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Oct 2018
Joel Montgomery serves as Calvary’s Stewardship Chair. This year, he is one of several parishioners who wants to speak with the congregation about his story and how it relates to stewardship. You can find a .pdf of his remarks here....
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Aug 2018
The first annual Batavia Historic Church Walk will be held on Sunday, September 9th, 2018, from 1 to 4 PM (Tickets $15 to benefit the renovation of the Batavia Railroad Museum). Calvary Episcopal Church, in Batavia, IL, is one of the four churches featured on the walk. What follows is the Facebook Post to be shared with docents (people leading the tour for Calvary). We had a very successful first annual Batavia Historic Church Walk. About 100 visitors came through Calvary Episcopal Church–the sanctuary and the parish hall and our “new wing”......
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Jan 2018
2017 Calvary Stewardship Ministry Report Video–No Sound...
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May 2017
Everyone who has an email @CalvaryEpiscopalBatavia.church, can access their webmail securely by logging in the following way: https://CalvaryEpiscopalBatavia.church/webmail Then, it will take you to a Webmail login page where you will enter your email and your password. This keeps all your data protected. ...
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May 2017
Fr Mike’s “When You Pray” class #8, Part 2, from 05/02/2017. -Focusing on Prayer–Be at Rest with God. ...
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Feb 2017
Fr Mike’s “Everything You Wanted to Know” Class for Monday, 02/27/2017, Fr Mike spoke about the history of the addition to the Lord’s Prayer and about Episcopal music. ...
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Feb 2017
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Feb 2017
Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Downer’s Grove is hosting at the workshop, Understanding the Refugee Experience and Process of Coming to the US St Andrews Refugee announcement The event takes place on March 11, 2017. Please see the announcement for details and an email to use to register for the workshop....
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Feb 2017
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are a variety of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (1 Corinthians 12: 4-7) Recently, I was searching online for information related to Spiritual Gifts and found an interesting (and easy) online quiz that shows you your Spiritual Gifts (http://giftstest.com). The link takes you to the site and lists......
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Jan 2017
Congregational Life Cycle Model Life-cycle of an organization–living model (like a tree) rather than mechanistic. We use terms as diagnostic vs judgements. In a healthy spot, ongoing renewal is vitally important. When stagnant, stale–ongoing renewal, revitalization is system-wide Decline–Asking questions of the whole system Identity, purpose, context Context–changing demographics It becomes more costly to go back to formation and to ask these questions. “People hang on to things when they are fearful.” (Cost–energy, time, change) Ask questions before it gets to late Redevelopment–significant effort will be needed for efforts to pay-off. Third......
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