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SOUTHERN OHIO: 'Flat pastors' go on worldwide vacation
The Rev. Anne Wrider and the Rev. David Hawley took virtual vacations with many of their parishioners who were given photographic cutouts of the two pastors to take on their travels this summer. The vacationing parishioners then photographed the cut-out pastors in their vacation sports.
The project was based on the Flat Stanley Project, an international literacy and community building project, and was created as a way to have parishioners think about the church over the summer -- and to take the church with them while they were away.
The flat pastors visited locales ranging from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Paris, and Florence, Italy.
A bulletin board of all the flat pastors' destinations was created so parishioners could add their photos when they returned from their summer vacations.
The Indian Hill Episcopal-Presbyterian Church's origin dates to 1931 when several Cincinnati-area families created a Sunday school in a private home for neighboring children, according to the congregation's website. A few years later, the school meetings grew to include regular services at a local chapel and 10 years later the worshippers formed the Indian Hill church.
The congregation is fully constituted under the auspices of the members' two regional governing bodies: the Southern Ohio diocese and the Presbytery of Cincinnati.
"After more than 50 years we can safely say that our church is no longer an experiment in ecumenicity," the website's history page says. "It works! We have shown here that we can accept those denominational differences, be enriched by them, and use them in the creation of new traditions."
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