● Lenten Resources to Review--From Living Compass:
Living Well Through Lent 2016: Letting Go with All Your Heart, Soul, Strength, and Mind. This volume includes guest writers Martha Johnson Bourlakas and others, as well as the Rev. Dr. Scott Stoner, founder of Living Compass. Individual copies are $3; packs of 25 or more are $2 per copy. A leader's guide is also available.
Read more and order.
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--The House of Bishops Theology Committee, working with Forward Movement, has created a resource for individuals and parishes to be used during Lent. Repairing the Breach: Discipleship and Mission in a Global Economy explores ways to recover and renew economic imagination each day through daily meditations and videos. For more information, visit r
epairingthebreach.forwardmovement.org.
--Episcopal Relief and Development invites you to share in their Lenten email series. Each day during Lent, you'll receive a daily reflection to inspire and challenge you.
Sign up here. Print publications and bulletin inserts are also available.
Learn more.
--The Society of St. Andrew also has daily devotions for Lent, including readings, reflections, and prayers.
Find more information and order. You may also download the booklet to an e-reader or subscribe to receive each days devotion as an email.
--Virginia Theological Seminary wants to share
this video invitation to join a Lenten Journey,
Growing a Rule of Life. This series uses a tool from mnastic spirituality to explore and cultivate relationships with God, Self, Others, and Creation.
● From The Episcopal Church
--The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, invites all Episcopalians to join in observing Episcopal Relief and Development Sunday on February 14, the first Sunday in Lent.
Read more.
--The Executive Council
(http://www.generalconvention.org/ec) of The Episcopal Church will meet February 26 - 28 at the American Airlines Training & Conference Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Read more.
--The Episcopal Church's Task Force on the Study of Marriage has mapped out its work for the next triennium.
Read more.
-- Through a partnership grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and funding from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), The Episcopal Church will enlist 10 AmeriCorps positions who will work with Episcopal Migration Ministries in 10 refugee resettlement affiliate organization offices to recruit and manage local volunteers to support refugee resettlement programming.
Read more.
