Diolog: Bishop Doyle's 2020 Advent Message; Henrietta B. Wells Scholarship Deadline Approaching; & More

Diocesan Youth Delegates | Registration Dates | Registration Documents

Henrietta B. Wells Scholarship

DEADLINE:

December 11, 2020

LEARN MORE ABOUT INITIATIVE

and

COMPLETE APPLICATION

Inquiries? Please email

wellsapplication@edotracialjustice.org

The Rev. Rhonda Rogers,

Sub-Committee Chair

The Rev. Thomas Cain Fund

DEADLINE:

December 22, 2020

LEARN MORE ABOUT INITIATIVE

and

COMPLETE APPLICATION

For more information, contact:

cainfund@edotracialjustice.org

Samuel A. Dodson,

Sub-Committee Chair

VISIT WEBSITE: EDOTRACIALJUSTICE.ORG

Pressing on Toward the Mark

By: Kathy H. Culmer, DMin

"The purpose of telling our stories or sharing our history is not so that we will go back in time and place just for the sake of going there or so that we will get stuck there, but so that we can appreciate the journey..."

More here

Abundant Harvest Kitchen Exceeds #GivingTuesday Goal

More than 150 donors gave $52,640 or 105% of donations.This will allow Abundant Harvest Kitchen to feed over 100 MORE families next year with the extra $2,640 received. More here

Interested in starting a missional community? Contact Jason Evans.

Digital Advent Liturgy for Students

Canterbury Episcopal Student Center at TAMU and Blinn College is offering a digital liturgy to help students slow down, pray and place their trust in God during this Advent and finals season. More here

For more information on Campus Ministries, contact Jason Evans.

St. George's, Austin, Raises Thousands in Hands for Hope Campaign

Members of St. George's, Austin, raised over $7,000 to support El Buen Samaritano's Hands for Hope campaign. More here

Diocesan Email Database Scam

Some people have used the COVID-19 pandemic to take advantage of the most giving people in our society. Many are hurting and are in need. We certainly wish for those in need to be helped. Please beware, however, that both parishioners and clergy have received various emails from an individual impersonating Bishop Doyle. The emails, appearing to come from Bishop Doyle, usually say that he is busy but needs a favor. In some instances, it may ask that you purchase gift cards. Sometimes it simply asks that you reply to the email.

Under no circumstance would Bishop Doyle, or a representative of the diocese, send such an email making that or similar requests of clergy or parishioners. Note that Bishop Doyle's email convention has @epicenter.org at the end, just as every other diocesan employee's email address. Scams are common during this time of year; however, the pandemic has increased the frequency.

Please do not reply to an email that doesn't end in @epicenter.org. The emails that have been sent, include epicenter in the sender's email address, but they are actually Gmail accounts. We ask that you immediately please forward the email to reportphishing@apwg.org to report it as a scam. You can also report and block it through your email service provider.

For more information, please click here.

OUR Parishes and Schools

St. Mark's Saints of Cure

In a virtual walk, the Saints for a Cure raised over $3,400 this year as part of the total $1.6 million that was raised in the Southern Texas Chapter.

More here

Advent Chapel

Episcopal High School Chaplains, the Rev. Beth Holden and the Rev. Art Callaham, invite the community to their Virtual Advent Chapel tonight at 6 p.m. More here

Presiding Bishop Curry’s

Christmas Message 2020

“Joy to the world! The Lord is come. In your hearts, in your homes, in your lives, prepare him room,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in his Christmas Message 2020.

Read more | In Spanish here