Email News & Updates April 1, 2019

News & Events Update - April 1, 2019

This is the semi-monthly DioAla News email update. The update is sent on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month, and includes the upcoming news and events for the Diocese of Alabama. For a full listing of news and events, please visit our website!

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Young Adult Retreat

Join us for a weekend at Wonderful, Wonderful Camp McDowell. There will be time for fellowship, worship, and enjoying the beauty of Camp McDowell. In our program time we will discuss what our faith has to offer us for our relationships in 2019. Scholarship funds are available!

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The ONE Conference

May 9

Acolyte Festival

May 11

Upcoming Ordinations

Pamela Long was ordained to the transitional diaconate on March 23 at the Church of the Ascension in Montgomery (pictured).

Upcoming ordinations to the transitional diaconate are:

April 12, 6 pm, Mark Likos at St. Stephen's Birmingham
May 18, 11 am, Randy Sellers at St. Luke's Birmingham
May 22, 6 pm, Polly Robb at St. Thomas Huntsville
June 8, 11 am, Paul Goldman at St. Mark's Birmingham

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Upcoming Events Around Our Diocese

April

April 4, 8 am to 5 pm, Threat Preparedness Workshop: Protecting Our Houses of Worship, Homewood, AL NEW

April 5-7, Mother Daughter Retreat at Camp McDowell

April 13, 10 am, Holy Hike at Rock Spring Nature Trail on Natchez Trace

April 19, 12 noon, Stations of the Cross: Seeking the Suffering Jesus on the Streets of Birmingham, Linn Park, Birmingham NEW

April 27, the Birmingham Convocation ECW Spring Meeting, St. Stephen's Birmingham NEW

May

May 3-5, Ultimate Parish Weeked at Camp McDowell NEW

May 4, 2019 Black Belt ECW Spring Convocation, St. Paul's Greensboro NEW

May 4, 11 am - 2 pm, 14th Annual Episcopal Place Gumbo Gala at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham

May 9-11, EfM Mentor Training Seminars offered at Ascension Montgomery

May 11, 10 am, Holy Hike at Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve in rural Colbert County

May 18, June Mays to lead retreat at St. Mary's Sewanee - "The Grace in Gardens"

May 24-26, Community Recreation & Dance Weekend at Camp McDowell

June

June 1, 11 am to 3 pm BBQ & Bluegrass to benefit Free Medical Clinic at St. Michael's and All Angels Anniston NEW

June 12-14, Invite Welcome Connect Summit 2019, Sewanee, TN NEW

June 13-15, Missional Voices National Gathering, Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, LA NEW

July

July 15-17, Volunteer Disaster Chaplaincy Training, The Beecken Center, Sewanee NEW

News from Around Our Diocese

2019 Parish Based Outreach Grant Applications due by May 1 NEW

Gathering Stories from Experiences with the "Way of Love Resources" NEW

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry invites Episcopalians to "Take the Pledge to Care for Creation" NEW

Registration Now Open for Young People Paint Birmingham (7/29-8/2)

Upcoming Retreats at St. Mary's Sewanee

Lilly Endowment Accepting Applications for National Clergy Renewal Program

Special Session 2019 Registration Now Open

St. John's Decatur seeks Youth Minister

St. Luke's Birmingham is seeking a Children's Ministry Assistant

The Rev. Scott Arnold facilitating 2020 Pilgrimage to the United Kingdom

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