184th Annual Convention Overview The theme for our Convention is Love Heals. Our special guest this year is Becca Stevens, the founding director of Magdalene and Thistle Farms located in Tennessee. Becca has been featured on CNN and in other national media. She is also an Episcopal priest, an author and a well-known speaker. In …
Global Outreach Individuals and congregations in the Diocese of Vermont have for many years had commitments to a variety of organizations involved with ministries beyond the borders of the United States. Vermonters have partnered with groups in Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Africa, Southern Sudan and more. Below are links to three …
Companions Ministry A Companion… from the Latin, “one who has bread with” one who accompanies, as on a journey one who assists one who is closely connected The Companions Ministry in the Episcopal Church in Vermont is based on the theological principles found in the …
Liturgical Ministry Resources The diocesan Committee on Formation offers a resource for those in formation for liturgical ministries, Liturgical Ministries Profiles: A Customary for the Diocese of Vermont. The Episcopal Church offers a weekly Bible Study on the Revised Common Lectionary written by Episcopal seminarians across the country.
Spiritual Formation—The Society of St. John the Evangelist The website for the Society of St. John the Evangelist contains spiritual formation resources from this Episcopal/Anglican monastic order. Resources include Online Meditations to help people start their day with prayer; a Meditative Advent Calendar; Twelve Days of Christmas Meditation Cards; New Year Calendar with Spiritual Resolutions …
Forma Forma is an association and dynamic community of Christian educators, formation professionals, and their institutional partners that celebrates and upholds the diverse ministries of Christian formation across The Episcopal Church. Blogs, resources, tools and conversation as well as professional enrichment opportunities.
Building Faith Building Faith is resource website providing practical tools, features, reviews, and articles on Christian formation for children, youth, and adults of all ages. The site is run by Virginia Theological Seminary through their Center for the Ministry of Teaching.
Episcopal Lifelong Formation Lifelong Learning is a website site offered by The Episcopal Church’s Office of Lifelong Formation that contains, among many other resources, Sunday lesson plans, ministry resources, blogs, and a calendar of events across the wider church.
What Is This Longing? In the wake of the New Age, and the ever-growing love affair our culture has with all things spiritual, a new mantra has emerged: I’m spiritual, not religious! It is the mantra of ex-Catholics and once-in-awhile Protestants and others on the spiritual path. This emerging mantra has grown up in response to …