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From New Mexico-
As the scent of burning cedar filled Hozho Chapel, members and friends of the Episcopal Church in Navajoland gathered on Wednesday to welcome the space's reopening.
The chapel is located inside an old hospital built by the church in 1922. It served as one of the first hospitals for the area.
The Episcopal Church in Navajoland was organized as an area mission for the entire Navajo reservation by the Episcopal Church in 1976, according to the church's website.
Navajoland has been working to restore the two-story building and transform it into a women's wellness center.
The downstairs area will house Cheii's Web Development, an entity under Navajoland that focuses on website development. After its new home is complete, Cheii's will offer courses to teach Navajos how to develop and implement business ideas, as well as teach website design.
More here-
https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/navajo-nation/2018/04/30/episcopal-church-navajoland-welcomes-return-chapel/558703002/
From ENS-
“This is believed to be a historic action of the election of an all-Navajo deputation,” Eaton, who was ordained to the transitional diaconate in December and is Bailey’s canon to the ordinary, told Episcopal News Service via e-mail, after the meeting. “Most certainly to be true in the election of all Navajo clerical deputation.”
Plummer is the daughter of the late Bishop Steven Plummer, who served Navajoland as bishop from 1990 to 1994. Her mother, Catherine Plummer, is a priest at St. Mary’s of the Moonlight Episcopal Church in Oljato, Utah.
When Plummer and Sampson were ordained, they became the latest ordained Navajo leaders that the area has raised up and Bailey has ordained since he became bishop in August 2010. There are eight ordained Navajo and three others are in training.
More here-
http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/06/18/navajoland-area-mission-continues-to-raise-up-native-leaders/
From ENS-
The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council concluded its three day meeting here June 12 by taking a series of actions focused on the good order of the church and answering the call to speak out for justice.
More support for mission and ministry in Navajoland
Council members agreed to increase the triennial disbursement to the Navajoland Area Mission, also known as the Episcopal Church in Navajoland, by $225,000 to $1.25 million.
The decision came after a June 11 committee presentation about the history of the church’s work in Navajoland, including its failings.
Navajoland Bishop David Bailey said during that presentation that when he came into the diocese in 2010 “there was no plan for sustainability; there was no plan about how do we live into the future.” He added that his description of the history of Navajoland is not meant to be a criticism but rather an acknowledgement that there was “a different understanding of ministry than what we have today.”
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http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2014/06/12/council-takes-action-on-both-justice-and-governance-issues/
From Navaholand-
Amidst the historic beauty of Monument Valley, Catherine B. Plummer was ordained priest in the Episcopal Church on May 11.
A couple of factors made the ordination unusual.
She is the widow of the late Rt. Rev. Steven Plummer, who died in 2005 and who was the first Navajo to serve as Bishop of Navajoland.
The ordination took place at St. Mary of the Moonlight Church, which was built by the late Rev. Baxter Liebler, a missionary priest who served in Navajoland and started missions at Bluff and Monument Valley before he died at St. Mary’s in 1982 at the age of 93.
Cathy Plummer grew up near the mission at Bluff and remembers Liebler as a teacher and priest.
Bishop David Bailey of Navajoland, presided at the ordination service. He said he believed it was the first ordination service ever held at the church.
Plummer becomes the second Navajo woman to serve as priest in Navajoland. She said she is looking forward “to serving my people; to visiting them in their homes” and to leading worship for them.
Bailey said there are eight more Navajo, or Diné, currently in the ordination process.
Since being elected the eighth bishop of Navajoland in 2010, Bailey has worked to increase the number of Diné involved in lay and ordained leadership within the Navajoland Area Mission.
More here-
http://www.sjrnews.com/view/full_story/22739576/article-Bishop’s-widow-ordained-priest-in-Navajoland?instance=home_news_1st_right
From New Mexico-
