Resources

Clicking on most of the resources listed below will download them to your computer (a few are pages on this site). Most are Adobe PDF files, which may be opened, read and printed from the free Adobe Reader utility (or Acrobat Reader). Those that are application forms are in Microsoft Word. Depending on your computer (Mac or PC) and your version of Word, the formatting (such as underlined blank spaces) may need some tinkering.

Recommendations for the 2009 Flu Season

Audit Manual (The Manual for Audit Committees of the Diocese of Vermont) PDF, 490kb
Internal Controls Checklist for 2009, Word document
Audit Compliance Review for 2009. Word document
Manual for Treasurers of Vermont Churches, (Revised January 2010) PDF, 180kb

Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Vermont 2008, PDF, 245 kb
Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church

2003 Convention Journal, PDF, 433kb
2005 Convention Journal, PDF, 800kb
2006 Convention Journal, PDF, 1.3mb
2007 Convention Journal, PDF, 1.1mb
2008 Convention Journal, PDF, 2mb
2009 Convention Journal, PDF, 2mb

Clergy Compensation Guidelines

Campus Ministry Study, "The Next Generation: Episcopal Ministry with Young Adults and College Students," by the Rev. Elizabeth Steadman, January 2006

Diocesan Request for Payment Form, Word, 21kb

Diocesan Prayer Calendar 2009, Word, 120 kb

Diocesan Prayer Calendar 2010, pdf, 48 kb

Diocesan Resource Center (Page has link to download list of available resources and instructions for borrowing.)

Camp Agape 2010 (Visit the Camp Agape Vermont Web site)
Camper Brochure
Volunteer and Donor Brochure

Canons Committee
Constitution and Canons of the Diocese of Vermont, 2008

Commission on Ministry, Committee on Christian Formation
Download the Charter for Lifelong Christian Formation adopted by the 76th General Convention in Anaheim, July 2009 (1.6mb pdf file).
Handbook for Those Discerning a Call to the Priesthood, 2006 edition (pdf, 769kb)
Handbook for Those Discerning a Call to the Diaconate, 2004 edition (pdf, 640kb)
Parish Discernment Committee on Ordained Ministry Handbook (pdf, 163k)
"Liturgical Ministries Profiles: A Customary for the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont," A Pentecost, 2006 publication of the Committee on Christian Formation
For additional Christian Formation resources, including application and report forms, click here.

Companion Ministry Program
Companion Ministry Program News
General Resources
Companion Ministry Program Brochure (pdf file, 56kb)
Companion Training Outline (pdf file, 157kb)
Mentor Training in the Scottish Episcopal Church (pdf file, 256kb)

Resources for Companions and Congregations in Vermont
Calling Clergy Manual and Appendix, Epiphany 2010 (pdf file, 568kb)
Mutual Ministry Review manual: Living into Our Ministries (pdf file, 1.29mb)
About Baptismal Ministry document (pdf file, 67kb)
Baptismal Ministry slideshow (PowerPoint, 131kb)
Interim Pastors Developmental Tasks (pdf file, 96kb)

Clergy Day, April 3, 2007, Meditations by Curtis Almquist, SSJE
Pruning Our Lives (pdf)
Restoration of Innocence (pdf)
The Soul's Thirst for God (pdf)

Diocesan Handbook
Note: the files listed below are downloadable PDF files and may not have the most up-to-date information. To find current information on the various diocesan committees and organizations such as that found in Section 1 of the handbook, click here for a listing of links to pages for those groups.
To find information on congregations, click here for a listing of congregations and links to pages on this site as well as to congregation Web sites. (These pages do not yet have all the information listed on congregation pages in the handbook.)
• Section 1, Diocesan, Provincial and Episcopal Church Listings, updated August 2010 (includes committees and commissions), PDF
• Section 2, Clergy Listings, updated August 2010, PDF
• Section 3, Congregations, updated August 2010, PDF
• Section 4, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, updated June 2009, PDF
• Section 5, Forms (some of these are listed elsewhere on this page as MS Word files), updated May 2008, PDF

Dismantling Racism
Address by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, March 29, 2005, University of Vermont
"The Sin of Racism," A pastoral letter from the House of Bishops, March 1994
"The Sin of Racism: A Call to Covenant," A pastoral letter from the House of Bishops, March 2006

Earth Stewards (Environment) Committee
2009 Report on 2007 Convention Energy Audit resolution (Word file). For a summary of the parish on-line survey results, click here (Excel file).
Sermon by the Rev. Anita Schell-Lambert, Easter Sunday, April 19, 2009, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Bennington, VT
Steven Eubanks, Stewardship/Creation Sermon (download pdf) preached at St. John's, Randolph, October 18, 2009.

Education
Diocesan Study Program "Take-Out Menu"
Safer Church Training Participants' Manual, PDF, 228kb

Episcopal Church
Manual of Business Methods in Church Affairs (revised July 2007)

Learn more about your congregation through a special service offered by The Episcopal Church's Office of Congregational Development. Click here for this feature, which enables you to display and print a chart of three combined graphs that track membership, participation, and giving over the past eleven years. Individual parishes can now go online and access their trends in membership, average worship attendance, and financial giving. You can also can view and print a similar chart for your diocese as well.

Global Reconciliation Committee
Global Reconciliation 2009 Grant Application Form, Word
Resources for Supporting the Millennium Development Goals

Holy Matrimony and Holy Union
Declaration of Intention for Holy Matrimony
Declaration of Intention for Holy Union
Holy Matrimony/Holy Union consent forms (after divorce)

Insurance
Church Insurance Co. of Vermont Customer Service Contacts, PDF
Certificate of Insurance Request Form, MS Word
Agreement to Indemnify form, PDF
Insurance Committee Newsletter, July 2006

Grant Application and Report Forms
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative I Application Form, Word, 60kb
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative II Application Form, Word, 28kb
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative II Grant Accounting Form, Word
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative III Application Form, Word, 28kb
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative III Grant Accounting Form, Word
McClure/Discovery 2000 Initiative IV Application Form, Word, 50kb
Irish Fund Application Form, Word, 29kb
Irish Fund Grant Accounting Form, Word
Post Conference Report Form for Grant Recipients
Continuing Education Grant Application Form, pdf
Post-Conference Report Form, pdf

Stewardship Resources
Luther Seminary Lessons on Stewardship

Strategic Plan
Strategic Plan Summary Booklet (layout for printing double sided)
Strategic Plan Summary (layout for reading on screen or printing single sided – this version will not make a booklet but is easier to follow if it is not to be printed double sided)
Strategic Plan Matrix

Task Force on the Blessing of Persons Living in Same Gender Relationships
• Claiming the Blessing, 2003, PDF, 333kb
• Good News: A Congregational Resource for Reconciliation, PDF, 227kb
• Intimate Human Relationships: Resources for Conversation in the Congregations and Deaneries of the Diocese of Vermont, revised 2004, PDF, 193kb
• Let the Reader Understand: Principles of Scriptural Interpretation, PDF, 113kb
• Report of the Task Force on the Blessing of Persons Living in Same-Gender Relationships, PDF, 212kb