Calendar of Upcoming BWC Events

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2022-2023 Discipleship Events | "Transformed Lives Transform Lives"

A Calendar of BWC Discipleship Events

1: Missional Innovation Grant Applications open
15: Hispanic Heritage month (through Oct. 15)
15: Fall Journey to Beloved Community Course begins (deadline to register is Sept. 12)
20: Training Tuesday: Getting Started on a Congregational Vitality Pathway with the Readiness 360 resource
20-26: Deaf Awareness week
24: Storytelling for Legislative Advocacy
27: Training Tuesday: See All the People: An Introduction to MissionInsite, 7-8:30 p.m.
27-29: Living Well Manidokan Cycle begins (deadline to apply is Sept. 12)
30-Oct. 6: Native American Ministries - Justice for Our Children: Healing for Our Communities

1: Unified Funding Task Force grant applications due
1: Church Conference Reports Due
2: World Communion Sunday
6 or 7: Forum on Christian Unity and Interfaith Opportunities, two 90-minutes sessions on Zoom, choose the date you prefer
11: Training Tuesday: See All the People: Community/Prayer Walks, 7-8:30 p.m.
15: Youth Listening Session, 2-4 p.m., Calvary UMC in Annapolis
16: Laity Sunday - “Rise Up! — Reveal” (II Timothy 1:8-12)
20: Next Level Speaker Series with Tod Bolsinger from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (deadline to register to attend in-person is Oct. 7)
22: Strawbridge Shrine Annual Meeting at New Hope UMC/Bethel Church, New Windsor, MD
23: Cross Racial-Cross Cultural (CRCC) - A Diverse Church by Design begins (deadline to apply is Oct. 8)
25: Training Tuesday: Deepening Discipleship: Creating an Intentional Discipleship Pathway, 7-8:30 p.m.
25 Living Well - West River Cycle (deadline to apply is Oct. 7)

1: Intent to Apply for Congregational Vitality Pathways form due
1: Missional Innovation grant applications due
1: Camping summer staff application opens
2-5: Northeastern Jurisdictional Conference meets
8: Training Tuesday: Deepening Discipleship: Getting People onto Your Intentional Discipleship Pathway, 7-8:30 p.m.
10: Clergy Sexual Ethics and Boundaries Training (Virtual), 9 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (deadline to register is Oct. 21)
15: Training Tuesday: Live and Love Like Jesus, 7-8:30 p.m.
16: Bishop's Advent Day Apart with the Clergy
27: Advent begins
27: United Methodist Student Day
29: Training Tuesday: Multiply Your Impact: Measure What Matters, 7-8:30 p.m.

1: Pastoral Evaluations are due
11: Advent Candlelight Service at the historic Strawbridge Shrine, 4 p.m.
13: Training Tuesday: - Statistical reports, 7-8:30 p.m.
25: Christmas Day - “Christ our Savior is born!”

2: Annual Scholarship Program application open
6: Epipha ny
15: Human Relations Day
19: Clergy Sexual Ethics and Boundary Training (Virtual) 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (deadline to register is Dec. 16)
31: Statistical reports due

1: Overnight Camping registration opens
1: Resolutions to Annual Conference due
2: Spring Journey to Beloved Community Course Begins
5: Disability Awareness Sunday
8: Bishop's Lenten Day Apart with the Clergy
12: Scout Sunday
15: Congregational Vitality Pathways (Launch, Catalyst and Readiness Initiatives) application due
22: Ash Wednesday
26: Camping Sunday

1: Summer camp scholarship application period opens
8: Next Level Speakers Series with Dr. Jacqui Lewis, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
15: IDEA Corp Internship Application due
17-18: Annual Youth Worker Retreat
19: UMCOR Sunday
29 United Women in Faith National Legislative Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill

1: United Funding Task Force grant applications due
1: Annual Conference Award nominations due
2-9: Holy Week
9: Easter Sunday -- “Christ is Risen!”
21-23: Confirmation Retreat at West River
24: Seeds of Security Golf Tournament
29: Pre-Conference Session
30: Pilgrimage Week begins hosted by Archives and History

1: Peace with Justice grant applications due
1-6: Pilgrimage Week
6: Pilgrimage Day
31: BWC Annual Conference Session begins in Baltimore

1-3: BWC Annual Conference Session continues in Baltimore
4: Peace with Justice Sunday
14: Colonial Days at Strawbridge Shrine, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
30: Fund Balance Reports due

1: New clergy appointments begin

8-10: Clergy & Friends Family Retreat at Manidokan

You’re invited to join Bishop LaTrelle Easterling on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land from Jan. 29 - Feb. 11, 2024. Learn more at www.bwcumc.org/holyland.