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At 12noon EST on March 8th our diocese will commemorate Anne Braden via live stream on Christ Church Cathedral's Facebook page. Bishop White will celebrate and Jan Scholtz, chair of the Racial Healing Commission, will preach. All are encouraged to attend online. A recording of this service will also be made available after the event.

This commemoration is in accordance with Resolution #6 at the 193rd Convention. Here is the language of the resolution passed at that Convention.

Please share the news of this commemoration with your congregation. You can find a flyer here to share the details of the service.

The Commission for Racial Healing is pleased to announce that workshops on Dismantling Racism are now be offered for clergy and laity within our diocese. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has stipulated that all diocesan and parish leaders are required to participate in such training.

The training is an all day event offered from 9:30 EST(8:30 CST) until 3:30 EST (2:30 CST). To foster optimum learning and conversation, the number of persons will be limited.

The Following are the training days available:

Tuesday, March 24th

Saturday March 26th

Please sign up to be sure to get the time you want. Click here for more details. Click here to register.

You can find our tornado response webpage with various resources for our continued response here.

Pray for everyone impacted. If you have a prayer request, please submit it via email here. Members of the Daughters of the King across the diocese will pray for you.

The Bishop’s Discretionary Fund : Donate here.

The Bishop’s Discretionary Fund can get funding to our congregations quickly, and is an easy way to get funds to churches in the path of the tornado that are not currently able to accept online donations.

Click here for more ways to donate.

Please keep the people of Tonga and our Tongan family at St. Peter's in your prayers, as the people in Tonga have been hit hard by the impact of the mid-January eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano. Click here to read more about the situation in Tonga.

“The Episcopal Church Investment Committee met last week, opening with prayer for peace hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In keeping with The Episcopal Church’s firm stand against this continued and escalating aggression, our investment managers sold the church’s Russian stocks, which constituted a negligible portion of overall investment assets.” Click here for information on further responses from The Episcopal Church on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On Saturday, February 26th the Diocese held our annual Congregational Leadership Conference. Click here to view a recording of the plenary session and other CLC resources.

All clergy and all lay people with roles in the church are required to complete Safe Church/Safe Guarding God's Children Trainings. Click here to see who is required to take the training, and for links to register for upcoming trainings.

Also, a reminder that every congregation is required to assign a Safeguarding Administrator. Please email the Very Rev. Katherine Doyle at katherine@episcopalky.org the name and contact information of your Safeguarding Administrator.

The Department of Peace and Justice of the Diocese of Kentucky would like to invite you to join a weekly discussion of the book, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, ed., 2023). This book is a collection of essays that dwell at the intersection of spirituality and ecology. We feel these are critical conversations for our time.

Click here for more information.

Save the Dates!

All Saints Summer Camp returns this summer!!! Registration will open soon.

Senior High (rising 9-12 grades) June 19-24

Primary (rising 2-4 grades) June 26-30

New Horizons (rising 5-6 grades) July 10-15

Junior High (rising 7-8 grades) July 17-22

The CIT and Junior Counselor positions will be interviewed and chosen. If you are interested, please contact Mama Doyle+.

Interested in working? Now hiring summer staff. Let Mama Doyle+ know you’re applying.

Click here to apply.

Organist Wanted for Christ Episcopal Church/Christ Lutheran Chapel in Elizabethtown, to play on Sundays at 10 a.m., occasional special services, and to direct the choir when Covid lets us sing together again.

Interested organists should contact Dr. Greg West (gregorywestgregorywest@yahoo.com, 502-641-7235)

or Martha Holland (marthaholland@gmail.com, 270-735-2700).

St. Andrew's is seeking a part time Parish Administrator. Please click here for details about the position and who to contact if interested.

St. Luke's is seeking a full-time parish administrator to coordinate and facilitate the work of the Rector and parish with the functioning of the overall physical and fiscal operation of St. Luke’s Church; and to communicate and establish rapport with parishioners and the community. Click here to view details and contact information.

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Diocesan Staff continues to work remotely much of the time. We are available by email, and check the office landline phone messages periodically.

We have seen an increase in fraudulent email scams. Please know that no one on the diocesan staff will ever reach out to you for financial assistance. If you receive such an email, please report it as spam and delete it.

Submissions for materials to be considered for the April General Newsletter are due by April 5, 2022. Please send your submissions to katie@episcopalky.org.

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