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Serving all youth in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, we hope to take 24 youth (9th-12th graders) and 5-6 adult chaperones (ages 23 and up) to Episcopal Youth Event 2017 at the University of Central Oklahoma. Click here for details.

Plans are underway for the next Cursillo weekend for our Diocese.  Apply as a team or as a candidate.  For more information, contact Kathleen Pittman at kpittman@uwa.edu or John Phinizy at phindogair@gmail.com Team application, click here. Candidate application, click here.

Music that Makes Community will be offering a workshop at the Santa Maria de la Vid Abbey, Norbertine Community in Albuquerque, NM on Saturday June 17, 2017. For information, click here.

Award winning documentary on LGBT aging to be shown at St. Michael's and All Angels. For more info, click here.

Camp is the cornerstone of SUMMA Student Theological Debate Society, which provides a way for high school students to build their faith through intellectual channels. For more info, click here.

Celebration of a New Ministry for The Rev. Bonnie E. Edwards, second rector of San Gabriel the Archangel Episcopal Church on Sunday, June 11 at 10 am. For more information, click here.

Join The Very Rev. Mike Olsen and members of St. James, Taos on a pilgrimage to explore our Celtic roots. Worship, pray and play on the Celtic Way in Scotland and England from October 4-16, 2017. For more information, click here.

Drawing the Circle Wider is the title of the 2017 Godly Play Conference in Denver, CO. For more info, click here.

Presiding Bishop Curry and President Jennings will host a webinar to discuss the Church's long-term commitment on May 16 at 3 pm - 3:45 pm Eastern (2 pm Central/1 pm Mountain/noon Pacific/11 am Alaska/10 am Hawaii). For more info, click here.

A half-day Silent Retreat will be held on Saturday, May 13 from 8:30 am-12 noon, in the St. James Fellowship Hall located at 510 N. 6th St at Ave A in Alpine. There is no charge, but donations are welcome. For more information, contact Pam Cook at pscook.herenow@gmail.com or 432-386-5988.

St. Thomas of Canterbury will host its second annual Mother's Day Tea on Sunday, May 14, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Music will be provided by the Canterbury Harp Ensemble, and the menu will feature scones, fresh strawberries, tea sandwiches, a variety of delicious homemade baked goods, tea, coffee and sparkling punch. Tickets are $15 per person, and can be purchased online by clicking here. For information, call Edwina Beard at 828-0673.

Friday, May 12 from 11 am to 2 pm at St. Christopher's, El Paso. For more info, click here.

Twelve artists featured at all things come into Being. For more info, click here.

God willing, in the power of the Holy Spirit and the people consenting, The Rt. Rev. Michael Vono will receive Steve Stephens to the Holy Order of Priest on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017, at 6:30 p.m. at St.Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 400 Huning Ranch Loop, Los Lunas N.M. Reception will follow. Your presence and prayers will be greatly appreciated. Clergy: white stoles

Free admission to docudrama film about the true story of St. Francis of Assissi and the Sultan of Egypt and the risks they took for peace. To reserve tickets for the Santa Fe or Albuquerque premiere, click here.

Bishop Vono and the Stoney staff ask for donations to Camp Stoney during this 50th Anniversary season to ensure that the scholarship fund will continue to be fully funded. Individuals and congregations are informally asked to designate their loose plate offerings on May 7 to the Stoney Scholarship Fund! With your help, Stoney will never turn a child away for lack of funding. For more information, click here.

This five-day training is intended to equip church leaders with skills for conflict transformation and mediation, which can be applied to conflict in congregations, organizations, and families. For more information, click here.

In this three-day Centering Prayer retreat led by Liz VanLandingham, you will learn about a prayer method in which you sit in silence with God, opening your mind, heart and whole being to the Ultimate Mystery—beyond thoughts, words, and emotions. For more information, click here.

Urban Way of the Cross - a pilgrimage of solidarity, hope and healing on Good Friday in Albuquerque. For details, click here.

The Episcopal Network for Stewardship’s annual conference will be in beautiful downtown Minneapolis the third weekend in May 2017.  Conference attendees will be challenged and inspired by three outstanding keynote speakers: The Rev. Cn. J Edwin Bacon, The Rev. Winnie Varghese, and Mr. Dave Toycen. For more info, click here.

Gallery St. Michael offers an opportunity for visual artists to share 2-dimensional works that explore creation in its various manifestations. The exhibit will be shown in the Pavilion of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. For more info, click here.

A Lent Retreat in the Big Bend Area looking at the socio- and eco-logical issues of our Ministries in Light of Jesus' time in the wilderness. For more information, click here.

Learn the art of icon writing in the Russian-Byzantine style. For more information, click here.

In response to requests from previous years, the annual Diocesan Financial Workshop will be split into a session for vestries and a session for finance teams. For more information about this March 18 workshop at All Saints in El Paso, click here.

Gallery St. Michael Concert (601 Montano Rd. NW, Albuq.) on Friday, March 24 at 7:30 pm with singer/songwriter Cory Shelley from Bernsville, PA. For more info, click here.

St. Christopher's in El Paso invites you to Stations of the Cross at 6 pm on Friday evenings in Lent and Holy Week activities found by clicking here.

The Art of Teaching Spiritual Discernment is a intensive, four-day retreat held at the DuBose Conference Center to train participants in the art of facilitating and mentoring spiritual discernment groups using the Listening Hearts approach. Registration closes January 11, 2017. For more info, click here.

When life is a circus, the New Mexico Conference of Churches throws a party to benefit the community! Tickets $35. For more info, click here.

The Justice and Peace Committee of St. Bede's in Santa Fe presents Rev. Andrew Black, a leader for the NM Wildlife Federation at its Adult Forum on Sunday, February 26th at 9:15 am. For more information contained In The Loop, click here.

In this documentary, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave‐trading family in U.S. history. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, follows the descendants of this wealthy New England family
 who retrace the geographical and psychological routes that enriched the lives of their slave‐trading ancestors.

 Opportunities to view Traces of the Trade:

- La Vida Llena Albuquerque, 2:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2.

- St. Bede's, Santa Fe, 3 p.m. Saturday, March 4.

- St. James', Taos, 3 p.m. Sunday, March 5

- The Farmington Museum (in collaboration with The Episcopal Church of Navajoland), 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 8.

- Cathedral of Saint John Albuquerque, 2 p.m. Saturday, March 11.

- St. Marks Albuquerque, 3 p.m. Sunday, March 12

- Flickinger Center for Performing Arts Alamogordo, 6 p.m. Monday, March 13

- St. Paul's, Marfa, Texas , March 15.

- St. Andrews Las Cruces, March 16.

The Women's Spirituality Group of the Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe presents the 5th Annual Quiet Day Retreat featuring teacher and prolific author, Dr. Megan McKenna, who will speak on "We Drink From Our Own Wells." For more info, click here.

A concert celebrating the music of Enrique Granados (1867-1916) at the Cathedral of St. John. Pre-concert lecture. Special guests: concert pianist Douglas Riva, Choir of the Cathedral of St. John, and UNM women's ensembleLas Cantantes. For tickets and info, click here.

A dramatization in Three Acts "Women of the Gospel Witness Jesus" is written and directed under the guidance of the Holy Spirit by The Rev. Rowena Jane Ross, Deacon. This is a free event at Hope in the Desert Episcopal Church in Albuquerque on Friday, April 7, 2017, at 7 pm. Free childcare provided.

Brotherhood of St. Andrew Prayer & Spirituality Retreat will discuss The St. Ignatius Story, Experiencing the Love of God, and other topics. For more info, click here.

Transgender 101 Workshop at St. Michael's and All Angels. For more information, click here.

The open plate offering collected on the last Sunday in February, being the closest Sunday to the anniversary of William Karl Frey's birth on February 26, 1930, shall be designated for the Bishop William and Barbara Frey Scholarship Fund in partial support of DRG seminarians. 

This training (9 am - 3:30 pm) is intended for those individuals who are serving in a congregation where a priest is not available on a regular basis and where Morning Prayer is often the primary service of worship on Sundays, although it is open to anyone. For more information, click here.

If you are Interested in singing or participating on January 22, 2017, email interest by January 15 and click here for more info.

Fr. Albert Haase, OFM presents Contemporary Holiness: Becoming the Person God Calls Us To Be, a workshop dealing with the True Self and False Self. For details, click here.

All are welcome and encouraged to attend one or more of four Christian Unity events. For more information, click here.

Held at Camp Stoney and open to all youth grades 6 – 12. For details, click here.

Silence, meditation and an ancient teaching will be the order of the day on Saturday, 21, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm at St. James Episcopal Church. For more information, click here.

Read Bishop Vono's pastoral letter to the Diocese by clicking here.

Lutherans and Catholics Commemmorate 500 Yeas of Renewal and Reform with Dialogue Dates and Featured Speakers. For more info, click here.

Click on this link for details, process, and required forms.