Jesus Christ’s ways. In comparison, Jesus’ miracles seem more subdued, human-sized, and more up-close-and-personal. At times Jesus even told the people he healed to tell no one about who had healed them.
In addition, Jesus expanded his ministry and entrusted and empowered his disciples to perform miracles in his name. Not only did they pick up their crosses and followed him, they went near and far and did likewise to further spread the Kingdom of God. As described in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus commissioned the eleven apostles to “go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved. … And these signs will accompany those who believe: by my name they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them, and they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:15-18)
Those of us who are baptized and follow Jesus Christ as “the Way, the Truth, and the Life”, probably feel that we are mere human beings and totally unable to perform such signs or miracles. (Me touch snakes? Not happening!!) But, again, most of the miracles performed by Jesus were not big and spectacular feats of the impossible made possible.
Rather these signs were what he enabled his sometimes bumbling and imperfect disciples to do: to love one another, to proclaim the Good News of salvation, to heal the sick, to feed the hungry, to encourage the faint-hearted, to give alms, to visit those in prison, and to seek to do good in Christ’s name.
The more cynical or skeptical among us may even think that there are no miracles happening in this day and age. And yet, for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there are miracles — both large and small — happening all the time.
Consider some of the following examples:
• A backpack full of school supplies given by this parish to a Santa Maria Urban Ministry child enables her to do her math homework and finally master long division.
• A storybook donated to a youth in a Next Door Solutions house opens up to him the wonderful world of creative writing and fantasy.
• Years of prayers and courageous right actions by people such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., finally end centuries of racial segregation and foster civil rights in this country.
• Prayers and people’s generosity enabled a young girl, Malala Yousafzai, to be flown to a London hospital for life-saving treatment. She miraculously recovers from the brain injury suffered when the Taliban in Pakistan fired on her and her school bus. Her only “crime” in their eyes was being a girl and wanting to have an education.
• A bi-racial young lad from a broken home in Hawaii, with God’s grace and his grandmother’s love and support, manages to study hard, make it into Harvard University and Columbia Law School, and eventually get elected and become President Barack Obama, our 44th President of the United States.
• Finally, with love, faithfulness, and life-long commitment, married couples in this parish hang-in there, in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, and are able to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary (like Nate and Caroline Wilson) and even their 66th wedding anniversary (like Jean and Dan Woodward). When so many marriages in this country ending in divorce, celebrating these golden+ anniversaries is a big miracle.
You see, miracles (whether we recognize them as such) really do happen all the time, in big ways and in small. Most of the time, they happen without a big to-do or on the scale of a Biblical movie epic. They are the result of God’s grace and our willingness to love and serve the Christ in one another.
As Jesus said (in Matthew 19:26), what for human beings seems to be impossible, “for God all things are possible.”
Another way of looking at this ministry of ours of working miracles is how Mother Teresa of Calcutta described it:
• “Give yourselves fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.”
• “The miracle is not that we do this work, but we are happy to do it.”
• “We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.”
So, let us be bold in our faith and expect miracles to happen. Let us give thanks to God for miracles seen and unseen. And let us praise our Lord Jesus Christ for showing us and empowering us to be miracle workers in his name.
Amen.
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The Rev. Debra L. Low-Skinner St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
13601 Saratoga Avenue
Saratoga CA 95070
Office: (408) 867-3493 ext 244
1/18/13
Next EAM Commission meeting March 8
The next meeting of the Diocese of Long Island EAM Commission will be on March 8th at noon.
The meeting will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Flushing.
Guests are always welcome.
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The meeting will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Flushing.
Guests are always welcome.
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9/12/12
Blessed to be a Blessing
The "Blessed to Be a Blessing" stewardship reflection series is designed to
complement and support congregations during their annual giving campaigns,
October 7 - November 11, 2012. Each of the six Sunday reflections features a
different writer from across the Episcopal Church, exploring stewardship as a
response to that week's lectionary reading from the Gospel of Mark.
Sunday, October 7, 2012 (Proper 22B, Mark 10:2-16) - The Right Rev. Catherine
"Cate" Waynick, bishop of the Diocese of Indianapolis
Sunday, October 14, 2012 (Proper 23B, Mark 10:17-31) - The Very Rev. Walter
B.A. Brownridge, dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew, Diocese of
Hawaii
Sunday, October 21, 2012 (Proper 24B, Mark 10:35-45) - Lelanda Lee, member of
Executive Council and lay leader at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Longmont,
Colorado, Diocese of Colorado
Sunday, October 28, 2012 (Proper 25B, Mark 10:46-52) - Cindy Ruiz, lay leader
at St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, River Oaks, Texas, Diocese of Fort
Worth
Sunday, November 4, 2012 (Proper 26B, Mark 12:28-34) - The Rev. Tim Schenck,
rector of the Episcopal Parish of St. John the Evangelist, Hingham,
Massachusetts, Diocese of Massachusetts
Sunday, November 11, 2012 (Proper 27B, Mark 12:38-44) - The Right Rev.
Michael Bruce Curry, bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina
Pledge Card
Full-page Reflections
8/8/12
Peter Ng installed as honorary canon at Philippines Episcopal cathedral
By Floyd Lalwet | August 7, 2012
Episcopal Church of the Philippines Prime Bishop Edward Malecdan (second from right) installs Peter Ng (second from left) as an honorary canon at the ECP National Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John in Quezon. Photo/Bruce Woodcock
[Episcopal Church of the Philippines News] Peter Ng, the Episcopal Church’s partnership officer for Asia and the Pacific, has been named an honorary lay canon of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines’ National Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John in Quezon City, Philippines.
The appointment was formally conferred by the Most Rev. Edward P. Malecdan, prime bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), during Holy Eucharist on Aug. 5 at the cathedral.
Introducing Ng to the cathedral congregation, Malecdan described Ng as a very close friend to the ECP, acknowledging “his huge task” in taking care of “cooperation and companionship between TEC and other Anglican/Episcopal churches in our region.
“According to Anglican and Roman Catholic tradition, the ceremonial position of an honorary lay canon ‘is conferred or given to a person who performs distinguished services such as establishing and strengthening relationships and partnerships between governments or churches, and between groups and individuals,’” Malecdan said. “In short, the person is an ambassador of friendship and reconciliation, to say the least. Peter Ng has been more than that to us in the ECP.”
Malecdan said that Canon Ng has “played a major role in solidifying and cementing the relationship of our two churches. It is in recognition of this long, dedicated and continuing service to the ECP that the title of honorary lay canon of this national cathedral is conferred upon Peter Ng. He more than deserves to be our canon.”
Canon Ng has served as partnership officer for Asia and the Pacific since September 2005. A former member of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, Ng was instrumental in creating the Episcopal Church’s first Jubilee Center in an Asian congregation, the Church of Our Savior in lower Manhattan, and served as its director from 1992.
Canon Ng becomes the second U.S. citizen to be appointed as honorary canon of the ECP National Cathedral. In 2005, then Prime Bishop Ignacio C. Soliba appointed the Rev. Mark Harris as honorary canon. Harris was then a long-time member of the Joint Committee on the Philippine Covenant, an agreement between ECP and the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, which primarily monitored the work towards the financial autonomy of the Philippine church.
The Episcopal Church in the Philippines was a missionary district of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from 1898, became a missionary diocese in 1965 and became an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion in 1988.
The two churches have since shared a global covenant, which was last renewed in 2007. Through the covenant the churches rejoice in their common history and heritage and share a common commitment to full partnership in mission.
– Floyd Lalwet is national development officer for the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
[Episcopal Church of the Philippines News] Peter Ng, the Episcopal Church’s partnership officer for Asia and the Pacific, has been named an honorary lay canon of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines’ National Cathedral of St. Mary and St. John in Quezon City, Philippines.
The appointment was formally conferred by the Most Rev. Edward P. Malecdan, prime bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines (ECP), during Holy Eucharist on Aug. 5 at the cathedral.
Introducing Ng to the cathedral congregation, Malecdan described Ng as a very close friend to the ECP, acknowledging “his huge task” in taking care of “cooperation and companionship between TEC and other Anglican/Episcopal churches in our region.
“According to Anglican and Roman Catholic tradition, the ceremonial position of an honorary lay canon ‘is conferred or given to a person who performs distinguished services such as establishing and strengthening relationships and partnerships between governments or churches, and between groups and individuals,’” Malecdan said. “In short, the person is an ambassador of friendship and reconciliation, to say the least. Peter Ng has been more than that to us in the ECP.”
Malecdan said that Canon Ng has “played a major role in solidifying and cementing the relationship of our two churches. It is in recognition of this long, dedicated and continuing service to the ECP that the title of honorary lay canon of this national cathedral is conferred upon Peter Ng. He more than deserves to be our canon.”
Canon Ng has served as partnership officer for Asia and the Pacific since September 2005. A former member of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, Ng was instrumental in creating the Episcopal Church’s first Jubilee Center in an Asian congregation, the Church of Our Savior in lower Manhattan, and served as its director from 1992.
Canon Ng becomes the second U.S. citizen to be appointed as honorary canon of the ECP National Cathedral. In 2005, then Prime Bishop Ignacio C. Soliba appointed the Rev. Mark Harris as honorary canon. Harris was then a long-time member of the Joint Committee on the Philippine Covenant, an agreement between ECP and the U.S.-based Episcopal Church, which primarily monitored the work towards the financial autonomy of the Philippine church.
The Episcopal Church in the Philippines was a missionary district of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church from 1898, became a missionary diocese in 1965 and became an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion in 1988.
The two churches have since shared a global covenant, which was last renewed in 2007. Through the covenant the churches rejoice in their common history and heritage and share a common commitment to full partnership in mission.
– Floyd Lalwet is national development officer for the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.
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