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Winter 2018

Our stories of following Jesus in the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

Baptism, Be the Church, and Discipleship The ways which were so available to us during Christendom’s long arc are no longer sufficient...what are our resources? Bishop Wayne Smith's address to the diocese at convention in November.

If we build it they will come. Well, pretty much they did come. And they don’t any more. Christendom began its long death sometime between John Kennedy’s assassination and the first moon landing. That is to say, sometime in the 1960s. Demographers say that the demise of Christendom,

Sometimes I hear the nostalgia in certain questions:

Bishop, does the diocese have a program to help us grow? And sometimes I hear it in unfulfilled yearnings, as in we just need to draw in more young families with children—even when the Church’s neighborhood has no one who looks like this anymore. Old vocabularies persist in words and phrases like these three: christening, go to church, membership—when more apt words are at hand: baptism, be the church, discipleship. Word choices from Christen-

dom, and now. Dear friends, these ways which were so available to us during Christendom’s long arc are no longer sufficient. When we try these old ways now, we mostly find them frustrating.

Which is not to say that we are without resources.

By no means. Our Prayer Book revised in 1979 was designed to be the first ever post-Christendom Prayer Book. Even the casual Christian will notice how different it is from its nine predecessors, in the lineage of our Church.

The current Prayer Book was built for a people devoted to baptizing, and being the church, and growing in discipleship.

To the extent that this Book does not work, it is because of efforts to superimpose onto it the outdated template of antecedent versions. A '79 Book with a '28 shape.

I am of a mind that we don’t need a new Prayer Book; I think we would do well to try the one that we have.

Baptism is a case in point.

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It made what I call the Field-ofDreams heresy appear true:

mostly over and done already, will actually quicken in pace beginning in 2018. There remains, however, a stubborn nostalgia for these times gone by and the way things were when we the Church were driving the bus. Sometimes I hear nostalgia in its unadorned form, a pining away for the days of three services on a Sunday, two of which were packed houses.

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Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. In the past few years, during this my annual address required by canon, I have spoken about the gradual demise of Christendom, the privileged place which the Church in the West had occupied for a millennium-and-a-half. It has been a tacit, very real mutual sponsorship between Church and culture. At its recent high-point in this country, late 1940s through early 1960s, Christendom made the Church look pretty impressive. Large attendance numbers, big Sunday schools, new buildings—all growth, all the time.

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upgrading the floor becomes ministry

At the outset it seemed fairly routine, the high-traffic area of the parish hall needed new flooring at Grace Episcopal Church in Kirkwood. A few tiles were removed and asbestos was revealed, so abatement was added in to the project. But, might there be a ministry opportunity here? Their thinking was, we’ve had a number of projects that were not attended to. But here’s something we’re going to do anyway. How can we add value to this, how might we keep a promise to St. Matthew’s? Five years ago the diminishing congregation of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Warson Woods, along with Grace, discerned they would merge. Some of the capital that St. Matthew’s brought was destined for a labyrinth in the memorial garden on Grace’s expansive grounds. The light bulb went off. What would it be to design a labyrinth in the tiles they were already going to lay down in the hall? Unlike the maintenance of an outdoor labyrinth, could the tiles require only as much upkeep as other flooring?

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And, who would this indoor option open the doors for? Their rector, Todd McDowell, shared his knowledge of labyrinths. They had discussions with the Sisters of Mercy who have a nearby outdoor labyrinth and with whom they coordinate on retreats. Contemplative Outreach, who rents space at Grace, was in on the conversation. They’re a primarily Roman Catholic inspired group focusing on prayer practices that have to do with contemplation, in the Ignatian tradition. They could do this! The labyrinth was one of this year’s grant recipients of the New Ventures in Community Ministry funds administered by the Diocesan Council. Grace member Lyn Ballard was the primary contact for the proposal development and said the process helped their committee articulate what they were going to do, how they were going to measure participation, and how they would build spiritual practice into this project. Because it’s indoors, people using wheelchairs and walkers, and those who would be

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challenged by the outdoor setting can participate. St Thomas Deaf Church has worship space at Grace and looks forward to a new kind of contemplation practice. Recently on first Sundays, Grace began offering intergenerational “messy” church with child-focused liturgy and maker-activities and leaders are beginning to imagine how the labyrinth adds to that experience. Welcomers, partners to walk the labyrinth with the blind, prayer resources for people new to praying with the labyrinth, hosts for other groups--there are so many facets to this spiritual outreach. Grace is also gathering a library of resources on labyrinths. The pattern uses the mathematical proportions of the familiar labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral in France. The tiles were made locally, in hues of pomegranate and ivory. And the result is an antidote of slowing down and settling in with deep breaths, to the anxious drive of the modern life. “You don’t have to understand it in artistic or spiritual or literary terms,” Lyn said, “you just need to feel it.”

Photos: the tiles being created; a first coat of wax after the tiles were laid; blessing the labyrinth and ministry on January 28, 2018. Photos from Janis Greenbaum and Fr. Todd McDowell.

Congratulations to Transfiguration Episcopal Church, Lake St. Louis parishioner Jack Samuel Robertson, Troop 997 O'Fallon, MO, Boone Trails District, Greater St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America who earned Scouting's highest rank, Eagle Scout, on Monday, October 23, 2017. During the month of June 2017, Jack conducted a travel size personal care item collection campaign for the Wright City, MO based not-for-profit organization Patriot Packages, which distributes ditty bags with personal care items to our military service members deployed in harm's way. Jack had 10 scout monitored collection sites throughout St. Charles County, MO, collecting over 5,000 personal care items. His father, William Robertson said, "Jack chose this charity as he has a strong line of family and friends who have and continue to defend the U.S.A." Jack's Eagle Scout Court of Honor was held in December at the church.

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Baptism, Church, and Discipleship vide the foundation for everything else in the '79 Book. Easter Mystery—which is shorthand for the crucified, risen and living Christ Jesus, the one whose actions and person make the whole creation new. All of who he is, and all that he is about. The liturgies of Holy Week and especially the Great Vigil of Easter mark the calendar with this central mystery of Christ. Baptism grafts new believers onto this mystery of Christ’s life, and death, and new life.

The Eucharist is this mystery’s weekly banquet, a regular encounter with the risen Christ within what the community does.

It all hangs together in this Prayer Book, and the Easter Mystery, or the Paschal Mystery as it is also called, makes it hang together. Everything in our worship refers back to the mystery and its corresponding baptismal sacrament. The burial rite makes us look death squarely in the face—and still find the wherewithal to proclaim resurrection, the sure and certain hope made present and palpable in baptism. Marriage is an articulation of baptism’s calling, and not the only one. The ordination rites are other articulations of this calling. Formation, Christian education, catechesis—whatever we want to call the learning of faith and discipleship, historically has looked to baptism as its focus.

The Church from its earliest days has catechized and taught believers before baptism.

From the early Church, we actually have more materials from the catechesis, the teaching, that came after baptism. The ancient methods emphasized experience first, with learning to follow. We would do well to

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then no one would much care whether they get ordained or not. I have known people who want to get ordained in the worst way, It is commonplace convinced that the world hinges on for Episcopalians to say that our theology of the Church, our ordination and not baptism at all. If we had a robust baptismal ecclesiology, if you will, comes from understanding of ourselves, then an understanding of baptism. ordination (or not) would be one of We claim to have a baptismal the many subsidiary details about ecclesiology but often do not act as life in Christ. if that were true. So, for example, it’s always We claim a baptismal ecclesia deal when it comes to giving ology, but often that means that we consent for a bishop’s ordination. say, “According to our baptismal A majority of diocesan bishops covenant," then this, or that, or the other. And that may be the end of it. and Standing Committees have to give consent If someone before anyone does say “according can become a In the life described in the to our baptismal covenant,” then the most treasured scriptures bishop. If we really had a reference is likely and recapitulated in the thorough-gothe last of the eight ing baptismal baptismal rite, the full interrogatories: understand“Will you strive for dignity and responsibility ing of ourjustice and peace of the Christian life comes selves, then among all people, and respect the digthrough the waters and in Gene Robinson’s election nity of every human the name of the Holy and and consent being?” Undivided Trinity, which in 2003 would In the life still have been described in the changes a life, a church, a deal—but a most treasured and a world thereafter smaller deal, scriptures and not a great big and forever. That’s what recapitulated in world-wide the baptismal rite, it means to live under a deal. the full dignity and baptismal ecclesiology. Back in responsibility of the those days, Christian life comes through the waters and in the name I tried to have a discussion with someone who disagreed with of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Gene’s ordination, and, foolish me, I which changes a life, a church, and went to baptism. The person said to a world thereafter and forever. me: Pffft. Baptism. That’s nothing. Little babies get baptized. We are talking about a bishop. That’s what it means to live

incorporate both pre-baptismal and post-baptismal learnings.

under a baptismal ecclesiology. Our Church functionally opts for something else.

Our Church functionally roots its ecclesiology in good old-fashioned, high-medieval-style ordination. If our Church were to have full-bodied baptismal ecclesiology,

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I expect to spend whatever years remain of my time as your bishop focusing on baptism and its place in renewing the Church. What would such a thing look like? For the Life of the World

Well, take a look at our ordination liturgies, the living example of the mock Anglican motto, “if a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth over-doing.” Can we so imagine baptism taking on some of the glorious ritual excess that we associate with ordination?

Baptism would also lose its daintiness, its tiny fonts, its stinginess with water and oil.

Baptism would evoke the presence of mighty waters, of both danger and life. People would get wet.

We forget that in every Prayer Book, beginning with 1549, immersion is the preferred method—and was the usual manner of baptizing, through the early nineteenth century. Candidates and sponsors would learn about baptism beforehand, and keep learning afterward. There are people in this diocese with expertise in this manner of teaching and learning, and I will ask them to pitch in. To that end, and for a broader project, I expect to appoint a Task Force on Baptism to report back to the 179th Convention next year. If baptism is a sign of God’s saving act and cosmic in scope (as Paul writes in Romans 8), then baptism might well happen when the cosmos, or at least the community, can see it happen. Never in private, it happens in Church, on Sunday or a Holy Day, and preferably on one of the five baptismal occasions which the Prayer Book names. Most preferred of all, being the Great Vigil of Easter, the calendar’s linchpin. Easter mystery finds its expression in baptism.

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The nineteenth-century English theologian F. D. Maurice put baptism in a crucial place for mission, the sacrament situated as it is on the borderland between Church and world, where the world might enter Church.

God is at work saving the world.

Baptism is what such salvation looks like, and binds the baptized to the work of God’s reconciliation. Baptism gives an important sense of purpose to a Church in our situation, with numerical decline, three percent decline in this diocese just in 2016, and uncertainty about our futures. Church Pension Group also projects that 22 percent of active clergy church-wide will retire during the next five years, 27 percent in the Diocese of Missouri. Just when we need leadership, leadership is going to become scarce. Another symptom of Christendom’s demise—which might not entirely be a bad thing because it might force the issue of all the baptized taking part and taking responsibility. Now might also be the right time to make a big deal anytime that someone comes to be baptized. Those who crafted our Prayer Book had the tremendous foresight to imagine a setting like ours, in which the culture is indifferent to belief and will do nothing to pass along the lore of faith. That’s on us—completely on us. A friend who is on a literature faculty at Exeter College in Oxford tells about teaching a story which had in it allusions to the season of Lent—which none of her students seemed to get. So she asked them outright: Do you know what Lent is? Silence. Then someone asked, Isn’t Lent sort of like the Christian Ramadan? In a college at one of the great centers of learning in the English-speaking world, it has come to this.

The good news at this moment of bad demographics is that parishes and missions all around this diocese are discovering a sense of purpose.

Lamar Smith, and the subsequent judicial decision in September 2017, made many people even more determined. Demonstrations and actions became almost daily matters around metropolitan St. Louis. I have shown up for a few of these, and I Just when we have spoken up for racial justice and need leadership, reconciliation. leadership is going to The Rev. Chuck become scarce. Wynder, Jr. who serves on the presidAnother symptom ing bishop’s staff, is of Christendom’s with us to introduce a terrific resource, demise—which “Becoming Beloved might not entirely Community: The be a bad thing. Episcopal Church’s Long-Term CommitBecause it might ment to Racial Healforce the issue of all ing Reconciliation, the baptized taking and Justice.”

They are finding it in doing the basics of education and pastoral care, and doing them well. They also find it in their neighborhoods. They find it in food ministries, and eldercare, and tutoring. They find it in nursing homes and by opening their doors to the larger community, for lots of groups and occasions. Many of part and taking them are able to Note the descriptor, say that they do responsibility. long-term. this because they This is not the believe that God work for a long weekend or a rehas compelled them, that Jesus has treat. It’s the work of generations. I a purpose. have to acknowledge the continual, I get to see what you are doing, and hear your stories. Little congre- calm support that Chuck gave to me and to my office in the hard season gations of ten people can do audaimmediately after Mike Brown’s cious things in these strange times. death. Chuck, I thank you for that Big ones do it too. It makes me very ministry. happy. And I say: God give us more.

One of the generational challenges facing us in this diocese is racial reconciliation.

There is enough in those words to fill our lives with mission. To be sure, the landscape is rife with needs for reconciliation of all sorts—political reconciliation is obvious, civic reconciliation, class reconciliation. But racial reconciliation has a particular claim on us in Missouri, both because of our history, and our present. The death of Michael Brown in 2014, and the subsequent judicial decision, woke a lot of people up. The 2011 death of Anthony

Residents and staff from Magdalene St. Louis are also here, to talk about their life and work, and to invite this diocese and our parishes and missions into a pattern of healing and reconciliation which is central to Magdalene’s life. The executive director of Magdalene is a priest of this diocese, the Rev. Hope Welles Jernagan, and she is the preacher for the Convention Eucharist. Let me note by title three other points of mission among us, with details and reports to come later: the Diocese of Lui in South Sudan,

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with whom we share a partnership; Deaconess Anne House, in Old North St. Louis, an intentional Christian community for young adults; St. Francis’, Eureka, whose brand new church we will consecrate in two weeks. Cause for joy!

Times are changing, and the Church of Christendom is over and done.

I think that Church was easier but also less interesting. As we stand on the cusp of more and significant demographic shifts, I find a deepening faithfulness among the communities of this diocese. People are intuitively settling into the basics of parish life and God’s mission. It is possible for us to thrive in this setting. Settling more deeply into the meaning of baptism, and what it demands from us, and the graces which it bestows upon us, is a way forward. We are baptized as a present and real sign of Christ reconciling us to God.

Reconciliation is part of the great work ahead of us.

So reconciled ourselves, reconciliation becomes a way of life for us. The so-called Chinese curse was probably made up by a twentieth-century English member of Parliament and cabinet minister, Austen Chamberlain. “May you live in interesting times!” is no curse at all. These are interesting times— maddening, uncertain, peevish, and full of possibility. It is a great time to be alive, and an even greater time to be a Christian. I ask you to join me for the facing of the day, because it is going to be a doozy. Bishop Wayne Smith delivered this address to diocesan Convention in Hannibal on November 18, 2017.

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Can a Community Collaborate to Care for Each Member of its Neighborhood? Calvary Church is in downtown Columbia and has a heart for neighborhood ministry. Downtown is also where a significant number of at-risk and homeless populations congregate. Calvary members know these people through their ministries of Room at the Inn emergency winter shelter, Saturday Morning Breakfast CafĂŠ, the Wardrobe clothing outlet, Loaves & Fishes soup kitchen, and as drop-ins in the church office. And the congregation is painfully aware of the prevalence of mental illness and addictions in this group. For the past three years, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been watching the folks with addiction and mental health issues cycle in and out of Boone County services, only to wind up on the streets again. And they began to realize there was no continuum of care, that agencies operated in silos, sometimes unwittingly at cross purposes. How could these agencies and advocates in town collaborate? In 2016 they began exploring and documenting the resources in the community. The goal was to identify interception points, those critical points of contact, when someone is having a mental health crisis. Identifying the resources and the gaps in those resources, they were amazed at how much overlap there was, and that no one had yet recognized the overlaps. Could they collaborate and redirect funds and resources from the overlap to the gaps? Boone County is rich with resources, but lacks a way to readily identify available resources. Providers of those resources are not well connected, nor is the information publicized to those who need them. A system and resource map would identify the many resources in the community, where they are and who to contact, as well as define what role an organization fills in delivering the services. Last summer Calvary (representing faith communities) participated in the workshop hosted by Boone County Commissioner Janet Thompson and Attorney Rusty Antel. While both are Calvary parishioners, and Janet is

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newly elected to the Diocesan Council, they were representing the Boone County Judicial & Law Enforcement Task Force. This workshop's goal was to begin to analyze the collected data. Also at the table were community social workers, representatives from hospitals, Mizzou, the Missouri Mental Health dept., the police, elected leaders, and community decision makers. The workshop brought in two facilitators from the Institute for Police, Mental Health & Community Collaboration to help the group identify resources and gaps for the community. Project Intercept from Rapid City, SD was demonstrated as an example of a potentially viable solution for Columbia and Boone County. (http://greaterthanthesum.com/rcci-pro-

gram-map/). Partnering with government, judicial and advocacy organizations, they are focused on creating a system and resource map, so that individuals in need could be better served by all participating. The map would help put the pieces of the system together, whether it is identifying general health services or behavioral health services for the homeless, or finding emergency shelter, or English language tutoring for a refugee family. Mapping will also help identify what gaps exist in available services. Ultimately, the system and resource map would be an interactive map that would be made available to the public.

Some of the faces and stories of Columbia's downtown community as presented on Room At The Inn's video (www.RoomAtTheInnCOMO.org). Room At The Inn is a winter warming shelter operated as a collaboration between the local congregations of Columbia, including Calvary.

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2018 New Ventures in Community Ministry Grant Recipient local stakeholders are planned (and have begun), touched on the involvement of area university nursing and social work students to intern to build upon the information gathered at the with the project. Or Calvary’s sponsorship of initial workshop 2016 workshop. a recently resettled immigrant family and conBoone County Community Service Departnecting them to resources, which fueled some ment (BCCSD) facilitated the first meeting to begin or solidify linkage between agencies, identify of the energy towards this work. Or of the many real-time links possible in the near future. the scope of the project, and begin the mapping Deacon Janet added, “The community is so exercise, focusing on housing first. Smaller folexcited about this ministry, and where the jourlow-up workshops will be scheduled to map the ney is leading us.” sub-categories and analyze the system to identify any gaps that need to be filled. If you’d like to learn more about this mapIn December 2017, Calvary offered a MenDeacon Janet Schisser ping project ministry, donate or volunteer, please tal Health First Aid workshop designed by the contact Deacon Janet Schisser at janetschisser@ National Council for Behavioral Health and the centurytel.net or 573-825-0952. Missouri Department of Mental Health (MDMH) The Diocesan Council awarded Calvary a Some of the participants in this project from for the purposes of improving the mental health New Ventures in Community Ministry grant Calvary are: Rector, the Rev. Knute Jacobson; knowledge and skills of the US public. It was for $11,000, about half of the amount needed to Deacon, the Rev. Janet Schisser ( janetschisser@ facilitated by representatives of MDMH. Mencreate this online map resource. centurytel.net); Treasurer, Mr. Ron Webb; and tal Health First Aid aims to teach members of Over the past year or two, as the cooperaparishioners Boone County District Commissioner the public how to respond in a mental health tion between agencies and faith communities Janet Thompson ( jthompson@boonecountymo. emergency and offer support to someone who has expanded to include the municipal, law org), Lynn Frey, Lia Willis, and Rick Cotner. appears to be in emotional distress. This enforcement, justice Learn more about the work of the Diocesan kind of training normally costs particiand health systems, Council and the yearly New Ventures grants at pants between 75-125 dollars, but Calvary progress has been They began to realize www.diocesemo.org/diocesancouncil. had enough money to sponsor the first made toward collabothere was no continuum and offered it at ration. A federal grant no cost. They’re was recently approved of care, that agencies working on finding by the Corporation for operated in silos, funding sources for Supportive Housing sometimes unwittingly additional workto provide technical support to integrate at cross purposes. How shops. “The process the jail and law encould these agencies of doing all this is a forcement databases ministry in itself,” and advocates in town with that of the homesaid Calvary’s dealess population. This collaborate? con Janet Schisser, requires cooperation “just to get people between the jail and talking to one another and justice systems, the members of the Basic Needs collaborating.” When she Coalition, including faith communities, the moved here nine years Health Care arm of the Veterans Administraago, there was an active tion, all working together to better identify the interfaith council with population, what each person or family needs, monthly meetings. But and what resources are available to them. Since beginning collaboration, housing for 213 individ- that council folded some months ago—the social uals and families (one-half of that number were service agencies were veterans, and the other half chronically homestill attending, but not less) has been obtained. the faith communities. And Boone County has now committed The map is one way to $75,000 for the implementation of an SSI/ acknowledge “that everySSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) body is doing good work, program. The SOAR program seeks to increase but together, we could do access to SSI/SSDI and Medicaid/Medicare for more.” eligible adults who are experiencing or at risk of This is a story with homelessness and have a mental illness, medical many moving parts, and impairment, and/or co-occurring substance use The online map prototype from Project Intercept in Rapid City, South Dakota it’s just the beginning. disorder. showing interconnected community resources. We’ve not even As this project goes forward workshops for

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“There’s never a quiet moment in this place,” said Cornita Robinson, Director of Programs and Operations at the Vine and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Ferguson. She arrived in 2015, just after they had begun offering a monthly meal to the community. And it was a rather quiet affair. She looked around and imagined “more of a family vibe,” and worked to rebrand the meal as Clay Café. It’s offered on the third Sunday of each month from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. St. Stephen’s and their community engagement wing, The Vine, open their space up to start-ups and neighborhood organizations. “We treat the space as a center of community life,” she said. And a number of the groups that use the space like to give back by volunteering or participating in the meals. Circus Harmony, the social circus organization and school, is one such group. At a recent meal they brought some of their youth to perform “Peace through Pyramids.”

Growing up in Ferguson, Cornita was able to express herself through arts in the schools, even helping create a giant mural on world peace while in middle school. “That piece is missing for a lot of the kids growing up now.” So she works to incorporate the arts into the Cafés. Last month, Mobile Makers brought art supplies for all to create mandalas. Sometimes there’s an open mic, or musical entertainment. New at the Café is a monthly meal specifically for seniors, held from 11:30 to 1, midweek. The Diocesan Council awarded Clay Café a New Ventures in Community Ministry grant to help get this second monthly meal up and running. Guests are always welcome, donations appreciated as is volunteer time. There are several terrific introductory videos and galleries of photos at their website, www.the-vine.us and you can reach Cornita for more information through cornita@the-vine.us.

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for Graduates of Magdalene St. Louis Renovating the three-bedroom brick structure, a Holy Communion property next door to the church, was a contagious labor of love that extended beyond the volunteers. Contractors hired for plumbing, electrical, and gas line work A 90-year-old man pulled old nails from the were so impressed with the project’s purpose that some of them reduced their rates, said Holy floor. Two sisters ages 2 and 4 brushed white Communion Junior Warden Susan Norris. paint on new porch railing under their dad’s Susan, whose construction resume previsupervision. And three generations of one family ously was limited to homeowner painting, spear— mother, son, and teenage grandson — showed headed the nearly year-long makeover along with up to plant flowers and spread mulch. Holy Communion member Kara Cummins, the All told, close to 100 volunteers from the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in Uni- project manager and craftsperson par excellence. “She did a lot of the heavy lifting,” said Susan. versity City and elsewhere transformed a fraz“Nothing scares her.” zled 80-year-old house at 7400 Gannon Ave. last Construction work on Saturdays and weekyear into a smart-looking home for graduates of nights — together with shoulder-to-shoulder Magdalene St. Louis. It’s a residential community fellowship — became so compelling for Susan, for women recovering from sexual exploitation, Kara, and other volunteers that they finally set violence, and addiction that provides free room and board, health care, and job training. The first some limits. “You have to go home at 10 o’clock at night,” said Susan, laughing. “We were working graduate of the two-year Magdalene experience took the keys to the house on Gannon in October. too hard for our own good.” The volunteers have a lot to show for their One or two more graduates will follow suit in toil. A gut rehab of the kitchen, complete with 2018.

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new appliances. Refinished hardwood floors. New drywall. Top to bottom painting. New toilets and bathtubs. New lighting fixtures. Thanks to $55,000 spent mostly on outside contractors and thousands of hours of volunteer labor, the market value of the house roughly quadrupled, Susan said. Magdalene St. Louis rents the house from Holy Communion. An unorthodox landlord, the church donated enough money to the ministry to cover the first year’s rent for graduates who are tasting new lives of dignity and joy. For Holy Communion, the rebirth of 7400 Gannon Ave. was a bright spot in a “hard year for a lot of people spiritually, partly around the question of gender and how we treat one another,” said the Rev. Mike Angell, the church’s rector. “To have the opportunity to do concrete work on behalf of these women was such a hopeful thing.” Robert Lowes is a journalist and poet. He and his wife Saundra belong to the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in University City.

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“You gotta get up, get out, and go get it.”

At the Columbia Public Schools you’ll find the MAC (multicultural achievement committee) program designed to increase the number of historically under-represented students in their honors and advanced placement classes, and to prepare them for college and career success. The scholars have to maintain an ethic of excellence, meet monthly as a group and with mentors, and once a year have a conference of motivational presenters and break-out sessions. Cathedral verger Shug Goodlow was asked to be a presenter at this year’s conference and she wanted to bring the message of the beloved community to the 400 students assembled. Her message was about inclusion and supporting one another, and grace. But she also knew she needed to capture the young people's attention right from the beginning. She dressed in a conservative pantsuit but with a t-shirt emblazoned with a

young black woman wearing a huge afro. A quick call to a young niece guided her to a popular tune to play as she walked on stage. The lyrics were a bit spicy, so she chose an instrumental version. She could feel the murmurs and attention as the song began and by the time she twirled around to reveal her shirt, the audience was with her for the most important part—her message. After small group break-out sessions with the presenters and mentors (Shug offered a jewelry-making session to a group of young men), they re-gathered. The groups were supplied construction paper, markers, and scissors. A large mural of a tree trunk stood before them and their job was to create objects for the mural. The first piece should identify things at the root of the tree, their context. The trunk was second, what was their ethic. The third piece was what had been born of this ethic, the leaves and fruit, After

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all were attached, and each scholar had time to view the completed piece, they talked. And it generated a lot of conversation. How do you fit into this, how does the community help you as a person, a student, a scholar? How can this help build up your own beloved community. Shug’s message was that most of them were worried about a lot of stuff they didn’t need to worry about. “If someone is talking about you behind your back,” she counseled, “it really means you’re in front of them. You've to to get up, get out, and go get it.” They got it and she heard back reports of that and other “Mama Shug”-isms the young people have been repeating. “It was such a marvelous experience, and I was so touched by what they did with that tree that I teared up as I stood looking at it,” she added. “I heard God’s voice in that tree.”

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About The Episcopal Church The Anglican Episcopal family consists of an estimated 85 million Christians who are members of 45 different Churches around the globe, led by the Most Rev. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. The member churches of Communion are joined together by choice in love, and have no direct authority over one another. Archbishop Justin is acknowledged as the spiritual head of the Communion, but does not have direct authority over any Anglican church outside of England. The Episcopal Church: 1.75 million follower of Jesus in 109 dioceses and three regional areas in 17 nations, led by the Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate. The Episcopal Church is in communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Moravian Church in North America. The Diocese of Missouri: 10,000 members in 41 churches, and campus ministry and Deaconess Anne House (Episcopal Service Corps), led by the Rt. Rev. George Wayne Smith, 10th Bishop of Missouri.

Clergy Transitions The. Rev. Pamela Dolan resigned from the Church of the Good Shepherd in Town and Country, answering a call to be the next rector of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Davis, CA. The Rev. Maria Evans is Good Shepherd's interim pastor. The Rev. Jon Hall resigned from St. Martin's Church in Ellisville. The parish has begun their transition process with the Rev. Alfred Jewson as a short-term interim pastor. St. Paul's Church in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis City called the Rev. Rebecca Ragland as its next rector and her first Sunday was February 4. Also on February 4, Unity was celebrated in Northwoods with the combined forces of the former Ascension and former All Saints. Their new name is the Episcopal Church of All Saints and Ascension. The Rev. Peter Speropulos, IV is curate at Church of St. Michael & St. George. The Rev. Ezgi Saribay Perkins left CSMSG for an assistant rectorship at St. Andrew's Church in Kansas City. And the deacons! A few have new placements, the Rev. Chester Hines, Jr., is now at Holy Communion. Taking his former place at Christ Church Cathedral is the Rev. Susan Naylor. Taking her former place at Good Shepherd is the Rev. Kevin McGrane. The Rev. Dayna Geddes Jewson is deacon now at St. Luke's Church in Manchester.

Sewanee Fellowship The Rev. Marc D. Smith, Ph.D. has been awarded a Fellowship-in-Residence by the University of the South's School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee. During the February 12-23, 2018 residential period at Sewanee, he will continue to research material for the development of an adult formation curriculum on the church's response to violence, to include modules on: theological perspectives on violence; the American culture of violence; the gun violence crisis; domestic and sexual violence; bullying; and forgiveness, reconciliation and hope. He anticipates piloting the curriculum in the Diocese of Missouri during the 2018-2019 program year and, following feedback and revision, making it available to the wider church. Marc is the Bishop's Deputy for Gun Violence Prevention in the Diocese of Missouri and also serves as Priest Associate at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in University City.

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Saturday, March 10, 2017, Emmanuel, Webster Groves, 5-8:30pm. A gathering of youth in grades 6-12 to focus on where God is calling us to share Christ's love with the world.

June–High School Mission Trip

June 24-29, 2018, St. Louis. Open to all youth who have completed grades 8-12. Join youth from around the diocese to work, play, learn, and serve in and around St. Louis.

July–Anytown Youth Leadership Institute

This eight-day residential experience focuses on preparing youth to be leaders for social justice in their schools and communities. Scholarships available from the Dismantling Racism Commission.

July 29-August 4, 2018 –Camp Phoenix

The official summer camp of the Diocese of Missouri invites campers ages 8-15 for a week of outdoor fun, crafts, and spiritual formation. Rising high school seniors may apply to work as counselors-in-training! Register from February 1st at http://camp-phoenix.org/ Learn more at www.diocesemo.org/youth or contact diocesan youth missioner the Rev. Loren Lasch, llasch@diocesemo.org, or 314-231-1220 ext. 1383.

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The 178th Diocesan Convention in Hannibal "We had a great time at the Diocesan Convention Youth Lock-In." said diocesan Youth Missioner the Rev. Loren Lasch. In addition to games and fellowship, they painted rocks with words and phrases "connected to things we have felt and learned at youth events." The rocks were given to the congregations of the diocese, to be placed in their communities as a way to share God's love with others!

Deaconess Anne House (DAH) members were on hand to help on the convention floor and to spend some time with the diocesan youth. Rebecca Cole, 2017-18 DAH corps member wrote, "I had never been to a Convention before, and I had no idea what to expect. We got to hear about a lot of the works that various parishes around the diocese are doing as well as hearing from various church leaders. I think the highlight was the youth lock-in though. Though I do not really consider myself a 'kids' person, these older youths were hilarious and excited to be there. We played spoons, painted rocks with positive sayings, and did Compline. This experience reminded me of how much we can close ourselves off to new and fun experience because we think of ourselves as 'not a BLANK person.' While I agree that knowing yourself and your strengths are important, it was a good reminder not to close myself completely off to things that I may not necessarily consider a 'Rebecca' thing."

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Elected to Disciplinary Board:

Elected to Cathedral Chapter: • •

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The Rev. Carol Wesley, Priest-in-charge, St. John and St. James Church, Sullivan Greta Lambert, Trinity Church, De Soto

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Elected to Diocesan Council: • •

The Rev. Dawn-Victoria Mitchell, Rector, Trinity Church, Hannibal Kristina (Krissy) Bender-Crice, All Saints’ Church, Farmington Scott Thompson, St. Mark’s Church, St. Louis

Elected to Standing Committee:

Sondra Kekec, All Saints’ Church, Farmington Janet Thompson, Calvary Church, Columbia

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The Rev. Leslie Scoopmire, Assisting Priest, Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis Lisa Fox, Grace Church, Jefferson City Loretta Go, St. Martin’s Church, Ellisville

Resolutions passed by the 178th Convention A-178 - Clergy Compensation

Submitted by Diocesan Council

1. BE IT RESOLVED that this 178th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri set the annual standard base compensation for full-time clergy in 2018 as follows: CASH SALARY & HOUSING ALLOWANCE TABLE FOR FULL-TIME PRIESTS

Years of Service 0 5 10 15 20 25 14

Average Sunday Attendance Under 75 75-175 176 or greater $59,474 $62,147 $65,196 $62,147 $65,196 $68,395 $65,196 $68,395 $71,815 $68,395 $71,815 $75,406 $71,815 $75,406 $79,176 $75,406 $79,176 $83,135

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The 178th Diocesan Convention in Hannibal * Table outlines a standard base for full-time solo or senior priests. Full-time associate compensation should follow the left column. This resolution establishes a standard base compensation for clergy. Congregations are urged and invited to compensate clergy beyond the standard. It is understood that under individual circumstances and conditions internal adjustments in the compensation package may be negotiated. CASH SALARY & HOUSING ALLOWANCE TABLE FOR PART-TIME PRIESTS * Table outlines a standard base for full-time solo or senior priests. Full-time associate compensation should follow the left column. This resolution establishes a standard base compensation for clergy. Congregations are urged and invited to compensate clergy beyond the standard. It is understood that under individual circumstances and conditions internal adjustments in the compensation package may be negotiated. CASH SALARY & HOUSING ALLOWANCE TABLE FOR PART-TIME PRIESTS

Years of Service 0 5 10 15 20 25

1/4 Time Half Time $14,869 $29,737 $15,537 $31,074 $16,299 $32,598 $17,099 $34,198 $17,954 $35,908 $18,851 $37,703

3/4 Time $44,606 $46,610 $48,897 $51,296 $53,861 $56,554

2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Church Pension Fund assessment will be paid by the congregation; 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that $50,000 group life will be paid by the congregation; 4. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the medical coverage for clergy be in compliance with Diocesan Resolution A-172; 5. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a standard of ten days per calendar year and $500 will be provided for continuing education; 6. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the standard auto allowance will be $2,000 per year; 7. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all parishes and missions encourage their full-time clergy to set aside the equivalent of two days each week for personal time, 24 hours of which must be consecutive; 8. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all parishes and missions be strongly encouraged to provide dental insurance for clergy and eligible dependents, or be assured they already have such coverage; and 9. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clergy in Charge shall accrue two weeks of sabbatical time for each year of service. Rationale The recommendation for 2018 reflects a 1.7% increase. This increase is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index-Midwest Urban Consumers. Current Salary Range for Full-Time Solo or Senior Priests in the Diocese of Missouri

ASA 0-75 76-175 176+

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Median

$52,248 $58,480 $100,000

$70,000 $70,000 $112,089

High

Average Average Years $75,539 $66,510 14 $94,232 $74,320 15 $211,065 $129,694 24

Resolution A-178 was carried, but not unanimously.

Revised B-178 - Immigration and Deportation

Submitted by Metro III Convocation

1. BE IT RESOLVED that this 178th convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri recognizes that our church includes members with mixed immigration status. As Christians, we embrace God’s call to welcome the stranger and to love our neighbors. We also seek laws that are just. We invite members throughout the diocese to call on the President of the United States and members of Congress to reject proposals that separate families, and to adopt new immigration laws that include a humane and just process by which undocumented immigrants can earn lawful permanent residency and eventually apply for citizenship; 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this convention strongly encourages members of the diocese to contact their elected representatives to call for the elimination of for-profit detention centers, elimination of indefinite detention, incarceration of children, and the preservation of due process, access to courts, and access to adequate legal representation for all migrants regardless of legal status; 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this convention encourages our congregations to offer compassionate hospitality toward immigrants and supports those congregations that prayerfully choose to offer sanctuary to undocumented migrants facing deportation; and

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Resolutions passed by the 178th Convention 4. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we support and encourage those who are called to act as witnesses as they accompany the immigrants in our midst, by standing in solidarity with programs that seek to assist immigrants facing deportation. RATIONALE As people of faith, we are taught to welcome the stranger, offer hospitality to the sojourner and to accompany the persecuted. Remembering that we “were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19) and as followers of Jesus, we are commanded to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Some organizations supporting this work include: • St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America (IFCLA) http://www.stl-ifcla.org/ • Missouri Faith Voices http://www.missourifaithvoices.org/sanctuary/ • PICO National Network https://www.piconetwork.org/ • Immigration Accompaniment Program of New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City https://newsanctuarynyc.wordpress.com/accompaniment/

Revised Resolution B-178 was passed but not unanimously.

Revised C- 178 Support of Poverty Awareness

Submitted by The Reverends Rebecca Ragland, Heather McCain, Kevin McGrane, Teresa Danieley, Dr. Katherine Mathews, The Honorable Joe Adams, Ms. Barbi Click and Ms. Mary Haggerty

1. BE IT RESOLVED that this 178th convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri honors the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. In accordance with our discipleship in Jesus Christ, we encourage all people to follow Dr. King and the mandate of Matthew 25:35-40, to provide water for the thirsty, clothing for the naked and food for the hungry, and to stand against systems that perpetuate the causes of poverty; 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this convention, recognizing that our church includes members at all socio-economic levels, encourages its members and affiliates to learn about poverty and participate in such movements as The New Poor People’s Campaign (www.poorpeoplescampaign.org) as it organizes to bring issues of poverty to the fore through national actions; and 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this convention encourages all parishes and missions to highlight issues of poverty and economic injustice during the liturgy, in the pulpit, or in special forums on the Sunday following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, January 21, 2018.

Revised Resolution C-178 was moved by Mrs. Dyer, seconded and passed, but not unanimously.

D-178 - Resolution to Give Seat & Voice to General Convention Deputies at Diocesan Convention Resolved, that Article III.3 of the Constitution of the Diocese of Missouri shall be amended to add the following: “SEC. 12. Lay Deputies and Lay Provisional Deputies to General Convention who are not otherwise Members of Convention shall have seat and voice in Convention.” and that subsequent sections of Article III.3 be renumbered. RATIONALE Article III.3 of the Constitution of the Diocese of Missouri already affords seat and voice to the Lay members of Standing Committee and Diocesan Council who do not otherwise have seat and voice in Convention. This amendment would afford the same role to the lay Deputies and Provisional Deputies to General Convention. All clergy Deputies and Provisional Deputies to General Convention already have seat and voice.

Resolution D-178 was moved, seconded and carried but not unanimously.

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The 178th Diocesan Convention in Hannibal Episcopal Diocese of Missouri 2018 Operating Budget

Adopted by Convention 18 November 2017 A

2017 Operating Budget

Parishes and Missions Assessments

Investment Interest Income

"Making All Things New" Ministries on Campus Miscellaneous

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

White Fund Loan Account Interest Bishop's Thompson Fund Contribution Program Income Convention Income Commission on Ministry Income Leadership Conf. Registrations Episcopal School for Ministry Campus Ministry Income Camp Phoenix Income Commission on Youth Ministry Clergy Events-Registrations Program Income (Total)

21 1

Donaldson Fund Income

22 TOTAL INCOME 2 23 24 Expenses 25 THE EPISCOPATE

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Council's Proposed 2018 Budget

Line Item Explanations

2017

2 3 Revenues INCOME 4

7 8

National Church Assessment

$1,135,100

$1,135,185

$238,400

$24,000 $5,000

$160,000 $539,200

$17,000 $6,000 $2,000 $17,250 $11,600 $26,300 $3,375 $6,000 $89,525

$17,000 $2,400 $1,600 $12,000 $8,000 $26,300 $3,375 $6,000 $76,675

$74,800 2017

2017 Operating $2,266,025 Budget

$335,350

$74,800

$335,350

New Ventures in Community Ministry

$24,980

Province of the Midwest (Province V)

$4,065

International Development (SDGs)

Companion Diocese Committee

31 32 33

Interfaith & Ecumenical Bishop Transition General Convention Deputies

Lambeth

35 36 37

Episcopate Expense Account Salary (2 Employees) Benefits (2 Employees)

38 39

TOTAL - EPISCOPATE ADMINISTRATIVE

40 41 42

Annual Convention (Related Income-Line 12) Consulting Contract Contingency

43 44

Governance Equipment

Insurance

Interpreters for the Deaf

Represents a dispersal from the Ministries on Campus portion of the Making All Things New Campaign. This dispersal is designated to offset Campus Ministry. This fund generates average annual interest income of $26,000 approximately $24,000. $5,000 Interest income from loans to congregations from the Kelton & Alma White Fund plus income earned on the $165,000 investment portion of the Loan Fund. $539,000 Bishop's contribution from the Thompson Fund to the Diocesan Operating Budget.

$17,000 $6,000 $2,000 $11,550 $11,000 $26,000 Episcopal Diocese of Missouri $3,375 2018 Operating Budget $6,000 Adopted by$82,925 Convention 18 November 2017 The offsetting anticipated income for the various listed programs.

Income from the Donaldson Fund designated for Episcopal City Mission, Camp Phoenix, Youth Ministries and F $81,480 other programs of the Diocese. This income is based on a total return policy of 5% of a three year average.

2017 Projected Council's Proposed $2,253,260 Year-end 2018 $2,439,005 Budget

Anticipated parish/mission income based on the Assessment formula using the minimum percentage of 2016 Parochial Report Income and adjusted based on experience. 2018 includes a cash assessment from Christ Church $1,274,100 Cathedral as opposed to the "in kind" arrangement for office space currently in place. Investment income on Unrestricted Funds based on a total return policy of 5% of a three year average $265,500 (dividends, interest and appreciation in investments).

$2,000

$500

$1,000 $10,000 $12,000

$750

$20,000 $235,920 $97,500

$20,000 $227,000 $93,000

$744,065

$730,645

Line Item Explanations

Amount of Asking from each diocese to fund the program and ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the nation and the world. 2018 Budget represents a 100% giving level on the $307,925 required 15% Asking.

The 79th General Convention adopted a plan to reduce diocesan assessment percentages over three years in order to allow more Diocesan funds to be available for local ministry. The 177th Diocesan Convention approved a resolution requesting that Diocesan Council add to the New Ventures in Community Ministry the funds equal to $56,510 the reduced assessment amount for the next three fiscal years. This represents our assessment dues for our membership in Province V. In General Convention years it also $6,800 includes the travel costs of our Missouri delegates who attend this meeting.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the root causes of poverty and the universal need for development that works for all people. These funds will go to Episcopal Relief and Development's Global Needs Fund. In addition, the following lines in our 2018 budget align with the SDG's: Episcopal City Mission, Task $2,000 Force for the Hungry, Jubilee Ministry, and Dismantling Racism. Funds to support the committee's ongoing work with the Diocese of Lui in Southern Sudan, including the raising PAGE 1 OF 5 of funds. $500 This amount covers the minimum dues to the Interfaith Partnership organization and the expenses of our $1,000 Ecumenical & Interreligious Officer. $10,000 Funds set aside each year to cover transition expenses for the next bishop. $12,000 Funds set aside each year to cover General Convention Deputy expenses at our triennial convention. Funds set aside each year to enable our Bishop and spouse to attend the next Lambeth Conference. Lambeth $1,000 occurs every ten years. This amount represents the travel, conferences, and other expenses related to the Episcopate Cluster. This line $20,000 includes an amount to cover the expenses of a nonâ&#x20AC;?stipendiary Archdeacon. $230,860 Salary line is for two persons in the Episcopate Cluster: the Bishop and an Executive Assistant. $98,600 The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salaries. $747,195

$32,000 $6,000 $3,000

$30,000 $6,000 $2,500

$30,000 $6,000 $2,000

$3,300 $5,000

$3,400 $5,000

This amount covers the direct costs related to the Annual Meeting of the Diocese, such as all preparatory materials, onâ&#x20AC;?site expenses, publication of the Convention Journal and reprinting of the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese. To allow the Offices of the Bishop to make use of outside consultants for special projects or events. Contingency is simply for unanticipated expenses. Funds to cover the logistical expenses associated with Diocesan Council and Standing Committee/COEDMO meetings. To provide funds primarily for replacing/upgrading equipment in the Offices of the Bishop. Insurance represents our liability, worker's compensation, officers and directors liability, and property insurance. Provides funding for interpreters during Diocesan Convention, Convocation, or other diocesan meetings in which hearing impaired persons participate. Includes items such as postage, copier, paper, consumable supplies, equipment maintenance, payroll processing,

The $11,000 Episcopal $10,000 Diocese of $10,500 Missouri $3,000

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Episcopate Expense Account Salary (2 Employees) Benefits (2 Employees) TOTAL - EPISCOPATE ADMINISTRATIVE

40 1 41 42

Annual Convention (Related Income-Line 12) Consulting Contract Contingency

43 2 44

Governance Equipment

1 45 69

Insurance Community of Hope

Interpreters for the Deaf

70 2 47

SchoolExpenses for Ministry (Related Income-Line 15) Office

Office Space - Rent

71 49

$20,000 $235,920 $97,500

$20,000 $227,000 $93,000

$744,065

$730,645

$10,000 $1,600

2017 Operating $3,000 Budget $41,665 $50,000

2017 Projected $3,000 Year-end $41,665 $48,000

Episcopal City Mission Professional Fees

$25,000 $40,000

50 51 72

Telephone Administrative Expense Account Education for Ministry

$15,000 $4,500 $1,500

$11,500 $4,000 $1,750

52 53 54 55 73

Salary (2 Employees) Benefits (2 Employees) TOTAL - ADMINISTRATIVE COMMUNICATIONS Task Force for the Hungry

$132,400 $84,950 $390,150

$132,400 $84,500 $380,300

$11,000

$22,090 $500 $1,500 $2,500

$22,090 $500 $1,500 $1,000

$1,570 $1,000 $4,050 $5,000 $61,800 $134,840 $28,750 $67,200 $266,365 $231,250

$1,570 $1,000 $4,050 $3,000 $66,435 $134,840 $28,650 $67,400 $266,150 $231,450

$2,000 $500 $15,000 $1,000

$1,755 $500 $15,000 $500

$13,500 $10,050

$11,500 $10,050

$6,000 $60,800 $1,000 $1,500 $0

56 74 57 75 58 76 59 77 78 60 79 61 80 62 81 63 82 64 83 84 85 65 86 66 87 67 88

Printed Publications/Web & E-mail Oasis Missouri Communications Conferences/Workshops Stewardship Archives Jubilee Ministry Communications Expense Account Youth Missioner Exp Acct Salary Employee) Salary (1 (2.6 Employees) Employee) Benefits Benefits (1 (2.6 Employees) TOTAL DISCIPLES TOTAL -- MAKING COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORTING CONGREGATIONS MAKING DISCIPLES Leadership Conference (Related Income-Line 14) Christian Education Clergy Events (Related Income-Line 19) Clergy Spouse Events Commission on Youth Ministry (Related Income-Line 18) Commission on Ministry (Related Income-Line 13) Continuing Education - Clergy Camp Phoenix (Related Income-Line 17) Continuing Education - Lay Episcopal Church Women Disaster Preparedness

2 68 69

Dismantling Racism

Community of Hope

$3,100

School for Ministry (Related Income-Line 15)

$41,665

$25,000

Education for Ministry

$1,500

$1,750

Oasis Missouri Stewardship

Jubilee Ministry

Making Disciples

$11,000

Annual conference designed to provide resources and inspiration for all leaders‐‐lay and clergy. This event will Christian Education deals with Christian formation. This request will provide help to congregations that need generate an estimated income of $2,000 in registration fees. assistance to purchase curriculum materials. Represents the logistical costs associated with 2 overnight events and 2 clergy days. The vision for youth ministry is to create a feeling of community amongst youth and parishes in the diocese, Represents the costs of special events with clergy spouses and partners. inspire and encourage them to become committed and enthusiastic disciples of Christ, and grow in their Represents the allocated funds for this nationally mandated commission and funds the business of COM such as relationships with God and one another. Planned programming includes an overnight youth lock‐in, Lenten the discernment conference and ordination services. Income of $6,000 is anticipated from postulancy application event, Summer mission trip, back to school service opportunity, Diocesan Convention participation, $11,500 convocational gatherings, and a diocesan youth advising committee. $10,050 fees and discernment retreat registrations. Represents money available to assist clergy in taking part in Continuing Education. Clergy must apply for these The Camp Phoenix program offers a residential summer camp experience to Diocesan youth . The Camp serves $6,000 funds. approximately ninety children and twenty‐five young staff members each year. Funds requested will cover camp Episcopal Diocese of Missouri operations. $60,000 Represents money available to assist lay leaders in taking part in educational events that help enable their 2018 Operating Budget individual ministry. There is an application process to tap these funds. $1,000 The Episcopal Church Women request funds to help defray the cost of attendance at the Triennial Meeting held in Funds to support two disaster coordinators in the areas of training, disaster response and preparedness. Funds Adopted by$1,500 Convention 18 November 2017 conjunction with General Convention. $1,700 will cover mileage reimbursement, training, copies and miscellaneous supplies. The Commission on Dismantling Racism is charged by the National Church and the Diocese of Missouri to do the

$500

Building Congregations $2,500 $1,000 $1,000

The Mission of Jubilee Ministry is to practice charity while advocating and working for justice. Funds will cover The Archives is the repository for all the historical records of the Diocese. This funding will cover archives the travel, training and administrative expenses of the Diocesan Jubilee Officer. This work aligns with the supplies, digitization costs, and a small amount for memberships. Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. This expense budget is primarily used for relationship building. It represents the travel, continuing education, This amount represents the travel, conferences, and other expenses related to the Communications Cluster. and other expenses of the Diocesan Youth Missioner. Salary line is for three persons in the Communications Cluster: the Director for Communications, the Salary line supports one person in the Making Disciples Cluster: a diocesan youth missioner. Receptionist and the Archivist (3/5 time). The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salary. The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salaries.

$2,000 $500 $15,000 $1,000

$41,665

$25,000

18 75

$1,520 $1,500 $4,000 $5,000 $62,850 $137,130 $27,010 $71,900 $251,660 $240,050

$1,600

Episcopal City Mission

Task Force for the Hungry

Episcopal City Mission is seeking budget support to continue their mission of providing hope and healing to the Rent paid to Christ Church Cathedral for the Offices of the Bishop's office space. This is a change from the current "in kind" rent/assessment arrangement. $109,400 children in detention through the presence of a chaplain. After discussion, this line was adjusted to a need based number that considers financial resources available for their ministry from sources other than the Diocese. This This represents the fee paid to auditors for the annual examination of the assets and liabilities of the Diocese of $12,500 Missouri and funds to cover necessary legal expenses. $40,000 work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. Funding for Diocesan membership in this four‐year curriculum developed by the University of the South PAGE 2 OF 5 $12,000 Funds to cover telephone services and internet connectivity for the Offices of the Bishop. Theology School for theological education, which covers the costs of mentor recertification and allows our lay $4,500 This amount represents the travel, conferences, and other expenses related to the Administrative Cluster. $1,750 people to participate at a reduced cost. Salary line is for two persons in the Administrative Cluster consisting of the Executive Director of Finance & $143,250 Administration and the Assistant for Finance & Benefits. Funds for donations to Episcopal and faith based food programs within the Diocese of Missouri boundaries. The $92,050 The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salaries. Diocesan Task Force for the Hungry speaks and acts on behalf of hungry people, funds food ministries, raises $509,100 awareness about hunger and poverty issues, and serves as a resource to food ministries within the Diocese of $15,000 Missouri. This work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. Funds to cover the communication publications and printing, postage and all other associated costs. Also The mission of the Oasis Missouri is to provide congregational education programs and to offer resources and includes funds to cover website, e‐mail services, listservs, podcast project, social media ads and special support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people, their families and friends, and the congregations in promotional projects. $24,000 which they worship. The funding will cover the cost of Oasis educational materials and evangelism related $500 expenses. Funds for a Fall communicators conference and webinars. $1,500 This line covers diocesan membership in The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). $1,000

F work to make our Episcopal church a more inclusive and accepting church as well as to address the destructive effects of racism wherever they occur in the church. Funding will allow them to train, educate and update each member of the Commission and also to educate and inform others so as to dismantle racism in the Diocese. The PAGE 4 OF 5 2017 Projected Council's Proposed Commission has access to funds in The Rev. Emery Washington , Sr. Scholarship Fund to offset a portion of Line Item Explanations student tuition for the Anytown Training Program. This work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on Year-end 2018 Budget $11,700 $12,200 line 29.

This amount covers the direct costs related to the Annual Meeting of the Diocese, such as all preparatory F materials, on‐site expenses, publication of the Convention Journal and reprinting of the Constitution and Canons $30,000 of the Diocese. To allow the Offices of the Bishop to make use of outside consultants for special projects or events. $6,000 Episcopal Diocese of Missouri $2,000 Contingency is simply for unanticipated expenses. Council's Proposed 2018 Operating Budget Line Item Explanations Funds to cover the logistical expenses associated with Diocesan Council and Standing Committee/COEDMO 2018 Budget Adopted by$3,400 Convention 18 November 2017 meetings. $5,000 To provide funds primarily for replacing/upgrading equipment in the Offices of the Bishop. The Community of Hope is a program of training for lay pastoral ministry based on Benedictine spirituality. E F Insurance represents our liability, worker's compensation, officers and directors liability, and property Funds requested will cover quarterly meetings of the Community and will allow one person to attend the annual $10,500 conference. $1,600 insurance. Provides funding for interpreters during Diocesan Convention, Convocation, or other diocesan meetings in which The current tag‐line from the Episcopal School for Ministry is "Making Disciples of Jesus for the Ministry of the Council's Proposed $3,000 hearing impaired persons participate. Line Item Explanations Church." Funding covers the Program for Theological Formation in addition to the salaries of a part‐time Dean 2018 Budget Includes items such as postage, copier, paper, consumable supplies, equipment maintenance, payroll processing, and registrar. $38,700 and computer support. $48,000

2017 2017 Operating Budget $11,700

2018 Operating Budget

$747,195 The 178th Diocesan Convention in Hannibal Adopted by Convention 18 November 2017

$32,0002017 $30,000 $6,000 $6,000 $3,000 2017 Projected $2,500 2017 Operating Budget Year-end $3,300 $3,400 $5,000 $5,000 $11,000 $3,1002017

This amount represents the travel, conferences, and other expenses related to the Episcopate Cluster. This line $20,000 includes an amount to cover the expenses of a non‐stipendiary Archdeacon. $230,860 Salary line is for two persons in the Episcopate Cluster: the Bishop and an Executive Assistant. Episcopal Diocese of Missouri The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salaries. $98,600

$1,000

The Community of Hope is a program of training for lay pastoral ministry based on Benedictine spirituality. Funds requested will cover quarterly meetings of the Community and will allow one person to attend the annual $1,600 conference.

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The current tag‐line from the Episcopal School for Ministry is "Making Disciples of Jesus for the Ministry of the Church." Funding covers the Program for Theological Formation in addition to the salaries of a part‐time Dean $38,700 and registrar.

Episcopal City Mission is seeking budget support to continue their mission of providing hope and healing to the children in detention through the presence of a chaplain. After discussion, this line was adjusted to a need based number that considers financial resources available for their ministry from sources other than the Diocese. This $12,500 work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. Funding for Diocesan membership in this four‐year curriculum developed by the University of the South Theology School for theological education, which covers the costs of mentor recertification and allows our lay $1,750 people to participate at a reduced cost. Funds for donations to Episcopal and faith based food programs within the Diocese of Missouri boundaries. The Diocesan Task Force for the Hungry speaks and acts on behalf of hungry people, funds food ministries, raises awareness about hunger and poverty issues, and serves as a resource to food ministries within the Diocese of $15,000 Missouri. This work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. The mission of the Oasis Missouri is to provide congregational education programs and to offer resources and support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people, their families and friends, and the congregations in which they worship. The funding will cover the cost of Oasis educational materials and evangelism related $500 expenses. $1,000 This line covers diocesan membership in The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS).

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The Mission of Jubilee Ministry is to practice charity while advocating and working for justice. Funds will cover the travel, training and administrative expenses of the Diocesan Jubilee Officer. This work aligns with the $1,500 Sustainable Development Goals on line 29.

School for Ministry (Related Income-Line 15)

$41,665

$38,700 and registrar.

Episcopal City Mission is seeking budget support to continue their mission of providing hope and healing to the

Episcopal City Mission

72 1

Education for Ministry A

2 73

Task Force for the Hungry

69 74 75

Community of Hope Oasis Missouri Stewardship

School for Ministry (Related Income-Line 15)

Jubilee Ministry

77 71 78 79 80 72 81 82 83 84 73

C $1,500

D $1,750

Youth Missioner Exp Acct Episcopal City Mission Salary (1 Employee) Benefits (1 Employee) TOTAL - MAKING DISCIPLES Education for Ministry SUPPORTING CONGREGATIONS Leadership Conference (Related Income-Line 14) Clergy Events (Related Income-Line 19) Clergy Spouse Events Task Force for the Hungry Commission on Ministry (Related Income-Line 13) Oasis Missouri Continuing Education - Clergy Stewardship

Continuing Education - Lay

76 2 88

Jubilee DisasterMinistry Preparedness

Youth Missioner Exp Acct Salary (1 Employee) EAP Program/Pastoral Care Benefits (1 Employee) TOTAL - MAKING DISCIPLES SUPPORTING CONGREGATIONS Fresh Start Cape Girardeau, Christ Leadership Conference (Related Income-Line 14) Regional Ministry in NE Missouri 19) (Related Income-Line Clergy Events Clergy Spouse Events

by Convention 18 November 2017 TheAdopted 178th Diocesan Convention in Hannibal Funding for Diocesan membership in this four‐year curriculum developed by the University of the South

2017

2017 Operating Budget $11,000

$41,665 $1,000

$25,000

$3,100 $500 $2,500

74 1 86 75

77 78 89 79 80 81 90 91 82 92 83

$25,000

$5,000 $25,000 $61,800 $28,750 $266,365 $1,500 $2,000 $15,000 $1,000 $11,000

$1,755 $15,000 $500 $11,000 $11,500

$500 2017 $6,000 $2,500

$500 $6,000 $1,000

$1,000 2017 Operating Budget $1,000 $0

$1,000 2017 Projected Year-end $1,000 $0

$5,000 $61,800 $7,000 $28,750 $266,365

$3,000 $66,435 $7,000 $28,650 $266,150

$2,500 $20,000 $2,000 $10,000 $15,000

$2,500 $20,000 $1,755 $10,000 $15,000

$1,000

$500

Kirksville, Trinity

$12,000

85 94

Commission on Ministry (Related Income-Line 13) Mid-Missouri Cluster

$13,500 $9,500

$11,500 $9,500

86 95

Continuing Education - Clergy St. Louis, Ascension & All Saints

$6,000 $33,000

87 96 97 88 98

Continuing Education - Lay St. Louis, St. John's Sullivan,Preparedness St. John & St. James Disaster Town & Country, Good Shepherd

$1,000 $15,000 $15,500 $0 $13,000

99 100

Eureka, St. Francis Farmington, All Saint's

$20,000 $22,020

101

Carondelet, St. Paul's

$10,000

102

Sikeston, St. Paul's

$17,650

103

Poplar Bluff, Holy Cross

$30,000

104

St. Louis, Christ Church Cathedral

$20,000

Campus Ministry (1 Employee+Exp) (Related Income-

105 Line 16) 106

Supporting Congregations Expense Account

107 108

Salary (2 Employees) Benefits (2 Employees)

109 TOTAL - SUPPORTING CONGREGATIONS 110 Total Expenses 111 112 Net Income (Expense)

Theology School for theological education, which covers the costs of mentor recertification and allows our lay

E $1,750 people to participate at a reduced cost.

Funds for donations to Episcopal and faith based food programs within the Diocese of Missouri boundaries. The 2017 Projected Council's Proposed Diocesan Task Force for the Hungry speaks and acts on behalf of hungry people, funds food ministries, raises Line Item Explanations Year-end 2018 Budget awareness about hunger and poverty issues, and serves as a resource to food ministries within the Diocese of $11,000 $15,000 Missouri. This work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. The mission of the Oasis Missouri is to provide congregational education programs and to offer resources and The Community of Hope is a program of training for lay pastoral ministry based on Benedictine spirituality. support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people, their families and friends, and the congregations in Funds requested will cover quarterly meetings of the Community and will allow one person to attend the annual which they worship. The funding will cover the cost of Oasis educational materials and evangelism related $1,600 $1,600 conference. $500 $500 expenses. The current tag‐line from the Episcopal School for Ministry is "Making Disciples of Jesus for the Ministry of the $1,000 $1,000 This line covers diocesan membership in The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). Church." Funding covers the Program for Theological Formation in addition to the salaries of a part‐time Dean The Mission of Jubilee Ministry is to practice charity while advocating and working for justice. Funds will cover $41,665 $38,700 and registrar. the travel, training and administrative expenses of the Diocesan Jubilee Officer. This work aligns with the Episcopal City Mission is seeking budget support to continue their mission of providing hope and healing to the $1,000 $1,500 Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. children in detention through the presence of a chaplain. After discussion, this line was adjusted to a need based This expense budget is primarily used for relationship building. It represents the travel, continuing education, number that considers financial resources available for their ministry from sources other than the Diocese. This $3,000 $5,000 and other expenses of the Diocesan Youth Missioner. $25,000 $12,500 work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. $66,435 $62,850 Salary line supports one person in the Making Disciples Cluster: a diocesan youth missioner. Funding for Diocesan membership in this four‐year curriculum developed by the University of the South $28,650 $27,010 The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salary. Theology School for theological education, which covers the costs of mentor recertification and allows our lay $266,150 $251,660 $1,750 $1,750 people to participate at a reduced cost.

$13,500

children in detention through the presence of a chaplain. After discussion, this line was adjusted to a need based Episcopal Diocese of Missouri number that considers financial resources available for their ministry from sources other than the Diocese. This 2018 Operating Budget $12,500 work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29.

Annual conference designed to provide resources and inspiration for all leaders‐‐lay and clergy. This event will Funds for donations to Episcopal and faith based food programs within the Diocese of Missouri boundaries. The $2,000 generate an estimated income of $2,000 in registration fees. Diocesan Task Force for the Hungry speaks and acts on behalf of hungry people, funds food ministries, raises Represents the logistical costs associated with 2 overnight events and 2 clergy days. $15,000 Episcopal Diocese of Missouri awareness about hunger and poverty issues, and serves as a resource to food ministries within the Diocese of Represents the costs of special events with clergy spouses and partners. $1,000 Missouri. This work aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. $15,000 2018 Operating Budget Represents the allocated funds for this nationally mandated commission and funds the business of COM such as The mission of the Oasis Missouri is to provide congregational education programs and to offer resources and Adopted by Convention 18 November 2017 the discernment conference and ordination services. Income of $6,000 is anticipated from postulancy application support to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered people, their families and friends, and the congregations in fees and discernment retreat registrations. $11,500 which they worship. The funding will cover the cost of Oasis educational materials and evangelism related E F Represents money available to assist clergy in taking part in Continuing Education. Clergy must apply for these $500 expenses. $6,000 funds. $1,000 This line covers diocesan membership in The Episcopal Network for Stewardship (TENS). Represents money available to assist lay leaders in taking part in educational events that help enable their individual ministry. There is an application process to tap these funds. $1,000 The Mission of Jubilee Ministry is to practice charity while advocating and working for justice. Funds will cover Council's Proposed Line Item Explanations the travel, training and administrative expenses of the Diocesan Jubilee Officer. This work aligns with the Funds to support two disaster coordinators in the areas of training, disaster response and preparedness. Funds 2018 Budget Sustainable Development Goals on line 29. $1,500 $1,700 will cover mileage reimbursement, training, copies and miscellaneous supplies. This expense budget is primarily used for relationship building. It represents the travel, continuing education, Employee Assistance Program/Pastoral Care: provides free personal and confidential counseling for clergy, $5,000 and other expenses of the Diocesan Youth Missioner. congregational staff and their families through Care and Counseling. The clergy counseling sessions are Salary line supports one person in the Making Disciples Cluster: a diocesan youth missioner. $62,850 $7,000 currently funded through the Aged & Infirm Clergy Fund. PAGE 4 OF 5 The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salary. $27,010 $251,660 Fresh Start is a program designed for clergy in new cures and newly ordained clergy. It provides ongoing support to clergy during the critical time of transition, fortifies their leadership in their new congregation, and $2,500 strengthens collegiality. This line item covers meeting expenses. Annual conference designed to provide resources and inspiration for all leaders‐‐lay and clergy. This event will $18,000 Provides support for the development work of this congregation. $2,000 generate an estimated income of $2,000 in registration fees. Funds to allow the continuing ministry of Trinity/Hannibal in the Northeast Region of the Diocese. $10,000 Represents the logistical costs associated with 2 overnight events and 2 clergy days. $15,000 $1,000 Represents the costs of special events with clergy spouses and partners. Helps this small congregation provide for full time clergy leadership during a time of transition. This Represents the allocated funds for this nationally mandated commission and funds the business of COM such as congregation continues to be active in college ministry on the Truman State campus and A.T. Still University. $30,000 the discernment conference and ordination services. Income of $6,000 is anticipated from postulancy application

$11,500 fees and discernment retreat registrations. Enables two small congregations (St. Alban's/Fulton and St. Mark's/Portland) to have part time clergy coverage. $12,000 Represents money available to assist clergy in taking part in Continuing Education. Clergy must apply for these $6,000 funds. This line item provides assistance in sustaining and expanding the mission and ministry of this congregation. $34,000 Represents money available to assist lay leaders in taking part in educational events that help enable their $1,000 $15,000 $15,500 $1,700 $18,000

individual ministry. There is an application process to tap these funds. This provides for salary support of a clergy person and supports the redevelopment effort of this congregation. Funds to support two disaster coordinators in the areas of training, disaster response and preparedness. Funds This provides for salary support of a part time clergy person. will cover mileage reimbursement, training, copies and miscellaneous supplies. Provides support for the ongoing redevelopment effort of this congregation. St. Francis is engaged in redevelopment/start up work and continues toward its goal of becoming the Episcopal $24,000 parish in Eureka. PAGE 4 OF 5 $22,500 Provides support for the ongoing redevelopment effort of this congregation. This provides for salary support of a clergy person and supports the redevelopment effort of this congregation. $22,500 Funding was reduced in 2017 during their search process. $22,500 This provides for salary support of a clergy person and allows this congregation to sustain operations.

$30,000 This provides for salary support of a clergy person and allows this congregation to sustain operations.

$15,000 This provides assistance in sustaining and expanding the mission and ministry of the Cathedral.

$130,000

$15,000

$133,625 $59,900

$133,625 $59,700

$144,500 $64,800

$634,195 $2,266,025

$631,250 $2,239,795

$691,000 $2,439,005

$13,465

Campus Ministry covers work currently or anticipated at MST, Wash U, Stephens College, Mizzou, SLU, Truman, and SEMO. Congregations supporting these ministries are in Rolla, Columbia, Kirksville, Cape Girardeau, and St. Louis. This item also funds the special ministry of the Rockwell House. In addition, this item covers salary, benefits and expenses for a full time Campus Ministry Chaplain at Wash U. Budget includes funding $26,000 of this line item from the Making All Things New Campaign ‐ Ministries on Campus Fund Income, which is shown in the income section of the budget. This amount represents the travel, conferences, and other expenses related to the Supporting Congregations Cluster. Salary line is for two persons in the Supporting Congregations Cluster: the Canon to the Ordinary and an Administrative Assistant. The appropriate benefit costs associated with the above salaries.

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The Thomas Bray Children's Library at Emmanuel Birds were chirping and spring flowers were blooming early last February, when two ideas sprouted one week at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Webster Groves. The church was collecting new children’s books about African Americans and other people of color for the gradeschool tutoring program at Webster Rock Hill Ministries. The parishioners had been generous, and as they were reviewing the pile of books...

Laura McCord with some of the titles and the library on wheels members Mimi Shipp and Laura McCord wondered aloud about how the children of the parish might also benefit from these titles. The next day, on February 18, the Church honored Thomas Bray, an Anglican priest who had started libraries for clergy and seminarians in the American colonies. After leading worship, the Rev. Rod Wiltse, suggested the parish might create a Thomas Bray Library for Children to provide books for children to read or to look at during church services, or to be checked out and taken home. The clergy and lay people at the service supported the idea wholeheartedly. Information about Thom-

as Bray and the planned library appeared in the parish newsletters and Sunday announcement sheets, along with a wish list of books that included God’s Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, D is for Drinking Gourd, Harriet and the Promised Land, Martin’s Big Words, and Preaching to the Chickens: the Story of Young John Lewis. Also on the wish list, Malala Yousafzou’s Warrior With Words, The Name Jar, and The Water Princess. Emmanuel has a close relationship with the Lakota tribe on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, and so included Buffalo Women, The Trail of Tears, and Saint Kateri Teakiwitha.

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Ministries at Emmanuel encourage good environmental practices and stewardship of the Earth, so they included The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle and The Adventures of an Aluminum Can. And in the religion section they included It is Written: the Birth of a King; Oh, No, Jonah! and Water Come Down! The Day You Were Baptized. The Library opened on Pentecost, June 4, 2017. Before and after the 10:00 a.m. service, children from newborn to four received copies of God’s Dream, while children from five to ten received copies of Let Us Pray: a little kid’s guide to the Eucharist, by Jennie Turnell. The books for the library were arranged

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at the foot of the altar and were blessed during the service. The bookcase housing the library is on wheels so that it can be rolled easily from one place to another. In nice weather it is frequently outside the front door. Otherwise it is in the narthex, the front lobby. Not only children but also adults use the library. For more information about the library, visit www.emmanuelepiscopal.org. Thanks to Laura McCord for the history, which was also presented to the diocesan Dismantling Racism Commission at a monthly meeting. Laura is co-leading a session at the diocesan Absalom Jones commemoration, which will have taken place on Feb. 10, 2018. The Rev. Rod Wiltse died in August, 2017.