GC81 Daily Digest, June 24: Legislative sessions continue, community festival
Episcopalians of African, Asiamerican, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic heritage gathered on the opening night of the 81st General Convention, June 23, at Cathedral of the Assumption in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, for the New Community Festival hosted by The Episcopal Church’s Department of Ethnic Ministries. Photo: Wilfreddy Alexander Carmona Arias
[Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] The 81st General Convention is in its second full day, meeting at the Kentucky International Convention Center. Legislative committees continue to meet and the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops are meeting in their respective houses for legislative sessions.
You can find full, regularly updated ENS coverage here. The ENS primer, or everything you need to follow the 81st General Convention, is here.
A lot can happen on any given day at General Convention. News that doesn’t make it into a full story gets filed into our daily digest. Here are some dispatches from June 24.
Church’s Ethnic Ministries host community festival first night of General Convention
The Episcopal Church’s department of Ethnic Ministries hosted the New Community Festival the first night of the 81st General Convention on June 24 at Cathedral of the Assumption.
The festival was a celebration of the church’s growing racial and ethnic diversity. It was also an opportunity for Episcopalians of African, Asiamerican, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic heritage to network and to have fun through a shared meal and dancing.
“This is an opportunity to celebrate ourselves, to celebrate our culture, to explore and have fun and to enjoy ourselves – judgment-free,” the Rev. Isaiah Shaneequa Brokenleg, the presiding bishop’s staff officer for racial reconciliation, told Episcopal News Service. “We need to have places where Jesus can be found on the faces of all of us because I think, sometimes, that white-tiousness makes us blind or makes our church blind to the Jesus that’s in our Black and brown faces everywhere.”
— Shireen Korkzan
