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Upcoming
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2/12
St. Luke's
Ada
2/26
St. Peter's
Colgate
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Upcoming Diocese Events
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To register or for more inforamtion please go onto the Dicoesan Web Site below:
February 12
Safeguarding God's Children
St. Augustine of Canterbury
9:15 - 1:30
February 12
Celebrate Summer Camp
St. John's OKC
10:30 a.m.
February 17 - 19
Vocare
St. Crispin's
February 19
Celebrate Summer Camp
St. Patrick's, Broken Arrow
10:30 a.m.
March 8 - 10
Men's Retreat
St. Crispin's
March 10, 2012
Godly Play Learning and Sharing Event
Christ Church, Tulsa 9 until noon
March 24
Acolyte Festival
St. Paul's Cathedral , OKC
9 -3
April 20-22
Clergy Spouse Retreat
St. Crispin's
April 26-29
Co-Ed English Speaking Cursillo
St. Crispin's
June 16
Diocesan Christian Formation Training Event
Celebremos la Fiesta
Let us Celebrate the Feast!
9:30 - 3
Santa Maria Virgen Episcopal Church, Oklahoma City
September 27-30
Co-Ed Spanish Speaking Cursillo
St. Crispin's |
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Companion Diocese Uruguay
Holy God, source of healing and of peace, bless with your grace the companion dioceses of Oklahoma and Uruguay. Through our partnership one with another may we grow in mutual affection and communion, seek a more profound experience of truth, build up the Church in unity and give glory to Jesus Christ our Saviour. Amen.
New Web site:
http://uruguay.anglican.org/
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The Next Issue of this Newsletter will be on Friday, February 17, 2012.
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We Are Epiok.org
February 10, 2012
Issue 6 |
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Vestry Academy
Registration Deadline February 20, 2012
The annual Vestry Academy will be held on March 3, 2012, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at St. Crispin's Conference Center. This event is open to all vestry members.
The primary focus of this conference is the vestry person's role as a leader in the responsible stewardship of ministry and only secondarily with conducting the business affairs of the church.
It is very important that we have the completed registration forms in hand prior to February 20, 2012. If your congregation has not received a registration form, please contact Diane Ellsworth, Administrative Assistant to the Canon to the Ordinary, at 405-232-4820 or email dellsworth@epiok.org. The $20 per participant registration fee includes the Vestry Resource Guide, additional material to be distributed during the conference, and lunch at St. Crispin's.
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Acolyte Festival
The event is scheduled for March 24 at St. Paul's Cathedral, with a Festival Eucharist to be held at 2 p.m. The registration for is on the Diocesan web site at: http://www.epiok.org/Christian%20Formation/acolyte-festival.html
From the "What Not to Wear"
workshop, we will again discuss what is and isn't appropriate acolyte attire!
Each group will also have time to visit with Bishop Ed and participate in a Festival Eucharist using your congregation's banner and processional cross.
We will have learning workshops, games, lunch, unique craft, and awarding of the Bishop's Bowl, a tradition started two years ago, an award for one of our events! |
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Safeguarding God's Children
There are two training events being offered for Safeguarding in February:
12th - St. Augustine of Canterbury, OKC, 9:15 a.m. 1st video and discussion; 2nd video and discussion after 10:30 a.m. service.
23rd - St. Philip's Ardmore, 5 p.m.
You can register for training at: http://www.epiok.org/resources/safeguarding_god_s_children.html |
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Using Your Web Site
If your congregation is using Digital Faith for their web site, have we got news for you. Digital Faith recently offered a webinar on a how to get more hits or traffic to your website. A couple of things they offered were:
1. Beginning Holy Week, search traffic increases greatly as people are looking for a place of worship.
2. More searchers were looking for "Sunrise service" as opposed to Easter morning worship.
3. Using key words can allow the Diocese to help congregations be "found" by searchers.
In this regard, the Diocese is implementing is a Liturgical Seasons page under Christian Formation. We will be working through the seasons, traditions, colors, and such as an educational tool. Lent is already up and running on this page. We will be using keywords that might or could be a part of your web page that will link back to the Diocesan page and make your congregation's site a part of ours. Keywords we are using include: Palm Sunday, processional, Passion Sunday, palm crosses, Sanhedrin, procession, Gethsemane, rubrics, hosanna, donkey, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday, pancake supper, Book of Common Prayer, Easter, penance, fasting, reflection. These will increase as we add more pages to our Liturgical Seasons page and the Diocese will let you know words we are targeting!
This is an incredible opportunity for you to get your Lenten/Easter events on the web and linked into the Diocese and for us to link back to you. We encourage you to get your events out on the web early and to keep it current. |
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Emerging Worship at St. John's Church, Norman
By The Rev. Dwight N. Helt
As I lift the round full loaf of freshly baked bread and break it, I can see the circle of faithful gathered around the parish hall. There are over seventy people of several races, all ages, and many backgrounds and degrees of involvement in the Church. All are dressed casually and are silently anticipating the distribution. Among us are over a dozen folds who walked in off the streets, the unemployed, hungry and homeless. Some spent the night in our courtyard, others in local shelters. All are engaged in worship and included in the community.
But it didn't start this way. And this was not the result of visionary clergy leadership. Our alternative worship service is a work of progress, a process of evolution, a communal effort that continues to surprise us all. As you read this, do not think to yourself, "Gosh, we could do that." To borrow our forms without the essence behind it is to miss out on the work of the Holy Spirit. Genuine forms of community worship are teh work of the people of the community.
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15th Annual Dallas Benedictine Experience
The 15th annual multi-denominational Dallas Benedictine Monastic Experience will take place at The Catholic Conference and Formation Center in Dallas from Wednesday, June 20 through Saturday, June 23, 2012. This monastic experience is presented by The Friends of St. Benedict, Washington, D.C. and is open to both men and women, laity and clergy of all denominations. Participants will live on the campus of the center for four days, forming a temporary monastic community to experience the balanced way of life of The Rule of St. Benedict as it divides each day into private and group prayer, study, work, and leisure. Four Benedictine Offices (Lauds, Sext, Vespers, and Compline) will be chanted each day in English in Gregorian Chant. There will also be two classes each day on Benedictine spirituality. Please call 214-339-8483
(10:00 AM - 10:00 PM in Dallas) or e-mail heepspence@aol.com for more information.
The monastic experience will be led by two extraordinarily talented religious figures. Sister Mary Donald Corcoran, O.S.B.Cam., is the Superior of Transfiguration Monastery (Roman Catholic) in Windsor, New York. A Camaldolese Benedictine nun, Sister Mary Donald holds the Ph.D. in Theology from Fordham University. She has directed the M.A. program in spirituality at St. Louis University and has taught in the summer spirituality program at Fordham. The co-author of the book Spiritual Sisters and numerous articles, she serves on the Board of Directors of In the Spirit Foundation, and is a well-known teacher, writer, and leader of Benedictine retreats all over the country. This year will be her seventh time as a leader of the Dallas Benedictine Experience.
Father Daniel Forsythe, a Byzantine Catholic priest of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, is the Pastor of St. Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church in Irving, Texas. Ordained to the priesthood in 2009, Fr. Daniel has also served as the pastor of four Byzantine parishes in central Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Metropolitan Cantor Institute, which is charged with training congregational cantors in the Byzantine tradition. He holds a B.A. in Classical Languages from Franciscan University and a Master's in Divinity from Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Seminary. Fr. Daniel has spoken on a range of spiritual and Biblical topics at retreats, conferences, and teen events. This will be Fr. Daniel's first time as a leader of the Dallas Benedictine Experience.
Sister Mary Donald and Father Daniel will give presentations on Benedictine values and their applications to life today. Both are also available for private spiritual meetings for those who wish it. |
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St. Simeon's
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Men's Retreat
2012 Men's Retreat
Sponsored by The Brotherhood of St. Andrew's
with
The Reverend Bill Holly
Retreat Chaplain
March 8-10, 2012
Thursday Supper - Saturday Lunch
St. Crispin's Conference Center
2 nights/6 meals
$125 double/$160 single
Contact: Bob Baker 918-258-5656
baker111@tulsacoxmail.com
Registration forms are on the Diocesan Web page. Click here. |
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Parish Resources
Celebremos la Fiesta
Let us Celebrate the Feast!
The Diocesan Christian Formation Committee offers this event with a look at Feasts and Seasons and how to make them sepcial in congregations. June 16, 2012. Registrations will be on line soon.
New Resources at the Diocesan Offices
Living the Questions 2.0 - three disk videos - Disk 1: Invitation to Journey; Disk 2: Reclaiming the World; Disk 3: Call to Covenant. On-line study guide and handouts are also available.
What Do You Stand For? for kids.
What Do You Stand for? for teens
Both books are by Barbara Lewis and is called a guide to building character.
Total Youth Ministry - Youth Leadership Development
Gifts of Many Cultures - Worship Resources for the Global Community
Cokesbury's VBS - Operation Overboard: Dare to Go Deep with God - We have a starter packet for review.
Web Site
Biblical Storytelling for the Global Village - this site has original graphics, audio tellings of Gospel stories following the lectionary cycle, commentary and suggestions on every story by National Biblical Storyteller co-founder, and "How-To" articles on learning story and forming a Scripture by heart group. www.gotell.com. |
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Youth News-
Camp Sundays - Celebrate Summer Camp in the middle of Winter - February 12 at St. John's OKC, and February 19 at St. Patrick's, Broken Arrow. Contact StCrispinsDirector@gmail.com to register a count for meals, which will be provided.
Vocare - February 17-19 - Designed for 19 - 30 year olds, at St. Crispin's. . Information and registration on Diocesan web site.
Episcopal Night at the Thunder is March 16 - Do you have tickets? We have a few here at the offices.
Mission Camp - This will be March 19 - 23 in Joplin Missouri. It is for 9th - 12th graders and is limited in number to 7 males and 7 females and is on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS.We now only have: 5 spaces for males and 0 spaces for females. Need 1 male staffers and 1 female staffers. Registrations are on the diocesan web site under Camps on the left hand side of the homepage.
March 24 - Acolyte Festival at St. Paul's Cathedral. THE REGISTRATION FORM IS ON THE WEB SITE.
Youth Leadership Program is Coming! It will be for 6th - 9th graders and provide leadership tools and skills that will be transferrable to your congregational life and life in general.
Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes - a weekend retreat at St. Crispin's for girls grades 6th - Seniors. Watch for more details.
The Youth Commission and members will be a part of the Christian Formation training event on June 16 at Santa Maria, OKC. The three workshops include: Small group facilitation, The Abundant Life Project from ERD (Episcopal Resource and Development), and Camp Crafts (making friendship bracelets and God's eyes/lanyards.) If you would like to be a part of this training event, please contact the dioceses.
MIQRA - Save the date. Next January 19-21, as we offer our first MIQRA. What is MIQRA? It is an event to youth and adults who want to participate in reading the Bible from beginning to end! That's right - three days of non-stop Bible reading - but wait! There's more! There will be games, movies, activities, quite time, and much more going on at the same time! This will be held at St. Mary's Church, Edmond.
NEXT YOUTH COMMISSION MEETING - May 5. Would you like to join us? We will begin at noon at the Diocesan Offices. Hope to see you here. |
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Second Half of Life
Mind, Body, and Spirit for the 2nd Half of Life Registration on line! The Diocese and the Senior Ministries Committee are pleased to offer our first program for all ages! Go to: http://www.epiok.org/ministries/older-adults.html for registration form.
The event will be April 17, from 9 - 2, at St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church, 14700 North May Avenue, OK. Workshops offered: Graceful Transitions; A Healthy Start: Breakfast/Brunch for 1 or 2; Better Balance with Tai Chi; Your Right to Decide: Oklahoma's Advance Directive and Other Health Care Planning Tools; Be Still and Know; Using Medications Safely - A Key Ingredient to Your Health. Lunch will be catered by Nunu's Mediterranean Cafe and Market, and we will have two speakers during lunch discussing "How Not To Get Scammed."
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Contact Information
Sabrina Evans
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