Cheers, standing ovation for San Joaquin convention deputies
By Pat McCaughan, September 15, 2008
[Burlingame, California]
Province VIII
representatives, who gathered Sept. 10-11 for their regular business
meeting near San Francisco, also prepared for next July's General
Convention by sharing the stories of their lives.
About 75 bishops, clergy and laity elected officers, approved a
$560,000 triennial budget and celebrated the establishment of new
ministries. They were also the first provincial leaders to participate
in the public narrative project, expected to frame a mission
conversation at the national governing convention in Anaheim,
California.
The Rev. John "Jack" Eastwood, re-elected for a second term as
provincial president, encouraged attendees also to "go back to their
dioceses and tell the story of the province … of sharing a Pentecost
vision of unity by doing together in faith what we cannot do alone."