More Photos from Sally's Ordination

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Sally Herring's Ordination

Photos from Sally Herring's Ordination to the Diaconate on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Christ Church Cathedral. Congratulations Sally and may God continue to bless you as you begin your new ministry!

Photo from The New England Deacons Conference in Framingham October 1-3. For more more pictures go to http://albums.phanfare.com/isolated/0usUaAQc/1/4851496

Many thanks to The Rev. Sudie Blanchard of the Diocese of Maine for taking and sharing the photos!

Self Care Practices
This summer we asked deacons to share their self-car practices and we heard from a few of you. The following list contains the practices that were submitted by a few of our deacons.

• Keep Mondays free of church work. Adhere to a "NO Lists on the Sabbath" routine. On Mondays, this deacon doesn't make any lists and doesn't do anything on a "check-off" list.
• One deacon joined a Friday night golf league.
• Creativity. This deacon tries to do something creative every evening. "Whether it's making jewelry, sewing, painting, photography, embroidery, knitting, it doesn't matter. What matters is that I'm using the 'other side' of my brain!"

So, what do you do? To comment or add your self-care practice, please feel free to add a post!

Coming Up SOON...
A Special Day Just for Deacons ~Training Program for New Lay Eucharistic Visitors

A special day just for deacons is planned! On Saturday, July 17, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. a workshop on Training New Lay Eucharistic Visitors will be offered to deacons. The presenter is The Rev. Linda Grenz who is an Episcopal Priest, Publisher and CEO and Founder of LeaderResources. The event will take place at Diocesan House. There is no cost for the program and lunch will be provided (however, donations for lunch are gratefully accepted). Please RSVP so we have enough materials and lunch for all. RSVP
by July 2nd to Debbie Kenney, in Bishop Ahrens' office via
Email: dkenney@ctdiocese.org or
Phone: 860-233-4481 or 800-842-0126 (CT only), ext. 132

This and That

I'm glad that most of you recieved the E newsletter last week and that we have several deacons that are following the blog. I hope that there will be more to follow. Please feel free to comment on things that you would like to see on the blog because its purpose is a way to communicate with all of us.
If you have a mission project or outreach that you would like to communicate to all please let me or Bishop Ahrens, Don Richey or Debbie Kenney know so that it can get posted.
I would like to start a little bio on each of us Deacons so that we know who and where and what we are. Once i get a list of emails I will be contacting you so that we can get this started.

Photos coming soon

To all those who attended the Deacon's Retreat on May 7 and 8 the photos are forthcoming. We missed all those who could not attend

Retreat

Looking forward to fellowship with all of you that will be attending the Retreat Friday and Saturday.
Linda Arsenie

Welcome

Welcome Deacons- This blog has been made for all of us who are Episcopal Vocational Deacons in CT. It is a place for us to communicate with one another and get to know each other better.It is a place to tell about your ministries in your parish and in the world. It is a place where we can get news from Diocesan House and from Bishop Ahrens and our Archdeacon, Don Richey. By communicating more it is hoped that we can come together as a more cohesive group. The more you post and comment on the blog the more effective it will be for us all. So please, please read, post and comment.
Blessings to all of you.
Linda Arsenie, Deacon
St Stephens, Ridgefield