The ECD Board has exciting news

The ECD has been amending little pieces of both our Constitution and Bylaws for the last 3 or 4 ECD Conventions. The Board believed that we were doing everything correctly. This past Spring the Board decided it was time to ask for some outside help to give ECD legal status in the Episcopal Church. Cass contacted her friend, Ms. Polly Getz, who is a church attorney, and she agreed to help us with our two documents.

When the Law Committee (the Rev. Dick Mahaffy, Lee Holland, and Cass Martensen) met with Polly she suggested combining the Constitution and the Bylaws into one Bylaws document, as many businesses and organizations are now doing. We agreed.

It wasn't an easy task, getting members to vote on the new Bylaws through email during the COVID 19 pandemic.  However, we met the quorum and of all the ballots we received, 97% voted yes, 3% voted no.

To all the members who made this possible, Thank you!

Click here to see the new by-laws

 

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Worship
Together from East to West

Join the members of the ECD and several Deaf churches from around the country for a virtual worship every Sunday at:
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WHO WE ARE

The Episcopal Conference of the Deaf is a national association of Episcopal Church workers whose purpose is to spread the Gospel of Christ among Deaf people. To do this effectively the ECD acts as a central clearing house concerning all aspects of work among Deaf people.

The ECD encourages the establishment of missions, promotes recruitment, training and placement of qualified workers and assists in the expansion, growth and perpetuation of the Episcopal Church work among Deaf people. It strives to present a united voice before the bishops and the whole church concerning the work among Deaf people and to assist church workers to better serve God and His Church, both spiritually and temporally.

"Word to the Church:
What Would Love Do?"
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
(Closed Captioned)

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