Please Note Masterhead revised
       From The Bishop                   March 9, 2011

 

Lenten Labyrinths: Walk Into A Holy Space 


     

 Watch the Bishop's message (3 minutes) 

 

This week's Please Note features an interview with the Rev. Holly  Gloff Schoen, Associate Rector at St. Michael's, Raleigh, at the Labyrinth outside the church.  


Keep the faith,
+Michael

Click here for more information on Labryinths from Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.

Click here for a Lenten message from the Presiding Bishop.

There's Still Time to Register for
"Radical Welcome"
Workshops with Stephanie Spellers in East, South Regions    

Anglicanism Remixed: Embracing The Other, Our Traditions and Our Future...Together -- with the Rev. Stephanie Spellers, the 2011 Diocesan Convention Keynote speaker.

 

South Region:

March 19, at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines

 

East Region:

April 2, at Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill

 

Click here to register online or contact the School of Ministry with questions.


Upcoming Diocesan Events
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Do you want to know about upcoming peace and justice events? Sign up to receive e-mails from the North Carolina Council of Churches by sending an e-mail to David LaMotte:  [email protected]  Include your name, e-mail address, city, county and any affiliation you care to list. And please send David information about peace and justice events going on in your area.  

 

March 9 - April 13 - Lenten Preaching series featuring Bishop Curry and others at Christ Church, Raleigh.  

  

March 10 -  Clergy and Church Musicians  Study Day, The Sound of Hope: How Exploring Music Informs and Shapes Our Imagination Organized by the School of Ministry and the Anglican Episcopal House of Study.

  

March 14 - Applications for Happening 56 are due. Event is March 25 - March 27 at Camp Walter Johnson.


March 15 -
Applications for EYE, Episcopal Youth Event, are due by March 15. Event is June 22-30.

 

March 17 - 19 - Education for Ministry Mentor Training  

- sign up for training March 17-19 and Sept. 8-10 at St. Francis Prayer Center, Greensboro.

 

March 19 & April 2 - Radical Welcome Workshops with the Rev. Stephanie Spellers. South Region: March 19, 2011, 10am-3pm, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines; East Region: April 2, 2011, 10am-3pm, Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill.    

 

March 21 - Standing Committee meeting.  

 

March 26 - Safe Church Training, St Titus, Durham (8:30am-12:30pm)

April 7 - Fresh Start. Contact the Rev. Canon Buerkel Hunn 

 

April 15 - Application deadline for Educational Scholarships. Applications are now being accepted for more than 60 scholarships available for the 2011-2012 academic year. 

News from Around Our Diocese
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Registrations underway:  Spring 2011 offerings now available from the Servant Leadership School of Greensboro. For more information, visit www.servantleadergreensboro.com.    

 

St. Michael's, Raleigh is sending a pilgrimage to Assisi, Florence, and Rome June 16-25, 2011.  For more information, www.casterbridgetours.com/Italy2011.html or contact the Rev. Dr. John K. Gibson, [email protected], 919.782.0731x105.

 

March 17 - Charlotte Clericus Meeting, St Martin's, Charlotte 

 

March 19 -St. Mark's, Raleigh, is holding its second Annual Used Book Sale from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m..  Here is a link for more information  http://www.stmarks-ral.org/books.htm or download flyer. 

 

March 21 & May 9 - PREPARE/ENRICH Workshop to certify clergy, counselors, and marriage educators to work with couples both premarital and married, Church of the Nativity, Raleigh.  

 

Announcement:

Christ Church, Albemarle, is unable to hold its retreat at Valle Crucis on the weekend of March 18-20, 2011.If any congregation or group in our diocese is willing to consider having a retreat at the Valle Crucis Conference Center on that weekend contact Tom Eshelman,

828-963-4453 or the Rev. Jim Bernacki, (704) 982-1428.

 

Click here for more information, a list of conference presenters, and to register online.  

 

If there is something that you would like to announce here, email us and 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
Millennium Development Goal Grants Available

 

Applications are due by April 1. Click here for more details.

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