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YASC Missionaries Start their Journeys this Week



Three Young Adult Service Corps missionaries fly out to their placements this week where they will be spending a year volunteering and developing relationships with our Brothers and Sisters in Christ throughout the Anglican Communion. Andy Cameron, a member of St. James', Leesburg, will be serving in Hong Kong. Kate Snow, a member of Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, Alexandria, will be serving in Costa Rica. Andy Russell, a member of Church of the Good Shepherd, Burke, will be serving in Tanzania. Click on their names to follow their missions through their blogs. Please keep them in your prayers throughout this year.
Need to Know

Pathways: Spiritual Direction 

Pathways: Spiritual Direction, a ministry of spiritual direction is currently being offered at Roslyn.  Each hour long session is $65, overnight lodging at Roslyn is at an additional cost. For more information, visit our website. 

 

Future residencies:  

  • Sept. 28 - Oct.1: The Rev. Howard Kempsell
  • Nov. 10 -12: Ms. Linda Nelson
  • Dec. 14 - 17: The Rev. Howard Kempsell

To check availability during these residencies, please contact Amy Williams, awilliams@thediocese.net.


A Call for Photos 

The Office of Mission and Outreach would like to share your ministry with the wider Diocese. To do that we would like to receive any beautiful, powerful and transformative photos and videos of your mission trips or local outreach work. Please send to Ashley Cameron at acameron@thediocese.net.

Annual Giving & Generational
Giving Workshops 

For a full explanation of stewardship workshops, visit the Stewardship and Generosity page on the diocesan website.  Register today!

Workshop Dates include:
  • Sept 1, 6-8:30 p.m. Buck Mountain, Earlysville (Annual Giving)
     
  • Sept. 12, 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. (Annual Giving), 12:30 - 3p.m. (Generational Giving)
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  • Sept. 16, 7 - 9:30 p.m. Holy Comforter, Vienna
 
"Women of Acts: Women of Action"
Sept. 11-13, Roslyn Conference & Retreat Center, Richmond 
"Women of Acts: Women of Action" will be the theme of the Episcopal Church Women weekend retreat led by the Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff. Participants will spend the weekend in the company of super women from the Book of Acts and learn from them something of how we are called to live our lives. Registration, schedule and cost are available here. Registration is also available online at  www.ecw.thediocese.net.
Hand-in-Hand Listening Sessions
  • Calvary, Front Royal: Sept. 19, 10-11:30 a.m.
  • Trinity, Charlottesville: Sept.  24, 7-8:30 p.m.
  • Grace, Kilmarnock: Oct. 1, 7-8:30 p.m.
With a focus on gaining a better understanding of rising racial tensions, the Diocese is continuing to host a series of
Indaba listening sessions this fall. 

As Bishop Johnston outlined in his Pastoral Address at the 220th Annual Council in January of this year, "We must do all we can to put our own house in order before we can have real impact upon the problems of society. In other words, it is when we can witness and minister out of the reality and integrity of our own healing and wholeness that we can make the most difference in our communities."

The Hand-in-Hand Listening Sessions are open to all members of the Diocese. Please help us spread the word in your congregations. 
Register online.

"Seeing the Face of God in Each Other" - Anti-Racism Workshop
Oct. 2-3. St. Mark's, Richmond  

The Anti-Racism Workshop will be facilitated by the Diocesan Committee on Race and Reconciliation. The goals of the workshop are to: 

  • Acquire anti-racism tools
  • Explore avenues to reconciliation
  • Renew your spirit with us

The workshop will begin Oct. 2 at 5p.m - 9p.m. with a  light supper. The session on Oct. 3 will be from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. and contintential breakfast and lunch will be served. The cost is $25.  

 

To register, please email Ellyn Crawford, crawfordellyn@yahoo.com.You may bring a check with you or mail one to the Diocese c/o Mary Anne Bryant.  


Taste and See that the Lord is Good: A Conversation between a Farmer, a Chef, and a Theologian
Oct. 3, Grace & Holy Trinity, Richmond 
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An invitation and an opportunity to explore the relationship between faith and food:

 

Our relationship with food, God, and the environment is the focus of our Stewardship of Creation Conference this fall. With the help of our keynote speaker, Rachel Marie Stone (Eat with Joy), together with the panelists and workshop leaders, participants will be invited to discern a new relationship with food, one which honors both God and the world as God's gift.  

 

The program cost is $15 and includes a "wholly" meal. Register here. 
Other News & Events

The Primate of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, Archbishop Thabo Makgoba, has called on Anglicans everywhere to join Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and other Christians in a World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on 1 September. Learn more.

Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA, will host their third Seminary for a Day on Sept. 26. For only $25 you can hear two great keynotes, by Frances Taylor Gench ("Worshipping Doubters: The Church in Mission") and Cleophus J. LaRue ("The Shape of Christian Preaching in the 21st Century")and morning and afternoon workshops, and enjoy a delicious lunch and snacks. Register here.  
 
The Leadership Program for Musicians (LPM) is looking for students! LPM), a national program offering classes for church musicians and those interested in church music, is accepting registrations for the 2015-2016 year. Learn more here.  

The application process is now open for Episcopal delegates to the March 2016 meeting of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW). For more information, click here. 

Join us Sept. 1 at 3 p.m. at Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, for The David F. Peters Lecture: "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" as we travel light years across the universe!  Dr. Anton M. Koekemoer, research astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope, uses spectacular images of deep space to show how God has been at work across eternity. He has led the Hubble imaging work for a number of large cosmological projects such as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and is continuing active research on several more recent and ongoing projects. He is also a committed Christian whose faith plays a central role in his life, and he considers the universe to be one of the ways in which God has chosen to reveal His glory to humankind, so that it is possible for our Christian faith to be reconciled in perfect harmony with our scientific understanding of the universe. Reservations are required. Please call Vanessa Perry at (804) 200-1502.

The Men of St. Peter's Episcopal Church invite the Diocese of Virginia to Come to Eat! The 24th Annual Crab Feast and Fish Fry will take place on Saturday, September 12, 2015 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Dorey Park, 2999 Darbytown Rd, Henrico, VA 23231 at Shelters 4, 5, 6, and 7.  

Tickets are $30 for adults, $20 for children ages 6 to 16 years old, and Free for children ages 5 years old and under.  Tickets cover ALL YOU CAN EAT, but bring your own drinks and newspapers. 

All proceeds benefit the mission and ministry of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in the East End of Richmond.  To purchase tickets, contact the Reverend Andrew B. Terry, vicar of St. Peter's, by email andrew.b.terry@gmail.com or by phone 804-405-3046.
 
    
Church Events
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8/29: Benedictine Quiet Day, St. Anne's, Scottsville
9/5: First Saturday Tours, Pohick Church, Lorton
9/6: Healing Eucharist, Holy Comforter, Vienna
9/6: Bluegrass Mass, St. Thomas', Richmond
9/9: Region 1 Council Meeting, Christ Church, Spotsylvania
9/12: 24th Annual Crab Feast, Pohick Church Lorton
9/12: St. Peter's Crab Feast and Fish Fry, Dorey Park, Henrico
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