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Need to Know
- Check out the new Bishop's Page on the diocesan Web site for updates from Bishop Johnston, plus a photo album of recent visitations and events.
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Diocesan Events
- In last week's e-Communique, we announced dates for gatherings around the Diocese to talk about the 50 Years of Camps at Shrine Mont and their future for the next 50 years. We have decided to postpone these gatherings until after we celebrate the past 50 Years of Camps at Shrine Mont at the Bishop's Jubilee July 13-15. We will hold gatherings around the Diocese in the late summer and early fall. Watch for announcement of these events in future issues of the e-Communique.
- The diocesan Disaster Preparedness & Response Ministry Team has planned a Volunteer Day on Saturday, February 25 at Aquia, Stafford. This is a chance to learn about volunteer opportunities in the disaster relief field from across the United States in 2012, and to receive the necessary information and training needed for such mission trips. Questions? Please contact Dan Wilmoth at danny@dovdpr.org. To register, please send your name and church to Mary Anne Bryant at mabryant@
thediocese.net. No registration fee.
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Church Calendar
2/17: Fish Fry, Immanuel Old Church, Mechanicsville
2/19: Taize Eucharist Service, Buck Mountain, Earlysville
2/19: Candlelight Concert & Compline, St. Mary's, Arlington
2/19: Agape and Justice Service, Holy Comforter, Richmond 2/21: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, St. John's, Arlington
2/21: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, St. George's, Arlington
2/21: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper & Talent Show, St. Peter's in-the-Woods, Fairfax Station
2/21: Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper, St. David's, Ashburn
2/21: Mardi Gras, St. John's, Warsaw
2/22: Ashes to Go, St. George's, Arlington
2/24: Joint Choral Concert, St. Paul's, Richmond
2/25: Pancake Supper, St. Stephen's, Catlett
2/26: Walking the Way of Sorrows - Stations of the Cross, Emmanuel, Brook Hill, Richmond
2/26: Discovering Jesus Lenten Program, St. Peter's in-the-Woods, Fairfax Station
2/29: The Essential Jesus - 100 Readings through Bible's Greatest Stories, St. Peter's in the Woods, Fairfax Station
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Other Events
- The Leadership Program for Musicians will host a spring workshop on March 10 around the theme of "Music that Makes Community," a movement in the Church that rekindles an ancient practice of singing. With presenter Scott Weidler, associate director for worship and music of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as . Learn more, and register by March 1. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Holy Comforter Episcopal, Richmond.
- GEMN, the Global Episcopal Mission Network, will host their annual conference, "Mission? Whose Mission?" May 3-5 in Ivoryton, CT. Learn more.
- The Episcopal Church Foundation will host a Webinar on Vestry Leadership 101 March 13, 7 p.m., no registration charge. Explore what it means to lead an Episcopal congregation.
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Updates Regarding Bishop Suffragan Nomination & Election Process
The petition process for nominees for bishop suffragan is now closed, and no petition nominations have been received. We are grateful to the Nominating Committee, who put forward a slate of six nominees, and we invite you to learn more about all of the candidates in
As we prepare for the April 21 election, please keep in mind the following important updates.
*Review an important of the Diocese about who can vote at the electing Council.
*Submit questions for the nominees to consider during the walkabouts to
by February 17.
*Make plans to attend
taking place around the Diocese March 19-23.
*Be on the lookout for Electing Council registration materials, available online in the coming weeks.
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Check out our churches in the news!
Buck Mountain, Earlysville's food pantry was featured on NBC 29. Craig Anderson of Holy Comforter, Richmond contributed an opinion piece on Christian response to capital punishment in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. |
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