Beauty and Hope at a Unique Liturgical Pot-Pourri: The Election and Installation of an Episcopal Bishop, with Ordination and Confirmation

According to statistics published by the denomination's General Convention office, the total active baptized membership in the diocese in 2007 was 2,615, and its average Sunday attendance was 1,172, The most recent church to close in the diocese was Holy Trinity Church in Vale in December 2007, after it succumbed to flagging membership, attendance, and finances. [...] plans were made to hold the convention and service of worship in the gymnasium of the high school in Cove.\n We live in a place, a part of the world, she says, where people don't even have the foggiest idea of what church is ... .