April 2019 Diocesan Newsletter
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2020 Mission Funding Applications are due on April 15th.
You can find the application, guidelines, and more details
here
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Diaconate/School of Ministry Information Day Deadline April 23rd
Tuesday, April 23rd is the deadline for the receipt of registration forms for the Information Day on the Diaconate and the School of Ministry that will be held at All Saints Episcopal Center on April 27th. If you have someone in your congregation who will be attending, please have them fill out the registration form that can be found
here. Registration forms can be scanned and emailed to
Rose Bogal-Allbritten.
If a registration is being sent via snail mail, please let me know by email or phone (270) 293-9490. If you or they have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Faithfully,
The Ven. Rose Bogal-Allbritten, Director, School of Ministry.
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Bishop Robert Wright presented the 2019 Brennan Lecture Series on the Spirituality of Leadership. If you would like to listen to Bishop Wright's lectures, you may do so
here.
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Chrism Mass
Yesterday, the Clergy of the diocese gathered with Bishop White at All Saints to renew their ordination vows and to bless the holy oils (oil of healing, catechumate, and chrism).
You can see images from the day
here
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Youth Mission Trips
Youth who will be in grades 10-12 during the 2019-2020 school year are invited to apply for the Province IV Mission trip. To learn more, you can email
Katherine Doyle
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Youth who will be in grades 7-9 during the 2019-2020 school year are invited to join other youth of the Diocese of Kentucky on a mission trip, Living Our Baptismal Covenant, to Southwest Virginia. That application is
here.
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Youth Council Applications
Youth Council Applications are now available for youth who will be in grades 9-12 during the 2019-2020 school year. They are due back June 1, 2019. You can find links to the forms below.
Faithfully,
Katherine
Coordinator for Youth and
Young Adult Ministries
Diocese of Kentucky
502-526-6413
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ALL SAINTS CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTER NEWS
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All Saints Work Day
There will be an All Saints work day on April 27th.
You can find more details
here.
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Important Reminder
All congregations must designate a senior or administrative officer to be responsible for keeping their congregation's employee roster up to date. Note: This is a CPG mandatory requirement.
Designate an Administrator for your congregation's Employee Roster with
this form. Visit
here for more info and a 2019 health benefits overview from the Church Pension Group.
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Topic of Interest to all Congregations
The Department of Revenue has updated their policy regarding Nonprofit sales tax exemption. To view this information, go
here.
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Please Register
CPG is having an education webinar soon. This webinar will focus on the Church Insurance Corporation (CIC) and their work protecting our property and so much more. Please register for this webinar
here
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For more details on the resources offered, and information about the Way of Love Offering, visit
here
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Good Friday Offering
"The Good Friday Offering of our Church is one way to help connect the love of Christ on the cross with our support of the ongoing ministry of love and compassion carried out by our Anglican sisters and brothers throughout the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East Greetings and best wishes as we prepare for a holy Lent." - Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
See the Presiding Bishop's full letter
here.
Good Friday Offering materials, including bulletin covers and inserts, are available
here.
We invite you to download and print materials as needed for your parish.
For more information and questions, please contact: The Rev. Canon Robert Edmunds, Middle East Partnership Officer
redmunds@episcopalchurch.org
Contributions to the Good Friday Offering are best combined in a single parish check and sent by the end of the calendar year to:
DFMS - Protestant Episcopal Church US
P.O. Box 958983
St. Louis, MO 63195-8983
Please be sure all checks are made out to: "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society" with "Good Friday Offering" added in the note field.
The bishops, priests, and people of the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East thank you very much for your support as we come together in the One Body of Christ, strengthening our faith by living the Good News.
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Summit 2019 is now open for registration!
You can find details on pricing and links to registration
here.
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Renowned spiritual leaders, scientists, scholars, musicians and artists will explore the space where revelation and reason coexist during the 2019 Festival of Faiths.
The 26th Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Shori will be a speaker at this year's Festival on Thursday, April 24th,
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
You can find details and ticket information
here.
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Congratulations and blessings to the Reverend Anne Richter (formerly Vouga) and Don Richter, who were married on March 30th, 2019. Anne is the
Associate Priest for Christian Formation and Family Ministry at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Louisville.
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We celebrate Allison Caudill, who was ordained to the Transitional Diaconate on February 17th, 2019 at St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Allison is currently a seminarian at the Sewanee School of Theology, where she will be graduating this May.
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We celebrate the ordination of Raleigh Langley to Priesthood on March 3rd, 2019 at St. Francis in the Fields.
We were also blessed to be able to witness Bob Coon being received as a priest back into the Episcopal Church by Bishop Brewer at St. Francis in the Fields on March 3, 2019.
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New Assistant for Communication and Administration
Katie McNew has joined the bishop's staff as the Assistant for Communications and Administration. Please see the diocesan website
here
for her contact information. A note from Katie:
Hello, My name is Katie McNew. I am the new Assistant for Communications and Administration. For the past three and a half years I have been very happily employed as Parish Administrator for St. John's Episcopal Church in Murray, but it was time for an adventure! I am happy to be in Louisville and I look forward to learning about and supporting the mission of the Episcopal Church through my work on the bishop's staff. I'm here to help!
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Submissions for materials to be considered for the May, 2019 General Newsletter are due by May 2nd, 2019. Please send your submissions to
katie@episcopalky.org
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Looking for the prayer resources? Try the Daily Office:
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Embracing Christ, Engaging the World
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