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E-NEWS

October 03, 2014

  

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In This Issue
VOLUNTEERS needed for 2014 Diocesan Convention
Register now to attend Diocesan Convention
Greater Milwaukee CROP Hunger Walk
St. Aidan's, Hartford and Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie featured in Episcopal Church Foundation publication
Community Heart Saver Program at Trinity, Baraboo offers automated external defibrillators to parishes
The Ordination of a Priest
Events around the Diocese
Please Help the Homeless of Milwaukee by supporting Sundries on the Avenue & Red Door ministries
Children's Worship Bulletins on Diocesan Website!
EFM Mentor Training
 
 
Welcome to E-NEWS, the Diocese of Milwaukee's weekly electronic newsletter.  If you are not already a subscriber or wish to add or change e-mail addresses, please click on the "Join Our Mailing List" icon.   We invite you to send articles, photos, and news to [email protected] so that we may include them in the E-NEWS. 
Barbara Klauber, Editor
VOLUNTEERS needed for 2014 Diocesan Convention 

 

We are looking for volunteers for the 2014 Diocesan Convention, to be held at Madison Marriott West Hotel off the West Beltline, Friday and Saturday, October 10-11. We need about 25 people to help support the convention. 

Two kinds of volunteers are being sought:  registration/hospitality volunteers and tellers for the business meeting. 

  •  FRIDAY -- Registration/hospitality volunteers work 3-4 hour shifts from 11:00 through 6:30.  Responsibilities include working at the registration desk or helping people find their way around the conference center during the Friday afternoon sessions, Eucharist, social hour, and dinner. If you are a voting deputy, it's best to help on Friday. If you are already planning to attend a workshop - but you're not teaching it! - you could easily be the room monitor and fill a volunteer slot too.
  • SATURDAY -- Volunteers will be needed in registration and "shepherding" from 7:30-10.  In addition, eight tellers will be needed for the business meeting from 8:00 - noon.  The convention ends with lunch on Saturday.

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Diane Brown of St. Luke's Madison at [email protected] or 608-444-6707 as soon as possible.  Kindly indicate which type of volunteer role you'd prefer, as well as limitations.   Continental breakfast/ box lunch will be provided for volunteers on Saturday.  Friday's volunteers are invited and encouraged to stay for the banquet -- just let Diane Brown know so we can include you in the count.  (Friday dinner or Saturday lunch) with the deputies. If you have questions, please ask Diane directly and she will respond as quickly as answers are available.

 

Thank you for your consideration,

 

Diane Brown, Convention Planning Committee 

Register now to attend Diocesan Convention 

We are just six weeks away from Diocesan Convention, which takes place October 10-11 at the Marriott Madison West Hotel in Madison.  The theme of this year's Convention is "One Bread, One Body".

Please click on the Diocesan Convention link below for more information on attending Convention as a clergy or lay deputy, a visitor, vendor or exhibitor.  We will have guests from our companion diocese of Newala with us for this year's Convention, including The Rt. Rev. Oscar Stephen Mnung'a, Bishop of Newala, who will preach at the Eucharist and  speak at the convention banquet.  All members of the diocese are welcome to attend Convention workshops and the Eucharist on Friday, October 10th without needing to register.  Non-deputies who wish to attend the banquet on Friday or the business session on Saturday may register as Visitors. 

The diocesan Altar Guild will hold their annual meeting at Convention this year and welcome deputies and visitors to Convention to participate in their workshop.  More information on their workshop and on all Convention workshops is on the Convention page on the website.

Questions?  Contact Barbara Klauber at the Diocesan Office at [email protected] or (414) 272-3028/ext. 111 or (800) 236-3028/ext. 111.
We look forward to seeing you at Diocesan Convention in Madison!

Greater Milwaukee CROP Hunger Walk - October 12

MEET PEOPLE OF OTHER FAITHS, CULTURES at CROP Hunger Walk Sunday, Oct. 12. Join hundreds of people from a wide variety of faiths and cultures at the 29th annual Greater Milwaukee CROP Hunger Walk at the lakefront Sunday afternoon, Oct. 12. Walk with them, make new friends, enjoy live Celtic and African-American music, try an obstacle fun course, enjoy a wide array of snacks.

Free registration starts at 12:30 p.m. at the pavilion south of McKinley Marina, across from Colectivo Coffee on Lincoln Memorial Drive; 2-mile & 5-mile walks are at 1:30 p.m.

Contact CROP Hunger Walk Director Norma Duckworth at (414) 276-9050
or [email protected]
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Fundraising doesn't steal resources from other areas

(from Episcopal Church Foundation's Vital Practices/Vestry Papers)  

When thinking about fundraising, there may be the assumption that a capital campaign will negatively impact annual giving. Some believe a donor's willingness to give is capped at a fixed capacity and is immoveable. Anna Doherty, priest in charge, St. Aidan's, Hartford, Wisconsin describes the concern expressed by members of her congregation:

"Our parish can barely raise enough money to meet our operating expenses, how could we raise more for a capital campaign?"

Through a program of increased education about stewardship, and conversations centered around the congregation's mission and impact in the community, St. Aiden's capital campaign leadership team discovers that donors' willingness to give or to prioritize their giving increases.

Click to continue reading . . .  


Note:  Church of the Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie is also featured in the continuation of the above article.
Community Heart Saver Program at Trinity, Baraboo offers automated external defibrillators to parishes.
Community Heart Saver Education Program, a Community Heath Outreach Partnership of Trinity Episcopal Church of Baraboo, Holy Cross Episcopal Church of Wisconsin Dells, and St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church of Portage, is pleased to present an AED (Automated External Defibrillator) purchase program especially prepared for the parishes of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee.

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The Ordination of  Priest 
 
 

God willing

and the people of God consenting

The Right Reverend Steven Andrew Miller

Bishop of Milwaukee

will ordain

Jana Troutman-Miller

to the Sacred Order of Priests

in Christ's One, Holy, Catholic

and Apostolic Church

Saturday, October 4, 2014

at one o'clock in the afternoon

at

St. John's on the Lake

1840 North Prospect Avenue

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Your prayers and presence are requested

 ______________________

Clergy: White Stoles


UPCOMING EVENTS
Blessing of the Animals at St. Christopher's, River Hills October 5 - All are welcome! 
As part of the celebration of the feast of St. Francis, St. Christopher's Episcopal Church will have a Blessing of the Animals during the 10AM worship service on October 5, 2014.
The celebration will take place in the church Community Room, immediately north of the church.  All are welcome. Please have your  animals either caged or on a leash. 

 

 

St. Mary's, Dousman Fall Fest October 5 
In conjunction with the Dousman Fire Department and in memory of Richard Stephan, St. Mary's, Dousman hosts the 2014 Fall Fest on October 5 from 11AM - 3PM.  The fest will offer music, a Farmer's Market, food, pottery, fun activities for children, a Bake Sale, and a Fire Department raffle for a child to win a ride to school on a fire truck!!  ALL are WELCOME! St. Mary's is located at the corner of Hwy 18 & Hwy 67  in Dousman.  Flyer.

 

 

St.Francis Day Blessing of Companion Animals at St. Alban's, Sussex October 4 
St. Alban's, Sussex, will celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Saturday October 4th by blessing our companion animals. The brief service will be held at 10:00 AM in the Guild Hall courtyard.
Everyone with an animal friend is invited to bring them to the service as we thank God for His gift of our animal friends and helpers and ask His blessing upon them.  St. Alban's is located at W239N6440 Maple Ave. Sussex Wisconsin.

 

Concert at St. Matthias November 7 features Florentine Opera studio artists  

AN EVENING OF OPERA ARIAS AT ST MATTHIAS, WAUKESHA: November 7 at 7:30 pm.  How do you define a "masterpiece"? What makes a work of art truly "great"?  What makes a piece "legendary"?  Come hear the Florentine Opera Studio Artists perform your favorite arias drawn from nearly 500 years of operatic evolution. 
Familiar and beautiful - these memorable melodies are heard time and time again!

2014-2015 STUDIO ARTISTS 
Julie Tabash ~ Soprano 
Lindsay Metzger ~ Mezzo Soprano 
Aaron Short ~ Tenor 
Pablo Siqueiros ~ Baritone

Come hear these amazing musicians in wonderful acoustics!
This concert is a fund raising event for the music department of St. Matthias. A post concert reception will be included with your admission.

 

To purchase tickets contact the church office at 262-547-4838 or go to http://stmatthiasonline.org/ for online ticket sales.   Advance tickets (purchased by one week prior to the concert): $15 adults; $10 seniors;$5 students. Tickets purchased at the door:  $20 adults; $15 seniors; $10 students.
Please help spread the word about this concert!
Questions, please contact Craig Bodoh, Director of Music, 414-460-325.  St. Matthias Episcopal Church at the Corner of Main St. and East Avenue, Waukesha, WI, 53186.
Bishop Oscar & Agnes Mnung'a 
Choral Evensong at All Saints' Cathedral  

All Saints' Cathedral is offering the first Choral Evensong in its 2014-2015 liturgical program year on Sunday afternoon, October 5 at 4 p.m. There will be an organ prelude preceding Evensong, beginning at 3:30 p.m.  The music will include works by Bach, Buxtehude, Herbert Howells and Vaughn Williams.

It will be a special treat to offer this very Western Anglican choral service in the presence of The Rt. Rev. Oscar Mnung'a, Bishop of the Diocese of Newala in the Anglican Church of Tanzania, our companion Diocese. Bishop's wife, Agnes, a senior administrator of the largest hospital in Dar es Salaam, and Sr. Helena, Mother Superior of the Sisters of St. Mary in Newala, are accompanying him on his visit. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall to greet and welcome our guests.

 All Saints' Cathedral is located at 818 East Juneau Avenue, Milwaukee 43202. 

Please Help the Homeless of Milwaukee by supporting Sundries on the Avenue & Red Door at Diocesan Convention  

 

Daily, too many of our economically distressed brothers and sisters in the Milwaukee area ask themselves the following question,

"Do I buy food, medicine or hygiene products?"

 

St. James Episcopal Church is delighted to help answer that question through the ministry of "Sundries from The Avenue." Working in concert with Outreach Ministry of the Central City Churches of Milwaukee, "Sundries from The Avenue" gathers and provides sundries at no cost to single adults and families living on low-incomes, on fixed-incomes or with no incomes.

 

Please join us in helping meet a critical need by bringing the following unused personal size or individually wrapped sundries to the Diocesan Convention on October 10-11, 2014 at the Madison Marriott West in Madison.

 

Items needed include:

Tooth Brushes,Toothpaste, Shampoo, Soap, Kleenex, Deodorant, Disposable Razors, Mouthwash, Feminine Hygiene Products, Combs, Hair Brushes, Shaving Cream, Lip Balm, Dental Floss, Band aids, Bandages, and  Hand Lotion.     

 

Gently used or new jeans are also being collected for the Red Door clothing ministry.  Greatest need is for MEN'S jeans in large/extra large sizes.  Please bring jeans to the "Sundries" display at Convention.                                                                           

Thank you!  Together we can make a meaningful difference!

Children's Worship Bulletins on Diocesan Website! 
Need to plan your next year of formation activities? Diocesan Christian Formation subscribes to Children's Worship Bulletins on behalf of all our parishes.
You can find the bulletins on the diocesan website HERE. (Click on "Children's Worship Bulletins for Diocese of Milwaukee Parishes" and follow the directions carefully to complete with the log in and username/password). We download the bulletins and post them to our site as CWB releases them; they are currently updated through December.

EFMlogonatEFM Mentor Training  Offered at DeKoven Center on March 14, 2015

The Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee is pleased to announce an Education for Ministry Mentor Training at DeKoven Center in Racine. The training workshop is scheduled to begin on March 12, 2015 at Noon and conclude on March 14 at 1:00 PM.

 

All sessions will take place at the DeKoven Center located at 600 21st Street in Racine, Wisconsin. Double-occupancy rooms are available for $190 and Single-occupancy rooms for $210. The price of the workshop includes Thursday dinner, all Friday meals, and Saturday breakfast and a bag lunch.

 

Anyone who has completed the four-year EfM program is eligible to take Mentor Training.  All Diocesan Coordinators and current Mentors can be recertified at this training. To register please contact William Stotts at (414) 350-6305 or by e-mail at [email protected]

sgclogo Safeguarding God's Children on-line training offered 

Click HERE to register online to take the Safeguarding God's Children, Safeguarding God's People and A Day at Camp online training programs.

A Day at Camp is strongly recommended for all parishes leading a Vacation Bible School or other summer program with minors. This online training video is geared to safeguarding guidelines specific to leading a day camp (not an overnight camp) program. Our next class with a trainer is scheduled for February 2015. See our website for details.

Julian of Norwich gathering

Madison-Area Julian Gathering

Wednesday, October 8, 7:15 - 9:00 PM

St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church

6205 University Avenue

Madison, WI  53705

 

What is a Julian Gathering?  A Julian Gathering is open to everyone and you are welcome at all times.  We support each other in the practice of contemplative prayer and contemplative spirituality.  These gatherings are initiated and supported by the Order of Julian of Norwich (www.orderofjulian.org) and have the quintessentially Anglican writings of Bl. Mother Julian of Norwich at their core.  They are for all who want to deepen their life of faith through the practice of contemplative prayer, for beginners as well as those already practicing.  Each meeting includes time for contemplative prayer and reading/discussion of Bl. Julian's revelations.  Don't worry if you've never practiced silent prayer before, we can set your mind at ease.   We meet the second Wednesday of each month from 7:15 to 9 PM.  For additional information, contact Susan Fiore, ObJN: (608) 845-2413 or [email protected].

New Intergenerational Book/E-Book 

Faith is transmitted from generation to generation in extended families and intergenerational congregations. Every congregation can discover its intergenerational heart and soul, and become an intentionally intergenerational community that nurtures the faith of all ages and equips them for living as disciples of Jesus Christ in our world today. 

Generations Together presents the vision of a congregation that is becoming more intentionally intergenerational through its congregational life of caring, celebrating, learning, prayer, and serving. When a congregation commits itself to building a culture of intergenerationality through these five elements, each element becomes a sign of and instrument for the full experience of the Body of Christ by all ages and generations. 
Generations Together

 guides leaders in learning what this vision looks like in practice and how to guide a congregation in envisioning and designing projects and initiative to become more intentionally intergenerational.    
Contents 
  1. Generations Together: A Vision of an Intergenerational Church - John Roberto
  2. Faith Development from Generation to Generation - Kathie Amidei
  3. The Journey to Intergenerationality: One Church's Story - Kathie Amidei
  4. Outcomes and Practices of Intergenerational Faith Formation - Jim Merhaut
  5. A Toolkit for Becoming Intentionally Intergenerational - John Roberto and Jim Merhaut (Part 1. Caring, Part 2. Celebrating, Part 3. Praying, Part 4. Serving, Part 5. Learning)
  6. Welcoming All: Intergenerational Faith Formation for People with Disabilities - Sharon Urbaniak 
  7. Leadership for an Intergenerational Church - Jim Merhaut

Learn More about your Faith!
EFM is a distance learning program administered by the School of Theology of the University of the South at Sewanee.  It is an in-depth program of theological education that seeks to expose laypersons to theological studies and to help them to integrate those studies into their lives and ministry.
EFM has two components.  The first component is study.  The program is a four-year course that you commit to one year at a time.  In the first year, you study the Old Testament.  In the second, the New Testament.  In the third, Church History, and in the fourth, Christian Theology.  Many of the texts are the same ones used in our Episcopal seminaries.
The second component is weekly group meetings, where readings are discussed and we enter into theological reflection, which connects our own experience to our Christian heritage.  It is truly an amazing process that has to be experienced to be understood.
The commitment is significant.  It requires a meeting a week and several hours of study time. Our meeting time is Thursday night.   This is an adult learning environment, so there are no tests or quizzes, but you get out of it what you put into it.  There is a tuition cost of $350 for the year (reduced if couples sign up), but there are scholarships available from many sources.  PLEASE, if money is stopping you, don't let it.  We will make sure that anyone who wishes to participate will not be turned aside for monetary reasons. We have scholarship aid available from the parish, the diocese, and Sewanee.  I myself needed financial support for several of my years of EFM. 
You can get more information at the EFM website .  If you are interested, please e-mail me and let me know. [email protected] .

The Rev. David Simmons

Register NOW for Fall Church Development Institute
Now is the time to register for upcoming cycles of Church Development Institute!

Peggy Bean, Canon for Parishes, explains that the next cycle will be a Saturday - Sunday format, which provides opportunity to invite people who cannot take a Friday off work.  It also  allows for experiencing Morning Prayer not only at DCDI but also at participant's home parishes if they so choose.  

The upcoming DCDI Cycle:  

November 1 - 2, 2014; Jan. 17 - 18, 2015;

March 21 - 22, 2015; May 16 - 17, 2015

 

One more time . . . THANK YOU for forwarding this newsletter to parishioners and others who may be  interested and for sending YOUR news/events / photos to [email protected] !
  
See you next week!
 
Sincerely,
 
Barb

Barbara Klauber
Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee