    Clergy News
Check it out!
It's available and has been
updated at
www.edusc.org/Consecration.
Be sure to check the clergy page
and the liturgical
participants' page!
Please note:
Deadline for RSVP to
Friday, May 21, clergy luncheon with the Presiding
Bishop and clergy spouse luncheon with Mary Waldo is
May 10. To confirm your attendance, please send
email to consecration@edusc.org.
Persons serving in
liturgical roles do not need tickets.
Please email consecration@edusc.org
with questions.
Parochial clergy:
Please remind
ticket-holders in your congregations that they must
claim their seats between 9:30 and 10:15 a.m.
Seating is open to the public beginning at 10:15.
"Share the Hope": Three Diocesan Leadership Days still to come
This year's Diocesan Leadership Days are
organized according to church size, and two of the
announced series of five--on April 24 and May 1 for
program and pastoral-size congregations--have met
with much success. Read all about it elsewhere in
this newsletter. (And see photos too!)
If you are affiliated with a transition,
resource, or family-size congregation, your
Leadership Days are still to come--June 5, 10, and
19 respectively. So gather your team and come "Share
the hope."
Visit
www.edusc.org/Leadership
now
for more information. RSVP is requested and an RSVP link is found at the bottom of each day's agenda.
Questions? Contact Sue von, 803.771.7800, ext. 13.
By standing resolution of Diocesan Convention, the
loose offering on the second Sunday of May is
designated for Still Hopes and Finlay House.
Please mail your offering, earmarked "Mother's Day," to Diocesan House,
Attn. Roslyn Hook, 1115 Marion Street, Columbia, SC
29201.
For those in discernment regarding the ordination process in
the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, the next Ordained Ministry
Conference has been set for Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Church of the
Redeemer, Greenville. The conference will begin at 9:00 a.m. with
Morning Prayer and conclude by noon. To register contact Deacon d’Rue
Hazel at 800-889-6961 ext. 24, dhazel@edusc.org.
All individuals in the ordination process are required to attend this
conference along with their sponsoring priest and a potential and/or
current member of their local discernment committee.
(Handbook for
Discernment for Ministry and the Ordination Process, p. 19)
The fall conference will be held on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at St.
David's Episcopal Church, Columbia. It will also be held from 9:00 AM to
noon.
The 2011 conferences will be held on the first Saturday in May and the
first Saturday in November. Locations are not yet confirmed.
Parochial reports—deadlines were March 1, May 1!!
Attention: Rectors, Vicars
and Priests in Charge
Please remember the Canonical due date for 2009
Parochial Reports was March 1, 2010 to the diocese
and May 1, 2010 to the Office of General
Convention.
Please submit your 2009 Parochial Report immediately at http://pr.dfms.org.
If you have any questions or need help in
filing your report electronically, please
contact Cynthia Hendrix at chendrix@edusc.org
or 803.771.7800, ext. 12.
| May 6 |
Fresh Start, All Saints', Clinton |
| May 8 |
Ordained Ministry Conference, Redeemer, Greenville, 9 a.m. |
| May 9 |
Mother's Day Offering
(to Still Hopes and Finlay House) |
| May 11 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| May 22 |
Consecration of the 8th Bishop of Upper SC, Christ Church,
Greenville |
| June 3 |
Ordinations to the transitional diaconate, St.
Mary's, Columbia, 7 p.m. |
| June 5 |
Leadership Day (Transitional-size congregations), All
Saints', Clinton |
| June 8 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| June 10 |
Leadership Day (Resource-size congregations), All Saints',
Clinton |
| June 19 |
Leadership Day (Family-size congregations), All Saints',
Clinton |
| July 13 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| August 1 |
Reedy River Convocation meeting
Gravatt Convocation meeting |
| August 10 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| September 14 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| September 19 |
Midlands Convocation meeting
Catawba Convocation meeting |
| September 26 |
Reedy River Convocation meeting
Gravatt Convocation meeting
Piedmont Convocation meeting |
| September 27-30 |
Fall Clergy Conference |
| October 12 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
| October 15-16 |
88th Diocesan Convention, Trinity Cathedral, Columbia |
| November 6 |
Ordained Ministry Conference, St. David's, Columbia, 9 a.m. |
| November 9 |
Catawba clericus, Harmony House, noon |
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