E rubric nov 2015 by All Souls' Point Loma

All Souls’ Episcopal Church

November 2015 Volume 1, Issue 6

The e-Rubric From the Rector by The Rev. Joseph J. Dirbas

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise It’s hard to believe that we are already in November. It seems just yesterday that summer started and now, here we are, the baseball season has come to an end, the leaves are falling off the trees, and the hot summer months are slipping into cooler fall days with expecta+on of rain. As we roll into November, approaching the holiday season, our focus shi7s to family and celebra+on and, especially in this month, to thanksgiving and gra+tude. There is much to be thankful for. God has graced us at All Souls’ with so many wonderful blessings. We have an incredibly dedicated, loving, and generous parish community willing to engage in God’s mission in the world and to follow Jesus as disciples. We are blessed with a beau+ful music program which con+nues to grow stronger. We experienced the blessing of our youngest choir members on Sunday, October 25th, as the choristers offered their praise and prayers to God at our 10:15 service. Our youth program is gaining momentum. We have discovered an incredible wealth of young folks eager to be part of a church community and parents willing to par+cipate and facilitate their involvement and their forma+on as disciples of Jesus Christ. Our church family con+nues to grow, thanks be to God. We bap+ze new members into the body of Christ and the bishop confirmed three and received one on his recent visit. We have much to be thankful for. And there is more coming. As we con+nue to engage the community, we will con+nue to offer our cam-

Inside this issue From our Pastoral Associate ....... 3 Update on Finances .................... 5 Music at All Souls’ ...................... 6 College and Community .............. 8 Legacy is Now ............................. 12 Looking Ahead at All Souls’ ......... 14 Youth News................................. 16 Parishioner Proﬁle ...................... 18

Special points of interest • Dear Abbey • An+-Cancer Immunotherapies • Home Tour • Almsgiving, Oﬀering, Pledging • Art around All Souls’

Thankfulness and Praise, Cont. pus, our love and care for this community, and the love of Christ to all who pass by our door. In response to all of God’s great gi7s, we give thanks and we con+nue to live out our call. Later this month we will be oﬀering a free ﬂu clinic to the people of All Souls’ and the community of Point Loma. We will also be conduc+ng a neighborhood food drive to support the ministry of the Loaves and Fishes food pantry in Ocean Beach. We will begin prepara+ons for a Christmas Pageant as we seek to engage our young families in our Christmas Eve celebra+ons.

Indeed, there is much to be thankful for. So, as we approach the thanksgiving holiday, as we sit down with family and friends, as we reflect upon those things in our life for which we are eternally grateful, I encourage you to remember the gi7 that is All Souls’. Thanks be to God for this parish, this community, and for the work we are called to do. Thanks be to God for the courage to do it! Thanks be to God for the love of Christ which fills us up and overflows into the community. And thank you, each and every one of you, for being faithful disciples of our Lord and Savior.

All Souls’ Vision, Mission, and Value Statements VISION STATEMENT: To be a vibrant and joy-ﬁlled congrega+on that serves as the community hub for Christ’s transforma+ve love.

MISSION STATEMENT: We invite all to grow in faith with us as we embody and courageously share God’s love in the world.

VALUE STATEMENTS: CHRIST CENTERED: We are guided by the Holy Spirit and the example of Jesus Christ in our prayer, worship, discipleship, and service to others, as we share the Good News. LOVE: We are in loving rela+onship with God, each other, and our community, embracing all individuals and families wherever they are in their journeys. RESPECT: We honor the dignity of every person, valuing our diﬀerences, as we grow in Christ and learn from each other. STEWARDSHIP: We recognize that all we have comes from God, and with gra+tude we generously share these abundant gi7s, caring for all of God’s crea+on. CREATIVITY: We celebrate God’s gi7s of liturgy, music, and art as a window to experiencing the Divine. 2

From our Pastoral Associate by The Very Rev. James E. Carroll Recently I preached a funeral homily for one of my contemporaries in my years as Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was an anesthesiologist who had a passion for music, and a couple of the readings for the Eucharist reﬂected that. From Isaiah 40 we hear “Every valley shall be li7ed up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low.” What Handel did with that short verse from the Messiah helped to construct the en+re Oratorio. And from Psalm 16 there are those words that introduce the singing of Evensong: “I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; my heart teaches me, night a7er night.” And, of course, John 14 is the Gospel reading at most funerals. So who can forget the church choir singing “In my Father’s House there are Many Mansions?” Indeed, much of Holy Scripture came out of musical moments: folksongs, poems, psalms of victory, psalms of lament. This passage from St. Paul’s LeBer to the Philippians, which we hear very Palm Sunday, was probably based on a hymn of the +me.

In Our Community Congratulations! To those members of our community who have recently been bap+zed, conﬁrmed, and received into the Episcopal Church: CharloBe Care Heather Catron Sally Cuﬀ Mark Mann Sheri McClellan Cliodnha McClellan Anne-Marie Dicce Valenzuela Ruben Valenzuela Duncan Thompson

Crazy Jack! Next +me you see Mr. Northam, congratulate him on his 150th ascension of Mt. Wh+ney.

Let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emp ed himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. It goes on. It’s personal witness becoming biblical theology, coming out of music. All this is to say how cri+cal a role music plays in All Souls’ Church. Ruben Valenzuela has done wonders with the choir, and a children’s choir is on its way. And this is a superb form of Chris+an Educa+on for those young people. Furthermore, the Gouraud Fund is helping to bring wonderful musical moments throughout the year. St. Augus+ne the Theologian has been credited with this slogan: “The one who sings prays twice.” So when you go to a small week-day Eucharist, or if you’re an “8 o’clocker” on Sunday morning, let your interior heart sing away. And God will be pleased.

Annie Jr. Our very own Nate Lubsen and Jane Lubsen are performers in CYT’s produc+on of Annie. You can see them in ac+on at Paciﬁc Beach Middle School on Nov 13, 14, 15, 20, and 21. Visit cytsandiego.org for more informa+on.

Pledging: The Intentional Gift by Hilliard Harper

$20, $30 or even more. You are able to do so, because it is not a recurring expense, it is something that you do in response to the benefit or joy that you have received. You may think of it in terms of entertainment – how much am I willing to spend on a movie, a concert, a museum, or one-+me contribu+ons to a nonprofit organiza+on. For purposes of this illustra+on, let’s say Scenario A: Help: you are walking down the street and someone asks you for money and you that you felt moved to contribute $30. This is an offering. feel moved to give that person money. Look in your pocketbook or wallet, how much would you give? For many people the majority of +me it is Scenario C: Pledge from the Whole: Now it’s Sunday morning. You look in your wallet. There’s the one dollar bill. That $1 will most likely not make a difference in your finances, but you feel $26 le7. You decide to give and even +the and you might think that would be 10% of the $26 good that you gave it away. This is almsgiving. remaining. However, a +the is not based on what Scenario B: Thanksgiving: You aBend a special is in your pocket book but, rather, based upon all your ini+al resources. You would have previously service at church or are a visitor at another church. In thanksgiving for the service, the occa- thought about your weekly/monthly income-sion, or the designa+on of the funds of the offer- your full resources--and have come to church with a check for the amount of giving you have ing plate, you feel moved to contribute something. Look at your wallet, how much would you promised. This is an inten/onal gi0 or a pledge. give? It is reasonable to think about giving $10, What is a pledge? How does it differ from other kinds of gi7s? The following illustra+on may help. Imagine that you open your wallet or pocketbook and you have $57, two twenty dollar bills, one ten dollar bill, one five dollar bill, and two singles.

Thank You!!! Diocesan Day of Service, October 11, 2015 Special thanks to our All Souls’ Outreach CommiBee and to Joan Greenhood for her leadership and coordina+on of our Area 3 Diocesan Day of Service. Several parishioners gathered on October 11 and par+cipated in an OB Clean-up. A wonderful example of Christ’s love in the world. 4

An Update on Our Finances The All Souls’ Finance CommiBee is pleased to report that our ﬁnancial posi+on remains strong and we con+nue to operate within expecta+ons even in the midst of comple+ng some oﬀ-budget property work. The tables below provide a quick look at our actual vs. budgeted income and expenses for the First Quarter, months in the Second Quarter, and Year to date. INCOME

1st Quarter 2nd Quarter Total Total

July 2015

August 2015

September 2015

Year to Date Total

Income Budget

$ 121,409

$ 124,734

$ 37,966

$ 38,465

$ 38,140

$ 360,714

Income Actual

$131,915

$ 119,869

$ 36,094

$ 54,081

$ 31,666

$ 373,624

Diﬀerence

$ 10,506

($ 4,865)

($ 1,872)

$ 15,616

($ 6,474)

$ 12,910

EXPENSE

1st Quarter 2nd Quarter Total Total

July 2015

August 2015

September 2015

Year to Date Total

Expense Budget

$ 122,040

$ 129,791

$ 38,864

$ 37,746

$ 46,597

$ 375,038

Expense Actual

$111,202

$ 123,981

$ 42,573

$ 43,235

$ 38,013

$ 359,004

($ 10,838)

($ 5,810)

$ 3,709

$ 5,489

($ 8,584)

($ 16,034)

Diﬀerence

Cumulative to Date Did you know? On average, those who pledged in 2015 have pledged 7% more for the ministries and mission of All Souls’ in 2016!

Music at All Souls’ by Dr. Ruben Valenzuela There is much going on in the music life of our parish. Here are some highlights! The All Souls’ Choristers made their debut on Sunday, October 25 at the 10:15 service!

All Souls’ Chorister program receives grant The Chorister program of All Souls’ has been awarded a LOVE GRANT of $4000 from the Episcopal Diocese in support of this new ministry. The grant aims to support new ministry ini+a+ves that have the poten+al to engage directly with the community.

AN ADVENT PROCESSION OF LESSONS AND CAROLS Sunday, November 29th, at 5pm In 1934, sixteen years a7er he had introduced to King’s College, Cambridge the Fes+val of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmas, the Dean Eric Milner-White, composed a further service, a Procession with Lessons and Carols upon Advent Sunday. His concern for more imagina+ve forms of worship appears in the preface he wrote to that service: ‘In the old English liturgies, the Advent Oﬃces made a prepara+on for the coming of our Lord to this earth far more vivid and eager than those of our present prayer book. So an Advent carol service, if without precedent, is not without suitability, if it helps to express the desire of all na+ons and ages. 6

Music at All Souls’ (Cont.) This service of lessons and carols of Advent is meant to demonstrate the pilgrimage of the Church as the Body of Christ on pilgrimage through +me and space—journeying in faith un+l God’s kingdom and reign of peace have been established on earth. It will proclaim through scripture and music the Advent of the Savior. It will recall the coming of Jesus as the infant child in Bethlehem twenty centuries ago and will also exhort the peoples of the earth to prepare for his coming in dreadful majesty as King and Judge on the last day. BACH COLLEGIUM SAN DIEGO: HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Thank You! Special thanks to all those who par+cipated in our Parish Work Day on October 24. As usual, we got a lot accomplished—inside and out—and the campus is looking beau+ful as ever and is all spiffed up for Diocesan Conven+on. Thank you also to all those who par+cipated in the first All Souls’ Halloween Trick or Trea+ng Sta+ons on Halloween night. We had a great +me and many members of our local community saw us sharing the joy of Halloween and spreading the love of Christ to our neighborhood. We have great ideas for next year, too! And, thank you to Diane Holnback-Sooy for the +me, effort, and gi7 she offers in construc+ng our Dio de Los Muertos Altar. Diane is willing to share about this tradi+on to anyone interested, so, feel free to ask!

Let’s Prepare for College while in Kindergarten by Jayne Ricker

How proud would a parent be when his/her ten year old son ini+ates going to confession before Lent or when a young daughter happily sings along during mass? How inspiring when children understand that God’s love is uncondi+onal and that God’s love is where they find their refuge and solace when they face personal troubles. When our kids commit mistakes and fall, do they know they can rise again because God’s love doesn’t falter? As parents, there’s no greater comfort than knowing our children’s paths are rooted in God’s protec+on and favor and that through Sunday School and adult spiritual guidance, they will know where and how to find Chris+an fellowship and a sense of belonging when they are sent off into their ‘big world.’ As I recently sent my youngest child off to college, I quickly realized that he wouldn’t be going to confession, he wouldn’t be singing during mass and he certainly wasn’t going to express any knowledge about God’s uncondi+onal love. You see, for many years, I didn’t see the need to send my son to Sunday School. I thought since he was a good boy, never got in much trouble outside of school and was a preBy good student, that he didn’t need any benefits that Sunday School or spiritual guidance offered as he got older. I thought he would just ‘figure it out’ on his own. Once he arrived on his college campus, all of a 8

sudden, I was asking myself these ques+ons, “What would be his anchor in the midst of everchanging chaos of campus life? You see I sent him off to college without knowing the indestruc+ble joy in Christ, how to make sense of life, or how to balance peer influences while living on his own. Did he really know how to love and serve others and would he find something fun to do on the weekends that would make his mother proud? It dawned on me that his years on campus would be filled with ques+oning and searching, wondering and wandering. These would be his highly forma+ve years as he would be making significant life choices. He, like other college students, would be searching for the meaning and purpose of life. Indeed, my son was in the midst of these life transi+ons…and on his own without an anchor. As he began to seBle into college life, living for the first +me on his own AND with a roommate, a plethora of college classes, I wondered what this new independence would expose in his heart. He was without direc+on, without spiritual guidance, without a church home. I was geXng concerned…by whom will he be influenced? Will he

Let’s Prepare for College, Cont. commit to a church, to a Chris+an fellowship on campus or would he merely be a ‘tagalong’ college student who was desperate for friends and simply ﬁnd the ‘rowdy, partying crowd’ to belong to. He was, a7er all, moving away from home and trying to ﬁgure out who he was, what he believed and what in the world he was going to do with his life. That’s a lot for any eighteen-year-old. It was a +me of new experiences and big ques+ons. He was being exposed to new people and new ideas.

was certainly thankful for free food because it didn’t maBer to me what got him there…he was ﬁnally around Chris+an college students. I knew his college experience was about to change!

Not only was he ﬁnally engaging with other students but they were students who were commiBed to Jesus! As +me went on, Tuesday nights were now the night for my son to aBend college campus Chris+an fellowship. He was soon asked to be on the campus Call CommiBee to choose a new I soon faced the harsh reality that he just may have a diﬃcult +me making friends in college as he college campus minister! He now considers this tends to be on the shy side. Addi+onally, he, unlike group ‘his’ fellowship group. You see, he now has his sister, is not intrinsically mo+vated to go to a chance to build a rela+onship with Jesus Christ church or to and have a group seek any of friends that type of relaare rooted in +onship Chris+anity. with Jesus. For weeks he ended up by himself simply walking aimlessly around campus. He was all alone. He did not have a sense of belonging. What was I to do to help my son engage while in college?

So I soon learned something that I should have known and that is unless a child is intrinsically mo+vated to seek God and Chris+an fellowship, they will need adult guidance to steer them on the right path or they will have nothing to anchor their faith, a lack of LiBle did I know that my brother-in-law was con- Chris+an friends and nowhere to turn to in +mes sistently encouraging my son to go to the college of need. We need to prepare them for college while in kindergarten! Let’s do our best to oﬀer campus Chris+an fellowship. However, my son con+nued to decline his uncle’s invita+on, which them a spiritual founda+on, to ﬁnd a local church family that will ul+mately be a safe-haven that was not surprising to me. However, there did come one glorious day that he told me and his sis- teaches God-centered values that will make an environment for nurturing friendships that will ter that he actually went to the college campus Chris+an fellowship because they had free food! I stand the test of +me. (Con+nued on Pg 11) 9

All Souls’ 64th Annual Christmas Home Tour Reaching out to the Community With Proceeds Suppor+ng our Missions and Ministries A successful Home Tour requires the par+cipa+on of all our members. In addi+on to purchasing Home Tour Tickets and talking about the Home Tour with your friends, there are so many ways YOU can be a part of this All-Parish Event. And, if you don’t have a job yet, rest assured, we’ve got one for you! Here are some Opportuni+es for your par+cipa+on: MARKETPLACE AND PANTRY: We know you LOVE to Bake and Create…and we have just the thing for you! All Souls’ Home Tour Pantry needs cookies (label them for the ‘Pantry’), breads, jellies, jams, chutneys and other delicious edibles. Contact Nicki Sharpe (nsharpe@cox.net) OR Myrtle Livingstone (almystone@aB.net). SELLING TICKETS: Volunteer to sell +ckets in the Church Office, A7er Church and on Tour Day ~ Also Volunteer to exchange Vouchers for Map/Brochures on Tour Day at the “Drive-by-Tent”. Contact Leslie Hudak (lesliehudak@cox.net). HOSTING IN THE HOMES: We have 4 Homes and need HOSTS for Morning and A7ernoon Shi7s. Hosts are All Souls’ Ambassadors to the greater community. We need Parishioners, their Friends and Family for this important job. Contact Patricia Lynch (rnplynch2@gmail.com) by November 15. ST. NICHOLAS COOKIE BAKING: St. Nicholas Cookies are one of the trademarks of All Souls’ Christmas Home Tour! St. Nicholas Cookie Baking is scheduled for November 30—December 3 from 2-5 pm. Bring your own apron and meet in the All Souls’ Kitchen. Contact Judy Kebler (jkebler@cox.net) OR Derelynn Kalafer (derelynn@gmail.com) BUY TICKETS: A Day at The Home Tour is a wonderful GIFT to give: Purchase your +ckets a7er Church, in the Church Office or Online at www.allsoulspointloma.org. And remember… be sure to offer your thanks and support to our Home Tour Leadership Team. They are doing an amazing job pulling all this together! 10

Let’s Prepare for College, Cont.

Souls’ campus so that we, too, can welcome them with open arms. Let’s meet them. Love them. Disciple them. Train them. Involve them in ministry. Then rejoice as they’re launched out to bear witness to Christ in their various callings and may we all get to see Colossians 1:28-29 played out in real life as Paul heralds, “It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil and So please remember, whether you have a son or struggle with all the energy that he powerfully daughter going to college next year or a child inspires within me.” And may we all pray that who is entering kingergarden…they all will some there are hungry college students who ﬁnd a day be on their own. You may want to talk to ministry that proclaims, “Join us every Tuesday them about binge drinking or safe sex, money during the semester for our weekly dinner at 6 management or proper nutri+on. These are all p.m.! well and good, to be sure. But give them a piece So let’s stay tuned to see how All Souls’ can be of advice that is of the utmost important. Give part of campus ministry! We will not only them a word about the importance of keeping their grounded faith in Jesus Christ and implore begin to fulﬁll the Great Commission on nearthem to seek out a church family that welcomes by college campuses, but also help to bring the next genera+on of leaders into a rela+onship them with open arms and open hearts. with Jesus Christ. Remember, it takes a village. So let’s keep our neighboring college students in our hearts and minds and in our prayers as they need to have that balance of experiencing community and ministry in a mul+-genera+onal context. They need to see what faith a7er college looks like. They need to be reminded of what their faith looked like as a high schooler, middle schooler, or even a preschooler! They need to be around families, and babies, and re+rees. They need to be mentored by people who have gone through the ups and downs of college life — and have come out on the other side — with their faith in Jesus at the core of their being. For beBer or worse, between the ages of 18 and 23 we o7en become the people we’re going to be for the rest of our lives. College students are making huge choices; where they’ll work, whom they’ll marry, how they’ll engage in the church, and with whom they’ll associate. For the sake of these dear young people’s souls, let’s invest ourselves in this “trajectory-seXng” process for God’s glory.

Let’s hope we have college students grace our All 11

Legacy is Now by Lorraine Padden On October 17th, All Souls’ convened a special gathering to introduce the process through which we may endow our parish with a por+on of our earthly treasure upon our passing. As Father Joe reminded in the weeks leading to this important conversa+on, Scripture calls us to give ourselves away. As Christ gave himself as a sacriﬁce for us, we may give of ourselves in deep gra+tude for all that God, through Christ and the Church, has bestowed upon us. Gra+tude convened and compelled us to oﬀer thoughts on cra7ing such a legacy of visionary apprecia+on. Our own members as well as brothers and sisters from across Diocesan Area Three heard inspiring stories of how Legacy Giving is understood and prac+ced among us. Among the highlights: Bishop Mathes shared a personal journey that led his family to structure a bequest that will support a generous graduate scholarship.

Gary Powell, an aBorney and member of Good Samaritan stressed the importance of follow -through once a parishioner has decided to make a legacy gi7. He advised us to document the inten+on in wri+ng into either a trust, will or other gi7 vehicle. He added that in addi+on to naming a church in our will or trust documents, we can name our church as a beneficiary (or par+al beneficiary) of a life insurance policy, an IRA or 401 (k) or 403(b) plan, or even, if the financial ins+tu+on permits it, a savings account. Personal tes+mony, detailed giving op+ons, and finally, a daring invita+on to envision the bounty of our gi7s not merely helping but truly transforming our parishes and communi+es:

The week before our Gathering on the 17th, fellow organizing commiBee member Sam Ward (Christ Church, Coronado) and I visited Father Simon MainChris Timmins of St. David’s reflected on the great waring and the welcoming congrega+on at St. Annumber of her fellow parishioners who were not drew’s-by-the-Sea to personally invite members to aware that St. David’s had established an endowaBend our event. Sam and I led a conversa+on in ment--a highly valuable resource for their present the St. Andrew’s parish hall, a space that had been and future good work in community. An awareness supported by a legacy gi7 of a member who for building campaign was launched while at the same many years fed people in need. Her legacy estab+me, the Episcopal Church Founda+on published lished a mee+ng place that not only served St. Anuseful guidelines for star+ng a planned giving cam- drew’s parishioners, but provided a working kitchen paign. St. David’s capitalized on both, and their and space to greatly improve the reach and effec“Community of Generosity” ini+a+ve will be un+veness of the congrega+on’s homeless ministry veiled in 2016 to honor members who have named within the greater Pacific Beach community. One the church in their will and/or trust. person’s individual impact was greatly amplified by 12

Legacy is Now (Cont.) a vision of what might be possible in the future, once their +me to personally serve had passed. Here at All Souls’ we are poised to act on the many inspira+onal stories and ideas we explored together a couple of weeks ago. As we envision what our church looks like now and in the future, we have the great and humble task of imagining how our gi7s of sustenance and joy will resonate on our campus and throughout the greater community far beyond our earthly journey. Now is the ideal +me and place to set in mo+on the inheritance of our individual and collec+ve gra+tude to the Maker and Giver of all things. Our Legacy is Now.

Have You Linked Your Accounts Yet? Do you shop at Ralphs or Amazon? If you do, great news! Each +me you shop, these retailers will donate to All Souls’. You simply need to link your Ralphs Rewards account and your Amazon account to All Souls’ Episcopal Church. Here’s what you need to do: Amazon: Visit smile.amazon.com . When you log in, if you are not already suppor+ng a charity, it will ask you which charity you would like to support, simply search for All Souls’ Point Loma (it may look like the Rector, Wardens, and Vestry….). If you are already suppor+ng a charity and would like to support All Souls’ instead, you can change that from the drop down menu iden+fying your charit. That’s all there is too it! Be sure to use the URL smile.amazon.com to do your shopping and once you do, many purchases you make will result in dona+ons to All Souls’. Ralphs: Register your Ralphs Rewards Card to All Souls’ Episcopal Church at www.ralphs.com under “My Account.” Every +me you shop at Ralphs, a percentage will be donated to All Souls’.

Sunday Morning Forum Offerings The Adult Forma+on CommiBee is busy working on our next Sunday Morning forum Series. Here is the current calendar of forums. Please note, dates and topics are subject to change. November 1—Real Time Viewing of the Presiding Bishop Installa+on November 8—”Stump the Priests” - Bring your ques+ons! November 15—December 20 Science and Religion Nov 15 - Theology of Freedom in light of ﬁndings in evolu+onary Psychology - Dr. Samuel Powell Nov 22 - How does Quantum Physics Inform our Faith Speaker TBD Nov 29 - An Alternate View: The impact of scien+ﬁc Discovery (Atheism and Agnos+cism) Dec 6 - Original Sin in Light of Evolu+on - Dr. Mark Mann Dec 13 - Reading the Book of Scripture and the Book of Nature together - Dr. Mark Mann, The Very Rev. James E. Carroll and The Rev. Joseph Dirbas Dec 20 - Neuroscience and the meaning of self - Dr. Rebecca Flietstra Looking forward to seeing you all there!

If you need help… come on in the oﬃce… we’ll make it easy! 13

Looking Ahead at All Souls’ November 1: All Saints Day Solemn Mass with bap+sm and incense at the 10:15 service

November 2, 7:00pm : All Souls’ Day—Festival of Title Join us for a solemn choral requiem mass followed by a potluck recep+on in the parish hall!

November 7, 10:45am: Diocesan Convention Eucharist and Ordination The Diocese of San Diego will meet for its 42nd Diocesan Conven+on at All Souls’ . The conven+on includes a morning Eucharist at which our very own Pam Rieger will be ordained by Bishop Mathes as a Deacon in the church. Come support Pam as she takes her ordina+on vows.

November 7-8: High School Lock-in High School youth group and chaperones will enjoy fellowship, conversa+on, and I’m guessing a preBy sleepless night in the parish hall

November 8: Bethlehem Crafts at All Souls’ Artwork from Bethlehem will be available for purchase. Proceeds support Chris+an Arabs in the Holy Land. These are wonderful Christmas gi7s.

November 13: Tween Youth Group—Laser Tag We’ll meet at “In and Out,” have some food, and then oﬀ to Laser Tag. E-mail Terry Dirbas if you’d like more informa+on.

November 15—Launch of the Community Food Drive Our youth will be invi+ng the local community to help stock the Loaves and Fishes food pantry.

November 15, 9:00am—12:00pm: Flu Clinic If you haven’t already received your flu shot, this is the day to do it. Nursing students from CSUSM will be offering free flu shots to All Souls’ Parishioners and others in our community.

November 22: Ingathering of Community Food Donations Dona+ons for Loaves and Fishes will be presented in church and blessed before sending them on their way.

November 24, 10:00am—1:00pm: MCRD Thanksgiving Lunch Join us as we help serve Thanksgiving Turkeys and Hams with all the ﬁxin’s to MCRD personnel and recruits.

November 26, 9:30am—Thanksgiving Day Eucharist in the Church November 29, 5:00pm—Advent Lessons and Carols The choir and choristers will present a beau+ful program of Advent Lessons and Carols. See “Music at All Souls’” for more informa+on.

December 5, All Day—64th Annual Christmas Home Tour

Upcoming Worship at All Souls’ INGATHERING SUNDAY: November 1 At both our 8:00 and 10:15 services, parishioners will have an opportunity to present their pledge cards at the oﬀertory. If you’ve already submiBed your pledge card, we encourage you to submit a card or prayer or gra+tude that you can ﬁnd in the pews. All cards will be brought to the altar and blessed during celebra+on of the Eucharist.

All Souls’ Day—Requiem Mass: November 2, 7:00pm We will celebrate a solemn choral requiem mass for our fes+val of +tle. The choir has been working on the mass seXng and other chant propers and gospel will be sung by the deacon. It will be a beau+ful service, remembering all our loved ones departed. We will assemble for a potluck in the parish hall following the service.

WEDNESDAY EUCHARIST: November 4, 11, 18, 25 at 7:00am A wonderful way to begin your day, spiritually grounded and ready to go. Join us, Wednesday mornings at 7:00am in the chapel for Eucharist. Stop by on your way to work or before that ﬁrst cup of morning coﬀee and worship with us!

CANDLELIGHT COMPLINE: Sunday, November 8 at 7:30pm Looking for spiritual healing or peace of mind? Come join us in this unique service steeped in tradi+onal spirituality while completely updated with modern language and imagery. Live piano music, candlelight and group medita+on creates a healing, peaceful environment. Approximately 30 minutes. 7:30pm the 2nd Sunday of each month.

ADVENT LESSONS AND CAROLS: Sunday, November 29 at 5pm Instead of our monthly evensong service, which would have normally occurred on November 23, we will be presen+ng a service of Advent Lessons and Carols on November 29. This will be a beau+ful way to begin our season of Advent as we once again enter the season of prepara+on and await the coming of Christ into the world.

Thanksgiving Food Drive This November, All Souls’ Youth will be reaching out to our neighbors in Point Loma and Ocean Beach by invi+ng them to donate to the Loaves & Fishes ministry at the Episcopal Church Center. We will be distribu+ng paper grocery bags with informa+on about the food drive to households all around the church—as many as we can reach! Our neighbors will have a week to go through their cupboards and gather any items they wish to donate. Then, on Saturday, November 21, they can leave the bags on their porch and we will collect them.

When we pick up the bags, we will leave behind a thank you card, along with an invita+on to join us for our 10:15 Eucharist the next day, at which we will bless all the food dona+ons before delivering them to Loaves & Fishes. This is a great way for our congrega+on to reach out to the community and invite them to join us in serving those in need. In gra+tude for our abundant blessings, let’s be a blessing to others this Thanksgiving! If you think this project sounds as exci+ng as we do, then we invite you to join us! We could use volunteers to help us distribute bags on November 15 a7er church, as well as to help collect on November 21. For more informa+on, contact youth@allsoulspointloma.org.

SelEie Directory: Say Cheese! The staff of All Souls’ meets every Tuesday to discuss our work and ministry together. Staff Youth Group Special Events for November mee+ngs include recapping past Sunday services and events, planning for upcoming Sundays and services, conversa+on about events happening on campus, and discussing needs around the parish. A couple of weeks ago, we discussed our parish directory. We’ve made some imOur Youth Groups are humming right along at All Souls’. Events include opportuni+es for felprovement to our directory over the last year, upda+ng informa+on, adding new people. But lowship, worship, and just plain fun. Mark your calendars for the following events! we all agreed that what we are missing is a pictorial directory. Now, I know we’ve had pictorialNovember directories in7-8 the-past to be honest, I’m not a big fan of the process. That’s where Fr. Highand, School Youth lock-in Jim comes in. He suggested that we promote a “Selfie Directory.” Most of us have phones November 13—6pm—Tween Youth Laser Tag. Meet first with cameras. I’m sure most of us have taken one or two selfies. So, let’s have a liBle fun with for dinner at “In and Out” and then off to the games! this! Grab your phone! Take a Selfie! And send it to jricker@allsoulspointloma.org. We’ll start assembling the15 very first All Souls’ Selfiedrive Directory! Fr. Jim can suggest it…. We can all do it! I November - Distribu+on of food bags toIf the comcan’t wait to see your photos. (P.S. Rumor has it there will be ample opportuni+es for selfies munity on Mission Sunday, September 13, 2015) November 21—Collec+on of Food Drive Bags

November 24—All Youth are invited to join us in serving our Thanksgiving lunch at MCRD

SelEie Directory: Say Cheese! Youth News by Terry Dirbas Tween Youth News Our tween group has been having lots of fun and fellowship this fall. A7er September’s awesome pizza party at the rectory, we decided to meet on Friday nights twice a month. In midOctober, we had a BBQ followed by an epic board game tournament at the church. We played Pic+onary, Clue, Chess, Apples to Apples, Connect Four, and many others! A good +me was had by all, and our winners took home some delicious candy prizes. On October 30, we had a Dia de los Muertos celebra+on. We made a yummy Mexican dinner together, and a7erward we learned about the tradi+on of Dia de los Muertos and the remembrance of those we’ve loved and lost. Diane Sooy showed us the beau+ful altar she created in the church, and she even helped youth add their own memorials to it! It was a fun evening of celebra+on and community. We’ve got lots more fun events planned. We’re especially excited about our Laser Tag on November 13. For more informa+on, please email youth@allsoulspointloma.org. High School Youth News Our high school youth would like to thank everyone who supported our Christmas greenery fundraiser in October. We appreciate your help with our fundraising goals as we prepare for our mission trip next summer. This month, we have lots of exci+ng projects and ac+vi+es in store. On November 7, we’ll host our first babysiXng fundraiser at the church. Our “Kids’ Night Out” offers an affordable evening out for parents, while providing a fun and safe atmosphere for kids to have a good +me, too. And once the last liBle ones have gone home to bed, youth will have a night out of their own as they enjoy the first lock-in of the school year. It’s going to be a great +me! We’ll also be coordina+ng a food drive to benefit Loaves & Fishes before Thanksgiving. You can read more about that on page 16. We’re looking forward to a busy month of fun, fellowship, and service!

Kid’s Night Out! Saturday, November 7, 6pm-10pm at All Souls’ Episcopal Church Hosted by the All Souls’ Youth Group Our high school youth and adult chaperones will entertain your darlings with games, snacks, cra7s, a delicious spagheX dinner, and a movie. Let us provide a fun night out for the kids, while you enjoy a night out for yourselves! Suggested Dona+on: $20/child ($10/sibling) All funds raised will contribute to our summer mission trip to Belize. For more informa+on contact youth@allsoulspointloma.org . To register your child, visit www.allsoulspointloma.org. 17

Parishioner ProEile by Rosemary Barnes You just never know some of the interes+ng details about the people you meet at church unless you sit down and ask them ques+ons. So, this month’s interview introduced this writer to someone who aBends regularly but has many sides to him. Just a few hints (let’s see if you can ﬁgure out who this is..) • • • • • • • • •

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Mother was Chilean; father is Italian Is bilingual, but learned from school, not home Has two sisters, 21 and 24 years younger than he Called “Brother Daddy” by his sisters He deﬁnes nuclear family a bit diﬀerently than most Graduated from Caltech in Pasadena with a BS in Mechanical Engineering Also has a Masters in Control Systems and a PhD in Bioengineering both from UCSD Arrived in San Diego in 1990 Employed by Cubic Corpora+on while working on his PhD and con+nued there for 10 years Met his future wife at an Ul+mate Frisbee Tournament Has four sons

The last clue was probably a giveaway…this months’ interview is with Dave Carta. In addi+on to Dave and his sisters (and a cousin) being married to Chris+ne, father to sons Sam, Andrew, Thomas and Adam, he started a business called Telaeris in 2005, which now employs 10 people. Telaeris builds access and inventory control systems using a technology called RFID. If that weren’t enough to keep him busy, he recently started a new company called ReadIt4Me. This new company provides a service where a subscriber can request a speciﬁc ar+cle from the web. One of ReadIt4Me’s readers will read and record an audible version of the ar+cle so the subscriber can listen later on a portable device while in the car, on a walk, or anywhere you take your phone or other mobile device. Sounds preBy handy for busy, on the go folks. ReadIt4Me is currently in the beta test phase. Dave told of taking a 7 year Bible study course with Dr. Bill Creasy, par+cipa+ng in a Bible study tour of Israel, and diving in the Red Sea. When he was engaged to Chris+ne, they took an Engaged Encounter course led by Cynthia and Ward Fleri. Now both Dave and Chris+ne also facilitate Engaged Encounter retreats.

Dave with his mother and father (le7 and right, respec+vely) and Dave with his Son Thomas in the middle

Ul+mate Frisbee is his favorite sport. It com-

bines soccer, basketball and football rules and moves. This game is played on a soccer ﬁeld, by two teams of seven players each. It’s a fast moving game of throwing, running and endurance. He started playing in the 1980’s while working at Sears in high school, geXng people to ﬁll out credit card applica+ons. To this day, Dave said that some of the best business and life lessons he learned came while working for Sears. While studying at Caltech, he won a scholarship and had an opportunity to take an internship at a factory in Japan, which made parts for Nissan cars. While working there he learned about factory work including spot welding, quality control, and other produc+on line ac+vi+es. Travel Dave Carta and new experiences are part of Dave’s make up too. He’s traveled extensively through South America, o7en visi+ng family in Chile. He’s hiked the Inca Trail and Tierra de la Fuego, experienced the glaciers in the Argen+ne Patagonia region, and lived for a summer (with a buddy) in Mexico. Although he’s traveled extensively, his favorite place is San Diego. He and his family currently live in the Mission Hills neighborhood.

and Chris+ne felt a bit nervous as Sam was incredibly noisy during the service. But at the end of the service, Olga came up to him and said “we love hearing childrens’ noises”. That reassurance was very important to them. Currently, their four boys enjoy Sunday School, the Children’s Sermon and the sermons and adult educa+on con+nues to feed both Dave and Chris+ne. Dave feels All Souls’ does a great job of being externally focused. When asked what ministries he would like to see, he stated he would con+nue to focus on children’s programs which would “feed” the children with messages, stories, lessons, and focus on them. He feels if we don’t, the world has many not-so-nice aBrac+ons, which will claim children’s aBen+on. Dave feels he has a blessed life that God con+nues to be good to him. He has great people in his life, has lots of energy and enthusiasm, and many talents to oﬀer. He looks forward to his boys growing up and having families. He also wants his latest inven+on to be “wildly successful”. Sounds good to me!

Dave loves to solve problems; engineering problems that is. He enjoys teaching people life skills, engineering, cri+cal thinking and just using common sense. He also likes going on back packing trips with “the guys” (with Chris+ne’s permission of course). The Carta’s have been at All Souls’ for 6 ½ years. Dave was raised Roman Catholic, Chris+ne, Episcopalian. They’ve tried other churches but didn’t feel the same sense of community there, and both missed the liturgy. Their ﬁrst Sunday at All Souls’, when son Sam was about 1 ½, both Dave

The Carta Family

Raising Awareness for the New World of Anti-Cancer Immunotherapies by Tom Marsilje This is a modiﬁed excerpt of a longer The Currently Incurable Scien/st column I wrote found here which was more focused on colorectal cancer.

both melanoma and lung cancer. They have transformed care for those types of cancer – and other types of cancer are fast approaching FDA approval as well.

Releasing the Immune System Brakes: AnCPD-1 Pathway Cancer Immunotherapies

Focusing on Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

Immunotherapies to ﬁght cancer have received an incredibly high amount of aBen+on recently – with good cause! They are transforming treatment of mul+ple advanced major cancer types, e.g. melanoma, lung, renal, bladder cancers & many major blood cancers just to name a few, by using the immune system to ﬁght the cancer. The immunotherapies which are geXng the most aBen+on currently are 1.) CAR-T therapies for blood cancers and 2.) medicines which impact the “PD-1 Pathway” called PD(L1) inhibitors, which I’ll focus on today. The PD-1 pathway exists to naturally “put the brakes” on the immune system to avoid autoimmune diseases. This is good! But… cancers have very successfully hijacked this system to use the PD-1 pathway for themselves – to deac+vate the immune system and avoid aBack – that is obviously very bad. At +mes, the immune system “can see” the tumor but it can’t aBack it (no maBer how much it wants to) because someone keeps pushing the brake pedal. PD-(L)1 inhibitors are drugs which block the tumors from doing this – in other words, they “release the brakes” on the immune system. FDA Approval So far PD-(L)1 drugs have been approved for 20

Colorectal cancer can be split into two types. “MSI-high” stands for “Microsatellite Instable” and the opposite case “MSS” stands for “Microsatellite Stable”. MSI status is determined by tests which can be ordered by your doctor if they haven’t been done already. MSI-High CRC CRC tumors can be MSI-high either due to inherited Lynch Syndrome or alterna+vely it occurs in about 10-15% of cases of “sporadic” CRC. MSI-high tumors have been known for years to aBract the aBen+on of the immune system. Under a microscope, large numbers of immune system cells can o7en be seen in these tumors. They also on average contain many more gene+c muta+ons than MSS-CRC tumors. Scien+ﬁcally, a high number of muta+ons as well as o7en a high number of immune cells already present at the tumor site looked like a match made in Heaven for immunotherapies. Preliminary Trial Results The preliminary phase 2 clinical trial results of PD-1 inhibitor immunotherapy in MSI-high cancers have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the small trial, 9 out of 10 evaluable MSI-high CRC pa+ents with late Stage IV disease showed disease control.

Results from in progress larger trials using PD-(L)1 inhibitors against MSI-high CRC are eagerly being an+cipated. There have been many pa+ent tes+monials of success. If the results of the small preliminary trial are confirmed, this would be the biggest scien+fic leap in the treatment for MSI-high CRC pa+ents in decades! The American Gastroenterological Associa+on (AGA) now recommends that all CRC pa+ents be screened for the possibility of Lynch Syndrome which is overlap tes+ng for MSI-status. Although MSI-high is only a minority por+on of CRC pa+ents, I believe every CRC pa+ent knowing their MSI status is important because of the incredible poten+al for immunotherapies currently in clinical trials. For that reason, I hope all CRC pa+ents you know, will now know what “MSI” is and plan on discussing MSI tests, the AGA’s new tes+ng recommenda+ons and finally the published results of the preliminary PD-1 inhibitor clinical trial with their doctor. I inten+onally did not go into full details in this column. If you have any follow-up ques+ons about immunotherapies – for colorectal cancer or any other type of cancer, please reach out to me at marsilje@cox.net. I am not a MD so I can’t give medical advice but I can discuss them at the scien+fic level and give you resources to facilitate medical discussions with your MD. To read the incredible personal stories of two colon cancer pa+ents currently being treated with these new genera+on immunotherapies, their tes+monials can be found on my personal blog here. Their stories are representa+ve of what I am hearing from mul+ple pa+ents on these trials. hBp:// adventuresinlivingterminallyop+mis+c.com/2015/10/14/the-faces-of-successful-colorectal-cancerimmunotherapies-vol-1/ With Blessings, Tom Marsilje “The Currently Incurable Scien+st”

Creativity Corner: The Tabernacle To the right of the altar is the tabernacle designed by Gertrud Mueller Nelson and her plans were executed by a local woodworker. Gertrud’s inten+on was to create a “holy bread box,” if you will, a respec]ul, sacred place to house the reserved sacrament. When the Eucharist is present in this tabernacle, a light burns next to it, a ﬂame contained in a hand-blown glass vessel. The doors were designed with precious woods from many parts of the globe so that we remember that the Eucharist feeds the whole world. This treasure box is ornamented with thin veneers of rare woods—the jewels, of the natural world. When the doors are ﬂung open at the end of Maundy Thursday, the empty interior is exposed, its walls stained a deep burnt orange. (Source: Soli Deo Gloria)

Dear Abbey: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Worship Dear Abbey, I have been enjoying our monthly evensong services, especially the beau+ful music the choir offers. One thing I don’t understand, though, is the incense. It smells great, but why do we use it? I want to invite a friend to come to evensong with me next month, but I think she has asthma. What should I do? Sincerely, Hazed and Confused Dear Hazed, This is a great ques+on. Even though the first opening sentence for our Evening Prayer Service in the BCP is “Let my prayer be set forth in your sight as incense, the li7ing up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.” (Psalm 141:2) some wonder why we use incense. Some see its use as just an an+quated popish or Anglo-Catholic ritual not fiXng for the church of the 21st century. Others believe it is just for show, not meaningful at all in our worship. The use of incense in our worship is en+rely appropriate and has scriptural reference in both the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. In the Old Testament, incense is used in conjunc+on with sacrifice to God. The incense not only causes a pleasing odor which mi+gates the smell of animal sacrifice but offering the incense is, in itself, an offering to God from God’s crea+on as incense comes from the resin of trees. In the book of Exodus we find God’s detailed instruc+ons for the temple which includes the establishment of an altar for incense: “You shall make an altar on which to offer incense; you shall make it of acacia wood…. Aaron shall offer fragrant incense on it; every morning when he dresses the lamps he shall offer it, and when Aaron sets up the lamps in the evening, he shall offer it, a regular incense offering before the LORD throughout your genera+ons.” (Ex 30:1-8) In the New Testament, incense first appears in Luke’s gospel as Zechariah, the father of John the Bap+st, enters the Holy of Holies to perform his priestly du+es. While he is offering incense, he learns that Elizabeth, his wife, will bear a son: “Now at the +me of the incense offering, the whole assembly of the people was praying outside. Then there appeared to him an angel of the Lord, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was terrified; and fear overwhelmed him. But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John. You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. (Luke 1:10-15) It is because of this that incense is associated with the coming of good news and why it is used at the Gospel procession as the Good News is proclaimed among the people. The use of incense has theological significance, as well. The rising smoke from the thurible reminds us of the presence of God and as the smoke rises into the air it reminds us of our prayers being offered with the prayers of all the saints before the altar of God. In the Revela+on to Saint John the Divine, we hear: I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel with a golden censer came and stood at the altar; he 22

was given a great quan+ty of incense to oﬀer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. (Rev. 8:2-4) Tell your friend not to worry, there is no evidence that incense causes asthma. In fact, throughout the ages the burning of incense was used as a medicinal as it has been shown to open the sinuses. Now, of course, there are some who may have physical limita+ons or reac+ons to the incense. So, make sure your friend knows that when we use incense we always open the side doors to aid in ven+la+on and it’s completely OK for her to exit the church during the service if she needs to. So, I say invite her to come experience the beauty of our worship: our vestments, our music, all of our ritual, the best we have to oﬀer, for the glory of God. Sincerely, Abbey Do you have a burning liturgical or church ques+on that you’ve been wondering about, but just can’t quite bring yourself to ask it? Well, now’s your chance. You can e-mail your ques+ons to DearAbbey @allsoulspointloma.org

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All Souls’ Episcopal Church

Sunday Services

1475 Catalina Blvd. San Diego, CA 92107 619-223-6394

Holy Eucharist: 8:00 am and 10:15 am Nursery Care from 8:30 am – 12:30 pm (infants - 3 years old) Sunday School (all ages): 9:10 am Small Souls Worship: 10:15 am except 4th Sunday of each month Compline Service – 2nd Sunday @ 7:30 pm Family Eucharist – 4th Sunday @ 10:15 am Choral Evensong – 4th Sunday @ 5:00 pm

In the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego The Rt. Rev. James R. Mathes, Bishop

Staﬀ The Rev. Joseph J. Dirbas, Rector The Very Rev. James E. Carroll, Associate Ruben Valenzuela, Director of the Music Jayne Ricker, Facili+es and Oﬃce Manager BeBy Nork, Nursery Assistant Vanessa Hiday, Nursery Assistant

Weekday Services: Wednesday Holy Eucharist: 7:00 am Thursday Holy Eucharist: 9:30 am Saturday Cel+c Eucharist: 5:00 pm