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Convention 2014 – Vendor Registration
Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth 2014 Diocesan Convention the 32nd Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth When November 14-15, 2014 Where Jack Daniel’s Club at Globe Life Park 1090 Ballpark Way, Arlington, TX 76011 On November 14-15, 2014, more than 200 delegates, spouses, and guests will gather at the Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, for the 2014 Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. Exhibits have played an integral part of past conventions of the…
Convention 2014 – Vendor Details
Below are complete details for exhibitors at the 2014 Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Forth Worth. Go here for a brief introduction to exhibiting at the convention. Go here for the vendor registration form. Schedule Set up Friday, November 14, 2014 8:30am – 10:30am Tear down Saturday, November 15, 2014 Conclusion of the convention (late afternoon) We ask that exhibitors NOT tear down their displays until after the conclusion of the convention. Exhibitor Policies These policies have been formulated in…
Final free stewardship telecast June 25
St. Christopher Episcopal Church in Fort Worth will host the third of three free stewardship telecasts at 7pm June 23. Nancy Davidge, editor of the Episcopal Church Foundation’s Vital Practices blog, will present “Communicating Stewardship Year ‘Round.”
Watch Steinke’s ‘How Your Church Family Works’
Need to brush up on the wisdom Peter Steinke offered to congregation leaders back in April, when he presented “How Your Church Family Works”? Want to get a quick crash course in family systems in the church? We have an app for that! (Well, really, a link.)
Plan your annual giving campaign – ‘A Path Ahead’
Come to St. Christopher Episcopal Church in Fort Worth for the second of three webcasts on stewardship, Wednesday, June 18, 7-9 p.m. That evening Laurel Johnston, executive director of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS), will be the featured presenter, offering ” A Path Ahead.” This nuts-and-bolts session will be especially helpful to stewardship chairs, stewardship committees, and clergy, for engaging the congregation in the work of forming good stewards.
Why go to ‘Growing in Faith Together’?
Why would you want to spend Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21, at Trinity Lutheran Church with Peter Steinke and Ana Hernandez and lots of other leaders from the Diocese of Fort Worth?
St. Martin in Keller/Southlake invites all to Vacation Bible School June 16-20
St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church invites children in the Keller, Southlake, and surrounding areas to Vacation Bible School (VBS) from 9am-12pm June 16-20. This wonderfully unique and spirited “Weird Animals: Where Jesus’ Love is One-of-a-Kind” will connect kids to the unconditional love of Jesus Christ. Each day, kids aged 4 years through entering 5th grade will experience a fun, safe and loving environment filled with exciting weird animals, moving and grooving music, yummy snacks, silly skits, cool science, and Bible stories that speak of God’s amazing love. Come…
Administrative and communications staff convene June 18
Administrators and communications staffers from congregations across the diocese will meet Wednesday, June 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, 11:30am to 1:30pm, to share information and inspiration about communications and outreach trends and strategies.
Plan Bede can help with your worship materials
Plan Bede, a web-based service, offers help with worship materials to congregations, to assure they can have quality, personalized weekly service books while freeing up staff time at a cost suitable for even small congregations.
30 Great reasons to attend ‘Growing in Faith Together’ June 20-21
6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 30. Peter Steinke will be offering at least 30 insights and practices that you can put to work in your congregation, as he offers the second part of the Growing in Faith Together workshop to lay and clergy leaders. Register today to attend with a team from your congregation.
St. Christopher hosts free TENS stewardship workshop June 11, 18, 25
St. Christopher Episcopal Church in Fort Worth invites people throughout the diocese to attend three free webcast sessions of “Walking the Way,” the June conference of The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). Stewardship teams, clergy, and donors are especially invited to see the national conference presentations and learn more about the theology and the nuts and bolts of stewardship in the congregation.
Steinke offers tools you can use – Good News for Leaders
In their upcoming workshop “Creating and Sustaining Healthy Congregations,” presenters Peter Steinke and Ana Hernandez invite people from across the diocese to join them in the work begun April 4-5 at their first workshop, “How Your Church Family Works.”
Register now for clergy ‘Safeguarding’ sessions – Good News for Leaders
Diocesan clergy are urged to renew their certifications in Safeguarding God’s People — both the anti-exploitation module and the anti-harassment module — at trainings offered June 2 and 9 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 5001 Crestline Road, Fort Worth, TX 76107. The June sessions are open to clergy only; the same modules will be offered in August for laity only.
Are you a ‘Key Resources’ subscriber? – Good News for Leaders
The Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) offers a weekly email or RSS feed, aimed at Christian formation leaders in the congregation. Key Resources is aptly named, linking its function – communicating essential information, based on conversations that CMT instructors have every day with their students and with educators across the nation – with Key Hall, the ministry’s home base at VTS.
Save on hymnals, prayer books – Good News for Leaders
Church Publishing and Cokesbury are offering a 20 percent (or more!) discount plus free shipping on prayer books, hymnals, and other worship aids listed in this brochure, for orders received by May 31, 2014.
Learn more about sustaining healthy congregations – Good News for Leaders
There’s still time to register for the June 20-21 Growing in Faith Together workshop, to be held at Trinity Lutheran Church (3621 Tulsa Way, Fort Worth, TX 76107).