REMINDERS
- Clergy Council & Lectionary Studies - Calendar
- L.A.R.C.
Retreat -
Oct 25-27, 2006
- [9/12-13]
New Visions
for the Long Pastorate
- [10/7 & 10/8]
October "How Shall We Minister?" Workshops
Schedule
- [11/3-4]
The Missional
Church & Denominations:
Engaging the Challenge of the Denominational Church
- [6/2007]
Tour Scotland & England
w/the Choir from Grace
Traverse City
UPCOMING CALENDAR ITEMS:
SEPTEMBER:
5TH-
Clergy Council/Lectionary Studies
11:30a-1p
LAKESHORE DEANERY
at St. Gregory's - Muskegon
3:00p-4:30p
GRAND VALLEY DEANERY
at St. Andrew's, Grand Rapids.
12TH-
Clergy Council/Lectionary Studies
10am-11:30am
ST JOSEPH DEANERY
at St. Luke's, Kalamazoo
1:30pm-3:00pm
EASTERN DEANERY
at Resurrection, Battle Creek
24TH-
SAFEGUARDING GOD'S CHILDREN CERTIFICATION TRAINING
St. Luke's - Kalamazoo
24TH- (2pm to 4pm)
'Developing Safe Internet Habits'
A Workshop for adults that will address questions & concerns regarding youth & their use of the internet.
For information, visit:25TH-
Clergy Council/Lectionary Studies
12:30pm - 2pm
TRAVERSE DEANERy
at Grace Church, Traverse City.
30TH-
SAFEGUARDING GOD'S CHILDREN CERTIFICATION TRAINING
Emmanuel - Petoskey
Safeguarding God's Children 9:00am-12:00pm
Adult's Model
12:30pm - 3:30pm
30TH-
THE REV. MARK CURTIS - "Canada's Singing Priest" - St. Timothy's in Richland
7:30pm. Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door. 9800 East BC Avenue, Richland, MI.
CLICK
HERE for a map to this location.
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GAS CARD RAFFLE AT ST. MICHAEL'S, CASCADE
St. Michael's Church, Cascade, is selling a limit of 300 tickets for a gas card amounting to $2,500.00. They go on sale September 15th at a cost of $30.00 each.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the church office at 616-949-1223. Funds will help defray costs of a new roof on the building and to support outreach ministries.
The winning ticket will be drawn on October 15th.
“Creating a Culture of Peace” (CCP)
Active Nonviolence
Training is a dynamic, transforming, and empowering community-building
program offered by the Episcopal Peace Fellowship to all Episcopal
Communities throughout the United States.
CCP is a holistic program to empower participants in the spirituality
and practice of active peacemaking in their daily lives. Trained
Facilitators utilize a highly participatory, popular education approach
that respects and builds upon the wisdom, knowledge and experience of
all participants. They vary the activities to include small group
sharing, exercises and games, brainstorming, presentations,
discussions, role-plays, music, movement, meditation, and journaling.
With the help of trained facilitators, participants in CCP explore:
• The experience and dynamics of violence
• The experience and dynamics of active and creative nonviolence
• Nonviolent social change and commitment to action
• Building and sustaining community
• Practical planning for nonviolent action in daily life
Background
This is a time of hope and opportunity, for more and more people are
seeking ways to transform themselves and our culture of violence. They
are eager to decrease violence and to respond constructively to
conflict and injustice. EPF’s CCP program provides experiential,
spiritual, historical and practical approaches to teach and promote
nonviolent alternatives for personal and social change.
Contact the CCP Program Coordinator, Nick Chavasse, to bring this exciting program to your parish!
T: 773 442 8806
E: nvprogramcoordinator@epfnational.org
EPF collaborates with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), an
interfaith justice and peace organization, to offer its model of
nonviolence Basic Training and Facilitator Training, and is inspired by
the Pace E Bene Nonviolence Service’s “From Violence to Wholeness” and
“Engage” Nonviolence Programs.
For additional information, visit the EPF website at: http://www.epfnational.org/
Traverse City - Discussion on Healing (Body, Mind, Spirit)
with the Rev. Anne C. Brower, M.D.
Grace Episcopal Church Healing Team (Traverse City) will
be hosting the Rev Anne C Brower, M.D. (from the National Cathedral in
Washington D.C.) with a "Discussion on Healing" (Body, Mind, Spirit)
on September 23, 2006 at 9:30 am.
Lunch will be provided.
Send registration & fee of $10 (payable to Grace Episcopal - memo line: 'Healing Team') to:
Joan Moore
10491 East Shady Lane
Suttons Bay MI 49682
Thinking Deeply/Preaching Winsomely:
A Conversation for Scholars and Preachers
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Thursday, October 12, 2006
Calvin Theological Seminary Chapel
3233 Burton St. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Beloved biblical commentator Frederick Dale Bruner, Professor of
Religion, emeritus, at Whitworth College in Spokane, WA, and the
outstanding preacher Timothy Brown, Henry Bast Professor of Preaching
at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI, will team up to display
the exciting synergy that exists between deep textual work and
engagingly winsome preaching. Bruner and Brown will look at John 1 and
Luke 15 to demonstrate the connections and cross-fertilization that can
take place between text and sermon.
Click on the link shown below for an Adobe Acrobat downloadable brochure at their website...
REMINDERS:
DEANERY CLERGY COUNCIL &
LECTIONARY
STUDY CALENDAR
Tuesday September 5
11:30a-1:00p
Lakeshore Deanery at St. Gregory’s,
Muskegon
(first Tuesdays)
Tuesday September 5
3:00p – 4:30p
Grand Valley Deanery
at St. Andrew’s,
Grand Rapids
(first Tuesdays)
Tuesday September 12
10:00a -11:30a
St. Joseph Deanery at St.
Luke’s,
Kalamazoo
(second Tuesdays)
Tuesday September 12
1:30p – 3:00p
Eastern Deanery at
Resurrection, Battle Creek
(second Tuesdays)
Monday September 25
12:30p – 2:00p
Traverse Deanery at
Grace Church, Traverse City
(fourth Mondays)
Additional dates for Deanery Clergy Council and Lectionary Study 2006-2007
October 3 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
October 10 St. Joseph
and Eastern
October 23 Traverse
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November 7 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
November 14 St. Joseph
and Eastern
November 27 Traverse
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December 5 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
December 12 St. Joseph
and Eastern
Christmas and Epiphany Break
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February 6 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
February 13 St. Joseph
and Eastern
February 26 Traverse
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March 6 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
March 13 St. Joseph and
Eastern
March 26 Traverse
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Holy Week and Easter Week Break
April 23 Traverse
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May 1 Lakeshore and Grand Valley
May 8 St. Joseph and Eastern
L.A.R.C.
RETREAT - AUGUSTINE CENTER - OCT. 25-27
LRetreat: October
25-27, 2006
For
Pastors, Priests, Deacons, Associates in Ministry, and Parish Leaders
Who are LARC
(Lutherans, Anglicans and Roman Catholics)
What will happen when Lutherans, Anglicans and Roman Catholics come together
for prayer and being in the Spirit? Something Great!
Location: Augustine Center of the Sacramentine Monastery
North of Petoskey on US-31 near Crooked Lake
50 hours of rest, prayer, and renewal
COST: $175
Special Guest and Retreat Leader: Bishop Nicholas Samra, Auxiliary Bishop
of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton, Massachusetts. He is a patristics scholar,
ecumenist , and very dynamic speaker.
Six meals, two nights lodging, bed and bath linens provided.
Coffee, tea, cocoa, and soft drinks available throughout the days and evenings.
Bishop
Patrick Cooney, Episcopal Bishops Robert Gepert and Edwin Leidel and
Lutheran Bishop Gary Hansen invite you to join with them in this retreat
of prayer. This will be an ecumenical experience of prayer and fellowship
in the Spirit.
Wednesday, Oct. 25 – Gathering 1:00 pm Friday, Oct. 27 – Sending
3:00 pm
Please include a check for $175 with your registration
addressed to the Rev. Wm. N. Nicholson. Registration closes October 14.
CLICK HERE FOR A REGISTRATION PAGE ON OUR WEBSITE
(http://edwm.org//content/view/183/7/)
Send to:
The Reverend William N. Nicholson, Ph.D.,
3480 Lakeside Drive North - #41
Petoskey, Michigan 49770
fatherbill36@hotmail.com
(231-347-0117)
NEW VISIONS
FOR THE LONG PASTORATE
with Roy Oswald @ the Pyle Center-Madison, 702
Langdon Street, Madison, WI. September 12-13, 2006
Most denominational leaders agree that longer pastorates make
for healthier ministries. It is difficult for congregatios to achieve long-term
goals without long-term pastorates. Much momentum is lost in pastoral change,
yet the practical skills needed by clergy to continue in one ministry over
the long haul are missing.
For more information on this seminar, and to download a flyer
with registration form, please visit the EDWM website at:
http://www.edwm.org/pdf/2006_09-12-NewVisions
Registration fee is $250.00 (Prog. #1076) - You can also call
the Pyle Center directly at 608-262-7942 for more information.
OCTOBER "HOW SHALL
WE MINISTER?" WORKSHOP SERIES
'How Can We Embrace Change?
Dear Friends: We wanted to inform you of the next How Shall
We Minister? workshop. We hope you and members of your congregational team
can join us. Here are details on the October 2006 workshops.
THEME: How can we embrace change?
- Saturday, October 7
8:30-12:00 North Presbyterian, Kalamazoo
1:30-5:00 Zion Lutheran, Comstock ParkSunday
- Sunday, October 8
2:00-5:30 St. Philip’s Episcopal, Beulah
TOUR SCOTLAND & ENGLAND WITH THE
CHOIR FROM
GRACE, TRAVERSE CITY
Calling all travelers to accompany the Grace Church [Traverse
City] Choir on its tour to Scotland and England. It is part of the British
American Church Music Festival - June 13 through 21, 2007. We will be joining
other church choirs to sing in a Festival Choir setting, under the direction
of Gerre Hancock, former organ master at St. Thomas in New York City - and
Michael Harris, Master of Music at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. If you
have any questions or would like to declare your intention to travel with us,
please call Margie Hunter at 231-929-1722 as soon as possible.
--Information submitted by Steven Wade, Grace Episcopal Church, Traverse City
(231) 947-2330
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