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The Bishop's Notebook Archive

Visitations

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The Bishop's Notebook, 25 April 2003, Friday in East Week, Ft. Hood
“Texas doesn't waste Springtime. With temperatures approaching the mid-eighties the bluebonnets carpet pastureland to the horizon. In my past I can hear Lieutenant Mike Bays, while on operation in Vietnam, yearning 'to see the cattle up to their bellies in bluebonnets...'”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 21 February 2003

“As you read this, thanks to the efforts of CH Steve Powers at the Naval Air Station at Coronado, CA, Brook, Clara, and I are finishing a swing through San Diego and Camp Pendleton. The enduring experience is of sitting down with our chaplain's families, some whom are deployed or waiting be, and watching our kids play together. It acutely brings home the pain of this period...”
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The Bishop's Notebook, 15 August 2001, St. Mary The Virgin
Visitations to Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Bangor Sub Base, Seattle, Washington and Great Falls, Montana with pictures.
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Bishop's Notebook, 27 February 2001,Flight from Okinawa via Osaka to Korea
“We left the door open looking out over a stormy South China Sea as the Baptism-Confirmation Service began. About 30 persons attended and followed up the event with a celebratory brunch. CH Jere Hinson has worked hard to build a congregation over his nearly three years at these Marine installations and his presence is praised by parishioners and command...
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