Principal Clergy of All Parishes and/or Senior Wardens: please be sure to notify Lynn ([email protected]) of any changes in your Certificates of Election for Council.
Giving blood at Annual Council: Click here for a coupon to present when you arrive at your donation appointment at Council--and be automatically entered to win a $1,500 gift card!
From Cara Modisett, who is advising Bishop Mark and the staff on communications matters:
As we move toward the launch of the newly redesigned diocesan website, we are developing a number of blogs, including one called Faces of the Diocese.
We're looking for a wide range of people who'd be interested in writing one blog entry - just one! - at some point in 2014. Our 52(-plus) bloggers would be scheduled by week, and we'll work with each writer on his/her piece.
- Who: Youth, clergy, lay, staff, seminarians
- What: Your stories - rather than blogs with titles like "Why I love the Episcopal Church," we're looking for stories from your life as an Episcopalian - what joys, challenges, projects are you engaged in? Those stories will vividly tell the reader "Why (we) love the Episcopal Church."
- When: We're aiming for a January launch.
- How: Contact Cara Ellen Modisett, [email protected], to volunteer as a blogger and/or to suggest bloggers from your parish.
Y@C 2014: ONE in Mission: To Imagine, To Love and To Serve!
Youth in grades 6-12 are invited to attend the most memorable weekend of the year! The event will be held at St. John's in Roanoke. The dates are Jan. 24-26 and the cost is $90.00. Our mission, should we choose to accept it: We are the Youth of Dio SwVa; here, one in mission, ready to serve with open minds to imagine, hearts to love unconditionally, and hands to serve all of God's children. Come find out what this means to you, your parish, and your community!
Paperless registration for youth events! We are in the midst of updating our website to accommodate paperless registration for all youth events. Please be patient with us as we make this change. Registration for Y@C will be held through the Council registration website posted on the Y@C page of the youth website. After completing this registration form, you will then be redirected to the youth website to finish your online registration. If you have any questions, please contact Aimee Bostwick at the diocesan office.
Hard as it may be to imagine, the invitation to Council 2014 that went out just before Thanksgiving had an error! The correct date for the January convocation meetings is January 12, 2014. Locations and times listed in the invitation were correct. (Thanks to the ever-alert Bob Miller and Shirley Kingery for pointing out the error, which we're blaming on gremlins--or maybe sunspots.)
From Grace, Radford: Mission Trip to Belize
Grace Episcopal Church in Radford is looking for others who might be interested in a mission trip to Belize, Central America. This trip is for youth and adults ages 15 and up. The dates will be from June 30, 2014, to July 10, 2014. Currently, there are 15 people signed up for the trip. We have space for twenty five.
The trip will consist of seven days in Corozal, Belize, a town nine miles from the Mexican border, where the group will paint and repair the Anglican school and put on a Vacation Bible School for the local children. The three additional days will be spent on Caye Caulker, a small island off the coast.
The cost will be from $1200 to $1400, depending on the cost of the airline ticket. The cost includes all transportation, hotel accommodations in Corozal and Caye Caulker, breakfast and dinner in Caye Caulker, snorkeling trip, and other fun activities.
For more information, contact Father David Rose at [email protected] or by telephone at 540-639-3494.
2014 Clergy Compensation InformationThe 2014 Official Clergy Compensation Chart and the 2014 Workbook for Clergy Salary Range are now available at
www.dioswva.org in the Resources==>>Parish Resources section. Scroll down to "Documents related to the employment of clergy" to find this material.