This is a six-hour training session designed to increase awareness regarding sexual misconduct and abuse of power, to outline steps toward preventing abuse, to offer ways to intervene when misconduct occurs and to equip anyone in a position of parish leadership with ways of healing and rebuilding the body of Christ.
This training is for those who wish to become trainers for Seeing the Face of God in Each Other antiracism training. The training takes place from 5-9 p.m. on Friday evening and from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday. The registration form is available below in PDF format.
Location:
The Walker Center
171 Grove St.
Newton-Auburndale
Cost: $125
For more information, please call 617-423-6100 or 781-275-1018
Eucharistic visitors are lay people who have been trained to give the Holy Eucharist to shut-ins and other people who are unable to attend Eucharist services. Eucharistic visitors must be licensed by the diocese.
There are two types of Eucharistic visitor training:
Education for Ministry is a four-year distance learning program which provides a basic theological education, including the old and New Testaments, church history, liturgy and theology.
To create a more interactive learning environment, the diocese sponsors seminar groups of six to twelve participants and a trained mentor who meet weekly during the nine-month academic year. Students who complete the program successfully receive a certificate and 18 continuing education credits for each of the four completed years.
This course meets the training portion of the requirements established by the Diocese of Massachusetts for licensing as a Eucharistic visitor. A two-person team, consisting of a member of the clergy and an experienced Eucharistic Visitor, will introduce participants to the history and practice of this important lay ministry. It is recommended that the sponsoring rector attend the same session if he/she has not participated in a training course during the past three years.
Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond Street
Newton-Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-1224
617-566-7679
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St. Paul's Church
100 Pine Hill Road
Bedford, MA 01730-1698
781-275-8262
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All congregations should conduct an annual financial audit. The goal of these workshops is to provide the tools that church treasurers, volunteer auditors and others need to prepare for a financial audit.
Learn to perform an audit committee audit according to the Manual of Business Methods in Church Affairs.
Please bring your own copy of the Manual to the workshop; it can be downloaded from the Episcopal Church web site at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/documents/MANUAL.PDF.
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St. Mary's Church
258 Concord Street
Newton Lower Falls
Churches with annual operating expenses of less than $200,000 may use an alternative audit procedure. Learn how at this workshop.
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St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road
Weston
Churches with annual operating expenses of less than $200,000 may use an alternative audit procedure. Learn how at this workshop.
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St. Peter's Church
165 Main Street
Buzzards Bay
Churches with annual operating expenses of less than $200,000 may use an alternative audit procedure. Learn how at this workshop.
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Cathedral Church of St. Paul
138 Tremont Street
Boston
St. Elizabeth's Church
1 Morse Road
Sudbury
This workshop, presented by the diocesan Congregational Business Consultants, is aimed at parish treasurers and other parishioners and church employees who are interested in acquiring the tools and resources to make maintaining a vital and viable parish easier and less fraught with stress. For maximum benefit, it is recommended that parishes send two- or three-person teams to one of the offered workshops (all Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.):
This learning event is for clergy only. All clergy canonically resident in the diocese are expected to attend a Safe Church refresher once every three years.
St. Mary's Church
258 Concord Street
Newton Lower Falls
For more information, contact Diane Pound in the office of Bishop Cederholm (617-482-4826 x349; dianep [at] diomass [dot] org).
Church of the Messiah
13 Church Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1007
508-548-2145
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Trinity Parish
131 West Emerson Street
Melrose, MA 02176-3136
781-665-3890
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St. Paul's Church
166 High Street
Newburyport, MA 01950-3948
978-465-5351
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Parish of St. John the Evangelist
172 Main Street
Hingham, MA 02043-1999
781-749-1535
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Christ Church
33 Central Street
Andover, MA 01810-3780
978-475-0529
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Church of the Good Shepherd
164 Newtown Road
Acton, MA 01720-3114
978-263-5782
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