SC Region Newsletter

SOUTH CENTRAL REGION ENEWSLETTER

May 2019

POSTPONED

SC Region Convocation - Asset Based Community Development Workshop

The Region Leadership Team met together last week to take a pulse of the energy within our group and around the region. Through prayer and conversation we determined that this gathering was too much for the region to hold at this time given the plethora of training opportunities being offered this spring and the many town fairs/local events that churches are participating in.

We will be offering an opportunity to gather at a later date in 2019. Many thanks to all of you for considering this gathering, and for your continued involvement in the South Central Region.

Please stay tuned!

An Opportunity to Say Goodbye to our Region Missionary Rachel

With convocation postponed, many of you have been asking how we might mark the ending of time with our first Region Missionary, Rachel. Please come by St John's North Guilford on Sunday June 23rd between 1 and 3 for a chance to say thank you and goodbye as well as offer blessings and hopes for our next Region Missionary.

Undoing Racism Workshops - New Haven

The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond has been offering workshops for the dismanteling of racism in the United States since its founding in 1980. They are "a national and international collective anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation."

This year there will be a series of opportunities through the Elm City Undoing Racism Organizing Collective, which is a collaborator with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, to participate in these three day workshops. All community leaders are invited to participate (if you're reading this you are a community leader!). Workshops will be offered on:

May 30-June 1

September 12-14

November 8-10

These workshops provide one opportunity to lean into the two year focus of Racial Healing, Justice, and Reconciliation...and there are many others being offered across ECCT! Please contact Rev. Kyle Pederson (kyle.pederson@yale.edu) with questions about the workshops through Elm City UROC and please check out their website for more information and for an application.

Sacred Healing: A Summer Film Series

For the past four months a group of Episcopalians have been gathering to pray about how to offer the materials from the 2019 Trinity Institute "Seen and Unseen" to the North and South Central regions of ECCT. The desire is to commit to viewing the movies and some of the panel discussions from the Trinity Institute so that we can deeply engage with our own involvement in racism and begin to work to create beloved community together.

The planning team: Rev Dee Anne Dodd (Wallingford), Rob (Wallingford), Karen (Durham), (Southington), Diane Kyle (Guilford), Erin Flinn (NC Region), and Rachel Field (SC Region) are still working on locations for the showings and finalizing the details for the events. If you are interested in more information, would like to offer support, or have suggestions for facilitators of the table conversations please reach out to North Central Region Missionary Erin Flinn eflinn@episcopalct.org.

Upcoming Region Events

Philadelphia Youth Mission Trip

The long-awaited youth mission trip is upon us! On June 24th carloads of young Episcopalians from three different SC Region churches will travel to Philadelphia to grow a community together and deepen their faith in Christ. Thank you all for your support along the way!

So Long Sunday

Come on by to St John's North Guilford between 1 and 3pm on Sunday June 23rd to say thank you and so long to our Region Missionary Rachel. Rachel began working with the region 2 years ago and will be heading north to Randolph VT to start a small farm with her fiance.

The South Central Region, in partnership with the Valley Interfaith Clergy Association, will host a blessing tent at the annual FADE 5k for opioid awareness. This is a powerful opportunity to be present to the survivors in our community and to pray for those affected by addiction to opioids. If you would like more information or to ask about supporting this effort please contact Rev. Tom Mariconda (thomas.mariconda@att.net).

Got something happening in your community that you'd like the region to know about? Please reach out to your Region Missionary, rfield@episcopalct.org and/or upload it to the ECCT calendar here.