ECUSA ponders $1m gift: U.S. church will examine idea in October. (Council Of General Synod).Calgary Canon Stephen Lane, partner to CoGS These are all the Cogs found in Disney's Toontown Online. Names that are moved forward are leaders of the HQ of that specific Cog type. Bossbots
of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. (ECUSA ECUSA Episcopal Church in the United States of America ), stunned the Canadian primate, Archbishop Michael Peers The Most Reverend Michael Geoffrey Peers (born 1934) was Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada from 1986 till 2004. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1934, Archbishop Peers completed an undergraduate degree in languages at the University of British Columbia in 1956 , when he announced that the executive council of ECUSA had introduced a motion to give $1 million US to the Canadian church. Mr. Lane said the motion came spontaneously from Dean Cynthia Black, dean of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Kalamazoo, Mich., after Archdeacon Helena-Rose Houldcroft, Canadian partner to the U.S. church, had given a presentation on the native residential schools settlement at the ECUSA executive meeting in Ellicort City, Md. Archbishop Peers, said he was taken by surprise by Mr. Lane's announcement, "and naturally I am quite delighted." He said he would confer with the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples The Council of Indigenous Peoples (Chinese: 原住民族委員會, pinyin: yuánzhùmínzú wěiyuánhuì) (sometimes referred to as Council of Aboriginal Affairs about the gift. In an interview, Dean Black said her motion was in part inspired by Archdeacon Houldcroft's report. "I was moved by a comment she made about the abundance we have in the Episcopal church, that we enjoy different standards in the way our churches operate and even in the places where we meet," Dean Black said. "She didn't mean it as a value judgment, but I was thinking that we had done our budget for the general convention and we had spent between $24 and $26 million (U.S.) renovating our headquarters in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ." "I was thinking 'holy cow,' the settlement fund in Canada is about what we use to renovate a building, for heaven's sake. The reality is that we are a very wealthy church." The motion, she added, "was about solidarity." Right after she made the motion at the ECUSA meeting to give the Canadian church $1 million, the chair called a recess, the dean said. It was referred for consultation with Archbishop Peers to determine the most helpful way the American church can support the Canadian church. The issue will come up at the next ECUSA Executive Council meeting in October, Mr. Lane said. He added, "The odds are very good about a proposal coming back then. There will be some debate about the particulars. It's on the table. There was a very warm reception." |
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