Conference Partners

You have just opened the door to some of the best resources for parishes across the Episcopal Church.  These companies and organizations have partnered with CEEP for the 2012 Conference. and will be present in our 2012 Consortium Commons.  Be sure to visit them during the conference, get your passport stamped, and become eligible to enter our Partners' Raffle.  Our partners include investment firms, seminaries, outreach opportunities, technology resources, capital campaign firms, Episcopal Church institutions, Pleanned Giving companies, and more. Enjoy your visit - and start now by visiting their websites. 

 

KANUGA Year-round conferences, retreats, and more www.kanuga.org

St. George's college, jerusalem Visit the Holy Land www.sgcjerusalem.org

EPISCOPAL PEACE FELLOWSHIP Creative peace making www.epfnational.org

ST. MARY'S SEWANEE Center for spiritual development www.stmaryssewanee.org

THE SOCIETY FOR THE INCREASE OF MINISTRY Supporting Episcopal Seminaries www.simministry.org

 

PARTNER HOSTED LUNCHES

• L1 The Church Investment Group Presents: The Benefits of Scale: A vision for Episcopal Endowments

Susan Lee Vick, chief Development Officer

 Research suggests that Episcopal endowments may have forfeited as much as $2 billion in returns during the first decade of the new millennium. Over lunch, Susan Lee Vick will explain the movement gathering behind a commitment to generating new opportunities for robust endowment revenue, while living more deeply into our Episcopal identity. Advanced by most senior faith and financial leaders throughout The Episcopal Church, and modeling on the wisdom of the Church Pension Fund, the Church Investment Group movement is this century's "great venture of vision and faith."

• L2 The Church Pension Group Presents: The Denominational Health Plan--What you Must Know

Pattie Christensen, Laurie Kazilionis
An update and open discussion on the 2009 General Convention Resolutions A177 (Denominational Health Plan) and A138 (Lay Empleyee Pension)

• L3 Details Communications Presents: Simplify How Your Church Communicates

Brian Jones, President
Learn about smarter, easier approaches to web, blog, and social media.

• L4 The Episcopal Church foundation Presents: Transformational Lay Leadership

Donald Romanik, President
Join Donald Romanik as he advocates for a new type of entrepreneurial priest and effective clergy-lay partnerships to help congregations respond to God’s call and move from one state of being to another. Discussion will focus on new models of leadership for a changing missional church.    

• L5 Five Talents Presents; Business as Mission: Teaching Economic Skills
  Interested in sharing your business skills on a short-term mission trip geared for the business or management professional from your church? The worldwide church is talking about economic empowerment and there is a need to teach business skills in the mission field. Five Talents has sent more than 40 peole to 10 countries on "busines as Mission" trips to teach basic business planning with those making $1-2 a day. come find out how you can transform the lives of those Type "A" business men and women by sharing your business skills! 

• L6 PhilanthroCorp Presents: Changing your paradigm about Planned Giving: Estate Stewardship as a Service...not an Ask

Rob Kuck, Estate Specialist

• L7 Seabury-Bexley Presents: Leadership: Taking it on the Road!

Bill Sachs, Bob Bottoms, Elizabeth Butler-JamesonJoin us for a discussion about the Updatenew “leadership on the road” initiative bringing seminary education to a location near you. Leaders can learn to inspire shared vision, lead change, and learn about the nature of spiritual leadership.

• L8 Virginia Theological Seminary Presents: Building a Chapel at Virginia Seminary

The Very Rev. Ian Markham, Dean
Building a new Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary means that great architecture will intersect with mission and worship. The Seminary’s Board of Trustees has commissioned Robert A. M. Stern Architects to design a new Immanuel Chapel, close to the site where the 1881 Immanuel Chapel stood. The 1881 Chapel, much loved by generations of the VTS family, was destroyed by fire on October 22, 2010. A seminary cannot do its work without a chapel. Robert A. M. Stern is the premier architect working in the United States today. His is a worldwide practice and he has designed great buildings on many college and university campuses. He is designing a monumental building for 21st century Alexandria. Like the 1881 chapel, the new Immanuel Church on the campus of Virginia Theological Seminary will become a landmark of formation in the Episcopal Church. Building a Chapel has involved listening sessions with constituencies; interviews with architects; discussions with landscape architects; extended and ongoing consultations with a liturgical design consultant; meetings with the organ builders; and permit work with the City of Alexandria. It is a complicated multi-layered project which will cover almost 5 years.  

• L9 The University of the South at Sewanee Presents: Sewanee: An Episcopal Center of Learning

Presenters: Dr. Linda Lankewicz, immediate past provost for the university; the Rev. Nikki Mathis, assistant dean for community life at the School of Theology, the Rev. John Thomas, headmaster for St. Andrew's-Sewanee, and Karen Meridith, Director for Education for Ministry (EfM). With Moderator, the Very Rev. William Stafford, dean of the School of Theology
Sewanee plays a unique role for the Episcopal Church in educating lay and clergy, young and old, near and far. It contains an Episcopal college of arts and sciences - the University of the South; an accredited Episcopal seminary - The School of Theology; the international headquarters for an Episcopal lay distance learning program - Education for Ministry; and an Episcopal preparatory school - St. Andrew's-Sewanee. What does this unique combination of institutions bring to the Church and its members? What opportunities lie within its Domain that are of value to the whole Church now and for years to come?