Honest Conversation with Muslim Neighbors
CT Council for Interreligious Understanding (CCIU), Muslim Coalition of CT and Hartford Seminary are sponsoring an ongoing series of interfaith dialogues.
Wednesday March 9, The Episcopal Church of the Holy Spirit, West Haven, in collaboration with the Turkish Cultural Center of CT will present, "Honest Conversations with Muslim Neighbors." The event will include a panel of Connecticut Muslims share their stories and respond to the audience's question.
For more information, and to RSVP, please email holyspiritwh@snet.net or call 203-934-3437
Wednesday March 9 at 7 p.m.
Church of the Holy Spirit
28 Church St. West Haven
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Important Note from the ECCT Finance Team
Due to an error in setting up invoices, dental and life insurance charges are not listed correctly in the Extended Price column. This issue has now been fixed for March invoices and going forward. Please add any Life Insurance and Dental charges that should have been listed in the Extended Price column to your total amount due when submitting January and February payments.
If you have already submitted your payment and paid the listed amount due without including Dental and Life Insurance premiums, please note that you will see a charge for those coverages on your next bill.
The ECCT finance team apologizes for any inconvenience caused by this error.
Please call Matt Handi at 203-639-3501, x107 or email him at mhandi@episcopalct.org if you have any questions.
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50 Year Anniversary Celebration at Cathedral
The Aging and Life Planning Network is preparing for a Golden Wedding Anniversary Celebration for couples married fifty years or more. This event will be held at Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, CT on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at 3:00 p.m.
Bishops Ian T. Douglas and Laura J. Ahrens will be there to celebrate at this service. It will include the renewal of marriage vows and presentation of commemorative certificates to all couples. A reception will follow.
The Aging and Life Planning Network would also like to recognize those same-sex couples who have been together for 50 years and are now married.
Continue reading about the event in the letter sent to parish clergy and senior wardens, found in the folder, here.
For resources promoting the event at your local parish or worshipping community, click here.
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UTO 2016 grants will focus on the Fifth Mark of Mission - to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.
Grant applications are for start-up costs for a new ministry. Unless there is a definite new direction added to an existing program, the grant will not be used for the continuation of an ongoing ministry.
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Music That Makes Community
Paperless Singing Workshop
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Donald Schell leading a paperless workshop
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Workshop participants will experience how oral, community-based music leadership and improvisation can give new life to psalms, scripture readings, prayers of the people, and eucharist/communion liturgies.
Saturday, February 27, 2 - 6 pm
Marquand Chapel
409 Prospect St., New Haven
Free; no registration required. Free parking.
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Are you involved in interfaith/inter-religious ministries?
Would you like to be?
ECCT's inter-religious network facilitator and an ECCT ecumenical leader are seeking to connect ECCT members with an interest in interfaith/inter-religious and ecumenical partnerships. Please follow this link to complete this very brief survey on interfaith/inter-religious activity. We know surveys may not be your favorite thing - there are only three questions! Please help us know who you are.
Likewise for ecumenical partnerships: A similar, and equally brief, survey link can be found here.
Feel free to forward these links. Those responding will be contacted directly for exploring next steps. Interfaith/inter-religious participants will hear from the Rev. Dr. Lisa D. Hahneman, ECCT Interreligious Network Facilitator. Ecumenical participants will hear from the Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Hahneman, Bridgeport Council of Churches Board Member.
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Mission Trip to Dominican Republic
Several parishes within the Episcopal Church in Connecticut have special relationships with worshipping communities in the Caribbean, including the Dominican Republic.
This July, a group from the Episcopal Church in Connecticut will participate in a mission trip to the Dominican Republic. They will assist a Vacation Bible School at Santa Margarita, a church in an underserved neighborhood in Santo Domingo. Additionally, participants will do sightseeing and worship at the host site church, and visit the Cathedral.
The group is currently seeking additional youth participants who are currently enrolled in high school and between the ages of 14-18 as well as adult chaperones. The cost to the youth is approximately $1250 plus any spending money they wish to bring. While in the DR, all expenses are covered.
July 16 - 24, 2016
Please contact Alan McCollom for more details, 914-629-6622, or amc0126@mail.com
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Positions Open
To submit a job opening to be included here, please fill out this form. Jobs will be reviewed and then posted once in the weekly enews and posted on the website for four weeks.
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Coming up soon
REGIONAL & DIOCESAN OFFERINGS
The ECCT calendar is located here. It allows you to filter events by category and includes a subscribe link at the bottom of the page. Events at The Commons in Meriden unless otherwise noted.
- Feb. 18, 8:30 a.m. Fresh Start
- Feb. 18, 6:30 p.m. Installation of Miguelina Howell as Dean of Christ Church Cathedral
- Feb. 24, 6 p.m. Deacons Council
BISHOPS' SUNDAY SCHEDULE, FEBRUARY
- Feb. 21 - Bishop Ahrens - Trinity, New Haven (200th Anniversary!)
- Feb. 28 - Bishop Douglas - St. John's, Washington
- Feb. 28 - Bishop Ahrens - St. John's, Salisbury
complete list of events is available on the website, for your consideration.
Feb. 17, 12 noon, Mid-Day Music, St. Paul's On-the-Green, Norwalk
Feb. 20, 9 a.m. Lenten Retreat with Martin Laird, Christ Church, Greenwich
Feb. 28, 7 p.m. Celtic Vespers, St. Mary's, Manchester
Feb. 28, 5 p.m. Choral Evensong, Christ & Holy Trinity, Westport
Fridays through April 15, 7 p.m., Lenten/Easter Study Group, Christ Church Quaker Farms, Oxford
2016 SPRING CLERICUS MEETINGS
Clergy are invited to attend whichever of these meetings that best fits their schedule and location. Each line provides a link to the respective Eventbrite page. From there, you can find more details and register for the event. Each event is scheduled from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m., and you are invited to bring your own lunch.
SAFE CHURCH TRAINING FOR LAITY
- Mar. 5, 2016, 9 a.m., St. James's, West Hartford
- Apr. 16, 2016, 9 a.m., Trinity, Collinsville
- Apr. 30, 2016, 9 a.m., St. Peter's, Cheshire
- May 7, 2016, 9 a.m., St. John's, Vernon
- May 14, 2016, 9 a.m, St. Paul's, Brookfield
- June 4, 2016, 9 a.m., Christ Church, East Norwalk
- June 25, 2016, 9 a.m , St. John's, Niantic
Safe Church Recertification - for Laity
- March 7, 2016, 6:30 p.m. The Commons, Meriden
- April 9, 2016, 9 a.m. St. Mark's, New Canaan
- April 12, 2016, 6:30 p.m., Trinity, Tariffville
- May 21, 2016, 9 a.m., St. Paul's, Shelton
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