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Soundings the Newsletter of Christ Church October 2016 Soundings The Newsletter of Christ Church www.christchurchpelham.org October 2016 Church School Joy and hope are the words that come to mind as we begin a new year of Sunday School. Joy that we are blessed to work with our parish’s children and hope that they will come away with a greater understanding of Jesus and of the Episcopal tradition. More importantly, we try to demonstrate the faith in a meaningful way so that the children have a foundation for their future. Each Sunday we teach children ranging in age from Pre-k through 7th graders. We started with a group prayer and then broke into classes lead by Eileen Peluso-Hoffer, Maddie Nichols, Julie Pena, Jessica Abrams, Pat O’Byrne, Curtis Chase and Janet Kornfeld. In church school, we create an environment where children can explore our faith, hear the lessons, ask questions and find ways to apply what they have learned to their lives and to the world in which we live today. With one exception, we are not teachers and none of us would claim to be a theologian, but each of us brings a passion to touching the lives of the children of our parish. If you have questions, please reach out to any of the teachers, or Marcie Wiehagen, the director. For something a little different, we crafted two puzzles that will tell you more about Sunday School and a little something more about our teachers. Have your child try the crossword and the word jumble and bring it in next Sunday for a prize. Crossword Puzzle Teacher Name Jumble 5 6 Clue Jumble Answers 4 2 3 1.Can teach when S R I C H E E Ms. she doesn't have 1 5 an open house 2. Parent of S A A R M B A H S Ms. Tiffany 3. Professional N P E A Ms. Teacher during 6 the week 4. Teaches and A H C S E Mr. 3 sings in the choir 5. Teaching pre-k/k F H O R F E Ms. for the 4th year 6. Parent of Audrey E R Y B O N Ms. and Amelia 2 7. Senior at L S N O I C H Ms. PMHS 1A The sound we make when having fun 8. Teaching F N O L D R K E Ms. 1D When we acquire new knowledge church school 2A The father of Jesus for 22nd year 2D We hear this as we process into church 9. Senior at N E L A L Mr. PMHS 3A The son of God 3D One of the ways Jesus taught was to tell parables and we call 5A What we feel when we like someone very much them ____________ 5D The Old Testament together with the New Testament is commonly called this 4A The third member of the Trinity 6A We love our _____________________ 4D The bible is made up of these 6D Who attends Sunday school Table of Contents Preaching in an Election Year 3 Michael Kurth Takes Uncommon Course 4 Buildings and grounds Verger’s Corner 5 Oktoberfest Prep pictures Oktoberfest/St. Michael and All Angels 6 Bible Study Perspectives 7 Art Meets Mildred 8 Prepping for Pageant Newcomer Profiles 9 Soundings Adult Christian Ministry The Newsletter of Christ Church Concerts at Christ Church Episcopal/Anglican The Parish of Christ the Redeemer Church Calendar 10 1415 Pelhamdale Avenue Puzzle Answers 12 Pelham, NY 10803 Did You Know? Telephone: 914-738-5515 Fax: 914-712-0256 Altar Guild www.christchurchpelham.org A Letter from the Editors CLERGY AND STAFF The Rev. Matthew Hoxsie Mead, Rector Putting this newsletter together is a rewarding experience The Rev. Dn. Katie Lawrence, Deacon because the process provides excellent opportunities for us Jeffrey Hoffman, Organist & Choirmaster to interact with fellow parishioners as we discuss issues Marie Main, Parish Administrator which concern and interest all of us. We learn many Walter Roberts, Verger & Sexton unexpected things through interviews and conversations Ed Blue, Sexton which are then shared here. We would like to thank our church community for the The Vestry contributions to this Newsletter without which it would not The Rector exist. We also thank everyone for taking the time to read Kari Black, Senior Warden our modest publication. Hopefully we will continue to John Lent, Junior Warden engage your interest. Jackie Vigil, Clerk Anne Calder, Treasurer Missy Kisob, editor [email protected] Jeff Bodenmann Curtis Chase Michael Fawcett, deputy editor, [email protected] Alice Dean Erik Ipsen, deputy editor, [email protected] Marie Dumas Barbara Nelson, deputy editor, [email protected] Amy Heese Jack Kaufmann Soundings is published by the Parishioners of Christ Church to Gavin Leckie teach, provide information, promote events and parish life, pass Marc Palladino down the history of the church, and engage us in the life of the Colette Phipps community. Photos by Lily Solmssen Moureaux ©2016 2 Preaching in an Election Year Important issues should dismayed if their presidential be addressed from the pulpit, candidate’s rival wins. he believes, but even there care For Matt it all comes back must be exercised. In church he to Jesus’ Summary of the Law. points out he has a captive audience, “Some things should be completely one that is very different from self-evident; we know to love people crowding in for a political your neighbor as yourself, how speech. There, the audience can to treat people who look different boo or applaud as they see fit. from us, and how to welcome With the heat generated by this But for those sitting in the pews refugees. All this is crystal clear in year’s presidential campaigns on Sundays, the only way for scripture. In the Bible there are seemingly at record highs, and them to express themselves is a number of themes, but loving the distance between the candidates’ by standing up and walking out, everyone right up to and including positions growing by the hour, which is a big step. your enemies is key.” He also Soundings sat down with Father Nonetheless, Matt confesses notes that lesson is every bit as Matt in mid-September to talk that he has not seen the country difficult to swallow today as it about the impact of all this on so divided since the run-up to was in biblical times. his role as a preacher. the invasion of Iraq in 2003 back The real challenge the For openers, Matt stressed his when he was still in seminary. preacher has in times like this, he clear vision of the parameters “The rhetoric is awful right now. says, is “…not to exacerbate of his responsibilities and the It is not just the candidates; it is divisions between people, but to dangers of straying beyond the way people strike out proclaim the love of God and to them. against the other side so harshly love our neighbors as ourselves.” “The job of a preacher is that they refuse to see any good to inspire and encourage people at all in their opponents.” to live out the gospel in their Tellingly, Matt predicts lives, not to tell them how to that the parish’s greatest need think or vote. Some people like for counsel will likely come in political sermons, but on Sunday the days and weeks following mornings most people don’t the election. He points to a recent come to church to be told what poll that found that 81% of Americans to do, or how to vote.” say they will be seriously 3 Michael Kurth Takes Uncommon Course In his Yale School of Divinity He confesses his unusual background makes him a class of 150 students, Michael bit quieter in class than peers better versed in theology Kurth ranks as something of and ecclesiastical subjects, still he reckons that his skills an oddity. It’s not because he in marketing and management “can be put to good use as hails from the first planned a parish administrator.” And some might note that an suburb west of the Mississippi even earthier resume has not hurt the career of Justin River (Kirkwood, MO; founded Welby, a former oil industry executive and current 1853), or because of his passion for Simon and Archbishop of Canterbury. Garfunkel and J.S. Bach. It’s his academic background. After college, Michael worked with Episcopal At the University of Indiana he majored in sports Service Corps in Washington for a year and then moved to marketing and management, and aspired to a career New York. There he worked for four years with Covenant cutting deals in what he calls the “high-flying world House, a provider of housing and services to homeless of sports entertainment.” youths that works with the Catholic Church. But late in his college years, Michael says At Yale, Michael is one of 30 Episcopalians in his he began “…listening to what God was telling me class preparing for ordination to the priesthood, and one about where my talents were. I love being with of just ten in his class at the Institute of Sacred Music. “I’m and around people.” As the great, great grandson a big music lover,” he admits. But music isn’t the only of a 19th century missionary bishop in Kyoto, thing he’ll be listening to on his car radio as a three-time a Japan; not to mention as a long-time chorister week commuter to Pelham; he also listens to lectures he (along with his two siblings) in his hometown records in class. As our seminarian intern, Michael will church, Michael felt drawn to parish life and to deliver one sermon a month, and help with the adult the mix of people-centered responsibilities borne learning, the confirmation class and youth activities.
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