Bulletin Insert: Advent 3 (C) – Third Week of Advent: Journeying with Community – December 12, 2021

As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that includes the community. The witness of Zechariah and Elizabeth who bring infant John to the Temple to be circumcised reminds us of the importance of our faith community to sustaining the Way of Love.

Bulletin Insert: Advent 2 (C) – Second Week of Advent: Journeying with Family and Friends – December 5, 2021

As we continue our Advent walk, we invite you to see the Way of Love as a journey that can expand to include family and friends. Mary said “yes” to the call to birth Jesus, God’s Word, into the world and immediately went in haste to share her good news with her cousin, Elizabeth—a four-day journey into the Judean hills. Isn’t that what happens when we hear good news? We are driven to go and tell others. The Way of Love is good news that demands to be shared.

Bulletin Insert: Advent 1 (C) – First Week of Advent: Saying “Yes” to the Journey – November 28, 2021

As Advent begins this week, we invite you to orient yourself to the coming of Jesus at Christmas through the practices of Journeying the Way of Love. This journey begins by saying “yes” to God’s call to birth new life into the world—a call that is both powerful and gentle, a call that will, if fully embraced, grow beyond our imaginations, spilling out of ourselves and into our family, friends, community, and the whole world.

Bulletin Insert: Christ the King (B) – AdventWord – November 21, 2021

For the eighth year, #AdventWord will gather prayers via a global, online Advent calendar. Forward Movement, the new home of AdventWord, will offer 28 daily meditations and images during this holy season beginning Sunday, November 28.

Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 25 (B) – Meet Our Religious Communities: The Brotherhood of St. Gregory – November 14, 2021

Bulletin Insert: All Saints’ Day (B) – All Saints’ Day – November 7, 2021

All Saints’ Day, celebrated November 1 or the nearest Sunday afterward, is characterized by the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) as a Principal Feast, “taking precedence over any other day or observance” (BCP, 15). The day is set aside to remember and commend the saints of God, especially those who are not recognized at other points in the church year.

Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 23 (B) – Constable Fund and Roanridge Trust – October 31, 2021

Applications are open for two grant opportunities offered annually by The Episcopal Church—Constable Fund grants, which focus on religious education, and Roanridge Trust grants, which support leadership development in small towns and rural communities. The application deadline for both is Dec. 12.

Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 22 (B) – Young Adult and Campus Ministry Grants 2022 – October 24, 2021

The Episcopal Church offers grants each year to assist with Young Adult and Campus Ministries throughout the church. This is a three-step process that includes discernment and planning, writing the application, and online submission.

Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 21 (B) – Explore the Way of Love: REST – October 17, 2021

When the scriptures tell us that we should love others as we love ourselves, there is an underlying message that we are allowed to love ourselves. The Way of Love recognizes that one way to love ourselves and to maintain ourselves as useful instruments of God is through the practice of rest.

Bulletin Insert: Pentecost 20 (B) – Meet Our Religious Communities: The Order of Julian of Norwich – October 10, 2021

The Order of Julian of Norwich is a contemplative monastic order located in White Lake, Wisconsin. Founded originally for monks and nuns, the monastics decided in 2020 to become nuns only. We are two branches—nuns living in community, and Oblates and Associates dispersed in all walks of life, all committed to intercession and conversion of life, following the teaching of Saint Julian of Norwich.