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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
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