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We are delighted to welcome the Rev. Becca Stevens as our keynote speaker for Convention 2023. Drawn from 25 years of leadership in mission-driven work, Becca leads important conversations across the country with an inspiring message that love is the strongest force for change in the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms and serves as chaplain at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Nashville.
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ECM@WCU is a loving, inclusive, prayerful community that meets during the school year for worship, dinner, fun, and learning. Could you help by providing an entree, side, dessert, bread, or a whole meal for 10-12 hungry college students either on a regular basis or just once during the school year? Meals need to be ready to serve by 6:00 on
Sunday evenings.
Please contact Mtr. Gaelyn at rector@stdavidscullowhee.org if you are able to help in any way and please keep our ministry in
your prayers.
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ECW of WNC Stays Active this Summer
The Episcopal Church Women of WNC are helping out parishes across the diocese throughout the summer and beyond with everything from a Giving Garden to church member support to a fundraiser with funny pet videos. Check out the latest from ECW of WNC and see how you can get involved by emailing the group's president
Mary Ann Ransom.
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Support our 2023 Blue Ridge Service Corps by contributing to the Pack the Pantry event! Our new corps members will be moving into Folwell House on August 27th for their year of service and community. One of their first activities together will be to unpack and organize their communal kitchen space. You can help by purchasing items for their year through a Target registry or a Walmart registry. Follow the links and help us welcome them to the ministry of our diocese.
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Bishop José's passionate about leading members of our diocesan community on a journey of spiritual renewal to where Jesus walked, prayed, taught, healed, and loved. Holy Land Pilgrimages happen every couple of years, and the next will be in the season of Advent 2025. If you're interested, sign up using this link.
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Events around the Diocese | |
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Italian Dinner
Benefits Needy Children's Fund at local elementary
Friday, Sept. 8 |
6:30 p.m. | Holy Family, Mills River
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Women Writers Workshop
with Katerina Whitley
Sept. 14–16 |
Valle Crucis
Conference Center
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Sept. 16–17 |
Lake Logan/
Camp Henry
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Give Feedback on Revised
Constitution and Canons
Our Constitution and Canons Committee has been hard at work to reform our important driving documents, and they want your feedback. All Episcopalians in the Diocese of Western North Carolina are welcome to respond by attending a feedback session.
Aug. 22 - Asheville
Aug. 26 - Zoom
Aug. 29 - Hendersonville
From the committee:
As part of our Diocesan discernment in calling Bishop José seven years ago, we identified a restatement of our Constitution and Canons as a goal for our life together. We recognized that our current documents, which evolved in a piecemeal fashion over several decades, are not a good reflection of how we currently live our common life. Since the 2017 annual Convention of the Diocese, the Committee on Constitution and Canons (the “Committee”) has been working on restatements of the Constitution and Canons. A proposed restated version was rejected by the 2021 Convention. The 2022 Convention tasked the Committee with making further revisions and it is anticipated that the Committee’s recommendations will be presented to the 2023 Convention for a decision.
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Bishops in Central NC Condemn
anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks, Legislation
The Diocese of North Carolina’s two bishops released a statement this week expressing solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community and condemning attacks on people “simply for being who they are,” while the state Legislature is poised to enact a series of anti-LGBTQ+ measures. One of the bills has drawn comparisons to the Florida law that critics have now labeled
“don’t say gay.”
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Hawai'i Church Leaders Assess Wildfire Impact
Episcopal leaders in Hawaiʻi are assessing the immediate needs of people who have been impacted by this week’s wildfires on the island of Maui, which have killed at least 55 people and destroyed at least a thousand buildings, including a historic Episcopal church. The worst of the damage was experienced by Maui’s western community of Lahaina, population 12,700, where Holy Innocents Episcopal Church had stood
since 1927.
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Learn about
World Religions
Join the Center for Spiritual Wisdom for a six-week Wisdom of World Religions online learning series covering Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Taoism. The program will be led by CSW director and former Episcopal minister Rob Field and CSW Associate Terry Decker on Sunday afternoons from
2–3:30 p.m. beginning
August 20.
Registration starts at $179 and is available at the link.
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