News & updates
Below are items that hopefully are of interest to many in Province VI.  One deals with an ECF Fellowship application, one is requesting people to serve on the planning team for the young adult conference, one introduces a ministry that reaches across our Church and one is a congratulations to two people in Province VI.  
2017 ECF Fellowship Application
is Now Available!

Since 1964 ECF has awarded 214 Fellowships to individuals pursuing advanced academic studies and special ministries with the aim of educating and equipping future clergy and lay leaders. ECF is pleased to announce that the application for the 2017 Fellowship is now open. Please forward this email to an emerging scholar or ministry leader who you think would benefit from ECF’s support. We believe that by supporting individuals at an early stage in their ministries, scholars and ministry leaders can make a lasting impact on the wider Church. All applicants to the Fellowship Partners Program should bear the following in mind:
  • ECF is committed to strengthening the leadership capability of the Episcopal Church. Applicants to the academic and ministry tracks are asked to describe how they will be developing the next generation of leaders for the Episcopal Church, whether in the context of academia, a local congregation, through a church-wide initiative, or in another setting.
  • An ECF Fellowship provides both financial support and networking opportunities. ECF has typically awarded three to four Fellowships per year. New awards range up to $15,000 for the first year and are renewable for an additional two years. In addition to this financial support, new Fellows join a wide network of past Fellows and ECF partners with them so that they may share their knowledge, experience, and best practices with the wider Church.
  • The selection process for an ECF Fellowship is highly competitive. A strong application requires a significant investment of time and effort and ECF encourages all applicants to begin this process early. Applications are due on March 10, 2017. ECF will announce the 2017 Fellows in late May of 2017.
Please visit the ECF website to learn more about the Fellowship Partners Program, the application process, and be sure to review our list of Frequently Asked Questions. You will find profiles of the 2016 Fellows here and our complete list of all ECF Fellows here. Please contact  Brendon Hunter, Program Director, if you have any questions about this program or the application process.
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Applications available for conference planning team 2017 Young Adult and Campus Ministry Leadership Conference [November 14, 2016] 

Interested in joining a team committed to planning an innovative conference?  If you are in ministry with young adults on and off college campuses, consider applying to serve on the Episcopal Church Young Adult and Campus Ministry Leadership team. Applications are now accepted for the planning team for the 2017 Young Adult and Campus Ministry Leadership Conference slated for June 25-28 in Austin, TX. “We are inviting those who feel called to help shape this event to apply to be on the Planning Team which will be comprised of design teams who will work together to create our program and worship, as well as focus on hospitality and logistics,” noted the Rev. Shannon Kelly, Staff Officer for Young Adult and Campus Ministries. She explained that the goal of the conference is for Episcopal leaders in ministry with young adults on and off college campuses to meet and connect with one another and to be nourished and nurtured in their ministry.  Conference participants – both leaders who are new to this work as well as those who have longstanding roots in this ministry will - will hear from speakers, focus on intentional conversations, build relationships, and learn from one another. Applications are available here. Deadline is December 9 at 5 pm Eastern. Planning team members must be able to attend in-person planning meetings on February 6-8 and June 24-28, both in Austin. Please note – conference registration will open in January 2017.  

Congratulations to Elayne and Sandra on their appointment!!

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Provincial and Episcopal delegates named for March 2017 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Provincial and Episcopal delegates named for March 2017 
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women [November 11, 2016] Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry has named the provincial delegate and churchwide delegates to represent the Episcopal Church at the 61st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in New York City, NY, March 13-24, 2017. The provincial delegate and the churchwide delegates will be able to attend the official UNCSW proceedings at the United Nations and will represent the Episcopal Church/Anglican Communion in their advocacy at the UN, including joint advocacy with the group Ecumenical Women. The delegates named by Presiding Bishop Curry are: Jennifer Allen, Diocese of Kansas; Delores Alleyne, Diocese of Connecticut; Damaris De Jesús Carrasquillo, Diocese of Puerto Rico; Dr. Elayne Gallagher, Diocese of Colorado; Katherine Gould, Diocese of Southeast Florida; Pragedes Coromoto Jimenez de Salazar, Diocese of Venezuela; the Rev. Yein Esther Kim, Diocese of Los Angeles; Kirsten Lee, Diocese of Kansas; the Rev. Irene E. Maliaman, Diocese of Hawaii; Emma Palmer, Diocese of Oklahoma; Karma Quick-Panwala, Diocese of California; Thomasina Rogers, Diocese of Washington; Rebecca Rosen, Diocese of Michigan; Dr. Lupe Ayllon Ruiz, Diocese of Central Florida; Charlene Rusnak, Diocese of Virginia; Angela Smith, Diocese of Western Kansas; and Sandra Squires, Diocese of Nebraska. Presiding Bishop’s staff members attending are: Lynnaia Main, Episcopal Church Global Relations Officer; Rachel McDaniel, Julia Chester Emery United Thank Offering intern; and the Rev. Glenda McQueen, Staff Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean. Presiding Bishop Curry named Erin Morey of the Diocese of Pittsburgh as the Episcopal Church provincial delegate to the Anglican Communion delegation. The 2017 UNCSW Priority Theme is “Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.” See more here. For more information contact Main at [email protected].

 
Yo Friends in Christ~
I am Chuck Morello, one of the communications persons for the
Episcopal Networks Collaborative (Episcopal Ecological Network, Episcopal Network for Economic Justice, and Union of Black Episcopalians).

I am writing to each of you in your position as communications person for your province or as convener of your province. The purpose of this e-mail is to make you aware of an Advent resource you may wish to share with your province e-mail lists and other individuals whom you think would wish to make use of its content.

The Episcopal Networks Collaborative has published a new on-line resource for preachers. The Rev. Richard Burnett of Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbus, Ohio writes in the introduction:
We began this project in response to a comment voiced by our ecumenical friend Dr. Walter Brueggemann, emeritus professor of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and now a communicant in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Referring to his perceived limits of lectionaries, Dr. Brueggemann says that too often the lectionary invites a failure of social-witness nerve in the preacher because it either 1) passes by texts with pronounced justice themes (e.g. edits in Psalm readings or neglected parts of Hebrew Scripture or early church Epistles) or 2) organizes the readings in a way that invites interpretations that concentrate on personal salvation and moralism to the neglect of social inequity and social transformations. 
Quite a stunning claim from one of the great preachers of our day!   Therefore we step forward with confidence to read the Revised Common Lectionary with new attention thanks to our Brother Walter, who invites this effort first in humble service.


You can access the document at the following link:
http://enej.org/assets/pdfs/AdventLectionaryandReflections2016.pdf

You may have received a copy of this information through other channels. If so, please excuse the duplication.
If you have difficulty downloading the document, please let me know and I will send you one.

Please direct questions to: Peace
Chuck