The North Carolina Disciple Fall 2010

FALL 2010

THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA

IN THIS ISSUE:

A Church for Others Freedom Ride 2010

What is a Diocese?

Parish Hall Goes Green

contents

table of

“Digital Gothic Gateway” Jim Gallucci

FALL 2010

features

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Freedom Ride 2010: A Pilgrimage of Reconciliation

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Sacred Space for the City

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Parish Hall Goes Green

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Green Grants

The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina Bishop The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry michael.curry@episdionc.org East Region/Raleigh Diocesan Office: 919.834.7474

What is a Diocese?

And Why, for Christians, Does it Matter?

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Diocesan Office 200 West Morgan Street, Suite 300 Raleigh, NC 27601-1338 PHONE: 919.834.7474 TOLL FREE: 800.448.8775 FAX: 919.834.8775

Assistant Bishop The Rt. Rev. William O. Gregg william.gregg@episdionc.org South Region/Charlotte Office: 704.332.7746 Assisting Bishop The Rt. Rev. Alfred C. “Chip” Marble Jr. alfred.marble@episdionc.org Northwest Region/Greensboro Office: 336.273.5770

17 An Interview with the Diocese’s

PUBLISHER

New Deacon for Hispanic Ministry

Bishop of North Carolina

18 Welcome to St. Bart’s Community Lunch

EDITOR / ART DIRECTOR

19 Faith, Poverty and the MDGs: The Time is Now

COPY EDITOR

Sarah Herr: sarah.herr@episdionc.org Beth Grace CONTRIBUTORS IN THIS ISSUE

21 Convention 2011 23 The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

Mark Price Alice Freeman The Rev. Evelyn Morales Peter Wallace The Rev. John Tampa The Rev. Greg Jones The Rev. Sarah Hollar The Rev. Brad Smith

The Rev. Dr. Sally Harbold Pete Crow Dorothy Darr, PhD The Rev. Warren Pittman Ruth D. Anderson, PhD Charlotte Jenkins Meg McCann Bishop Curry

/ United Thank Offering

24 Celebrating Seniors 25 Thompson to Provide Intense Therapy for Victims of ‘Horrifying’ Abuse

SUBSCRIPTIONS / CHANGE OF ADDRESS

26 The Pastoral Response Team

Scott Welborn: scott.welborn@episdionc.org

27 Reflection: Walking with St. Francis

All submissions welcome and considered for publication.

Email submissions to sarah.herr@episdionc.org.

SUBMISSIONS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

departments & more

Are published on the diocesan website.

9 Q&A: How is Your Church a Church for Others?

20 Events, Briefs & Clergy Changes 22 Snapshots 28 Bishops’ Visitations

ON THE COVER

Youth from the freedom ride stand in front of a mural of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray in Durham. Read more about the Freedom Ride on page 10, and find additional information on the Rev. Dr. Murray on Page 23.

Cover photo by Sarah Herr

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w welcome Welcome to the first issue of The North Carolina Disciple in our new magazine format!

“The Church is the church only when it exists for others.”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison This issue focuses on “being a church for others.” In these pages you’ll find articles on this topic of ministry and mission, and at our Diocesan Convention next January we’ll explore the idea further with our theme “Reflecting the Radical Welcome of Jesus by Being a Church for Others.”

The Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from his prison cell not long before he was executed by the Nazis near the end of the Second World War, characterized the life, the teaching and indeed the very person of Jesus Christ as “the man for others.”

Think about it. God came among us in the person and life of Jesus not for God’s sake, but for ours. Jesus sacrificed his life to set us free, to save us, to redeem the creation.

John’s Gospel says it well: “God so loved the world that he gave his only son….” (John 3:16) Jesus in his very being is the One for others. And Jesus challenges us who seek to follow in his footsteps to be a people for others.

So WELCOME to this first edition of The Disciple as a magazine. May its contents bless and inform your own ministry. And may we continue to grow as the Diocese of North Carolina, as a missionary community of disciples reflecting the radical welcome of Jesus by being a church for others. +Michael B. Curry XI Bishop of North Carolina

ABOUT

The North Carolina Disciple was most recently published 10 times a year in a newspaper format, including an insert of the nationally published Episcopal Life. With this issue, the North Carolina Disciple is published quarterly and as a magazine. The intent is to increase the quality and longevity of this publication, while utilizing other diocesan communication vehicles for more time-sensitive, day-to-day news.

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Other diocesan communications include: Around the Diocese, a monthly bulletin insert; Please Note, a weekly e-newsletter; and the Diocesan website, www.episdionc.org.

Contact Sarah Herr at sarah.herr@episdionc.org with any questions or feedback regarding these communications, or to submit ideas, articles, and photos.

Delivery occurs in the early part of the following months: September / Fall Issue December / Winter Issue March / Spring Issue June / Summer Issue Reflecting the Radical Welcome of Jesus

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Diocese

Wider Church

Global

faith Bridge

Bishop Bishop

Clergy congregation congregation

missionary missionary network network

the the world world

Community Community

Communion Communion

connect

What is a diocese?

And why, for Christians, does it matter? my family, my local church, my neighborhood, my tribe, Part 1: What is a diocese? my group, my country, my anything else. Being a diocesan What is a diocese? Why does it matter? As I go around church is a way of being a disciple of Jesus in community the Diocese and even around the country and engage in reaching beyond our immediate neighborhood to the neighour culture, I often hear questions like these. “Why do I borhood that includes the entire human family of God. A need to go to church to be a Christian? Can’t I worship on diocese is a constant reminder that we are called by Jesus to my own?” In other words, “Why can’t I be a Christian all be a Church for others. by myself ?” Or, “I attend church every Sunday – why do I Before I say more about what a diocese is and can be, need anything beyond my local congregation?” Or, “Is this and why those are important issues for us thing we call a diocese really as disciples of Jesus Christ, I want to exI am convinced that necessary - or is it just a way plore a lineage of thought that goes back for the Church bureaucracy a diocese shows us there to the words Jesus said to his gathered to promote and perpetuate its followers at the Last Supper, hours before own hierarchy?” Or, “What is more to the world than his arrest and execution. do we get for the money we just me, my family, my local Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as send to the Diocese?” the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless These searching questions church, my it abides in the vine, neither can you unless go straight to the heart of you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the neighborhood, my tribe, what it means to be a follower branches. Those who abide in me and I in them of Jesus in the Episcopal and my group, my country, bear much fruit, because apart from me you can Anglican tradition of catholic do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is Christianity. More than that, my anything else. thrown away like a branch and withers; such these questions probe into branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and what it means to be human as burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for God created and as God intends. In this article, I aim to whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified make clear what a diocese is and why that matters – why by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the that has crucial importance for us as Christians, as humans, Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you as beings created in the image of God. keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have But let me say one thing right up front. In a religious kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said and secular culture that is preoccupied with the self, the these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy individual, the local and parochial, I am convinced that a may be complete. (John 15:4-11) diocese shows us there is more to the world than just me,

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Our relationship to God disclosed to us in Jesus of Nazareth – notably in the passage from John 15 – is one of depth, intimacy, communion and connectedness. We are who we are as the people of God and the body of Christ because of the relationship that the Lord conceived and consecrated in baptism into his body. And it is our relationship with him that connects us to each other.

St. Paul echoes this idea in his first letter to the church at Corinth, where he sees our baptism into Christ as incorporation into the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). In St. Paul’s words to the Galatians, he shows how our baptism into Christ brings us into the family of God – where biological and social distinctions take second place to our primal relationship to Christ and to each other. As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3:27-29) In Ephesians, St. Paul describes the Church as two peoples -- Jews and Gentiles -- once at enmity with one another, now become one people by the blood of Christ and the waters of baptism (Ephesians 2:13-14; 4:4-6). And the author of the First Letter of Peter speaks of the Church as the people of God: “Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people.” (1 Peter 2:9-10) Notice the metaphors Jesus and the writers of the New Testament use to express this relationship between disciples of Jesus and their God. The metaphors tend to be organic, relational and familial, stressing intimacy, inter-connectedness and depth. They include vines and branches and fruit, flowing water, the body of Christ, Abraham’s offspring and family and heirs as legal inheritors of the promises of God. All suggest organic relationship and inter-connectedness.

Nowhere do we find language that suggests autonomy or individuality. Instead, we find imagery that evokes a communal, relational connection.

John Donne, the 17th Century Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, wrote the oft-quoted words, “No man is an island, entire of itself.”

The elegant and hopeful vision suggested in those words – of a human family, inter-related, inter-connected, inter-woven, inter-dependent -did not grow out of a secular humanistic vision.

It grew out of Donne’s vision of the Church as the body of Christ, where none is diminished, all are cherished and all are welcome.1 Donne’s is a quintessential Anglican view of Christianity and, beyond Christianity, of all reality.

In addition, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has popularized the traditional African concept of Ubuntu, noting that Ubuntu is a way of living based on the principle that “I am because we are.” We are baptized disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus Christ not as solitary individuals or as independent congregations,

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but as the community of the faith, the body of Christ, local, national, global.

Our Episcopal expression of the Anglican tradition of Christianity, faithful to its New Testament and catholic roots, intentionally reflects this concept. Our ecclesiology is the fruit of our spirituality in Christ. This principle of organic relationship, connectedness and intimacy in Christ is one of the grounding spiritual principles behind the notion of a diocese.

In light of the New Testament witness about a communal relationship with our God, in light of Donne’s stirring words, in light of Ubuntu, we can explore further the question, What is a diocese? Dictionary definitions only skim the surface.

Webster’s defines a diocese as “the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop” (Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary). The Oxford Dictionary defines a diocese as “a district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church” (Oxford Online Dictionary). 2 Said a little differently, a diocese is a territorial community of the Church, gathered around a bishop. It is a community of faith communities in a particular geographical area.

More broadly, a diocese is a nexus connecting congregations, clergy and people to each other, to the wider Church and indeed to the wider world.

It is a portal, a window to the Church beyond our doors, to people of faith elsewhere, to global communities of faith. A diocese is truly a pontifical organism, from the Latin word ‘pontifex,’ meaning bridge. It is a bridge of inter-relationship and inter-dependence, a network of embodied relationships and connections.

The connecting link or bridge is symbolized, represented and to some extent embodied in a bishop. Bishops themselves were once referred to by the same Latin word pontifex. Bishops are by definition meant to be bridge-builders, connecting Christians to our apostolic heritage and to the wider Church nationally and globally. That is in part why the ordination vows of a bishop include a commitment to “guard the faith, unity and discipline of the Church” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 517) and why the Catechism of the Book of Common Prayer states that a bishop is “to act in Christ’s name for the reconciliation of the world and the building up of the Church” (BCP, p.

855). That is why Ignatius of Antioch, early in the Second Century A.D. spoke of the Church as the community of faith gathered around its bishop.

A diocese is a community of communities, a missionary network of shared ministry that connects congregations and clergy to each other, to the wider Church nationally and globally and to the wider world. The Anglican Congress of 1963 spoke of the Church as a community characterized by “mutual responsibility and interdependence.” A diocese is a subset of the Church occurring at that very point of inter-connectedness and interdependence and missionary relationship.

As Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” Again, a diocese exists to remind us that we are called by Jesus to be a Church for others.

A diocese is a community of communities, a missionary network of shared ministry that connects congregations and clergy to each other, to the wider Church nationally and globally and to the wider world.

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Belonging to a diocesan church shows us the way to be part of the counter-cultural following of Jesus, always moving beyond ourselves as the center of the universe to being in service, relationship and community with God and other humans.

Part II: Why does it matter to belong to a diocese?

What is the most significant reason to belong to a diocese, to be part of a diocese as an inter-connected community of communities of faith? As I said, I believe being a member of a diocese can enlarge our vision beyond focusing exclusively, as we are tempted to do, on ourselves, our families, our local church, our neighborhood, our tribe, our group, our country, our anything else. Belonging to a diocesan church shows us the way to be part of the counter-cultural following of Jesus, always moving beyond ourselves as the center of the universe to being in service, relationship and community with God and other humans.

This way of thinking and being has profoundly influenced the lives of men and women who have dared to step beyond the borders of self and self-interest to reach out in love and service to others. Consider these words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when, in 1963, he was accused of being an “outside agitator” amid events in Birmingham, Ala., while he was a resident of Atlanta. This is what he said in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the 8th Century prophets left their little villages and carried their ‘thus saith the Lord’ far beyond the boundaries of their homelands; and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Graeco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

“Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. What affects one directly affects all indirectly.”

For Dr. King, this way of being was the outgrowth of being Christian. The prophet Malachi said it this way: “Have we not all one father?

Has not one God created us?” (Malachi 2:10a) The God who, as St. Paul said, “from one ancestor, made all nations” (Acts 17:26); the God who created us all in God’s image and likeness (Genesis 1:26-27), has by the very fact of our creation made us brothers and sisters, children of the one God who has created and given life to us all. We are by virtue of creation connected, related, kin. The summons of the Gospel — to become the human family of God as Church — is a summons to witness to God’s dream and vision, God’s plan and purpose, for the whole of the human family and for creation (see Matthew 25:37-40; Mark 3:31-35; Luke 10:25-37; Galatians 3:26-28). We are indeed, as Dr. King wrote, “caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” God has created us to be the human family of God. The forces of fragmentation, separation and alienation are all part of a troubling pull away from community, away from relationship, away from others, toward centering on the self. Centering on the self is both at the deep root of, and some of the bitter fruit of, human sinfulness and destructiveness. Being Church in a community of communities called a diocese is a reminder of our deep inter-connectedness in relationship as a community. It bears repeating: A diocese is our reminder that Jesus calls us to be a Church for others.

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Being Church in this way can mean being in baptized community with those who are unlike us, those who differ from us and those who disagree with us. That is part of the great vision of St. Paul when he wrote of the baptized community, “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 For St. Paul, the Church he describes as the community of the baptized is an outward sign of the passionate desire and deep longing that is nothing less than the very dream of God for us and for all creation.

This desire and longing goes back to God’s call and promise to Abraham and Sarah, that through them “all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1-3) In God’s dream lies our hope for the human race and for all creation. And that matters.

Part III: How does being in relationship as a diocese make a difference to us as the Diocese of North Carolina?

In what ways does God’s blessing, God’s dream, become lived out through us as members of the Diocese of North Carolina? Our Diocesan Council has set mission priorities that demonstrate three principles of how we act together as a Diocese to help realize, as faithfully as possible, that dream of God for the world. The first is the principle of living out core values that reflect our mission of making disciples of Jesus who make a difference in the world for the kingdom of God. The second is the principle that a diocese is essentially concerned with connection and relationship in Christ. The third is the ecclesiastical and missionary principle of “subsidiarity,” which holds that diocesan matters should be decided as close as possible to the local level 1. Living out our core values that reflect our mission of making disciples of Jesus who make a difference in the world.

Our Diocesan mission priorities reflect these core values: • Forming baptized disciples of Jesus in the Christian community of The Episcopal Church; • Committing to being a Christian community in the Episcopal tradition, faithful to the catholic and apostolic heritage of Anglican Christianity, bearing witness to an authentic, generous and compassionate orthodoxy and embodying the radical welcome of Jesus Christ; • Committing to outreach, service and witness to Jesus and the kingdom of God in the world through the Gospel directives of justice and mercy.

2. Being a diocese that exemplifies our connection and relationship in Christ.

The word ‘diocese’ describes a relationship between a people and their bishop. This relationship focuses on Jesus Christ, whose ministry we commit to carry out. As a Diocese, we serve and witness in the world as part of the Episcopal Church. Ministry that connects us to each other and to the wider Church and world in Gospel service and witness is our overarching priority. Therefore, our Diocese commits to supporting the wider Church through support of the national Episcopal Church, through our companion diocese relationships with Costa Rica and Botswana, through ecumenical and interfaith work and through collaborative outreach with other dioceses, such as our partnership with

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the Diocese of East Carolina to support the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry. A diocese, as I’ve said, is about connection and relationship.

In addition, the Diocese provides resources and support to clergy and congregations, especially through our emphasis on regional ministry. A critical goal of regional ministry is connecting clergy and congregations in order to bring about relationships and shared ministry. The idea behind regionally based diocesan ministry is simple.

The Diocesan staff needs to be in the Diocese directly supporting clergy and congregations in their work and ministry both individually, as congregations, and together, as the Episcopal Church. We’re already seeing some of the fruit of regional ministry. The Rev. Trawin Malone has been working closely with 16 small congregations in the Northwest Region to explore ways to create mutual ministry and support. He is coaching several clergy right now. Without the support of a regional ministry team, such hope-filled initiatives would not be happening.

Last year I visited Trinity Church, Statesville. When I met with the Vestry, they told me how Pam Hatley, regional youth missioner in the South Region, had worked with them to link their young people with the young people of St. Patrick’s, Mooresville, and St. Peter’s, Charlotte. One member of the Vestry commented, “Now I see what a region can do.”

These initiatives toward greater connection and support reflect a strategic shift that has budgetary implications. At the same time that we are placing less emphasis on providing financial subsidy to individual congregations, we are placing more emphasis on people working with people. We are investing in regional ministry teams as our primary vehicle for the development and support of congregations and clergy. A diocese, after all, is about inter-connection and relationship.

At our Diocesan Convention last January, I called for a re-commitment to and expansion of the ministry of deacons. As I said at Convention, the ministry of deacons originally emerged because of apparent inequities in the way the Jerusalem church distributed food to women and orphans. The order of deacons was established to remedy this inequality, insure a broad sense of God’s justice in the community and help the Church respond to the needs of the poor in its midst and in the world. I see the calling, training, ordaining and deploying of deacons throughout the Diocese as a key to connecting us to each other, through a renewed and deepened vision and commitment to the social Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

3. Carrying out the ecclesiastical and missionary principle of subsidiarity.

I doubt most of us paid much attention to the principle of subsidiarity until the Lambeth Commission issued its 2004 Windsor Report following the consecration of the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson

in New Hampshire. Then the issue of subsidiarity suddenly took on new importance for helping us navigate our differences in the body of Christ.

The Windsor Report defines subsidiarity as “the principle that matters should be decided as close to the local level as possible.” The report notes that subsidiarity goes hand in hand with the concept of “adiaphora” (adiaphora refers to matters that are regarded as nonessential in our lives as Christians). The more something is regarded as non-essential adiaphora in our lives as members of the body of Christ, the more it often makes sense for a local congregation to address it. “It does not take an Ecumenical Council to decide what colour flowers might be displayed in church,” the Windsor Report states; “nor does a local congregation presume to add or subtract clauses from the Nicene Creed.”3 The subsidiarity principle means that different levels of the Church, while sharing the common mission of Jesus, have different functions or roles. As St. Paul said, “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:4) In our context, the role of the diocese is not to do what congregations do. Some things we do better at the congregational level. And some things we do most efficiently when working together, such as when a congregation is in the search process for a new rector or vicar.

How does the principle of sudsidiarity play out on a diocesan level? For one thing, our Diocesan outreach ministries promote initiatives which local congregations cannot carry out on their own, ministries that connect congregations to the wider Church and society.

Hence the Diocese supports the North Carolina Council of Churches and its outreach work. We work with the state’s General Assembly on issues of faith and values in government. We collaborate with the Diocese of East Carolina to support the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, which would not exist without our broad-based collaboration. The newly forming Bishop’s Committee on Prison Ministry will bring together people in our Diocese who are already independently engaged in prison ministry and support ways they can collaborate and bear witness within the prison system to the presence of the Episcopal Church.

Other examples include programs and events that bring youth together from across the Diocese to grow as disciples of Jesus and serve in his name. In addition, we combine resources to support campus ministries in universities and colleges across the Diocese.

The Diocese also spreads the word about ministries that congregations can take on. Maybe the best examples are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). I doubt if, five years ago, any but a handful of Episcopalians knew what the MDGs were. That’s not true today. The message of the MDGs spread from our Presiding Bishop and General Convention to bishops and dioceses. Now congregations everywhere are involved in this exciting and important ministry.

A diocese is truly a pontifical organism, from the Latin word pontifex, meaning bridge. It is a bridge of inter-relationship and inter-dependence, a network of embodied relationships and connections.

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How is the Diocesan Council helping us to live into this vision of a missionary diocese?

DIOCESAN COUNCIL INITIATIVES FOR 2010 (The Department of Council responsible for implementation is in parentheses.)

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Review regional ministry. (State of the Church) Work toward starting up the East Regional Ministry Team. (Finance, working with Treasurer) Continue visits by Council members to vestries and congregations. (Congregational Support and Development) Work with the N.C. Church Foundation, Treasurer and Bishop to assist new congregations with land acquisition and building. (Congregational Support and Development)

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Consider establishing a Permanent Endowment for Mission from the Mission Strategy Fund. (Business Affairs and Administration, working with Treasurer and Finance)

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Organize the Charter Committee on Young Adults. (Youth and Young Adults) Reorganize Christian Social Ministries in light of the key principles of connection and inter-connectedness and subsidiarity.

See Part III, Section 3 of this paper. (Outreach)

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Assist the Diaconate working group in expanding and inter-connecting the Diaconate, the School of Ministry and the deacon training program. (Christian Formation)

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Assist the School of Ministry in defining its present and future mission. (Christian Formation) Appoint members to the Fair Share Board of Appeals. (Bishop, working with Council, April 2010)

In 2007 the Rev. Ray Buchanan of Stop Hunger Now addressed So what is a diocese? A diocese is an inter-connected community our Diocesan Convention about his organization’s important and of communities of faith. It is a pontifical community, a bridge. It is effective meal-packing program. Since 2007, some 19 million packets a portal, a nexus, a connecting link. It is a branch connecting us to of food have been assembled. As of last the vine which is Christ. It is the basic unit of year, Episcopalians in the Diocese of the Church in our Anglican tradition. It is our A diocese is our reminder North Carolina had prepared over 1.2 connection to our life and heritage as Chrismillion of those packets. The same kind of tians in the catholic tradition of faith. that we are called by Jesus thing happened when those attending the But maybe it is best said this way: Being a to be a Church for others.

2002 Diocesan Convention in Charlotte diocese is a not-so-subtle reminder that there is helped build three Habitat for Humanity more to the world than just me, my family, my houses, an effort that has made congregafriends, my church, my religion, my neighbortions across the Diocese more aware of ministries they can underhood, my city, my state or even my nation. We are part of God’s take with Habitat. human family, God’s creation. We are family. God made us and all of Several years ago the Diocese of Costa Rica was in profound creation that way. Jesus of Nazareth came to show us the way to be decline and struggling financially. Then Bishop Hector Monterroso more than autonomous human beings. He came to show us the way arrived. Today the Diocese of Costa Rica has started several new to become the human family of God. churches, is sponsoring seminarians who are studying for the priestOnce more, I’ll repeat that a diocese is our reminder that we are hood, has rebuilt numerous churches and schools and is financially called by Jesus to be a Church for others. As Dr. King said, “We are solvent. This remarkable revival results from a partnership that caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garincludes the leadership of Bishop Hector, who is a gifted pastor; fiment of destiny.” The very hope and salvation of the human family, nancial support from the national Episcopal Church, which provides and of all creation, hinges on realizing the life-giving truth of that about half the Diocesan budget; financial support from the Anglican reality.

Churches of Latin America and the Caribbean, who came together Keep the faith, to help to pay down the Diocese’s massive debt, and support from our own Diocese through our companion relationship with the Dio- +Michael cese of Costa Rica. Congregations in our Diocese have built schools and churches and established ministries that have helped Bishop The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry was elected eleventh Bishop of the Hector and the people of his Diocese to “claim the high calling Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina in 2000. angels cannot share.”4 This is a remarkable story of what happens when we are the body of Christ, doing the work of Jesus together.

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John Donne, “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death’s Duel,” Meditation XVII, p. 102-103

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The etymological roots of the word ‘diocese’ are especially helpful. The Latin word ‘dioecesis’ refers to a “governor’s jurisdiction.” The Greek ‘dioikein’ refers to the management of the Greek household, “to keep house, administer.”

(Oxford Online Dictionary)

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The 2004 Lambeth Commission’s Windsor Report to the Archbishop of Canterbury, para. 38

4 Hymnal 1982, “Come, labor on,” Hymn 541

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how is your church a church for others?

Christ Church’s vision is to be a central and sustaining force in people’s lives. We seek to do that by being open to all people celebrating the best of our Episcopal tradition while remaining very much focused on addressing the issues that people face. By offering programs that support people in their daily lives with creativity and innovation, we can be a church for all people, always making sure that every person, regardless ess of their background, is included in what we do.

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THE REV. CHIP EDENS Rector, Christ Church Charlotte

The 2011 convention will continue along the theme of being a missionary diocese, reflecting the radical welcome of Jesus by focusing on what it means to be a church for others, following in the footsteps of Jesus. As Deitrich Bonhoeffer said, Jesus is “the man for others.”

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After studying Stephanie Spellers’ book, Radical Welcome this past Lent, our efforts to be a ‘church for others’ seem modest. However, in a facility where welcoming space is at a premium, for over 30 years three evenings a week, we’ve given over our meeting and fellowship rooms to 100 men and women fighting addictions. In their life for renewed health and wholeness, we are the church for others. To reach folk unchurched or dechurched, we created an alternative service offered Sunday evenings called E3- Experiencing Episcopal Eucharist. It uses prayers from Enriching Our Worship, U2charist and an order created by St. Dunstan’s in San Diego. The service order includes explanation of the worship elements, why we do what we do. Congregational responses are projected on a screen and the music is eclectic. We continue to adjust the form to make it engaging to those unaccustomed to traditional liturgies but without abandoning the theological rational for our worship practices. It’s a messy venture but Jesus never said ‘stay neat,’ so we keep working, discerning and offering the effort to the glory of God and for the enrichment of his beloved others..

THE REV. SARAH HOLLAR Rector, St. Mark’s Huntersville

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Jesus indeed emptied himself of divine glory in taking the form of a servant, the Cross being the culmination of His being ‘the man for others.’ Our parish, St. Michael’s, seeks in many ways to be ‘the church for others’ by our emphasis on welcoming new people into our midst and really working hard to include and connect with them; by our emphasis on working with and for those in need by numerous mission trips throughout the year both locally, domestically and abroad; and by our many efforts on supporting organizations that are doing just works in the community we live in. As well, to be sure, our goal is not to serve ourselves, or feed ourselves, but to accept the food of Christ which enriches nriche us so we may bear it to those outside ourselves. s..

- THE REV. GREG JONES, Rector, St. Michael’s, Raleigh

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IIt has been said that the Church is the only human institution that exists for the benefit of those who are not yet members. We understand that the Eucharist is a missionary activity: each week we come to be fed in Word and Sacrament, and then we are sent into the world as “disciples making disciples.” Emmanuel is a welcoming and intentional Christian community centered upon worship, faith formation, fellowship, and mission: reaching out as “men and women for others” to the local community, y, our diocese, our nation, and the world.

- THE REV. JOHN TAMPA Rector, Emmanuel, Southern Pines

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The radical nature of hospitality is measured not solely in terms of what is done without, but also what is brought forth from within.

T If indeed we take seriously Jesus’ words that the kingdom of God is within us (Luke 17:21), then we must coordinate our missionary efforts in extending radical hospitality to a needful world around us with equal attention to extending radical hospitality to our needs within; to Jesus within. At St. Paul’s, we are attending to the Spirit within us as the source by which we effectively attend to the needs of the community in which we live, through such ministries as: Loaves and Fishes; Turning Point (Ministry of Victims of Domestic Abuse); providing meals at the local Monroe Homeless Shelter; making and providing prayer blankets/quilts for homeless adults and infants; collecting school supplies for needy children; house building projects in Jamaica through Food for the Poor and providing tents in Haiti through ERD; Red Cross Blood drives; and collecting eye glasses for the local Lions Club. In recognizing the essential connections between having a meaningful prayer life and radical hospitality, our missionary efforts both within and without echo the words of St. Seraphim of Sarov: ‘By living out of the kingdom of God within, we bring salvation to thousands around us.’’

- THE REV. BRAD SMITH,

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FREEDOM RIDE 2010

Photo by Pete Crow

By Pete Crow

A Pilgrimage of Reconciliation Photo by Scott Witry

` Moore, Keva Miller, Megan Cox, Jason Wiltry, Osondu McPeters, Janee Rebecca Gordon, and Katelyn Gabriel.

Photo by Pete Crow

Above: Kirsten Witry, Phenix Byrd, and Rebecca Gordon Left: Kayla Mills from Saint Cyprian’s, Oxford.

Photo by Pete Crow

thanks

A special thanks to those who provided meals, lodging, showers, and other hospitality: St. James; Holy Cross; YMCA (Wilmington); Calvary (Tarboro); St. Ambrose, St. Augustine’s College Chapel, and Christ Church (Raleigh); St. Titus (Durham); St. Cyprian’s and St. Stephen’s (Oxford); Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill); Holy Trinity; The Beloved Community Center; and the YMCA (Greensboro). The success of Freedom Ride 2010 rests largely on the dedication and talents of the leadership team and countless others.

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On July 9, 42 people from throughout North Carolina—mostly youth, mostly Episcopalian—embarked on “Freedom Ride 2010: A Pilgrimage of Reconciliation,” a 10-day bus ride through the state’s racial past sponsored by the three Episcopal dioceses of North Carolina and by Province IV. Pilgrims of diverse cultures and skin tones confronted together difficult but inspirational North Carolina and Episcopal history related to race. Leaders introduced tools for recognizing and responding to injustice and discrimination in our own time, as well as for working toward reconciliation.

“This trip has really opened my eyes a lot,” said Michaela Anderson of Apex. “I have met a lot of people throughout this journey that I will never forget. I am really glad I came on the first Freedom Ride.”

The journey began in Wilmington with structured sessions designed for self-assessment, group building, and understanding of power dynamics related to race and other issues. It ended in a retreat at Haw River State Park near Greensboro with reflections on what we had learned, healing of tensions in our own group, and celebration of new friendships forged with growing hearts and minds, not to mention raucous singing on the bus.

“I will certainly never forget this week, from the lectures, to the bus rides, to the people, to the amazing sense of community that engulfed it all,” said Jonathan York of Statesville. “Freedom Ride 2010 has been an unforgettable, truly touching experience.”

One of the pilgrimage highlights was the restored Somerset Place, a large rice plantation in antebellum North Carolina, where several youth were able to trace their enslaved ancestors. At Stagville, the largest plantation in North Carolina, participants were deeply moved by reading one of several slave narratives while sitting alone near structures built by and lived in by black people who were white people’s property. Participants credited the tour guide at

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Photo by Pete Crow

Photo by Pete Crow

Jonathan York, Ben Barber, Shaq Barber, Hunter Maupin-Thomas, Jason Witry, and William Barber

Photo by Hunter Maupin-Thomas

David Brown, Saint Ambrose, Raleigh

An at-a-glance look at some of the stops along the 500 mile, 10-day Freedom Ride journey...

“I will certainly never forget this week, from the lectures, to the bus rides, to the people, to the amazing sense of community that engulfed it all. Freedom Ride 2010 has been an unforgettable, truly touching experience.”

African American history tour of Wilmington—1898 Insurrection and Wilmington 10 Social justice initiatives now, District Attorney Ben David, Wilmington

- Jonathan York, Trinity, Stateville

Pilgrimage videographer Pete Crow has made videos for two other ventures with strong Episcopal, Raleigh-Durham connections--the Honduras Health Mission & the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle. He is also author of Do, Die, or Get Along: A Tale of Two Appalachian Towns, a coalfield story with Episcopal influence.

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Tour and role of black Union troops in its overthrow, Fort Fisher Restored antebellum rice plantation, Somerset Place

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Fort Fisher for bringing the Civil War to life in his animated description of the battle there, where a black regiment was key to the victory that finally closed Wilmington to Confederate blockade runners.

“I feel bad because I want to feel the pain and struggle of my ancestors,” said Keva Miller of Asheville. “My grandmother tells me to be proud of where we came from and, even though we were slaves, God always says to forgive.”

Other especially memorable events of Freedom Ride 2010 were the International Civil Rights Museum at the 1960 Woolworth sit-in site in Greensboro and a special presentation for the pilgrimage of Blood Done Sign My Name, Mike Wiley’s rousing one-man play adaptation of Tim Tyson’s book of the same title about the 1970 murder of a black Vietnam veteran in Oxford. Nor will participants soon forget their experiential lesson about power disparities in our own time: how a cold drink and snacks taken for granted after two hot hours of gleaning is roughly equivalent to two hours’ entire earnings of the migrant farm worker one field away.

“This year’s Freedom Ride focused primarily on black/white issues around slavery and the Civil Rights movement,” said Beth Crow, Youth Missioner of the Diocese of North Carolina and Coordinator of Freedom Ride 2010.

“The ultimate goal is to recognize the presence of God within all, regardless of race, gender, religion, wealth, nationality or whatever else separates us. We are all neighbors. How we treat one another impacts not only those lives immediately involved, including our own, but has a ripple effect well beyond.” “‘Keep Going’ was the cry of Harriett Tubman and the challenge laid before us by the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry,” said Cookie Cantwell, Province IV Youth Coordinator. “As we faced challenges that seem too big to overcome and as we struggled to discover the way to freedom in the dark hours of the night, we were encouraged to ‘keep going!’ We have returned to our homes and to our communities transformed by our journey and ready to ‘keep going’ and to help heal a wounded world.”

Photo by Beth Crow

Photo by Cookie Cantwell

Early home of escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, Edenton

Tours of Capitol and St. Augustine College, Raleigh Jazz Eucharist at St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Michael Curry preaching The largest antebellum plantation in North Carolina, Stagville Gleaning with the Society of St. Andrew, Bailey

Photo by Pete Crow

Mike Wiley’s one-man play about the 1970 murder of black Vietnam Veteran Henry Marrow, Blood Done Sign My Name, based on Tim Tyson’s book, Oxford St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church and conversation with members who participated in the march on Raleigh that followed the trial and release of Marrow’s accused murderer, Oxford Duke University Professor Barbara Lau and the mural project on Pauli Murray, lawyer, civil rights activist, and first black female Episcopal priest, Durham Chapel of the Cross, where Pauli Murray’s grandmother, an enslaved woman, was baptized, Chapel Hill International Civil Rights Museum, site of the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in, Greensboro The Beloved Community Center, directed by Nelson and Joyce Johnson, leaders along with the Rt. Rev. Alfred “Chip” Marble, Assisting Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina, in reconciliation efforts related to KKK killings in 1979, Greensboro Retreat and closing at Haw River State Park

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Far left: “Digital Gothic Gateway” Jim Gallucci Left: “Holding on Tight” Dori Jalazo Below: A Garden Concert with Jean Moxley on Harp was just one of the many events held during Holy Trinity’s Sacred Space celebration.

Sacred Space

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the city

By Ruth D. Anderson, Ph.D.

Holy Trinity Marks 100th Anniversary By Giving Back Many churches celebrate milestones by throwing a party for themselves. During the last two weeks in May, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding by giving a gift to the city.

Inspired by the Rev. Timothy Patterson, Rector, the anniversary events became a two-week public celebration of arts and spirit, entitled “Sacred Space for the City,” opening Holy Trinity’s campus to the entire community.

The celebration included: an Art Walk, featuring 10 local artists whose works illuminate the interface of art and spirituality; eight musical concerts, featuring outstanding local musicians and a wide variety of musical styles; author receptions and book signings for local authors in the church’s Sacred Garden Bookstore; and a number of

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special opportunities for guided walks on Holy Trinity’s outdoor labyrinth with live music. The closing event was “Rumi by Candlelight: In the Silence of Love,” featuring the works of the great mystic poet with musical accompaniment, by candlelight, in the sacred space of the church.

On Sunday, May 16, the Centennial started with an afternoon concert, “Sacred Music in Three Voices,” which stunned the crowd with a magnificent performance featuring Dr. Robert Bracey, Dr. Clara O’Brien and Dr. Donald Hartmann, three professors of voice in the UNCG Department of Music. All happen to be members of Holy Trinity. The concluding piece, Benjamin Britten’s “Abraham and Isaac,” left many in the audience literally speechless. Other Sunday afternoon concerts included: “The Sacred Cycle of Time,” featuring seasonal anthems tracing the liturgical year by composer Sally Ann Morris from Winston-Salem, and “Jazz for a New Season,” performed by Dr. Edward Bach, The UNCG Trumpet Ensemble and the Louis Armstrong Tribute Group.

Following the concerts, audience members would stroll

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“Art stirs the soul. ...We want to offer our labyrinth, meditation garden, bookstore and cafe, our space in general for local artists, for music, for our neighbors in Fisher Park and downtown, and for anyone seeking beauty, cultural enrichment, spiritual renewal and sanctuary.”

- The Rev. Tim Patterson, Rector, Holy Trinity, Greensboro

“Angels in Waiting” Connie Logan

As published in the Greensboro News & Record “Church’s milestone celebrates arts, spirit” By Nancy H. McLaughlin

Dr. Ruth Anderson is a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Greensboro, and Director of The Servant Leadership School of Greensboro, www.servantleadergreensboro.com, and author of the book The Hairpin Turn, www.hairpinturn.org

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“Dusk” Scott Harris

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through three buildings on the church campus to experience the art, meet the artists and grow in their appreciation of how art inspires spirit and spirit inspires art.

People from the church, surrounding neighborhoods and the broader Greensboro community came and spent these Sunday afternoons enjoying the art, listening to music, walking the outdoor labyrinth, visiting the bookstore, sitting in the meditation garden, and coming back for the evening Coffeehouse Concerts with Fran McKendree and Laurelyn Dossett. On Thursdays, people came for the Art Walk, the labyrinth walk, author receptions and book signings in the bookstore, and then sat in the meditation garden at dusk to enjoy Garden Concerts with cello, violin and harp.

An estimated 2000 people came to these events over the course of the 15 days. The Greensboro News & Record did a front page story on the celebration and, by many reports, the city was abuzz with excitement about the quality and variety of the programs - all free and open to the public.

The city gratefully received Holy Trinity’s gift. People from the community were lavish in their praise for the beauty and generosity of the church. The events provided a sacred space where people were able to slow down and through the art and artists, connect with something deeper within themselves and with one another. Parishioners provided warm hospitality and, as such, people from the larger Greensboro community experienced firsthand the spirit of the Holy Trinity community.

The Rev. Patterson suggests that this celebration was “a subtle form of evangelism,” providing an opportunity for members of the larger community to discover the spiritual resources at Holy Trinity. Countless visitors said they would be coming back for more. The celebration was also an opportunity for the church to connect in a mutually supportive way with local artists whose work nurtures and enlarges the spirit. It is possible that some version of this celebration may become an annual event at Holy Trinity.

To learn more about how Holy Trinity organized this event, contact the Rev. Tim Patterson at 336.272.6149.

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By the Rev. Warren Pittman

Parish Hall goes green

A Light-Filled Space

All Saints Parish Hall Renovation Sustainable Elements

Opening/closing windows and using ceiling fans are the more efficient, “old-fashioned” method of heating and cooling this bright, light-filled space.

Energy Efficiency windows ceiling fans Energy Star™ lighting, appliances tankless water heater insulation automatic lighting in bathrooms Water Efficiency dual flush toilets water fountain with glass filler low flow faucets no garbage disposal in sink

Award-winning project has educated congregation, while creating a welcoming space for the community It was not long after completion of a major renovation to All Saints’ worship and office space in 2004 that the eyes of the Greensboro congregation turned to the Parish Hall. Not only did the renewed sanctuary cause the 40-year-old hall next door to look “old and busted,” but sorely needed repairs and very different ministries than those for which the hall was built required an “extreme makeover.”

In the fall of 2008, a call went out to parishioners to join in a Community Campaign, while a Renovation Team was assembled to imagine options for addressing the present and future needs of the church.

Not all the money raised in a prior capital campaign for the church and offices had been spent, and additional gifts and pledges gave the team a budget of $625,000 with which to work.

The vestry directed the team to remain within the 1425 square-footprint of the old

building, and to create a space, inside and out, that was flexible and useful for the current and anticipated ministries of the church, and as “green” as possible.

Among the first steps in the process was to bring a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified architect and designer, commonly known as LEED, into the conversation. Jill Spaeh of Spaeh Architecture+Environments quickly became an enthusiastic participant in the project.

Through the months of planning and just under a year of renovation, the congregation, the architect and the various contractors fulfilled the church’s expectations, while exercising environmental stewardship to such an extent that when the local Chamber of Commerce awarded the first annual Triad Green Awards in April 2010, All Saints received recognition for the best rehabilitation project of the year.

The project resulted in much more than a

This graphic is a replication of a bookmark All Saints created to highlight the features incorporated into their “green” parish hall project. This is just one of the many educational opportunities that were offered in conjunction with the project.

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Outdoors permeable pavers set in sand rain chains/gravel for water filtration native plants planned Reuse/Recycle original entry door and window trim re-engineering of existing HVAC recycled glass counters reclaimed wood furniture compostable, soy-based carpet squares composite wood for some flooring original kitchen appliances to new business diverted 73% of demolition waste from landfill

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Local Resourcing (NC) kitchen cabinets curtains and window shades interior doors colonnade bricks craftsman, contractor, architect Indoor Environmental Quality low VOC paints linoleum floors asbestos removal ADA Compliant Making Disciples, Making a Difference

When the local Chamber of Commerce awarded the first annual Triad Green Awards this April, All Saints received recognition for the “Best Rehabilitation Project of the Year.”

ren renovated Parish Hall. Awareness of the value of reusing and recycling rather than disposing of building materials (73% of demolition wa waste was not put into a landfill), learning mo more about the environmental impact of new materials, the re-landscaping of the space aroun around the Hall, and planning for the “greenest” use of tthe new space has all been documented, to help parishioners and guests of All Saints Rain chains outside the hall are beautiful and functional. improve their own environmental stewardship at home and in the wider community.

Aside from the predictable presence of CFL lighting and low-flow plumbing in the Hall, the new design includes cabinetry custom-crafted of wood reclaimed from the old pews of a nearby Presbyterian Church; hardwood flooring that includes recycled lumber; recycled glass counters; compostable soy-based carpeting; a high speed dishwater with a tankless water heating system that precludes the use of disposable dishes, cups and flatware; and recycled aluminum rain chains that help filter and resupply the ground water from which the landscape draws its irrigation.

Absent are the expected solar panels on the roof, omitted from the plan because of the orientation of the building. And geothermal heating and air conditioning were deferred when it was decided to reengineer the current functioning HVAC system to make it more efficient, especially when used with new ceiling fans and that most “old-fashioned” method of heating and cooling: opening and closing windows!

Also “missing” is a LEED certification for the building, considering the comprehensive efforts to follow LEED guidelines. All Saints rebuilt out of care and concern for God’s creation. That was enough for the congregation.

All Saints has already conducted its first “Renovation Tour” for another church embarking on “green” construction, and welcomes guests at most any time to come and see, and to join the congregation in learning the continued benefits and blessings of this effort.

The Rev. Warren Pittman is Rector at All Saints Episcopal Church in Greensboro, NC. He welcomes questions and tours for anyone interested in learing more about this project. Contact: (336) 299-0705.

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By Sarah Herr

GREEN GRANTS Would your church like to shrink its carbon footprint with a new “green” project or renovation, but can’t seem to find the “green” to make it happen? The North Carolina Episcopal Foundation’s Green Grants program may offer the solution!

t oun yM k c o d, R her am p 9 e 200ood Sh ’s, Durh ham G uke Dur ry ove L St. uke’s, Salisbu lnut C es a L in ro St. uke’s, ch, W ern P sbo r h L t u . een r St st Ch , Sou G l i er, Chr anue About Green Grants em eed nt mm R E e i In 2009, the Foundation awarded six grants with $20,000 that had been set aside for green projects 0 of th h Po 20C1hurch y’s, Hig that encourage congregational efforts to be faithful stewards of the earth God has created. The grants r h?

Ma St. churc are awarded in amounts up to $5,000. This highly successful program has continued in 2010, and to date r You funds remain available for any parish or mission to apply.

“I think the success behind this program is three-fold,” said David Dodson, Foundation member and member of Chapel of the Cross in Chapel Hill. “You have an opportunity to speak to the efficiency and costeffectiveness of a church, but also a chance to build on a congregation as they work together on their green project and learn more about the environmental aspects of wiring, heating, and other energy-efficient options.

Finally, you have the opportunity for reflection on the stewardship of the environment, which is our calling. So for a grant of a few thousand dollars, congregations get the opportunity to speak to all three of these things.”

Dodson says the Foundation has been pleased with the feedback and enthusiasm they have received from congregations large and small, located in various parts of the diocese that have received grants.

According to the application guidelines, projects considered include those that: A • Reduce the consumption of energy and other natural resources required to operate of a congregation’s facilities. Examples include new insulation, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, new doors or windows, efficient plumbing fixtures, energy-efficient heating and cooling systems, landscaping that reduces heating or cooling costs • Correct a problem in a congregational facility that is contributing to environmental degradation.

Examples could include landscaping to reduce runoff, a damaged septic systems.

“We were thrilled when we heard that the North Carolina Episcopal Church Foundation would underwrite the cost o of two Automatic Indoor Compost Tumblers; one for the Church (Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Southern Pines) an and the other for the Episcopal Day School, which is part of our campus,” said Jacqueline P. Stewart, Chair, Emmanuel’s Environmental Awareness Committee. el

Photo by Jacqueline P. Stewart

Laurie Holden retrieves a pot of black gold gold, aka compost, from new Automatic Indoor Compost Tumblers installed at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Southern Pines.

Applying for a Grant A The Foundation is scheduled to meet in early December, and grants must be submitted six weeks prior to ttheir meeting to allow time for a site visit and application review.

To apply, simply fill out a form that asks for project-related information, as well as some basic organizational and financial information. Contact Donna Warner for grant applications or with questions at 919.834.7474, ext.

5310 or donna.warner@episdionc.org.

LOOKING FOR OTHER RESOURCES? The Chartered Committee on Environmental Ministry has posted several resources for congregations online, and is a resource for churches seeking environmental information. A few of the available resources include: • • • • •

Information on starting an Environmental Stewardship Committee Continuing work for existing Environmental Stewardship Committees A Liturgical Guide to Celebrating God’s Creation Adult Formation Resources Resolutions on Environmental Stewardship

Find these resources and more at ww.episdionc.org, click on committees and find the Committee for Environmental Ministry.

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The Chartered Committee on the Environmental

Ministry

CALLED TO BE STEWARDS OF ALL CREATION: THE BODY OF GOD

Contact the committee: The Rev. Thomas Droppers, Chair tdrops@triad.rr.com

Dorothy Darr, Co-Chair dorothy1@northstate.net

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The Rev. Evelyn Morales DEACON FOR HISPANIC MINISTRY The following is a Q&A the Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry conducted with the Rev. Evelyn Morales, who recently became the Diocese’s first Deacon for Hispanic Ministry. Morales serves part-time in this volunteer position, and is available to consult with churches and groups within the diocese.

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Evelyn, tell us a little bit about yourself.

I am a second generation Mexican-American. All of my grandparents came here from Mexico over a 100 years ago and settled in California and Arizona. As a child, my first church was a Spanish-speaking Presbyterian Mission in San Diego, but I ultimately was introduced to the Episcopal Church through a wonderful childhood friend. She came from a family of means and I came from a working class background. This friendship became my template for relationships that can bridge race, class or culture. It is the lens through which I view Episcopalians!

Later I joined St Mary’s Episcopal Church, High Point. I liked the theology, the people and the music. It was the right fit.

I retired from full time work ten years ago and was looking for opportunities to serve to augment my part-time work as an adjunct leadership coach with the Center for Creative Leadership. I began volunteering as an interpreter at a local community clinic while also taking courses at the Servant Leadership School at Holy Trinity, Greensboro. My heart was touched by the needs of the Latino community and I felt called to serve through the church. As a child, when we moved to the suburbs, my family joined an English speaking church. Church helped my family acculturate and was beneficial in so many other ways.

Church served as a cultural bridge.

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What kind of work are you doing as Deacon for Hispanic Ministry?

This is a very new position, so during the first few months when I began this ministry I visited all the various churches within the diocese where there is some form of Latino ministry. I wanted to experience and witness this firsthand. Six churches or misssions offer regularly scheduled services in Spanish. We have another five locations where Latino outreach ministry is being done.

Most recently, I have been heavily involved with the School of Ministry in a DVD project on Hispanic Ministry in our Diocese to be used for adult formation classes. We want to show how this Diocese is already responding to opportunities of ministry with Latinos. I am continually amazed and inspired by the scenes and stories that I witness and I joyfully welcome the opportunity to share them with others.

Going forward, I would like to assist in developing more lay leadership among Latinos who can then support the efforts of clergy in Latino/ Hispanic ministry.

QA Is there anything you would like to say to the people of the Diocese as the Deacon for and

What are some of the concerns of the Hispanic communities within our Diocese?

The Hispanic community, as any community, welcomes the opportunity to work and raise a family in safe surroundings with opportunities for education and socioeconomic advancement.

The undocumented immigrant community would welcome a humane and dignified way to become legal residents. Many are refugees of hunger and severe poverty which necessitated a desperate decision to leave all behind and seek opportunity to work to provide in any way they could. There is also a concern about the children who were brought here at a young age without documents. When they leave high school, their future is completely blocked. They have no access to higher education, work or driver’s licenses. This situation has a drastically harmful effect on the youth.

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Hispanic Ministry?

Jesus Christ had tremendous empathy for the marginalized, the dispossessed, the “sheep without a shepherd.” And what did he do for them? He taught them, he fed them, he gave them hope and he assured them that they were also legitimate heirs of the kingdom of heaven. He also taught what separated the sheep from the goats were acts of mercy! Let us do whatever we Contact the Rev. can in sharing our time, our talents and Evelyn Morales our resources to help bring the kingdom by email at of heaven more fully present among us.

evermor11@aol.com

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By Sarah Herr

welcome to St. Bartholomew’s

community lunch

People from all walks of life become strangers no more as they break bread together at the community lunch held each Thursday at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Pittsboro.

Photos by Sarah Herr

From top: Karen Ladd, Lay Pastoral Leader at St. Bart’s in Pittsboro, opens the door for the church’s community lunch. Volunteer Herb Reed hands Libby Walls, a member at St. Bart’s, a drink while Barb Alotis serves desserts.

Serving food on the “front line” and flanking the Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry are volunteers Gonda Bremer(L) and Pam Smith(R), with Larry Williams working in the background. Volunteer Anne Taggart lends a hand.

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“It has been amazing to witness, to experience, and to be a part of this,” said Karen Ladd, Lay Pastoral Leader at St. Bart’s, who began forming the idea for a community lunch while serving in the soup kitchen during an internship at Good Shepherd, Raleigh.

The ministry started small - and at the first few lunches Ladd could count the number of people that came to eat on both hands. Flyers, online advertisements - and soon enough, word of mouth - helped spread the news that a homemade lunch is served every Thursday and that all are welcome. “Each week we have professionals, homeless people, farmers, church members, and business owners - it’s just a range of people from the community that come here and sit and eat together. For some, “An amazing and colorful there wouldn’t be this opportunity to have food, much less meet and spend crowd of people gather for with the people they do,” says lunch at noon each Thursday time Ladd. at St. Bartholomew’s Church.

Week by week, the flow of traffic Some come early to prepare grows and the faces and names become more recognizable even as new faces apand serve the food and stay pear. On any given Thursday, 100 people walk through the doors to share lunch late to clean up afterwards. with this community of neighbors.

There’s an intense hour of “What I see when I open that door is communal unity and rich the face of Jesus walking in,” she said.

At first, volunteers noticed that some blessings for all.” of the people most in need - those - The Rev. Carl N. Edwards, dealing with extreme poverty, hopelessness, illness and addiction - would stop Vicar at St. Bartholomew’s by and ask to take a plate of food with them. They were obliged the first time but told the next time they should come and stay, as the reason behind the lunch is fellowship and nourishment.

“We let them know that they were welcome and wanted here,” said Ladd, who believes that sharing a meal together is akin to acknowledging worth and equality. Exceptions are made for those who are ill and can’t attend the lunch - volunteers make and deliver food to them.

Serving 400 meals a month requires a lot of food and several sets of willing hands - but each week the community lunch organizers and volunteers are able to find what is needed, and sometimes, they even find a little more.

Businesses and other organizations have lent their support, including a community of sustainable farmers who contribute any additional bounty they have and come to share a meal on Thursdays.

And as it has grown, the community lunch has sparked a new wave of fellowship and friendship - and this one has happened in the kitchen.

Volunteers throughout the community have emerged to cook, clean, serve, play music, and whatever task is needed to feed 100 hungry people in two hours. Many are not members of St. Bart’s, but they come to assist and they are a very welcome and necessary addition.“Connections are being made and friendships are being formed. These are people who may have passed each other in the grocery store before and not even said hello,” said Ladd.

To learn more about St. Bart’s community lunch program, contact Karen Ladd at temenos@hotmail.com or 919-542-5679.

How the community lunch works

All are welcome to come to eat - there is no charge.

Donations are accepted, but not required.

Everyone offers a gift - the gift of themselves.

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MDGs: The Time Is Now

As host of the weekly, nationally syndicated radio program “Day 1,” I work with a diverse array of church leaders from the mainline denominations. Most are pastors or seminary professors, but occasionally we have a lay person as our featured speaker.

Recently I was privileged to record one rather well known lay person: former President Jimmy Carter.

Early on a recent Friday morning, our crew set up video and audio equipment in a meeting room at The Carter Center in Atlanta. We had been allocated a very brief window in the former president’s jam-packed schedule, between a major policy meeting and a magazine photo shoot.

Former President Carter couldn’t have been more cordial and professional as he presented his address, and while answering my interview questions about how faith has influenced his life as a politician and as a humanitarian.

In his message, which will be broadcast Sept. 12 over our 200-station network, President Carter had this to say: All people of faith who take the Bible seriously -- both the New Testament and the Hebrew text--very much agree that God’s heart is with the poor and the vulnerable. Jesus proclaimed at the beginning of his early ministry that he had come to “bring good news to the poor.” The Bible includes several thousand verses on the poor and on God’s response to injustice.

This eminent Sunday school teacher (he still teaches two or three Sundays a month at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.) is the special capstone speaker for our “Day 1” series on “Faith & Global Hunger.” The first four episodes aired on consecutive Sundays from June 13-July 4 (for transcripts, audio, and video of the series, visit http://hunger.day1.org).

The idea for the “Faith & Global Hunger” series came from a regular listener in Chapel Hill, N.C. Charles Browning heard Dr. Lundblad say in a “Day 1” sermon in 2009 that “Jesus knew long ago what economists and hunger activists tell us now: we have everything we need to end world hunger.”

Browning, a retired farmer, and his wife, Margaret Knoerr, a librarian, were inspired to do something in response. He contacted us to suggest the idea of the series to raise awareness and encourage listener response to the problem -- particularly through the MDG effort.

Charlie, Margaret and project coordinator Dr. Joseph Mosnier, have been working closely with us to bring this project to fruition.

In 2000, 189 world leaders met at the United Nations Millennium Summit and issued the Millennium Declaration, in which rich and poor countries recognized a mutual responsibility to end poverty and its root causes, and resolved as the world community to achieve significant improvements in the lives of the world’s poorest

Photo by Sarah Herr

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one person can change the world Charlie Browning sits with Bishop Curry outside Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, while shooting a Please Note video about the “Faith & Global Hunger” series being aired nationally on Day 1. Browning’s commitment to change the world sparked the series, which featured Bishop Curry and other church leaders.

A capstone broadcast on Sept. 12 will feature President Jimmy Carter.

people by 2015 through the Millennium Development Goals. The eight MDGs target global hunger, universal education, gender equity, child health, maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS and other disease, environmental sustainability, and comprehensive development planning.

Today, 10 years after the Millennium Declaration, substantial progress has been made toward the realization of these goals. The UN member states will assess progress and accelerate achievement at the High-Level MDG Review Summit, scheduled for Sept. 20-23 at the United Nations as part of the 65th UN General Assembly.

All people of faith are encouraged to participate in this process, specifically through the “Stand Up and Take Action” initiative of the United Nations Millennium Campaign during the weekend of Sept. 17-19. This interfaith effort is designed to bring attention to the need to renew the world’s resolve to achieve

these goals. For specific ways you and your congregation can participate, visit the EndPoverty2015.org website.

Now is the time for all people of faith to insist that their elected representatives take concrete action to support and fund the MDG effort. As President Carter says in his “Day 1” message, “When we confront the scale of human need and know that we have the tools to make a difference, our obligation to do justice is all the more clear. We should feel a joyful resolve to press ahead. I have never been more optimistic about our ability to lift up our brothers and sisters and to change the world at long last.”

Amen.

This article was written by Peter Wallace and was reprinted (in excerpt) from The Huffington Post, www.huffingtonpost.com/ rev-peter-m-wallace/faithpoverty-and-the-mdg_b_636517.html

MDG GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE embracing the millennium development goals

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The diocesan’s Millennium Development Committee is now accepting grant applications to assist congregations in addressing the Millennium Development Goals. Grants up to $3,000 are available.

Submit your project by Oct. 1, 2010, for consideration.

Visit www.dioncmdg.org for additional information and to download the grant application, or contact the Debra Smithdeal, chair of the MDGs Committee, 704.827.6656, debra@dioncmdg.org.

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2 Fresh Start, held regionally. Contact Canon Hunn 7 New Clergy Orientation, Raleigh Diocesan Office 9 Interim Clergy Meeting, Holy Comforter, Burlington 9-11 Education for Ministry Mentor Training, St. Francis Springs Prayer Center, Stoneville 11 Safe Church Training, Christ Church, Raleigh 27 Safe Church Training, All Saints, Concord

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Future of Black Churches, Location TBD Safe Church Training, St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough Fresh Start, held regionally. Contact Canon Hunn.

Fall Youth Event, Haw River State Park Clergy Study Day Clergy Conference 2010, Hawthorne Inn, Winston-Salem Safe Church, Christ Church, Charlotte Anti-Racism Seminar, St. Philip’s, Durham Safe Church Training, Christ Church, Charlotte Diocesan Staff Day, Offices Closed

November Pre-Convention Convocation Meetings on opposite page 4 Fresh Start, held regionally. Contact Canon Hunn 12-13 ECW Annual Meeting, Holy Trinity, Greensboro 13 NW Regional Workshop with Stephanie Spellers 18 Interim Clergy Meeting

December 2 South Region Advent Quiet Day, All Saints’, Concord 2 Fresh Start, held regionally. Contact Canon Hunn 10-12 Bishops’ Ball

Clergy Conference will be held Oct. 12-14, at the Hawthorne Inn, Winston-Salem. Registration forms and additional information were mailed in early August. To register or for more information, contact Kianna Riley, kianna.riley@episdionc.com, 919.834.7474.

The Rev. Justin Anthony Lewis

About the Keynote Speaker This year’s keynote speaker is the Rev. Justin Anthony Lewis, who is the Rector of St Stephen’s Church, Canterbury, former Precentor of Christ Church, Oxford, and the author of If You Meet George Herbert on the Road, Kill Him: Radically Re-thinking Priestly Ministry (Continuum International). He was educated at the LSE and Oxford University, and has been ordained for 18 years.

Regional Workshops With The Rev. Stephanie Spellers The Rev. Stephanie Spellers, author of Radical Welcome: Embracing God, the Other and the Spirit of Transformation, will host three regional workshops for clergy and lay leaders within the diocese:

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Nov. 13 - Northwest Region, St. Paul’s (Winston-Salem, Greensboro Convocations) March 19 - South Region, Location TBA (Charlotte, Sandhills Convocations) April 2 - East Region, Location TBA (Durham, Raleigh, Rocky Mount Convocations)

Bishop Curry interviews the Rev. Stephanie Spellers for Please Note (video aired June 2, 2010).

Look for additional events and more detailed event information online at www.episdionc.org or contact the diocese at 919.834.7474, toll free 800.448.8775. Upcoming diocesan events and events from around the diocese are featured in Please Note, the Bishop’s weekly e-newsletter, & in the Around the Diocese monthly bulletin insert.

Clergy Changes

The Rev. Rhonda Lee, from Vicar, St. Joseph’s, Durham, to Non-Parochial.

As of July 19, 2010

The Rev. Jay P. Burkardt, from Chaplain, Caterbury School, Greensboro, to Non-Parochial.

The Rev. Karen Barfield, from Chaplain, Episcopal Center of Duke University, to Non-Parochial.

The Rev. Nils P. Chittenden, from Diocese of Durham, England, to Chaplain, Episcopal Center and Young Adult Missioner, Diocese of North Carolina.

The Rev. Kermit Marshall Bailey, Deacon, Church of the Ascension, Fork, deceased May 28, 2010.

The Rev. Dr. W. Carter Lofton, Deacon, Church of the Holy Comforter, Charlotte, deceased May 29, 2010.

The Rev. Ann Brewster Jones, deceased February 28, 2010.

The Rev. Kevin S. Brown, from Diocese of West Tennessee, to Rector, Church of the Holy Comforter, Charlotte.

The Rev. Kenneth Miller, from Rector, St. Paul’s, Smithfield, to Rector, St. Boniface, Mequon, Wisconsin.

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The Rev. John Shields, from Interim Rector, Holy Comforter, Charlotte, to Interim Rector, Holy Trinity, Valle Crucis, Diocese of Western NC.

The Rev. Gabriel Lamazares, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon, Assistant at St. Michael’s and All Angels, Portland, OR. The Rev. Sara Palmer, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon, Assistant at St. Mary’s, High Point.

The Rev. James P. Adams, from Diocese of Connecticut, to Rector, Christ Church, Raleigh.

The Rev. C. C. Schroeder, from Assistant Rector, St. Luke’s, Salisbury, to Vicar, St. Gabriel’s, Leesburg, VA. The Rev. Robert Thomas, from Deacon, St. Paul’s, Smithfield, to Non-Parochial.

The Rev. Sara C. Batson, from Vicar, Trinity Church, Fuquay-Varina, to NonParochial.

The Rev. Kathleen Pfister, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon.

The Rev. Dr. Martha Stebbins, from Sandhills Cluster Missioner, to Rector, St. Timothy’s Church, Wilson.

The Rev. Deborah Blackwood, from Deacon, St. John’s Charlotte, to NonParochial.

The Rev. Robert Black, from Assistant Rector, St. John’s, Washington DC, to Assistant Rector, St. Francis, Greensboro.

The Rev. Suzanne L. Bruno, from Deacon, St. John’s Charlotte, to Deacon, St. Margaret’s, Washaw.

The Rev. Anne Hallmark, from Diocese of NC, to Rector, Emmanuel Church, Middleburg, VA, Letters Dimissory to Diocese of VA.

The Rev. Theodore McConnell, from Rector, St. Paul’s, Wilmington, to Interim Rector, Calvary Church, Tarboro, and Interim Vicar, St. Luke’s Tarboro.

The Rev. Paul (Peter) Hogg, from Interim Rector, Christ Church Raleigh, to Interim Rector, Diocese of VA.

The Rev. Rick Williams, from NonParochial to Vicar, St. Paul’s, Salisbury.

The Rev. James Walter Erwin, Jr., from Transitional Deacon, to Priesthood, St. Paul’s Church, Riverside, Ct. The Rev. Dr. Heather A. Warren, from Transitional Deacon, to Priesthood, St. Philip’s Church, Durham.

The Rev. Roxane Gwyn, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon.

The Rev. Marie Kane, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon.

The Rev. Lauren Kilbourn, from Candidate, to Transitional Deacon.

The Rev. Charles M. Riddle, III, Letters Dimissory from Diocese of NC to Diocese of Southern VA. The Rev. John Linscott, from Deacon, St. John’s, Wake Forest, to Deacon, Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh.

The Rev. Eugene Humphreys, from Deacon, St. Andrew’s, Charlotte, to Deacon, St. Peter’s, Charlotte.

The Rev. Robert B. Cook, from Interim Rector, St. Andrew’s, Greensboro, to Retirement.

The Rev. Vernon Cahoon, from Candidate, to Permanent Deacon, Christ Church, Albermarle.

The Rev. Maggie Silton, from Deacon, St. Joseph’s, Durham, to Deacon, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill.

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Diocesan Convention

The 195th Annual Diocesan Convention will convene on Friday, January 21, in Winston-Salem at the Benton Convention Center and adjourn on Saturday, January 22.

All information needed for convention will be placed on the diocesan website, www.episdionc.org, under “2011 Annual Convention.”

Currently, the following information is available: Links to the Benton Convention Center, Notice of 2011 Convention, Certificate of Election, Certification of Change in Lay Delegation, Timeline for 195th Convention, and the Delegate Strength Table.

IMPORTANT ITEMS TO NOTE

Pre-Convention Information Proposed resolutions, election information, and committee reports will be published in a special pre-convention packet. There will no longer be a pre-convention issue of The North Carolina Disciple in newspaper format. Instead, this packet will be distributed to lay delegates and clergy with voting privileges, and a pdf will be available on the diocesan website, www.episdionc.org, under “2011 Annual Convention” for anyone interested in downloading, saving, and/or printing the information.

Convention Packets Convention packets distributed to clergy and delegates will only include convention-related materials. An information table will be available to display additional materials from committees, institutions, organizations, etc. This change will make folders less cumbersome to navigate and allow those interested to pick up information on topics they find useful at the information table. Please send items for the information table to the Diocesan House, 200 West Morgan St., Suite 300, Raleigh, NC 27601, so they can be approved by the Bishop’s office.

Pre-Convention Convocation Meetings Nov. 9: Charlotte – St. John’s Nov. 10: Raleigh – Christ Church Nov. 11: Sandhills – Emmanuel, Southern Pines Nov. 15: Rocky Mount – Location TBD Nov. 16: Durham – Location TBD Nov. 17: Winston-Salem – Location TBD Nov. 18: Greensboro – St. Andrew’s Specific times for the below dates and January Convocation meeting dates will be published on the diocesan website.

Other Important Dates Oct. 4: Certificates of election of lay delegates are due.

Dec. 13: Deadline for receiving nominations and resolutions and for submitting annual reports for inclusion in the pre-convention packet.

Please see additional convention-related dates on the timeline published on this page.

Stay Tuned...

In the coming months, watch for convention information on the diocesan website - www.episdionc.org, Please Note - the bishop’s weekly e-newsletter, and in the “Around the Diocese” monthly bulletin insert.

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CONVENTION TIMELINE Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Deadline for filing copy of 2009 audit report with the diocesan business office.

August or September Vestry Meetings Vestries elect lay delegates to Convention for three-year terms.

Thursday, September 23, 2010 (120 days before Convention) Bishop certifies to secretary the list of clergy entitled to seat, voice, and vote in Convention. Canon 1.1.

Monday, October 4, 2010 (110 days before Convention; transferred from Sunday, October 3) Deadline for clerks of vestries to mail certificates of election of lay delegates.

Canon 1.2.

Friday, October 15, 2010 Deadline for Assessment Appeals Board to notify parishes and missions of its decisions on appeals for reduction of required contribution for support of the 2011 diocesan budget Thursday, October 21, 20010 Diocesan Council adopts a proposed budget for 2011.

Friday, October 22, 2010 (90 days before Convention; transferred from Saturday, October 23) Secretary publishes official roll of Clergy and Lay Orders of the 195th Annual Convention [Canon 1.2], gives formal notice of positions to be filled by election, mails nomination forms, and issues instructions for submitting resolutions.

Secretary sends committee preference forms to clergy and lay delegates.

November (At least 75 days before Convention) No later than today, Convocations hold pre-Convention meetings to discuss the 2011 diocesan budget tentatively proposed by the Diocesan Council. Canon 19.4.

Thursday, December 16, 2010 Diocesan Council gives final approval to 2011 budget to be presented to Convention.

Monday, December 13, 2010 (40 days before Convention; transferred from Sun., December 12).

Last day to submit nominations and resolutions. Rule of Order XVIII, Rule of Order XIX. Bishop appoints Legislative Committees no later than today. Canon 13, sec. 2.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 (30 days before Convention).

Last day to apply for admission as a parish or mission into Union with Convention. Canon 2.5.

December 31, 2010 Deadline for full payment of required contributions for support of the 2010 budget.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 (At least 10 days before Convention) No later than today, Convocations hold pre-Convention meetings to discuss nominations and resolutions and to elect deans and lay wardens.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 (10 days before Convention).

Date for determination by the Secretary of the Convention as to compliance with Rule of Order III. Secretary strikes from the roll of voting clergy and lay delegates names of those from parishes or missions failing to pay full amount of their required contributions to the 2010 diocesan budget.

Friday, January 21, 2011.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

195th Convention convenes.

195th Convention adjourns.

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On July 1, St. Titus Episcopal Church, Durham, hosted its second annual service commemorating the life and works of the Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline Murray. Better known throughout her life as Pauli, this truly remarkable child of God forged academic, political, and spiritual paths which intersected along the way.

Her life was fraught with every conceivable obstacle from the very beginning, yet she went on to become the first African-American female to be ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church. At the service, from left, are the Rev. Sarah Woodard, the Rev. Jill Staton Bullard, the Rev. Marion Thullbery, and the Rev. Maggie Silton.

Information by Ki Caldwell Photo by the Rev. Katherine Johnson

Diocese works to honor Pauli murray

By Margaret McCann

The Diocese of North Carolina is working to have the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray added to the commemoration calendar of The Episcopal Church. You may or may not have noticed that in the beginning of our Prayer Book there is a calendar of the church year. It includes such dates as Epiphany and the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary – but it also includes various names of people from throughout history who are considered to be saints in our church.

The 2009 Diocesan Convention adopted a resolution that asked that the following be submitted to General Convention for consideration: “Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that the 76th General Convention commend the name of the Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray to the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music for its consideration of the possible addition of the Photo by Sarah Herr Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray to the calendar Standing in front of a mural depicting the Rev. of the Episcopal Church, recognizing July Dr. Pauli Murray in Durham, youth learn more about Murray’s life while on the Freedom Ride.

1st, the date of her death, as the date of commemoration and request that it report on this matter to the 77th General Convention in 2012.”

This resolution was then presented to the General Convention last summer. All resolutions are first considered by a legislative committee, which then makes a recommendation to the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops, where resolutions are voted on. This resolution was assigned to the Convention Committee on Prayer Book, Liturgy and Church Music. That committee had a hearing on the resolution, where I spoke, encouraging their support for the addition.

The committee had a lot of other work to do, including consideration of the blessing of same-sex unions. Its work included a complete revision of the book of commemorations, which specifies scripture readings and prayers for each one. This new book is called Holy Women, Holy Men – Celebrating the Saints, and it replaces the book Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

Therefore, the committee did not get to the Pauli Murray commemoration. We’re optimistic that this will be approved at the next General Convention. One reason for this optimism is that Pauli’s name was on a list of people who were considered for inclusion in the new book, but not actually included because she had not been dead for 50 years. This is one of the guidelines for being on the calendar – but we can make a good case for the fact that she’s the first black woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, and this is as true now as it would be if we waited 35 years.

Another reason for optimism is that another criteria for being added to the liturgical calendar is whether there are already local observances commemorating the person. We have had commemorative services at St. Titus in 2009 and 2010, and a 2007 service at The Chapel of the Cross. We’ve developed a collect and a litany for the commemoration, and we’ve selected appropriate scripture readings.

And so I hope at the 2012 General Convention, the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray will be added to our church calendar.

Meg McCann is a parishioner at St. Philip’s in Durham, who was a Deputy to General Convention in 2006 and 2009. She can be contacted at margaretmccann@att.net Reflecting the Radical Welcome of Jesus

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE

united thank offering

By Alice Freeman

The Diocese of North Carolina enjoys a wonderful history in contributing to and receiving grants from the United Thank Offering (UTO), a program sponsored by the Episcopal Church Women. In keeping with the mission of the Millennium Development Goals, the UTO awards grants annually to parishes and agencies to support projects that especially address and impact the lives of women and children.

Two times during the year we conduct a campaign requesting the support of individuals and churches to help meet the needs of so many who are in need.

While some funds collected nationwide are awarded to programs outside of the United States, primary funding is used to support domestic programs, many of them right here in North Carolina.

There are two opportunities each year to participate -- Spring Ingathering (May) and upcoming Fall Ingathering (November).

Through the generosities of people in this Diocese, the Spring Ingathering collected $23,759.94.

The success of this program would not have been possible without the love, compassion, and support of those who gave so generously.

Our diocese has been extremely fortunate in receiving UTO grants – 14 in the last 15 years.

Grants have been used for such projects as the Renovation of Parish Hall Flooring at All Saints’ in Hamlet ($8,200). The ongoing ministry of Care Teams within congregations caring for persons with HIV/AIDS through the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network received a $15,000 grant in 2007. In 2009, Chapel of Christ the King Youth Program received $10,000 to offer positive alternatives to the behaviors and activities that lead to teen pregnancy, gang involvement, and school dropout in an impoverished inner-city community.

In 2008, St. Andrew’s in Haw River was awarded $25,000 for its HOPE Ministry (volunteer care giving for elders). Their goal is to provide volunteer support to people, age 60 and older to enable individuals to live with dignity, safely in their own homes for as long as possible. Most of the people served are at or near the poverty level. Eighty-four percent of those who were recipients of this program were women, most of whom live alone. And this year, just a few months ago, as part of their outreach program, Holy Comforter in Charlotte was awarded $9,772 for shelving and large-capacity commercial freezers, thus enabling them to safely and effectively serve more people through their Loaves and Fishes food pantry program.

These are the kinds of programs your United Thank Offering dollars are supporting. We thank you for that support and look forward to even greater participation this November during Fall Ingathering.

Alice B. Freeman is a member of St. Mark’s, Wilson, and the Diocesan UTO Coordinator. For more information on how you can get involved with the UTO, please contact her at uto@ecw-nc.org.

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Top Left: Taking advantage of beautiful weather, Frank Gaertner, Priscilla Gaertner and Lynda Lengquist enjoy a St. Paul’s Senior Series dinner. Top Right: Bill Hoyt and the late Nan Hoyt at the very first Senior Tea in 2006. Bottom Right: The Rt. Rev. William Gregg, Assisting Bishop of North Carolina, enjoys the St. Paul’s eighth annual Dinner for Seniors (aged 55 and over) with wife, Kathy, and Nancy Noles.

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celebrating seniors Special Dinner and Tea Shows Appreciation, Gives Thanks St. Paul’s, Monroe, held its first Seniors of three entrees, and two desserts expanded Dinner in 2003, and the tradition of honoring to a dessert cart. Background music adds adchurch elders has grown ditional ambience for the into something special events, and is provided by “Eventually we decided the church organist (on the enjoyed by young and old.

“The Senior’s Dinner that one event per year for piano) or by members who was intended to honor very accomplished with seniors was not enough, and are and thank St. Paul’s older acoustic guitar. These talmembers for their service we added a tea for seniors in ented (and good-natured) to the church, and we early 2006. Since then it has musicians then usually help wanted to make it somewith the clean-up afterbeen the tradition to have wards. thing special, particularly for those seniors who “Eventually we decided the dinner in the spring and were rarely able to have that one event per year for the tea in the fall.” an evening of fine dining. seniors was not enough, Those who attended the and we added a tea for - Harold Jenkins first dinner expecting a seniors in early 2006. Since cook-out or spaghetti then it has been the tradidinner were surprised to tion to have the dinner in be presented with menus and complete table the spring and the tea in the fall,” said Jenkins. service,” said Harold Jenkins, member of St. The Senior Series is not part of the Paul’s.

St. Paul’s budget; each year it is funded entirely The wait staff was, in fact, some of our through donations. older youth, who were delighted to have a chance to serve the seniors. For their part, the seniors appreciated having the full attention of Charlotte Jenkins is a member of St. Paul’s the teens.

Episcopal Church, Monroe. If you would like insight Over the next couple of years more friends on how to start a Senior Series at your church, were enlisted to help, the number of guests contact her at charlottejenkins@windstream.net nearly doubled, the menu morphed to a choice Making Disciples, Making a Difference

Center to provide intense therapy for victims of ‘horrifying' abuse

By Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer

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The $3.6 million treatment center being unveiled June 24 by Thompson Child & Family Focus is to be a children's home, but the 10-foot-high fences, security doors, bolted-down beds and suicide-proof fixtures underscore a stark reality.

Every child admitted into the 24-bed facility is mentally ill, due to sexual abuse or extreme and repeated exposure to sexual experiences. This can range from rape to incest to sexual exploitation through pornography.

Ginny Amendum, president of Thompson Child & Family Focus, agrees this is stuff the rest of society finds "horrifying."

Yet it gets worse. These same abuse victims are themselves prone to being sexually aggressive, highly impulsive and self-destructive.

"They will themselves become sexual abusers, and the children they abuse will become sexual abusers, and so on," says Amendum. "Somebody has to break that cycle. We believe we can. Otherwise, these children end up lost in the system: the court system, jail system and mental health system. ... They are victims and we believe they have potential like every other child."

Mecklenburg County had 70 substantiated cases last year of child sex abuse involving a caregiver, according to social services. However, experts say 30 percent of cases are never reported by the victim.

Thompson's new 15,000-square-foot center intends to fill a gap in services for the worst-of-theworst abuse cases. Western North Carolina has only one similar facility, Grandfather Home for Children in Banner Elk, officials said.

The shortage of treatment programs prompts North Carolina to send many young children out of

This new treatment facility at Thompson provides care for children with mental illness due to extreme sexual abuse.

state for help, said Karen McLeod, CEO of Children and Family Services Association of North Carolina.

What Thompson has done is extraordinary, she adds, because the center is focused on "volatile" children who are the toughest to place. It is also unique because it exceeds requirements in key areas like staffing ratios: one adult to every two children.

"A lot of agencies are not willing to take this type of clientele, because they are high risk," says McLeod. "Think of a 5-year-old that needs to be placed in this type of facility.

In their short five years, they have experienced more horror than you and most of us in a lifetime."

The new facility, paid for through a capital campaign, sits a quarter-mile off Independence Boulevard on a 42-acre campus in the Matthews area.

It officially opens in August with the first 12 children, all boys, who will live, go to school, socialize and receive intense individual treatment all in the same wing.

Security features include a 10-foot fence

around the backyard, and interior windows that allow staff constant visual contact.

Children will get their own bedroom and bathroom, but all fixtures will be made "suicide proof," including door hooks and shower rods that break away.

The children are expected to spend at least a year there, then be moved on to other treatment.

"One of the things we know from studies of sexual perpetrators is that their behavior could have been stopped at an earlier age," says Peggy Eagan, executive director of the Children & Family Services Center in Charlotte. "The expectation is that programs like this are the best opportunity for these children to have a normal life."

This article was reprinted with permission from The Charlotte Observer.

ABOUT THOMPSON CHILD & FAMILY FOCUS The Episcopal Church founded Thompson Child & Family Focus as an orphanage in 1886. It remains an institution of the diocese to this day, and all clergy of the diocese take an offering from the congregations they serve for Thompson on the Sunday before Thanksgiving (November 21 this year).

Thompson has evolved into a leading provider of effective clinical and behavioral treatment, developmental education, and proactive care for at-risk children and families. All programs are nationally accredited.

Thompson operates three campuses in the Charlotte region:

The Clanton Road Campus in West Charlotte houses the Thompson Child Development Center, which provides developmental and preventive programming for young children (infant to age 5) and their families, through diverse educational and therapeutic resources. This campus also includes the 4 Early Childhood Services Department, which provides support and mentor relationships for other earlychildhood programs across Mecklenburg, Union, and Cabarrus Counties.

The Saint Peter’s Lane Campus in Matthews houses Thompson’s two psychiatric residential treatment centers for children with serious mental illnesses stemming from horrific early childhood traumas, most often involving

The East 7th Street Campus near uptown Charlotte houses an array of mental health community services including outpatient counseling, foster-care services, schoolbased intervention therapy, intensive

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domestic violence, sexual abuse and/or longterm neglect.

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n-h -h hom ome e se serv rvic rv ices ic es,, an es and d fa fami mily mi lyy edu e duca du cati ca tio ti on. in-home services, family education. h i i d tto ““wrap These services are d designed around” children and families, providing an accessible, effective menu of services that support individual needs and healing.

Both the St. Peter’s Lane and Seventh Street Campuses consistently serve children from all across the state.

For more information about Thompson, please visit www.thompsoncff.org.

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By the Rev. Dr. Sally L. Harbold, Chair of the Pastoral Response Team

you are not alone

The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina’s PASTORAL RESPONSE TEAM call to be a community of disciples following “ Our our Lord Jesus Christ means that we are to be

a community where all are loved, valued and cherished. The church is to be, therefore, a safe space for all of God’s children. In that light we are committed to continuing the work to make our churches as free as possible of sexual abuse and all misconduct, and whenever such abuse or misconduct occurs to confront it honestly and quickly.

We simply must do all we can to make church a safe place for everyone and “to respect the dignity of every human being.”

Because we love God, and because we love God’s people, we can do nothing less.

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Contact the Pastoral Response Team:

- The Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry on the work of the Pastoral Response Team

1.877.332.3394 Contact the 1.877.332.3394 Pastoral Response Team:

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What is a Pastoral Response Team?

The Pastoral Response Team (PRT) is a group of people who act on behalf of and at the direction of the Rt. Rev. Michael B. Curry, the Diocesan Bishop, to extend pastoral care and support to both persons and congregations when there is need.

Who is on the Pastoral Response Team?

Clergy and lay persons appointed by the Bishop who have expertise in areas such as psychology, counseling, legal and financial matters, conflict resolution, pastoral listening and crisis management for personal, institutional, and congregational situations.

The idea of contacting the PRT might bring about a sense of dread, as this team has been associated with reports of clergy misconduct and abuse. In fact, those are situations that require assistance from the PRT, but the team also provides valuable insight, resources, and plans for clergy, employees, and congregations that are dealing with sensitive pastoral situations that require psychological, legal, and professional counsel.

Remember, the PRT’s process is mutual and making this call does not determine a fixed process. Rather we work with you to find the resolution and healing that is possible.

The PRT has developed a process that is mutual, where all persons are honored and valued, and where Diocesan and national guidelines are at work to assure not only the safety and care of every human being, but also the dignity of all persons.

When is a Pastoral Response needed?

When there is a breach of trust or any situation where the congregation’s ability to respond in the normal fashion is compromised within a congregation (these situations could include church employees, lay or ordained, or church members). Examples include: • Misuse of church funds or church property • An allegation of sexual misconduct by a lay employee of the church or by clergy • Inappropriate behavior by parishioners that causes others to feel unsafe • Clergy or lay employees abuse alcohol, drugs, or exhibit symptoms of mental illness • Suspected elder abuse or child abuse • A devastating loss such as the building destroyed, loss of life on property, sudden death

Who needs to know about the Pastoral Response Team?

It is unfortunate that the above situations occur within our congregations – but having an established team of people ready to assist has helped to provide guidance, counsel, action plans and healing. In that regard, the PRT recommends that the following people have general knowledge about the Pastoral Response Team and access to contact information: • • •

Clergy Vestry Wardens

• • •

Volunteers Church Employees Youth Leaders

Basically, it is a good idea that anyone involved with the church be aware of the The PRT will provide PRT because ultimately, reacting respon- churches with a poster sibly has helped to reduce the severity that can be placed in a of such situations in many instances. It is prominent location so not uncommon that congregations, like that members will have families, will try to hold back speaking this information about harms, injustice or simply embarrassing situations. Yet, when not spoken about, these situations will continue to rise to the surface and create new challenges for persons and the community of faith.

With the help of the Pastoral Response Team – you are not alone.

Contact the Pastoral Response Team The Diocese maintains a toll-free line where confidential messages can be left. Your call will be returned by a member of the PRT, who can assist you in determining the next steps you would like to take.

The Rev. Dr. Sally L. Harbold is chair of the Diocese’s Pastoral Response Team and is Associate Rector at St. Paul’s, Cary. Contact her at rector2@stpaulscary.org

Call 1.877.332.3394 at any time.

Calls are returned within 24 hours.

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Making Disciples, Making a Difference

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By Dorothy Darr, Ph.D.

As A the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi nears, I find myself reflecting on what walking with St. Francis might mean today.

In the 13th Century, Francis faced a monumental challenge: The Catholic Church had m grown wealthy and distant from the people, g and a while staying loyal to the church, Francis sought to transform his life in God. In the process, this humble man from a small parish, became a powerful spiritual force who helped to nourish the Holy Spirit in people throughout the world, and effect changes in the policies of the church itself.

Forgive the following brief description of this magnificent saint who imitated the life of Christ so well. But in this focused space, can we not ask and answer: How did Francis bring about this spiritual transformation?”

First, Francis sought to lead a simple life: less spending, less consumption. He turned away from gaining his identity from the things he owned. He encouraged himself, and later others, to develop a personal relationship with God through prayer, by obeying God’s word, and by becoming more attentive to nature as “God revealed.”

He spent a lot of time out of doors - preaching, praying and developing outdoor dramas to make the stories of the Bible come alive. He was the first to re-create the nativity scene - and his nativity included live animals at the service.

To Francis, Earth and universe, the sun and the moon, the stars and the sky, the plants and the animals, the fish and the fowl, the rivers and streams, contained God’s divine spirit, given them by the creator. Thus, to Francis, all of nature on Earth had a divine right to existence. All of creation was of God. As an activist for God and nature, he believed that God’s creations were members of an extended family, all his relatives, so to speak. Francis took the Bible seriously when it called humans in Genesis 2:15 to serve and preserve the Earth, “to dress it and to keep it,”[KJV], “to tend and guard it,” [Amplified], “to work it and take care of it,”[NAS], “to watch over it” [New Living Translation].

Francis believed “dominion” to mean “to care for,” as we care for domesticated animals, and not to mean “domination” which can lead so easily to arbitrary and insolent behaviors.

He believed the Earth embodied God’s magnificence, God’s glory, and God’s imagination. Thus, nature was not a commodity, nor was it a “resource” to benefit man alone. “God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” [Genesis 1:31] I might mention here that Francis was not a vegetarian. But he limited the amount of meat and poultry he ate and realized the sacrificial reality of his food. When he ate a bird, for example, Francis understood that the bird had given its life so that he might eat. And he blessed that sacrifice.

So, I think that if St. Francis was living today, he would agree that we can make changes that will have a positive impact on the environment: we can drive less, eat local foods, and incorporate energy efficiency and renewable energy sources into our homes, offices, and churches.

St. Francis would exemplify for us, as he did for the Reflecting the Radical Welcome of Jesus

st. francis

Statue of St. Francis of Assisi outside Gloria Dei Episcopal Church, built from 1879 to 1885 in Palenville, in upstate New York. He’s holding a dish with a bird perched on it. St. Francis is the patron saint for animals, charged with protecting them and the environment.

members of the Christian Church 800 years ago, to live a simple life, get outside more, appreciate all living things, love God and nature as family, and respect the sacrificial reality of our food.

By renewing his relationship with God and with nature as God revealed, St. Francis literally brought the Christian Church out of the dark ages into the modern era. His monumental example in the 13th Century gives us hope today in the 21st Century that we, too, can be successful in facing the immense moral challenge of our time: to renew our relationship with God and with the Earth. Like St. Francis, we, too, can become activists for God and for God’s creation by reducing our carbon emissions.

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who began her career as a Ph.D in oceanography, sums up well the importance of our mission when she writes, “All that is created reflects the image of God—not just human beings....If we do o not pay

attention to the health of all of creation, the other issues that concern us will be of no importance.”+ This Oct. 4 , I invite you to take a moment and think about what walking with St. Francis might truly mean. +North Carolina Disciple, Episcopal Life, January 2009, p. D-9.

Dorothy Darr, Ph.D, is co-chair, The Chartered Committee for Environmental Ministry, Diocese of North Carolina, and Convener, The Environmental Stewardship Committee, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, High Point, NC. Contact her at dorothy1@ northstate.net.

Resources from the Environmental CommitR tee are available on the diocesan website at ww.episdionc.org, click on committees and find the Committee for Environmental Ministry.

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September 5

No visits

September 12

Kanuga

September 19

House of Bishops, Phoenix, No Visits

September 26

St. Thomas, Sanford

St. Mark’s, Huntersville

All Saints, Roanoke Rapids (morning) St. James, Kittrell (afternoon)

October 3

Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount

St. Andrew’s, Haw River

St. Timothy’s, Winston-Salem

October 10

St. Alban’s, Davidson

Holy Innocents, Henderson Sandhills Cluster

October 17

All Saints, Greensboro

Advent, Enfield

Messiah, Mayodan

St. Mary’s, High Point

Trinity, Statesville

St. Patrick’s, Mooresville

Epiphany, Rocky Mount

October 24

St. Matthew’s, Kernersville

October 31

St. Timothy’s, Wilson

November 7

St. Andrew’s, Rocky Mount St. Elizabeth’s, King

November 14

St. Stephen’s, Oxford

St. Martin’s, Charlotte

November 21

St. Andrew’s, Greensboro

St. Mark’s, Raleigh

November 28

Thanksgiving, No Visits

December 5

St. Margaret, Waxhaw

St. Mark’s, Roxboro

December 12

Redeemer

St. Alban’s, Littleton

December 19

St. Bartholomew’s, Pittsboro St. Cyprian’s, Oxford

St. Stephen’s, Winston-Salem

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