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September 27, 2007
Almighty Father, whose blessed Son before his passion prayed for his disciples
that they might be one, as you and he are one: Grant that your Church, being
bound together in love and obedience to you, may be united in one body by the
one Spirit, that the world may believe in him whom you have sent, your Son
Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
The Book of Common Prayer, Collect
for Unity of the Church, p. 255
Dates & Deadlines
Responses to the sub-committee of the Standing Committee of the Primates and
the Anglican Consultative Council by several Bishops attending the House of
Bishops Meeting includes a brief statement by the Rt. Rev. Carolyn Tanner Irish,
Bishop of Utah at Episcopal News Service.
The Statement from the House of Bishops
as well as other documents in the chronology leading up to the Bishops' meeting
in New Orleans may be read at the official website of the Anglican Communion.
Bonnie Anderson, President of the House of Deputies, offers her response to
the outcomes of the House of Bishops meeting in New Orleans under Top Stories
at ELO.
TODAY, Sept. 27 Deadline for earlybird registration discount for Diocesan
Convention. Please register for Convention through your parish office. This
includes visitors, alternates, members of Council, Standing Committee, etc.
For more information, visit the diocesan website.
Sat., Oct. 13, 5:30 p.m.: LATINO FIESTA! Fun- and Fundraiser for the Episcopal
Church Center of Utah. Host: The Latino Ministry of the Diocese of Utah, at
St. Mark's Cathedral Center. The ticket per person is $25 in advance, $30 at
the door; this includes one popular Latino-inspired beverage, chips and salsa,
a bowl of pozole (hominy soup) and flan. Entertainment is also included in
the base ticket price. For a suggested donation of $10 patrons will be eligible
to acquire different pieces of Mexican art.
Advance Ticket Purchase is highly recommended! To purchase tickets, please
reply to the Rev. Isabel Gonzalez at 801-322-4131 or email to Isabel Gonzalez.
Please make checks payable to San Esteban with a memo: Fiesta, and mail to:
San Esteban, Attn: Rev. Isabel Gonzalez, P.O. Box 3090, Salt Lake City, Utah
84110-3090; credit cards will be accepted the day of the fiesta.
Sept. 29: Pre-Convention Regional Meetings: Clergy and lay delegates to Diocesan
Convention meet to review 25 nominations for diocesan and national positions,
including 16 nominations to serve as Deputies to General Convention, 2009.
Two resolutions are to be considered.
Note: Regional meetings will be the time and place to consider both nominations
and resolutions; no forums are scheduled. Regional meetings are open to all,
but are especially important for parish wardens and parish delegates to attend.
SATURDAY, SEPT 29, 10 a.m. Salt Lake Region at All Saints, Salt Lake City.
Conveners: Nancy Lium & Kari Butler. All Saints, Cathedral Church of St.
Mark, St. James, St. Luke's, St .Mary's, St. Paul's, and St. Stephen's.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 29 in Kanab, Southern Region Convener: Leda Burr. Grace, Spirit
of the Desert, St. David's and St. Jude's.
Sat, Oct. 6: Church Worker Conduct Training at Diocesan Offices, 80 South
300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Schedule
8:30 a.m Coffee and breakfast snacks
9:00 a.m SHARP! Session Begins
4:30 p.m. Approximate ending time
Lunch will be provided. Please note: persons arriving late for or leaving early
from the training session by more than 10 minutes will not receive credit for
attending. For more information or questions, contact your parish's administrator.
Sign up to attend by Tuesday, Oct. 2.
Stewardship
Stewardship Resources: Some excellent information and educational materials
are available from the Episcopal Church, TEC, and our partner in mission, The
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for adults and children. Includes
materials in Spanish.
Nov. 26-29: Will Our Children Be Stewards? at the Tradewinds Hotel, St. Pete
Beach, Florida, sponsored by the Ecumenical Stewardship Center. Featured Speakers:
Nathan Dungan, author of Prodigal Sons & Material Girls, How Not to Be
Your Child's ATM, Sandy Sasso, author of a number of books for children including:
In God's Name, God's Paintbrush, and Butterflies Under Our Hats, and Dick Hardel,
Executive Director of Youth and Family Institute. For more information, go
to Stewardship Center
Other Stewardship Resources are available at the site's homepage at the North
American Conference of Christian Philanthropy.
Fall Features
Go Against the Flow!
Oct. 5-7, 2007: Fall Youth Retreat
For Junior and Senior High Youth (grades 6-12)
At Camp Tuttle, $50 per person
See your parish priest or youth coordinator for
details. Registration materials are online at www.episcopal- ut.org
Friday,
Oct. 26, 6 p.m: The Opening Eucharist of Diocesan Convention, at the Cathedral
Church of St. Mark is not to be missed. Our Ute brothers and sisters will share
with us their rich spiritual traditions in a liturgy that includes the renewal
of the Jamestown Covenant to inaugurate a second decade of "remembrance,
recognition and reconciliation" so as to "build the structures of
justice in the ashes of injustice." The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, a
Native American and Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, will preach. All are
welcome to attend.
Education & Spiritual Formation
Are you seeking to involve whole families in Sunday School? Here's a curriculum
that assumes families come together for this time. Lectionary-based, it's worth
a look at Sunday School lessons.
Sojourners
Resource Center offers four adult study guides on issues of faith
and justice including Faith and the Racial Divide, and Economics and the neighbor.
Previously issued topics and study guides also available. Go to Sojourners
Resources.
Wed., Oct. 3, 7 p.m. Dogma and Doubt: Exploring Faith
and Fundamentalism through Film is the title of the 2007-2008 Westminster
College Film and Lecture Series in partnership with the SLC Film Center.
Audience of One will be shown in the Gore Auditorium in the Bill and Vieve
Gore School of Business.
Audience of One centers on a Pentecostal pastor
from San Francisco who receives a vision from God to spread the Gospel through
filmmaking. ... What transpires is a story of obsession, faith and delusion.
-- from movie blurb. Panel discussion with Director and Producer follows.
Free and open to the Public. For more information, go to WMC
film and lecture series.
Saturday, Oct. 6, 8:30 a.m. until noon: Ministries with
the Aging
Presentation
and discussion at St. Paul's-SLC, 261 S. 900 E. The Rev. Claudia Giacoma will
talk about the spirituality of aging and Mary McEntire, a hospice chaplain
with IHC, will talk about caregiving and end of life care. In addition to exploring
these ministries from a diaconal perspective. For more information or to register,
e-mail Steve Alder.
Mon-Tues, Oct. 15-16: Salt Lake Theological Seminary's
Christian Leaders Conference features noted preacher, and United Methodist Bishop William Willimon. Willimon
will keynote the Conference to be held at Calvary Baptist Church in SLC. The
Conference, Servants of the Truth, includes a 1-credit preaching workshop to
explore methods presented by Willimon. For details and to register online go
to SLTS website . or call 801-581-1900.
Oct. 18-19: The Church Pension Group is sponsoring its third annual Episcopal
Business Administration Conference (EBAC) for Parishes and Institutions on
The conference is a short course in "Everything you ever wanted to know
about the Church Pension Group." Administrators, office managers, treasurers,
and other persons charged with the financial and administrative functions of
a parish or institution will find this conference beneficial. Conference information
is available online at CPG. For additional information, contact Linda Puckett
at the Church Pension Group at lpuckett@cpg.org or 800-223-6602, x6260.
Hungry
for some Theological Reflection? Sat., Oct. 20, 9:30-3 p.m. Common
Mission Amidst Diversity: A Day of Reflection features Phyllis Anderson,
President of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary (PLTS), Berkeley, CA. Venue:
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1070 Foothill Dr., SLC. Call Zion to register
the number of persons in your congregation who will attend, at 801-582-2321.
October 22-26: Start Up! Start Over! For clergy and laity of congregations
seeking rejuvenation and vision. At the Four Points by Sheraton Studio City
Hotel in Orlando, Florida. A national training event, sponsored by the Office
of Congregational Development and coordinated in partnership with the Episcopal
Church Building Fund, SUSO provides basic congregational development skills
for congregations in decline who are seeking a new direction, those who have
hit a growth plateau which need new energy, and thriving congregations ready
for their next step. (Note: This seminar regularly fills to capacity months
before the registration deadline. Go to Start
Up! for more information or to
register.
Emerging Ministries: Youth
Planning Ahead
Episcopal Diocese of Utah
Office of Youth Ministry
2007-2008 Calendar
January 26-27, 2008
Junior High
Winter Retreat, Grades 6-8, At Camp Tuttle, $40 per person
February 23-24,
2008
High School Winter Retreat, Grades 9-12, at Camp Tuttle, $40 per person
April
18-19, 2008
Spring Weekend
At the NEW Episcopal Church Center, 75 South 200
East, Salt Lake City.
The Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts
Schori will be our special guest at this event open to all in the diocese.
While not exclusively a "youth event", youth are strongly encouraged
to participate and get a chance to meet the PB! More details will be available
in the coming months.
May 2-4, 2008
Spring Youth Event for Junior and Senior
High Youth (grades 6-12), Location TBD, Cost TBD.
July 8-13, 200
Episcopal
Youth Event (E.Y.E.) for youth completing grades 9, 10, 11 or 12 in spring
2008, At Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Cost: $480 + transportation
(some limited scholarship assistance will be available). For more information
about this event, visit E.Y.E.
Information and registration materials will be
updated on the diocesan website as they become available: go to Episcopal
Diocese and click on Youth Ministry. For questions
about any of these events, contact Karen Van Winkle, Diocesan Youth Ministry
Coordinator or (801) 322-4131 ext.344 or Melissa Lees, Youth Ministry Assistant
or (801) 891- 8842.
In other exciting Youth Ministry news: Karen Van Winkle
and husband Bryan are the proud parents of Eva Catherine. Melissa Lees steps
in as Youth Ministry Assistant during Karen's maternity leave.
Looking for a
good teen/young adult read? Caroline B. Cooney's A Friend
at Midnight, 2006,
has won this year's Rodda Award from the Church and Synagogue Library Association.
Order from Amazon or CSL.
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The Rev. Jessica Hatch
Education and Resource Office
801-322-4131 Ext. 362 jhatch@episcopal-ut.org
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