Ordination
of Patsy McGregor to the Priesthood - Sept. 3, Nairobi, Kenya
Diocesan
Office closed for Labor Day -
Sept. 5
Fall Convocations - Sept. 6 - BWD, 6:30-9 p.m., St. John's,
Hollywood; Sept. 9—ND, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Paul et les Martyrs
- Haiti; SD, 9:30 a.m.-noon, St. Faith's, Miami; Sept. 20 - SPB, 5:30-9
p.m., St. Paul's, Delray Beach; Sept. 23 - Keys, 10
a.m.-1 p.m., St. Peter's, Key West; NPB, 9:30 a.m.-12:30
p.m., Grace, West Palm Beach
Men’s Cursillo - Sept. 7-11, Duncan Center
Diocesan School Fall Semester begins -
Sept. 9, St. Mark the Evangelist, Ft. Lauderdale
Ordination
of Allison DeFoor to the Transitional Diaconate -
Sept. 9, 5 p.m., Trinity Cathedral, Miami
Fall
Clergy Conference
- Sept. 12-14, Duncan Center
Women’s
Cursillo - Sept. 14-17, Duncan Center
Insurance Workshop -
16, Chapel of St. Andrew, Boca Raton
Ordination
of Ornoldo Surgeon to the Priesthood - Sept. 30, 10 a.m., Atonement, Lauderdale Lakes
Cursillo
Community Gathering -
Sept. 30, 9 a.m.-2
p.m.,
St. Mark’s, Ft. Lauderdale
Clergy
Spouses Wellness Day -
Oct. 7, Duncan Center
National
Acolyte Festival -
Oct. 7, Washington National Cathedral
Children’s
Sunday - Oct. 15, 3 p.m., Trinity Cathedral
Bishop’s
Lay Ministry Awards -
Oct. 21, Trinity Cathedral, Miami
Ordination
of Matthew Cowden to the Priesthood - Nov. 1, Christ Church, Alexandria, Va.
Institution
of Cori Olson as Rector -
Nov. 5, St. Luke the Physician, Miami
Diocesan
Convention -
Nov. 17-18, St. Benedict’s, Plantation
Labyrinth
Retreat - Nov. 29-Dec. 1, Duncan Center
Labyrinth
Facilitator Training- Dec. 1-2, Duncan Center
Institution
of the Rev. Denise Hudspeth as Rector - Dec. 2, 4 p.m., St. Margaret’s, Miami Lakes
Looking
ahead to 2007—
Bishop
Frade’s Holy Land Pilgrimage - Jan. 16-30
Annual
Clergy Retreat -
Feb. 5-8, Our Lady of Florida
Bishop’s
Spring Conference - Feb. 16-17, Duncan Center
Diocesan
Acolyte Festival
- Mar. 3, St. Margaret’s, Miami Lakes
Annual
Deacons’ Conference
- Mar. 9-10, Duncan Center
Parish
Administration Conference
(formerly Wardens and Treasurers) - Mar. 24, place TBA
Required
reports—Remember that parish audit
reports for 2005, as required by Canon XX, Section
2, are due in the Diocesan Office by Sept. 1. Click
here for an updated record of all required
reports submitted by Sept. 14.
Fall
Clergy Conference—Fall Clergy Conference will be Sept 12-14 at the Duncan Center. Note that the schedule will be slightly different from previous clergy
conferences; it will begin with lunch at noon on Tuesday and close with Eucharist
and fellowship on Wednesday evening. Lodging for Wednesday
night and breakfast on Thursday morning will be available.
The facilitator for the conference will be the Very
Rev. Alan Jones, dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco. Registration is online
at www.episcopalsouthflorida.org/register.html.
Insurance Forum—On Sept. 16, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Chapel of St. Andrew,
Boca Raton, Bill Bullock and Sheila
Atkinson of Church Insurance will offer a forum for
clergy and parish lay leaders on insurance needs and
requirements for congregations. Whether your parish
is insured through Church Insurance or with another
carrier, this is an important opportunity to ask questions
and to make certain that you have all the insurance
coverage your parish needs. If your parish is not insured by Church Insurance we encourage
you to bring a copy of your policy outlining your
present coverage. Be sure that officers and/or vestry members from your congregation
will attend and participate--we urge all congregations
to be represented. Registration is online at www.episcopalsouthflorida.org/register.html
Diocesan School—Classes at the Diocesan School for Christian Studies begin Sept.
9; with the exception of Eucharistic Visitor training,
all classes are taught at the main campus at St. Mark’s
School, Ft. Lauderdale. The 2006-2007 Diocesan School is now posted at http://www.diosef.org/dscs/index.html,
and registration is available at http://www.diosef.org/register.html
. Note that the Diocesan School provides
training for a variety of licensed lay ministries,
such as Preacher, Pastoral Leader and Eucharistic
Visitor.
Cursillo Community Gathering—There will be a Cursillo Community
Gathering and Diocesan Ultreya at St. Mark the Evangelist,
Ft. Lauderdale, Sept. 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch
will be provided, and Bishop Frade will be the Ultreya
speaker.
PAC
opening weekend at Trinity--Bishop
Frade invites everyone to attend two events at Trinity
Cathedral highlighting the opening of the Carnival
Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Oct. 6-8.
Friday, Oct. 6, at 6 p.m., Evensong will be sung,
followed by a "quarter peal" of the Cathedral
bells by members of the Washington Ringing Society,
based at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
On Sunday, Oct. 8, Bishop Frade will celebrate at
the 10 a.m. Eucharist, which will be the Miami premiere
of the Missa Miamiensis, a Mass-setting for
choir, soloists, organ, piano, field drum and saxophone.
At the conclusion of the service, a "full peal"
of bells will be rung, lasting approximately three
hours.
CANCELLED!
Bishop’s Lay Ministry Awards--The Oct.
21 presentation service for the Bishop’s Awards
for Lay Ministry has been cancelled. Instead, the
awards will be presented annually in each parish when
the bishop (or assistant bishop or one of the archdeacons)
visits. Names of those to be honored, with a short
description of the person’s ministry, must still
be submitted to Bishop Leo Frade’s secretary,
Sally James, by email
or mail no later than Oct. 1.
Diocesan
Convention—The
Diocesan Convention is scheduled for Nov. 17-18 at
St. Benedict’s, Plantation. Registration will be online, and
complete information on hotel reservations, as well
as other details of convention, will be sent directly
to delegates and clergy. The deadline for resolutions to be presented
to Convention is Oct. 3. The deadline for nominations
for positions to be filled by elections at Convention
is Oct. 31; nominations are needed for the following:
one lay member and one clergy member of the Standing
Committee; one clergy trustee of the University of
the South; one lay member of the Ecclesiastical Trial
Court; and one lay member of the Cathedral Chapter.
Resolutions and nominations must be submitted to the
secretary of Convention, the Reverend Bernard Griffith,
Christ Episcopal Church, PO Box 330006, Miami, FL 33133
Outstanding theological speakers coming to
Miami - October and November offer several
opportunities in the Miami area to hear well-known
theological speakers. On Oct. 10 Dr.
Kwok Pui Lan of Episcopal Divinity
School in Cambridge, Mass., will speak at 10 a.m.
at the Florida Center for Theological Studies, 111
NE 1 St., Miami. This lecture is free and open to
the public. For information call 305-379-3777. Jesus
scholar and author Marcus
J. Borg will present a lecture
series Nov. 3 and 4 (one lecture Friday evening and
three on Saturday) at Coral Gables Congregational
Church, 3010 De Soto Blvd., Coral Gables. The entire
series package is $40; Friday evening only is $15,
each of the individual Saturday lectures is $10 and
the optional lunch is $7. For information call 305-448-7421.
On Nov. 9 John Dominic Crossan, a
leading New Testament scholar, will present the Honors
College Excellence Lecture at 11 a.m. and another
lecture at 8 p.m. at the University Park Campus of
Florida International University, 11200 SW 8 St.,
Miami. The lectures are free and open to the public.
For information call 305-348-2000.
Bishop’s Spring Conference 2007—Save the dates for the Bishop’s
Spring Conference—“The Magnetic Church”, presented
by Andrew Weeks, Feb. 16-17, 2007. This is a two-day
conference, beginning on Friday afternoon; participants
should plan to attend the entire event. For more information
on Andrew Weeks and “The Magnetic Church”, go to http://www.magnetic-church.com
Prayers
for peace in the Middle East--The Ecumenical Office of the Episcopal Church has provided
a link to a website that offers an opportunity to
add your parish’s prayers for peace in the Middle
East to those of other faith communities. Go
to www.seasonofprayer.org for
information and resources.
Duncan Center position open—The
Duncan Center has hired a conference coordinator and
is now accepting applications for the position of
office coordinator. Click
here for a complete job description. For
additional information contact Veneta Lorraine, 561-496-4130
or vlorraine@adelphia.net.
Long-Term
Care Insurance—Open
enrollment will be Oct. 1-Nov. 30 for the Group Long-Term
Care Insurance available for purchase through the
Church Pension Fund. Watch for a mailing this month
from the Pension Fund with information on this insurance
and the eligibility requirements.
Online registration forms— Clergy or lay chairpersons of diocesan
ministries may request online registration for events
open to the diocese. Requests must be received in
the Diocesan Office no less than five business weeks
prior to the event. This will enable us to prepare,
test and post the registration online in a timely
manner. A form for submitting such requests is available
at https://www.amerisurf.com/diosef/request_form.html.
For questions or additional information, contact Jim
Carlton at jim@diosef.org or
800-268-9993 or 305-373-0881, ext. 16.
Katrina Non-Profit Reimbursement program--Private Non-Profit 501(c)3 organizations
(including faith-based organizations) in Florida are
eligible for reimbursement for their costs for the
in-state sheltering/hosting of out-of-state Hurricane
Katrina/Rita evacuees, under the sponsorship of Governor’s
Commission on Volunteerism. Click here for more
information. (http://www.volunteerflorida.org/secondlevel/kpr.html)
Volunteers
needed--Camp
Coast Care, a Katrina recovery ministry of Lutheran
Episcopal Services in Mississippi, is in continued
need for skilled and unskilled volunteers and work
crews throughout the coming months. To learn
more about the work that Camp Coast Care is doing,
please visit their website at http://www.campcoastcare.com/
and also the LESM website at http://www.lesm.org/.
Specific information on volunteering is available
in the menu at the left side of the CCC website.
The minimum age for volunteers housed at CCC is 16.
For youth groups or volunteers under the age of 16
please contact Mission-on-the-Bay Camp Coordination
Team: John Dreyfus 601-917-0794; Joelle Wright 619-865-8100;
Butch Jones 228-860-8777; John Berault e-mail: missiononthebay@yahoo.com.
To contact the Camp Coast Care volunteer coordinator,
email linda@campcoastcare.com
or call (203) 962-1489.
Diocesan Youth Ministry—The new outline for Diocesan Youth Ministry is posted
at http://www.diosef.org/youth/index.htm
, as is information on upcoming youth events. The
deans now have responsibility and authority for youth
ministry in their deaneries and will be appointing
youth coordinators for each deanery. If have questions
about youth ministry, contact your dean (if you’re
not sure who that is, go to http://www.diosef.org/staff.htm ) or
Mary Cobiella in the Diocesan Office, mary@diosef.org
or 800-268-9993 or 305-373-0881, ext. 29. Click here
for a list of upcoming youth events.
Request
from the Dominican Republic—A year ago the Diocese of the Dominican Republic (one of our companion
dioceses), as part of its mission to take the Gospel
to every province in the country, established the
congregation of Santa María Lleno de Gracia (St. Mary
Full of Grace) in the city of Mao, a city of 50,000
persons and capital of the Valvede Province. Now the
diocese has an opportunity to purchase a tract of
land large enough to build a church, as school and
a vicarage for this mission congregation. The lot
costs approximately $150,000, of which the diocese
can provide $50,000.
Bishop Julio Holguín is asking for donations
toward the remainder. For more information contact
Dr. Bob Stevens, Dominican
Development Group, c/o DaySpring, P.O. Box 661, Ellenton,
FL 3422; 941-776-0405 or ddgstevens@aol.com
Holy Land Pilgrimage—Bishop Frade will lead
a 14-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Jan. 16-30,
2007. The cost is $2,975 per person, double occupancy
(additional $575 for single accommodations); included
in the cost is a $200 tax-deductible donation to Our
Little Roses Ministries. Click
here for complete information and a reservation form,
or call Globe Travel, 305-823-3939.
Sabbatical Grants for Pastoral Leaders--The
Louisville Institute awards grants to clergy and lay
leaders in the U.S. and Canada seeking time for study,
reflection, retreat and rest for the renewal of their
vocations. The program will award up to sixty grants
for eight-week ($10,000) and twelve-week ($15,000)
sabbaticals. Recipients must be released from all
pastoral duties during the entire grant period. The
program is open to Protestant and Roman Catholic clergy,
church staff members, denominational and diocesan
staff, and others employed fulltime in recognized
positions of pastoral leadership, ordained and lay.
The application deadline is September 15, 2006. For
more information go to: http://www.louisville-institute.org/secondary/SGPLdetail.asp
Video-on-Demand--Faith & Values Media, the nation's largest
coalition of faith groups dedicated to media production,
distribution and promotion, has launched a free video-on-demand
(VOD) feature through its online service FaithStreams.com.
To search video content from dozens of faith groups
and religious organizations encompassing Jewish, Christian,
and Islamic traditions in the U.S., go to:
http://www.faithstreams.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&gid=24D6A09139574106B40EE09F96B86B5E
St. Paul’s, Delray Beach, will hold a blood drive on Sunday,
Sept. 3, from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., for the benefit of Gloria Copeland,
the wife of St. Paul’s sexton Jimmy Copeland. Mrs. Copeland
is critically ill with a disease that causes her
bone marrow to produce an insufficient number of
red blood cells, so she is in urgent need of both
whole blood and blood products. . The church is
also working to find a bone marrow donor for her;
without a bone marrow transplant she is likely to
die. If you want to help but can’t get to St. Paul’s on Sept. 3, you can donate blood
at any Community Blood Center of South Florida site,
and be tested as a potential bone marrow donor.
There are Community Blood Center locations throughout our area--visit
the web site http://www.cbcsf.org/
or call 1-800-504-5550 for a list of locations.
On Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. St. Luke the Physician, Miami, will
hold a candlelight service to pray for peace in
our world and to remember those who died on September
11, 2001 and in the wars that have followed. All
are welcome. The church is located in West Kendall at 12355 S.W. 104th Street, Miami, FL 33186. For directions
to the church, see our website at www.stlukethephysician.org
or call us at (305) 279-4265 for more information.
Holy Cross/Santa Cruz, Miami, will hold its centennial celebration
Sept. 16-17. There will be a Eucharist in English
at 11 a.m. on Saturday, followed by a luncheon; luncheon tickets are $40 for
adults and $10 for children. At noon on Sunday there will
be a Eucharist in Spanish. For more information
call the church office, 305-576-0852.
“Music
at St. Paul’s”, a series
of monthly concerts on Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m.
at St. Paul’s, Delray Beach,
begins Sept. 17 with a performance by Chamber Music
South. The requested donation at the door is $10.
For information call (561) 278-6003 or email stpauldb4@aol.com.
The Duncan Center is offering a Taize Healing Eucharist on Monday,
Sept. 18, from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Schofield Chapel.
All are welcome. Come, let the chant, the silence,
the prayer and the Eucharist heal your heart, body
and soul. No need is too small or too great for
our God. If you play an instrument and would like
to participate in the music, come at 6:15. A freewill
offering is requested, but not required.
A series of four “Sunday Afternoons at the
Console”, organ recitals at Bethesda-by-the-Sea,
Palm Beach, begins with a recital at 3
p.m. on Sept. 24. Click
here for a complete list of these recitals.
St. Patrick’s, West Palm Beach, will hold its fifth annual International
Food Festival on Sept. 30, from 4-7 p.m. Cuisines from throughout the Caribbean will be represented,
with traditional foods from Barbados, St. Kitts/Antigua, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and the Bahamas, as well as African-American “soul
food”. Music will be provided by the steel band
duo Steel Away. Tickets are $25 and are available
from the church office, (561) 833-1903.
St.
John's and St. James-in-the-Hills, Hollywood,
invite youth and children - and their families and
friends - in the Broward Deanery to the First
Annual Back to School Twilight Picnic and Volleyball
Challenge, Sept. 30, 6:30-8 p.m., behind
the Johnson Street Band Shell (end of Johnson Street
off Ocean Drive, Hollywood--between Hollywood Blvd.
and Sheridan on the Beach). For information call
St. John's office, 954-921-3721 or Deb McLaughlin
954-478-1091.
The Young Leaders for Christ Youth Group at St.
Christopher’s, Ft. Lauderdale, is
sponsoring a Gala Dinner/Dance, “Sailing
into the Blue”, at the Sheraton
Ft. Lauderdale Airport Hotel on Nov. 17, from 6
p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The cost is $65 for adults and
$50 for children age 13 and under; proceeds will
benefit the parish’s youth program. For additional
information, contact Judith Celestin-Lynch at 954-922-2096.
Registration ends Sept. 18 for fall
semester online courses offered by the Episcopal
Theological Seminary of the Southwest.
The ten-week courses
range from New Testament Greek, the Bible as Literature
and Islam for Christians to the Celtic Christian Way of Prayer, the Spiritual
Practice of Discernment and Christianity and the
Trial of Modernity. Classes begin online September
25 and conclude December 4. The three levels of
registration are auditing, continuing education
credit (CEUs), and graduate academic credit. Tuition is based
on the level selected. Course descriptions, faculty
bios, answers to questions, and registration links
can be found at www.etss.edu/OnlineSchool.shtml
“Freedom Flyers” art contest—Young people 21 and under are invited
to participate in a project that will send images
of freedom—and a chance to play—to children in Iraq. “Freedom Flyers” participants
are asked to
draw an image of one of the “four freedoms”—freedom
of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from
want and freedom from fear—on a plastic flying disk
(Frisbee). Before the “Freedom Flyers” are sent
to children in Iraq, prizes of $100 will be awarded
for the best design in each of three age categories,
10 and under, 11-14 and 15-21. Click
here for more information or contact
Kate Roos at kateroos@hotmail.com.
The
national Episcopal Communicators organization is
looking for an administrative coordinator. This
person could be located anywhere in the country;
the work would require a computer with Internet
access. Click
here for a complete position description.
Send inquiries to EC President Laurie Wozniak, lauriewozniak@episcopalwny.org.
The deadline for applications is Sept.
21, 2006.
St. James in the Hills, Hollywood,
needs about 40 or 50 copies of the Book of Common
Prayer, and would welcome donations of these from
any parish that has prayer books in good condition
to spare. Contact St. James’ rector, Fr. Orlando
Addison, froaddison@bellsouth.net
or call the church office, 954-987-2203 if you know
of any available prayer books.
St.
Stephen’s, Miami,
has two items to donate to a mission congregation
here or elsewhere that might not have the funds
to purchase them: a brand new 3x5 ft. Episcopal
Church flag with gold fringe and a new, never-used,
RSV Lectern Bible (with Apocrypha) in black bonded
leather binding, 14 pt. type, with gold page edges
and ribbon marker. Call 305-448-2601 if you’re interested
or know of a congregation that might be.
Trinity Cathedral, Miami, is looking for an interim organist to serve
during the fall/winter of 2006, while the search
process for a minister of music is underway. The
interim organist will play at one Sunday service
and accompany at a mid-week choir rehearsal under
the direction of the choir conductor. This person
should be trained in traditional church music and
familiar with the worship and liturgy of the Episcopal
Church. If
interested, please send information to: Trinity
Cathedral, 464 N.E. 16th Street, Miami, FL 33132, or email to miamitrinity@aol.com.
Additional
Events and Opportunities
(click
on links below for more information!)
- Kanuga
programs for late summer and fall
- Online
certificate program in Spirituality Studies from
St. Thomas University, Miami
- Interfaith
Conference on Domestic Violence, Oct. 7, Davie,
Fla.
- Healing
Winds Conference on Emotional Healing, Oct. 20-22,
Lake Logan, NC
- Do
Not Lose Heart: Youth Worker Summit - Nov. 12-15,
Disney World
- National
Native American Youth and Young Adult Gathering
- Nov. 17-20, New York, NY
Contact: Zena Moughrabi, 1-800-334-7626 x 6203,
ECDID2@episcopalchurch.org
- Fall
Semester, Online School of the Episcopal Theological
Seminary of the Southwest
- Duncan
Center programs Fall 2006
- Visioning
Endowments Seminar, St. Michael and All Angels,
Sanibel Island, Nov. 11
- Online
courses 2006-2007 from Church Divinity School of
the Pacific
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