MARCH 5, 2025

ASH WEDNESDAY

VESTRY DAY

A morning for new and returning Vestry members. We will have:

8:30-9am Check in, Coffee, pastries and snacks

9am - 9:50 Welcoming remarks, Morning Prayer and address by Bishop Knisley

10am - 10:50 Workshop on Robert’s Rules of Order

11:00 - Noon choose one of three workshops:

• Vestry 101 with Rev. Dr. Canon Dena Cleaver-Bartholomew
• Wardens conversation with Bishop Knisely
• Congregational Finances (Narrative Budgets, Projections, and Stress Testing Assumptions) with Commission on Finance

There will be time to ask questions and meet with members of the Congregational Development Commission.

It's Almost Tea Time!

Get ready! We are gearing up to release season 7 of Tea Time Theology! This season we are watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds season 1 and talking with various clergy of the diocese to look at these episodes from a christian lens. You do not need to watch the episodes to understand the podcast, but if you would like all episodes are streaming on Paramount+.

New episodes will drop starting March 11th for the next ten weeks! Check out the Facebook and Instagram pages over the month of February to meet all our guests!

The 234^th Diocesan Convention will be held on

Saturday, October 25, 2025



The Convention Committee on Agenda is grateful to those who responded to the survey about last year’s event. We read all of your comments and then started working on plans for the 2025 Convention. With the help of diocesan staff, the committee explored alternatives and several venues were contacted. We are excited to announce that this year the Convention will be held at the Park Theatre in Cranston. The site offers a bigger space, ample free parking (at Cranston City Hall across the street), great technology and separate spaces for lunch and the ministry fair. The food will be provided by a local caterer that works closely with the Park. They have presented a menu with many options for us. The per person cost for this Convention will be slightly higher than last year, but the committee believes that attendees will be pleased with this new venue.

If you have any questions, you can send an email to Convention@episcopalri.org

Or reach out to a member of the Committee on Agenda: Mr. George Nathanson, Ms. Ivy Swinski, the Rev. Bettine Besier.

PROVINCE I

The Province 1 Christian Formation Network

is hosting a series of online monthly “Conversations with Noted Speakers” on Zoom. While hosted by the Episcopal churches of New England everyone is welcome to join these sessions.

On the third Thursday of most months participants will have the opportunity to hear from people at the forefront of Christian Formation. Each session includes time for questions and conversation as we learn from each other new ways of sharing our faith. Below is the information for our speakers for Winter/Spring 2025. To sign up click the links below each session. If you have any questions, please contact Linnae.peterson@gmail.com

Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational

Wendy Claire Barrie

March 20, 2025 7pm to 8:30pm Eastern

Churches have long been one of the few places in society where people of all ages gather. How do we move from being multigenerational to becoming intentionally intergenerational, and why is that important for congregational growth and vitality? Come, listen, and share your experiences!

Wendy Claire Barrie is Canon for intergenerational Ministries at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. A writer, editor, speaker, and educator, she has served eight Episcopal congregations small and large on both coasts since 1989, including All Saints Church in Pasadena, California and Trinity Church New York City. She is the author of Faith at Home: A Handbook for Cautiously Christian Parents (2016) and the forthcoming The Church Post-Sunday School: How to be Intergenerational and Why it Matters.

Sign up here    https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocuqvqD8oGN2NPEjtJpv2bqhCKrFKLMro

The Wider Church

Episcopal Church offers free Lent resources

Find new and updated Lent resources for individuals, small groups, and congregations. Check back for updates as more material becomes available, and review each listing for available languages.

Recent changes in immigration policy are having a broad impact across the country. If you are looking for information about where the Episcopal Church stands on the issues, or how you can help click here.

Every Tuesday at 1 pm there will be a Zoom briefing by Episcopal Migration Ministries and the Office of Government Relations. Register here.

CALENDAR

FOR CLERGY

April 5 - Deacons Retreat, St Barnabas

April 15 - Chrism Mass

FOR ALL

March 29 - Vestry Day at St Luke's EG