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	11th Annual Ecumenical Good Friday Cross Walk April 19th Wednesday, March 6, 2019 11th Annual Ecumenical Good Friday Cross Walk April 19th. Gather at 8:45am at Aenon Baptist Church 175 Genesee St. Read more »
	Pancake Races! VIDEO Tuesday, March 5, 2019 This past Sunday St. Paul's Rochester hosted the running of the clerics! This is an annual pancake race in our diocese in preparation for shrove Tuesday and a Holy Lent. Competitors raced around a gym while flipping a pancake in their frying pan. Rev. Padraic Collins-Bohrer served as referee, and Rev. Catherine Tatem served some delicious gumbo after the races. Donations from each competitor were awarded to the charity of the winning priest. Here's how the awards ended up: Read more »
	This Saturday April 13! Friday, March 1, 2019 Dear all, I’d like to welcome you to the first Arts@Ascension Festival happening this Spring at Church of the Ascension, Rochester, NY. The Arts festival this year will feature a great number of events, ranging from an orchestral concert, an organ recital by Prof. Nathan Laube of the Eastman School of Music, services for Easter and Ascension Day, an event in collaboration with the American Guild of Organists and more. In particular, I hope the below event will be of interest to all of you, initially. Read more »
	Choir Returns Home Thursday, February 28, 2019 GENEVA, NY - St. Peter's Community Arts Academy Senior (youth) Choir returned home from a 9 day trip performing in England, Wales and Scottland. The 32 choristers, ages 13-18 were phenomenal in their performances, and the audiences were large, and quite taken with the excellence of the choir. Long standing ovations in each of their performances. The young people were outstanding ambassadors of our Diocese, and of American youth. Here are some photos of their trip... Read more »
	When one door closes, God opens another Monday, February 25, 2019 Do you believe that when one door closes, God opens another? On January 16, 2019 the Cen-cinai Bureau of the Costa Rican National Department of Health announced that they would not accept our offer to build a school in Cartagena. There were less than five children left in the village that qualified for government assistance – the rest had left with their families in the caravans headed north towards the United States. We were devastated – three years of hard work down the drain. Read more »
	Harvest Kitchen, St. Luke's Brockport Thursday, February 21, 2019 St. Luke's in Brockport offers up many missions that support the community. The congregation accommodates a Food Shelf and also the Brockport Clothing Center. Every 2nd Sunday of the month, you can also join St. Luke's for a meal at their Harvest Kitchen. Watch HERE how this mission is helping the Brockport community! Read more »