Grace Episcopal Cathedral October 2019 Topeka, Kansas Vol. 94, No. 10 From the Senior Warden During a recent Sunday morning announcement, our Search Team Chair, Marilyn Trubey, said that God has already chosen a dean for this Cathedral and it is up to the Search Team to discern who that person is. This is why prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit play such an important role in the work the team is doing. As this issue of The Chimes is going to print, the team has finished Zoom interviews of the 11 applicants and is working on narrowing the field FAITH THE SIZE OF A MUSTARD SEED of candidates for in-person interviews. The Gospel reading from Luke for Sunday, October 6 God willing, we will be able to make a call to the new dean this fall. This brings me to the topic of our The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord replied, “If upcoming Stewardship Campaign and you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry the work our Finance Committee will tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. soon put into crafting a budget for (Luke 17:5-6) 2020. This time of transition and [Jesus’ response…. is an affirmation of the faith [the apostles] have searching has required much from our and an invitation to live out the full possibilities of that faith. Even the leaders and congregation, and we small faith they already have cancels out words such as “impossible” (a aren’t done yet! This coming tree being uprooted) and “absurd” (planting a tree in the sea) and puts Stewardship Campaign will not only them in touch with the power of God…. Faith lays hold of God with provide a budget to keep our current ministries and expenditures in place, whom nothing is impossible, and it is God who empowers the life of but will also provide our new dean discipleship.] with the tools that he or she will need to accomplish all they are being called Fred B. Craddock to do at Grace Cathedral. Interpretation: A Bible-Commentary for Teaching and Preaching, pg 200

Continued on page 2 From the Senior Warden It’s an exciting time here and we all will be expecting a lot from the person we will call to lead this cathedral. However it is our responsibility to make sure our dean can bring forth new ideas and energy with a proper budget. Please keep this in mind when determining your level of giving for 2020. Our Stewardship Campaign kick -off will be held Saturday, October 12. (See details on the right.) We hope you will be able to attend so you can hear more about the planning of our upcoming budget and what we hope to provide for this cathedral and our new dean, and enjoy some fun and fellowship with your church family. Pledge cards will be mailed to you shortly after. We have a wonderful place to STEWARDSHIP CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF worship and fantastic opportunities to grow in the coming years through the programs and ministries Grace Saturday, October 12 offers, but it will take our talents, in All Saints Hall time and money to make it all happen. As James L. Kraft, Kraft- Social Time: 6 p.m. ~ Dinner: 6:30 p.m. Phoenix Cheese Corp. Chairman once said, “The only investment I Bible Jeopardy to follow ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is Come join us for our annual Stewardship Campaign the money I have given to the Lord.” kick-off on Saturday, October 12. If you haven’t attended a —Keith McKibben stewardship dinner in the past several years, you don’t Senior Warden know the fun you’re missing! This year, the Stewardship Committee is debuting Bible Jeopardy! Whether you know About the window… the Bible like the back of your hand or are looking to learn something new, this lively event will be fun for all Often times we focus on the central characters depicted in our stained (and, we promise, not too hard)! glass windows and fail to notice the beautiful details that are woven This evening is in thanksgiving for the previous year throughout the entire window. On the and in anticipation of the year to come. cover of this month’s Chimes, we feature the top portion of the adoring Please plan to join us. We need you to sign up so we’ll angel windows in St. Mary’s Chapel. have an approximate headcount to help us with food The angels are surrounded by a preparation and seating requirements. decorative stone canopy, with detailed grill work filling the top arch of each Simply call the church office or put your name on a window. These windows, designed and sign-up sheet in the Cathedral by October 7. fabricated by Franklin Art Glass Studio Childcare will be available for children 6 & younger. Please call the in Columbus, Ohio, are original to the office to let us know if childcare will be needed. Chapel and survived the 1975 fire. Next Parent’s Night Out, October 4 The next Parent’s Night Out, October 4, 6-8 p.m., is going to feature a Halloween theme. Kids are invited to wear costumes (no weapons, please!), and there will be Halloween-related activities. Childcare will be available for infants/ toddlers and dinner will be served. Kathy Smith would like to have two adult volunteers to help out with the evening’s activities. Please RSVP for your child/children by October 2. As always, friends are invited. DOK October meeting, October 5 Grace Chapter of Daughters of the King will meet Saturday, October 5, 9:30 a.m. in the Bubb Room. Study of the book, Searching for Sunday, will continue. All women of the church are invited to join the meeting to explore the Order of Daughters of the King. Please contact Jackie Sommers ([email protected]) for more information. Adult Forum in October Trauma, Trafficking and Topeka — This series, taught by Sarah Shipman, will explore the brain and body responses to traumatic events, the relationship of those responses to human trafficking, and what the Topeka community is doing to combat this nefarious activity. This four-part series will take place in All Saints Hall, beginning October 6, 9:30 a.m. Menninger Bible Study at Grace Join us for the Menninger Bible Study, held each Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Robyn Room (corner of All Saints Hall). In October, the study will be focusing on the following Biblical characters: Oct. 7: Elisha Oct. 14: Amon Oct. 21: Hosea Oct. 28: Joash, Boy King of Judah For more information, contact Michael Deibler, [email protected]. Movie Night at Grace, October 9 This month’s film will be Luther. During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther (Joseph Fiennes), disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation (imdb.com). Luther will be shown in All Saints Hall Wednesday, October 9, 6-8 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. For more information, contact Mike Deibler at [email protected]. Senior Saints of Grace, October 9 The Senior Saints of Grace will hold their monthly covered dish luncheon on Wednesday, October 9, 11:30 a.m. in All Saints Hall. Following lunch, Rev. David Kent will present a program on “Changing Trends in the Episcopal Church.” All are welcome to attend. Just bring a dish to share and we’ll see you there! Let’s Help lunch, October 30 Wednesday, October 30, is the next Let’s Help Luncheon prepared and served by volunteers from Grace Cathedral. We also need donations of fresh fruit (apples, oranges, bananas), and baked desserts (pies, cakes or cookies). The food donations should be delivered to Let's Help, 200 SW Kansas Ave. on the morning of October 30. Please contact Liz Blakely at 273 5263 if you would like to participate in this on-going ministry of Grace Cathedral. Sympathies Sympathies of the parish go to Rita Starr and family on the recent death of life-long Cathedral member Jim Starr. May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace and rise in glory.

FALL FUN FESTIVAL Dress your little guys and ghouls in their costumes and join us for a fun, but not too spooky, time! There will be kids activities and hot dogs. Sunday, October 27, Invite your grandchildren, neighbors and friends. 3 p.m. Adults: Please bring treats to hand out from your car trunk. Neighborhood children are invited Cathedral parking lot so we need lots of participation. Youth Group news

September was a big month for our youth, and we are gearing up for an exciting fall! We are continuing with Sunday School between the two services. We have two groups made up of 5th-12th graders who meet in rooms 210 and 211. Kathy and Madeline Smith are regularly teaching our younger group, and Phil Dittmer is helping me teach our older group. Thank you to Madeline and Phil for volunteering their time and to Kathy for all her help. Each week, we are talking about an event or something happening in our world and how it relates to our gospel reading for that morning. We are using a blog put together by the ELCA called Faith Lens. Check it out at https://blogs.elca.org/faithlens/ As I mentioned in last month’s newsletter, I was in the process of finding an additional time for our 6th-12th graders to meet for youth group. It would not surprise anyone to discover that teenagers are very busy, and we couldn’t find just one time to meet for this academic year. Therefore, we are dividing the academic year into three series for youth group that will meet on different days and times. (See below.) Each series will have a different focus. For Series 1, we will focus on Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s invitation to practice the Way of Love.

Series 1 (Sundays, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.) September 15, 22, 29 October 6, 20, 27 Series 2 (Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.) November 6, 13, 20 December 4, 11, 18 Series 3 (Sundays, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.) January 26 February 2, 9, 16, 23 March 1

The youth are also going on retreat! The weekend we are scheduled to practice “Go” for the Way of Love (October 11-13), we will head to Manhattan for our retreat. While in Manhattan we will go do service work, we will go and seek God in creation and the care of creation, and we will go and build strong relationships through team building activities. Thank you to St. Paul’s, Manhattan, for letting us lodge at their church. We will be back for the 10:30 a.m. service, so please ask our youth about their retreat that day! It has been a pleasure to be your curate and to work with our awesome teenagers. If you are interested in helping out with Sunday School or Youth Group, then please do reach out.

—The Reverend Ashley Mather, Curate Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fall Training event On Saturday, October 6, Stephen by Karel Ramsey Ministers from “Neighbors Helping Neighbors” is the Grace Cathedral mission of Doorstep, a non-profit agency that and our network assists people in times of crisis, located at 1119 congregations SW 10th (in the neighborhood south of the will participate Cathedral). The building houses a food pantry and in what has clothes closet to assist people in need. Other become an services include helping with prescriptions, and annual fall providing vouchers for dental care, gas, and bus training event. fare. Just as important, staff are available to listen This year’s presenter will be Dr. and provide encouragement and support to those Mary Kay Whitacre, Assistant who stop by. Sometimes all that is needed is a Director at Souljourners in response to a critical need, which then enables the Atchison. She is a skilled Spiritual person to regain stability and independence. Director with many years experience Grace Cathedral has supported Doorstep for a in teaching and leading workshops. number of years, and has approved a grant of $1,500 for this year. Doorstep The focus of the training will be to also welcomes individual donations and volunteer help. “Neighbors Helping increase our skills in “listening with Neighbors” is a very good description of the goal of our Outreach Committee the ear of the heart.” as well. As always, if you, or someone you know, would benefit from the support and encouragement of a Stephen Ministers, we are here for you. Please contact Gwen McClain (506-6929) or Karel Ramsey (232- 1452). “Can you hear me now?”

Have you found it difficult to hear the spoken portions of Sunday services? Is it a challenge to understand what’s being said from the lectern, the pulpit or the altar? We have a listening assistance system that might be a solution. There are two styles of Listen receivers available from a basket Silents in the Cathedral near the East and West transept doors. You can pick one up or ask an Friday, October 25 usher for help. Try it out and see if it makes a big difference in your ability 7 p.m., Grace Cathedral to understand what’s being said. Sponsored by the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library For people without hearing aids, with the cooperation of the Kansas Silent Film Festival, Inc. you should use the small speaker type that fits on your ear. If you have Free and open to the public a hearing aid with a t-coil setting, you would use the loop type which goes around your neck. We have had THE CAT & THE CANARY (1927) nd very good reports from those who Our feature presentation for the 22 annual ‘Silents in the Cathedral’ have tried these out. is a classic ‘old dark house’ thriller we haven’t shown since 1999. By the The devices are expensive and late 1920’s, this sort of creepy thriller had been done to death so it took a we’d like to keep them available unique German director to come over from Germany to revive it in fine from week to week, so please be sure style. That director was Paul Leni and his NEW ‘old dark house’ movie to return them when the service is revived an entire horror genre. over. If we find one style is being Organist Marvin Faulwell and percussionist Bob Keckeisen have put used more than the other and we’re together a dazzling new music score for this feature and they will be running out, we can see about getting playing it ‘live’ at the Cathedral. more of them. The feature will be preceded by two short subject films with an Another feature is the ability to intermission. Popcorn and bottled water will be sold as a fundraiser for the use the same device in either the Cathedral Youth Group. Cathedral or All Saints Hall. The necessary channel change is quickly and easily done by opening the door on the Listen device and pressing a button to change the channel STEWARDSHIP Moment between E (cathedral) and G (parish hall). Please contact Kent Wingerson if The apostle Paul said, “On the first day of every week each of you is to put you have questions or need aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collection need not be taken additional assistance (235-3457). when I come” (1 Cor. 16:2). In this verse he informs believers that their offering is more than an occasional gift; it is worship. On Sundays, we present our regular offering as part of worshipping God. As God has blessed you, you may respond to God’s blessing in your worship through giving. —The Rev. Melvin Amerson The Methodist Foundation, Austin, TX October October Flower Memorials

1 John August Carlson Frances V. Cairl Leonard A. Sheafor 1 Peggy Palmer Sharon Ahrens 2 Eleanor Shipman 3 Elizabeth Greer 3 Gwen McClain Page 4 Roy H. Burton AUGUST ATTENDANCE 6 Deborah Barnes 2019 2018 2017 5 Merle B. Stephens 7 Jim Allman 1st Sunday .... 215 ...... 260 ...... 235 Mary Gill Updegraff 8 Austin Nothern 2nd Sunday ... 168 ...... 186 ...... 211 7 Beulah B. Carlson 3rd Sunday .... 209 ...... 212 ...... 229 Alma May George 10 Brenda Escalante 4th Sunday .... 237 ...... 201 ...... 230 11 John August Carlson, Jr. Alana Seddon Myrle S. Furney 12 Lynne Horne Total 829 859 905 Ethel Morton Mitchell Margaret McGillivary 12 Mary E. Burrow George Pejakovich Philadelphia Reed Ladd 17 Shirley Moses 13 Clarkson Millspaugh 18 Payge Quintana Treasurer’s Report 15 Harlan R. Price Mason Vosburgh August 31, 2019 16 Willard V. Haskell John W. Lewis 20 Adrian Horne For the month of August, operating Blanche Mercer Taylor 21 Doyle Comfort income was $40,151.32, and 17 Stanley E. Olmstead Wim Gunasegaram operating expense was $70,183.66, Elizabeth Simpson 22 Mary Florence Brinton which resulted in a negative balance 18 Margarette Jones Snattinger 23 Ed Adams of $30,032.34. Julia E. Zahner Bill Neiswanger Operating income for the year to 19 Verna Ellen Dickerson 24 Molina Quintana date was $558,386.82, and operating 20 Jeanette B. Marlin Jim Turner expense for the year to date was 21 John Nelson Meade 25 Karla Denton $581,327.05, resulting in a negative Boneita M. Wadsworth Caleb Kebert balance of $22,940.23. 22 Frances Crary Griest Cash in the bank checking account, 22 Theodore R. Griest Lynne Overman per books, on August 31, 2019 was Wesley M. Tucker 26 Susan Weber $3,090.15. 23 Josephine Richards Snook 27 Vanessa Hill — Lance Royer, Treasurer 24 Helen McKenna Mulvane Roy Menninger 25 John P. Davis II Margaret Scharf Francis Dell Moore 28 Mary Coldsnow 26 Erastus H. Crosby Stephen Durrell Edwin Francis Ernest FOOD Hannah Langston Phyllis Crow Culliford 31 Dennis Weikel SUNDAY 27 Edna H. Goss 28 Charles L. Cooke October 6 Oma Smith Cooke Bring non- Theodore Tete Snattinger We apologize if we have missed perishable food 30 William J. Curtis your birthday or have incorrect information. Please call the office items to fill the Willard Shaffer at 235-3457 with any corrections. grocery cart in the 31 John Macky Meade Cathedral. The Robert D. Miller food is distributed Harriet Perry & Eldon Sloan to Let’s Help and Doorstep. 701 SW Eighth Avenue Topeka, Kansas 66603-3219 (785) 235-3457 • Fax (785) 235-1863 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.GraceCathedralTopeka.org

GRACE CATHEDRAL CLERGY Weekly Schedule The Right Reverend Dr. Cathleen Chittenden Bascom, Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas Sunday 8:30 a.m.—Holy Communion, Rite I The Reverend George Pejakovich, Pastoral/Liturgical Assistant 9:30 a.m.—Sunday School (Sept.-May) The Reverend Ashley Mather, Curate 10:30 a.m.—Children’s Chapel Deacon Donald Chubb 10:30 a.m.—Holy Communion, Rite II Deacon Anne Flynn The Very Reverend Steve Lipscomb, Dean Emeritus

CATHEDRAL STAFF Kent Wingerson, Cathedral Verger/Finance & Facilities Manager Connie Vosburgh, Office Administrator Steve Burk, Organist/Choirmaster Sylvia Hamilton, Assistant Organist Zachary Cope, Music Assistant Kathy Smith, Director of Children’s Ministries Michael Godfrey, Sexton

VESTRY OF GRACE CATHEDRAL Keith McKibben (Sr. Warden), Tammy King (Jr. Warden), Phil Dittmer, Sharon Highberger, Jackie Sommers, Gwen McClain, Steve Roth, Ron Langston and Chris Shermoen; Lance Royer, Treasurer; Phil Elwood, Chancellor; Cynthia Sheppeard Langston, Vice-Chancellor

The Mission of Grace Cathedral is to live as a community which proclaims by word and example the good news of God in Christ.