Jan2015lom by Communications from Saint Michael & All Angels and The Compass Rose Society

FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE Volume 65 Number 1

JANUARY 2015

The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael Pacific View Drive at Marguerite

Corona del Mar

California 92625

...From the Desk of the Rector

BELOVEDS IN CHRIST,

orship is the center of our life together in Christian community here at Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church and music is integral to our worship. Since 1981 Friends of Music has enhanced our music ministries by raising funds through a variety of events to support special activities such as instrumental soloists and accompanying groups for musical events. It has been exemplary; other churches have formed similar groups for support of ministries with music. Now our Friends of Music is challenged at a crossroad as to what its future will be. A forum to consider this challenge will follow its “Lessons & Carols Before the Epiphany” in our sanctuary beginning at 4pm.on Sunday, January 4th led by our Minister of Music, Ray Urwin, with young parishioners reprising roles in the Epiphany story from our Christmas Pageant under direction from Susan Caldwell. A potluck supper being coordinated by Barbara Black and Melinda Rader will follow with Dr. Urwin playing so we may sing our familiar carols. Please join us. As background, the Friends of Music’s Statement of Purpose was adopted in February 1982, amended in July 1984 and again in June 2004 when its executive committee included (The Rev’d) Ron Bauer as chair, Pat Albers as our parish choir’s representative and Peter Coppen. Tim Getz, our minister of music in 2004, and I were consultants/ advisers. It is essential to note that responsibility for Friends of Music is not included in either the job description for our rector or the job description for our minister of music; the latter defines that position as “liaison between staff and Vestry and Friends of Music” as it has always intentionally operated as an independent organization outside the regular and routine program & budget of our Episcopal Parish Church: “The Friends of Music is a group of people interested in supporting and enhancing the music program of Saint Michael &AllAngels’Parish. Although the Friends of Music are interested in all forms of musical expression, they are particularly concerned with giving the Parish and the community more knowledge and appreciation of the rich history of Anglican church music. To that end, the Friends of Music may: present musical programs, including but not limited to concerts, recitals, seminars or workshops, which may be of interest to the organization, Parish, or community at large; raise funds, with the prior approval of the Vestry, for whatever purpose the organization deems is appropriate; from time to time, as requested, assist the Vestry in ascertaining the musical needs and desires of the Parish.” I asked former ministers of music (oganist/choirmasters) for their favorite Friends of Music events and experiences and Stephen Black wrote:

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PARISH NEWS & NOTES 2015 FINANCES AT SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS Your Vestry and its finance committee are hard at work preparing a 2015 budget that reflects the needs and wants of our parish. We will have a tally early in January of the income generated by pledges from our members.We have decided that a balanced and workable budget is a requirement for 2015. We have three goals. First, we aim to pay off part or all of the construction loan remaining on the Building our Faith project begun in 2001 (All Angels’ Court, the kitchen and other renovations). We have paid interest only on the loan for several years thanks to a parishioners’ generosity. Second, we want to be sure to stay within our budget. Third, we do not want to ask parish members to again “Fill the Gap” as we did last year. To be within budget, we will need to generate income in addition to pledges. We would happily hear your suggestions to do this at the upcoming finance committee meeting. If income does not cover expenses, we will have to cut expenses. Our largest expense is, of course, salaries. None of us want to cut staff, as they have been faithful workers for us all.We also don’t want to cut the programs that are so vital to our Christian growth and enrichment. We will report back to you as soon as we can in January about our findings and proposed 2015 program and budget. --The Finance Committee and Vestry

(continued on page 3) FAITH: LO SERVING BUILDING OUR F AITH: L OVING CHRIST AND SER VING OUR COMMUNITY

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CONTRIBUTIONSWERE MADETO THE RECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY FUND most recently by Ann Watt, Jeanne Rees, Barbara & Wally Paulson and Nabil & Norma, Zane and Maya Shihadeh in gratitude and by the Taylor and Bryant-Henry family in thanksgiving for the life of Dee.These funds extend our Parish’s mission of outreach, providing for such needs as can be helped by financial assistance.

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MEN’S GROUP: Meets on Thursdays at 7:30am in the Davis Library to discuss questions relating to theology, science and philosophy. All men are welcome.

* * * WOMEN’S FELLOWSHIP: Their next meeting will be Tuesday, January 27th. The group meets at the home of Beth Bianchi at 7pm. Please contact the parish office for details and directions to her home.

* * * DO YOU HAVE A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS? Please contact sbeechner@stmikescdm.org with changes or additions.

* * * LEST WE FORGET: There have been 4,491 American military casualties in Iraq and 2,351 in Afghanistan as of October 14th. "Lord hear our prayers for those who are dead and for those who mourn." FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE is a publication of Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church, Corona del Mar, CA. Copy deadline is the second Wednesday of the month. We welcome letters and articles. Editor: Susan Beechner 949.644.0463

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PLEASE CHECK THE FORWARD MOVEMENT DISPLAY RACK ON THE WALL IN MICHAEL'S ROOM. Pick up a pamphlet or two to share with family and friends. A donation box is provided. Twenty Questions about the Episcopal Church is a pamphlet every Episcopalian needs to have in his or her "library." It precisely answers and defines our Church. Some of the questions are these: What is The Episcopal church? When did it begin? How can you be both catholic and protestant? What is the Anglican Communion? What are the roles of the laity and other ministers? How does a person become a member? This pamphlet will help you explain our Church to those wanting to know what we stand for and believe. More pamphlets can be ordered. Please see Susan Caldwell.

ANNIVERSARIES JANUARY Birthdays 2nd - Craig Kennedy 5th - Nora Higgins 12th - Gracemarie Dell Angelo 18th - Sharon Ferguson Bruce Stuart 19th - Marcia Last 20th - David Davidson 22nd - Herb Hoffman Anne Logie 27th - Ann Morris Stacie Tibbetts 31st - Ali Haghjoo

Sundays at Nine Upcoming Discussion Topics Davis Library January 4th Epiphany Sunday Themed Discussion Time January 11th Keith Nelson “Amos” and Marcus Borg

Weddings 7th - John & Elizabeth Stahr 14th - Ray & Monty Pentz

* * * WE NEED Greeters, Ushers and Altar Guilders. Please contact Canon Haynes if interested.

January 18th Keith Nelson “Amos” and Marcus Borg January 25th Keith Nelson “Amos” and Marcus Borg

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February 1st Teri Corbet Abraham’s Children

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February 8th Teri Corbet Abraham’s Children BASKETBALL: Available to all in All Angels' Court on Mondays,7-9pm. All are welcome! ...pick-up games ...bring friends! Basketball court footwear only, please. Spread the word!

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THE VESTRY Senior Warden.............................Myrna Ireland mireland6@sbcglobal.net....................949.759.1509 Junior Warden.............................Donald Sheetz donald.sheetz@gmail.com..................949.720.0700 Christian Education.....................Barbara Black bbblack56@sroadrunner.com...............949.640.7989 Clerk of the Vestry........................Karlene Miller karlenemiller@gmail.com...................949.336.6215

Building and Grounds...............Tom Nicholson tom@nicholsoncompanies.com......................949.872.9067 Communications...........................Clyde Dodge [clydedodge@cox.net.......................949.375.1530 Evangelism.................................Melinda Rader melinda.rader2244@gmail.com..........949.230.3644 Fellowship......................................Teri Corbet hbangel49@msn.com.......................714.932.6979

Finance......................................Julie Jenkins jdfritz@aol.com.............................949.640.0134 Mission...............................Barbara Stewart+ barbarastewart001@gmail.com.........714.979.7449 Stewardship.............................Matthew Shaw mattjshaw@yahoo.com..................949.645.4942 Worship...The Very Rev’d Canon Peter D. Haynes phaynes@stmikescdm.org...........949.644.0463x11

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(Continued from page 1 ) “My favorite Friends of Music experience in my (too) short time at Saint Michael’s was the “Praying our Goodbyes” event in which the Faure Requiem was featured. The choir was very excited and practiced a great deal, and some of my friends from USC came down to sing with us. The orchestra sounded beautiful in the sanctuary and people were genuinely moved by the whole evening. “My second most favorite event was not one of the concerts in the series, but rather a kick-off event. The section leaders and I prepared some chamber music to perform, and it was really lovely to interact with parishioners that way in such an intimate setting as Jim Palda’s home. “Also, my second “Lessons and Carols” at the church was great fun. All the musical groups participated – the handbell choir, the children’s choir and the parish choir. Peggy Strong and I spent a great deal of time discussing the ambience for the party after, and it was spectacular, complete with candles galore and Celtic harp music.” Personally, I love our Friends of Music’s “Gift of Music” on Christmas Eve, “Advent Lessons & Carols,” “Lenten Choral Evensong,” “Jazz Vespers” with The Rev’d Norm Freeman and his friends like Putter Smith, Theo Saunders, Kendall Kay, and Katherine Cash; and I sincerely appreciate their support of our annual “Praying Our Goodbyes” worship service. But my favorite “First-Sundays-atFour” were the two when The Rev’d Martha Korienek and I wrote and sang our own version of “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.” Now I hope our Friends of Music can be better than ever after we meet the challenge of our forum, 4-7 pm. on the first Sunday, January 4th, of this new year which is filled with opportunity!

Yours, In Christ,

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HOUSING FOR OUR NEXT RECTOR Dearest Parishioners: Several weeks ago I wrote to you regarding the future home of our next rector. When Peter retires, there will be a need to offer housing for his replacement. Your Vestry is addressing this need early on in order to be prepared for this event. As Chair of this Commission, you will hear from me periodically advising you of our progress. I am now developing an exploratory committee comprised of interested congregants that consider this an essential element of our future. It is imperative that when Saint Michael & All Angels starts its search for Peter’s successor, we will be in a position to assist this individual appropriately. The process of establishing a residence for our new rector will be an opportunity to come together as we have done in the past. Saint Michael’s parishioners have always been pro-active with major improvements to our church. The last and very significant advancement was the expansion of our Parish Center. It was an undertaking that proved very successful to our growth. Now it is time for us to contemplate our growth again. There will be many ways to accomplish this task. We will establish a gifting process to provide tax incentives for the contributors. Keep this purpose in mind as you address your personal tax responsibilities. My commission will offer tax council to those who have requested such to enhance your contributions. Please feel comfortable in contacting me to discuss this work or to offer suggestions. Thank you for your involvement. Donald Sheetz Junior Warden, Chair of the Manse Commission Birdsall Lectures: Jan. 23 - 24 The diocese's celebration of the 150th anniversary of Episcopal Church ministry in Los Angeles, begun at Diocesan Convention and themed "Horizons & Heritage," will continue on Friday-Saturday, Jan. 23 - 24, with the first installment of the Birdsall Lectures, named for the Rev. Elias Birdsall, first priest at St. Athanasius' Church, Los Angeles. The first lecture will be a symposium titled "Jerusalem Epiphanies - Churches for Middle East Peace." It will be held in the Great Hall at the Cathedral Center.

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land December 26, 2015 - January 5, 2016 Join Lutheran Bishop Guy Erwin and tour organizer the Rev. Canon Jim Newman in the Holy Land. Sites include Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Jordan River, and the mysterious stone city of Petra. Space is limited: send in reservation form and deposit as soon as possible. Eleven days, departing from Los Angeles on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, and returning on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. The cost from Los Libby Lane to be first Church of Angeles is $4148. For more England's first woman bishop information contact Newman at The Rev. Libby Lane has been appointed 310.391.5522, 888.802.6722 (tolla bishop in the Diocese of Chester, England free) or stbedesla@yahoo.com. -- the first woman to be so designated. She currently is vicar of St. Peter's Church, Hale, and St. Elizabeth's Church, Ashley. As Bishop of Stockport she will serve as a bishop suffragan in the Chester diocese. Her consecration will take place on Monday, Jan. 26 at York Minster. (From Anglican Communion News Service)

FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS EPISCOPAL CHURCH

JANUIARY 2015

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Susan Caldwell

PRAYERS

A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION

J2A Embraces HomeAid

HEALING

Our mission is to seek and share Jesus Christ as spiritual food for life’s journey.

By Susan Caldwell

Diane Judy Norm Andrew John Susan Bob Mary Betty Bradford Delaney

3233 Pacific View Drive Corona del Mar, CA 92625 949.644.0463 949.644.9247 FAX www.stmikescdm.org The Very Rev’d Canon

Peter D. Haynes, Rector [phaynes@stmikescdm.org] Susan Caldwell Director of Christian Education [scaldwell@stmikescdm.org] Ray Urwin, D.M.A. Minister of Music [rurwin@stmikescdm.org] The Rev’d Fennie Chang, Ph.D., Canterbury Irvine The Rev’d Canon Ray Flemming Assisting Priest The Rev’d Barbara Stewart, Ph.D., Assisting Priest Susan Beechner, Parish Secretary [sbeechner@stmikescdm.org] Donnie Lewis, Bookkeeper [dlewis@stmikescdm.org]

WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday Holy Eucharist at 8 & 10am Nursery Care from 9:30-11:30am Sunday School 10am Adult Education 9am Wednesday Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Healing-12 noon ABOUT SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS, CORONA DEL MAR We are a Christian Community of the Anglican Communion who come to hear God’s word and receive and share the Lord Jesus Christ. Our purpose is to have Christ live in us in order that in Christ we may live faithful and productive Christian lives. Our commitment to the Gospel is evangelical; our liturgical tradition, catholic; our theology orthodox but open to thought, reflection, and spiritual endeavor. We care about the world and strive to serve Christ in it.

n important aspect of youth group ministry besides gathering for teaching and fellowship is the ability for youth to reach out and bring the Good News of Jesus into the community. Our Saint Michael & All Angels’ Youth Group, J2A (Journey to Adulthood), under the leadership of Kati Mowat, has found an excellent way to participate in community outreach. HomeAid OC assists and supports various charitable organizations in Orange County with a focus on Homelessness - with special focus on Homeless Women, Children and Families through advocacy, development of shelters and service. Kati Mowat, contacted HomeAid, Director of Community Engagement, Gina Scott to see if our youth group could volunteer. Gina was happy to have the St. Mikes’ Youth Group participate in her program. On Saturday, December 6th, Eva Wierzbicki and Marco Caldarone, representatives of our youth group, attended the volunteer event along with other youth from all over Orange County. HomeAid OC is located in an office suite in Irvine. Those who volunteered were asked to count, sort, assemble care items and help decorate holiday stockings that would be given to the homeless. When asked to reflect about their experience at HomeAid, Eva and Marco had this to say. "'My experience was pretty fun, what with putting together packages like a puzzle of what I would want if I lived on the streets, and it was also heartwarming to see so many donations put to good use." Eva Wierzbicki “My time at the HomeAid charity was a very interesting experience. It included some activities that I wasn't used to. As an example, I'm not really used to deciding what certain materials I needed to put in the bag I was packaging, if I was intending for the bag to be given to

GUIDANCE Sue Mitzi Harry Kathleen Mari Marisa Jill Esther

REPOSE Delores (Dee) Taylor

THANKSGIVING - for our Friends of Music

Call Esther McNamee for prayer requests 949.640.1749

Our parish subscribes to the online learning program “Church Next.” If you are interested, please contact Melinda Rader who will give you access details.

NURSERY CARE IS AVAILABLE on Sundays from 9:30-11:30am. (continued on page 5)

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TIME AND TALENT If you are thinking about volunteering with one of our commissions at St. Mike’s, please review the “Parish Life” booklet on the back rail of the sanctuary, which describes these activities. We need greeters, acolytes, coffee hosts, and ushers, and have other interesting assignments as well. Volunteering is a wonderful way to meet new people at St. Mike’s. Please call Melinda Rader with questions: 949.230.3644.

* * * LOAVES AND FISHES: This month we will collect large cans (at least 25 oz.) of regular ground coffee. Monetary donations are always welcome, too. Checks should be made payable to Saint Michael & All Angels, with Loaves and Fishes on the memo line. (Tax ID #95-2123746)

* * * If you haven’t already done so, PLEASE TURN IN YOUR PLEDGE CARDS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

* * * FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: Every second Friday night of January and February, you are invited by the Christian Education Commission to watch a movie with us in the Davis Library. Shows begin at 7pm, and popcorn and sodas will be served...all at no charge! This is a chance to enjoy a wholesome movie and share in some fellowship. All ages are welcome, but parental discretion is advised. If you need a ride, please call Ann Watt, 949.500.9776. See you at the movies!!!

* * * PHONE TREE MINISTRY: NEW MEMBERS NEEDED. Our goal is to contact every parishioner by phone once a month.This is a great opportunity to get to know others better and to share information, needs and suggestions about Saint Mike's. Please contact Ruth Poole at 949.644.9263.

* * * HELP FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE: We are once again in need of donations for replenishing our food cupboard. Please call Murry McClaren with any questions or to learn what types of food are currently needed; and THANK YOU ALL for your help!

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(Youth Group from page 4) a girl or a boy. All in all, my time there was very fun and helped me realize that it's good to give back.” Marco Caldarone Gina Scott, HomeAid Director of Community Engagement, had this to say, “It was a great day for the community including Eva and Marco to come out and volunteer to make CareKits for the homeless. We appreciate the support from the parish to help end homelessness in Orange County.” Thank you Eva and Marco for representing Saint Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church at such a noteworthy and charitable event. A big “Thank You” goes out to the parish and all who donated toiletries, water bottles and food items for the CareKits. The donation box in Michael’s Room was overflowing!!

* * * PLEASE REMEMBER . . . Saint Michael & All Angels has a Parish Emergency Fund funded by parishioners and available to parishioners facing financial emergencies and needing economic assistance. Requests should be directed to our rector or any member of our Vestry. If you are able to contribute, all gifts are welcome!

* * * IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPONSOR the Sanctuary Light or Altar Flowers in memory of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a birthday, anniversary, or other special event, please sign up on the board in the Parish Center and indicate the person or occasion to be remembered. The suggested donation for flowers is $35, the sanctuary light is $15. Please mark your check for the Altar Guild.

* * * FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE - ADS NEEDED: Our newsletter is printed by C & M Publications at no cost to St. Mike’s, thanks to the support of the local businesses whose ads are found on the back of the calendar each month. If you or someone you know might like to become a sponsor, please call Susan Beechner in the parish office for more information. 949.644.0463 x10.

TWITTER AND THE RISE OF THE MICROPRAYER by Casey Cep Almost every night between 8 and 11pm, @iamepiscopalian tweets a prayer. “Grant, O God,” read the tweet on Nov. 21, “that we lie down in peace, and rise up to life renewed. Spread over us the shelter of Your peace.” Excerpts from the Psalms appear often, but so, too, do prayers from The Book of Common Prayer, The New Zealand Prayer Book, Celtic Worship Throughout the Year, Children’s Prayers of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, and other liturgical books. Occasionally, @iamepiscopalian retweets local churches, shares announcements about events and conferences, or offers seasonal prayers, but most of the 6,000 tweets since the account was created in April of 2009 are these nightly prayers. The prayer is sometimes shortened, with a link to the full prayer on Facebook. When Twitter first started embedding photographs, the nightly prayer became a stock photograph with text written above or over it. Some nights there are still Facebook links or captioned photographs, but most nights it’s a plea or thanksgiving in 140 characters or less. I don’t remember when I first found the Episcopal Church’s account, but I do remember how quickly these nightly tweets became part of my prayer life. In between news stories, personal ramblings, hashtag games, television commentary, and whatever sponsored corporate content Twitter has thrown into my feed, there is that little prayer. I rarely retweet it, and I only sometimes “favorite it,” but I often go to Twitter just to read it. The liturgy of the hours has a long history, and the Episcopal Church’s nightly prayer is a kind of digital Compline for those who cannot gather for worship. There are, of course, more features in traditional liturgies of Compline—hymns, confession, scripture readings, antiphons, and other elements depending on the community— but @iamepiscopalian’s digital Compline accomplishes some of what the liturgy strives to do. Readers of that nightly prayer realize that the church is both local and global, that they are one voice among many voices. (continued on page 6)

Our J2A Group Volunteers

Eva Wierzbicki and Marco Caldarone participated with HomeAid on December 6th in Irvine, making “CareKits” that were distributed this holiday season to help the homeless.

Our 2014 Childrens’ Christmas Pageant!

About HomeAid: HomeAid is a leading national non-profit provider of housing for homeless families and individuals. Through the generosity of builders, their trades and their suppliers, HomeAid has completed 308 housing projects nationwide at a cost of more than $181 million, of which nearly fifty percent has been donated by the building industry. HomeAid’s facilities offer 2,400,000 bed-nights annually through HomeAid’s network of 18 active chapters in 12 states.

Hard work deserves a little pizza!

Saint Michael’s participates in the Annual Corona del Mar Christmas Walk singing carols in front of Sherman Gardens on December 7th

Our Alternative Market on December 7th & 14th

Peggy Montgomery, Murry McClaren and Lynne Ruedy help out!

The children rehearse under the direction of Anne Conover!

Our J2A Group Volunteers

Eva Wierzbicki and Marco Caldarone participated with HomeAid on December 6th in Irvine, making “CareKits” that were distributed this holiday season to help the homeless.

Our 2014 Childrens’ Christmas Pageant!

Hard work deserves a little pizza!

Saint Michael’s participates in the Annual Corona del Mar Christmas Walk singing carols in front of Sherman Gardens on December 7th

Our Alternative Market on December 7th & 14th

Peggy Montgomery, Murry McClaren and Lynne Ruedy help out!

The children rehearse under the direction of Anne Conover!

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HOLY MEN & HOLY WOMEN

NORM EWERS

HARRIETT BEDELL (1875-1969) Deaconess, Missionary, Teacher

arriett Bedell was born in Buffalo, New York on March 10, 1875. In 2005, Harriett was a 30 year-old conservative teacher in the Buffalo Public School System and a member of St. Mary's -on-the-Hill Episcopal Church. One Sunday the Homilist was a missionary describing the need for teachers in China. So taken was Harriett by what the recruiter had to say that she thereupon offered herself to face the life . of a missionary in the wild and unsettled regions of the earth. After a period of intensive training that included a year of hospital work she graduated from the New Yotk Training School for Deaconesses; she was a ready for her first assignment. It was not to be China. She had already done Sunday School work among the Seneca Indians not far from her home and had visited their log house, and it was felt that she could better serve in northwest Oklahoma, recently admitted to statehood. The Episcopal Church had a mission station among the Cheyenne Indians there, and she served eight years at Whirlwind Mission under the resident native deacon, the Rev. David P. Oakerhater. Oakerhater had been an Indian warrior, captured in1875, and sent to St. Augustine, Fl.. He served a three year sentence during which he came under the influence of an Episcopalian cavalry officer who became interested in the Indian's continued education in the faith. Oakerhater was baptized and confirmed in 1880, and then ordained a Deacon by the Bishop of Central New York. The Chyenne people welcomed her, she visited all their tepees and found there was much work to be done. Her hospital training proved invaluable. Since the nearest doctor was several miles away she was often called upon to treat illnesses and injuries. After one such incident the Chief of the tribe came to see her and said, "You welcome all lodges...I come mission time...listen God talk." Harriett was inducted into the tribe and given the name "Vicseha" (Bird Woman) because of her beautiful singing voice and the Medicine Man gave her his rattle signifying he had accepted Christianity.

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From the satisfying Cheyenne Mission Harriett was given a new assignment to St. Mark's Mission in Alaska. While the assignment gave her the opportunity to meet and serve under the legendary Bishop of Alaska, Peter Trimble Rowe, it was unsatisfactory, giving her little opportunity to do anything but teach. Her Alaskan experience came to an end with the Great Depession. In 1932 while on a desperate tour to raise money for her mission, friends took her to a visit a Seminole reservation near Miami. Aghast at what she sawIndians trading tawdry trinkets to tourists-degrading themselves and their culture.Harriett, now fifty-seven, saw a new call to action. The Micosukee Indians, among whom she was to dwell for nearly three decades, were a remnant group who had fled to the Eveglades as a result of the Seminole Wars; they had never made peace with the United States. Feeling tricked and betrayed, all they asked of the government was to be let alone. For three years she made fruitless efforts to reach these poor people.When food became truly scarce she was finally able to do so. She offered to trade her supplies for their native art; this she sold to retailers and purchased food and other necessities with the proceeds. Her efforts raised the Indians’ standard of living and gave them a feeling of pride and achievement. Her reward was to have them come to her door each day with their offering, and she had brought them a modicum of security as well as some understanding of the Gospel. The Everglades National Park was dedicated in 1947, and Harriett was invited to give the invocation that day. She probably never had a larger audience as she stood beside the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the Governor of Florida, and a collection of Senators to recite her prayer. Those were the good years. In 1960 Hurricane Donna struck the Everglades with all its fury. The missions were wrecked beyond repair, but Harriett was prepared to make a fresh start. Bishop Henry Loutitt persuaded her to give up the idea. She was now 86 years old and no longer licensed to drive a car. She was offered a home at Bishop Gray Inn.There she spent her remaining years. She died January 8, 1969. The Episcopal Church now celebrates her life and work on that day.

(“Twitter” continued from page 5) It’s been some time since I lived in a parish large enough for members to gather for daily prayer. Before I moved back to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, I worshipped in college chapels and university churches that drew from communities large enough to sustain such a busy pattern of worship. There was morning prayer before classes during college, choral evensong during graduate school, and compline most Sundays and Wednesdays at one church or another, all within walking distance. That daily habit of gathering and praying together gave a beautiful shape to my days, and I miss it very much. The nightly prayer is also a summons for more reflection. The discipline of daily prayer is easier to maintain when you have a place to go, where many worshippers can share responsibilities for the service. But digital compline is a welcome attempt at recreating that discipline, especially since most churches can only offer periodic vespers and compline. When @iamepiscopalian sends the nightly prayer, a few dozen users retweet or favorite it, and I realize there are others giving thanks for their days and offering their prayers for the world. Sometimes users will respond “Amen” or complete the prayer if it ends in ellipsis. It is the kind of communal experience for which Twitter is most celebrated: the kind of specific time that is no time at all, read and shared simultaneously on the East Coast and the West Coast and around the world with only the sweeping sense that days end and nights begin, no matter the exact hour of wherever you are. I remember once as a child realizing that a friend also prayed the singsong now I lay me down to sleep prayer from The New England Primer. Even though the prayer has been spoken by parents and whispered by children for centuries, I had thought my parents had crafted it just for me. But then suddenly it was something shared with many others, some known like my friend and most others unknown. That is the sort of strange joy I experience most nights when I read the @iamepiscopalian prayer: just for me, but also the 22,500 other followers of the account. The nightly prayer is also a summons for more reflection: an invitation for private prayer, and an incitement to find prayerful spaces and places beyond the tweet. (concluded on page 7)

Calendar of Ev ents At Saint Mic hael & All Ang els Events Michael Angels

AA meeting, 7:00-8:00 a.m., SW Yoga class, 9:00-10:00 a.m., NW Whiz Kids, 9:00-5:00 p.m., AAC Holy Eucharist with Prayers for Healing, 12:00 Noon Basketball, 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC Volleyball, 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Men’s Group, 7:30-9:00 a.m., DL Whiz Kids, 12 noon-5:00 p.m., AAC (not 12/18, 25, 1/1) AA Big Book Study, noon-1:00 p.m., SW Basketball, 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC Parish Choir Rehearsal, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Yoga class, 9:00-10:00 a.m., NW Whiz Kids, 9:00 a.m.-12 noon, AAC (not 12/19, 26, 1/2) Basketball, 3:00-4:00, 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC AA meeting, 7:00-10:00 p.m., SW

Basketball, 8:00-10:00 a.m., 10:00-5:00 p.m., AAC (

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

SW - South Wing YR - Yellow Room, AAC RR - Red Room, AAC

Whiz Kids, 9:00-5:00 p.m., AAC Basketball, 5:00-8:00 p.m., AAC

Tuesday

DL - Davis Library NW - North Wing GR - Blue Room, AAC

Whiz Kids, 1:45-2:45 p.m., AAC Volleyball, 3:30-6:30 p.m., AAC St. Mike’s Basketball, 7:00-9:00 p.m., AAC

Monday

Meeting Rooms: AAC - All Angels’ Court MR - Michael’s Room CR - Conference Room

Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. Nursery care from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Sundays-at-Nine, DL Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Godly Play, children 4-11, Yellow Room Formation, 5th-8th grade, Green Room J2A Youth Group, high school, Corner Room 2nd & 4th Sundays

Sunday

EACH WEEK

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Wed., Feb. 18th Fri., Feb. 27th

Sun., Feb. 1st

SOUPer Bowl Annual Parish Meeting, 11:30 a.m., AAC Ash Wednesday - First Day of Lent Rosemarie Goodbody CoL/BoD LifeLine Health Screening, AAC

IN THE FOLLOWING MONTHS

Thurs., Jan. 1st Happy New Year 2015! Office closed Sat., Jan. 3rd Citizens’ Climate Lobby, 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., D th Sun., Jan. 4 Lessons & Carols Before The Epiphany, potluck supper, & forum on future of our Friends of Music, 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. th Tues., Jan. 6 The Epiphany Hutchins Consort Board, 5:00 p.m., CR Wed., Jan. 7th Vestry Meeting, 5:00-7:00 p.m., CR Thurs., Jan. 8th Staff Meeting, 9:30-11:30 a.m., DL Fri., Jan. 9th St. Mike’s Movie Night, 7:00 p.m., DL th Sun., Jan. 11 Adult Christian Education Commission, 11:30 a.m., CR J2A Youth Group, 10:00 a.m., Corner Room Wed., Jan. 14th Deadline for February 2015 For the Love of Mike, 5:00 p.m. Annual Reports Due in Parish Office Senior Ministry, 2:00 p.m., CR th Sun., Jan. 18 Worship Commission, 11:30 a.m., CR Mon., Jan. 19th Office closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Sun. Jan. 25th The Bible Challenge, 7:30 a.m., DL J2A Youth Group, 10:00 a.m., Corner Room th Tues., Jan. 27 Women’s Fellowship, 7:00 p.m., Bianchi’s Home Spyglass Hill Homeowners Board, 6:00-9:00 p.m., CR

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“Twitter” continued from page 6) A MESSAGE FROM SAINT MICHAEL’S VESTRY Editor’s note: This talk was given by Senior Warden Myrna Ireland and Junior Warden Don Sheetz of our Vestry at the 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. worship services on Sunday, November 9th. We felt that it was important that this information be shared with all of you.We repeat it here. Good Morning, I speak to you today to being attention to some of the issues your Vestry is currently working with. The Vestry meets monthly and works to address ongoing concerns, examples of which are the following: ♦ We are approaching other wireless providers to offer our property as a dispatch center. Verizon is a tenant now and pays a substantial fee for this location. Laird Blue, who is not on your Vestry, is pursuing this for us. Thank you, Laird. ♦ Our choir is planning a spring event to help defray its cost of operations. ♦ Peter is contacting other local parishes in an effort to find synergies of professional services that could be shared and thereby reduce our expenditures, such as gardening, bookkeeping and others. ♦ Tom Nicholson, our Buildings and Grounds Commissioner is talking with the city about the concept of replacing certain grass areas with more drought resistant plantings. This could potentially save on water and maintenance. ♦ We are talking to caterers about renting our commercial kitchen facilities. ♦ We are discussing the concept of leasing our property to another congregation when not in use by us. Previously,we found this to be possible with the Armenian Church. Many considerations would be addressed before such a determination to do so. ♦ E-Script has been discussed along with finding other ways to consider St. Michael’s when we are shopping. ♦ There is always talk of another rummage or an antiques sale using our property. ♦ Long-term interests such as a Pre-School using our parish center is being explored. Jim Palda, who is not currently on our Vestry is spending considerable personal time and effort to move this issue. Thank you, Jim. ♦ And there is the new Rectory and Manse matter that is under review. We encourage your thoughts on these concerns, concepts and considerations. We want you to know how important you are to our future; so get involved. Reach out and let us know what is important to you. We care about each member of this congregation and it weighs heavily on us that we do the work necessary to perpetuate our church. Saint Michael’s is not unlike any other house of worship in that there is always a need for funds to carry on God’s work. Many of our blessed supporters have passed on and are no longer providing for our church as they did. Please consider our work and contribute in a meaningful manner.

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Twitter may not provide candles or choirs, but those can be assembled or remembered, and while @iamepiscopalian offers only an introductory prayer, it can be supplemented by the reader’s own spiritual practices. . If prayer is found everywhere else, on television and on the radio, in emails and on greeting cards, in books and on church marquees, why shouldn’t it be on Twitter? That was at least what I thought the first few nights the @iamepiscopalian nightly prayer appeared in my feed. When I see a prayer like this one on Twitter, a prayer that has seen me through sadness and doubt, grief and sorrow, why shouldn’t I rejoice at the thought that others see it, too? There may be hashtags for prayer and whole accounts devoted to retweeting the prayers of others on Twitter, but @iamepiscopalian’s nightly prayer is the only one that has really found a consistent place in my prayer life. In between news stories, personal ramblings, hashtag games, television commentary, and whatever sponsored corporate content Twitter has thrown into my feed, there is that little prayer. Occasionally, digital compline feels stiff and formal, like the starched collar of a cathedral service, often escaping the tempter’s snare. Other times it’s contemporary and casual, the neon canvas of a lighted tent beneath the stars that reminds me of outdoor vespers and youth group retreats. But it’s always a welcome presence in my feed, the chance to pause after work and before rest, a way to mark the passage from day to night. This article is adapted from the “Internet and God” issue of the online magazine The Kerne,l found at http:/ /kernelmag.dailydot.com/.

ADULT ACOLYTE CAPTAINS NEEDED: The ministry commitment is based on a rotation Sunday schedule and on an “as needed” basis depending upon the liturgical calendar year. Contact Susan Caldwell, Director of Christian Education 949.644,0463 Ext.12 if you would like to take part in the Acolyte Ministry at Saint Michael & All Angels.

FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE

MEET BRENÉ BROWN By Elizabeth Henry

arlier this year the Women’s Fellowship Group read and studied Brené Brown’s second book The Gifts of Imperfection. Following what the author calls guideposts to living a wholehearted life, the group was led on a voyage of self and community discovery. Group leader Beth Bianchi shares some of the insights gleaned and important lessons she took away from the series. Elizabeth Henry: Who is Brené Brown and why does she matter? Beth Bianchi: Brené Brown is a researcher/professor who has taken on topics not usually considered by the research community. Her career began with the study of shame, fear and vulnerability; she calls the stories she collected for her research “data with soul.” Her work details how we can change our families, our communities, and ourselves by finding the courage to live and love with our whole hearts. She is also a powerful public speaker. Her first TED talk has been viewed more than 17 million times!

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EH: What does she teach about shame and our relationship with it? Beth: In the book Brown says, “Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.” An important distinction she makes is between shame and guilt. Guilt is the healthy response when we have DONE something bad. Shame is the unhealthy belief that we ARE something bad. According to Brown, shame is universal; all of us have it, and we are all afraid to talk about it. The less we talk about it, the more control it has over our lives. EH:Wholeheartedness and connection are key concepts for Brown. Can you sum up what that means? Beth: Wholehearted living springs from a feeling of being worthy of love and belonging. It is characterized by gratitude, authenticity, vulnerability, grace and love. Big words, huh! You gotta read the book! Her definition of connection is “the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment”. She claims that connection happens only when we allow vulnerability and

authenticity to reveal personal imperfection. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.” EH: As people of faith, how can we implement her ideas into our daily lives? Beth: Mark 12:31, Christ’s great commandment is that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Brown’s research looks squarely at how difficult it is for us to love ourselves, and how that impacts our ability to love others. Her book is a “How To” for loving and nurturing ourselves; she believes this is key to loving others. EH: What is it that you have brought away from this experience? Beth: Brown’s work is filled with wonderful mantras that are helpful during potentially difficult times. One that I personally love is “lean into your courage”. I find this helpful if I’m in a situation when I am tempted to try to be who others may want me to be instead of who I actually am. The subtitle of her book says it all—“Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are.”

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