We hear so much about the decline in the Episcopal Church but there are places where the church is growing. This from Florida.About 400 Christ Episcopal Church parishioners gathered in their new Parish Hall Wednesday night in Ponte Vedra Beach to celebrate the realization of an eight-year dream.
They also welcomed a special guest from New York City who led them.
"Let the doors be opened," said The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, national presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, as the consecration service began.
The Rev. Samuel Howard, bishop of the Diocese of Florida, also joined the Christ Church clergy for the service, which included prayers, hymns, a dance performance by the church's liturgical dancers and a sermon by Schori.
"This is the culmination of what has been a long road," said Rector Richard Westbury, acknowledging former Rector Jim Cooper, who had proposed the new parish hall when membership outgrew the old center on the campus at 400 San Juan Drive.
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