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Register now for Forming the Household of God
A conference for family and intergenerational formation 
The Formation Task Force invites you to a conference discussing family and intergenerational formation on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Procter Center.
The Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner will be the keynote speaker, joined by Holly Hughes Stoner, who are both founding staff members of Living Compass Ministries ( www.LivingCompass.org). Together they bring experience with an intergenerational approach to family wellness that will help participants learn how to love God with heart, soul, strength and mind.
Workshops will be offered that day to aid and support formation for all ages, including issues related to parent, elder, teen, and children's formation, to name a few.
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Sending forth of graduates
High school graduations are less then a month away, and some college graduations are happening now. It's important to honor our young people as they graduate and prepare to enter the next phases of their lives.
A service of Commissioning and Sending Forth, created by Episcopal Campus Ministries in the Diocese of Southern Ohio, will help you to honor them in the context of a Sunday service. Please feel free to use it as is or adapt it as you see fit. When you honor your graduates, you'll have a wonderful opportunity to find out what they're doing next.
If they're going to college next year, please send their name and contact information to the Rev. Karl Stevens at campusministry@diosohio.org. If they're going to school in the diocese, this will give us a chance to get them involved in our programs. If they're going to school out of state, we'll pass their information on to parishes and campus ministries near their the college or university that they'll be attending.
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| Museum vouchers available
As part of our sponsorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Cincinnati Museum Center, the diocese still has several vouchers available for free admission to the Museum Center. Although the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is over, these vouchers are good for all three CMC museums and are valid until 6/30/13.
If you are interested in receiving some of these vouchers, please contact Geri McDaniel at gmcdaniel@diosohio.org or 800.582.1712 ext. 105. |
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| Music news from Christ Church Cathedral
Music Live at Lunch performances in May
Music Live at Lunch, Christ Church Cathedral's weekly concert series, will feature the following performers in May:
May 7: The Elliot Duet, flute and marimba (nave)
May 14: Steve Schmidt, jazz piano
May 21: Della Enns, composer and pianist
May 28: Cody Bowers, countertenor
These free concerts are presented on Tuesday at 12:10 p.m. Patrons may bring their lunch or buy one at the cathedral for $5. All performances are in the Centennial Chapel unless listed as being in the cathedral nave.
Choral Evensong
Sunday, May 5, 5 p.m.
Sung by: The Cathedral Choir with the Cincinnati Viol Consort*
Music to include:
Responses: Richard Ayleward
Canticles: The Fourth Service - Adrian Batten
Anthem: Christ Rising Again - William Byrd
Reception follows
*The viol consort for this Evensong is made possible by generous contributions to the cathedral's Friends of Music Fund.
Roberta Gary to give organ recital Roberta Gary, Concert organist/Professor of Organ, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, will perform in a recital presented by Christ Church Cathedral, on Sunday, May 19, at 5 p.m. The concert is part of a series offered by the cathedral on third Sundays, October through May. The Cincinnati chapter of the American Guild of Organists is a co-sponsor. You can find more information at www.christchurchcincinnati.org/music/organrecitals.
Christ Church Cathedral is located at 318 East Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati. For more information about any of these programs, call 513.621.1817. |
| Calling all Christian educators! CPI invites you to take its 2013 Curriculum Survey
Goals: to Pinpoint Best Resources and Guide New Developments
Morehouse Education Resources (MER), a division of Church Publishing Incorporated (CPI), is inviting anyone who is currently involved in Christian education to take its 2013 online curriculum survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DRFKZ36. The survey, which takes about 10 minutes to complete, will be used to determine those resources being used most successfully on the congregational level and to incorporate user observations, feedback, and suggestions in the development of new resources.
Participants will be asked to select any and all curricular resources currently being used for specific age groups within their congregation(s) from a menu of programs that range across the denominational spectrum. Respondents will also have an opportunity to share their ideas for maximizing resource utility and effectiveness in faith-formation settings. All respondents will subsequently receive a copy of the survey results, plus the results will be posted on the Church Publishing website, www.churchpublishing.org.
Again, the survey link is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DRFKZ36 and it can be completed anytime between now and May 1, 2013. The results will be released in early June, 2013 through email announcements, the CPI website posting, plus as a special report to be featured in "Living IN-Formation" - a free monthly newsletter to over 7,000 professionals working in Christian education and faith formation.
CPI will contrast the findings with a Curriculum Survey it completed in October, 2010. Results from the earlier survey paved the way for production of at least two unique new resource franchises, including the popular "Embracing series" - easy-to-use and timely DVD-based adult studies produced from a mainline denominational perspective - and "Skiturgies," an inexpensive and easily accessed resource bank of pageants, plays, rites, and rituals, originally produced by local congregations and newly made available by CPI to a far wider, ecumenical audience
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Time for Phase 2 of virtual tour project
Spring has sprung, and
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scheduling for Phase 2 of our project to offer 360-degree virtual tours of all our congregations on Google+ has begun.
In 2012, 19 congregations from all around the diocese and the Procter Center were able to add a 360-degree virtual tour to their online presence at no cost to the congregation. These tours are a great way to invite someone to check out your space from the comfort of their own computer - and remove just one more barrier that may be stopping them from becoming a part of your community.
A new, exciting additional benefit is that the tours are now available on mobile Google Maps. That means when someone finds your location on a mobile Google Map, they can view the virtual tour directly from their smartphone!
Several congregations are already in line for this year, and routes are being established to more efficiently photograph each geographic area of the diocese. Are you interested in being one of them? Check out more information at http://www.diosohio.org/google360tours.html to see links to all the existing tours and find out more information about how your church can get on the list. The diocese is committed to finishing this project by 2014, so even if you aren't ready this year, be thinking about scheduling for next year.
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