Celebrate Earth Day today with the Episcopal Development Agency of Thomasville (EDAT) at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on Tuesday, April 22 from 5-7 pm. There will be activities and games for all, including a hot dog cookout. Good Shepherd is at 515 Oak Street in Thomasville.

Registration is open for the 2014 Annual ECW Meeting on May 16-17, 2014 at Honey Creek.

 

Registration is $25.00 and should be sent to Karen West at 218 Earlwood Dr. Dublin, GA 31021.  Meals and hotel will go through Honey Creek - meals for Friday dinner/Saturday breakfast, lunch is $36.00. 

 

Room cost are as follows:

$80.00 for single occupancy lodge room

$40.00 for double occupancy lodge room

$20.00 day for Hunt/Chapin Cottage

$100.00 day for Jonnard Cottage

 

Please call Carolyn Middleton at Honey Creek at (912) 265-9218 for meals and lodging. 

 

If additional information is needed please contact

Cristy Jordan 912-659-0287 [email protected]

or Norma Akins 478-984-8872 / [email protected]

Click the image or the link below for a brochure on all of our youth events from now through May of 2015, then print away.  Please put the brochure in the church narthexes. And for youth ministers, participants and their families, you can start marking your calendars for the coming year.

The Savannah Convocation Youth Events is hosting a Family Day at St. Patrick's, Pooler, on May 10 from 10 am to 2 p.m. Get your moms, dads, sisters, brothers, friends and bring them all. Bring something pot luck to share.....there will be games, water activities, singing, and more. The event is not limited to Episcopal congregations in the Savannah Convocation alone. For more information contact Misty Graham at (352) 281-6805 or [email protected] 

The Episcopal Church is taking multi-site worship to a whole new level in Brunswick with the Eucharist in multiple locations. This past fall St. Mark's, Brunswick installed inexpensive web-capable DVD players, one at the Benton House assisted living facility and the other at St. Mark's Towers, a HUD facility. They also installed an inexpensive camera system at the church using "live stream" in the sanctuary. Then, they recruited a team of dedicated lay Eucharistic visitors. When the opening hymn starts on Sunday morning at 10:15 a.m. the lay Eucharistic visitor/Usher/worship leaders in the remote locations direct communicants' participation. They welcome them at the beginning of each service from St. Mark's and then at the "Fraction," communion is served from the Holy Table. At Benton House, six church members typically attend this service along with approximately five guests each week. St. Mark's Towers has a dozen church members who live in the facility and attend the service. About six guests on average also attend.

  

The Rev. Alan Akridge, Rector of St. Mark's said, "This is not hard or complex." He went on to describe how what started as a way for those who are homebound to still be a part of the worship service prior to the arrival of the reserved Sacrament to their homes on Sunday afternoon has become something much, much bigger.  He adds, "We also have folks who log in to watch worship as far south as southern Florida and as far north as New England!  We even had someone recently log in from London."

  

Akridge suggests that this could easily be done in every nursing home or assisted living facility or anywhere else where Episcopalians are unable to physically get to worship. 

Lent Madness 2014 has ended and Charles Wesley is the winner of the Golden Halo. This is a fun, educational event sponsored each Lent by Forward Movement, publishers of Forward Day by Day. The bracket below shows how the voting went this year. Charles Wesley squeaked by Seminole Indian missionary Harriet Bedell in the final ballot with 51 percent of the vote in the final round. Charles Wesley served as the secretary to General James Edward Ogelthorpe, the founder of the Colony of Georgia.  He thus was a "bi-vocational" or non-paid priest in the 18th century. Accompanying General Oglethorpe to Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island, he served in his free time as chaplain to the military community, and out of his work there, grew Christ Church, Frederica, which continues as a thriving church today. Charles is a well known hymn writer, having composed 6,000 of them including such favorites as Hark the Herald Angels Sing and the final verse to a song you likely just sang on Easter, Jesus Christ Is Risen Today!

Visit Lent Madness' Website Here

This issue of From the Field includes photos from all 30 congregations from whom we received pictures taken Tuesday through Sunday in Holy Week. The full Holy Week album with 178 photos (at the time this email is being sent) is online here: 2014 Holy Week Album        

   

Easter Sunday at Christ Church, Valdosta.     

     

Deacon Yvette Owens processes with the gospel at Christ the Valdosta and Deacon Larry Jesion with his wife, Pam, at Christ Church, Augusta.    

The Rev. Joshua Varner preaches the Easter Sermon at St. Patrick's, Pooler.    

 

The Rev. Joan Kilian preaches the Easter sermon at Trinity, Statesboro.    

 

The Revs. Cynthia Taylor and Joe Bowden with one of the baptisms at Holy Comforter, Martinez, on Easter.    

  

Flowering the cross and Easter egg hunting at Trinity, Cochran.     

Easter egg hunters at All Saints, Tybee Island.    

     

At left, the two new acolytes who served the first time on Easter at St. Patrick's Albany, Bob Baranko and Jase White. Jase (right) was baptized Saturday night at the Easter Vigil. In the photo at right in the sermon in the children's service on Easter at St. Margaret of Scotland, Moultrie.    

 
The Rev. Dwayne Varas with children during the Easter liturgy at St. Thomas, Thomasville.    

 

Children flower and then process with the cross at Annunciation, Vidalia.     

The offertory anthem at St. Paul's, Jesup.      

   

A butterfly release followed the Easter liturgy at Our Savior, Martinez.      

St. Michael's, Waynesboro, on Holy Saturday.     

The Good Friday liturgy at Christ Church, Savannah.       

 

The Altar of Repose at St. Augustine's, Augusta, and the veneration of the cross at St. Paul's, Albany.     

 

 The Altar of Repose at St. George's, Savannah.     

Maundy Thursday foot washing at St. Luke's, Rincon.     

 

 Priests collect blessed oils for use throughout the year at the conclusion of the Chrism Mass held at Trinity, Statesboro on Tuesday in Holy Week. 

The Spring Clergy Conference will be held at Honey Creek from May 4 to 6. The main speaker will be Lauren Winner, Assistant Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity. Winner is the author of numerous books, including Girl Meets God and Mudhouse Sabbath. Her study A Cheerful & Comfortable Faith: Anglican Religious Practice in the Elite Households of Eighteenth-Century Virginia will be published in the fall of 2010 from Yale University Press. She has appeared on PBS's Religion & Ethics Newsweekly and has written for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Publishers Weekly, Books and Culture, and Christianity Today. 

  

The rates for the full conference program, meals and lodgings are $158 for lodge room (based on double occupancy), $240 for a Lodge room (single occupancy), $118 to stay in one of the cottages with other clergy, or in a dorm, and $100 for those tent camping or commuting. For those choosing double occupancy, please let Honey Creek know who you are sharing a room with. 

Click here to register for clergy conference

  

If you have any questions about the variety of accommodations, call Carolyn Middleton at Honey Creek at (912) 265-9218, but remember to register online rather than over the phone.