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Parish E-mailing
September 1, 2010 |
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From the Bishops' Office
Bishops to present Welcoming the Stranger:
A Pastoral letter addressing the need for comprehensive immigration reform | |
The bishops of Maryland invite you to a press conference and presentation of Welcoming the Stranger, a pastoral letter on immigration to the people of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Thursday, September 2
Cathedral of the Incarnation
10:00 a.m.
Worship, stories of immigrants and refugees, dialog and conversation
1:00 p.m.
Press Conference
On the agenda to speak at the press conference are:
- The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, bishop diocesan
- The Rt. Rev. John L. Rabb, bishop suffragan
- The Rev. Héctor R. Rodríguez, Latino missioner for the Diocese of Maryland
- Mr. Peter Kirchgraber, executive director, ERICA (Episcopal Refugee and Immigrant Center Alliance)
This pastoral letter can be used to remind all of us of the biblical values and imperatives that should guide our treatment of newcomers and sojourners.
In a world on the move, we need to learn to welcome the stranger, to embrace the "other." The moral principles of the Episcopal faith lead us to value every individual, to value family ties and seek to preserve families, and to cry out for justice for all people.
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| Disaster Emergency Response Team/MD
Open Forum Sept. 9, Diocesan Center | |
10 a.m.-12 noon
Please join me for a roundtable discussion on emergency response, relief and recovery.
- First responders
- Disaster relief parish coordinators
- Outreach/Mission coordinators
- Building trades professionals
- Pastoral response team leaders
- Fundraising professionals
Questions or RSVP to Sharon Tillman, director of communications, 410-467-1399. Click here to read about why and how the diocese is establishing a Disaster Emergency Response Team (DERT/MD) and volunteer network, and how you can get involved. |
| From the Canon for Evangelism and Ministry Development
Episcopal Village East comes to the Cathedral September 24-25 | |
Are young adults really interested in church?
The Diocese of Maryland and the Cathedral of the Incarnation are hosting a group of emergent church leaders discussions and workshops about this growing presence in our church. Episcopal Village-East takes place Sept. 24-25 at the cathedral and diocesan center.
Brian McLaren , well known author and leader in the emergent church, will be the keynote speaker. Often parish vestries and clergy want to know how we can attract and keep young people in our congregations. Here is one opportunity to find some possible answers to your questions. Follow this link for information and registration.
This is a regional event. More than 40 seminarians from across the country will be here. The organizer is the Rev. Karen Ward, vicar and abbess, Church of the Apostles, Seattle. Her congregation has more than 150 members and the average age is 26.
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Attention Golfers, Sponsors
15th Annual Saint James School Golf Classic, Sept. 20
2nd Annual Bishops' Cup Charity Golf Tournament, Oct. 4 | |
15th Annual Saint James School Golf Classic
Monday, Sept. 20Cress Creek Country Club, Shepherdstown, West Virginia 12 noon shotgun start Enjoy a day of golf complete with a variety of player contests, silent auction and raffle prizes. All proceeds benefit the Saint James School Scholarship Fund. $150 for individual golfers. $600 for pre-arranged foursomes. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. For more information call 301-733-933, or pre-register at www.stjames.edu.
 Bishops' Cup Charity Golf Tournament Monday, Oct. 4
Compass Pointe Golf Courses, Pasadena 1 p.m. shotgun start Lunch and Dinner $125 per person or $450 per foursome. Supports the Bishops' Annual Appeal in support of ministry. Visit www.episcopalmaryland.org/bishopscup.php for information or to register to play or sponsor a hole, gift or foursome. Questions? Contact Sharon Tillman, 410-467-1399. |
Greening our Diocese
Rally for the Chesapeake, September 28
Greentober Fest Environmental Day, October 9 | |
Rally for the Chesapeake
Our Bay, Our Water, Our Moment
6 p.m., National Aquarium in Baltimore
This fall we have an unprecedented opportunity to clean up our water and our communities, and to improve the health, well-being, and quality of life for our families.
Come to the rally and help us urge the Governor of Maryland to give our children a better future - water that is safe to drink and swim in, and seafood that is safe to eat throughout Maryland and the region.
Clean Water is a Right, not a Privilege. This is Our Bay, Our Water, and Our Moment to get it right.
Episcopal Environmental Day
October 9th from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
St. John's Church, Ellicott City
An informational day about environmental issues. Includes workshops. Exhibit Tables also welcome.
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The Bishop Claggett Center |
Fri 5 p.m.-Sat 4 p.m.
Music ministers gather at this annual retreat designed by the Diocesan Commission on Music and Liturgy. The keynote speaker is the Rev. Meredith Kefauver Olsen, St. Mark's Church in Highland, who will speak on the Role of the Church Musician. Eileen Guenther, President of the American Guild of Organists, will lead a workshop on World Music and John Brooks will lead a hands-on workshop on the Royal School of Church Music's program. Join other music leaders for choral anthem reading and worship. Cost $135 pp
Ember Day - Sept 18
Hearing the Voice of God
9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. The Rev. Monique Ellison, Church of the Resurrection, Baltimore, and Listening Hearts Ministries. Cost $25 pp Day in the Garden - Sept 189:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Reflect on the spirituality of gardening and plant a new garden. Cost $20 pp On-line registration and payment now available!! www.bishopclaggett.org |
An Invitation from ERICA:
Music and Stories of Migration |
Please join us for ERICA's annual fundraiser - an evening of music and stories featuring the Bryla Quartet, an international ensemble, appearing by arrangement with PeabodyPresents. The Bryla Quartet will play works by composers whose lives and music were shaped by exile and migration - an experience shared by the musicians themselves, who hail from China, Poland, and Quebec. Personal stories will be woven through the concert, told by new Americans from Liberia, Bhutan, and the Congo. The concert will be followed by a candlelight reception, with internationally inspired hors d'oeuvres. Saturday, Sept. 25 ♦ 5 p.m.
Tickets: $40 -- $20 with student ID - Reservations at 410-467-3750, x224, or at the door
Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 East University Parkway, Baltimore
Sponsored by Murthy Law firm, murthy.com, and Episcopalians across the diocese
The Episcopal Refugee and Immigrant Center Alliance is a faith-based community resource center offering assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the greater Baltimore area. ERICA was founded by former refugees who have experienced firsthand the challenges faced by those new to American society. The center offers many services to refugees, including interest-free loans to cover legal aid and family reunification, monthly workshops, crisis support and transitional aid during housing and utility emergencies, personal assistance from volunteer mentors, winter clothing drives, local community referrals and documentation assistance. For more information contact Peter Kirchgraber, executive director of ERICA, 410-467-3750 ext. 224. |
| From the Resource Center
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The diocesan Resource Center has an immediate need for volunteers to catalogue and place bar codes on books and DVDs. We have about 4,000 resources that have not been catalogued and coded. We would like to catalogue and code all of them as we reshelve books after our recent renovations. Volunteers may donate one hour or several hours, but between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday now through Oct. 1. Training, which will take about 10 minutes, will be provided. Required skills and gifts are good reading skills, ability to enter information accurately on a computer, and ability to work unsupervised and by themselves. Volunteers may apply by emailing Randi Hicks Rowe at rhicksrowe@episcopalmaryland.org or by phone, 410-467-1399, ext 371.
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| News and Resources for Parishes | |
Church Club Historical Church Tour
September 11, 9 a.m.
The wonderful Annual Historical Church Tour is resuming this year after a one year hiatus. This year Jim Wollon will conduct the tour that he had planned in 2009, before his unfortunate accident. Our tour this year will include St. John's, Kingsville; Trinity, Long Green; Immanuel, Glencoe, St. James, Monkton, and St. James Church, Parkton. The tour is free for Church Club members, $25 for guests. A lunch will be provided along the way. Please e-mail your reservation to Jacque Desimone at mdccsecty@gmail.com. Or call the Diocesan Center at 410-467-1399 to leave a reservation for her. We will meet at 9:00 at the Church of the Redeemer parking lot, north of Melrose Ave. to take a caravan on the tour. Your immediate reservation will help us complete the planning. ALL ARE WELCOME.
Spiritual Support Training offered at GBMCGreater Baltimore Medical Center offers an experiential program through their newly created Center for Spiritual Support Training. This is a 10-week course that meets on Thursdays from 3-7pm, although accommodations can be made if the 3-5pm time frame conflicts with work commitments. The curriculum combines group interaction along with patient visitation. The dates of the 3 different sessions are: Fall Unit: September 16 - November 18, 2010; Winter Unit: January 6-March 10th, 2011: Spring Unit: March 24-June 2, 2011. The focus for the participants is to develop practical skills and tools to be an effective pastoral presence with another human being as well as to understand the dynamics between health and illness within a person's environment. The program is designed for both lay or ordained individuals, who are interested in furthering a personal interest in pastoral ministry and/or who desire to take on a leadership role for spiritual care within their own community and therefore to be a valuable resource for training others. For further information and an application, please contact The Rev. Caroline Stewart, Program Coordinator, at cstewart@gbmc.org or 443-849-2055.
StandUP 2010
Make noise for the MDGs day. Around the globe, church bells will be ringing, trumpets sounding and people will be banging spoons on metal pots and pans to let officials know of their commitment to end extreme poverty. World leaders will gather at the United Nations for the Millenium Development Goals Review Summit on Sept. 20-22. This is our opportunity to show our solidarity in support of the MDGs by ringing church bells at noon on September 18. The message will be loud and clear to the leaders of the summit of our resolve. To register your action, go to the Stand Up 2010 website ( www.standagainstpoverty.org).
Episcopal Appalachian MinistriesOct 8-9 Mountain Grace Conference VII at Washington State Community College in Marietta, Ohio. This year's focus is: Building the Body of Christ through Community in Appalachia. More information and registration links can be found at: http://www.visit-eam.org/mtgraceconference.html
Safe Church Training
The Diocese of Maryland requires the successful completion of 1-2 hour workshops in child sexual abuse prevention and adult misconduct for all clergy, lay employees, and anyone who regularly supervises children, including volunteers. Click here for a chart of who in your parish needs this training. Training must be completed within the first six months of service. The next training sessionss are: - Safeguarding God's Children, Sun, Sept 26, St. John's Church, Mount Washington, 12-2 p.m.
- Safe Church Training, Thurs, Sept 30, The Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, 2-4 pm (Safeguarding God's Children) and 7-9 pm (Safeguarding God's People).
- Safeguarding God's Children, Sat, Nov 20, St. Peter's Church, Lonaconing 9 am-12 pm; Safeguarding God's People, 1-4 pm.
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| In and Around the Diocese
Your space for events and announcements |
September
Sherwood Church, Cockeysville,
A fundraiser in September with the help of Cornerstone Antiques and Consignments in Timonium. Present this flyer for Sherwood to get credit for your purchase.
All You Can Eat Pancake Breakfast7-11a.m., The Church of the Ascension, Holy Cross Hall, 23 N. Court St, Westminster. Menu includes pancakes, Hahn sausage, scrambled eggs, hashed brown potatoes, egg & ham casserole, sausage gravy & biscuits, creamed chipped beef, fruit, pastries. Starting this month, Baked Goods Table. Come hungry, leave full! $6 Adults and $3 kids six and under. Free parking off Ralph St. 410-848-3251
Stephen Ministry Workshop Offered
9 a.m.-1 p.m., St. James' Church, Lafayette Square
The workshop will provide a basic overview of what Stephen Ministry is all about and how to start a lay caregiving ministry in your church. Three sessions in the half-day workshop are: Ministering to Those Experiencing Grief; An Introduction to Stephen Ministry, and How to Care in a Distinctively Christian Way. The workshop is open to all. Cost is $15 per person or $50 for a group of four or more from the same congregation. To reserve your space and register, visit stephenministry.org/workshop or call Stephen Ministries at 314-428-2600. Verna Jackson is the Stephen Ministries leader for St. James' Church, Lafayette Square, 410-523-4588; stjamesonthesquare.org.
Sept 11
Health and Wellness Fair
Red Cross blood drive begins at 10 a.m.
Sept 11
Pit Beef and Car Wash
Monthly pit beef and ham sandwich sale. Car wash by the youth group.
Sept 12
Music at St. Margaret's Series
7 p.m., St. Margaret's Church, Annapolis
Gala Concert "An Evening of Starts." Rayanne Gonzales from "In the Heights" and Michael Hayes, New York City Opera Star.
Sept 17
Integrity/Baltimore Meeting
Eucharist in the Peace Chapel. The Rev. Canon Scott Slater, canon to the Ordinary, will preside and preach. Potluck supper follows - please bring something to share - with conversation and fellowship.
Sept 18
All-You-Can-Eat Steamed Crabs, Pit Beef and Salads. Beverages and set-ups provided.
Sept 19
Bull Roast and Shrimp Feast
3-7 p.m., St. James' Church, Lafayette Square Catered by the Forum Caterers $50.00 Contact: Kevin Sanders (410) 925-2573.
Coming this Fall and Winter
Music in The Valley 2010-2011 Season
St. John's Church, 3738 Butler Rd., Glyndon
Begins Sept. 26 at 5:30 p.m.
The first concert will feature the highly acclaimed Monument Piano Trio including violinist Igor Youzefovich, cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski and pianist Michael Sheppard. They return to open the first concert for the second time.
A reception with the artists follows all concerts. It is a fine evening out. For tickets or more information visit or call 410-833-5300
Enjoy a waterside tour of Baltimore's port in luxurious surroundings,
hear from ship visitors and port workers, and help support the vital work
of the Seafarers' Center. $50 per person, includes happy-hour refreshments and light snacks.
October 16
9:30- 10 AM coffee , juice and bagels
10:00-11:30 AM Presentation by Terry Parsons Will our Children be Stewards?
11:30 AM -12 Noon - Round Table Discussion and Questions
December 8
Honoring the urban ministry of Bishop John L. Rabb
Contact Paul Seaton or call 410-669-0220 Ext. 13 for tickets.
Jan 22, 2011
Summit on the City
Details coming soon
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The next issue of the Parish E-mailing will publish on September 15. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 10.
Jason Hoffman & Sharon Tillman
Communications Team
Episcopal Diocese of Maryland |
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