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.)