Friday, May 29, 2015

Mercer Planning 2015 - 2016

May 29, 2015

Dear Friends,

Provenzano Point at Camp DeWolfe (May 2015)
Our little Mercer day-to-day staff of three met off-site the other day at our diocese's beautiful Camp DeWolfe in Wading River NY to plan Mercer programming for the 2015 - 2016 year. I am happy to say that we have the year from August 2015 until June 2016 planned with events and activities designed to resource our clergy, congregations and all persons interested near and far.

We have aimed this coming year:

 - to streamline our offerings;
 - to offer hybrid courses in which much of the study and conversation happen online with in-person meetings to complement that online interaction.

In addition, we intend to make material from online courses available continuously online once the course itself is complete.

You can expect our listing of next year's events to be up on the Mercer School online calendar very soon.

Finally, I am excited to share with you news that the link to access our inaugural Robert Farrar Capon Lecture with the Reverend Canon Lloyd A. Lewis is ready. The audio of his masterful lecture, as well as images of the gathering, are available there.  The link will be posted both on the Mercer School site (www/mercerschool.org) and the website of the Diocese of Long Island (www.dioceselongisland.org).
Sincerely,
John McGinty+
Canon for Formation

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