Leadership News (Page 49)
Administrative and communications staff convene June 18
Administrators and communications staffers from congregations across the diocese will meet Wednesday, June 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, 11:30am to 1:30pm, to share information and inspiration about communications and outreach trends and strategies.
Plan Bede can help with your worship materials
Plan Bede, a web-based service, offers help with worship materials to congregations, to assure they can have quality, personalized weekly service books while freeing up staff time at a cost suitable for even small congregations.
30 Great reasons to attend ‘Growing in Faith Together’ June 20-21
6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 30. Peter Steinke will be offering at least 30 insights and practices that you can put to work in your congregation, as he offers the second part of the Growing in Faith Together workshop to lay and clergy leaders. Register today to attend with a team from your congregation.
St. Christopher hosts free TENS stewardship workshop June 11, 18, 25
St. Christopher Episcopal Church in Fort Worth invites people throughout the diocese to attend three free webcast sessions of “Walking the Way,” the June conference of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). Stewardship teams, clergy, and donors are especially invited to see the national conference presentations and learn more about the theology and the nuts and bolts of stewardship in the congregation.
Steinke offers tools you can use – Good News for Leaders
In their upcoming workshop “Creating and Sustaining Healthy Congregations,” presenters Peter Steinke and Ana Hernandez invite people from across the diocese to join them in the work begun April 4-5 at their first workshop, “How Your Church Family Works.”
Register now for clergy ‘Safeguarding’ sessions – Good News for Leaders
Diocesan clergy are urged to renew their certifications in Safeguarding God’s People — both the anti-exploitation module and the anti-harassment module — at trainings offered June 2 and 9 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, TX 76107. The June sessions are open to clergy only; the same modules will be offered in August for laity only.
Are you a ‘Key Resources’ subscriber? – Good News for Leaders
The Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) offers a weekly email or RSS feed, aimed at Christian formation leaders in the congregation. Key Resources is aptly named, linking its function – communicating essential information, based on conversations that CMT instructors have every day with their students and with educators across the nation – with Key Hall, the ministry’s home base at VTS.
Save on hymnals, prayer books – Good News for Leaders
Church Publishing and Cokesbury are offering a 20 percent (or more!) discount plus free shipping on prayer books, hymnals, and other worship aids listed in this brochure, for orders received by May 31, 2014.
Learn more about sustaining healthy congregations – Good News for Leaders
There’s still time to register for the June 20-21 Growing in Faith Together workshop, to be held at Trinity Lutheran Church (3621 Tulsa Way, Fort Worth, TX 76107).
It’s not too late to bring TENS to your congregation – Good news for leaders
Your congregation can host the June 6-7 webcast of “Walking the Way,” the stewardship conference presented by The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). Vestries, stewardship teams, preachers, and Christian formation teams can learn from top stewardship practitioners. Four key one-hour workshops, plus worship and three keynote addresses, can be viewed live or delayed anytime in the month of June, for as little at $75 per site.
Get ready for summer with Safeguarding – Good news for leaders
Safe church trainings are offered in multiple congregations around the diocese during May, June, and August, just in time for mission trips and vacation church school.
“Growing in Faith Together – Creating & Sustaining Healthy Congregations” workshop June 20 & 21
The June 20 & 21 workshop will help you explore signs of thriving congregations, habits of health-promoting leaders, marks of healthy congregations, adaptive challenges, and more, drawing on presenter Peter Steinke’s exploration of churches as family systems. See the workshop schedule and register
Learn the Book of Common Prayer online – Good news for leaders
Starting in mid-May, Bexley Seabury seminary and ChurchNext are offering an eight-part series on the Episcopal Church’s Book of Common Prayer that will be easily available to anyone with a computer, tablet or smartphone and an internet connection. The classes can be used by individuals or by Christian formation classes, and promise to inspire lots of engaging conversation.
The deadlines are coming! – Good news for leaders
Do you want to nominate someone for election to the diocesan standing committee at the November 2014 diocesan convention? Do you have a resolution to place before the convention? Are you required to submit a report on your ministry’s activities to convention? Would you like to see an article of our diocesan constitution be revised? Do you think our diocese should vote to support an initiative at The Episcopal Church’s 2015 General Convention in Salt Lake City? If any of these are important to you, you need to know more about canonical deadlines.
Bring the TENS annual conference to your congregation – Good news for leaders
For $75 to $150, you can bring the Atlanta-based annual conference of TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship) to your parish hall, or anywhere else you have internet access. The Walking the Way conference can be accessed live in real-time, or delayed anytime between June 6 and June 29.
Mark you calendars for local CPG workshops – Good news for leaders
Clergy, lay employees, and lay leaders who deal with finance, employee insurance and pensions, and budgets will want to mark your calendars for September 10 and 11, when Church Pension Group (CPG) representatives will visit the Diocese of Fort Worth. The CPG presentations will cover a wide range of topics, selected to address the needs of people in the diocese.