FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE Volume 65 Number 8
SEPTEMBER 2015
The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael & All Angels Pacific View Drive at Marguerite
Corona del Mar
California 92625
...From the Desk of the Rector
BELOVEDS IN CHRIST -
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hat a summer we shared, and what a fall lies ahead of us!
At 9:00 a.m. on summer Sundays, those who otherwise worship at eight and ten o’clock have enjoyed and appreciated worshiping together. Our “Sundays-at-Ten ‘travels’” with beloved parishioners have taken us around the world without leaving our Davis Library. We have also had opportunities to learn about ministry through our Anglican Communion, our national church with General Convention in Salt Lake City in early July, and challenging developments in our own Diocese of Los Angeles. In June we celebrated the lives of five beloveds: Dr. John Johnson, Alix Perkins Magenheimer, Sally McCulloch, Professor Bob Hine, and Sue Ewers. Jazz Vespers with The Rev’d Norm Freeman on June 7 was wonderful, as always; it was a delight to be joined in our sanctuary by members of the World Vision Methodist Church who worshiped in Michael’s Room on summer Sunday afternoons. Independence weekend Sunday focused us on “humble patriotism,” which, in William Sloane Coffin’s words, “carries on a lover’s quarrel with our country, a reflection of God’s lover’s quarrel with the world.” On Friday evenings in July our Vacation Bible School had children and parishioners journey to the British Isles without leaving our campus. On July 19, we commissioned our new “Youth and Children Christian Education Committee” signifying effective growth with ministry among beloveds of all ages. On the first Sunday in August we pondered our campus anew, walking new paths, gawking as so many neighbors are doing and thanking Tom & Kati Mowat Nicholson and Don Henry, President of Village Green Landscape Management. We continue to support our Landscaping Project buying fruit trees, oak trees, Italian stone pine trees, rocks and lighting (but not the dog poop bag dispenser which I have given in thanksgiving for our golden retriever Luke!). We processed out of our sanctuary toward the corner of Pacific View Drive and Marguerite Avenue and thanked God for this planet, for our campus and its landscaping, for the water that will nourish it and the lifegiving water of baptism that nourishes us, for making us stewards of creation and examples of creative environmentalism for our community, for the grace and desire to use our abundance to the benefit of others, and for God’s gifts of wisdom, humor and love. Thanks to our Senior Ministry (Murry McClaren, Ruth Poole, Judy Brady, Lynne Ruedy and their team: Shanel and Sandi Ames, Corinne and Louise Stover, Norm Ewers, Sharon Ferguson, Frances Fukuda, Myrna Ireland, Monty Pentz and Judy Barnes) we did something very special participating in the National Celebration “Honoring Our Veterans” on August 9th thanking with words, music and prayer: Don Alser, Sy Black, Harry Bubb, Suzanne Egloff, Norm Ewers, Zil Groux, Jim Jackson, Ray Pentz, Olive & Victor Rumbellow, Harry Selling and Hunter Sheetz. Continued on page 3
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ST. MIKE’S TO HOST CONCERT SUPPORTING MIDDLE EAST REFUGEE CHILDREN New York Times Calls Pianist Alice Burla “an extraordinary talent”
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n Sunday, September 13 at 7pm, Saint Michael & All Angels and MEDAIR, an international emergency relief and recovery organization, will present “Together for Hope” a concert featuring pianist Alice Burla playing works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Chopin. Our “youth” will read stories from children in Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon. There is no admission charge, but donations will support MEDAIR’s work. A reception will follow the performance. Due to limited seating, please email events@medair.org or call Graham Smith at 949-228-4025 to RSVP. Alice Burla, 18, has been called an “extraordinary talent” by the New York Times. She made her orchestral debut at five and was one of the youngest students ever accepted to the Juilliard School in New York. Since the age of 10, she has performed internationally. MEDAIR is a humanitarian organization inspired by Christian faith to relieve human suffering in some of the world’s most remote and devastated places, bringing relief and recovery to people in crisis, regardless of race, creed or nationality. MEDAIR provides a range of emergency relief and recovery services: health care and nutrition, safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, shelter and infrastructure. As a signatory of the International Committee of the Red Cross Code of Conduct, MEDAIR believes that aid should be given to everyone who is in need, and not be used to further a particular political, Continued on page 3
BUILDING OUR F AITH: L OVING CHRIST AND SER VING OUR COMMUNITY FAITH: LO SERVING