World Mission Network - Diocese of El Camino Real

From Joanna Shreve of St. Timothy's:

Dear Friends,

We are having a "World Mission" meeting on May 16th at St. Paul's, Salinas, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Our World Mission Network, along with the Conference Educational Resource Team (CERT), is going to be helping with the hospitality for this event. AS MEMBERS OF THE WORLD MISSION NETWORK We NEED YOUR HELP!!

1. We will be starting with a coffee hour at 9:30. It would be great to have several volunteers to help come to St. Paul's by around 8:30 a.m. to set up coffee, tea, etc. and make preliminary preparations for lunch.


2. It would be great to have some donated breads and fruit for this coffee hour also.


3. The lunch will have sandwiches catered and delivered by Quizno's. We’ll be placing this order and purchasing paper goods, drinks, chips, cookies, fruit, etc. as soon as we have an idea of what the registration numbers are.

REGISTER NOW AND INVITE OTHERS.

Registration is through Susan@edecr.org. People are being asked for a $5 donation to help defray the cost of lunch. Judging from the excitement around the diocese on World Mission outreach, we think this meeting will be well attended.

The agenda is still being developed, but from the most recent information we have, Bishop Mary will be talking about the Triad Companion Diocese Covenant and how it is shaping up from the diocesan delegations which she has lead to Western Tanganyika and Gloucester. A discussion will be had concerning this pivotal moment that our diocese is experiencing, how the other World Mission Partnerships will relate to the Companion Diocesan Partnerships, and how these other established partnerships might be of assistance to the CDPs. The youth who have done mission trips through the Sierra Service Project are also going to be invited to come and talk about their experiences. The challenges are “how to do together what we cannot do alone.”

There will be time for people to work together in small groups on specific outreach ideas. This would include a group that wants to address some of the issues about other parish relationships that are currently in place (Hope With Sudan, Haiti, Mexico, etc.)

If you would like to help with set up, clean up and hospitality or provide a treat for the morning coffee hour, please let me know as soon as possible. jrshreve@aol.com (Please put WMN in the subject line.)