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August 2013

In this issue:

Evangelism by the Rev. Dan Handschy...................................1

Our New Intern, Peace Meal.....................................................2

Ellas 90th, Vestry news................................................................3

Life of the Parish calendar..........................................................4

Living with Gods Creatures by Bob Zimmer..........................6

Making Disciples Conference.....................................................7

Liturgical Ministries Calendar.....................................................8

The Bishops Column....................................................................9

Sweat and no Sweat by Deb Goldfeder...............................10

Editor: Marla Dell

About a week after the verdict in

the trial of George Zimmerman (who shot

Trayvon Martin), President Obama sur-

prised the White House press corps by

himself addressing what was scheduled to

have been just the weekly brieng by his

press secretary. He addressed the press

corps, and through them, us, on the sub-ject of race in America. It was one of the

best speeches I have heard this president

deliver (it wasnt so much a speech as a

series of reections). He began by recall-

ing that just after the incident in question,

he remarked that Trayvon Martin could

have been his son. He then suggested that

it could have been himself 35 years ago.

Obama went on to say that nearly ev-ery young black man in this country has had

the experience of being followed by secu-

rity in a department store, himself included.

Nearly every young black man in this coun-

try has heard the automatic car door locks

click shut while crossing the street, himself

included. The president said that neither

he nor other black people in this coun-

try were so nave as to think that young

black men arent preponderantly both

the victims and perpetrators of violence,but that black people read such events as

the confrontation between George Zim-

merman and Trayvon Martin and Zim-

mermans subsequent acquittal through

a particular set of experiences, experi-

ences of the unequal application of the law.

I think he hit, whether intentionally

or not, on exactly the crux of the issue for

Christians. Christians interpret the world

through a set of experiences, through a sto-

ry: the story of the death and resurrection

of Jesus. We have experienced ourselves as

brought to new life in a new community, a

community that, at least in theory, includesJew and Greek, male and female, slave and

free, black and white, all one in Christ. This

doesnt mean that our identities are oblit-

erated, but raised to a new meaning and a

new purpose in Gods mission. After the

acquittal, the Episcopal Bishop of Central

Florida said he longed to live in a world

where George Zimmerman would offer

Trayvon Martin a ride home in the rain.

Thats the story we live as Christians.

God has raised each of us to new life, re-

gardless of where we came from, and made

From the rectors desk:

Evangelism: telling our story


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our story part of the divine story. But to

live into that story, we each need to see the

world through a new set of experiences,

through a new history. Evangelism is about

inviting people into that new set of expe-

riences, making that new history together.St. Pauls gospel, his life project, was to cre-

ate a new history in which Jew and Gentile

could eat together, without giving up be-

ing either Jew or Gentile. The world still

needs that story, but we have been far too

timid in telling it. The president wondered

what would have happened if the roles

had been reversed, if Trayvon had been the

neighborhood watch captain how the

laws would have been applied. I hope in-

stead that we can imagine a world in whichGeorge Zimmerman offered Trayvon a ride

home, and then try to learn to look at the

world through that set of experiences.

The Rev. Dr. Daniel Handschy is Rector of Advent Church

New intern Richard

At our last Vestry Not as Usual meeting (in April), the Bishop spoke to us about becoming

a teaching parish. The bishop imagined Advent as one of a network of congregations with

the gifts appropriate to forming seminarians and others in the process toward ordinationin sound Eucharistic and Anglican theology. Richard Wiskus, of All Saints Church, Farming-

ton, is in the process toward ordination to the priesthood. Richard has an MTS (Master of

Sacred Theology) from the Aquinas Institute. The Diocesan Board of Examining Chaplains

would like Richard to spend some time in Anglican studies, and the bishop has concurred

that Advent would be a good place for him to do that. Beginning in August, Richard will be

with us two Sundays a month, and meet occasionally with Fr. Dan in preparation to take

the General Ordination Exams in January of 2014. We look forward to this opportunity.

Evangelism... continued

Cooking the Peace Meal at St. Johns Church-Tower Grove


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Vestry reviewed several bids for creating a patio

outside the new doors in our fellowship hall. Vestrydecided on cobble stone rather than concrete and ac-

cepted a bid from American Lawn Care & Landscape.

The next Vestry meeting will be August 12 and it will be

a Vestry not as usual.

Vic Kremar

Vestry secretary

Vestry Special MeetingThe August Vestry will be a Vestry

Not As Usual meeting on Monday, August12. We will begin with a simple supper

at 6:00 pm and then a presentation and

discussion at 6:30 pm. The topic for this

meeting is the change of Eucharist prayers

and Eucharistic theology in the Episcopal

Church since the publication of the 1979

Book of Common Prayer. Lately, at the

10:15 am service, and during this summer

at the 9:00 am service, we have been using

several Eucharistic prayers from Enrich-

ing Our Worship. These prayers offer a

much richer understanding of the theol-

ogy of the Eucharist. We will talk about

how these prayers came to be approved

for regular use, and the richness they add

to our language of worship.

Bishop Wayne Smith will visit Advent

on Sunday 4 August 2013 at the 9:00 am ser-vice. The Bishop likes to have the whole con-

gregation gathered at a single service for his

visitation, so since he is visiting during our

summer schedule, we are already scheduled

for a single service.

Bishops Visit

Vestry Not As Usual

Quilters and friends celebrate Ellas 90th birthday


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4 The Scroll - August 2013

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ST Route 66 Car Show

On Saturday 10 August 2014, the SAJE parish nurse ministry will have a booth at

the Route 66 Car Show at Sunset Ford. The organizing committee has awarded

the SAJE Health Ministry a grant from the proceeds of the show to support the

parish nurse ministry. Turn out to the show and support our parish nurse!

Vestry not as usualThe next Vestry meeting will be August 12, see page 3

Shawl MinistryPrayer shawl group will meet on Wednesday, August 14 at 1:00 pm. If you want

to request a shawl for someone, please contact, Mary Peck or any shawl mem-

ber. Please join us as we can always put to use another set of hands. You will nd

shawl making enjoyable and rewarding.

School for Congregational DevelopmentBeginning on Saturday 17 August 2013, the Episcopal School for Ministry will again

offer the School for Congregational Development. Six Adventers attended therst iteration of the School, and the insights they gained from the School have

served Advent very well. Since that time, the Diocese as a whole, and Advent in

particular, have taken a signicant turn toward a missional posture. The School for

Congregation Development this time around will focus on the leadership neces-

sary for mission, assessing the needs of the local community and the theology that

informs mission. It would be good to have several Adventers attend the School.

If you are interested, speak to the rector (who is also the dean of the Episcopal

School for Ministry).

Advent Church Women

ACW meeting is Monday, August 19. We will be planning our annual church break-fast to benet ECM. Please bring 10 nickels to play the game of the evening. We

would love to see all of the ladies, no matter what age, at 7:00 in the parish hall.

--Clare Kujath

Making Disciples ConferenceMark Saturday 24 August on your calendar. The Episcopal School for Ministry is

offering a workshop on Holy Dying: Faithful approaches to end-of-life issues.

The Rev. Pamela Dolan will be the keynote speaker. Pamela is the rector of the

Church of the Good Shepherd, Town and Country, and writes for the religion sec-

tion in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She has recently been present with her step-

father during his dying. The Rev. Dan Smith will also make a video presentation.

There will be responses from a panel of hospice chaplains, and then afternoon

workshops on topics such as preparing wills, advance directives and the like, as

well as being present with the dying, the ministry of the church, funeral planning

and other topics. The Conference will be held at Grace Church, Kirkwood, from

9:00 am to 2:00 pm. Cost is $20 per person. RSVP form on pg. .7

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The Episcopal Church of the Advent welcomes you 5

Weekly

Advent Men Club and Dine OutRefer to the church bulletin in the Sunday pew sheet for Mens Club and Dining

out events in August. The crew is currently on vacation and unable to report in.

Tuesday Lunch BunchSee the service leaet for plans for the August Lunch Bunch, or call Carol

Kardell at 314-638-0247.

Thursday Exercise Classes Every Thursday morning at 9:30, Crest-wood Parish Nurse program exercise class at Church of the Advent.

Rectors scheduleFr. Dan is not teaching at Eden Seminary this term, and so arrives at Church on

Mondays and Wednesdays in time for Morning Prayer at 8:30 am. Also, he now

attends a lectionary study group on Tuesday mornings at 10:00 am, rather than

Wednesday afternoons.

Worship Leaders TrainingThere will be a training session for liturgical ministers (worship leaders and aco-

lytes) current and potential, on Saturday 7 September at 9:30. More information

will follow.

Lawn Concert and CookoutDont forget our annual lawn concert by the After Hours Community Band is

coming up on Tuesday 10 September. The mens club will serve hot dogs and ham-

burgers beginning at 5:30 pm, with the concert to begin at 7:00 pm.

Gateway Racetrack boothWe will have a booth at the races (Gateway Racetrack) again this year on

September 27, 28 and 29. Look for details to come, but save the date!

2nd Annual SAJE Mystery TheaterSAJE Senior Ministry will bring the Bissell Mansion Mystery Dinner Theatre to St.

Elizabeth of Hungary on Saturday, October 26. We had a ball at last Januarys

event at St. Justin Martyr with many requests to do it again - so we are! Please

mark your calendars now for this fun(d)raiser which will benet the growing

SAJE ministry serving our parishioners and neighbors.

Thanks. Mary Chubb, 822-4736

SAVE THE

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Being an avid outdoorsmens in my

younger years when I could tromp thru

the woods and spend time on the water,

breathing the fresh air, and seeing Godscreatures in their natural environment, is

a wonderful and exciting experience. Un-

fortunately it saddens me I can no longer

do this. My home backs up within 20 feet

of a heavily wooded area and within less

than a quarter of a mile of a river. There is

abundant wild life occasionally visiting the

woods. As much as I enjoy the visits of

what the good lord put on this earth, liv-

ing with them can be somewhat annoying.

There have been visits of all typesof two and four legged wildlife, all types

of birds, and yovers at roof top level

of geese and ducks landing on the small

lake across from me. Their honking and

quacking announce their arrival. Seeing

and enjoying the wild life in their natural

habitat is one thing, but to have them

come out of the woods and intrude and

take up residence with me can sometimes

try my patience .

Four foot long snakes, large lizards,

river turtles, ground hogs, squirrels, rac-

coons, possums, skunks like to lounge,

sunbathe and sleep on the deck and patio.

They leave muddy paw prints and leave

their calling card to mark off their ter-

ritory. Telling them they are not wanted

and removing them can be a bit of a chal-

lenge as they usually get indignant and re-

sist being told to move on. They keep tell-

ing me they were here rst. While I loveseeing all this wildlife, I dont propose to

provide guest accommodations for them,

except for the lizards, as they keep the

bug population under control. I have pro-

vided food in the past but that didnt turn

out too well. I know we must coexist and

Living with Gods creatures

live and let live but sometimes I think

they are not cooperating with me.

A ground hog took up residence

under my patio and deck. When evict-ed he promptly moved his residency to

the front of the house. An 18 inch long

river turtle decided to stay on the deck

for two days before being evicted. They

smell from sh and river mud, are very

mean and have beady red eyes. Another

river turtle was told to leave the garage

when its fragrance and droppings gave

him away. It takes two men and a shovel

to move large turtles. Small birds en-

joyed bird feeders I made for them outof cedar, but blue jays run off the small

birds and squirrels run off the blue jays.

Squirrels promptly chewed the wood

and destroyed the feeders getting to the

seed. Large black ants got into the hum-

ming bird nectar, drowned, and gave off

terrible odors. Raccoons or groundhogs

pulled down the feeder poles to get to

the nectar. On a cold winter night a

skunk was being chased or decided to

leave its calling card next to my house.

The fragrance got into the house and was

so strong we couldnt breathe and were

planning on going to a motel for the night.

Gods creatures live in their world

and we humans live in ours. Seeing them

in their natural habitat is a wonderful thing

to see. Having them up close is another

experience. It is apparent we are infringing

on their habitat. If I was supplying food and

accommodations for them, I would nothave any issues with their visits. I would

prefer they all move 20 into the woods

where the food and accommodations are

plentiful and I could better enjoy their

visits. Coexistent is sometimes difcult.

Bob Zimmer


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2013 Making Disciples Conference

Holy Dying:

A Faithful Approach to

End-of-Life IssuesSaturday, August 24

Grace Episcopal Church514 East Argonne Drive, Kirkwood

9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

$20 / person - or - $150 / group of 10

8:30 a.m. Registration / Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Plenary Sessions:

A faithful approach to end-of-life issues

featuring the Rev. Pamela Dolan,Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd

and the Rev. Dan Smith, Canon to the Ordinary

11:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist

Conference Schedule

12:15 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. Break-out sessions:

Featuring experts in the following topics:- Ethics & Advance Directives

- Estate Planning / Elder Law

- Funeral Planning

- Hospice Care

2:00 p.m. Closing Prayer

Making Disciples Conference RegistrationRegistration is due by Aug. 16. Please fill out and return with payment to:

Janis Greenbaum, c/o Grace Episcopal Church

514 E. Argonne Drive, Kirkwood, MO 63122

[email protected] / 314-651-1843

Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________

Church: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Contact phone: _____________________________ Contact e-mail: ____________________________________

Number attending: ___________________________ Amount paid / due: _________________________________


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Liturgical Ministries: August 2013

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The Bishops Column for August 2013

Here is a short list of facts marking thefault-lines in racial relations in the part ofMissouri encompassing our Diocese: thelegacy of slavery and the Churchs some-

time complicity in it; rigid practices ofsegregation beginning in the nineteenthcentury, with too many of these practicescontinuing to our own day; the tragicallyflawed experiment of the Pruitt-Igoe hous-ing projects in St. Louis; the exclusion ofminority contractors and workers from thebuilding of the Gateway Arch, symbolic ofa broader exclusion in public and privateworks and in employment. The list goes on.

The death of Trayvon Martin, and thesubsequent acquittal of George Zimmer-man, have caused an already existing fault-line to tremble. The fault-line is nothingnew, even if we may have become inuredto its presence. I set aside for the momentany consideration of the legal and judi-cial matters in this case, although they doin due course deserve our scrutiny. I askyou instead to do what the Church hasas our charter, which is to seek reconcili-ation to God and to one another throughChrist Jesus. A primary strategy for thisreconciliation is to hear the other, evenacross, or especially across, the manyfault-lines that exist in our world. In an in-creasingly dismissive and polarizing time,intentional, careful hearing of the othercan make all the difference. At our best,the Church provides a safe venue wheretruth-telling and hearing can happen.

Two little books in the Old Testament,Ruth and Jonah, call the people of Godaway from any impetus toward particular-ism or racism. The book of Ruth accom-plishes this purpose through a lovely narra-tive which ends with a cultural bombshell.

Ruth, a woman of Moab, the distrustedancestral enemy of Israel, will turn out tobe royal Davids great-grandmother, a truthcalling under judgment any notions or pre-

tense of exclusivity. Jonah accomplishes asimilar purpose, only through a kind of hu-mor bordering on buffoonery. The prophetpetulantly and persistently resists Gods callto go to Nineveh, a city of Babylona Gen-tile city and another enemywhose peoplethe narrative characterizes in an unflatter-ing light. When Jonah begrudgingly relentsto proclaim a message of repentance, notonly the people of Nineveh but even thecattle respond! Gods reach thus extends be-

yond the imagination of the people of God.

Jesus crossed fault-lines in his cul-ture, and did it often. His doing so pre-saged redemption and release, but it alsocaused him much trouble in the living ofhis days and in his death. I am also mind-ful of the Book of Acts, one current sourcefor the readings for Daily Office, whosestory is that of the Holy Spirit compel-ling new believers across frontiers andamong peoples unimaginable beforehand.

Such is our legacy. We the Church, theBody of Christ, can hardly be satisfied withthe racisms and other fault-lines in our cul-ture. They are so deeply imbedded in ournations history that we become accustomedto themuntil some event, like this mostrecent one, calls them to our awareness. Ithink that faithful people might cultivate thehabits of seeing these fault-lines at all times,and, for the sake of the One who has calledus, finding the courage to straddle them.


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I have said many times that the only

thing easy about living Lui was sweating

God knows it is hot therebut lately I

have been in Liturgy classes at ESM and

thinking about what is necessary and

what is not. Worship in Lui made me

think about all the things that we think we

need to worship God and what we dont.

I made a cotton alb to wear in Lui

because I knew that the alb I wore here

would cause me to smother in the Afri-can heat and that is what I wore but any-

one who vested in Lui (except the bish-

op) wore billowy white surplices (signs

of baptism) over their regular clothes.

They didnt wear black cassocks (academ-

ic robes) under them. Sometimes they

wore the cassocks but not with the sur-

plices over them. As I tied the rope cinc-

ture that acted like a sweat dam around

my waist, I thought how much I would

have preferred the long surplice with itsbreezy sleeves.

All the ministers vested in the ves-

try which was the vesting room beside

the cathedrals sanctuary and then pro-

cessed outside to the back of the church.

We were led by the Dean of the cathe-

dral and not by a crucifer and acolytes

with candles. Dean Joseph would an-

nounce the entrance hymn and start thesinging. The only musicians were people

with drums and shakers but, despite hav-

ing no hymnals or notated music, they all

knew hymns by their numbers in the Baku

Sweat and No Sweatby Deborah Goldfeder

Longo Ro (Moru hymnal) that most do

not own! Music was absolutely essential

to Moru worship; worship without sing-

ing is just not worship to them. But then

nobody tells anyone not to sing in Lui.

There are no candles on the altars

in Lui but we have to have them lit ten

minutes before the service with the one

on the epistle (right) side lit rst and then

the gospel (left) side second (did you ever

notice that?) and they are extinguished inthe opposite order. Heck, a candle in Lui

would be a puddle on the altar before we

got through the processional! Honestly,

I didnt miss the processional crosses or

candles. They werent essential for wor-

ship in Lui.

We are presently in the season of

green. In ordinary time, the hangings in

the church are all green and Dan wears

a green stole and chasuble. Colors maychange to white for weddings, baptisms

or funerals and some special Sundays, but

we wont change color again until Advent

when things will change to blue. We have

a calendar in the sacristy telling us what

the color of the day will be and we always

check it. There werent any ordo calen-

dars in Lui, though. There were no col-

ors for seasons. I was there from Advent

to Ascension and the only time I saw anod toward a liturgical season was when

they put palms around the doors on Palm

Sunday but the colors didnt switch in the

church to red. It didnt matter in the end.


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Worship was scripture, prayers, sermon

and songs. LOTS of sermon!

I had the pleasure of being at the

dedication of a new church at the Lui par-

ish church and I remember it for many

reasons but I remember most the num-

bers of ministers who were there and

that they each wore whatever vestment

they had. There were people in cassocks,people wearing surplices and black stoles

and several people wearing chasubles

in whatever colors they owned. As we

stood in a grassy eld under a thatched

roof with no walls and only a rickety table

for an altar, we didnt care about the col-

ors or anything else. We were witnesses

to the founding of a new church and it was

very special indeed. Strings strung under

the roof were adorned with bougainvil-

lea blossoms and fragrant frangipane that

uttered in passing breezes over the logs

that served as pews for the nearly one

thousand people who worshipped that

day. It was amazing. Women had also

tied colorful strips of fabric to the string

to bring more beauty into this humble

space. In Lui, the more colorful, the bet-

ter!

There are two words that come to

my mind when I think of the things that

are essential for our worship but they

come from two different disciplines: dia-

phoretic and adiaphorous. Both refer

to sweat. In nursing, diaphoretic means

sweaty so you can imagine that adiapho-

rous means without sweat but it comes

from theology rather than nursing. We

attach great importance to our tradi-tions, colors, practices and processions

but, very few of those things are essential

to worship. They are adiaphorouslit-

erally no sweat!

Worship is a complex experience of

sounds, smells, words, scripture and ser-

mons and each of probably has something

without which we havent done church

right but, when we strip things down to

the essentials, we dont need much stuff

at all to do church. We need some bread

and wine and a bit of water to make us

all the incarnate Body of Christ which is

what it is all about anyway. The rest is no

sweat!


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