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Mission Matters

News from the Episcopal Diocese

of Western Massachusetts

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September 4, 2018

Church releases toolkit to encourage all to

#VoteFaithfully

Register to vote! We cannot engage in the public square through voting if we're not registered to vote! Don't procrastinate-get registered today! Visit https://vote.gov/ to get registered NOW.
Be an informed voter! Research the candidates ahead of time, even for local elections. Know what you need to take with you to the polling station in order to vote.
Vote! Make sure you know where to vote, or, if necessary, how to cast an absentee ballot! Go to Rock the Vote for voting info.
Mobilize! Find friends and fellow parishioners who aren't yet registered and sign up together. Talk to youth and young adults about the importance of registering and help get them registered. Volunteer or host a voter registration drive, or help people get to their polling station. Share on social media that you #VoteFaithfully to remind and encourage others to vote too.
Join Lawyers and Collars! This initiative engages pastors, imams, rabbis, and other faith leaders, to stand alongside lawyers at voting precincts of vulnerable citizens. They will provide a combined legal and moral presence against voter suppression, intimidation, and harassment. Check out their website for more information.
Engage your congregation using our Vote Faithfully Toolkit! We can play a unique role in this election by empowering every voice in our congregations. Check out resources in this toolkit for getting out the vote in your faith community.

"Voting and participation in our government is a way of participating in our common life and that is a Christian obligation." -Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Revival tickets & bus info

available September 5

Revival Update via email tomorrow

Tomorrow our revival goes public!

After our press releases go far and wide, we will email online ticket and bus registration to our full database. We are offering our congregations a ten-day window to get tickets before they are made available to the general public (AKA, friends we haven't met yet) on September 17.

New curriculum for PB's book,

Crazy Christians

An Invitation to a Book Discussion

Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus, by The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry

The WMA Revival Christian Formation Team in the Berkshire Corridor is creating a curriculum to accompany the reading of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Crazy Christians. We hope that a study of this collection of sermons/essays from our beloved “Royal Wedding Preacher” will generate excitement in our communities for the WMA Revival on October 21 by making them familiar with Bishop Curry’s voice and his passion for following Jesus in this age.

more info

Have you visited the revival website?

We're starting in Pittsfield and continuing in Worcester. Check out the events schedule here.
Check out the videos of our PB on the revival website.
Prayer for Revival 2018
It's never too late to join the Bible Challenge.

RSVP now for Fall Clergy Day

@ St. Andrew's, Longmeadow

Join your colleagues for Fall Clergy Day September 13, 9:00 am - 3:00 pm at St. Andrew's Church, Longmeadow. Please RSVP by August 31st . Hope to see you there!

RSVP

Bishop's Choir School

The Bishop’s Choir School begins a new school year on September 11! An initiative of The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts, the Bishop's Choir School aims to provide high quality music education to children in grades 2-12. Weekly rehearsals are located at Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, MA. Families can register online by visiting http://www.cccspfld.org/index.php/worship-and-music/music/the-bishop-s-choir-school .

Help spread the word: this is free music education , open to families from any religious background (or none), and the Bishop’s Choir School sings at evening services rather than on Sunday mornings—that way, kids can continue their normal involvement at their home churches. Contact Bob Hansler for more information: rhansler@cccspfld.org , or 413-736-2742, ext. 104.

September 12

God's Story, Our Story: workshop September 12

In a re-introduction of this material, we will begin to unearth the stories that we carry within us and we will also learn how to create spaces to invite and share stories with those in our congregations and our communities.

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