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Epiphany Evening Prayer Service to be Held
Saint Raphael's by the Sea Anglican Church
 Fort Myers Beach, Florida - January 3, 2010 - The Reverend Alice Marcrum announced that Saint Raphaels's by the Sea Anglican Church will hold a special evening prayer service at 7:00 PM on the Day of Epiphany, Thursday, January 6, 2011. Rector of Saint Raphael's by the Sea, The Reverend Alice Marcrum, states, "We are delighted to have these fine musicians share their talents with us during their vacations from their busy schedules." The service will be held at Saint Raphael's by the Sea place of worship at 6425 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
The service will be a traditional Evening Prayer Service with Eucharist and be highlighted by special music by two exceptional musicians from prestigious universtiy prgrams; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, The Jacob's School of Music at Indiana Univeristy and the University of Cincinnati.
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Exceptional Musicians to Highlight Epiphany Service
Two young artists will highlight the Epiphany Evening Praying Service at Saint Raphale's by the Sea Anglican Church this Thursday evening, January 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM at the churh's place of worship at 6425 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach, FL.  Ms. Jessica L. Marcrum, Soprano, has been an active performer in both the operatic and concert repertory. In the past few years, she has been a soloist at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Theater, in the Toledo Orchestra's Christmas concert, and at Chicago's Ravinia Festival. She originated the role of Dari in Lookinglass Theater at Ravinia's production of SitaRam.
Recent opera credits include Dorabella in Cosě Fan Tutte and Mme Lidoine in Dialogues des Carmélites, as well as Beppe (L'Amico Fritz) in 2005 in Italy. She has also performed scenes from L'Elisir D'Amore (Adina), The Rape of Lucretia (Female Chorus), Der Freischütz (Agathe), Die Fledermaus (Rosalinde), Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio San), Arabella (title role), Suor Angelica (title role), Don Giovanni (Donna Anna, Donna Elvira), and Medea (Glauce). Ms. Marcrum received her Bachelor's of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory and her Masters from Indiana University. Mr. Frank Zilinyi, Organist: Since graduation from the Oberlin Conservatory in 2008, Frank Zilinyi, has been an active concert artist, performing at the organ and in chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. In 2007, Mr. Zilinyi won first prize in the Agnes Fowler Organ Competition. The following year, he competed for and won a full tuition scholarship in the Strader Organ Scholarship Competition, which provided Mr. Zilinyi with the opportunity to continue his studies in organ and pedagogy at the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Zilinyi currently resides in North Carolina, where he is earning certification in the Lister-Sink method of Injury-Preventive Keyboard Technique. Mr. Zilinyi gives credit to this method of playing, for all of his playing success and facility. |
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About the Gulf Atlantic Diocese of the ACNA
 The Gulf Atlantic Diocese is now twenty-three member congregations in Florida and South Georgia ranging in size from about six hundred congregants to fewer than twenty five congregants. There are over fifty clergy members, both active and retired, and a combined average Sunday attendance of over three thousand. The twenty three churches were each submitted to the hierarchical structure of the world wide Anglican Communion through various ecclesial bodies such as the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA) under the authority of the Archbishop of Rwanda; the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) under the Archbishop of Nigeria; and the Network under a variety of bishops and Archbishops in Kenya, Uganda, and the Southern Cone of South America. As those provinces continue to release our respective congregations into the Diocese in Formation under the authority of our Vicar General, it is precisely this joint association of churches that is now seen as a model of hope that is the biblically based and mission minded Anglican Church in North America. |
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About the Anglican Church in North America
Globally, regionally and locally, Anglicanism is in the process of reformation. Within the last decades, the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada have increasingly accommodated and incorporated un-Biblical, un-Anglican practices and teaching.
In the context of this widening theological gap, the existing geography-based organizational model of the Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada became problematic for orthodox Anglicans. Orthodox parishes, clergy and dioceses that upheld Biblical authority and historic Anglican practice became isolated within their existing structures.
Distressed churches and entire dioceses began to disaffiliate from the established provinces in North America and seek episcopal oversight and spiritual care from Anglican Provinces and leaders in other parts of the world, including the primates and churches of Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South America and Uganda. Beginning in 2000 with the Church of Rwanda, these leaders have responded by accepting orthodox Anglican parishes and dioceses in North America into their care.
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Governance
The Anglican Church in North America is a conciliar church where clergy and laity serve together in leadership. The Most Rev. Robert Duncan, bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh, serves as the Anglican Church in North America's first Archbishop. Bishops meet together as the College of Bishops. Laity and clergy take leadership responsibility on the Provincial Council and during the Provincial Assembly. |
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