Please Note Masterhead revised
From The Bishop                  May 26, 2010

Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Immigration Reform Discussion



This week's Please Note features two videos with Chris Liu-Beers, a program associate at the North Carolina Council of Churches who works closely with issues dealing with immigration. The first video outlines the Episcopal Church's policy on immigration reform (Resolution 2006-A017) and the diocesan resolution passed in support of that policy (Resolution 2008-3). The extended conversation discusses immigration resources, how to get involved and coverage of local issues related to immigration.

Keep the faith,
+Michael

Immigration-Related Resources

An 8-Week Immigration Study Guide for Congregations

For You Were Once a Stranger:Immigration Through the Lens of Faith

The N.C. Religious Coalition for Justice for Immigrants
Click here to view the coalition's statement, endorsed by Bishop Curry, Bishop Daniel of East Carolina, clergy and laypeople.

Free fact sheets on Immigration

Clergy Breakfast Series on Immigration

Chris Liu-Beers, North Carolina Council of Churches, 919/828.6501


St. Augustine's Featured on Fox TV

 
St. Augustine's College, a historically black college in Raleigh which
President Diane Suber
Diane Suber, President St. Augustine's College
was founded in 1867 by the Episcopal Church, was featured in a Fox TV broadcast on Saturday, May 22. If you missed the broadcast, which highlights St. Augustine's, President Diane Suber, and the positive impacts made by historically black institutions, watch it online here. Additional broadcast segments featuring St. Augustine's are listed below.

"Beyond the Dream" Series Reports Featuring St. Augustine's College on Fox TV include:
The first report aired May 22. Click here if you missed it.
Saturday, June 5, at 1 p.m.
Saturday, June 12, at 1 p.m. with a possible replay date of Saturday, June 19.
In the Raleigh area, the Fox News Channel is on Time Warner Cable Channel 58, Channel 102 on Direct TV and Channel 205 on Dish TV.

A press release from St. Augustine's is available here.
Correction: "All Are Welcome"

Last week's copyright permission announcement for the hymn "All Are Welcome contained an error in the copyright verbiage. The correct copyright information is as follows:

"All Are Welcome" by Marty Haugen
Copyright � 1994 by GIA Publications, Inc.,
7404 S. Mason Ave., Chicago, IL 60638
www.giamusic.com 800/442.1358
All rights reserved. Used by permission.


Download "All Are Welcome" here. If you have any questions, please contact:The Rev. Jim Bernacki at 704/ 982-1428.
Upcoming Diocesan Events
Click on underlined events for more information

May 27 - Diocesan Council Meeting, All Saints, Greensboro, 10am-3pm

May 31 - Diocesan Offices for Memorial Day.

June 1-4 - Small Churches Leadership Conference, Event has been canceled due to insufficient registrations.

June 1 - Registration deadline for the Tri-History Conference One-Day workshops. Click here for registration form.

June 3 - Diocesan Staff Retreat, All Saints', Greensboro

June 4-5 - Deacon's Retreat, St. Francis Springs Prayer Center

June 5 - South Region Clergy Open House, 3-6 pm, Bishop and Mrs. Gregg's house

June 6 - Area churches invited to the Brown Bag Brigade, making lunches to help fight hunger, St. Andrew's Parish Hall, Greensboro, 12:30. Contact Duana Cisney for details.

June 13 - Day 1 Series on the MDGs and "Faith and Global Hunger" begins. Bishop Curry is one of the speakers featured in this radio series and that broadcast will air July 4.

June 15 - North Carolina Episcopal Church Foundation Meeting

June 19 - Diaconate Ordinations, Good Shepherd, Raleigh, 11 am

June 21-23 - Tri-History Conference, Raleigh

June 21 - Take the Committee on Accessibility Survey online here by June 21.

Registrations Underway for Upcoming Events:
August  19-22- The 22nd Annual Church Music Conference, Trinity Center, Salter Path, NC. Accepting early registrations now. Click here for flyer and here for the brochure.

August 20-22 - Youth Choir Camp, Trinity Center, Salter Path, NC. Click here for the brochure and here for the flyer.

August 27 - 28 - Overnight retreat for Youth Ministers in the NW Region at St. Francis Springs.  Contact Duana Cisney to register, space is limited.

September Education for Ministry Classes - Now accepting registrations for the EFM series that will start in September in Greensboro. Click here for information. Contact Shelley Kappauf to enroll or for more information.
News from Around Our Diocese
Click on underlined events for more information

May 27 - Clergy Breakfast Series on Immigration, Greensboro. Additional dates and locations include: Charlotte, June 6; Chapel Hill, June 8; Fayetteville, June 15; Gastonia, June 24; Raleigh, July 1.

June 6 - Tosca, Tunes and Tofu, free concert and reception, Church of the Nativity, 4pm

June 7-9 - Province IV Women's Conference, Kanuga, open to all women in Province IV

Wanted
Trinity Fuquay-Varina is seeking a used electronic organ.  If anyone knows of an available used organ for sale, please email.
 

Camp Registrations
Haven't registered your children for a summer of outdoor fun yet? Don't wait any longer, check out these Episcopal Camps:

Camp Henry
Camp Kanuga
Hugs Camp

If there is something that you would like to announce here, email usand please give title of event and no more than 100 words in description.

Announcements will normally be posted for the four weeks prior to the event.

Bishop Curry photo
The Rev. Dr. Fred Horton's commentary of this Sunday's Bible readings.
Cross photo
Diaconate Ordinations
Bishop Curry
will ordain:
Vernon J. Cahoon

Roxane Stewart Gwyn
Maria Alexandria Kane
Lauren M. Kilbourn Gaudette
Gabriel Lamazares
Sara Elizabeth Harding Palmer
Kathleen Rock Pfister
Church of the Good Shephered, Raleigh, June 19, 11 am


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Celebration of
New Ministry

Bishop Curry
will install
The Rev. Jose
Martin Juarez,
Iglesia El Buen Pastor, Durham
,
 June 19, 4pm


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Priesthood Ordinations
Bishop Curry
will ordain
The Rev. Dr. Heather Warren, St. Philip's, Durham,
11am, June 26,

Bishop Ian Douglas of Connecticut
will ordain
The Rev. James Walter Erwin Jr.,
St. Paul's, Riverside, Connecticut, 11am,
for the Bishop of North Carolina.

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