Hello!
The following is excerpted from an invitation from The Episcopal Church:
Forward Movement, along with partners from across the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada, invites followers of Jesus to participate in the Good Book Club, a churchwide Bible reading initiative. The Good Book Club will focus on the Gospel of John, with participants reading a section of scripture each day during the Epiphany season, starting on January 6, 2020.
“The Good book Club is helping us to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest the holy scripture, anew in our time,” said Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry. “The Good Book Club is a helpful tool to engaging in ‘Learn,’ one of the seven Way of Love practices for a Jesus-centered life.”
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Save the Date:
Southern Leadership Day Workshop.
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Save the Date:
Central Leadership Day Workshop.
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Save the Date:
Northern Leadership Day Workshop.
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Save the Date:
Diocesan Confirmation in Holland.
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Save the date:
DREAM Mission Project in the Dominican Republic.
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Episcopal Youth Event in Washington, DC for high school-aged youth and adult leaders.
Info and Application.
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Save the Date:
Diocesan Convention in Lansing, with the Diocese of Eastern Michigan and with special guest, the Presiding Bishop.
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Trinity Episcopal Church, in conjunction with other local churches, hosted its annual Thanksgiving Outreach program Thursday."
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Op-ed by the Rev. Jared Cramer - "
This past Sunday evening, our church hosted an ecumenical offering of “Advent Lessons & Carols.” I was blessed by the area pastors who joined in reading Scripture, the sense of unity as Christians from a variety of denominations gathered together for song and reflection."
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Advent Youth Retreat at Plainsong Farm
EDWM Youth spent the weekend reflecting on the season
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Youth from across the Diocese of Western Michigan spent last weekend at Plainsong Farm, focused on reflecting on the season of Advent and asking the question - where am I going? The retreat included time of play and rest, including building Advent wreaths out of natural materials.
There are several opportunities for youth from middle to high school coming up in the next several months. Check out the "Upcoming Events" section above for links to each event.
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Join the project!
New #MIFaithStory featuring Diane Garrison
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YOU are invited to share your #MIFaithStory - why do you follow Jesus? Why are you an Episcopalian? What do you wish people knew about your community?
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OPPORTUNITIES & RESOURCES
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Reclaiming Paul for Today
January 13-March 2 with Church Divinity School of the Pacific
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Dr. Doug Mohrmann (Grace, East Grand Rapids) will teach an online course through the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, January 13-March 2, 2020.
The Epistles of Paul remain largely untouched in today’s preaching and teaching, and if we hear about Paul at all it is often through Acts. To neglect Paul effectively shortens our New Testament. This course will help us take a fresh look at Paul the Apostle and his impact on the early Church. His letters are the earliest Christian literature preserved from antiquity. They are evidence of his labors in fledgling churches where he pioneered theology that shaped the Church of his own time and in the centuries to come. Together we will look at his body of work, in order to regrasp its basic content and to study critical scholarship of our time. New readings of Paul’s relationship with Judaism and with the colonializing power of Rome are given special attention. Finally, we will apply these insights to short studies that relate to current lectionary passages from the Epistles of Paul.
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Call for Proposals: The Theology of Gratitude
United Thank Offering & Bexley-Seabury Seminary
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Gratitude has become a phenomenon in popular culture and is written about in books ranging from self-help to the Harvard Business Review. Scholarly engagement has developed primarily in the psychological community, which has demonstrated the correlation between gratitude and improvement in personal health and the development of strong, healthy relationships. There is far less scholarship arising within the theological community.
We seek to change this! Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation and the United Thank Offering are collaborating to host a Convocation and Scholars Conference on the Theology of Gratitude with Diana Butler Bass, April 23–24, 2020 and are accepting paper proposals on the topic.
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Joint Epiphany service with Nativity, Boyne City; Christ Church, Charlevoix; and Emmanuel, Petoskey at Petoskey at 6pm.
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Safety Ministry Workshop from 9:30-11:30am at St. Mark's, Grand Rapids open to all. Suggested donation $10/person. To register, call 617-456-1684 or email
pams@stmarksgr.org
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St. Paul's Muskegon
is organizing a pilgrimage to Ireland and the Isle of Iona - "In the Footsteps fo St. Patrick, St. Brigid, and St. Columba". For information, contact the Rev. Mary Frens at 231-519-2792.
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CONNECT
This newsletter is edited by Katie Forsyth, Canon for Evangelism & Networking.
Email Katie.
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