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Ordination of Tara Bartal, Lucas Crossland, Tommy Drake, and Robin Smith

Saturday, April 15, 2023, 2:00 PM

By the grace of God and with the consent of the People, The Right Reverend Robert Stuart Skirving, Bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina, will ordain Ashley Danielle Simpson, Gregory Smith, Gerald Whitfield Stroud, and Rhonda Ann Thomas to the Sacred Order of Deacons in Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on Saturday, the fifteenth of April two thousand and twenty-three at two o’clock in the afternoon. Your prayers and presence are requested with reception to follow at St. Paul's, Greenville.

Tara Bartal, Lucas Crossland, Tommy Drake, and Robin Smith's Invitation to the Order of Deacons

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