Deepening Discipleship: Education for Ministry (EfM).

I’ve been spending the past few weeks arranging training sessions for EfM mentors, those men and women who facilitate the Education for Ministry classes held in many parishes.  I’m the diocesan coordinator for EfM, and as a result of all this activity I’ve been thinking a lot about the program.  Believing that “every baptized person is called to ministry,” the curriculum is designed for lay people and provides a way to provide in-depth knowledge which we might apply to the ministries we do now and those we might take on in the future. Read more »

Seeing Shapes Believing

A few days ago Canon Melissa Skelton posted about exploring the creation of new Sunday liturgies,and I realized that the Resource Center has some material that might be helpful in such exploration. I'm available and eager to bring the pertinent resources to aid in the conversation. Read more »

Gift books to share: First edition

From time to time we receive gifts of books, and increasingly many of those titles are duplicates of ones already in the collection here in the Diocesan Resource Center.  We simply don't have room to add most duplicate copies, nor room to add the variety of titles that, in an ideal world,  we'd like to include.  I'm pleased to be able to offer some of these titles to you, for your congregation's library or for yourself.  This is the first edition of such offering, but I anticipate that it will become a regular feature of this blog.  All of the books listed below are Read more »

First Blog for Resource Center

Here we will be talking about books and recommendations. Read more »

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