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Nominating Committee Seeking CandidatesThe Nominating Committee is seeking talented clergy and lay candidates to stand for election at the fall Diocesan Convention. Positions descriptions and terms will be posted shortly for each opening. Please pray for the committee as they begin their search. 
Diaconal Discernment ProcessThe Rt. Rev. Rodney Michel., Assisting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, in consultation with the Diocesan Office for Transition Ministry, announces the following 2010 schedule and deadlines for processing new nominees for ordination to the diaconate of The Episcopal Church.
Safeguarding God’s Children program onlineDear Clergy and Parish Administrators, In response to many parishes requesting safe church training in their own parishes, the Diocese of Pennsylvania is now offering the Safeguarding God’s Children program online. Individuals will now be able to take the training in the comfort of their own homes, and the status of modules completed will be able to be monitored by a designated contact person in your parish.
A Report from the Addiction Recovery Resource CommitteeOn March 12, 2010 an email was sent to clergy in the diocese introducing “Pro-Act” as the Diocesan provider for educational information on addiction. It is simply entitled The Family Program. It is offered free of charge to persons who suspect that one of their own is addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. Addiction is a disease, not the result of bad behavior.
Baby Shower for Women’s Shelter
Download the Invitation St. Simon the Cyrenian Episcopal Church will be hosting their 2nd annual baby shower for less fortunate mothers of infants and toddlers. These women are in need of new blankets, onesies, pacifiers, undershirts, clothes, toys, medicines and other basic necessities.
Summer Art ExhibitionPhiladelphia Episcopal Cathedral (on 38th Street between Chestnut & Market) is pleased to announce the opening of a new summer art exhibition featuring works by artists, Elaine Crivelli, Marie H. Elcin and Stephen Robin.
Summer Organ Concert SeriesPhiladelphia Cathedral (located on 38th Street between Market and Chestnut Streets in University City) is pleased to announce the fifth season of its Summer Noontime Organ Concert Series.
Eliza Griswold Booklaunch
Philadelphia Theological Institute is pleased to announce the Philadelphia launch Eliza Griswold’s new book, the Tenth Parallel.
A Beginner's PerspectiveUN CSW 2010by Joy Mills Joy Mills is a priest of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and is doing some rather significant work in women’s issues. She recently attended the UN CSW meetings in March. The experience has already borne fruit and she is helping design the next Diocesan conference sponsored by the women of the diocese focusing on the Girl Child and she is also involved in the larger conference on human trafficking sponsored by Anglican Women Empowerment. What follows is an article she wrote for the AWE website. She expects to prepare another article following the Women Deliver Conference. If God is male, male is God. It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. —Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father, 1973.
Festival Celebrates Hildegard at Daylesford Abbey
Hildegard of Bingen’s Feast Day will be celebrated by the Daylesford Abbey and the Women’s Sacred Music Project on Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 2 to 4 PM with speakers and choirs from both the Episcopal and Roman Catholic traditions.
St. Christopher’s Church Receives GrantSt. Christopher’s Church at 116 Lancaster Pike in Oxford has received a $3,970.55 grant from Clyde P. and Katherine B. Alexander Memorial Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation to support its programs.
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