The Royal Cross Quarterly Magazine of The Order of the Daughters of the King® Winter 2019/20

Your Copy Inside >>>>> Table Of Contents How To Contact the Be Still 3 National Office Be Still and Know: A Personal Word 4 Phone The Strategic Goal #5 5 (770) 517-8552 What Will You Have Me Do? 6 Fax Royal Cross Listening to God 7 (770) 517-8066 Quarterly Magazine of The Order of the Daughters of the King® Volume 86, Issue 4 Winter 2019/20 Come To the Table 8 Email Let Be and Be Still 9 [email protected] Your Master’s Fund 10-11 Website #dokthrowbackthursday 12 www.doknational.org

National Office Staff Held Open House 13 Submitting News

Sacred Joys Midst Sacred Sorrows 14-15 The best way to submit news about your chapter, diocesan assembly, or Reflection on Psalm 46:10 15 province is online at: http://www.doknational. Be Still and Listen 16 org/?page=RoyalCross

International Daughters Fill in the form and at the bottom of the form you are requested to upload your They came from all the world 17 JPG picture. Make sure you submit a high resolution (largest file) version of your Haiti Celebrates 18-19 digital color picture. We request JPG files between 200KB and 3MB in size. Mission Trip to Brasilia 20 You may want to write your article in a Honduras Celebrates Fourth Assembly 21 word processing program and then copy and paste it into the “article text” section Dominican Republic Holds Assembly 22 of the online form.

Junior Daughters Next deadline: April 1, 2020 for the Spring 2020 issue. It’s About Prayer, Not Perfection 23

A Junior Daughter Cross Passed Down 24 ON THE COVER Questions for Reflection 25 Photo by Aaron Burden. Junior Daughters Word Search 26 ON THE INSIDE COVER Design by Julia Hebard. Celebration Chapter Serves 27

Chapter Spotlights 28-33

Around the Provinces 34-43 The Order of the Daughters of the King® By Krisita Jackson A Religious Order for Women and Girls From The President Founded in 1885—Incorporated in 1917 The mission of The Order is the extension of Christ’s Kingdom through Prayer, Service and Evangelism. Our Past National Presidents Anne Whitfield (Whitty) Bohmer Herman, Sue Z. Schlanbusch, Sharon Lundgren, Joan Dalrymple, Grace Sears, Pamela Runyon, Susan O’Brien

National Council Executive Board National President: Krisita Jackson, 5457 Gambier Ct., Orlando. FL 32839-7318; 407-888-2198; [email protected] 1st Vice President, Triennial Chair: Janet Papa, 62 Fifth St., Glens Falls, NY 12801-4139; 518-248-3276; [email protected] 2nd Vice President, Alpha Fund Chair, Trademark Chair: Anna Marie Stevenson, 19015 Dove Glen Dr., Katy, TX 77449; 210-912-5505; [email protected] National Secretary, Events Coordinator: Pamela Sebura, 5990 E Woodside Rd., Albany, IN 47320; 765-215-5518; [email protected] Be Still National Treasurer: Linda Rines, 8608 58th Ave. NW, Gig Harbor, WA 98332; 443-534-8791; [email protected] Ane Deister, 4258 E Grannys Ln., Shingle Springs, CA 95682; 530-863-0750; [email protected] Strategic Planning Chair: s I travel from place to place to attend National Chaplain, The Right Reverend Gregory Brewer, Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida, 1017 E. Robinson, Orlando, FL 32801 assemblies and retreats, I often hear, “I know you are Executive Board Advisor, Events Coordinator Co-Chair: Chesley Vohden, 100 Deer Track Dr., Forest, VA 24551-1004; A very busy,” or “You must be so busy.” It seems to be 434-534-9366; [email protected] a query of “How do you keep up with so much?” and National Council Chairs concern that this busyness connotes a lack of time to “Be still.” I do have a busy life and I enjoy what I am doing and how I live – and I Daughters at Large Chair: Helen Bhagwandin, 11860 SW 136 Terrace, Miami, FL 33186; 305-253-0477; [email protected] do have “be still” time. Service & Evangelism Chair: Pat Hind, 8415 Oak Stream Dr., Dallas, TX 75243-8007; 214-349-6211, 214-226-7146; [email protected] Many years ago, at a Province IV Fall Assembly at the Kanuga National Enrichment Chair: Susan Keith, 121 Harris St., Rutherfordton, NC 28139-3001; 828-980-5552; [email protected] Conference Center in North Carolina, I purchased a book, Practicing International Chair, Endowment Fund Chair: Lindy Kirk, 8460 Chisolm Plantation Rd., Edisto Island, SC 29438-6616; the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence. I am sure many of you have 843-869-4339; [email protected] heard of Brother Lawrence. He became a Carmelite Monk at 24 Self Denial Fund Chair Katherine Marshall-Polite, P.O. Box 578, Millwood, NY 10546; 212-283-2728; [email protected] years of age and lived and served in a lowly position in a monastery Worship & Devotions Chair: Denise Rox, 3924 Lexington Dr., Alexandria, LA 71303; 318-443-6264; [email protected] until his death in 1691 at age 86. The basic theme of the book is the Literature Chair, Triennial Site Chair: Susan Towson, 1211 Mundy Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32207; 904-367-4457; [email protected] development of an awareness of the presence of God. Reading this Province Presidents book was a formative point in my spiritual life.

Province I, Public Relations Chair: Monica Burden, 1789 Beacon St., Apt. 1, Brookline, MA 02445; 859-893-7715; [email protected] For many years prior to reading this book, my personal life was full Province II, Junior Daughters Chair: Tammy Boyd, 493 Fayville Rd., Broadalbin, NY 12025; 518-705-9171; [email protected] of drama and lacked stillness and peace. I reached a point, after a failed marriage, where I achieved peace in my soul and vowed never Province III, Membership Chair: Kathy Paulo, 955 Pioneer Dr., Franklin, PA 16323; 814-437-6368; [email protected] to allow myself to ever live differently. Brother Lawrence helped Province IV, Bylaws Chair: Jane Searcy, 505 Rice Valley Rd. NE, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406; 205-758-3918; [email protected] me do that. His life has been described as one which cultivated Province V, Junior Daughters Co-Chair, Master’s Fund Chair: Kathy Schultz, a keen sensitivity to the presence of God in everyday life. A 66 Wooden Bridge Dr, Yorkville, IL 60560; 630-553-0698; [email protected] translator of his writings stated, “I was struck by the depth of his Province VI, Province President Facilitator: Nancy Severin, 428 Prospect St., Fort Morgan, CO 80701; love for God and his life lived in obedience, humility, and concern 970-867-6826; [email protected] for others.” So was I. Province VII, International Assistant Chair: Judy Bordelon, 12721 Hwy 71, Colfax, LA 71417-5259; 318-640-8520; [email protected] I was most impressed and have attempted to live as he did, Province VIII, Strategic Planning Chair: Ane Deister, 4258 E Grannys Ln, Shingle Springs, CA 95682; 530-863-0750; [email protected] thinking of God all day in everything I think, say or do. I try to live in obedience, humility and with concern for others, and that brings me peace. I do have quiet times in my devotional and daily prayer times, as well. There is a different stillness I have found in POSTMASTER: Send Change of Address Form 3579 to practicing being present with God. It is centering for me. 101 Weatherstone Drive, Suite 870, Woodstock, GA 30188-7007. The Royal Cross is published quarterly for $15.00 per year by The Order of the Daughters of the King®. Submissions for Around the Provinces As the psalmist writes, “God is our refuge.” Through his grace can be made online at http://www.doknational.org/?page=RoyalCross. Submissions of items for other than Around the Provinces should be He quiets our minds and our fears. He is always triumphant. As sent to Susan O’Brien [email protected]. All submissions become the property of The Order of the Daughters of the King®. my now departed sister frequently reminded our chapter members, The editorial committee reserves the right to edit or omit any material submitted for publication. God is still on the throne. “Be still and know.” Editorial committee members include Susan O’Brien, and Krisita Jackson

2 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 3 Meet The National Chaplain The Right Reverend Gregory O. Brewer From The Strategic Plan Committee By Becca Shaw

Goal #5 Foster Be Still and Know: Community and Build A Personal Word Connections iming … sometimes it is explained that the person who was to head the his issue’s theme, “Be still and know that I am God.” (Ps. everything! I was writing a Goal #5 team had indeed stepped down. She 46:10), has a profoundly personal meaning for me. Yes, it regularly T note to myself about what I hoped was hoping I’d agree to replace her. Well, by T appears in our services in sermons, collects and anthems. But how often to give and receive at the Province then I knew that this was what I was called to and well do we practice what we preach, pray and sing? VIII Fall Assembly and Retreat. I do this do, so I agreed. whenever I go to an event, especially if the So … what next? Goal #5 Foster Community Be Still and Know event is not really in my comfort zone. THAT and Build Connections … how do we go about – not in my comfort zone – may surprise people I had to face this question myself before my recent sabbatical. Although I had doing that? The first thing that came to my who know me as I may seem a very outgoing some personal goals for this time, I came to realize that God’s primary goal for mind when hearing this goal is that we can’t extrovert. Well … I’m not. I’m actually the most me was just this: to be still and know that He is God. connect if we don’t communicate. To begin, we introverted-extrovert (or extroverted-introvert) It sounds simple. But is it? I was honored to speak at the recent Province IV need to reach out. We need to touch base with you may ever meet! I’m okay talking to huge Fall Assembly and Retreat for Daughters at the Kanuga Conference Center in every Daughter. We are in an age of change as groups of people. I also do fine in a group of North Carolina, which also carried this theme. There, I shared the following far as how we communicate. Many women are four or five but expand that to more than five quote from Lord Michael Ramsey, former archbishop of Canterbury: “Does moving to electronic means of communication, and I want to pull away and find a quiet corner! anything matter more in our hurried, noisy, contemporary life than that every while others remain firmly in the post office Coffee hour, cocktail party – nope! NOT my Christian should find time daily of real quiet for the soul’s waiting upon God?” and face-to-face world. ALL have their thing! So, I PLAN! place! We can most effectively and efficiently Yet Ramsey served long before the days of cell phones or internet. How much While planning for this event, I got an email communicate if we use electronic means when more do we need to “be still and know” today? from Jen Mariano, Strategic Plan Committee appropriate, but this means changing a culture, I know what the answer was for me. In fact, disconnecting from most of my Co-chair, stating she wanted to talk to me which in some cases means we need to reach email, texts and social media was both a challenging and a wonderful aspect of on Friday of the retreat. My anxiety briefly out to those we can to aid their learning of the my sabbatical. We’ve grown accustomed to a constant state of being in touch went through the roof, but I love Jen and new methods while still respecting the needs with one another. But have we stopped being in touch with the One who know she loves me so I calmed quickly. Her of those who choose not to participate via matters most? request did get me thinking. I had said early electronic means. on that I would take part in Goal #5 of the That I Am God National Council and the provincial assembly Strategic Plan. I’d noticed, too, that there had officers use email to reach out to Daughters. I “We’ve got this.” we may think, “We’re Episcopalians.” Yes, you Daughters of the not been any contact person listed, and it came hope to encourage assemblies at the diocesan King tend to show up at the church every time the doors open. In fact, you often to me that perhaps the person in charge had level to use email also. Each diocesan assembly make sure the doors are ready to open at all! to step down and Jen might be looking for a could also have a private Facebook group for replacement. From the time I received Jen’s And yet a deep understanding that He is God goes far beyond merely members only and potentially a website that is message, during the car trip from the Greater showing up or serving. It means that, as the overflow of our personal walk public. I hope, moving forward, that those who Seattle area to Cameron Park, I thought and with Him, we acknowledge the God of the universe as Lord of our day: each have indicated an interest in working together on prayed about what Jen might need and, if I was ordinary, mundane, run-of-the-mill moment as well as the most extraordinary, Goal #5 can help others develop these groups and right, what my response needed to be. supernatural, out-of-the-liturgical-box moment. websites and also help me find additional ways to “Be still and know that I am God.” God being our help, let’s make sure we do. As soon as I saw Jen, I knew I was right. She “Foster Community and Build Connections.”

4 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 5 From The National Enrichment Chair By Susan Keith From The Service & Evangelism Chair By Pat Hind

What Will You Have Me Do? hat Will You Have translation process. Me Do?” While we are on the subject of translating our Listening to God “W I don’t know about you, but literature, are you experienced in reading books I ask that question every time for the blind or are you willing to learn? How received this letter from I found that the women in ECW in my I put on my cross. I walk out the door every nice it would be if our members with limited Julie Bates, who is a Daughter at Large church at that time really did not know what morning not knowing where I will be called or visual acuity could listen to The Royal Cross being I from Tecumseh, Nebraska. Daughters was about. They did not realize that what I will be asked to do. Today, I am called read to them. as Daughters we pray, work alongside in service to share with you some of the many ways The When I first became a Daughter, some 20 or and evangelism, and keep on praying. When I Speaking of our literature, the Literature Order is calling Daughters and waiting for so years ago, I also was led to start a new chapter explained that we don’t do fundraising, but that Committee needs Anglican, ELCA and Roman Daughters to respond. in Kentucky, where I lived and attended Christ Catholic Daughters to review our literature we can serve alongside them, in both praying for Episcopal Church. We were blessed that there Let me start with some of the easier calls. in order to make it more accessible to all our their initiatives, along with praying for our priest, were three women the first year and then four the Are you a Spiritual Director? If so, then please denominations. We need prayers from these Vestry, Church committees, the congregation’s next who wanted to attend the study and then visit the National Enrichment Program’s (NEP) denominations to use alongside the prayers from families, our children in schools, in trouble, and take their vows. page on the National website and register as a the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer that we continue with prayers for the community and out into the larger world, they all seemed to have a Spiritual Director. Share your gift of listening most often use now. I sat on Vestry at the time and was Junior/ with your Sisters. community exhale. They too realized that they These are projects the National Enrichment People’s Warden, so I often heard from many saw and reacted out of their fear of competition Have you lead retreats, quiet days, or Program is working on currently. We are also people. One day, I received an invitation from and a taking away from their own mission and workshops? Are you interested in doing one? exploring the possibility of producing our own the women in ECW to come to one of their service, this fear being behind their trepidation Then please visit the NEP webpage and register devotional literature, such as an Advent or meetings, which I did. It was not the kind of about Daughters. What they learned was that as a leader/speaker. Tell us what topics you are Lenten devotional booklet. Would those of invitation that I was expecting. I learned almost Daughters are there to lend prayer support, service, interested in presenting to Daughters and the you who already write devotionals for other immediately that the President of ECW and a and collaboration in the work of the people of the distance you are willing to travel to do so. publications offer your talents to The Order? handful of other women were quite upset that I church. We have some differences, but they are not Have you read a good book lately or taken The NEP is also asking for a 21st-century was attempting to start or enlarge our Daughter’s differences that should divide but, in fact, work to part in a book study in your chapter that has geek to step forward to help us develop one or Chapter. They wanted to know why. Specifically, make us all stronger. moved you or enlightened you? Share that more apps for our cellphones. The NEP has they challenged me to explain why, when they information with other Daughters by visiting the ideas for a Daughters’ Prayer app, a Triennial app were having so much trouble recruiting women St. Paul tells us in Romans 12:4-8 that there NEP page and submitting a recommendation of and more. If you would like to see a Daughters’ for ECW, would I then try to start another are many members of the body of Christ and that book. If we get multiple recommendations app, but are not in a position to help develop it, women’s group in the church that would be each has a different function, but all are needed of the same book, that’s even better. will you please inform the National Enrichment competing with their efforts. for the health of the body. His emphasis is on unity within diversity! Now on to some of the harder calls. Are Committee what you would like included on that app? I’m always thankful when God stays my first you bilingual? Can you read and write in more initial gut reaction, which sometimes would Listen to God and ask for grace to do His will. than one language? Are you a linguist? We Please email NationalEnrichment@doknational. be to become defensive. I have always tried to need people to help us translate our literature. org to share your willingness to help or your ideas practice what some call the art of active listening, Please email me ([email protected] ) your We could use a couple of linguists to serve on and suggestions on any of the above-discussed and I was very thankful on that day that God questions, ideas, successes and failures. We can the translation committee to help guide the items. immediately gave me the words to say. learn from each other!

6 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 7 From The Triennial Chair By Janet Papa From The MEMBERSHIP CHAIR By Kathy Paulo

Come To the Table Let Be and Be Still

he theme for Triennial must be intentional to share our tables with salm 46 describes God our lives and to help us take time for the one 2021, “Come To the Table,” is people. This was one of the most distinctive being with us through wars and thing worth being concerned about, to know T inspired by the Bible verse, “And aspects of Jesus’s ministry, and recovering table P calamities,and through all this His Jesus Christ, is our Rule of Life. The Greek people will come from east and west, fellowship as a spiritual discipline would mean one command is “Be still and know translation for “rule” is “trellis,” a framework to and from north and south, and recline at the table reconnecting with this all-important aspect I am God. I will be honored among all nations support growth. Has the spiritual growth on in the Kingdom of God.” Luke 13:29. of Jesus’s life and ministry, emulating Him by and exalted in the earth.” your trellis withered or has it gone wild growing We invite all Daughters to come to the table opening our tables to people who are separate Be still. Some translations say cease striving in every direction but upward toward the light? at Triennial 2021. Join Daughters from across from God. or let be and be still. That is a hard call for us Have you reviewed your personal Rule of Life lately? Time, circumstances and a more mature the United States, as well as our sisters from “Marthas.” As I was thinking and praying about As Daughters, we are women who are faith may be good reasons to review and update other countries, who come together for prayer the phrase “Be still and know I am God,” I blessed to be called to prayer, service and your Rule of Life. To help with this update, and worship, to grow in the knowledge of God heard a sermon based on the well-known Mary/ evangelism, to represent Him. God’s mission review The Order’s Rule of Life in The National and to share in fellowship. Join us for personal Martha story. is to rescue and renew us, and we are swept Handbook. Do you still have your National time away from the distractions of the world, into that mission, called to participate in it by But the Lord said to her, “Martha, dear friend, Study Guide? Studies 6, 7, and 8 explain the personal time to encourage and establish your announcing and embodying the love of God you are so upset over all these details! There is Rule of Life more thoroughly and can offer a relationship with God, personal time with in Christ. really only one thing worth being concerned good review. If you no longer have a copy, go other Daughters and personal time to equip about. Mary has discovered it – and I won’t take to our National website and find it under the you to evangelize in the world. The Communion Table is also an occasion it away from her!” Resources tab to download or read it online. to reconcile our relationships with one another. Jesus spent a lot of time at tables – reclining, It occurred to me that Jesus was saying to Jesus taught us that when coming to worship Gathering together in chapter meetings sharing meals, conversing, worshiping and Martha, “Let some of that busy work be and should provide an opportunity to develop a God we should have an urgency in our hearts healing. The table is the place where we find come listen.” Martha was caught up in what deeper understanding of our vows and offer about being right with one another. Unity connection and belonging. We all need people had to be done, also known as busy work. support in following our Rule of Life. Jesus told should be seen when we come to the table. In who will journey with us. We also need to Martha’s many distractions prevented her from His disciples, “Where two or three are gathered partaking of the Lord’s Supper, we share in recover table fellowship as a spiritual discipline being truly present with Jesus. She was missing in my name, there I am in your midst.” Be still fellowship with Christ and one another. to strengthen the bonds of spiritual friendship the opportunity to be still and listen. Do you and listen. He is there. among believers who are walking together. get caught up with the busy work? Are you The table is ready and there is a place set sometimes more concerned about the doing Prayer is so simple. The Lord’s Table is a place of celebration and just for you. Daughters will come from the fellowship. than about drawing closer to God and helping It is like quietly opening a door east and west, the north and south to take others do the same? Do you make time for being and slipping into the presence of God. Dinner tables have the potential to be their places at the table. Come and join us in God’s presence? Is it a priority? Or have you the most anchored places in all of our lives. as we discover the pleasures that are found become busy like Martha, faithfully doing service There in the stillness we can listen to His voice Perhaps before we invite people to know in the presence of God that leaves us not but skipping that quiet time with God, that time or even petition. Jesus or invite them to church, we should just satisfied but also changed, renewed and to be still? Quite frankly, at times I have been invite them to dinner. If table fellowship is a refreshed. Come to the Hyatt Regency Hotel, guilty on all counts. What we have to say matters not; Baltimore, Maryland, June 23-27, 2021, for a spiritual discipline that is vital for shaping and As Daughters, our means to bring balance to Just to be there in His presence is prayer. sustaining our life with God for the world, we celebration at God’s table.

8 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 9 The following are the recipients for the 2019-2020 school year, listed by Province and School: From The Master’s Fund Chair By Kathy Schultz PROVINCE SCHOOL/SEMINARY GRADUATION PROVINCE I Helena Martin Yale Divinity School 2020 Your Master’s Fund PROVINCE III Jennifer Trenary Lancaster Theological Seminary 2020 Kathleen Schotto Virginia Theological Seminary 2022 Martha Harris Lancaster Theological Seminary 2022 am honored and humbled to applicant PROVINCE IV serve as the Master’s Fund Chair for the being called Adelyn Tyler Seminary of the Southwest 2021 I remainder of this triennium. Our dear to serve in a Patsy Thomson is deeply missed, but church- related Cheryl Belhu Seminary of the Southwest 2021 the process will continue, as she had everything endeavor? Lucy Strandlund Seminary of the Southwest 2020 in order for the scholarship application process. Is this a Lydia Bush Bishop's Institute for Ministry & Leadership 2020 Because Patsy was so invested in and passionate Continuing Rachel Iverson School for Ministry of Central Gulf Coast 2020 about the Master’s Fund, I will also strive to Education further the interest of the Fund and continue grant request? Is the applicant attending an Rebecca Ogus Yale Divinity School 2020 that passion. accredited school? Are there omissions? Sarah Minton Duke Divinity School 2021 That said, I will start by encouraging you • The next step in the process is to assign Sarah Watts Virginia Theological Seminary 2021 to continue to support the Master’s Fund, to the amounts the recipients will receive. Shari Harrison University of the South-Sewanee 2022 support Daughters and other women in their Information and data are entered into Susan Oakes Seminary of the Southwest 2021 academic endeavors and their spiritual growth. a database shared with the Master’s They are seeking or answering God’s call to Fund Committee and National Office. PROVINCE V them, and, in their various ministries, will serve Communication with the Master’s Fund Bernadette Hartsough University of the South- Sewanee 2020 in ways we will not always know as they spread Committee is essential throughout the Cate Anthony Yale Divinity School 2020 the kingdom of God. Your prayers also count in process, as well as with the National Iva Staats Virginia Theological Seminary 2022 a huge way and are an important component to Accounting Officer. Jean Cotting Virgina Theological Seminary 2020 the process. We are richly blessed when we pray • Signed vouchers are sent to the Accounting for and give to these women who will serve their Robin Woodberry Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2020 Officer who then sends the approved grant parishes, or others, who will then go on to serve PROVINCE VI amount to the corresponding school for the in various ways. recipient. Elizabeth McElroy Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2023 If you or someone you know is interested in • Finally, it is important to communicate with Laura Osborne Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2021 applying, the website has all the information both National Council through written Michele Simmons University of the South- Sewanee 2020 needed, i.e. the application form and the reports and with members of The Order application requirements. The instructions need Rebecca Smith Bishop Kemper School for Ministry 2021 through articles in The Order’s publications, to be followed precisely and completely. The Province VII Cross+Links and The Royal Cross. annual deadline for the Academic Scholarships Ashley Colley Seminary of the Southwest 2022 The Master’s Fund Chair and Committee is April 30. Continuing Education grant Bryn Caddell Seminary of the Southwest 2020 applications can be submitted throughout the work together with the National Office Staff year. As with grants from all the Funds, the to ensure that the process goes as smoothly as Corrie Cabes Seminary of the Southwest 2020 amount of the Master’s Fund Scholarship is possible. It is the applicant’s responsibility to Elisabeth Rhoton Seminary of the Southwest 2020 dependent on the contributions received. The ensure she has submitted all the documents Elizabeth Grohowski University of the South-Sewanee 2021 and met the deadline. The ingathering for the grant process includes the following steps. Jennifer Allen General Theological Seminary 2020 Master’s Fund is Pentecost. • When the applications are received, they are Karen Deal Bishop Kemper School for Ministry 2020 diligently reviewed to verify all information. Much prayer and discernment goes into this Marcia Sadberry Iona School for Ministry 2020 Once verified by the Fund’s Chair, the process of determining those who will receive applicant’s needs are determined and her the scholarship or grant funds, as well as the PROVINCE VIII qualifications Is the application packet amounts. We make a difference and are blessed Ashley Gurling Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2024 complete? Is the applicant a Daughter of many times over when we support the Funds of Donna Brackett Iona School of Ministry 2021 the King? Is there a hardship issue? Is the The Order. Grace Flint Church Divinity School of the Pacific 2020

10 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 11 A Look Back At History From The National Office

#dokthrowbackthursday ote: Every week an inspiring tidbit of The Order’s history is being shared on our social media accounts at #dokthrowbackthursday. Knowing that not all Daughters have access to social media, the N favorite tidbits will also be shared in this recurring column of The Royal Cross.

National Office Held Open House he Staff At the National Office held a special Open House at the Margaret J. Franklin Center in Woodstock, Georgia. Daughters and visitors who took advantage of this opportunity met the National Council, took a tour of the National Office, In 1919 the National Convention (Triennial) convened in Detroit, Michigan. Above is a group T and enjoyed refreshments and fellowship. photo of attendees to that Convention.

An historic Service of Admission was held April 4, 1948. A class of 125 women took vows to become Daughters at the chapter at St. Philip’s Cathedral in Atlanta, Georgia.

In an article published in the Autumn 1951 issue of The In the conference room, a gift for the office is presented. Conversation in the front entry hall. Royal Cross, Mary Eleanor Peters instructs Daughters about the Latin meaning of “Magnanimiter crucem sustine.” The instruction includes, in part: … let us see how the Latin actually lives in English. We have the words magnanimous, magnanimously, and magnanimity. We have crucem in cruci-fixion (the act of fastening to a cross); and we have the original word itself when we speak of the crux of a situation, meaning the need to determine the direction we must take. Of course, the English word cross is just a mispronunciation of crux. Then the word sustine – our verb sustain. And what does it mean? – to stand under something (sub sus: under) in order to hold it (tenere: to hold). So just using the Latin words with a different twist of the tongue, Daughters study photos of past Triennials hung in Refreshments were offered in the conference room. our motto means “magnanimously sustain the Cross.” the hall outside the Literature Coordinator’s office.

12 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 13 give Adam a compassionate and courageous were Rich’s favorites and at his service the heart to reach out to his uncle on behalf of his congregation sang each hymn with gusto. “Sacred Joys Midst own father. Adam and Drew chose the photos we used How good of God to allow me to hear my for the video shown at Rich’s visitation. The sons write Rich’s obituary together, as I rested photos were so precious as they showed the in the room next door. Their laughter and devoted, fun-loving father they had known Sacred Sorrows” their remembrances of their father touched me throughout their lives. From childhood to by Sharon Lundgren, Past National President deeply. At one point they realized they had adulthood, the photos they chose were such a written nothing of Rich’s love for baseball and blessing. immediately added the right words. Sacred joy amidst sacred sorrow … only We all three planned Rich’s memorial God can give such gifts of love. service. Hymns included the “Navy Hymn,” Blessed are they who mourn; for they will be “Amazing Grace,” “It is Well with My Soul,” comforted. — Matthew 5:4 “I Am the Bread of Life,” “I’ll Fly Away,” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” All Reflection on Psalm 46:10 “Be still and know that I am God.” By Nancy Severin y husband, Rich, and I Drew had already made plans to come from had been married for 39 years Chicago the end of May, which proved be to s many times as I have read Psalm 46 and stepped into its words M when he died on June 4, 2015. prophetic. Drew arrived on Saturday, May 30, through the practice of Lectio Divina (divine reading), sitting with it Our sons, Adam and Drew, were and we met with Father John Himes to discuss now, I see something new in the living Word. Psalm 46 has always with us at his death. Prior to his death, he had end-of-life issues. Drew saw his father in A been a source of strength, reminding me that God is always my refuge been disabled for over 11 years due to a series ICU, unable to speak, swallow, or eat. Adam in the midst of turmoil and the chaos of the world in which we live. Lectio Divina of strokes. Rich lived with me until the last had been with Rich each day in the last year of calls for the ingesting of the words, taking them in, chewing on them, making them three months of his life, at which time he was his illness. a part of my being. hospitalized, then moved into a nursing home The next day we all three (Adam, Drew and subsequently hospice. As the verses paint the panorama of what the psalmist’s eyes capture, for me now, and myself ) met with Rich’s doctors who told it speaks to me of my inner landscape: the mountains of concern, the challenges On the morning of June 4 as I was waking, us Rich would not improve or get well. They my heart is facing, the roar of countless thoughts, especially those regarding my I had a vision of Rich on his hospice bed lying recommended we call in hospice and our children and grandchildren and their well-being in difficult times. Infleshed by the with eyes closed, smiling a soft smile, and priest, so we called in hospice that Sunday Mystery of Love, I begin again to grasp that the God of my life lives in me. Christ being lifted into the sky by four huge angels night. On Monday, June 1, Father John is in me and my heart becomes the holy habitation of the Most High. That river in whose faces I could not see. I could only administered the last rites to Rich, with all the city of God is the stream of lifeblood keeping Love alive in me and as I claim see their huge wings lifting Rich higher and of us present. Rich took his last breath on this reality, my heart melts. God is in every cell of my being and God bids me to higher into the sky, and his peaceful face with Thursday, June 4, all of us surrounding him rest in the knowledge of His abiding presence in every moment. his sweet smile. When I was fully awake, I with love and prayers. How good of God to knew that Rich was going home to God soon. allow both Adam and Drew to be there with Then verse 10 summons the ear of my heart. Listen. Stop. Be still. With He died that night with all of us surrounding me, and Father John arrived just in time to be each breath and heartbeat, know that I AM GOD. Know me. Not just a casual him with love and prayers. with Rich at the end. knowing, but a deep and intimate knowing. Know the love that ends the divisive, warring thoughts in your mind. Know the love that breaks the bow of indifference A week after Rich’s memorial service, the Adam helped Rich heal a breach in when I am tired, exhausted and I want to give up. Rest. So I am still and I hear: Lord encouraged me to write down many friendship just a month before his death. Rich I am the All in All. I listen and the dawn appears as Light dismisses the dark thoughts from the previous weeks. I hope and his brother had not spoken in 23 years. shadow of doubt within. I am still and I rest in the shelter of Perfect Wisdom and sharing my story will help others on their Adam called Rich’s brother and arranged a the next step in living into the fullness of God’s grace is revealed. journey. Here is what I wrote: meeting, which blessed both brothers as they forgave one another. How good of God to I AM with you. Be still and know this deep within … I AM forever.

14 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 15 From The International Chair By Lindy Kirk

They came from all the world!

he New Wineskins Global organization dedicated to praying for all the Mission Conference, held at Black countries on the planet. Lolly Twyman, one T Mountain, North Carolina, at the of our speakers at Triennial 2018, introduced end of September 2019, attracted the presenters, and we were able to put into nearly 1,200 participants coming from Asia, practice a way of praying for a country. We used Be Still and Listen Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Among the the Operation World prayer calendar available I sat in a chair participants were some of our International through their website (www.operationworld.org) Daughters – Dr. Gloria Kwashi from Nigeria, the from which you can receive daily notifications Outside Reverend Canon Connie Sanchez from Honduras to pray for a specific country and read a lot of Under a tree and Rita Dutta from India – and what a delight it information about that country. I recommend it. was to greet them. Also attending were Daughters With a cool breeze. Lastly, many of the 25 to 30 Daughters who are missionaries in Honduras and Africa, I closed my eyes and listened. who attended the Conference met together in back home for much deserved rest and relaxation. The birds the dining room one time for lunch. We were The insects The International Committee was represented international and U.S.-based and shared as only The trees all sang to me. by Grace Sears and Pam Runyon, past National Daughters can share together – in Christ’s love. Presidents, and myself. We manned (sic) a table in I leaned back and watched the trees. the Exhibition Hall and were able to speak about Some swaying gently in the breeze. The Order and hand out material to attendees Some fluttering their leaves as if to a rumba. representing many countries. We also spoke Each tree responding uniquely to the breeze. to other exhibitors, including clergy from the Diocese of Singapore, which encompasses five I watched a bird soaring overhead countries in Asia. Surveying me and everything on the ground. Looking for a nesting spot, or All the presenters at the Conference were spellbinding. We heard how many Muslims are Looking for dinner. converting to Christianity, often through dreams I even saw an airplane fly over. and visions. We heard about the thousands of That marvel of a testament “unreached people groups” (an unreached people To what can be done group is distinct by its language/dialect) who have never heard of Jesus Christ and that there are When God’s gifts are utilized for good. billions of people on this earth who have never I sat in a chair heard of or seen a Bible. The presenters on the And was at peace last evening gave illustrations, often graphic and Some of the Daughters attending New Wineskins In that still quiet moment haunting, of persecuted Christians around the world – particularly women and young girls. are pictured here, including Daughter-in-discernment Alone in the companionship of God. Vicky Ayala from Peru (front, far left.) She is seated ©Susan Keith June 23, 2019. At one of the pre-conference talks, I was next to the Reverend Canon Connie Sanchez, able to learn more about Operation World, the Honduras National Chaplain. 16 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 17 International Daughters International Daughters

Celebrating a HaitiNew Chapter in Cavaillon and New Daughters in Les Cayes By Joyce Pipkin, Liaison to Haiti

Congratulations and welcome to eight new Daughters at Sainte Saveur Chapter, Les Cayes Congratulations and welcome to the new Daughters of Sainte Esprit Chapter, Cavaillon.

n early August 2019, we to these new Daughters who had patiently waited coordinated a visit by our National for that day. Congratulations to our sisters Chaplain of Haiti, Pere Colbert Estil, in Christ and many thanks to Pere Colbert, our National President of the Filles Magdala and her team for their dedication to duI Roi in Haiti, Magdala Fleury, and two of make this happen during my visit! her National Board members with two of our In addition, later that afternoon we held a missions in the South of Haiti. After several Service for eight new Daughters at St. Sauveur years of preparation and waiting, we celebrated Parish in Les Cayes, the first formal chapter in the institution of the newest chapter in Haiti Haiti, instituted in 2005. It was a glorious day of at Sainte Esprit Mission in the countryside of celebration for the Daughters of Cavaillon and Cavaillon. Their study group originally formed Les Cayes! in November 2008, but the chapter formation for this devoted group of ladies in the rural Our current membership count for Haiti is countryside of Southern Haiti had been delayed now 524 members and 26 active senior chapters. One of the 14 new Daughters of Sainte Esprit for nearly 11 years for a variety of reasons! At receives her cross long last on August 7, 2019, 14 Daughters took their vows and received their crosses. Their prayer-partner chapter, the Daughters of Mary from my home church, St Mary’s Episcopal Haiti Triennial Postponed-Please Pray Church in Columbia, South Carolina, donated Due to difficult conditions in Haiti, the Haiti Triennial National Assembly planned for the crosses and have been praying for their sisters November 2019 was postponed. It is hoped that the National Assembly can be held in Spring in Christ throughout their years of preparation. 2020. If you are interested in joining a team of Daughters from outside Haiti to attend, please Pere Colbert and his team of Daughters in contact Joyce Pipkin, Haiti Liaison, at [email protected]. Joyce will keep you advised leadership traveled several hours by vehicle and of plans to gather with our sisters in Haiti. In the meantime, please pray for Haiti and for all nearly one hour by foot on the dusty, hot road to the Daughters and their parishes, as they spread the Kingdom in the midst of violent crime National Chaplain Pere Colbert Estil preaches on Sainte Esprit to preside over this chapter’s Service and civil unrest. the meaning of the Daughters’ cross. of Institution. Their presence was a special gift

18 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 19 International Daughters International Daughters St. Teresa of Avila Chapter Completes Mission Trip to BrBrasasiliiliaa By Leona Jay

n May 26, 2019, the Reverend Canon Patricia Powers admitted five new members into the to St Teresa of Avila O Chapter of St John’s Episcopal Church, Daughters in Honduras held their fourth National Assembly. Pine Island, Florida. As one of their first activities, Service of Admission to the St. Teresa of Avila these new Daughters were privileged to join the Chapter, Pine Island. chapter on a mission trip as they traveled to Brazil Fourth Assembly of to attend the 59th Anniversary of the Cathedral Daughters of the King of the Resurrection in Brasilia. Reverend Powers, former Dean of the Cathedral and current in Honduras Chaplain of the chapter, led the group and was the guest preacher at the anniversary celebration. by The Reverend Canon Connie Sanchez, Honduras National Chaplain Bishop Mauricio Andrade, Diocese of Brasilia; Director Sandra Andrade, and the volunteer staff n July 28, 2019, we held the Fourth at the Anglican Social Center of Novo Gama National Assembly of the Daughters of also welcomed the group of Daughters as they O the King in Muchilena, Omoa Cortes, participated in the dedication of the Center’s Honduras. Daughters were present from every The Reverend Canon Connie Sanchez, National recreational lot. The lot allows the Anglican one of our 25 senior chapters, as well as other Chaplain in Honduras (center); The Reverend Social Center to expand the services they offer Daughters from St. Teresa of Avila traveled to Episcopal women. Our motto for the Assembly Lourdes Herrera (left) and The Reverend to the current 100 students, ages 5 to 16 years, attend the 59th Anniversary of the Catheral of the came from 1 Corinthians 16:14 - “Whatever you Esmeralda Mejia (right) who attend the Center daily. The St. Theresa of Resurrection in Brasilia. do, do it with love.” Avila Chapter and St John’s congregation recently We thank our wonderful Father for the collected funds which were used to purchase additional sets of desks and chairs to increase the opportunity to have celebrated with joy and love number of students served at the Anglican Social at this Assembly. Each Daughter felt treasured and Center to approximately 125. was enriched by the motto of our Assembly. We all recognized that for love, Jesus Christ reconciled Also, while visiting the Cathedral of the us with the Father and that for love, He has given Resurrection, the Daughters from St. John’s met each of us the priceless treasures of our families, the Daughters from the chapter at the Cathedral friends, and churches. It is for love that Jesus Christ and, of course, relationships blossomed. The walks with us despite our forgetfulness and our Daughters’ chapter at St John’s, as well as the indifference, and it is for love that His mercies are congregation, intend to maintain an ongoing new every morning, giving each of us a chance to relationship with both the Daughters’ chapter and be His best Daughters. Many women left very full Mission group from St. John’s, Pine Island, Florida, Honduran Daughters celebrate at the fourth the Anglican Social Center at the Cathedral. of the Spirit of God. pose in front of the new playing field in Vila Uniao assembly. 20 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 21 International Daughters The The Thirteenth National Assembly in the Dominican Republic By Berkys Herrera de Encarnación, D.R. National President Junior

MessengerWinter 2019/20

From The National Junior Daughters Chair By Tammy Boyd

It’s About Prayer, Not Perfection

e still and know that I am realizing, possibly for the first time, that they are God.” —Ps 46:10 not alone. That there is a God who loves them, The new National Board: Ermita Reyes and Paula Vasquez, Representatives; Berkys Herrera, National “B To me, this is one of the most cares about them, and is with them. A God President; Amanda de la Cruz, Vice President; and Norca Guzman, Secretary. (Not pictured: Treasurer comforting scriptures in the Bible. who knows what they need and can put people, Maria Ester Perez.) My favorite outreach ministry at church is circumstances and events in motion to supply he thirteenth National Assembly the quilting ministry. The group consists of those needs. of the Daughters of the King in the seven women who produce prayer quilts for In Matthew 6:25-33 Jesus tells us not to be T Dominican Republic was held October 19, people who are ill, grieving or struggling with anxious about anything, what we are to eat, 2019, at La Iglesia de la Anunciación in Santiago, a major life challenge. Our motto is: “it’s about wear, or the span of our lives. Essentially, that in the north of the country. There were 85 prayer, not perfection.” While parishioners could include anxiety about all aspects of the Daughters representing 22 chapters present, as are the ones who request the quilts, most of future, where we will go to college, whether well as The Right Reverend Moisés Quezada Mota them are given to friends and relatives who are we will make the best sports team, do well and many other clergy and guests. The theme for unchurched or disconnected from their faith. on a math test, experience a health problem, the Assembly came from Luke 10:42: “Mary has While we are sewing and tying knots to hold have to change schools, or adjust to a change chosen what is better and it will not be taken away the layers in place, we pray for these recepients. in our family structure. There are so many from her.” The motto for the Assembly came from Once completed, the congregation prays while uncertainties and challenges in life. Jesus Matthew 6:21: “For where your treasure is, there the priest blesses the quilts, and then they are reassures us that we have a Heavenly Father your heart will be also.” given to the people who requested them to pass who is aware of our circumstances and needs, A new National Board for 2019-2021was on to their loved ones. Each quilt has a label and who will always be watching out for our elected at the Assembly. Continuing as National on the back that contains this scripture: “Be best interests, even in the most sad and difficult President is Berkys Herrera; Amanda de la Cruz still and know that I am God.” Ps 46:10. I like times. Our part is to take it one day at a time, to is Vice President; Maria Esther Perez continues as to think of the person, all wrapped up in this pray, serve, connect with others, and above all, Bishop Moisés Quezada Mota and other clergy Treasurer; Norca Guzman is Secretary, and Ermita small blanket of comfort, noticing that label and to be still and know that He is God. attended the Assembly. Reyes and Paula Vasquez are Representatives. 22 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 23 The Junior Messenger The Junior Messenger A Junior Daughter Cross Passed down Two Generations By Sharon Burke-Polana

ophia, my grandmother, was born August 27, 1885, in Georgetown, Front of the third generation cross. Back of the third generation cross. S Washington, D.C. I was given her Junior Daughter’s cross because my Aunt Mary Mary Burke Wood, and Mildred Louise Burke. special. Throughout her life, Grandma Burke found out that I am also a Daughter of the King. lived the motto she learned as a Junior Daughter. After showing her Junior Daughter’s cross to My older sister shared a special memory she had She was “one” who truly “did what she could do:” several Daughters, I believe Sophia’s cross may be about Grandma Burke. She remembers going helping others and making a little grandchild feel one of the oldest Junior Daughter’s crosses known to church and sitting between Grandma Burke tremendously loved, all “for His sake.” to exist. and Aunt Minnie where she felt so loved and Sophia Russell Lauder (Burke), circa 1905 Sophia married Hugh Ullman Burke in St John’s Episcopal Church, Georgetown. I believe that MOther Deborah’s Corner By Reverend Dr. Deborah Jackson St John’s was the church she and her family attended. I have been told that she and her Sunday school class walked from Georgetown to the laying of the cornerstone for the construction Questions for of the National Cathedral. The earliest cornerstone I found when visiting the Cathedral had a date of 1910. However, this stone was Reflection located above the lower chapel ceiling, so I wonder if that is in fact the earliest cornerstone of the Cathedral. Sofia and her husband moved toV ienna, Virginia, after their marriage and attended Church of the Holy Comforter. I learned from my family that Sophia went on mission trips with her daughter Minnie to Appalachia to help other Deborah Jackson, responses can be emailed to tboyd@doknational. those in need. She was very active as one of the National Junior Daughter’s org and will be included in the next issue of the cooks for many church dinners, and she also M Chaplain, submits questions for Junior Messenger section of The Royal Cross. We made meals to take to shut-ins from her church. our Junior Daughters to reflect hope our Junior Daughters will enjoy sharing I have concluded that she was truly a Martha in on and respond to in each issue of the Junior their ideas and learning from each other through the image of the helping servant of the Bible. Messenger. Junior Daughter Directresses are Mother Deborah’s Corner. In addition to serving in many ways, I have encouraged to read the question at one of their Question for reflection from Mother Deborah: discovered that she read and studied her Bible. Junior Daughter chapter meetings and invite the What are some of the things you are most thankful She had three children: Hugh Burke (my father), Sophia Russell (Lauder) Burke, circa 1960 girls to share their ideas. Individual or group for, and why?

24 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 25 The Junior Messenger The Celebration Chapter Junior Daughters Serves In Atlanta By Chesley Vohden, Advisor, National Council Word Search Editor’s Note: How the Celebration Chapter Got Its Name: In Fall 2009 Past President Grace Sears convened National Council members In Woodstock, Georgia, for their first meeting since being elected in Summer 2009. L J X C K L S B F R C J R Y C Early on during that meeting, she shared with us her vision of how we would work together – she envisioned us as S 0 S F H E C A J I R T G N A a role model of how a chapter in The Order would work: praying together, serving together, building relationships in fellowship, and conducting the business of The Order. For the first service project, we cooked and served dinner 0 A J M L F M Q N O Q J R A R for women living in a halfway house in Marietta, Georgia. In joyful celebration of Grace’s vision being fulfilled throughout that meeting, we named National Council 2009-2012 the Celebration Chapter. Successive National A C M D A I Z K I H V S K H O Councils have followed Grace’s vision and have chosen to keep the name Celebration Chapter. 0 0 N T L G P E A C E O Q P L o cap off a wonderfully town at Columbia Drive UMC to provide food to R A V Y S Q I Q T N F S Q I S productive annual meeting, on even more Metro Atlanta community pantries. October 19, 2019, members of the C E Z E N I W R E A T H S P Z T The National Council worked tirelessly in the National Council of The Order of the rain packing up all those potatoes. Fortunately for Daughters of the King® participated in a service T G Y U N N R Y U F B E N E I us, the church had a large overhang so we were project together. As they did the previous year, protected from the rain. The Daughters packed members of Council partnered with the Society R Q Y A F T T H I C S P S K N all the potatoes we could see until the church ran of St. Andrew (SoSA), a 40-year-old, faith-based, out of boxes! With no more potatoes in sight, we hunger-relief ministry that envisions a world E J E S R Q B G C B L R O A P took our gloves off and departed for the National without hunger, in which physical and spiritual Office to resume our meeting until all business was hungers are met by God’s abundance and grace completed. E K B R I P C J A X Z G Y N C through Jesus Christ. With tropical storm force winds and heavy rain predicted for that Saturday The Daughters furthered the mission of SoSA, A I R O L G F H W M V Q F B T morning, I called Adam Graham, Regional Director which is to bring people together to harvest for SoSA and asked what the rain plan was. He and share healthy food, and also to improve the G M H H B S O Q S A G A N B X said, “Rain or shine, the show will go on!” And it did! environment by using the ancient Biblical practice of gleaning. For more information about Society of B 0 P R Q L J C L A Y Z L O B Rain didn’t dampen the spirits of our National Council members! Saturday morning at 8:30 am, St. Andrew, please visit their website at endhunger. org or email [email protected] S E K A L O N O N S P Z X D E 20 dedicated Daughters, armed with rain ponchos and work gloves, arrived at Dunwoody United Methodist Church (UMC) to help box up 20,000 pounds of potatoes that had been delivered to ADVENT CANDlES CAROLS Dunwoody UMC late Friday afternoon. (If you don’t know what 20,000 pounds of potatoes looks CHOIR CHRISTMAS EPIPHANY like, imagine a tractor trailer filled from floor to FAMILY GIFTS GLORIA ceiling with pallets and pallets of potatoes fresh from the farm!) MAGI PEACE PRAYER The Daughters joined men, women and children SNOWflAKES TREE WREATHS alike from the community and helped pack boxes of potatoes. They then stacked all the boxes onto pallets to be distributed to the Atlanta Community Food Bank. The event was part of their Great Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com Day of Service, which mobilized the church into more than 20 different service projects. Another 20,000-pound potato drop was taking place across

26 The Royal Cross || Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 27 Around The provinces: Spotlight On Province IV

Daughters gather for Province IV Assembly/Retreat in October 2019.

Left to right are the Right: Reverend Brewer, Canon Pinder, the Right Reverend Skilton, and the Reverend You Had To Be There Jonathan Archer. By Jane Searcy, President, Province IV Assembly IV President for the Triennium 2018-2021. My theme was already chosen. The words from Psalm ou really had to be there. It 46:10-11 became my constant mantra. My leg was the first week of October 2017. healed, and I took up a new path along my spiritual The Province IV Board had been Y journey. busy planning and preparing for the Fall Assembly Retreat at the Kanuga Conference Now each day, as I get out of bed and walk outside, Center in North Carolina. The Opening Service I hear God’s voice calling me to “Be Still, to Listen to had just ended, and the week was off to an His Will for me,” reminding me that He is with me awesome start. I walked down the back steps of no matter what challenge lies ahead. He is totally in the chapel to check in with the guest services staff, charge. stepped in a hole, twisted one ankle, rolled down I’ve been back to Kanuga several times since I took the hill, and broke the other leg. Yes, the week had that tumble down the steps. It’s my Happy Place – started out with a bang! I couldn’t walk – couldn’t my spiritual home. I know God’s presence there. even move – how was I going to handle all the Daughters at Large attending the Assembly pose arrangements for the rest of the week? This October 2019, I spent a glorious week at for a group photo. Kanuga with 160-plus Daughters from Province I cried out to God, “What’s up with this? What’s IV. Bishop Skilton was there to lead us in worship. happening? Why now? I’m so busy! I don’t have Bishop Brewer came from Central Florida to share time for this! Please God, help me! What would his message. Bishop McLoughlin from the Diocese you have me do?” of Western North Carolina welcomed us to the As quickly as I asked, my prayers were answered. mountaintop. Clergy from all over the Province filled A strong, clear voice whispered, “Be still – Know the sanctuary of the chapel for the Opening Service. that I am God – and I am with you always.” Music spilled out over the mountain. Surely God was with us. He welcomed us to His Holy Mountain. He My sisters surrounded me with prayer and action. Inside the chapel at Kanuga Conference Center. called us each by name and invited us to listen in His They lifted me up both physically and spiritually, The cross is filled in during the Service of stillness. took me to the hospital for treatment, and brought Remembrance. Each flower on the memorial me back to Kanuga. Most of the week, I spent Come join us there sometime. You’re always cross represents a departed Daughter. Since the recovering in my cabin. And while I lay helpless in welcome to be still and know His presence on the Assembly in 2018, 173 Daughters in Province IV my bed, my sisters elected me to be their Province mountaintop at Kanuga. Just once in a lifetime – you departed this life. really have to be there. Time to be still

28 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 29 Around The provinces: Spotlight On Province IV Around The provinces: Spotlight On Province V

Daughters gathered together for the Province V Retreat and Assembly held at the Weber Center, Adrian, Michigan, May 18 -20, 2019.

Elizabeth Ferard Chapter, Trinity Episcopal, Mobile, Alabama

Choosing a Theme By Kathy Schultz, President, Province V Assembly

ne of the first responsibilities upon becoming president Good Shepherd Disciples Chapter, of a Province Assembly is to choose a theme. The theme Episcopal Church of the Good O will be the focus for planning assemblies and programs. I’m Shepherd, Mobile, Alabama sure each Daughter, when elected as Province Assembly President, has a process to determine her theme; some may make the decision with their board, their chaplain or priest, or spiritual director, but it all begins with prayer. It begins with the Holy Spirit’s guidance. Two New Chapters in That favorite Bible chapter and verse is often used. How will it translate to planning province assemblies? Does it need to relate to the mission of The Order? With these questions to answer, you still keep praying. Mobile, Alabama I spent time praying, spent quiet time with God, and more importantly, he Central Gulf Coast Good Shepherd, everyone sang the hymn “Revive listening to God and the Holy Spirit to direct my thinking and decision Diocesan Assembly of The Order Us Again!” making. For my planning I wanted to emphasize our journey and the of the Daughters of the King® need for strength for the journey, and that, to me, meant acceptance, T At Trinity Church, the Reverend Bailey Norman announces the institution of the which led me to Psalm 46:10. received the charter from Beth Moore, Diocesan Elizabeth Ferard Chapter at Trinity Episcopal Assembly President, who then presented five This is a treasured and meaningful verse. In reaching out to a Daughter Church on September 8, 2019, and the Good members for admission: Laurent Cadden, Anne whose opinion I value, the decision was made to have a different verse Shepherd Disciples Chapter at the Episcopal Gill, Wendy James, Martha Jones, and Mary for each year, verses that meld with our journey, as we grow in our Church of the Good Shepherd on September Stewart Stephens; and two Daughters for faith. Psalm 46:10 became the theme for the first year of the triennium. 15, 2019; both churches are in Mobile, Alabama. rededication, Pat Cyrus and Daphne Marcum. At “Be still and know that I am God.” These two parishes have been connected since Church of the Good Shepherd, Beth presented Our Province V Assembly board then began planning our Assembly 1854 when Church of the Good Shepherd the charter to the Reverend John George, and and Retreat, offering opportunities for more quiet and meditative became a mission of Trinity Church. Both these then presented seven members for admission: D. retreat time and workshops that were conducive to the contemplative parishes have had Daughters chapters in the Hope Abrams, Caren George, Gloria Hill, Angela process of prayer and meditation. Our workshops, services and past: the chapter at Trinity Church was originally Howard, LaWana Kennedy, Karen Raine and liturgies, including music and Taizé, all lent to time for us to feel God’s chartered in 1896 and the one at Good Shepherd Rosetta Randolph. These women will continue the presence, giving us that time of silence, that time to listen and to let His in 1929. At the Service of Institution at Church of bond that was cemented so long ago. Spirit flow through us.

30 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 31 Around The provinces: Chapter Spotlight Province V Around The provinces: Chapter Spotlight Province VIII

Carol Worthington Family Rocky Stevenson Family Mary Circle Family

Diocesan Assembly of Northern Indiana Growing in God’s Grace By Julie Chandler, President, Diocesan Assembly of Northern Indiana Esther e were warmly welcomed What an inspiring message for all of us “Growing to our Fall Assembly by the newest in God’s Grace.” chapter instituted in the Diocesan Chapter W We had six chapter banners, plus the Provincial Assembly of Northern Indiana, Stephania Kogut Family Lois Larsen Family the Chapter of St. Non at St. David’s Episcopal banner, in the parade of banners this year. Father Church in Elkhart. The theme of the Fall Assembly Tom delivered a very informative sermon on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. He reminded us he Esther Chapter at St. John’s Daughters also: Noelle Givler and Kaelyn Givler. was “Growing in God’s Grace” and every detail Episcopal Church in Roseville, that in the least of our brothers and sisters there Lois Larsen, an Altar Guild leader, welcomed reflected the theme. The centerpieces were California, was chartered in the fall could arise among us a saint as important and T daughter-in-law Peggy Larsen (a Vestry member) beautiful mums that were sweetly offered to the of 1999. The chapter is now blessed influential as St. Francis. Mass ended with the song when she was admitted. Peggy’s daughter Eleanor guests of Daughters at the assembly. The table to have five families with multi-generational favors were little jars of hand cream made by of The Order, “Lift High the Cross,” sung so joyfully was already an active Junior Daughter. that there was not a dry eye in the place. It was memberships: mothers, daughters, daughters-in- the chapter, tied with a bow of dried herb sprigs Then Rocky Stevenson, whose twin daughters truly beautiful! Then we enjoyed a delicious lunch law, and granddaughters all proudly wearing The picked from their Unity Garden behind the Johanna and Ruby were already active in the prepared from the abundance of fresh vegetables Order’s cross. church. Everything was so fresh and wonderful. Junior Daughters chapter, Angels of God, became grown in St. David’s Unity Garden. It all began in the 1980s when Carol a member of the Esther Chapter. Several guests of Daughters, who were interested Worthington transferred to St. John’s. She in The Order, joined us to see who we are and We were thrilled to have our Province V encouraged the chartering of a chapter at her The Right Reverend Bishop Megan Traquair, what we do together. What a blessed day it was Assembly President, Kathy Schultz, speak to us. new parish. This was fulfilled in 1999 with the Bishop of the Diocese of Northern California, to share the love and sisterhood we have as She explained the diocesan assemblies that make formation of the Esther Chapter. Carol was endorsed this handoff from generation to Daughters with our new friends. up the Province V Assembly and how we are later blessed when her now grown and married generation in her opening welcome at the Father Tom Adamson opened the Assembly with tied together. She also led a very informative daughters, Cynde Martin, and Diane Paulsen, Province VIII Assembly held in Cameron Park in a beautiful blessing of thanksgiving. Father Josh workshop on the Motto of The Order, in which became members. late September 2019. we all participated. Kathy read each sentence of Nelson delivered a humor-infused, but thought- The Esther Chapter is now blessed with 45 the Motto and then each table took turns reading This past summer new members were admitted provoking message about how old dead things active members involved in parish life, as well as the questions which we, as Daughters, should both to the Esther Chapter and to the Angels of in a garden are used to grow new and beautiful outreach projects. The Junior Daughters recently continually ask of ourselves. God Chapter of Junior Daughters, which created things. He equated this lesson with how things more family groups. Mary Circle, a Vestry member made “no-sew” blankets for homeless children. transpire in our lives: sometimes things must die in Our beautiful day came to an end with a lovely and chair of parish hospitality for memorials, As hosts of the Diocese of Northern California our lives, but no matter how disappointed we may stroll through the Unity Garden with Father Josh was joined in membership in The Order by Fall Assembly, the project goal is to make be, they are necessary to cultivate new growth. leading the tour. We were all given bags and daughter-in-law Evelyn Circle (also on Vestry) and twenty more blankets for distribution in the These things that die become the soil of our invited to take the final harvest home with us. granddaughter Cammie, who became a Junior area. Shoeboxes will also be filled to give to the lives and are required for our personal growth. Our sisters of the Mary and Martha Chapter at Daughter. Christmas Child program. Chapter president, Father Josh also explained, “Soil is the only known the Cathedral of St. James, South Bend, will be Shelly Carlson, believes “Our Daughters have substance in the universe that has the ability to hosting the Spring Assembly, with the date yet to Two granddaughters of Stephania Kogut’s (Mary’s been blessed to be a blessing!” take what has died and transform it into new life.” be announced. sister and the parish photographer) became Junior

32 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 33 Around The provinces: Province II Living Alter Implemented The Daughters of the Mary Magdalene Chapter implemented a Living Altar in the small Children’s chapel at Trinity Episcopal Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia. The Daughters discussed the idea Handbag Mission from the last Triennial meeting and decided the space, unused at this time, would be perfect for the addition of a living altar for the Continued For Second church. We all took part in putting together ideas. We ordered twelve votive candles to be installed on wooden circles. There Year is a closed, private box for prayer requests. Laying on the altar The St. Margaret of Antioch Chapter of the Diocesan are crosses, various articles that mean something to members, Assembly of New York, Province II, have continued and information about The Order. We have had a great response their ‘Handbag Mission” for the second year. The from members of the church as the Living Altar is a nice, quiet Daughters ask for donations of totes and handbags, area to sit, light a candle in prayer, and reflect. We have had two then fill them with personal care items, notepads, parishioners express interest in becoming Daughters and they will pens, combs and brushes, and other items. They are begin discernment to join The Order. This has become an outward then delivered to Mary Ellison at Holy Trinity Episcopal and visible sign of our presence at Trinity Church. Church in Highland, New York, to be distributed to women who are looking for jobs or have job interviews. Spring Assembly Around The provinces: Province III Hosted in Pennsylvania The St. Thomas Chapter at the African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, hosted the Diocesan Assembly of Pennsylvania Spring Assembly on April 27, 2019. The program’s theme was “Virtuous Women: Living the Jesus Movement.” This theme focused on eight Biblical women and featured an analysis of various Biblical principles as exemplified by these women as compared to our contemporary behaviors and practices. The day also included the presence of our special guest, Krisita Jackson, National President, and homilies by Co-Celebrants, The Reverend Hank White, and The Reverend Father Samuel Kirabi Ndung’u. Blessings continued to flow this year for the St. Thomas Chapter as they admitted seven new Daughters on September 22, 2019. The Service of Admission was led by the rector of St. Thomas, Seven Daughters Admitted in Elkton, Maryland The Very Reverend Canon Martini Shaw, and the service was followed by a celebratory brunch. On July 16, 2019, Trinity Sunday, the Blessed Trinity Chapter at Trinity Episcopal Church in Elkton, Joan Hall, Study Guide Leader, led the group through the discernment instruction. New Daughters Maryland, was instituted and admitted seven Daughters. This is the fourth chapter in the Diocesan pictured (l-r) are Theresa Shields, Diana Hutchins, Denise Henderson, Bertha Mordecai, Victoria Assembly of Easton, Maryland, and we heartily welcome them. Rivers, Patricia Akins, and Johanna Daye. Service of Around The provinces: Province IV Admissions Held in Chester, Virgina Two Admitted in The St. Veronica Chapter at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chester, Virginia, Cocoa, Florida admitted two new members to the chapter, Menthia Carpenter and Tamara The Mary Magdalene Chapter of St. Mark’s Evans. The Service of Admission took Episcopal Church in Cocoa, Florida, admitted place on September 15, 2019. Also two new Daughters. Mercy Thomas and Jean pictured is incoming president, Kim Bowden were admitted on February 24, 2019. Courington, and outgoing president, Daughters from various other chapters came Nancy Fast. to celebrate with the chapter.

34 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 35 New Daughters Mary Magdalene Chapter Admitted in Instituted St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Morganton, North Carolina, Jacksonville, instituted the Mary Magdalene Chapter on Sunday, June 9, 2019. Newly admitted members were Phyllis Kombol, Susan McAninch, Florida and Mary Phillips. The chapter formed with the guidance of In June 2019, the St. Elizabeth members JoAnne Stewart and LaVonne Mackey. Anita Quinley, Chapter at the Episcopal Church Diocesan Assembly President, and Judi Gustafson, Vice President, of Our Savior in Jacksonville, were on hand for the services. The Reverend Margaret Ashby, Florida, admitted new Daughters. Rector at St Paul’s, officiated the service. A reception was held in Fitzgerald Hall at St. Paul’s after the liturgical service that included Pictured (l-r) are Pat Connor, the institution ceremony. Front: Phyllis Kombol, Mary Phillips, Ellen McClure, Angela Atkins, Susan McAninch, LaVonne Mackey. Back: JoAnne Stewart, Anita Louise Thewes, Pam Atkins Quinley, Rev. Margaret Ashby, Judi Gustafson. (President), Jackie Wright, Holly Fields, Marcia Strickland, Sharyn Myles, and Deb Jones. New Reverend Chapter Re- Installed in instituted in Knoxville, Tennessee Atlanta, Georgia The Reverend Suzanne Seavey was installed The St. Margaret Chapter at the as chaplain of the Ascension Chapter at Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Atlanta, Georgia, was re-instituted on Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 19, 2019. May 26, 2019. Seven new Daughters Shown (l-r) are Lynn Aberdeen, Joy Dixon, Kathy Ambrose, Ellen Wright, Barbara Chubb, the Reverend were admitted to The Order. A Suzanne Seavey, and Donna Riggs, Chapter President. Seated: Barbara Miller, Chapter Vice President. fabulous reception took place immediately following the service. The new members are Eleonora Dunn, Chapter Evelyn Hardy, Florence Mitchell, Catherine Newbold-Kelley, Gloria Parks, Carol Tucker, Kimberly Williams, and the Reverend Lynne Washington (who serves as Church of the Incarnation’s Priest-in- of Holy Charge and as Chaplain of the Diocesan Assembly of Atlanta Daughters of the King). The President of the Diocesan Assembly of Atlanta, Beverly P. Lloyd, presented the charter of the St. Margaret Innocents Chapter and the candidates for membership. Instituted Chapter Instituted The Chapter of the Holy Innocents’ at Holy Innocents’ in Longwood, Florida Episcopal Church in Valrico, Florida, was instituted on The chapter of the Sisters of the August 25, 2019. Sue Tharp, Resurrection was instituted on June 2, 2019, Diocesan Assembly President at the Episcopal Church of Resurrection in of Southwest Florida, Longwood, Florida. presented the charter to the Listed alphabetically are B.J. Boeckel, the Reverend Bryan O’Carroll, Reverend Susie Bruno, Jill Chester (not who presided over the service. pictured), Leslie Condoleo, Sonia Delapenha, Following the presentation of the charter, eight new Daughters were admitted to The Order: Ann Karen DiSalvatore, Cis Gammons, Lynette Hamilton, Tina Hickok, Lynda Horney, Sue Jordan, Nancy Berger, Mary Jo Gallamore, Beth Johnson, Ann Katschka, Georgia MacDonald, Donna Marrin, Jan King, Brenda Lanaris, Michele Mulvihill, Sam Peck, Beth Pitts, Elizabeth Skinner, and Gay Taft, the Marriner and Kelle Schnabel. Three other Daughters, Connie Barfield, Donna Herzog, and Frances Reverend Trey Garland III, Chaplain, and Dr. Karen Adderly-Clark, Diocesan Assembly President of Lingrel, will be transferring their membership to the new chapter. We are looking forward to Central Florida. spreading God’s love throughout our community.

36 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 37 New Member Admitted in Memphis, Ridgeland, Tennessee South Carolina Admits Four The Jean McTeer Thomas In April 2019, Sherry Chapter admitted their newest Compton, Terri Dulaney, member, Pam Gill. Pam was June Rose, and Mary admitted on July 28, 2019, at Gruber were admitted the Episcopal Church in Okatie to the Joy Chapter at in Ridgeland, South Carolina. Calvary Episcopal Church in Pictured (l-r) : Brenda Riser, Memphis, Tennessee. Melanie Hodge, Alexina Strozier, Pam Gill, Eve Pinckney, Linda Boulware, Debbie Pinckney, Carol Carol, and Zina Hartner. Service of Admission and Parishioner Creates Coffee Hour Pray Request Box The Constance Chapter at the Chapel of the Held in Tampa, Cross in Madison, Mississippi, are most grateful to parishioner, Hugh Lewing. Hugh made this Florida prayer request box, which was recently blessed On September 15, 2019, the by the clergy. The locked box remains in the Matilda Wall Memorial Chapter at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Tampa, Florida, admitted six narthex of the church. These confidential Daughters. Following the Service of Admission, the Daughters hosted a wonderful coffee hour. Our requests are collected by the Daughter’s chapter entire membership looks forward to embracing our new members. members for prayer. Pictured (l-r) are: Rosemary Graf; Adrienne Love, president of the chapter; Diocesan Assembly Pictured with the Reverend Ben Robertson President of Southwest Florida, Sue Tharp; Sue MacIsaac; Lynn Jackson; Pam Curry; Ingrid Muellerleile; are Nancy Bowering (vice president), Teri Summer Crawford. Gleason(President), and Hugh Lewing, woodcarver extraordinaire. Advent Chapter Celebration Held Service of Held for New Admission On September 8, 2019, the Advent Members Chapter at the Episcopal Church of The St. Angela Chapter at the Advent in Lecanto, Florida, held St. Matthew’s Episcopal in a Service of Admission for new Spartanburg, South Carolina, was Daughters. proud to celebrate with our three Pictured (l-r) are Dr. Karen Adderly newly admitted members: Sarah Clark, Diocesan Assembly President; Arnold, Hazel Cannon, and Allison Gaye Barrett; Marilyn French; Fowler. Welcome, ladies, and Father William Barrett; Vickey we are so blessed to be on this Razee; Natalie DeVoe; Leah Foshay, journey with you! Chapter President.

38 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 39 Around The provinces: Province VII

Member Honored for 90 Years of Service as She Celebrates 100th Bastrop, Texas Welcomed Five Birthday In 2018, four new members were admitted and one transferred to the Sisters of Mary and Martha On May 30, 2019, Marjorie Mae Weldon Willis was chapter at Calvary Episcopal Church in Bastrop, Texas. The new members are holding white roses, honored for her 100th Birthday. First being a Junior From (l-r):, Sally Sanchez, Carol Rogers, Carol McCall, Sandy Sanchez, and LuAnn Sills. We are blessed Daughter in Texarkana, Texas, she has been a member of to have these women joining us in God’s work. The Order since she was 10 years old. She has been an Episcopalian all her life having started at St. James’ Episcopal Church as a child. Later, she moved Reverend Installed New to Oak Cliff, Dallas and attended Christ Church, St. Paul’s and is now a faithful member at St. Augustine’s. Officers The Reverend Canon Tony Muñoz recently installed Marjorie continues to meet with the Deaconess Lillian new officers for The Daughters of the Light Chapter at Crow Chapter monthly and attends church weekly. She is St. Barnabas/San Bernabe Episcopal Church in Garland, also an active member of the Episcopal Church Women. Texas. Marjorie received a letter of Congratulations from Bishop Front Row (l-r) Claudia Darr, vice president; Jeri Corley, George Summer on her birthday and she continues to treasurer; Elaine Jones, president; and Marsha Garcia, be an inspiration to us all here at St. Augustine’s. secretary. Second Row (l-r) Nina Skinner, Mary Ann Johnson, Canon Muñoz, Betty Keyes, and Judy Healy. St. Julian of Norwich Chapter Instituted On September 9, 2018, the St. Julian of Norwich chapter was instituted at Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Expectant Families Honored Charter members comprised St. Chad’s Daughters of the King Honor Expectant Families. one Daughter at Large and Meredith Griffin, wife of Father Jeremiah Griffin, observed that four families at St. Chad’s Episcopal three new members. Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were all expecting babies this past summer. She suggested that Since then, the St. Julian of Norwich Chapter has prayerfully explored prayer, evangelism, and we honor the expectant parents. Cathy Conn, chapter president of St. Chad’s Chapter, embraced spirituality through meetings, quarterly service projects, and quiet mornings for the parish — a Meredith’s suggestion, offering to have the Daughters help her with this novel idea. labyrinth morning this past spring and another morning this fall to make and use prayer beads. We Sunday, July 14, was the culmination of their fantastic idea. Table decorations were in green and have a box in the narthex for prayer requests, accompanied by a St. Julian icon from Norwich, where yellow gingham plaid, including bright yellow roses, stuffed monkeys, and miniature children’s building she lived as an anchoress. The four founding members of this chapter enjoy each other’s fellowship blocks. The Daughters presented each family with a beautiful children’s Bible (which Meg Tarble, and our shared journey “For His Sake.” Daughter, had inscribed). Father Jeremiah blessed the Bibles before they were gifted to the parents. Back row (l-r): Reverend Sean A. Ekberg (Rector), Suzanne Spradling (Diocesan Assembly President). Gerry Hill, also a Daughter, had drawn baby animal cards for each family. The many gifts included Front row (l-r):Jeanne Oden (Vice President), Eden Ross (President), Dana Cunningham (Treasurer), baby hooded towels, thumbies, plush monkeys, books, and so on. It was so festive; the parish children and Denise McGough (Secretary). were jumping up and down with enthusiasm.

40 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 41 Around The provinces: Province VIII

Aloha Chapter Celebrates St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Ai’ea Hawaii, home of the Kaikamahine – Aloha Chapter, celebrated the Service of Admission for our new members on June 30, 2019. New members (l-r) are Jane Murakami, Shirley Tom, Vickie Domingo, Seven New Members Admitted and Joanne Mahuka. Father Daniel The Evening Chapter at Trinity Episcopal Church in Longview, Texas, admitted seven new Daughters on Leatherman officiated at the service. We September 15, 2019. Pictured are Shirley Griffin, Nancy Sawyer, Phyllis Smith, Lynne Sticher, Sallie Tullberg, were delighted to welcome special guests and Marilyn Wilson. Also admitted but not pictured is Jan Stanley. from Oahu chapters of Daughters. The Chapter members in attendance (l-r) are Jeanne Inouye, Jana Dove, Shirley Tom, Joanne Mahuka, Jane Murakami, Angie Hamasaki, Adele Brunch Held to Thomas (Chapter President) and Vickie Domingo. Not available for the photographs were Evan Barney and Simeona Geston. The chapter, which meets monthly, has planned a Summer/Fall book Honor New Member study, Ten Women of the Bible. The Mary and Martha Chapter of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in El Dorado, Arkansas, admitted Connie Toepel as a new member on September 22, 2019. Following the service, the chapter celebrated with a brunch in Connie’s honor. Photographed (l-r) are Wanda Dunwoody, President of the Diocesan Assembly of Arkansas; The Reverend Robert Wetherington, Rector, St. Mary’s; new member Connie Toepel; and Carol McLemore, Mary and Martha Chapter President. Corona, California, Admitted Two The Julia Chapter at St. John the Baptist in Corona, California, admitted two new members. On April 28, 2019, Robin Gardner and Christa Bergreen were admitted to The Order, joining the 32 members of the chapter. Pictured are some of the chapter members ready to share a cake with all the congregation to celebrate. Lakewood, Washington Donates To Youth Shelter St Mary’s Chapter at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Lakewood, Washington, presented soap and washcloths to the Beacon Youth Semi-annual Tea Held in Dallas, Texas Shelter for the guests to use. During the September meeting, the Daughters wrapped The Incarnation Chapter at Incarnation Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas, held their semi-annual Tea 150 bars of soap. The donation was then in September 2019. The Tea is held for current Daughters and for women who are interested in blessed during Sunday Morning worship. membership in The Order.

42 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 Winter 2019/20 | The Royal Cross 43

Continued from previous page

[2018] Junior Handbook

[2011] Junior Study Guide Quantity : # Price (ea) ____ Primary (11 Total $ ____ & under) $ National Order Form[2011] Leader’s Guide # Youth 20 for the (12 & up) PLEASE ALLOW FOUR WEEKS FOR PROCESSINGEmail: OF[2018]______ORDERS The Chapter Manual Junior Daughters Study Guide $ 5 Phone: ______[2018] A Daughter’s Book of Services $ Name: ______[2010] Spiritual Formation Guide: 7 Delivery: ______Bookmarks ______“Continuing The Journey” $ 25 for ______Zip: (sold by the dozen) Shipping Address State: [2012] Booklet: ______: # ______$ Chapter: Junior 6 ______“Prayer & Service” # ______Senior City: ______Church: [2011] Booklet: by Ada Loaring $ 15

______“Work Among Girls” -Clark Dio: [2012] Booklet: by Mary Davenport $ 2 Prov: ______Admission date:“Lift HighJunior the $15)Cross” Brochure: Senior DOK Inf $ 4 Are you placing (h istory reprint) Packet , cross, and currentBrochure: year’s dues Junior (senior Daught $40, o $ 5 A. New Member non-refundable) r. ($10 – unior directresses.er Info (Set of 20 brochures for $ Brochure:guide leaders, Prayer or JChang $3) 10 • Packet includes admission fee officers, study Total $ (Set of 20 brochures for r/diocesan Brochure: Rule of LifeFee (ea)es Me $ 3 • A completed Application for Membership cmusthapte be included for each new membe Quantity (Set of 10 brochures for $3) # orderedBrochure: Episcopal Pries$ 135 $ 3 • New member crosses must be ordered by # ordered (Set of 10 brochures for $2) Lg: $ 67t $ Sm: Brochure: Catholic Pries $2) 2 $ 105t (Set of 10 brochures for $ One size (Large) Brochure: Anglican Clergy $2) 2 Senior sterling silver Lg: $ 42 (Set of 10 brochures for -plated pewter Brochure: Lutheran Pastor $2) $ 2 Senior rhodium Sm: (Set of 10 brochures for (Large) $2) $ 2 Junior sterling silver One size (Set of 10 brochures an order with the $ rhodium-plated pewter for $2) 2 Junior D. Shipping. Fee Chart $ 2 – Replacement & Chaplain’s Prices are subject to change without not B. Crosses $ 0 - $ Total $ ): ______5: ______AddFee (ea)$ ice. Replacement crosses are available to members who are current with their$ dues Quantity 2 If requesting ‘signature required (s) receiving replacement cross(es # ordered6 - $ 30: $ 85 # ordered Add $ ,’ additional fees may apply. Name of Daughter $ 31 - 17 8 Lg: $ 65: Add$ $ Sm: $ 11 (Large) 66 - $ 100: $ 30 Subtotal Sections One size Add $ A - C: Senior sterling silver Lg:$ 101 - $ 80 13 -plated pewter Sm: $ 200: Senior rhodium Lg:$ Add$ $ 17 16 -loved Sm: 201 - $ 500: Shipping Fee Senior silver pre Add $ 245 (Section National Store? D)*: One size (Large) $ 501 - 21 Junior sterling silver & up: $ 50 -plated pewter * Do not include dues amountsAdd $from 26 Junior rhodium One size Order Total: silver Section A when calculating Shipping Fee Chaplain’s cross One size

Chaplain’s cross pewter Total $ Forms of payment accepted: check, mon Price (ea) Quantity 5 ey order, credit card. $ No cash, please. C. Literature and Supplies 8.5” Be sure to use the new 5.5” x $ 7

(standard size) 8.5” x 11” $ 8 Handbook/Bylaws [2018] National (large size) 5.5” x 8.5” $ 8

[2018] National Handbook/Bylaws senior handbook 8.5” x 11” $ 11 for standard size 3-Ring Binder s enior handbook $ 1 for large size 3-Ring Binder (includes “Pray Your Way” booklet)E. Payment Options $ 6 ) [2016] National Study Guidebooklets sold individually $ 6 To protect your credit card in ( this portion National Order Form “Pray Your Way” of formation, [2016] $ 10 the form will for the National Study Guide Check # be destroyed upon [2016] Leader’s Guide for the National Study Guide ______completion ($35 fee for each returned check) $ 25 of your order. [2014] International Leader’s Guide Credit [2016] National Transition Study Guide Card: Please be aware Visa that we are MasterCard [2018] Junior Directress Manual unable to accept office. to the national payment with Discover Card # ______payment American Express or cards not Amoun in full. listed above. t: $ ______paid Expiration. (Minimum $15 for credit card payment.) inside this issue of The • Please complete the entire form (2 pages) andCardholder submit with ) for your entire order Date: ______Name: ______• Incomplete orders cannot be processed until completed and CVV2 # ______(check, money orderBilling or credit Address card (if information different tha (3-digit security code on back of credit card) • Please send one payment Cardholder n shipping Signature: ______City: ______address):______

Submit completed fo 8066 Email: [email protected]: ______8552 Fax:rm to(770) the 517 National- Office via mail, fax, or ema845EN 1.20 Zip: ______rm to the National Office via mail,-7007 fax, Phone: or101 email: Weatherstone (770) 517- Dr Ste 870, Woodst Submit completed fo Royal Cross. ock, GA 30188 il: ______101 Weatherstone Dr Ste 870, Woodstock, GA 30188 Page -7007 Phone: (770) 517- 2 of 2 8552 Fax: (770) 517- 8066 Email: [email protected] Page 1 of 2

845EN 1.20 The Order is developing an app for Daughters. What would you like to see on this app? Email your ideas to [email protected].

11x17 clear DOK document holder How are you called? With velcro closure. $3.00 Are you a spiritual director or a retreat or workshop leader? Are you bilingual or do you read books for the blind? If your answer is “yes,” and you would like to share your gifts within The Order, please email the National Enrichment Chair at [email protected]. Daughters Heart Box Great gift idea: Anglican New: DOK Cardigan, Rosary fits nicely in the The Royal Cross Gift Subscription Form 95%Cotton/5% Spandex $35.00 heart shaped box. $35.00 A subscription to The Order’s official publication is a great way to get the latest news and information about The Order of the Daughters of the King® nationally and worldwide. It’s a great way to keep your clergy or chaplain involved in what’s happening within The Order and is also available for purchase for Daughters who have been approved for Dues Relief. An annual gift subscription to The Royal Cross is just $15. Renewable annually—non-transferable. Six Foot Royal blue You may subscribe by completing and mailing in this form with payment or by subscribing online at polyester table cover, https://doknational.site-ym.com/store/ and selecting The Royal Cross at the bottom of the page. Great for assemblies Name on Subscription ______and informational Address______City______State____ Zip______meetings. $130.00 Given by ______Province_____ Diocese ______Chapter______Church______Check #______made payable to The Order of the Daughters of the King® [Note: There is a $35 fee for each returned check.] Or Credit Card o Visa o MasterCard o Discover Card#______Exp. Date ______CVV Code ______Cardholder Signature______City ______State _____ Zip ______® Go to 1885designs.com to place your order Mail to: The Order of the Daughters of the King , 101 Weatherstone Drive Ste 870, Woodstock, GA 30188. 1885 Designs, LLC • 262 Eastgate Drive Suite #345 Aiken, South Carolina 29803 [email protected] • 803-270-6352 • Visit us online at http://1885designs.com (1885 Designs replaced CCI as the official supplier of DOK emblazoned gift, apparel, and specialty items) 44 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20 PAID DENVER, CO Non-Profit Org. PERMIT #5377 PERMIT U.S. POSTAGE Margaret J. Franklin Center J. Franklin Margaret Drive, Suite 870 101 Weatherstone 30188-7007 GA Woodstock, REQUESTED RETURN SERVICE

46 The Royal Cross | Winter 2019/20