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Spreading the Word in Kentucky
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October 28, 2011
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Weekly
Prayer Calendar
For November prayers,
check the diocese's
weekly prayer calendar
next week
Oct. 30: Pray for the Diocese of Toronto (Canada) in the Anglican Communion, and for Grace Church, Paducah, the Rev. Libby Wade, rector, in our diocese.
In the Diocese
& Beyond
Oct. 30: Bishop Visitation at Grace Episcopal Church, 820 Broadway, Paducah.
Nov. 1: Feast of All Saints Service, Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. 7 p.m. (EDT).
Nov. 6: Bishop Visitation at Messiah-Trinity Church, 8701 Shepherdsville Road, Louisville.
Nov. 11-12: 184th Convention of the Diocese of Kentucky, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 2233 Woodbourne Ave., Louisville.
Nov. 13: Cathedral Arts Concert and Evensong, Christ Church Cathedral, 421 S. Second St., Louisville. 5 p.m. (ET).
Nov. 18-19: School of Ministry, All Saints Conference Center, 833 Hickory Grove Road, Leitchfield. Special program open to diocese.
Nov. 20: Bishop Visitation at Resurrection Church, 4100 Southern Parkway Louisville.
Nov. 24-25: Happy Thanksgiving. Diocesan office is closed.
Looking Ahead
Dec. 3: Meeting about forming a Society of Mary ward, Calvary Church, 821 S. Fourth St., Louisville. Begins at 10 a.m. (EST).
Jan. 13-14: Godly Play Intermediate Training, Grace Church, 820 Broadway, Paducah.
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All Saints Sunday: another way to support All Saints
By Martha Holland, All Saints Conference Center Board of Directors
On All Saints Sunday, November 6, the undesignated offering from every parish in the diocese will go to All Saints Episcopal Camp and Conference Center, located on Rough River Lake outside Leitchfield.
If you put your regular pledge (cash in a marked envelope or check with "pledge" in the memo line) in the collection plate, the money will go to your parish, BUT if you give cash or a check with "All Saints" in the memo line, your offering will help maintain our "Diocesan Parish Hall."
Every year All Saints serves hundreds of youth and adults as they attend summer camp, youth gatherings, adult meetings and retreats. Many people also enjoy family time at All Saints, coming for family get-aways, reunions or weddings. The facility needs to be maintained and improved constantly, and this annual appeal is just one way for us to help raise the funds needed to keep this beautiful Center functioning as the healthy heart of our diocese.
A copy of the parish bulletin insert is available on the diocese's website.
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Cathedral to hold Feast of All Saints service Tuesday
Christ Church Cathedral, joined by Bishop Terry White, will observe the Feast of All Saints  with a solemn Eucharist Tuesday evening (November 1).
The service, mostly sung and with incense, will be celebrated by the bishop and sung by the Cathedral Choir, beginning at 7 p.m. (EDT).
In addition to All Saints' hymns and congregational settings of the Te Deum and the Beatitudes, the choir will sing Missa Brevis by Stephanie Martin, St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto; Song for Athene: Alleluia. May Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest by John Tavener; and Requiem Aeternam by Felice Anerio.
Parking for this service is available for free in the PARC lot across from the cathedral at 421 S. Second St. in downtown Louisville. If there is an attendant in the booth, notify them that you are attending a service at the cathedral. |
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Advance reports are now available online;
backup hotels offer additional room options
The Advance Reports, which were once mailed to all clergy and deputies prior to a diocesan
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Dare to care by sharing your bounty; bring donations for food pantry to conventio
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convention, are now posted on the diocese's website, and information about additional hotel options has been posted.
The 184th Convention of the Diocese of Kentucky will be held Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 2233 Woodbourne Ave., Louisville.
The Advance Reports and other convention news and information may be found on the diocese's website at www.episcopalky.org; just look for the convention tab at the top of the page.
The new convention postings include this year's agenda; the proposed 2012 diocesan budget; profiles of the nominees for diocesan offices; and the annual reports of diocesan departments, committees, commissions, and other diocesan entities and organizations with historic ties to the diocese. Some organizations are submitting late reports, so the convention website is being updated regularly with new information.
If you have problems
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A chance to learn your ABCD's
School of Ministry offers community outreach training
Is your parish looking for ways to revitalize your community outreach? Are you seeking to reach beyond the walls of your church, and build new collaborative partnerships? Do you struggle to find a meaningful response to the sometimes-overwhelming needs around us?
If your answer is yes, Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) may be just the toolkit you have been looking for! ABCD is an approach to engaging effectively with the communities around us. It emphasizes building on the strengths and assets in our midst rather than being stymied by the tremendous needs.
The diocese's School of Ministry invites all interested persons to join the faculty and students to receive the training, which will be presented by the Rev. Deacon Elaine Clements during the weekend of Nov. 18-19 at All Saints Conference Center near Leitchfield.
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Marcus Borg shares thought-provoking theology, pointed jokes
By Robin Garr, Church of the Ascension, Bardstown, and St. Matthew's Church, Louisville
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Marcus Borg speaks to about 300 at lecture series. Photo from St. Matthew's
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Dr. Marcus Borg, Jesus scholar and popular theologian, draws a stark picture of trends affecting modern American Christianity: It is a time of conflict, with a great divide growing between "The Christian Right" and "Progressive Christianity," and many Christians standing bewildered somewhere in the middle. While the debate rages, more and more Americans, following the pattern set in the last century by our cousins in Europe, are throwing up their hands and leaving church.
Meanwhile, mainline churches are graying and shrinking, facing the hard possibility that church closings lie in the near future for religious communities whose membership may shrink below the critical mass needed for survival. ..... Will Christianity as we know it survive into the more distant future? Perhaps, Borg says; but it may take a form very different from the church we know, he tells those who attended a recent lecture series at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Louisville. Read more
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Sermons being accepted for seminary's annual preaching award
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Presiding Bishop John Hines, 1993, VTS
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All preachers-bishops, priests, deacons, and laypersons are invited to submit one sermon for Virginia Theological Seminary's John Hines Preaching Award. Sermons should reflect the prophetic voice that charaterized the sermons of John Hines, Presiding
Bishop 1965-1974.
The annual award honors outstanding sermons in which a prophetic voice is central and which are deeply grounded in Scripture and focused on the seen and unseen needs of the worshipping community, the nation and the world.
Entries should be sermons delivered to a congregation between Advent 2010 and the end of the same liturgical year. The award recipients will receive $2,000 and will be invited to the seminary to preach. The award winning sermon will also be posted on the seminary's website and printed in either the newsletter or annual magazine. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2011.
Inquiries should be directed to Ms. Shelagh Casey-Brown, director of Alumni, Church Relations, and Annual Fund, at 703-461-1711 or by email at scbrown@vts.edu.
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Dec. 3 meeting set
Letter about forming a Society of Mary ward here
By Sandford MacLean, Calvary Church, Louisville
Dear Friends in Christ,
For some time now, I have wondered why there was not a greater devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Diocese of Kentucky. There are obvious answers, of course, but I felt the absence allowed for poor teaching of the role Our Lady plays in Salvation history. Over the years I have talked with priests and layfolk about this, and the conversation frequently came round to the desire to form a ward or chapter of the Society of Mary within the diocese. I believe the time is now!
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The Rev. Meghan Holland
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See her on TV
The Rev. Meghan Holland, assistant rector at Grace Church in Paducah, may be seen on the Paducah television show, "For the Love of Animals."
Holland appeared on the Oct. 12 broadcast, which was videotaped and is being repeated for three weeks on Paducah's Channel 2 and is also available online.
She was invited to talk about the Episcopal Network for Animal Welfare with co-hosts Darleen Pigford and Greg Baur. The Network is a resource guide for people who are interested in the welfare of animals.
During the program, she also discusses the Episcopal service of "Blessing of the Animals," an annual observance by various Christian churches that dates back to St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, and she spoke about the role of pastoral care for people who have lost a pet.
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Kudos to Betsy Chandler: a Bell Award winner
Betsy Chandler, founder of the Academy at St. Andrew's, was recently honored as one of the 10 recipients of the 2011 WLKY Bell Award. The award recognizes those who have demonstrated the true "spirit of Louisville" through selfless volunteer service in the community. The winners came from more than 100 nominations received from the Louisville and surrounding areas this year, according to a WLKY press release.
The press release had this to say about her community service: "Ms. Chandler saw a need for children with developmental disabilities, primarily autism, and devoted her efforts to open St. Andrews Academy. She researched governmental regulations, recruited a principal and administrative staff, coordinated the design of the school space, held fund raisers and wrote grants. In the late 70's, she was instrumental in bringing the Washington-based program, 'The Kids on the Block' to Louisville, a puppet program that taught the mainstreaming of kids with disabilities in public schools. She's also served with the Junior League, Kentucky Youth Advocates and Easter Seals." She is the wife of Bill Chandler, a trustee with the diocese's Bishop Dudley Trust Fund and member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
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St. Alban's looks ahead as it celebrates past 50 years
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Photo by Don Vish
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Those who were there know just how beautiful, and meaningful, St. Alban's 50th Anniversary Celebration was for the congregation of Episcopalians that meets in the Fern Creek area of Metro Louisville.
The celebration of this milestone in a church's life took months of planning and preparation by the small congregation's members.
Their effort was paid off by a memorable occasion on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011 that brought together nearly 100 friends, guests, current and former members. Among them were several former choir members, who had joined the current choir to prepare for this occasion and lend their voices in singing several hymns carefully chosen for the anniversary. Read more |
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Worship, workshops, music
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Choral Arts' next concert Nov. 6
The Choral Arts Society with James Rightmyer, conductor, will give its next concert at 5 p.m. (ET) Sunday, November 6 at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, 639 S. Shelby Street, Louisville. On the program are Purcell's "Funeral Ode for Queen Mary," Howells' "Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing," and Bach's " Magnificat."
Rightmyer is the music director and choir master at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek.
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Cathedral's next concert and evensong
The next Cathedral Arts Concert and Evensong will be Sunday, November 13, beginning at 5 p.m. (ET).
The program will feature Stephen Mattingly, guitar, University of Louisville, and the combined Children's Choirs of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Luke's and St. Mark's Episcopal churches.
Christ Church Cathedral is located at 421 S. Second St., Louisville.
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Workshop to introduce health ministries in faith communities Norton Healthcare Office of Church and Health Ministries
Introduction to Health Ministries and Faith Community Nursing will be held from 8:30 to 4:30 p.m. (ET) Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Norton Healthcare Pavilion, 315 E. Broadway Louisville. Registration and continental breakfast (both days) will be available 8. The program will meet in the Fourth-floor Interactive Classroom.
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Workshop for church leaders
Equip yourself to oppose the death penalty
Kentucky Council of Churches
If you are a pastor or congregational leader opposed to the death penalty, you may wish you were better equipped to be effective through words and actions. If so, please become a participant in one of these two training sessions:
- November 16 at the Home of the Innocents, 1100 E. Market St., Louisville.
- November 17 at the Berea Friends Meeting House, 300 Harrison Road, Berea.
The training program is sponsored by the Kentucky Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (KCADP) in conjunction with the Kentucky Council of Churches (KCC) and the Catholic Conference of Kentucky (CCK).
Presentations will be given on the following topics: "Overview of death penalty situation in Kentucky" by Don Vish of KCADP, "What to say" by Anne Holsinger of the Death Penalty Information Center, and "How to contact public officials" by Pat Delahanty of the CCK.
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Godly Play Foundation
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Godly Play training offered in January
Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah will be offering two days of accredited intermediate training in Godly Play this January.
Godly Play is a Christian Formation approach to teaching youngsters about Christian religion in ways that will provide them with a foundation that centers them in their faith yet keep them "open to others and the future in creative ways."
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UTO study group reports new vision
Executive Council renews San Joaquin support,
urges new vision of ministry By Mary Frances Schjonberg, October 24, 2011
The Episcopal Church's Executive Council spent part of the last day of its Oct. 21-24 meeting here encouraging Episcopalians to envision new ways of doing ministry.
It pledged continued support to the reorganizing Diocese of San Joaquin, urging the remaining Episcopalians to establish Latino/Hispanic ministry in the heavily Hispanic Central Valley of California. The council also welcomed a report from its United Thank Offering study group saying that the group and the UTO have developed a much closer working relationship and have resolved many of the concerns that prompted the study. The work is the result of a two-year effort to clarify the organization's relationship to the church, explore of ways to increase giving to the UTO, ways to make UTO better known to others in the church and ways to expand the organization's approach to funding mission activities. Read more
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Deadline January 15
United Thank Offering applications available for 2012
By the Episcopal Church's Office of Public Affairs
The application process for the 2011 United Thank Offering grants is now open with forms available here: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/110043_117733_ENG_HTM.htm.
Known worldwide as UTO, the United Thank Offering grants are awarded for projects that address human needs and help alleviate poverty, both domestically and internationally within Anglican provinces, dioceses, and companion dioceses.
Applications are due January 15, 2012. Grants will be approved in July 2012 at Triennium at General Convention. Funds for approved grants will be available starting August 2012 for a one-year grant period. Read more
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New views, ancient rite-Episcopalians reclaim healing ministry
By Pat McCaughan, October 27, 2011
[Episcopal News Service] Although Jesus commanded his followers to go out and preach the kingdom and heal the sick (Luke 9:2), the Rev. Nigel Mumford wonders if the Episcopal Church has only gotten it half-right.
"The church has done a great job preaching the kingdom, but not a very good job of healing the sick. That's 50 percent of what the Lord told us to do," said Mumford, 57, director of healing ministries at Christ the King Spiritual Life Center in Greenwich, New York. "Why is it that we're not doing it?"
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Developing policies is a challenge, observers say
Clergy must navigate traditional boundaries in social media world
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, October 26, 2011
[Episcopal News Service] When the Episcopal Church's Province III Youth Ministry Network earlier this month issued a set of guidelines for interacting with young people through social media, it was on the cutting edge of a growing effort to help guide ministers as they walk through the digital landscape.
Two or three years ago when Elizabeth Drescher was researching her book "Tweet if You ♥ Jesus," she said, the "big conversation was about why do we need to do this at all -- why does it matter?"
Now, she said, "that conversation is pretty much over ... now they're really starting to wrestle with what's the best way to do that in light of our standards and practices for professional ministry. That's just unfolding. There's not really a clear standard for how that's working."
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Clergy, laity support nonviolent protests at Occupy Wall Street
By Sharon Sheridan
[Episcopal News Service] In the early stages of the Occupy Wall Street
protests, the Rev. Michael Sniffen and some clergy colleagues from the
Episcopal Diocese of Long Island traveled to Manhattan's Zuccotti Park
to observe what was happening. He's returned regularly since, talking
to protestors and offering pastoral care.
"I see myself as part of the movement," said Sniffen, 31,
priest-in-charge of the Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
in Brooklyn, New York. "I really feel like this is my generation's
plea for a just society. I think the Gospels make it quite clear in
Jesus' teachings that there can be no justice without economic
justice."
Sniffen is among a number of Episcopal clergy and laity who are
visiting and lending support to protesters at the birthplace of the
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) campaign. Begun Sept. 17 and inspired by the
Arab Spring movement, OWS protests against greed and economic
inequality have spread to more than 2,100 locations across the country
and around the world, including other major cities such as Denver,
Miami, Berlin, London and Tokyo. Read more
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Which God do we worship, really?
By the Rev. Dan Webster, Diocese of Maryland,
[Episcopal News Service] The latest George Clooney movie, "The Ides of March," offers food for thought.
I wanted to see it because of the political campaign story. Having covered presidential candidates as a producer for NBC News, I wanted to see how the subject was handled.
Clooney plays the presidential candidate. During a debate with his rival he says he's not a Christian or a Muslim or an atheist but worships only the Constitution of the United States of America. The New York Times review called Clooney's character "a forthright secularist."
Now that's honest. And it flies in the face of demands placed on today's real candidates to declare personal faith stories if they want to capture the vote of this or that voting segment.
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Dear Readers,
If you or your church or organization have news of interest to Episcopalians, please send us your stories and, if possible, photos for possible publication online and in the E-blast. Preferably, the articles will be sent as Word documents by email to maryjane@episcopalky.org.
Video Buffs, Photogs and Audiophiles: We have a media center where you may submit videos, audio files and images that you believe may be of interest to Kentucky Episcopalians and visitors to our website. Please give me a call at 502-584-7148 or send an email if you would like to learn more about the media center and ways it may be used to spotlight your congregation's people and ministries. |
Have a Happy Halloween and a blessed week,
Mary Jane
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Contact
Mary Jane Cherry, Communications Director
Diocese of Kentucky
502-584-7148 maryjane@episcopalky.org
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