Diocesan Stewardship Training Going on Now

The Diocese of East Carolina is sponsoring a series of Stewardship educational workshops for stewardship teams, Vestries, Clergy or whomever is interested. The curriculum is about Faith and Your Money. Mike Little, a TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship) speaker will be the presenter. Judy Whichard, chair of the Diocesan Stewardship Commission will be helping.

The goal of this stewardship training is to give parishes an approach to stewardship that includes understanding our relationship between God and our Money and why we give? It is to understand who taught us our life lessons about money and if we should consider that those lessons are not about our relationship with God and our money.
The information you learn will be invaluable to your parish. Please come and learn.

Acolyte Festival 2010

St. Philip’s in Southport had the honor of taking home the “Lavabo Bowl” (a basin for washing fingers before the communion) prize at last’s month’s 1st Annual North Carolina Episcopal Acolyte Festival in Nags Head. The Bowl is given to the parish team who accumulates the most points during the festival.

After several grueling rounds of Acolyte Jeopardy, and Acolyte Olympics. St. Philip’s came out ahead of the pack with 674 point. Others were close behind though. Christ Church in Elizabeth City came in a close second with 651 points, and Holy Trinity, Hamsptead had 633 points.

Points were accrued by answering questions about the various tasks and symbols of acolytes during Jeopardy, as well as performing tasks simliar to those performed on any given Sunday during the Olympics. These tasks varied from soring M&M’s one handed to passing a cotton ball down a line only using the participants’ noses. (You can see more of what they did by viewing the video below.)

You can register now for the Conference on Church Music

Itis a great pleasure to welcome Dale Adelmann to the Conference on Church Music taking place at Trinity Center, Salter Path, August 19-22. Dr. Adelmann brings to the Conference many years of choral expertise. He is Canon for Music at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta where he oversees a comprehensive music program of 5 choirs, volunteer organists and pianists, 12 staff singers and 2 staff organists. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Yale University School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music, and a PhD from Cambridge University, England. He has served as Organist- Choirmaster at St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo, NY, where he was also Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus. Before arriving at St. Philips, he served at All Saints Episcopal, Beverly Hills. His choirs have often been featured on the NPR radio program “With Heart and Voice.”

Both the Conference of Church Music and the Youth Choir Camp will present music learned during the weekend at a celebration of the Holy Eucharist on Sunday. Everyone is invited to take part in this liturgy, regardless of attendance at the conferences. This Eucharist will also commemorate the baptisms of Manteo and Virginia Dare. The Rt. Revʼd Clifton Daniel, 3rd (Diocese of East Carolina) will preside.

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Youth Choir Camp Registration Now Available

Registration is now available for the Youth Choir Camp taking place at Trinity Center, Salter Path August 20-22.  The camp will feature William Bradley Robers, Associate Professor of Church Music, Virginia Theological Seminary and Director of Chapel Music.  Prior to assuming this post he served several Episcopal churches, the most recent being St. Johnʼs, Lafayette Square, Washington, DC. As organist, choirmaster, and composer he has choral works widely published for childrenʼs and adult choirs, and articles published in several Anglican journals. He was a founding member and chair of the Leadership Program for Musicians and chair of the Episcopal Churchʼs Standing Commission on Church Music. Dr. Robertsʼ expertise in working with our youth is invaluable and the youth have a tremendous amount of fun!

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