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Greetings!
Welcome to a refreshed CREDO Connection. We believe staying connected as a CREDO Community is essential so we kickoff a commitment to effective communication with this invitation. Engage your CREDO Community.
Remember its past and help enliven its future.
 As CREDO faculty member Michael J. Battle explains in "Toward a Theology of Identity" (in All Shall Be Well), identity and transformation are inextricably tied to community. As we cycle through Identity, Discernment, Practice, and Transformation--whether individually or organizationally--the journey is guided in all manner by community. The transformation toward deeper self-awareness and identity is a journey with a vibrant and healthy wellness community. Each month, we will bring you information, insights, and invitations into the CREDO Wellness Community. We hope that it is a journey you plan to continue. --G. Herbert Gunn
CREDO Director of Communication
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28 eight-day CREDO conferences in 2010
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 A total of 28 eight-day CREDO conferences are scheduled in 2010.
Twelve CREDO I, eight CREDO II, four CREDO Retired conferences, and four lay CREDO conferences--two for lay employees in the Church Pension Plan and two for lay employees and lay leaders participating in Strength for the Journey.
For additional information on the conferences that CREDO offers, SEE HERE.
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Pittsburgh, San Joaquin, Quincy, Fort Worth
Strength for the Journey builds up four dioceses
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 An overnight conference in Peoria, Ill., June 11-12, planned and led by CREDO, focused on wellness, Episcopal identity, and community building in the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy. The third in a series of four Strength for the Journey conferences envisioned and supported by CREDO Institute Inc. and the Church Pension Group was attended by 130 clergy and laity of the diocese located in west central Illinois.
"The reaction has been very positive. People who arrived with concerns over the future of the diocese came away reassured that the Diocese of Quincy will not be abandoned by the Episcopal Church. We will be fine. It will be a process, it will take time, but we will be just fine," said Tobyn Leigh Miracle, communications officer for the Diocese of Quincy.
Strength for the
Journey is a multifaceted initiative to assist in the reorganization moving forward in the dioceses of Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, San Joaquin, and Quincy. One hundred twenty people attended the Pittsburgh conference on May 21-22 and 90 attended the San Joaquin conference June 4-5 in Fresno, Calif. The fourth CREDO-facilitated Strength for the Journey conference will
take place in the Diocese of Fort Worth (Texas) September 24-25.
CREDO also held a Strength for the
Journey eight-day conference for the clergy of the reorganizing dioceses in November 2009. During 2010, CREDO hosts two Strength for the
Journey eight-day conferences in May and September for lay employees and lay leaders of the four dioceses.
See more on the history and impact of the Strength for the Journey HERE.
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Director of Communication joins CREDO staff
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 Longtime Episcopal journalist Herb Gunn joined the CREDO staff on April 1 as the Director of Communication. Previously, Gunn was the editor of The Record in the Diocese of Michigan for 19 years during which time he served as president of the Episcopal Communicators and a deputy to General Convention for three terms.
Gunn serves in a third year as a CREDO Conference Leader for Lay Employee CREDO conferences, including Strength for the Journey conferences for laity in 2010.
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Transformed and Renewed:
2009 Annual Report
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| CREDO Institute, Inc. and the Church Pension Group have promoted health, wellness, and transformation in the Episcopal Church for over ten years. Bishops, priests, deacons, and lay employees who are enrolled in the Church Pension Plan have been invited to embrace personal self-awareness, transformation, and renewal principally through an eight-day conference experience referred to as the CREDO Benefit.
During the eight-day conference, participants explore a deeper sense of who they are and where God is calling them by moving around a cycle of Identity, Discernment, Practice, and Transformation.
CREDO itself is engaged in a similar course of transformation and renewal. Without wavering from its essential core values as a steward of health and wellness in the Episcopal Church, CREDO is constantly assessing its identity, discerning God's will, responding in new and creative ways, and changing.
READ last year's Annual Report.
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