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Recent Parochial Reports
These reports reflect the aggregate parochial report data published in the last 11 Journals of Convention, plus (as they become available) the 2023 parochial reports which will appear in the 2024 Journal of Convention (Journal of the 209th Annual ...Read More ›
Refugee Ministries
HELP OUR AFGHAN ALLIES An estimated 123,000 Afghans will arrive in the United States during the next couple of months. According to the NC Department of Health and Human Services, “1,169 refugees from Afghanistan will arrive in the next 30 day...Read More ›
Reparations and Restitution Ministry
Welcome to the Reparations and Restitution Ministry. While the work of racial reckoning, justice and healing has been ongoing for several years in the Diocese of North Carolina, we are in the early stages of visioning this new ministry. This pa...Read More ›
Required Forms for Ordination to the Vocational Diaconate
FIRST REQUIRED CANONICAL FORMS Nomination for Holy Orders -Vocational Diaconate SECTION 2 - NOMINATION FORMS III.6.2(a) Certificate of Minister and Vestry (Postulancy) III.6.2(b) Application for Postulancy Report of Intern Supervisor...Read More ›
Resources for Parish Archives
Goal To find, collect, identify, organize, preserve and use parish archival resources Terminology Archives (records) – original written, printed, photographed, and digital documents Archives (place) – the space (file cabinet; shelve...Read More ›
Resources for Parishes & Vestries
If your congregation currently does not have a priest, uses supply clergy or is in transition, you might find some of the clergy resources helpful. If you are not sure who to contact with a question for the congregational support team, find your...Read More ›
Roundtables on Race
“Roundtables on Race” is a podcast that invites conversation around the effects of race on many facets of society, going deeper than traditional conversations usually allow. The role and impact on race in American society is deeply layered and...Read More ›
Rules of Order
The Rules of Order are the parliamentary procedures that govern the proceedings of the Diocese of North Carolina's Annual Convention. Download a pdf of the Rules of Order I. The Order of Business at the Annual Convention or any Special Conven...Read More ›
Sabbaticals
Every priest who works in the church in the Diocese of North Carolina should be made eligible for periodic extended "Sabbath leaves." in addition to weekly and annual Sabbath times. Clergy need such times so that they can disengage from their regu...Read More ›
Safe Church
Updated August 21, 2024 The Episcopal Diocese of NC requires many ministry positions and volunteers to complete Safe Church Training. Those required to take Safe Church Training are listed below. All Safe Church Training is now done through onl...Read More ›
Sanctuary
Resolved, That the 78th General Convention recommit to the spirit of the New Sanctuary Movement by supporting congregations so they can assist immigrant individuals, unaccompanied minors, families, and communities by being centers of information, ...Read More ›
Special Convention - March 5, 2022
On March 5, 2022, clergy and elected delegates gathered in person at the Benton Convention Center in Winston-Salem for a Special Convention to launch the Mission Strategy and celebrate the work happening around the Diocese. MISSION STRATEGY Bet...Read More ›
Standing Committee
The Standing Committee is the Council of Advice to the Bishop which shall be the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese when there is no bishop. Five clergy of the diocese and four members of the laity who are enrolled confirmed adult communicant...Read More ›
Stewardship
Project Resource is a program being used in dioceses around The Episcopal Church to encourage and empower churches to grow and be transformed through joyful giving. The project offers extensive resources for stewardship, including year-round stewa...Read More ›
Supply Clergy
If you need to request supply clergy help, please fill out this form. *Please note: If your church is outside the Diocese of North Carolina, you must verify any clergy you hire as supply are licensed within your diocese. The suggested minimum co...Read More ›
Supply Clergy Compensation Guidelines
Updated January 2024 The list below attempts to detail best practices and norms for both the expectations of the priest and the congregation for the services provided. Dollar amounts are an hourly rate based on the diocesan minimum salary divided...Read More ›
Telling Our Stories
“Telling Our Stories” is a multi-media initiative to preserve and share the stories of our historically Black congregations in the words and voices of the members themselves. As a backdrop and companion for these recorded stories, six travelin...Read More ›
The Mission Strategy
The mission strategy of the Diocese of North Carolina is a grassroots, organic plan that invites every member of the Diocese to be a part of it. The mission strategy is not a starting point; rather, it is built upon the work done throughout th...Read More ›
The Solemnization and Blessing of a Marriage
Liturgical and Pastoral Policies and Guidelines for the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina Effective the first Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2015 PREFACE All Christians are called to bear witness to the good news of God’s love and grace...Read More ›
Theology
“Each goal and strategy is an expression of the Gospel values of Jesus’ teachings and the example of his life. In following in his footsteps, we bring these theological constructs to life in a new way in a new time.” - The Rt. Rev. Sam Rod...Read More ›
Diocese of North Carolina Announces the Rev. Marion Sprott as New Transition Ministry Officer
posted on Apr 2, 2024The Diocese of North Carolina announces today that the Rev. Marion Sprott will soon join the staff as the new transition ministry officer. A native of South Carolina, Sprott earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music degree from the University ...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Randall Keeney
posted on Mar 19, 2024The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Randall Keeney, retiring vicar of St. Barnabas, Greensboro. He has served as the vicar of St. Barnabas since 2006. We give thanks for Keeney and his ministry and wish him Godspeed as he enters ...
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Disciple: When Companionship Becomes Relationship
posted on Mar 18, 2024The relationship between the Dioceses of North Carolina and Botswana continues to grow and thrive By Christine McTaggart and friends “He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and ...
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Disciple: An Intergenerational Tapestry
posted on Mar 18, 2024How St. John’s, Wake Forest, is bringing generations together through worship By Summerlee Walter When Louis Mullinger first heard the Rev. Sarah Phelps’ idea for a new experimental worship service at St. John’s, Wake Forest, his react...
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Disciple: Creating a Brave Space for Worship
posted on Mar 18, 2024An interview with the Rev. Phillip Bass, one of the founding ministers of Beloved Community at The Trees Interviewed on January 26 by Summerlee Walter The Beloved Community at The Trees is a faith community rooted in Episcopal liturgy and...
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Disciple: Easter: A Season of Repurposing
posted on Mar 18, 2024By the Rev. Canon Kathy Walker Spring is undoubtedly my favorite season of the year. A new kind of energy is present. The number of layers required to go outside significantly dwindles. Coats are gone and boots are put away for another ti...
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Disciple: The Privilege of Prison Ministry
posted on Mar 18, 2024“I was in prison and you visited me.” (Matthew 25:11) By the Rev. David Stanford When the words “prison ministry” are used, it often evokes images of actually going into prisons and jails to tend to the physical and spiritual needs...
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Disciple: Little Resurrections
posted on Mar 18, 2024By Bishop Sam Rodman There was an article last spring in The New York Times [1] about people who have taken up something again after a long hiatus. The author wrote about skiing for the first time in 20 years, detailing how much she enjoyed re...
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Disciple: New, Notable & Newsworthy
posted on Mar 18, 2024Lent 2024: “Give Up Your Silence” For many, the season of Lent is a time of action, letting go of old habits or laying the foundations for new ones. For others, Lent is a time of spiritual introspection, of finding new paths to deepe...
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Disciple: Advocacy Day 2024
posted on Mar 18, 2024This year’s event includes an invitation to add your voice By Christine McTaggart In March 2023, members of several diocesan advocacy teams and committees took part in the first-ever diocesan Advocacy Day at the North Carolina General As...
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Disciple: Giving a Voice to God’s People
posted on Mar 18, 2024The Lay Preacher Training Initiative begins its second cohort By Jenny Beaumont The ministry of lay people is vital as people respond to their baptismal vows and God’s call in their lives. The Book of Common Prayer says that ministers ...
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Disciple: Life as a Military Chaplain
posted on Mar 18, 2024By Chaplain (Captain) Anna Page To be invited into the most intimate aspects of another person’s life is the most humbling privilege. To be viewed as an embodied representation of grace, hope and love is the most immense joy. To be truste...
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Registration Now Open for History Day 2024
posted on Mar 11, 2024“An ‘elevated position’ in the American Church:” Bishop Ravenscroft’s High Church Legacy April 27, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., at Christ Church, Raleigh, and Historic St. John’s, Williamsboro Register by April 21 John Stark Ravenscroft was ...
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A Message from the Bishops
posted on Feb 28, 2024Read in English | En español February 28, 2024 Dear Beloved Members of our Diocese: We write to let you know of a difficult and heartbreaking situation at the most recent Bishop’s Ball. On Saturday evening of the event, there was an...
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Registration is Open for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Wilmington, NC
posted on Feb 21, 2024Announced earlier this year, registration is now open for the diocesan pilgrimage to Wilmington, North Carolina. REGISTER Based on the book Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino and the subject of the diocesan book study currently underwa...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Audra Abt
posted on Feb 2, 2024The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Audra Abt, departing vicar of Holy Spirit, Greensboro, and mission developer and pastor of Abundant Life, Greensboro. Abt has served as Holy Spirit's vicar for the last seven year and helped de...
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Churches from Across the Diocese of North Carolina Share Events to Mark and Celebrate Black History Month
posted on Jan 31, 2024Churches from across the Diocese of North Carolina are sharing opportunities to mark and celebrate Black History Month. These events are happening in the churches and surrounding local communities. If you have events to add, please send them to co...
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The Rev. Stephanie Yancy and the Rev. Dr. Cathy Deats Called as Co-interim Rectors
posted on Dec 30, 2023The Rev. Stephanie Yancy and the Rev. Dr. Cathy Deats have been called as co-interim rectors of Church of the Nativity, Raleigh. Yancy and Deats will serve together, sharing a full-time position to provide pastoral support and coverage to Nativit...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Joyce Corbin Allen
posted on Dec 18, 2023The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Joyce Corbin Allen, retiring associate rector at Good Shepherd, Raleigh. Allen has served at Good Shepherd since October 2019. Previously, she served as the interim associate rector at Chapel o...
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The Diocese Welcomes the Rev. Craig Dolack
posted on Dec 6, 2023The diocese welcomes the Rev. Craig Dolack as the rector, time certain, at Calvary, Wadesboro. Dolack most recently served as the rector of St. Luke's, Hawkinsville, Georgia, in the Diocese of Georgia. He also has served the church in the Dioceses...
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Distancing Diaries: Season 1 Finale
posted on Aug 26, 2020Hosts, Eliza, Caleb and James recap distancing diaries, discuss themes and share favorite moments. AND they reveal plans for season 2!! Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for And Also with Y'all Season 2, beginning in October 2020!
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 7
posted on Aug 4, 2020Chaplain Caleb has a candid discussion with anthropologists Kristen Savell and Xandra Daniels about the difficult balancing act of higher education instruction, starting their careers and families, and managing anxiety within our present context o...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 6
posted on Jul 20, 2020Co-host Eliza Brinkley chats with Lindsey and Don Porter, who have been figuring out how to parent two young children during school closures. As government and educational leaders begin to announce reopening plans for school in the fall--many of w...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 5
posted on Jun 22, 2020Chaplain Caleb Tabor of Raleigh ECM and Chaplain Laura Brekke Wagoner of Davis and Elkins College touch on life during the pandemic, what it means to engage in self-examination in the spiritual life, the importance of an evolving faith, why religi...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 4
posted on Jun 18, 2020In this episode of Distancing Diaries, Eliza Brinkley chats with Jack Kittrell, who is employed at a biomedical engineering company in Raleigh. Jack shares a little about his experience social distancing and what his schedule has been like as an e...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 3
posted on Jun 4, 2020Chaplain Caleb Tabor of Raleigh Episcopal Campus and Young Adult Ministries has a conversation with Mary Houston, a licensed social worker for psychiatric emergencies in the UNC-CH Hospital's Emergency Medicine Department. They discuss what it is ...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 2, Part 2
posted on May 19, 2020In this two-part episode, co-host Eliza checks in with fellow teacher, friend and roommate, Taylor. They speak of her religious upbringing and how her current faith community is guiding how she navigates life amidst social distancing. The lovely m...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 2, Part 1
posted on May 19, 2020In this two-part episode, co-host Eliza checks in with fellow teacher, friend and roommate, Taylor. They speak of her religious upbringing and how her current faith community is guiding how she navigates life amidst social distancing. The lovely m...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 1
posted on May 11, 2020Eliza Brinkley hosts the first episode of the And Also With Y'all mini-series, Distancing Diaries, in which she reflects on the spiritual dimenison of what it's like to be a young adult living during a time of physical distancing.
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Episode 3: Anna
posted on Mar 23, 2020In this episode, Anna, a young adult from Greensboro tells the story of the search for a spiritual home, how she found belonging through shared experiences and convictions, and her journey as an LGBTQ+ person who also loves Jesus.
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Episode 2: Caleb
posted on Feb 13, 2020The Rev. Caleb Tabor previously led a bilingual parish in eastern North Carolina and now leads Episcopal Campus Ministry-Raleigh.
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Episode 1: Ann
posted on Feb 12, 2020In this first episode, James spoke with Ann, a young adult in Charlotte, about finding community and wrestling with the question, "What does God want me to do with my life?" The conversation focused on Ann's experience of walking the Camino de San...
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Pilot: The 204th Annual Convention
posted on Feb 5, 2020In this pilot episode, recorded live at the 204th Annual Diocesan Convention, we spoke with college students from around the state. They reflected a portion of the young adult voice at convention and shared their opinions about diversity, Cosmic C...
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