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Youth Missioner Stratton convenes Ministry Conference Oct. 9

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Diocese of Missouri Youth Minister Conference
10 AM – 2 PM, Saturday, October 9, 2010
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 9 South Bompart Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119
If you plan on attending, please RSVP to jstratton@diocesemo.org (more…)

Lectio Divina groups forming in September

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

(updated 8-12 with information of St. John’s Lectio Divina Bible study group)

St. Timothy’s, Creve Coeur
September 1-29, Wednesdays midday

Emmanuel, Webster Groves
September 2-30, Thursday evenings
St. John’s, Tower Grove
beginning September, Thursday evenings
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Ordination of Pamela Dolan to the Transitional Diaconate 12/18/09

Monday, December 14th, 2009

By the Grace of God
and with the Consent of the People
the Right Reverend George Wayne Smith
Tenth Bishop of Missouri
will ordain
Pamela Elisabeth Dolan
to the Sacred Order of Deacons
in Christ’s one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.

Your Prayers and Presence are joyfully requested.
(Clergy: Red Stoles)

Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, 6:00 pm.
Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust St., St. Louis, Missouri

Pamela Dolan is currently the Director of Formation for Children and Families at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Webster Groves. She has served as a lay professional in parishes for the past seven years here and in California. She leads Safeguarding God’s Children trainings and organizes diocesan formation events. Pamela is an active member of the National Association of Episcopal Christian Education Directors and serves on its credentialing task force. She has worked as a coach for Unbinding the Gospel, a national evangelism program for mainline denominations, and writes a religion blog for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Pamela holds the Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard Divinity School and B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. She spent several years at New York University studying medieval literature and religion. She is currently working on the Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of the South, Sewanee.

Pamela and her husband John are the parents of two children, Annabel and Kate.

Report on Trip to Diocese of Kiteto, Tanzania from Dr. Katherine Mathews and the Rev. Warren Crews (2009)

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

originally published in the August 4, 2009 Angelus, newsletter of Emmanuel Episcopal Church

During 2008-2009 school year, Eden Seminary had its second Anglican priest from Tanzania as a student. In February Isaiah Chambala was elected the first bishop of the new Diocese of Kiteto. Since Bishop Smith was going to be at General Convention on the date of Isaiah’s consecration, the bishop sent Dr. Katherine Mathews and me to represent himself and the diocese.

Both before and after the consecration, we visited a congregation in each of the eight deaneries. The Diocese of Kiteto has 140 congregations within 35 parishes. We were met with such gracious hospitality and experienced such a lively faith (expressed in very lively music by more than one choir in even the smallest congregations) that it was a bit overwhelming. (more…)

Emmanuel’s missioners to Rosebud, Lakota Nation, now blogging (2009)

Thursday, June 18th, 2009


This year’s annual mission trip from Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Webster Groves, to Lakota Nation was changed from its customary second week of June to honor a request to join the Diocese of South Dakota for the closing celebration of their diocesan convocation.  Hosted by the Rosebud Mission, the 2009 (137th) Niobrara Convocation will be held  at the Bishop Hare Center, and South Dakota’s new Bishop Coadjutor will be the celebrant. (more…)

Pamela Dolan writes on “Living the Resurrection” and the new term for Episcopal School for Ministry beginning May 15-16, 2009

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/civil-religion/education/2009/04/living-the-resurrection-marks-new-term-for-episcopal-school-for-ministry/

Posted in Civil Religion, an ongoing forum at the St Louis Post-Dispatch’s BlogZone. Author Pamela Dolan is the Director of Formation for Children and Families at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Webster Groves.

We all know that ours is an age obsessed with the personal and the new. I have been fortunate enough to take several classes with Ralph McMichael, and one thing I admire about him is the disciplined way he focuses his intellect so that it serves the ancient and timeless teachings of the Church. I suspect that such an approach is one people across the spectrum of the Church are searching for and re-learning in a mostly haphazard but quite sincere way. When I talk to people in my own and other parishes, I find that there is a palpable desire in our churches for people who can reach back into our Christian past and pluck out those treasures that continue to speak to our current situations and personal perplexities and then offer them up in such a way that they enrich our awareness of both past and present. Thus the Gospel continues to be proclaimed as not only good but also as news–as something that is different than the ways of the world, that is deeply strange and yet intuitively resonant, and that is ultimately both infinitely new and truly eternal.

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The Post-Dispatch Civil Religion Blog Goes Live, Sunday, May 3, 2009, at 10:15 a.m. at Emmanuel

Panelists Tim Townsend, religion reporter for the Post-Dispatch and founder of the Civil Religion blog; Travis Scholl, an editor at Concordia Seminary and an ordained Lutheran minister; Khalid Shah, a small business owner and teacher who is active in a variety of interfaith activities as well as in the local Muslim communities; and Pamela Dolan, director of Formation for Children and Families at Emmanuel will talk about the intersection of faith and technology, and more specifically the pros and cons of writing about religion for an online audience.

The Rev. Hope Benko reports on a recent Clergy Conversation with the Bishop (2009)

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Many of you are familiar with our new diocesan program of lay conversations with Bishop Smith, organized by convocation. There is a parallel program, also by convocation, for our clergy and bishop to share that same fellowship. This article from Emmanuel’s Assistant Rector Hope Benko was originally published in the Feb. 17th version of the Angelus, Emmanuel’s newsletter. (more…)