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In this edition of ENews:
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Regional Discernment Group Training - Are you called to listen?
- Deadline for 2023 Book of Dreams Extended!
- Best Skills Best Churches Registration Open
- Be Disaster Ready!
- Trinity Cathedral Presents Faith Formation Classes for the entire diocese
- Opportunities for Sacred Ground Workshops
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It’s All About Love: Festival Thursdays
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Deadline to submit for the 2023 Book of Dreams Extended to Friday September 8! | |
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We are still accepting projects for the 2023 Bishops Partnership Appeal.
The Deadline has been extended to Friday September 8.
The Bishop's Book of Dreams is a digital book highlighting the ministries requesting funds (dreams.) This book includes a write-up of the ministry and a short 2-3-minute video that allows the donor to hear and see more of your wishes for sharing God's love in our diocese. Your ministry may be about starting Godly Play, feeding college students, or Care of God’s creation. No ministry is too big or too small to apply for inclusion in the dream book.
To join the 2023 Bishop's Partnership Book of Dreams, click here to download and complete the Program/Ministry Form and submit it along with an optional 2-3-minute video to michelle@norcalepiscopal.org by Friday, September 8, 2023.
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Best Skills Best Churches Needs You! | |
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This exciting program is designed to meet the professional needs of leaders of nonprofit and public organizations. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will receive a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation.
This is a six-month program with classes held one weekend a month on Friday night (6:00pm – 9:00pm) and Saturday morning (9:00am – 12:00pm.). There are 6 courses that will consist of 2 classes per course (Fri & Sat).
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Trinity Cathedral Announces Faith Formation Classes
Starting on Sept 14th, Trinity Cathedral is offering two very different faith formation classes on Thursday nights. These are offered hybrid (in-person and on Zoom) and are open to the whole Diocese. Both classes will be at 6:30 pm on Thursdays and you can get a zoom link by contacting Rev. Alex Leach.
The Way of Love Bible Challenge - Being offered by Vicki Cromwell-Slakey. The Way of Love Bible Challenge pairs each of the 7 practices of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Way of Love Rule of Life with a passage of scripture as well as reflections, questions, and prayers written by a variety of faith leaders. Explore how you practice your faith in your daily life. This course will run from September 14 - November 16 with a break on November 2 for All Souls Day.
Let us Kiss: Song of Songs - Being offered by Morey Lloyd. A Seven week course on the most unused & abused book of the Hebrew Scriptures - Song of Songs. Explore the books themes of eroticism, the human body, love, pleasure, & longing. Explore its complexities of gender. And perhaps find God in a book that has no mention of a deity, no reliance on morality, and all with no need to justify its existence. Heaven help us! This course will run September 14 - October 26
For more information and/or a zoom link, contact Rev. Alex Leach, Director of Formation
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Commission for Intercultural Ministries | |
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I Will With God's Help:
Journey Toward Racial Healing and Justice
This workshop is rooted in our baptismal identity and the promises we make in baptism. It focuses on how we can more fully live into our promise to be more loving toward our neighbors. During the workshop we follow the path of the Becoming Beloved Community labyrinth.
This workshop meets the requirement for licensing for Lay Eucharistic Ministers and Visitors Only. Other lay licensed ministries need to take Sacred Ground to meet Diocesan licensing requirements.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7 | 9:30am - 4:30pm
St. Mary's Episcopal Church | 1917 3rd Street | Napa
Cost: $25 (includes lunch) | Deadline to register: September 30
Questions? Contact Miriam Casey: edncbbc@gmail.com
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 | 9:30am - 4:30pm
St. John's Episcopal Church | 2351 Pleasant Grove Blvd | Roseville
Cost: $25 (includes lunch) | Deadline to register: October 21
Questions? Contact Jo Ann Williams: bjwilli@surewest.net
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It’s All About Love: Festival Thursdays
Join a monthly Zoom for the best presentations you missed at It’s All About Love. Second Thursday of the month, join a free, 60-minute offering for the whole church to keep the revival flames going in Evangelism, Racial Reconciliation, and Creation Care.
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The first webinar:
Olufemi Gonsalves, doctoral student in public theology at Fuller Seminary
"Jane Crow, and Public Discourse: Womanist Public Theology and the Contributions of Pauli Murray"
Thursday, September 14
12:00 pm (Pacific)
Examining Pauli Murray’s most powerful proclamation, "When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me, I will draw an even larger circle to include them," this webinar will discuss Murray’s contributions to womanist public theology. It considers Murray’s influence on the present and future understandings of womanism and approaches to theology in the public sphere while celebrating Murray's essays, sermons, poetry, and political efforts.
Registration provides access to the Zoom link that will be used for each session.
Upcoming Workshops are scheduled for October 12, November 9, and December 14.
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Commission on the Environment | |
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From the Diocese of California:
Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community through Environmental Justice, with Peggy Sheppard
Wednesday, September 13 | 6:00 pm (Pacific)
Register HERE
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Join us to honor the Season of Creation on September 13 at Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community, our video webcast series exploring the intersections of faith, ecology, justice, and spirituality. Bishop Marc Andrus and Dr. Paloma Pavel will interview Peggy Sheppard, Co-Founder and Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, the first Environmental Justice organization that empowered communities of color in the fight for environmental health and justice.
Peggy Sheppard is co-chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council to President Biden. She was also chair to the EPA on Force 40 guidelines, which aimed to deliver 40 percent of the benefits of federal investments in climate and clean energy to disadvantaged communities hurt first and worst by the climate crisis. She says: "We are in the midst of a racial pandemic, a COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis…so the concept is that we’re advising the White House directly, and the White House staff instead of just the EPA.”
Peggy also serves on the Executive Committee of the National Black Environmental Justice Network and the Board of Advisors of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. She was awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal from the Rockefeller Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 2008, the 10th Annual Heinz Award for the environment in 2004, the Dean's Distinguished Service Award from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and Honorary Doctorates from Smith College and Lawrence University. In 2021, she was made Knight of the French National Order of Merit.
Our guest musician is jazz phenomenon Ben Flint, Director of Music at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Oakland. Ben traveled the world as keyboardist for Isaac Hayes and has appeared with Mr. Hayes on shows such as Good Morning America, the Today show and Late Night with David Letterman. He teaches jazz choir and jazz combo at Diablo Valley College and has been the Artistic Director for the Oakland Jazz Choir for the past 8 years.
For more information and to see past recordings, click here
Co-sponsored by the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, a graduate school of California Lutheran University and member of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. The PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith equips leaders to cultivate the moral, spiritual, and practical power to be effective advocates for climate justice. Through certificate programs, community organizing trainings, and a concentration in climate justice and faith for MDiv students, the center has prepared 124 people from 26 countries to address the climate crisis while simultaneously advancing racial and economic justice. Sign-up for the monthly newsletter to receive updates on application deadlines and events.
| — Miriam Casey | Commission on the Environment | ednccoe@gmail.com | |
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Mark your calendar!
Deanery Convocation is Saturday, September 30
9 am – 11 am
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Missioner for Disaster Resilience | |
Are YOU Ready for a Disaster? | |
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Saturday, September 16 | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
St. John's Church | Roseville | FREE
The Be Disaster Ready Expo will bring subject-matter experts teaching classes in Earthquake Safety, Stop the Bleed, How to build an Emergency Kit, and How to Build a First-Aid kit that works for you. In addition, you can see a CHP Helicopter, members of the California National Guard, Roseville Police and Fire Departments, American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and much more.
The entire day is free — Classes are filling up, and space is limited.
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Missioner for Church Life | |
Resources for Hispanic Heritage Month Available Here. | |
Diocesan Book Study coming soon, get your copy now! | |
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Please join Bishop Megan, Canon Julie, and Missioner Mack in a diocesan-wide discussion of Dr. Catherine Meeks’ The Night is Long, but Light Comes in the Morning: Mediations for Racial Healing
Order your copy now from your local bookshop or online (consider ordering from Underground Books in Sacramento, named one of the top-ten African-American bookstores in the United States).
Tuesdays at 6:00 pm
September 26 – November 14
Zoom login details to come.
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Catherine Meeks, PhD, is the retired Clara Carter Acree Distinguished Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies at Wesleyan College and the Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing. She has long been a strong advocate for social justice, community, and wellness. She is the author of several books, including Living Into God’s Dream and Standing on Their Shoulders: A Celebration of the Wisdom of African-American Women.
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SATURDAY, SEPTMBER 23 | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Encore Living Retreat | Led by Rev. Sam Shafer | Church of Our Savior Placerville
Register by sending an email to revdebra.oursaviour@gmail.com
with “ Encore Retreat” in subject line.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14 | 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Webinar/Workshop: Contemplative Practices & Well-Being | The Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner
Sponsored by Province VIII Health & Healing Ministries Network and Dioces of Northern California Partners in Ministries of Health
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Clergy Openings in The Diocese | |
Job Opportunities in The Diocese | |
Saint Paul’s | Sacramento is seeking a Director for Hope's Space – a healing ministry funded through donations and a grant from the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California. Read the Position Description Here. | |
Saint Luke’s | Auburn is seeking a part-time Parish Mission Coordinator to assist the Clergy, Vestry and parishioners in the mission and management of the church. Read the Position Description Here. | |
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