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Introducing Your Deputies: Ernest Cockrell
June 17, 2006
The Rev. Ernest Cockrell, a four-time Deputy to
General Convention, is rector of St. Andrew’s,
Saratoga and Dean of the West Valley Deanery. At
General Convention, he is a member of the
Committee on National and International Affairs,
and serves as co-chair of the Committee on
Domestic Concerns and Human Rights.
Ernest comments, “As always, I am impressed by the
order-with-effervescence on the floor of the House
of Deputies: every idea in our parishes expressed
and heard with respect; seeing tables of
hearing-impaired people signing the hymns
together; experiencing the singing and liturgies
with thousands of people. What has impressed me
the most about this Convention both in committee
work and on the floor of the House has been the
focus: it has consistently been on the needs,
hopes, and suffering of people in our nation and
world. That focus on mission gives me hope that we
can deal with internal discord regarding the
Anglican Communion. This perspective comes from
sitting amidst bishops and deputies from all sides
of the Anglican issues and seeing them working
graciously together. There may be some rough
weather ahead, but I sense an atmosphere that can
handle any weather heading our way.”
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