Updated 3/16/20
In this constantly shifting environment of social distancing, Bishop Bill and Bishop Doug have decided to NOT hold this event this year. If you need new oils desperately, we have a number of the small bottles at the Diocesan office ready for pick-up.
Our annual celebration of the Renewal of Vows and Blessing of Oils will be hosted by our Evangelical Lutheran Church of America colleagues at Augsburg Evangelical Lutheran Church (100 N Mineral Springs Rd, Porter, IN 46304) on Tuesday April 7, 2020.
Holy Oils for the faith communities of both the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and the ELCA Indiana-Kentucky Synod will be blessed and distributed at this liturgy. Laity will renew their baptismal vows. Clergy will renew their ordination vows. The Rt Rev Dr Douglas Sparks and the Rev Dr William Gafkjen will share leadership of this service. It is a sacred time of shared ministry.
Please note a couple of important changes for this year:
No registration is required. Please join us!
As always, you are welcome to bring your own containers. However, they will be filled at an oil station after the liturgy (instead of prior to the service). Ample oil will be consecrated.
As in years past, one-ounce individual bottles of oils will also be available.
Schedule (all times are Central Daylight Time)
9:30am - Arrival & Refreshments
10am - Worship: Blessing of Oils, Eucharist, Prayer for Healing, Renewal of Ministry Commitments
11:30am - Lunch will be provided. (Group conversation with the bishops will follow lunch.)
1:30pm - Wrap-up & Departures