Below is a reminder of the meeting location for each deanery. If you are unsure of your deanery, please ask your clergy person or email us with the name of your faith community. The deanery locations are:

Western – St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 505 Bullseye Lake Rd., Valparaiso

Central – St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church, 226 W. Lexington Ave., Elkhart

Eastern – St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, 424 W. Market St., Warsaw

For additional information, view the Convention web page.

Date: November 12

Where: LangLab (1302 High St., South Bend)

Cost: $10

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.

Let's Talk CRT: Christian Race Theory

And yet … if you listen closely, you may discover the “CRT” so many critics decry doesn’t sound that scary or problematic. If anything, I’ve found it sounds like what I understand about following Jesus. All of which makes me wonder if perhaps CRT isn’t critical race theory but actually Christian race theory. Read the complete article here.

The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers is the Presiding Bishop’s Canon for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation Care and is the author of The Church Cracked Open: Disruption, Decline and New Hope for Beloved Community.

Session #1: Overview of the Racial Justice Ministries Inventory  

Registration: https://forms.gle/fw5V9hzvG5cJmJpd6 

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The Episcopal Church has a new Racial Reconciliation, Healing and Justice newsletter! Click the link for articles, events, resources, and more!

Date: December 11

Time: 11/10 (EDT/CDT)

Where: Ambler Flatwoods Nature Preserve (Michigan City)

Facilitator: The Very Rev. Brian Grantz

Take a little break from the holiday hustle to go outside! Our Advent walk will feature meditations based on traditional Christmas carols. We’ll meet in the parking lot on Meer Rd./600 West. RSVP appreciated, but not required.

Check out this new Creation Care podcast, Spade Spoon Soul! The podcast co-hosts are:

Applications Due: January 21, 2022

The United Thank Offering (UTO) Board is pleased to announce the availability of their 2022 UTO Annual Grants. These grants are awarded for projects in The Episcopal Church and throughout the Anglican Communion, each year with a different focus. Applications are due via email to the Diocesan office by January 21, 2022.

For 2022, the focus is Care of Creation: Turning love into action by caring for God’s creation to protect the most vulnerable — who will bear the largest burden of pollution and climate change — through justice, advocacy, environmental reparations, and the development of formational materials.

Application information and forms are available here. Please note: The application deadline is earlier this year due to General Convention and Executive Council schedules.

Coinciding with Advent, this year’s devotions by the four Churches Beyond Borders are also timed with and inspired by the United Nations’ annual 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign.

For the first time, the annual compilation from The Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Anglican Church of Canada, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada will include devotions written by laity and clergy, in addition to Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and the other heads of communion.

For the season of Advent, “Journeying the Way of Love” offers four sessions to be explored as we await the coming of Christ by moving through the first two chapters of the Gospel of Luke. Luke’s gospel provides a pattern for understanding how we can live the Way of Love as individuals, as families and friends, as a community, and out in the world. The sessions are specially designed for use during the Christian formation hour before or after worship. Facilitation instructions accommodate small or large groups. Available in English, Spanish, and French.

To accompany the “Journeying the Way of Love” curriculum, use the Advent calendar, which offers daily suggestions for engaging in the seven practices that encompass the Way of Love: turn, learn, pray, worship, bless, go, and rest. The calendar can also be used as a standalone resource–keep  it at your desk or on your fridge and refer to it every day! Available in English, Spanish, and French.

Find digital and printable resources themed for Advent and Christmas here, to help promote special Advent and Christmas events or explain the season itself on social media, your website, or around town. Posters, fliers, postcards, and more are available in English, Spanish, and French.

For the eighth year, #AdventWord will gather prayers via a global, online Advent calendar. Forward Movement, the new home of AdventWord, will offer 28 daily meditations and images during this holy season beginning Sunday, Nov. 28. Available in English, Spanish, and French.

Join Episcopal Relief & Development this Advent to create, learn and pray. Their One Thousand Days of Love Advent Toolkit includes DIY projects for families and communities that will take you from Advent to Christmas and through Epiphany.

Date: February 4, March 4, April 1, April 29

Where: Trinity Episcopal Church (Fort Wayne)

Cost: $200

Facilitator: Sister Nancy Brousseau, OP

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In his book What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self, Fr. Richard Rohr asks these questions:

This paper explores the relationship between justice, institutions, and the medieval virtue of gratitude. It does this by focusing on a thirteenth-century account of the virtue of gratitude in the work of Thomas Aquinas. It argues that institutions, both formal and informal, provide a helpful framework for considering the relationship between gratitude and a number of important benefactor and beneficiary relationships within the hierarchy of virtues that make up the cardinal virtue of justice. This paper first explores Thomas’ account of the virtues of justice and gratitude. It then looks at recent literature in theology and ethics of institutions showing how formal and informal institutions can help cultivate gratitude. Here is a link to the article.

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.

View our current weekly virtual worship offerings here.

If you have not previously visited EDNIN Virtual Worship on Facebook, please do so and join us live throughout the day as you are available or go back when you have free time to watch the recorded videos.

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Online nomination form is here.

See full description here.

Online nomination form is here.

Click here to read the Province V November newsletter where you'll find information on networking and coaching happening all across the diocese. Read it and get plugged in!