Wonderful news from St Mark’s, Glen Ellyn: Ordination of the Rev. Miguel Briones

Posted on November 3, 2011 by ginny

This is wonderful! We are looking forward to some ordinations of former St Nicholas folks in the near future.

When the Rev. Miguel Briones took a job as a sexton at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Glen Ellyn 13 years ago, he didn’t know he would go from doing maintenance work to fulfilling a childhood calling to become a priest.

“It was God,” said Briones who will become the first native Mexican to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago early next year.

Link: Glen Ellyn church helps immigrant fulfill his calling – DailyHerald.com

Group forms to address growing homeless problem in D211 — Schaumburg news, photos and events — TribLocal.com

Posted on November 1, 2011 by ginny

This sounds a little like our Second Family program, I will make sure some of our leaders see this. We normally do something like this working with Clearmont School, but we have parishioners in Hoffman Estates (and a history, since some of us came from Holy Innocents).

In any case, it’s a worthy cause and deserves support.

After hearing homelessness among District 211 students is on the rise, a group of real estate agents decided to form a group to help the cause.
Cindy Eich, a Rolling Meadows Realtor and member of the District 211 Foundation, helped form the new group, Realtors Against Homelessness, after hearing the number of affected students is increasing throughout the district, which includes Conant, Fremd, Hoffman Estates, Palatine and Schaumburg high schools.
“We came together and would like to see what we can do to impact the lives of homeless students,” she said.

Link: Group forms to address growing homeless problem in D211 — Schaumburg news, photos and events — TribLocal.com