April 21, 2010

In the diocesan cycle we pray for the people of St. Stephen’s Church, Ferguson (1886), and Steve, their Rector
In our companion diocese of Lui, we pray for the people of Fraser Cathedral, and Joseph, their Priest

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Advent's Health Ministry begins with
l Advent's Health Ministry
Neighborhood Event l CPC Sunday
Episcopal Church of the Advent, Crestwood, l Call to Artists
l Episcorific
opened its new Health Ministry with a l Earth Day
neighborhood event this Tax Day, April 15th. l Newsline

The ministry is funded by a New Ventures in

BISHOP'S VISITATIONS
Community Ministry from the diocese. The 
grant pays the salary of a community nurse for March-April 2010 are Bishop
eight hours a week and Advent has hired Deb Smith's sabbatical months

Goldfeder through the Deaconess Parish

Sun, May 9, Christ Church-
Nurse Ministry Network. Cape Girardeau
Sun, May 16, St. Peter's-
Ladue
Sun, Jun 6, Church of the
Advent's health ministry is open to all in the Ascension-Northwoods
Sun, Jun 13, Ft. Leonard
neighborhood, and provided free of charge. "We hope to provide services, Wood
such as medication review, safety assessment, nutritional assessment, Sun, Jun 20, Trinity-Jefferson
County
socialization and the like to help our aging neighbors stay in their homes, or
care for loved ones they are trying to keep at home," said Father Dan Life of the Diocese
Handschy, Advent's rector.
Fri, Apr 23-Sat, Apr 24
30 Hour Famine: Youth event
For the kick-off event, Advent invited speakers from agencies in the area: Complete information
Susan DeWitt from the American Red Cross spoke about emergency
Sat, Apr 24
preparedness and practical suggestions such as where to keep flash lights, 2010 Diocesan Council
how much water to have on hand, etc; Alicia Albus, lawyer from a local firm meeting. Details

that specializes in estate law, talked about powers of attorney, living wills, Sat, Apr 24
wills and the like; Jennifer Phillips from the Alzheimer’s Association The Peace Meal Project at St.
John's-Tower Grove, every
presented ways to keep our brains active; and representatives from the local Saturday . Serving from 4-6
Walgreen’s Pharmacy took blood pressures, answered questions about p.m. To sign up as a
volunteer, please contact
medication, and handed out decks of cards to keep our minds active. Scott Splater at
ssplater@yahoo.com or 314-
497-1050. A full shift is from
In all, about twenty people from the neighborhood attended all or part of the 2-6:30 p.m. and a half shift
would be 2-4:30 p.m. (food
event. Most of them were not members of Advent, but had heard about the prep and cook) or 4-6:30
event through announcements at other congregations, through friends or (serve and clean up).
through an announcement in the neighborhood newspaper, The Call. "One of Mon, Apr 26, 7:30 PM   
the neighbors who attended wanted to offer some help, but said she couldn’t ESM Book Club Online. For an
invitation by email contact Fr.
do much besides make soup," reported Handschy. "So, we signed her up to Rod Wiltse, wiltse@charter.net
make soup and all the participants had a wonderful lunch of homemade April - Fasting by Scot
McKnight A discussion area will
soup, bread, salad and cookies." be open throughout the final
week of each month for on-
  going conversation and
  discussion.

from Annie Rayman & Church Periodical Club Tue, Apr 27

2010 Standing Committee
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, meeting Details
Every year CPC  provides grants to Fri, Apr 30
individuals, congregations, and other groups Church Endowment Assistance
Grants due in the Offices of
in the church to assist with purchasing texts the Bishop or postmarked by
and musical scores (National Books Funds April 30th, this is the hard
deadline, no extensions
grants). In addition to grants to possible. Questions before to
congregations, we serve seminarians and dviliocco@diocesemo.org.
organizations around the Anglican Sat, May 1-Sun, May 2
Communion and provide materials in English, Flower Festival at Christ
Church Cathedral
Spanish, French and many other languages.
Sat, May 8, 8 AM  
Water for Sudan Walk, St.
Your support is an essential part of this Martin’s Ellisville More info
ministry. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts
Thu, May 13, 6:30 PM   
Schori has designated Sunday, May 2 as Ordination of Eric Lobsinger.
CPC Sunday. We hope your parish will consider holding a CPC Sunday in to the Sacred Order of
Deacons , St. Paul’s Parish,
May or June. 2430 K Street, Washington,
D.C. Clergy: White stoles
You may be more familiar with another of CPC's ministries, Miles of Sat, May 15
Pennies. This is a grant for $844.80, the value of one mile of pennies. These REGISTRATION DUE Camp
Phoenix , July 25-31, 2010,
grants serve ministry to children, age newborn to 18 years, and cover printed More info
materials, films, software, Bibles, and prayer books.
Sat, May 15
Confirmation, Cathedral
During the last four months, two Miles of Pennies grants have been awarded
Sat, May 15
to diocesan ministries: Episcopal City Mission for Bibles, and the Diocese Metro IV Convocation meeting
of Lui, for materials for the Lunjini School.
Saint Martin’s, Ellisville
Within the next two weeks, parishes will receive church kits and information Sun, May 16, 7:00 pm
Compline, Trinity Episcopal
about CPC. More information on the CPC website. Church in the Central West
End.
 
Thu, May 20, 10:00 AM-3:00
 
A call to all Visual Artists of the Diocese: First PM   Clergy Day 

Submission Theme is ‘Celebration’

Sat, May 22, 10:00 AM  
We are seeking your artwork for publication in Seek and Ordination of Robert Ard Jr. to
online. Photographers, digital artists, textile artists, the Transitional Diaconate
Christ Church Cathedral 1210
painters, illustrators, sculptors: digital photographs of any Locust St. St. Louis, MO
genre of work will be accepted. We publish essays from 63103. Clergy: Red stoles
diocesan members, clergy and lay, to share the Tue, May 25
successes and challenges of our shared life in Christ. 2010 Standing Committee
meeting Details
Some of us offer profound evangelism through our created
works of art. We want to honor these stories of Christian Mon, May 31 7:30 PM   
ESM Book Club Online
life, too. For an invitation by email
contact Fr. Rod Wiltse,
wiltse@charter.net In May we
The Editorial Board and Offices of the Bishop will choose one or two discuss The Sacred Meal by
selections for each Seek issue. Our first theme is Celebration. Celebration Nora Gallagher.
is such an integral concept for us as Episcopalians. We celebrate the Sat, Jun 5
Eucharist, we celebrate sacraments, new ministry; we celebrate the life of 2010 Diocesan Council
meeting Details
the departed. And in these fifty days of the great celebration of Easter when
we begin our call for art, we celebrate resurrection. Alleluia! Sat, Jun 19
Ordination of Pamela Dolan to
the Sacred Order of Priests,
Chosen artwork will be published with a brief bio of the artist and small Christ Church Cathedral 1210
Locust St. St. Louis, MO
photo, and statement about the work and how it relates to that call’s theme.
Artists selected will receive our thanks and a small token of appreciation
Bart Ehrman 4/23-24
from the Offices of the Bishop. Please send one or two high resolution digital
images of your work, your name and contact information, a brief bio and a at St. Peter's Ladue. More info
brief description of your work as it relates to Celebration. (If artwork file size
Lecture I: Friday, April 23,
is under 5 MB, send by email, if larger by CD.) Submitting the image of a 7:00 p.m.
work for publication consideration implies your consent for the Diocese of “A World of Contradictions?
An Historical Approach to the
Missouri to publish that representation in diocesan publications (print and New Testament”
online), with attribution to you. Not all artwork submitted will be published.
All submissions are welcome. Lectures II and III: Saturday,
April 24, 9:00 a.m.
“Liar, Lunatic, or Lord?
Submission deadline for Celebration artwork is Friday, May 14, 2010. Searching for the Historical
Jesus”
Digital files may be emailed to communications director Beth Felice at “Is the New Testament
bfelice@diocesemo.org, or phone us to make other arrangements, 314-255- Forged? Literary Forgery in
the Early Christian Tradition”
1387.

30 HOUR FAMINE 4/23-24

Future themes planned are:
Good News, submission deadline June 18, 2010 The 15th Annual 30 Hour
Famine week-end is at Church
Reconcile, submission deadline September 17, 2010 of the Advent in Crestwood.
Whole heart, November 12, 2010.
Please contact Nancy Birtley at
  636-296-8307 or at
  nancy@birtley.net to RSVP for
the famine.
Are you Episcorific? Latest edition now online
More info on the 30 hour
famine...

MONDAY Apr 26
ESM ONLINE BOOK CLUB

This month we're discussing

Scot McKnight's Fasting.
Monday, April 26th, 7:30 pm-
8:30. Father Rod Wiltse
facilitates the book club,
email him for an invitation at
wiltse@charter.net.

Discernment Conference
June 6-8
 
The Discernment Conference,
sponsored by the Commission
on Ministry of the Diocese of
Missouri, is open to cand-
idates, postulants, aspirants,
and those contemplating dis-
cernment for ministry.

Download a registration form

online, and submit
registrations by no later than
Friday, May 21 to: Cory
Hoehn, Episcopal Diocese of
http://www.diocesemo.org/news/2010/04/21/episcorific/ Missouri 1210 Locust St. St.
Louis, MO 63103 Questions?
Please contact Cory at (314)
  255-1383 or
  choehn@diocesemo.org.
Preparing for Earth Day
Dismantling Racism
St. Peter's-Ladue, July 9-10

Brochure
Registration (doc format)
Registration (pdf)
The Rev. Peter Van Horne included this in a newsletter for Trinity-Kirksville HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN
before tax day, but it has resonance as we head into Earth Day and Flower
April 22
Festival, and consider our stewardship of resources and our impact on the John Muir and Hudson Stuck
planet. Naturalist and Writer, 1914
Priest & Environmentalist, 1920

At globalrichlist.com, you can type in your earnings, and find your wealth II. Blessed Creator of the
earth and all that inhabits it:
rank among the citizens of the world. You're then offered some spending We thank you for your
choices: $8 could buy you 15 organic apples OR 25 fruit trees for farmers in prophets John Muir and
Hudson Stuck, who rejoiced in
Honduras to grow and sell fruit at their local market. $30 could buy you an your beauty made known in
ER DVD boxed set OR a First Aid kit for a village in Haiti. $73 could buy you the natural world; and we pray
that, inspired by their love of
a new mobile phone OR a new mobile health clinic to care for AIDS orphans your creation, we may be wise
in Uganda. and faithful stewards of the
world you have created, that
generations to come may also
lie down to rest among the
Earth Day celebration in St. Louis is held this year on Sunday, April 25, in pines and rise refreshed for
Forest Park. The Rev. Steve Lawler is coordinating the Peace Garden, a their work; in the Name of the
one through whom you make
place for people to step away from the more active parts of the festival for all things new, Jesus Christ
some time of contemplation and reflection. He has reached out to leaders of our Savior, who with you and
the Holy Spirit lives and
several faith traditions, and invited them to share a bit about how their reigns, one God, now and for
tradition expresses its care for the Earth in parts of the garden. If you're at ever. Amen.
the festival, be sure to stop by.
Muir, John [1838-Dec. 24, 1914]
  American naturalist and writer
born in Scotland, but educated in
  Wisconsin. His interest in nature
Newsline was infused with his
Christianity. His efforts
Congratulations to Church of the Good Shepherd and visit their new preserved Yosemite as a
national park, and he is greatly
website at http://www.goodshepherdec.org/. You can tell that a great deal of responsible for many national
careful thought and preparation went into the design process as the finished conservation policies with
Hudson Stuck [Nov. 11, 1863-
site is clear on message, easy to navigate, and very warm and welcoming. Oct. 11, 1920] Priest,
It's a wonderful collaboration between the Good Shepherd committee and missionary to Alaska and
environmentalist, Stuck
web designer Paul Pennel. Good Shepherd has great news on many fronts: immersed himself the cultures
the Rev. John Musgrave reported to Metro IV convocation that three years of indigenous tribes and worked
to preserve the Alaskan
ago their ASA (average Sunday attendance) was twenty-eight and now is wilderness from over
seventy; giving increased from $69,000 to $160,000 annually; and the development.

number of Sunday School classes has increased to three, from the original
April 23
one. Toyohiko Kagawa
Prophetic Witness in Japan, 1960
II. We bless your Name, O
Another opportunity to watch and discuss Traces of The Trade. 7 pm., God, for the witness of
Friday, April 23rd at Christ Church Cathedral in the nave. Flyer online. Toyohiko Kagawa, reformer
and teacher, who was
persecuted for his pacifist
principles and went on to lead
Church Endowment Assistance Grants due April 30th.. This is a hard a movement for democracy in
deadline, no extensions are possible. Grants need to be in the Offices of the Japan; and we pray that you
would strengthen and protect
Bishop or postmarked Friday, April 30th or before. If you have questions, all who suffer for their fidelity
please contact Desiree, dviliocco@diocesemo.org . to Jesus Christ; who with you
and the Holy Spirit lives and
reigns, one God, for ever and
St. John's-Tower Grove is holding a Trivia Night, Saturday, May 1, ever. Amen
(doors open at 6:30 pm, held at Pius V Church, 3310 South Grand) to raise
Kagawa, Toyohiko [1888-April
money to renovate their Children's Christian Formation classrooms .They're 23, 1960] Japanese social
applying for a matching grant from the diocese and are trying to raise reformer, he was a pacifist
during World War II and a leader
$7500.00. $20.00 per individual or $150.00 (in advance) for a table of 8, of the democratic movement in
ticket price includes sodas & snacks. It's not too late to reserve a table, Japan.
contact Pastor Teresa, teresa@towergrovechurch.org.
April 24
Genocide Remembrance
The Companion Diocese Relationship Committee asks for our ongoing II. Almighty God, our Refuge
and our Rock, your loving care
prayers for the Diocese of Lui, facing a food crisis due to drought. They are knows no bounds and
facing serious food shortages as well as seed shortages for this year's embraces all the peoples of
the earth: Defend and protect
growing season, and are applying to relevant NGOs for assistance with this. those who fall victim to the
Our prayers are requested. forces of evil, and as we
remember this day those who
endured depredation and
Also, in May 2009, the missioners talked with Bishop Bullen "about funding death because of who they
were, not because of what
the exhumation of the body of Bishop Ephraim Natana, the first bishop of they had done or failed to do,
Lui, who died in Khartoum, for reburial in Lui Diocese. Given the other give us the courage to stand
against hatred and
funding priorities of the companion relationship, the Diocese of Missouri did oppression, and to seek the
not end up helping Lui Diocese with this effort, but the event is now dignity and well-being of all
for the sake of our Savior
fortunately coming to pass by other means. Please rejoice with our sisters Jesus Christ, in whom you
and brothers in Lui Diocese and pray for them in all their efforts to build up have reconciled the world to
yourself; and who lives and
the church there" (from Debbie Smith). Stay abreast of the ongoing news reigns with you and the Holy
from Lui diocese through http://luinetwork.ning.com. Spirit, one God, now and for
ever. Amen.

For those of us using wireless microphones during services: FCC rules April 27
change June 12, 2010, prohibiting the use of wireless microphone systems Christina Rossetti
Poet, 1894
on the 700 Mhz frequency. Here’s a link to more info, including an II. O God, whom heaven
equipment list: http://fcc.gov/cgb/wirelessmicrophones/. cannot hold, you inspired
Christina Rossetti to express
the mystery of the Incarnation
Archbishop of Canterbury's Address to the Global South Gathering through her poems: Help us
to follow her example in
(video and text). "In all your minds there will be questions around the giving our hearts to Christ,
election and consecration of Mary Glasspool in Los Angeles. All of us share who is love; and who is alive
and reigns with you and the
the concern that in this decision and action the Episcopal Church has Holy Spirit, one God, in glory
deepened the divide between itself and the rest of the Anglican family. And everlasting. Amen.
as I speak to you now, I am in discussion with a number of people around
Rossetti, Christina [1830-
the world about what consequences might follow from that decision, and December 29, 1894] One of the
how we express the sense that most Anglicans will want to express, that most celebrated poets of her
day, she was the most talented
this decision cannot speak for our common mind. member of an artistic Anglo-
Italian family. A devout
Anglican, she also wrote books
"But I hope also in your thinking about this and in your reacting to it, you’ll on spirituality. Author of the
bear in mind that there are no quick solutions for the wounds of the Body of hymn "In the bleak midwinter."
Christ. It is the work of the Spirit that heals the Body of Christ, not the plans
The resolution to General
or the statements of any group, or any person, or any instrument of Convention which contains the
communion. Naturally we seek to minimize the damage, to heal the hurts, suggested additions to Holy
Women, Holy Men is available
to strengthen our mission, to make sure that it goes forward with integrity online as a large pdf file. The
and conviction.? Naturally, there are decisions that have to be taken.? But at edited and official version will be
published and available next
the same time we must all...share in a sense of repentance and willingness year.
to be renewed by the Spirit."
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