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Green Grants for Energy Audits
Earlier this spring Diocesan Council allocated $3,000 for a Green Grant program to allow Maine congregations to perform an energy audit for church buildings. Any congregation in the Diocese of Maine is eligible to complete a simple application form to request up to $500 to pay for an audit. To receive a Green Grant from the Diocese of Maine, the audit must be conducted by an auditor certified by Maine Housing.
A list of those auditors may be found at www.mainehousing.org/programs-services/energy/certified-energy-auditors .
All audits funded in full or in part by a Green Grant must be completed by December 31, 2012.
Maine congregations that complete an energy audit will be eligible to apply to the Trustees of Diocesan Funds for a low-interest loan to fund the recommendations of the audit. Information on the Trustee's loan program is available from Canon Terry Reimer in the Diocese of Maine Finance Office at 800.244.6062 x134 or treimer@episcopalmaine.org
Apply now by clicking here. Applications will be funded in the order in which they are received.
2013 diocesan budget process kicks off
The diocesan Finance Committee has released guidelines for the 2013 budget process to each of the four commission chairs. If you are a responsible for a current budget line, please look for a packet from your Commission chair soon.
If your ministry or program group is not currently funded fully or in part by diocesan funds, you may learn more at www.surveymonkey.com/s/newrequests.
Video on Demand available for workshop on Alzheimers and caregiving
"Journey through a Hard Terrain: Caring and Being Cared for in the Shadows of Alzheimer's"
A day with The Rev. Martin Smith held at St. Nicholas, Scarborough, on Saturday, May 19, is a available as video-on-demand (VOD) at http://www.tikilive.com/show/martin-smith-workshop-may-19th
There you will find Part 1 (the morning) and Part 2 (the afternoon.) Since this was our first webcast with a live remote audience (thanks to the brave souls at St. Francis, Blue Hill, for being the test subjects!), there isn't much action on the Part 1 video until 45 minutes in when the actual program starts. So please feel free to schoochie the video button to the 45 minute mark.
Congregations in transition update for June 2012
Here the latest report from Canon Vicki Wiederkehr on the 24 congregations around the diocese that are in transition.
Read it on the NNE blog.
Please send your delegate certificates for Convention 2012
193rd Diocesan Convention - October 26-27, 2012
From the Registrar -
Many thanks to the 21 congregations who have sent in their Certificates of Communicants in Good Standing and Delegates and Alternates to Diocesan Convention.
For those who still need to submit the Certificate, the link to a blank form and related material is at the beginning of the Convention page, http://tinyurl.com/2012MaineDiocesanConvention. More information about the Convention will be coming to this page soon. Members of the Convention Planning Committee had a wonderful meeting on site at Point Lookout and are very excited about this year's Convention.
The advance mailing (with details on accommodation reservations, nominations, and resolutions) will be mailed to church offices next week. Extra-parochial and retired, canonically resident clergy will receive theirs at home. It will also be available online.
Shortly after Labor Day, canonically resident clergy will receive a request to register. We did this last year and it was tremendously helpful to have an accurate count of who would attend when we prepared materials and set up the meeting spaces.
At about the same time there will be a reminder to submit to me any changes in Delegates and an opportunity to let me know if any of the Alternates from your congregation will be attending, also to help in our planning.
Thank you.
Elizabeth M. Ring, Registrar
Unpack the 77th General Convention
The Rev. Patricia Robertson, rector of St. Mary and St. Jude, Northeast Harbor, and first clergy alternate to General Convention, has developed a four-part Power Point presentation designed to help Episcopalians learn more about this important triennial event to be held this July in Indianapolis.
Please email her at revprome@roadrunner.com if you would like to receive the presentation as an email attachment.
Addie's Attic at St. Mark's, Augusta, needs your summer clothing
Addie's Attic, the regional clothing bank, needs your help. We provide free clothing to those in need in the Augusta/Kennebec Valley area. Our stock is at the lowest level we have experienced in four years. We are in need of summer clothes for women, men and children.
Addie's Attic is located in the parish hall at St. Mark's Church, 9 Summer Street, Augusta, and is open: Monday 1-4 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m.- noon, and the 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. You may drop off clothes any day but, if you need assistance, please bring them when the clothing bank is open. Donations are tax-deductible.
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