April 2012 Episcopal Church of the Resurrection

3025 Hilyard St. Eugene, OR 97405

541-686-8462 www.resurrectioneugene.org

Mission Statement

The mission of the Church of the Resurrection is to invite all people to unity with God and each other. We pursue our mission as we pray and worship, proclaim

the Gospel, and promote justice, peace and love.

Vision Statement

The Church of the Resurrection exists to spread God’s love into the world through teaching and action consonant with the traditions of the Episcopal Church. We envision a world in which baptismal vows are made real by the expression of these core values: We welcome all to join us in worship and

ministry We respect the dignity and unique gifts

of every human being We seek and serve Christ in all people,

loving our neighbors as ourselves We desire to grow as a community of

God’s people by reaching out to others We strive for justice and peace among all

people We desire to be active in the world as

witnesses of God’s love We pledge ourselves to compassion and

service, supporting one another in local, national, and international ministries

Holy Week at Church of the Resurrection

April 1 – Palm/Passion Sunday - 8 AM: Holy Eucharist Rite I, 10:30 AM: Liturgy of the Palms (outside) Holy Eucharist Rite II. 12:45 PM: Lenten Study

April 4 – 5:30 PM, Lenten Study in Yellow Room, Family Potluck to

follow in Parish Hall.

April 5 – Maundy Thursday - 7 PM: Eucharist & Agape Feast in Parish Hall. Potluck signup sheets in Yellow Room.

April 6 – Good Friday - 12 Noon: Stations of the Cross (Nave). 6 PM: Stations of the Cross (Labyrinth). 7 PM: Good Friday Solemn Liturgy and Veneration of the Cross

April 7 – Holy Saturday - 7 PM: Great Vigil of Easter, Holy Eucharist Rite II

April 8 – Easter Sunday - 8 AM: Holy Eucharist Rite I, 10:30 AM: Festival Eucharist of Easter Day. 12:15 PM: Easter Potluck & Easter Egg Hunt

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Episcopal Church of the Resurrection (COR) 3925 Hilyard Street, Eugene, Oregon 97405

541-686-8462 cor@efn.org

On the Web at: www.resurrectioneugene.org Tune In is the monthly newsletter of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, Eugene, Oregon, available free or at website. Contact office by phone or email. Office

hours are 9-12:30 M, 9 to 1 Tu-Fri.

Tune In Editor: Pat Russell. Tune In Mailing Team: Gay Kramer-Dodd, Helen Reed, Sally Smith, Vivienne Close, Pat Russell.

Deadline for submissions for next issue: April 19. Information to be submitted may be sent to Pat Russell, to COR at the email address above, or deposited in the Tune In slot at COR. (behind counter, top row on the left)

The Rt. Rev. Michael Hanley, Bishop The Rev. Brent Was, Priest-in-Charge

The Rev. Maron Van, Deacon Ty Zeller, Organist Lucy Strandlien, Music Coordinator./Choir Director Carrie Peil-Warner, Director, The Choristers

Betsy Smith & Fay Harris, Pastoral Care Team Gay Kramer-Dodd, Administrative Assistant Vestry Members: Nick Crump, Senior Warden; Tim Rake & John Richardson, Junior Wardens, Ellen Cabeza, Kevin May, Doris Payne, Pat Russell, Cathy Seltzer and

Jane Smith; Ty Zeller, Treasurer.

Dear Friends,

So here we are, again at the cusp of Holy Week. One of the great gifts of the church is the form in which we recognize and celebrate the cyclic nature of things. Our bodies, our families, communities, the created world, all follow cycles. Some cycles are pulled along by the movement of our planet around the Sun. Some flow with the daily and monthly lunar dance. Some follow the seasons, others the life cycles of certain plants and animals. The whales are migrating right off our coast now. The plum trees are in bloom. Back in New England we plant potatoes as the dandelions blossom and parsley the day after it rains. Babies sleep after they eat, then need to be changed, then eat again and the cycle repeats for a year.

Easter is dynamically tied to the movements of our world. The snow notwithstanding, it is now spring, and the arrival of spring heralds the coming of Easter. Easter is celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This full moon is called the Paschal Full moon. The Equinox was March 20. The Paschal full moon is April 6. April 8, therefore, is Easter. Christmas, on the other hand, is tied to a purely solar cycle; it is celebrated on a specific date with no regard for the moon. I always get a little tingly feeling thinking about how we locate Easter. Religion can be so abstract feeling. So removed. The stories we read are at least 1900 years old and took place on the other side of the world in a desert. Very far from Eugene. We have medieval images of God and Christ and the saints and heaven and hell ingrained in our minds and culture. For a thousand years our religious landscape has been defined by over-educated white European men. And yet, from my office window I can see the ferns waving in the breeze. It is April 1 and the daffodils are finishing up. Amazing. The lichen and moss vibrate with life on the rocks and the trees, while the first bees of the year attend to their duties. Then the heat of summer will come, then the waning days of sunshine will fade into another season of winter rains until the daffodils poke their heads out in February again next year and so on and so on and so on…

Now, our annual week of darkness ahead of us. This week we again remember the cruelty that we can heap upon our own, even the most vulnerable, the most lovely. And then by the end of the week we again remember life itself is part of the grand cycle of existence. The cycle of life and death and life again. Of light and dark and light again. Of waxing and waning, rising and falling, giving and receiving. May God hold you tightly these coming days.

In Christ, Brent

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Notes from the Loft

It’s hard to believe that with the start of April we will begin our journey through Holy Week. The music for Holy Week is a musical and emotional rollercoaster.

We enter into Palm Sunday singing the joyous hymn “All Glory, Laud and Honor”, but are quickly reminded of the events of the coming days when the choir sings Mozart’s “Ave Verum Corpus”. Listen for the musical offering by the Choristers and their various instruments (including voice boxes) when they help us prepare for our Holy Week walk with “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”.

Gentle Taize will lift us on Maundy Thursday as we gather to share a meal with friends and humbly wash their feet.

On Good Friday we walk with Jesus, feeling his pain and our own. During the Veneration of the Cross the choir will once again sing “Ave Verum Corpus” but by the contemporary composer Michael Sitton; also listen for the familiar words of “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” arranged by Richard Shepherd.

During the Great Vigil on Saturday we will hear the triumphant Exsultet and we have our first opportunity to break the alleluia silence.

On Easter Sunday the Choristers and the COR choir will join to sing our traditional “He is Risen” complete with handbells and later in the service we will get our fill of alleluias with “A Repeating Alleluia” by Calvin Hampton.

Choristers A BIG THANK YOU to all the Choristers and the youth of St. Mary's for a fabulous show! 100% Chance of Rain was a hit! Thank you to this community and all the families who support the ministry that is our Choristers. We couldn't do it without you! (And thank you, Carrie, for your time, energy and talent with our young people.)

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord! The Music Team

Financial Highlights

Year to date, through January 31, 2012

Operating Budget Budgeted Actual

Expenses $16,042 $14,084

Pledges $15,075 $18,923

Other Income $967 $1,113 The monthly treasurer report is in the vestry notebook in the office.

Save the Date!!!

St. Mary's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection present Vacation Bible Camp 2012: Biblical Kids! to be held July 23 - 27, 9 AM to 12 noon at St. Mary's Episcopal Church (13th and Pearl)

VBS Camp is set for ages 3 through 5th grade graduates. (Under age 3 welcome with a responsible helper) Middle and High School Youth are invited to help us lead, and more adult volunteers needed. Interested in volunteering? Please contact Christine Zeller-Powell, Brent Was+, or Bingham Powell+.

Do You Have a Will?

If you are younger, older or somewhere in between, you need a will. Come find out why.

On April 22nd at 12:15 PM the Endowment Committee is presenting a session on wills and living trusts.

On April 29th we will present an additional session on other kinds of trusts and giving. Snacks will be provided and all are welcome.

As always we are downstairs on Thursdays - sewing talking and enjoying each others company. A new member joined us recently - Orion Bibee - who is adding a lot to our group. Come join us at 10 AM -- no experience required.

We recently took a bunch of quilts to Project Linus, who distributes them to needy people (young & old). Also we have given away several baby quilts and lap quilts to the infirmed here at Resurrection. We are also making pot-holders for HSK.

We are planning a Bring 'N Buy sale on June 10th for the whole church. You can be involved! Please be thinking about what you might bring to sell (or just show) to our congregation: something you're actively involved in doing - art work - craft work - baking - to sell or just to show! The event is the week before Father's Day and will be held downstairs after church. We are planning on aprons, pot holders, quillows (a combination quilt in a pillow) and other beautiful quilts - large and small. Proceeds will go to Piecemakers, who need to buy quilting supplies.

Green Suggestion!

Dry your clothes on a clothesline instead of an electric dryer. Electric dryers use up 10% of residential electricity in the U.S. This will save money as well. If you must use a dryer, consider installing a diverter valve to the vent so that in winter the hot air exhaust can be used to help heat and humidify your house. Or wash and dry clothes, bed linens less frequently. And fill both washer and dryer to the max when you do use them.

For an updated version of Church of the

Resurrection’s calendar, visit

http://resurrectioneugene.org/ and click on

Resurrection Calendar

Church Women United to meet at COR

Join Church Women United (CWU) on April 13th, 9 a.m., at Church of the Resurrection to hear Robin Stephenson, Bread for the World Western Field Organizer, talk about Protecting Funding for Hungry People. Stephenson will come from Portland to speak at our Friday Breakfast (7 AM, Brail's) and at the later forum (9 AM, COR).

Bread for the World's motto "Have Faith, End Hunger" comes to life as we write letters to protect federal programs vital to hungry people. Our brief handwritten letters get more attention than e-mails or printed ones. Robin's presentations are always exciting and faith based. Our letters help prevent cuts in international food aid and in domestic programs for families and children. Please join us on April 13th.

Diane D. D. Beuerman

Spotlight

focuses on Cynthia Broschat This month we have turned the “Spotlight” onto Cynthia Broschat, the usual writer of this column. Cynthia has attended Church of the Resurrection for several years, initially on a sporadic basis due to her work but it has now become part of her life. She had no formal background in religion until she attended Pepperdine University where it was obligatory; but until COR she had not found a loving church home. She sits usually on the Gospel side of the sanctuary; her tall 5’10” frame with blond medium length straight hair and sky blue eyes, are easily recognizable. She loves COR’s music, the choir, the warm, welcoming and out-reaching congregation and the incredible stained glass window—its rainbow of colors appeals to her artist’s heart. Threads of art and creativity have woven themselves throughout her very well-traveled life. If you have ever been fortunate enough to attend one of Cynthia’s inspirational art workshops you will know how gifted she is creatively. Her life, as she puts it has always been about serving, creating and exploring. She has a special affinity with seniors and is appreciated for her skills formerly as Activities Director at an Assisted Living Facility in Santa Barbara, CA and presently as a tour designer/director at a locally based tour company, Experience Oregon.

Cynthia was born in Palo Alto. Even in her California childhood she remembers enjoying endless hours, painting and creating in some form. Her love for travel began when she moved to Hawaii. She shared with me, “I began my career in travel and tourism, just out of Pepperdine College in Los Angeles. I moved to Hawaii; the Hawaiian Islands and sea were Paradise to me, and I’ve desired the nearness of the ocean, ever since.” But after 7 years, a love-relationship lured her to landlocked, Tennessee.

After five years, New England became her new home where she met the man who was to become her husband in Hanover, New Hampshire. Together, they managed professional track and field athletes from the Pacific Coast Club, in world class and Olympic competitions in the U.S., Canada, the South Pacific and Europe. Cynthia ran competitively but not on a world-class level. At home they served for 8 years as high school track coaches and organizers of track and field extravaganzas where more than 1000 children participated. When they divorced some seven years later, Cynthia’s interests and career then focused on the arts. She began her own business in decorative arts, partnering with interior design firms; she specialized in faux finishes, artistically painting floors, walls, ceilings and furniture in private and public spaces.

In the 1980s on a trip to England she discovered the rugged beauty of the balmy south western peninsula of Cornwall. She was drawn to the charming seaside, fishing village of St. Ives where artists flock. Courageously, selling all her possessions in 2004 Cynthia moved to St Ives. Cynthia enjoyed her life there until the rigid immigration laws forced her to leave after 6 months. But not to be beaten she became a bi-continental dividing her year between Eugene and St. Ives for the next several years. When asked what attracts her there she replied: “I live very simply, in a chalet on a green hill overlooking the sea; I don’t need a car and I can walk everywhere and be in nature anytime and I adore my 700 year old Anglican Church of Saint Ia.”

Recently, circumstances have prevented her pursuing that enviable lifestyle for more than 2-3 months every couple of years but she hopes to return to her beloved Cornwall and friends. Meanwhile, Cynthia plans to produce a travel book –with a difference --that she has worked on for several years: “Creating a Unique Spiritual Traveler's Memory Book offering insights and ways to get the absolute most out of your trip...transforming a trip into a pilgrimage.”

In Cynthia’s words, “I feel this book is a compilation of my spiritual, creative, and artistic and explorer’s life...lived thus far.” Written by Vivienne Close

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Join the Lunch Bunch The Lunch Bunch meets every Tuesday at a different restaurant, at 11:30 a.m. for food and fellowship. We’re always looking for recommendations of places we haven’t tried. If these venues and times look good to you, just show up! Keeper of the calendar, updater of restaurant list, and map consultant is Theda Heinzkill, 541-343-8367 [except 9th April till 1st May].

APRIL MAY

03 House of Chen 1861 Franklin Blvd 01 Highlands Pub 390 E. 40th Ave. (near Donald St.)

10 Evergreen Indian Cuisine

1525 Franklin Blvd 08 Pump Café 710 Main St., Springfield

17 Hole in the Wall BBQ

1807 Olympic St., Springfield

15 Ta Ra Tin 1200 Oak St

24 Old Pad 3355 E. Amazon Pkwy 22 Hideaway Bakery 3377 E. Amazon Dr

29 Washburne Café 326 Main St., Springfield

Christian Formation for Adults A change of subject matter for April and May: Walter Brueggemann, one of the world's leading interpreters of the Hebrew Scriptures, and a United Church of Christ minister and Professor Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, comes to our Sunday morning study group via a DVD, "Embracing the Prophets In Contemporary Culture". The six sessions have these intriguing titles: April 15: "Moses, Pharaoh, The Prophets & Us" April 22: The Prophets As Uncredentialed

Purveyors of Covenant" April 29: Live and in-person, Fr. Brent will lead the

session on this Sunday, with the topic Anglicanism and Episcopalianism.

May 6: "Moral Coherence in A World of Power, Money and Violence"

May 13: "The Shrill Rhetoric That Breaks Denial" May 20: "The Grief of Loss As Divine Judgment" May 27: "The Promissory Language That Breaks

Despair" Join us Sundays 9:30 to 10:15 in the Yellow Room and help us to grapple with the relevance of the Hebrew Scriptures and Prophets for us today. Complementary and optional breakfast at 9 AM.

Jane Smith

All are invited to join me and go for a walk, (after spring really comes!) starting with 1 mile! We'll stick to level ground to start, but I want to continue my training and who else better to walk with than friends from church! Please give me a call 541-357-5337 (h), if I don't answer, leave a message and I will get back ASAP! I look forward to seeing who would like to join me and have a lot of fun!

Liz Lane

Sunday Morning Bible Study The Sunday morning Bible study group continues to meet each week at 9:45. We discuss the gospel lesson for the morning using the “Lambeth” or “African” Bible study method. For me, the practice of discussing the Gospel lesson prior to the service has enriched the worship experience. It turns out that studying the assignment before class—in this case, Mass—really does enhance my understanding. There’s plenty of room for others to join us, and we welcome people of all ages. We meet each Sunday from 9:45-10:15 in the parish hall.

Brian Henley

Dear Friends

This year we celebrated Shrove Tuesday with a talent show put on by the children and young people of Resurrection. Thanks to my young friends for the music, the magic tricks and the comedy. To our audience, thanks for your attendance, your applause and your donations. Together we raised $782 for Episcopal Relief and Development!

By the way, next Shrove Tuesday is February 12th, 2013, so dust off your unicycles, your toe-shoes and your stilts, and let’s get our acts together!

Peace, Grace Geurin-Henley

Episcopal Campus Ministry Did you know that on Thursday nights during the school year a group of people get together, share a meal, celebrate the Eucharist and talk about college life, Jesus, the Epsicopal church and where to go for the best burger and brew?

The Episcopal Campus Ministry House on 19th Avenue between Onyx and Emerald hosts a weekly community meal and Eucharist beginning at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome! There are currently 3 students living in the house with the potential for two more residents. The Reverend Marisa Tabizon Thompson is the chaplain, serving both students, faculty, staff and the campus community. Feel free to stop by on Thursdays and check us out on the web at: www.uoecm.org/

Peace be with you, Joelle Rankins Goodwin

Garden Group We are forming a garden group for the COR garden spot in our backyard.

If you are interested there are lots of things that you can do. The big job of course is the weeding (which takes place all Spring, Summer & Fall), but we have some initial problems to work on. The fence needs to be more substantial (in other words replaced) -- we'd like the garden area to be a little larger. It will be mostly flowers for the Altar Guild to use - and some veggies to be shared by all. A few herbs!

If you would like to be a part of this group and sign up for certain jobs throughout the Spring - Summer - Fall please let one of the following people know: Pat Russell, Cathy Seltzer, Windy Dayton & Lee Anne Robertson.