I I N N L L V V A A I I U U T T T T A A I I T T R R I I I I O P O P S S N N A L A L L A L A N N R R E IO E IO L S L S AT IS AT IS IONAL M IONAL M Highlands Ranch, Colorado The Chronicle ST. LUKE’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH JUNE/JULY 2014 I I N N L L V A V A I I U Inside This Issue:U T T T T A A I From Rev. Sallie.................3I T T R R I I I I O P SpiritualO Engagement.......5P S S N Golf! N A L Children’sA Ministry..........6L L A L A Golfer, Sponsor and N N R UMW R Update..................7 E IO E IO Volunteer signups have L S L S A IS A S T M T I IONAL Music & DramaIONA .................9L M begun for our 11th Annual SLY................................10 Golf Event August 2nd! We’ll be Graduates.....................11 playing again at Murphy Creek Golf Course with a 8:00am tee-off. The Seasoned Voyagers........12 tournament supports our church bus that is used for Windcrest rides and much more! each Sunday, youth mission trips, retreats and much more. Register at I I N N L L V V A A the Golf Event table or on line at www.stlukeshr/golf by July 20, 2014. I I U U T T T T A A I I T T R R I I I I O P O P FROM REV. RYAN: S Common S N N A L A L L A TableL – A N N Capture the R R E IO E IO L S L S A IS ConversationsA IS TIO M TIO M NAL and More!NAL Moments by Susan McIntosh I love summer evenings. There’s just Do you ever feel like you something about summer that says, have so much to say you “slow down, do life differently.” Over need to talk fast? Well, that’s the last few evenings Tami, Selah, a little how I feel with this Shiloh, and I have been enjoying article, so please bear with popsicles together on the patio. On me! Take a deep breath some of these evenings friends have Thank You, and…. joined us. There’s nothing better! The Everything You Wanted St. Luke’s Colorado nights are cool and the by Ali Young, Pastoral Intern to Know About Church, popsicles make them even cooler. I feel so fortunate to have been a but Were Afraid to Ask Slow down. Be still. This matters. It’s part of the St. Luke’s community At the Common Table my motto this summer. I want to live for the last nine months. on Sunday, May 4, several by these words. I want to slow down. Thank you for giving me the people from the church opportunity to learn from each community gathered to I want to be still. I want to be of you. For allowing me to visit Thomas Williams served as one of share a meal and discuss constantly aware that all of this you in hospitals, experience the St. Luke’s pastoral interns this year. a variety of topics, ranging matters--especially the simple things joy of baptisms, to share in holy He helped plan and lead worship in from baptism and church like popsicles on the patio. I wish communion, to share in your various settings, provided pastoral attendance to violence these things came naturally and easily grief and losses, to experience care, as well as helping officiate and gun control, ecological for me. They don’t. I, perhaps like a community of love, to spend memorial services, baptisms, and sustainability, and same sex you, really have to work at slowing time with and to learn from your other events. We are grateful for his marriage. All of these topics down, being still, and realizing that children and your confirmands. service and creative energy–he will be were based on questions all of this matters. Sometimes our Thank you for encouraging me, greatly missed! Thomas graduated that those in attendance tendency is to put our time and showing me kindness, offering with an M. Div from Iliff in early had selected, and discussion energy into all the things that don’t wisdom, and allowing me to make June. This summer he will be going frequently included Rev. Janet mistakes. I am so grateful to the back to Louisiana to serve as a referencing material such at really matter, like being “busy.” whole staff, to Rev. Janet, Rev. worship leader in his home church. the Book of Discipline and Do you ever notice...we love to tell Sallie, and Rev. Ryan for their Thomas is pursuing ordination as an the Book of Resolutions. each other how busy we are? Think guidance. I also want to thank elder in the United Methodist Church Even as these books were about it. It’s such a natural response my lay committee for all of their in the Louisiana conference. discussed, Rev. Janet wanted in our culture: “How are you, how’s support, encouragement, and time to ensure that everyone it going?” “Oh, I’m doing great, just over this last year. St. Luke’s will always remind me of they ways in which present understood the God’s hand has and is working in my life. Thank you, thank you, thank purpose and process in REALLY busy...can barely catch my you for the privilege of being part of your community. There are no words creating them. Conversation breath!” Seriously. Ask around today. to truly express what St. Luke’s means to me. It has been such a joy and ranged from whether you Ask your friends and colleagues how continued on page 3 privilege to spend time here. 2 A MESSAGE FROM OUR SENIOR PASTOR Sunday Worship Services: 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am, Celebrating Ordination Contemplative Service (Check website for dates & times) from Rev. Dr. Janet Forbes Sunday School: It will be our joy to celebrate the ordination of Rev. Ryan Adult, Youth & Children: Canaday and his membership in full connection in the 9:30am & 11:00am Rev. Janet Forbes Rocky Mountain Conference at the Annual Conference Nursery available for: Senior Pastor 8:00, 9:30 & 11:00am services session in Pueblo on Sunday, June 22. Since 2012, Rev. Ryan has been a provisional elder serving as Associate Minister specializing in ministries with young families, Church Office..............303-791-0659 youth, and children. Fax...............................303-470-5615 Email...............office©stlukeshr.com The service will be celebrated at the Pueblo Convention Center at 320 Website.................www.stlukeshr.com We’ll celebrate Central Main Street from 8:30am to 12:00noon as we first pass the Preschool Office..........303-791-1982 Ryan’s ordination mantle of ministry from those retiring from ministry, then celebrate the at St. Luke’s on service of ordination, and, finally, read and bless the assignments of all of Sunday, June 29 with the clergy in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. All are welcome to attend! a blessing ritual at Since I was ordained in 1989, I will be honored at a reception each service and a celebrating my 25th anniversary as an elder. Amid all the celebrating Staff: special Common and congratulations following my ordination, the obvious question that Rev. Dr. Janet Forbes..........................x13 Table at 11:00am Senior Minister Emergency: 303-241-9312 many people asked was, “So what does this mean?” What does it mean in the Fellowship to be ordained, or for that matter, what difference does it make? Well, Rev. Dr. Sallie Suby-Long...................x32 Hall to respond to it does make a significant difference, many of which are not obvious in Associate Minister Emergency: 303-475-0141 questions about how communities of faith. Rev. Ryan Canaday............................x12 United Methodists Associate Minister Emergency: 303-944-5061 The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church says that credential and “Elders are ordained to a lifetime of ministry of Word, Sacrament, Sharon Oliver....................................x27 Director of Children’s Ministry appoint ministers. Order, and Service. By the authority given in their ordination, they are authorized to preach and teach the Word of God, to provide pastoral Samantha Leahy................................x40 Director of Early Childhood Ministry care and counsel, to administer the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion, and to order the life of the Church for service in mission and ministry.” Stephanie Kirk...................................x11 Children’s Ministry Coordinator Some would argue that Ryan and I did all of those things during our years of candidacy and Dave Laurvick...................................x14 provisional supervision, and they would be right, to a point. But each year, we had to interview with Director of Youth Ministry the District Board of Ordained Ministry and send theological paperwork. We were required to attend Amy McMullen..................................x19 additional workshops in church leadership and professional ethics and engage in conversations with Assistant Director of Youth Ministry clergy mentors. Kay Swanson.....................303-791-1982 Now, as a Full Elder, our ordination is for life and is recognized worldwide. We don’t have the same Director of Little School required meetings but we do have something else. The Book of Discipline also says that ordained elders Dr. James Ramsey...............................x23 are “bound in special covenant with all the ordained elders of the annual conference.” This means that Director of Music & Arts Ministries all of us help one another and are to watch over and care for one another.