Clergy News
Biegas, Godspeed!
Rich+ and Betsy Biega have accepted a call to Holy Trinity Church, Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, where Rich+ will be rector, effective July 1. Rich+ has served in several capacities in this diocese, most recently as missioner at All Souls', Columbia. Betsy, too, has been very active, most recently in her work with clergy spouses. We will miss them very much.
Congregational MDG reps still needed
Parochial clergy: If you haven’t already done so, please appoint an MDG (Millennium Development Goals) representative to keep your congregation informed and energized and to share MDG news and ideas with others throughout the diocese.
Please contact our diocesan MDG rep Angela Daniel (Daniela@heathwood.org, 803.343.0400, ex 234) to make sure that your rep is in the loop!
Happy 10th, Charlie Foss+
The Vestry of Our Saviour, Rock Hill, invites you to join them next Sunday, June 10, as they honor the Rev. Dr. Charlie Foss on his tenth anniversary as their rector. All are welcome to join the celebration during the coffee hour following the 10:30 a.m. Sunday worship.
Next Diocesan Discernment Conference set for August 18 at Trinity Cathedral
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. Click here for details.
United Thank Offering
Many people
emptied their UTO Blue Boxes on March 25 (the date of the UTO
Spring Ingathering in our Diocese) and brought their offerings
to church, to be blessed at the altar. These offerings of
thanksgiving are sent to the national United Thank Offering
office to be deposited in an interest earning account until
dispersed, in the form of grants, to various requesting
agencies. If your church has not had a SPRING UTO
ingathering, you are urged to set aside one Sunday for that
purpose.
The United Thank Offering is one program of the Episcopal Church, through which each person can individually participate in the Millennium Development Goals (What Can ONE Person Do?), since grants are awarded to agencies who are working in a wide range of projects, such as: after school care for underprivileged children, expansion of lunch programs, medical equipment for health clinics, just to name a few.
For more information, please contact Clara Gillentine, UTO Diocesan Coordinator, 803.796.3106, gillentinelc803@aol.com.
Epiphany Institute 2007 at Lake Logan, August 6-11
Join us August 6–11 , 2007 as we look up for insight and inspiration during Epiphany Institute 2007, to be held at Lake Logan Episcopal Center in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Visit epiphanyinstitute.org to learn more and to register for an event designed to deepen leaders’ faith while delivering powerful congregational tools. Download the flyer here.
Clergy calendar
Dates on the table below are for 2007. For 2008 dates of interest to clergy, click here.
| July 15 | SC State Day, National Cathedral |
| July 22 | Gravatt Convocation meeting, Church of the Resurrection, Greenwood (2:30 p.m.) |
| July 29 | Midlands
Convocation meeting, St. Michael
& All Angels, Columbia (2:30 p.m.) Reedy River Convocation meeting, Church of the Redeemer, Greenville (2:00 p.m.) |
| August 12 | Catawba Convocation meeting, Good Shepherd, York (3 p.m.) |
| September 10–12 | Fall clergy retreat |
| September 22 | Training the trainers day |
| September 23 | Catawba Convocation Meeting, St.
Peter's, Great Falls (3 p.m.) Gravatt Convocation Meeting, Trinity, Abbeville (lunch-1:30p.m., meeting-2:30 p.m.) |
| October 13 | Diocesan Continuing Ed training day |
| October 26–27 | 85th Diocesan Convention, Christ Church, Greenville |
| November 14–16 | Reedy River residency |