Virginia Episcopalian Magazine Spring 2012 Issue | Page 32

SCENES FROM AROUND the Diocese (Clockwise from top left) The Rev. Jen Kimball and the Rev. Sven vanBaars, husband and wife, join in singing during the Annual Council Eucharist and service of leave-taking for Bishop Jones. Photo: Emily Cherry Worshippers exchange the peace during the ordination to the vocational diaconate at St. Paul’s, Ivy in February. Photo: George Collier The Rev. Justin McIntosh, rector of Leeds Church, Markham, celebrates his first baptism, for the Spear family, in the same church where McIntosh was baptized. Photo: Mimi Spear Bishop Johnston joined in the celebration of the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde (front right) as bishop of the Diocese of Washington in November 2011. Photo: Austin Bartenstein The Rev. Al Reiners, a retired priest of the Diocese of Virginia, is also the proud grandfather to the bishop’s clerk, Austin Bartenstein, pictured here at Annual Council. Photo: Karen Smith The Rev. Shearon Williams, rector of St. George’s, Arlington, administers the sign of the cross in ashes outside of a metro stop in northern Virginia on Ash Wednesday as part of the church’s “Ashes to Go” initiative. Photo: Benjamin Keseley 30 VIRGINIA EPISCOPALIAN / Spring 2012