News & Notes: July 29, 2026

Weeks of August 2 • August 9

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Collect & Readings

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
St. Thomas, Oriental &
Trinity, Lumberton

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Collect & Readings

Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
Grace Church, Plymouth,
Interfaith Refugee Ministry,
& the Lower Cape Fear Deanery

Upcoming Events

Ultreya at St. Stephen’s, Goldsboro, August 8. Click here for details.
ECW Fall Gathering at Trinity Center, August 12. Find details here.
36th Conference on Church Music at Trinity Center, August 20-23. Learn more here.
Schola Cantorum Evensong at St. Francis by the Sea, Salter Path, August 22. Find details here.
Lobster Sale Preorders Open at St. Peter’s by the Sea, Swansboro, August 30. Click here for details.

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Around the Diocese

Free TENS Webinar: Pastoral Responses for your Annual Campaign | Tuesday, September 1 on Zoom

Please join TENS: The Episcopal Network for Stewardship, along with lay and clergy leaders across the diocese to learn and share best practices for stewardship or annual campaigns. This year’s landscape is loaded with noise, anxiety, and questions. Run a campaign that can cut through the noise and focus our members on mission, pastoral relationships, and our work with our neighbors. Please register for this free webinar and join us on September 1. The event will be recorded.

Project Resource Fall 2026 Trainings

Project Resource equips stewardship teams with strategic training and flexible resources to design and execute annual stewardship campaigns that can be replicated and adapted in future years. Project Resource is dedicated to fostering cultural and systemic advancements around stewardship as a ministry in The Episcopal Church. Sessions for Fall 2026 begin on September 13th! Learn more here.

From the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry: Call for Aid

This is the first full year that the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry is being administered by The Iglesia de La Sagrada Familia. Founded in 1978, the Ministry has seen many changes and periods of difficulty, but it has always succeeded in serving others because of the love and generosity of those who support its work.

This year the need is particularly acute, because regulatory changes and economic headwinds have affected H-2A workers and the families who depend on them. The federal government has lowered the average H-2A worker’s wages from $16.50 per hour to $11.00 per hour. Coupled with the depreciation of the value of the U.S. dollar vis-à-vis the Mexican peso, this means that the Mexican workers have suffered a cut in pay in peso terms of up to 50%. Thus, while they could historically feed themselves and also send money home, they must now often choose between eating and sending money to their families.

Click here to learn more and see ways to help.

Ministry & Faith Formation Events and Resources

Lunch and Learn: Volunteer Engagement with Lauren Wainwright, MS | August 19, 2026

Join with Christian Formation Leaders from around the diocese for our bimonthly gatherings. We are excited to have Lauren Wainwright, MS with us to share strategies, ideas and tips on how to effectively engage volunteers in Christian Formation Ministries.

Lauren has served as a youth minister in a variety of contexts across the Episcopal Church. She is currently the Director of Youth & Young Adult Formation in the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina.

Registration will remain open until noon on Monday, August 17th.

Click here to learn more and register!

Happening 85 | September (24)25-27, 2026 at Trinity Center

Registration for Candidates and Applications for Team is open for Happening 85! Candidates must be rising 9th-12th graders for the 26=27 school year. Applications for Team (Youth and Adult) close for review on August 17th. All Team members must have attended Happening previously.

Click here to learn more and register/apply!