Loading...Eleven resolutions submitted for consideration by the Convention of the Diocese of Kentucky are now posted on an interactive page on the diocese's Web site.
Included are the proposed rules for conducting the special convention in June for the eighth bishop of Kentucky.
Most other resolutions were submitted by the General Convention deputation and members of the Peace and Justice Division. They address a range of topics and issues, including health care, equitable education for children, anti-racism, support for world missionaries, Millennium Development Goals and tithing. One resolution asks the convention to approve designating the first Sunday of Lent as Episcopal Relief and Development Sunday.
Another, poignant resolution requests that the diocese establish April 16 as a local day of commemoration for Sister Emily Cooper and All Forgotten Children. It furthermore asks that the diocese request the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music to submit the name of Sister Emily Cooper and All Forgotten Children to the 2012 General Convention for inclusion in Holy Women, Holy Men (formerly Lesser Feasts and Fasts). According to the resolution, soon after her commissioning as a deaconness Sister Emily was called to serve in the Diocese of Kentucky by Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith, who was both the diocesan and presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. In 1880, she became director of the new Home of the Innocents, founded to serve very ill, unwanted and abused children as it still does today. There she encountered many children abandoned without even a name.
The resolutions may be found here, and each post offers an opportunity for comment.
Visit the diocesan convention page for additional information about the annual gathering: where it is, how to get there, where to stay, what to do.
