From Randy Schulte, president, DuBose Board of Directors Following an extensive national search, the DuBose Conference Center Board of Directors is pleased and excited to announce that the next Executive Director of the DuBose Conference Center will be James Stratt Byars IV. Mr. Byars comes to DuBose from Camp McDowell in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. Stratt has extensive experience collaborating with a board of directors. He has successful leadership experience in key managerial roles from development and finances to
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We Are a Body
Sermon Given at Church of the Good Samaritan, Knoxville Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany | February 24, 2019 Luke 6:27-38 On February 17, 1977, in Uganda, the Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered on orders by the dictator Idi Amin. For years since, he has been remembered as a modern Christian martyr, a man of God who stood up to a brutal, demonic dictator. For doing so, he was killed. This week, on the 42nd anniversary of Luwum’s murder, the
Read MoreBishop’s Address to 2019 Diocesan Convention
Bishop’s Address to the 35th Annual Convention of the Diocese of East Tennessee The Right Rev. Brian Lee Cole | Knoxville, Tennessee Click here for the video of the bishop’s address to the 2019 Convention. The text is below. Before I begin my address to you, I would like for us to pray. The Lord be with you. (And also with you). Grant, we beseech you, O Lord, perseverance in your holy service, and that the people serving you in
Read More‘Don’t leave that light on!’
By the Rev. Jon Hermes, rector, St. Timothy, Kingsport Ever hear a parent say something like, “Don’t leave that light on! Do you want to pay the power bill?” Given the time you heard that, the concern was probably over a 60 or 100-watt light bulb. At St. Timothy’s, we experienced an issue where our emergency heating in our fellowship hall was staying on most of the time. In our case, that was an extra 20,000 watts being used. That
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