#Ernest Victor Sterry

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"Late in 1926 Ernest Victor Sterry had found himself out of work. At loose ends, he decided to write and publish a newspaper to spread rationalist ideas among his fellow Torontonians. He gave it a slightly misleading title: The Christian Inquirer: A Publication Directed to Furthering the Modernist Movement. The first number was alliteratively described as “A Pithy, Popular Presentation of Profound Problems Perplexing the People.” Sterry intended to follow it up with more issues, but that was not to be. The purpose of the paper, he wrote, was to further the populist mission of rationalist education:

to provide in the cheapest form the reviews and arguments and demonstrable facts usually kept more or less concealed from the mass of the people by the aristocracy of intellect.

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Sterry began distributing the first issue of his paper free of charge that December, in time for Christmas. He made a point of giving copies to members of Toronto’s elite in person. He wandered the halls of the provincial parliament and handed copies directly to G. Howard Ferguson (the premier), W.H. Price (the attorney-general), and Charles McRea (the minister of mines.) He visited the office of crown attorney Eric Armour to give him a copy, and left papers at every other office he could. Sterry also visited Toronto’s city hall and delivered copies personally to each of its various departments. He then distributed the paper to students at McMaster University, a Baptist institution then in Toronto. He later estimated that he had given out at least five hundred copies of the Inquirer. He asked each person he met while distributing the paper to read and critique it. While everyone seemed friendly enough, he was disappointed by the lack of thoughtful responses.

There were only two advertisments in the first issue of the Inquirer, both from fellow unbelievers and members of the local rationalist organization. These were A. Newton, who offered “general house repairs,” and Ethelbert Lionel Cross, a barrister [and the first practicing Black Canadian lawyer in Toronto.] It was in fact fortunate that Sterry knew a lawyer. On 10 January 1927 he was visited at his office by three police officers and arrested. Accompanied by Cross (whose office was in the same building), he was taken to Inspector McKinney of the Morality Department and charged with blasphemous libel.

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The defence of freedom of speech as a principle attracted a mysterious group of potential benefactors. On 14 January the [Toronto] Evening Telegram reported that “a sympathetic source” had offered Sterry the services of “one of the most eminent criminal advocates in this province.” [Lionel] Cross’s insistence on acting as senior counsel had, however, scuttled the deal. The next day Cross told the Star he wished to set the record straight. Certain local parties had indeed approached Sterry. They had told him that “they did not approve of his views yet they were wholly out of sympathy with what they regarded as a form of persecution and … were prepared to finance his defense.” They also offered legal counsel who would “collaborate” with Cross. But Cross felt that this collaboration amounted to a takeover of the case by others, which would have put him in the position of betraying the cause. Just who were these potential benefactors? Neither Cross nor the Toronto newspapers specified. An article in the Winnipeg Tribune of 13 January, however, may shed light on the question. Entitled “Communists to Fight for Free Speech,” it reported that “the Communist Party of Canada is prepared to assist Victor Sterry … although it has no interest directly or indirectly in the Rationalist movement.” John MacDonald, party secretary, stated: “We are ready to take part in a fight for free speech and a free press if the police press the charge.” Thus it is possible that it was the Communist Party that had offered assistance and been rebuffed by Cross. It is also possible that the sympathetic group represented other religious minorities such as Unitarians or Jews, or that they were liberalminded Christians who disliked the blasphemy law. In any case, Cross seems to have felt that their lawyer would have misrepresented Sterry’s position, while he as a fellow rationalist could handle the case more appropriately. There were also rumours of help from further afield. On 12 January, the Evening Telegram suggested that a coalition of Chicago freethinkers had discussed enlisting Clarence Darrow in Sterry’s defence. The next day Cross told the Star that he had received a telegram from New York offering $10,000 and Darrow’s assistance. Ten days later William Styles of the RSC [Rationalist Society of Canada] was asked if the famous American was coming. He responded that “the story was largely a newspaper concoction,” continuing, “if Darrow does come, he will come as junior counsel to our own Lionel Cross.” But he added that it was a possibility, since there was an organization in the United States that had paid Darrow’s expenses when he fought similar cases across North America. (This was likely a reference to the American Civil Liberties Union.) It is hard to imagine the limelight-loving Darrow playing the role of junior counsel, however. Unsurprisingly, a few days before the trial Cross told the press that the famed lawyer would be “unable to attend the proceedings on account of illness.”

This setback may not have been unexpected, but it was still unfortunate for Sterry and his fellow rationalists. They needed all the help they could get; a lot was riding on the case. Col. W.W. Denison, solicitor to Ontario’s Department of the Provincial Secretary, had within hours of Sterry’s initial arrest stated that if the rationalist was found guilty, the government should cancel the Rationalist Society’s charter. He believed that, by “propagating atheism,” the society had “exceeded the powers granted them.” Clubs and societies that had been found to promote gambling had had their charters revoked, Denison explained; similarly, organizations that broke the law by blaspheming should be disbanded. He stated that he would personally recommend such a move to Provincial Secretary Lincoln Goldie, should Sterry be convicted. In Canada’s Criminal Code, blasphemous libel, the offense with which Sterry had been charged, did not apply to all attacks on Christianity or disbelief in God. Its precise stipulation was that:

no one is guilty of a blasphemous libel for expressing in good faith and in decent language, or attempting to establish by arguments used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, any opinion whatever upon any religious subject.

The problem was not with the opinion but with the libelous way it was expressed. In a lengthy discussion of the law, the Evening Telegram explained to its readers that

It is the choice of language that is involved in Mr. Sterry’s case … Vulgar or profane language can transform a legitimate philosophical argument into a blasphemous libel.

If Sterry’s rhetoric outraged the religious feelings of Christian Canadians, he was guilty. There was little doubt that he had written most of the content of the Christian Inquirer, and no question that he had personally distributed it. Thus the case quickly came down to the highly subjective issue of whether the Christians of Toronto should feel offended by his words. The outcome of the case would depend upon the attitude of those tasked with defining what was offensive: the jury and the judicial authorities.

Early indications were not promising. Crown attorney Eric Armour, who had initiated Sterry’s prosecution, promptly showed a copy of the offending material to Inspector McKinney of the Morality Department; he agreed that it was blasphemous. Subsequently authorities always stressed the gravity of the offense in their public statements. Magistrate R.J. Browne, when committing Sterry to jury trial, called the Inquirer article not only blasphemous but also “a most indecent and offensive attack on Christianity and the scriptures, couched in the most scurrilous and opprobrious language.” It was clearly Sterry’s intention, he said, to “asperse and vilify Almighty God, in composing and publishing these scandalous, impious, blasphemous and profane libels of God." When a date for the case was initially listed, the presiding judge, Emerson Coatsworth, emphasized its importance, explaining to reporters that blasphemy consisted of an “indecent or offensive” attack on God or the scriptures, “attacks which are calculated to enrage the feelings of the community.” Behind the scenes, matters were not as clear-cut. Only two days after Sterry was charged, W.H. Price, Ontario’s attorney general, received a letter condemning the case. It was from a retired minister, one J.C. Hodgins, a man Price considered a “very high type” who had “done a great deal of speechmaking throughout the Province.” Perturbed by the minister’s letter, Price asked his deputy why charges had been laid in this case “more than in many others that seem just as bad.” The deputy in turn asked Armour, the crown attorney, for a report, particularly on “whether the defendant was warned to discontinue and if not, why this was not done.” Armour downplayed his own involvement and commented that it was true that editors who published objectionable material were usually given a warning first. He added:

This publication, however, is not a newspaper or a periodical but a propagandist sheet … I have no doubts about getting a conviction but as a charge of theft has also been laid against the above, if he is sent to jail on that charge, the libel charge could be dropped. The local religious organizations here have been raising much ado about the publication in question, and it perhaps would be better to go on to a finish now [that] a prosecution has been commenced.

Furthermore, he commented, “I do not think this charge should ever have been laid and would suggest that after a true bill is found by the Grand Jury a Stay of Proceedings be entered.” Price responded, “I am not sure that I would have entered this case at the beginning. Now that it has been entered I rather think it would be inadvisable to have it withdrawn.” Price kept his reservations mostly quiet and allowed the case to continue.

There were, however, people willing to take the rationalist’s side publicly. The Toronto Star provided a sympathetic platform for Sterry and Cross to put forward their views, though the paper never editorialized directly on the case. Support was to be found among the clergy as well. Not long after Sterry’s arrest, Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of Holy Blossom Synagogue agreed to speak at a rally in his support. Although the rabbi had to cancel at the last minute for family health reasons, he wrote a lengthy two-part article for the Canadian Jewish Review entitled “A Religious Teacher’s View of Blasphemy.” In the first half Isserman blended rabbinical commentary with a highercritical interpretation of Jewish religious history, and examined changing conceptions of God and offenses against God. Isserman’s statement that “the war-God of Israel, called by some the cruel Jehovah” had been abandoned in favour of a more merciful deity was, in essence if not in tone, reminiscent of Sterry’s “touchy Jehovah” critique. In the second half of the article, published the following week, Isserman wrote that, while he believed a liberal religious outlook was superior to the rationalist view, he knew that unbelievers could be decent and sincere people. Their questions and challenges should be dealt with honestly and charitably, rather than punitively. “Religion does not need courts to defend it,” Isserman argued. In fact, he concluded, the violence and oppression meted out by supposed defenders of religion were more blasphemous in the eyes of God than verbal insults."

- Elliot Hanowski, Towards A Godless Dominion: Unbelief in Interwar Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. p. 98-99, 104-106.

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Blasphemous libel is a specific form of criminal libel, consisting of the publication of material which exposes the Christian religion to “scurrility, vilification, ridicule, and contempt,” and which has the tendency to “shock and outrage” the feelings of Christians. It is not exactly compatible with countries whose governments claim to value freedom of speech.

Canadian Criminal Code § 296(1) provides: “Every one who publishes a blasphemous libel is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.” There is a supposed “good faith” provision protecting any opinion on religion expressed in “decent language”:

“No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section for expressing in good faith and in decent language, or attempting to establish by argument used in good faith and conveyed in decent language, an opinion on a religious subject.”

Despite that exception, this is the law under which, for example, an Anglican clergyman tried to prosecute the Canadian distributor for the film Monty Python’s Life of Brian and the owners of a movie theater showing it.

In June of 2017, a proposed bill was introduced in the Parliament of Canada that would:

“amend, remove or repeal passages and provisions that have been ruled unconstitutional or that raise risks with regard to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as well as passages and provisions that are obsolete, redundant or that no longer have a place in criminal law,”

Section 30 of the bill reads: “Section 296 of the Act and the heading before it are repealed.” It passed two days ago. Today it received “Royal Assent,” making the repeal official.

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“A law prohibiting blasphemy should be anathema for any country that purports to value freedom of expression and freedom of religion...

It’s arguable that it never should have been drafted in the first place, but it certainly should have been scrapped long ago.

Canada has had a blasphemy law on the books since 1892. It’s been 90 years since the last person was convicted: Toronto atheist and Rationalist Society member Ernest Victor Sterry was convicted of blasphemy in 1927 and sentenced to 60 days in jail.

But the charge itself has been used as recently as 1980. The owners of a movie theatre in Sault Ste. Marie were charged with blasphemous libel for the “crime” of screening Monty Python’s Life of Bryan, a British satire film about the life and death of Jesus Christ.

Fortunately, Ontario’s attorney-general stepped in to put a stop to the case. Had he not, though, how far would it have gone? How much would the theatre owners have had to bear in terms of legal costs to simply assert their basic rights as Canadians?

It’s all but certain that a charge under section 296 would not have held up in court, but it should never have to get to that point. The Liberals deserve credit for making this long overdue change.

As one Danish lawmaker recently put it, “Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly. It gives religion a totally unfair priority in society.” As it happens, of course, there are numerous countries when religion does in fact dictate what it forbidden to say publicly. In countries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, blasphemy is punishable by death.

If Canada is going to be a voice for human rights on the world stage and speak out against the abuses of these regimes (which certainly we should), it undermines our cause when our own laws concede the point that blasphemy is a crime. To that end, the elimination of section 296 sends a strong message.

Furthermore, though, it demonstrates the clear and obvious correlation between the countries where blasphemy laws are most vigorously enforced and those countries where freedom religion is most nonexistent. Abandoning this law helps to strengthen freedom of religion in this country.

That freedom guarantees one’s right to believe, but it bestows no obligation upon anyone else to respect those beliefs. “God is great” and “God is a myth” should be equally protected speech. Freedom of religion entails the freedom to reject a religion or reject all faith entirely.

The state itself must remain neutral on such matters — what we might also refer to as “secularism.”

It’s unfortunate that’s it’s taken 125 years to figure this out, but it’s a victory worth savouring.“

Read in full... http://globalnews.ca/news/3512946/commentary-at-long-last-canadas-blasphemy-law-is-dead/

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Prayer Cycle for Early Pentecost

Wondering how to pray for the Diocese? This cycle of prayer is one approach.

Begin praying for the names in the group number corresponding with the first letter of your last name. Pray daily for the churches and clergy in that group for one week, then move on to the next group until you have prayed for all Four groups. Then begin again with the first group with which you began.

A – G begin with Group 1; H - M begin with Group 2;  N – S begin with Group 3; T – Z begin with Group 4

Please pray daily for the Diocesan Staff, The Diocesan Officers, The Executive Committee members, the Deans and the Canons.

You may download a printable form in .pdf if you wish.

ALL GROUPS DAILY

For the Diocesan Staff:  Bishop Keith Andrews, Jenna Vazquez, Michele Wright, Jessica Greenlee, Celeb Hummel, and Sue Ellen Warren

For the Diocesan Officers: Spencer Johnson, Cindy Drennan, Caren Spilsbury, Myron Steeves, Jeanette Shelly The Executive Committee: Roger Pelham, Cameron Lemons, Trish Stewart, Jeanette Shelley, Jim Dale, Justin Read-Smith, Antonio Herndon, Tim Laundrié, Jack Davenport, Jeff Bisgrove, and Ephraim Nkemere

For the Deans & Canons: Jerry Cimijotti, Chuck Collins, Russell Martin, Scott Pedersen, David Montzingo, Brian Schulz

GROUP ONE

All Saints’ Los Angeles, CA

The Ven Dr Godson Ofoegbu

All Saints', Long Beach, CA

The Very Rev Scott Pedersen, Dean LA

The Rev Michael DiMarcangelo

Branches of the Cross, Vista, CA

The Rev Tim Laundrié

Christ Church, Butte, MT

The Rev Brian Miller

The Rev Dcn Nan Joyce

Christ Church, Fallbrook, CA

The Rev Brian Capanna

The Rev Dcn Dee Renner

Christ Church, Phoenix, AZ

The Rev Chris Schutte

The Very Rev Chuck Collins, Dean AZ

The Rev David Stevens

The Rev George Miley

Christ’s Church, Yucaipa, CA

The Rev Canon Brian Schulz

The Rev James Linton

The Rev Dcn Rolin Bruno

Christ the King, San Diego, CA

The Very Rev Russell Martin, Dean SD

The Rev Larry Eddingfield

The Rev John King

The Rev Dcn Stephen Elder

Christ the King, Spokane, WA

The Very Rev Jerry Cimijotti, Dean RM

Christ the Redeemer, Yuma, AZ

The Rev Austin Mansfield

The Rev Lee Sissel

The Rev Dcn Linda Stokes

GROUP TWO

Christ Our Savior, Torrance, CA

Tom Winfrey, Sr Warden

The Rev Ken Greenlee

AC of the Epiphany, La Mirada, CA

The Rev Greg Peters

The Rev Steve Sterry

AC of the Holy Spirit, Prescott, AZ

Vacant

AC of the Resurrection, San Marcos, CA

The Rev Bill Gandenberger

The Rev Richard Bowman

The Rev Denny Eisele

The Rev Dcn Joy Edwards

The Billings Anglican Church, MT

The Rev Dcn Gretchen Knapp

Community of St. Columba, Missoula, MT

The Rev Justin Read-Smith

Disciples’ Anglican Church, Anaheim, CA

The Rev John Rim

Good Shepherd Anglican, Mesa, AZ

The Rev Earle Fox

Grace Anglican Church, Boise, ID

The Rev Jeffrey Smith

The Rev Dcn Ron Jutzy

Grace Anglican Church, Oceanside, CA

The Rev Bill Mugford

Grace Anglican Church, Sheridan, WY

The Rev Kevin Jones

Holy Spirit Anglican, San Diego, CA

The Rev Brian Hughes

The Rev Canon David Montzingo

The Rev Caleb Hummel

Holy Redeemer Anglican, Tucson, AZ

The Rev Jerry Bouck

Holy Trinity, Ocean Beach, CA

The Rev Larry Bausch

The Rev Dcn Sue Bentley

GROUP THREE

Little Church in the Valley, Reno, NV

The Rev Karry Crites

Living Faith, Mesa AZ

The Rev Leo Laney

Living Faith Church, Tempe, AZ

The Rev Joel Pinson

The Rev Ernest Victor

The Rev Dcn Mathew Allen

Miracle Center AC, Compton, CA

The Rev Antonio Herndon

St. David's, Burbank, CA

The Rev Jose Poch

The Rev Dcn DiAnne Charves

The Rev Steve Kennedy

St. James, Costa Mesa, CA

The Rev Cathie Young

The Rev Todd Meyer

St. John’s, Salt Lake City

Jesse Sandoval, Sr Warden

St. Luke's, Crescenta Valley, CA

The Rev Robert Holman

The Rev James Arcadi

The Rev Dcn Steve Krimmel

St. Michael’sin the City, La Verne, CA

The Rev Charles Myers

St. Paul’s City Church, Lake Elsinore, CA

The Rev Cameron Lemons

The Rev Chris Bodiford

St. Stephen's, Tustin, CA

The Rev Linda Crowder

United Christ Church of India, Phoenix, AZ

The Rev Suresh Gunti

GROUP FOUR

Other Presbyters Canonically Resident in DWA

The Rev Kathleen Adams (CA)

The Rev Jack Bunting (NM)

The Rev Grayson Carter (AZ)

The Rev Bob Fabey (AZ)

The Rev Robert Garafaolo (AZ)

The Rev Gabe Garcia (CA)

The Rev Julian Gibb (AZ)

The Rev Jim Gray, (CA)

The Rev Jim Howard (AZ)

The Rev Richard Menees(CA)

The Rev Nan Mueller (ID)

The Rev Warren Mueller (ID)

The Rev James Obermeyer (AZ)

The Rev Don White (CO)

Retired Presbyters

The Rev Don Kroeger (CA)

The Rev Joe Rees, (MO)

The Rev Tom Phifer (AZ)

The Rev Pam Schmaling (UT)

The Rev Tom Phillips (AZ)

Vocational Deacons

Deacon Mat Allen, Living Faith Anglican Church, Tempe (AZ)

Deacon Sue Bentley, Holy Trinity, Ocean Beach (CA)

Deacon Rolin Bruno, Christ’s Church, Yucaipa (CA)

Deacon DiAnne Charves, St. David’s, Burbank (CA)

Deacon Joy Edwards, AC of the Resurrection, San Marcos (CA)

Deacon Steve Elder, Christ the King, San Diego (CA)

Deacon Nan Joyce, Christ Church, Butte, (MT)

Deacon Ron Jutzy, Grace Anglican, Boise (ID)

Deacon Gretchen Knapp, Billings Anglican, Billings (MT)

Deacon Steve Krimmel, St. Luke’s, Crescenta Valley (CA)

Deacon Jim Lee, Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry (AZ)

Deacon Roz Marver, Sabbath Celebration, Carlsbad (CA)

Deacon Dee Renner, Christ Church, Fallbrook (CA)

Deacon Linda Stokes, Christ the Redeemer, Yuma (AZ)

Other Vocational Deacons Canonically Resident in DWA

Deacon Don Orr (AZ)

Deacon Barbara Robinson (AZ)

Deacon Tim Seibold (AZ)

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Diocese of Western Anglicans Cycle of Prayer Lent and Easter 2017

Wondering how you can pray for the people in your diocese? Here is one cycle you may use: Begin praying for the names in the group number corresponding with the first letter of your last name. Pray daily for the churches and clergy in that group for one week, then move on to the next group until you have prayed for all four groups. Then begin again with the first group with which you began.A – G begin with Group 1; H - M begin with Group 2; N – S begin with Group 3; T – Z begin with Group 4 Please pray daily for the Diocesan Staff, The Diocesan Officers, The Executive Committee members, the Deans and the Canons. There is also a downloadable version of this cycle on the Diocese of Western Anglicans website. _______

ALL GROUPS DAILY:

For the Diocesan Staff: Bishop Keith Andrews, Jenna Vazquez, Michele Wright, Jessica Greenlee, Celeb Hummel, and Sue Ellen Warren 

For the Diocesan Officers: Spencer Johnson, Cindy Drennan, Caren Spilsbury, Myron Steeves, Jeanette Shelly 

The Executive Committee: Roger Pelham, Cameron Lemons, Trish Stewart, Richard Crocker, Jeanette Shelley, Jim Dale, Justin Read-Smith, Antonio Herndon, Tim Laundrié, Jack Davenport, Jeff Bisgrove, Ephraim Nkemere 

For the Deans & Canons: Jerry Cimijotti, Chuck Collins, Russell Martin, Scott Pedersen, David Montzingo, Brian Schulz

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GROUP ONE

All Saints’ Los Angeles, CA  The Ven Dr Godson Ofoegbu

All Saints', Long Beach, CA The Very Rev Scott Pedersen, Dean LA

Branches of the Cross, Vista, CA  The Rev Tim Laundrié

Christ Church, Butte, MT  The Rev Brian Miller, The Rev Dcn Nan Joyce

Christ Church, Fallbrook, CA The Rev Brian Capanna, The Rev Dcn Dee Renner

Christ Church, Phoenix, AZ The Rev Chris Schutte, The Rev David Stevens, The Rev George Miley, The Very Rev Chuck Collins, Dean AZ

Christ’s Church, Yucaipa, CA The Rev Canon Brian Schulz, The Rev James Linton, The Rev Dcn Rolin Bruno

Christ the King, San Diego, CA The Very Rev Russell Martin, Dean SD;  The Rev Larry Eddingfield; The Rev Dcn Stephen Elder; The Rev John King 

Christ the King, Spokane, WA The Very Rev Jerry Cimijotti, Dean RM

Christ the Redeemer, Yuma, AZ The Rev Austin Mansfield, The Rev Lee Sissel, The Rev Dcn Linda Stokes

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 GROUP TWO

Christ Our Savior, Torrance, CA The Rev Ken Greenlee

AC of the Epiphany, La Mirada, CA The Rev Greg Peters, The Rev. Steve Sterry

AC of the Holy Spirit, Prescott, AZ Vacant

AC of the Resurrection, San Marcos, CA The Rev Bill Gandenberger, The Rev Richard Bowman, The Rev Denny Eisele, The Rev Dcn Joy Edwards

The Billings Anglican Church, MT Jim Lease

Community of St. Columba, Missoula, MT The Rev Justin Read-Smith

Disciples’ Anglican Church, Anaheim, CA The Rev John Rim

Good Shepherd Anglican, Mesa, AZ The Rev Earle Fox

Grace Anglican Church, Boise, ID The Rev Dcn Ron Jutzy

Grace Anglican Church, Oceanside, CA The Rev Bill Mugford

Grace Anglican Church, Sheridan, WY The Rev Kevin Jones

Holy Spirit Anglican, San Diego, CA The Rev Brian Hughes, The Rev Canon David Montzingo, The Rev Caleb Hummel

Holy Redeemer Anglican, Tucson, AZ The Rev Jerry Bouck

Holy Trinity, Ocean Beach, CA The Rev Larry Bausch The Rev Dcn Sue Bentley ____________________________________________________

GROUP THREE

Little Church in the Valley, Reno, NV The Rev Karry Crites

Living Faith, Mesa AZ The Rev Leo Laney

Living Faith Church, Tempe, AZ The Rev Joel Pinson, The Rev Ernest Victor, The Rev Dcn Mathew Allen

Miracle Center, Compton, CA The Rev Antonio Herndon

St. David's, Burbank, CA The Rev Jose Poch, The Rev Dcn DiAnne Charves, The Rev Steve Kennedy

St. James, Costa Mesa, CA The Rev Richard Crocker, The Rev Cathie Young, The Rev Todd Meyer

St. John’s, Salt Lake City Jesse Sandoval

St. Luke's, Crescenta Valley, CA The Rev Robert Holman, The Rev James Arcadi, The Rev Dcn Steve Krimmel

St. Michael’s in the City, La Verne, CA The Rev Charles Myers

St. Paul’s City Church, Lake Elsinore, CA The Rev Cameron Lemons, The Rev Chris Bodiford

St. Stephen's, Tustin, CA The Rev Linda Crowder

United Christ Church of India, Phoenix, AZ The Rev Suresh Gunti

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GROUP FOUR

Inactive Presbyters: The Rev Kathleen Adams (CA), The Rev David Bartholomew (CA), The Rev Jack Bunting (NM), The Rev Grayson Carter( AZ), The Rev. Chuck Caponi (AZ), Bob Fabey (AZ), The Rev. Robert Garafaolo (AZ)The Rev Julian Gibb (AZ), The Rev. Jim Gray, (CA), The Rev. Jim Howard (AZ) The Rev Richard Menees (CA), The Rev Nan Mueller (ID), The Rev Warren Mueller (ID), The Rev James Obermeyer (AZ), The Rev Andrew Ray (WA), The Rev Rob Trebbe (AZ)The Rev Don White (CO)

 Retired Presbyters: The Rev Don Kroeger (CA), The Rev Cameron Harriot (CA) The Rev Joe Rees, (MO), The Rev Tom Phifer (AZ), The Rev. Pam Schmaling (AZ), The Rev. Tom Phillips (AZ)

 Vocational Deacons: Deacon Mat Allen, Living Faith Anglican Church, Tempe, AZ; Deacon Sue Bentley, Holy Trinity, Ocean Beach, CA; Deacon Rolin Bruno, Christ’s Church, Yucaipa, CA; Deacon DiAnne Charves, St. David’s, Burbank, CA; Deacon Joy Edwards, AC of the Resurrection, San Marcos, CA; Deacon Steve Elder, Christ the King, San Diego, CA; Deacon Nan Joyce, Christ Church, Butte, MT; Deacon Ron Jutzy, Grace Anglican, Boise, ID; Deacon Steve Krimmel, St. Luke’s, Crescenta Valley, CA; Deacon Jim Lee, Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry, AZ; Deacon Roz Marver, Sabbath Celebration, Carlsbad, CA;Deacon Dee Renner, Christ Church, Fallbrook, CA; Deacon Linda Stokes, Christ the Redeemer, Yuma, AZ

 Inactive Voc’l Deacons: Deacon Ron Orr, (AZ) Deacon Barbara Robinson, (AZ) Deacon Tim Seibold, (AZ) Emerging Works: 

Joy Faith The Rev Pete Forbes (AZ), The Rev. Henry Hoffman (AZ)

 Beth Messiah Anglican The Rev Joyce Miriam Brooks (CA) 

Sabbath Celebration Deacon Roz Marver (CA) 

Christ the King Ramona Rev’s Russell Martin, The Rev John King (CA) St. Francis, The Rev Jack Davenport (CA) 

King of Glory The Rev. David Baker (ID) Prayer Fire, The Rev. Kep and Nick Howk (CA)

Missionaries: Fr. David & Mary-Beth Alenskis (Belize), Fr. Michael Jun (Asia) Fr. Lee & Pum Mullins (Thailand) Fr. Bele & Claire Soleto (Bolivia) Fr. Juan & Maria Marentes (LA,CA)

Diocesan Teams: Task Force on Discipleship Making, Deacons' Formation Team, International Partners in Mission, Anglican Cursillos, Philanthropy Commission, Licensing Team, Diocesan Intercessors

Partnership Ministries:  Anglican House Publishers, Antioch Network, Apprentice 2 Jesus, Greenhouse Movement, New Wineskins