Episcopal Churchwide Trends: Membership, Clergy, and Transitions
May 29, 12:00 pm | Online Are you wondering about declining church attendance, changes in pledging, or the challenges with finding clergy to fill the open calls in your communities? To plan for and adapt to this current and exciting moment in the church’s life, we must have a complete picture of the trends driving…
Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness
From Don Fornoff, the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Your Taskforce correspondent spends a lot of time reading articles for up-to-date information on homelessness. Others I read to gain more and better understanding of the depth and breadth of homelessness. I write of these to help our parish supporters develop answers for problems that need…
2024 Congregational Development Grants
The funding for the 2024 Congregational Development Grants has been fully funded for the 2024 year. We will reopen the grant application in 2025. If you have any questions, please contact Matt Koski at mkoski@ecww.org The overall purpose of the congregational grants program is to assist congregations in the Diocese as they develop, with God’s…
Live-Streams for Meet & Greet Sessions with Bishop Nominees
The Bishop Transition Committee is pleased to share viewing details for the upcoming Meet & Greet sessions with the nominees for the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia. From April 29 through May 3, 2024, the Bishop Transition Committee and hosts from across the Diocese will hold five public live-streamed Meet & Greet sessions…
Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness
From Don Fornoff, the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: I wish I could say that many activities to address homelessness are taking place these days. It sometimes feels as though all there is is a big complaint session. Finding solutions locally and in general seems to be out of reach – just read the papers…
Electing Convention
The Bishop Transition Committee is pleased to share details about the special Electing Convention for the Ninth Bishop of the Diocese of Olympia. Previously elected delegates will gather at Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle on Saturday, May 18, 2024, to consider a slate of four nominees presented by the Joint Board for Bishop Transition after…
Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness
From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: I have enjoyed writing this column on behalf of the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness because I want to keep all of our parishes up-to-date on current outreach efforts. That is faith-based outreach, social, non-profit, and governmental efforts. I am constantly on the lookout for ideas and…
Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness
From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: Over the past several written pieces for the Diocesan Enews, I have misspelled the word homelessness as I type and corrected it each time so that it wasn’t written homelessmess. At one time, I wanted to leave it alone as homelessness in the geography of our diocese…
Easter 2024: A Message from Bishop Skelton
Greetings, People of the Diocese of Olympia As a young person growing up in the American South, as a person only marginally involved in the Church, I thought Easter was about pastel colors, baby chicks, easter eggs, and an occasion for some to wear hats. But you and I know better. More than any other…
Updates from the Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness
From Don Fornoff, Bishop’s Task Force on Homelessness: It’s time to guide ourselves away from the advocacy emphasis of the first part of the calendar year and back toward what our parishes do so well- Christian service to help others. As a member, I and others on the Taskforce were quite disappointed that rent stabilization…