From ENS-Six Episcopalians who had been in Kenya since late July reported via Facebook on Aug. 7 that they were safe after their flight was disrupted by a massive fire at the Nairobi airport.
Rebecca Wilson wrote on her Facebook page at 12:40 p.m. EDT that she, her son Jacob Bilich, Jim Naughton, the Rev. Lowell Grisham, the Rev. Jon M. Richardson and Ellie Rolfes Rencher were “safe and sound in a lovely Nairobi guest house.”
“We are working on rebooking flights now and are keeping our phones open and charged for calls concerning that process,” she said.
Prayers were said for the group during the noon day Eucharist at the Episcopal Church Center in New York.
The group had been scheduled to leave Nairobi on Aug. 7, according to an earlier Facebook posting by the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, who said Wilson had contacted her from Kenya.
The six were part of a larger group of 16 Episcopalians who met July 29-Aug. 1 at the Jumuia Conference Centre in Limuru, Kenya, with Anglicans from nine African countries and ecumenical participants to explore issues of sexuality in dialogue with scripture. The Chicago Consultation and the Ujamaa Centre of the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, convened the conference with the Consultation.
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