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Barbara Klauber, Editor
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Peggy Bean, Canon for Parishes
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Emerging Trends in Transition Ministry
by Peggy Bean, Canon for Parishes
This past week I attended a conference at the Nicholas Center in Chicago with Province V, VI and VII Transition Ministers and we are seeing a trend. Over the past year and half at these gatherings, we have had more churches looking for clergy than clergy seeking a new call. The numbers at this conference were just over 60 congregations looking (for full time or interim) and only just over 20 clergy seeking a new call.
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 Haiti Project offers discussion of book, Toxic Charity
Haiti Project Coordinator, Heidi Ropa, will lead a discussion on the book Toxic Charity at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church at 6205 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 on Wednesday, May 18 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help - not sabotage - those whom they desire to serve.
Can't make it to Madison? Heidi Ropa will al so offer the Toxic Charity discussion at St. Mary's, Dousman on Tuesday, May 24 from 6:30 - 8:00 pm.
If you plan to travel with Haiti Project in the next year, we highly recommend you take part in one of these offerings.
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Celebrating 40 years of Women's Miniweek on Sunday, August 14th at Camp Lakotah
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The group that gathered for Women's Miniweek in 2015!
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Anyone who has ever attended a Women's Miniweek is welcome to attend the 40th anniversary celebration on Sunday, August 14th at Camp Lakotah. The day will offer a chance to greet old friends, a picnic lunch, historic displays and beach / lake time. Schedule:
11:30-12:00 - registration
12:00 - Eucharist
1:00 - Picnic Lunch
1:30-3:45 - crafts, tours, displays, beach time
3:45- 4:00 - Farewells at the Chapel
RSVP to cott@chorus.net with 40th in the subject line indicating number of adults and children who will attend.
Click HERE for Registration Form / Information
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Holy Cross, WI Dells members walk to raise funds for Cystic Fibrosis research
by Rachel Griffin, member of Holy Cross - WI Dells
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Team Go Go Jo from WI Dells - Holy Cross
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The 7th annual Great Strides Walk for Cystic Fibrosis was a success due in large part to the continued support of Holy Cross. The praying paid off - no rain during the walk! We stayed dry until the last golfer was off the course and all the tents were down and tables stored. Although the weather kept many at home Saturday morning a crowd of roughly 200 walked, mini-golfed and hit the water park for Cystic Fibrosis. The walk raised some $68,000 for the CF Foundation bringing the 7-year total to over $450,000. The Holy Cross group, officially Team Go Go Jo is on track for a pretty good year too, raising over $15,000 for the foundation. Many thanks to all that volunteered their time and talent helping with registration, photography and coordination.
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 Singles Ministry at All Saints' Cathedral sponsors activities and presentations
The Singles Ministry at All Saints' Cathedral, Milwaukee is sponsoring a number of activities and presentations. The first event is a social activity:
Water2Wine/Insouciant Guitar |Saturday May 14th | 7:00pm Bremen Cafe, 901 East Clarke St, Milwaukee.
For a full listing of the sponsored activities and presentations, click HERE.
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 Soul of a People: Music from the Arab World and Armenia
'Soul of a People': Music from the
Arab World and Armenia
Sunday, May 22, 2016 @ 2:00 pm
St. John's Chapel, DeKoven Center
$10; $5 seniors and students
The concert celebrates the heritage of traditional music from the Levant and Armenia, performed by the Philadelphia-based Khoury/Chami Duo (Hanna Khoury, violin and Hicham Chami, qanun) with Racine vocalist Nicholas Barootian. This concert, presented by St. Mesrob Church, will be most appreciated by middle-school age and above. On-call tickets may be reserved by calling Cindy at 847-830-8277. Door sales (cash or check) as space permits--seating is limited. Photo: Hanna Khoury
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 DIOCESAN CONVENTION 2016 will have something for everyone!
This year's diocesan convention will take place October 7-8 (Friday & Saturday) at the Madison Marriott West Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin.
Not a deputy? The good news is that you do NOT have to be a deputy to attend Diocesan Convention; visitors are encouraged and they will be made WELCOME!! Please mark these dates in your calendar and check out the flyer with an overview of this year's Convention. Registration materials will be available soon.
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 e-Formation 2016 Conference: Ministry in a Digital World
Is your congregation getting serious about its online presence, or hoping to take it to the next level? Would you like to learn with other ministry practitioners using technology in faith formation, communication, and other ministries?
If so, jump-start your learning with hands-on training and big-picture inspiration at e-Formation 2016. Join our supportive learning community June 6-8 at Virginia Theological Seminary near Washington DC for $289 or by webinar for $89. Limited Spanish interpretation and inexpensive evening programing in Spanish and in English are also available.
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 Hospitality Center celebrates five years of ministry
The Diocese of Milwaukee Hospitality Center will celebrate its Fifth Anniversary o n Saturday May 14th from 8:00am to Noon. The celebration takes place at the Hospitality Center, which is located at 614 Main Street, Racine, WI 53403. There will be an informal presentation at 10:00am delivered by Henry Perez, the Center's new Executive Director, and Bishop Steven Miller. All are welcome at this opportunity to celebrate the Hospitality Center's ministry and meet the new director!
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Diocese of Milwaukee Haiti Project celebrates 30th anniversary of partnership with St. Marc's on July 17
SAVE THE DATE! The Haiti Project will celebrate its 30th Anniversary of partnership with St. Marc's School, Parish and Health Clinic at St. John's Northwestern Military Academy (SJNMA) on Sunday July 17. We will be welcoming Norly Germain, a former student of St. Marc's School who is teaching in the United States. We hope to also host Eloi Rodolph, long-time administrator of St. Marc's School. Sponsors, donors, former trip participants, friends of the Project, please plan to join us on this joyous occasion.
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AROUND THE DIOCESE
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 St Mary's Gigantic Book Sale June 1-4
St. Mary's, Dousman is located at the corner of Hwys 18 and 67. Our gigantic and HUGELY popular Annual Book Sale takes place June 1 - 4, 2016. The hours of this year's sale are:
Wed. June 1: Noon -7pm
Thurs. June 2 : 8am-7pm
Fri. June 3: 8am-7pm
Sat. June 4: 8am -Noon ($3 bag sale)
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 Book Talk - June 4 at Church of the Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie features "Yankee Bishops" by Charles R. Henery
On June 4th from 10am - 12 Noon, "BOOK TALK" will feature a discussion of the book, "Yankee Bishops: Apostles in the New Republic 1783-1873" led by the book's author, The Rev. Dr. Charles R. Henery. BOOK TALK will meet at Church of the Good Shepherd, Sun Prairie. Light lunch included.BOOK TALK is sponsored by the diocese's Lifelong Christian Formation Committee.
Please see FLYER for more information and to publicize in your parish - thank you!
Questions? contact Deacon Marge Kiss at margex1@netzero.com or Deacon Cliff Perkins at perkins_clifford@hotmail.com .
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 New Resource for parishes helps manage historical records
Are you proud of your church, its impact on your community, and what it has done over the course of its existence? Fifty or a hundred years from today, would people be able to find out what it did or why it mattered? The diocesan historiographer, Rev. Evelyn Payson, has prepared a brief handbook for parishes to use in handling their records and memorabilia when they don't have the time or money for complex, state of the art, archival management. It focuses on making it possible for people in the future to find out what our churches have been doing and on keeping information about them from vanishing and becoming lost forever. READ MORE |
 Ordination to the Diaconate - June 11 at All Saints' Cathedral (10AM)
At 10AM on Saturday, June 11, 2016 The Rt. Rev. Steven A. Miller will ordain four candidates from the Diocese of Milwaukee to the diaconate. Those to be ordained are: Esther Kramer, Nancy Hills, Daniel Spors, and Lars Skoglund.
All members of the diocese are invited and welcomed to take part in this beautiful service and welcome our new deacons to the ordained ministry.
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The Rev. Brian Hastings
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The Rev. Brian Hastings to lead Long Summer Retreat at DeKoven Center
The Rev. Brian Hastings, Rector of Church of Our Saviour in Chicago, will lead the Long Summer Retreat at the DeKoven Center in Racine, June 19-23. The experience is described as "five days of retreat, celebrating God's original language, silence. There is no imposed silence, but there will be exercises and a variety of approaches to increase our own comfort with this challenging but essential Christian language." For pricing and further information, please contact DeKoven at 262-633-6401 x105 or visit:
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Companion Diocese seeks funding for hospital equipment
In 2011 the Companion Dioceses of Milwaukee and Newala were awarded a United Thank Offering (UTO) grant to purchase medical equipment for the maternity clinic in Lulindi, Tanzania in the Diocese of Newala.
The hospital is now in need of additional equipment for its operating theater, including even the most basic items such as an emergency lighting to cover gaps in the electrical service, which are not infrequent.
The total estimate is $2,740. Hospital's director, Dr. Issa, estimates that 360 - 390 major operations and 500 - 650 minor operations are performed at the hospital in a typical year.
Donations may be mailed to:
Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
804 E. Juneau, Milwaukee WI 53202
(please put "Newala Operating Equipment" in the notation line)
For more information, please contact Neil Radtke of the Companion Diocese Committee. He may be reached at njradtke@wi.rr.com .
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 New website for Trustees of Funds and Endowments
The Trustees for Funds and Endowments(TFE) for the Diocese of Milwaukee announces its new website, tfemil.org .
Like all newly launched sites, it isn't quite complete-but there is already more content than on the old site. In future the new site will provide a replacement for the previous newsletter from the trustees, plus subscription features for its member parishes and organizations.
Check out the site and the ministry of the TFE of the Diocese of Milwaukee -- share feedback / contact the Trustees at (414) 232-7358 or info@tfemil.org .
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 Growing Old in America - weekly discussion series offered
Growing Old in America is a weekly discussion series of the Richard Roller book, Falling Upward: A spirituality for the Two Halves of Life that will be presented by The Rev. Michelle Mooney and The Rev. Susan Clark. The series consists of five sessions on Wednesday afternoons, June 8 - July 6 from 1:00 - 2:30 pm at St. Mark's, Milwaukee, located at 2619 North Hackett Avenue. Enrollment is limited to ten to facilitate discussion; to enroll e-mail Michelle Mooney at michellemooney5@gmail.com or call (414) 964-3118.
See FLYER for more information on the series.
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 Camp Webb Update
This year we added an additional 20 beds to our regular camper count. We have maxed out Deback Lodge which is our usual haunt and have expanded into Milwaukee Cabin which is right next door. We still have some spots available, but they are filling up fast so if you are interested in getting your young people to camp please register soon HERE.  If you register and we have run out of available spots we will begin a waiting list and you will be alerted should a spot become available.
We are also still looking for counselors, so if you have any college age students returning home for the summer please encourage them to apply to Camp Webb! Application forms can be found HERE.
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 Safeguarding God's Children/Safeguarding God's People - Classes with Trainer at Wisconsin Dells and Dousman on May 21st
The next Safeguarding God's Children trainings with a Certified Trainer takes place on May 21 from 9am - Noon at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, Wisconsin Dells and at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Dousman. To register click HERE. If your parish wants to host a training in 2016 contact Deacon Terry Garner very soon at dcnterry.g@gmail.com . |
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Resources sought by Diocesan Anti-Racism Task Force
Call for resources: Last diocesan convention denounced racism and committed to collect resources churches could use towards reconciliation and anti-racism. We would add to build cultural competency, diversity, and inclusion.
Consider...
-trainings
-speakers (local and national)
-social justice networks and organizations (in your area, and national)
-self-evaluation check lists
-websites, blogs
-visual media: animated series, graphic novels, art pieces and installations, info-graphics
-reports and data information (particularly in your area)
-videos, movies
-books, articles, magazines
-age appropriate children's materials to be used in conversations about race and culture
For more information, see resolution 2 HERE.
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 WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?
Since 2006 our diocese has allocated 0.7% of the diocesan budget to support work done to achieve the MDGs. Last year, contributions from our diocese were sent to 2 projects that are supported by our diocese:
- The Diocesan Haiti Project : $2400 to initiate a microloan program at St. Marc's parish in Jeannette.
- Companion Diocese of Tanzania: $3614 to contribute toward the construction of a cistern in Newala utilizing collected rainwater from the roof of St. Mary's Cathedral.
In 2016 the MDGs were replaced by the Susutainable Development Goals which extend and build on the achievments of the MDGs. For a list of the SDGs, please see our Letter to Parishes at diomil.org.
It's time again to consider distribution of the 0.7% ($5752 this year) to projects that work toward the achievement of the SDGs. If your parish or a group within your parish is supporting a a project that extends help to "the poorest on earth" you can apply for a grant from the SDG funds.
For more information, please see our Letter to Parishes on the Diocesan website or contact:
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 St. James (Milwaukee) celebrates Anglo-Catholic heritage on Trinity Sunday
Holy Trinity Sunday at St. James Milwaukee
St. James Parish in Milwaukee will remember it's Anglo-Catholic heritage on the Festival of the Holy Trinity on May 22nd at 10am. The Eucharist will be a chanted service, with a chorale singing of the Te Deum with incense, and the use of our century old solemn vestments. After the Eucharist there will be a procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the front doors of the Church, and on the outside steps of the Church the Service of the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be prayed. The Blessed Sacrament will then be returned to the tabernacle and we will have a reception for all who attend.
St. James is located at 833 W. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53233.
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Altar Guild Adventure 2016 set for May 18th in Chicago
The Diocese of Milwaukee Altar Guild and their friends venture south this year for a day of art, architecture, and camaraderie with docent-led tours. Please join us on a luxury bus as we travel to North Shore Congregation Israel, Uncommon Ground Restaurant, Loyola University Chapel, and St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church.
All are welcome - you need not be an altar guild member nor and Episcopalian to join the Adventure!
See FLYER for registration.
Tours and Lunch - $55
Questions? Contact Micki Hoffmann (Diocese of Milwaukee Altar Guild) at 262-673-2903 or mphoffmann70@gmail.com
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 Prayers for Parishes
The diocesan Commission on Mission and Development has prepared a cycle of prayers for the congregations of the Diocese of Milwaukee.
May 14, 2016 - St. Dunstan's, Madison
Almighty God, we pray for the faithful people of St. Dunstan's, Madison. May they deepen their lives of faith, growing in leadership, hospitality, care for the environment, and above all, growing ever closer to you. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray, Amen.
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CYCLE OF PRAYER for NOV 2015 - NOV 2016
The new cycle of prayer for the Diocese of Milwaukee, prepared by the Commission on Mission and Development (for the period November 29, 2015 - November 20, 2016) is available HERE.
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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 info@diomil.org ! See you next week! Sincerely, Barb
Barbara Klauber
Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee
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