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Lent Resources from The Episcopal Church |
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Episcopal Church Lent resources available online. Click the button below for new and updated resources for individuals, small groups, and congregations.
- Lenten Virtual Borderlands Experience webinar series
- Lent curriculum, calendar, and bulletin inserts
- Sermons, lesson plans, and devotionals
- “Prophetic Voices” podcast series
- Lent Madness
- Videos and publicity materials
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Lent Madness
Watch the video below to see the Cathedral of Saint James' fun take on Lent Madness. You can follow along vote for your favorite saint at LentMadness.org.
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Forgotten Among the Lilies: A Lenten Retreat with St. John of the Cross
Date: March 12
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: Trinity Episcopal Church (Fort Wayne)
St. John of the Cross, best known for his work Dark Night of the Soul, invites us to let go of everything that stands between ourselves and union with God—including preconceived notions about what God is like. Whether you’ve experienced your own “dark night” or are simply drawn towards a deeper experience of Lent, join us for a day of prayer, study, and conversation.
Lunch provided; online self-guided option available.
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Updates and Reminders from the Diocesan Office |
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Reorganization of Missioner Responsibilities
In preparation for The Rev. Canon Henry Randolph's retirement at Missioner for Formation this past December, Bishop Doug and the Missioners started to plan for a transition of staff responsibilities. Bishop Doug announces those transitions in the video below. Here’s an overview of staff responsibilities.
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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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124th Diocesan Convention
Date: October 1
Where: Valparaiso University
Diocesan Convention 2022 has been moved to October 1 to coincide with a visit from our Presiding Bishop, The Most Rev. Michael Curry. At this time, we are planning for an in-person convention. While the details of the event are still in process, and hopefully unaffected by pandemic developments, we expect Saturday to begin with a rousing worship experience at the Chapel of the Resurrection. This will be followed by lunch and our afternoon business meeting. Please mark your calendar for this special event.
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Winter in Spring Youth Retreat
Date: April 1, 7 p.m.-April 3, 11 a.m.
Where: Wawasee Episcopal Retreat Center
Cost: $20
Due to the higher numbers of Covid we had to postpone our Winter Retreat in January. So we have rescheduled it as "The Winter in Spring Retreat". Join us for "The Winter in Spring Retreat" to be held at the Wawasee Episcopal Center April 1 - 3, 2022. This retreat is open to Jr. & Sr. High Youth, grades 6-12. Our theme is "Make a friend, be a friend, bring a friend to Christ". It will be a great time of Faith, Friendship & Fun. If you have any questions, please contact Carol Bianchini at [email protected] or 574-551-3087. Please register online by March 25, 2022.
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Save the Date!
Summer Youth Camp
Date: June 12-18
Where: Camp Alexander Mack
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Becoming Beloved Community |
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Sacred Ground Pilgrimage to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama
Bishop Doug, joined by fellow bishops that participated in his Sacred Ground group, took a pilgrimage to Montgomery and Selma, Alabama the second week of February. The pilgrimage itinerary included:
- Prayer service at Gazebo riverfront
- Tour of Equal Justice Institute Legacy Museum
- Court Square, site where Rose Parks began her bus protest
- Slave Market
- Winter Building
- Greyhound Bus Station/Freedom Riders Memorial
- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
- State Capitol
- Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center
- EJI National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- Conversation with Bryan Stevenson
- Jonathan Myrick Daniels Memorial
- Highway 80 - Viola Liuzzo Memorial
- Lowndes Interpretive Center
- Jackson Home
- Annotated drive through Selma
- By the River Center for Humanity
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- The Elms of Coosada
Watch Bishop Doug's initial reflections on that pilgrimage below. You can also read a story on the pilgrimage written by Episcopal News Service.
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Episcopal bishops' Sacred Ground circle inspires Alabama ...
Eight Episcopal bishops, including the Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the former presiding bishop, are in Alabama this week on a racial justice pilgrimage to civil rights landmarks, museums and memorials in Montgomery ...
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Holy Hikes Northern Indiana
Lenten Prayer Walk
Date: March 12
Time: 10/9 a.m. (EST/CST)
Facilitator: The Very Rev. Brian Grantz
The Rev. Cn. Tina Velthuizen will lead the Holy Hikes group on a Lenten Prayer Walk through the woods and along the lakeshore at beautiful Spicer Lake Nature Preserve. We'll meet in the parking lot at the nature center at 10 a.m. (EST) for this easy to moderate loop hike. As always, RSVP is helpful but not required.
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Episcopalians explore, embrace green burial as a final...
When John Christian Phifer talks about his work at Tennessee's first conservation cemetery, he first provides context by describing the mainstream funerals familiar to many Americans, which he used to coordinate.
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Dove Faith Cafe - Kokomo
Date: March 11
Time: 6:30-9:30 p.m. (eastern)
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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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.
- Support Community Reentry Programs
- Pass Ambitious Climate Change Legislation
- Pass the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act
- Support the Pregnant Worker Fairness Act
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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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Consecration of The Rev. Matthew Cowden as Bishop Coadjutor
Date: March 12
Time: 11/10 a.m. (EST/CST)
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Save the Date!
Clergy Retreat
Date: May 17-19
Where: Lindenwood Retreat and Conference Center
In order to accommodate our guest presenter, the clergy retreat dates have shifted a day. It is not scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, May 17 through midday Thursday, May 19. More information to come.
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Apply Now for Grants Through EDNIN |
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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 [email protected].
- 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 [email protected].
- The application deadline is May 31 of each year.
- Award notifications will be made by June 30 of each year.
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News and Events from Around Province V |
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Bishop-elect Paula Clark to return to work in the...
Bishop-elect Paula Clark will return to work on March 7 in the Diocese of Chicago, according to a Feb. 22 letter from the Rev. Anne B. Jolly, president of the standing committee.
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Episcopalians help launch End Gun Violence Michigan to...
The Diocese of Michigan has joined a coalition of faith-based and secular organizations in launching an initiative called End Gun Violence Michigan that will press for gun safety legislation in the state and, if necessary, ...
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Prince Singh becomes provisional bishop of Eastern,...
Bishop Prince Singh was welcomed this month by the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan, where he began serving as bishop provisional several months after he announced he would step down from his previous role ...
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News from Across The Episcopal Church |
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Newly formed House of Deputies caucus takes up the...
Among the groups with a presence at this year's General Convention will be a new self-organized caucus of LGBTQ+ members of the House of Deputies. The group of over 100 members is working in small groups as the July 7-14...
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Daniel P. Richards consecrated bishop of Upper South...
The Rt. Rev. Daniel Paul Richards was ordained and consecrated as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina on Feb. 26 at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina. "I am...
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Maine Episcopalians voice support for bill that would...
Maine Episcopalians are supporting the efforts of the state's Native tribes to exercise the sovereign powers that enable tribes in other states to largely regulate their own affairs. By advocating for a bill currently...
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Presiding bishop and other dignitaries remember...
At a memorial service for Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City on Feb. 13, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry remembered the former primate of the Anglican Church of Southern...
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Episcopal Pulse recruits 1,000 respondents for...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Reporter David Paulsen volunteered on the advisory panel that helped suggest some of the questions that Episcopal Pulse is using in its first round of surveys.
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Black leaders assess church's efforts to battle racism...
A panel of several prominent Black leaders in The Episcopal Church discussed the state of the church's racial reconciliation efforts and its justice and equity advocacy during an hourlong Church Pension Group webinar held...
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General Convention committee discusses clergy pension...
Bishops and deputies are considering a General Convention resolution that calls on the church to study the feasibility of creating a fund to support under-resourced congregations in paying their clergy pension assessments. ...
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Diocese of Alabama empowers commission to elevate...
The Diocese of Alabama passed a resolution this month at its diocesan convention that seeks to bring a greater spirit of truth-telling to its racial reconciliation work by raising up "the stories, voices and experience of...
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Episcopal leaders pray for Ukraine as Russian forces...
Episcopal churches in Europe and the United States are expressing solidarity with and praying for the people of Ukraine as Russian forces continue an invasion that has killed at least 136 civilians, has devastated...
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Episcopal leaders condemn Texas governor's labeling of...
Texas Bishop Andrew Doyle and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, House of Deputies president, are among the Episcopal leaders condemning Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's attempt to classify transgender medical treatments as child abuse...
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Presiding bishop preaches at St. Philip's in New York's...
Presiding bishop preaches at St. Philip's in New York's Harlem at Absalom Jones celebration [Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preached Feb. 12 at a celebration of Absalom Jones in New York's Harlem. The service, at which New ...
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Episcopal parish hosts 'Maus' conversation after school...
After the Athens, Tennessee-based McMinn County Board of Education removed "Maus," the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its middle-school curriculum-an act that drew international media...
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News from Across The Anglican Communion |
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Trial period underway for Anglican Church of Canada's...
Trial period underway for Anglican Church of Canada's new gender blessings [Anglican Journal (Anglican Church of Canada)] The Anglican Church of Canada has prepared a set of gender-themed liturgies for trial use, including a blessing on gender...
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Anglican bishop in Europe condemns 'unjustified and...
Anglican bishop in Europe condemns 'unjustified and aggressive' war in Ukraine [Anglican Communion News Service] Anglican Bishop in Europe Robert Innes has condemned the "completely unjustified and aggressive war" in Ukraine, following the...
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Dean of Canterbury Cathedral will retire
Dean of Canterbury Robert Willis, has announced that he will cease to be dean at midnight on May 16, the eve of his 75 th birthday. Willis was installed in July 2001, and during the coronavirus pandemic he has...
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