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Embracing Christ, Engaging the World
Feb. 12, 2010 Issue 2.2
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The Diocese of Kentucky is called to engage the world as a witness to
Christ
through worship, study, fellowship, evangelism, social justice
and service.
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| February's weekly prayer calendar
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Feb. 14 - Pray for the Anglican Church of Central America and for Christ Episcopal Church, Elizabethtown, the Rev. Alice Nichols, rector.
Feb. 21 - Pray for the Anglican Church of the Congo and for St. George's Church, Louisville, the Rev. Ben Sanders, priest-in-charge.
Feb. 28 - Pray for the Church of England and for the Christian Formation Department.
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Diocesan Events
This Month
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Feb. 12-13 - School of Ministry, All Saints' Episcopal Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield.
Feb. 14 - Bishop Visitation at Christ Church, 206 W. Poplar St. Elizabethtown.
Feb. 16 - Special meeting of Trustees and Council executive members. 1 p.m. (ET), Diocesan Offices.
Feb. 19 - Fresh Start, All Saints' Episcopal Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield.
Feb. 21 - Bishop Visitation at St. George's Church, Louisville.
Feb. 23 - Lenten Series with Bishop Gulick. St. Matthew's Church. Begins at 6:30 each Wednesday through Lent.
Feb. 26-27-182nd Diocesan Convention, Grace Church, Paducah.
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Upcoming
All Saints' Events
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Feb. 12-13 - School of Ministry.
Feb. 13 - Youth Council meeting
Feb. 19-20 - Fresh Start.
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More February Events
in our churches
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Feb. 12-13 - "Become an Apprentice to Jesus" seminar, St. Francis in the Fields, 6710 Wolf Pen Branch Road, Harrods Creek.
Feb. 13-21 - Jewish Film Festival in Louisville.
Feb. 14 - St. Valentine's Day Concert and Choral Evensong. Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville. 5 p.m. (ET).
Feb. 16 - Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Benefit for cathedral choir. Seatings at 5:30 and 7 (ET).
Feb. 19-20 - Interfaith Dialogue on Earth Care. Guest speaker Dr. Matthew Sleeth, 7 p.m. (CT) Feb. 19 at Western Kentucky University. Conference, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Feb. 20, Christ Church, 1215 State St., Bowling Green.
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When the weather outside is frightful
The Diocesan Office follows the Jefferson County public schools' policy for inclement weather closings.
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An invitation to the diocese
Interested in finding out more about your Episcopal Faith and its history?
Interested in Confirmation, Reception or Reaffirmation?
Come to St. Matthew's Church and join
The Rt. Rev. Ted Gulick, Bishop of Kentucky
in
a diocesan-wide Lenten program of catechesis
each Wednesday evening in Lent
starting February 24 at 6:30 p.m.
This is a wonderful opportunity
to grow in understanding of your faith;
to deepen your commitment to Christ;
and to visit with our Bishop before his retirement this summer.
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Diocesan Convention 2010
Preconvention packets mailed
Nominees' profiles, resolutions, agenda online
The special pre-convention informational packets have been mailed to the clergy and the deputies preparing for the Diocese of Kentucky's annual meeting Feb. 26-27.
The mailing includes the proposed agenda, budget,
advance reports from
diocesan departments and organizations, profiles of the nominees for diocesan offices, copies of the 10 proposed resolutions and a draft copy of special rules of order proposed for the special convention to elect the diocese's eighth bishop, to be held in June.
The proposed resolutions and special rules of order will be available for download by visiting the Diocesan Convention Web page.
Reserve your hotel room today
Today is the last day that blocks of hotel rooms will be held at three Paducah hotels for those attending diocesan convention. Each congregation is responsible for making the reservations for their clergy and deputies. If reservations have not already been made, please do so today!
Read on for important reservation information
Browsers wanted Mission, formation, liturgical designs & crafts featured
Once again convention goers will get a chance to spend time amid exhibits, a casualty of last year's abbreviated one-day convention, and convention host Grace Church is making arrangements to encourage browsing.
More than 14 exhibits, including the work of a well known, award-winning liturgical designer, Jeff Wunrow, will be centrally located in and near Fletcher Hall, the gathering place for participants and guests seeking refreshments and a place to sit. Grouped according to three headings ("Mission Is the Heartbeat of the Church," "Forming Christian Disciples" and "Shopping at the Marketplace"), the exhibits will line the walls in Fletcher Hall and will be found in two adjacent rooms. All will be highly visible and easily accessible, the Rev. Libby Wade notes.
Read more
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Debbi Rodahaffer elected president
of Episcopal educators' association
D ebbi Rodahaffer, director of Christian education at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Louisville, and a member of the Diocese of Kentucky's Department of Christian Formation, was elected board president of the
National Association for Episcopal Christian Educators (NAECED) during
their annual conference Jan. 22-24 at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in
Menlo Park, Calif.
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P'tricia Egbert is chosen for young adult delegation to U.N. commission
P'tricia Egbert, administrative assistant at Christ Church Cathedral in
Louisville, has been named to the Episcopal Young Adult Delegation to
the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Read more
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 Former canon to the ordinary nominated for bishop
The Rev. Dr. James "Jay" Magness, the former canon to the ordinary
in our diocese, has been named among the six candidates for The
Episcopal Church Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries.
Magness
was the Diocese of Kentucky's chief administrative and deployment
officer for nearly four years, serving from January
2004 through
November 2007.
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Places to go, things to do
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'Become an Apprentice to Jesus' seminar
St. Francis in the Fields' seminar, "Become an Apprentice to Jesus," begins at 7 tonight (Friday, Feb. 12) and continues tomorrow (Saturday, Feb. 13) from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (ET).
James Bryan Smith, author of The Good and Beautiful God, will help participants change their lives and renew their souls by sharing four steps to transformation: change your perspective on your world, change old habits, change from self-reliance and change your spiritual outlook.
Read more
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Christ Church, Bowling Green, hosts
interfaith conference on earth care
 An "Interfaith Dialogue on Earth Care," hosted by Western Kentucky University, Christ Episcopal Church and several other religious and environmental organizations, will be held Feb. 19 and 20. The conference is bringing as its keynote speaker Dr. Matthew Sleeth, who has written and spoken extensively about serving God by becoming good stewards of the earth.
Sleeth's talk, "Serve God, Save the Planet," will be held at WKU, beginning at 7 p.m. (CT) Friday (Feb. 19) in the Mass Media and Technology Hall
Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
On Saturday, Feb. 20, Christ Church, 1215 State St., will host the conference on "Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, and Earth
Care." From 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. (CT), WKU faculty and
religious leaders will participate in a "dialogue" of presentations,
responses and participant discussion.
Read more
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Film festival begins tomorrow
This year's Jewish Film Festival
in Louisville will run tomorrow (Feb. 13) through Feb. 21, and organizers say the nine films
selected by the festival committee will appeal to avid film lovers.
Read more
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 Tickets on sale for Taste of Derby Festival benefit for Dare to Care
Tickets are on sale now for a popular culinary event during the
Kentucky Derby Festival that benefits Dare to Care, which helps the
Louisville community provide healthy food to struggling families.
Read more
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Cathedral concert, Choral Evensong Sunday
Robert L. Bozeman, director of music at Christ Episcopal Cathedral in Louisville, performs works by Buxtehude, Albright, Walton, Mozart and Schuman during a St. Valentine's Day Concert this Sunday (Feb. 14).
The 5 p.m. (ET) concert will be followed by Choral Evensong sung by the choir of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Anchorage, directed by Lisa Lewis.
The cathedral is located at 421 S. 2nd St. For more information, visit www.christchurchlouky.org or call 502-587-1354.
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Cathedral choir hosts benefit pancake supper
Christ Church Cathedral will have a Benefit Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Tuesday evening, Feb. 16. Benefitting the choir, the supper will feature a meal of pancakes, healthy oatmeal, delicious toppings,
sausages (plus a vegan option!) and colorful fruit salad. The event also includes "a musical
dessert of television favorites."
Read more
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Opportunities to learn here and there
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'The Art of Being a Spiritual Presence'
Norton Healthcare
The Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries is offering a workshop next month to review strategies for being a healing presence to others.
The workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon (ET) Friday, March 12, in Cranmer Auditorium at Norton Healthcare Pavilion, 315 E. Broadway, Louisville. Registration, which begins at 8 a.m., costs $10. Nursing contact hours are available.
To register or for more information, call (502) 629-1234 or visit www.NortonHealthcare.com/CHM
Learn to see and save "the holy" - digitally
Harmony Johnson, Kanuga Communications Director
 Explore a spiritual link with photography amid the Blue Ridge Mountains in spring bloom during the ninth annual Kanuga Photography Retreat April 25-30.
Students may examine the close-up world of macro photography, learn to use color like a painter, combine photography with hiking, "see the holy" and transform those insights into digital photographs or explore documentary photography in natural light.
For more information, visit www.kanuga.org or call 828-692-9136. Read more
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News from the wider Church
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Church center offers Lenten season resources
Centering on the theme "Things done and
left undone," Lenten prayers, video reflections and penitential
meditations have been assembled by the program staff of The Episcopal Church for use throughout the 40-day Lenten season.
Designed for personal reflections as well as community services, the
Lenten resources are available at the Resources Web page: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/resources_seasonal_ENG_HTM.htm
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which is Feb.17 this year. Lent is a time of
reflection, prayer, penance and meditation. The Lenten season
concludes with the celebration of Easter on Sunday, April 4.
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Fellowship program call for applicants
The Episcopal Church Foundation
The Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF)
is pleased to announce that the 2010 application process for the Fellowship
Partners Program is now open. The application deadline is March 15.
ECF awards fellowships for both academic and transformational ministries,
and enables fellows to share their knowledge, experience, and best
practices with the wider Church in practical ways. The emphasis is on
partnerships that will have important impact in their local communities
and beyond. Both lay and clergy are invited to apply.
New awards will range up to $15,000 and are renewable for an additional two years. New fellows will be announced in May.
Read more
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News from the wider Communion
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ENGLAND: Church recognizes North American Anglicans' wish to "remain" in Anglican family
The General Synod of the Church of England this week recognized the desire
of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) to remain "within the
Anglican family," but the synod did not grant full communion status to the "break away" church, according to reports from the Episcopal News Service, Episcopal Cafe and the
ACNA.
The action was taken in response to a "private member motion" that
originally asked the synod to "express the desire that the
Church of England be in communion with the Anglican Church of North of
America." The amended motion was approved by a vote of 309-69 (with seven absentions).
Read more at Episcopal News Service, Episcopal Cafe and The ACNA's ACNA's Web site.
Archbishop: 'three-dimensional vision' is needed
[Episcopal News Service] Complex issues in
church and society should be approached with a "three-dimensional
vision," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams urged members of the Church of England's General Synod during his Feb. 9 presidential address.
"Seeing something in three dimensions is seeing that I can't see
everything at once: what's in front of me is not just the surface I see
in this particular moment," he told synod members gathered for their
Feb. 8-12 meeting in London. "So seeing in three dimensions requires us
to take time with what we see. It may help us look more critically at
solutions that seek to do too much all at once; and perhaps to search
for structures that will keep open the ability to learn from each
other." Read more
HAITI: Presiding bishop pays pastoral visit
"You have had had your Good Friday," she tells bishop
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
paid a poignant visit to Port-au-Prince Feb. 8 to survey with
Episcopal Diocese of Haiti Bishop Jean Zaché Duracin the devastation
wrought by the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake.
After climbing over the ruins of the diocese's Cathédrale Sainte
Trinité (Holy Trinity Cathedral), the presiding bishop turned to
Duracin and said "You should skip Lent this year; you have already had
your Good Friday." Read more
Video of Presiding Bishop's reflections on the visit
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Mary Jane Cherry
Editor
maryjane@episcopalky.org
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