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Getting Ready for Your 2025-2026 Annual Campaign Webinar
The diocese has a membership with The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) that allows our churches access to stewardship campaign materials and learning opportunities. Join them for a free webinar to help prepare lay and...
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Leave-Taking Protocol for Ministry Leaders in the Diocese of Maine
A good beginning depends on a good ending. A church’s ability to call a successor depends on how well the rector, priest, or ministry leader and the wardens and vestry manage the leave-taking and on...
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Hymn: O Wondrous Souls
The 2022 Virtual Choir will present a world premiere performance of “O Wondrous Souls” on October 22. The Rev. Victoria Sirota, a recently retired priest and professionally trained musician now living in Searsmont, Maine has...
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BTS Green Teams Gathering: Ceding Conquest, Seeding Justice
The BTS Center’s annual Green Teams Gathering is a day-long opportunity for learning, worship, and community. This year’s theme is “Ceding Conquest, Seeding Justice,” with keynote speaker Dwayne Tomah, Passamaquoddy Language Keeper. During this full-day...
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Sacred Ground Fall Launch with PB Curry
Sacred Ground Fall Launch Tue., Sept. 24, 1 – 2:30 p.m. On Zoom All Episcopalians are invited to join a fall program year launch event for Sacred Ground, the church’s 11-part, film- and readings-based dialogue series...
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Thrivent Breakfast
Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church Pastor Ben Cooke invites his fellow clergy and lay leaders to join him for this free breakfast, hosted by Thrivent—a financial company that has its roots in the Lutheran Church. This...
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Support for Maui: A Message from Bishop Brown
August 15, 2023 Dear Friends in Christ, The Diocese of Maine is ready to support the people of Hawaii, and especially the people who live on Maui. The loss of life, the unfathomable destruction of...
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Viewing Party of the Presiding Bishop’s Investiture in Belfast
On Saturday, November 2, our new Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe will be installed. This service will be broadcast from the Chapel of Christ the Lord in The Episcopal Church Center in NYC so that people...
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Election of the Presiding Bishop in 2024
The JNCPB is composed of 20 people. Five bishops were elected by the House of Bishops, and five clergy and five lay people were elected by the House of Deputies (Canon I.2.1.a). Two members between ages 16-21 were appointed by the president of the House of Deputies (Canon I.2.1.a). Three members were jointly appointed by the presiding bishop and House of Deputies president to ensure the cultural and geographic diversity of the church and skillsets needed for effective service on the committee (Canon I.2.1.c). The members serve a three-year term that concludes with the close of 81st General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Youth Formation in Maine Discussion and Lunch
You are invited to join a group of colleagues for a discussion about Episcopal youth formation in Maine—what we’re doing, what we need, and how we might support each other. This will be an open-ended...