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Prepping
for Convention Street Closures
As luck will have it, the Louisville 1/2 Marathon will be held this weekend, which means many streets in downtown, western and eastern areas of metro Louisville will be closed and traffic diverted Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. (EST). Adjacent streets also will be affected. A listing of the affected streets may be found at this link.
Youth Reps
Youth director Beth Bojarski encourages you to attend the workshop for first-time deputies, which meets at 4 p.m. (EST) Friday. She said your caucus to choose the five voters will be held that evening. Plan on meeting at 8 p.m. in Collins Hall during the reception. You will leave the reception for a short meeting.
Clergy Members
If you plan to process with your colleagues, dress in cassock and surplice (white albs are okay) with a red stole. The clergy will vest at 5 p.m. (EST) in the downstairs bell room (Room 204). The ordination service begins at 5:30.
Parish Leaders
If your parish banner is stored at your church, bring it and its stand Friday afternoon for display in St. Andrew's worship space. (Banners stored at the cathedral have already been taken to St. Andrew's.)
Everyone Bring food donations and money to help support the Church of the Advent's food pantry.
Bring candy suitable for Christmas for the Seamen's Church Institute packing. Consider sharing part of your lunch helping pack Christmas boxes for our region's mariners served by the "Ministry on the River" program.
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Can't Make It to Convention?
You can still join us for the opening Eucharist and ordination service, watch the bishop give his convention homily and annual address, "attend" Saturday morning prayer or watch a video recording of any of these events at your convenience. or visit St. Andrew's
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Other News
& Information Briefly
This Weekend
St. Thomas Church, 9616 Westport Road, Louisville, will host its annual HOLIDAY BAZAAR this Saturday (Nov. 12) from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. (EST) in the Fellowship Hall. A lunch of homemade chili, hot dogs and homemade desserts will be available at reasonable prices. Come buy Christmas gifts, jewelry, homemade jelly, baked goods, handcrafted items and more. Proceeds will benefit Health Ministry Team. * Cathedral Arts Concert and Evensong will bring guitarist Stephen Mattingly
of the University of Louisville. He has been warmly received by audiences in the U.S. and Europe. His program will include Introduction and Marche funèbre from Fantasie Élégiaque, Op. 59 by Fernando Sor; Preludio from Suite Compostelana by Federico Mompou; and 1. Lento - Allegro - Allegretto tranquillo from Sonata, Op. 61 by Joaquin Turina. Evensong will be sung by the Cathedral Choir, joined by the trebles from St. Luke's, St. Mark's and Christ Church Cathedral. As street parking is limited, there will be parking available in the Second Street PARC lot across from the cathedral for $2. Notify the attendant that you are attending a service at the Cathedral to get this rate. Upcoming
St. Francis in the Fields
Episcopal Church will host a Craft Fair & Bake Sale on Sunday, November 20 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. (EST) to benefit outreach programs at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Barnes Mountain, Kentucky.
The parish will have a Thanksgiving Day Service with Holy Eucharist, beginning at 10 a.m. Nov. 24. * Four Rivers Deanery
is organizing an informal
Diocesan Clergy Retreat
at All Saints Conference
Center near Leitchfield on
December 7 and 8. No
theme. No speakers. Just a
getaway.
To register or for more
information, visit
* The Peace and Justice Division is organizing a Retreat into Compassion January 20 and 21. To register, or for more information, please visit All
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Dare to Care by Sharing the Fruits of Your Bounty at Convention
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Donations will be given to the food and pet food pantries
at the Church of the Advent, Louisville
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| I Fall Convention 2011
A Time to Share Our Bounty as One Body in Christ
As we prepare to give thanks in two weeks for the blessings in our lives and nation, Kentucky Episcopalians from across the western half of the commonwealth will gather this weekend in Louisville for the second time this year for the annual diocesan convention. While here, they will be invited, in various ways, to consider how our members and churches can turn our thanks into action, compassionate action that is.
 About 150 clergy members, lay deputies and friends of the diocese are expected to attend the 184th diocesan convention, which will meet Friday and Saturday at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at 2233 Woodbourne Ave. in Louisville's Highlands area.
The convention will begin on Friday, as usual, with registration at 2 p.m. (EST) and an afternoon of workshops, first-time deputy orientation and committee meetings. The convention's opening Eucharist, which begins at 5:30, will be especially festive, with the the parishes' banners displayed.  Convention also will be marked by the ordination of Ben Badgett, a student at Virginia Theological Seminary and member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Owensboro. He will become a transitional deacon. In his final year at the seminary, Ben expects to be graduated in May.
Ben is pictured above in the middle, holding his son Edward, flanked by his wife, Kendall, and the Very Rev. Ian Markham, the dean of Virginia Theological Seminary.
A focus on compassion
As hinted in its theme, "The Fruits of Compassion," the diocese's first fall convention will spotlight, from a Christian perspective, calls for us and our communities to respond compassionately to brokenness in the world. These calls have been seen recently in a national campaign, embraced by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, for communities to adopt the "City of Compassion" Charter, which is intended to create "more compassionate" cities that encourage their citizens to live and act in compassionate ways.
That campaign will be addressed most directly in a Friday workshop by the Department of Justice and Jubilee exploring the bibilical bases for compassionate response. The other workshops, however, also will be devoted to promoting awareness and developing skills and resources that encourage our members and congregations to be vital, compassionate citizens in their communities.
Mission lab with bishop & other workshops
During the first hour of afternoon workshops, beginning at 2 p.m. (EST), Bishop Terry White will lead a "mission lab" that promises participants will engage in "risky" behavior." They will plan, hypothetically, to start a congregation in these economically challenging times. Their task will be to determine what is essential, indispensable, for Gospel mission.
Meeting at the same time, the Rev. Ben Maas, rector of St. Andrew's, and others will led a panel discussion on church vitality with a focus on how successful ministry at two parishes grew out of their unique contexts. Their conversation will include discussion of knowing and spreading the Word to those you seek to reach.
Beginning at 3:30 p.m. will be the Justice and Jubilee workshop on "Our Call to Compassion," led by the Rev. Dr. Mary Abrams. The fourth workshop, led by the Rev. Dr. Rose Bogal-Allbritten, will look at mission opportunities within our diocese.
Workshop locations may be found on the convention agenda; descriptions are also posted on the convention website at this link.
Other convention business
Because this is the second convention, a banquet will not be held. Instead, St. Andrew's is hosting after the Eucharist a reception with heavy hors d'oeuvres and homemade desserts.
Business will be the order of the day on Saturday, beginning with morning prayer at 9 a.m. followed by the first business session. Convention deputies and clergy are expected to elect new officers to various diocesan boards and committees, approve a diocesan budget for 2012, and act on two proposed revisions to diocesan charters. No resolutions were pre-filed for consideration this year.
A presentation on compassion will also be given during the business session.
Opportunities to act compassionately
Convention goers will personally have at least two opportunities to act compassionately. For the first time, convention participants and guests are being asked to support an outreach ministry of the host church. For this convention, they are asked to bring canned goods and other non-perishable foods or donate money for two food pantries at the Episcopal Church of the Advent (one for people food and the other for pets). St. Andrew's partners with Advent in operating the food pantry, which distributes food twice a month.
As with previous conventions, the Seamen's Church Institute will be recruiting volunteers during lunch to help support their "Ministry on the River" program. Instead of packing candy for Easter, however, the volunteers will be packing Christmas boxes for the mariners who navigate our region's waterways. Donations of candy suitable for Christmas are also wanted.
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The links below will take you directly to convention documents
that are posted on our website.
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ETC
If you have difficulty in uploading any of the convention materials, please call Mary Jane Cherry, the diocese's communications director, at 502-584-7148 (1-800-222-3462) or send her an email at maryjane@episcopalky.org
The regular edition of EpiscoBlast, including prayer and event calendars, will be published next week on Friday as usual.
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