Synod coverage honored: journal, magazine, Web site get awards.Birmingham, Ala The three main information tools of the Anglican Church of Canada were honored at a meeting of Associated Church Press last month for their coverage of last summer's meeting of General Synod The General Synod is the title of the governing body of some church organizations. Church of England In the Church of England, General Synod was instituted in 1970 and is the culmination of a process of rediscovering self-government for the Church of England that had . Ministry Matters, the magazine distributed to clergy and lay leaders, received an award of merit from the international church press group for its coverage in the Fall, 2001 issue. The September, 2001, special section on General Synod published by the Anglican Journal, received an honorable mention, as did coverage on the Web site, www.anglican.ca. The Journal also received an honorable mention for a series of diocesan profiles that, over a period of three years, featured each of the Anglican Church of Canada's 30 dioceses. The Web site received an honorable mention for news coverage. That article, by Web site manager Leanne Larmondin, was a humorous description of bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu difficulties General Synod organizers encountered when they planned a joing service with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) (French: Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 182,077 baptized members in 624 congregations. in a public arena. Organizers found themselves mired mire n. 1. An area of wet, soggy, muddy ground; a bog. 2. Deep slimy soil or mud. 3. A disadvantageous or difficult condition or situation: the mire of poverty. v. in red tape because wine was to be served at the event. Top honors in the awards program went to the general interest magazine Sojourners and to Episcopal Life, the newspaper of the U.S. Episcopal church Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. Doctrine and Organization . In other business, the ACP (Associate Computing Professional) The award for successful completion of an examination in computers offered by the ICCP. It is geared to newcomers in the computing field. For more information, visit www.iccp.org. ACP - Algebra of Communicating Processes convention elected Ms Larmondin to its executive board. ACP has 175 members with combined circulations of more than 28 million readers. |
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