The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s January / February 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR Dear People of two parts. On Friday night, What’s St. Matthew’s, January 23rd, we continue our custom of a Friday night dinner. Happening? Happy New Year! This is a time for fellowship and fun, I pray that 2004 as well as a chance to meet the A Few Words FromThe will indeed be a Vestry nominees, say goodbye to the Assistant Rector...... 2 happy year for all retiring Vestry members, recognize of us. But whatever the staff, and honor a member of Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 3-4 this year brings, let St. Matthew’s with the “Unsung Vestry Comments...... 5 us all pray to seek and serve Christ in Hero” award. We’ve always prided each other and in all whom we meet, ourselves on our desserts - and this Volunteer Opportunities ..... 6 to see God’s hand at work in the year we have a special “bake-off” as world about us, and to know and do Social Concerns ...... 6 part of the festivities (see page 3). God’s will. On Sunday, January 25th, the Capital Campaign ...... 7 “business” part of the meeting will The purpose of this mid-January be held in the church following the Vestry Nominees ...... 8-10 newsletter is to give you information 10:00 service: voting, presentation about theAnnual Dinner andAnnual Senior Highlights ...... 11 of the budget, and reports from the Meeting. Pictures and biographies of Rector and Senior Warden.This year Church School News ...... 12 the 10 adult nominees, and 1 youth is particularly important: we have a nominee, for Vestry follow. Please Youth Page...... 13 very exciting announcement to try to get to know them, and make! Prayer List ...... 14 prayerfully consider your vote for the leadership of our parish. I am We hopeALLof you will be there Parish Families ...... 15 grateful to all of those who have for both parts; this is our meeting, agreed to run: every single one is a our parish,our life together. INSERTS: committed, competent and caring member of this parish. Annual Parish Dinner Yours in Christ, Adult Ed OurAnnual Dinner andAnnual + Internet Calendar Meeting are, as the titles suggest, in Lucinda

A very special thanks to Barbara Ellis and the choir, who worked so hard and so well to produce glorious Christmas music! 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector The FourA’s of Epiphany lives, especially in this season of Epiphany. We have witnessed the birth of On December 26, Christ in the manger, and while many in our the three kings have community were followed a yonder star to partaking of some worship and marvel at the needed and well- new born King. But, deserved rest and now, two thousand and relaxation after four years later, we must the commotion of look for our own star and Christmas, our own manifestation of several young God’s glory. But God people from this continues to astonish us parish, my wife, every day and, to and I gathered in paraphrase Habakkuk, the St. Matthew’s “work is being done in our parking lot for a days that you would not powerful journey. believe if you were told.” We piled into a van and traveled In her final homily on from Louisville to New Year’s Eve, Kanuga, an Episcopal Camp and Conference Center Margaret Gunther, well-known spiritual writer and outside Hendersonville, North Carolina, for the 28th chaplain for Winterlight 28 said, “I would like to add a Winterlight Conference. fourth “a” to our theme for the week: attentive. Be attentive to God’s work in the world.” During this Winterlight is a gathering of approximately three season, when the world can be cold and dreary, take hundred high school students for a week of Ms. Gunther’s advice and be attentive. If one is fellowship, music, games, outdoor activities, worship, attentive, one never knows what might be around the and reflection. The theme for this Winterlight was corner that could astonish, astound, or amaze. “Be Astonished! Be Astounded! Be Amazed!” (from Habakkuk 1:5), and we considered, through song, dance, discussion, videos, and skits, how God astonishes, astounds, and amazes us in so many ways every day. One the most memorable presentations of For gifts received ... the week was the construction of an enormous tunnel made of PVC pipe and plastic sheeting. Inside the Dear St. Matthew’s Family, tunnel, the young people placed representations made of colorful construction paper and yarn of their gifts Thank you to all who contributed to the and talents. After the gifts were taped to the walls of gift for each of us this Christmas. Your the tunnel, the participants were encouraged to walk thoughtfulness, continued support and through and marvel at the kaleidoscope of talents that they were given by God and had to offer the church generosity is greatly appreciated by us all. and the world. As the group from St. Matthew’s traveled back to Kentucky on January 1, all said that Thank you! they had a wonderful time and hoped to attend future events for young people at Kanuga. Lucinda, Helen, Ben, David, Barbara, Aaron, Ann, Mardi, I think the Winterlight theme of being astonished, Debbi, John, Lynn, Betty and Ruth astounded, and amazed can be applied to all of our

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Bits n’ Pieces Annual Parish Dinner and Bake-off! Friday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. We are doing something special with your desserts this Friday evening. We are asking you to make and/or bake your very best dessert. Two people from Culinary Creations, our caterers for theAnnual Parish Dinner, will serve as judges and will taste all of the desserts that are entered. (Any store-bought desserts will be eliminated.) To enter your dessert you must have your name written clearly on the bottom of your dish. 1st and 2nd place winners will be awarded ribbons and gift certificates. Desserts for the Annual Dinner: Please sign up on the bulletin board if you are bringing a dessert to the Annual Dinner - even if you don’t want to enter the bake-off contest. (Don’t Forget! if you do want to enter your dessert please write your name clearly on the bottom of your dish.)

Something Art Group Join us for some fun with painting, new! drawing or other art form. We meet every Thursday at 9:30 a.m. for about If you sit in the part of the church 2 hours. Beginners, intermediate or across from where the choir sits at advanced artists are welcome. There’s no 10:00 a.m., or attend the 5:00 service teacher; we just help each other. you will notice something new in the pew racks. The 5:00 service will be using a new hymnal: With One Voice, We’re looking for more members of St. Matthew’s to join, published by Augsburg Press and the Lutheran Church. It especially men, but all are welcome! is filled with many wonderful new hymns as well as old favorites. Take a minute to look through the wonderful texts of some of these new hymns. I hope it will be a nice addition to our 5:00 service. — Barbara Ellis Birthday Celebrations Still looking of our for the perfect Homebound New Year’s for January Resolution? and February January 12 Theo Mashburn Join the choir! February 15 Ann Fuller February 27 Joyce Aprile Now is the perfect time! The choir works very hard but enjoys a wonderful sense of community and fellowship. If you like to sing — you should be in the choir. Talk to Barbara Ellis after a Sunday service if you need some gentle arm twisting, or come to rehearsal this Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. 3 PARISH NEWS

and certainly was not going to spend money to read. So Clergy finally, to respond to so many of you who have read it, I borrowed it from a friend, only to find it a delight and, as Book Pick many told me, “a page-turner.” Much of what the writer by Helen Jones puts forth about the Feminine in religious history, about God and the Shekinah, and Mary Magdalene I am familiar with (and very familiar with backwards writing which I have These United States: Original Essays done with buddies since high school), but much of what by Leading American Writers on Their Brown tells us, about pentacles and the art history State Within the Union, edited by John Leonard surrounding the Mona Lisa, for instance, I knew only parts With all the efforts of the new year toward discerning the of. If one takes this subject seriously, however, we ponder mind of America, both for political purposes and for the writer’s suggestion that we have left the Age of Pisces purposes of finding meaning in our future and of which encompasses our age and that of Jesus, for the determining our own visions of it, I thought it might be Aquarian age: helpful to read about this country of ours, state by state. “In terms of prophecy,” Teabing said, “we are currently in Where is the “average” American? What are the “grass an epoch of enormous change. The millennium has roots?” Even with the homogenization of our countryside, passed, and with it has ended the two-thousand-year-long there are regional idiosyncrasies and freshness of thought astrological Age of Pisces—the fish, which is also the sign to which we are not privy through our sometimes parrotlike of Jesus. As any astrological symbolist will tell you, the and not terribly reflective media. Piscean ideal believes that humanity must be told what to John Leonard, a noted reviewer, editor and writer, has do by higher powers because we are incapable of edited a new collection of 55 original essays for this new thinking for ourselves. Hence it has been a time of fervent century, offering perspectives on the U.S. by distinguished religion. Now, however, we are entering the Age of writers, some of whose names you will recognize (e.g. Aquarius—the water-bearer—whose ideals claim that Kathleen Norris, Molly Ivins, Terry Tempest Williams, humanity will learn the truth and be able to think for Annie Proulx, Tony Hillerman). itself. The ideological shift is enormous, and is occurring right now.” The essay on Kentucky, surely the first we shall all read, is written by Dwight Allen, son of a local Episcopalian many Pondering our conclusions could have consequences for of us know (Betty Allen of St. Francis in the Fields). Best of our faith. This story has many twists and turns that add to all, he features St. Matthew’s HOME FOLKS!: our very the quick pace and also to our religious lore. We may wish ownArderys,Anne and Phil (although mostly Phil)! to follow up with more reading in academic explorations of Dwight devotes a whole page of his nine pages to a the questions posed. conversation with Phil. Reason enough to read the book. Many of us are already reading in other places the gospels The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown that were left out of our canon, in their recovered state as Why, I may ask myself, did I put off reading The DaVinci text, and in the writings of Elaine Pagels, and Dom Crossan Code for so long? Because I had convinced myself it was and Karen King, among others. Their scholarly approach is that particular mixture of fact and fiction which I do not like, a needed background for this engaging popular thriller.

Compline & Concert Episcopal Church of the Advent 901 Baxter Avenue (at Cherokee Road & Cave Hill Cemetery) Sunday,January 25, 7:00 p.m. Music of Georg Philipp Telemann produced by Martin Fendley, organist and Choir Director This program will feature the vocal and instrumental music from the quill of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), with musical guests, Kathleen Cantrell, soprano, Rachel Blanton, violin, James Vaughan, viola da gamba, and Richard Burchard, recorder. The Advent musicians include Jeffrey Stodghill, violin, and Martin Fendley, bass and organ as well as the Advent Coro. Come to Advent and experience the new sounds of the Olde!! For more information, contact Martin Fendley at 456-2022. 4 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Junior Warden Andrew came to St. Matthew’s for the 10:30 pm service and people. When I refuse to let down my prejudices I Christmas Eve. It has probably been more than a decade refuse God. since he was here. His appearance hasn’t changed, still a Andrew was part of a group of young people who were bit edgy and rebellious, a Mohawk haircut (but at least it part of St. Matthew’s when he was here who have matured isn’t pink or green now), lots of silver piercing his ears, into a remarkable group of productive and accomplished nose, eyebrow and probably other places I did not notice. adults. They include: A sliver chain dangled from the belt on his blue jeans. • A seminarian who assisted at the Christmas Eve service Andrew must be around 32 or 33 years old now, because and will soon become an Episcopal priest. he had been in St. Matthew’s youth group in high school •Acommercial interior designer who has done work in and was somewhere in between our two older kids. As I some landmark Louisville buildings. remember, his family moved to Louisville when he was • An architect in middle school. Somehow they found their way to • A speech therapist St. Matthew’s and Andrew found a home and acceptance • A teacher and aspiring writer here. His family moved away after high school, but had • A successful business owner stopped coming to St. Matthew’s before that. Even when • One who was with the Smithsonian working on they stopped Andrew still came. He was always somewhat preserving American Indian culture rebellious in his dress and manners but not a troublemaker, • A college administrator just another teenage seeker. • A private school administrator and teacher Sharon and I were ushering andAndrew came directly • A sculptor towards me. My first thought was “Where did this guy • A musician come from?” He looked like anAryan Nation biker. By Rather remarkable for a small group of kids from a single the recognition in his eye I knew that he knew me and I parish in Louisville! I want to believe that the community scrambled mentally to remember him. Not until he said of St. Matthew’s had some nurturing influence on their “I’mAndrew” did I recognize him. successes. Andrew returned in all his glory but with his attractive He reminded me that we may not know the effect we have wife and child. He is now a sculptor at the City Museum in on another person for years, or decades or perhaps ever. St. Louis. I expect few people knew the story of this I hopeAndrew remembered me because I treated him with eccentric looking young man and his family. Few knew he respect when he was a teenager. I do not know if I did, but was returning to a home he had left so many years ago. I hope so. I recall several out of the way trips to pick him Few welcomed him back. up for youth group or take him home to the Highlands. I do not know why seeing Andrew has evoked such strong Maybe that’s how he remembers me, as a willing chauffeur. emotions, but on Christmas morning I felt compelled to If so, that’s ok too. I would rather be remembered as a write about them. willing chauffer, than forgotten. I wondered how many people in the congregation were so He reminded me that my first impressions are rarely correct. turned off by Andrew’s hair and jewelry that they could not I need to know a person’s story and their actions before or would not see the person. “What’s he doing here? making judgments about their values or character. Doesn’t he know how to dress to be respectful of this When we came home from church, I logged on the internet place?” I say this because I have those feelings about to find the City Museum web site and see some of other people, at other times and other places. I need Andrew’s work (www.citymuseum.org). It is as outrageous reminding that God appears in the most unlikely places as his appearance. I can’t wait to go to St. Louis and see it! Thank you, Andrew, for a wonderful Christmas gift.

Thank You! to all our parishioners who worked to make this Christmas so beautiful and joyful! For our Christmas Pageant: thanks to CoordinatorAngela Koshewa and her able assistants Nina Rodahaffer, Jay Crocker, Ben Niehaus, Annie Ronald, Stacey Ray, Michael Risley and Chris Carmen. Thanks, too, to Ed Hill for lighting; toMike Hampton for video taping; and all the many other adults and youth who have given so generously of their time to prepare this wonderful event. And for decorating our church for Christmas, putting the sconces in place, taping down the plastic, placing the candelabra, hanging the wreaths, taking the poinsettias to the sanctuary and setting them up in the front of the altar, making sure all white hangings were in place, seeing the the silver sparkled, bringing in holly, intertwining it with garlands and so much more, heartfelt thanks to Linda Collins and all of the Flower Guild, Lynn Reese and all of theAltar Guild, Gibbs Reese, Matrid Ndife, Edie Bingham, Dorothy Martin, Mary Jo & Doug Gillim, Greg & Barbara Uligian, Virginia Wilson, Sue Bach, Chuck Hamrick, Dwayne Watson, Lila Ludwig,and especially to Kurt Ludwig and Matt Boyd for setting up and taking down the beautiful Christmas trees. 5 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer St. Matthew’s Opportunities Blood Drive Food Collection Wednesday, February 11, Sunday, February 1 2:00-7:00 p.m. in Clingman Hall Baby Sitting at Cornerstone WANTED : Thursday, February 5, First Time and Experienced Donors! 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (carpool from the Volunteers are also needed at the blood drive for signing people in, church parking lot) escorting, and serving refreshments. Please call Anne Shelby at 949-0167 or let the church office know if you can help. Habitat for Humanity And as always, thank you for giving the Gift of Life. Saturday, February 7, 8:30 a.m. to Noon or 3:00 p.m. (carpool from the church parking lot) St. MAM’s (St. Matthew’s Area Ministries) Red Cross St. MAM’s Infant Resource Center is in need of gently used or new warm Blood Drive clothing, sizes newborn to 3T. The collection box is downstairs near the Wednesday, coat rack. Any donations are appreciated. February 11, Questions? call Vicky Spencer at 339-9189. 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Clingman Hall

Serve lunch at Wayside Christian Misson Christmas Sunday, February 15, on the 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 pm. (carpool from the church River parking lot following the 10:00 service) Thanks to everyone who participated in the River Mariners’ Christmas Boxes program. There were 62 dozen cookies baked by St. Matthew’s Any day: parishioners; 53 scarves knitted; and 10 Christmas Cards prepared by the bringinyourslightlyused 5th grade youth. Quite a contribution! clothingto the Thanks bunches, Clothes Closet at the end of Jack and Virginia Wilson ClingmanHall

6 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN DISCERNMENT Discernment: the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure. ~ Webster’s For the past several years, many of us at St. Matthew’s have been discussing the need for a major renovation and upgrade of our wonderful but dated parish facilities. Last year, the Vestry even earmarked $1 Million of the Augustus bequest specifically for facility improvements. But a simple recognition of space planning challenges is not sufficient to warrant a major parish wide capital project. And many, many parishioners have not been heard from concerning your views of our facility and its needs. Wisely, your Vestry decided last fall that before any major capital improvement project is commenced, a parish wide discernment process must be established. The decision was made to once and for all determine with clarity how our facility could better meet the needs of the whole parish as they relate to the mission and ministry of St. Matthew’s. To that end, the Vestry has formed the Capital Campaign Discernment Committee. The committee members are: David Brooks, Tim Eicholtz, Gaylee Gillim, Mitch Shirrell, and John Tiano. Alex Waldrop and Bo Nixon co-chair the committee, Bob Nesmith is the Vestry liaison and Lucinda is an ex officio member. So far we have focused all of our attention on the selection of qualified consultants to assist us in the discernment process. I am please to report that we have retained the services of Glenn and Barbara Holliman with Holliman Associates. Barbara will be working closely with us as we make our way through this challenging process. The Hollimans have many years of experience working with Episcopal parishes across the country and they certainly bring a wealth of talent and good judgment to the task at hand. Nothing else has been decided at this point. We have no preconceived ideas of what we expect to recommend. Your input is welcomed and encouraged at every step of the way. We promise you we will do our best to fully communicate our progress and make every effort to include each and every one of you in this discernment process. Alex Waldrop Gouverneur Nixon Alex Waldrop, co-chair Bo Nixon, co-chair

APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE! Thank you to the following people who made our Parish Newcomers’ and Honor the Choir Breakfast such a joyous event on November 23, 2003!

Thank you to: Richard Rodahafferfor setting up the tables Thank you to: Tim, Saxonie and Sunny Eicholtz for and chairs, and to Julie Davis for setting the tables with cleaning up after the breakfast, washing off the tables, place mats, napkins, silverware and glasses on the washing and drying all the silverware, glasses, serving Saturday before the breakfast. trays and platters and for cleaning up the kitchen. Thank you so much to the following people for the You are all the best! casseroles, breads and fruit that they so graciously I thank you for your time and hard work. contributed: It couldn’t have been done without AnnArdery, Catherine Birch, Marcia Brendel , all of you! Patricia Brown, Saxonie Eicholtz, Susan Mayes, Martha McKinney, Elizabeth Mendel,Ann Miller, Ann Davis Ellen Robertson, Lynn Sandidge, Joyce Stiles, Laurinda Stokes,Annie Tarbox, Barbara Uligian, Martha Wallingford and Sarah Weston. 7 VESTRY NOMINEES

The following parishioners, having met the requirements of the Canons, were selected by the Nominating Committee and have agreed to have their name placed on the ballot to serve on the Vestry for a three year term. If not elected, they have agreed to serve on a committee to be named later. Five persons will be elected at the Annual Meeting on Sunday, January 25, following the 10:00 service. If you are unable to attend the meeting because you will be out of town that day or are homebound (nursing home or hospital, etc.), you may call the office and an absentee ballot will be mailed to you. It must be received in the office no later than Friday, January 23, in order to be counted.

Stephen Hill was appointed to serve as the Youth Representative (member in good standing; and at least 16 years old). The congregation is asked to ratify or not ratify the vote of the youth at the Annual Meeting.

Kevin J. Campisano I am 36 years old, married to Linda and we have two children: Anna Maria, age 4, and Francesca, age 1. Linda and I have been a part of two Foyers groups, the Cordon Bleu Fanciers and the Parents’ Night Out program. I am currently a CPA with Louis T. Roth and Company and have been with the company for over three years. Before going to work at Louis T. Roth and Company I managed the Greyhound Supermarket, a family business, for 10 years. I served on the board of directors for the Butchertown Neighborhood Association from 1996 to 2001 and was president of the Board from 1998-2000. I have participated in the United Way’s Not-For-Profit board training seminar.

Robert Clark I am 60 years old, married to Diane and have a son, Robert, age 30. We have been members of St. Matthew’s for 26 years. I have served as a Lector at the 8:00 service for 10 years, and work as well with Habitat for Humanity, the Facilities & Grounds Committee, the Counters Committee, and as a Foyer’s Convenor. I am currently retired, but worked for 32 years with GE Consumer Products in Sales and Marketing. I have also served as Senior Representative and past National President - GE Elfun Volunteers; Legislative Advocate, AARP; Veteran’s History Project Volunteer, Library of Congress; and Trustee of Father Maloney’s Boys’ Haven.

Nicholas Eastman I am 47 years old with two children: Katherine, age 10, and Benjamin, age 7. We moved here from the NY / NJ area in August of 1994 and found a home at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in June, 1996. My experiences here have far surpassed any expectations I might have had. As a member of St. Matthew’s, I’ve been blessed with a relationship of the people of Oyugus, Kenya; in being able to share my voice in song and worship as a new member of the choir; and, more recently, in helping to make the words of Sunday’s Lessons more approachable as one of your Lectors. I am honored to be nominated to run for this Vestry. One definition of Vestry according to Websters II Dictionary is “a committee of parish or congregation members in the Anglican and Episcopal church that administers the affairs of the parish or congregation.” I plan to work with you in administering the affairs of this Parish. Please give me the opportunity to work for you and return your good graces. 8 VESTRY NOMINEES

Gaylee W. Gillim I am 49 years old and married to Ed Hart. I have been a member of the Vestry at St. Matthew’s two other times, and a former Lector. I am currently a choir member, church school teacher, member of the Capital Campaign Discernment Committee, and member of the Dimensions of Faith Committee. I completed an EFM (Education for Minstry) course in 2003. I am a member of the Board of Management of the Downtown Louisville YMCA (volunteer of the year in 1993 and 1996), and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Amusement and Leisure Defense Association (President 2001-2003). I’ve been an instructor for Jr. Achievement at Highland Middle School (1994-96). I am an attorney in private practice. Rick Lotz I am 52 years old, married to Janis, and have three children: Doug, age 26; Craig, age 23; and Lauren, age 18. Currently, I am a Project Manager for large design and construction projects with the Army Corps of Engineers. I have been on the Vestry twice before, serving both as Senior and Junior Warden, and have chaired numerous committees, including ReVision, Worship, and Every Member Canvass. I’ve been a member of many committees such as Children’s Education, Adult Education, Parish Nurture, Endowment and Outreach. I have served as a Lector and a Children’s Chaplain, and I’m currently a Chalice Bearer and a member of the Planning & Design Committee. I’m a member of The Society of American Military Engineers and The Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers. Heather Ann Ogburn I am 32 years old, married to Ben, and have 2 children: Harrison Rivers, age 4, and Bryce Wellington, age 2. I have been active with the Children’s Committee and Parents’ Night Out program here at St. Matthew’s. Currently, I’m a pilot for a small charter company and I enjoy running, traveling and music.

Jane O’Roark I am 68 years old, married to D.L., was an Army wife for 30 years, and have 3 children: Dulaney, age 42; Frances, age 39; and Douglas, age 37. I served on the Vestry from 1995 to 1998, as Stewardship Committee Chair in 1997, and as Banner Committee Chair. I am now the Calling Committee Chair, the Lay Eucharistic Ministers’ Chair, on the Casserole Committee, and a break baker and deliverer. I was the past president of the Louisville Bar Association Auxiliary, and am currently their newsletter editor. I’ve worked as a Computer Specialist with Defense Contract Audit Agency, and a Field Representative for Boston University and the University of Southern California at and education center in Germany.

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Laura Rhea I am 38 years old, married to Tim, with 2 children: Charlie, age 11, and Peyton, age 7. I’ve been involved at St. Matthew’s as a Greeter, a Vacation Bible School Snack Leader, a Chalice Bearer, a newsletter contributor, and on the Children’s Committee. At St. Paul’s Church, I was a Sunday School Teacher and newsletter editor. I am Social Studies Department Chair and Video Journalism Teacher at Male High School. I also teach Government / Economics and Global Issues.

David Stokes My wife, Laurinda, sons Taylor (14), and Hunter (12-1/2), and I have been attending St. Matthew’s since 1993. I am 48 years old and currently serve as Verger, Assistant Acolyte Master, and Lector. I have also worked with the Small Groups, Adult Ed and Children’s Ed committees. Laurinda and I are co-founders of Foyers at St. Matthew’s. In the wider church, I am involved as Cursillo Secretariat for the diocese of Kentucky, and in the Vergers Guild of the Episcopal Church. I will be a Deputy to our Diocesan Convention this March. I am a Manager of a hollow metal and wood door business, and have worked for 20 years as a Financial Professional, Certified Credit Executive (CCE), and past President (twice) of the National Credit Management Executives of Kentucky. Sheila Yule I have been involved at St. Matthew’s as the Adult Education Committee chair, and serve on the Kenya Committee. In a former parish, I had been a Eucharistic Minister and involved with a Religious Education. I am a Professor of Education at Midway College, an Advisory Board Member for Louisville Nature Center, and a tutor for Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

Stephen Hill YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE I am a member of the choir and youth group at St. Matthew’s, and have been an acolyte for 5 years. I am on the Diocesan Youth Committee and Trustees and Council. I also volunteer at Cornerstone once a month. I am currently a junior at DuPont Manual High School and I spend my time hanging out with my friends and doing homework. During the summer I work as a lifeguard and counselor at All Saints Episcopal Camp.

New for 2004: Direct Deposit Forms are available in the Narthex for anyone interested in having their monthly THANK YOU! You gave $6,000.00in our pledges automatically withdrawn during 2004. Just complete Christmas Offering! It’s been given to St. George’s Commu- the form and return it in the Accounting Office envelope. nity Center and All Saints Camp & Conference Center. 10 SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience January 27 Potluck Luncheon Brunch is at 12:00 Noon Program begins between 12:45 and 1:00 p.m. Special Guest: St. Matthew’s Parishioner, Dorney Thompson Dorney is a practicing psychotherapist who introduced music to his patients. He has composed and written songs to be used in a variety of situations that patients can relate to. In his presentation he will sing as well as tell us about his work and how the songs have helped a wide range of people. Please sign up on the main bulletin board and indicate the dish you will bring! And please, bring enough for twelve people!

The Future of a Friendship: The State of Episcopal and Roman Catholic Relations January 20, 7:00 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Presentations by: The Rt. Rev. Edwin F. Gulick, Jr. Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky The Most Rev. Thomas C. Kelly, O.P. Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville Presentations to be followed by a period of questions and answers. Reception to follow

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Debbi Rodahaffer Director of Christian Education

Dear Ones,

I am writing this on the day before Christmas Eve. There is so much I have “left undone” yet it seemed more important to take a minute to reflect on something that struck me about this season that seemed significant. “Slow down. Quiet. It’s Advent.” Our wonderful Advent calendar that is prominently displayed on our refrigerator I hurriedly read every morning as I fly out the front door. Tonight I finally seem to be grasping it. “Slow down. Quiet. It’s Advent.” Church work is busy all year long. It is especially busy during the two seasons of the year, Advent and Lent, when we are supposed to live as Mary but most of us live as Martha (Luke10:38-42). Martha Stewart was aptly named I realized last night at midnight when I was finishing tying the perfect bows on the perfect napkins to adorn the perfect plates on our perfectly set table for Christmas dinner, this year for only six. Why am I doing this I had to stop and question? Usually when I am doing these rather mindless tasks, I pray. (Maybe I’m trying to be Mary and Martha at the same time?) But last night I was just concentrating on making it beautiful. Then I realized I wasn’t doing it to impress my husband, my children, my mother and Freeman (my mother’s angel). I was tying these bows because I love these five people with my life and in this tiny act I would be saying to them, “YOU are my love, my life!” Then I thought of all of the years mymother, who I adore, and my sister, Dana, who is the angel in my life, have done these acts of love for me. Too many to count! Tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, we will celebrate in splendor the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. The motor that feeds the lighting system in the church picked yesterday afternoon to decide it had run its course (37 years) and died a quick death. Too quick because there was no replacement to be found before Christmas Eve. “Slow down. Quiet. It’sAdvent.” The church is decorated and it is breathtakingly beautiful this year. The lighting doesn’t really matter but that lighting, like my bows, is part of what we are subconsciously saying to our church family – “We love you with our whole hearts, with our very being.” So, of course it matters! May we go forward, in this new year of hope and promise, sharing the light that God gave us in that small manger in that far off land, and proclaim to the world that even with our “busyness” and often through it we understand that love was born that Christmas Day and love is what we have to give. With boundless love, Debbi

What’s going on in January & February?

Saturday, January 17 Parents’ Night Out 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sign up downstairs by noon on January 10.

Friday, January 23 Annual Parish Dinner Sitters will be here for young children. After dinner, our kindergartners and elementary school aged children will go downstairs for games.

Sunday, February 15 Parents In Conversation Dana Christensen, Ph.D. will lead this class.

Tuesday, February 17 Vacation Bible School Organizational Meeting 7:00 p.m. in the Lounge

Saturday, February 21 Parents’ Night Out 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Sign up downstairs by noon on February 15

Tuesday, February 24 Pancake Supper at Church ~ Don’t miss this! NEW TIMES!! 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. 12 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

January / February 2004

SNAC Sunday at 6 PM Middle School Lazer Blaze Join us every Sunday evening (except Sunday evenings when other youth activities are planned) for Sunday Night at Church. It is Sunday, January 18th.Meet at church at 6:00 p.m. We will from 6-7:30 p.m. Bring $3 for pizza. Middle school carpool and then play two games of Lazer Blaze and get pizza. youth and senior high will be meeting separately. Note special Pick up at church at 8:00 p.m. Bring $10 for Lazer Blaze. times on February 1st, 18th (Senior High) and 25th

Super Bowl Party High School Lock-In Sunday, February 1st. Super Bowl party. Stay tuned The High School lock-in will begin at 8:00 p.m for specifics on Super Bowl parties for both Middle on Sunday, January 18th. It will end Monday School and High School. 6-8:00 p.m. am at 8:00 p.m. The lock-in will include late night bowling, food, movie, music and more. Jillian’s Is Back High School lock-in participants are welcome to join the Middle School for Lazer Blaze. Sunday, February 8th.Jillian’s back by popular demand. Wewill meet at churchat6:00. From 6:30-8:30 p.m. we can play unlimited games with Roller Skating drinks and snacks. Each person should bring $15. Sunday, January 25th. Both the High School and Middle We will share this night at Jillian’s with youth groups from School will go roller skating at Champ’s (9851 St. Francis in the Fields and St. Luke’s! Pick up is at church Lagrange Rd) from 3-5:00 p.m. and then pizza. at 9:00 p.m. Please note this special time for Youth group so that we can go roller skating. Meet at Champ’s Valentine’s Day Service Project at3:00p.m. or atchurchat2:30 to carpool. Wewill skate and then have pizza. Pick up at church at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, February 15th. In honor of Valentine’s Day Bring $5. weekend both MS and HS will participate in a service project with the Episcopal Church Home. Details to come. Diocesan Youth Events at All Saints Upcoming in February Winter Middle School Gathering - Sunday, February 22nd. Time to get ready for the Annual February 20th - 22nd. Pancake Supper. Middle and High School will cook and get Senior High Gathering - March 12th - 14th. organized for the Shrove Tuesday Supper to be held Tuesday, Senior High Summer Gathering - June 11th - 13th. February 24, 6-7:30 p.m. at church. Senior High Camp - June 20th - 25th. Fifth and Sixth Grade Camp - July 11th - 16th. Sunday, February 24th. Youth Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Seventh and Eighth Grade Camp - July 18th - 23th. • The supper will be held from 6-8:00 p.m. • MS Youth should arrive at 5:30 p.m. • HS Youth should arrive at 4:30 p.m. Got a quick question for Ben? The new youth AOL Instant Messenger Sunday, February 29rd. Movie and popcorn, games and pizza at address is: youthstmattky church. 6-7:30 p.m.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of January 4 Week of January 11 Terry: Paul, Frances Troop:Graham, Amy Cubbage Thielen: Teddie Trust: Helga Thomas: John, Phyllis Tucker: Steven, Amy, Sarah Thompson: Dorney, Elizabeth Wahl, Reed, Callie, Evan Tuggle: Kenneth, Catherine Thompson: Linda, Michael Uligian:Gregory, Barbara Tiano: John, Alice, Joel Hunt Vandrick: Joseph, Kay Tidwell: Harry & Ann Vandyke: Grace Todd: Bosworth Vinsel: Kenneth, Adele Trimble: Ursula Voss: Doug, Barbara, Anna Triplett: Betty Jean, Gary Vouga: Anne, Etienne, Maren, Alex

Week of January 18 Week of January 25 Vowels: Aaron Wasem: Jacob, Cristina Wacker: Jean Waters: Dane, Alan Canon Waggoner: Gary Watson: Dwayne, Victoria Wagner: Marty, Cheryl, Kate, Alex Weinberg: Bill, Beth, Bobby Waldrop: Alex, Jayne, Alexander, John Weis: Russell, Beverly, Natalie, Julia Wall: Louise Weston: Heather Wallingford: Joseph, Martha Weston: Sarah Walsh: Eileen, Barry Stokes, Lindsay, Taylor Westwood: Dorothy Warden: Frank, Pat White: Sharon Wardell: Kevin, Linda Whitehouse: Cookie

Week of February 1 Week of February 8 Wiedeman: Varley Woodford: William, Sara Wiggins: Sally, Craig Worster: Gordon Wilkinson: James Wright: Cornelia Williams: Alfred ,Harriet Wright: Michael, Kathleen, Erin Williamson: Sally Yann: Sally Willingham: John, Alice, John, Hollie, Griffin Yeager: Lillian Wilson: James Yeager: Michelle Wilson: John, Virginia Yule: Sheila Woldin: Carrie, Maris Zapp: Ellen Wood: Linda Zega: Frank, Peggy Week of February 15 Albrecht: John-Michael, Lynn, Jessa Allen:Ellen Acland: Sarah Heather, John-Michael, Allen: George, Teresa Ade: Ruth Kathryn, Samantha Anderson: Mary Ahern: Kevin, Alison Alexander: Ruth Aprile: Joyce Ardery: Philip, Anne

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Charles Harris, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby,Adrian Wheeler, Mark Barry,Allan Lanceta, David Mattingly, The Rev. Robert Brill, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family. Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

14 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Sarah Ritter from St. Agnes Catholic Church, Louisville, KY Jack Geary from First Baptist Church, East Hampton, NJ Mike Risley from Wesleyan Heights United Methodist Church, Owensboro, KY Michael Risley from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Lynn Caruso from Piedmont Community Church, Piedmont, CA Jon and Lauri Arnold, Peter and Emelie from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham, Cason and Henrietta Reily from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY

Transfers Out Donald and Sharon Zettwoch to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Stephen Frazier to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Charles and Joyce Barry to St. David’s by the Sea Episcopal Church, Cocoa Beach, FL David and Nancy James to St. Marks Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Ann T. Davis to St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Martha Selden to St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY

Marriage Congratulations to Vicky andDwayne Watson, who were married on December 31

We extend congratulations to Sheila Yule on the birth of her granddaughter Gibbs and Lynn Reese on the birth of their grandson

We were sorry to hear about the death of Jack Devitt’s brother Linda Broecker’s mother JoAnn Dodson’saunt Barbar Voss’s brother

+ + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + + 15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Brian Dearing, Seminarian Intern Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

Voice Mail Extensions and E-mail Addresses for the Clergy and Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected] 2003 Vestry Anne Hampton, Senior Warden Lauren Becker David Garver Joan Shepler Bob Nesmith, Junior Warden Barbara Beury Karen Hill Marty Wagner Jim Parobek, Treasurer Bruce Dillman Cleve Parkins Kathy Wright Jay Crocker, Secretary Julie Davis John Shelby Natalie Weis, Youth Representative

1416 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Spring 2004 Adult Education each Sunday, 11:10-12:00

Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! Most classes are held in Clingman Hall.

January 11 Dr. James Baughman, Professor of History at Jefferson Community College, Ph.D. (British History) from the University of Kentucky, doctoral specialty in the History of the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. – The First Prayer Book.

January 18 Sarah Gorham, a poet, reading and signing her third book, The Cure.

January 25 Annual Meeting

February 1 Dr. James Baughman – Tragic Mary. Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith

February 8 Dr. Bill Brosend, – is a third generation American Baptist minister, who is now a confirmed Episcopalian and in the process of ordination in the Episcopal Church. He is a graduate of Denison University and the Divinity Schools of Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago. He is currently Associate Director of the Louisville Institute. – The Book of Revelation part 1 Cathy Sutton and Mike Wright – Contemporary Issues discussion

1 (more . . . ) February 15 Dr. Bill Brosend – The Book of Revelation part 2

February 18, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Professor of Historical Theology and WEDNESDAY Paul Tudor Jones, Professor of Church History, Bellarmine February 18 University – Mary Magdalene.

February 22 Dr. Bill Brosend – The Book of Revelation part 3

February 29 Clergy Staff Lenten Series – Mysteries of Our Faith part 1

March 7 Clergy Staff Lenten Series – Mysteries of Our Faith part 2 Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith

March 14 Clergy Staff Lenten Series – Mysteries of Our Faith part 3 Cathy Sutton and Mike Wright – Contemporary Issues discussion

March 21 Clergy Staff Lenten Series – Mysteries of Our Faith part 4

March 28 Clergy Staff Lenten Series – Mysteries of Our Faith part 5

Parents in Conversation will continue, meeting in the senior high room each Sunday.

2 Annual Parish Dinner Friday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. Menu  Fresh Garden Salad with Dressings  Seasoned Pork Loin  Italian Meatloaf  Potatoes  Green Beans with Country Ham  Bakery Breads  Iced Tea, Coffee & Water

Adults...... $6.00 for buffet *Children (10 & under)...... $4.00 for buffet or ...... $1.50 for sack dinner ~ ...... (peanut butter and jelly, fruit and cookie)

Desserts for the Annual Dinner and Bake-off! ~ We are doing something special with your desserts this time. We are asking you to make and/or bake your very best dessert. Two people from Culinary Creations, our caterers for the Annual Parish Dinner, will serve as judges and will taste all desserts that are entered. (Any store-bought desserts will be eliminated.) To enter your dessert you must have your name written clearly on the bottom of your dish. 1st and 2nd place winners will be awarded ribbons and gift certificates. Please sign up on the bulletin board if you are bringing a dessert to the Annual Dinner - even if you don’t want to enter the bake-off contest. (Don’t Forget! if you do want to enter your dessert please write your name clearly on the bottom of your dish.) Please make dinner reservations for the following individuals: (*for children only - indicate buffet or sack dinner) Sitters will only be available for children 10 and younger during the program portion of the dinner

Names Buffet $1.50 Sack Dinner Cost

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Total number of reservations: ______Total Cost: $ ______Please return this sheet to Ann Davis or the Parish Office no later than Tuesday, January 20th, with your check, made payable to St. Matthew’s and indiciate “Annual Dinner” on your check. The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s March 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR This issue of the Spirit is chockfull of possibilities for Lent at St. Matthew’s. What’s Dear People of Consider carefully, and choose wisely – St. Matthew’s, don’t do TOO much. Consider some of Aaaaahhhh…… the service possibilities noted on the Happening? Lent. Social Concerns page – and note A Few Words From especially that we will be collecting Perhaps the above The Assistant Rector ...... 2 food EVERY Sunday during Lent as the is not your first need is great. Go on retreat – Planning & Design ...... 2 reaction to the idea especially if you have never done that Vestry Comments...... 3 of Lent. Too many before. If you possibly can, join one of people have a knee-jerk response: the small groups in the Be Our Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 4 Lent is gloomy, Lent is difficult, Lent Companion on the Way: Learning to Mission Statement ...... 5 is a time when I am supposed to think see your life as a spiritual journey Our Web Site ...... 6 about how sinful I am. program (see the Lenten insert); this is a real opportunity. Volunteer Opportunities ..... 7 Not really. Social Concerns ...... 7 Lent is a season, a season of We have just had a wonderful Annual preparation for the great joy of Easter. Meeting, followed by an excellent Internet Calendar ...... 8 & 9 It’s not about feeling bad: it’s about Vestry retreat. I am excited about the Senior Highlights ...... 10 getting down to brass tacks, taking many things going on in this parish. I Kenya News ...... 10 time to concentrate on what’s am very, very proud of this parish: its important, doing a personal inventory, spirit, its unity in diversity, its genuine Church School News ...... 11 stretching and growing in faith. It’s a care for one another, even in a difficult Youth Page...... 12 time set apart, roughly one tenth of time in the Episcopal Church. I believe the year (a tithe!), for reflection and our discernment process with architects Music Notes ...... 13 growth. Yes, we look at our sins (and Gibbs Reese, Alvin Cox and David Prayer List ...... 14 the Litany of Penitence we use on Ash Allen will not only excite us about Parish Families ...... 15 Wednesday is particularly good), but expanded ministry possibilities, but we do so because we can’t get bring us even closer together (and it is INSERTS: anywhere if we are not honest with all about ministry). But these are not Lenten Schedule ourselves AND because we believe in the primary reasons we are here. We are Shrove Tuesday Pancake a God of forgiveness and second (and here to follow Christ and to do Christ’s Supper & Small Groups 3rd and 4th and 5th and …) chances. work in the world. This Lent is a Spring Plant Order Form We may “give up” something, if that particularly good time to focus on that will help us focus on God and/or those fundamental truth. who never have enough. We may take on something – new or extra worship, Yours in Christ, prayer, service, study – for that same focus and for our own growth. It’s a + gift, a gift of time. Lucinda 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector Christian Development have reached a stage in their faith journey where s/he would like to reexamine and inventory their faith and then “In the course of their Christian development, those publicly reaffirm a commitment to God. baptized at an early age are expected, when they are ready and have been duly prepared, to make a mature public For those who wish to participate in Confirmation, affirmation of their faith and commitment to the respon- St. Matthew’s is offering two different opportunities to sibilities of their Baptism and to receive the laying on of prepare oneself for the rite. For adults, there is the hands bythe bishop.” (Book of Common Prayer, p. 412) Louisville Area Catechumenate which is a cooperative course coordinated by Christ Church Cathedral. While the The paragraph above describes the rite of Confirmation, a first class was on February 10th, it is not too late to sign sacramental act that Bishop Gulick will perform during his up, but you should call the office as soon as possible. For visitation on May 16 at the 10 a.m. service. During the young people in grades eight through twelve who have not liturgy, the confirmands will be asked to reaffirm the already been confirmed, the parish is offering a course on baptismal vows and declare their faith in the midst of the Wednesday nights starting on Wednesday, March 3rd. entire parish. In the early church, Confirmation was There will be a meeting for parents and teens to discuss the performed immediately after baptism and was considered a course on Sunday, February 22nd during the church school “perfection” or “completion” of baptism. However, as the hour. The class will be fun, interesting, and give church grew and bishops could no longer be present at participants the opportunity to explore their faith as they every baptism, the rites were separated and Confirmation grow into “the responsibilities of their Baptism.” was postponed until the baptized person was older. In fact, All people are on a journey of faith, and Confirmation the 1549 Book of Common Prayer specified that, offers an opportunity to examine that faith and how one fits “Confirmation is not to be administered until the child can into the great history, tradition, and theology of the say the Creed, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord’s Church. If you or anyone you know might be interested, Prayer, answer questions of the catechism, and ‘ratify and please let us know. confess’ what had been promised by the godparents.” Thomas Aquinas considered confirmation a “sacrament of maturity, bringing an increase of grace for a different phase Ben of life.” In the modern era, Confirmation is no longer Ben Robertson reserved for adolescents, but open to all individuals who PLANNING & DESIGN from Anne Hampton During 2003, the Planning and Design committee saw the wholeheartedly approved our choice. The firm that we missed opportunities for mission and ministry at St. chose Matthew’s due to our limited facilities and limited space, • will work with the parish and develop a dialogue with the and decided we needed to take the next step towards congregation creating a master plan for renovation and expansion of the • has respect for our Olmstead designed grounds, sacred church. The Planning and Design committee consists of spaces and all stakeholders Anne Hampton, David Garver, Sue Bach, Barbara Beury, • feels a responsibility for the stewardship of the church. Tim Brown, Ed Hill, Rick Lotz, Edie Nixon,Anne Shelby, will work with our Capital Campaign Discernment John Smith and Mike Wright. We looked at 9 architectural committee. firms and narrowed the list down to the three outstanding Their designs are both inspiring and engaging. This firm is firms of Kersey & Kersey; Grossman, Chapman, Klarer; Reese Design Collaborative and CoxAllen andAssociates. and the joint venture of Reese Design and CoxAllen & Gibbs Reese knows the congregation well as he has been a Associates. member of the parish for 48 years. Gibbs’ many skills & On January 8th, we heard the excitement and passion each talents will be complemented by those of Alvin Cox and firm had for the project. We asked all the firms to include in David Allen who will lend valuable perspective and bring a their presentation: Firm Experience, Project team successful history in liturgical design. organization, Budget Control, Design Fees & how they The congregation will get to know Gibbs, Alvin and David would engage the congregation in developing a vision. It very well in the upcoming months as we talk, ask questions was a fair and insightful process. The Planning and and focus on building a vision of what we as a Design committee discussed the merits of each firm and congregation want St. Matthew’s to be. We have also would have been comfortable with any of the three, but we were unanimous in our recommendation and the Vestry (continued to page 10) 2 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Questions from the Heart As he (Jesus) and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaesus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”…Jesus said to him, “What ? do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” Jesus said to him, “Go, your faith has made you well.” Mark 10:46-52

Sunday morning, February 8th – about 9:00 am yesterday I  Does the fact that you made Adam before Eve really had one of those “Aha!” moments that come infrequently, mean that men are more in your image than women? but when they do you know that something has changed  What is life after death like? for you. This time it was an engulfing understanding,  What is your plan for me? “Yes! That’s why we are here.”  Why is there so much suffering in the world?  If I am supposed to help my fellow man, why have you Most of the Vestry and staff were at All Saints on our made it so hard? Vestry Retreat. This has been an annual event for many  Dear God, do you really hear my prayers? years. Almost always the purpose is to get to know each  How can I find the most meaning in life? other better, to review our work of the past year and to set  Can I stop worrying? new goals and objectives for the coming year. Last fall we felt a need to do something different. Not a single question about budget, or money, or staffing, or programs, or facilities. No questions about how we It seemed that Vestry meetings were consumed with provide more space. No questions about church politics or discussions and decisions on money, how much we had (or the Bishop of NH. The questions of our hearts reflected lacked) and how to use it for the endless needs of an aging our private pains and concerns. As these prayers were facility, repairs, programs and outreach. Surely this wasn’t read many of us found tears in our eyes and on our cheeks. all God expected of us as elected leaders of a faith A tender nerve had been touched and perhaps our hearts community. Are we just charged with conducting the and minds also. An “Aha!” moment had occurred. business affairs of the parish? Are there other parts of our life together that need attention? How do we know? We Tom shared with us the hundreds of questions posed by decided to use our weekend retreat to focus on the role of his readers. They were remarkably similar to ours. His the Vestry. challenge and charge to us was “Listen to your people. Ask them what their questions are. Focus your time and Tom Erich, the popular author of On A Journey, a daily energies on responding to their hurts and needs. If you do e-mail meditation many of us read, was asked to be our this, the business affairs will be taken care of.” retreat leader. Before Advent last year Tom used the story of blind Bartimaeus to pose a question to his readers. If we And so, now, it is your turn. What are your questions were at the roadside and had the chance, as Bartimaeus of the heart? What would you ask Jesus if he came did, to ask one question of Jesus as he passed by, what by your roadside? The clergy, staff and Vestry sincerely would it be? In his meditations from the beginning of want to know. Send your questions to Advent to Easter he is responding to these questions. [email protected]. Or, you mayleave This became the theme of our retreat. What are people them in a box that will be available for those who choose asking? not to use e-mail. You do not need to sign them if you prefer anonymity. They will be a guide to the Vestry in our Friday night Tom asked each of us to write our own actions, for the sermons and for our ministry together one question on a piece of paper for him. At Eucharist to another. Saturday morning rather than the Prayers of the People from the Prayer Book, those questions were read. (For those interested in receiving On A Journey, send an e-mail to [email protected] asking to be placed on  Why do people let fear rule their lives instead of faith? his distribution list.)  How do we remain faithful to your teaching when we are so torn by anger and dissension?  Why can’t we let go and learn to listen to others and be more interested in their lives than our own? Bob  How can people who disagree learn to love one another Bob Nesmith, and live together in peace? Senior Warden 3 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Many, Many Thanks To All For ...... a MarvelousAnnual Dinner! . . . and to these Parishioners for There is so much work that goes into the Annual Dinner Cleaning the Kitchen every January and I want to give special thanks to Aidan Ann Miller,Pamela Murphy, Barbara, Erich, Betty Stone, who took down all the wall partitions; Bob Clark Brooke McCord, Ellen Robertson, Sharon Nesmith, Gwen and Richard Rodahaffer, who moved and set up all the Parkins, Jean Bailor,Pat Warden, Debbi Rodahaffer, tables and chairs; and to Sharon Nesmith, who set all the Vicki Danahy and Dwayne Watson. These ambitious and tables. I thank all of you who helped to put Clingman Hall, willing folks wiped out cabinets, washed everything in the the Overflow room, Childrens Chapel and Meeting RoomA cabinets and towel dried all contents. Our kitchen is so back to its previous arrangement after the dinner on Friday clean and much more organized. I appreciate your time and evening. Thank you to all who put up the wall partitions, hard work. The kitchen just shines! broke down the tables, stacked the chairs, and transported extra chairs to the Narthex for a funeral on Saturday. Thank you, Ann Davis Special thanks to Jody Fletcher and Michaeleen Peck for washing and ironing the tablecloths and Dwayne Watson for keeping the trashcans emptied all through the evening. Thank you to all who ran the glasses, silverware and St. Matthew’s Grounds Clean-Up Day dessert trays through the dishwasher and dried them. A big “Thank You” goes to Dwayne Watson and Vicki Saturday, March 20 Danahy for marking and conveying the 31 desserts that Help is needed for trimming, raking, pruning, picking up were entered in the bake-off. Two women from Culinary sticks, and just an all around clean-up of the St. Matthew’s Creations were in the kitchen tasting and rating the grounds. If you can help and we can count on you, please desserts as they came in. sign up on the main bulletin board. We will begin at 9:00 a.m. sharp and coffee and donuts will be provided. Please Our Second Place Winner went to David Stokes who won bring your rakes, trimming equipment, blowers and any a gift certificate to The Cheddar Box. And our First Place other yard tools you might have. If you have questions, Winner, Jean Bailor, won a gift certificate to Buckhead please call Kurt Ludwig593-8196 or Ann Davis 895-3485. Mountain Grill. Congratulations to Davidand Jean on If it’s a rainout - we’ll reschedule for Saturday, March 27 your very fine and winning desserts! at 9:00 a.m. It was a really fun evening and I am very grateful for the time you gave along with all of your hard work. Appreciatively, Ann Davis

WHO ARE THEY? Birthday There are two new faces you will see at least Celebrations occasionally at the altar or in the pulpit. Please welcome them! of our The Rev. Moray Peoples is a priest of the diocese who, Homebound with his wife Judith, has joined the St. Matthew’s community. Moray is a businessman during the week, and for joins us on Sundays as Priest Associate. Thank you, Moray, for the gift of your time and service! March Dr. Bill Brosend is Associate Director of the Louisville March 20 Jo Brendel Institute, and has a Ph.D in New Testament. An ordained Baptist minister, he and his wife, Christine, were recently March 31 Virginia Haberbush confirmed in the Episcopal Church, and have joined St. Matthew’s. Bill is now in the process of discernment for ordination in the Episcopal church. Many of you have already discovered what a gifted teacher he is! 4 Our parish mission statement is printed every week in the bulletin, and every month in the newsletter, but how often do you read it? Each Vestry meeting starts with this, and we look at one of the affirming principles taken from it each time.

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

Affirming Principles We are a caring, inclusive community St. Matthew was an outcast in his time. Wehonor St. Matthew by welcoming the outcasts of our time. Webelieve in the value of everyperson, regardless of physical, economic or social condition, and strive to be acommunity,which serves the unique spiritual needs of all God’s children. We respect and honor others who worship one God. We acknowledge that God created all things and, as God’s stewards, we strive to care for all creation.

Centered in the Eucharist The Eucharist, at the very core of our community,reveals the truth that we are one in Christ, and strengthens and renews us for service. All persons are welcome to worship with us, to share the Eucharist at God’s table, and to assist our efforts in the greater community to proclaim God’s word.

Grounded in the Gospel Jesus preached a message of compassion, inclusion and love. So do we. We are a community of compassion. Our bonds are based on God’s overwhelming love, rather than narrow definitions ofdoctrine and behavior. We accept people at all points in their spiritual journeys, and support each other as we question and grow infaith.

So that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world We care about and care for each other, whomever that “other” person may be, both within and beyond our communityoffaith. We believe that there are unique needs of God’s people at every stage of their journeys, and we seek to provide programs and support to serve spiritual needs throughout life. We reach out to address the world’s physical and spiritual needs, rather than waiting for the world to come to us.

5 PARISH NEWS

Our Web Site Have you visited our web site? There is a wealth of information about the past, present and future at St.Matthews. Here is just a sampling of what you can find on our web site. • A narrative and pictorial history of the parish. • The names, pictures, phone numbers and email addresses of the clergy, staff and vestry. • Information about service opportunities both inside and outside the parish. • Information about such things as confirmation, baptisms, weddings and the endowment fund. • The audio of most Sunday morning sermons. • Some neat videosof our parish life. • Weekly calendarand bulletin announcements. • Regular and special worship timesand information. • The adult education schedule. • Information about what is going on in our various programs, including the youth, children’s and music programs. • Information about small groups and other happenings in the parish. • Links to other great sites, such as the lectionary, other parish web sites, the hymnal (complete with words and music!), Forward Day by Day, and various service organizations, just to name a few. • Fairly new to the Episcopal Church? There is also a link to an on-line dictionary that defines some common Episcopal terms. • and lots more! You can reach all of this from our front page. Take a look at: www.stmatt-ky.org. We also maintain a parish email list that is used to keep people informed about deaths in the parish, current happenings and other things of importance. If your email address is on the list you will receive periodic email messages from the parish. To put your name on the list You can subscribe to the list by sending a message from the email address you want to be used on this list and address it to: [email protected]. Nothing needs to be in the message box or subject box.You should receive a confirmation message back once you are subscribed.

FROM THEANNUALDINNERANDANNUALMEETING All agree that ourAnnual Dinner was one of the best ever! Congratulations to Jean Bailor and David Stokes, Bake-Off winners. And if you missed Bishop Reed’s proclamation on the occasion of Ben Robertson’s 30th birthday, well…. what can we say? You had to be there. The highlight of the evening, however, was the announcement of our Unsung Hero award, given jointly to Fred and Joan Siegfriedt. Despite the one week delay due to the ice storm, the Annual Meeting was well attended. Probably the most exciting moment was Senior Warden Anne Hampton’s announcement of the team of Reese Design Collaborative and Cox Allen Associates to work with the parish in discernment, planning and design. It was also nice to hear retiring Treasurer Jim Parobek present a balanced budget for 2004, thanking EMC Chair David Brooks for a 12% increase in pledges (and thanks for your hard work as well, Jim!). Most of all, we all owe thanks to the 11 parishioners who offered themselves in service to the parish for the next three years. They will be serving as follows: On the Vestry: Bob Clark, Gaylee Gillim, Stephen Hill, Rick Lotz, Jane O’Roark, and Laura Rhea Kevin Campisano – on the Finance Committee Nicholas Eastman – as Chair of the Health Committee; on the Kenya Mission Committee; as a Lay Eucharistic Minister Heather Ogburn– as Co-Chair of the Newcomers Committee David Stokes – as Verger and Acolyte Director; on the Liturgy Committee; on the Youth Committee Sheila Yule – on the Adult Education Committee and the Liturgy Committee

Congratulations to our newly-elected Vestry Officers: Bob Nesmith, Sr. Warden; Rick Lotz, Jr. Warden; Barbara Beury, Clerk of the Vestry; and Bruce Dillman, Treasurer. 6 SOCIAL CONCERNS

St. John Center to be at Home and Garden Show Volunteer St. John Center for the Homeless will have a booth at the Home and Garden Show Opportunities to be held at the Fairgrounds on March 4 – March 7. Staff members and volunteers from the center use the booth to educate the public about homeless issues and to raise money by selling House Pins. Dare to Care / If you attend the Home and Garden Show, stop by the St. John Center booth and Wayside Food pick up some information, purchase a House Pin or register for a prize giveaway. Collection Sunday, February 29 Home of the Innocents needs our help Babysit or Cook The Home of the Innocents will be building a playground for their campus in June for teenage mothers of this year. They will probably need 500 – 600 volunteers to build the playground at Cornerstone over a five day period. The Leathers playground company will be meeting with the children and staff of Thursday, March 4, Home of the Innocents this month to determine what the children want. Leathers 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. will design the playground and send blueprints and material lists to Home of the (carpool from the Innocents. Committees of volunteers will be formed to find donated materials, to church parking lot) purchase needed materials that have not been donated, to find needed tools (power saws and the like) that could be borrowed, to schedule volunteers for the work days, and to plan for feeding the volunteers on the work days. Home of the Habitat Innocents needs volunteers to serve on these committees. If you would be for Humanity interested in working on one of these organizing committees or if you have access to building materials at a reduced price, please call Sharon Nesmith at 228-5918. Saturday, March 6, Over the five days of construction, volunteers will work, rain or shine, one of three 8:30 a.m. to Noon shifts, morning, afternoon or evening. Once the dates and hours of the work days or 3:00 p.m. are available, a sign up sheet will be posted for those who would like to work on the (carpool from the playground. There are jobs all of us can do to support this endeavor. Please watch church parking lot) your bulletin for more information and please plan to help the children at the Home of the Innocents. St. George’s / Calvary Regular volunteers to work with the children at Home of the Innocents are always needed. Volunteers may perform a variety of tasks: help with homework, read to a Food Collection child, help with crafts, play games or just “hang out”. If you would like to spend Sunday two hours, one day a week with the children of Home of the Innocents, you may contact Lori Reeder of Home of the Innocents at 596-1031. The next volunteer Sunday, March 7 training will be in June. Dare to Care / Wayside Food Collection Feed The Hungry Sundays, As reported in the news in recent weeks, Dare to Care and Wayside Soup Kitchen are experiencing serious food shortages. In order to support these two fine March 14, 21 & 28 community organizations, St. Matthew’s will collect food and/or money EVERY Sunday in Lent. On March 7 andApril 4, our regular Food Collection Sundays, all Serve lunch at food contributions will go to Calvary or St. George’s food pantries. All other Sundays, February 29 through March 28, donated food items will be divided Wayside Christian between Dare To Care and Wayside. Misson There will be a collection box in the Narthex just above the Food Collection Basket Sunday, March 14, for any financial contributions. Checks should be made to either Dare To Care or Wayside Christian Mission. All cash contributions will be divided between the two 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 pm. organizations. Keep in mind that these organizations can purchase food at lower (carpool from the church prices than we (for every $1 received, Dare To Care buys $7 worth of food). parking lot following the 10:00 service) Please consider supporting these two organizations as part of your Lenten discipline. 7 SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Senior Potluck Luncheon Tuesday, February 24, 11:30 a.m. Special Guest Speaker: St. Matthew’s Parishioner, Gaylee Gillim Imagine yourself “Under the Tuscan Sun”as you hear about Gaylee’s recent bicycle ride in the Tuscany region of Italy. Share pictures of the trip from the locale where the movie Under the Tuscan Sun was filmed. Please sign up on the main bulletin board and indicate the dish you will bring! And please, bring enough for twelve people! KENYA NEWS

Our trip to Oyugis, Kenya this year will be September 4th-15th. The cost of the trip will be around $2200. We will mainly be doing medical work at the Wire Clinic in Oyugis. We will also build a playground and basketball court for the youth and children of St. Michael’s Church. This is The Rev. George Wasonga’s church in Oyugis. We’ll make plans for our trip in June of 2005, and at that time, we want to build a community center for St. Michael’s Church. It will be used for AIDS education, a preschool, and a center for the widows of the community. As the trip draws closer we will be collecting eye glasses, school supplies, Medical supplies and Baby colths and blankets. Watch the newsletter for details. If you are interested in going to Kenya, please contact John Willingham at 895-3485 or 459-4582. Thanks for your great support, and please do not forget our orphans! (Our next money will be sent on April 1st.) John Willingham

Spiritual Direction Program Men and women who want to deepen their relationship with God often find spiritual direction helpful. Our prayer becomes more spontaneous and connected to our everyday lives. We respond to God’s invitations with greater freedom and joy. If you are interested in exploring your relationship with God and would you like to explore the movement of the spirit in your life, then consider dedicating 1 hour a month, for one year, to meet with an intern spiritual director. This opportunity is offered through The Spirituality Institute. A donation of $10 per month is appreciated. For more information please call Denise Ruiz at 636-0296 ext. 234 or email at [email protected].

Planning & Design (continued from page 2) retained the services of Holliman and Associates to help us discern the funding for our dreams. So the best is yet to come. Start making a list of your dreams for St. Matthews. Whether you want space for outreach ministries or just a place for the bride to dress, start making your list. 2004 will be a fun and exciting time. The congregation will be asked in every way possible way for your input. We are committed to developing a vision that will make St. Matthew’s a caring and inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world. Look for meetings, suggestion boxes, e-mail surveys, and every form of communication possible. You will be amazed how much energy we as a parish will gain from listening to each other and exchanging of our ideas. We hope to hear from EVERYONE! 10 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer Director of Christian Education

I began reading the book Too Old Too Soon, Protecting Your Child From Instant Adulthood by Doug Fields the day after our second 3rd, 4th and 5th grade lock-in. Mr. Fields, a youth pastor, college professor and columnist, wrote this book in 1987, yet the subjects he covers are as prevalent and important today. Reading this book so soon after our lock-in helped me to realize some of the reasons lock-ins are such a hit. Our third, fourth and fifth graders know that they are appreciated because this is something just for them. In fact, our fourth graders planned our latest lock-in from the games they would play to the food they would eat. The entire evening was age appropriate and was spent laughing (gales of laughter watching adults play “Steal the Bacon”. We just don’t move as fast as they do!), listening, encouraging and appreciating one another. There were no harsh or angry words. During the evening everyone was “caught” doing or saying something kind. And at eleven o’clock we filed into our candlelit church to participate in a Eucharist celebrated by Ben Robertson. The children felt comfortable calling him “Mr. Ben” but it was apparent that he may be best described as “Gentle Ben” after participating in his beautiful storytelling, hysterical song leading and moving Eucharist written especially for this group. Observing these children gathered around the altar, passing the body and blood of Christ to one another was simply put – beautiful. Around that table stood our future acolytes, chalice bearers, lectors and leaders. But for twelve short hours they were children being children! My thanks to our college students, Ben Niehaus and Nina Rodahaffer, who led our evening with just the right balance of kindness, firmness and fun, to Lynn Miller and Ann Davis, who seem to really understand the joy that children are, and to “Mr. Ben”. “Hurry is only good for catching flies.” – Russian Proverb

Upcoming Events you won’t want to miss!

Wednesday Nights Each Wednesday in March we will have child care and activities for during Lent our infants through eighth graders so that you can attend what may be our best Lenten series ever! Tuesday, February 24 Children’s Committee Meeting 7:30 p.m. in the Lounge. Thursday, March 18 “Let’s Do Lunch!” 11:45 at ditto’s Restaurant on Bardstown Road! Please sign up on the bulletin board downstairs if you can join us! Childcare not available today. Saturday, March 20 Parents’ Night Out 5:00-9:00 p.m. Sign up on bulletin board downstairs by noon on Sunday, March 14. Sunday, April 4 (Palm Sunday) 4s through 2nd graders will lead the procession and sing in church at the 10:00 a.m. service. Saturday, April 10 Easter Egg Hunt beginning with storytelling in Clingman Hall, 3:00 p.m. Saturday, April 17 Parents’ Night Out 5:00-9:00 p.m. Sign up on bulletin board downstairs by noon on Sunday, April 11. Friday, April 23 “Let’s Do Lunch!” 11:45 at ditto’s Restaurant on Bardstown Road! Please sign up on the bulletin board downstairs if you can join us! Childcare will be available for those needing it. 11 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

March 2004 SNAC Sunday at 6 PM Annual Pancake Supper Join us every Sunday evening (except Sunday Sunday, February 22nd,6-7:30 PM. Time to get ready for the Annual evenings when other youth activities are planned) for Pancake Supper! Middle and High School will cook and get organized Sunday Night at Church. It is from 6-7:30 PM. Free Pizza! for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper to be held Tuesday, February Middle school youth and senior high will be meeting separately. 24th from 6-8:00 PM at church. Note special times on March 7, March 14th and March 21st. No SNAC on Easter Sunday - April 11th. Tuesday, February 24th - Youth Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper. Confirmation Classes To Begin • The supper will be held from 6-8:00 PM. There will be a parent / teen meeting about Confirmation during Church • MS Youth should arrive at 5:30 PM. School on Sunday, February 22, held in the church. The group will be • HS Youth should arrive at 4:30 PM. enrolled on Sunday, February 29 during the church service. Classes will begin onWednesday, March 3, 6:00-7:30. Any questions, please contact Ben or Lynn. “Bang, Bang Popcorn and a Movie You’re Dead” Sunday, March 21 - Movie and discussion - Sunday, February 29rd - Movie and popcorn, games and pizza Youth/Parent Event. Parentsand youth will at church. 6-7:30 PM. watch the movie “Bang, Bang You’re Dead” which deals with school violence and other Rock Climbing at Rocksport issues that face high school students today. Sunday, March 7 - Meetatchurchat 5:30PM. The movie will start at 5 PM. It is 93 minutes We will go to Rocksport for climbing and return to the long.It willbefollowedbydinnerand church for pizza. Parents should pick their youth up discussion. We should conclude at 8:30 PM. at 8 PM. Go to this site for a review: http:// www.digitallyobsessed.com/ University of Louisvillle Baseball showreview.php3?ID=5643 Sunday, March 14 - we will attend a University of Louisville Baseball Game (weather permitting). We will Youth Events leavechurchat1:30andreturn tothechurchat 4:30 PM. If the weather doesn’t cooperate we will have Winter Middle School Gathering -February 20th - 22nd. pizza and games from 6:00-7:30 PM at the church. Senior High Gathering - March 12th - 14th. Senior High Summer Gathering - June 11th - 13th. Sunday, March 28 - Restaurant Night at 6-7:30 PM. Senior (SYP) and Junior (JYP) Young People’s Sunday, April 4- Pizza and games at 6-7:30 PM. Conferences at Kanuga - June 13-18 Sunday, April 11- Easter-no Youth Group Senior High Camp- June 20th - 25th. Fifth and Sixth Grade Camp - July 11th - 16th. Got a quick question for Ben? The Seventh and Eighth Grade Camp - July 18th - 23th. new youth AOL Instant Messenger Province IV Youth Event (PYE) at Berea College - address is: youthstmattky July 20 - 25th.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

12 MUSIC NOTES

Barbara Ellis Choir Director/Organist

We are pleased to welcome Ginny Viel to theAdult Choir. Weare just beginning wonderful music for Easter and Spring! There’s a place for you in the Music Ministryat St. Matthew’s. Please join the St. Matthew’s Choir for Evensong & Holy Eucharist Sunday, March 7th

The Second Sunday of Lent 5:00 p.m. Reception to follow in the narthex

The St. Matthew’s Children Program gives thanks to God for a very generous and recent bequest.

13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of February 22 Week of February 29 Arnold: Jon, Lauri, Emelie, Peter Bardenwerper: Woody, Dorothy Arnspiger: Richard, Miriam, Susan, Tommy Barr: James, Cindy, Worden, Austin Atwell: Paul, Dana Barrett: Melissa, Mitchel Shirrell Austin: Constance, Ned Krippenstaple, Mary Chellis Beck: Joe, Nancy Bach: Suzanne Becker: Lauren Bailor: Jean Bell: Don, Joy Baker: Charles, Ann Beury: Dr. George, Barbara Baker: Nancy Biggs: Dorothy Baker: Paul, Alice Bingham: Barry, Edie Ballerstedt: Mary Birch: Alan, Catharine, David, Steven

Week of March 7 Week of March 14 Bishop: Thomas, Ann Brendel: Greg, Roxanne, Matthew Bittenback: Constance Brendel: Jo, Marcia Black: Samuel, Dorothy Briggs: Jayne Blake: Dr. James, Mona Brill: Suellen, Andrew, Abby Boone: Heather, Michael, Lauren Broecker: Linda, Bruce Borho: Carl, Karen, Carter Brooks: David, Jacqueline Bower: Robert, Jean Brown: The Rev. Donald, Patricia Bowling: Kathleen Brown: Kaye Brackett: Julie, Lillian, Madelyn Brown: Tim, Pam, Talmage, Katherine Bradley: Jill Brown: William

Week of March 21 Week of March 28 Bryant: James, Lucia Carman: Anne, Christopher Bryant: Mildred Carman: Jesse, Marcia Bryant: Tina Carolon: Jenice, Christopher, Hermanson, Katelin Bullock: Stephen, Elizabeth, John, Sarah Carter: John, Jennette Burdine: Pamela, Dominique, Dakota, Shawn Cartwright:Betty Burns: Frank, Carolyn, Meghan, Christopher Caruso: Lynn Callaghan: Jean Cayce: Kay Campbell: David, Frances Chapman: Dorothy Campisano: Kevin, Linda, Anna, Francesca Cheatham: Bill, Mary, Hamilton, Allen Canon: Alan, Dane Waters Clark: Charles, Kitty

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Charles Harris, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby,Adrian Wheeler, Mark Barry,Allan Lanceta, David Mattingly, The Rev. Robert Brill, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family. Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

14 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Judith Peoples from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Sally A. MacDonald from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Anne Stewart from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY William, Christine and Emily Brosend from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Martha Wakefield from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY

Transfers Out John and Mary Helfrich to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Ruth Ade to St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY

Births Amelia Eve Frey, daughter of Andrew and Shannon Frey, February 6 We were happy to hear about the birth of Ellyn Robinson’s granddaughter

Baptisms Adeleke Yohance Goring, son of Guy and Claire Goring Maxwell Houston Libby, son of Shon and Nicole Libby and grandson of Gibbs and Lynn Reese

Deaths The Honorable Ellen Bourke Ewing, January 22 Charles “Buddy” Mendel, January 25 Mary Plaga, January 25 Jane Shackelford Heinz, February 2 We were sorry to hear about the deaths of Jeff Skinner’s father Bosworth Todd’s son Bill Ritter’s mother Carrie Woldin’s grandmother Linda Campisano’s grandmother Peg Henderson’s mother-in-law + + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + + 15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Brian Dearing, Seminarian Intern

Voice Mail Extensions and E-mail Addresses for the Clergy and Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected] 2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1416 LENT 2004 AT ST. MATTHEW’S

I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent … Book of Common Prayer, p. 265

The 40 days of Lent are a time of preparation – preparation for Easter. We are an Easter people, a resurrection people. Because the Feast of the Resurrection is at the center of our faith, we prepare for it carefully. Lent is a time of self-examination, of penitence, of exploration, and of prayer. It is a time to stretch and grow in the faith. It is a solemn and focused time, a time in which we are always aware of the great joy to come. How will you observe Lent? Will you give up something, the better to focus on God and the needs of others? Will you take on something? Will you deepen your prayer life, read the Bible more, or learn more about your faith? Here at St. Matthew’s, there are a number of possibilities for the observance of a Holy Lent. Make a commitment to one or more of these, and prepare with joy for the Paschal (Easter) Feast!

Worship in Lent

LENT BEGINS ON ASH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2004 Our preparation begins with a day of self-examination, penitence, and a reminder of our moral nature with the sign of ashes. 7:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist, with the imposition of ashes 12:00 noon Holy Eucharist, with the imposition of ashes 7:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist, with the imposition of ashes You will find SUNDAY WORSHIP to be more penitential in nature. The service will usually begin with the confession, and you may choose to kneel during the Eucharistic Prayer. There is also more silence and time for reflection. On Sunday, March 7, there will be a special service of EVENSONG at 5:00 p.m. On Sunday, March 21, we will have a service of healing as part of the 10:00 a.m. Eucharist. Our Christian Faith: Five Voices in Lent. On Sundays we will have 5 different preachers: The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, The Rev. Ben Robertson, Dr. Bill Brosend, The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, and The Rev. Jim Warnke.

A commitment to WEEKDAY WORSHIP during Lent can be something meaningful to “take on” for the 40 days. Monday – Friday Morning Prayer, 9:00 a.m. (chapel) Tuesday Holy Eucharist, 7:00 a.m. (chapel)

Possibilities for education and growth

Wednesday Nights in Lent Beginning on Wednesday, March 3, and continuing for 4 more Wednesdays, our Wednesday nights in Lent are an exciting opportunity for the whole family. 5:45 - 6:25 p.m. Lenten supper (soup, bread, fruit or cheese) for all 6:30 - 7:40 p.m. Lenten program (see next side) 17 (over) LENT 2004 AT ST. MATTHEW’S

Be Our Companion on the Way: Learning to see your life as a spiritual journey for Adults and Senior High Every one of us is on a journey – a journey to and with Christ. And every one of us has a story to tell. This past summer, our General Convention passed this resolution: Resolved, that the 74th General Convention urge every Episcopalian to be able to articulate his or her faith story, and urge diocese and congregations to create opportunities for these stories to be told. Telling our stories does (at least) three things for us: (1) enables us to see our own journey in the context of Scripture, tradition and the Christian community; (2) enables us to talk (and listen) to others about our faith; and (3) brings us closer to each other as those who travel the way together. We will meet in small groups with trained leaders. Great care will be taken to be sure that each person is comfortable with the group, and able to share as much or as little as he or she wishes. Each group will covenant to create an accepting and confidential environment. The Senior High will have their own group. EVERYONE: sign up NOW on the main bulletin board outside the office, the downstairs bulletin board, or call the parish office. We need to have your name no later than March 1 in order to organize our groups. Middle School Youth and children will have supervision and opportunities for study time, church projects, or games. For infants–3 year olds: baby-sitters will be present.

Sunday morning During the season of Lent, the Adult Education class (11:10 – 12:00) will be discussing the “Mysteries of Faith.” In this five part series, we will consider the theological doctrines that, might seem intellectually challenging to some, but nonetheless from the foundation of our tradition. Topics will include the Trinity, Creation, Eucharist, Healing, and Atonement. Discussion will be encouraged and no question is out of bounds. “Parents in Conversation” continues to meet weekly, and “Poets and Faith” once a month. Monday morning, Bible Study, 9:45 – 11:00, continues reading the Gospel of Luke. You are welcome to join us, even if it is just for the season of Lent. Tuesday, March 2, Dr. Kathryn Johnson, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Bellarmine University will present “The Real Mary Magdalene”, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. in the Lounge. Read The Da Vinci Code and wondered? Come and learn! Thursday, March 11, “Symbols of the Season” - Another Jewish - Christian Conversation led by Rabbi Laura Metzger and the Rector. After last fall’s series of discussions, we were all so eager to continue, we’ve scheduled an evening to talk about the upcoming spring holidays, Passover and Easter. We’ll use the symbols of the holidays as a starting point, looking at what they mean in each tradition, how they¹re similar and how different. And we’ll also make time for all kinds of questions and discussions of the season and our religious understandings of it and of each other. 7:00 – 8:30 in the Lounge.

A LENTEN RETREAT WITH THE REV. JAMES WARNKE WILL BE OFFERED AGAIN THIS YEAR, ON MARCH 26-27 (FRIDAY NIGHT – SATURDAY EVENING), AT THE MOUNT ST. FRANCIS RETREAT CENTER. Never made a retreat before? Don’t be anxious; all you have to do is decide to give yourself the gift of quiet time with God and to. (It is not a silent retreat, however; there will be plenty of time to talk with Mr. Warnke and other retreatants.) Get away from normal routine and put aside this particular time for your own spiritual growth. See the Rector for further details, and sign up now on the list on the main bulletin board (outside the front office) – or call the parish office. 18 Be Our Companion On The Way: Learning To See Your Life As A Spiritual Journey Join Your Fellow St. Matthew’s Parishioners this Lenten Season as we explore our story of faith.

Meetings will be on Wednesdays in March with a simple supper at 5:45 and sessions from 6:30 to 7:40. Childcare will be provided.

Contact the parish office for more information (895-3485).

Sign up on the main bulletin19 board or downstairs! Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

February 24th 6p – 8p Clingman Hall

Adults $3.50 Children (10 & under) $1.50 Families $10

Buy your tickets in the Narthex or at the door.

Hosted by the Youth of St. Matthew’s. All proceeds support youth ministry. 20 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s April 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR off and to those who are near… Further, Christ made it clear that we QUESTIONS were to treat ALL people with love; we What’s OF THE promise in our Baptismal vows to seek HEART and serve Christ in all persons… to strive for justice and peace among all Happening? What would you people (emphasis added). And con- ask Jesus if he stantly, in his teaching, in his actions, Upcoming came by your in his parables, Jesus goes beyond all roadside? Last Adult Education ...... 2 human boundaries to include everyone. month our Senior A Few Words From Warden, Bob But is the question one of who shall be saved, who shall be with God? We do The Assistant Rector ...... 3 Nesmith, asked that question in his column, and asked for your questions. have free will. God allows us to turn Vestry Comments...... 4 There is a box in the narthex, and our backs on God. (One of my favorite a place on our website: books in this regard, about heaven and Health Ministries ...... 4 [email protected] hell, is C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce;I to which you can send these. Here’s highly recommend it.) But I do believe Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 5 how we’re going to respond to them: God is always there for the one who  some will be used as sermon asks. Senior Highlights ...... 6 topics; Other faiths? I know that my way to  some will be addressed in adult God is through Jesus Christ. But I do Kenya News ...... 6 education or in small groups, primarily have friends of other faiths whom I find Volunteer Opportunities ..... 7 in the fall (this spring’s schedule is deeply grounded spiritually, and living full); in love. When I think about the God I Social Concerns ...... 7  some will be responded to in a encounter in Scripture, particularly in monthly column by various members Jesus, and the God I encounter in Church School News ...... 8 of our clergy and lay leadership. community and in prayer, I find it hard Please note that we are not saying to believe that this God would consign Youth Page...... 9 that we will answer the questions; that anyone to hell or oblivion (or what- may not be possible. But we will ever) simply because they were born at Prayer List ...... 10 respond. the wrong time or in the wrong place to know Christ. And I must also believe One of this month’s questions was: Parish Families ...... 11 that God is God, and I am not, and I Will God be the God of all people – certainly can only know a tiny bit INSERTS: even those of other faiths or those about God, as God chooses to reveal it. questioning God’s existence? Holy Week Schedule So, I believe that God will find anyone Good question! And, please note, not who is truly and sincerely trying to find Athletic Committee Survey one on which Christian theologians God, no matter what particular faith Internet Calendar agree. inspires the journey. It is certainly clear that God made us The God I encounter is a God of infinite all, loves us all, and calls us all. One of love and mercy, and I don’t believe any my favorite prayers at Morning Prayer of us will be abandoned. As I said, this reads (BCP, p.100): O God, you have is certainly a matter of dispute amongst made of one blood all the peoples of Christians, but I’ll put my marbles on the earth, and sent your blessed Son God’s never-ending love. to preach peace to those who are far + 1 Lucinda A FEW MORE WORDS FROM . . . The Rector Easter Offering Special Services The Rector and Vestry decided that our Easter offering this during Holy Week year will be shared between Episcopal Relief and Development(designated for Haiti) and Habitat for ALL our Holy Week services are important, of course, and I Humanity. We liked the idea that we would be reaching hope all of you will make every attempt to be here to make out to both near and far. Episcopal Relief and this journey from death into life together. But I want to Development is the national church’s outreach arm, and mention just three. responds particularly to emergencies around the world. The Agape Supper on Thursday night, following the 6:30 ERD uses local people; in Haiti, funds will be distributed service, is one of my very favorite things that we do at St. through Anglican bishops, priests, dioceses and parishes. Matthew’s. We gather as the disciples did, in that upper St. Matthew’s has done a lot with Habitat in the past, but room, over a simple supper of soup, bread, cheese, fruit, this year we have a very special project: we will be working and wine. It’s a beautiful setting, lit by candles and graced together to build a house with six other Episcopal parishes, by flowers, and there is a wonderful sense of fellowship and five Lutheran parishes. There’s a “Raise the Roof” just before the drama of Good Friday and the crucifixion. weekend scheduled for September 23-25, and EVERYONE On Good Friday at 7:30 PM we are offering something new: can get involved. a version of the traditional Stations of the Cross written/ After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples in a created/painted/danced/sung by members of this parish. number of ways. One appearance was on the shore of the We think it will an extraordinary and very moving way to Sea of Galilee, where he ate breakfast with them. He said to meditate on the meaning of the day. Simon Peter, “Simon, do you love me?” “Yes, Lord; you The Great Vigil of Easter begins at 6:00 on Easter morning, know that I love you”, Peter replied. Jesus said, “Feed my with the kindling of fire in the darkness. It is a dramatic and sheep.” In our own celebration of the resurrection, we moving service, continuing through lessons, renewal of should do the same: feed – or house – God’s own. baptismal vows and prayers, to the moment when the lights come up and we say Alleluia! for the Risen Christ. By Everything in the Easter Offering envelopes, as well as the having the service in the morning, we are able to see the “loose” collection on Easter Sunday will go to the Easter sun come up through the eastern window and dispel the Offering. Lucinda + darkness. A festive breakfast follows the service. UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION

April 2004 Sunday, 11:10-12:00

No Adult Ed Classes on Palm Sunday, April 4, and Easter Sunday, April 11 April 18 Dr. James Baughman, Professor of History at Jefferson Community College, Ph.D. (British History) from the University of Kentucky, doctoral speciality in the History of the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries, will present “Tragic Mary”. April 25 Sarah Gorham, poet, will read and have a signing of her third book, The Cure. Cathy Sutton and Mike Wright will lead a Contemporary Issues discussion.

2 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector Summertime’s Calling Me There may still be a bit of a nip in the air, but I am already great staff of counselors (including some youth from thinking about the warm days of summer. Bright colors, St. Matthew’s!). time out of doors, and a slower tempo – the season is like If that wasn’t enough, there is Youth Week at Kanuga no other. However, Camp and summer can also be a Conference Center time of exciting in Hendersonville, adventure and NC. activity, especially for the young people From June 13 of St. Matthew’s. through June 18, There are many Youth Week church-related features two activities available separate events for for our youth middle and high sponsored by the school students, parish, the diocese, similar to the and other Episcopal Winterlight organizations. I conference many of realize that summer our youth attended can be filled with last December. For many competing more information, commitments: jobs, you can visit the sports, camps, Kanuga web site at vacations and more. http:// However, I hope that www.kanuga.org/. young people and their families will consider some of the following opportunities. All of them should be lots and And, last but not least, is the Province IV Youth Event, lots of fun! from July 20 to July 25 at Berea College in Berea, KY. Our diocese is part of Province IV of the Episcopal Church and First of all is our own youth group’s annual mission trip every three years the province hosts a youth event. Open from Sunday, June 6 through Thursday, June 10. This to rising tenth graders through just graduated seniors, this year’s trip is to Washington, D.C. for several days of PYE promises to be a unique experience because a good service with a variety of local organizations, including part of each day will be working at a mission site at Barnes Food & Friends, Samaritan Ministries, the Potomac Mountain, KY. Some of the projects include building a Conservancy, and Episcopal Senior Ministries’Age-In- youth center to house visiting youth groups, rebuilding Place program. We will also explore the city and its many St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, and staffing a bible attractions and landmarks. While in D.C., the group will be school for the children that live on the mountain. guests of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church. The For more information, you can visit the PYE web site at chaperones for the trip include Lynn Miller, Nina http://www.mnogroup.com/pye/. Rodahaffer, and me. The total cost is $225.00 and that price includes air fare, accommodations, all meals, and local Whew – that is a lot to choose from! As I said above, I transportation. The trip is open to rising ninth graders hope that the young people of the parish will think through just graduated seniors. The strict deadline for seriously about participating in one or more of these registration is Monday, April 5, so, if you are interested, events. Many have already signed up and all of the please sign up as soon as possible. activities should be wonderful and moving as well as a great deal of fun. If you have any questions, please feel Next is All Saints’ Summer Camp, sponsored by the free to contact Lynn, Debbi, or me. And, as always, Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky at our conference center in financial assistance is abundantly available, so cost Litchfield, KY. Camp will include several sessions for should never be an issue if you or someone you know is different age groups, including Senior High Camp from interested. June 20 toJune 25 and Seventh &EighthGrade Camp from July 18 to July 23. All sessions will include swimming, This summer is going to be a blast! canoeing, arts and crafts, games, music, worship, and other activities. All sessions will have a chaplain, nurse, and a Ben

3 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Shamed by a Teenage Boy

(In Owensboro at Diocesan Convention Saturday, March the size of a two-year old but obviously much older. He 6, 2004) Since yesterday afternoon, the controversies over could not speak and, besides having a body that had the ordination of a homosexual bishop in New Hampshire stopped growing years before, he had a horribly disfigured have dominated my life and that of the 200 or so other face. It was painful to look at him. He had soiled his pants. Episcopalians gathered here for our annual Convention. I don’t know if the young man was a brother, cousin, Discussions and resolutions all seem to focus on uncle, friend, or perhaps even a paid attendant. It didn’t authority, power, and control: matter. He removed the soiled clothing, cleaned the boy, “I have it. You want it.” and dressed him in clean clothes. He did it lovingly. The tone of his voice and his actions demonstrated a concern “I’m right and I have God on my side to prove it.” and care for this person that shamed me. “No, I am right and you must be blind if you cannot We are debating the wrong things. We divert our attention see the scriptures confirming that.” and energies from what God expects us to do while Let’s bicker and fight over it! And it is all in the name worrying about whom other people love. God forgive us. of Jesus. We can do better than this. I know these people. I know Whispered conferences raise concern and speculation most of them are concerned about this church, about over supposed conspiracies. Motives are questioned. being servants in this part of God’s world. Community is People who were friends hardly speak. Parliamentary important to us. Why do we let ourselves be so easily maneuvering cuts off debate in hope of calming tensions. distracted and the community disrupted? This legislative conference is more political than religious, Back on the Convention floor, decisions are made to defer more Baptist than Anglican. Is this what Jesus expected debate and voting on resolutions that promise to divide from Peter’s and Paul’s efforts to build a church? us. It is hoped that we are going to spend a year in During lunch I stepped into the restroom. This hotel has a discussion and study that will bring us together rather family friendly men’s room with a table that folds down than tear us apart. And so I leave this Convention with from the wall for fathers to change their baby’s diapers. A hope for our church in Kentucky. young man (my guess is that he was in his late teens) was attending to what I thought to be his son. But as I passed by I didn’t see a baby. Instead there was a person about Bob

HEALTH MINISTRIES COMMITTEE

Hello Fellow Parishioners

We are set up as a health clearing house for education, related to Health and Wellness issues. We do not do hands-on nursing. We look forward to serving this congregation in the best way possible and we need your help. Over the next few weeks you will see a questionnaire asking for ideas, suggestions and participation in health related topics. Please take the time to fill one out, either on-line or in the Sunday bulletin. Stop any of us in the hallways at church to address any comments, questions or concerns related to our committee. We look forward to serving this congregation, with your help, in Health and Wellness issues, as best as we are able to. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, The Health Ministry Committee: Becky Donovan, Jane Disney, Nicholas Eastman, Helen Jones, Sharon Nesmith, Linda Roosevelt and Lillian Yeager 4 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Don’t Forget The Parish Office will close at noon on Good Friday, April 9, and be closed on to Easter Monday, April 12. Spring Forward! HOT Daylight Savings Time begins Saturday, April 3, so remember to turn your clocks forward one hour. We NEWS FLASH! wouldn’t want you to be late for church! We were excited to here that the Bishop appointed Michelle Yeager to the Commission on Ministry at the Diocesan Convention in Owensboro. Congratulations, Michelle! Give so more will live! PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARs Many thanks to those who donated blood and volunteered at the St. MAM blood drive held at St. Matthew’s in FOR A FAMILY FUN AFTERNOON February. Sixty-one potential donors came and 51 units AT ST. MATTHEW’S were accepted. The goal was 75 (based on past blood Please plan on joining us for family fun, Sunday drives). We hope to return to that goal in future drives. afternoon, May 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the back yard. The next blood drive will be on Thursday, April 15 from There will be flag football, 2:00-7:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Churchon volleyball and horse shoes, Breckinridge Lane. Please consider helping to make it a along with snacks and drinks. successful one. If you have questions about your Please sign up on the main eligibility you can call the Red Cross at 540-7163. Let’s bulletin board if you plan to attend. make this one the best ever!

A Big Big Thank You ... goes out to all who came to our Grounds Clean-Up Day on Saturday, March 13 and worked so hard trimming, pruning, raking, sweeping, replacing the old wood on the Birthday picnic tables and painting them. You can see great improvement all around the church and on the south end Celebrations of the parking lot. of our Thanks go to our youth, Matt Goldberg, Emily Brosend Homebound and her friendAmanda Naccarato. Thanks to our adults, Barbara and Greg Uligian, Rich andAnn Cody, Mardi for April Galvin, Jay Redman, Ellen Robertson, Lynn Miller,Aidan Stone, Dwayne Watson, Clay Smith, Bob Clark, Jan April 1 Mary Landers Garver,Thomas Drybrough, Kurt Ludwig andCleve Parkins. A special thanks goes to Cleve Parkins for April 13 Martha Scanlon bringing the work crew plenty of Krispy Kreme doughnuts April 19 Paul Terry for the morning’s task ahead. You did a wonderful job and thank you again for your time and hard work. Ann Davis

5 MORE PARISH NEWS

Youth to tour the Abbey We Couldn’t Do It Without You! The Senior High Youth Church School class will travel to I’d like to take this opportunity to thankAnne Hampton, the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, on Julie Davis, Michaeleen Peck, Joan Shepler, Lauren Sunday,April 18. We will depart from church at 11:00 a.m., Becker, Richard Rodahafer,Sue Speed, and Lee Fletcher have lunch on our way, and be at theAbbey for a tour, a who stepped up to help run the office on Saturdays while video and to hear the monks chant Psalms. Permission Betty Jobson is out. If you are interested in helping out, slips will be available in class on Sundays. If there are any please sign up on the bulletin board. questions, please speak with Gaylee Gillim, Alex Waldrop orDebbi Rodahaffer. Mardi Galvin

SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS

Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Luncheon Tuesday, April 27, 11:30 a.m. Special Guest Speakers: Bishop David Reed and Catherine Reed Rome turned into so much more than Bishop David and Catherine Reed expected. They thought it would be like earlier trips; they had each been to Rome—but not together. For Bishop Reed there would be some teaching, but it wasn’t clear exactly what that would amount to. In fact, they found themselves caught up in at least six surprising cultures. Catherine found herself studying Italian in a Refugee Center with Kurds, Romanians, Iraqis, and others, including a woman from Iceland. The Bishop was drawn into an Ecuadorian—Peruvian immigrant community. The cultural life of St. Paul’s Within the Wall Episcopal Church was very rich and exciting. Then there was the daily market for shopping and learning to live as an Italian. There was still the tourist Rome, the ecumenical Rome, the artistic Rome of the Imperial, early Christian, and Renaissance periods, and the bustling life of the great city that enveloped them. All of this happened within the month of February, and they hope to have sorted it all out by the time they speak on Tuesday,April 27.

Please sign up on the main bulletin board and indicate the dish you will bring! And please, bring enough for twelve people! KENYA NEWS

I have great news. The roof on the Wire Clinic has now been replaced. There will be no more rain coming in on the patients. Sister Teresa, the nurse at the clinic, sent me an e-mail: “I wish I could be near you now so that you could see how happy I am.” Thanks to your support of our Kenya Mission we were able to send the money to replace the clinic roof. We have wanted to complete this project since we first visited the clinic in 2000. Now it is complete. ~ Thank you.

Our preparations for our next trip to Kenya, September 4-15, are going well. We have 7-9 people who are planning on going. We will do medical work at the Wire Clinic and build a playground at St. Michael’s Church in Oyugis. We will also be working on our plansfor our June 2005 trip. If you have an interest in going please call me at church (895-3485) or on my cell phone (558-8603). Please pray for the group as we complete our preparations.

John Willingham 6 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer LentenFoodCollection Palm Sunday, April 4 is our last Sunday to collect moneyforDare to Care and Opportunities Wayside Christian Mission. All donated food items on Palm Sunday will be taken to the Food Pantry at Calvary Episcopal Church. One very big THANK YOU to everyone who has brought food or money during Babysit or Cook Lent. The generous donations of food and money that you have made will help for teenage mothers Dare to Care and Wayside continue to serve the hungry among us. We will report at Cornerstone donation totals after Easter. Thursday,April 1, 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (carpool from the church parking lot) WAYSIDE CHRISTIAN MISSION: More Than A Soup Kitchen Habitat Wayside Christian Mission began in Louisville in 1957 through the vision of for Humanity Richard Anderson, a student at Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Over the years, Saturday,April 3, the need for human services for those who have lost much has led WCM to broaden its ministry into many areas. 8:30 a.m. to Noon Wayside provides shelters for single women, men and families with children as well or 3:00 p.m. as offering transitional housing and family reunification apartments. Those in need (carpool from the may take advantage of a drug/alcohol recovery program, GED classes, Literacy church parking lot) classes or vocational/job training. The Child Development Center at WCM serves homeless preschoolers staying in St. George’s / Calvary any Louisville area shelter at no charge to the parents or host shelter. Food Collection The Cafeteria with which many of us are familiar serves three hot meals everyday of Sunday the year. Over 100 are fed daily. Our Lenten food contributions support this ministry. Sunday,April 4 Two Thrift Stores are maintained by WCM so that those in need will be able to buy used clothing and household items. Frequently, St. Matthew’s Clothes Closet items Serve lunch at are taken to Wayside where extra items are sold through the Thrift Stores. Wayside Christian Additionally, WCM provides clothing and school supplies for homeless and formerly homeless children, distributes Christmas toys and food to over 6000 Misson persons, and, with the help of the KY Motorcycle Association, provides Easter Easter Sunday, baskets for homeless and formerly homeless children. April 11, Residents at the center may participate in church services, Bible Study classes, and 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 pm. spiritual enrichment classes. All that goes on at WCM is founded in the Christian (carpooling may be arranged Gospel: “Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only…” James 1:22. with Dr. Blake) WCM continually expresses their appreciation for the many ways St. Matthew’s shares in their ministry. We should all be grateful for the services WCM provides our community.

Remember! Easter Day services are at 6:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. - NOT 8:00 and 10:00!

7 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer Director of Christian Education “Calling All Angels” by Laura Rhea While driving to work a couple of weeks ago I heard a song by the group, Train, titled, “Calling All Angels”. The song has a lyric that says, “when children have to play inside so they won’t disappear.” I had heard this song many times before, but for some reason when I heard it this time, it brought tears to my eyes. These were tears that came from fear and anger. The fear came from the fact that not a week can go by where I don’t hear another terrifying story of a child being abducted, abused, molested, neglected or even murdered. What’s worse is that many times these horrible things are not done by strangers, but instead are done by people who not only the children know, but who also occupy positions of trust in their lives such as parents, other family members, teachers, and/or even religious leaders and teachers. The anger came from the fact that I can’t do a whole lot to protect most children other than to pray and have faith that God will protect them. As a parent I always worry about my children and all others whose lives are connected to mine. This world is a crazy place and as parents all we can do is our best to raise them in a safe and loving environment and try to surround them with people who will respect them and work hard to help us teach them and guide them through childhood to adolescence and finally, into adulthood. It is from this perspective that I feel extremely lucky to be a part of St. Matthews and our wonderful Children’s Program. The people who work with our children have a genuine love and respect for them and are a wonderful help in this great task and responsibility of leading our children through this incredible journey of life. Our church and the activities it holds for our children provide a safe place for them to play grow and learn. In my family’s brief five years as members of the parish, I have been very impressed with the way the activities and events of the program have grown and have given us the chance to further immerse our children in religious teaching in a way that they will enjoy and that we can have confidence in being a safe and beneficial environment for them. Our church offers wonderful Christian education programs for children of all ages every Sunday. We also offer a fantastic Bible School in the summer and Parents’ Night Out one Saturday Night per month. These are only a few of the many things that our church offers to parents, and more things are being planned and studied for the future. If you are a parishioner, use the incredible offerings of our Children’s Program and invite others you know to share in the great joy of the wonderful gift God has given us, our children.

Upcoming Events you won’t want to miss! Palm Sunday, April 4 4’s through 2nd graders sing in church today! Please meet in the Senior High room downstairs to rehearse at 9:35 a.m. Thursday, April 8 Maundy Thursday Eucharist with footwashing, 6:30 p.m. and Agape Dinner, 7:30 p.m. (Childcare provided) Friday, April 9 Good Friday Services, Noon and 7:30 p.m. (Childcare provided) Saturday, April 10 Annual storytelling and Easter Egg Hunt, 3:30 p.m. If your child or grandchild will be participating, please bring one dozen plastic eggs per child to the main kitchen or Debbi’s office beforeApril 4. Sunday, April 11 The Great Vigil, 6:00 a.m. (NO childcare provided) (No Church School) Easter Eucharist, 9:00 a.m. (Childcare provided) Easter Eucharist, 11:00 a.m.(Childcare provided) Easter Eucharist, 5:00 p.m.(NO children provided) Saturday, April 17 Parents’ Night Out, 5:00-9:00 p.m. Sign up downstairs by noon on April 11. Friday, April 23 Let’s Do Lunch!, 11:45 a.m. at dittos on Bardstown Road. (Childcare provided at church.) SUMMER CAMP AT ALL SAINTS - REGISTER NOW! 8 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

April 2004 SNAC Sunday at 6 PM Annual Summer Mission Trip Join us every Sunday evening (except Sunday When: Sunday, June 6th through Thursday, June 10th evenings when other youth activities are planned) Where: Washington, D.C. for Sunday Night at Church. It is from 6-7:30 PM. Cost: $225 - Includes airfare, local Free Pizza! Middle school youth and senior high transportation, lodging and all meals. will be meeting separately. Note special times onApril 18th andApril (Financial aid available) 25th. No SNAC on Easter Sunday - April 11th. For four days of outreach ministry with Sunday, April 4th - Games and Pizza several local organizations. We will also Sunday, May 2nd - Kickball - 6-7:30 PM have a chance to explore the city, visit local attractions, and have a lot of Sunday, May 16th - Confirmation fun. While in the D.C. area, the group will stay at St. Columba’s Episcopal Sunday, May 23rd- Senior Recognition/Youth Sunday Church in the Tenlytown neighborhood of Washington, nearAmerican University. Senior High to Abby of Gethsemani The Senior High Sunday school class will be If you are interested in attending this trip, please complete and submit the going to theAbby of Gethsemani in Trappist, KY registration form (see Ben or Lynn or download it from the youthpage on on Sunday,April 18th. The class will leave after the web site) by Monday, April 5th. This date will be strictly adhered to the 10 AM service and return about 4:30 PM. The since the group will be flying and the plane tickets need to be purchased group will tour the Abby and have lunch on the in advance. way.Therewill beno normalSNAC onthe 18th. A detailed itinerary will be available once you register. If you have any For more information an theAbby of Gethsemani further questions, please feel free to contact Ben or Lynn at any time. go to: http://www.monks.org/ Please join us!

Middle School Lock-in Easter Egg Hunt The Middle School group will have a lock-in beginning on Friday,April 16th Saturday April 10th at 3:30pm.Our youth will need to be at at8:00 PMandendingonSaturday,April17th at8:00AM.The lock-inwill church at 3:00pm to help hide the eggs and then stay to help include: bowling, movies, food, late night Eucharist and games. (This will the children find them. We will be through around 4:30pm. take the place of SNAC on April 18th.) Bats Camp and Retreat Events Sunday, April 25th - Bats game. The game starts at 1:15 PM. Senior High Summer Gathering - June 11th - 13th. We will meet at church at 1:00 PM Senior (SYP) and Junior (JYP) Young People’s and carpool to the Bats vs. the Conferences at Kanuga - June 13-18 Toledo Mud Hens baseball game. Senior High Camp - June 20th - 25th. We will return to church for pick-up Fifth and Sixth Grade Camp - July 11th - 16th. by about 4:30 PM. Bring spending money for concessions. We will buy your game ticket. Seventh and Eighth Grade Camp - July 18th - 23th. Province IV Youth Event (PYE) at Berea College - July 20 - 25th. Plant Sale Pickup Plant sale pickup day is Saturday, April 24th from 11AM until 1:30 PM. The plants will be delivered Got a quick question for Ben? The Friday, April 23rd about 5:30PM. We’llneedyouth new youth AOL Instant Messenger to help unload, sort and count on Friday. We’ll also address is: youthstmattky need youthat 9:15 AM to start pulling orders and for calling and reminding folks to pick up their orders.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

9 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of April 4 Week of April 11 Clark: Kevin, Michaeleen Peck Costello: Lynn

Clark: Melinda Covell: Charles

Clark: Robert, Diane Covell: Robert

Cleveland: Bess Crabtree: Robert, Laura, Hana

Cochran: Shirley, Henry, Henry, Fredericka Crocker: Jay, Clay Smith

Cody: Richard, Ann Crocker: Michael, Candis

Collins: Christopher, Sarah, Madeleine Cubbage: Amy, Graham Troop

Collins Shaver, Linda Currie: Amy

Copeland: Clay, Betsy Jacobus Dangremond: Bob

Corey: Tracy Davis: Ann

Week of April 18 Week of April 25 Davis: Joseph Disney: Paul, Jane

Davis: Julie Dobroth: Alison

Day: Joan Dobroth: Virginia

Dearing: Brian, Stephanie, Hank Dodson: Frank, JoAnn

Deters: Lee, Penny Shaw Dolt: Louis, Judith

Devitt: Jack, Helen Dolt: Omea

Dick: David, Mary Frances, David, Elizabeth, Catherine, Donovan: Becky William Donovan: Patrick, Kristin, Barrett, Claire, Grace Diebold: Al, Sue, Alex Dooley: Ruby Diedenhofen: Cynthia Dosker: Joseph, Lucy, Katherine, Joseph Dillman: Bruce, Anita

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Charles Harris, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby,Adrian Wheeler, Mark Barry,Allan Lanceta, The Rev. Robert Brill, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

10 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Richard, Christine, Taylor and Colin Skees from St. John’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte, NC Pamela Ritter from St. Ann’s Episcopal Church, Amsterdam, NY Cynthia Jo Stringfield from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY

Transfers Out John and Carolyn Markham to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY

Births James Barry Bingham Reily, son of Stephen Reily and Emily Bingham, February 25

Deaths Theodosia (Theo) Tebbs Mashburn, March 4

We were sorry to hear about the deaths of Sarah Gorham’s sister Faith Huff’s father Melissa Barrett’s mother Scott Miller’s mother Jon Arnold’s father + + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + +

11 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Brian Dearing, Seminarian Intern

Voice Mail Extensions and E-mail Addresses for the Clergy and Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected] 2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1412 BE A PART OF IT! St. Matthew’s parishioners! We want – no, we NEED – your input! What are your dreams for St. Matthew’s? Where do you see us doing continuing ministry and/or new ministry? How can we best fulfill our mission to be “Christ’s hands in the world”? April and May will be chockfull of meetings to dream, discuss, listen, and plan. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND THE CONGREGATIONAL MEETING ON PALM SUNDAY! Talk to the Rector, the Vestry, the architects about your hopes – and, yes, your fears. BE THERE!

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Planning & Design Discernment

Interview Schedule

Week of April 4 (Palm Sunday) (Sunday) – Congregational Meeting at 11:00 AM (Church School hour)

Week of April 11 (Easter)

In addition to the above, data collection options will be available through individual meetings with Gibbs Reese following Sunday services, and through a questionnaire to be developed and posted on the web site. And watch the bulletin board for regular updates!

Presentation Schedule

Week of May 9 (Mother’s Day) Sunday, May 9 – Preliminary Design Presentation to Congregation at 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM

Week of May 16 (Confirmation Sunday) Sunday, May 16 – Preliminary Design Presentation to Congregation at 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM

Week of May 23 Sunday, May 23 – Final Design Presentation to Congregation at 9:00 AM, 11:00 AM and 6:00 PM

Week of June 7 Sunday, June 7 – Presentation of Renderings The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s May 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR and suddenly there are all sorts of possibilities. All the comments and Dear People of ideas you gave them were taken into What’s St. Matthew’s, consideration, and on April 15 an initial Alleluia! Christ presentation of two possible plans was Happening? is risen! When made to the Vestry and Planning you receive this Design Committee. You have never A Few Words From issue of the Spirit heard such excited conversation and The Assistant Rector ...... 2 at the beginning of so many opinions in your life! I think May, we will still “all fired up” is the only accurate Upcoming be in the midst of description. We will have MANY more Adult Education ...... 2 the Great 50 Days of Eastertide. So ideas, drafts, plans, etc. given to us for keep celebrating and saying Alleluia! consideration before anything is Vestry Comments...... 3 decided, so please know: We need Forty days after Easter is Ascension YOUR input! Nothing is decided yet – Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 4 Day, and we will observe that day with the process is a collegial one with ALL a celebration of the Holy Eucharist at Senior Highlights ...... 5 of us participating. So – please come 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 20. Ten and participate after church (whichever Volunteer Opportunities..... 6 days later, Sunday. May 30, is the service you attend) on May 16 and 23 great feast of Pentecost. We celebrate and give us your reactions, opinions, Social Concerns ...... 6 the coming of the Holy Spirit, and the and ideas. so-called “birthday of the Church”. It Church School News ...... 7 is the 3rd of the three great feasts of We had a wonderful Holy Week and the year (Christmas and Easter being Easter here at St. Matthew’s, and I am Discernment Update...... 8 the other two), and is a day especially very grateful to so many of you who Youth Page...... 9 appropriate for baptisms. (If you are helped make it possible. I was interested in baptism for yourself or especially moved by the reflections Prayer List ...... 10 your child, please contact the parish that were shared at the Stations of the office as soon as possible!) Cross on Good Friday, and by the joy Parish Families...... 11 so palpable in our Easter services In this joyful and holy season we are (special thanks to the choir!). Easter continuing our exploration of our INSERTS: continues – but now it’s time to go out space needs as they relate to our and share the good news, and do the Internet Calendar mission and ministry. And now it’s work that Christ has given us to do. getting exciting! The architects are Bats Game and Picnic starting to come up with specific ideas + Vacation Bible School Lucinda Bishop Gulick will be with us on Sunday, May 16, at the 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. services! 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector One Year After

As I sit down to type this column, I can not believe that A few hundred days in a collar later, I think I have achieved I am approaching the one year anniversary of both my some matter of competence in donning the weighty deaconate and my calling to St. Matthew’s. While my time accessory. However, I do still chuckle a bit when I catch thus far on Hubbards Lane has been quite eventful as well my reflection in the mirror with the collar on. I still feel a bit as fulfilling, May 31, 2003 seems like just yesterday. silly at times, like a kid trying on a costume. And, I also still feel that continuing change in my spiritual identity. In honor of this nostalgic mood, I re-read an article I wrote a year ago for my field education parish’s newsletter about I do not know if that change will ever be completed. The my then approaching ordination and move to Louisville. mandate to, “proclaim by word and deed the Gospel of I began the piece with a story about trying on a clerical Jesus Christ, preach, declare God’s forgiveness to penitent collar for the first time. I wrote, sinners, pronounce God’s blessing, [and] to share in the administration of Holy Baptism and in the celebration of “After a somewhat laborious process of tugging, the mysteries of Christ’s Body and Blood,” from the pulling, twisting, and figuring out which button ordination rite in the Book of Common Prayer is a fits in which hole, I walked over to a mirror and substantial charge and responsibility. But, I do believe saw myself for the first time in a collar. I must that, thanks to God’s grace and the support of my family, admit, that my initial reaction was to burst into friends, and the people and staff of St. Matthew’s, I am spontaneous laughter. I laughed out loud for a beginning to grow into the vocation, and the collar, that I good minute or so. I’m not sure why I laughed. was given one year ago. My laughter could have been a very natural emotional release after the stressful process of As many members of St. Matthew’s learned during Lent, putting on the collar. Maybe I laughed because we are all on a journey and each of our journeys is varied the white collar worn by the clergy of many and challenging and marvelous. I thank God for the people Christian denominations is, admittedly, a little that have been with me so far on my journey, especially the silly looking. Or, perhaps my laughter was a folks I have met on Hubbards Lane. The journey is just deeper, more profound, psychological beginning, but I am a bit farther along now than I was recognition of the approaching change in my before. theological and vocational identity.” Ben UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION

May 2004 Sunday, 11:10-12:00

May 2 Dr. Jeff Skinner, Poets and Faith. Parents in Conversation.

May 9 Steve Perkins, Wellspring.

May 16 Bishop Gulick’s visit.

May 23 Final Design Presentation from the architects

2 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Reflections After Easter It’s the Wednesday of Easter Week, three weeks into I find myself wondering where God is in this mess. Jesus spring, as I write this from a Hampton Inn in Western must be shaking his head, wondering why we still don’t Kentucky. Yesterday I left Louisville in a cold rain to drive understand his message and ministry. Then I remember to Calvert City. Midway I found myself following a Lent and Holy Week at St. Matthew’s. During Lent over a snowplow on the West KY Parkway because there were hundred people met faithfully each Wednesday evening to 2–4 inches of snow on the ground. By the time I arrived in tell the stories of their spiritual journeys. Good Friday’s Calvert City the sun was shining. These are strange times. Stations of the Cross service was a series of extraordinary reflections by people from this parish. People from grade- Yesterday our legislature fumbled through another session school age to card-carrying AARP members reflected on looking more like the Three Stooges than public servants. the Passion story through poetry and prose, dance and They found unanimity in responding to a mob mentality on music. The depth of spirituality and commitment human sexuality while ignoring basic human needs. These overwhelmed me. It was a remarkable experience. are worrisome times. I may be wrong, but I sense and see that we have left Last night our president spent over an hour on prime-time behind those distractions about budgets, leadership, TV defending his decisions and actions that may or may gender, and change, and we are again truly concerned not have protected us from terrorists. Only history will about each other and the world outside our walls. In a know if he was right. However, there can be no argument way we have been resurrected. that our invasion of Iraq has not had its intended results and so far has brought death and chaos to many. These And so I find encouragement among this community of are frightening times. Episcopal Christians. Bob

The reflections of prose and poetry written for the Good Friday Stations of the Cross are available on the St. Matthew’s web site and in printed form. ******* After nine months of writing this monthly column I know there are many people in the parish who are as passionate about what they observe as I and who could write more eloquently. I invite you to submit your thoughts to the Spirit for publication.

The Future of Education The Rev. E. Moray Peoples, Jr. As our parish looks to the future, it seems essential that we successful program. Fleur McCrocklin, a great Christian provide ample opportunities to honor the questions people Educator, taught me that. bring to us. St. Matthew’s has always been a place where Secondly, I am continually amazed of the very poor job the questions are welcome, learning is treasured, and debate Episcopal Church (in general) has done over the years for and discussion are honored. Our children’s program, adults. I experience people longing to deal with important particularly, is known for its excellence, and our youth issues in their lives and being “confined” by their own program is greatly strengthened and improved. But we can Biblical literacy. do more! We need to introduce people to the Episcopal Church, in Of particular concern to me are environments for middle particular to St. Matthew’s, with a program like “Via and high school people that offer the participants a heavy Media.” This is a new 8 week introductory tool “designed hand in building their curriculum itself. Adult leadership is to proclaim the Good News of God in Christ Jesus and to of the utmost importance in doing so. My own bias with present the Episcopal Church in a contemporary context.” young people is that the very act of “figuring out” their After we welcome and introduce newcomers, we must offer issues (the curriculum) becomes the curriculum! variety of educational opportunities in a variety of formats. Youth leaders who know their stuff, know how to teach and Education For Ministry is my favorite. proclaim the Gospel in such an educational atmosphere. People come with questions. They want a safe and lively For teenagers to learn to be responsible for their own environment in which to discern God’s presence in their spiritual learning is the heart and soul of any genuinely lives and the world. Bring ‘em on!

3 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Thank You, Thank You, Thank You for a wonderful Agapé Supper

Special thanks to . . . Specialthanks Lila Ludwig, Ellen Robertson, and Mary Jo Gillimfor tothewomenwhomadeour preparing the two soups onApril 8; Dwayne Watson, Ann EasterVigilBreakfastsospecial: Davis for setting the tables and placing the chairs, and Lila Ludwig for arranging the beautiful spring flowers on the tables;Jennette Carter, Lila Ludwig, Ellen Robertson, and Kitty Clark Susan Mayes Mary Jo Gillim for slicing the bread, cheese, and fruit and Dorothy Rohrer Martha Wallingford placing them on the tables; Don and Joy Bell, and Bill and Martha McKinney for serving soup; Doug Gillim, Richard Ann Miller Pat Brown Rodahaffer, and Jack Carter for being our wine stewards. Joyce Stiles Thank You! Thank you Pat Brown and Mo Wakefield for your help in Our energetic and dedicated clean-up crew included Mary hosting the Vigil Breakfast and to Debbi Rodahafferfor Joand Doug Gillim, Jackand Jennette Carter, Dwayne cleaning up after the Choir Breakfast! Watson, Ann Davis, andSarah Weston, who wiped all the chairs and tables clean. Dwayne Watson and Mardi Galvin broke down the tables and stacked the chairs. The kitchen was spotless after everyone’s efforts! We sing your praises! The Lunch Bunch Will meet at Bahama Breeze, 104 Oxmoor Center, at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 20. Please call Betty Triplett, 425-9733, if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you there!

Birthday Celebrations Family of our Fun Homebound Afternoon for May Sunday, May 2 May 16 Stu Smith Please plan to come for our Family FunAfternoonat May 27 Barbara Hartwell St. Matthew’s (backyard) at 1:30 p.m. There will be flag football, volleyball, horseshoes, other games, and snacks. This will be fun for families, couples, and singles. Please plan on joining us for an afternoon of fun! If you have questions please callClay Smith at 895-3377. 4 MORE PARISH NEWS

You may notice a familiar name amongst those people who have transferred in to St. Matthew’s this month: Jim Trimble. Jim grew up here at St. Matthew’s, and is now a 2nd year seminarian at the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas, and a postulant for Holy Orders. We are delighted to have Jim back with us, as well as his wife Sarah, and son Riley. Jim writes: St. Matthew’s has been a part of me since 1972 when I started kindergarten. I was later welcomed as a student at Vacation Bible School, then youth group, all while still a member of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church. In 1984, the St. Matthew’s family, again, opened its arms as Bishop Reed laid hands on me and received me into the Episcopal Church. My father and I shared in, along with the rest of our family, the hospitality and love of this neighborhood faith community. This was the place of my first recognition of call, church leadership, and marriage to Sarah Peoples. Since Jim is inAustin, we won’t be seeing too much of him, but we have a real chance to support him in his journey to priesthood. He will be in church on Memorial Day weekend, and at least several other times during the course of the year. There will be other ways to show our support, but first and foremost, let’s keep him in our prayers throughout his seminary years.

Thank You, Our Very Own Thank You, Picassos? Come see what you can do with just Thank You! a little paint, imagination and weekly dedication! The Women’s Board of the Episcopal Church Home thanks Rick Skees has his own rendition of St. Matthew’s roof you for putting St. Matthew’s over the top. For the first top on display outside of Clingman Hall. Please stop by time, we sold over three tables that enabled us to give a and take a look. substantial sum toward the purchse of a van and other The Art Group is opened to all, even if you’re a beginner or items that enhance the lives of the residents. a “Picasso”. We meet everyThursday at 9:30 a.m.

SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS

Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Luncheon Tuesday, May 25, 11:30 a.m. Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Condict Moore Dr. Moore will talk about the unhealthy aspects of our modern life that makes us sit 80% of working time. This produces low back, off-balance posture, spine stiffness and pain. This spinal fixation prevents most people from standing and walking without effort or pain after mid-life. He will demonstrate a simple routine to restore back flexibility and alingment.

Please sign up on the main bulletin board and indicate the dish you will bring! And please, bring enough for twelve people! 5 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer LentenFoodDrive This Lent St. Matthew’s made a significant contribution in the effort to fight Opportunities hunger in our community. Parishioners gave well over 700 cans/boxes of food and over $550.00. The food items donated on the first Sundays of March and April were St. George’s / Calvary taken to the food pantries at Calvary and St. George’s. All other food items and monetary contributions were divided between Dare To Care and Wayside Christian Food Collection Mission. THANK YOU St. Matthew’s for your generosity! Sunday And that is not all: Everything given to Wayside Christian Mission was matched by another donor, and every $1.00 given to Dare To Care actually buys $7.00 worth Sunday, May 2 of food. None of this would have been possible without the help of Jim Blake and Bill Babysit or Cook Burr who “manned” the collection jar and delivered the food and money to for teenage mothers Wayside Christian Mission and Dare To Care. Don Kissling delivered the First Sunday food to the food pantries at Calvary and St. George’s Community Center. at Cornerstone Many thanks to these men for their help and to all of you for your gifts. Thursday, May 8, 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (carpool from the church parking lot) Let’s Build a Playground at The Home of the Innocents! Habitat The Home of the Innocents needs 500 volunteers to work between 7:30 a.m. and for Humanity dark from Wednesday, June 9, through Sunday, June 13, to build a playground that will be wheelchair friendly. St. Matthew’s would like to send a large team of Saturday, May 8, workers on Friday, June 11, and Saturday, June 12, to help in this exciting project 8:30 a.m. to Noon for the children. You do not have to be a skilled carpenter; there will be something or 3:00 p.m. for everyone to do. (carpool from the To make this project even more fun, volunteers from our Covenant Parish, Holy church parking lot) Trinity Catholic Church, will be joining us to build the playground on these two days. Serve lunch at Please take time to stop by the bulletin board and sign up to work a 4½-hour shift. We will have a good time working together, and our efforts will certainly make a lot Wayside Christian of children very happy. WE NEED YOU… SIGN UP NOW! Misson Sunday, May 9, 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 pm. Focus on Homebound Seniors (carpooling may be arranged Senior Citizens East, founded by St. Matthews Area Ministries in 1974, is an with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) independent nonprofit agency guided by a voluntary Board of Directors. The See sign up sheet on the agency focuses on understanding and enhancing the lives of our older citizens. main bulletin board. SCE moved their offices in 2003 from Harvey Browne Presbyterian to their current location at 4224 Shelbyville Road. SCE’s mission has been to provide affordable at- home support services for seniors that will allow them to stay as independent as We collected $250 for possible and live better, longer at home. SCE offers such services as Dinners to Door, grocery shopping, counseling, Wellspring in our Good transportation and escort service to appointments, and various custom-care home Friday Offering, $2,000 services. SCE Service Specialists make home visits to assess needs and arrange for the appropriate in-home service through a contract with Elderserve, Inc. The for the Home of the homemaker staff is screened, insured, and well trained to perform chore services, Innocents, and $5,583 for respite care, and home management. Counseling and support services for those with aging parents are also available. A the Episcopal Relief video/workbook series, Aging Parents – Family Survival Guide, may be purchased Fund this year in our or rented to help one with crisis and planning with aging parents. SCE depends on volunteers to make deliveries and provide transportation and Easter Offering! escort services to appointments. Becky Ricketts of SCE ( 895-2805, extension 116) ThankYou! welcomes anyone interested in volunteering. 6 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer Director of Christian Education

Many thanks to our youth, who really know how to throw an Easter Egg Hunt! Our youth spent one Sunday night filling 1,000 plastic eggs with treats. They found some very unique hiding places! Natalie Weis held the children’s attention as she read Easter stories before the children went outside to hunt. Then the hunt was on, and a great time was had by parents, grandparents and children! Special thanks to the “Bunny” who made a surprise appearance! Our next date for Holy Baptism is Pentecost Sunday, May 30, during our 10:00 a.m. Eucharist. If you are interested in having your child baptized, please call Lucinda Laird or Debbi Rodahaffer at 895-3485. Please join us for our monthly lunch at ditto’s Restaurant on Bardstown Road onFriday, May 14, at 11:45 a.m. Childcare will be available at church at 11:30 a.m. Sign-up on the bulletin board downstairs! Parents’Night Out will be Saturday, May 15 from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Please sign up on the bulletin board downstairs by May 9 if you will be going out or sitting!!! Questions, call Annie Tarbox at 439-4013. Another church school season will end on Sunday, May 23. That doesn’t mean we close our doors for the summer!!! Children’s Chapelcontinues every week during our 10 a.m. Eucharist. Vacation Bible School will be going “Hawaiian,” complete with volcanoes, Monday, July 12, through Thursday, July 15. Summer Camp at All Saints is an option for our first graders through high-school-age students! Parents’ Night Out continues, as does “Let’s Do Lunch!” at ditto’s. Bring your child to our playground any day and stay for a picnic. There will be parish-wide activities all summer as well. Our Church School Teachers are the BEST!!! Many thanks to the following teachers who are guides and nurturing participants with our children and us as we walk the path of our spiritual journey together! May God bless their lives.

3’s Jenice Carolan, Doris Morrow, and Monique Schmitt 4’s Amy Tuckerand Shannon Edwards K’s Kevin Link, Mike Risley, and Randy Strause 1st Graders Anne and Mike Niel 2nd Graders Beth and Steve Bullock, and Stephanie Smith 3rd Graders Tyler Goldberg 4th Graders Libby and JonHardy,and Nina Rodahaffer 5th Graders Angela Koshewa Middle School Amy Currie, Brian Dearing, and Thomas Drybrough High School Gaylee GillimandAlex Waldrop

Articles for the children’s page in the Spirit are sometimes written by a member of the Children’s Program Committee. This month’s article is written by Barbara Voss.

There are so many exciting things occurring right now that laughter and playfulness combined with an attention within our Christian Education Program at St. Matthew’s. to structure are necessary for teaching the art of religious To begin, we are in the process of preparing for Vacation communication (Godly Play by Jerome Berryman, page xi). Bible School for children from 3-years old through those I am excited about this program because it follows a entering Grade 5 (please reserve these dates: July 12-15, 9 “hands-on” approach. The three main components of a.m. to 12:00 noon). Our theme this year is going to be Godly Play include the elements of religious language “Lava Lava Island.” Please look for the registration form in sacred story, parable, and liturgical action (Godly Play, this newsletter! page 19). Each element has unique characters, buildings, or scenery that go with it. These elements are arranged on Three of us recently attended a “Godly Play” workshop shelves in the classroom and are always open and available and thoroughly enjoyed the experience! We will be using to the children. I am glad that this program will be there for this program for our 4s and Ks next year. “Godly Play” was created by Jerome Berryman and follows the principle continued at the top of page 8 7 MORE CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Barbara Voss’s article, continued from page 7 our children, as they learn not just by listening but by As this church school year comes to a close, I thank all of participating in the classroom. As a final note, Godly Play the teachers who have volunteered their time to lead our utilizes Howard Gardner’s “seven primary intelligences.” children. They are appreciated beyond words for their Gardner believed that there are predominant ways in which commitment to nurturing our young people. On behalf of people receive and process information. The seven all our parents, thank you for your weekly lesson primary intelligences are: linguistic, logical—mathematical, preparation and caring dispositions spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, intrapersonal, and We look forward to seeing you at Vacation Bible School! interpersonal. By using Gardner’s philosophy, Berryman ensures that each child in the classroom will connect on some level with Godly Play. The energy created from the program is exciting, and we are all anxious to get started! Barbara

BUILDING THE SPIRIT — Discernment Process Update

The interview phase is now complete. Four different ideas have been presented.

Were you unable to attend any of the recent committee presentations? Plans are to post the latest drawings on the St. Matthew’s web site: www.stmatt-ky.org .

The next phase of the process will be concluded on May 16 and 23 following each service. Design presentations will be given to the congregation at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m., and 6 p.m. Your input is vital, so please attend at least one of these presentations! Attending both would be most helpful.

Renderings will be presented on Sunday, June 6, at 11:15 a.m. We hope to see everyone there, so please join us!

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8 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

May 2004

SNAC Sunday at 6 PM Senior Recognition Due to lots of special events, SNAC Sunday (Sunday Night at Church) will only be held once Sunday,May 23 is Senior Recognition this month, on May 23.Regular SNAC ends on Sundayat the10:00a.m. service. ASenior May 30th and will start up again in the fall! brunch will follow at Garrett’s after the 10:00 a.m. service. Family Fun Afternoon Sunday, May 2nd. Youth are encouraged to join End of Year Cook-Out their families for activities in the back yard at church Sunday, May 30 we will have an End of the Year on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. There will be flag Cook-Out. Join us for games and a cook-out to football, volleyball, kick ball, horse shoes, snacks and celebrate the end of the school year from 5:30- drinks. (no separate youth group that night.) 7:30 p.m. Parents and rising 6th graders are invited.

Renaissance Fun Park Annual Summer Mission Trip Sunday, May 16th. Meet at When: Sunday, June 6th through Thursday, June 10th church at 4:30 p.m. We will Where: Washington, D.C. carpool to the Renaissance Fun Congratulations to the 16 young people registered Park (formerly known as The for the trip! Watch the mail for a detailed itinerary, Park at Middletown). Play various forms and other information in the next few miniature golf, arcade games weeks. There will be a mandatory meeting of all and ride go-carts from 5-7 p.m. participants and at least one parent / guardian on Thursday, May 13, Pick-up at church at 7:30 p.m. Bring $10 to share in expenses. To find out 7:15-8 p.m. more about the Renaissance Fun Park go to: www.funatthepark.com If you have any questions, please contact Ben or Lynn at any time.

Camp and Retreat Events This summer . . . Senior High Summer Gathering - June 11th - 13th. Senior (SYP) and Junior (JYP) Young People’s Go to camp and have fun! Conferences at Kanuga - June 13-18. Watch for events this summer! Senior High Camp - June 20th - 25th. Fifth and Sixth Grade Camp - July 11th - 16th. Seventh and Eighth Grade Camp - July 18th - 23th. Sunday, May 9 Province IV Youth Event (PYE) at Berea College - July 20 - 25th. Service Project Sunday, May 16 Got a quick question for Ben? The 9:00 a.m. new youth AOL Instant Messenger Festive Confirmation Breakfast with the Bishop address is: youthstmattky for Confirmands, their families and sponsors. Confirmation - 10:00 a.m.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

9 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of May 2 Week of May 9 Drybrough: Rosemary Ellis: Steve, Barbara, Louisa, Peter Drybrough: Thomas Erich: Barbara Duncan: Anne Fairleigh: Winslow Duvall: Scott, Julie, Ava, Kora Ferguson: Jo, Gita Eastman: Nicholas, Katherine, Benjamin Fletcher: Lee, Jody, Erin, Zach Eberhardt: Torvald, Iris Frey: Andrew, Shannon, Sam, Amelia Edwards: Todd, Shannon, Cameron, Ireland Friedman: Beth, Allie Edwards: William, Bettye Fuller: Ann Eff: Jane Garling: Nancy Eicholtz: Tim, Saxonie, Sunny Garrison: Ron, Janet

Week of May 16 Week of May 23 Garver: David, Jan Green: Michael, Donna, Scott, Jill Geary: Jack Griffin: Lowell, Matthew Gillim: Doug, Mary Jo Grimes: Margaret Gillim: Gaylee Grote: Don, Angela, Matthew, Andrew Glauber: Mary Jane Guthrie: Rosalie Goldberg: Tyler, Steven, Matthew, Jonathan Haberbush: Virginia Good: Brian, Courtney, Hudson, Townsend Hall: Tony, Terri, Shane, Kayla Goodwyn: Mary Hampton: Mike, Anne, Laura, Jennifer Gorham: Sarah, Jeff Skinner, Laura, Bonnie Hamrick: Chuck, Lee Gorman: Mary Louise Hanaford: Nancy

Week of May 30 Hancock: Carter, Lauren Hassett-Beck: Nancy, Joe, Michael, Kathryn Heick:Norma Hardy: Jonathan, Libby, Nathan, Natalie Hawkins: Richard, Jean, Lauren, Zachary, Taylor Henderson: Peg, Rodney Hart: Ed Haxby: Madeline, Kristina, Christopher Herman: Ann, Kaylee Hartwell: Barbara

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby, Mark Barry, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

10 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Martha Hobson from Second Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY Susanne Jones from Cathedral of the Assumption Catholic Church, Louisville, KY Mary Nancy Todd from the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Bardstown, KY Andrew D. Robertson from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY James E. and Sarah P.Trimble and Riley from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Christopher and Joan Kincade from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Jennifer Peak Nixon from Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Louisville, KY Samuel and Sue Bridge from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Transfers Out David and Mary Frances Dick, David Jr., Elizabeth, Catherine, and William to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Jeff and Julie Tafel, Samuel, Andrea, and Erick to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY We extend congratulations to Joan and Alice Tiano on the birth of their granddaughter Shaver and Linda Collins on the birth of their grandson Ellyn Robinson on the birth of her granddaughter Deaths Elizabeth (Beth) Susan Weinberg, April 15 We were sorry to hear about the deaths of Alice Tiano’s stepmother Bonnie Spencer’s mother Todd Brown’s father + + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + +

ATTENDANCE FOR HOLYWEEKAND EASTER PalmSunday 446 2003 434 2002 532 2001 442 Maundy Thursday 157 2003 156 Good Friday 129 2003 92 Easter Sunday 857 2003 759 2002 711 2001 760 11 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Brian Dearing, Seminarian Intern

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John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1412 ST. MATTHEW’S ATHLETICS What does Summer mean to you? To St. Matthew’s, it means . . . Bats Game and  Smo ame rga he g Fa sboa s at t air Picnic! ce P rd Seat n ch aint reat n law G ing G ur ow t  ame ng yo anke Pri s Bri or bl (rain or shine) ze R and/ affle Saturday, July 17 Picnic begins at 3:00 p.m. on the Great Lawn underneath the expressway Game starts at 6:15 p.m.

The Cost is: $9.00 per person for the game, food, and fun! WENEEDA COMMITMENT BY JUNE 25 AND YOUR MONEY BY JULY 1 !

Make checks payable to: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Bats Game & Picnic”

CUTHERE CUTHERE Please fill out, and return with your payment by July 1 to: Clay Smith, 203 Oxford Place, Louisville, Kentucky 40207 orAnn Davis at church. Make checks payable to: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Bats Game & Picnic”

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Number of Tickets: ______TOTAL Price: $ ______n 13 See the Volcano Towering Over the Jungle Hear the Rumble in the Distance Feel the Ground Shaking Under Your Feet Join us in the Jungles of Lava Lava Island St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Lava Lava Island Vacation Bible School Adventure Dates: July 12-15 Island Fun Begins and Ends: 9 a.m. – Noon Preschool 3-year olds through rising 5th graders will enjoy fun-to-make crafts, exciting games, thrilling Bible stories, delicious island snacks, and unforgettable music. Plus, they’ll make lots of new friends! Youth entering 6th grade through 12th grade can join the fun by being a part of the Lava Lava Island staff! Call Debbi at church (895-3485).

Lava Lava Island Vacation Bible School Registration July 12 – 15, 9 a.m. to Noon (There is no charge. However, donations are welcome)

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Are you willing to assist if we need more volunteers? Yes ____ No ____ REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 1, 2004 For More Information, Call Debbi at 895-3485 14 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Request for Information We are updating our data base and would like to make sure we have the most current information on you and your family. Please take the time to fill out this form and either mail it back or hand it into the office as soon as you can. Thank you!

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15 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s June / July 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world. We may build it — so you’d better come ... to the Final Design Presentation with a light brunch June 6 11:15 a.m. in Clingman Hall 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . .

The Rector Dear People of radical reality that we are one in Christ. What’s St. Matthew’s, I wonder if we can consciously accept Last Sunday, May this as a particular vocation: to be a Happening? 23, was the day we model to the broken world around us of A Few Words From gave walking sticks living together in love despite our The Assistant Rector ...... 3 to our graduating many differences. We are, after all, old high school and young, Republicans and Kenya Mission Report ...... 3 seniors. For those Democrats, married and single, straight of you who have never been at this and gay, conservative and liberal, black Vestry Comments...... 4 ceremony, let me tell you: it is and white. These “categories” are just Our Seminarian ...... 5 incredibly moving. Each senior that – categories – but they are the receives a tall, beautifully cut and dividing lines of our society, and the Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 6 varnished walking stick, carved with spaces between seem wider and wider. their initials and the Episcopal Church The Episcopal Church in Louisville Volunteer Opportunities ..... 7 shield. As we gave them out, I said, seems to be dividing into categories, These walking sticks are a gift Social Concerns ...... 7 & 8 too. We label churches conservative from this congregation as you set or liberal, for or against the decisions Youth Page ...... 9 forth on a new part of your in Minneapolis, and we push further journey. May your stick be a and further away from those who think Questions reminder to you of the people of differently. We must resist this, and of the Heart ...... 10 & 11 God gathered in this place who resolve to keep -and strengthen- St. have nurtured you, who love you, Church School News ...... 12 Matthew’s as a safe place, a place and who will continue to pray for where we are not all just like each you and cherish you. Music Notes ...... 13 other, a place where we genuinely Prayer List ...... 14 And then, of course, lots of us cried, reach out to the other, listen to the not least me. other, and accept people for who they Parish Families ...... 15 are: children of God. But the best part of the service was the sermon, which consisted of I have enormous pride in this INSERTS: reflections from three of the seniors: congregation, as well as visions and Internet Calendar Lauren Lotz, Cory Moneymaker and dreams for our future. Right now, we Discernment Process Update Natalie Weis. All were excellent (and are in the midst of an important can be found on our website), but one discernment process about expanding Bats Game and Picnic thing in particular struck me: all three our space. But space is only there to talked about what a safe place St. be used for the work of God. What are Vacation Bible School Matthew’s had been for them, a place we housing? where they felt accepted for who they I believe that we have a wonderful, are. God-given opportunity in these That’s a tremendous compliment to troubled times to be a beacon of light this congregation, and it cuts to the in a dark world. I pray that everyone very heart of who we are as the Body who walks into this church can say just of Christ. I am especially conscious of what those seniors did: that they feel this right now, as we watch our accepted for who they are. I yearn to church, our country and our world have visitors say of us, as was said of PLEASE DON’T FORGET becoming increasingly polarized. We the first Christians, “See these YOUR PLEDGE DURING are fragmenting into smaller and Christians, how they love one THE SUMMER! Our bills keep smaller groups, less and less able to another.” coming in (just like yours!), and talk to and with each other. pledge donations often run behind We can’t do this ourselves. But in during the summer, leaving us short. But Christ calls us to the work of Christ and with the power of the Spirit, We would greatly appreciate reconciliation. Christ calls us to unity. we CAN. parishioners keeping their pledges The very Eucharist we share each + up to date. Thank you! week is both sign and call to the Lucinda 2 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector Witness to the Ascent I really appreciated Lucinda’s instruction in last month’s our Messiah physically on Earth? Is this the end? What newsletter and during the announcements on the Second do we do now? and Third Sundays of Easter to celebrate the joy of the To approach these inquiries, we can look to what Jesus Resurrection throughout the great fifty days of the season, said immediately before the ascent. Shortly after the not solely on Easter Day itself. While many of us properly resurrection, the Disciples were very afraid and unsure of and seriously mark the forty days in Lent, too few of us what to make of this unbelievable news, but Jesus appears participate in the fifty day celebration of Easter. to them and says, “Why are you frightened, and why do And within the season of Easter is one of the great feasts doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my of the church, Ascension Day, marked on the sixth feet; see that it is I myself,” (Luke 24:38). Then he goes on Thursday, or the fortieth day, after Easter. On this day the to say, “repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be church remembers the moment reported in both Luke and proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Acts when Jesus departs from this Earth and ascends into Jerusalem,” (Luke 24:47). And in Acts, Jesus continues, heaven. The scripture reads, “he led them out as far as “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come Bethany, and, lifting up his hands, he blessed them. While upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth,” carried up into heaven,” (Luke 24:50-52). Historically, some (Acts 1:8). Christian traditions celebrate the day with a procession to Therefore, the Ascension should not be seen as an end to commemorate Christ’s journey to the place of the Ascent. the ministry of Christ. Instead, we are called to be the Other traditions extinguish the Pascal candle on this day continuation of the ministry of Christ and Christ’s (we wait until the Day of Pentecost). witnesses, proclaiming God’s love and doing God’s justice. However, for some, this moment can be rather mystifying. The Ascension is not a conclusion, but a new beginning The ascension itself is quite fantastic and somewhat odd. for the community of the faith. And this community is not As 21st centuryAmerican Christians, we do not often see alone, for we have both the power of the Holy Spirit, which people, messiahs or otherwise, flying through the air. And we receive at Pentecost, as well as the constant presence the theological and spiritual implications of the ascent are of the risen and ascended Christ, for he promised to be equally bewildering. Did Jesus just leave us alone? Are we with us, “always, to the end of the age,” (Matthew 28:20). separated from Christ, or does he still play a part in our lives? How are we supposed to act as Christians without Ben KENYA MISSION REPORT

Since 2001, St. Matthew’s has been working in the small town of Oyugis, Kenya, where we have formed a companion relationship with the local Anglican church. We help support an orphanage (critical in a country with hundreds of thousands of AIDS orphans), work closely with a clinic, and cooperate on church projects.

We have accomplished a great deal of good work in our Our projects for the 2004 and 2005 Kenya Mission are as Kenya mission since we began in 2001. We have built two follows. churches, pews, and pulpits; we bought a motorcycle for Wire Clinic: the pastor to allow him better access to his nine churches; • Provide solar energy we worked with the Wire Clinic in seeing 1,700 people for • Provide a well for clean water treatment, repairing the roof, and making furniture, and we • Clean and paint both buildings brought many medical supplies and microscopes. We have • Build beds taught AIDS education in many schools and have taken many school supplies. We have built four playgrounds and St. Michael’s Church: helped in the support of 26 orphans. One of our greatest • Build a community center for the church. It will be used accomplishments, however, is in the building of for preschool, work training for widows, youth recreation relationships with the people of Oyugis. This has been one and Bible study, AIDS education, and two rooms for of our goals, and I feel that we have done an excellent job. visitors. Thank you for your great support and prayers for our • Build a playground for the children Kenya Mission. continued to page 8 3 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Listening to Peter, Paul and Mary While driving home from a meeting at The University of Gray, Jr., then an Episcopal priest in Oxford, MS, risked his the South at Sewanee, TN, I put a new Peter, Paul & Mary position, his reputation, and his safety for the civil rights CD in the player. Four hours later I was home and had of African-Americans in the 1960s. (Duncan Gray, Jr. later listened to that CD four times. They were my favorite folk became Bishop of Mississippi.) Where are the Duncan group from the 1960s. I loved their music and admired Grays, the Berrigan Brothers (Catholic priests who went to them for taking a stance in favor of peace and justice, jail for their protests of the Vietnam war), or the William especially during the Civil Rights movement. Forty years Sloan Coffins (chaplin at Yale) today? Where are the later I admire them even more. They are still using their voices of protest in our churches? Perhaps the answer is voices and their music to speak out for peace, justice, and that those voices are under attack, defending themselves, the marginalized inour world. Here’s a sample from the their churches, their denominations from those who are the album: most strident and most intolerant. Don’t laugh at me Have we lost our voice? Don’t call me names Don’t get your pleasure from my pain Meanwhile Peter, Paul & Mary sing: In God’s eyes we’re all the same I can ease the suffering of this world Someday we’ll all have perfect wings With my head, my heart, and my hands Don’t laugh at me At Sewanee we heard a senior student speak about her Who hasn’t felt the sting of ridicule at some time in their plans to use her Thomas Watson Scholarship to travel to lives, usually as a child or teenager? I can’t get this song Northern India, Vietnam, and New Zealand to photograph out of my head. It repeats over and over and over and and live with minority Buddhist communities in India and over.... Vietnam, and Maori people in New Zealand. She hopes to Saturday morning the Courier-Journal page one headline publish her work as her way to speak out. says, “Methodists urged to split over gay issues.” Below Earlier in the week, a young faculty member at the School that story I read that the state is cutting money for of Theology preached at a Eucharist attended by many of preschool social services while the number of children us, including several bishops. In his sermon he affirmed increase. And of course, the shame of our men and women his belief that General Convention’s actions of last summer in the Iraqi prisons continues to confront us in all the were proper and appropriate. I know some of the bishops media. there voted against confirming Gene Robinson. But this I listened to Scott Simon on NPR this Saturday morning priest and teacher used his voice to speak out. reporting a story about a collection of photographs of What is the point of these anecdotes? It seems to me that people, primarily black men, who were lynched in the the Gospel for this Sunday, May 9, summarizes Jesus’ 1900s. Many of the pictures were on postcards sold at message: “By this everyone will know that you are my lynchings. The exhibit, titled “Without Sanctuary,” is at disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). Jackson State University in Mississippi. Is it only One way of showing that love is to speak out against coincidence that the description of those photographs injustice wherever and whenever we see it. The religious sounds starkly familiar to the Iraqi prison photos I saw voice in the marketplace should not be left to the earlier in the C-J? Is there any hope for change? extremists. Dr. Frank Simon’s followers of bigotry and hate gain And frommy favorite trio: influence in our metro government council. How did this happen in our community? Where’s our voice? Why are If there’s any hope for love at all the religious voices we hear on radio, see on TV, and read Some walls must fall quoted in the press almost exclusively those of intolerance? Bob I had hoped to meet the current bishop of Mississippi, Duncan Gray, III, while at Sewanee. I had read about his (Quotes from In These Times, by Peter, Paul & Mary, ©2003 Warner Bros. father in Will Campbell’s book And Also With You. Duncan Records)

THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Thanks to your generosity, we sent $1,148 to the Bishop’s Discretionary Fund after his visit here on May 16, and $350 to the Episcopal Church Home fromthe Mother’s Day offering!

4 A FEW WORDS FROM . . .

Our Seminarian Let me just say this about Texas…not all of it is a flat Although they graduated from that other seminary, Ben desert. I’m not saying it isn’t hot here, just that the city of can tell you, and David before him, this time here is more Austin is an oasis of hills, lakes and green spaces the likes of which I’ve rarely seen. This is the setting for the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, which Sarah, Riley, and I have called home for the past two years. The small campus, roughly the size of half a city block, sits just north of the University of Texas in a neighborhood reminiscent of Crescent Hill in Louisville. Our seminary house is one of about a dozen owned by the school, along with two apartment buildings with a pool (a must in Texas summers), classrooms, offices, chapel, refectory, auditorium, and dozens of trees. My ETSS class of postulants and candidates for the ordained priesthood has become our extended family. Our extended family also includes all of you at St. Matthew’s. Last month, in this newsletter, Lucinda warmly welcomed me and my family back to the fold on North Hubbard’s Lane. Thanks so much. It feels great to be back. As was mentioned than just education, more than just training for a new last month, St. Matthew’s means a lot to my family. The career; it is soul changing. love and support I received while in the youth group 20 years ago has never waned. Twenty years ago I discussed Next to my marriage to Sarah and the birth of our son, a seminary future with the associate rector. It’s finally a there’s no greater joy for me than sharing this seminary reality, but then again, the Spirit has no clock or calendar experience with others. I’m glad that I can share these times for such things. with you, my St. Matthew’s family. Through God that is Trinity, we’ve been warmed by your love and your prayers The experience of being back in school after a 12-year during our time in Texas. We look forward to our return to career in public broadcasting has been eye-opening, to say the Diocese of Kentucky this time next year. We ask that the least. I’ve had to relearn the art of note taking, textbook you keep us in your prayers and in your hearts during reading, and paper writing. I’ve become engulfed in a these months, especially with summer CPE (Clinical myriad of theologies and christologies. My dreams have Pastoral Education) chaplaincy coming up, along with the been sprinkled with the singing of hymns, study of liturgy, Texas heat that continues through fall, and the General and exposure to those on the margin. My language now Ordination Exams after Christmas. We wish you God’s includes themes of ethics, servant leadership, and peace and blessings. scripture. I’ll no longer view church architecture in the same light, nor experience a sermon the same way again. — Jim, Sarah, and Riley Trimble

Jim Trimble is a member of St. Matthew’s, and a postulant for Holy Orders (priesthood) in the Diocese of Kentucky.

SeminarianBookFund We have received some small contributions to start a Seminarian Book Fund for those from this congregation who are attending Seminary. If you would like to contribute, make your check to St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and mark it for “Seminarian Book Fund”.

5 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Mark Your Calendars for the Thank You Band Concert and Ice Cream Social Ladies and Gentlemen The River Cities Concert Band will be playing of Experience on our St. Matthew’s church parking lot, Sunday, July11 at 7:00 p.m. Pleasebring a Potluck Committee blanket or lawn chair and sit back and enjoy listening to your favorite show tunes, for your time and hard work marches and light classical music. Bring a To:Bobbie Stone – chair; Barbara Beury, Bobbieand Aidan picnic basket and relish your favorite ice cream Stone – table set up, table decorations, and clean up; Fred at intermission. Seigfriedt – program coordinator. Fred, thank you so much for a season of educational and entertaining programs. Barbara, Bobbie and Aidan, thank you for setting the tables and adding your special touch with decorating and HorseshoesAnyone? cleaning up after each potluck meal. It has been a very We now have two genuine horseshoe pits in the ball field good year and I thank you all for being so faithful and at the entrance into St. Matthew’s dedicated to this ministry. Have a great summer and I’ll see Episcopal Church off Massie Avenue. you in the fall! Dwayne Watson purchased the Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator materials and spent a day setting this up. We have the horseshoes, so call up your friends, come play a few rounds, and don’t forget to tell Dwayne thank you for the great horseshoe pits! Way To Go Adam! Adam Jobson, grandson of Betty Jobson, former acolyte and pianist in the Children’s Chapel, has received an award for being the outstanding student in the Mathematics Department at the University of Louisville.Adam will pursue a Master’s degree next year. Birthday Celebrations St. George’s Community Center of our Summer Program Homebound St. George’s, 1205 S. 26th Street, will have a summer program for 30 neighborhood children during June and July. Volun- for teers are needed to help with sports/recreation, arts/culture, and computer/reading. If you could give a few hours a day at anytime for one daya weekor more, it would be most June appreciated. This is a very relaxed, enjoyable volunteer experience and would even be an excellent opportunity for June 14 Katherine Jackson high school students. Please call Arthur Cox at St. George’s July Community Center, 775-6232, if interested. July 6 Anne Stuart Duncan July 8 Katherine Mahon The Lunch Bunch July 21 Dorothy Harrison The Lunch Bunch is a group of St. Matthew’s women who enjoy a monthly lunch out. All are welcome. We will dine at Max & Irma’sin Prospect, 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 17, and at Captain’s Quarters, 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 15. Please callBetty Triplett, 425-9733, if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you there! 6 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer Infant Resource Center Update Many thanks to all the parishioners who have been donating to our collection box Opportunities downstairs. During a recent drop off at St. MAM (St. Matthew’s Area Ministries), the director discussed their needs. IRC is working with Baptist East, Suburban, Habitat for Humanity and Westport TAPP (Teen Age Parent Program) to provide basic needs for Saturday, June 5, newborns. IRC needs newborn-baby clothes, blankets, diapers, etc. If you have 8:30 a.m. to Noon anything to contribute, please drop it off in the downstairs collection box or call Vicky Spencer at 339-9189. THANKYOU! or 3:00 p.m. (carpool at 8:00 a.m. from church parking lot) St. George’s / Calvary Food Collection Sunday Calling All Drivers We are looking for a few more drivers to help parishioners Sunday, June 6 who need transportation to doctors’ appointments, therapy, and the like. If you would be available to help occasionally Build a Playground with this service to fellow parishioners, please call Bill at McKinney (895-5023) or Russ Rice (897-5882). Home of the Innocents 111 East Market Wednesday, June 9 through Sunday, June 13 Need Does Not 7:30 a.m. to Noon, 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Take A Vacation! 5:30 p.m. to dark During the summer months many of us come to church less regularly. However, the need in our community does not go away just because school is out. When you Serve lunch at Wayside do come to church, please remember to bring contributions for the Food Pantry, the Christian Misson Clothes Closet, the Infant Resource Center, or the Seamen’s Ministry. The girls at Cornerstone do take vacation, but we will continue to volunteer at Habitat and Sunday, June 13, Wayside each month and the Red Cross Blood Drive needs our support. Thank 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. you very much for your continued support of these local ministries. (carpool following the 10:00 service. Contact Dr. Jim Blake, 245-7523) Feed the work team for Habitat’s 200th House Blood Drive Saturday, June 26 Next month’s St. MAMs Blood Drive will be on Tuesday, June St. Matthew’s 15, 2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. at Christ Church United Methodist, 4614 Episcopal Church Brownsboro Road. The Red Cross is still striving to increase the Prepare: blood supply for the summer. If you have any questions, call the 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Red Cross at 540-7163 or 1-800-732-8772. Serve & clean up: Hope to see you there! 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thank you - Anne Shelby.

Details on bulletin board or in your Sunday bulletins. Norton’s Hospital (downtown) needs volunteers in the Gift Shop, Chaplain’s Office, ICU Waiting Room and Book Cart. Please contact Betty Triplett, 425-9733, if you can help.

7 MORE SOCIAL CONCERNS

Interfaith Paths to Peace Volunteer Book Discussion Opportunities Carolyn Cromer, ecologist and former legislative aide to Tom Owen will lead a discussion of Storming Heaven by St. George’s / Calvary Denise Giardina on Monday, June 7, 7:00 p.m. at Borders Books on Shelbyville Road. Reservations are not required. Food Collection Sunday This book is the story of a fictional small West Virginia town Sunday, July 3 that is rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all of which are destroyed when the coal company comes to town. Parish Yard Sale Proceeds to fund YARD SALE YARD SALE a refugee family Saturday, July 10 YARD SALE YARD SALE 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. WE’RE HAVINGAYARD SALE! Mark your calendars NOW for Saturday, July 10, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Our goal is to raise funds to sponsor a refugee family from Habitat for Humanity Somalia. For this to be a success, we need items to sell. Please clean out your basement, closets, and drawers, and bring us your junque that will become Saturday, July 10, someone else’s treasure. Contributions may be brought to the Senior High room 8:30 a.m. to Noon after May 30. If you need to donate items before May 30 or if you need items or 3:00 p.m. picked up, you may call Sharon Nesmith (228-5918). For those who want to have (carpool at 8:30 a.m. from their own “booth,” tables will be available for $10 per table. CallKaren Borho church parking lot) (425-0118) to reserve your table. Serve lunch at Art Sale to Benefit Wayside Christian Misson Project Women Sunday, June 13, During the week of July 31 to August 7, the Women of Wisdom 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. fundraiser will be held by merchants of the Highlands Commerce (carpool following the Guild and by local women artists. The merchants, whose shops 10:00 service. Contact are located along the BaxterAvenue— Bardstown Road Dr. Jim Blake, 245-7523) corridor, will display the art works in their windows throughout the week. Proceeds from the sale of the art will be divided between the women artists and Project Women, Inc. Project Women is a nonprofit organization that assists single-parent Details on bulletin board mothers who are experiencing homelessness to obtain a baccalaureate degree. Any or in your Sunday bulletins. woman artist who would like to display her work may call Glynis McManamon at 412-8001. Everyone is invited to visit the shops along the corridor from Broadway to the Douglas Loop. KENYA MISSION REPORT CONTINUED

• Build a basketball goal for youth eyedrops, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and hand • Build pews for the church we built in Nyatindo in 2003 sanitizers). Please bring as much as you can; we will take I ask for your continued support and prayers as we work it all with us in September. toward the completion of these projects. One final note about our orphans: We will be sending our During the months of July and August we will be quarterly money to them the first of July. Please make collecting school supplies (no crayons), eyeglasses, your contributions by then if possible. Your money is newborn-baby clothes and blankets, and medical supplies making a great difference in the lives of these orphans. If (Kroger extra large bandages, Nexcare waterproof you have any questions, please call me. bandages by Curad, Kroger triple antibiotic cream, — John Willingham 8 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

June / July 2004 Annual Summer Mission Trip Middle School Trip Sunday, June 6 through Thursday, June 10 to Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari Where: Washington, D.C. Thursday, July 1 Congratulations to the 16 young people Meet at church at 10:00 a.m., and we’ll return to church at 7:00 p.m. registered for the trip! Those attending should have received a detailed itinary, various forms and other information in the mail. High School Trip Remember - you need to be at the airport to Kings Island by 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 6. If you have any Wednesday, July 21 questions, please call Ben or Lynn. Meet at church at 9 a.m., Parish Bats Game and we’ll return to church at 11:00 p.m. Saturday, July 17 Picnic begins at 3:00 p.m. High School Dinner Out ing Sunday, August 15 on the Great Lawn underneath the expressway. om Game starts at 6:15 p.m. C ! Up Middle School Dinner Out Sunday, August 22 Rising 6th graders are invited.

The Cost is: $9.00 per person for the game, food, and fun! Congratulations Confirmands WE NEED A COMMITMENT BY JUNE 25 AND YOUR MONEY BY JULY 1 ! Make checks payable to: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Bats Game & Picnic”.

Camp and Retreat Events Senior High Summer Gathering - June 11 - 13. Senior (SYP) and Junior (JYP) Young People’s Conferences at Kanuga - June 13-18. Senior High Camp - June 20 - 25. Fifth and Sixth Grade Camp - July 11 - 16. Confirmands and their sponsors (not in order): Bishop Gulick with Seventh and Eighth Grade Camp - July 18 - 23. Andrew Clark Brill & The Rev. Whit Swords, John Stephen Bullock, II & Amy Tucker, Sarah Elizabeth Bullock & Beth Friedman, Meghan Caroline Province IV Youth Event (PYE) at Berea College - July 20 - 25. Burns & Tracey Corey, Matthew Douglas Goldberg & Angela Koshewa, Helen Louise Huber & Gaylee Gillim, Alexander James Joy & David Brooks, Chris Stewart Joy & Jackie Brooks, Michael Joseph Lambert & Got a quick question for Ben? The Lynn Miller, Michael Miller Risley & Debbie Rodahaffer, James Lawrence new youth AOL Instant Messenger Smith & The Rev. Donald Overton. address is: youthstmattky SNAC will resume in the Fall!

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

9 “QUESTIONS OF THE HEART” ?? “What is Your Plan for Me?”

The older I get, the more excited I become about universe! I need to hear a theology that calls me out complex questions and the more dissatisfied I become into a varied and changeable world. Another more with the answers to the questions. All of these adventurous, free-spirited person would perhaps balk “Questions of the Heart” practically leap off the page at a God who purports to control too much of our and into my arms, so entirely can I embrace them as lives. She would need rather to be reminded of God’s my own, yet the prospect of publishing an “answer,” power and of the infinite gap between Creator and even my own private answer, to one of them is quite creation. If God loves us, and of that we are sure, daunting. As an “aspirant for holy orders,” however, I then he must be deeply involved somehow in our lives have been directly preoccupied for the past few years and in our beings: As Jesus reminds us, if not even a with one of the questions: “What is God’s plan for sparrow falls to the ground apart from God, and if me?” Throughout the discernment process, I have God has numbered even the hairs of our heads, then been given the time to think, pray, write, and discuss he must also care for us who are so much more my way around and through my feelings about what valued than sparrows. (Matthew 10:29-31; Luke 12:6- might be God’s true plan for my life, and people have 7). taken me seriously, sharing their time and their The interesting and often frustrating aspect of spotting wisdom. The opportunity to go through this God’s plan in our lives, however, is that we can only “discernment process” could benefit all of us, not just really grasp it when we pause and look backwards, the people who feel a call to holy orders. into the past. The novelist Maria Doria Russell writes Before we can look at our own lives, though, we have in The Children of God, to make our peace with the idea of a Plan. Does God There’s a passage in Exodus—God tells Moses, really have a plan for each of us? How much control “No one can see My face, but I will protect you does God have over human lives? Does the world with My hand until I have passed by you, and then work out its own destiny through natural laws, I will remove My hand and you will see my back.” probabilities, and chance? How often does God … I wonder now if it isn’t really about time? intervene in creation and in our lives? If God does Maybe that was God’s way of telling us that we intervene, how much free will do we have? In a can never know His intentions, but as time goes on volume of systematic theology, the question of “God’s ….we’ll understand. We’ll see where He was: plan for me” would be filed away in a chapter on we’ll see His back. “Divine Providence.” And the explanations, of course, would range from the Deist understanding of a A young author who attempts to write his memoirs Creator God who merely sets the world in motion and each week as he goes along in life will not be able to steps back to watch it unfold to Calvin’s infamous create a logical, focused story. It is the perspective of doctrine of Predestination, in which God is in complete the past, even taking into account the risk of control of the Universe. As in all of the matters that subjective inter-pretations, which turns random events require us to see into the mind of God, we will never into meaningful history. To see God’s plan, I have to be able to measure the exact percentage of divine stop the all-consuming, distracting business of my intervention and human free will involved in our lives, everyday life in the world of the present long enough and many of our thoughts and experiences will to step back and reflect on the past, to see all of the probably leave us floating somewhere in the middle of twists and turns of my life in the light of quiet and of the spectrum between Deism and Calvinism. As a prayer. Once I find the parts of the story bearing very cautious, orderly person, I am drawn to the idea God’s fingerprints, then I am ready to use that piece of a powerful God who is in charge of things, and I of “God’s plan” to guide me in the future. would be willing to give up a good parcel of my free —Anne Vouga will to be guaranteed a reasonable and controlled

10 “QUESTIONS OF THE HEART” ?? “Jesus”

When Bob Nesmith asked me to answer one of the discuss the serious matters that weigh on our minds “Jesus - Questions from the Heart” for this month’s and our hearts? Spirit, I didn’t realize what a daunting task I had Jesus would never want us to use humor at someone accepted until I went to our website and read the else’s expense. There is nothing worse than a bully questions people were asking. saying something cruel to someone to elicit a laugh The questions struck me as sincerely trying to figure from others, only to say, “I was just joking!” or to out why so much sadness and discord engulf our simply turn away, leaving the victim humiliated and lives. I only wish I had answers to why people die feeling a lonely despair. too young or why we live in fear instead of faith. However, I think without humor we can take The question I chose to tackle is “Does Jesus feel ourselves too seriously and become so self-absorbed humor plays a role in religion?” And tackle is the key that we become too much about “I” and forget that to word. I went to the Bible and read the Gospels from survive we have to be “we.” a different perspective. I discovered the Gospels In our world today so filled with woe and fear, I think have nothing to say about humor. There are many Jesus would want us to use humor to help us live as “fears” and “woes,” yet no hint of humor or even one. If we can laugh together, we can talk together. “Jesus laughed.” The closest to humor I could find And if we can talk together, with God’s help, we can were some of the names. Really, who would name learn to listen to one another not only with our minds their child “Zerubbabel”?! but with our hearts. And if we can listen to one I think that Jesus would want us to have humor in another, we can learn to love one another, which is, of religion. How many sermons have you heard that course, Jesus’ ultimate message. began on a light note with a simple joke or a story that Yours in Christ, Debbi Rodahaffer made us chuckle, before the preacher went on to

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11 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer Director of Christian Education

Dear Ones, When I talk with parents, you, I continue to hear the same themes. You are tired. There aren’t enough hours in each day. Stress levels are at all-time highs. Your children, spouses, parents, and friends don’t receive enough of your attention. There is no time just to “be.” Someone is always asking you to add one more obligation to your already overwhelmed lives. And that someone is often me! There are no easy answers for lives that are lived with day planners, palm pilots, laptops, cell phones, 12-hour workdays, and 12-hour work nights. Anxiety and guilt seemingly rule our lives. Approaching summer was, once upon a time, a time to slow down and relax. Now approaching summers only seem to add the pressure of finding additional sitters and activities for our children because most of us work outside of the home year round. A few thoughts for summer as it nears: Spend at least one day this summer with each of your children individually. Go to the library and read. Buy a plant and plant it together. Swim. Sing in the car. Laugh. Talk. Listen. Hug. Take a walk. Ride bicycles. Make a picnic lunch and come to the playground. Have dinner as a family as often as you can. Have dinner with your spouse or best friend without children at least once a month (remember Parents’ Night Out dates: June 19, July 17, and August 21). Have lunch with friends (at ditto’s on Bardstown Road on Thursday, June 24, Wednesday, July 21, and Thursday, August 26). Send your children to at least one Vacation Bible School (ours is July 12-15)! Listen to your children’s prayers before tucking them in bed. Come to church because it’s the best way to begin each week. The laundry will wait. Cleaning the house will wait. Your children are yours alone for such a short time and what they may remember most when they are adults is that one special summer day when they had you all to themselves. Relax! Slow down! It’s almost summer! Love in Christ, Debbi

We’re going Hawaiian this year with …………  LAVALAVAISLAND In Memoriam VACATIONBIBLESCHOOL Elizabeth Susan Weinberg

Monday, July 12 June 15, 1947 April 15, 2004 through Beth was a doer. She was a loving wife, mother, Thursday, July 15 and grandmother whom we knew as a talented 9:00 a.m. - Noon volunteer. Beth was a church school teacher. She walked Please register by July 5! her spiritual journey with over 300 children during 21 years of teaching here at St. Matthew’s. If you can help, Her ministry with children was a gift given with just let Debbi Rodahaffer know! gentleness, compassion, love, and devotion. At the reception to celebrate Beth’s life there was a cake inscribed “God bless Beth!” Church School will resume on September 12. Watch for mailings in August. So much will be Beth, God blessed us for having known you! new and exciting!!! 12 MUSIC NOTES

Ahhhh...... the lazy days of summer. The music department is taking a well-deserved break for the summer months. Throughout the year choir members and handbell ringers come together faithfully to prepare music for our worship services each week. They give their time, their talent, their love, and their enthusiasm to create a wonderful bond of friendship and an enormous commitment to the ministry of St. Matthew's. Special thanks to each of them for their faithfulness throughout the year.

AdultChoir Jackie Brooks Stephen Hill Melinda Clark Anne Carman Michael Lambert Julie Davis Candis Crocker Peter Niehaus Tyler Goldberg Ann Davis John Krantz Libby Hardy Cindy Diedenhofen Charlie Peterson Cicely Lambert Jan Garver John Shelby Karen Hill GayleeGillim Bruce Dillman Bobbie Kayser Faith Huff Nicholas Eastman Jenny Krantz Loise Kimama TimEicholtz Angela Koshewa Margaret Krantz David Garver Marion Lewis Anne Shelby EdHill Michelle Peterson Linda Wardell Jon Jacoby Nina Rodahaffer LillianYeager Clay Smith Connie Savells Sue Bach John Tiano GinnyViel Jay Crocker Aaron Vowels Natalie Weis Vicki Danahy Kathy Wright Steve Ellis

Handbells Candis Crocker Betty Triplett Dottie Rohrer Jay Crocker Cheryl Wagner Fred Siegfriedt Becky Donovan Natalie Weis Joyce Stiles Andrea Ledvina Sue Bach Martha Wallingford Steve McGill Barbara Beury Linda Wood Teresa McGill Susan Mayes Nealy Wright Amy Newkirk Ann Miller Clay Smith Ed Rohrer

Treble Choir Special thanks to. . . . Dakota Burdine Sam Lewis * Anne Carman, for sorting and filing stacks and stacks of music all year long! Barrett Donovan Sam Morrow *Alison Dobroth, for directing the choir on a moment's notice! Kate Eastman Rachel Niel * Aaron Vowels, for his joyful leadership with the church school children, and Allie Friedman Marcella Peterson dependable leadership as bass section leader and accompanist for the 5:00 Rebecca Lambert Charlie Rhea service. Monica Lawton Sarah Tucker * College students Kirsten Jacoby, Elizabeth Hill, Ben Niehaus, Peter Ellis, Robert Lewis Blair Robertson, and Louisa Ellis, who join us for special services. There's a place for YOU in the music ministry of St. Matthew's. Make plans now to join us in the fall!

13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Weeks of June 6 and 13 Weeks of June 20 and 27 Hancock: Carter, Lauren Hermanson: Christopher, Hoffacker: Randy, Suzanne Irving: Willard, Nancy Hardy: Jonathan, Libby, Jenice Carolan, Katelin Hoge: William Jackson: Julia Nathan, Natalie Hettinger: Nancy Holmberg: James, Ruthe, Jackson: Katherine Hart: Edward, Gaylee Gillim Heuer: Deborah, Michelle Elise, Aaron, Emily Jacobus: Betsy, Clay Hartwell: Barbara Hibbs: Virginia Hood: Charles Copeland Hassett-Beck: Nancy, Joe Beck, Hill: Ed, Karen, Elizabeth, Hoover: John, Sandy Jacoby: Jon, Vivien, Michael, Kathryn Stephen Huber: Tracy, Helen, Hillary Kirsten, Brianne Hawkins: Richard, Jean Hill: Stockton Hudson: Judith, Richard Janos: Al, Connie Lauren, Zachary, Taylor Hines: Ann Huecker: Sue, Thomas Jobson: Betty Haxby: Madeline, Kristina, Hines: Catherine Huff: Faith Jobson: Bob, Betty, Ashley Christopher Hobson: Martha Hume: Mary Jean Jones: Helen, Tom Pike Heick: Norma Hocker: Monty, Janna Jones: Susanne Henderson: Peggy, Rodney Herman: Ann, Kaylee

Weeks of July 4 and 11 Weeks of July 18 and 25 Kara: Peace, Jaspar Laird: The Rev. Lucinda Lesueur: Elizabeth Mahon: Katherine Karle: Anne Lambert: Jay, Cicely, Lewis: Mark, Marion, Maker: James Kasting: Robert, Nancy Michael, Rebecca Robert, Sam Marshall-Barry: Shawn, Kayser: Roberta Landers: Mary Link: Kevin, Tina, Kathryn, Garrett Kessler: Cynthia Lang: Nancy, Jay Redman, Caroline Martin: Dorothy Kessler: Herman, Amy, Michael, Elizabeth Lotz: Rick, Janis, Craig, Mathews: Mac, Frances Christhoper, Caroline Langan: Gene, Martha Lauren Mattingly: David, Linda, Kimama: Loise, Serah Langan: Susan Loucks: Nancy Kelsey Kissling: Don, Mary Lynn Lawton: Michael, Julie, Louis: Peg Mayes: Richard, Susan Kolb: Thomas, Catherine Sutton Monica Lucas: Linda McCollum: Carol, Clay Koshewa: Angela, Ledvina: David, Andrea, Ludwig: Kurt, Lila, Andrew, McCord: Walter, Betty David Niehaus, Peter, Ben Katherine Daniel Roosa McElroy: Suzanne Leek: Abraham Lynch: Patrick, Kerry, Kassidy MacDonald: Sally

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby, Mark Barry, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

14 PARISH FAMILY Transfers In Clay Copeland andBetsy Jacobus from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY James and Joan Kuhns from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Donald and Barbara Groves from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY Patricia Wardell from St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Arroyo Grande, GA Joy Blackburn from St. Clements Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Transfers Out James Ralph Minsterl to. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Tampa, Florida Confirmations — May 16 Andrew Clark Brill Chris Stewart Joy John Stephen Bullock, II Michael Joseph Lambert Sarah Elizabeth Bullock Michael Miller Risley Meghan Caroline Burns James Lawrence Smith Matthew Douglas Goldberg Helen Louise Huber HeatherAnn Ogburn Alexander James Joy Receptions — May 16 Brian Weseley Dearing GlennAllan Roosevelt Susanne C. Jones Shiela MurphyYule Ann Louise Lovejoy Baptisms Emily Christine Brosend, daughter of Bill and Chris Brosend, May 16 Kimberly Christine Sparks and Nathaniel Henry Sparks, daughter and son of David and Brooke Sparks, May 30 Births We extend congratulations to Doug and Barbara Voss on the birth of their daughter, Melie Elizabeth Voss, May 18 We were sorry to hear about the deaths of Anne Ardery’s sister Judy Spencer’s brother Richard Mayes’ brother Connie Savells’ grandmother Bryan McCrery’s grandmother + + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + + 15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Summer Hours: Monday-Thursday: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Brian Dearing, Seminarian Intern

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1416 BUILDING THE SPIRIT — Discernment Process Update

Where are we as we head into the summer? After many meetings among our architects and all of the St. Matthew’s committees as well as the general congregation, the plans have now been melded into one design for the upper and lower levels of the church buildings and the proposed addition. The designs as of the middle of May are shown in this newsletter. Changes to this design are posted on the St. Matthew’s web site www.stmatt-ky.org and on the bulletin board outside the Narthex. Renderings will be presented on Sunday, June 6, at 11:15 a.m. Following this final meeting with the congregation there will be a feasibility study to see if our consultants recommend that we continue the process as is, or need to return to “the drawing board” for adjustment. We hope to see everyone there, so please join us! Here are some aspects of the plans as we went to press: Sanctuary: • New choir location • Organ and choir aligned • North end view exposure • Two new doors into sanctuary • Exit from rear of sanctuary with access to the Memorial Garden Chapel: untouched Sacristy: moved Narthex: • Main entrance relocated with new gathering locations • Reception Desk Accessibility: • Elevator • New entrance in rear • Multiple restrooms with larger capacity • Parking with additional space in the front • Covered entryway for inclement weather Fellowship - Outreach Building: • Kitchen • More seating if theatre style • Seat 300 people for meals • Possible to do some sports activities Administration Wing: • Offices consolidated into one area • Reception area Youth Wing: • Suite; part of Lower level Classrooms Meeting rooms: •Multiple locations Multi-purpose rooms: • Classrooms, Bride’s Dressing Room, Funeral Family Room; Pullman Kitchenette, etc. Choir: • Relocated into remodeled Clingman Hall • Robing room, music library, office • Handbells area Courtyard: (approximately 50’ wide) Possible bell tower 17 Main Level (Upper Level) (the shaded areas are the current building)

18 Lower Level (the shaded areas are the current building)

19 Site Map

20 ST. MATTHEW’S ATHLETICS What does Summer mean to you? To St. Matthew’s, it means . . . Bats Game and  Smo ame rga he g Fa sboa s at t air Picnic! ce P rd Seat n ch aint reat n law G ing G ur ow t  ame ng yo anke Pri s Bri or bl (rain or shine) ze R and/ affle Saturday, July 17 Picnic begins at 3:00 p.m. on the Great Lawn underneath the expressway Game starts at 6:15 p.m.

The Cost is: $9.00 per person for the game, food, and fun! WENEEDA COMMITMENT BY JUNE 25 AND YOUR MONEY BY JULY 1 !

Make checks payable to: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Bats Game & Picnic”

CUTHERE CUTHERE Please fill out, and return with your payment by July 1 to: Clay Smith, 203 Oxford Place, Louisville, Kentucky 40207 orAnn Davis at church. Make checks payable to: St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Bats Game & Picnic”

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Number of Tickets: ______TOTAL Price: $ ______n 21 See the Volcano Towering Over the Jungle Hear the Rumble in the Distance Feel the Ground Shaking Under Your Feet Join us in the Jungles of Lava Lava Island St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Lava Lava Island Vacation Bible School Adventure Dates: July 12-15 Island Fun Begins and Ends: 9 a.m. – Noon Preschool 3-year olds through rising 5th graders will enjoy fun-to-make crafts, exciting games, thrilling Bible stories, delicious island snacks, and unforgettable music. Plus, they’ll make lots of new friends! Youth entering 6th grade through 12th grade can join the fun by being a part of the Lava Lava Island staff! Call Debbi at church (895-3485).

Lava Lava Island Vacation Bible School Registration July 12 – 15, 9 a.m. to Noon (There is no charge. However, donations are welcome)

Child’s Name: ______M ____ F ____

Address: ______

City/State/Zip: ______

HomePhone: ______Birthdate: // Grade Entering: ______

Mother: ______Daytime Phone Number: ______

Father: ______Daytime Phone Number: ______

EmergencyContact: ______Phone: ______

Any allergies or other medical conditions? ______

Homechurch: ______

Are you willing to assist if we need more volunteers? Yes ____ No ____ REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 1, 2004 For More Information, Call Debbi at 895-3485 22 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Request for Information We are updating our data base and would like to make sure we have the most current information on you and your family. Please take the time to fill out this form and either mail it back or hand it into the office as soon as you can. Thank you!

Last Name: ______

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Your Date of Birth: ______Date of Baptism: ______Date of Confirmation: ______

Significant Others’ Date of Birth: ______Date of Baptism: ______Date of Confirmation: ______

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Total number of people in your family: ______

Family Members Names: birthdates: baptism dates: confirmation dates:

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23 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s August 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR politeness? How do we genuinely listen – and not only listen, but hear – Dear People of when we are discussing things that What’s St. Matthew’s, matter to us greatly, and about which I hope all of you we may care passionately? These four Happening? are getting some nights in early August (9-12) are an time for rest and invitation to risk and learn together. A Few Words From refreshment this We will have expert guidance from a The Assistant Rector ...... 2 summer. I’m skilled professional; we will covenant enjoying some to create a truly safe space; and we will Vestry Comments...... 3 vacation time honor each person’s comfort level. myself – I’m writing this on Cape This is truly the work of the Church, Questions from the Heart ... 4 Breton Island in Nova Scotia. It’s the work of a reconciling community. I implore all of you: If you can possibly Building the Spirit ...... 5 such a beautiful place that it is easy to sense God’s presence. I am spending make the time for this, do. time outdoors, time with friends, Discernment Update...... 6 The second important event is a and time catching up on my reading continuation of our discernment (I brought a huge pile of books, which Instruments of Your Peace ... 6 around renovation and building. So always makes my bags heavy enough many of you helped articulate a vision Parish News ...... 7 for the airline people to groan!). for St. Matthew’s earlier this spring, I expect I will return renewed and and most of you have by now seen the Bits ‘n Pieces ...... 8 & 9 reinvigorated; meanwhile, architects’ plans that were produced St. Matthew’s is daily in my prayers. Music Notes ...... 9 as a result. NOW is the time to find July is a lazy month around the out if we can make our dream a reality! Volunteer Opportunities.... 10 church, but the pace quickens in We need to talk about costs, and August. There are two particularly answer questions about those costs. Social Concerns ...... 10 & 11 important events coming up that I We will be having a feasibilty study in want to call to your attention, and I September to ascertain just what we Kenya News ...... 11 am excited about returning for these. can do, but it is imperative now that EVERYONE know what we are hoping Church School News ...... 12 The first is a four-night program to do and what it would cost. So called Safe Space that is different Youth Page...... 13 please plan on staying after church on from anything we have ever done at August 29 (after any service) to find St. Matthew’s (you can find more out more. Prayer List ...... 14 information elsewhere in this Parish Families...... 15 newsletter). It grew out of our story- I give thanks to God for this telling groups in Lent, but changed community we share. into something else that I find both exciting and challenging. We have Yours in Christ, talked a great deal about listening to each other, and respecting a diversity + of opinions. But how do we do that in Lucinda a way that gets past surface 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector Big Plans for Youth and Young People

When you receive this month’s newsletter, we will be in the All senior high youth will receive further details, registra- “dog days” of summer, when warm days and long eve- tion forms, and other information in the mail later this nings, are the norm. The relaxed mode and pace of the month. If you do not receive this information or have any season appear to stretch out and their ending seems a questions, feel free to call either Lynn or me. long, long way away. However, despite this peaceful But that’s not all! There are also more trips in store, tempo, St. Matthew’s is gearing up for a very exciting fall including Diocesan Youth Community (DYC) events at All for our junior and senior high youth. The return of old Saints’Camp and Conference Center in Leitchfield, KY,the traditions as well as new and innovative activities should Winterlight conference for senior high at Kanuga Camp make for a very fun season. and Conference Center in Hendersonville, NC, and the As always, we will begin the year with our famous Road National Acolyte Festival at the National Cathedral in Rally. We will gather on the evening of Sunday, September Washington, DC. Lots of local events are also in the works 12, divide into teams, get into chaperones’ cars, and then for the fall, including games, sporting events, service dash across the city (obeying all traffic laws, of course) projects, and other great activities. The trips are filling up collecting various clues and performing silly tasks. For fast, so if you are interested, call Lynn or me as soon as those of you who have never been, the Road Rally is an possible. For more information about events at All Saints’, absolute blast and your belly often aches for days from all check out the DYC web page at http:// the laughter. The Road Rally is also a great opportunity to www.episcopalky.org/youthhomepage.htm. And for more make new friends, reconnect with old friends, and properly information about Winterlight, check out its web page at kick off the new year. Look for further details in the http://www.kanuga.org/conferences/2004/wlxxix.asp. September Spirit. Whew – there is a lot going on around here! All activities And if that wasn’t enough, the following weekend, should be lots of fun, very meaningful, and more often than September 17-19, is the Senior High Fall Retreat at YMCA not include free pizza. As always, call Lynn or me if you Camp Piomingo in nearby Otter Creek Park. This retreat will have any questions or needs. You can also e-mail us at include lots of games and activities, including Piomingo’s [email protected] or IM us at youthstmattky. Or just fantastic high and low ropes courses, as well as an stop by church on a Sunday evening – look for the group opportunity to just relax and be with friends. The cost for of friends having a great time. the retreat will be $50, and financial assistance is available. Ben

Where are all the cool kids on Sunday morning? Acolyting, of course!

If you haveever thought about serving as an acolyte, see Randy Strause after the 10 a.m. service or call him in the evenings at 228-2305.

Interested young people can also call Lynn or Ben or just come to one of the training sessions on either August 15 or 22. A pizza lunch will be provided after the training.

THAT’S NOT ALL! All acolytes will be eligible to attend the National Acolyte Festival at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. from October 9-10. Fun!

2 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Tolerance: July 11, 2004 I am old enough to remember when Kentucky had “Blue” the senior pastor was preaching this weekend on religious laws making it illegal for businesses to open on Sunday. tolerance. There were exceptions. We could buy groceries, service When I read Bob Hill’s column I thought the actions of the stations were open (but they weren’t convenience stores youth and their leaders represented the misguided actions then), and we could go to movies and some restaurants. that result from literal reading of scripture. My initial Sundays were not the shopping days we have now. It was reaction to today’s story was that the church staff had a reflection of our Bible Belt heritage that we enforced our made an appropriate commonsense response. But that Christian Sabbath on everyone. Aday of rest was for all: was followed by a cynical wondering why, if the incident including Jews, Seventh Day Adventists or anyone else happened in June, the response came after the newspaper whose tradition made Saturday the Sabbath. story. Because this church broadcasts their pastor’s Sometimes I regret that we do not still honor the Sabbath sermons a week later on local radio I intend to listen next as a day of rest. I wish our motivation to repeal the Blue Sunday to hear what he says about being tolerant. laws were because we recognized and respected the My dictionary defines tolerance as “The capacity for or religious traditions of all Kentuckians, not just Christians. practice of allowing or respecting the nature, beliefs, or But the real reasons were economic. Retailers wanted behavior of others.” I am curious to know whether their another day to sell their goods. More women working view of religious tolerance includes respect of others’ meant that many needed the time on Sunday to do the beliefs or just allows for others to believe differently. Will shopping that before they might have done during the the message be the tolerance that we too often practice, week. Even for Sharon and me Sundays have become a the kind of tolerance I had for my kids’ music and TV time to either catch up on those things we did not get done choices? I put up with it but never understood it. the previous week or plan for that which we have to do the coming week. At least Sunday mornings allow us to sleep In her sermon this Sunday, Lucinda used the gospel a little later and have a more leisurely breakfast before account from Luke of the Good Samaritan and my favorite going to our usual 10:00 o’clock service. scripture passage from Micah 6:8 “what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and I try to at least scan the Sunday Courier-Journal to walk humbly with your God?” In Luke Jesus is asked, headlines in each section before leaving. This morning the “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” The answer is to above-the-fold headline in the Metro section said, “Church love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Then in will use statue incident to teach tolerance.” This response to “Who is my neighbor?” Jesus tells the parable concerned a column that Bob Hill had written earlier in the of the Samaritan helping the injured man whom others had week about teenagers attending a summer camp held by passed by. It ends with his instruction to have mercy. our state’s largest church. Apparently after having a And as I heard these familiar words I hoped that when I lesson and discussion about worshiping false idols, they listen next week I hear, “Love your neighbor. Have mercy. destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary on a neighbor’s land. Walk humbly with your God.” The church apologized, paid the owner for the statue, and Bob                          It’s Foyers Time again!

What is Foyers? Foyer Groups are made up of diverse through March 2005. There will be a sign-up sheet posted members of the church who meet regularly in parishioners’ on the church bulletin board during August and the first homes, usually once a month for a light meal and two Sundays in September. We hope to have the groups fellowship. They are “Porches of Welcome” where people formed and published by St. Matthews Day, Sunday, can come together in an open and receptive way. Foyer September 25. Please be sure to sign up for this great groups generally meet for approximately 6 months. This is program. a great way to meet new people and renew old If you have any questions, please call David and Laurinda acquaintances. Stokes, 899-1012. The 2004-05 Foyers program will begin in October and run 3 QUESTIONS FROM THE HEART

How do we remain faithful to your teaching when we are so torn by anger and dissension? ? How can people who disagree learn to love one another and live together in peace?

After the storm that took out our trees in mid-July I spent love – God is love and love is God. Somehow praying for all day Saturday hauling tree limbs to the city dump. The God’s domain of love rather than a kingdom better fits the first two trips I went downtown where there were no lines, picture of the God I worship. Now I pray “May your no wait to empty my truck. I still had one more load and domain of love come in me; and help me to love others as while eating lunch I saw in the paper that the recycling you want us to do.” If I could just do whatI sayto God I center on Hubbard’s Lane, just north of the church, was want to do! open for tree trash also. Aha, that will save me at least an It is very easy for me to love my family, myfriends, and hour of driving for this last trip I thought. So at three acquaintances, people who are like me. I can love people o’clock on Saturday afternoon I pulled my pickup into what at a distance, with whom I have no contact and know only at first looked like a short line at the recycling center. through the media. I can love those who elicit sympathy, Within minutes I realized my mistake. I was trapped in a the poor, the homeless, the sick, children, old people. But trash dump version of a claustrophobic Disney World line that’s what Jesus told us to do – heal the sick, feed the of cars and trucks. It moved slowly and wound round and hungry, shelter the homeless, care for little children. round. There was no choice but to wait and wait and wait. Where I really fail is in feeling any love for haughty One hour later I neared the front of one of the two lines people, power-hungry politicians, the rich who are not when a man, with his young daughter, pulling a huge load charitable, intolerant people, evil people, terrorists, bigots. in his truck and a trailer, pulled across the lot and cut in You get the picture. front of the driver beside me. It was road rage time and I So, I don’t have advice for the questioners. I am one of wasn’t even the offended driver. Who did he think he them myself; I struggle with this daily. Jesus gave us the was? Was he stupid or arrogant? Could I “accidentally” task and is the model for what we should do. He didn’t rake the side of his truck with my bumper? I gave up that say it would be easy. But I wish he had given us more idea because his truck was such a piece of junk it probably instruction on how to love. I find Richard Chilson’s should have been left there for the recycling folks. Loving summation of the gospel helpful. my neighbor was the furthest thought from my mind. There was no way I could love this guy. “Love God with all your being, mind, I think this is what the writers of these two similar heart, questions were feeling. How do I love people that are so body. difficult to love? How do I love people whose values and beliefs are so different from mine that there is no common And love the other – whoever that other may ground? Howdo I love peoplewho offend me? Howdo I be – as yourself. love evil people who hate us and wish to harm us? That’s the whole kit and caboodle. Obeying the Ten Commandments is a cinch compared with Everything else is commentary.” loving all my neighbors. That one is tough! Several years ago Dick Humke gave a series of sermons on the Lord’s Prayer. One thing he said that I still remember Bob was that, rather than pray “Your kingdom come. Your will be done,” he prayed “Your kingdom come in me; your will be done in me.” I always liked that personalizing of the Mark your calendar now to spend a day prayer. It became more meaningful to me. with Tom Ehrich, author of On-a-Journey, Then I read Richard W. Chilson’s book Yeshua of Nazareth when he comes to St. Matthew’s on –Spiritual Master. Chilson gives a different interpretation October 30. More information will be to God’s Kingdom. He substitutes “domain of love” for available. To read samples of his writings “Kingdom.” He argues that “kingdom” evokes an go to his website at www.onajourney.org. inappropriate image and we should think of God as St. John did, “God is Love.” Chilson emphasizes that God does not

4 BUILDING THE SPIRIT Discernment Process Update

At the June 6 parish brunch, our architects Gibbs Narthex: This area would be enlarged to function as Reese and Associates and Cox Allen presented an a gathering space for fellowship, a designated exciting master plan for updating and expanding St. reception area to direct guests, newcomers, and Matthew’s facilities. The congregation saw the plans visitors to appropriate areas and to provide a quieter created by the architects after months of meetings meditative area outside the sanctuary doors before with staff, lay committees, and parishioners. We services. $319,000 worked together, examining our mission, looking at our space needs, and carefully considering possible Sanctuary: The sacristy, organ and choir would be options for a creative master plan. relocated, allowing for additional seating and increased natural light. Acoustics and tonal sound Since that time, the Planning and Design Committee qualities would be improved. $414,700 has met with architects to address several concerns that came out of the discussion at the June 6 meeting. Accessibility: All buildings would be 100% We now have a master plan that the parish has accessible. More restrooms would be built and an created giving us a foundation to build the ministry of elevator would be installed to serve both levels. St. Matthew’s. $144,100

The Planning and Design Committee has completed Lower Level Renovation: This area would be its assignment, and has turned the process over to the reconfigured for classrooms, a children’s chapel, Discernment Committee. That committee is now nursery, and a designated space for teens and youth working with Holliman Associates, our capital group activities. $592,000 campaign consultants, to determine the commitment of the parish to bring the master plan into reality. Clingman Hall Renovation: This area would be The designs shown on the bulletin board outside of reconfigured to include a midsized chapel, choir the narthex now show preliminary cost estimates. rehearsal, robe and storage space, a Bride’s Room/ The tentative goal of the capital campaign for the Family Funeral Room, and classroom space. work that the parish has recommended is 2.8 million $316,900 dollars. The amount needed is not any higher because of the generosity of Eleanor Augustus and Administrative Offices: These would be centrally the 1 million dollars from her estate that the parish located on one floor adjacent to the new entry/ had decided to hold for a possible building campaign. narthex. $343,800

Here is a breakdown of our needs and visions Site work: This would include a new, level parking together with preliminary cost estimates. area visible from Hubbard’s Lane, a covered walkway, and grading of the ground to allow an exit Fellowship Hall: This new space would be capable from the sanctuary to the memorial garden. of seating 300 people for a meal and would include a $196,500 new commercial-grade kitchen. This will be a true multi-purpose area, allowing space for more outreach If you have questions, do not hesitate to place them in opportunities, indoor recreational activities, programs the Building the Spirit Question box in the Narthex or such as Dimensions of Faith lectures, and large send them to [email protected]. For latest parish-wide meetings, just to name a few. updates, visit the St. Matthew’s web site $1,505,100 www.stmatt-ky.org

(Discernment Update: continued on next page) 5 DISCERNMENT UPDATE

SAVE THE DATE! Sunday, August 29 You’ve helped form our vision for St. Matthew’s . . . You’ve heard about the plans . . . You’ve seen the drawings . . . NOW come find out about costs and get some answers to your questions!

Where: Lounge (after 8 & 5 o’clock services) Clingman Hall (after 10 ~ childcare is provided)

Why: Everyone needs to know what’s going on! We’ll be doing a feasibility study in September to see if we have the support we need to build.

“INSTRUMENTS OF YOUR PEACE”

an Adult Vacation Bible School The Rev. Moray Peoples Are you wondering if it is possible to have differing opinions and continue to enjoy the fruits of living within a loving parish community? What if you disagree with your rector? Do you have to change parishes?

As an outgrowth of this spring’s successful Lenten AVBS will feature Allen Oliver, Quaker and Licensed Program in which we discovered the value of simple Family Therapist, who will facilitate the enacting and conversations in small groups, here comes Adult Vacation learning of the dynamics of peace within a Christian Bible School, Monday through Thursday, August 9-12, community. You will have an opportunity to witness an 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Lounge. Please let us know byAugust authentic portrayal of the dynamics when our rector, The 5 if you will need childcare. Rev. Lucinda Laird, and The Rev. Pat Connell, rector of Trinity Church, Owensboro, work to understand each Several of us who participated as small group leaders this other’s position surrounding a controversial issue. Allen spring felt the energy of the program must be carried will also help us within small groups to understand how we forward; David Garver, Chris Brosend, Sheila Yule, can work as instruments of peace for better community Martha Wallingford, Lucinda Laird, and JudithandMoray living. Peoples. We have met several times and have “designed” an adult version for VBS. We hope you will set aside Our planning group has grown in enthusiasm ourselves as August 9-12 and participate with us. we have anticipated the event. We have agreed there are thorny issues both in the world and the church that grieve We’ll meet for four evenings, enjoy a light snack and work us. We question how we can become better instruments of toward becoming better “Instruments of Your Peace,” God’s peace in the midst of the turmoil. In particular, how following the theme of the famous prayer of Francis of does one be honest with a friend with whom one deeply Assisi. You can preview the theme itself on page 833 of the disagrees? We have much to learn and hope you will assist Book of Common Prayer. Additionally, we have this text set us as we learn from each other. to music in our Hymnal (#593). 6 PARISH NEWS

Horizon Readers offers challenging readings How should we respond when we are attacked by keep pace with the reading so all would be on the same passionate believers? Where is God in a universe that page at each session. Books would be chosen by group science says may end in futility? How do we read Holy consensus using a variety of methods. Scripture as wars are waged over its meaning? Can faith give us strength to be honest about the worst in       ourselves? Did the Christ we worship foresee the church we belong to? These are just a few of the many questions that a diocesan reading group has wrestled with over the past three years. The group’s members have also shown a strong desire for challenging works and weekly gatherings to discuss how they affect our personal faith journeys. Horizon Readers was first organized by EFM graduates three years ago at St. Francis in the Fields. Now located at The Daughters of the King is an Order for women of the St. Matthew’s and open to all in the diocese, the group Episcopal Church and of churches with the historic begins its fourth season in September with its most Episcopate. It was organized in 1885. Every Daughter ambitious and demanding reading schedule. pledges herself to a lifelong program of prayer, service, and For the first time the group has selected its entire book list personal evangelism, dedicated to the extension of Christ’s for the year in advance and has upped its scheduled kingdom and to the strengthening of the spiritual life of her reading rate to more than 40 pages a week over 38 weeks. parish. By reaffirmation of promises made at confirmation, Also for the first time, most of the readings have a every Daughter undertakes a Rule of Life, incorporating chronological sequence where one work provides a the Rule of Prayer and the Rule of Service. foundation for the next. Motto of Daughters of the King The 2004-2005 reading list: • God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time, For His Sake Archbishop Desmond Tutu. 144 pages. I am but one: • Jews, God and History, Max I. Dimont. 592 pp. but I am one. • Jesus : A Revolutionary Biography, John Dominic Crossan. 224 pp. I cannot do everything, • The Social World of Luke-Acts: Models for but I can do something. Interpretation, Jerome H. Neyrey. 464 pp. • The Moral Teaching of Paul: Selected Issues, What I can do, Victor Paul Furnish. 142 pp. I ought to do.

Horizon Readers begins its fall semester with a retreat at All What I ought to do, Saints Episcopal Center, September 10-11. The first of the by the grace of God, group’s 1½-hour, weekly meetings will be at 7:30 p.m., I will do. Monday, September 13 at St. Matthew’s. Persons interested in participating should contact Kit Kincade, Lord, what will you (502) 426-1641; e-mail: [email protected]. have me to do? The group was organized to move beyond church courses designed to fit a six- or eight-week period. Most of its All women of the parish, age 20 and above, who are original members were graduates of St. Francis’s Education interested in the formation of a chapter of Daughters of the for Ministry program. They wanted to tackle solid, King at St. Matthew’s, are welcome to attend an scholarly or spiritually thought-provoking works written by informative meeting in late September. The date and time knowledgeable writers or religious leaders. Books of 300 or for this meeting will be in your Sunday Announcements in 400 pages would not be excluded, and the two-semester early September. format was selected to provide enough time. For questions, please call Martha Wallingford, 425-1343, It was assumed that members might not be able to attend or Sue Bridge, 245-5872. each weekly discussion, but they would be expected to 7 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Summer Parish / Newcomers Breakfast Everyone is welcome to attend! Sunday,August 15

Our annual breakfast will be held in Clingman Hall at 9:00 a.m. Please indicate on the sign up sheet located on the bulletin board outside the front office, the number of people in your familywho will be attending and which food you will bebringing. Donations can be made at the door… $3.00 for adults, $1.50 for children, ages 6-12, and no charge for children under the age of 6. Please join us for this scrumptious breakfast and the marvelous opportunity to meet our newest members.

Thank You! The Ladies’ Lunch Bunch Deepest thanks are expressed to Jayne Waldrop, who has We will meet at the King Fish Restaurant on River Road at coordinated the Casserole ZornAvenue, 11:30 a.m. on Thursday,August 19. Please Committee for the past two years. call Betty Triplett, 425-9733, if you have any questions. Jayne has made many phone calls to We hope to see many of you there! the committee asking them to prepare and deliver casseroles to our bereaved, homebound, ill, and families with newborns. She has also prepared and delivered many of them herself. Jayne has given countless hours to this ministry and we say thank you for your dedication. Birthday St. Matthew’s Day Celebrations Picnic of our Homebound Sunday, for August September 26 August 6 Peg Louis It’s almost time that time of year again, so please August 31 Ruth Alexander remember to mark your calendars and join us for some fabulous food and great games! Be sure to check the September Spirit for more information.

8 PARISH NEWS

K u d o s Many, for a Many Thanks to… Job Well Done! Julie Davis, Barbara Ellis, Many thanks to Clay Smith, Jay Crocker, and Candis Lee and Jodi Fletcher, Crocker for all your hard work on our annual outing to the Clay Smith, Tim Eicholtz, Bats game and picnic on Saturday, July 17. We had a David Reed, and Taylor and beautiful day, good food, and the Bats beat Syracuse Hunter Stokesfor all of your help with the River Cities 4 to 2. Concert Band and Ice CreamSocialon July11. Go Bats go!

The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck and Program Don’t forgetto mark your calendars for Tuesday,September 28 when the fall Potluck and Program will begin. Please bring a familymember or friend and your favorite dish. You won’t want to miss our program with guest speaker,Sal Della Bella, from HolyTrinity Roman Catholic Church. There will be more on Sal’s topic to be written up in the SeptemberSpirit.

MUSIC NOTES Come Sing With Us ! ! Come Sing With Us ! ! Take this simple test. Do you have a song in your heart or in your head? Do you like to sing? Do you have a busy life that needs a brief time away from the stress of family and work obligations? Do you enjoy the fellowship of others that love a joyful noise? If you answered yes..... Congratulations! ! You should be in the choir! Come kick off the new programming year at the Music Department Picnic on Wednesday, August 25 ! ! Choir rehearsal begins, Wednesday, September 1, 7:45 p.m. Treble Choir and Handbells will resume in mid September— watch for more information!

Call Barbara Ellis (895-3485 or 893-2446) if you’re in need of a gentle arm twisting! 9 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Cornerstone starts in September Beginning in September, St. Matthew’s volunteers will once again be cooking and Volunteer babysitting for the teenage mothers of the Cornerstone Program. Opportunities The Cornerstone Program is an initiative of Christ Church Cathedral and the Home of the Innocents. Each Thursday of the “school year,” the teenage mothers from the Home of the Innocents and their children meet at the Cathedral for a meal St. George’s / followed by counseling services and skills - building sessions for the mothers. The first Thursday of each month, St. Matthew’s members prepare the meal and provide Calvary babysitters for the children and babies. Food Collection The Social Concerns Committee appreciates all those adults and youth who have participated in past years and hopes that many of you will choose to continue to Sunday support this ministry. Please stop by the bulletin board and sign up to help in one Sunday, August 1 of the coming months by cooking or babysitting.

Habitat Thank you St. Matthew’s, for for a successful Yard Sale Humanity The Social Concerns Committee is most grateful to everyone who helped make the July 10th yard sale a success by bringing items, buying items, sorting, pricing, Saturday, August 7, moving items, and cleaning up afterwards. Special thanks go to organizers Karen Borho and Lauren Becker, and to Sallie Carter who sold special items through 8:30 a.m. to Noon her internet business, KY Online Auction. or 3:00 p.m. At the end of the day on Sunday the 11, $1500.00 had been collected but that did (carpool from the not include any e-bay items or jewelry items that Karen would be selling at one of church parking lot) her estate sales. Watch the bulletin for updated figures. All of the books that did not sell were given to the Pass It On ministry of the Seamen’s Ministry. All leftover professional clothing was taken to Dress for Serve lunch Success. All other clothing and “things” were given to Wayside Christian at Wayside Mission. The committee certainly appreciates all the hard work of Karen, Lauren, Sallie, Christian Carl Borho, Jean Callahan, Carter Borho, Jack Carter,John Carter, Betty Misson Cartwright,Anita Dillman, Jack Geary, Mary Jo Gillim,Anne Karle, Bob Nesmith, Sharon Nesmith, Gwen Parkins, Lori Shindlebower, Hunter Stokes, Sunday, August 8, Taylor Stokes, Beverly Weis, Julia Weis, and Virginia Wilson who made the sale 11:30 a.m. to happen. And we have to thank our wonderful Staff who carried item after item downstairs for weeks before the sale! 2:00 pm. Now that we have some funds, LET’S SPONSOR A REFUGEE FAMILY! (carpooling may be arranged It takes at least $2500.00 to sponsor a refugee family through Kentucky Refugee with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) Ministries so we will be very close by the time everything has sold. To prepare to See sign up sheet on the be sponsors, we need to organize a Refugee Sponsor Committee. The committee main bulletin board. will be responsible for locating housing for the family for three months, collecting furnishings for the home/apartment, arranging for utilities and telephone connections, driving the family to get food stamp cards, social security cards etc. helping the family acclimate to American living. If you would like to be a part of this committee, please sign on the bulletin board so that we may begin to organize ourselves. CallSharon Nesmith (228-5918) with questions. (continued on next page) 10 SOCIAL CONCERNS

platelets may go to patients undergoing chemotherapy, and The Next plasma may go to burn victims. You can give blood sixtimes a year or every56 days. If Blood Drive donors would give twice a year, we would not experience the blood shortages we now frequently do. Persons in Tuesday, August 10 good health age 17 and older who weigh at least 110 2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. pounds are urged to consider giving a donation. Because of health risks abroad, those who have traveled out of the at Broadway Baptist Church U.S. may not be eligible. Come give blood with others from St. Matthews at the blood drive or you can always visit the on Brownsboro Road Red Cross donation center at the Woodlawn Center on If you haven’t already learned, the Metro Louisville area is Hubbards Lane or any other center in the area. now experiencing a dangerously low supply of blood. If you have questions about your eligibility call the Red Blood inventory levels are so low that patient care may be Cross at 540-7163 or 800 732-8772 or online at compromised. Collections are lower than usual because of www.givebloodnow.org. Thank you from the bottom of my the storms resulting in power outages. This caused at heart! least one center to close and several mobile blood drives to cancel or have a very low turnout. Blood supplies are always lower during the summer months, but the need for Anne Shelby blood increases. How much blood do patients need? Heart surgery 4–8 units Bleeding ulcer 3–30 units ConsiderVolunteering Post-partum hemorrhage 5–50 units Chronically transfused patients (cancer, etc.) 6–8 units in the Community Average emergency room need 4–40 units Show your faith through your works. Consider acting as Sixty percent of the people in our region are eligible to give the hands and feet of Christ in the world. Check the blood, but only about five percent actually do. The bulletin board for a list of Opportunities for Service Outside process takes about one hour in all and includes the Parish. You will find names of people you may call for registration and completion of a medical questionnaire, further explanation of the volunteer opportunity. If nothing confidential mini-physical with a Red Cross technician, appeals to you, log onto www.metrounitedway.org/ blood donation (no longer than 10 minutes) and canteen volunteer. At that site, Metro United Way provides time during which refreshments are served to replenish lost opportunities for Individual Volunteerism or Group Projects. fluids. The pint of blood can save up to three lives. Red Whatever you choose, you will be making a difference for cells may go to trauma patients or premature babies, the better.

KENYA NEWS

On September 4, 2004, 18 people, including me, will leave gloves, hand sanitizers, antibiotic creams, eye drops), eye- Louisville on a Mission Trip to Oyugis, Kenya. We will be glasses, infant clothes and blankets, and sports supplies working on several projects while we are there: (soccer balls, basketballs, and pumps). Donation boxes are • Medical work at Wire Clinic located in the coatroom outside of the Narthex, if you can • Cleaning and painting of Wire Clinic buildings help. • Building a playground and basketball court for Please pray for us as we travel, and for the people of St. Michael’s church Oyugis that we will be working with. • Delivering supplies to several schools and to our orphans You will find a report of our trip and our orphans in the • Making plans for our trip in 2005 October Spirit. We will need school supplies (no crayons), medical supplies (bandages, gauze, tape, cotton swabs, rubber John 11 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Church School opens September 12th!

Vacation Bible School was a “Lava Lava Great Time”! We definitely need to live in the moment because there is just no predicting what we have in store for us! I would never have dreamed I was going to spend much of the summer in and out of doctors’ offices or that I would need to hand Vacation Bible School over to someone else to lead. Then who would have thought we would have our worst storm in over thirty years leaving so many without power (including the church) right in the middle of VBS. It is with a very grateful heart that I thank Cheryl Wagner, children’s committee chair, for directing an amazing VBS. Cheryl is AMAZING!! A world of thanks to so many who made this year’s Lava Lava Island a paradise with wonderful lessons, games, crafts, and even snacks teaching God’s love. During VBS, I was always curious to see how Emily Brosend’s group would be traveling from station to station. They never seemed to just walk! Thank you, thank you to the following people who worked and played with our children and helped create the giggles and joy that filled the air: Cheryl Wagner, VBS director, Andrew Brill, Emily Brosend, Linda Campisano, Jenice Carolan, Ann Davis, Shannon Edwards, Saxonie Eicholtz, Sunny Eicholtz, Mardi Galvin, Becca Lambert, Anne Nesmith, Sharon Nesmith, Heather Ogburn, Michelle Peterson, Monique Peterson, Charlie Rhea, Laura Rhea, Monique Schmitt, Brooke Sparks, Kala Spencer, Vicky Spencer, Rene’ Strause, Ann Tidwell, Karen Triplett, Kate Wagner, Natalie Weis, and Carrie Woldin. Blessings, Debbi

The Bridge is the buzz! Abrand new worship service created with and for our third through sixth graders begins September 12 at 10:00 a.m. in Overflow Room C.

All Things New! Our church school structure and curriculum are changing come September 12. Later this month, you will receive mailings that directlyeffect you and your children. Here are our 2004 – 2005 church school teachers: Threes ...... Linda Campisano, Jon Hardy,Libby Hardy Fours and Kindergarteners...... Sarah Collins, Doris Morrow, Monique Schmitt, Barbara Voss First and Second Graders ...... Anne Niel, Mike Niel, Mike Risley,Randy Strause Third and Fourth Graders ...... Tyler Goldberg Fifth and Sixth Graders ...... Angela Koshewa Seventh and Eightn Graders ...... AmyCurrie, Ellen Robertson Ninth and Tenth Graders ...... Anne Nesmith, Nina Rodahaffer Eleventh andTwelth Graders..... Gaylee Gillim,Alex Waldrop

The programming year ahead is going to be more than fantastic. It is going to be joy-filled!

Come, be a part of it!

12 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

August 2004 High School Dinner Out Good Luck Seniors Sunday,August 15th at Dynasty Buffeton As of press time, here are where our Lime Kiln Lane. Meet at the church at 6 p.m. seniors are going to college. Dinner is on us!  Carter Borho - Western Kentucky University  Kate Dosker- Mississippi State University Middle School Dinner Out  Brianne Jacoby - Dennison College Sunday, August 22nd at Gattiland. Meet at church at 6 p.m. Rising 6th  Michael Krantz - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology graders are invited. Dinner is on us!  Lauren Lotz - Hanover College  Andrew Ludwig- Bellarmine University  Cory Moneymaker - Murray State University St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church  Mallory Moore- University of Kentucky Senior High Fall Retreat  Samantha Ray- University of Kentucky  Mollie Ronald - Centre College Who Can Come:Anyyouthingrades9–12.  Natalie Weis - Barnard College Times:Depart St. Matthew’s parking lot at 4 p.m. on Friday, September 17. “Senior Brunch at Garrett’s” Return to St. Matthew’s parking lot at 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 18. Cost: $50 (financial aid is readily available).Costincludes transportation, lodging,three meals, and all activities. Retreat will include high and low ropes courses, team building, games, new and renewed friendships, worship, and lots offun. Details, including what to bring, whatnot to bring, and release forms will be sent out around Labor Day.

Beginning Sunday, September 12! Church School, 11:10 a.m. SNAC, 6:00 p.m. Road Rally -

Got a quick question for Ben? The September new youth AOL Instant Messenger 12!! address is: youthstmattky

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of August 1 Week of August 8 McKee: Lauree Mindrum: Jon, Elizabeth Runyon McKinney: Bill, Martha Mitchell: Kitty Meier: Frank, Karen Mitchell: Tommy, Sarah Ritter, Nate Skordzki Mendel: Elizabeth, Maggie, Charlie Moneymaker: Jan, Colin, Cory, Shelby Mendel: Marye Moon: Judith Mendel: Scott, Maggie, Charlie Moore: Angela Metcalfe: James Moore: Condict, Caroline Miller: Lynn, Michael Risley, Michael, James Moore: Kimble, Judith, Ethan, Sarah, Mallory Miller: Matthew, Laura, Isabelle, Amelia Morrow: David, Doris, Sam, Lee Miller: Scott, Ann Mosher: Carol

Week of August 15 Week of August 22 Moyer: Jim, Octavia Wilkins, Karin Moyer Nixon: Edie Muncy: David, Kim Nixon: Bo, Edith Mundt: Charles, Mary Nixon: Theodore, Mary Murphy: Larry, Pamela Norman: John, Leslie Ndife: Matrid, Briana, Brandon Nuss: Charlotte Nesmith: Bob, Sharon, Anne Nutt: Claude, Sherry Newkirk: Amy, Eric, Elizabeth Nutt: Gilbert, Ruth Niehaus: David, Angela, Peter, Benjamin O’Roark: Jane, D.L. Niel: Michael, Anne, Kyle, Rachel Oberhausen, Ellen, Jana Nixon: Alexander, Jenny, Molly, Alexander Ogburn: Ben, Heather, Harrison, Bryce

Week of August 29 Ogden: Anne Patla:Ken, Ann Peck: Robert, Debbie, Jason, Jina Owens: Nancy, R.J. Borsch Peck: John, Donna Pennington: Gary, Margaret Parkins: Cleve, Gwen Peck: Michaeleen, Kevin Clark Peoples: The Rev. Moray, Judith Parobek: Jim, Susan, Stephan, Alexander

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby, Mark Barry, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

14 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Henry, Barbara, and Elizabeth Ormsby from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Lois Cundiff from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY

Transfers Out Mary Farris Fieger to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Peter T. Pritchard to All Saints Episcopal Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Births We extend congratulations to David and Andrea Ledvina on the birth of their son, Luke Brian and Courtney Good on the adoption of the daughter, Georgia

Deaths Octavia Catherine Moyer, June 27 Barbara Hartwell, July 22

We were sorry to hear about the deaths of Jackie Brooks’ sister Ray Pritchard’s brother + + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + +

15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Summer Office Hours Monday-Thursday: 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Friday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1416 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s September 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR Dear People of architects’ plans have come out of What’s St. Matthew’s, lots and lots of listening to many people at St. Matthew’s. But this Happening? It’s September, must be – start to finish – an and things are endeavor of the WHOLE parish, A Few Words From picking up around The Assistant Rector ...... 2 and we need to involve everyone. St. Matthew’s. We will never have 100% A Few Words From There is energy agreement on what we do, but we Our Pastoral Associate ...... 3 in the air, and lots of excitement. can have 100% participation, and I We are looking forward to a believe we can reach consensus. Vestry Comments...... 4 wonderful program year. I am Building the Spirit ...... 5 especially excited about our new Building together – it’s a good Bridge Service for 3 – 6 graders image of what we’re about. Ladies & Gentlemen of (see information elsewhere in Buildings are the least of it. The Experience ...... 5 this issue). ministries that those buildings house are what matter. We are Parish News ...... 6-9 We are also continuing our working to build up the Body of Kenya News ...... 9 discernment around expansion Christ: to strengthen those who are and renovation of our facilities. members of this community, to Music Notes ...... 10 Later this month, our consultants, reach out to those in need, and to HollimanAssociates, will be Volunteer Opportunities.... 11 welcome the stranger. As we conducting a feasibility study to build, God builds us into the image Social Concerns ...... 11 see if we have the support of Christ in ways that we cannot necessary for continuing with this even imagine. Adult Ed ...... 13 project, and having a capital Church School News ...... 15 campaign. Holliman will interview Please join me in praying for about 40 people –a cross section wisdom and discernment, that we Youth Page...... 17 of the parish -, and everyone will may be guided by the Holy Spirit to Prayer List ...... 18 be asked to participate in a direct do the work of Christ. mail survey. I hope ALL of you Parish Families...... 19 will give them your input. Yours in Christ, The Vestry and I are very, very + excited about the possibilities of Lucinda this project – what we’ve been calling Building the Spirit. The 1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector A Secret Message

In my column last month, I cataloged the many and group. Youth group can be a very fun place – we go on various activities that have been planned for the youth of trips, we play games, we hang out, we talk and laugh, and St. Matthew’s in the coming months. These include road there is always plenty to eat. But more importantly, youth rallies, retreats, trips, and many other opportunities, most group can be a safe place for you to be who you really of which include free pizza. Lynn and I are very excited are. Being a teenager in 2004 is tough. The pressures are about the prospects for an extremely dynamic youth enormous. Are my grades high enough? Am I athletic program this fall and we hope the young people of our enough? Am I skinny enough? Tall enough? Rich community will both enjoy and engage the offerings in enough? Cool enough? You are constantly being labeled store. and categorized and you may feel that nobody ever takes a second to get to know the real you and hear about your However, before the rubber hits the road, I have a specific thoughts and ideas, your hopes and fears, and your message for the youth of the parish, those in grades sixth interests and dreams. through twelfth grade, and youth only. If you are an adult, especially one of those parent type people, please step At youth group, we want to create a space where you can away from the newsletter and give it to a young person as be who you really are and subsequently form a soon as possible. If you are a youth, once you finish this community of friends that doesn’t worry about how the article, hide it from adults at all costs. We can not let the outside world might label you. Instead, that community message get out. likes you simply because you are you. And within that community, we will do much more than you could The message is this: we need you to come to youth group. possibly imagine, from racing go-carts to talking about the “Wait a minute, what a rip off!” you might be saying to place of God in our lives. Youth group can be an amazing yourself, “I thought this message was going to be place and the friends you make in youth group can be something interesting or exciting.” Well, as a matter of some of the best friends you will ever have. fact, I do think this message is interesting because youth group can be one of the most exciting and powerful So,please make a commitment to youth group. I promise experiences you have all week. I know you have many that if you make a commitment, and others make the same commitments and other activities cramming your schedule: commitment, you will have the time of your life! school, homework, sports, music, chores, jobs, and a zillion other things. But I want you to carve out one and a half hours every seven days, and make a commitment to youth Ben

                         It’s Foyers Time again!

What is Foyers? Foyer Groups are made up of diverse through March 2005. There will be a sign-up sheet posted members of the church who meet regularly in parishioners’ on the church bulletin board during August and the first homes, usually once a month for a light meal and two Sundays in September. We hope to have the groups fellowship. They are “Porches of Welcome” where people formed and published by St. Matthew’s Day, Sunday, can come together in an open and receptive way. Foyer September 26. Please be sure to sign up for this great groups generally meet for approximately 6 months. This is program. a great way to meet new people and renew old If you have any questions, please call David and Laurinda acquaintances. Stokes, 899-1012. The 2004-05 Foyers program will begin in October and run

2 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . the Pastoral Associate Jeremiah 23: 23 – 29 and “Instruments of Your Peace,” the Adult Vacation Bible School at St. Matthew’s August 9-12 led by Allen Oliver, Quaker and Licensed Family Therapist

I took a walk Saturday afternoon at our Meade County warnings of the prophet. He was supported in his wrong retreat after I had finished the August 15 sermon. On the decision by nationalistic politicians who called themselves walk, I was overcome with the feeling that I had finked out. “prophets” without having received a word from God. Often, in the middle of sermon writing, I am aware that there They did not interpret seriously the situation of Judah in are two sermons here, not one, and I am left with the choice the midst of threatening empires. They lacked the realism of which one to share. which is the quality of true prophets. They were not able to look beyond political chances and military calculations. Clearly, in Jeremiah’s ranting against the false prophets And so disaster approached and brought about Zedekiah’s who promise false security to the people, there is a desperate attempts to get a consoling or helping word from contemporary connection. And, equally clearly, Allen the prophet. But he did not get it. Out of his prison Oliver’s time with us this week at St. Matthew’s drove some Jeremiah tells him the only thing he did not want to hear: of Jeremiah’s points home. Was this not the word of God “You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of asking to be preached? Instead, I opted for something Babylon! God will not save you!” close to my heart but of mystical, not social, dimensions. It is summer and I long for laughter as I imagine God’s people This is not what the king wanted to hear, and it is never do, also. what we want to hear. Extending the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr on the subject, William Sloane Coffin in his recent But there is an election coming up, and we are involved as book, Credo, says we know false prophets because they never before in deciding how to vote our Christian values. offer false security to the people. “I’ve said it before and It was clear in the dialogue between Pat Connell and probably will say it many times again: God provides Lucinda the different forms those values can take. Judith minimum protection, maximum support – support to help Peoples said she had never seen a clearer delineation of us grow up, to stretch our minds and hearts until they are male thinking and female thinking in the interchange. Male as wide as God’s universe.” thinking, in one view, is concerned with rules and structure, and female thinking, with caring, with inclusion, with We don’t want to hear any of this because, as Niebuhr relationship. We all combine both types of thinking and says, the most basic need of the human spirit is the need responding. But neither dictates when to make a public for security and the most fundamental problem of religion gesture that embodies our belief. is the problem of meeting this need. Allen Oliver, in our discussion of marriage historically, and Coffin says “I look to the religious community inAmerica experientially for us in the room, followed by discussion of to persuade Americans that we have sold our birthright of what gay marriage would mean, had a proposal. Suppose freedom and justice for a mess of national security. those of us who wish to include gay people in our social National security – which says ‘I can only preserve the and/or religious marriage vow, were to renounce our own security of my country by threatening the security of until such time as all were equally able to participate? One yours’ – must give way to something a little more in tune parishioner got up to say that his daughter’s friends had with the religious vision: common security, which insists done just that: refused the conventional, civil marriage no one is safe unless all are safe.” ceremony in order to stand with and stand up for their gay friends in a committed relationship who were denied the No one is safe unless all are safe. Think about it. privilege of marriage. Allen wanted us to see that it is a Do we hear anyone saying our God will protect us and privilege and there are many perks that go along with it: tax keep us from harm? Do we listen to those promising us breaks and insurance breaks, for instance. false security? Are we listening to any voices like those of Allen is also meeting with fellow Quakers to work out his the false prophets around Jeremiah ? pacifism and a protest against war that will pay more than Coffin again: “If, as Scripture says, ‘God is love,’ then lip service to pacifism. Not paying taxes is part of that human freedom is real. As Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor consideration. Behavior that supports what we say we properly discerned, freedom is a burden, choice is scary. believe is a point here, behavior that may require sacrifice But freedom is the absolutely necessary precondition of on our part. Why would anyone want to be a pacifist? We love. We are not slaves but children of our Father, free to need look no farther than what Jeremiah is saying to us in do good, free to sin. So when in anguish over any human this reading for Proper 15. violence done to innocent victims, we ask of God, ‘How King Zedekiah came to Jeremiah in a hopeless situation, in could you let that happen?’ It’s well to remember that God a situation into which he had brought himself and his at that very moment is asking the same question of us.” people through guilt and error and disregard of the Think about it.

3 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden “God is Love.” 1 John 4:16 “Love one another.” Jesus “All you need is love.” The Beatles

Sounds simple. If we just love one another everything Allen asked us to reflect on how we live in community falls into place. Love each other and all is right with the when we have strongly held beliefs and values that create world. Sure! division among us. He asked what do we share in For those of you who put up with my thoughts in this common? For two nights we talked with and to each other space each month you may remember last month I wrote about this. A psychologist observed that people fall into about how difficult it is for me to even consider loving one of two camps on issues that are divisive. One, labeled some people. I said it is easy for me to love those close to “male,” values rules and order. The “female” side places me and those who agree with me. Theoretically I can love importance on relationships. That seemed to be an those at a distance who disagree with me and have important observation as we tried to understand each other. completely opposite views, values and beliefs. But how well do I live out my beliefs when it means rejection and For two nights and part of the third we had an interesting criticism from within the church? How do we live in mutual but intellectual discussion on how we may live in respect and concern for each other when issues divide us? communion in mutual love and respect when we may be far How do we live and worship with each other in this parish, apart on what we believe and hold important. Mid-way in this diocese, in the Episcopal Church when we through the third evening a long-time member, a respected fundamentally disagree over very emotional issues? Little African-American, spoke up. Confronting what he did I know that for four nights in early August I would be perceived as our superficial discussions he said, “You will repeating these questions in a remarkable series of never know how we feel. The color of your skin gives you meetings facetiously called St. Matthew’s Adult Vacation privilege.” He nailed us. The academic arguments were Bible School. over. Real pain had been expressed and released. He brought home the pain that African-Americans and other The theme came from St. Francis’ famous prayer “Make me minorities, including Gays and Lesbians, must feel. And an instrument of your peace.” Over 70 people came because he is one of us and loved by us, we too hurt. together those four nights to talk about and experience living together in diversity. By diversity we thought we The remaining time that evening and our concluding meant opinions, values and beliefs, particularly those evening were more introspective. We reflected on how surrounding sexual orientation which has divided us and different this was from the meeting held one year ago in threatened to split our denomination since last year. We this same room, over the same issues, that filled the seats learned that we must not neglect race, economics and all with angry people and God was locked out. We wondered the other differences we say we embrace. again, how do we love people who hate us, people whose actions and beliefs are in total opposition to the God we With the help of Allen Oliver, a Quaker graduate of claim to know and worship? These are difficult questions. Southern Baptist Seminary (is that an oxymoron?) and a licensed therapist experienced in reconciliation, we began I want to end with two quotes that seem to touch on our with a conversation between two priests on opposite sides delimma. In his August 16 On A Journey, Tom Ehrich using of the issues dealing with sexuality. The Rev. Pat Connell, an analogy to the Olympics said, “If we could lay off the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Owensboro, shared victory talk, we might see each other as companions, not as his concerns for the wholeness of the Anglican competitors for the gold medal; God as friend, not referee; Communion and the importance of keeping it together. He and life as worthy everyday, not as prelude to Final believes the actions that General Convention and the Standings.” Canadian Anglican church took last year are viewed as And from Bennett Sims, the retired Episcopal Bishop of arrogant by other parts of the Anglican Communion Atlanta, who writes in his newest book: “Providentially because we acted in opposition to the wishes of the larger there exists no commandment of God that we must be church that those decisions be deferred. Lucinda ‘correct.’ There is only the reconciling mandate that we expressed her feelings that this is the right time to move on love.” those issues and that, although difficult, it is proper for the North American churches to lead, not wait. Bob

4 BUILDING THE SPIRIT Discernment Process Update

We are currently conducting a formal feasibility study with Views and comments of members of our church family the assistance of Holliman Associates to determine about our proposed building modification and the addition whether or not we should go ahead with a capital of a “fellowship hall” are important and will be considered. campaign. Approximately 2.8 million dollars would be Beginning Friday, September 17 at 9 a.m. and continuing needed to follow the master plan that the parish has through Sunday, the 19, our consultants from Holliman will created and recommended for updating and expanding be here to do selected interviews. In addition, we will be St. Matthew’s facilities. Due to the generosity of Eleanor sending surveys to the whole parish before the end of Augustus, the amount needed is not higher. September. We need everyone’s response. The designs shown on the bulletin board outside of the If the feasibility study indicates that we can have a Narthex include preliminary estimates. For latest updates, successful capital campaign, we will begin the campaign visit the St. Matthew’s web sitewww.stmatt-ky.org . late this year or early next year. Please give the project your thoughtful and prayerful consideration.

SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS

The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Program “My Journey Home”

Don’t forget! Tuesday, September 28,Sal Della Bella, our guest speaker from HolyTrinity Roman Catholic Church, will provide us with an opportunityto laugh and reflect on life’s journeyand all the things we didn’t learn in Kindergarten. Please bring a familymember or friend and your favorite dish, enough for 12 people.

Sal is the Director of the Office of Ministryand Spirituality for theArchdiocese of Louisville. He has earned his Masters Degree in the area ofApplied Spiritual Theology and currentlyserves on the Board of the National Association for LayMinistry. Throughout his 19 years of ministry experience, Sal has served as a Director of Religious Education, FamilyLife Minister,Teacher, and Director of the MinistryFormation Program for the Archdiocese of Louisville.As a husband, father of three, and educator, Sal has a knowledgeable yet practical story to tell. Through the art of storytelling Sal brings both humor and passion to his presentations. He has offered a variety of Retreats, Missions, Prayer Days, Workshops and Classes in the areas of Theology, SpiritualityandMinistry.

QUESTIONS FROM THE HEART

“Questions from the Heart” will continue next month. ?

5 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces St. Matthew’s Day Picnic Sunday, September 26

Our Annual Parish Picnic will be held following the 10:00 a.m. service in the backyard, by the playground. There will be entertainment for all ages! Picnic attire is most appropriate for both services that morning. Wear your St. Matthew’s T-Shirt if you have one. We ask that you bring a salad, vegetable or a dessert that will serve 10-12 people and doesn’t need to be refrigerated or heated. Please sign up on the bulletin board outside of the front office.

Our “Main Dish” is Fried Chicken $2.00 per adult • $1.50 for ages 6-12 No Charge for children under 6 and Canned Soft Drinks are available for 50 cents. Please bring a lawn chair or blanket so you can sit, relax and enjoy!

The Retired Men’s The Ladies’ Breakfast Lunch Bunch We will meet at the Bristol at the Forum, corner of Wewill meet on Tuesday, September 21, 8:30 a.m. at Denny’s Hurstbourne Lane and Shelbyville Road , 11:30 a.m., on Dutchman’s Lane across from Norton Suburban Hospital. Thursday, September 16. Please callBetty Triplett at Everyone is invited, not just retired or senior folks! 425-9733, if you have any questions. 6 PARISH NEWS ! Fire Alarm Reminder ! Occasionally the fire alarm goes off during church or church school on Sunday mornings. We always take the alarm seriously and will always evacuate the building. If you are exiting the church, you can go through the double doors at the back of the church and directly outside. If you are sitting near the front of the church, you can exit through the far right door behind the brick screen; it leads downstairs and directly outside at the bottom of the fire stairs. All exits in the building are clearly marked. If you have children in one of the classrooms or nursery downstairs, do not go downstairs to collect your child. All of the teachers and caregivers have been trained to take their charges out of the building safely. All children will be taken to the back parking lot away from the building. You may threaten your safety and the safety of others by remaining in the building and trying to go against traffic on the stairs. Meet your child in the back parking lot.

            Thank You! for all of your help on the Parish/Newcomers’ Breakfast All women of the St. Matthew’s parish, age 20 and above, Thank you to Julie Davis, who helped me set up tables are invited to a meeting regarding the formation of a and chairs, and set the tables. To our fine cooks, Mo chapter of Daughters of the King on Monday, September Wakefield and John Willingham, who made the sausage 28 at 7:00 p.m. in the chapel. For information, please call and scrambled eggs. To Cleve Parkins, who collected the Martha Wallingford, 425-1343, or Sue Bridge, 245-5872. donations. To Judith Peoples, for taking care of the nametags for parishioners and handing out the The Daughters of the King is an Order for women of the newcomer’s packets. To Lynn Miller and Cheryl Wagner Episcopal Church and of churches with the historic for helping me clean up.To all of you who made and Episcopate. It was organized in 1885. Every Daughter brought in muffins, breads and pastries. pledges herself to a lifelong program of prayer, service, and personal evangelism, dedicated to the extension of Christ’s My sincerest thanks for your hard work, it was a wonderful kingdom and to the strengthening of the spiritual life of her breakfast! parish. By reaffirmation of promises made at confirmation, – Ann Davis every Daughter undertakes a Rule of Life, incorporating the Rule of Prayer and the Rule of Service. Motto of Daughters of the King For His Sake I am but one: Classroom Training for Caregivers: but I am one. Teaching those who care for loved ones I cannot do everything, Hospice of Louisvilleoffers a free six-hour program to but I can do something. teach caregivers how to provide excellent patient care for their loved ones while also caring for themselves. Lunch is What I can do, provided. I ought to do. Training is 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and is offered on the What I ought to do, following dates: by the grace of God, September 28, October 12, November 16, and I will do. December 14 For more information, see the brochure on the bulletin Lord, what will you board, or call 719-8915. have me to do? 7 PARISH NEWS MARKYOUR THIS SHOULD BE GOOD! CALENDARS! Thursday, September 23, 6:00 p.m. Blessing of the at The Speed Art Museum Auditorium Animals Free lecture: “You Must Change Your Life: Thoughts onArt and Presence” Sunday, October 3 In conjunction with the museum’s contemporary exhibition, Presence, the Very Rev.Alan Jones, Dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, will examine the role of art and 3:00 p.m. its power to heal society. All animals welcome: Before coming to Grace Cathedral in 1985, the Very Rev. Mr. large, small or stuffed! Jones was the Stephen F. Bayne Professor of Ascetical Theology at The General Theological Seminary in New Treats for York City, and was the director and founder of the People and Animals! seminary’s Center for Christian Spirituality. His publications include The Soul’s Journey: Exploring the Three Passages of the Spiritual Life with Dante. Many of you will remember Dean Jones’ visit to St. Get Your Matthew’s in November of 2002, when he presented “Here Comes Everybody: The Recovery of Religion as a Work of Feed Bags the Imagination” as part of our Dimensions of Faith Series. On! For more information, call 634-2700. St. Matthew’s will have a Pig Roast on Sunday, October 17, immediately following church school. The Wayside Singers will provide music for this special event supporting our Kenyan Mission. You won’t want to miss this exciting choir from Wayside Christian Mission. Watch for more details in the October Spirit! Birthday CURSILLO! Celebrations And just what is Cursillo (Kur-see-oh) ????? Cursillo is an official renewal movement within the of our Episcopal Church. The name means “short course” and it is just that: a short course in Christianity. It begins with a Homebound weekend (Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, at All Saints Camp and Conference Center in Lietchfield), and is designed to for September continue afterwards as an aid to the living out of our baptismal vows. September 3 Gilbert Nutt The weekend can be a powerful experience, and many St. Matthew’s parishioners have found their spiritual lives September 17 Catherine Hines deepened and renewed as a result. Our own Mitch September 26 Mildred Bryant Shirrell is the lay Rector of this Cursillo (#38 in the diocese); the Rector is one of the spiritual advisors; and at least 3 other parishioners are involved on the team for the weekend. If you are interested in going, or simply in finding out more about it, contact Mitch Shirrell at 228-5637, or Bishop Reed or the Rector at the parish office. 8 PARISH NEWS

Bible Study resumes on September 13!

Does reading the Bible make you nervous? Do you worry that you are not doing it “right”, or that you don’t have enough information? Do you want to go deeper?

Anyone interested in Bible Study is invited to join an on-going group that meets each Monday (other than the first Monday of each month), 9:45-11:00 a.m., here at the Church. The Rector leads most sessions, and when she is unavailable other clergy fill in. We are currently reading the Gospel of Luke. We’ll do a review for our first session, and then pick up at Luke 7:36. We appreciate a commitment to the group, but it is not necessary to be in attendance at every meeting to participate. You can call the Rector or the parish office for more information – or just COME! on Monday, September 13.

Q: INTERESTED IN YOUNG ADULT ACTIVITIES?

A: JOIN THE YOUNG ADULT YAHOO! GROUP. Visithttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/stmatts_cordonbleu/ or send an e-mail to [email protected].

KENYA NEWS

Our group of 18 will be in Kenya, September 4-15. Please continue to pray for us and for those we will work with. Great thanks for your support in collecting items for our trip. We will be taking 18 boxes of supplies to help the people of Oyugis. Since our last newsletter solar power has been installed in the Wire Clinic. They now have the ability to serve the people of Oyugis in a better way. This was one of our goals that we were able to accomplish thanks to your support. We will have pictures of the Wire Clinic to share with you when we return. We will visit our orphans and will report on their progress when we return. Our next money will be sent to the orphans on October 1st. Please contribuite what you can! John 9 MUSIC NOTES

Barbara Ellis,Choir Director / Organist

Now is the time ! ! Be a part of the wonderful fellowship that makes up the Music Ministry of St. Matthew’s.

Choir rehearsals begin the first day of September. If you like to sing, come give it a try on Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. Senior High Youth are welcome and invited!

Handbells begin the week of September 12th. Talk to Barbara Ellis if you would like to be on the list, should a spot become available.

Treble Choir for second graders through middle school begins October 3rd. Watch for details in the next newsletter! It will be a wonderfully joyful noise!

“When in our music God is glorified ...... it is as though the whole creation cried Alleluia!” (Hymnal 1982, page 420)

10 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer THEY ARE COMING!!!!! Opportunities At their August meeting, the Vestry approved an additional $500.00 to help resettle a refugee family in Louisville. This St. George’s /Calvary grant gave us enough money to commit to Kentucky Refugee Ministries to sponsor a Food Collection family when the next group comes. Sunday Lee Welsh of KRM tells us that she expects we will have several families arriving Sunday, September 5 toward the end of September. Most of these families are coming from Somalia. The Habitat for families that have been approved for entry range in Humanity size from 5 to 9. Most are Moslem and few speak English. Saturday, September 11, St. Matthew’s will be asked to commit to a 3 to 4 month sponsorship of the family. 8:30 a.m. to Noon This includes meeting the family at the airport; arranging for housing on short or 3:00 p.m. notice; helping to provide initial food (until food stamps come), clothing, household goods and basic furniture; providing (carpool from the church parking lot) transportation to and from the offices at KRM, school, the grocery store, and other important places until the Serve lunch at refugees have learned to use public transportation; assisting with school enrollment for the Wayside Christian children; assisting with health Misson screening and other medical needs; helping the family become Sunday, September 12, acquainted with their new 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 pm. community and generally being a (carpooling may be arranged friend to them. Kentucky Refugee with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) Ministries will help us with language barriers and they will hold See sign up sheet on the our hand every step of the way. They will also give unending main bulletin board. support to the family. Babysit for To be good sponsors, the Refugee Sponsor Committee will need a lot of help from the congregation and we will not be bashful about teenage mothers at asking. On the bulletin board we have posted a list for you to sign up Cornerstone to contribute items needed to furnish an apartment. Gently used Thursday, September 16, items are absolutely welcome! Large items will be picked up by truck once we have the apartment. Other items may be brought to 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. the church at your convenience. In the weeks ahead, please (carpooling from the watch your bulletin and the bulletin board for opportunities to church parking lot) help in giving this family a new start in life.

Food Collection Thank you, St. Matthew’s and thank you Vestry for your support for St. MAM’s of this family as they start their new life in America. You cannot imagine the impact of your generous gift! Sunday, September 26 AIDS Walk Sunday, September 26, BRING CANNED FOOD TO THE Register: 1:00 p.m. ST. MATTHEW’S DAY PICNIC Walk: 3:00 p.m. On Sunday, September 26, please bring a couple of extra cans of St. Matthew’s isn’t sponsoring a food to the picnic to help stock the St. MAM,s food pantry. team. Donations will be accepted. Hunger knows no address or season!

11 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Volunteer Experience at Norton Hospital Just over a year ago, my husband and I moved to Louisville after Kevin became president of Norton Hospital downtown. Shortly after moving, I began to explore volunteer opportunities at Norton. In the process I learned about the Women’s Board at Norton. This group is the spiritual descendant of a remarkable group of Episcopal women who not only founded the hospital but also managed it for many years. When hospital operations were turned over to professional managers, the role of the Women’s Board evolved to a more supportive one. Today they are instrumental in recruiting, training and organizing volunteers, and in raising funds to support the hospital’s mission. Last fall I joined the volunteers at Norton, working one shift per week in the Gift Shop. Over the past year it has been my privilege to assist patients and their families, meet employees, and develop friendships with other volunteers. Proceeds from the gift shop are donated back to Norton Hospital to improve patient care. Volunteers are truly valued at Norton, where they are recognized as improving the hospital experience of patients and their families. If you are looking for a meaningful volunteer experience, I encourage you to consider Norton Hospital. We welcome men as well as women of all ages. The time commitment can be as little as four hours per month, or as much time as you wish to give. In addition to the gift shop, a variety of opportunities exist, including the Emergency Department, Book, magazine and mail delivery, Information Desk Staffing, the Oncology Unit, and Family Waiting Areas. All volunteers are interviewed to match their interests with a specific placement. Once an assignment is made, the volunteer is thoroughly trained in hospital policies and in their volunteer assignment. Volunteer brochures are available on the church bulletin board. I would also welcome the opportunity to discuss volunteering with you. Please call me at 749-5351. Linda Wardell

Louisville AIDS Walk at the Belevedere The 2004 AIDS Walk will be the day of our St. Matthew’s Day Picnic and celebration. Because of the conflict with our picnic, St. Matthew’s will not be sending a team this year. Anyone who wishes to participate after the picnic is encouraged to do so. Registration is at 1:00 p.m on the Belvedere and the walk begins at 3:00 p.m. (You may register to walk right up to the time of the walk). We will be collecting contributions on the 26 if you would like to show your support of theAIDS Community.

Hunger Walk in October Since we will not be walking forAIDS, letsALLcome out for the Hunger Walk on October 10. Remember that there is a banner to be won by the Episcopal Church with the highest percentage of membership walking. St. Matthew’s Banner Committee made that banner and it would be SO nice for St. Matthew’s to win it back! Mark your calendars now.

12 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Fall 2004 Adult Education each Sunday, 11:10-12:00

Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge, beginning September 19!

September 12 – A Festive Coffee Hour.

September 19 Dr.James Baughman, Professor of History at Jefferson CommunityCollege, Ph.D. (British History)from the Universityof Kentucky,doctoral specialityin the Historyof the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Session 1: “The Elizabethan Religious Settlement”

September 26 – St. Matthew’s Day

October 3 Dr. James Baughman Session 2: “Elizabethan Puritans and Catholics - The Issue of Mary Queen of Scots”

October 10 Contemporary Issues – PatriotAct and the war on terrorism. Jeff Skinner– Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

October 17 – Building the Spirit

October 24 Contemporary Issues –The Presidential race.

October 31 Dr.James Lewis, Professor ofAmerican Church History and Executive Director oftheLouisvilleInstitute. Session 1: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism”

(turn over for November & December) 13 November 7 Dr. James Lewis Session 2: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism”

November 14 Contemporary Issues Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

November 21 – TBA

December 5 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “Elizabeth and Zachariah”

December 12 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “John the Baptist” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

December 19 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “Mary”

Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge, beginning September 19!

14 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Church School begins Sunday, September 12th!

8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (no child care available) 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (Activity Rooms for babies through 2nd graders and for infants through 2-year-olds during church school) 10:00 a.m. Children’s Chapel (for 4 year-olds through 2nd graders) 10:00 a.m. The Bridge Worship (for 3rd through 6th graders in an overflow room off of Clingman Hall) 5:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist (no child care available)

Look for children’s committee members wearing red ribbons on September 12th to help you find your way to worship and church school classes.

The following is the list of ourextraordinary teachers and their classroom numbers: Grade Teacher Room 3’s ...... Linda Campisano ...... 121 ...... Julie Davis ...... 121 ...... Jon Hardy...... 121 ...... Libby Hardy ...... 121 ...... Jenny Nixon ...... 121 4’s & K’s ...... Sarah Collins...... 106 ...... Doris Morrow ...... 106 ...... Monique Schmitt...... 106 ...... Barbara Voss...... 106 1st & 2nd Grade ...... Anne Niel ...... 109 ...... Mike Niel ...... 109 ...... Mike Risley ...... 109 ...... Randy Strause ...... 109 3rd & 4th Grade...... Mrs. Tyler Goldberg ...... 123 5th & 6th Grade ...... Ms. Angela Koshewa ...... 122 7th & 8th Grade ...... Amy Currie ...... Overflow Room A ...... Ellen Robertson ...... Overflow Room A 9th & 10th Grade ...... Anne Nesmith ...... 111 ...... Nina Rodahaffer ...... 111 11th & 12th Grade ...... Gaylee Gillim ...... Senior High ...... Alex Waldrop ...... Senior High There is a place just for you at St. Matthew’s! Come and bring a friend! 15 (continued on next page) CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

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Children’s Chapel Chaplains The BridgeWorship Chaplains Kevin Campisano PamelaBurdine TimEicholtz Nicholas Eastman Andy Frey John Krantz Frank Meier Michelle Peterson Doris Morrow MoniqueSchmitt MikeRisley VickySpencer CarrieWoldin RandyStrause MartyWagner

Nursery andActivity Rooms* ActivityRoom Coordinator ...... CarrieWoldin Nursery ...... Brooke Sparks ...... Room 105 Toddler ...... David Sparks ...... Room 107 Two-Year-Olds ...... Jen Jaracz...... Room 110 ...... KimTabler ...... Room 110 Three-Year-Olds ...... Lynda DuPonte...... Room 121 Four-Year-Olds & Kindergartners ...... Mark Tabler ...... Room 123 ...... Nina Rodahaffer ...... Room 123 First Graders & Second Graders ...... Shannon Edwards...... Room 109 *Each Sundaythree parent volunteers help in the activityrooms during the church hour.

Beginning September 19, three-year-olds through second graders have music with Mr. Aaron Vowels as part of their church school hour. Third graders and older are urged to join the Treble Choir!

The Children’s Program Committee Cheryl Wagner, chair Heather Ogburn AmyTucker, asst. chair Michelle Peterson Beth Bullock Laura Rhea Linda Campisano Ellen Robertson Jenice Carolan MoniqueSchmitt Kristin Donovan VickySpencer Shannon Frey Rene’ Strause Beth Friedman CathySurowiec Andrea Ledvina AnnieTarbox LynnMiller Barbara Voss Doris Morrow CarrieWoldin JennyNixon Debbi Rodahaffer, staff

Church School begins Sunday, September 12!

16 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

September 2004

Beginning Sunday, September 12! Road Rally - Church School, 11:10 a.m. Sunday, SNAC, 6:00 p.m. September 12!! Senior High will not have SNAC on from 6-8. We will September 19. They will be at their begin and end at church. retreatthatweekend. Pizza provided. Middle School Youth Group St. Matthew’s Day Introduction Middle School youth group will play games, eat pizza and Picnic make sundaes on September 19at 6:00 p.m in the Youth Room Sunday, September 26 is the St. Matthew’s Day picnic. As part of for SNAC. the picnic activities we will have a Youth versus Parents kickball game beginning at12:30. There will be no St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church separate SNAC that night. Senior High Fall Retreat

National Acolyte Festival Who Can Come: Any youth in grades 9 – 12. Times: Depart St. Matthew’s parking lot at 4 p.m. on NationalAcolyte Festival will be held in Washington, Friday, September 17. Return to St. Matthew’s parking D.C.in October. Agroupfrom KYwillleaveon October 8 (afternoon) and return Octpber 10. The lot at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 18. price is only $85. The festival will be held at the Cost: $50 (financial aid is readily available). National Cathedral. More info Lynn or Ben. Cost includes transportation, lodging, three meals, and all activities. Coming in October Retreat will include high and low ropes courses, team building, games, new and Sunday, October 3: renewed friendships, worship, Renaissance Fun Park and lots of fun. Sunday, October 10: Details, including what to The Hunger Walk bring, what not to bring, and release forms will be sent out around Labor Day. No SNAC Got a quick question for Ben? The for Senior High Youth this new youth AOL Instant Messenger weekend. address is: youthstmattky

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

17 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of September 5 Week of September 12

Peterson: Charles, Jenny Redman: Jay, Nancy Lang Peterson: Michelle, Monique, Marcella Reed: Bishop David Reed, Catherine Luckett Porta: Barbara Reese: Gibbs, Lynn Prater: Phil, Susan, Lindsay, Ryan Reily: Stephen, Emily, Cason, Henrietta, James Pritchard: Ray, Connie Remmel: James, J.B., Christopher Putney: Henry, Afton, Laura Benson Remmel: Kerri, J.B., Christopher Quinn: Marilyn Rhea: Tim, Laura, Peyton, Charlie Rao: Nancy Rice: Russ, Suzanne Raque: Charles, Linda Riggin: Jane Ray: Bradford, Stacey, Kyle, Samantha, MacKenzie Riggs: Elisabeth

Week of September 19 Week of September 26

Risley: Michael, Lynn Miller, Michael, James Rodahaffer: Richard, Debbi, Christian, Nina Ritter: Gil, Robin Rohrer: Ed, Dottie Ritter: Pamela Ronald: Peter, Ann, Mollie, Sarah Ritter: Sarah, Tommy Mitchell, Nate Skrodzki Roosevelt: Glenn Roberts: Jordan Rothenburger: Sarah Robertson: Andrew Rule: Bruce, Mary Goodwyn Robertson: The Rev. Ben, Ellen Runyon: Elizabeth, Jon Mindeum Robertson: Ellen, Michael, Blair, Neill Rutherford: Alex, Jennifer, Jordan Robertson: Else Rutherford: Robert, Joyce Robinson: Ellyn Rutter: Tim, Cathy

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Debby Peck, Marc Grigsby, Mark Barry, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

18 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Dennis and Susan Judge from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Brian and Coutney Good, Townes and Hudson from Second Presybterian Church, Louisville, KY Linda Lucas from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY Patricia Wheeler from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Galen and Ethel White from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY James Moyer andOctavia Wilkins from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY

Transfers Out Jon, Vivien and Kirsten Jacoby to Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, Anchorage, KY

Births We extend congratulations to Robert and Nancy Kastingon the birth of their granddaughter Greg and Joan Kuhns and Stanley and Sally MacDonald on the birth of their grandson

19 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1420 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Fall 2004 Adult Education each Sunday, 11:10-12:00

Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge, beginning September 19!

September 12 – A Festive Coffee Hour.

September 19 Dr.James Baughman, Professor of History at Jefferson CommunityCollege, Ph.D. (British History)from the Universityof Kentucky,doctoral specialityin the Historyof the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Session 1: “The Elizabethan Religious Settlement”

September 26 – St. Matthew’s Day

October 3 Dr. James Baughman Session 2: “Elizabethan Puritans and Catholics - The Issue of Mary Queen of Scots”

October 10 Contemporary Issues – PatriotAct and the war on terrorism. Jeff Skinner– Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

October 17 – Building the Spirit

October 24 Contemporary Issues –The Presidential race.

October 31 Dr.James Lewis, Professor ofAmerican Church History and Executive Director oftheLouisvilleInstitute.

(turn over for November & December) 1 Session 1: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism”

November 7 Dr. James Lewis Session 2: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism”

November 14 Contemporary Issues Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

November 21 – TBA

December 5 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “Elizabeth and Zachariah”

December 12 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “John the Baptist” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month)

December 19 Clergy will do the Characters in Advent: “Mary”

Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge, beginning September 19! 2 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s October 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR asking for your pledge, your commitment, to the on-going life of this Dear People of community. But in other ways, it’s What’s St. Matthews, entirely different, for this has to do Much as I love the with our own spiritual discipline, our Happening? summer, fall is own thanksgiving, our own identity as really my favorite Christians. A Few Words From season. I love the You’ll be getting a letter from the EMC The Assistant Rector ...... 2 cooler weather and co-chairs (Bob Clark andAngela the changing Questions Koshewa) and me soon, with more leaves, but most of information and a pledge card. But I from the Heart ...... 3 all I love the energy, and the sense of thought that for now I’d give you 6 a new start. I envy my Jewish friends Vestry Comments...... 4 reasons why we all should pledge: who really do celebrate the New Year  God gives us everything. Giving to EFM ...... 5 in September at Rosh Hashanah. God’s work in the world is one way of Building the Spirit ...... 6 Our program year is off to a wonderful saying thanks. Parish News ...... 7 start: our Church School has record  God has made us stewards of creation. How we use what we are, and Ladies & Gentlemen of enrollment; our new Bridge service for 3rd-6th graders is proving very what we have, is important to the life of Experience ...... 8 popular; the youth group started off the world. Church School News ...... 9 with a bang with the Road Rally on  Giving stretches us and helps us to September 12; the choir is back grow into becoming who we are created Every Member Canvass ..... 10 (hooray!); Adult Education has some to be: children of God, imitators of Deputies to Convention..... 11 wonderful offerings; the Social Christ. Concerns committee is leading us in  Tithing, or moving toward the tithe, Music Notes ...... 12 settling a refugee family; the mission is a spiritual discipline that shapes us Volunteer Opportunities.... 13 trip to Kenya was a great success; as Christians.  Our life in this parish is life in Social Concerns ...... 13 excitement is growing around our proposed building project; and…. lots community. Everyone has a Adult Ed ...... 15 more! St. Matthew’s is a good place contribution to make. Kenya News ...... 16 to be, especially right now, with a  Our annual budget, our on-going life wonderful spirit in the air of and ministry, is completely dependent Youth Page...... 17 community, possibility, and grace. on what we give. We are responsible; Prayer List ...... 18 we make St. Matthew’s what we want it Fall is also, of course, the season for to be. We NEED your pledge. Parish Families...... 19 our Every Member Canvass – our pledge drive. I imagine some of you I pray that you will find this Every may be reacting to that announcement Member Canvass a joyful opportunity. the way I react to the NPR pledge drive, which just ended (I like NPR, Yours in Christ, but the pledge drive drives me crazy). + There is some similarity, in that we are Lucinda

1 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector Resting In God

One of my favorite elective courses in seminary was, One way that you can learn oddly enough, a class on modern Judaism. We more about this kind of Sabbath covered the major points of Jewish history as well as time with God is a wonderful the elements of Jewish theology and culture that workshop being offered next comprise Jewish practice in the 21st century. One month at St. Matthew’s. The concept that especially struck me when I first workshop is entitled, “Resting discussed it in class and continues to stay with me is in God: The Art of Being,” the concept of Shabbat or Sabbath. Sabbath is and will occur at St. Matthew’s inspired by the Biblical creation narrative which on Saturday, November 6 from states, “and on the seventh day God finished the work 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The that he had done … so God blessed the seventh day workshop leader is The Rev. and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the Eugene Taylor Sutton (see work that he had done in creation,” (Genesis 2:2-3). picture), Canon Pastor of Washington National The modern Sabbath, according to Living Judaism by Cathedral and Director of the Cathedral Center for Rabbi Wayne Dosick, is, “a twenty-four hour period Prayer and Pilgrimage. Cannon Sutton is the founder each week that permits each Jew to connect with of Contemplative Outreach of Metropolitan God, with family, with community, with self. In the Washington and former instructor at Vanderbilt fast-paced, complex world, where there never seems University Divinity School in Nashville and General to be enough time for all that we must and want to do, Theological Seminary in New York City. During the Shabbat is a weekly ‘mini-vacation’ that insists on and workshop, he will discuss how our daily busy lives, permits the pressures and the vagaries of the workday with the constant demands upon our time, have made world to be set aside.” Dosick goes on to further space for God and for the spiritual journey a hope describe Sabbath as a time for, “affirmation and rather than a reality. Participants will learn and celebration of the greatness and goodness of life; time practice centering prayer as a way of contemplation for God; and time for myself.” or “resting in the Spirit.” Cannon Sutton is a dynamic and inspirational speaker and I cannot recommend I continue to be inspired by the idea and tradition of this workshop highly enough. He is frequent leader the Sabbath and I attempt to incorporate its ideals into of retreats and conferences on contemplative prayer my personal and vocational life. However, I believe and spirituality across the nation and his appearance that the meaning of Sabbath has been lost somewhat at St. Matthew’s offers a unique opportunity. in the Christian church. Many of us may interpret the commandment to, “remember the Sabbath day, and There is a $20 fee for the workshop, which includes keep it holy,” (Exodus 20:8) as a reminder to attend both the program and a delicious lunch. If you are church every Sunday. Now, while church attendance interested in the workshop, but the fee presents a is important, Sabbath time is also about leisure and hardship, financial assistance is available. For more meditation, prayer and community, family and friends. information or to sign up, call the parish office at Essentially, Sabbath is taking time away from our busy 895-3485. lives to focus on the relationships that make life worth living: family, friends, community, and God. Ben

In order to allow proper access for all emergency vehicles we have had yellow stripes (to prohibit parking) painted around the circle at the main entrance. Of course, parishioners may always pause to drop off and pick up as needed.

2 QUESTIONS FROM THE HEART

The eternal question: Why? Why a particular person, especially one who has given a great deal and has much to live for? ? (This question was asked about a specific death, but all of us can think of times when we asked this question ourselves.) The nature of God and God’s power is really in question vulnerable to, the thoughts and actions of a people; here. I suspect we would not ask this question unless images of God that are not that of an all-knowing, all- vestiges of a traditional God who is both good and all- controlling God but of One who hears and responds to our powerful were part of our history. Is the God we worship a groans and cries for help. God who picks and chooses whom to save from disaster In Rabbi Harold Kushner’s 1981 book (Why Bad Things and death? If so, how can we account for the Holocaust or Happen to Good People, widely and appreciatively 9/11? If so, how can we account for the fact that bad received by both Christian and Jewish laypeople), the things happen to good people? author suggests that, while there are no limits to God’s I think what we are really expressing in this question is our love, there are severe limits to God’s power. He says, “I grief at the loss of a person whom we need and perhaps can worship a God who hates suffering but cannot the whole world needs; who both loves life and is adding eliminate it, more easily than I can worship a God who to the life of the world. As when a person dies an untimely chooses to make children suffer and die.” death, this is threatening to our own security and sense of Kushner articulated a felt need in our time to dissociate the orderliness of things. God’s hand not only from the massive forms of historical What I hear from this question is that what the questioner and social evil, but also from the personal tragedies that (and all of us) needs is both the comfort of God and a affect individuals and families. He pointed up two givens relevant theology. What strength our faith can have in the religious consciousness: God’s unlimitedness and depends on our bringing these two together. the need to disassociate God from senseless forms of evil. Hear the words of Burton Cooper, process theologian and Where does this unlimited quality of God come from? In fellow Episcopalian: the Bible, we have a picture of God as outraged by injustice, repentant of past decisions, sensitive to those Some years ago at a worship service a preacher who suffer, and pained by disobedience. These kinds of leaned into the eerie silence that sometimes precedes divine limits were not offensive to the mind and spirit of a sermon and shouted, “Why, God?” The words had ancient Israel nor considered signs of God’s imperfection. their desired effect: the preacher caught the attention But to those early church theologians who came to biblical of his congregation. But not simply because he faith out of late Hellenistic culture with its Neoplatonic startled them with a loud cry, but because these assumptions of God’s absolute transcendence, the notion words, “Why, God?” echoed their own past cries. of limits of any sort was considered both offensive and a Hearing them stirred up their unhappy memories of mark of imperfection. pain and suffering. It reminded them of their theological uneasiness with the fact that terrible Also, in the 19th century, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and things happen in a world which they confess to be Freud pointed out there are powerful psychological needs created by a loving, all-powerful deity. that are being met by a God of unlimited power and knowledge. Our concept of divine unlimitedness is a result Although it will not lessen our pain or wipe out our of the insecurity engendered by our own limits. suffering, our understanding of the nature of God is key to our opening ourselves to God’s redemptive power. Up to a I commend to you John Claypool’s book, The Tracks of A certain point in history, the tradition asks us to see this Fellow Struggler, comprising sermons at his daughter’s problem of suffering and evil as an insoluble mystery we diagnosis with leukemia, her remission, relapse, and death can encounter only with faith. Then, at the time of the at age 12, and the last three pages of Burton Cooper’s theologian Karl Barth, tradition takes a new turn, hinting at book called, Why, God? In those pages, he says “our real limits in God, not self-limits, but limits imposed on God primary response to evil (of which one example is untimely by the nature of reality: that evil is genuine, freedom is real, death) is not one of explanation but of witness…. The and that there are real limits to God’s power. claim of the Christian faith is that in a particular place, in the life of a community of sisters and brothers in Christ, The Bible, Job included, responds profoundly to the there is a way – a way of worship, a way of being open deepest problems of life and faith but that does not mean that the Bible has one answer, or a final answer, or even toward other and God, a way of listening, a way of seeing, consistent answers to the problem of God, power, and evil. a way of acting – which can counter the power of evil in all Scripture’s attitude toward the notion of divine control is our lives, and set us on our feet again.” considerably more ambiguous than that of tradition. There are, in the Bible, images of a vulnerable God, suggesting that God is not only involved with but affected by, “Questions from the Heart” (continued on page 5) 3 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden Reflections on September 11 Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you with all our hearts; for, as you always resist the proud who confide in their own strength, so you never forsake those who make their boast of your mercy… Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him; for that means life to you and length of days… Deuteronomy 30:19

(From the Collect and the Lesson for the Sunday before September 11)

I am retired from the military, 23 years of combined active This third anniversary of the attack on 9/11 has given me and reserve time in the U.S. Coast Guard. I chose the reason to reflect on my experiences and my beliefs. Where Coast Guard in 1968, not out of a patriotic fervor, nor even are we 15 years after Standard Gravure and three years a strong sense of responsibility. Rather, like most men of after 9/11? my generation, we faced joining the service of our choice, leaving the country, finding alternative ways of serving the  In an election campaign where Vietnam is still used to country, or being drafted into the Army. This was the measure a candidate’s leadership, wisdom, and height of the Vietnam War, and I did not want to be drafted. patriotism. Meanwhile issues of mercy, compassion, So when the Coast Guard offered me the opportunity to go and justice are ignored. to Officer Candidate School and do my tour of active duty  In a war against religious–cultural terrorists that, like there, I joined. Vietnam, we seem unable to win with military might. I would never claim to be a war veteran. Officially, those The consequences of this threaten to leave us weaker, who served in the military but were not in Vietnam are with fewer friends in the world, and with enemies who called Vietnam Era veterans to distinguish us from those are more encouraged to continue their terrorism. who faced danger in the fighting there. That label has Meanwhile we continue to ignore the root causes of never bothered me because I have great respect for those the world turning against America and wonder why. who served in Vietnam, whether voluntarily or  And as I write this, even the meager gun control laws involuntarily. I, like our president, was lucky. We did not passed after the assassination attempt on President have to face that danger. Reagan have lapsed and neither the president nor our We received training over my years on active duty and in Congress have the political will to reenact them. Our the Reserves on preparing for a war that did not come. I right to bear arms to protect us was never threatened have never fired a weapon in anger nor in self-defense. by this law. Shame on them.

When a former disgruntled employee entered the Standard I do not know God’s position on Vietnam, gun control, or Gravure Company building and murdered several co- this election. What I do know is that God wants us to workers in September 1989 I was in a Department of choose life rather than death, compassion rather than Defense school at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The pride, servanthood rather than power. class of mostly State Department and other senior civilian government personnel was intended to teach us how to Bob protect ourselves from terrorist attack overseas. The irony Robert B. Nesmith, Commander of the situation – learning how to protect myself from a U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, Retired terrorist attack in a foreign country, while my fellow Louisvillians were terrorized, injured, and killed by a madman with terrorist’s weapons – caused me to write our senator, a classmate at UK, urging him to support gun control laws. Of course nothing came of that except a SAVE THE DATE! form–letter response about why it is important to protect Special Healing Service the freedom of deranged people to have weapons designed for only one purpose - to kill other people. I still Sunday, October 24, 10:00 a.m. service don’t understand that logic! 4 EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY Me? The Rev. Moray Peoples

Most of us do NOT want to be ordained as a clergy Education For Ministry has been around for a while. It person! was written in the early 1970s by faculty members of the Episcopal seminary at The University of the South, Not to worry! There is an equally good avenue. Sewanee, Tennessee. The curriculum is revised Education For Ministry is designed for people who work periodically by a variety of scholars for accuracy, and have everyday responsibilities for life, yet take enhancement, and timeliness. seriously the need to be well – educated Christians. EFM also does something else. It integrates…work, life, The EFM program prepares us for the ministry to and spirituality. which we are called, the same vocation for which we pray at the end of Eucharist: “And now, Father, send us The context of EFM is firmly grounded in our Baptismal out to do the work you have given us to do, to love and Covenant, within the rite of Holy Baptism. The Apostles serve you as faithful witnesses of Christ our Lord.” Creed and the five questions following are the foundation and provocation for ministry. Mull over pages 304–5 in You may learn more about Education For Ministry by the Book of Common Prayer. The singular response to e-mailing me at [email protected] or buttonholing the five questions (“I will, with God’s help”) points out me one Sunday after Church. direct application for daily ministry. EFM educates and empowers toward this end.

“Questions from the Heart” (continued) ?

Burton and his wife, Blanche, have lost two children. After For my part, I hardlyknewwhat I was waiting for. I called his daughter’s death in 1965, he recounts the answer of a upon God the comforter, but God did not come. I cried out friend to his anguished cry for help. The friend said, “We to the void, and heard only the silence. Still, I went on with are waiting for you to help us.” At first, this answer my life – my work, my family, my worship, my politics. seemed a harsh and decidedly unhelpful response. Later, And…I began to hear some new sounds: my own laughter, he realized that his friend’s words held out the hope that my own singing, my own sounds of joy. I listened to there was an answer, but that the answer must come from myself, and heard the power of God’s ‘Yes’ prevailing amid the believer who endured the suffering. More significantly, my sorrow and pain, and I knew that God the comforter there is a “we” who waits with the suffering believer for had never left me. whom the answer is a matter of life and death, faith and …When we ‘put on Christ,’ we place ourselves in a unfaith. community and on a path which has no end but God’s What does this waiting consist of? Caring presence: those kingdom, a kingdom of continually transforming love. To who sit with those bereaved in the terrible days this end, we witness by word and act. In living out this immediately following, and remember the day with letters witness, we live in God’s redemptive powers; in witnessing in the years to follow. “Hope and listening were also part with this living, we give to others, and to ourselves, of their ‘waiting with.’ The hope was that their compassion Christian faith’s answer to evil.” and tears would make present for us God’s compassion and tears, and that we would gain strength from the divine - Helen Jones presence.

“Today is the day the Lord hath made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” ~ Psalms 18:24

5 BUILDING THE SPIRIT Discernment Process Update

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church 2006 – 2007? The photographs on this page are of the model that depicts one possible future for our church.

A feasibility study is currently being undertaken by Holliman Associates to find out how much support exists for proceeding with the plan that was developed with input from the congregation.

Everyone is part of the process. Some parishioners were interviewed in person over the weekend of September 17–19. The remainder of the congregation has received a survey and many have completed it and returned it. If you have not had an opportunity to do so, please fill out and return this survey as soon as possible. The study is to be completed soon and a report given to the Vestry. A decision will be made soon thereafter, probably in November. We will know soon if these pictures are realistic.

6 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Many, Many Thanks to… Joan Shepler, Kitty Clark, Pat Brown, Jane O’Roark, Mary Jo Gillim, Virginia Wilson, Jan Garver, Judith Peoples, and Sharon Nesmith for your scrumptious coffee cakes, muffins and pastries for our Festive Coffee on Sunday, September 12. Thank you to Joan Shepler and Saxonie and Sunny Eicholtz for placing the baked goods on serving trays and putting them out, to Judith Peoples for seeing that everyone had a name tag, to Barbara Ellis and Sharon Nesmith for cleaning up and putting everything away, and to Ali Ahern for the beautiful flower arrangement on the table. It was a wonderful morning and I hope you were able to catch up with old friends and meet one or two new ones.

We’re having a Pig Roast The Ladies’ to support our Lunch Bunch We will be going to Anchor Inn on Evergreen Road at Kenyan Mission so, 11:30 a.m., Thursday, October 21. Please call Betty Triplett Get Your Feed Bags On! at 425-9733, if you have any questions. The Retired Men’s Breakfast John Willinghamand Wewill meet on Tuesday, October 19, 8:30 a.m. at Denny’s on friends will be roasting a Dutchman’s Lane across from Norton Suburban Hospital. pig for our lunch on Everyone is invited, not just retired or senior folks! Sunday, October 17, immediately following church school at 12:15 p.m. Lunch will be in the back yard by the playground, with lots of Kenya items for sale. This is a great time to buy that special Christmas present! Please sign up on the main bulletin board if you plan to attend, and indicate the number of family members who will Birthday be in attendance. The Wayside Singers will provide Celebrations music for this special event supporting our Kenyan Mission. of our Our “Main Dish” is Roasted Pig Homebound $3.50 per person for October $1.50 for children ages 10 and under Canned soft drinks will be available for 75 cents. October 22 Bring your favorite dessert to share! Peggy Zega Donations to help support our Kenyan Mission are welcomed! Please bring a lawn chair or blanket so you can enjoy! 7 PARISH NEWS

Evening Bridge The Red Cross Begins! needs your blood Monday, October 4, 7:00 p.m. in the There is a desperate need for blood due to all Lounge. If you would like to play but the hurricanes and tornados that have occurred in the have not signed up, please call Anne south. We need new donors to step forward and truly give Hamptonat 896-4632. the gift of life. St. MAM’s next blood drive is Tuesday, October 5, with a new time of 4:00-9:00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 501 Cherrywood Road. If you have any questions about your eligibility call the Red Attention Knitters! Cross at 540-7163 or 800 732-8772 or visit their website at: We will again be giving hand-knit scarves to the River givebloodnow.org. Sign up on the bulletin board if you Mariners at Christmas. The scarves will be added to a can make it. Thanks for your help! Christmas box that contains cookies and other gifts. Directions for knitting these are on the bulletin board. Anne Shelby

Save the Date! Save the Date! On Sunday, October 3, we welcome The Very Rev. Tracey Lind, Dean of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, as a guest preacher at the 5:00 p.m. service. There will be a wine and cheese reception following the service, and Dean Lind will sign copies of her new book, Interrupted by God: Glimpses from the Edge.

SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Program “Positive Living” special guest speaker Robert J. “Bob” Mueller Vice President, The Hospice Foundation of Louisville Tuesday, October 26 Bob has over 25 years of experience in fundraising, public relations, crisis management, employee relations, public speaking, promotional activities, and counseling. A former Roman Catholic priest, Bob brings a rich understanding of the spiritual and emotional dimensions of life, and offers ways to renew the spirit and mind as well as the body. As a speaker, Bob is upbeat, energizing, and engaging. His rich sense of humor plus his vast experience with people combine to give his audiences practical applications for daily living. His topics include “Positive Living: Reaching Your Goals,” “Keys To Motivating People,” “Inner Peace,” and “Stress Management.” A monthly contributing author to “Today’s Woman” magazine, Bob has been recognized for his series “Positive Living” and integrates these concepts and illustrations into his presentations. Bob’s two books, Look Forward Hopefully and The Gentle Art of Caring are available at many bookstores.

8 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

A “Parents’ Night Out”! . . . How can we join? by Annie Tarbox, member of the Children’s Committee and chair of Parents’ Night Out

Do you have children under the age of 12? Do you feel The “Rules” the pinch every time you want to go out with your spouse There are some basic guidelines for participating in and you have to pay a babysitter on top of your “date” Parents’ Night Out. expenses? St. Matthew’s Parents’ Night Out program  You must sign up in advance. can help!  Please pack an easy meal for your child(ren)—nothing Each month, St. Matthew’s hosts a FREE Parents’ Night that needs to be warmed up, as we do not currently Out at the church where parents can drop off their children have the facilities to do more than warm bottles. We’ll for four hours with loving, attentive, experienced adult provide appropriate snacks later in the evening for the sitters. children.  You are a member of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church. How Do I Sign Up?  Please pack an extra change of clothes for any children Each month, signup sheets will be posted downstairs on who are in diapers or who are still practicing using the the bulletin board outside the nursery for Parents’ Night Big People Bathrooms. Out. There are two signup sheets: one for parents who are  Please don’t send personal toys with your child(ren). going out that month, and one for parents who will be  If you sit, remember to pack dinner for yourself as well. sitting. Make sure you know which one you’re signing  Please don’t drop your children off early (we need time up for! to set up), and please don’t be late picking your children up. Parents’ Night Out runs 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. How Often Can We Go Out?  Don’t forget coats/shoes for your children—we play outside as much as weather and the children permit. You can sign up to participate as often as you wish, but we  And most importantly—remember to sign up to sit ask that you sign up to sit once every third time you sign every third time (or more often if you like!) you up (roughly once a quarter or once a season). Bring your sign up! children with you! You’ll all have fun. There’s no set schedule for when you should sit/go out; try to stagger If you have any questions, please call me anytime at your signups so that we have a balance or parents going (502) 439-4013. We have an e-mail distribution list, and we out to parents sitting. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! try to use e-mail as much as possible for distribution, so Upcoming dates include October 23, November 20 and drop me an e-mail at [email protected] to be added to December 11. the list!

Do you feel stress controls your life? Do you have trouble sleeping because your mind won’t rest? If so, you must attend the Meditation Workshop “Resting in God – The Art of Being” The Rev. Canon Eugene Sutton, from the National Cathedral, will lead our workshop on Saturday, November 6, from 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. Please sign up on the bulletin board upstairs or down so that we may know how many lunches to prepare. Questions? Talk with Debbi Rodahaffer or Ben Robertson. October Dates to Remember Sunday, October 3 3:00 p.m. Blessing of the Animals (Real and Stuffed) Thursday, October 14 6:30 p.m. Children’s Committee meeting Saturday, October 23 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Parents’ Night Out Saturday, October 30 3:30 p.m. Trick or Treating at the Episcopal Church Home (One of our favorite annual events!) 9 EVERY MEMBER CANVASS 2005

Dear St. Matthew’s Friends: The month of October brings our Every Member Canvass. In this traditional harvest time, as we prepare to embark on a journey of discernment of our relationship with God and what God would have us do with the bounty we have been provided in time, talent and treasure, we ask that you start now with a brief commitment of time to join us in daily praying the following throughout the Every Member Canvass: God, Author of the universe and all that we have and are, send us Grace to release our fears and create in us joyfully giving hearts. In the name of Christ, who gave all that we might live, prosper and reach out to the world in His name in love. Amen. Yours in Faith, Bob Clark and Angela Koshewa Every Member Canvass Co-Chairs

This year’s Every Member Canvass is October 10 – 24. You will be receiving letters from the Rector and the EMC co-chairs (Bob Clark and Angela Koshewa), and asked to make commitments of money, time and talent. Pledges received will be offered up at the time of the Offertory on Sunday, October 24. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions.

Why should I fill out a pledge card – can’t I just put Do I get a “bill”? money in the Offering plate? You get a quarterly statement so that you have a record of There are two reasons. One is that it’s difficult, if not your contributions, and you can correct any mistakes. It is impossible, for the Vestry to develop a budget if we do not not a bill. know what income we can expect (and over 90% of our How much should I pledge? operating budget comes from pledges). The other is that That’s up to you. The Episcopal Church has proclaimed commitment is important. Many of you have made a the tithe, or 10% of our income, as the standard for giving. financial commitment to a mortgage; giving to the work of Many people tithe, or have committed to moving toward the Church is at least as important. tithing by increasing the percentage of income they give What about the upcoming Capital Campaign? each year. Shouldn’t I save my money for that? Should one make a pledge as an individual or a couple? We don’t even know if we are going to have a capital Doesn’t matter – your choice! Some people prefer to make campaign yet. The Vestry is awaiting the results of the an individual pledge, others prefer to do it as a couple. feasibility study and will not make a decision until Young people who have been confirmed, or who are November. Even so, it’s imperative that we pledge to members over 16, should make their own pledges. support our on-going life and ministry. After all, you wouldn’t stop paying your electric bill, or your mortgage, Why do we give at all? so that you could put an extension on the kitchen, would Because God gives us so much. you? What if my financial circumstances change and I can’t fulfill my pledge? More questions? We’d love to help! Ask our co-chairs, Well, the good news is that we certainly understand – and, Angela Koshewaand Bob Clark, or the Rector. unlike LG&E, or the bank that holds your mortgage, we won’t cut off service! Let us know if your income drops and you need to change your pledge; or let us know if you receive a huge raise or bonus and you want to increase your pledge!

Every Member Canvass October 10-24, 2004 Pledges will be offered and brought up to the altar on Sunday, October 24.

10 DEPUTIES FOR THE 2005 CONVENTION

Are you interested in being a Deputy to our Diocesan Convention?

The Diocese of Kentucky’s 2005 Convention will be held Deputies will be chosen by the Vestry. Criteria used here in Louisville February 25-26 (Friday-Saturday), 2005. include: leadership in the parish, diocesan involvement, Each parish sends its clergy as deputies, and a number of and past experience (it’s helpful to have people who know lay deputies, depending on the size of the parish. St. the process and the issues, although we try to balance with Matthew’s sends 5, so we are looking for 10 interested “new blood” as well). We also try to have an age range people – 5 deputies and 5 alternates. (The youth of the among our deputies, and gender balance. parish will also send a delegate). If you are interested, please give your name to one of the Deputies must: (1) be a confirmed member of St. Wardens (Bob Nesmith or Rick Lotz), or to the Rector no Matthew’s; (2) be able to attend the Convention; (3) be later than October 31. available for a pre-Convention meeting with the other St. Matthew’s deputies, probably the preceding week; and (4) be interested in finding out more/getting involved in the diocese.             Blessing of the Animals Sunday, October 3, 2004 3:00 p.m.

All animals welcome: large, small or stuffed! Treats for People and Animals!

11 MUSIC NOTES

Barbara Ellis,Choir Director / Organist

We are happy to welcome Lauren Deener and Monique Peterson to the choir. We love having youth in the choir ! ! Come be a part of the joyful noise! Treble Choir begins Sunday, October 3

We need lots of voices to make a truely joyful noise so please come give it a try.  Treble Choir is for young people in grades 2 through 8.  We rehearse each Sunday for just 30 minutes immediately following Church School.  The Treble Choir robes and sings in church about every 6 weeks at the 10:00 service. Encourage your child to be a part of this wonderful group!

Memorial Flower Donations at St. Matthew’s

Each Sunday at St. Matthew’s flowers are given in memory Every effort is made to accommodate requests for specific of loved ones, or in honor of someone deserving special dates; however, if there have been a large number of recognition. The names of those being honored are printed requests for your preferred date an alternative date may be in the bulletin and are read during the Prayers of the selected. People. The donor is asked to make a $30.00 tax-deductible Although most of our current contributions are for contribution (this is suggested, not required) to the St. memorial flowers, please remember that flowers may also be Matthew’s Flower Fund. This contribution not only pays given in honor of a single event such as a special for the flowers selected and arranged by the Flower Guild, anniversary, birth, graduation, or birthday. but also helps to defray the cost of special music for the choir, as well as guest musicians. If you are interested in giving memorial flowers, or if you are a current donor and would like to make changes to your Donors often prefer to give flowers every year on a specific memorial flower information, please call Flower Fund Chair, Sunday – for example, “the third Sunday in September” or Barbara Uligianat 292-0604, or e-mail her at “the Sunday closest to September 20.” Donors are notified as to the actual date when the flowers will be displayed. [email protected].

12 SOCIAL CONCERNS 26th Annual Hunger Walk Volunteer The Hunger Walk will take place on Sunday, October 10, 2:30 p.m. to raise money for Dare to Care, community area Opportunities ministries’ food pantries, and Gambia, Africa. The youth of the parish will be leading the St. Matthew’s team, and Habitat for we encourage everyone to come join the fun and help raise Humanity hunger awareness at the same time. Saturday, October 2, We will gather on the Harbor Lawn of Waterfront Park 8:30 a.m. to Noon between 1:30 p.m. and 2:15 p.m. under the “Episcopalians United Against Hunger Banner.” As we wait for the walk to or 3:00 p.m. begin, we will have an opportunity to visit with fellow (carpool from the parishioners as well as other Episcopalians. Remember: the parish having the church parking lot) highest percentage of its congregation walking will take home the banner for one Calvary/St. George’s year. Please come out and help us WINTHAT BANNER! The Hunger Walk is a fundraiser so we will be asking for your financial support of Food Collection our walkers. Hunger IS real in Jefferson County. Currently, 50,000 school children Sunday qualify for reduced lunch prices. Last year Dare To Care gave out 100,000 Sunday, October 3 emergency food boxes, fed 96,000 meals at their Kids Cafe, and distributed 7.2 million pounds of food. The need for food is ongoing. We are counting on your Serve lunch at support on October 10! Wayside Christian Misson A Program to Prevent Sunday, October 10, Exploitation of Seniors 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Better Business Bureau, the Louisville legal community, metro law (carpooling may be arranged with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) enforcement, and many social services in Louisville have come together to create a program that protects seniors in our community from exploitation. See sign up sheet on the main bulletin board. Seniors, if you are confronted with a contract that you think may be questionable or not in your best interest, call the Better Business Exploited Citizens hotline at 26th Annual (502) 588-0035 and ask for a legal interpretation. Advice from the professional Hunger Walk community will be given to you within 24 hours. Sunday, October 10, 1:30 p.m. registration Keep Saving Those Soup Labels & entertainment and Box Tops for Education 2:30 p.m. 5K Walk or Run St. Matthew’s continues to collect labels from Campbell’s products and General Mills Box Tops for Education for the Red Bird Mission in Beverly, KY. The Mission provides schooling for Appalachian children who otherwise would not receive an Babysit for education. teenage mothers In 2003 Red Bird Mission redeemed over 1,500,000 Campbell’s labels for a seven at passenger van for the school, and their box top campaign brought $23,103.15 that Cornerstone will be used to purchase school supplies. The success of Red Bird Mission’s redemption programs is a reflection of the support of many churches and Thursday, October 14, organizations. 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. If you would like to save labels, you may take a list of product labels from the (carpooling from the pocket posted on the bulletin board. The collection box is an old ice cream drum church parking lot) on shelf of the Narthex coat rack. Thank you for helping make such a difference in Appalachia. 13 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Of Interest to Cancer Survivors There will be a free concert by songwriter David Bailey for cancer survivors and their families at 7 p.m. on October 29 at the Louisville Palace. David Bailey, an eight-year cancer survivor, has touched thousands with his message of hope, courage, joy, and faith. Call (502) 254-1984 for tickets. A mini conference on Cancer and Depression will be from 9 a.m. to noon on November 13 at Baptist Hospital East Education Center. Registration at (502) 897-3131 is required.

From Interfaith Paths to Peace First Wednesdays 3rd Sunday of the Month October 6 and November 3 Dances of Universal Peace MEDITATION HOUR from the tradition of Sufism led by Ella Peregrine with Dick Sisto 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. 12 noon Deans Hall Bishops Hall Christ Church Cathedral Christ Church Cathedral Free and open to all faiths. Join in learning simple movements Free and open to all faiths. that invoke the many names of God.

SAVETHESEDATES Saturday, January 15 and Sunday, January 16 St. Matthew’s will join Church of Our Merciful Savior in celebrating Martin Luther King Day. We will be taking a chartered bus to Cincinnati on Saturday to tour the Underground Railroad Museum. The cost of the trip will range between $10.00 and $15.00 (not including lunch), depending on how many attend. On Sunday evening, the Church of Our Merciful Savior will join us for a program on African American Religion during the time of slavery presented byDr. Denise Martin, Professor of Pan African Studies at the University of Louisville. We hope that we will have a large crowd, youth and adults, participating in this special event, so SAVE THE DATES.

ABOUTTHEREFUGEES As of this writing, Kentucky Refugee Ministries does not know what refugee family will be assigned to St. Matthew’s and they do not know when that family will arrive. Our expectation is that if the family has not arrived by the time you receive this newsletter, we will at least know when they are coming. We do knowthat the family we sponsor will be a Muslim Somali Bantu family coming from a refugee camp in Kenya. These families tend to be large in number (8 is a likely number). The Somali Bantu speak no English and, because they have been enslaved for generations, most have little education and many do not read or write. St. Matthew’s volunteers will be relying heavily on Kentucky Refugee Ministries to help with communication. As we learn more details, we will pass them on so watch your bulletin for updates. 14 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Fall 2004 Adult Education each Sunday, 11:10-12:00

Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge!

October 3 Dr. James Baughman Session 2: “Elizabethan Puritans and Catholics - The Issue of Mary Queen of Scots” October 10 Contemporary Issues –PatriotAct and the war on terrorism. Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) October 17 Judith Peoples –Beginning the Dialogue: Voices of St. Matthew’s. October 24 Contemporary Issues –The Presidential race: listening to each other. SATURDAY, October 30 (8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) TomErichworkshop “TheListening Church” October 31 Dr. James Lewis, Professor ofAmerican Church History and Executive Director of the LouisvilleInstitute. Session 1: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism” SATURDAY, November 6 (9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) Meditation Workshop: “Resting in God –The Art of Being” with The Rev. Canon Eugene Sutton November 7 Dr. James Lewis Session 2: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism” November 14 Contemporary Issues Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) November 21 – Building the Spirit November28 – MakingAdvent wreaths as a community.Adults and children will gather in Clingman Hall to create wreaths to take home. Prizes for the most original, biggest group working together, etc.! December 5 – Clergy will presentAdvent characters: “Elizabeth and Zachariah” December 12 Clergy will presentAdvent characters: “John the Baptist” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) December19 – Clergy will presentAdvent characters: “Mary” 15 KENYA NEWS

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, First Baptist of Jeffersontown and More Than Conquers Christian Church spent 11 days in Oyugis, Kenya, building a playground and basketball court, cleaning and painting the Wire Clinic, and seeing about 350 patients at the clinic. More than that, we spent our time sharing our lives with the people in the community where we worked. We were truly blessed. Sister Thersa wanted me to thank everyone who helped in collecting the medical supplies, eyeglasses, and baby clothes for the clinic. They filled a great need. She said, “I wish everyone could be here to see how happy I am.” The children and youth at St. Michael’s in Oyugis sent their thanks for the playground and basketball goals. They are a great help to the community. The youth have challenged us to a game of basketball when we come next year. They said they would be ready for us. The children were having a great time playing when we left. The five schools to whom we delivered the school supplies and balls sent their thanks. They said the supplies would help the students in their school work and that the balls would give them great fun at playtime. We visited our orphans and delivered school supplies, balls, medical supplies, and clothes. Our medical staff examined them and told me that they were healthier than other children that they had seen. They said that this was due to their better nutrition. Two of our orphans have graduated from school and have found jobs with a local concrete worker. They sang songs, gave us lunch, and thanked us for our continuing support. We are making a difference in the lives of these orphans. We had a wonderful trip. It not only helped the people of Oyugis, it changed the lives of all that went there. Please consider going with me next June so that you can be touched by the people of Oyugis, Kenya. Thank you so very much for your prayers and support for this work. John

Tom Ehrich Workshop at St. Matthew’s Author and nationally syndicated columnist Tom Ehrich will present a one-day workshop on “The Listening Church: The Questions We are Asking” at St. Matthew’s, Saturday, October 30. Ehrich, a former Wall Street Journal Reporter and an Episcopal priest, writes a syndicated newspaper column, a daily e-mail meditation titled “On a Journey,” and has just had a new book published. The workshop will look at the faith questions people are actually asking and how we might focus our ministries on answering them. Last fall, for a series of “On a Journey” meditations, Ehrich asked the several thousand readers what question they would ask of God. “I received over 400 questions. Most were basic, down to earth yearnings from the heart. Hardly any concerned the controversies of the church. None concerned doctrine. They asked questions about life purpose, relationships, faith and hope. I found the questions humbling and eye-opening. What would happen, I wondered, if preachers started answering the questions their people are asking, if leadership groups made decisions with people’s yearnings in mind, if we worshiped and gathered with deeper awareness of the needs around us? What, in other words, would it be like if we became a Listening Church?” The workshop begins at 8:30 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. The charge is $25.00, and reservations may be made by calling the church office or on-line at OnAJourney.com.

COMING IN OCTOBER – Highly Recommended! Karen Armstrong, one of the leading religious thinkers of our era, will be appearing at the Kentucky Author Forum on October 20. Robert Siegel, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered”, will interview Ms. Armstrong. You can find more information on the bulletin board, or by calling 589-2884. Tickets are available at The Kentucky Center or through TicketMaster.

16 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

October 2004 Scary Movie Night Youth Parents Meeting and Halloween Party and Dinner Sunday, October 24 Sunday, October 3, 5:30-7:45 p.m. 6:00-7:30 p.m. Come hear about the activities planned for the year, learn about Pizza, treats and tricks our youth covenant and sign-up to help with activities.

Renaissance Fun Park Trip to The Baxter Avenue Sunday, October 3 Morgue Haunted House Cost: $10.00 5:30 p.m. – Youth meet at church THURSDAY, October 28 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $10.00 Renaissance Fun Park-Putt-Putt, Go-carts,Arcade games, pizza 7:45 p.m. – Pick up at church Meet at church at 6:00 p.m. Check it out at: www.funatthepark.com Dinner at Wick’s Pizza 6:30 p.m. Hunger Walk Visit the “Morgue” at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, October 10th Pick up at church at 8:45 p.m. Youth will participate in the 26thAnnual Community Hunger Walk. The Hunger Walk isa fundraiser for the Kentuckiana Interfaith Community to benefit the Dare to Care Food Bank, SixteenArea Community Ministries’ Food Bank and a specific World Hunger project. Leave from church at 12:30 p.m. Go to lunch Do the Hunger Walk beginning at 2:30 p.m. Trick or Treating at Pick up at church at 4:30 p.m. the Episcopal Church Home Saturday, October 30 Jillian’s is Back! 3:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday, October 17 – Cost: $15.00 Help SMEC children with trick or treating 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Episcopal Church Home! Our annual trip to Jillian’s for games, food and fun. Contact: Lynn or Ben if you would like to help We’ll meet and pick-up at Jillian’s (630 BarretAvenue).

Got a quick question for Ben? The Sunday, October 31 new youth AOL Instant Messenger No Youth Group address is: youthstmattky Happy Halloween!

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

17 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Week of October 3 Week of October 10 Sandidge: Lyn Shepler: Joan, Bill Schaaf: Earl, Ernestine Shirley: Gerald, Pat Scheirich: Joseph, Naomi Shirrell: Mitch, Melissa Barrett Schmidt: David, Jane Hardy, Nate, Jonathan Shuck: Evelyn Schmitt: Michael, Monique, Bryce, Zachary Shumaker: Carl, Jennifer, Nathan, Brantley Senior: Gary, Virginia, Katie, Jennifer Siegfriedt: Fred, Joan Sennett: Jim, Della, Evan, Madison Sikkenga: Jack, Valerie Shaw: Penny, Lee Deters Simpson: Jesse, Virginia Shawkat: Louise Skarbek: Cindy, Edward, Katherine, Carl Shelby: John, Anne, Andrew Skees: Rick, Christina, Taylor, Colin

Week of October 17 Week of October 24 Skinner: Jeffrey, Sarah Gorham, Laura, Bonnie Spencer: Judith Smith: Clay, Jay Crocker Spencer: Norbert, Bonnie Smith: John, Jennifer, Christopher Spencer: Vicky, Kala, Aerial Smith: Stuart, Cynthia Stewart: Anne Smith: Thomas, Ann Stewart: Barbara Smithwick: Daniel, Eva, Katherine, Patricia Stiles: Andrew, Joyce Snell: Dottie Stites: Alice, Alice, James, Henry Spanyer: Carol, Gary Stites: Jim, Mary Sparks: David, Brooke, Kimberly, Nathaniel Stokes: Barry, Eileen Walsh, Lindsay, Taylor Speed: Sue, Lloyd Soards Stokes: David, Laurinda, Taylor, Hunter

Week of October 31 Stone: Aidan, Bobbie Stringfield:Cynthia Strange: Cathy, Rebecca Surowiec: Paul, Cathy, Austin, Jack Strause: James Sutton: Catherine, Thomas Kolb Strause: Randy, René, Randall, Austin, Cameron Swain: Marilyn, Robin, Philip Stremel: Beth, Richard, Nick, Raegan Tarbox: Eric, Annie, Hannah, Luke

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Kevin Smith, Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Mark Barry, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

18 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Dian Payne Wilding from Southeast Christian Church, Louisville, KY Jay Redman from Ascension Lutheran Church, Louisville, KY Neville Blakemore, Jr. from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY

Marriages Congratulations to Rick and Jan Lotz on the marriage of their son, Craig Lotz to Jessica S. McCarthy, September 4, 2004 Sarah Elizabeth Clement and Gregory James Petrites, September 17, 2004 Sarah Elizabeth Franck and Henry Joseph Scheirich, September 25, 2004 Sarah Wilson Ritter and David Thomas Mitchell, September 25, 2004

Births We extend congratulations to Scott and Ann Miller on the birth of their great granddaughter

Deaths Dorothy Biggs, August 29 Rich Cody, September 4

We are sorry to hear about the death of Jean Callaghan’s son

+ + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + +

19 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Ruth Weibel, Accountant The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1420 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Fall 2004 Adult Education each Sunday, 11:10-12:00

Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! Parents in Conversation will meet each Sunday in the Lounge!

October 3 Dr. James Baughman Session 2: “Elizabethan Puritans and Catholics - The Issue of Mary Queen of Scots” October 10 Contemporary Issues – PatriotAct and the war on terrorism. Jeff Skinner– Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) October 17 – Building the Spirit October 24 Contemporary Issues –The Presidential race. October 31 Dr.James Lewis, Professor ofAmerican Church History and Executive Director oftheLouisvilleInstitute. Session 1: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism”

November 7 Dr. James Lewis Session 2: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism” November 14 Contemporary Issues Jeff Skinner– Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) November 21 – TBA

December 5 Clergy will do the Characters inAdvent: “Elizabeth and Zachariah” December 12 Clergy will do the Characters inAdvent: “John the Baptist” Jeff Skinner– Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) December 19 Clergy will do the Characters inAdvent: “Mary” The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s November 2004 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

FROM THE RECTOR Dear People death, job loss, divorce, tornados or What’s of St. Matthew’s, accidents on our agendas. It’s certainly a reminder that we are not in On Thursday, charge. And, provoking as this may be October 9 I woke Happening? to our egos, it’s a reminder that none of up inthe middle of us are indispensable, or irreplaceable. Parish News ...... 2 the night with October is a busy month – if you had horrible pain. asked me, I would have told you that I Church School News ...... 4 Sixteen hours later couldn’t possibly get sick in October. I was in surgery, Music Notes ...... 5 Well, well – the staff jumped in, the lay having my gall bladder removed. leadership jumped in, volunteers Needless to say, this was not on my Kenya News ...... 5 jumped in, and the parish went rolling agenda for October. along. Our worship, our outreach, our Volunteer Opportunities...... 6 Most of you know this, but I am planning for our refugee family Social Concerns ...... 6-7 telling you here for several reasons. (arriving October 25!), our programs – First, and most important, I was everything that needed to get done got Adult Ed ...... 8 absolutely overwhelmed by the done. Those things that didn’t really response of both staff and parish. need to get done didn’t. Some of it Youth Page...... 9 Cards, phone calls, flowers, soups was done differently than I might have delivered (homemade! wonderful!), done it – and sometimes better! As one A Few Words From help with errands and shopping, and – of my favorite prayers at night says, The Assistant Rector ...... 10 most of all – prayers. I felt supported “It is night after a long day. What has and carried all through this by your been done has been done; what has Questions prayers. Like most things in life, it’s not been done has not been done; from the Heart ...... 11 one thing to preach this, it’s another let it be.” to know first-hand. I cannot tell you Let it be. Not something I do easily, EFM ...... 11 how important your prayers and care but something important. I’m back at were for me, and I cannot tell you how work now, with somewhat less energy Vestry Comments...... 12 much I learned about community and than usual, but feeling fine. Let it be. the power of prayer. This parish has Rest in God. From our Seminarian ...... 13 long been known for its care of each Prayer List ...... 14 other, as well as people in need I would prefer not to have learned this outside the parish; now I have had my way, but I have found rest for my soul, Parish Families...... 15 own reminder of the importance of this and great love from my community, in ministry. this experience. I knew this before intellectually; now I know viscerally. Secondly, as I said, this was not on my agenda. Too bad! I was extremely Thank you so very much. fortunate in getting immediate, top quality care; far too many people in + this country and abroad are not as Lucinda fortunate. But none of us has illness, 1 PARISH NEWS

Flower Parish Delivery Thanksgiving Thank you! thank you! to all of you who have stepped forward after the 10:00 service to Eucharist deliver flowers to other parishioners who are ill, hospitalized, or celebrating a homebound birthday. Tuesday Evening We need 2 or 3 volunteers every Sunday. If you have a November 23, 7:30 p.m. heavy Sunday schedule, you should not feel obligated to visit at the time of flower delivery. The flowers speak for Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for themselves and convey love from St. Matthew’s Church. all you have done for us. We thank you for the splendor of the whole creation, for the beauty of this world, for the wonder of life, and for the mystery of love.

Thanksgiving Challenge! In thanksgiving for the many gifts God showers upon us, we respond by giving to others. We are challenging ourselves to provide 75 Thanksgiving dinners for those in need. Can we do it? With God’s help, certainly! See the article on page 6 for information. SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Program featured speaker Diane P.Coon, independent scholar and writer, will present “All Along the River: Underground Railroad Crossing Points” Tuesday, November 23, 11:30 p.m. Please mark your calendars for our Special Holiday Event! The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Christmas Party will be Tuesday, December 14 at 12:00 p.m. in Clingman Hall. Come “Sing Along with Bob”as Bob Clark plays our favorite Christmas songs and gets us into the holiday spirit. NO POTLUCK, YOUR MEAL WILL BE CATERED. 2 PARISH NEWS Bits n’ Pieces Thank You, Thank You for a glorious St. Matthew’s Day Picnic We would like to give exceptional praise to Jim, Susan, and Alex Parobek for organizing the setting up and clean up for our St. Matthew’s Day Picnic this year. Special thanks go to Sharon Nesmith, Saxonie and Sunny Eicholtz, Cindy Diedenhofen, Michael Risley, Lynn Miller, Sam Lewis, and Sam’s friend, Will, for all of their help setting up, collecting money and cleaning up. Lynn Miller instituted a very energetic game of kickball that brought out the competitive spirit in all ages. It was a fun-filled afternoon brimming with delicious food and musical entertainment. Our wee ones loved the moonwalk, and the day was absolutely gorgeous!

Fall Parish/Newcomers’ The Ladies’ Breakfast Lunch Bunch Please plan to attend our Parish/Newcomers’ Breakfast at We will be going to Bucks, 4th and Ormsby at 11:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 14. There is a sign-up sheet Thursday, November 18. Please call Betty Triplettat located on the bulletin board outside the front office. 425-9733 if you have any questions. Please indicate the number of family members who will be attending and indicate which food you will be bringing. The Retired Men’s Breakfast Donations can be made at the door…$3.00 for adults, $1.50 for children, 6-12, and no charge for children under age 6. We will meet on Tuesday, November 16, 8:30 a.m. at Denny’s on Dutchman’s Lane across from Norton Suburban Hospital. Please join us for what promises to be a delicious breakfast Everyone is invited, not just retired or senior folks! and a perfect opportunity to meet our newest members and recent visitors.

St. MAMs Annual Auction / Dinner Mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 9, 6:00 p.m. ~ Birthday St. MAMs [St. MatthewsArea Ministries] will hold its annual “Pulling Together” Auction/Dinner at Christ Church United Celebrations Methodist. This is the major fundraiser for St. MAMs. Please show your support by attending. Tickets are $12.50 each/ $90.00 for a table of 8. For tickets or more information, please of our call Bill McKinney, 895-5023,Ellen Robertson, 893-6496, or Lyn Sandidge, 896-2600. Homebound Christmas Coffee for November Mark Your Calendars!All women of November 11 Omea Dolt St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church are invited to the home of Ann Miller on December 16, 11:00 a.m. November 12 Jesse Simpson Please bring a finger food of your choice. Anyone needing a ride can meet at the church at 10:45 a.m. Asign-up sheet and map will be available on the bulletin board. If you need information please call Ann Davis (895-3485) or Kitty Clark (897-2674).We hope you canjoin us! 3 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education

Our programming year has been back in full swing for over two months. With a very grateful heart, each Sunday I greet parishioners who have worshipped at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church for a long time and many who are worshipping here for the first time. Church School classes are thriving. Three weeks ago the fours and K’s in the Godly Play room were so quiet that we kept checking on them to make sure they were in the room. The children were almost spellbound by their teacher, Sarah Collins, telling them a desert story. Sarah, as do all of our church schoolteachers, takes her ministry with children seriously. What wonderful gifts of faith, joy, and wonder our teachers are giving our children and youth. Thank you teachers! Our caregivers continue to be the best of the best! Lynda DuPonte, Shannon Edwards, Brooke Sparks, David Sparks, and Carrie Woldin have been caring for our precious “youngest” for many years. Judith Bowman, Jen Jaracz, Nina Rodahaffer, Kim Tabler, and Mark Tabler have joined us more recently. These people know and understand children. They are loving and they are fun. We are blessed to have them with us each Sunday! The children of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, who are the reason we invest our time and our hearts in our work, give me so much for which to be thankful. They are always teaching me more with their actions and words than I could dream possible. So, during November when we are most mindful of that for which we are grateful, church schoolteachers, caregivers and children spring to mind! Thanksgiving blessings to each of you! Every parent is urged to attend the meditation workshop “Resting in God” on November 6. You owe it to yourself and your family! November Dates to Remember Monday, November 1 ...... 6:30 p.m. ~ Children’s Chapel and The Bridge Chaplains’Dinner Meeting ...... (in the Narthex) Saturday, November 6 ...... 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. ~ “Resting in God” Meditation Workshop ...... (Call Debbi at 895-3485 if you have not signed up) Saturday, November 20 ..... 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ~ Parents’ Night Out...... (Sign up downstairs by November 14) Sunday, November 28...... 11:10 a.m. ~ Intergenerational Class: “MakingAdvent Wreaths Together” Upcoming Event Friday, January 7 ...... 8:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. ~ Lock-In at Church – Grades 3–5 ...... (Games, Prizes, Food, Movies and a candlelit midnight Eucharist!) Parents in Conversation The Spiritual Life of Children Susan Judge, retired teacher and Christian Educator, joins parents for a conversation about the spiritual life and development of children of all ages. Susan has spent over 40 years observing, teaching, and loving children, and a lifetime preparing for her most recent role as grandmother. She shares her experience and thoughts with other parents on November 21, and hopes that those who participate will come away with these three ideas: children do have a spiritual life; a child’s spiritual life is developmental; adults have a role to play in our children’s spiritual development. Susan and her husband Dennis have joined St. Matthews recently and have enjoyed the welcoming and caring atmosphere of the parish. Susan is also an EFM mentor for one of the Monday evening EFM groups.

I have been blessed to have know Susan Judge for the past nine years and hope that her class on the “Spiritual Life of Children” will be the first of many classes. I encourage every parent to attend on November 21 and bring a friend!!! – Yours in Christ, Debbi

4 MUSIC NOTES

Barbara Ellis,Choir Director / Organist

Heather Weston Bell has joined the Wednesday Evening Handbell Choir. Welcome, Heather! We are happy to welcome Michael “Kett” Ketterer to the choir! The Choir is beginning to work on some wonderful music forAdvent and Christmas and there is still a place for YOU in the music ministry of St. Matthew’s! Come join us Wednesdays at 7:45 p.m.

Treble Choir is off to a great start. We have a strong contingent of Middle Schoolers leading the way, and are happy to welcome Kate Wagner, Peyton Rhea, Lee Morrow and Aerial Spencer to our joyful sound! Kate, Peyton, Lee, and Aerial would love to have their friends in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades join them! We need lots of voices to really make a joyful noise!

KENYA NEWS

Check your calendars. It is time to sign up for our animals roaming in the wild.As always, there will be June 11–26, 2005, Kenya trip. The cost is $2,600, plenty of shopping, so you can bring home all those with a $150 deposit due by December 19,2004. An Kenyan souvenirs. $1800 payment will be due by March 5, 2005, and the It will be an unforgettable trip that will touch your final payment of $650 is due by May 7, 2005. This heart forever. Please prayfully consider your includes everything. participation in this trip. If you are unable to go, you We will spend 10 days in Oyugis working on a can always help. We will again take as many medical, community center for our partner church St. school, and recreational supplies, eyeglasses, Michael’s. The center will provide AIDS education, children’s clothes, and Bibles as possible. You have workshops for the community, support for widows been gracious in your donations, and I know you will and orphans, and rooms upstairs to house both the continue to do so. Please continue to pray for us and orphans and widows as needed. the people of Oyugis. We will work at the Wire Medical Center, building To sign up for this trip, or for any questions you pews for the church and playgrounds, work in may have, call John at home 459-4582 or his cell, schools, and with the Baker School in their tree 558-8603. Nursery. Whatever your work skills are, we can use you. We will spend 3 days and 2 nights at Fig Tree Lodge John Willingham on a safari. You’ll see a beautiful landscape and many Think about going to Kenya!

We welcome Mary Lee Bishop to St. Matthew’s as an intern here for the next six months. Mary Lee is a member of St. Luke’s, Anchorage, and in the discernment process for ordination. Her time with us will be part of that discernment. There will be a proper introduction in next month’s newsletter, but for now please look for her and welcome her warmly. Lucinda +

5 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Thanksgiving Ingathering ~ Volunteer Sunday, November 21 Opportunities Each year the food pantries at Calvary and St. George’s Community Center give those in need a turkey or ham and the food items necessary to make a Babysit or cook Thanksgiving meal. Last year the Social Concerns Committee challenged for teenage mothers St. Matthew’s to contribute enough food for the food pantries to supply 75 families with a Thanksgiving meal. You responded by giving enough to feed over at 118 families. The food pantries at Calvary and St. George’s were thrilled to have us support them in this way so we are asking you again to contribute food items to Cornerstone make complete Thanksgiving meals. Thursday, November 4, As you shop for your own meal, buy two of everything, one for your family and 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. one for a poor family. A typical meal might consist of turkey, stuffing mix, chicken (carpooling from the broth, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and marshmallows or instant mashed church parking lot) potatoes, a green vegetable, jello and canned fruit for a salad, rolls, pumpkin pie or a piecrustand pie fillingora cake mix. Habitat for Be creative. If a complete meal is too much, ask a friend to share or just bring the items that you want. If you would like to give a turkey or ham but don’t want to Humanity bring one to church, you may give a $10.00 contribution instead. A donation of Saturday, November 6, $23.00 will provide ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner for a family of six. 8:30 a.m. to Noon If you bring a complete meal, please mark your bag as a complete meal and the food packers will not disturb your meal. We will combine items from incomplete or 3:00 p.m. meal contributions to make complete meals. (carpool from the church parking lot) Calvary/St. George’s Advent Tree for CASA Families Food Collection On Sunday, November 28, parishioners may begin selecting Christmas gift items from the Advent Tree to purchase and give to members of several CASA(Court Sunday Appointed Special Advocates) families. These gifts are often the only gifts the Sunday, November 7 families receive at Christmas. Parishioners may continue selecting gifts through Sunday, December 12. All gifts should be wrapped, labeled, and returned by Sunday, December 19, so they may be Serve lunch delivered in time for Christmas. Watch for the Advent Tree at the end of the at month. Wayside Christian Misson Sign Up NOW for our Sunday, November 14, 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Martin Luther King Day Celebration (carpooling may be arranged This year St. Matthew’s will be joining with our fellow Episcopalians from the with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) Church of Our Merciful Savior to celebrate Martin Luther King weekend. On See sign up sheet on the Saturday, January 15, adults and youth, sixth grade and older, from both main bulletin board. congregations are invited to join for a bus trip to the Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati. We need to leave around 8 a.m. and will not return home until late afternoon. Mariners Busses and tickets must be reserved by December 12, so a sign-up list will be on the River posted later this month. If we have to limit numbers, the order of sign-up will determine priority. The cost for the bus is $8.00 per person, plus admission to the Christmas Boxes museum: Seniors (60 and over) - $8.00,Adults (13-59) - $9.50, Child (6-12) - $6.50. Sunday, November 14 Your final cost: Seniors $16.00, Adults $17.50, and Children $14.00. Lunch is on Hard Candy and Scarfs your own. are needed. The museum tells a story we all need to know and remember. We encourage all adults and our youth, sixth grade and above, to participate. 6 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Our Refugee Family Has Arrived! By the time you receive this newsletter, our refugee family will be in America, living in two apartments at the Americana Apartments. The Yarrow family arrived on Monday, October 25 from the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. The family is Somali Bantu, and they do not speak any English. Aden Abdi Yarowis 42 and his wife, Medina Ali Mohamed, is 25. They have three children: a son, AbshirAden Ale, age 6, and two daughters,Arafo Aden Ali, age 2, and BisharoAden Ali, 3 months. Medina’s 22-year-old brother, Abdi Ali Mohamed, is also a part of the family. Somali Bantu either migrated to Somalia or were brought in as slaves in the 1800s. These persecuted people as well as other Somali fled to Kenya during the civil war in Somalia in 1991 and have been living in refugee camps since that time. The Bantu people were so looked down on by other Somali in the refugee camp that the international authorities resettled them in another camp. It is hard to imagine all they have endured. The Yarrows will be truly free for the first time in their lives. Because this family is Muslim and because they do not speak English, it may be a while before we can arrange for them to be at an event for the congregation to greet them. They are quite anxious about Christian places of worship. Any of you who want to visit this family may certainly do so. We would suggest that you check with someone on the committee (see bulletin board) before going. Parishioners have been most generous in their contributions of furnishings and food for this family. The Refugee Sponsor Committee is grateful to everyone who helped with cleaning, moving, and setting up the apartment for the Yarrows. The unending support of St. Matthew’s congregation in reaching out to these refugees has energized our committee and makes us proud to worship among you. God bless you for your generosity.

Christmas on the River NEEDED: Hard Candy & Scarves!

Once again we will fill Christmas boxes for “Mariners on the River!” Boxes will be packed on Sunday, November 14. Because of the early date for packing, we are asking for individually wrapped hard candy instead of cookies. Plain packages or candy wreaths will be appreciated. Knitted scarves will also be placed in the Christmas boxes for Mariners. Knitting directions are on the bulletin board. Bring your finished scarves and candy to the boxes in the coatroom near the Narthex on or before November 14. Together we can make Christmas happier for those Mariners who are away from their families during the holidays.

SAVETHESEDATES Saturday, January 15 and Sunday, January 16

St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church will join Church of Our Merciful Savior in celebrating Martin Luther King Day. We will be taking a chartered bus to Cincinnati on Saturday to tour the Underground Railroad Museum (see page 6). On Sunday evening, the Church of Our Merciful Savior will join us for a program on African American Religion during the time of slavery presented by Dr. Denise Martin, Professor of Pan African Studies at the University of Louisville. We hope that we will have a large crowd, youth and adults, participating in these special events, so SAVE THE DATES.

7 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Fall 2004 Adult Education

SATURDAY, November 6 (9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.) Meditation Workshop: “Resting in God – The Art of Being” with The Rev. Canon Eugene Sutton Sundays, 11:10-12:00 Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting! “Parents in Conversation” meets each Sunday in the Lounge November 7 Dr. James Lewis Session 2: “The Many Faces of American Protestantism” November 14 Contemporary Issues Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) November 21 – Building the Spirit November 28 – Making Advent wreaths as a community. Adults and children will gather in Clingman Hall to create wreaths to take home. Prizes for the most original, biggest group working together, etc.!

December 5 – Clergy will present Advent characters: “Elizabeth and Zachariah” December 12 Clergy will present Advent characters: “John the Baptist” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) December 19 – Clergy will present Advent characters: “Mary” 8 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

November 2004

Christmas Pageant There will be an organizational pageant Poinsettia Sales meeting for requesting roles on Sunday, Poinsettia sales start Sunday, November 7 in theSenior HighRoom at November 7.This is the only major 12:00 Noon. Rehearsals will begin in fundraiser this year for the Youth. Sales December. will continue through November. Plant Pickup: Plant pickup will be High Schoolers Saturday, December 4 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. We will need help on pick up day. See Lynn or Ben. - Festival of Faiths Sunday, November 7 - Join Bowling Louisville area youth as they view Sunday, November 14 the senior high and discussBonhoeffer. and middlers will go bowling. Meet at Bonhoeffer is a new 90-minute church at 5:30 p.m. Pick up will be at documentary film that tellsthe church at 7:30 p.m. dramatic story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the young German Bring $5. theologian who offered one of the first clear voices of resistance to College Care Adolf Hitler. How does his life help us understand the meaning of Packages cooperation? We will leave the church by 5:00 p.m., travel to the The senior high and middlers will put Speed Art Museum Auditoriumfor the 5:30 p.m. showing of the together the care packages for our film,followed by an ice cream social. collegants on Sunday, November 21, from 6-7:30 p.m. Pizza will also be Middle Schoolers served. - Gattiland OnSunday, November 7 the middle Movie, Pizza and Games Sunday, November 28 from 6-7:30 p.m. at church. schoolers will travel to Gattiland for an evening of fun. We will meet at Gattiland at 6:00 p.m. Pick up will be from Gattiland at 7:30 p.m. If you need a ride from Coming in December church let Ben or Lynn know. Bring $5. Youth Group Baby-Sitting Fundraiser! Got a quick question for Ben? The The Youth will offer a baby sitting service onSunday, December 5 new youth AOL Instant Messenger so parents can get a jump on their Christmas shopping. We will address is: youthstmattky baby-sit from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Youth can earn service hours!! See Lynn and Ben to sign up.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

9 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector The Power of Communion As many of you may know, the Lambeth Commission on years, if not decades, from now. Furthermore, opinions Communion, a group created by the Archbishop about the recommendations are abundant and assorted, and of Canterbury after the election and consecration of V. I do not feel it necessary to add my own two cents to the Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, recently fray at this time. published The Windsor Report (one can read the report However, I was struck and inspired by the Commission’s on-line at http://windsor2004.anglicancommunion.org/). detailed discussion of the nature and power of our Anglican According to the group’s leader, the Most Rev. Dr. Robin Communion. The report, paraphrasing Paul’s letter to the Eames, Archbishop of Armagh, the commission and the Ephesians, said that “God’s people are to be, through the report were created, not to judge issues of sexuality, but to work of the Spirit, an anticipatory sign of God’s healing and consider “…ways in which communion and understanding restorative future for the world. [We] are to live as a united could be enhanced where serious differences threatened family across traditional ethnic and other boundaries, and the life of a diverse worldwide Church.” so are to reveal the many-splendored wisdom of the one Many of us at St. Matthew’s have various opinions about true God to the hostile and divisive powers of the world.” homosexuality. And I believe the open atmosphere in our What a powerful message! In a time when the human family, parish gives those with differing opinions the space and especially the American family, seems to be more divided permission to express those opinions openly and without than ever across ethnic, class, gender, and political lines, we fear of judgment.Agood example of this type of exchange need to be reminded that, through our Baptismal Covenant was the Adult Education Hour on Sunday, October 17, led and participation in the Holy Eucharist, we are called to form by Lucinda and Dr. Judith Peoples, which was titled a united community throughout the Body of Christ. And in Beginning the Dialogue: Voices of St. Matthew’s. and through that united community, we can endure any The Windsor Report gave several recommendations on how difficulty, from a contentious election to an impassioned the Episcopal Church USA and other groups within the theological debate, and emerge on the other side still united greater Anglican Communion can begin the process of and better prepared to do the work of Christ in the world. reconciliation after the consecration of Bishop Robinson. The correctness and effectiveness of these recommendations will not be decided in the near term, but Ben

THERE’S STILL TIME for our Meditation Workshop “Resting in God: The Art of Being” led byThe Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Canon Pastor of Washington National Cathedral and Director of the Cathedral Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage, on Saturday, November 6 ~ 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. The cost is $20, which includes a light breakfast, the program, and lunch. To register; call the office (895-3485) or signup on the bulletin board.

Canon Sutton will discuss how our daily busy lives, with the constant demands on our time, have made space for God and for the spiritual journey a hope rather than a reality. Participants will learn and practice centering prayer as a way of contemplation or “resting in the Spirit.”

10 QUESTIONS FROM THE HEART Why do people let fear instead of faith rule their lives? ? I don’t like being vulnerable! When I was a teen- new threat to my integrity. I’ve ager, I wasn’t. For most of us, being a teen provided always been vulnerable and always afraid. us with a grandiose sense that we were truly Whether I have always been so vulnerable or have immortal and certainly imperishable – even when I only uncovered it later in life, my experience of a host sadly recognized that I might not qualify for that of others, our traditions, and my faith all tell me that I special clique of those whom I secretly envied. am held dear; and that, if I will only accept it, I am But then a high school friend, getting ready to go off filled with love and treasured – that despite my to college, was killed in an automobile accident. It frailties, I can be comfortable and fear little. No, I am was hard to believe – life does not stop, or it never not safe from loss, from abuse, or even from death. felt like it would before. Little by little, my adolescent All will come in time. But that’s all right too. Now I affectation was chipped away in event after event. can boldly share that love and affirmation I have Such traumas uncovered an incompleteness and known and be an instrument of comfort to those still vulnerability; I was afraid. vulnerable and fearful. It is in such sharing that I grow in my own confidence, and my remaining fears, For others of us, life has rarely been secure. vulnerability, and incompleteness retreat. Receiving Somehow we didn’t get the message that I am safe, such love, and sharing it with those in need, is the and that I am worthwhile. Maybe it was a broken process by which I grow and mature. It is my family; maybe it was neglect or abuse. It’s just that I experience of faith. never felt loved. And now, around every corner is a

Reading the Bible The Rev. Moray Peoples Most of us enjoy more guilt than is necessary. This is Epistles make up the bulk of the second year. Year especially true for those of us who want to read the Three examines church history, and the final year Bible but have not the foggiest idea about how to considers theology, worship and prayer. The benefit is tackle the job. We feel guilty for not reading and for an introduction to the lifelong process of learning. not knowing where to begin. (Genesis may not be the EFM is your own critical roadmap for the present best place!) moment and future reference. You are shown how to Education For Ministry is an academic curriculum look behind the words themselves and come to an designed to help lay persons read Holy Scripture. informed appreciation. You must consider the time Each participant benefits from the scholarly reading when material was written, who wrote it, and why! material as well as from small group discussions with You are invited anew to enjoy the story of God and other lay persons who sharing with you the journey. God’s people. You do not walk alone. You may inquire about EFM by emailing Moray Because EFM is not a crash course, each participant Peoples at [email protected] or calling has the time “to read, mark, learn, and inwardly 426-8959. Either way is a path to coffee or digest” the Bible. In the first academic year the Old, ice cream. or Jewish, Testament is the focus. The Gospels and 11 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden The Power of Communion Put your trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and feed on its riches. Psalm 37 from the Lectionary for October 3

Because of publishing deadlines I write this in early I thought about the contrast between the gay men raising October after Sharon and I, with our daughter and son-in- money for sick kids while the fundamentalists shake their law, had been downtown for the First Friday Gallery Hop. fingers and say “shame.” Who is correct? (I know who is What started as a promotion to bring people downtown to “right.”) Where is God? Or, as some would ask, What visit art galleries, antique stores, and gift shops, and to would Jesus do? dine at downtown restaurants, has become a very popular The week before, our daughter Anne and I had been monthly event along several blocks of Market and Main visiting Boston. We were enjoying a beautiful fall evening Streets. It attracts a diverse group of people – blacks, dining outside at a nice Italian restaurant in a trendy, whites, urban dwellers and suburbanites, gay and straight, upscale section of the city. A disheveled older man began young, middle age and old, wealthy and those managing to picking through the trashcan next to the street no more get by. I saw menI had worked with before I left IBM in the than ten feet from us. Our wealth, good fortune, or early 1990s, friends from Rotary, acquaintances from a however one might define our situation, was again in stark variety of places and times in my life. Of course the whole contrast to this man. Most of the diners tried to ignore him. community isn’t represented there – no homeless, no What would Jesus do? Give him money? Preach about desperately poor, few ethnic minorities. But it was more of a being saved? Legislate against loitering? Offer a mix of Louisville than we see at Kroger’s in Prospect or at listening ear? St. Matthew’s on Sunday morning. I don’t have answers. I am not so confident that I can say This Friday a group of men, mostly gay, dressed as women, with no doubt what Jesus would do or where he would rode the trolleys, walked the streets, and danced on a small have been. But I believe he would be walking with the stage set up on east Market Street. They were raising homeless man, listening to and comforting him. And, I money for children with AIDS. The crowds were think, he would have been on the streets of Louisville, with appreciative and generous. the crowd, encouraging us to enjoy being together and to Earlier this week Southeast Christian Church announced reach deep in our pockets and our hearts for the kids. that they would spend $150,000 over the next month to get voters to approve a proposed amendment to Kentucky’s Constitution to ban not only same-sex marriages (which are already illegal in Kentucky) but would also create havoc with other family relationships. Bob

EVERY MEMBER CANVASS FOR 2005 UPDATE As of October 25, we have received 183 pledges totaling $492,077.00. Bravo! And thank you, thank you! Our “basket” is really filling up with apples (see the bulletin board located outside of the Narthex). But there are folks we haven’t heard from yet. If you’re a faithful member of our parish, now is the time to commit your time, talent and treasure for the coming year. Why? For St. Matthew’s, of course, but even more: For your spiritual growth. For you own heart and soul. For becoming more Christlike. For imitating God’s abundant, indeed extravagant, generosity. In thanks. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21

12 FROM OUR SEMINARIAN

The fall semester is now in full swing at the Seminary of growth I felt, and the levels of humanity I encountered. I the Southwest. I wish I could say that the foliage was had patients hear voices and see demons in the corner, speckled with brilliant hues of crimson and gold here in then surprise me with the most beautiful prayers I ever Texas, but, well, it’sTexas. The work of seminary heard. I talked with a 9-year-old who has suicidal continues with many papers being written on everything tendencies. I grieved and prayed with families who’ve lost from Scriptural Authority, to How to Teach 1 Peter, to the loved ones. I sat with folks whose family members were Moral Issues of Stem-Cell Research. I’ve completed my dying. I baptized babies, alive and dead. Within 3 weeks, I senior liturgy week, complete with the celebration of officiated at funerals for a 2-day-old baby, and an 86-year- women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church. Our travel old wife and mother, and attended the funeral of a good plans have been made for the Christmas trip back to friend and classmate. I made new friends and companions Kentucky. And May 17 has been set for my graduation. along the journey. I listened to family stories as I shared And a new student has already visited our rental house my own. I was there with families who have fallen apart preparing for a June move-in date. When Shakespeare and families that have pulled each other together. Those 12 wrote about time creeping at a petty pace, he obviously weeks were exhausting. Those 12 weeks have shown me didn’t attend seminary. It seems that we can get so caught what’s out there as people wake up each day and live their up in our day-to-day living, and our plans for the not-so- lives, hoping and praying they make it to the next morning. far-off, that we forget the most important time of our Those people I met are no different from you and me, lives…now. broken people praying for love and grace. I was able to focus on the now and be a part of the ministry of being For me, now is the most precious, yet fleeting, moment of present, both as a chaplain and as a recipient. I’m grateful my life. Part of my ever-growing spiritual discipline is the that this experience is a requirement not only of my embracing of now and leaving a wonderful thing in its seminary’s curriculum, but also of our diocesan canons. place. Hopefully, this wonderful thing will plant a seed for more wonderful things that will be shared among many. Knowing that Sarah, Riley, and I are in your prayers gives This summer, I had chances to slow my life down to us hope as we go about our lives of books, classes, work, concentrate on my now, and the now of so many others. I bumps and bruises (Riley’s almost 2). And please know did hospital chaplaincy for 12 weeks. My base of that you are in our prayers as well. We look forward to operations wasn’t a trauma center, ER, or oncology ward, spending some time with you at Christmas. but a mental health hospital. I also did my share of being Grace and Peace, the on-call chaplain at the other six network hospitals. Jim, Sarah and Riley Trimble I could write for hours about the experiences I had, the                          St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church is proud to be a part of Fall Church Tour: A Study in Church / Community Relations sponsored by Beargrass-St. Matthews Historical Society, Inc. Sunday, November 14 at St. Matthew’s Episcopal and two nearby churches; Beargrass Christian and Our Lady of Lourdes. Topic: A history of three of the early established churches in the Beargrass Creek-St. Matthews area, designed to reveal the relationship between church and community. This event is FREE and open to the public. St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 330 N. Hubbards Lane Speaker: Ann Miller Beargrass Christian Church, 4100 Shelbyville Road Speaker: Rev. John Hull, Ph.D. Our Lady of Lourdes, 510 Breckinridge Lane Speaker: George Brinkhaus A 20-minute presentation at each church begins at 2:00, 3:00, or 4:00 p.m., with questions and answers lasting 15 minutes. Please feel free to attend the churches in whichever order you wish at the designated times, then continue on to the next church of your choice. Greeters from the Beargrass-St. Matthews Historical Society will be standing in front of the entrance doors at each church with information packets. Hope to see you there! 13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Week of November 7 Week of November 14

Tate: Stephen, Zoë, William, Matthew Trimble: James, Sarah, Riley

Terry: Paul, Frances Trimble: Ursula

Thielen: Teddie Triplett: Betty, Gary

Thomas: John, Phyllis Troop: Graham, Amy Cubbage

Thompson: Dorney, Elizabeth, Reed, Callie, Evan Tucker: Steven, Amy, Sarah

Thompson: Linda, Michael Tuggle: Kenneth, Catherine

Tiano: John, Alice, Joel Uligian: Greg, Barbara

Tidwell: Harry, Ann Van Dyke: Grace

Todd: Bosworth Vandrick: Joe, Kay

Todd: Mary Nancy Viel: Virginia

Week of November 21 Week of November 28

Vinsel: Kenneth, Adele Walsh: Eileen, Barry Stokes, Lindsay, Taylor

Voss: Doug, Barbara, Ana, Melia Wardell: Kevin, Linda

Vouga: Anne, Etienne, Maren, Alex Wardell: Thomas, Patricia

Vowels: Aaron, Carrie Bohnert Warden: Frank, Patricia

Wacker: Jean Wasem: Jacob, Cristina

Waggoner: Gary, Patricia Waters: Dane, Alan Canon

Wagner: Marty, Cheryl, Kate, Alex Watson: Dwayne, Victoria Danahy

Wakefield: Martha Weaver: Russ, Kate, Ben

Wall: Louise Weinberg: Bill, Bobby

Wallingford: Joe, Martha Weis: Russ, Bev, Natalie, Julia

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Kevin Smith, Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Lance Lawfer, Mark Barry,Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

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Transfers In Stephanie H. Smith from Calvary Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Lawrence and Holly Stivers, Zane, Corey and Riley from Christ Church Cathedral, Louisville, KY Barbara H. Hardy from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY William W. Cunningham, II from Christ Episcopal Church Grosse Pointe, Grosse Point Farms, MI Georgianna Collins from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY David Schmidt, Jane Hardy, and Jonathan, and Nathaniel Schmidt from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY

Transfers Out Lucia Bryant to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Richard, Miriam, and Thomas Arnspiger to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Larry and D.A. Hitner to Grace Episcopal Church, St. George, UT Robert, Julie, Kathryn, and Jennifer Quaife to St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Harrods Creek, KY

Marriages Heather Anne Weston and John Peter Bell, October 16 Nancy Lang and Jay Redman, October 30

Baptisms on St. Matthew’s Day, September 26 Brooke MacKenzie, Lainey Lee, and Shayla Kay Marie Busam, daughters of Donald and Priscilla Busam Mary Blair Cochran and William Wallace Cunningham III, daughter and son of Bill and Polly Cunningham Amelia Eve Frey, daughter of Andrew and Shannon Frey

We are sorry to hear about the death of Tim Rhea’s grandfather

+ + + May light perpetual shine upon him + + + 15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Ruth Weibel, Accountant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Mary Lee Bishop, Intern

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

1416 The SAINT MATTHEW’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

of St. Matthew’s December 2004 and January 2005 Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be a caring, inclusive community, centered in the Eucharist and grounded in the Gospel, so that we can reach out as Christ’s hands to the world.

 Recognizing that immediate needs are FROM THE RECTOR greater than what is revealed in the Study, Dear People leadership may wish to consider What’s of St. Matthew’s, $2,000,000 to $2,100,000 as the This is, I think, the “primary” goal and establish a larger most exciting letter I “challenge” goal, which would encourage Happening? have written to you the congregation to stretch to longer in my seven years as pledges - five years rather than three years Parish News ...... 2-3 your Rector. for example.  Planned giving activities should be The Vestry has Church School News ...... 4 pursued during the campaign in an effort received the results to encourage major gifts to underwrite the of the feasibility Music Notes ...... 5 future of the church. study for our proposed building and  The Tentative Case Statement should be renovation, and it is very, very good. Let Kenya News ...... 5 reviewed and consideration given to the me list the main points: priorities expressed by respondents. Volunteer Opportunities...... 6  A large majority of participants (97%) were aware that St. Matthew’s is And here’s the most exciting part. At meetings in late October and mid-November, Social Concerns ...... 6-7 considering a campaign, and aware of the proposed plans. the Vestry considered the report thoroughly and responded enthusiastically. Without a Adult Ed ...... 8-9  Ninety-three percent are in favor of the campaign, although some with single negative vote, the Vestry voted to proceed with a campaign, and the Confirmation Information .... 9 reservations.  Only 5% are opposed to the proposed proposed plans in their entirety. I must campaign timing. tell you, I have never heard a more Youth Page...... 10  Ninety percent of respondents would committed and unified vestry, and their enthusiasm was palpable. A Few Words From give to the campaign.  More than one in four are willing to Of course there is still much to do and much The Assistant Rector ...... 11 consider a volunteer position in the to consider – carefully, one step at a time. campaign. The feedback we got from all of you is most Our New Intern...... 12  The needs and lack of space are helpful, and we need to consider comments, obvious, although priorities vary. criticism, and concerns very thoroughly. EFM 0 ...... 12  Positive factors cited included: strong There is a great deal of planning that needs to leadership, both lay and clergy, in the be done, and we will be working with Vestry Comments...... 13 parish; a growing, welcoming, diverse Holliman Associates as we continue. You and friendly church; a vibrant children’s will hear from us every step of the way, and Prayer List ...... 14 and youth program, and music program; we will ask for your participation and input. and supportive vestry and staff. As we begin a new church year inAdvent, Parish Families...... 15  Concerns mentioned included: we are looking at an exciting future for St. resistance to change; national church Matthew’s. This church has been strong, and economy issues; the ability to committed, welcoming and caring from its achieve a goal of $2.8 million; and inception in 1948. I believe the next 56 years supporting future upkeep, maintenance can be even more so, with your commitment, and staffing for a larger facility. and with God’s help. Holliman Associates made these Yours in Christ, recommendations:  A capital campaign for Primary goal in the range of $2.0 - $2.1 million is Lucinda + realistic and appropriate.1 PARISH NEWS

Habitat at Your help is needed to Whole Foods Day Decorate the Church Whole Foods We will be decorating the church for Christmas on 4944 Shelbyville Road Thursday, December 23 at 9:30 a.m. Holly and magnolia are needed along with many hands to help at this time. There Thursday, December 16 will be pastries and coffee. Please join us for this work of 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m. love. Whole Foods will contribute to Habitat for Humanity in Louisville, 5% of all purchases that are made by friends of Christmas Coffee Habitat. Make sure to tell the check-out clerks that you are with Habitat. All women of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church are invited to the home of Ann Please Remember Habitat Miller on Thursday, December 16, 11:00 a.m. Bring in all your used printer and fax machine cartridges to Please bring a finger food of your choice. Anyone needing Ann Davis or Mardi Galvin. Remember: Habitat receives a ride can meet at the church at 10:45 a.m. Asign-up sheet $2.00 for every cartridge recycled! and map will be available on the bulletin board. If you need information please call Ann Davis (895-3485) or Kitty Clark (897-2674). Thisis a lovelyaffair you won’t want to miss!

New to the Episcopal Church? New Year’s Eve Service Back to the church December 31 falls on a Friday this year and we will have a special NewYear’s Eve after a “hiatus”? liturgy at 5:00 p.m. It will be both meaningful and festive. We will celebrate the Eucharist, Just interested in “the basics”? with particular prayers for the ending of the old year and the beginning of the new. Then VIA MEDIA is for you! A reception with champagne to toast the New Year will Via Media is an eight week program beginning in January follow. If you plan to spend a quiet New Year’s at home, on Sunday nights (6-8 p.m., dinner included). WATCH THE this is a good way to celebrate with friends and fellow BULLETINANDTHEBULLETIN BOARDS FORMORE parishioners first; if you are going out to a party, this is INFORMATION! also a perfect way to begin your evening. SENIOR HIGHLIGHTS The Ladies and Gentlemen of Experience Potluck Program will celebrate the holidays with a Christmas Party on Tuesday, December 14, at 12:00 Noon John Willinghamand Ann Davis will provide the meal. Our very own Bob Clark will be playing our most beloved Christ- mas favorites on the piano. Please plan on joining us for this merry event! Please write your name and the number in your family attending on the sign-up sheet posted outside of the front office. We need to know the amount of food to purchase. 2 PARISH NEWS

A Big Round of Applause Goes To…

John Willingham, Griffin Willingham and Mo Wakefield for the delicious eggs and sausage they prepared for our Parish/Newcomers’ Breakfast on November 14. Special thanks go to Alice and Griffin Willinghamand Mo Wakefield for cleaning up after the breakfast and to John and Griffin Willingham for breaking down the tables and setting up for church school. Thank you to Julie Davis who sat at the cash box, made sure everyone had a nametag and handed out the Newcomers’ packets. Kudos to all who brought pastries, muffins and breakfast breads; it was a lovely morning!

Looking Ahead . . . Blood Drive Feast of the Epiphany Tuesday, Join us in celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany with a December 7 service of Choral Evensong and Holy Eucharist on Thursday, January 6 at 7:30 p.m. followed by a reception 2:00-7:00 p.m. with King’s Cake. You’re next opportunity to give the gift of life will be at St. John Lutheran Church, 901 Breckenridge Lane across from Baptist East Hospital. New donors are very welcome. Flower If you have any questions about your eligibility call the Red Cross at 540-7163 or 800-732-8772. One hour gives the Delivery gift of life! Thank you! thank you! to all of you who have stepped forward after the 10:00 service to deliver flowers to other parishioners who are ill, hospitalized, or celebrating a homebound birthday. We need 2 or 3 volunteers every Sunday. If you have a heavy Sunday schedule, you should not feel obligated to Birthday visit at the time of flower delivery. The flowers speak for themselves and convey love from St. Matthew’s Church. Celebrations SOMETHING SPECIAL of our As part of the Concert Series in celebration of the 175th Anniversary of Second Presbyterian Church, 3701 Old Homebound Brownsboro Road, harpist Louisa Ellis will present a recital at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 3rd. You are cordially invited to for attend. and December On Sunday, December 26 our seminarian, Jim Trimble, will be December 11 Helen Pfisterer preaching at all three services – AND his father-in-law,Moray Peoples, will be the celebrant at the Eucharist. It should be a wonderful day; do plan to come hear Jim and let him know of our on-going support. Presuming all goes well, he will receive his M.Div. degree in May, and be ordained in June! 3 CHURCH SCHOOL NEWS

Debbi Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Slow down! Quiet! It’sAdvent! During themonth of December thechildren’sprogram has someofferings that will stimulate your mind and others that will help you to slow down and enjoy the quiet. Come, bring a friend! Blessings, Debbi December Dates to Remember Sunday, December 5 ...... 11:10 p.m. ~ Parents in Conversation with The Rev.Moray Peoples ...... “Questions for a Priest”. On the first Sunday of each month, Moray joins us ...... in Parents in Conversation to talk with us about anything we may be ...... struggling with orjust wonderingabout concerningour children’sspirituality...... It’s a relaxed and enjoyable way to spend the first Sundayof each month...... Join us in the Lounge after the 10:00 a.m. Eucharist! Bring a friend! Sunday, December 5 ...... 12:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. ~ Youth Group Babysitting Fundraiser ...... (for details see the youth page in this newsletter) Tuesday, December 7 ...... 7:00 a.m. ~ Holy Eucharist and Centering Prayer to follow Thursday, December 9 ...... 6:30 p.m. ~ Children’s Program Committee Dinner at Laura & Tim Rhea’s ...... (RSVP to Debbi Rodahaffer, 895-3485, ext. 22) Saturday, December 11 ..... 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. ~ Parents’ Night Out...... Questions, callAnnie Tarbox, 327-8189...... (Sign up downstairs no later than Sunday, December 5.) Sunday, December 12 ...... 11:10 a.m. ~ Parents in Conversation with René Strause ...... (René, a school counselor, will talk about peer pressure among other ...... subjects. She is always insightful. Join us! Bring a friend!) Tuesday, December 14 ...... 7:00 a.m. ~ Holy Eucharist and Centering Prayer to follow Sunday, December 19 ...... 11:10 a.m. ~ Parents in Conversation with Debbi Rodahaffer ...... (“Christmas, what it means in our lives and the lives of our children.”) ...... Join us for coffee and danish as we look at what Christmas was for us as ...... children and talk about what it means for our children today.OH, did I say ...... bring afriend? Tuesday, December 21 ...... 7:00 a.m. ~ Holy Eucharist and Centering Prayer to follow Friday, December 24 ...... 5:30 p.m. ~ Christmas Pageant ...... (Child care is available for young children.) ...... 10:30 p.m. ~ Festival Holy Eucharist (No Childcare) Saturday, December 25 ..... 10:00 a.m. ~ Christmas Eucharist (No Childcare) Sunday, December 26 ...... 10:00 a.m. ~ Holy Eucharist (Childcare is available) ...... NO CHURCH SCHOOLTODAY January Dates to Remember Friday, January 7 ...... 8:00 p.m.-8:00 a.m. ~ Lock-In at Church – Grades 3–5 ...... (Games, Prizes, Food, Movies and a candlelit midnight Eucharist!) 4 MUSIC NOTES

Barbara Ellis,Choir Director / Organist

Advent begins. Our services will begin in quiet and darkness as we light the Advent Candles. You will notice that we sing the Kyrie during the season and the Gloria returns on Christmas Eve. The choir is hard at work on music for the beautiful candlelit service at 10:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve. I hope you will make plans to attend. Listen on Monday evening, December 20th! You may hear carolers in your neighborhood as the Music Department makes visits to sing carols and bring Christmas greetings to a few special parishioners. Please join the choir of St. Matthew’s . . . . Celebrate Christmas with Carols and Candlelight Choir and Instruments Festival Holy Eucharist 10:30 p.m. Christmas Eve, December 24 KENYA NEWS

Don’t forget to check your calenders. It’s time to sign up St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church has given $5,468 to our for our June 11-26, 2005, Kenya trip. The total cost is orphans over the last two years and this has had a great $2,600, witha$150 depositduebyDecember 19, 2004. A impact on their lives. The nurses examined them while we second payment of $1,800 is due by March 5, 2005, and the were there in September, and they said that the orphans final payment of $650 is due by May 7, 2005. This will were the healthiest children they had seen. The nurses include everything! It is a life changing trip. If you have said this was mainly due to increased nutrition and medical any questions please call John at 459-4582 or 558-8603. attention. We will be sending our money to our orphans the first Thank you so much for your continued support for our week of January. Please consider what you may want to orphans. It is making a difference in their lives! give to our orphans during this Christmas season. Thirty dollars will support one of our orphans for a month! John Willingham 5 SOCIAL CONCERNS

Martin Luther King Day Celebration Volunteer On January15 and 16, membersof St. Matthew’swill join with members of the Opportunities Church of Our Merciful Savior to celebrate Martin Luther King Day. On Saturday, January 15, adults and youth, sixth grade and older, from both congregations will Babysit or cook travel by Greyhound bus to the Underground Railroad Museum in Cincinnati. Then on the evening of Sunday, January 16, we will join at St. Matthew’s for a for teenage mothers presentation by Dr. Denise Martin, Professor of Pan African Studies at the at Cornerstone University of Louisville, on African American Religion at the time of slavery. Also on Sunday, January 16, the choirs from the Church of Our Merciful Savior and St. Thursday, December 2, Matthew’s will present a program of religious music from the African American 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. tradition. (carpooling from the In order to reserve a bus and the appropriate number of tickets for this trip, we church parking lot) must have PAID reservations by December 12. You may sign up on the bulletin board, where there are envelopes for making your payment, located outside the Habitat for front office. Make your checks payable to St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church and indicate “Underground Railroad Museum Trip”. The cost for the trip (bus and Humanity museum ticket) depends on your age: 11-12 years old is $14.00, 13-59 years old is: Saturday, December 4, $17.50, and 60 and over is: $16.00. Lunch is on your own. 8:30 a.m. to Noon Please plan to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. by taking advantage of these or 3:00 p.m. opportunities to broaden our understanding. (carpool from the church parking lot) Calvary/St. George’s Advent Tree Beginning November 28 and continuing through December 12 Food Collection parishioners may select Christmas gifts from the Advent Tree to Sunday give to approximately twenty family members from multiple CASA families. You may choose one or more items to purchase Sunday, December 5 and return, wrapped and tagged with the recipient’s name, to the church by December 19. If you would like to participate but would prefer not to shop, you Serve lunch at may make a financial contribution that will be used to purchase items that are not Wayside Christian selected from the tree or to provide Christmas for yet another CASA family. CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) is a private, non-profit organization Misson that provides trained volunteers to serve as advocates for abused and neglected Sunday, December 12, children involved in Family Court. CASA volunteers are appointed by a judge to 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. represent the best interests of dependent, abused and neglected children in court. In addition to attending all court hearings, CASA volunteers also visit the families (carpooling may be arranged with Dr. Blake, 245-7523) often to assure that the child’s essential needs are being met. See sign up sheet on the The CASA families we will be supporting are in financial stress and the gifts we main bulletin board. give are most likely the only Christmas gifts they will receive. In appreciation for your support of the needy among us, Becky Donovan will have Last Sunday to Christmas ornaments available for contributors on the Sundays of Advent. select an Advent Tree Christmas Gift for CASA Families More Recycling Opportunities Sunday, December 12 Did you know that Habitat for Humanity will accept your donation of a used washer or dryer? Best of all, they will even come pick it up at your home. You Return Advent Tree may call them at 583-6599. Christmas Gifts There are many organizations that will gladly accept your donation of a used car so for CASA Families that you may take a tax deduction for your contribution. Wayside Christian Mission, 584-3711, and St. Vincent De Paul, 634-1190, are two we know about. The Sunday, December 19 newspaper usually lists others.

6 SOCIAL CONCERNS INGATHERING Feeds 162 Families WOW! You did it!

What a generous response from all of you to the challenge to feed the hungry. Thank you, thank you St. Matthew’s for providing 20 complete meals with meat, 22 complete meals without meat, 8 partial meals and $2,987. The meals collected at the 8:00 and 10:00 services were divided between the food pantries at Calvary and St. George’s. The 5:00 service Ingathering was taken to the food pantry at St. MAMs (St. Matthew’s Area Ministries). From your contributions, $1,000 was given to both Calvary and St. George’s and $897 to St. MAMs for their food pantries. The food pantries send their appreciation to you for your gifts that enabled them to feed so many more hungry families.

Update on the Yarrow Family Aden, Medina, Abshir,Arafo, Bisharo andAbdi are doing very well in their new home at the AmericanaApartments. Several families of Somali Bantu who live nearby visit frequently. Aden (the father) and Abdi (the brother-in-law) attend daily classes at Kentucky Refugee Ministries and Abshir (6 years old) attends Kindergarten with fellowAmericana Somali Bantu children at Wilkerson Elementary. Medina stays home with daughters Arafo (2 ½ years old) and Bisharo (3 months old). She is a neat housekeeper and cooks up a storm for her family. Medina will be learning English at home from Pat Wheeler and Sue Bach. The Refugees sponsor Committee has been very generous with their time in supporting the Yarrows. The committee will continue to offer support and guidance to the family through February (4 months instead of three). Kentucky refugee Ministries plans forAden andAbdi to have jobs by March of 2005. The fact that both men know some English will help them to be more employable. St. Matthew’s sponsorship of this family would not have been possible without the financial support of the vestry and the many, many gifts of you, the loving people of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church. You are certainly reaching out as the hands of Christ in the world. Thank you VERY much.

Delegates to our 2005 Diocesan Convention The vestry has chosen the following parishioners to represent St. Matthew’s (along with our clergy) at the Convention of the Diocese of Kentucky in February, 2005: Barbara Ellis Alternates: Ann Lovejoy Mike Wright Ann Miller Pat Brown Bob Nesmith Debbi Rodahaffer Mitch Shirrell AnnDavis

7 UPCOMING ADULT EDUCATION Winter / Spring 2005 Adult Education Sundays, 11:10-12:00 Come join your fellow parishioners and hear informative and thought-provoking presentations following the 10 a.m. service on Sundays. You will find our speakers knowledgeable and interesting!

(And on Wednesdays beginning in January, “Opening to God” (see page 9 for information).)

January 2 – Festive Coffee Hour January 9 – Dianne Aprile, “Gethsemane” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) January 16 – Dianne Aprile, “Thomas Merton” January 23 – Parish Annual Meeting January 30 – Jim Baughman, “James I and the Authorized Translation of the Bible”

February 6 – Jim Baughman, “The Beauty of Holiness from Richard Hooker to William Laud” February 13 – Mary Ann Thompson, “When and How to Intervene with Aging Parents” Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) February 20 – The Rev. Helen Jones, “End of Life Issues” February 27 – Dr. Milburn Thompson, “How Much to Give Away: What Are Our Responsibilities?”

March 6 – Dr. Barry Padget, “Ethics of Personal Finance” March 13 – Ethics in the Workplace Jeff Skinner – Poets and Faith – Exploring faith with poetry. (Offered once a month) March 20 – Palm Sunday March 27 – Easter “Parents in Conversation” meets each Sunday in the Lounge 8 Meeting for all prospective Confirmands and their Parents

There will be a meeting for all young people (eighth through twelfth grade) interested in confirmation and their parents on Sunday, December 12 at 11:15 a.m. in the Church. We will discuss the schedule for confirmation classes and other activities, as well as the expectations of confirmands, mentors, and parents. This is only an informational meeting, so all levels of interest are welcome to attend. Confirmation classes will begin on Wednesday, January 12, 2005, at 6 :00 p.m.

OPENING TO GOD

Wednesday Morning Adult Ed Class led by Chris Brosend beginning January 12

Have you ever asked yourself, “Am I closer to Jesus today than I was yesterday?” Is there a desire in your heart to experience a richer, deeper relationship with our Lord? Then this 10 week class, Opening to God, led by Chris Brosend is for you. Wewill explore many methods of prayer, along with the various spiritual disciplines of meditation that lead to prayer.Chris will bring her trainingin the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius, and her ongoing commitment to spiritual direction, meditation, and prayer to these classes. We’ll also have guest speakers, and a one day retreat. Two of the books we will read are With Open Hands by Henri Nouwen and Walking on Water byAnthony DeMello. This promises to be a visceral experience, a hands-on application of the practice of meditation and prayer. Join us on Wednesdaymornings from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon in the Lounge beginning January12 and continuing through March 16, 2005. The cost will be $15.00 for books and a journal of your choosing. Please sign up on the sheet right outside the church office marked OPENING TO GOD. It is not by chance that the class will lead us right into Holy Week! Can you feel the Holy Spirit at work already? Childcare will be available. Please indicate on the sign-up sheet if you would like childcare.

9 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Youth youth@stmatt–ky.org Web site: www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm (502) 895-3485 Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator

December 2004 and January 2005

Christmas Pageant Poinsettia Pickup Christmas pageant - December 24at 5:30 p.m. If interested in participating Saturday, December 4 We will need youth and parents to help from contact Lynn, Ben or Ms. Koshewa. 12 noon-2:00 p.m. Service hours are available. Rehearsals will be December 5, 12 and 19at 12:15 p.m. We will need parents to provide snacks for these rehearsals. Please see Lynn or Ben if you can help. Youth Group Baby-Sitting Fundraiser! Sunday, December 5 The Youth will offer a baby sitting service onSunday, December 5 6:00-7:30 p.m. – Craft night and pizza. We will make a special so parents can get a jump on their Christmas shopping. We will Christmas craft you can keep or give as a Christmas gift. baby-sit from 12:00-3:00 p.m. Youth can earn service hours!! We Sunday, December 12 will provide lunch. See Lynn or Ben to sign up. Prospective Confirmands and Parents Meeting, 11:15 a.m. Sunday, January 2 Sunday, December 12 Happy New Year!Movie and pizza from 6:00-7:30 p.m. Middle School and High School Christmas dinners OUT!! Dinner is on us. Both the groups will celebrate the Christmas season Sunday, January 9 with seperate dinners out! Meet at church at 6:00 p.m. Pick up at Lazer Blaze!Meet at Lazer Blaze at 5:30 p.m. We will play 2 games 8:00 p.m. of Lazer tag, return to church for pizza. Pick-up will be at the church at 7:30 p.m. Bring $5. Sunday, December 19 Christmas partyat church – 6:00-8:00 p.m. Saturday, January 15 Both Middle School and High School youth groups are invited to Sunday, December 26 honor the Martin Luther King weekend by participating in a day trip to No youth group. Merry, Merry! Cincinnati to the new Underground Railroad Museum. Look for more information about this trip in your mail. This trip will be interesting Winterlight XXIX at Kanuga and a lot of fun! For more information on the Underground Railroad Winterlight XXIX is a gathering of young Museum go to: http://www.freedomcenter.org peoplein grades9-12whocome frommany states to celebrate the meaning of this special season, to share Sunday, January 16 programs and special times. It will be at Kanuga in Hendersonville, Pizza and games from 6:00-7:30 p.m. NC from December 27-January 1. See Ben or Lynn ASAP if you areinterested in going.Wewilldepart on Monday,December 27at Sunday, January 23 9:00 a.m. from the church parking lot and return Wednesday, Diocesan Progressive Dinner. We will travel by Trolley to several January 1 at 6:00 p.m. The cost is $370 which includes meals, Episcopal churches in the city for dinner and fun with other youth lodging, and transportation. groups. The evening will end with a DJ party!! More information to come. Got a quick question for Ben? The new youth AOL Instant Messenger Sunday, January 30 address is: youthstmattky Bowling. 6:00-7:30 p.m. Bring $5.

This information and more is on the church web site at:www.stmatt–ky.org/youth.htm Check it out! Need to get hold of Ben or Lynn? Email them at: [email protected]

10 A FEW WORDS FROM . . . The Assistant Rector The Watch Watchman, tell us of the night, what its signs of promise are. Traveler, o’er yon mountain’s height, see that glory-beaming star. Watchman, does its beauteous ray aught of joy or hope foretell? Traveler, yes; it brings the day, promised day of Israel.

The poem above, Hope by John Browning, employs one of catalogs, and animated television specials, to the season my favorite images: the watch. Scripture and, derivatively, that begins on December 25. Instead we must watch, wait, the Book of Common Prayer also utilize this image. In and thoroughly consider what is about to arrive. We know Scripture, God “watches over the way of the righteous,” what is coming - the birth of Christ - but do we fully (Psalm 1:6), Jesus tells the disciples to “be on the watch,” comprehend and celebrate the nature of the Incarnation of (Mark 13:34), and Paul instructs the early church to “keep God in humanity? Scholars and theologians have spent watch over yourselves and over all the flock, of which the lifetimes in thought and libraries of text considering this Holy Spirit has made you overseers” (Acts 20:28). In the spiritual reality. And yet, we too are called to keep the Prayer Book, in the Prayers for the Sick, we ask “Heavenly watch for the coming of Christ. For with the birth in the Father, watch with us over your child” (458) and in the manger, God has revealed to the creation the magnitude of Compline service, we pray “keep watch, dear Lord, with God’s love for all of us and the depth of relationship God those who work, or watch, or weep this night” (134). And desires with each of us. God could have remained distant, for me personally, the concept of the watch conjures up but instead God becomes very close in the baby Jesus. powerful images of waiting - pregnant waiting. We watch So, keep the watch this Advent. And as you watch, and wait for something that we know is coming, that we consider the magnitude of what we wait for, for in the know is going to be incredible, but without any idea of the coming of Christ we have received no less than a pathway scope and ramification of what is about to arrive. So one to God and an entry to salvation. waits, with both anticipation and agitation. In this season of Advent, we are called to keep the watch. We should not skip ahead, with the department stores, Ben

Centering Prayer During Advent Due to the positive response to the centering prayer workshop last month, centering prayer will be offered at St. Matthew’s each Tuesday during Advent. The service will begin at 7:00 a.m. with Holy Eucharist and then a period of centering prayer to follow. The entire service will end by 8:00 a.m. If you have any questions, please contact Ben at 895.3485 or [email protected].

11 OUR NEW INTERN Meet Mary Lee Bishop My heartfelt greetings and gratitude go out to all the My husband, Greg Bishop, is a veterinarian at members of St. Matthew’s Episcopal– to those who MiddletownAnimal Clinic. He is very involved (Chalice have already made me feel welcome with kind words Bearer, LEM, Alpha group leader, Order of St. Luke, and smiles, and to those I look forward to meeting. I occasional teacher), at his home parish of St. Luke’s, am an aspirant to the diaconate in the Episcopal Anchorage. He will also be a familiar face at St. Matt’s Church, and the Commission for Ministry chose this when his schedule permits. For 6 years Greg and I wonderful parish as my internship site. For the next 5-6 have been very active in our area’s chapter of the Order months I will worship, do fellowship, study, and work of St. Luke, which is an ecumenical, international for the building up of the Body alongside you. organization dedicated to the Christian healing ministry. It was founded in 1932 by an Episcopal priest, and is I am a graduate of Waggener High School and the still predominantly Episcopalian. Greg and I find it a joy University of Louisville. My husband Greg and I were to pray for those in need. married 22 years ago at Holy Trinity Catholic Church. For 24 years I have taught Spanish and French (mainly In closing I would like to ask your prayers- for my Spanish) at the middle, high, and junior college level. discernment committee and for myself- that “the Father Presently I teach part-time at Maryhurst School on of glory may give us a spirit of wisdom and of Dorsey Lane. A highlight of my college career was the revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of year I spent in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The our hearts enlightened, that we may know what is the famous cathedral of Santiago, where according to hope to which he has called us, … and what is the legend the remains of St. James the Apostle lie, was a immeasurable greatness of his power in us who believe. site of medieval pilgrimage. Now, many years removed, (Ephesians 1: 17-20). my heart is once more set on the pilgrim’s way. I am I AM GLAD TO BE HERE! delighted that you had room in the inn, and welcoming hearts.

Taste and See! The Rev. Moray Peoples “I couldn’t do that. There’s too much reading.” That is may be more familiar. However, because one has a one of the familiar comments made when the subject greater familiarity with it, one can be lulled into false of EFM is mentioned. security! Compressing the reading into the day-before- the-seminar can be done. However, experience has Well, maybe. But, maybe not. Participants are shown that it makes a positive difference to read several encouraged to read a little at a time. No one is expected days ahead, allowing time for the material to mature or to swallow a week’s reading at once. Indeed, the soak-in before the group meets. course authors encourage participants to read a little each day, giving the data and ideas presented time to Education For Ministry requires a commitment. Four ferment and come to full flavor. Everyone seems to academic years, one at a time. “Who, me?” you say. find a style that is best fits her/his work and life week. Sure, why not? EFM offers a lively and invigorating opportunity for spiritual stimulation. You owe it to Year One is probably the more difficult and time yourself. consuming because the Jewish or Old Testament, as a whole, is least familiar. The more serious EFM “Who, me?” Absolutely! For more conversation about participant will work four to six hours to prepare for EFM, contact Moray Peoples one Sunday after the weekly seminar. Thereafter much of the material Church…or use email: [email protected] . 12 VESTRY COMMENTS from the Senior Warden And The Children Shall Lead Us “You may think that I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and we all will live as one.” -John Lennon, “Imagine”

Hearing this sung by a group of students from Palestine and Israel brought tears to many of the 500 or so people at a breakfast during the recent Cathedral Heritage Foundation’s Festival of Faiths celebration. These kids were brought together, here in Louisville, for the first time to participate in the Festival. I had gone to hear Diana Eck, a recent winner of the Grawemeyer Award and director of the Harvard project on religious pluralism. Her talk was most interesting and informative. But it is the kids that I will remember long after I have forgotten what Dr. Eck said. It brought to mind something I read recently: “If this world is to be saved from the destructive path we are headed down, it will be artists and musicians who do it, not politicians”. The Festival of Faiths has become known internationally. It is a unique event, admired by people around the world who come to Louisville, Kentucky to participate and observe. Actor’s Theatre’s Humana Festival is another event that draws attention to Louisville from all over the country. I think I would rather live in a city known for these festivals of faith and art than the home of an NBA team, or the site of another Mike Tyson fight. (But, it is nice to have such successful UofL football and basketball teams bring us the recognition they currently have.)

              When I wrote my first column for The Spirit almost a  To believe in God is to live with ambiguity. year and a half ago, I had no idea where that effort  To be honest with God is to admit you are scared. would lead me. I wrote it in response to the Rector’s request that one of the Wardens should have a To question your beliefs is to grow. “news” story. Obviously, if you have read these, you Faith trumps belief every time. know I don’t write news. This is more like the editorial or op-ed page, a sharing of reflections on Don’t trust anyone who is certain they have what strikes me as worthy or questioning that which answers from God. Run from those who claim to seems to be contrary to Jesus ministry and teachings. know, especially those who use the Bible to justify seeking power and control over others. One result of these writings has been the desire to seek deeper insights and broaden my knowledge of No one has an exclusive in interpreting God, what God expects of me. This has lead me to begin a especially not Falwell, Robertson, Mohler, Simon, graduate studies program in spirituality offered by Russell or the current group of politicians and Bellarmine University and the Presbyterian Seminary. wannabees using their idea of “moral values” to Over the next two years I hope to learn from writers, seek political power and control. scholars and teachers, to better understand what it Soon my term as Senior Warden will end and means to call myself a Christian and to live a more someone else will have the privilege to fill this space. spirit filled life. It is a wonderful program that I Thank you for allowing me to share my journey, my would recommend to other seekers. questions and observations. If I have learned anything these last few months it is that  I have lots of questions, few answers. Bob

13 DAILY PRAYER LIST

Note: At Morning Prayer each weekday, members of St. Matthew’s congregation are prayed for by name.As members of the Christian community, we are advised to hold each other in prayer. As part of your prayers, please remember all of the St. Matthew’s parish family.

Week of December 5 Week of December 12 Week of December 19 Weston: Sarah Williamson: Sally Yann:Sally Westwood: Dorothy Willingham: John, Alice, John, Yeager:Lillian Wheeler: Pat Hollie, Griffin Yeager:Michelle White: Ethel Wilson: James Yule: Sheila White: Sharon Wilson: Jack, Virginia Zapp: Ellen Woldin: Carrie, Maris Zega: Frank, Peggy Wiedeman: Varley Wood: Linda Ahern: Kevin, Allison Wilding: Dian Woodford: William, Sara Albrecht: John-Michael, Lynn, Jessa, Heather, Wilkins: Octavia, Jim Moyer, Karin Moyer Worster: Gordon John-Michael, Kathryn, Samantha Wilkinson: James Wright: Cornelia Alexander:Ruth Williams: Al, Harriet Wright: Mike, Kathy Allen:Ellen

Week of December 26 Week of January 2 Week of January 9 Allen: George, Teresa Baker:Nancy Bell: Roger, Cornelia Anderson: Mary Ballerstedt: Mary Benson: Laura, Henry, Afton Aprile: Joyce Bardenwerper:Woody, Dottie Beury: George, Barbara Ardery: Phil, Anne Barr: James, Cindy, Worden, Austin Bingham: Barry, Edie Barrett: Melissa, Mitchell Shirrell, Arnold: Jonathan, Lauri, Emelie, Peter Birch: Alan, Catharine, David, Steven Barrett, Beth, Benjamin Atwell: Paul, Dana Bishop: Christopher, Whitney, Parker Beck: Joe, Nancy Austin: Connie, Ned, Mary Chellis Bishop: Mary Lee Becker: Lauren Bach: Suzanne Bell:Don, Joy Bishop: Thomas, Ann Bailor:Jean Bell: John, Heather Bittenback: Connie Baker: Charles, Ann Bell: Robert, Janice, Robert Black: Samuel, Dorothy

Week of January 16 Week of January 23 Week of January 30 Blackburn:Joy Brendel: Jo, Marcia Brown: William Blake: James, Mona Bridge: Sam, Sue Bryant: Mildred Briggs:Jayne Blakemore: Neville, Gray Henry Bryant: Tina Brill: The Rev. Robert, Suellen, Boone: Heather, Michael, Lauren Bullock: Stephen, Elizabeth, John, Sarah Andrew, Cassandra Burdine: Pam, Dominique, Dakota, Shawn Borho: Carl, Karen, Carter Broecker: Linda, Bruce Burns: Frank, Carolyn, Meghan, Chris Bower: Robert, Jean Brooks: David, Jackie Burr: Bill, Gerry Bowling: Kathleen Brosend: Bill, Chris, Emily Busam: Donald, Priscilla, Brooke, Brackett: Julie, Lillian, Madelyn Brown: The Rev. Don, Pat Brown: Kaye Shayla, Lainey Lee Bradley:Jill Brown: Tim, Pam, Talmage, Callaghan:Jean Brendel: Greg, Roxanne, Matthew Katherine Campbell: David, Frances

We pray for members of the parish family serving in the Armed Forces Kevin Smith, Michael R. Greene, Chris Bishop, Kevin Trimble, Billy Cundiff, Lance Lawfer, Allan Lanceta, Guy Marr, David Trimble and The Rev. Steve Pike

Heavenly Father, We ask you to make the door of St. Matthew’s Church a gateway to your eternal kingdom; and grant that all who worship in this house may also witness for you in the world outside, to your honor and glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Weekday Services Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m., Morning Prayer, Chapel Tuesday: 7:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Chapel

14 PARISH FAMILY

Transfers In Mary (Polly) Cunningham, William III and Mary from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY William and Julie Stodghill from St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Stephen G. Frazier from Harvey Browne Memorial Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY Phillip Thomas and Patricia Tinsley from St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Transfers Out Powell and Marilyn Taylor to St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, Louisville, KY Births Elise Belle Hermanson, November 21, son of Christopher and Jenice Carolan Hermanson Baptisms on All Saints’ Sunday, November 7 Luke Henry Ledvina, son of David and Andrea Ledvina James Barry Bingham Reily, son of Stephen and Emily Bingham Reily

We extend congratulations to Anita and Bruce Dillman on the birth of their granddaughter Martha (Mo) Wakefield on the birth of her grandson

Deaths Betty Bell Wissing, November 7 Dorothy Jeanne Harrison, November 8 Leland Stuart Smith, November 10 Virginia Haberbush, November 16

We are sorry to hear about the death of Andy Frey’s grandmother Kit Kincade’s aunt

+ + + May light perpetual shine upon them + + + 15 St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Non-Profit Org. 330 N. Hubbards Lane U.S. Postage Louisville, Kentucky 40207 PAID Permit No. 7 (502)895-3485 Masonic Home, (502)895-3486 FAX Kentucky www.stmatt-ky.org

Office Hours Monday-Friday: 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Staff The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird, Rector John Willingham, Mission Coordinator The Rev. Ben Robertson, Assistant Rector Barbara Ellis, Organist/Choirmaster The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones, Pastoral Associate Ann Davis, Parish Life Coordinator The Rt. Rev. David Reed, Bishop in Residence Mardi Galvin, Parish Administrator The Rev. Moray Peoples, Priest Associate Ruth Weibel, Accountant Deborah Rodahaffer, Director of Christian Education Betty Jobson, Office Assistant Lynn Miller, Youth Coordinator Mary Lee Bishop, Intern

Voice Mail Extensions & E-mail Addresses for the Clergy & Staff Phone Extension e-mail address

The Rev. Canon Lucinda Laird ...... x29 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Ben Robertson ...... x26 ...... [email protected] The Rev. Dr. Helen Jones ...... x34 ...... [email protected] Deborah Rodahaffer ...... x22 ...... [email protected] Barbara Ellis ...... x32 ...... [email protected] Lynn Miller ...... x35 ...... [email protected] Ann Davis ...... x28 ...... [email protected] Mardi Galvin ...... x21 ...... [email protected] Ruth Weibel ...... x24 ...... [email protected]

John Willingham ...... Cell: 558-8603 ...... [email protected] The Rt. Rev. David Reed ...... [email protected]

2004 Vestry Bob Nesmith, Senior Warden Bob Clark Anne Hampton Laura Rhea Rick Lotz, Junior Warden Jay Crocker Karen Hill John Shelby Barbara Beury, Secretary David Garver Jane O’Roark Joan Shepler Bruce Dillman, Treasurer Gaylee Gillim Cleve Parkins Stephen Hill, Youth Representative

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