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Diocese of Kentucky eNewsletter!
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| Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Happy New Year!
With God's blessing, the Diocesan Office is boldly moving forward into 2013. This is going to be a big year for us on many front.
We just welcomed Kendall Badgett into our staff (see below) and will be hiring two other positions this calendar year. We've also had Nancy Gary and Barbara Merrick recruit a core of volunteers to help us answer our phones and accomplish some more administrative help. God's grace is good!
The office will also be focusing on leadership development this year. As mentioned at Diocesan Convention, throughout this year we will host more leadership conferences focusing on different areas that can help your parish. Topics will range from administration, legal, financial, stewardship, etc. I hope to see you there!
We also have a few big changes coming in regards to how we organize information in the office. You'll begin to see a few changes on the website as the year progresses.
We're excited to offer you all this and more as we seek to grow in our stewardship of God's resources.
God's grace!
Brian Kinnaman
Communications Director
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 In Our Community
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Bishop White Names Kendall Badgett as the New Director of Youth Programs and Young Adult Ministry
 On January 11th, Kendall Badgett accepted the Bishop's invitation to become the Director of Youth Programs and Young Adult Ministry in the Diocese of Kentucky.
As Director of Youth Programs, she will be focusing on diocesan youth programming specifically camp gatherings and summer camp. This 3/4 time position will also serve as a resource for youth at diocesan convention and for deaneries and congregations in enriching their own youth programming. Being added to this position is the support of young adult ministry in parish based programs and campus ministries.
In making the appointment, Bishop White said, "We were blessed to have a number of strong candidates apply for this position. Kendall brings to this ministry experience working with youth and young adults in both parish and diocesan contexts, and has a genuine eagerness to test new models of ministry with youth and young adults. Her organizational and relational skills will make her an effective director and I could not be more pleased that she has accepted this call."
Her first duties will include an overnight meeting with the Youth Council leading into running Winter Gathering the following day. She will also begin to hire the staff for the upcoming summer camp. More information about summer camp will be posted online later this month.
After receiving the news, Kendall said, "I feel very honored and very excited about the work. It's my dream job. I'm ready to get started and do God's work. I am looking forward to working with the youth and clergy of the diocese."
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St. Luke's calls the Rev. John Fritschner as its interim rector
By: St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Fr. John grew up in St. Matthews and was baptized and confirmed at St. Andrews. He graduated from Waggener H.S. and then from the University of Kentucky. Later he taught high school for a couple of years at Scott Co. H.S. and then got another degree (M.A., Iowa) and taught at a community college in Cedar Rapids. It was when he was the Director of Parks and Recreation in Ashland, Kentucky, that he met and married his wife, Nancy Nave, from Versailles, Kentucky.
"As we said in Auburn, I out punted my coverage when I married Nancy." When John attended seminary at Sewanee, Nancy was on the faculty teaching Accounting. "After graduation, we moved to our first church in Lexington (Good Shepherd) and then at St. David's in Cheraw, S.C." John served as rector of Holy Trinity in Auburn, AL from 1995-2013. While in the Diocese of Alabama John was a four-time deputy to General Convention. He also was on the Standing Committee and Commission on Ministry. He has been ordained 27 years.
John's deepest passion is meeting Christ through ministry to the poor, though he acknowledges that certainly people can experience Jesus through a myriad of encounters. He was instrumental in starting the Community Market in Auburn, a free choice food program ministering to residents of Lee County and has participated in several mission trips to Haiti. To get away from the hurried life as a rector John "retreats" to the Monastery of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, MA. "It is my salvation."
Nancy and John have two boys. Charlie is the oldest and lives in Chicago, and Campbell who lives in Baltimore.
John is an early riser. He gets up about 4:15 a.m. for his favorite part of the day. He exercises and then returns home to drink coffee and share conversation with Nancy. Then he is off to church. Two summers ago John hiked part of the Camino Santiago Compostela Pilgrimage in Spain, something he will do again at the end of May. John and Nancy both enjoy spending time with the newest addition to their household, a mixed terrier and beagle named Jack.
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the Rev. Meg Holland named Priest-in-Charge of St. Peter's of the Lakes
 St. Peter's of the Lakes Episcopal Church in Gilbertsville, KY has named the Rev. Meghan Holland as its new Priest-in-Charge. In addition to her duties at St. Peter's, she continues to serve as Assistant Rector at Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah.
"We are thrilled to have such a young, enthusiastic leader," said Warner Reynolds, the Senior Warden at St. Peter's. "We know she will make an impact on the six counties we serve, and we look forward to her getting to know us and this area better." He also noted that she is one of the few female clergy in Marshall County.
According to Reynolds, Meghan's work with the Episcopal Church has included children and youth ministry, outreach and mission work in addition to regularly preaching and teaching. "Mother Meg," as the children call her, believes that church is more than just a place for prayers. "Church is an intentional community filled with supportive people that are trying, and let's face it, sometimes failing, to dedicate their lives to loving God and loving one another without exception."
"My ministry in Western Kentucky is firmly focused on seeking the Kingdom of God on earth, while spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. I feel St. Peter's is the perfect place to live and grow in this ministry," the Rev. Holland said.
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| Events to Come |
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Youth Winter Gathering: Shut De Do' 24
The Diocese Youth Programs is hosting a 24-hour spiritual retreat for high schoolers over MLK Jr. Weekend. It's only 24 hours, so you can fit it into your schedule. There will be discussions about good vs. evil, God vs. Satan, and similar topics. It should be an awesome experience. | | Shut De Do' 24 |
To learn more about the gathering, visit their website!
If you have any more questions about registration or payment, please contact Brian Kinnaman either by email or phone (502.584.7148 ext. 243). If you have any questions about programing, please contact the Rev. Meg Holland by email or text her cell number (270.705.6252).
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Attention all Wardens, Treasurers, and lay leaders
On February 22-23, the DIocese will be hosting a lay leadership conference for wardens, treasurers, and any other interested lay leaderhship. It will be held at All Saints Center. More details on the event are to be announced.
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Episcopal Preaching Foundation holds annual National Conference in Louisville
Effective preaching has always required a mix of inspiration, eloquence, and hard, hard work. It is a craft, not gift, and the cultural shifts of the last decade have left preachers with a daunting combination of challenges. The 2013 National Episcopal Preaching Conference will examine the shifts, consider the challenges, and share ways to refine the craft for faithful proclamation fo the Gospel in the years to come. The conference will provide a mix of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops, at Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, where they will also worship, pray, and join in fellowship and conversation. Preachers from all traditions are welcomed to join!
To visit the event website and find out more details, click here.
Date: February 5-7, 2013
Cost: $100 registration fee
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| In Our Church |
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Charles vonRosenberg nominated as South Carolina bishop provisional
By ENS staff
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The Rt. Rev. Charles Glenn vonRosenberg, a retired bishop of East Tennessee with longtime ties to South Carolina, has been nominated as bishop provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina. Photo/Diocese of South Carolina
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The Rt. Rev. Charles Glenn vonRosenberg, a retired bishop of East Tennessee with longtime ties to South Carolina, has been nominated as bishop provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
The Rt. Rev. Charles Glenn vonRosenberg, a retired bishop of East Tennessee with longtime ties to South Carolina, has been nominated as bishop provisional of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.
His name will be presented for a vote on Jan. 26 when local clergy and laypeople who are continuing with the Episcopal Church gather with Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a special meeting of the diocesan convention atGrace Episcopal Church in Charleston, according to a diocesan press release.
The continuing Diocese of South Carolina needs a new episcopal leader because Jefferts Schori said Dec. 5 that Mark Lawrence had renounced his orders. She and her Council of Advice agreed that, in a Nov. 17 speech to a special diocesan convention, Lawrence said the diocese had left the Episcopal Church a month earlier on Oct. 17 when she restricted his ministry after the church's Disciplinary Board for Bishopshad certified to her that he had abandoned the Episcopal Church "by an open renunciation of the discipline of the church."
The day the board's decision was announced, the diocesan Standing Committee said that the action "triggered two pre-existing corporate resolutions of the diocese, which simultaneously disaffiliated the diocese from the Episcopal Church and called a special convention."
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Gaza hospital continues to serve the poor despite financial difficulties
Institution poised to continue as specialty hospital
By Lynette Wilson
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A Muslim woman and her infant waiting for a check up at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Jan. 2. The hospital runs a three-month program for undernourished children. ENS Photo/Lynette Wilson
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On a recent sunny day in Gaza, mothers and their children waited on benches on the manicured campus outside of Al Ahli Arab Hospital to receive care from a hospital-run program that offers three-months of services to 750 children aged 0 to 5.
The nourishment program is just one of the many outpatient services the non-profit, public hospital operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem has continued as it transitions into a specialty hospital and weathers financial difficulties exacerbated by a recent loss of funding.
"It is our witness as Christians to serve the poor," said Suhaila Tarazi, the hospital's director. "With all that is going on in Egypt [political turmoil] and Syria [civil war], to keep a place like this one, a Christian place like this one, it's important."
The hospital employs 110 people, 30 percent of them women, and serves some 30,000 patients each year, 6,000 of them in the free medical mission, she added.
On Jan. 2, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil Dawani, traveled from Israel to Gaza via the north's Erez Crossing to see the hospital, meet with staff and to hold Eucharist in its chapel.
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Presiding bishop preaches in Ramallah
By ENS staff
 "Our brothers are looking for the Holy One even if they don't yet have the language for what it is they are seeking. Are you looking everywhere for Jesus? Go out and seek other anxious children, those brothers and sisters of ours who are also looking for him. We will find him in our Father's house, even if it's in another room," said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in her Dec. 30 sermon. The presiding bishop preached during the 11 a.m. service at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Ramallah; Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Suheil S. Dawani presided over the Dec. 30 service attended by some 40 people. The Rev. Hannah Daleh, rector of St. Andrew's, and the Rev. Canon John Organ, the bishop's chaplain, assisted. The presiding bishop is visiting Israel and the Palestinian Territories at Dawani's invitation. She is accompanied by Bishop James Magness, the Episcopal Church's bishop suffragan for federal ministries; the Rev. Canon Robert Edmunds, the Episcopal Church's Middle East global partnerships officer; and Alexander Baumgarten, director of the Episcopal Church's Washington, D.C.-based Office of Government Relations.
The full text of the presiding bishop's sermon can be found here.
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January 13th
We pray for the Diocese of Lake Malawi and the Rt. Rev. Francis Kaulanda. In our diocese we pray for the Diocese of Haiti, on the third anniversary of their devastating earthquake.
January 20th
We pray for the Diocese of Liberia and the Rt. Rev. Jonathan Hart. In our diocese we pray for all in the discernment process, and for the election of a bishop suffragan in the Diocese of North Carolina.
January 27th
We pray for the Diocese of Lokoja, Nigeria and the Most Rev. Emmanuel Egbunu. In our diocese we pray for St. Paul's, Henderson.
February 3rd
We pray for the Diocese of Lui, Sudan and the Rt. Rev. Stephen Dokolo Ismail. In our diocese, we pray for for St. Thomas, Louisville.
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| Bishop's Travels |
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January 27th
St. Paul's, Henderson
February 3rd
St. Thomas, Louisville
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| Leaders |
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A quick collection of links and articles for Church leaders.
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 Framework for Vestry Success
by Sandra Clark Kolb
Group dynamics will change and develop with each new vestry. In "Framework for Vestry Success", Sandy Kolb guides us through the key stages to give care and attention to.
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 Reframe Vestry Meetings
by Randy Ferebee
Tried and frustrated of too many problems and a lack of solutions? Randy Ferebee shows us how vestries can rise above these issues in "Reframe Vestry Meetings."
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 Rethink Congregations
by William A. Doubleday
Are we trying to function based on outdated demographics? William Doubleday explains in "Rethink Congregations" how many congregations are and what they can do about it.
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