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 July 19, 2011 |
| Task force on restructuring the diocese
One of the key plans of the ministry priorities is a comprehensive evaluation of the current structures within the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Based on the recommendation of the strategy five team, Bishop Breidenthal has called for the formation of a structure task force to meet in 2013 and report to the diocese recommendations for structural and administrative changes. The goal is to put in place structures that support and expand the common ministry of the diocese.
If you feel called to this work, please complete the nomination form. The deadline is Nov. 25. The strategy five team will review the nominations and select a task force to be announced in December. |
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Honor the Prices, save lives
On November 2, 2012, clergy and laity gathered at Procter Center to wish blessings on Bishop Ken and Mariann Price as they began their retirement. That same night, the Diocese of Southern Ohio announced its gift to honor the Prices' service: a gift to Episcopal Relief & Development's NetsforLife® Inspiration Fund. The goal is to raise at least $18,000 - one thousand for each year the Prices have been with us - which will be matched by the Procter Fund.
Diocesan Convention also focused on the Prices' service among the people of Southern Ohio, and the collection at the Eucharist on Saturday morning went to supporting NetsforLife®. The total raised was $ 1870.80, 10% toward our total goal of honoring the Prices by spreading their love and service to our brothers and sisters around the world.
Out of our relative abundance, then, we are called to respond to God's love by serving others. Bishop Ken and Mariann have made an example of their lives through eighteen years of service to this Diocese, and we have a precious opportunity to share in their love and to honor them and all they have done.
Each net distibuted by NetsforLife®saves up to three lives, and each net, along with education on how to use it, costs just $12. A gift of $25 today will provide two families with hope and save up to six children; if you take part in this incredible project today, your gift will be doubled by the Procter Fund. Your gift of $25 will become $50 and protect twelve lives. And if you offer your gift before December 31, 2012, Episcopal Relief & Development will double it again - and your $25, which became $50, will become $100. For the price of lunch this afternoon, you will be saving up to twenty-five lives. At that rate, one congregation can save a village!
A bulletin insert describing the NetsforLife® program and how members of your congregation can help is available for use this Sunday, Nov. 25. Our campaign will run through Avent and Epiphany, ending Sunday, Feb. 10. For more information or to download the bulletin insert, visit http://www.diosohio.org/honortheprices.html. |
Hurricane relief continues
Disaster relief coordinator Mary Woodward shares this information on volunteer registration sites for response. Long-term recovery information is not available, as noted below.
The first shipment of flood buckets, health kits, school supplies, water, non-perishable food, gift cards, and hundreds of quilts and blankets shipped out from the disaster warehouse last week - thanks to all who donated!
Requests continue to come in for all of these items, plus thermal underwear for men, women, and children. Woodward hopes the next shipment will leave the week after Thanksgiving. Continue to ship your donations to: Disaster Warehouse/Hurr Sandy Relief, 810 Main St., Caldwell, Ohio 43724 Please keep these thousands of families in prayer. For more information, contact Woodward at 740.509.1132.
If you are interested in volunteering, please register www.GoodandReady.org or www.Serve.gov. By registering you will receive up-to-date information, including when new volunteer opportunities are posted.
For volunteer opportunities in individual states, please see the following HandsOn Network affiliates:
West Virginia
Email disastervolunteersforwv@gmail.com or call 304.343.9922
While immediate opportunities to volunteer in the affected area may seem limited, please remember that the recovery effort will continue for many months and volunteers will be needed throughout this time.
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Upcoming Events
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Click here to see the diocesan calendar |
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Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
The duty of all Christians is to follow Christ; to come together week by week for corporate worship; and to work, pray, and give for the spread of the kingdom of God.
Our Diocesan Cycle of Prayer is listed both in a perpetual calendar and a Word document on the diocesan website and is updated frequently.
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| Worship Leader training
Worship leader training will be held Saturday, Dec. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Procter Center.
A Worship Leader is a lay person who regularly leads public worship under the direction of the Member of the Clergy or other leader exercising oversight of the congregation or other community of faith. (Canon III.4.4)
Worship leaders are to be recommended for training by the Rector, Vicar or Priest-in-charge of their congregation. In communities of faith where there is no established regular clergy presence, the participant should be recommended for training by the senior/bishop's warden of the congregation.
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| Anti-Racism training
Anti-Racism training will be held at Procter Camp & Conference Center on Saturday, Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This meets the requirements for newly elected and appointed lay and clergy leadership to complete Anti-Racism training within the first 12 months of their appointment.
Anti-racism training consists of two parts: the training day and a follow-up meeting that will be scheduled on training day. This is an anti-racism workshop and not a diversity or multi-cultural workshop. Cost is $10 for lunch.
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Advent events 
Look for Advent and Christmas events or add your own to our interactive Advent & Christmas calendar at our new Advent module http://www.diosohio.org/digital_faith/advent. In addition to the calendar, the module also features links to resources on Advent, St. Nick and much more!
Digital Faith users: Add your Advent and Christmas worship services to your event listing and tag with #dsoadventworship. Your service times will automatically populate the worship schedule on our site!
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Advent Festival of Lessons and Music featuring the choir of Church of the Good Shepherd, Athens, will be held Sunday, Dec. 2 at 4 p.m. The choir, directed by Marsha Reilly, will be assisted by Jan Robison, organ, Christina Wince and Kyle Symons, flute. A free will offering will be taken to support the June Black Music fund of the church. A reception and Holiday House will be held in Nehls Hall following the program. Church of the Good Shepherd is located at 64 University Terrace in Athens. Call 740.593.6877 for more information.
An Advent Carol Service at Ascension and Holy Trinity, Wyoming, will be held on Sunday, Dec 2 at 5 p.m. Ascension and Holy Trinity is located at 334 Burns Avenue in Wyoming. Call 513.821.5341 for more information.
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Flickering Pixels
How does technology shape our faith, in ways seen and unseen? What is Facebook doing to our relationships, our brains, and our souls? What would Jesus tweet, or would he tweet at all? Is the medium really the message? What does Silicon Valley have to do with Jerusalem? Can you encounter the living God online? Is it necessary to gather in one place in order to experience community? What blessings and what dangers are involved when we share words and images far and wide in the blink of an eye? Shane Hipps will be offering a seminar entitled "Flickering Pixels" at the Church of the Redeemer on Saturday, December 8 from 1 to 4 p.m. Please join us, and bring a friend! (There is no charge.) Before ordination as a Mennonite pastor, Hipps was an advertising account planner (kind of a "consumer anthropologist") for Porsche cars. He later served as teaching pastor at Mars Hill Church near Grand Rapids (with Rob Bell). His book Flickering Pixels addresses basic yet essential questions like "Are we using technology, or is technology using us?" Together we'll grapple with the pressing issue of how to live faithfully in a digital age. We need voices like Shane's to awaken and reorient us to more careful thinking and more faithful practice, a conscious alternative to buying into the ubiquitous narrative of consumption, anxiety, polemics, fear, indifference and apathy. Church of the Redeemer is located at 2944 Erie Ave. in Cincinnati. Call 513.321.6700 for more information or visit www.shanehipps.com. |
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Take a virtual tour around the diocese
The Diocese of Southern Ohio has launched an innovative, web-based tool for evangelism - a virtual, 360-degree tour of the nave/sanctuary of each of our congregations connected with Google Places. Several congregations and the Procter Center have been photographed and are online now--check them out at http://www.diosohio.org/google360tours.html.
Tour shoots are completed for 2012, but to get your congregation on the list for 2013 or for more information about Google virtual 360-degree tours, contact Julie Murray at jmurray@diosohio.org or 800.582.1712. |
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