Style Guide – minor updates
Adjusted the text regarding the Bishop Provisional. The term nominee is the preferred qualifier. Place holders added for text regarding photo captions, text titles, and headings.
Site-wide Announcements
Prayer Cycle updated
The prayer cycle for Pentecost has been updated. Many thanks to the people who pointed out the errors in the previous list.
New Page — Church Stewardship Resources
This new page provides resources to consider as you contemplate your annual giving program.
Possible Data Breach
This afternoon we noticed some unusual account activity on one of the accounts on our bulk emailing service – Constant Contact. As far as we can determine, none of the data on the system has been tampered with. However, we can not rule out that some data may have been copied.
Style Guide update – defining the terms used for the candidate for bishop provisional, and the ecclesiastical authority during transition
The diocesan style guide has been updated to include the correct way to refer to our candidate for bishop provisional, Bishop Bruce, and how to refer to the standing committee when they are acting as the ecclesiastical authority.
2021 Annual Convention Registration Open
Registration for the 2021 Annual Convention opened on August 6 and closes on October 10.
Style Guide updates
A New section containing the standard diocesan boiler-plate text has been added. Clerical abbreviations text added, and the notes on referring to clergy within text updated.
Bishop Provisional nominee for West Missouri announced
The Standing Committee of The Diocese of West Missouri has announced their selection of a nominee for Bishop Provisional of West Missouri. The formal selection of the candidate will be the subject of the first resolution to be presented and voted upon at this year’s diocesan annual convention, which is scheduled to be held on Saturday, November 6, 2021.
Diocesan Style Guide – Updates to date formatting and how to render ‘COVID-19’
The style guide has been updated as follows: Clarification on the format of ‘technical dates,’ and additional text setting out the format for dates in filenames added. Belated addition of COVID-19 to the Writing style guide (A-Z).
Marriage and Remarriage section of the Diocesan Policies updated
We have reorganized the previously combined Marriages and Remarriages section into two separate sections. The Policy was converted from a PDF to a web page, and the forms have been relocated