Wallace is a lesbian who says she and her partner, Kathleen West, are in the process of adopting a child. There is no mention in the convocation material about including speakers who represent traditional Anglicanism that regards homosexual behavior as sinful.

Arusha was their home for 18 months while their parents, Stacy and the Rev. Jerry Kramer, served as missionaries in the Episcopal Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro.

When the Kramers moved back to the United States earlier this year, the children left their pets behind. They went from a menagerie in Tanzania to a solitary hamster in New Orleans.

Then Katrina forced them to move again.

Mom and children evacuated first, but Heather was left behind.

"I grew up in here," Lincoln said following the final service. "It kind of breaks my heart, but I know we're taking another step in our lives and we're going to make memories there, too."

"There," in this case, is the University of North Florida , where Calvary will hold its weekly services in the University Center beginning Sunday.

The church left not only its building, but its denomination and diocese as well.

Andy Fenton and Richard Perkins
who were ordained in the service

The ordinations were backed by Reform, the evangelical network, whose 600 clergy members are increasingly rejecting the spiritual authority of their bishops in protest at their "unbiblical" stance on gays.