Called to the Wall - May 15, 2021 |
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Join the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, and the Diocese of Western Mexico on May 15 from 4:30-6:00 pm for Called to the Wall: Building Bridges of Healing and Reconciliation. This year's event will be held online--giving us the opportunity to learn and worship with even more people. Register Today for a reminder about the event, or join us on the Diocesan Facebook and Youtube Channels to participate.
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Good Sleep and Good Health |
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By: The Rev. Suzanne Watson, M.D. |
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One of the most frequent complaints I hear from my outpatient psychiatry patients is that they have a hard time sleeping. Good sleep is important for everyone, and it is especially important for optimizing both our physical AND mental health. So what can we do to sleep better?
Good sleep hygiene is the first step. What is sleep hygiene? It is those practices that can help us to sleep well. The National Sleep Foundation lists eight practices that can help us achieve good quality sleep—I’ve added some additional information from my medical training with a sleep specialist. Read More
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Donations for Unaccompanied Minors |
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The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego has been asked to coordinate a pastoral and spiritual care response for the 1400+ unaccompanied migrant children who are being housed in the San Diego Convention Center. We are working with our ecumenical and interfaith partners to bring together a coordinated program of caring for the young people's spiritual needs, working in partnership with South Bay Community Services, which is coordinating all programming for the migrants. There will be many opportunities to volunteer and support the young people - stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, here are new ways that your congregation can support the girls. |
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Make a donation to South Bay Community Services for care packages
100% of donations will be used to purchase items for care packages for the migrant girls.
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To make a $200 donation: Select “$200 – Provides care package for migrant youth”
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To make a donation of any amount: In the “Choose your own amount” box, type in the amount you wish to donate, and in the “Apply my donation to” drop-down, select “Migrant Shelter”
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Make a donation to EDSD for spiritual care materials
These donations will support the religious, spiritual, and chaplaincy care EDSD is coordinating for the girls. Funds will be used to purchase religious materials, worship resources, devotional books, and other supplies. 100% of donations will be used to purchase items for the spiritual care of the girls.
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Email Deann Rios at [email protected] with any questions about supporting the teen girls.
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Vacation Bible School 2021 - Coming Soon! |
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Vacation Bible School is a time to grow in Jesus’ love, over five weeks, beginning July 11. Each Sunday at 3 pm, a new 20-30 minute episode will premiere on YouTube to watch as a family or with your church family. Featuring leaders from across our diocesan family we’ll use Treasured from Group Publishing as a springboard to explore Jesus’ love through stories, songs, scripture, and more.
The VBS team is excited to continue to unwrap God’s future together and look forward to an exciting summer of learning about Jesus’ love for us. Keep your eyes peeled right here, and on social media, for more information.
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EDSD Seeks a New Chief Financial Officer |
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The Diocese is seeking a new Chief Financial Officer. The ideal candidate will be a highly competent technical expert, who brings deep experience in nonprofit accounting. This is an extremely broad position, overseeing all financial affairs of the diocese, including financial planning, budgeting and analysis, accounting, financial controls and reporting, property management and insurance. The CFO is the primary advisor and thought partner to both the Canon to the Ordinary and the Bishop on all financial matters, with the opportunity to help craft and implement the diocesan vision, in the service of our congregations.
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Episcopal Community Services Seeks a Community and Volunteer Engagement Manager |
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Operating under the mission of serving God by serving those in need through programs that foster hope and dignity, ECS inspires children, empowers adults, and transforms communities by providing vital, high-quality social services. ECS provides more than $29 million in health and human services in the areas of homelessness, mental health, poverty, addiction, and early childhood education. ECS is searching for an Executive/Development Assistant who will embrace our core values of excellence, compassion, and service and exhibit a strong commitment to supporting the life-changing services offered.
ECS is seeking a Community and Volunteer Engagement Manager that will build on an established program to ensure ECS remains a leading organization for individuals, families, and groups to engage in meaningful service opportunities for the benefit of our community. In coordination with a cross-functional team, the Manager is responsible for developing and implementing community engagement strategies to support the volunteer functions of the organization, from identification of volunteer needs, fulfillment, to retention and recognition programs, including oversight of volunteer management software system. In addition, this position serves as the primary point of contact for the congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego as well as providing staff support for ECS events. For the full job description or to learn more click here.
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Revive: Equipping Lay Leaders to be Spiritual Leaders |
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Revive is a discipleship resource to help active lay leaders—wardens, property and finance officers, committee chairs, vestry members, church school teachers, youth ministers, pastoral visitors, and liturgical ministers—grow in confidence as spiritual leaders. Revive is about transformation through spiritual formation. In just 10 months, this small-group program transforms leaders of practical church ministry into confident spiritual leaders who love God and participate in Christ’s ministry.
How does Revive work?
Lay leaders will join their ordained minister in a safe, small-group setting, where they will gain confidence in praying, understanding scripture and developing their sense of call. They will be able to share their spiritual experiences and grow in intimacy with God as a follower of Jesus. Learn more here or contact Canon Christian Gillette for more information.
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Transformation Academy - May 20 from 6-7:30pm |
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LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: THURSDAY MAY 20, 2021 FROM 6-7:30PM
FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DONALD V. ROMANIK
Pivoting to New Realities: Adaptive Leadership for a Post-pandemic Church
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You're invited to join national and local speakers as Transformation Academy continues in May with Leadership Academy! This session will focus on how we can grow as leaders in our congregations and communities, with a special focus on those currently serving in ordained and lay leadership roles (vestry, chapter, clergy etc). The keynote speaker, Donald Romanik (President, Episcopal Church Foundation) will be sharing about adaptive leadership in a post-pandemic context. His keynote address will be followed by two breakout sessions.
Breakout session one will be led by Davey Gerhard (Executive Director of TENS, The Episcopal Network for Stewardship). In his presentation, entitled "Best Practices for Year-round Stewardship Formation" we'll learn tips and methods to integrate stewardship formation into your liturgy, action, and education each month of the year.
Breakout session two will be led by The Rev. Canon Gwynn Lynch, whose presentation is entitled "Vestry Roles and Responsibilities." Her session is highly recommended for any new or recently appointed vestry members, or for those interested in the work of the vestry.
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Donald V. Romanik has been President of the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) since 2005. He was formerly Vice President of Legal and Government Affairs for The Connecticut Institute for the Blind/Oak Hill, a charitable organization based in Hartford and also served as an attorney in both government and private practice. Mr. Romanik has a strong background in labor and employment law, advocacy, government relations, and non-profit law and administration. He has been active in a variety of tax-exempt civic, charitable and religious organizations and was a former member and President of the Hartford Board of Education. Mr. Romanik’s recent book – Beyond the Baptismal Covenant: Transformational Lay Leadership for the Episcopal Church in the 21st Century advocates for a new type of entrepreneurial priest and effective clergy-lay partnerships to help congregations respond to God’s call and move from one state of being to another.
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Q&A: The Rev. Nurya Love Parish on Food, Faith, Church-owned Land and the Future |
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[Episcopal News Service] Start talking with Episcopalians about food and faith or reading about new ways to worship, and the Rev. Nurya Love Parish’s name is likely to come up. She’s written the book “Resurrection Matters” and been interviewed by Civil Eats, and she imagined her own Good News Gardens program last year almost simultaneously with The Episcopal Church’s.
Love Parish, who grew up questioning the ecological wisdom of her Las Vegas, Nevada, home, began her ministry career in the Unitarian Universalist church. In 1997, that work took her to Michigan, where she’s lived since. An Episcopal priest since 2011, she’s rector at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Belmont and executive director of Plainsong Farm & Ministry in Rockford, which she co-founded in 2015 with Bethany and Mike Edwardson — Bethany serves as artist-in-residence, Mike is farm manager. Read More
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St. Stephen's, Menifee to Close for a Season |
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Every congregation goes through a life cycle - from the excitement of new birth, through growth, and into maturity. Sometimes, no matter how many lives a church has transformed, changes in its community, its mission, and its membership also lead to the end of the church's life cycle in its current form.
At St. Stephen’s in Menifee, the faithful have held the line and kept the church running, but the time has now come for a period of rest. St. Stephen’s will be closed for a period of time while the mission, ministry, leadership, and focus are reassessed to allow for future stability and missional success. This closure will begin on June 27, 2021. It is anticipated that the church building will remain closed for one to two years and then will be reopened. While it may end up looking very different than it does now, it will most certainly be an Episcopal church.
The Rev. Cristina Borges has led them faithfully these last 8 months. She will conclude her ministry on June 27. The congregation and clergy at neighboring Church of the Good Shepherd, Hemet will be welcoming the congregation and their deacon, the Rev. Ron Goldfarb.
During the period while the church is closed, the preschool will remain open and continue to serve families in the Menifee community.
Please join us in prayers of thanksgiving and prayers for comfort for the people and clergy of St. Stephen’s.
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New TENS Resources and Log-in for 2021 |
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The diocese is a member of TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship), an association of church leaders, both lay and ordained, “who are committed to living generously and helping others live lives of generosity.”
All churches in the diocese can access member resources, which include creative materials for the annual pledge campaign. To access TENS membership materials please contact Director of Communications, Chris Tumilty for the new TENS password.
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RenewalWorks: Where is God Calling Us to Grow? |
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What is RenewalWorks and how can it help your church?
Through an anonymous online evaluation of each parishioner, and a series of guided workshop discussions with our staff, the RenewalWorks process helps churches (and the individuals in them) refocus on spiritual growth and identify ways that God is calling them to grow. The methodology has been tailored to the Episcopal tradition, adapting over 10 years of research that has uncovered key characteristics of flourishing congregations. It will inspire your congregation and leadership to rediscover who Jesus is, and what it means to follow him.
How does it work?
The RenewalWorks process begins with an anonymous, confidential, online survey (we call it the Episcopal Spiritual Life Inventory) taken by congregants, exploring that individual’s spiritual life. Individual responses are combined and viewed as a group, providing a snapshot of the spiritual vitality of the congregation based on research from more than 1,800 churches (of all denominations) and almost 500,000 congregants.
When can you participate?
Although you could launch RenewalWorks at any time, several congregations in EDSD are planning to participate in RenewalWorks during this upcoming season of Lent. This project is perfectly suited to the reflective spirit of this season and would provide an opportunity for us to seek God's direction together, even as we remain socially distanced.
Contact Canon Christian Gillette at [email protected] as soon as possible for more information on how your congregation can participate in this exciting discovery and discernment process.
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Beware of Phishing Attempts |
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If you receive a suspicious email from an address that seems to be Bishop Susan, but it is not from an @edsd.org email account, it is a phishing attempt. Bishop Susan will never email you asking for funds or financial support by way of gift cards. Nor will the bishop's emails be filled with grammatical errors. Every official email from the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego comes from an @edsd.org email address. |
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Phishing is a cyber attack that uses disguised email as a weapon. The goal is to trick the email recipient into believing that the message is something they want or need — a request from their bank, for instance, or a note from someone in their company — and to click a link or download an attachment.
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Faith to Go: Your weekly formation resources |
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A Weekly, On The Go Resource for Parents and Non-Parents Alike
Hosted by the Faith To Go team in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, David Tremaine and Charlette Preslar. Joined each week by a special guest, the Faith To Go team highlights themes from the Sunday Gospel reading for you to take into your faith discussions and reflections throughout the week. More Here
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EDSD.org Under Construction |
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404 Error: Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.
EDSD.org is going through some changes. You may find that your bookmarked or saved links are now broken, or that information you're used to finding has been moved.
Please be patient as we work to update EDSD.org to better serve you into the future. If you have questions or come across a broken link, please email Director of Communications, Chris Tumilty. Thank you for your help while we work to better our digital presence.
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Resources for Emotional Support |
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is changing life for all of us. You may feel anxious, stressed, worried, sad, bored, depressed, lonely or frustrated in these circumstances.
You’re not alone!
Find resources to connect with real people that can help, here.
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Public Statement of our Commitment |
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Any church in our diocese is welcome to use this statement, for instance as a clergy-vestry joint statement, or as an ongoing statement in your bulletin. |
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As part of the Jesus Movement and the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, we pledge to love our neighbors and protect the most vulnerable among us, remembering our baptismal vows to “strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being.” We live these pledges out by actively engaging in dismantling racism. For many of us, this will mean learning more about our racial identity, listening to those who have experienced racial prejudice, speaking out against racism, and showing up alongside those in our community working to change unjust systems in our society. We also live out this pledge at worship during this pandemic, by wearing face-coverings, respecting distancing guidelines, foregoing the common cup and refraining from congregational singing. |
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Diocesan Staff: Working Remotely |
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