The Diocese of Texas welcomed two new additions to the Office of Lifelong Formation over the past week. Jamie Martin-Currie is the new Missioner for Christian Education and Matt Blank takes over as the Missioner for Youth and Young Adults.

EDOT Gallery, at 1225 Texas St., opens a new exhibit by two Houston painters June 27 through August 17, 2011.

Applications are now accepted for the 2012 Roanridge Grants, awarded annually for new and creative models for leadership development in small communities across the Episcopal Church.

Members of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection (ECR), Austin, gathered on the parish grounds Sunday, June 5th to celebrate the groundbreaking of Phase One the first step of a three part project.

Episcopal Relief & Development is supporting the Episcopal dioceses of Alabama, North Carolina, East Carolina and East Tennessee as they help impacted communities move from immediate relief to longer-term recovery.

Immediately after the 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the Tohoku and Kanto regions of Japan March 11, the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican branch of the Episcopal Church in Japan, responded.

Diocesan Emergency Response Coordinators, Archdeacon Russ Oechsel and the Rev. Gill Keyworth, will be leading a team of spiritual care workers to Mississippi in the heart of the April tornado damage.

Experts are again predicting an active hurricane season as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has predicted at least 12 named storms, six hurricanes and three major hurricanes of category 3, 4 or 5.