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Episcopal Diocese of Nevada Newsletter
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Weekly Announcements Issue #127
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March 4, 2016
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Lenten & Holy Week Services
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Lenten Resources
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Go!
Share Your Lenten Experiences
Share your photos of congregations and individuals focusing on Ash Wednesday and Lent, such as Ashes to Go.
Submit your photos here.
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Wow another jam packed set of announcements this week! Take look at this week's announcements! Dates for Mission District Meetings and the EWN Tea, Lenten Quiet Morning, Being Still in the Presence of God Workshop, and the TENS Conference 2016! If you have an event that you would like to announce for your congregation, please email
Michelle
in the diocese office. The announcements are also available on the website.
Weekly Announcements
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Look Who Joined Our Family in February
Baptisms
Isabella McKee - Christ Church, Las Vegas
Gayle M. Bowers - St. Peter's, Carson City
Received
Veronica Gales - St. Peter's, Carson City
Ellen Marie DeChristopher - St. Peter's, Carson City
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Bishop Dan's Sermon - February 28, 2016
As I was processing out of Church after this sermon, a disillusioned Vietnam vet, who said his heart is still "torn apart," handed me a note that said,"I don't' know if God exists, but if so, I want it to be the God you spoke of this morning." Wanting God to exist is way better than just holding the opinion God exists without it really mattering. I pray that the god Moses met on Horeb is a god you want to exist and that such a god does.
Today's lesson from Exodus is the biggest zinger of a surprise in all religious literature.
Everything in the Bible turns on this. But in order for us to get it, we need to do a little trick with our minds. We have to forget about everything that happens in the Bible leading up to this moment.
The reason is: those beautiful and deeply true myths and legends would not be written until hundreds of years after the event in today's lesson.This text would do a lot more to shape those stories than they could shape this event.
So forget all that. Let me tell you another story instead - the story of religion before Moses met God on Mt. Horeb.
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EWN Spring Tea
April 30th at 1pm
Grace in the Desert
2004 Spring Gate Lane, Las Vegas
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
1 Peter 4:9
Join Episcopal Women of Nevada and friends at an AFTERNOON TEA April 30, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Grace in the Desert Episcopal Church parish hall, 2004 Spring Gate Ln, Las Vegas. The theme is "Downton Abby". The cost is $20.00 per person. Small tea sandwiches, scones, petite sweets, clotted cream, lemon curd (no seafood or nuts) and all types of tea from Teavana at Town Square will be served plus entertainment and prizes.
Episcopal Churches in Southern Mission District are participating by sponsoring 2 tables of 8 places per church. Church hostesses (2 or more may sponsor a table) will invite guests, decorate and set their tables with their own tableware. Call Barbara Schafer 702-469-3554 if you are interested in being a hostess and for more information. Planning meetings will be in March and April.
This is a fund raiser to send women as representatives to the Episcopal Church National General Convention and Women's Triennial to be held in Austin, Texas 2018. We need to raise approximately $8K in 3 years to pay for the air-hotel-food for 10 days for 4 to 6 women from the diocese. This is our first fundraiser of the year in Southern Nevada.
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Mission District Meetings
Southern Mission District
April 16 at 10am
All Saints
4201 W Washington Avenue
Las Vegas, NV
Central Mission District
March 12 at 9am
St. Hugh of Lincoln
4280 US Hwy 50
Silver Springs, NV
Bring a dish to share for potluck lunch!
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Convention Planning Meeting
Thursday, March 10 at 7pm
Temple Sinai
9001 Hillpointe Road -
Las Vegas, NV 89134
Join us for our first convention planning meeting! We will need many volunteers!! Please rsvp your attendance to ncg.lasvegas@gmail.com
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It's Madness - Lent Madness 2016
The Saintly 16
* Mother or Nun? Helena takes on Constance
*Clare of Assisi is matched against Vida Scudder
*Will it be music to Albert Schweitzer's ears or will the law be on Methodius' side?
*Roch bark Julian out of the park?
*Meister Eckhart exile Columba?
*Will Absalom Jones preach a sermon to Joseph
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*Is Barnabas a friend or foe to Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
*Does Sojourner Truth set Frances Joseph-Gaudet free?
Here's What Has Happened Recently
*Sojourner Truth set Soren Kierkegaard free 77% to 23%.
*Albert Schweitzer soundly defeated Lawrence 60% to 40%
*Vida Dutton Scudder skated over F.D. Maurice, 72% to 28%
*Frances Joseph-Gaudet left John Mason Neale singing the blues 68% to 32%
*Barnabas was ever the friend and graciously showed Elmo the door 72% to 28%
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"Invitation to Go Deeper"
Come be still in the Presence of God! Join us in the Chapel at Community Lutheran Church on
Saturday, March 12 from 9:00 AM to Noon. There will be a brief teaching, time for silence, exploration of a spiritual discipline, and time to share. Come explore with others the contemplative dimension of life. RSVP to Ken Larson at 702-675-5690 (call or text). Our own Douglas Gregg [husband of Canon Catherine] is helping with these potential quiet days that we hope to hold at various churches. Contact him at
dgregg@cfdm.org or 702-485-5215 if you are interested in this event or other offerings of contemplative practices.
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WEBINAR : MODELS FOR VESTRY LEADERSHIP OF FAITH FORMATION
March 8, 2016 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
So your vestry has a handle on the financials. But how are you doing as leaders and stewards of your church's faith formation ministries? In this webinar the Center for the Ministry of Teaching posits four "developmental stages" of vestry leadership of faith formation. Director Lisa Kimball and digital missioner Kyle Oliver will pose important questions and make practical suggestions for each approach.
1. Disciples together -- Leaders must be learners, so how is your vestry growing in faith together?
2. Leader liaisons -- Many vestries appoint representatives to oversee or check in with different ministries. How are your faith formation liaisons trained and commissioned for this work?
3. Strategic consultants -- Issues of faith formation should be a part of your big-picture organizational thinking and day-to-day administrative practice. Do faith formation leaders have a voice in these conversations?
4. Integrated partners -- Christian educator Maria Harris argues that the entire corporate life of our churches (prayer, teaching, proclamation, service, fellowship) forms us into the people of God. How can your vestry partner with formation ministers to embed reflection and growth into all your church does?
Presented by Lisa Kimball and Kyle Oliver, Center for the Ministry of Teaching, Virginia Theological Seminary
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A Faith for the Future
by Jesse Zink
The New
Church's Teaching
series has been one of the most recognizable and useful series of books in the Episcopal Church. With the launch of the
Church's Teachings for a Changing World
series, visionary Episcopal thinkers and leaders have teamed up to write a new set of books, grounded and thoughtful enough for seminarians and leaders, concise and accessible enough for newcomers, with a host of discussion resources that help readers to dig deep.
In this third volume, scholar and priest Jesse Zink unites tradition and contemporary thinking to introduce the essentials of Episcopal theology. What's the story of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, creation and humanity, baptism, church, Eucharist, mission, and the life after death? Find out how Episcopalians have explored those questions for centuries and discover answers-and new questions-of your own.
Each chapter takes a different aspect of Christian faith-God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Creation and Humanity, Baptism, Church, Eucharist, Mission, and the Hope of the World to Come-and links history and tradition with real world experience. Read the first chapter here
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Bishop's Upcoming
Parish Visits
March 6 - St. Timothy's, Henderson
March 20 - St. Patrick's, Incline Village
March 24 - Chrism Service Trinity, Reno
March 25 - Good Friday Service St. Paul's, Sparks
March 26 - Great Easter Vigil Trinity, Reno
March 27 - Easter Services -
St. Michael's, Wadsworth and St. Mary's, Nixon
April 10 - St. Martin's in the Desert, Pahrump
April 17 - St. John's in the Wilderness, Glenbrook
April 23 & 24 - St. Matthews, Las Vegas
May 1 - All Saints (English), Las Vegas
May 8 - St. Paul the Prospector, Virginia City
May 15 - Epiphany, Las Vegas
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Weekly Prayer Calendar
March 6, 2016
This week we pray for St. Martin's in the Desert, Pahrump. The Rev. Michael Link, Interim Priest.
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