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Weekly Checklist

for Church Leadership (Clergy, Wardens, Staff)

Helene Relief

As we continue to recover, please monitor our relief hub for resources available in our communities.

Please submit any current needs Here.

 

Please reach out to the Response Team with questions regarding the recovery efforts or ways in which your community would like to help.  responseteam@diocesewnc.org

Thursday, January 16, 2025 – 10 a.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to the Clergy Lenten Retreat (Feb. 23–25), there will be no February or March check-in.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual active clergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

Thursdays, January 23 to February 13

Vital Christian Community - Book Group for Clergy

Join Rev. Joslyn Schaefer, Canon Augusta Anderson, and Eden Lewis for discussions and learnings about the 12 Characteristics of Healthy Congregations. We will meet for four Thursday mornings from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. from Jan. 23rd - Feb. 13th.  Please plan to read the first three chapters prior to meeting on Jan 23rd.  Please register to receive Zoom link. If you have questions please email Eden

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Diocese Family Snow Tubing Event

Join the Diocese of WNC for a fun afternoon of fellowship! We will have a pizza dinner, and a chance to reconnect and meet new friends across the diocese! We will conclude the evening with a Compline service in the lodge area.

 

$45 - Per Tuber - Includes tubing for 2 hrs and dinner.

$10 - Per Parent/Youth - For those who don't want to tube, but want to watch the chilly fun and join us for dinner & Compline.

More Information & Registration Link

 

If you have any questions please reach out to Charlotte Garcia at youth@diocesewnc.org

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual activeclergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

February 15, 2025

9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Trinity Episcopal Church, Asheville

Vestry Leadership Day

Join us for Vestry Leadership Day at Trinity in Asheville from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Topics will include Episcopal polity, vestry leadership roles, and church finance 101. Registration will be open soon.

February 23–25, 2025

Clergy Lenten Retreat

Valle Crucis Conference Center

You are invited to join Bishop José at the annual Lenten Clergy Retreat. Our guest speaker will be Bishop Ken Carter, bishop of the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Bishop Carter served as the president of the Council of Bishops of The United Methodist Church from 2018-2020, and he was one of three moderators of The Commission on a Way Forward, from 2016 to 2018. In addition to his responsibilities with the Western North Carolina Conference, he is bishop-in-residence and a consulting faculty member at Duke University Divinity School. Bishop Carter is the author of nineteen books, most recently Saving Church (Invite Press 2024), Unrelenting Grace (Abingdon, 2023) and a memoir, God Will Make a Way (Abingdon, 2021). He earned degrees from Columbus College, Duke Divinity School, the University of Virginia, and Princeton Theological Seminary.  In addition, Bishop Carter is a graduate of Leadership Greensboro, Leadership Winston-Salem and the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation. 

We will begin at 5 pm on Sunday, February 23.  We will end at 1pm, Tuesday, February 25 following lunch.

Registration

March 1, 2025

Parochial Reports Due

The Episcopal Church has set a hard deadline of March 1 for submitting parochial reports. If reports are not submitted by this date, parishes will be locked out. 

Thursday, April 17, 2025 – 10 a.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to Fall Clergy Conference (Oct. 13–15) there will be no October check-in, as well as none for Nov. or Dec. due to diocesan convention and Advent. 

Thursday, May 15, 2025 – 10 a.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to Fall Clergy Conference (Oct. 13–15) there will be no October check-in, as well as none for Nov. or Dec. due to diocesan convention and Advent. 

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual active clergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

Thursday, June 26, 2025 – 10 a.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to Fall Clergy Conference (Oct. 13–15) there will be no October check-in, as well as none for Nov. or Dec. due to diocesan convention and Advent. 

Monday, August 11, 2025 – 1:30 p.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. Please note the different day of the week and time for the August check-in. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to Fall Clergy Conference (Oct. 13–15) there will be no October check-in, as well as none for Nov. or Dec. due to diocesan convention and Advent. 

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual active clergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

Thursday, September 18, 2025 – 10 a.m.

Clergy Zoom Check-in with Bishop José

Join Bishop José and other active clergy from around the diocese to discuss what's going on in our community. All active clergy should receive a Zoom link via email before the meeting. Please Email Jess or call the diocesan office if you did not get the link. Due to Fall Clergy Conference (Oct. 13–15) there will be no October check-in, as well as none for Nov. or Dec. due to diocesan convention and Advent. 

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual activ clergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Clergy One-on-Ones with Bishop José

Bishop José will be available for one-hour meetings by request with individual active clergy, either by Zoom or in person, about once a month. These meetings are intended to give clergy a solid time to meet with Bishop José to discuss pertinent issues. Email Jess or call the diocesan office to schedule a meeting time. There will be no October date due to Fall Clergy Conference.

December 3, 2024 - 10 a.m.

Zoom for Children and Youth Leaders

All lay and clergy leaders are invited to join on Zoom for a monthly check-in chat about youth, young adult, and family ministries with Charlotte. These will be held by Zoom monthly on the first Tuesday of each month. This meeting is informal and intended as a way to explore resources, check-in with one another, and brainstorm new ideas for programming.

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