What We're Saying

St. Benedict, Lacey Warmly Welcomes Junior High Youth

"Knock, Knock, Who's There?" was the theme for our JYC Conference held at St. Benedict, Lacey May 3-5. The weather was perfect and the fun was fabulous! Great food, good friends and a bit of water fun too. the next JYC (Junior High Youth Conference will be held at St. Michael's and All Angels in Issaquah November 22-24r so mark your calenders and save the date! Read more »

Deepening Discipleship: Education for Ministry (EfM).

I’ve been spending the past few weeks arranging training sessions for EfM mentors, those men and women who facilitate the Education for Ministry classes held in many parishes. I’m the diocesan coordinator for EfM, and as a result of all this activity I’ve been thinking a lot about the program. Believing that “every baptized person is called to ministry,” the curriculum is designed for lay people and provides a way to provide in-depth knowledge which we might apply to the ministries we do now and those we might take on in the future. Read more »

People of Remembrance

In my last blog post, I told you a little about the Episcopal Archivists, an advisory group to the Archives of the Episcopal Church and about their new website which can be found at http://episcopalarchivists.org/.

The whole purpose of this group is to provide resources and professional expertise to those within The Episcopal Church who are tasked with the duty of caring for church records and for protecting the Church’s documentary heritage – thereby preserving the Church’s story. Read more »

Seeing Shapes Believing

A few days ago Canon Melissa Skelton posted about exploring the creation of new Sunday liturgies,and I realized that the Resource Center has some material that might be helpful in such exploration. I'm available and eager to bring the pertinent resources to aid in the conversation. Read more »

"Open Mic" truly was...

St. Stephen's, Longview was host to our recent HYC (High School Youth Conference) April 12th-14th. We were warmly welcomed by the Reverend Kathleen Patton and the wonderful people of St. Read more »

Province VIII Campus Ministry Conference in San Luis Obispo

We are back from a whirlwind trip to San Luis Obispo for the Province VIII Campus Ministry Conference. Three UW undergraduate students: Ivy, Elizabeth, and Jeff along Rebecca, our chaplain, traveled to San Luis Obispo, CA to spend the weekend in conference and retreat with college students from around Province VIII.

We were hosted by the Canterbury Club at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. The conference site was hosted by St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church where were worshiped, ate, and students slept on their pews.
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Exploring the Creation of New Sunday Liturgies...How about getting together and working on this?

These days I'm hearing more and more from congregations interested in launching new Sunday liturgies. What I tell them is that I'm thrilled they're at the point of exploring this AND that it's not just a matter of noodling through what they might want to do and going ahead and launching it. Read more »

New Website for Episcopal Archivists

I wanted you to be the first to know that the Episcopal Archivists,
an advisory group to the Archives of the Episcopal Church,
has just launched a new website.

http://episcopalarchivists.org Read more »

Introducing Simple Changes Lenten Resource

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Simple Changes: Faith and Food during Lent Read more »

The Spirit of Christmas

Last year in the spirit of Christmas I shared five Christmas cards sent out by the Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Gowen. This year I'd like to share a few more:

Christmas 1934

Behold, behold!

the Babe that brings the Age of Gold!

In Light celestial arrayed,

Yet in earth's cradle lowly laid!

O Earth, from fear awake to sign

Praise to the new-born King! Read more »

Showing Off: Exhibiting the Archives. Part 2

As promised, in this blog I’m going to take you step by step through the preparation of this year’s Archives exhibit at diocesan convention.

I began by thinking about the convention theme, “Living Our Baptism,” and about how to express this theme through an Archives exhibit using signage, photographs and other archival material.

Once I’d thought it through, I sketched out a possible design and wording for signs and captions. Then it was time to set up the display unit and begin laying out the exhibit. Read more »