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Need to Know
- Your congregation should have received a packet of brochures for the 2012 camp season, either at Annual Council or in the mail. If you would like to receive extra brochures, please contact Kat Jones at kjones@thediocese.net.
- Mustard Seed Grant guidelines and applications are now available for parishes, missions, regions and college chaplaincies working to strengthen the various ministries of the Diocese. The deadline for the initial letter of inquiry is April 2, 2012. Learn more about diocesan grants.
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Diocesan Events
- In coordination with Episcopal Relief & Development, the diocesan Disaster Preparedness & Response Ministry Team will host a Volunteer Day this weekend, including a presentation from Alison Hare, preparedness coordinator for ERD. Attendees will hear from experts in other dioceses who have similar teams or who have disaster response opportunities available in 2012. Participants can also take part in important training sessions. Saturday, February 25 at Aquia, Stafford, starting at 9 a.m. 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. - Registration is now open for two spring events planned by the Parish Youth Ministries Committee. Make plans to attend the Youth Day of Service at St. Andrew's, Arlington on March 17 and the Senior High Weekend at Shrine Mont April 13-15 with members of your church or youth group. Questions? Contact Mike Wade at 800-DIOCESE x1027 or mwade@thediocese.net.
- All members of the Diocese are invited to attend one of a series of walkabouts March 19-23 for a chance to hear from the six candidates for bishop suffragan. The walkabouts will take place:
3/19, St. Paul's, Ivy, 7-9:30 p.m.
3/20, Christchurch School, Christchurch, 1-3:30 p.m.
3/20, St. George's, Fredericksburg, 7-9:30 p.m.
3/21, Christ Church, Winchester, 7-9:30 p.m.
3/22, Good Shepherd, Burke, 7:30-10 p.m.
3/23, St. James's, Richmond, 7-9:30 p.m.
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Church Calendar
2/24: Joint Choral Concert, St. Paul's, Richmond
2/24-2/25: Lenten Retreat with SSJE, St. Stephen'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
2/26: Contemplative Prayer Service, St. Anne's, Scottsville
2/27: Taize Contemplative Prayer Service, Holy Comforter, Vienna
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
- Samaritan Ministry will host a Spring Gala on March 10, with live and silent auction, prizes and more, plus a special tribute to David Downes, executive director, who is leaving Samaritan Ministry later this year. Learn more.
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The Presiding Bishop's Lenten Message
I greet you at the beginning of Lent.
In this year I'm going to invite you to think about the ancient traditions of preparing in solidarity with candidates for baptism, to think about the old disciplines of prayer and fasting and alms-giving and study, through the focus on those beyond our communities, in the developing world, who live in abject poverty.
I invite you to use the Millennium Development Goals as your focus for Lenten study and discipline and prayer and fasting this year.
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I Can't Remember It Because I Never Knew It
The Jessie Ball duPont Fund awarded to the Diocese a grant of $100,000 to be used to aid four churches that sustained damages in last year's earthquake.
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