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The Epistle Of THE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 9200 WEST 10TH AVENUE LAKEWOOD, CO 80215-4701 (303) 233-4991 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2019 The Mission of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is to live out the love of God as seen in Jesus Christ. We will, with God’s help: Discover God’s presence in Word and Sacrament, Share God’s word, Nurture God’s people, Encourage congregational and personal growth on our shared journey, and Act justly and peaceably. _____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Following my accident on July 19th, I was out of the office for several weeks. For the last almost twelve years, I have been the central celebrant for all but a few Sundays a year. I do not know how my absence felt for your side of our community. I can only imagine that, at the very least, it felt odd. It felt odd from my side, for sure. I am grateful for all of the peo- ple who stepped in and kept things going when I could not. The Rev. Alwen Bledsoe, the Rev. Judy Ziemann, and Verger Susan Hillring come to mind. And there are so many oth- ers. Had it not been for my wife Michelle, I don’t know how the ball would have kept roll- ing those first few weeks, and I shudder to think how in the world I would have recovered without her continued and loving care. (I know, she’s awesome!) As grateful as I am for all of the folks who stepped up and stepped in to continue the ministries of the church, there is one group I would like to mention here. As the years have gone by, I have begun to realize the importance of a community caring for each other. The Episcopal way has had a pastoral care model that has not al- ways supported allowing a congregation to be pastors and healers to each other. I am not necessarily leveling a general criticism at the church’s pastoral model. I am just saying that the history we’ve shared as a denomination has had two characteristics that have not fos- tered the caring community. One of those characteristics is the size of our churches histori- cally. Most of the episcopal parishes (most parishes in all denominations) began as small country or village churches. In those parishes, it was easier (not easy) for a single pastor to attend his flock (her flock would come later, but we got there) because the congregations were smaller and folks were not so spread out. The second characteristic is that historically speaking the priest has been understood as the chief, if not the only, pastor of the people. I attended our Pastoral Care Ministry meeting in August – we meet the fourth Tues- day of every month. After having been absent for so many weeks, I wasn’t sure who need- ed care. It is always the case that in a parish our size many folks are in midst of some life Printed on 100% post-consumer recycled paper event, so I was ready to hear how we were doing. In anticipation of the meeting, I became aware of how long I had been gone and became anxious as I imagined the needs of our people piling up. I had been gone and I was worried about folks. But I learned a couple of things. As I sat in that meeting and listened to the conversations between our pastoral min- isters and who they were caring for and how they were caring for them, I began to recog- nize that I was in the midst of a skilled and engaged group of people. As I listened to the names of the people they continued to care for, I began to see a vision of a church – our church – who had taken seriously the call to care for each other. In short, I was in awe. In that moment, I witnessed the church at work. And that work was done while I was not pre- sent and able to get it done myself (not that I ever could do it myself). That’s the other thing I realized: I may be our church’s chief pastor, but I am not the only one, by any stretch. I am one among many. I am blessed to work alongside the ministers of the church who are not called Father or Mother. The ones who do what they do with faith and desire and without title. These ministers are not place-holders who do their work when the priest is absent, they are central to the care of our community. They are among those who make us all worthy to utter the name church with integrity. As I said, there are so many people to thank. But, today, I want not just to thank the Pastoral Care Ministers of the church, I want to hold them up before you all so that you can recognize the work they do. I am particularly grateful for the pastoral leadership of Carol Davenport. She understands care and how it is central to the life of our church. But more than that, as I have seen her do her work, she understands something even more im- portant, that is that we can only answer God’s call to us when we are centered in prayer. Thank you, Carol. And… God bless you all. allan+ Bishop Lucas had great things to say on all seven of the practices, but what WARDEN'S CORNER she had to say about worship stuck with me the most. She told a story about a As a lay delegate to the Diocesan Annu- time her husband had visited a church in th al Convention coming up on October 4 the diocese and he sent her a text message th & 5 , I was asked to attend the Front with a video of the offertory song with a Range Region’s Convocation on Septem- vocalist and pianist performing a Negro th ber 7 . The theme of the upcoming con- spiritual. His words were, “The rest of the vention will be Presiding Bishop Curry’s service was meh, but this was holy.” She “Walking the Way of Love” (which I also talked about the numerous times she have written about in my past two Epistle has dropped-in on services unannounced, articles), and at the regional convocation, and the preacher has told her afterward, we had the pleasure of hearing our own “I’m so sorry; if I had known you were Bishop Lucas speak on the seven practic- coming, I would have worked on my ser- es of The Way of Love: Turn, Learn, mon more.” This said to me that many Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, and Rest. clergy feel that the most important part of the liturgy is their sermon, which is only a small fraction of the service. She said to us (many being lay delegates, but also FROM THE JUNIOR many being clergy) that way too often during services, our God has left the WARDEN building. We show up, we go through the motions, and we leave, but have we felt There will be a fall St. Paul's parish work- the Spirit? day in November. Right now we're tar- For me personally, like Bishop Lu- geting Saturday, the 9th as the date. We cas’s husband in the anecdote above, I will have various projects identified with most often feel the Spirit move in me tools and supplies on hand to complete with powerful musical experiences. And the tasks. Please remember to bring there are numerous opportunities to in- clothing that is needed based on the corporate music in our liturgy, particular- weather conditions. Everyone is invited ly during our 10:30 service: prelude, pro- to participate. This is a great time to cessional/entrance hymn, hymn of work together and get to know a little bit praise, psalm, Gospel hymn, offertory about each other. Look for a sign up song, presentation/doxology, Sanctus, sheet in Royster (Parish) Hall at the first memorial acclamation, Agnus Dei, com- part of October. Also, we are determin- munion, recessional/closing hymn, and ing if we will have a breakfast before we postlude. I have also attended services start the day or lunch afterwards. More to elsewhere that sing the Lord’s Prayer and come in the upcoming weeks which we do multiple songs at the beginning of the will update in the St. Paul's Weekly Up- service and during communion. If you dates. haven’t heard it before: when you sing, Bill Bennett you pray twice! I have heard some people tell me that they don’t like to sing because they don’t have a strong voice. But then I share with them something my childhood priest would tell people: when you sing, you’re either thanking God for the voice that He gave you or reminding God of the voice that he gave you. Just so you know, the vestry of St. Paul’s greatly appreciates all of the input from the congregants who were able to gather on July 14th. We are working to form a vision for St. Paul’s music minis- try for a new long-term music director, and we thank you for your continued prayers throughout the entire process. Rachel Sefton Senior Warden bury. A recent book by Williams is titled Christ: the Heart of Creation. This series will be a great lead-in to the Advent sea- son which begins on December 1st. We meet between services every Sunday at 9:15am in the library.
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