The sight of broccoli brought a look of joy to Naomi Sulpizio’s face. At her lunch table, the 3-year-old dunked the florets in ranch sauce and left smears of white on her cheek as she gobbled each piece.
The Episcopal Diocese of Spokane has announced its sponsorship of a Simplified Summer Food Program for Children, a child nutrition strategy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The pilot program, Stone Soup Café, will be hosted by the West Central Episcopal Mission.
Bishop James E. Waggoner said clergy discussed how their activities during worship translate into daily action.
“What we do when we come together and what we say when we worship, how is that carried forward into our lives and the way we function in the world?,” he said.
The Rev. Paul Lebens-Englund loves the ministry of coffee shops and greenways, barstools and dining room tables. Anywhere people are making conversation and living life is somewhere he likes to be.
They sat quietly in the dim lights, heads bowed, with tormented expressions etched on their faces as they processed last week’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, and as they prayed for Connecticut’s grieving families.
About 20 people attended a prayer service at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist on Wednesday
On Wednesday Bishop James Waggoner, of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane, will preside at a prayer service for the victims and survivors of the Newtown, Conn. school shootings.
The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, will tour ecumenical mission projects in the Yakama Indian Reservation, Dec. 8, and preach at St. John’s Cathedral in Spokane Dec. 9.