Monday, July 24, 2006

Who Showed Up part 2

Sales-people

Episcopal Retirement Homes - trying to sell you the idea of retiring to Ohio
Everest Columbarium System - because every church needs a columbarium?
Far East Handicrafts - fair trade items that partially support medical and educational projects in Nepal
Fashions by Sarah - stoles, banners, paraments, and wall hangings, with music in the background for your viewing pleasure (or displeasure)
Forward Movement Publications - a publisher of many meditations, books, and unofficial prayers
Four Seasons Travel - a travel agency, if you ask nice they might even be able to organize a pilgrimage for you
Gallery Byzantium - selling Byzantine style jewelry
Gaspard Inc. - selling vestments and paraments
Grace Liturgical Vestments - yes, another vestment seller
Hand Crafted Pewter - selling hand held labyrinths, wall crosses, paper weights, and keychains
Harvard Divinity School - for those looking to study the faith in more detail
Hayes & Finch - for church furniture, vestments, candles, and other supplies
Hmong Folk Art - folk art from South East Asia (Vietnam/Laos area)
Holding Cross.com - selling a wide variety of crosses, especially one that fits very comfortably in a closed hand
In Spirita - more vestments, focuses on quilted vestments
J. West - jewelry seller
J. Whippell & Co. - sells vestments and stained glass windows, also clergy shirts and metalwork
James D. Klote & Associates - Fundraising services
Jerusalem Tours - trips to Jerusalem and the eastern Mediteranean
Journeys Unlimited - focuses on popular Christian travel destinations and pilgrimages
John-Paul Buzard Pipe Organ Builders
Juliet Hemingray Church Textiles - yeah, more vestments on sale, also other cloth products for clergy and parishes, but these are made in the UK
Kirby-Smith Associates - fund raising assistance
Leadership Resources - Christian Education curriculi, including Journey to Adulthood
Maison Bouvrier - another vestment seller, this time from France
Marshall & Ogletree - sells virtual organs, they have a console but no pipes
Menz Fashion - suits, business looking suits, nothing at all to do with clergy or the church (they specialize in group orders?!?!?)
Meyer-Vogelpohl - more vestments and other church supplies
Michael Podesta - a graphical designer, like a calligrapher, basically, but with some added artwork
MTS Travel - specializes in religious and business travel
Nancy Denmark - jewelry seller
On Beads of Prayer - St. Albans DC, they're Anglican rosaries made of beads rather than twine
One Call Now - phone messaging services aka automated calling to everyone on a list
Oxford University Press - another publisher, it advertised a study guide for/history of the TEC's BCP
Paraclete Press - another press, focuses on texts (including music) of interest to a more evangelical audience
Pilgrim Press - a (the?) press of the United Church of Christ, at least in its founding
Rauchenstein Consulting Group - helps with fund raising
Rebecca's Keepsakes - from Racine, WI
Shelby Systems - management software for churches
Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Press) - a publisher and monastery
Spirit and Clay - potery for use in the liturgy
St. Isaac of Syria Skete - a monastery and icon seller
St. James Gift Shop - the gift shop of a San Diego parish
St. Mark's Press - a small press in Wichita, KS
Steven Van Lines - Clergy Relocation Center is how the billed themselves at GC
Threads of Hope - a subset of the Forrest Outreach Foundation, selling crafts to support the poor in Peru
Thomas E. Rickey - Ecuadorian Imports
To This Day - providing educational materials for children and youth ministries
Verdin Company - a bell manufacturer
Vertical Visions - a photography studio
Westminster John Knox Press - one of the labels of the Presbyterian Church's in house publishing company
Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. - a general religious publisher
Womenspirit - vestments specifically designed for women
Yellowhourse Indian Jewelry

Church-Political Action Groups

Episcopal Network for Economic Justice (ENEJ) - liberal and the website looks like it hasn't been updated recently
Episcopal Urban Caucus - liberal, focuses on getting the church to respond to urban issues as well as other social justice issues
Episcopal Women's Caucus (EWC) - not to be confused with the ECW, is liberal and focused on pushing in favor of women's ministry in diverse ways
Institute on Religion and Democracy - conservative, extra-ecclesial advocacy and support group Integrity - liberal, focuses on LGBT issues
Lay Episcopalians for the Anglican Communion - conservative, was trying to get 30+ bishops deposed for consecrating Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire
National Network of Episcopal Clergy Associations - watching out for clergy concerns at the national level, not notably partisan
NOEL - organization of pro-life Episcopalians
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) - ecumenical pro-choice organization, includes the Episcopal Church
Reconcilers.net - pushing the church to look at things with reconciliation in mind
Union of Black Episcopalians - liberal, advocates for the concerns of African American Episcopalians
Via Media, USA - an anti-AAC/ACN organization not to be confused with the educational program

Ministries

Episcopal Peace Fellowship - for pacifists primarily, is politically active, but primarily outside the church
Episcopal Relief and Development - TEC's in house relief and development organization, used to be the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation - major backer of the MDGs in TEC, a good place to go to get ideas for how to make the goals real and realistic
Evangelical Education Society - works to fund seminarian evangelism projects
Society for the Increase of the Ministry - works with the Evangelical Education Society
Every Voice Network - a liberal support group and set of forums doesn't do advocacy work itself although it supports those who do
Faith Alive - a congregational renewal program
Five Talents - an international anti-poverty ministry
Fresh Ministries - an interfaith group focused on the needs of children
Friends of Sabeel North America - supports Sabeel, an ecumenical group focusing on resolving the Israeli/Palestine troubles, leans towards the Palestinians
Heifer International - another international anti-poverty ministry, famous for giving poor, rural families a cow or goat to provide a continuing source of food
Indigenous Theological Training Institute - focuses on theological training for Native Americans
International Order of St. Luke the Physician - a healing ministry
Kenyon College - founded by Episcopalians, the booth was staffed by those active in the campus ministry
The Living Church - a weekly news magazine covering Episcopal Church news, generally thought of as leaning towards the conservative side of things
North American Association for the Diaconate - supports the renewal of the daiconate in the US and Canada
National Epicopal AIDS Coalition - highlights the church's work and growth opportunities on AIDS
National Episcopal Cursillo - a renewal weekend for adults, is generally lined up with New Beginnings (middle school), Happening (high school), and Vocare(college)
National Episcopal Health Ministies - working with doctors and hospitals to make healthcare more effective
National Episcopal Historians and Archivists - preserving the records of the past for TEC, diocese by diocese
Order of St. Helena - one of the 23 CAROA orders, famous for their breviary (a sort of prayer book) and their edition of the Psalter
The Daughters of the King - a parish based lay order of women dedicated to prayer and service
Our Little Roses Ministries - cares for homeless girls in Honduras
Pastoral Leadership Search Effort (PLSE) - an ecumenical effort that work to support young adults and teens as they consider a vocation in the church
Pathways to Ministry - an internship at St. Michael and All Angels in Dallas, TX for college students
Recovered Alcoholic Clergy Association (RACA) - like AA, but focused on clergy and those who are on their way to becoming clergy
Recovery Ministries of the Episcopal Church - as above, but it includes laity
St. Francis Academy - a child welfare ministry, started as a boy's home
Seamen's Church Institute - making scarves, mittens and hats for sailors as well as providing pastoral and legal care since 1834 or thereabouts
The seminaries of TEC
----Church Divinity School of the Pacific - in Berkley
----Sewanee - in Tennessee
----Nashotah House - in Wisconsin
----Berkley Divinity School at Yale - in Connecticut
----Bexley Hall - in Columbus, OH, and Rochester, NY
----Seabury-Western Theological Seminary - in the Chicago area
----Episcopal Divinity School - in Cambridge, MA
----Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry - in the Pittsburgh area
----Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest - in Austin, TX
----Virginia Theological Seminary - in Alexandria, Virginia
----General Theological Seminary - in New York, NY
Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge - they're doing a bit of a book collection at the moment
United Thank Offering - a fundraising effort of the Episcopal Church Women, it's very successful
Vocare - a renewal weekend for young adults

The PrayerBook Society also had pamphlets floating around, but they're a little odd, they think the current BCP is heretical and prefer the 1928 version.

Hopefully this gives you a bit of an idea of how broad the attendance was.

Jon

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