Understanding Life & Shaping Action
Education for Ministry (EfM) is a unique four-year distance learning certificate program in theological education based upon small-group study and practice. Since its founding in 1975, this international program has assisted more than 120,000 participants in discovering and nurturing their call to Christian service. EfM helps the faithful encounter the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition and bring it into conversation with their experiences of the world as they study, worship, and engage in theological reflection together.
The program invites participants into small, mentored groups that provide the framework for understanding life and shaping actions as Christian faith is deepened. EfM seminar groups meet in local settings and online, and provide a four-year curriculum that develops a theologically informed, reflective, and articulate laity.Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
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Monastic Communities
The Conference of Anglican Religious Orders in the Americas (CAROA) includes 20 Religious Communities in the Americas that are part of the Worldwide Anglican (Episcopal) Communion. Some of these Orders are of men, some of women, and some include both. Common to all our ministries is a shared commitment to prayer, life in community, and hospitality.
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Christian Communities
The National Association of Episcopal Christian Communities is a network of religious communities within the Episcopal Church which require its members to follow a rule of life and to be under appropriate ecclesial authority. While some of us practice a lifestyle similar to that of traditional monastics in terms of prayer life and the wearing of monastic habits, most follow their community rule while supporting ourselves and living in our own homes, known as dispersed communities.
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Episcopal publisher
Official publishing arm of The Episcopal Church (TEC).
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The Living Church Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization, is a corporation governed by members of the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion seeking to champion the catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church and to hasten the visible unity of all Christians. TLC publishes The Living Church Magazine, in continuous publication since 1878; Covenant, a weblog community; The Episcopal Musician’s Handbook; The Living Word+; The Living Church Podcast; Daily Devotional; Illuminations; and a series of pamphlets, including Anglicans Believe. Under the umbrella of the Living Church Institute, TLC organizes conferences and teaching days, and provides strategic organization and leadership development.
Faith Radio
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Good News Initiative
Our world needs good news now more than ever.
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Lectionary based SG studies
Foster a biblically-literate church worldwide through the production of engaging, faithful, and applicable Christian teaching resources for the Church and individuals.
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ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT & ACTIVE IN MISSION
ReSource enables little, local and ordinary churches to engage with the Holy Spirit for renewal, discipleship and mission.
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The Abbey on Lovers Lane seeks to provide availability and formation of various spiritual disciplines through offerings such as contemplative prayer cohorts, silent retreats, prayer counseling for those in crisis or feeling stuck, spiritual direction from trained spiritual companions, training for church prayer team members, and more.
Marta Petrash was the guest speaker at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Farmers Branch on Sunday, April 24, 2022. She was born and brought up in Ukraine at a time when the country was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and controlled by the Russian Soviet regime. She is one of the founders of St. Sophia Ukrainian Catholic Church which was established in the early 1990s in the Dallas suburb. About a thousand Texas families of Ukrainian descent attend the church.
1/14 EDOD - Parish Day Workshop
The Episcopal Diocese of Dallas made arrangements for a Parish Day workshop. The workshop was held Saturday, January 14 at St. John’s Episcopal Church Dallas. The workshop was open to all parish leaders (wardens, vestry members, Sunday School teachers, youth directors, chairs of stewardship, treasurers, etc.). We explored the practicalities of serving our parishes and discovered together how we can lead like Jesus. Bishop Fraser Lawton was our keynote speaker, and we had the opportunity to select 2 workshop breakouts to attend. The workshop was free and lunch was included.
Workshop options included: 1) Onboarding a New Vestry, 2) Putting your Money where your Mission Is: Connecting Budgets with Ministry, 3) Life and Ministry of a Treasurer: All you need to know, 4) Making Disciples of All Ages through Small Group Ministry, 4) Children’s Sunday School and Formation, 5) Spanish Language Christian Formation and Bible Studies, 6) Navigating the Digital Space, 7) Episcopal Foundation Resources: From Grant Writing to Planned Giving, 8) Launching a Parish Prayer Ministry, 9) Multicultural Worship