Youth
Today the youth from Southeast
Florida who are participating in E3, the youth
event being held in conjunction with General Convention,
arrived at the Convention Center.
SE Florida participants in E3 are: Angela Boone (St. Matthew’s, Delray Beach), Vivian Sterling (St. Philip’s, Pompano Beach), Douglas Dozier (Christ
Church, Miami),
Christopher Hendricks (All Saints’, Jensen
Beach), Christopher
“Kit” Allen-Faiella (St. Stephen’s, Miami),
Ian Headley (St. Matthew’s, Delray
Beach) and Tarica Labossiere (St. Matthew’s,
Delray Beach).
Fr. Terrence Taylor, rector of St. Christopher’s, West
Palm Beach, and former diocesan Canon for Youth
Ministry, and Gladys Rodriguez of Todos los Santos,
Miami, are adult advisors to the group, as is
Erin Ferguson, who is also an alternate from our diocese.
At General Convention 2003, Erin Ferguson
(left) of St.
George’s, Riviera
Beach, was a member of the Offical Youth Presence. This
time he is one of our alternates, and is also an adult
counselor, along with Gladys Rodriguez (right) for E3.
Most
Honored Woman
This afternoon the ECW Triennial the
Most Honored Woman—a woman whose ministry and example
are outstanding--from each diocese.
Our ECW chose Monica Allen of Holy Family,
Miami
Gardens. Monica is active in ECW, Daughters
of the King, Cursillo and Kairos Prison Ministry. She
leads a Bible study group and a prayer group in her parish
and works with feeding programs for the homeless—all while
working fulltime in the Miami-Dade County school system
in the Department of Career Preparation.
She was not originally scheduled to be
a delegate to Triennial, but when one of the diocesan
delegates found she was unable to attend, Monica was asked
to fill in.
“It’s a learning experience,” she says.
Little
children
The three-month-old daughter of the Rev.
Augusta Anderson, a deputy from the Diocese of Western
North Carolina, is probably the youngest person on the
floor of the House of Deputies.
Members of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
gather outside the House of Deputies, snapping their fingers
every three seconds to remind deputies that every three
seconds a child dies from poverty-related causes somewhere
in the developing world. Millennium Development Goal #4
is to reduce child mortality.
