The Episcopal Disability Network provides consultation to parishes wanting to make their buildings accessible, offers resources on disability awareness, and has a free lending library for people who are print-handicapped. For more information, visit their web site at http://www.disability99.org, call 1-888-738-3636 or email the organization at disability99@earthlink.net.
Archive for July, 2010
Episcopal Disability Network Offers Consultation, Resources
PSU Campus Ministry Reaches Out
The Ven. Canon Daniel Selvage, Episcopal Chaplain at Penn State, a ministry in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, is reminding us that the university does not provide campus ministry groups with the names of incoming or returning students … even when students have self-identified as members of a particular faith group. Accordingly, he is asking [...]
Energy Efficiency as an Affirmation of Faith
A Faith Community Energy Efficiency Seminar Our church buildings are wonderful assets but can become a significant drain on the financial resources of the parish that could be better used for mission and outreach priorities. Pennsylvania Interfaith Power and Light will present a program at First United Church of Christ, 425 North Ave. in Millvale [...]
Nomination Deadline Extended
The Nominating Committee for the election of diocesan positions is completing its work for the coming convention. The deadline for consideration by the committee has been extended to Monday, August 2, 2010. Open positions are available on the Standing Committee (one clergy, one lay), Board of Trustees (one lay), Committee on Canons (one clergy, one [...]
Proposed Diocesan Redistricting and Public Forum
According to our Diocesan Constitution and Canons, the diocese is to be divided into districts to "facilitate the cooperation of Parishes with each other and with the Diocese." Fellowship and worship opportunities often originate within these districts. Certain positions on the Diocesan Board of Trustees and Diocesan Council are elected at the annual Diocesan Convention [...]
Planning the Next Year and a Half
It was mid-April when Bishop Price, looking over a jammed-packed calendar, remarked "We are becoming a very busy diocese." By mid-May, many in leadership posts were feeling somewhat overwhelmed – despite the positive implications – with the back-to-back-to-back series of "must-do" diocesan events that kept their weekdays and weekends occupied well into June. So as [...]
Bishop Price Pittsburgh Visitation Schedule Posted
Bishop Price has published his visitation schedule for the balance of 2010 and the full 2011 year. The schedule provides for at least one visit a year to every parish in the Pittsburgh diocese. Bishop Price will also continue with a limited number of visitations to parishes in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. The schedule [...]
Northwestern PA Bishop Asks Abuse Victims to Come Forward
Bishop Rowe [Episcopal News Service] Saying that he had learned of "four credible allegations of sexual abuse" by a former bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Bishop Sean Rowe asked July 11 that women who may have been sexually abused during their childhoods by Bishop Donald Davis to come forward. In a pastoral letter read last weekend [...]
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