CANCELLED - Clergy Conversation with Bishop Beckwith, District 10
This meeting has been cancelled due to weather conditions.
This meeting has been cancelled due to weather conditions.
This announcement is posted on behalf of the board of Episcopal Community Development, Inc. (ECD).
Episcopal Community Development, Inc. (ECD), an independent nonprofit corporation that was organized as a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, has suspended public operations effective June 14, 2013. A number of circumstances over which ECD had no control made it impossible to continue its operations.
Yesterday the City Council of Jersey City voted to name St. John's Church in Jersey City, closed since 1994, a local landmark.
John Garde, Esq., president of the diocesan Trustees, said, "We're disappointed in the actions of the City Council, which does nothing to resolve the status of the property, for all the reasons articulated in the letter we sent to the City Council prior to their vote."
The Trustees' letter to the City Council is reprinted below.