Leadership News (Page 44)
Ways to help identified by Deacon Janet Nocher
Deacon Janet Nocher offers the following information about opportunities for ministry, open to both lay and ordained people. 1. Looking for a Lenten discipline? Baylor All Saints Hospital needs three Noonday Prayer readers to read once a week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the hospital chapel. If interested call Deacon Nocher at 817-292-1786 or Sally Proffitt at 817-917-7630. This ministry also could continue after Easter. 2. An Episcopalian in the diocese is in need of a kidney transplant and…
Abundant Living conference offered for seniors and caregivers
Are you over 60? Feel like 60? Care for someone over 60? Then this conference is for you. Seniors, family members, and caregivers are encouraged to attend the Province VII Older Adult Ministries’ 2015 Abundant Living conference “A Time for Transition” for three days of exploring aging as a spiritual journey. The conference is Monday, March 16, through Wednesday, March18, at Camp Allen in Navasota, TX. Check-in begins on Monday at 10 am, with the event ending at 1 pm on…
Executive Council meets for first time in 2015
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth met on Saturday, January 31, 2015, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Hurst. Among other business, the council heard about the Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High’s plans for town hall meetings in each deanery, heard updates on the Funding for the Future campaign and proposed revisions to the diocesan canons, acted on revisions to the 2014 and 2015 budgets, and organized into committees. See more photos of the meeting in the diocesan Flickr…
Executive Council committees organize for 2015
Bishop Rayford B. High, Jr. announced members of the four committees of Executive Council at the January 31 meeting of council. (This list was updated 3/19/2015) Read a report of the meeting here. Congregational Development Committee This committee serves as the Executive Council’s link with programs and services for the missionary work in the diocese and development of congregations, which may include: church plants; overseeing missions and assisting congregations moving from mission to parish status; and leadership development and stewardship…
Parish assessments supported diocesan vision in 2014
The assessments that congregations pay to the diocese are the basis for the diocesan budget. At the January 31, 2015, meeting of the Executive Council, Diocesan Treasurer Bob Hicks reported many of the ways the diocesan vision was supported by diocesan dollars in 2014: Paid the full Asking of The Episcopal Church and Province VII Assessment for the 6th year in a row. Continued our growth towards a charitable tithe with donations to: Episcopal Relief and Development Sewanee, Seminary of…
Assessment Task Force reports to Executive Council
Mr. John Banks, All Saints’, Fort Worth, chair of the Diocesan Assessment Task Force, reported on the work of the task force at the January, 2015, meeting of the Executive Council. Read a report of that meeting here. The task force was established by Resolution FC1, Establishment of an Assessment Task Force at the 2014 Diocesan Convention.It met for the first time on Saturday, January 17, 2015, to organize itself and begin work. Members of the task force are Chair, Mr. Banks Mr.…
Campaign Committee reports to Executive Council
Floyd McKneely, chair of the Funding for the Future Campaign Committee, reported on the work on the committee at the Executive Council’s first meeting of 2015. Read about that meeting here. McKneely said that the campaign team conducted interviews and a focus group in each of the five deaneries. The interviews with individuals covered basically the same information as the online survey.The focus group survey was exactly the same as the online survey.The focus groups’ answers are collected separately so…
Constitution and Canons Committee Reports to Executive Council
Mr. George Komechak, chair of the Constitution and Canons Committee reported on the work of the committee at the Executive Council’s first meeting of 2015. Read a report of that meeting He said that in response to the new Canon 42, Committee on Constitution and Canons, describing the organization and function of the committee that was passed at the 2014 Convention, committee appointments have now been made by Bishop Rayford B.High, Jr. The members and their term completions at end…
Convention Evaluation Summary presented to Executive Council
Ministry Support and Communications Officer Tracie Middleton presented a summary of the evaluations filled out by those attending diocesan convention at the Jack Daniel’s Club at Globe Life Ballpark in Arlington to the January 2015 Executive Council meeting. Read a report of that meeting here. To download a pdf or ppt of the slideshow above, click on the gear icon in the viewer control bar. The slide show will play automatically; click the pause button at the bottom left of the…
Chaplains to retired clergy expanding ministry
Last year the Rev. Susan Slaughter, retired rector of St. Luke’s in the Meadow, Fort Worth; and the Rev. Courtland Moore, retired canon to the ordinary, and long time priest of the diocese, were asked by Bishop Rayford B. High, Jr., to serve as chaplains to the retired clergy of the diocese. The Rev. Jim Horton and his wife, Anne, stepped down from that role last year. Since then, Slaughter and Moore have worked to update the list of retired…
Letter from Bishop Rayford High introducing the Funding for the Future Campaign
Dear Friends in Christ, Greetings in this season of Epiphany – this season of blazing new trails, of returning to our own country “by another road” (Matthew 2:12). Like the wise men, we in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth have had encounters with Christ (individually and together) over these past five years that have changed us, and which call us forward in ministry and mission – in ways that we never would have dreamed years ago. At our Diocesan…
Funding for the Future Campaign Goals
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, with its commitment to be a place where “all are welcome,” has a unique call to make a difference in these 24 counties of north central Texas in the 21st century. In the six years that have passed since some of our diocesan leadership left The Episcopal Church while claiming Episcopal Church property, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth has stabilized, grown and gained momentum in mission and ministry. We are, in this new…
Capital Campaign Survey Link open through Feb. 15
At diocesan Convention in November, the Convention voted to explore a diocesan-wide capital campaign. A Capital Campaign Committee has been formed, chaired by Floyd McKneely, and a study process is underway to determine the purposes and goals of this campaign. Goals identified at the outset of the study include these: funding for clergy salaries for church plants and church “re-plants” funding for a full-time bishop funding for campus ministry funding for other mission and ministry endeavors – things that we can…
Wise County Episcopalians to explore establishing an Episcopal presence
In early November, two Episcopalians in Wise County reached out to the diocesan office through the “contact” feature on the diocesan website, seeking some connection with The Episcopal Church. Bishop High followed up immediately by email and later in a face-to-face conversation to discuss possibilities for establishing an Episcopal presence in Wise County. The next step of this process will take place Friday, February 6 with an exploratory meeting in Boyd, Texas among three residents of Wise County who have indicated…
Episcopal Parties file Response to Defendants’ Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
On Monday, December 22, 2014, Plaintiffs The Episcopal Church and the Local Episcopal Parties and Congregations filed their Response to the breakaway Defendants’ motion for partial summary judgment in the 141st Civil District Court of Tarrant County, the Honorable Judge John P. Chupp presiding. Read the Response to Defendants’ Second Motion for Partial Summary Judgment – PDF The Rt. Rev. Rayford B. High, Jr., bishop of the diocese and one of the named plaintiffs in the case, expressed his confidence that…
Cursillo #3 rescheduled for January 8-11, 2015
UPDATE: this post has been updated to indicate that the cost to attend weekend has been waived. It’s free, a gift from the Cursillo community. Cursillo #3 has been rescheduled for January 8-11, 2015 at Glen Lake Camp and Retreat Center in Glen Rose. Marti Fagley will be the lay rector. Cursillo is… an opportunity to grow in faith and in spirituality a deeper understanding of the teachings of Jesus and how we can serve Him. an experience of living and sharing with others in a…