What church leaders need to know for
March 2020
Upcoming Events
Confirmation Season will be here before you know it!
Deadlines are fast approaching for Spring 2020 Confirmation Retreats and Services:
Confirmation Retreats
SAT, MAR 7, 9 AM - 4 PM @ CHRIST CHURCH, POMPTON (Deadline: 5 PM MON, MAR 2 )
SAT, APR 4, 9 AM - 4 PM @ ST. JAMES, UPPER MONTCLAIR (Deadline: 5 PM MON, MAR 30 )
All youth candidates are strongly urged to attend one of our two Confirmation Retreats. Adult candidates are urged to join us at 11 AM for worship followed by lunch with Bishop Hughes. Find out more and register online.
Confirmation Services
Registration deadline: WED, APR 1
Candidates for Spring 2020 Confirmations, being held in late April and early May, must be registered by their Clergy (or in the absence of Clergy, by one of their Wardens) no later than April 1 using this form.
Anti-Racism Dialogues
FRI & SAT, MAR 13 & 14 @ EPISCOPAL HOUSE (Deadline: FRI, MAR 6 )
Candidates elected office at the Annual Diocesan Convention must have completed anti-racism training with the past five years. Find out more and register online.
Church Leader University
SAT, MAR 21, 7:45AM
@ ST. ELIZABETH'S, RIDGEWOOD
(Deadline: 5 PM MON, MAR 16 )
Registration is open and workshop descriptions are available for Church Leader University, a training day for ALL congregational lay leaders to learn, network and celebrate your ministry. Find out more and register online.
Registration is required. Walk-ins cannot be accommodated.
Houses of Worship Security Presentation
SAT, MAR 7, 11 AM @ TRINITY & ST. PHILIP'S CATHEDRAL, NEWARK
Parish Safety Committee Chairpersons may wish to attend this presentation hosted by our Cathedral. Find out more.
See other Upcoming Community Events , posted by our congregations and associated organizations.
For Youth & Young Adults
Episcopal Youth Event 2020
TUE, JUL 7 - SAT, JUL 11
@ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
(Application deadline extended: FRI, MAR 6 )
Applications are being accepted until Friday, Mar. 6 for the 2020 Episcopal Youth Event (EYE20), a churchwide gathering of youth, from all over the US and beyond, that occurs every three years.

Youth participants must be enrolled in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade during this school year or must have turned at least 15 and be no older than 19 by the start of the event. We also need an adult chaperone for every 6 youth who attend. Find out more.
Pop Up Youth Ministry
FRI-SUN, MAR 13-15 & FRI-SUN, APR 24-26
Middle schoolers gather for an intimate weekend at Cross Roads. The same great retreat will be offered in both March and April, so choose the one that works for you.

SUN, MAR 29, 4-6 PM
@ GRACE CHURCH VAN VORST, JERSEY CITY
Scholarship funds accepting applications for 2020-21 academic year
The Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) scholarship program is open to all high school seniors who are actively engaged in the life, work and ministry of an Episcopal Congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark. Application deadline: FRI, APR 3, 2020.

The Gertrude Butts Fund, a non-profit corporation organized in 1929, and closely affiliated with the Diocese of Newark, seeks applicants for the 2020-2021 academic year. Application deadline: MON, MAY 4, 2020.
News from Cross Roads Camp & Retreat Center
Cross Roads is a welcoming, ecumenical retreat center and camp of our diocese and the NJ Synod of the ELCA (Lutheran Church).

Now Hiring: Summer Staff 2020
The application to join the Cross Roads Summer Staff next summer is now open! Encourage young adults you know to consider spending their summer making a difference while having fun. Find out more at crossroadsretreat.com/employment.
Diocesan Announcements
Share your photos of the season!
We'd love for you to share with us your church's photos from Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and throughout the Lenten season, into and including Holy Week and Easter. Photos may be used on the diocesan website, e-newsletters or social media.

Photos should be the highest resolution available – preferably the original, unedited .JPG file. Horizontal layout works better than vertical. Please include the photographer's name, for photo credit.

Email photos to Nina Nicholson at nnicholson@dioceseofnewark.org; if you have too many to email, you can ask for a dropbox to be set up for you.
Sign up for Lenten email meditations
Lenten email meditations will be published starting today and continuing through and including Holy Saturday, April 11.

To subscribe to the meditations, please visit dioceseofnewark.org/publications.
Grant application deadlines
MON, MAR 2, 12 NOON - ACTS/VIM Fund
Provides financial support of programs and projects that encourages community outreach.

Provides congregational missional funds for the support, strengthening, development and renewal of our congregations’ mission and ministry.

See also grants, resources and other opportunities listed on the Province II website here .
Check out our other diocesan publications
The VOICE Digest - A printable publication, published quarterly. Click here to download the Winter 2019-2020 issue and share it with your congregations through March 17, when the Spring 2020 issue will become available.

The VOICE Online - News, events and features of interest to members and friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, emailed twice a month September-May and monthly June-August. Click here to subscribe to future issues and read archived issues.

We love to share stories from our congregations in The VOICE Online! Click here for submission guidelines. March deadlines:

  • Mar. 4 issue - TODAY, FEB 26
  • Mar. 18 issue - WED, MAR 11
Clergy ministry transitions
Arrivals
  • The Rev. Jill Williams, Curate, Christ Church, Ridgewood - FEB 1

See all clergy ministry transitions in 2020 .
For Clergy
Clergy Retreat with the Bishop 2020
TUE, MAR 24, 6 PM - THU, MAR 26, 1 PM @ HOLY CROSS MONASTERY
Click here for the retreat schedule.
Clergy openings
At Step 1: Separation & Planning
  • St. John's Church, Boonton
  • St. Paul's Church, Montvale
  • Church of the Epiphany and Christ Church, Orange
  • St. Matthew's Church, Paramus

At Step 3: Discernment / Receiving Names
  • Christ Church, Budd Lake - Priest-in-Charge (part-time)
  • St. Peter's Church, Essex Fells - Rector (Receiving names until April 3, 2020)
  • St. Luke's Church, Haworth - Priest-in-Charge (part-time)
  • St. Bartholomew's Church, Ho-Ho-Kus - Rector (Receiving names until April 3, 2020)
  • St. Peter's Church, Morristown - Rector  (Receiving names until April 3, 2020)
  • Grace Church, Rutherford - Priest-in-Charge (part-time)
  • Church of the Holy Innocents, West Orange - Priest-in-Charge (part-time)
News from the Wider Church
¡Cuba Sí! TEC Officially Welcomes Its Newest Diocese
La Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba on February 15 officially became the Diocese of Cuba, rejoining the Episcopal Church after more than half a century of separation. Read more.

The Diocese of Cuba joins the Diocese of Newark as a member of Province II .
Leadership News is published monthly on the last Wednesday.