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In this edition of ENews:
- Churches around the Diocese join in Earthquake Relief Effort
- Diocesan Choir Festival is Coming up
- Dates for 2023 Congregation Leadership Conferences Announced
- Diocese is seeking volunteers for Faith X Leadership Team
- Opportunities for Spiritual Formation
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Diocese Churches and partners team up to provide Earthquake Relief through Project (Re)Start | |
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On Monday, December 20, the lives of thousands of residents in Humboldt County were turned upside down by a magnitude 6.4 Earthquake near Ferndale. Killing two and injuring nearly a dozen, the temblor wreaked havoc on the communities of Fortuna and nearby Rio Dell. Power was knocked out for days, and critical roads and infrastructure were badly damaged.
Thanks to the dedication and hard work of many throughout the diocese, we were able to provide much-needed relief to survivors. From one end of the diocese to another, churches and partners joined forces in a race against aftershocks and weather to delivery needed support.
We'll be publishing a special edition of the ENews with lots of photos of the recovery effort on Thursday.
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Dates for 2023 Congregation Leadership
Conferences Announced
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Mark your Calendars! Here are the topics, dates, and locations for the 2023 Congregation Leadership Conferences. Registration information will be announced soon. | |
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Vacation Bible School | St. John’s, Chico
Saturday, February 25* | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Vestry Training | Grace, St. Helena
Saturday, March 25 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
WordFest! – Lay Reader training | Location: Online by Zoom only
Saturday, May 6 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Stewardship | Incarnation, Santa Rosa
Saturday, June 3 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Disaster Preparedness | St. John’s, Roseville
Saturday, September 16 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
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*Corrected date - this was posted as February 23 in the last ENews. | |
Diocese Assembling FaithX Small Church Vitality Leadership Teams – LAST CALL! | |
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What is the FaithX Project?
Northern California is one of five dioceses chosen by the FaithX Project to participate in a three-year Vitality Improvement Program for Small Congregations (V.I.P) along with 7-10 of our small congregations (average Sunday attendance of between 30-50 people). Other dioceses are: Arizona, Maryland, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania.
Over the next three years FaithX will train the leadership of participating dioceses to use tools such as their Congregational Vitality Assessment – Judicatory Dashboard and Neighborhood Insights Reports to triage our congregations, identify those small congregations that could most benefit from the three-year program, and establish a vitality and sustainability baseline for measuring their progress. They will also work with dioceses and their congregations to create communities of practice, within which clergy and lay leaders of participating congregations can celebrate success, learn from failures, generate creative ideas, and provide mutual support.
Click here to learn more about FaithX:
https://faithx.net/vitality-improvement-program/
What's Next?
- In late January/early February 2023, we will be accepting applications for qualified churches.
- We are currently assembling a team of 7 to 8 lay people, deacons, and priests who can make a three-year commitment to the project who:
- Represent the geographic diversity of our diocese
- Have more than one primary language (esp. Spanish and Tagalog) and/or who represent diverse ethnic/racial communities
- Are curious about the process
- Can deal non-anxiously with questions and tolerate discomfort (i.e. esp with churches dealing with change and open questions)
- Can take the longer view
- Love our Church, our Diocese, who like working with a team and with people, and who want to help our modest-sized churches thrive.
The team will share spiritual practices, grow together as working partners, and gain skills related to congregational vitality assessment and support.
If you are interested in serving on this team, click on this link: https://forms.gle/q3rT6gDeW15gV2wbA
Applications are due by noon on Wednesday, January 4
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Missioner for Church Life | |
Liturgy for Blessing a Home at Epiphany | |
We invite you to join in the tradition of blessing your home at Epiphany and marking your front door lintel with chalk.
Download the brief service here.
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Diocese-wide Lent 2023
Book Study Announced
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For the season of Lent, Canon Julie Wakelee and Missioner for Church Life Mack Olson will lead a four-week study of Amy-Jill Levine’s Entering the Passion of Jesus.
We’ll meet on Zoom each Wednesday in March from 7:00 – 8:00 pm.
Registration information will be available soon.
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Ruth And Esther | Epiphany 2023
For our journey through scripture this Epiphany, the Good Book Club will explore Ruth and Esther, books that explore the faithfulness and courage of two remarkable women. The stories of Ruth and Esther have much to teach us about the Hebrew concept of chesed, which means sacred kindness, as well as the willingness to be in sacrificial relationship with loved ones and our communities.
Mark your calendars to join the Good Book Club with daily scripture readings, reflections, and teachings, from Epiphany, Friday, January 6, to Shrove Tuesday, February 21, 2023.
Click here to Read More
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Episcopal Church Foundation offers Financial Resources
for Churches
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ECF360.org is the Episcopal Church Foundation’s comprehensive, self-service, low-cost subscription site for raising financial resources for your Episcopal parish.
It includes comprehensive resources for:
To sign up, go to: https://www.ecf360.org/
It is only $99.00 for a year subscription! If you’d like to learn more, or if your congregation needs assistance with covering the cost, be sure to email the Missioner for Church Life, the Rev. Mack Olson, at mack@norcalepiscopal.org
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It's not too late to support the many ministries in the The Bishop's Partnership Appeal Book of Dreams!
Click Here to give.
Making a difference has never been so easy!
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Diocese Indigeneous Ministries | |
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Winter has traditionally been the time for Native people to gather, to catch up with each other, and to share provisions. With its short days and long nights winter was also the best time to come together for story telling as a way to entertain and to teach the children. Indigenous Episcopalians have continued this practice with an annual Wintertalk in January.
For the last several years I have participated in this event along with other interested folks and Indigenous Missioners from across the Church.
Due to Covid concerns and budget restraints Winter Talk ‘23 will be a hybrid event and ALL Episcopalians are invited to attend on Zoom. Here is the announcement /registration from the Episcopal Church.
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CaGMyc-YRXWCvTLzpHU4iw
The Rev. Canon Tina Campbell | Diocesan Indigenous Missioner
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The Four Vision Quests of Jesus
The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston
Bp. Charleston, a Choctaw elder, describes four events in Jesus’ life through Indigenous eyes and the traditional understanding of Vision Quest. Join me online to discuss this Native perspective.
Thursdays – 7:00-8:00 pm
February 2 – March 9
Registration is limited
Contact: tinarcampbell@comcast.net
Facilitated by The Rev. Canon Tina Campbell
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Lay Preaching Course Starts this month | |
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The Episcopal Dioceses of El Camino Real, Northern California and San Diego are accepting applications for a course opening in the winter of 2023 to prepare individuals to apply for a Lay Preaching license. We are forming cohorts of students in Spanish and English and seeking adult learners of all ages and educational backgrounds who are actively involved in ministry in their congregations and demonstrate gifts in lay leadership. Participants must be members of a congregation within one of our three partner dioceses.
Who is this for? Lay members of our congregations with gifts for preaching and leadership in ministry.
What will we study? Biblical exegesis and preaching theory and practice.
Where will we meet? On Zoom
When will we meet? Once each month on a weekday evening
The application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUdIJvYniTlzEQp37TYXaJT7HGQEy5OPyU9hbuw2daJNPIRg/viewform
Questions? Contact the dean:
The Rev. Kathy Lawlersfmdean@norcalepiscopal.org
Las Diócesis Episcopales de El Camino Real, el Norte de California, y San Diego están aceptando solicitudes para un curso que se abrirá en el invierno de 2023 para preparar a las personas para solicitar una licencia de Predicación Laica. Estamos formando cohortes de estudiantes en español e inglés y buscando estudiantes adultos de todas las edades y antecedentes educativos que participen activamente en el ministerio en sus congregaciones y demuestren dones en el liderazgo laico. Los participantes deben ser miembros de una congregación de unas de nuestras tres diócesis asociadas.
¿Para quien es esto? Miembros laicos de nuestras congregaciones con dones para la predicación y liderazgo en el ministerio.
¿Qué estudiaremos? Exégesis bíblica y teoría y práctica de la predicación.
¿Dónde nos vemos? Zoom
¿Cuando nos reuniremos? Una vez al mes en la noche de un día laborable
La aplicación:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUdIJvYniTlzEQp37TYXaJT7HGQEy5OPyU9hbuw2daJNPIRg/viewform
¿Preguntas? Póngase en contacto con el decano:
La Rda. Kathy Lawler sfmdean@norcalepiscopal.org
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Register Now
for CDSP Winter Term CALL Classes
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Winter Term online courses at CDSP’s Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership (CALL ) are now open for registration! Courses are taught online by experienced instructors, and last for seven weeks. The courses are asynchronous, which means that students don’t have to be online at a specific time of the day but can do the work as their schedule allows. CALL courses are open to anyone for theological formation and personal enrichment. Courses this term include homiletics, Hebrew Bible, spirituality, church history, pastoral care, liturgical leadership, and diaconal studies.
The seven week courses run January 23 – March 13, 2023.
Full course descriptions and links to register are available here: https://cdsp.edu/call/online/call-winter-2023/
Contact: call@cdsp.edu
Cost: $245 ($215 for students from CALL partner dioceses)
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St. John's Roseville offers
Epiphany Book Study
Sundays at 2:00 pm
Beginning January 8, 2023
All are welcome to join us as we gather via Zoom to discuss the latest offering from Catherine Meeks' The Night is Long but Light Comes in the Morning: Meditations for Racial Healing.
In this book Dr. Meeks offers a series of heartfelt meditations based upon her life experience addressing racial injustice that
help us examine Jesus' profound question: “Do you want to be healed?”
We will meet via Zoom for 8 Sundays beginning January 8, 2023 at 2:00 pm.
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84774942643?pwd=S3RuWEkvTnZRSHdLSmpnVTF5ZDFoZz09
Meeting ID: 847 7494 2643 Passcode: 841227
The Book can be purchased from Amazon here.
For more information, please contact Fr. Cliff Haggenjos (haggenjos@comcast.net)
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OSL Region VII Epiphany Healing | Virtual via Zoom
January 6-7, 2023
“Let there be light… be the light.”
Friday, January 6, 2023
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Rev. Josh Acton, OSL North American Director
Saturday, January 7, 2023
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Fr. Anders Litzell, OSL South Africa
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Eastern Time)
Ditsie Scobie, Director, OSL Region 3
Kathy Stanton leading worship.
Breakout rooms for discussion and prayer.
There is no fee. Donations gratefully received.
Click Here to Register for the Region VII Retreat
Link: https://osltoday.org/region7retreat/
Click Here to Request Prayer
Who We Are
OSL is an international, inter-denominational, Christian healing organization. We are made up of healing communities dedicated to offering healing prayer in Jesus’ name to all who are in need. We are a Christian community of faith, prayer and service. We are a network of individual believers who come together to learn more about God’s healing love and the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives and bring wholeness. Once trained, we offer healing prayer in our communities. This is our unique mission and ministry.
www.OSLToday.org
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Center for Bible Study Hybrid Course on
New Testament begins January 17
Meets Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm in person at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Rocklin and online via Zoom.
Encounter the New Testament is taught by Dr. Max Botner, who was Research Assistant for N.T. Wright in 2017 and 2018.
Course is free with a suggested donation of $50.
Register here:
https://staugustineepiscopal.com/center_for_bible_study
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Commission for Intercultural Ministries | |
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I Will, With God's Help:
Journey Toward Racial Healing and Justice Workshop
Episcopal Church of St. Martin's | Davis
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
This one-day in-person workshop was specially developed for the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California by the Commission for Intercultural Ministries. Renew your Baptismal Covenant as we learn about forms of historic and contemporary racism and how to engage in ministry with sensitivity and respect for all.
Please note that due to the nature of the program, attendance is limited to 30 participants.
Register: https://forms.gle/zRz2d3T6jfyAEVG59
Lunch donation of $10 (cash or check) on day of workshop.
Contact Michael Adams for questions. madams95747@yahoo.com
Additional workshops are being planned by the Commission for Intercultural Ministries for 2023. Be on the lookout for announcements in the Diocesan E-News and in the Beloved Community Resource Newsletter.
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Job Opportunities Around The Diocese | |
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St. Paul's | Sacramento is seeking a Music Director.
Read the job announcement here.
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