The Rev. Dr. Tim Vivian, St. Paul's, Bakersfield was just announced as the recipient of the 2015 Nelson R. Burr Prize from The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.
The Burr prize honors the renown scholar Nelson Rollins Burr whose two-volume A Critical Bibliography of Religion in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961) and other works constitute landmarks in the field of religious historiography. Each year a committee of the Society selects the author of the most outstanding article in the Society's journal, Anglican and Episcopal History, as recipient. The aware also honors that which best exemplifies excellence and innovative scholarship in the field of Anglican and Episcopal history. Please go to the site listed below to read the article in the Episcopal News Service online publication.
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Update on New Website:Pay on line option to register for events coming soon!
The website is also more user friendly for needed forms. Go to: https://diosanjoaquin.org/forms_and_documents/
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Tour Against Trafficking Donations
 $6,593.10
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Support Tour Against Trafficking
How?
Support a Rider:
Go to www.touragainsttrafficking.org and support a rider. Don't recognize some of the riders? Support them anyway for they are supporting OUR tour.
Friendly reminder to Facebook friends: send this link: touragainsttrafficking to each of your Facebook Friends or those on your email list or offer the site address to work mates or school mates and invite them to enter this website and join the ride and shop the shop!
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Tour Against Trafficking Store:
You can find niffy items that show your support of our Tour Against Trafficking. Great for yourself, family, and friends and fantastic for the organizations that will benefit from your purchase! Click here to shop! A taste of what you can find shown here:
   Travel Mug T-Shirts Coffee Mug    Tote Button iphone 6 Tough Case
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Convention Committee Meeting, Saturday, August 29, 11:00 am St. Paul's, Modesto
Central Deanery Meeting, Sunday, September 13, 3:00 pm
Northern Deanery Clericus, Tuesday, September, 15, 11:00 am., St. Anne's, Stockton
Southern Deanery Meeting, Saturday, September 19, 2:00 pm, St. Paul's, Bakersfield
Northern Deanery Meeting, September 26, 2015, 10:00 am- 12 noon, St. John the Evangelist, Stockton
Tour Against Trafficking, October 2, 2015, Taft through October 23, Modesto
Annual Convention, October 23-24, St. Paul's, Modesto
Clergy Retreat, December 15-17, St. Anthony's
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TENS
The Diocese has signed up for the TENS Program for Stewardship. Please contact the Diocesan Office for this year's log in and password.
Articles for Friday Reflection are needed:
Stories of the Bag, Missional Days, Special Events
Articles can be submitted to the Diocesan Office at emeyer@diosanjoaquin.org. All submissions are due no later than the Tuesday before the FridayReflection. Pictures submitted are to be in jpeg format and forms to be attached to the FridayReflection are best in PDF format.
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Diocesan Annual Convention
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The Annual Meeting of the Convention of the Diocese of San Joaquin will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Modesto on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, 24, 2015.
This year we will navigate through and prayerfully consider what it means to be an Episcopalian. Our theme is
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Trafficking Awareness Events
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Church of the Saviour, Hanford
Wednesday, September 9
noon -2:00 pm
Kings Community Action
Organization
1130 N 11th Ave
Hanford, CA
St. Michael's, Ridgecrest
Thursday, September 10
7:00 pm
Historic USO Building
230 W. Ridgecrest Blvd
Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission and Centro La Familia "The Trafficked Life" Saturday, September 12 at 5.00 pm and 7.30 pm Sanctuary Theater 2336 Calaveras St. ("N" Street & Calaveras), Fresno
St. James, Sonora
5:00 pm -7:00 pm Sonora Opera Hall 250 S Washington St, Sonora
St. Paul's, Modesto
St. Francis, Turlock
Thursday, September 17
6:30 pm refreshments
7:00 pm Presentation
Modesto Centre Plaza, Stanislaus Room
1000 L Street, Modesto
St. Paul's, Bakersfield
September 19
Human Trafficking Summit
Watch this space
St. Clare of Assisi, Avery
Tuesday, October 6
Watch this space
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Please continue to contribute to this very important missional work. Send your donations to The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, 1528 Oakdale Road, Modesto, CA 95355. Please write Yellow Bags in the memo line. Thank you.
St. Paul's, Bakersfield's Yellow Bag of Love Ministry
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