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Need to Know
- Register your camper by March 18 to receive the early bird registration discount for Shrine Mont Summer Camps!
- Continue to visit the diocesan Lenten Resources page throughout Lent for updated events and announcements, plus articles and highlights of different programming opportunities.
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Diocesan Events
- The Church Deployment Office (CDO) profile system for clergy and lay professionals will be disconnected on April 1, 2011, and will be replaced by the Office of Transitin Ministry (OTM) Portfolio System, which became available in October 2010. The Diocese is scheduling workshops for those who wish to learn more about the OTM Portfolio. If you wish, bring your laptop (WiFi available) and complete your portfolio during the worships. The following options are currently available (Richmond and northern Virginia to be scheduled soon). Please register with Lindsay Ryland.
-March 24, Trinity, Manassas, 2-4 p.m.
-March 25, St. Paul's on-the-Hill, Winchester, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
-March 29, Grace, Kilmarnock, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
-March 30, St. Paul's Memorial, Charlottesville, 2-4 p.m. - The ECW Prayer & Worship Retreat will take place April 14 at Church of the Messiah, Fredericksburg, with leader the Rev. Erika Takacs under the theme "The Living Light: Seeing God in Daily Living." Open to all. Cost: $30. Learn more.
- The youth day of service will take place this Saturday, March 12 at Trinity, Manassas, and there's still time to register. Participants will join in an outreach project that will benefit the Haiti Micah Project.
- Bishop Johnston and the clergy of St. George's, Fredericksburg will sponsor a special event for diocesan clergy with Marcus Borg: What is the Gospel? Learn more and register for this March 14 event.
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Church Calendar
3/11-3/12: Centennial Speaker Series with David Vryhof, SSJE, St. Stephen's, Richmond
3/11: Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, St. Francis', Great Falls 3/12: Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, St. Francis', Great Falls 3/13: What's Christianity All About? with Marcus Borg, St. George's, Fredericksburg 3/13: An Emerging Form of Christianity Today with Marcus Borg, St. George's, Fredericksburg 3/13: Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, St. Francis', Great Falls 3/14: Telling the Story of Jesus Today with Marcus Borg, St. George's, Fredericksburg 3/15: Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, St. Francis', Great Falls 3/16: Faith & Light First Central Virginia Meeting, Friends of L'Arche, Columbian Center 3/18: Fundraising Dinner, Trinity, Highland Springs 3/20: Puccini's La Faniculla del West in Concert, St. Luke's, Alexandria 3/20: Organ Music for Bach's Birthday, Grace, Alexandria Read more. |
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Other Events
- Registration is open for Shrine Mont's annual Art & Soul Retreat, July 17-22. Learn more about other upcoming Shrine Mont programming.
- The Sewanee Church Music Concert will take place July 11-17 with distinguished faculty and chaplain, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton. Learn more.
- The Province III Synod will take place Monday, May 9 at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg, W.Va. and will focus on conversations on the Anglican Communion Covenant with the Rev. Dr. A. Katherine Grieb of VTS. Registration is now open.
- Roslyn Conference & Retreat Center will continue to offer complimentary retreats to Virginia clergy, with availability April 25-28, 2011 and January 2-5, 2012. A spiritual director will be on-site. Contact Roslyn (800-477-6296).
- Roslyn's Annual Easter Brunch will take place Sunday, April 24 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Pre-paid reservations are required.
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Bishops' NetsforLife Inspiration Fund
The Bishops' NetsforLife Inspiration Fund is a youth-led initiative of the Diocese of Virginia that seeks to provide 20,000 mosquito nets to sub-Saharan Africa in 2011. Currently, over 800,000 children under the age of 5 die every year from malaria. That's over one per minute. Our youth want to help change that horrible statistic. Emma Wright is the lead youth representative for the project. NetsforLife is a partner of Episcopal Relief & Development that provides malaria-preventing nets to those in need, along with monitoring and education. With the support of dioceses such as ours, NetsforLife intends to hang a total of 7 million nets in sub-Saharan Africa over the next three years. Each net costs $12. The Virginia youth-led initiative will sponsor three different training sessions for youth and youth mentors in northern Virginia, with many more planned across the Diocese of Virginia in the coming year. Participants will return to their parishes with new friendships, a heightened knowledge of malaria and prevention through bed nets, and ideas on how to support the Bishops' Nets for Life Inspiration Fund. Our first of many trainings across the Diocese of Virginia are below. Please have your youth choose to attend one. * Sunday, March 13, 12:30-2 p.m., St. Andrew's, Burke * Sunday, March 20, 6-7:30 p.m., Grace, Alexandria * Sunday, March 27, 12:30-2 p.m., Holy Comforter, Vienna Visit the group Facebook page or diocesan Web site for more info.
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I Can't Remember It Because I Never Knew It
Camp Spotlight:
The Music & Drama (MAD) Camp at Shrine Mont is based on performance in theater, culminating with a biblical music at the end of each session. The campers range in age from 9 to 18 and the oldest kids take their performance on tour in the Shenandoah Valley!
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