Church of the Good Shepherd, Links, resources, Credits

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Links and Resources of Interest

Athens, Regional and Special Interest (Also see Reference below.)

The City of Athens Home Page
About Our Community (via SOERF)
Athens Ohio .net (commercial site)
ATHENSi.COM (Student interests, eats & events, and more)
Athens County Home Page
Athens County attractions and activities
Ohio University's Home Page
Athens High School
Frognet Home Page (Our internet provider; has some items
of local interest such as the Athens Musicians Network.)
Boy Scout Troops (Allohak Council #618, Parkersburg)
Our Community Hospital (O'Bleness)
AA groups on-line
Neighbors Helping Neighbors of Athens County
Good Works, Athens
Athens Area Al-Anon
United Appeal for Athens County
ReUse Industries
Episcopal Appalachian Ministries
The Foundation for Appalachian Ohio
Rural Action
Religion Directory for in Athens (via ATHENSi.COM).
Ohio Long-Term Care Consumer Guide
ACEnet Appalachian Center for Economic Networks
Hocking.Athens.Perry Community Action

Class Gateway, Ohio University

Blog of the Good Shepherd (Recent sermons by our rector, the Rev. Bill Carroll)

Episcopal Sites and Resources The Online Daily Office (Prayer, Compline, and Devotions with readings and music for each day) Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio Diocese of Southern Ohio visitor's site The Episcopal Church in Southern Ohio - (Blog) "A place for respectful, thoughtful conversation about issues facing the Episcopal Church, the Diocese of Southern Ohio and our local faith communities." Diocese of West Virginia The Hocking Valley Deanery Episcopal Church, USA (ECUSA) Direct to the Episcopal News Service (or Episcopal-life online) Anglician Church of Canada The Southern Ohio Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Web Pages of Congregations and Dioceses (ECUSA, Find a Church Home) The Anglican Communion (Official Web Portal of the Worldwide Anglican Communion) Online Anglican resources (Society of Archbishop Justus) Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS) Episcopal Church Foundation Episcopal Books Resource Center Church Related Organizations (An A-Z list, Episcopal Church, USA. If link does not work try the new Episcopal Church, USA site.) Episcopal Church, USA, Table of Contents for Resources (A classified, annotated list. If does not work, please try new site above.) Episcopal Parish Services (Things to buy, catalog) The Church Pension Group (Resources for priests, lay employees, churches, insurance, pensions, annuities, health care, life planning, and more.) Kenyon Summer Conference A Rejuvenating Summer Experience. Education for Ministry (EFM), a program of theological education-at-a-distance of the School of Theology of the University of the South. The Lectionary (A collection of Lectionary resources, updated weekly.) The Lectionary Page (Liturgical calender for updoming weeks, both BCP and RCL.)
Advocacy Anglicans Online (News and resources, 9000 links) Episcopalian.org (Worldwide evangelism) Integrity (An Organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender [LGBT] Episcopalians) Interfaith Alliance (to "Promote democratic values, Defend religious liberty, Challenge hatred and religious bigotry and Reinvigorate informed civic participation") Living Church Foundation (Promotion and support of orthodox, catholic Anglicanism) Thinking Anglicans (United Kingdom: a discussion forum, intended for "tolerant, thoughtful and understanding exploration")
Outreach and Mission at home and worldwide Episcopal Relief and Development; ERD provides emergency assistance, rebuilds, and offers long-term solutions to help people around the world. Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation is an emerging network of lay and ordained people wanting to energize thousands of American Episcopalians to reduce the suffering of billions of impoverished people, and contribute to the ongoing spiritual renewal of the Episcopal Church. This site has a good discussion of the Millennium Development Goals. Here is the United Nations' page about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). South American Missionary Society-USA; SAMS recruits, sends and supports missionaries in fellowship with the Episcopal/Anglican Church in Latin America helping to share the Gospel, establish churches, train national church leaders, and minister socially through medical clinics and Christian schools. Produced by the Episcopal Church's Office of Communication Globalgood.org contains links to organizations, events, and stories of those who are working to make the MDGs a reality by 2015.
Environmental Stewardship Appalachian Voices ("Bringing People Together to Protect Our Mountain Heritage") Anglican Communion Environmental Network (Worldwide issues "Caring for Creation") National Council of Churches ("Ecumenical Earth" news and references for climate change/water/faith,science,technology/economic globilization and ecology/caring for life/and more) Episcopal Ecological Network ("The EpEN includes all concerned Episcopalians who are helping our Church assume a leadership role in the worldwide environmental movement.") Eco-Justice Ministries (Eco-Justice Ministries helps churches to develop ministries that are faithful, relevant and effective in working toward social justice and environmental sustainability.) Episcopal Network for Animal Welfare (ENAW help's equip churches to give meaningful voice to every creature, especially where neglect, cruelty, degradation and commercial exploitation are concerned.) The Regeneration Project ("Interfaith Power & Light" is a campaign to mobilize a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.)

Reference

forMinistry.com Outreach to church leaders (American Bible Society)
The BibleGateway.com is a free service for reading and researching scripture online.
Resources regarding the Book of Common Prayer (text of nearly every edition)
Google Search (Take a look at 'advanced search' as well.)
Ohio University Libraries' Infotree (Index to databases and resources; search keywords such as 'Ohio' 'Athens' etc.)
The WWW Virtual Library (The oldest catalog of websites, its pages are assembled by people who are experts in their fields.)
The Columbia Encyclopedia and other Bartleby standard reference titles.
Refdesk (This is an excellent and large collection of reference links.)
The Athens News (Local news, includes some archives.)
Athens Messenger (Local commercial paper, news, includes some archives.)
The Weather in Athens (Realtime weather from Athens HS)
MSN Maps and Directions (Search for "64 University Terrace, Athens, Ohio")

Site Credits

The 'webmaster' is Theodore (Ted) Foster.
Consultants for the CHOGS website are Glenda Frost, Curt Sherman, and Sandra Oney. While a student at Ohio University, Brian Tomko was the initial Project Director to set up and maintain the CHOGS site: Brian's comments (1999) Photographs: These are from many sources and generations, so thanks to all and more photographs are welcome. FrogNet is our internet provider. Special thanks to George Cohen who in 1980 created the original print of the Parish Building which is used on our stationary and this website. Web Counter by Computer Networking Services, Inc.

The 'webmaster' is Theodore (Ted) Foster.

Consultants for the CHOGS website are Glenda Frost, Curt Sherman, and Sandra Oney.

While a student at Ohio University, Brian Tomko was the initial Project Director to set up and maintain the CHOGS site:
- Brian's comments (1999)
Photographs:
- These are from many sources and generations, so thanks to all and more photographs are welcome.
FrogNet is our internet provider.

Special thanks to George Cohen who in 1980 created the original print of the Parish Building which is used on our stationary and this website.

Web Counter by Computer Networking Services, Inc.

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28/Apr/2008