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September 2007

August 30th to September 3rd:

El Caribe Resort and Conference Center, Daytona Beach, Florida.  The S.O.U.L. – Spiritual Opportunity to Unite and Learn – conference is an annual event designed to develop young leaders from the Episcopal black community for ministry in the wider church.  It alternates yearly with the focus on high school students aged 15-18 and young adults aged 19-35.

The conference provides a safe place for students from across the church to meet and grow together in relationship with one another in Christ.

Participants will attend workshops and learn:

  • Engaging methods of bible study and spiritual formation
  • Key leadership skills through group discussion and fun activities
  • How to design and organize future churchwide conferences and events
  • How to claim greater visibility and voice within the church

September 10th to September 12th:

8th Triennial Planning Team meeting at El Caribe, Daytona Beach, Florida

September 14th to September 15th:

Team Delegates meeting at College of Preachers, Washington, DC.

September 16th to September 19th:

Black Clergy Leadership Institute – Pilot.  The Missioner of the Office of Black Ministries in collaboration with Howard Anderson of the Cathedral College will convene the Black Clergy Leadership Institute, September 16 – 19, 2007, at the Washington National Cathedral College.    Approximately forty Black Clergy will meet for conversation, worship and bible study, fellowship, networking and a clergy meeting.  The curriculum will include best practices for ministry, and leadership skills training in the areas of Managing Conflict, Facilitating Change and Group Dynamics all with a focus on congregational vitality.     
 
September 24th:

Office of Black Ministries – Black Bishops Luncheon at InterContinental Hotel, New Orleans, LA

September 25th to September 27th:

Children’s Defense Fund National Summit: The Cradle to Prison Pipeline Crisis in America in Washington, DC - This Summit will launch a five-year action campaign to reweave the fabric of personal, family and community responsibility for children; to reconnect the privileged and the poor; to train a new generation of empowered young people committed to service rather than self-serving leadership; to catalyze a powerful voice to ensure positive rather than destructive public policies; and to challenge our increasingly coarse and corrupt media culture that glorifies violence and excessive materialism, promotes disrespect of our mothers, daughters and sisters and negative stereotypes of Black males, and lauds prison as a rite of passage to adulthood and underachievement as cool.