As leader of one of the 110 dioceses in the Episcopal Church, [Bishop Andy] Doyle said he puts an emphasis on “doing things” instead of “telling people to do things.”
His diocese includes more than 1,400 ministries which range in focus from feeding the poor, sick or elderly, building homes for those affected by natural disasters and buying mosquito nets for African families to protect them from malaria.
“The Episcopal church is a church that very much loves Jesus Christ and is interested in people and getting to know them,” he said. “We have a lot of diversity. God made a lot of different kinds of folks.”
Read it all and please note that the Council has a blog.
Well, in my experience, if you don’t tell people they need to do things, then nothing gets done.
The numbers are a little hard to follow but I think I get it: There are 155 parishes in Dio. Texas. There are also 1400 “ministries” – not sure what that means but clearly some like the schools are substantial.
I assume that the numbers for the conference consist of “more than 700 clergy and church representatives” accompanied by family members to make it up to “more than 1,000”, which seems consistent.
This seems to be one State where ACNA has a significant presence compared to TEC: ACNA claims to have 111 parishes and missions in Texas. 8 of these are Anglican Mission, and 4 are ministry partners of the Diocese of the Holy Cross (2), APA and International Diocese respectively.
So, how is Dio. Texas doing – Statmann or someone else?
MichaelA,
Dio of Texas is doing well as far as the standard statistics go. Bishop Doyle, in his address to council, reported a 1% growth across the diocese this past year. Another thing to remember is that the state of Texas has 5 dioceses in it fully and part of another diocese. The Dio. of Texas covers the Houston, Austin, and East Texas areas. There are separate dioceses for Dallas, Fort Worth, West Texas, and Northwest Texas. I don’t know all the statistics about the ACNA parishes, but I would imagine a majority of those are from the Fort Worth area when they decided to join ACNA.