From Mississippi-
More than 4,000 people are expected to attend the 184th annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi meeting this weekend at the Jackson Convention Complex.
Some have deemed it the largest gathering of Mississippi Episcopalians in recent history.
"It will be a large gathering for a particularly small denomination," said the Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray III, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi.
The event theme is "The Spirit of Mission."
This is the first time the council meeting has been held in Jackson since Gray was elected bishop 11 years ago. It moved around the state through Natchez, Vicksburg, Tupelo and Southaven.
"We have been waiting for a facility that could hold us," he said.
This year, Gray will ask clergy to reflect on the state's upcoming civil rights movement anniversaries, beginning with Mississippi's 50th anniversary Freedom Riders event set for May.
Other upcoming anniversaries include James Meredith's tumultuous enrollment at the University of Mississippi in 1962; Medgar Evers assassination in 1963; and Freedom Summer - a campaign launched in 1964 to register African-American voters in Mississippi.
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http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110128/NEWS/101280333/Episcopal-meeting-to-draw-thousands
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