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Greetings!
Four conferences this month wrap up the Spring 2013 CREDO Conference season, and CREDO is beginning to fill the conference calendar for 2014. If you know eligible clergy in the Church Pension Plan who have not attended a CREDO I Conference, you may find a conference described below that you can recommend. Most clergy who have not yet attended do not receive CREDO Connection.
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CREDO Vitality Blog
adds two faculty writers
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 The CREDO Blog Vitality, which is part of the series Continuing CREDO Community, focuses on physical and mental health. This month we introduce two new faculty contributors. Joining Jackie Cameron and focusing on mental health will be CREDO faculty members Ron Casey and Bill Harkins. Subscribe to and watch for their insights into mental and emotional health and wellness through Vitality.  Ron Casey, a psychologist in private practice for more than 30 years, is the consulting psychologist to the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. For 25 years, he has been the program director of the Clergy and Family Assistance Program of the diocese, which is an assessment, referral and treatment service for clergy and their families and lay employees and their families.
 Bill Harkins teaches at Columbia Theological Seminary, where he is the co-director of the Atlanta Theological Association Th.D. program in pastoral counseling. He is a priest associate at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, and maintains a private practice/LLC at the Brookwood Center for Psychotherapy. Beginning in 2014, a mental health faculty member will be added to each CREDO Conference, and the Vitality blog is a place to drill down into specific topics.
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Several new CREDO I Conferences offered in 2014
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New CREDO I Conference for
bi-vocational and part-time clergy offered in 2014
 CREDO will introduce a new conference type to take place September 8-15, 2014, for eligible bi-vocational and part-time clergy who are in the Church Pension Fund. The conference, which will be held at the beautiful Beckwith Conference Center in Fairhope, Alabama, is the foundational eight-day CREDO I Conference with particular attention given to the specific issues that part-time and bi-vocational clergy encounter in their ministries.
CREDO I for bi-vocational and part-time clergy is a resource for a rapidly changing church in which a growing number of Episcopal Church clergy are living out dual or multiple vocations.
CREDO introduced a shorter, six-day conference this year and four CREDO I Six-Day conferences will be offered in 2014 for clergy pension plan participants who prefer a shorter conference experience. (See Spotlight below.)
The new Recently Ordained Clergy (ROC) conferences were also introduced in 2013 and two will be offered in 2014-15.
Applications have been mailed to qualified clergy for these new CREDO I conference types in 2014. Limited space is still available for these conferences.
If you know someone who would benefit from this new CREDO conference type, please make a recommendation to them or forward this email. Clergy who have not attended a CREDO conference may not be receiving the CREDO Connection.
and for additional information.
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Gray Conference Center
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The Duncan M. Gray Conference Center sits on 750 acres in Madison County, Mississippi. The Gray Center will be the location for one of four Six-Day CREDO Conferences November 5-10, 2014 -- and it's not too late to apply.
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Duncan M. Gray Conference Center
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"This conference center was the perfect location for my CREDO experience. The landscape views, scenery, peaceful environment, trails, ponds were all inspirational and very beautiful. I will never forget the hummingbirds, geese, the sounds, the magnolia trees, the cottonwoods; Mississippi and the Gray Center were perfect for my CREDO experience..."
--CREDO Conference participant April 2012
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