The ordering of our lives as a family of faith is part and parcel of who we are as Episcopalian Christians.  The experiential corporate expression of that ordering is the annual gathering known as the Diocesan Convention.  With the November issue of The Advocate, we focus attention on both process and content of the convention and the part of our lives which reminds us that creativity (from which mission and ministry grow) and discipline (of our selves, our souls, bodies, gifts, talents, treasure and community) go hand in hand.  The passion, dedication and creativity which produce a Mission Funding Task Force report, a budget, a resolution may not be as evident as the emotion behind a story of reading camp, or mission trips to Haiti, or speaking a faith-based   response to a pressing cultural situation.  But it is who we are and how we go about being the Body of Christ in this time and place - it is a Faithmatter... it is one of the ways that Faith Matters.

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