The Net 07 31 2024

A WEEKLY eNEWSLETTER AND OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN DELAWARE

Discover the Latest

One Church Campaign Videos!

Exciting news! More churches are joining the One Church campaign with social media video clips. Watch the new 30-second videos below! To view all church videos, click here.

Would you like your church to be a part of the One Church Campaign?

Consider providing a 20-30 second vertical video clip.

For guidelines and specific information contact Cynde Bimbi,

cbimbi@delaware.church

Call to Convention

The Call to Convention has been released, providing information for our annual convention to be held in November. It features an introduction from the bishop, a preliminary agenda, certification forms for delegates and clergy, and an outline for the nomination, budget, and resolutions processes. To view this document, click here.

"Let’s get ready, my sisters and brothers in Christ Jesus! Our annual convention will be held in person on Friday, November 22 and Saturday, November 23, 2024, at the Atlantic Sands Hotel & Conference Center in Rehoboth Beach." — Bishop Brown

Youth Advisory Group

Plans two-day event

Friday, September 20:

Concert at Bishopstead

with Spencer LaJoye

Saturday, September 21:

Acolyte Olympics

Christ Church, Dover

Lay Evangelism Training

Learn how to Share the

Good News of Jesus Christ

Enroll today for Lay Evangelism Training! An Evangelist is a lay person who presents the good news of Jesus Christ in such a way that people are led to receive Christ as savior and follow Christ as Lord in the fellowship of the Church. This 14-week lay evangelism training is designed to equip lay Episcopalians through lectures, discussions, and practicums to know and share this good news. The training is co-taught by the Rev. Joyce Scherer-Hoock and the Rev. Becky Zartman. Participants will come away from the training with a deeper awareness of God's story and practical skills for sharing this story.

Topics covered include:

"Why" evangelism and baptismal ministry?
Reading scripture for evangelism in the Episcopal Church
Knowing your own spiritual autobiography
Basic apologetics and articulating "why" Christianity

The training will be held Tuesdays 5:30-6:30, August 27th – December 10th via Zoom.

For more information, contact Marianne Ell, canon for strategic mission, mell@delaware.church.

News around the diocese:

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry distributes

communion during the Holy Eucharist

Old Swedes Church

325th Anniversary Celebration

by Michael Redmond

On Sunday, July 28, Trinity Parish welcomed Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry as preacher during a Holy Eucharist celebrating the 325^th anniversary of Old Swedes Church in First State National Historical Park on the Wilmington riverfront. Bishop Kevin S. Brown was the principal celebrant. Bishop Curry preached on mutual love as the hallmark of “the family of God.” Special greetings were brought from the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), which founded Old Swedes in 1699, by Deacon Amanda Carlshamre. A reception followed in the Old Swedes amphitheater (images below).