Now
available: the
full roster of Ministry Institute
courses, seminars, workshops from
September through December 2010.
From
an African
Evensong and 'Any
Given Sunday' to 'Twenty-Five
Words' and 'Urban
Ministry: Faith and Works', you'll
find a variety of interesting
and engaging options
throughout the autumn.
You
can browse the offerings
by audience or by
date. Or you can peruse
the full description descriptions
in chronological order.
Registration
is easy: you can do so
online via a secure server.
Or if you prefer, you
have the option of mailing
in your registration.
Forms are right on the
website.
Like
a quick overvew? Download
the one-page flyer. It
will give you the basics.
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Good
Stewards . . . Thank God . . . Thank
God!
When and Where:
September 11: Grace-St Paul's, Mercerville
September 18: Grace Church, Haddonfield September 18: Holy Spirit, Tuckerton
Time: 9 am to 3.30 pm
Do you have responsibility for stewardship in your church? Gather new ideas
and be refreshed by new information from leaders who will all have attended
the Provincial Mentor's Workshop in Augus 2010.
And you can tap into the expertise of other presenters will have attended
the The Episcopal Network for Stewardship's national conference.
For
details, click
here.
Sponsored
by the Diocesan Stewardship Commission.

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Christ
Church, Woodbury at Saint Thomas, Fifth Avenue,
New York
Catherine
Burgess of Christ Church, Woodbury and
Katherine Merwin of St Peter’s Church,
Morristown (Diocese of Newark) represented
the State of New Jersey at the sixth annual
summer girls chorister program at Saint
Thomas Church in New York City.
The nine-day residential program is offered by
the acclaimed Saint
Thomas Choir School. This
year, 31 girls from throughout the US
and Great Britain were in attendance. Mrs. Sarah
Baldock, organist and master of the Choir at
Chichester Cathedral in England, served as music
director.

The
girl choristers are chosen annually by application,
essay, recommendation by their
parish choir master, and phone interview.
The girls offered two services of
Evensong, as well as the musical
setting for the Sunday Mass with the men
of the Saint Thomas Choir.
Catherine Burgess is a freshman at Woodbury Senior
High School and Katherine Merwin is a freshman
at Morristown High School.
Founded
in 1919 and located in the heart of New York
City, Saint
Thomas Choir School is the only church-affiliated,
boarding choir school in the United States.
The school’s mission unites three great
traditions: music, education and Christian community.

Congratulations
to Catherine and her parish of Christ Church,
Woodbury! |
The
Finance Office: Open for Business!

Right
Onward! We hear it and read it all the time.
A clearer, more concise statement of our
vision as a diocese would be hard to find.
Harder yet would be finding anyone who embraces
and embodies that vision more than Bishop
Councell. It’s a vision that informs
the discussions and guides the recommendations
and decisions of every governing and advisory
body in the Diocese.
Perhaps
the latest step in our journey right onward,
encompassing the recent changes in our Finance
office, was best described by the Reverend Canon
Lee Powers when he used the phrase “Open
for Business”.
Our core group in the Finance office, pictured
above, liked that one so much we’ve
decided to keep it, and to present under
its banner a series of articles to better
acquaint you with what that means, how it
works, and why it means so much to us.
Reading
the job description for the Diocesan CFO’s
position — and thereby for the Finance
office as a whole — is not for the faint
of heart. It’s three pages long, and the
list of people to whom we report and are responsible
reads like a roll call of the entire diocese.
But here in Finance we are, after all, “bottom
line” people. And when we get down
to that bottom line, our mission and ministry
are to support the efforts of everyone on
that list as we move forward to execute our
vision together, from the Bishop right on
through to the smallest congregation or committee.
Read
the rest here. (And see a larger photo,
with identification, too!)
| The
Diocese on Facebook
If
you're on Facebook, friend
us! Check
out the page and join
Jersey Episcopalians who
already there. On the Diocese
of New Jersey page you can
• Share
events and activities
in your parish
with others in
the diocese.
• Connect
with others and discuss your
church's evangelism, initiatives,
adults and children's formation,
and exchange ideas. Why reinevent
the wheel?
• Say
hello
to fellow
Episcopalians
across
this
far-flung
diocese.
(If
you're
not
on
Facebook,
joining
is
easy
and
takes
a
minute
or
so.
See facebook.com for
more.)

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Making
the Millennium Development Goals
a Reality
When
and Where
September 19, St John's, Elizabeth: 3.30-6pm
October 23, St Peter's, Medford: 1-3.30pm
November 13, St Thomas, Glassboro: 9.30am-noon
Leaders:
Members of the Diocesan Millennium Development Goals Task Force and others

Learn
about the internationally agreed upon Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and to consider
what they have done and might do to eliminate
extreme poverty in the world.
Each
workshop incorporates a DVD on the MDGs, a powerpoint
presentation on the status of the MDGs today,
personal and congregational reflections on what
each has done to date, information about ways
to take action and become more engaged in the
world and the development of a preliminary action
plan to bring back to each congregation.
For
more information, click
here.
Sponsored
by the Diocesan Millennium Development Goals
Task Force. |