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[Click any photo to see a larger version, which will open in a new browser window.] Episcopal
Youth Event (EYE) 2005: I woke up at about 1 o'clock this morning. I remembered that Canon Kep Short, Director of Youth Ministry, and the group of young people and advisors representing the Diocese of New Jersey, together with the group from the Diocese of Newark, were just setting out at that hour for a 12-hour bus trip from Trenton to EYE 2005, in Berea, Kentucky. I prayed for them and for safe travel. I went back to sleep. When I drove into the long-term economy parking lot at Newark Liberty Airport this afternoon, it was 103 degrees. Good preparation for the weather in Kentucky in late July?
Arrived at Lexington Airport about an hour late. A young EYE staffer named Justin, from Minneapolis — about to begin his studies at Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California — picked me up and drove me to Berea. There are 55 bishops in attendance among the 1500 or so gathered for the Episcopal Youth Event, 2005. In 2002 (EYE is held once, every three years) there were 18 bishops who took part. This group of 55 is greater than the sum total of all the bishops in attendance at all previous EYEs. |
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