Eagle News. Things to Know for Fall. St. John s Episcopal Church Waynesboro, Virginia. Peace, Kim

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1 Eagle News St. John s Episcopal Church Waynesboro, Virginia 473 South Wayne Avenue, Waynesboro, VA (540) Things to Know for Fall It is hard to believe, but we are moving rapidly toward fall, and the busy time for any parish. Sunday school kick-off is September 14 with a parish breakfast and introduction of teachers. We will also provide Safe Guarding God s children training for all teachers, parents, and children on that Sunday, which will occur during the breakfast and will continue as our first Sunday school. We are sensitive that some parents may think their children will not understand the training but I can assure you that it will help your children and you to understand what, why, and how we go out of our way in the Episcopal Church to protect our children. If you want a brief statement of how the church views our responsibility to our children you can read the Children s Charter statement in our parish hall under the Sudan flag. Every first Sunday Carol and I will lead a combined class on understanding the history of and using our Book of Common Prayer. It is open to all ages and will combine presentations and actual use of the Prayer Book. Our beautiful Book of Common Prayer is what makes us Anglican and connects us intimately with the worldwide Anglican Communion. We need Sunday school teachers and substitutes for our children and adult leaders for adult Sunday school. We need acolytes and hope that you will thank Dale Diacont for stepping up to be our acolyte master. If you are interested in assisting in leading worship see Dale or me and we will get you trained and active in the up front work here at St. John s. It is a joy and a treat to serve the Kingdom and our fellow parishioners up front. It is time to volunteer for Vestry leadership and the fall is a great time to ask questions, pray for discernment, and put your name forward. We usually seek only four people to replace the four off-going members, but if we have more than four people willing to serve we will have a vote during our annual parish meeting which will be held on December 14 at both the 8:00 and 10:30 services. Finally, it is also time to begin praying and discerning about your annual pledge to our parish. Our goal is every member contributing joyfully and proportionally to the financial operations of our parish. My wife and I begin our discernment in early September and usually have made our pledge minds up by the end of September. It is part of our corporate life as husband and wife and it takes the stress out of the end of the year by making our pledge minds up early. The Vestry and I hope that you will be actively involved in the financial support of our common life together. May God bless our parish with sound learning, pure manners, and inquiring minds as we launch into active time in our common life. May God the Son touch us with his healing power to see the world anew each and every day and may God the Holy Spirit send us into this world with power, confidence, and strength as we preach the Gospel every day, more with our actions than our words. Peace, Kim

2 Fall Kick-Off Breakfast Sunday, September 14 9:00 am Please join us for the Fall Kick-off Breakfast If your last name begins with A - M, please bring fruit, muffins, rolls or breads. If your last name begins with N - Z, please bring egg dish, casserole, or breakfast meats. How to Live in Community From Father Kim The Gospel of Matthew helps us understand how to live in community. Matthew gives us a road map for handling conflict and avoiding prolonged anxiety and stress in our common life. The steps are fairly simple: Confront the other one-on-one and attempt to give voice to your concern. Step two, if resolution fails, bring an impartial third to hear the concern and offer unbiased advice. Step three, if resolution fails bring the concern to the attention of the entire congregation for their collective wisdom and advice. Step four, if resolution fails treat the individual as a tax collector and sinner. Now some will read that statement as shun them and kick them out of the community but remember who was a tax collector and sinner? You got it: Matthew, and he was not shunned from the community but taught better and loved harder. Our community of faith is vibrant and made of all sorts and conditions of people but when we encounter conflict, and we will every day, remember that if your goal is resolution then follow the example of the community of Matthew. If your goal is self-serving and all about me, you will demean yourself and the community. We have a world that is already filled with unresolved conflict with sides entrenched and talking about or at one another and never to one another. I guess it is up to us individually to decide if we are about the business of building community or destroying community. It is our individual call. Where s Mark? Mark Donham at Episcopal Youth Event in Pennsylvania 2

3 Schedule Time Change From Dale W. Diacont The town of River City, Iowa, would never be the same after a huckster named Harold Hill alighted from a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific passenger train. After eight long years of honing and attention to every minute detail of his childhood, Meredith Wilson s River City first came alive on Broadway as The Music Man. Warner Brothers quickly bought the screen rights to the play and introduced the film version in Straight from the footlights of Broadway, Robert Preston also played the role of Professor Hill on the silver screen. From the Loft Few men were ever Preston s equal on his feet. Now, Professor Hill s arrival in River City came about only days before the town was preparing for the Fourth of July celebration in In one of many memorable scenes, the town s mayor Eulalie Mackenchnie Shinn leads the town folk assembled inside of Madison Gymnasium in singing Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. Mrs. Shinn was indeed a spectacle clad in a Statue of Liberty costume which featured an illuminated torch and the appropriate crown. In 1912, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean was very popular and thought of as our unofficial national anthem. My ninetythree year old father was a lad of ten years when The Star Spangled Banner was made the national ECW - Church Ladies News anthem by Congressional mandate in Heretofore, America to the tune of God Save the Queen had been regarded as the national anthem. With the resolution in 1931, Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean lost prominence and generally fell out of favor. Having roots in an outstanding high school band program, the tune of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean always fascinated me. All the same, the piece could not be found in our parade routine since we marched as British Grenadiers with a Bagpipe Corp. I would have to wait another forty-five years in order to play Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean. My sincere thanks go to Frank Kennerly who arranged the piece for trumpet and organ and a huge thank you for the parishioners who hung around to hear the postlude on Sunday, July 6th. From Beth Abato Thursday, August 21 Lunch 11:30 am at Panera Bread (back room reserved) Carpool at church at 11:15 am Lending Library A new light reading bookshelf is in the Parish Hall. Feel free to donate books you have enjoyed and borrow ones that look interesting to you. The heavy books are still in the Library for everyone to borrow. Things to Think About Boy s Home Cook-out August 23rd Episcopal Relief Well Project Fall Tea? Holiday Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 23, open to public? Sunday Nov. 24 open between services and before Thanksgiving Dinner Proceeds from Bazaar? To Episcopal relief? Women s shelter? Other Ideas? Start working on Bazaar ideas we can do as a group as well as individuals. 3

4 Eucharistic Visitors Schedule August 3 Rhoda Shifflett August 17 Marg Fracher August 31 Ann Eckman Boys Home Cookout We invite everyone to a cookout at Boys Home to enjoy fun and fellowship. If you have not been to Boys Home, this is a perfect time to come check it out and meet the boys. We will meet at St. John s to carpool at noon on August 23. We will have hamburgers and hot dogs. Pastoral Care From the Vestry People notice that our parish not only says in our front yard, Our Family Welcomes Your Family, but that we act that way in worship and at coffee hour. We want to offer each member of our parish family the opportunity to serve one another as pastors. If you want to visit the homebound, offer support for the sick and dying, or just spend time over a meal with a guest in your home who may be alone in their home, call the office and we will put your name on our Pastoral Care team. It is rewarding to be a part of one another s lives in a meaningful way. You are each called, you are each equipped, and all you need do is answer the call and go into the world and preach the Gospel. An Evening for St. Marc s Episcopal School, Cerca-la-Source, Haiti From Sally Day The fundraising event on July 19 at St. John s for St. Marc s Episcopal School was a success thanks to the efforts of many. The goal was to raise enough money to cover teacher salaries and school lunches for one month. We accomplished that goal and will be sending $1,800 to the Virginia Haiti Collaborative. Special thanks go to the event sponsors: HammondTownsend Workers Compensation Attorneys, Stuart Hall School, Dr. and Mrs. J. Powell Anderson, and Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Garber. I am indebted to event contributors and volunteers: Beth Abato, Roger and Kennon Bowen, Michael Brookings, John Cabell, Nancy Conrad, Douglas and Emily Day, Elaine Echols, Melinda Ferguson, Randy Hamblet, Michael Hesbach, Marion Kober, Pete Marks, Sheila Metcalf, Jeanmarie Sharretts, Marty and Susan Siebken, Elizabeth Smith, Trudy Topolosky, Tree Streets Inn, Candace Wagner, and Doug and Martha Wood. Tony Balser was invaluable, from setting up the room to helping with the sound system, troubleshooting, and clean-up. To those of you who came to event and bought auction items, thank you, thank you. I hope you enjoy your purchases and know that you have helped a desperately poor community on its way to financial independence. 4

5 Schedule Time Change Did You Know...? August Birthdays 2) Leonard Pittman 5) Susan Marks, Kathe Maneval 6) Susie Loan 7) Anthony Balser, Jr., Rhoda Shifflett 8) Elaine Echols, Julia Kappes, Freddie Zeh 9) Shannon Remington, Jeanmarie Sharretts, Pete Marks 10) Pat Buehler, Wesley Kennedy, Faye Williams 11) Polly Purcell, Audrey Diacont 12) Brooke Reynolds 13) Beth Abato 14) Phil Kennedy, Cameron Stegura 16) Elizabeth Anderson, Danny Mowbray 22) Marjorie Fracher 23) Michael Maneval 25) Powell Anderson, Keith Tyree 27) Bud Brodie, Fr. Kim Webster 28) Zachary Bartosik 30) Sis Butler, Mickey Ferguson 31) Harlow Cavaggioni, Meredith Townsend August Anniversaries 1) Jim and Donna Donham 3) Anne and John Edgecomb 17) Peggy and Chuck Ricketts 21) Elizabeth and Richard Smith 24) Melinda Ferguson and Michael Brookings 26) Martha and Ernest Steidle Frank Kennerly records every service from start to finish and that audio recording is uploaded to our website (most) every week. Check it out. Dale Diacont has stepped up to be our new acolyte master, replacing Graham Taylor who is soon off to college. If you can not only thank Dale but volunteer that will make his heart sing. We only have three Eucharistic Visitors at this time and one of our homebound folks said to me, I missed Eucharist for about two months. What happened to the nice folks who bring it? I need it as often as I can get it. If you feel the need to bring the mysteries of Christ s Body to the homebound let the office know at Our beloved Bud Brodie has moved to Roanoke, but he has left some gifts to the parish from his music days: several wired microphones, a karaoke machine, and a mic stand. Thank you, Bud! During Lent next year Father Kim, his wife Carol, and Tony Balser our Sexton will be working on producing a play with the Faith Theatre Alliance. If they ask for your help, we hope you will step up and be a part of The Son of Man, a play adapted from Gibran s book Jesus the Son of Man by the late Reverend Richard Waters. The Mission of St. John s Episcopal Church is to worship and serve God as we: Pray, Proclaim the gospel, Promote spiritual growth, justice, peace and love. Affirmed by the Vestry, December 2008 All articles are due in the church office not later than the 15th of each month. Early items are always accepted. Thank you for being kind and on time. Deadline for September issue: August 15 5