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Questions for Richard Bausch’s story, “Design,” William Trevor’s story, “Autumn Sunshine,” and Tobias Wolff’s story, “The Missing Person”

Saturday, October 1 • 10am–3pm

St. James Episcopal Church, Hendersonville NC

$25, or $20 each if two or more register together. This includes lunch and morning hospitality.

Sponsored by CSR

“Vocation has to do with saving your soul—not by acquiring a secure position of holiness, but by learning to shed the unreality that suffocates the very life of the soul. … Vocation is, you could say, what’s left when all the games have stopped. It’s that elusive residue that we are here to discover, and to help one another discover.” —Archbishop Rowan Williams

The gift of living in turbulent times is that they force us to recognize what we must embrace and what we can release. Our present economic whirlwind compels us to discern the essentials of our callings even as we let go of all that is not necessary. In some ways, it’s as if our world is on fire and we must grab only that which we can carry into our new lives.

This dynamic is not only true for our economic lives but also for our Church. It is clear that the models of Church that worked in the 20th Century will not sustain us into this new future. Our questions, therefore, are what must we carry with us; what must we release; and, most importantly, what does discipleship look like in the second decade of this Century?

Because we cannot know where to go unless we know where we are, this program day will begin with portrayal of current cultural landscape and then move toward discussions of our true vocation as a Church.

The day will offer a morning lecture, lunch, early afternoon small group conversation and reflection, and then Bishop Taylor will synthesize the day.

For questions, contact Robbin Whittington, Director of CSR, at 828-274-2681, or robbin@allsoulscathedral.org

To register, click here to download the Registration Form.

To register and pay through PayPal, click below (you do not need to have a PayPal account to register and pay securely; please include your name and address on paypal’s website).

Payment Options:

1 Person $25.00 2 People $40.00 2 People (pay sep.) $20.00

A public gathering with Ed Tick, Ph.D.

• Wednesday, October 5th, at 7:30pm
• All Souls Cathedral • Biltmore Village
• $5 donation requested • Veterans free

Please join Dr. Ed Tick, of Albany, NY, who has been working with veterans since the mid 1970s, as he facilitates a vital community conversation about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how it affects veterans and their families. This discussion will also include:

• The importance of citizens sharing the burden of war.
• The psycho-spiritual dimensions of war.
• How Spirituality and Community help heal war trauma.
• What communities can do to support the safe return and successful re-integration of veterans.

For more information, go to soldiersheart.net or call 828-230-7006.

Edward Tick, Ph.D., is Founding Director of Soldier’s Heart: Veterans’ Safe Return Programs. Honored for his groundbreaking work in the holistic and community-based healing of veterans and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dr. Tick has been a psychotherapist for 33 years, specializing in working with veterans since the 1970s. He is the author of Sacred Mountain, The Practice Of Dream Healing, The Golden Tortoise, Wild Beasts and Wandering Souls, and the award-winning book War And The Soul. Dr. Tick is an internationally recognized educator and expert on veterans, PTSD, and the psychology of military-related issues and has conducted trainings, retreats and workshops across the country. His work continues to gain interest and credibility with the military, having spoken at West Point, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, Fort Knox, Altus Air Force Base and other Dept. of Defense facilities.

He is a tireless advocate for peace, lecturing throughout the world and leading semi-annual international educational, healing and reconciliation journeys to Viet Nam and Greece. Dr. Tick is a gifted healer, teacher and guide specializing in using psycho-spiritual, cross-cultural, and international reconciliation practices to bring healing to veterans, communities and nations recovering from the traumas of war and violence.

• Saturday, October 8, 2011
  Cathedral of All Souls, Asheville NC
  Hospitality: 9–10am
  Program: 10am–3pm
  Cost: $25 ($20 if registering with another person), which includes morning hospitality and lunch
  (Limited spaces available, so register as soon as possible)
  
• There will also be a free dinner for Zabriskie attendees with Sam from 4–6pm. Please RSVP on the registration form.
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Join us as Sam Portaro introduces a fresh perspective on vocation and guides us more deeply into the lifelong journey of discernment in our vocations—listening for and honoring where and to what God is calling us. In love, in work, in relationship. As children, students, newly married, new parents, caregivers, empty-nesters, in career crisis, retirement, through illness, special needs, and in dying. Every stage in life offers blessed opportunities to be all that we were created to be. Conversation is the invitation and opportunity to share our stories. In and through the eyes of others we see ourselves as God sees us. In conversation we connect or re-connect with our most deeply held values, make inspiring and meaningful sense of all of God’s clues around us, and honor and respond to our evolving and ever-changing calling to an authentic life.Why am I here? It’s the big question of every life. Come explore it with us.

Sam Portaro was ordained in the Diocese of Western North Carolina and began his ministry as Vicar of Church of the Epiphany in Newton NC. He served as Episcopal Chaplain to William & Mary and Associate Rector of Bruton Parish in Williamsburg from 1976–1982, and then enjoyed a long and rich career in campus ministry mentoring students and young adults, serving as Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago and Director of Brent House for 22 years.Portaro is now a full-time consultant, speaker, and mentor for others working with vocation. His published work reflects his own vocational journey: Inquiring & Discerning Hearts: Vocation & Ministry with Young Adult on Campus, Crossing the Jordan: Meditations on Vocation, Conflict, A Christian Life, Sheer Christianity, and Transforming Vocation, a volume in the Transformations Series published by Church Publishing.

We hope you’ll join us for this very special event. Sam will also be hosting a dinner and conversation (free) for Zabriskie attendees from 4–6pm.

Note: Sam will also be preaching at All Souls on Sunday, October 9th, at all three services. For more information about service times, visit allsoulscathedral.org.

For more information, contact Robbin Whittington, director of the Center for Spiritual Resources, at 828-274-2681, robbin@allsoulscathedral.org.

Click here to download a registration form.

You can mail a check with the registration form. Or, if you’d like to pay securely through paypal, choose the number of people registering and click “Add to Cart” and follow the instructions.

Transforming Vocation will be available to purchase and have personalized by Sam at a discounted price of $11 (normally $16).

Pay for book and Day with Sam

1 Person $36.00 2 People $62.00 2 People (pay sep.) $31.00

Workshop Registration Options

1 Person $25.00 2 People $40.00 2 People (pay sep.) $20.00

• Monday, October 10 • 9:30am–2:30pm
• St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Gastonia

We hope you’ll join us for this very special event.

Throughout our lives we are discerning our vocations, whether we’re aware of it or not. Intentional conversation is often essential to move forward, thus we turn to friends, mentors, and guidance professionals when the need arises. How can we, as individuals and as congregations, become more intentional in engaging vocational conversation and being resources to one another in discerning the work we are meant to do, the lives we are created to live?

This offering, free of charge, is for anyone who wants to be more intentional about seeing what we do as ministry.

Sam Portaro was ordained in the Diocese of Western North Carolina and began his ministry as Vicar of Church of the Epiphany in Newton NC. He served as Episcopal Chaplain to William & Mary andAssociate Rector of Bruton Parish in Williamsburg from 1976–1982, and then enjoyed a long and rich career in campus ministry mentoring students and young adults, serving as Episcopal Chaplain to the University of Chicago and Director of Brent House for 22 years.Portaro is now a full-time consultant, speaker, and mentor for others working with vocation. His published work reflects his own vocational journey: Inquiring & Discerning Hearts: Vocation & Ministry with Young Adult on Campus, Crossing the Jordan: Meditations on Vocation, Conflict, A Christian Life, Sheer Christianity, and Transforming Vocation, a volume in the Transformations Series published by Church Publishing.

For more information, contact Robbin Whittington, director of the Center for Spiritual Resources, at 828-274-2681, robbin@allsoulscathedral.org.

Click here to download a registration form (there is no charge for the day, but we want to know you are coming).

Transforming Vocation will be available to purchase and have personalized by Sam at a discounted price of $11 (normally $16).

Note: Sam will also be preaching at All Souls’ Cathedral on Sunday, October 9th, at all three services. For more information about service times, visit allsoulscathedral.org.

Over the course of three days, participants will be lead through a practical and profound examination of their dreams and ways to work with these portals to our souls. The three day workshop will begin Sunday afternoon and end after breakfast on Tuesday.

Cost of retreat is $220 and includes overnight accommodations (double occupancy), five healthy meals, and program. Private rooms are available on a limited basis for an additional fee. Program fee is refundable before September 26, minus a $25 processing fee. A $20 fee will be added for those registering after September 26. Make checks payable to “Gravatt.”

Jerry R. Wright, D.Min., is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Flat Rock, NC. An ordained Presbyterian minister, pastoral counselor, and Licensed Professional Counselor, Dr. Wright holds degrees from Erskine College, Erskine Theological Seminary, the University of Georgia, and Columbia Theological Seminary.

In addition to his private practice, he gives lectures and leads workshops and retreats on the integration of spirituality and Jungian Psychology. A native of Kings Mountain NC, he and his wife, Kay, have three children and three grandchildren.

For more information, visit bishopgravatt.org, or call 803-648-1817.

Click here to download an information flyer.

Friday, October 28, 2011
10 AM – 3 PM • $35, includes lunch
Facilitator: The Rt. Rev. G. Porter Taylor

This program day will look at the ways in which the story of the Holy Grail is archetypal for our Christian journey. The Grail legend has captured the Christian imagination at least since the 12th Century. It appears in countless versions from Tennyson to Monty Python because at its core is the mystery of our common quest as faithful pilgrims. The day will look at how this legend can inform our lives in the 21st Century. The format will be presentations, small group discussions, and plenary.

E-mail Tom at vccc@highsouth.com to register or for more information or call him at 828-963-4453.

The Church needs to see campus ministry and young adult ministry as the most important evangelism and mission area there is. It is where our culture is the most dynamic, most committed, most culturally diverse. —The Episcopal Church

The Young Adult Vocation Project is designed to generate new models of ministry with college students and young adults ages 18–30. The Episcopal Church, our Diocesan Strategic Plan and the College and Young Adult Commission have set challenging mission priorities and goals. These goals call us to a new focus and to new ways of doing ministry as we engage the next generation of spiritual leaders.

Research across denominational lines asks us to wake up to a movement that is happening among young adults—a yearning for a faith to believe in and live for. The spiritual vision of young adults invites us to engage, to listen, and to risk. This generation is more focused on action than on statements of faith, insisting that church be more than a place we go together. Church must be something we do together.

Students on mission in Rio Verde, Brazil—Church must be something we do together

The Episcopal Church has made important strides toward inclusion of its children and adolescents in liturgy and decision-making – in some cases, granting attendance and voice at vestry meetings and diocesan conventions. Now young adults, these people are ready to invite those older than themselves to a shared journey and mutual exchange of gifts. The Young Adult Vocation Project engages young and old(er) to move from intergenerational tolerance to intergenerational reconciliation and shared ministry.

Our diocese has historic commitments to vocation care and leadership development. These traditions are coming alive by means of the Brother Skiles Internships, through communities of young adults brought together by the Moveable Feasts initiative, and through vocation-centered programs yet to be created.

The Project Steering Committee believes that a focus on vocational discernment for young adults in contexts throughout our diocese will serve as a catalyst for a deeper exploration of call and faithful response in action for the baptized of all ages.

For more information, contact the Rev. Beth Turner, Missioner for Young Adult Vocation, yavocation@gmail.com or 828-406-1332.

Click here to read more about the Brother Skiles Internships.

Click here to read about Rev. Beth Turner, the Missioner for Young Adult Vocation.

Please join us for a book discussion and signing of If There’s Anything I Can Do.

The book serves as a guide for friends and loved ones of caretakers and patients—an audience that broadens all the time as we all get news all too often that someone we know and love has cancer or a serious illness.

The book is born of Hicks’ own experience as a caregiver for her partner during almost four years with pancreatic cancer. With poignant humor and gentle honesty, Hicks has turned her experience into a real-world guidebook for everyone who has ever wondered how to help and what to say during the universal experience of navigating disease.

Copies can be purchased at Accent on Books, 854 Merrimon Avenue, online at www.AnythingiCanDoBook.com, or at the event.

Josephine Hicks is a lawyer in Charlotte. Daughter and spouse of Episcopal priests, she is active in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. Following her partner’s death from cancer, she founded Spell the End of Cancer, a Scrabble event to raise money for cancer research.