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Events, Resources & News You Can Use
September 13, 2016
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In this issue
- Small Church Summit Sept. 17
- Yes! Workshops Sept. 21
- Pre-Convention Mtgs Oct. 5 & 6
- Lay Eucharistic Visitor Training Nov. 9
- St. Francis Day prayers and service locations
- Pledge Campaign materials
- Parker Palmer e-course on "Bridging the Political Divide"
- St. Paul's Pawtucket Bicentennial Oct. 15
- Icon Workshop St Martin's Providence Oct. 20-22
- Do, Lord, Remember Me: History of the Black Church in RI exhibit opening Oct. 11
- URI team at St. Augustine's
- Dates for Clergy Days, Presbyters Conference
Next e-news deadline:
Please submit complete materials to the Rev. Gillian Barr at
[email protected] no later than Tuesday Sept. 20. Publication will be on Sept. 27.
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Small Church Summit
THIS Saturday, Sept. 17
9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
St Mark's, Warwick
If your church has, or is interested in developing, a food pantry or feeding ministry,
you won't want to miss our special guest from Rhode Island Foundation, Inés Merchán, a grants officer who specializes in food pantries and soup kitchens.
Register here.
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"YES!" workshop series
Begins Sept. 21--register now!
If you want to explore how God can use your gifts and abilities more fully, take advantage of this workshop series. More information and registration
here.
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Discuss 2017 diocesan budget and convention resolutions
Pre-Convention meetings
October 5, 7 p.m. at Emmanuel Church, Cumberland
October 6, 7 p.m. at St. Matthew's, Jamestown
Clergy and lay delegates to Convention are especially encouraged to attend. Convention itself will be Nov. 4-5 at St Luke's East Greenwich. More information will be sent to all delegates at the end of September.
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Do you think you might be called to be a Lay Eucharistic Visitor?
LEV training Nov 9, 6-9 p.m.
Lay Eucharistic Visitors (LEVs) take communion to those who cannot attend worship. If you believe you might be called to this ministry, discuss it with your clergy person.
LEVs are licensed by the bishop. Licensing requires an application signed by your priest and attendance at a diocesan training session. The next training session is on Nov. 9 at St. Martin's in Providence, from 6 to 9 p.m. Learn more about the ministry of a LEV and download the application
here, and submit the completed application prior to attending the training.
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St. Francis Day
Blessing of the Animals
Oct. 4 or a day near
We've collected some resources to help celebrate St. Francis Day. This is also a great day to encourage your members to invite family, friends and neighbors--or anyone who has a pet!
OPEN DOORS is a downloadable resource from LeaderResources that includes resources for St. Francis Day and helpful suggestions on how to invite people, get press coverage and more. You can download it
here.
RI Episcopal churches can order this and other downloadable resources
for free from LeaderResources by entering coupon code EDRI100, or
can chose a discount of 75% with coupon code
EDRI75, 50% with EDRI50, or 25% with EDRI25.
There are additional ideas for liturgies
here and
here.
Wondering where you can get your pet blessed? Here are the pet blessings that parishes have let us know about, listed by date and time:
Saturday, October 1:
Church of the Redeemer, Providence, 2 p.m.
St. David's on the Hill, Cranston, 5 p.m.
Sunday, October 2:
St. James, North Providence, 10 a.m service includes blessing
St Mark's, Warwick, 2 p.m. blessing
Good Shepherd, Pawtucket, 3 p.m. blessing outside
St. Thomas's, Greenville 4 p.m. outside blessing and Eucharist
Sts. Matthew and Mark, Barrington, 5 p.m.outside blessing,
Eucharist at 5:30
St. Thomas's, Greenville, 4 p.m. outside blessing and Eucharist
Sunday, October 9:
Trinity, Pawtuxet, during both 8 a.m. and 10 am. services
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Make your pledge campaign easy
by using templates from TENS
The diocese has a membership with The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS), which has a ton of resources. Each year TENS produces themed stewardship campaign materials, including bulletin inserts, letters in Word that you can edit to fit your situation, pledge cards, and a card giving a chart to help you determine what your percentage of income you are giving. These templates are attractive (including a theme photo) and easy to use.
This year's set of resources can be found
here.
The login username for all Rhode Island parishes is "generous", the password is "journey".
TENS also has worship resources, and materials on capital campaigns, personal financial planning, planned giving, environmental stewardship and more. If you haven't visited recently, check out the resources on the
TENS website.
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One more week to take free e-course
with spiritual leader Parker Palmer on
"Bridging the Political Divide"
Learn more about this free video course from ChurchNEXT here and sign up--the course is available through Sept. 19. |
PARISH AND COMMUNITY EVENTS
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Ring the Bells for Bicentennial of St. Paul's, Pawtucket
Celebration and Silent Auction
Saturday, Oct. 15 5-9 p.m.
St. Paul's Pawtucket warmly invites you to an elegant evening of music, food, drinks (cash bar), entertainment, silent auction, and raffle to benefit the restoration of our 10-bell carillon. Upgrades are underway and all proceeds from this event will go to completing work on the carillon so that the church bells can once again ring out God's love across the land of Pawtucket. We are told that Samuel Slater himself is planning to come, and we would love to see you also! Learn more and
buy tickets to join the celebration.
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Learn how to write (paint) an Icon
St. Martin's, Providence
Thursday, Oct. 20--Saturday, Oct. 22
If you've been drawn to icons but thought that icon painting or "writing" was inaccessible, think again. Our masterful icon teacher the Rev. Peter Pearson gives instructions that enable you to complete an icon during the workshop.
This year we will work on an icon of elegant simplicity that is called the Kitchen Madonna.
Thursday. October 20--6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Friday, October 21--10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday, October 22--10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Register before September 15, 2016, and take advantage of the early registration fee of $200. After September 15, the fee is $225.
Limited partial scholarships are available.
Contact the Rev. Al Marcetti, 602-509-2278 or the Rev. Linda Griggs, 401-751-2141 for more information and to register.
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Do Lord, Remember Me:
The Black Church in Rhode Island
250 years of service and survival
Exhibit Opening Oct. 11 at 5 p.m.
First Baptist Church in America
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MINISTRY HIGHLIGHT |
The URI football team
and St. Augustine's Chapel
What is the connection between a butterfly, a college football player and a bag of groceries? If you don't know the answer, you'll want to check out this
story on the diocesan website about the relationship that's developing between the University of Rhode Island football team and the people at St Augustine's Chapel, Kingston.
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SPECIFICALLY FOR CLERGY
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Clergy Day with Bishop Knisely
Thursday, Oct. 6
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Church of the Epiphany, Rumford
Please join Bishop Knisely
as we discuss several topics important to our diocese. We will continue the discussion regarding the method used to calculate clergy compensation grades to place the diocese more in line with national standards. These proposed changes will likely affect the salary grade of some of our churches, though not the salaries of current clergy. We will also have a presentation from Karen Weavill, Diocesan Director of Development, highlighting what she and her staff will be doing in the coming year.
Clergy Day will begin at
9am
and end at
1pm
. Lunch will be provided. To RSVP, please register here.
For questions about this event, contact Ruth Moulton
[email protected]
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Other upcoming clergy events:
- Nov. 29: Clergy Advent Quiet Day, 9 a.m.--1 p.m. Holy Trinity, Tiverton
- Feb. 22-24, 2017: Presbyters' Conference, Alton Jones Campus of URI
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Fall calendar in brief:
- Bishop Knisely away at House of Bishops meeting: Sept. 13-24
- Pre-convention meetings: Oct. 5 and 6
- Clergy Day: Oct. 6, 9 a.m., Church of the Epiphany, Rumford.
- Happening #78 Youth Retreat: Oct. 14-16
- Diocesan Convention: Nov. 4-5
- Advent Clergy Quiet Day: Nov. 29
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