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Reflecting on Reunification
Parish Engagement Packet
The Reunification Discernment Committee needs YOU, the parishes of our dioceses, to engage in discernment, to talk with one another and to us too. Your experiences and thoughts are essential to informing and helping us guide this process. This "Reflecting on Reunification Parish Engagement Packet" contains all you need to participate.We invite you to talk about the challenges you’re facing as a congregation, the impact your parish has on lives and in your community, ideas for how a reunified diocese could strengthen your ministries and callings, what you feel you need to know to make an informed decision on reunification, and whatever else you’d like to share with us at this point in the discernment process. We look forward to hearing from you by February 3, 2025! (deadline extended) Click here for more information.
-The Reunification Discernment Committee
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The Reunification Discernment Committee requests your prayers as it continues its work. Click here for options from which to choose. | |
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2025 Winter Youth Retreat
Date: January 17-19, 2025
Where: Wawasee Retreat Center (Syracuse, IN)
Who: Teens sixth through twelfth grade
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Save the Date!
2025 Winter Youth Retreat
Date: January 17-19, 2025
Where: Wawasee Retreat Center (Syracuse, IN)
Who: Teens sixth through twelfth grade
2025 Spring Youth Retreat
Date: May 16-18, 2025
Where: Wawasee Retreat Center (Syracuse, IN)
Who: Teens sixth through twelfth grade
2025 Youth Summer Camp
Date: June 8-14, 2025
Where: Camp Alexander Mack (Milford, IN)
Who: Campers entering third through ninth grade
2025 Sr. High Mission Week
Date: TBD
Where: TBD
Who: Teens entering tenth grade through graduating seniors
2025 Fall Youth Retreat
Date: October 24-26, 2025
Where: Wawasee Retreat Center (Syracuse, IN)
Who: Teens sixth through twelfth grade
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Save the Date
2025 Spring Clergy Conference with The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis
Date: March 10-12, 2025
Where: Waycross Camp and Conference Center (Morgantown, IN)
2025 Fall Clergy Retreat
Date: October 13-15, 2025
Where: Lindenwood Retreat and Conference Center (Donaldson, IN)
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Starts: January 10, 2025, 5 p.m. (EST)
Ends: January 11, 2025 (3 p.m. (EST)
Where: Waycross Camp and Conference Center (Morgantown, IN)
Enjoy the peace and quiet of Waycross as you hone your craft among other lay preachers. Bring along an upcoming set of lectionary readings for a sermon you’d like to work on.
Amid generous unstructured time to read, relax, research, and write, we’ll gather as a group to reverse-engineer sermons we admire and generate ideas for one another’s work. At the end of the retreat, you’ll have the option to deliver a 3-5 minute version of your sermon for feedback. This event is hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis.
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Sacred Ground Series Returns | |
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Starts: January 15, 2025, 6:30 p.m. (EST)
Where: Online
Sacred Ground is an 11-week online video and reading series designed for people that are looking to deepen their Baptismal Covenant. Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day. All are welcome. This event is hosted by the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis.
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Date: January 27-31, 2025
Where: Waycross Camp and Conference Center (Morgantown, IN)
Forma is a ministry of lifelong learning that celebrates, equips, supports, and connects leaders who form followers of Jesus. The theme for 2025’s Forma Conference is Come Away Together comes from Mark 6:31-32: “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." Plenaries will explore themes of rest, retreat, and Sabbath.
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Date: February 14-16, 2025
Where: Waycross Camp and Conference Center (Morgantown, IN)
The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis is excited to partner with Living Compass to offer this incredible retreat. We’ll engage in activities and conversations about individual wholeness and wellness as well as explore new ways our congregations can serve as places of health and wellness in our community contexts.
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Action Alerts
The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations (OGR) identifies opportunities for Episcopalians to participate in our democracy. Click this link to find an action alert that you are passionate about and send a message to your members of Congress.
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included in the next monthly enewsletter to Canon Christopher Hillak,
Missioner for Communications and Operations, by January 25. Thank you!
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