July 14, 2009 Diocesan Prayers For the month of July, please pray for all Ecumenical Ministries throughout the diocese, especially for the Minnesota Council of Churches and for Episcopal Community Services, and all those who work with social service agencies. Pray for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, gathered in Anaheim, CA, July 7-17. Sunday, July 19 is Pentecost 7 St. James congregations, Fergus Falls, Hibbing, Marshall, Minneapolis Anniversaries 7/19 Thomas Winkler, p 1970 7/19 Marilyn Bamford, d 1989 7/21 Laurie Skau, p 1986 7/22 Rex McKee, d 2004 7/22 Debra Welch, d 2004 7/23 Cheryl Harder, p 2005 7/23 Tom Campbell, d 2005 7/24 George Glander, d 1985 Diocesan Cycle of Prayer Anglican Cycle of Prayer Gospel Based Discipleship Indigenous Ministry DIW website The Department of Indian Work (DIW) has a new website: www.departmentofindianwork.com. Links Read the July 2009 Waters newsletter, published by the Office of Native American/Indigenous Ministries. General Convention Resolution approved - Bishops affirm openness of ordination process [Episcopal News Service] After more than two hours of discussion and with a standing-room-only crowd watching, the House of Bishops on yesterday adopted an amended version of Resolution D025, which opens "any ordained ministry" to gay and lesbian people. Read full article here. Same gender blessing proposal moves to House of Bishops [Episcopal News Service] A resolution asking for the collection and development of theological resources and liturgies of blessing for same-gender unions for consideration at the next General Convention is headed to the House of Bishops.  Read full article here. Budget committee asks convention for prayers [Episcopal News Service] In an "extraordinary step" July 12 members of the Program, Budget and Finance (PBF) committee sent a special letter to both houses of General Convention asking for their prayers and informing them that they will be asked to reduce the diocesan asking and the costs of the next General Convention. Read full article here. Read all of the coverage from General Convention on Episcopal Life Online. Other resources for following General Convention: MN deputation's Twitter feed MN deputation's blog, www.mngc09.wordpress.com The diocesan website is updated with headlines daily General Convention media hub General Convention website iamepiscopalian Twitter feed General Convention ends this Friday, July 17. Ordinations Welcome our two newest priests! Barbara Jean Fairbanks and Dana Karen Emery were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Jelinek on June 27th in Walker, MN. Ordinations to transitional diaconate upcoming On July 23rd at St. Mark's Cathedral at 7 pm, several will be Ordained to the transitional diaconate. Clergy are encouraged to attend and vest in red. Bishop Search Candidate interviews upcoming Your Search Committee for the IX Bishop of Minnesota has invited 5 candidates to interview before the whole committee this month in Minnesota. These interviews will take place on Friday, July 24, and Saturday, July 25. The names of 3-5 candidates produced by the work of the Search Committee will be announced by August 1. From the time of that announcement, the Standing Committee will also receive nominations through a petition process over a two-week period. After both the Search Committee process and the Standing Committee process have been completed, the final slate of candidates will have been determined for the election of our next bishop at the end of October during the 2009 Annual Convention of the Diocese of Minnesota. Come, Holy Spirit! Episcopal Center interns Welcome Janet Manthey! The Communications office is pleased to welcome Janet Manthey as our fall intern. Janet began her part-time position last week and will continue through December. Janet recently graduated from the University of St. Thomas with dual degrees in English and Spanish.  She grew up at Epiphany, Plymouth and now divides her time between Epiphany and St. Mary's, St. Paul. Her e-mail is intern@episcopalmn.org. Welcome Janet!   This Week in the Diocese July 7-17: General Convention of The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, CA July 23, 10 am: Diocesan Council meeting, Christ Church, Woodbury A complete Calendar of Events is available on our website.  Other events can be found on the Region 7 Calendar and the Episcopal Music Calendar.

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