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In Returning and Rest: A Learning Lunch for Summer Chapels – July 2, 2024

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/2024chapelevent/

Find materials from the presenters at the 2024 chapel learning lunch below. Insurance  2024 Presentation – Church Insurance Agency 2024 Vacant Properties Tip Sheet – Church Insurance  Future-Planning Future Committee: Transforming Congregational Culture Outline  Future...

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The Pine Tree Essay: June 8, 2026

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/the-pine-tree-essay-june-8-2026/

Dear Friends in Christ, Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten. Working under strain, beset with worries, enmeshed in anxieties, one has no mind for ethereal beauty. But the spirit is...

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Summer Fridays

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/event/summer-fridays/2025-06-20/

Loring House, the building housing the Bishop and staff offices at 143 State Street in Portland, is closed on Mondays and Fridays and holidays. The staff continues to work for you from their home offices...

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Supply Clergy

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/supply-clergy-guidelines/

Supply Clergy Guidelines are intended to be a helpful tool for people in congregations who are responsible for working with clergy filling-in, as well as to serve as a resource for members of the clergy themselves.

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Summer Fridays

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/event/summer-fridays-3/

Loring House, the building housing the Bishop and staff offices at 143 State Street in Portland, is closed on Mondays and Fridays and holidays. The staff continues to work for you from their home offices...

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How to Worship When Your Priest is Sick

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/supply-sunday-morning-plan-b/

COVID Continued: Sick Clergy and Sunday Morning Plan B In recent weeks we’ve been hearing frequent reports of people testing positive for COVID, including in many cases, clergy in charge of Sunday worship.  The good...

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Update on Use of the Common Cup

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/update-on-use-of-the-common-cup/

24 March 2023 Dear Friends in Christ, The late theologian, Louis Weil wrote, “When the Christian community meets to do the whole eucharistic action in obedience to the Lord, he comes. He gives himself to...

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Public Reading of MLK’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/resources/committed-to-listen/

Committed to Listen took place in 2021 when political and faith leaders, including Episcopal Diocese of Maine Bishop Thomas Brown, gathered to read aloud the words of MLK's Letter form a Birmingham Jail.

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Ordination to the Transitional Diaconate of Emily Keniston and Maribeth Payne

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/event/ordination-to-the-transitional-diaconate-of-emily-keniston-and-maribeth-payne/

By the Grace of God and with the consent of the people The Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Brown Tenth Bishop of Maine will ordain Emily Ainsworth Keniston and Maribeth Anderson Payne Deacons (Transitional) in Christ’s...

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Sacred Spaces, Sustainable Future: A Clean Energy Webinar for Parishes

https://www.episcopalmaine.org/event/sacred-spaces-sustainable-future-a-clean-energy-webinar-for-parishes/

If your church is considering or in the process of installing solar panels, heat pumps, or other clean energy solutions, you are invited to join Lawyers for Good Government for a webinar titled “Sacred Spaces,...