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In this roundup:
- Annual Conference
- Peter Bergstrom Award
- OMC Site Survey
- Share your funny camp stories
- Upcoming Opportunities
- News/Resources/Jobs
- Member Questions
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Annual Conference: January 22-27, 2023 | |
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Remember to register for the 2023 Annual Conference! Join us at St. Crispin's in Wewoka, OK this January to learn from and collaborate with peers in the camp and conference industry. We are looking forwrrd to the opportunities for fellowship and professional development. If you have any questions please reach out to Ali at staff@episcopalccc.org.
Find more information here.
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Pre-Conference Workshop
This pre-conference workshop, led by seasoned executive directors Eleanor Reeves, Lauri SoJourner, and Brad Thompson, is for new and aspiring executive directors and will overview getting started, finance, fund development, board governance, personnel, risk management, and self-care.
Two sessions will be held January 21st, one from 2PM-5:PM, the second from 7:PM-8:30PM.
Two sessions will be held January 22nd, one from 9:AM-12:PM, the second from 1:PM-3:PM.
Sign up here.
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Last Call: Peter Bergstrom Leadership Award | | |
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Tomorrow is the final day to submit nominations:
Know someone you want to nominate for the Peter Bergstrom Leadership Award? This award recognizes a deeply committed member of our community who has advanced the cause of Episcopal Camps and Conference Centers through mentoring, advocacy, and innovative programming.
To be considered for this award a candidate needs to exemplify mentoring, advocacy and innovative programming. The award is announced at each year’s Annual Conference, which is held in January.
If you are going to nominate someone, communicate with them, share info, qualifications and expectations. If they say yes, the nominee fills out, signs and submits the form
Submit nominations here.
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Final Push: OMC Site Survey | | |
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Welcome to the 5th bi-annual OMC survey!
Your responses will be used to provide a snapshot of organizational structure, theological priorities, and ministry philosophy of Christian camping and retreat ministries across the denominations represented in Outdoor Ministries Connection.
If you have any questions, please emailjake@sacredplaygrounds.com.
Complete survey here.
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Last Call: A Chance to Tell Your Story | | |
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Do you have a short, true, wacky story from your time at camp?
A documentary project is in progress featuring multiple different camp stories! ECCC has the opportunity to share funny, great, or unbelievable stories from your time at camp. This can be from your time as a camper, your experience as a staff member, and/or from a leadership perspective.
Listen here for the initial inspiration, Hot Dog Camp
Email Ali at Staff@episcopalccc.org by tomorrow, December 15th if you are interested in participating and she will connect you to the project director!
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Next Book Club Meeting: February 6th
Join us in reading Woman of Light by Kalii Fajardo-Anstine.
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award Finalist Sabrina & Corina.
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Community Check-In
Join us for our weekly community check in! Spend time with others in the ECCC network and share what is going on, troubleshoot ideas, enjoy fellowship time! Check ins will be at 12 PM ET/ 11 AM CT/ 10 AM MT/ 9 AM PT. Use this zoom link to join.
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ECCC Affinity Spaces
Are you part of an existing affinity group? Are you seeking to join an affinity space?
We have our (known) affinity groups and meeting information on our member site here.
With new members seeking a place to belong, we are hoping that current affinity space leaders can reach out to Ali at staff@episcopalccc.org with your group name and a meeting schedule to put out to members. If you're not part of a current group but have an idea for an affinity space, let us know that too!
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Episcopal Service Corps is a network of young adults who commit at least one year to transforming themselves and the world through community building, local collaboration, prayer, and action while living in locally organized intentional communities within the U.S. Each corps member serves at a community-based nonprofit and receives housing, health coverage, spiritual direction, mentorship, and stipends to cover living expenses, transportation, and food.
The Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) invites young leaders ages 21 to 32 interested in a transformative outreach and discernment experience to apply online for the 2023-24 program year.
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Young Adult and Campus Ministries Leadership Conference Planning Team
The Episcopal Church Young Adult and Campus Ministry Office invites those with a penchant for programming and hospitality to serve on a planning team for an upcoming leadership conference for those in ministry with young adults on and off college campuses.
Applications for the planning team are due by Dec. 16; decisions will be announced the third week of January. Apply online.
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ECF's Faith and Vitality Survey | |
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The Episcopal Church Foundation would like to learn more about those we serve - your faith life, your challenges in ministry and your unique gifts. Your input will directly impact our future mission and offerings. Please take a moment to complete ECF’s Faith and Vitality survey here. | | | |
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Jobs:
For a list of all open job postings and positions, please visit our website here.
Does your site or center offer sabbaticals for either lay or clergy employees? Do you have a model or an example to share? Send any resources to director@episcopalccc.org.
Has your site or center built a LIT/CIT program? Do you have a model or an example to share? Send any resources to staff@episcopalccc.org.
Submit a job
Question for the membership
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The mission of ECCC, Inc. is to sustain and enhance the ministry
of all camps and conference centers of the Episcopal Church by:
- Nurturing professional growth and development of current and future leaders;
- Fostering excellence in the operation and services of member centers;
- Strengthening the network of communication, collegiality, and support among leaders of centers;
- Advocating for camp and conference ministry within the wider Church.
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