Procter Camp Registration Info

Attention kids in grades 4-12:  

2016 CAMP DATES

Boys & Girls Camp

Grades 4 & 5   *   June 14 - 18

Senior High Camp

Grades 10 - 12   *   June 20 - June 25

Intermediate Camp

Grades 8 & 9   *   June 27 - July 2

Creative Arts Camp

Grades 6 - 12   *   July 11 - 16

Junior Camp

Grades 6 & 7   *   July 25 - July 30

Family Camp I:

June 10 - 12
Registration begins at 1:00 pm with closing Eucharist being held at 3:00 pm on June 12th.
Family Camp II: July 6 - 9
Registration begins at 4:00 pm with closing Eucharist being held at 10:00 am on July 9th.   

Family Camp III: August 3 - 6
Registration begins at 4:00 pm with closing Eucharist being held at 10:00 am on August 6th.

Grace Church has been working very hard to hit our goal of $150. in donations each week with the hope of helping send our kids to camp at a reduced/free rate. The total camp cost for all grades is: $275.00. Grade level goes by rising grade level, so what grade they will be in the following school year.  Please see the registration form link below:

http://dsoyouth.org/procter-summer-camp/grade-level-registration/

There is also an option for Family Camp. For more info or registration for that, please see link below:

http://dsoyouth.org/procter-summer-camp/family-camp-registration/

 ALSO: there are a couple ways this summer to stay involved while you are away from camp:

• Sign up to be a camp staff sponsor - this entails praying for this staffer throughout the summer and possibly having some correspondence through snail mail as well.

• Love to sing camp songs? Let us know and we can get the music to you!

• Would you like to remember a few camp graces? Want to use them in your home before meals?

If you are interested in any of the above, contact Anny Stevens-Gleason  ayouth@diosohio.org  

Procter Summer Camp

11235 OH-38

London, OH 43140   

*Any questions regarding Proctor Camp, please see Kristin Blackburn-Scanlon, as she is in close contact with the director of Youth & Camping Ministries, Rob Konkol.

eGraceNotes: Week of 2/14

                                          
                                         

Grace Church Annual Meeting

The time has come! The Grace Church Annual Meeting will take place on Sunday, February 21^st. The Annual Meeting is a time to celebrate our successes, acknowledge our Challenges of 2015 and look to the future. There will be a light lunch after the 10am service.

Grace Church Annual Meeting

Elections

We will hold elections for the wardens, parish life, outreach, mission council and Diocesan convention delegates.  Currently, the following people have agreed to serve if elected.

Senior Warden-Carol Lyon

Junior Warden-David Mukasa

Parish life-Candace Moxley

Outreach-J White

Mission Council Apollo  Kiganda and Chris Scanlon

Convention Delegates-Wanda Miller and Candace Moxley

If you have others to nominate, please get their permission before doing so.

Vision Presentation

A message from our current Senior Warden, Carol Lyon…

Last Spring members of the Grace community came together to suggest what they would like to see in the future.  The Vision Committee worked hard all summer and fall to take those ideas and put them together into a cohesive picture and to prioritize them.  They will present their findings at the meeting. And on March 6 we will meet again after the service to give the vision committee our feedback, questions, support for which ideas, suggested changes, etc.

Please plan to come and be a part of this exciting event.

Carol Lyon

Visioning Workshop--Exploring Core Identity—Purpose and Values

These are the questions posed and the answers written down at the Visioning Workshop at Grace Church on Saturday, June 27, 2015.  About 25 people were present representing a broad spectrum of members and friends of Grace.  The workshop was facilitated by Michael Davis.   [Comments in brackets are the transcriber’s attempt to clarify.  The transcriber is Ken Lyon.]

1. What is the main purpose of the Grace Church Community?

• Provide worship experience.
• To lift people and bring love and healing.
• Spread good news in many different ways to many different people.
• We love God by loving His people.
• To do as Jesus did.
• Be an example of a diverse community.
• To teach others how to show love.
• To nudge people along the path to God.

2. What specific activities are most popular at Grace Church?

• Community Dinners.
• Worship/liturgy.
• Monthly Healing Services (Wednesday and Sunday)
• Rainbow Band
• Tai Chi
• Spirit Band
• Partner Organizations
• bread Ministry
• Nave Space, generations of prayer [in that place]
• Musicality
• Gothic Church and flags [the combination speaks volumes]
• Grace Notes (includes invites and complements)
• IHN
• Parolees
• Prayer Shawl Ministry
• Lay Eucharistic Visitors
• Read aloud book club
• Prayer & Meditation
• EfM

2A. What values to these activities embody?

• Traditional form and inclusive welcome.
• Small group ministry
• Appeal to traditional sense
• Intentionally (passionately) inclusive.
• Beyond inclusive to accepting.
• Honoring those not like us deliberately.
• Diversity.

3. What specific activities get the most volunteers?

• Wednesday Healing
• Outreach
• Community Dinner
• IHN
• Parolees
• Worship Services
• Building work

3A. What values do these activities embody?

4. What are your personal top five values?

• Life is about relationships with God through people.
• Perseverance
• Making a difference.
• Integrity
• being God’s presence
• Serving community
• Respectful and treating others with dignity
• Living in a diverse community
• Love (hands on)
• Music
• Working for justice
• Power of faith and prayer
• Improving the situation
• Making things better
• Education/communication
• Having a purpose
• Quiet meditation
• Relieve suffering of others
• Listening
• Show God creatively
• True to myself
• Revering, respecting all God’s creatures
• Tackling difficult issues head-on
• Spiritual growth
• Understanding and flexibility

5. What do you believe are the top five values of the Grace Church Community?

• Serving community
• Serving God
• Spiritual Growth
• Fiscal responsibility/financially viable
• Numerical growth
• Honoring all people as children of God (see Grace Church values)
• God is a healer, we are His agents.

6. Where is there congruence (agreement) between your answers to questions 4 and 5.

• Serving the community
• Spiritual growth
• Serving God
• Honoring and welcoming all
• Inviting and opportunity to contribute
• Feeling welcomed
• Appreciated
• Pulling out from desire to be alone
• Inviting
• Healing
• Be in relationship
• Comfortable to take initiative
• OUR church—ownership and investment

7. What are the top three, in order of the five values identified in question 5?

• Serving God and Community.
• Healing and Spiritual Growth
• Honoring and Welcoming All.

8. Give three examples of how the church embodies or lives up to these top three values?

• Good at welcoming and incorporating. (3)
• Wednesday night community dinner (1,3)
• Healing services (1,2,3)
• Parolee program (1)
• Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN)  (1.2,3)
• Sunday morning worship (1,2,3)
• Prayer & Meditation group (2)
• Partners Program

9. Are there any conflicts between the top five values of the congregation?

• Lack of Sunday School and child care to learn about God.
• Verbiage about all 5 of number 8, but little action.
• A lot of action by a small group.
• No choir.
• Prideful ownership [can put off people with new ideas]
• No directed educational or spiritual program or experiences.
• Lack of money.
• Lack of people.
• [Lack of] clear point of leadership (e.g. clergy)
• [Not] selling Grace [person-to-person].
• Ragtag appearance.
• [Lack of onsite] parking.

10. How are those conflicts (if any) resolved?

• Engaging experts for short or long terms in areas where we have no experience.
• Reposition ourselves.
• Marketing/evangelism.