Electing a New
Bishop
Diocesan News
The Episcopal Diocese
of Maryland has completed the process of electing a new bishop.
Our Bishop-Elect is the Rev. Canon Eugene Taylor Suttoon.
View the diocesan website for welcoming statements and more information.
Click on: www.ang-md.org.
African Team
Ministries
Helping Foreign
Missions
Each December, we have
a sale of items from East Africa. Proceeds help that country's
missions, orphan and refugee relief, and evangelism. This
sale is an annual event. For more information, click on:
www.africanteamministries.org
The Episcopal
Church in America
Learn more
Visit the website for
our national church to review issues and recent events and to
learn more about the Episcopal Church.
www.episcopalchurch.org.
Emergency Response
to International Disasters-
Episcopal Relief
and Development
Kenya is the newest
area affected by civil unrest. ERD will provide basic emergency
supplies such as food, blankets, shelter support, and medicine
for people in need.
Click
on the following: web
site to find out what you can do to help.
Local Outreach
from Diocese of Maryland-
Episcopal Community
Services of Maryland
If you are thinking
of charitable giving, please consider the Episcopal Community
Services of Maryland. For information on what this agency
supports, feel free to visit: www.ecsm.org.
Episcopal Retreat
and Conference Facility-
The Bishop Claggett
Center
The Bishop Claggett
Center is the retreat, conference and camp facility for the Episcopal
Diocese of Maryland. Situated on a 277 acre working farm
in beautiful Frederick County, Maryland, Claggett is in continuous
operation throughout the year, hosting retreats and conferences
for spiritual growth, education and recreation. Claggett
also conducts an extensive program of summer camps and conferences
for youth and developmentally disabled adults. Claggett
offers a tranquil setting where groups come together for team
building and renewal in an atmosphere of Christian hospitality.
For a list of upcoming programs, click on: www.claggett.ang-md.org.
Choir Training-
Royal
School of Church Music
The Royal School of
Church Music based in the UK, is the international music arm of
the Anglican Communion. They sponsor summer camps for youth
and adults to learn to sing Anglican music under a British-trained
director in a cathedral setting with excellent organ accompaniment.
St. Stephen's offers scholarship help for church members to attend.
Our Junior Choir choristers are instructed through teaching based
on the curriculum of the RSCM. Check out their website for
any questions you may have:
rscmamerica.org.
Social Outreach-
Appalachia Service
Project (ASP)
For the past three years,
the Episcopal Teens, the High School Youth Group of St. Stephen's,
has been travelling to various locations in the Appalachian Mountains,
for one week of intense work, repairing homes of some of the needier
inhabitants of that region. They must raise their own money
to fund their stay. Each year they present various projects
that would add revenue to their savings.
For more information
on ASP, see: www.asphome.org.
Community Outreach- Relay for Life
Our Middle School Youth
Group, EDGE, is enthused about supporting Relay for Life
to help raise funds for cancer research. Each member of
their team raises a certain amount of money through sponsorship
and in the Spring, join with other groups in the local area to
keep a relay going throughout the night. They are proud
to sport t-shirts that read EDGE OUT CANCER.
To learn more about
events such as these, go to www.cancer.org
and click on Relay for Life.
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