Individuals or organizations are being offered the opportunity to request that programs and funding not already included in the 2013 budget be considered by Council for inclusion in the proposed 2014 budget to be presented to the January 2014 Convention. Such requests are due by September 23, 2013.
The 2014 budget process will follow the same process adopted by Diocesan Council for use in preparing the 2013 Budget. This process more easily allows individuals and organizations to request funding as part of the 2014 Budget. This procedure provides:
The registration deadline for Clergy Conference 2013 at the Shawnee Inn (featuring keynote speaker Maggi Dawn) is Monday, September 16 at 4:30 p.m. Please submit your diocesan registration form (below) AND call the Shawnee Inn (1-800-SHAWNEE) before this date!
Ten teen and adult members of St. John's in Montclair and St. James' in Upper Montclair visited our companion Diocese of Panama for a week in early July, strengthening the companion relationship and getting to know members of Panamanian congregations.
Last month six members of the Messiah in Chester embarked on a mission trip to a nearby location, Staten Island, where they spent a week repairing a home damaged last year by Hurricane Sandy. Messiah's Rector, the Rev. Margaret Otterburn, and lay participant Julie Crawford describe their work and the impact it had on them.
[Episcopal News Service] Wearing a traditional black clerical shirt and collar, and less- traditional black shorts and sandals, the Rev. John Mennell sits near a portable altar, waiting for stragglers. About a dozen people — one with a leashed dog named Gideon at her feet — sit facing him in two rows of folding chairs. Backed by the sounds of diners chatting outside a nearby eatery and passing vehicular traffic, Mennell rises and greets worshipers at the corner of Church Street and South Fullerton in Montclair, New Jersey, to the July 28 Worship Without Walls.
The Rev. Mariano Gargiulo, Rector of St. James' Church in Ridgefield, is quoted in this article.
[The Star-Ledger] With one offhand phrase — "Who am I to judge?" — Pope Francis Monday brought encouragement and guarded hope to gay priests and lay people who have felt ostracized by the Roman Catholic church’s strict stance on homosexuality.
The Rev. Diane Riley, a deacon in the Diocese of Newark, is quoted in this article.
[The Star-Ledger] After the passage by the House of Representatives last week of a farm bill that does not include funding for the federal food stamp program, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) visited the state's largest food bank this morning to highlight his support for the program, which he cast in stark and unambiguous moral terms.
The Rev. Diane Riley, a deacon in the Diocese of Newark, is quoted in this article.
[NJ Spotlight] As Congress debates the best way to pass a federal farm bill, advocates for New Jersey’s food-aid recipients are concerned that efforts to slash funding for nutrition programs could overburden family budgets at a time when the state’s economy remains fragile and its unemployment rate remains above the national average.
[Episcopal News Service] When the Rev. Marianne Stuart celebrates Eucharist on a Sunday morning in Birmingham, Alabama, the worshipers may be in pews a few hours south in Mobile or more than a day’s drive north in New York.
