Save the Dates!

2022 Annual Meeting

Friday, June 17, 6 p.m. Eastern

Join the Board and member stores on Zoom for the Annual Report, Roll Call and check-in, sharing of best practices, and a presentation by Sarah High of Bookshop.org about specific ways to enrich your online presence and increase earnings.

Sign on with your favorite Friday beverage, and we’ll have a toast to the dedication and determination the Episcopal Bookstore managers and volunteers have shown over the last year, as well as a blessing for the upcoming year.

Booksellers’ Market Supper

Friday, July 15, 6 p.m.

In addition to discovering new products for the upcoming season, plan on some good camaraderie at the Atlanta Gift Show. We’ll have an informal dinner gathering on Friday evening to further share ideas and enjoy welcome fellowship with EBA friends old and new who are attending.

During these challenging times, we are stronger together, and EBA is here to support you!

Save the dates and look for invitations with more specifics to come!

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds — Hebrews 10:24

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. — Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

In Christ’s love,
Lucy Chambers, EBA President

It became apparent that the main reasons most of the churches in our Diocese did not come to the Cathedral Bookstore were parking and time of travel. With the aid of faithful volunteers, the Cathedral store was open every Sunday.

So, with the Bishop’s blessings, we started traveling each Sunday to the churches. It soon became a great success. When the Cathedral closed the store in order to use the space for the youth program, I continued providing books to our Diocese with no store front. The road show included the following ministries:

Daughters of the King, Cursillos, Order of Saint Luke, Retreats, Lutheran School Fundraisers, and, in several churches, Fall Fairs.

Prior to COVID, I traveled to Northern California each year, as well as Yuma and Prescott, Arizona. I will resume that schedule in the fall. I presented via Zoom to Province VIII Daughters of the King, and now I enjoy customers from all five states. I also have begun speaking and presenting to local chapters of Daughters of the King.

It is truly an honor to be a part of EBA. My membership and the power of prayer have given me strength and courage to move forward into new aspects of the ministry, involving all the churches through a website and online orders. When the website gets finalized, I will continue to participate as before, but in the event that my health were to fail or other unlikely events occurred in my life, the ministry will live on.

I will be happy to speak with anyone regarding further details or email is fine as well.

Prayers always,

Kathryn Bunch
KB Books
San Diego, CA

AUTHOR

Kathryn Bissette, is Executive Director of the Episcopal Booksellers Association. Kathryn also is the bookstore manager and buyer of St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore & Gift Shop in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to becoming Executive Director of EBA, she served as Secretary, President and Vice President of the Board. Kathryn is a cradle Episcopalian and a native of Tallahassee, Florida. She lived in Atlanta for 20 years before she and her family moved to Jacksonville in 2005.