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Safe Church, Safe Communities In-Person Training

This is an opportunity for Safe Church In-person training for LAY PEOPLE.

Safe Church Training: Registration now open

Diocesan Safe Church Trainers will conduct this important in-person training for lay leaders and church staff on Saturday, March 2, 2024, at Emmanuel Church in Newport with check-in starting at 8:30am. The program begins promptly at 9am and ends at 1:30pm. Coffee, water and snacks will be provided.

Universal training is required for church employees, volunteers working with youth, home visitors, licensed lay ministers and church leaders including vestry members, volunteer program leaders and Altar Guild. Certification of training shall be renewed every three years.

The obligation to seek and serve Christ in all persons and to respect the dignity of every …

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Interactive Forum with the Rev. Canon Nicholas Porter

The Rev Canon Nicholas Porter will be our guest preacher and teacher. Father Nicholas is the founding director of Jerusalem Peacebuilders – a ministry of interfaith reconciliation that specializes in peace and leadership education in Jerusalem, Israel, and Palestine.

After the 8 a.m. service, he will be leading an interactive forum in the Library, entitled Chosen Traumas, Chosen Glories, that explores how foundational identities cause families, groups, and nations to act like individuals and often lead to intractable conflict. When events – no matter how horrific – shape identity, they never fade away. Instead, they shape and trigger behavior on the battlefields of Ukraine, among Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, and in our lives today.

The Rev. Canon Nicholas Porter …

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Service Times: Palm Sunday - 8 & 10 a.m.; Maundy Thursday - 6 p.m.; and Easter - 8 & 10 a.m.