New Pastor Takes Over Combined Episcopal Churches
Two Spokane Valley churches that split in the 1950s are now celebrating a merger.
The Church of the Holy Spirit and All Saints Episcopal Church have joined together to form the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection.
The combined congregation has hired a new pastor: the Rev. Brian Prior. He begins his new job this weekend.
Previously, All Saints had been without a pastor for four years, and the Church of the Holy Spirit had been without one for two years.
Prior has spent the last 16 years in the Spokane area. He served as associate pastor at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the South Hill from 1987 to 1990. For the past six years, he was director of education and development for the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane.
Prior received a bachelor’s degree from Whitworth College in 1983 and a master’s degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkely, Calif., in 1987.
Seminar on spiritual gifts
The Rev. Larry Eddings will present a seminar today at the Spokane Valley United Methodist Church, 10422 E. Main, titled “Knowing, Understanding and Using Your Spiritual Gifts.”
The seminar is designed to help people recognize their special talents and abilities and how to utilize them.
The seminar will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. . A registration fee of $10 per person includes lunch and dinner. Child care will be provided.
Eddings, who is from Tulsa, Okla., will also speak at the 10:15 a.m. service on Sunday.
St. John Vianney bazaar
St. John Vianney Catholic Church is having its annual bazaar and craft fair today and Sunday.
Baked goods, crafts, and quilts will be for sale from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the parish hall, 503 N. Walnut Road.
There will also be a raffle, offering prizes that include a queen-size quilt, a 40-piece lighted Victorian Christmas village, and certificates for 25 video rentals. The drawing will take place Sunday at noon.
Lunch and snacks will be available all day today and coffee and donuts will be available Sunday. There is no admission charge for the fair.
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