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CPG Webinar for Deacons
December 8, 2020
​2:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
Changes to CPG’s Clergy Pension Plan have made it easier than ever for eligible deacons to participate. Details and registration.
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A3D 2021 Conference
March 4-6, online. Details.
Seeking Deacon handbooks, competencies and discernment processes
One of AED’s board members, Deacon Bob Mummery, is compiling these items.  >More
Antiracism Resources, from VTS:
Prayers of the People; Adult & Children's formation. See them all.
Yule: A Liturgy for the Winter Solstice
December 21
7 p.m. Eastern and 7 p.m. Pacific

An evening of music, poetry, and meditation. Sing along, comment in the chat, and join a Zoom afterparty following the liturgy. Acknowledge the beauty of the natural world and the interweave of the seasons with our own spiritual lives.  Streaming will be here.
​Yule is a collaboration between St. Luke's in Renton, WA and St. Andrew's in New London, NH.
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