The Bishop’s Fall Conference for Lay Professionals, Clergy & Spouses
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20-21, 9:30 a.m. – noon via Zoom

Join your bishops as they offer teachings and reflections on the themes of Communion, Community and Conversation. Together we will explore Christ’s call to us to live faithfully in this and every time of disruption. 

We will focus on our missional priorities of racial justice, creation care and evangelism as we strive to become a Church that looks more and more like the communities and world around us. Our time will include teachings and reflections by each bishop, conversations between the bishops and small chat groups that bring you fully into the conversation. Register today!
Diocesan Annual Convention Goes Online
Saturday, November 14

On November 14, we will gather online for the 226th Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia to be community for one another in Jesus’ name, to worship together, and to conduct the annual business of the Diocese. In addition to the usual business of electing and appointing leadership, hearing reports and addressing submitted resolutions, Convention this year will receive and act on a call for the election of the 14th Bishop Diocesan.

Nominations and Resolutions Deadlines
Registration will open in the next two weeks. The deadline for nominations to Standing Committee and Related Organizations is Tuesday, October 27. The deadline to submit Resolutions and/or amendments to the Constitution and Canons is also October 27.

Online Platform
Lay and clerical delegates will participate in Convention proceedings via zoom. Details regarding technology requirements and guidance will be e-mailed to delegates soon. If your church has not submitted its Certificate of Election, please do so immediately, so that we can be in contact with your delegates. All members of the Diocese are invited to tune into Facebook and YouTube for Bishop Goff’s Pastoral Address. The Convention worship service will be broadcast the following day.

All information on the 226th Annual Convention will be posted here.
ECW Fall Meeting and UTO Ingathering
Thursday, October 15, 9 a.m. - noon
via Zoom

The Episcopal Church Women invite you to join us virtually as we gather around the theme, “Lord, Make Us Servants of Your Peace.” Special guests include the Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority; the Rev. J. Randy Myers, President of GraceInside; and Ms. Ajashu Thomas and Dr. Harry R. Salinas from the Human Rights Commission of Fairfax County. A brief business segment will feature the election of new ECW officers, announcement of scholarship recipients and an update on the Triangle of Hope. The meeting will conclude with a worship service led by Bishop Goff and the Very Rev. Kim Coleman, ECW Chaplain. Please register by October 8. For additional information, please visit the ECW website.
Triangle of Hope Youth Pilgrimage
The Triangle of Hope Pilgrimages are a three-year course of travel between Liverpool, England; Kumasi, Ghana; and Virginia. Participants explore through study, travel, dialogue, service and worship the history, legacy and ongoing impact of historical and modern human trafficking. Interested youth (rising 8th-11th graders) are invited to visit the Triangle of Hope webpage for more information and to apply.
Upcoming from Virginia Theological Seminary

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