Deacons in Maryland

Deacon Formation Program

Deacon Ordination 2020

On Saturday, June 13, 2020, three new deacons were ordained at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Ellicott City. They are Laura Michelle Carpenter, Denise Marie Schiavone and Kathleen Aidan Smith-Jones.

DFP weekend, September 2019. Standing:  Jane O’Leary, Amy Shimonkevitz, Denise Schiavone, Kathleen Smith-Jones, James Reaves, Beth Dellow, Ruth Elder, Stuart Scarborough.  Kneeling: Laura Carpenter.

 

DFP 2020 weekend schedule

March 20-21, 2020 – Cancelled
June 5-6, 2020 – Zoom Meeting
September 18-19, 2020 – Zoom
December 4-5, 2020 – All Saints, Frederick
March 5-6, 2020 – Claggett

 

Reading of the season –

The Witness of Preaching
by Thomas G. Long.

Walk in Love: Episcopal Beliefs and Practices
by Susan Gunn & Melody Wilson Shobe.

A New Kind of Christianity
by Brian D. McClaren.

Following the Way of Jesus
by Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry

Formation team meeting dates:

  • February 15, 2020 – Postponed
  • May 2020 – Zoom Meeting
  • August 2020 – Zoom Meeting
  • November 2020 – TBA

Resource

“With the ‘eyes of our hearts’, enlightened by wisdom,
we begin to have a clear sense of the vocation
to which God is calling us.”   Debra Donnelly-Barton

Our Formation Process

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