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Bishop Doug Sabbatical Update - April 3, 2022
Bishop Doug has completed the second week of his pilgrimage walk along the Potawatomi Trail of Death and provides the diocese with an update from Decatur, Illinois via the video below. Follow his journey at ednin.org/sparks-sabbatical and on our social media.
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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry Calls for 100th Anniversary Good Friday Offering
Celebrating 100 years of Episcopal Church gifts to Jerusalem and the Middle East, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites bishops, congregations, and supporters to participate in the centenary Good Friday Offering.
First gathered in 1922, the initial Good Friday Offering was an intentional response of The Episcopal Church to support Anglican ministries in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East that were impacted by the devastation of World War I, the Spanish flu pandemic, and social and political unrest affecting Armenian Christians, among others throughout that region.
A lifeline of hope in times of genuine need in years past, the Good Friday Offering continues to support churches, medical programs, and schools today. Learn more here.
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Province V Big Provincial Gathering |
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Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and President of the House of Deputies Gay Clark Jennings invite you to the Big Provincial Gathering 2022. |
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Updates and Reminders from the Diocesan Office |
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COVID-19 Guidelines Update: Common Cup
Announced to clergy on March 24, 2022
In conjunction with several other dioceses in the Episcopal Church, effective Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022, restrictions on serving wine from the common cup will be lifted in the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana. The option to receive Communion in one kind (bread only) -which is a full and valid Communion -will, of course, remain for those who are uncomfortable receiving from the common cup. Read the full announcement here.
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Parochial for Reports
Due: March 1
Parochial Reports were due by March 1. If you have not already completed the reports and submitted them to Missioner Michelle Walker, please do so ASAP. The report links and suggestions are available on our website under the Resources/Annual Meetings menu options. They have been updated for the 2022 reporting cycle.
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Winter in Spring Youth Retreat
Fifteen of our youth spent the past weekend at the Wawasee Episcopal Retreat Center in Syracuse. The theme was "Make a Friend, Be a Friend, Bring a Friend to Christ." Carol Bianchini, Senior High Youth Director, summed up the weekend this way. "These teenagers inspire, and amaze me on so many levels! Thank you for sharing your weekend with each other! Friendship, Faith, Fellowship and Fun!!!"
Save the date for the Senior High Mission Week, July 17-23 at Camp Alexander Mack. Additional materials will be available later in the spring. Visit our website for details on last year's mission week!
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Summer Youth Camp
Date: June 12-18
Where: Camp Alexander Mack
Staff Application - Due April 5
Applications are being accepted from any 16-17 year old entering 11th-12th grade for Counselor-in-training (CIT) positions and 18 years and older for adult staff positions. More info and details can be found on the website.
Camper Registration - Coming Soon
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The University of the South Center for Religion and Environment (CRE) Certificate Program
Date: June 2022-May 2023
Cost: $950
If you relish the idea of exploring further, in company with others, the “ecology” by which Christian faith and spirituality join with an environmental consciousness, consider participating in Sewanee's program on Contemplation and Care for Creation. The ecumenical program welcomes and encourages participation from persons of all parts of the Christian family. This highly unusual program offers participants a combined exposure to the theology and the spirituality of creation care and its social implications. The program is offered annually. Learn more here.
The CRE is committed to helping all those interested in participating in the program to be able to come regardless of financial circumstances. Please contact the program director for information on financial aid.
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Dove Faith Cafe - Munster
Date: March 13
Time: 6-9 p.m. (CDT)
Where: Cloister in the Woods
Cost: $10
The Dove Faith Café is a storytelling event that brings together storytellers and listeners who share their faith stories in an evening of hope. Storytelling sparks connections between people. It creates a vulnerability that listeners step into compassionately. It allows us to see others as God sees us: as God’s children.
Each Dove Faith Café event includes live music, an emcee, and our storytellers who will invite you to share their journey of some incredible moments in their lives. There will be an intermission with food and drink for sale. Each ticket allows the holder into the event and also entitles them to a drink of their choice.
While this is a faith-based event, we hold no illusions that we all have the same faith, or any faith at all. All are welcome. We are reaching out to all of God’s children to help us each identify God’s fingerprint in our lives and to recognize our similarities. Faith-sharing demonstrates God working in our lives and can rekindle cooling embers of our faiths through the gentle power of the Spirit.
Audience Warning: Dove Faith Cafe presents real stories from real people that might contain sensitive material for some audiences. There are references to substance abuse and sexual abuse. Dove Faith Cafe strongly recommends that children under the age of 18 be accompanied by an adult.
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Spring Clergy Retreat
Date: May 17-19
Where: Lindenwood Retreat and Conference Center (Donaldson, IN)
Join us for our Spring Clergy Retreat! Sister Nancy Raboin, PHJC will be our facilitator. Check-in begins on Tuesday at 3 p.m.; wrap up after Eucharist/Lunch Thursday. Our retreat will be focused around the theme "creativity as sacred art." RSVP by Monday, May 2.
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Episcopal Church 2022-23 Educational Scholarships
Due: April 10
Applications are being accepted for a wide variety of educational scholarships from The Episcopal Church for the 2022-2023 academic year. The deadline to apply is April 10. All applicants must be Episcopalian.
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Commission on Ministry Continuing Education Grant
Due: May 31
Continuing Education Grants are awarded by the Continuing Education Subcommittee of the Commission on Ministry.
- Applicants may be either a clergy or parishioner who attends church regularly at a faith community within the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana.
- Applicants must be a minimum of 18 years of age.
- Applicants must state the amount of request and specify the reason for the request.
- In order to maximize the use of the grant funds, as well as provide grant awards of funds to as many requesters as possible, the maximum award is set at $1,000.
- The application deadline is May 31 of each year.
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All requests must be made in writing (electronic or handwritten) and are submitted to the Missioner for Administration and Governance, Michelle Walker, who will then forward them by email to the Commission on Ministry Grant Committee Chairperson. Electronic requests should be emailed to info@ednin.org.
- All requests are forwarded by the Grant Committee Chairperson to members of the Grant Committee.
- The Grant Committee Chairperson will annually request the total amount of grant funds available from the Diocesan Treasurer. This information will then be shared with the Commission on Ministry Grant Committee.
- After the application deadline has passed, the Grant Committee will meet to determine awarding the applications. This meeting may be held via email.
- Award notifications will be made by June 30 of each year to the Chair and Secretary of the Commission on Ministry, as well as the Diocesan Treasurer.
- The Diocesan Treasurer makes distribution of all grant awards.
- It is noted that the Grant Fund is not intended to provide a source of tuition offset for postulant(s) for holy orders.
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Social Outreach Grant
Due: May 31
Through social outreach, we the Church live out our mission to represent Christ, to bear witness to him, and to carry on his work of reconciliation in the world (BCP p. 855). By connecting to our communities and meeting our neighbors where they live, we spread the Good news of God’s love to them and even invite them to take a share in the same ministries. Our outward focus is essential to the life of the Church.
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All requests must be made in writing (electronic or handwritten) and are submitted to the Missioner for Administration and Communication, Michelle Walker, who will then forward them by email to the Social Outreach Committee Chairperson. Electronic requests should be emailed to info@ednin.org.
- The application deadline is May 31 of each year.
- Award notifications will be made by June 30 of each year.
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The 80th General Convention |
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Report calls church to address harms of white supremacy, ...
The Episcopal Church would form a new Episcopal Coalition for Racial Equity and Justice and allocate an estimated $2 million a year for the coalition to coordinate and expand churchwide racial healing efforts, under a...
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Input sought on $101 million 2023-24 church budget;...
Approval of The Episcopal Church's triennial budget is one of the core responsibilities of General Convention, the church's bicameral governing body. With less than four months until bishops and deputies meet July 7-14 at...
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Office of Government Relations |
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Action Alerts
The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations (OGR) identifies opportunities for Episcopalians to participate in our democracy. Click this link to find an action alert that you are passionate about and send a message to your members of Congress. Below are new action alerts since our last newsletter.
- Urge Congress to Approve COVID-19 Appropriations
- Protect Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Thank Congress for Funding the Government
- Support Keeping Women and Girls Safe from the Start
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Congress Weekly
Date: Thursdays
Time: 1-1:30 p.m. (ET)
Congress Weekly is a fast-paced, 30-minute conversation about the policies and legislation we are advocating for. They take place weekly on Thursdays from 1:00-1:30pm ET. Registration is required. If you already registered for one of the first six sessions, you MUST register again using this link.
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News and Events from Around Province V |
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Coaches available to leaders across Province V
Wondering about coaching?
Province V launched the Leadership Coaching Project in November 2020 in order to provide support for leaders. Coaches are available to all people, lay and ordained, as they navigate their roles and ministries. Coaching is a dialogue between a coach and client, group, or team with the intention of finding creative ways to solve challenging problems or improve team performance on key initiatives. The coach's role is to draw out expertise through inquiry, curiosity and challenges so that clients can stretch into their best selves.
Contact Heather Barta, Coordinator of Province V with any questions or for more information.
989-413-3229
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Korean American congregation in Illinois uses grant to...
Late last year, One in Christ Episcopal Church in Prospect Heights, Illinois, was awarded a Becoming Beloved Community-AAPI Gran t of $9,450 by the Executive Council of The Episcopal Church. The funds, says the Rev. Indon Paul ...
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Wisconsin diocese's fundraiser helps Anglican diocese in ...
Wisconsin is known as the Dairy State, so it may come as no surprise that the Diocese of Fond du Lac rallied behind a plan to furnish cows for a farm in Zimbabwe operated by its companion diocese.
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Michigan diocese's 'Race and Spirituality' initiative...
For Episcopalians in the Diocese of Michigan, encompassing southeast and southcentral regions of the state, and including the city of Detroit, the complex work of racial healing is focused more on reckoning with historical ...
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News from Across The Episcopal Church |
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Border & Migration Ministry Summit highlights Episcopal...
At the fourth annual Border & Migration Ministry Summit, hosted by Episcopal Migration Ministries and the Diocese of West Texas, experts talked about how the already complex situation along the U.S.-Mexico border is...
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Diocese of Virginia announces slate of four nominees for ...
The Standing Committee of the Diocese of Virginia released the following message on March 28 announcing four nominees had been selected for diocesan bishop. The diocese has been without a diocesan bishop since Bishop...
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Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state and...
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state who wrote about her complex faith journey to The Episcopal Church and served in leadership roles at various Episcopal institutions, died March 23 of cancer. She was 84....
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Primates' Meeting ends with statement on global concerns ...
The heads of most of the Anglican Communion's 42 provinces, including Presiding Bishop Michael Curry of The Episcopal Church, wrapped their four-day Primates' Meeting in London by issuing a written statement March 31 that...
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Episcopal delegates to UN women's conference are...
Since the start of the 66th meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women on March 14, eight Episcopal delegates have spent their time listening, learning and finding ways to speak up about the...
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House of Bishops condemns war in Ukraine,...
The House of Bishops voted unanimously to issue statements condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine and political actions targeting transgender people at its March 15-21 meeting. The House met in person...
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Diocese of California plans to turn 9-acre lot into...
The Diocese of California, which covers the San Francisco Bay Area, is planning to use a vacant lot it owns to address the region's housing crisis while practicing environmental stewardship and promoting local food.
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Episcopal Migration Ministries stands ready to assist as ...
On March 24, President Joe Biden announced at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, that the United States will accept up to 100,000 refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. In response, Episcopal Migration Ministries,...
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Episcopal churches offer menstrual products, dignity to...
"Period poverty" is not a term routinely used in church to describe economic inequality, but now a growing number of Episcopal congregations are using it in their efforts to help low-income women and girls access menstrual ...
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News from Across The Anglican Communion |
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Anglicans take on global 'plastic pandemic' at the UN
Anglican representatives to the United Nations are celebrating the passing of a major international agreement on plastic pollution, a breakthrough influenced in part by the voices and experiences they were able to ...
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Composer John Rutter pens new work after Ukraine...
Composer John Rutter pens new work after Ukraine invasion - and holds surprise parish premiere [Church of England] Composer John Rutter has written a new choral work in response to the invasion of Ukraine, which was first performed in a parish...
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New Zealand Anglicans study Māori Anglican saints during ...
Anglican Taonga (Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia)] This Lenten season, a weekly online prayer service will journey through the 40 days of Lent in the company of a blessed array of Māori saints and influential ancestors in...
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