‘We always encouraged these things, but we didn’t have the oppor-
don can now provide pastoral care to people in both congregations. In addition to sharing worship,
she said the two congregations have several meals together each month and run a vacation Bible school. “Te congregations have comple- mented each other very much,” the deacon said. As someone who was on his
denomination’s ecumenical com- mission for 12 years, Harry Shipps, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia, was thrilled to see the cooperation. “We always encouraged these things,” he said, “but formerly we didn’t have the opportunities for cooperation that we have now.” Still, Shipps worries that not
enough people know about the ecu- menical opportunities. Te partnerships stem from
“Called to Common Mission,” a dec- laration of fellowship adopted by the ELCA in 1999 and approved by the Episcopal Church a year later. Te agreement was reached aſter more than 20 years of dialogue and cites wide-ranging agreement between Lutherans and Episcopalians on church doctrine and practice. With CCM, as with other ELCA fellow- ship agreements, clergy of the two denominations are allowed to serve congregations of either church body. Gordy said the agreement, with
new blossoms growing recently in Georgia, also reaches other parts of the synod, which includes Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Aſter fleeing Hurricane Katrina
Author bio: Austin is a retired ELCA pas- tor and a longtime reporter for secular and religious pub- lications. He is a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Hasbrouck Heights, N.J.
tunities for cooperation that we have now.’
in 2005, some Lutherans and Episcopalians decided not to return to the Gulf Coast. Gordy said the Mission-Annunciation congregation serves both Lutherans and Episco- palians in Wiggins, Miss. Lutheran Episcopal campus
ministry at the University of Ten- nessee in Knoxville, which is an actual congregation called Tyson House, has produced young people now considering seminary and the ordained ministry. “Some were not even Lutherans or Episcopalians before,” Gordy said, adding that now they have to decide which church’s seminary track they will follow.
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