 Bishop Michael Curry |
Iglesia El Buen Pastor was mentioned in the pastoral address by Michael B. Curry during the 192nd Annual Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, “Not a Revival, a New Church.” An excerpt follows:
A few weeks ago I think I caught a brief glimpse of what the Day of Pentecost was like in the Bible. On December 9, 2007 I joined with many of you here for the ordination of the Reverend Christy Laborda as priest at El Buen Pastor in Durham. It was Pentecost in December.
Oh, to be sure, the liturgy was bilingual. The preacher was wonderful, preaching the Gospel in Spanish and English. But the language was but the outward sign of the deeper and invisible work that God had been doing among us for a while. I saw Pentecost in December on that day.
Over the course of the last year the people of El Buen Pastor joined hands with the members of the Advisory Committee, chaired by the Rev. Anne Hodges Copple, with Deacon Evelyn Morales who served as consultant to the congregation, with several clergy in the area who provided Sunday-by-Sunday services, with Canon Michael Hunn of the diocesan staff, with the clergy and leaders of many of the churches of the Durham Convocation, with the faculty of the Virginia Theological Seminary, with the Diocese of Pennsylvania, with Christy’s home church and family. We joined hands and we put our hands in God’s unchanging hand, as my grandmother would say, and the result was something beautiful for God. A new Pentecost. A New Church!
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