Monthly Archives: July 2009

Father Gene Foreman Experiencing “Miraculous” Recovery

Father Gene Foreman was to have a heart by-pass and return home to recover. It was to be a serious but routine procedure. However, due to serious complications following the successful surgery, Father Gene spent nearly three months in the hospital, six weeks of that in an unconscious state. There were considerable doubts as to […]

Bishop Epps Visits Christ the Redeemer Mission

In July Bishop David Epps visited Christ the Redeemer Mission Church located in Cookeville, Tennessee where Father John Boggs serves as the mission’s vicar.
The purpose of the bishop’s visit was to further the understanding of the mission members about the Charismatic Episcopal Church; its theology, its liturgy, and its worship. Bishop Epps also […]

Preaching to Muslims

From Bishop Hannington Bahemuka
Uganda

Dear Beloved Prayer Partners,
It was great being with the moslems. We met in Lakeview Hotel Mbarara. The Hall was fully packed. There were about five hundred muslim leaders, sheikhs and Hajjs, and about three hundred moslem women.
There were only 13 Christian pastors in the room. I was at first disturbed as to […]

Daily Office Lectionary Bookmarks for August

Here are the Daily Office Bookmarks for August 2009.

August Bookmarks

Three Churches Burned in the Sudan

From Bishop Tom Nak Koyanyi
Sudan

Three churches with grass roofs have been burnt. Two of the churches have replaced their roofs with sheet metal. This one (pictured above) is in town and the Christians can’t replace the roof themselves because the building materials needed for the roof cost about $2,700 USD; the faithful of this church […]

Youth Ministry in Recife, Brazil

Paróquia da Reconciliação - Parish of Reconciliation
by Fr.Ebenezer Paz

Every Friday night the youth of the Parish of Reconciliation, in Recife, Brazil, go out to the street corners and hand out leaflets to the young people who “cruise for kicks” around night clubs and dance houses. They go out late in the evening, pray, sing worship […]

Lazarus Healing Session to be Held in Maine

By Suzanne Newton
Church of the Prince of Peace
Sanford, Maine

On April 16-18 the ministry team for Lazarus Ministry of the Northeast gathered in Sanford , Maine, for a Team Training Weekend. This ministry has been operating out of Kingston, N.H. under the leadership of Canon Mark Pearson for several years.
Over the last year, God has enlarged […]

Patriarch Visits New Creation Healing Center

The Bishop Frank Costantino room at ICR
L-R: Fr. Jim Spence, Abp. Craig Bates, Canon Mark Pearson
Canon Mark Pearson serves as the Rector of Trinity Church, Kingston, New Hampshire, they have recently moved from Plaistow. They are now meeting in a Baptist Church at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Canon Pearson is known world […]

Patriarch Visits Northeast Congregations

The Most Rev. Craig Bates, Patriarch of the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church, is also the Primate of the Charismatic Episcopal Church of North America and Bishop of the Diocese of the Northeast. As part of his office as Bishop of the Northeast, the Patriarch traveled to Maine and New Hampshire on […]

Bishop Simpson Visits New Home of Ascension CEC

On Sunday, December 14th of 2008, Ascension Charismatic Episcopal Church moved from meeting in a home to a rented building in South Apopka, Florida, about 8 miles away.
Various members of the congregation pitched in; painting, plastering, re-wired lighting, and patching the rented building. Banners were hung, the Altar and tabernacle set in place, chairs, […]

Calendar Correction

The ICCEC Calendar for 2009 has mistaken listed the Sundays in July as Kingdomtide. The season of Pentecost is from Pentecost Sunday until the the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6th), so there are three more Sundays to celebrate Pentecost in red vestments. We apologize for the confusion and any inconvenience.

The Church of Reconciliation Takes the Real Presence of Christ to the Streets!

The Church of Reconciliation celebrated the 4th of July a bit differently this year. Instead of watching the annual parade together, we were in the annual parade together. Inspired by Psalm 68 and prompted by the Holy Spirit, we met at the church, first for Holy Communion and prayer, and then we were led […]

Summer Camp in Pärnu, Estonia

SUmmer Camp 2009 - Estonia
Pärnu, Estonia
CEC churches in Estonian and Latvia held their annual Summer Camp on July 10-12, 2009, at the Uulu Lutheran Center near Pärnu, a city in southwerstern Estonia. Over 30 people participated in the masses, prayers, lectures, sporting activities, and playing photo-hunt game + a lot of good music, evening at […]

Baptism at St. Matthew’s

The Sacrament of Holy Baptism was celebrated Sunday at St. Matthew’s CEC in Hogansville, GA. Father Ron Clemmer, Vicar of the congregation, baptized 16 year old Jordan Dorrough and 9 year old Aaron Greggor.
Following the liturgy of the sacred vows Fr. Ron sprinkled the entire congregation with Holy Water and, when it came to […]

Reflections on a Prayer Meeting

By Joel Klampert
Lifepath Church
Middletown, RI
This article was written about a June 10th prayer meeting.
On July 9th 6 Churches met again for prayer.

New England has received the moniker “The preachers graveyard”. It is a very broken area of the US and it is continually amazing to see how little people seem to care.
Well it’s no secret […]