seek, winter 2011 from episcopal diocese of missouri

8/7/2019 Seek, Winter 2011 from Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

1/8

Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2011

Grace to you, and peace romGod our Father, and the Lord JesusChrist.

I begin with one o the great,hope-lled passages rom Revela-tion, as John continues to unold the

vision given him, here at the twenty-rst chapter:

I saw the holy city, the new Jeru-salem, coming down out o heavenrom God, prepared as a brideadorned or her husband. And Iheard a loud voice rom the thronesaying, See, the home o God isamong mortals. He will dwell withthem as their God; they will be hispeoples, and God himsel will bewith them; he will wipe every tearrom their eyes. Death will be nomore; mourning and crying andpain will be no more, or the frstthings have passed away.

Notice how this passage under-

mines a popular American imagina-tion about the end o days, whichtalks about a rapture o believers intothe sky, an escape rom a doomedworld. But thats not what Revelationtells us. The new Jerusalem comesdown, renewing the earth. The homeo God is among mortals. There isno escape in this picture.

This much beloved world is thecontext or Gods working-out o sal-vation. It is the only context we have.The new Jerusalem, whose presencecomes to us rom above and rom the

context, both nearby and ar o. Wedo well to interpret the context oour neighborhoodsand the globalneighborhood. It is my hope that wecan understand that what we do inLui Diocese in Sudan, and what we

do at the Peace Meal at St. Johns inTower Grove in St. Louis, are o onepiece. They simply lie on dierenthorizons o our context.

A rst step, then: Interpreting thecontext.

Ater context, then text. Whatin scripture helps make sense outo this situation? What comes tomind? Where are the links? Formalscripture studies, whether modern inshape or avant garde and post-mod-ern, can interpret a passage o scrip-ture to within an inch o its lie. Parto the brilliance o the method whichI am describing is that it allows thescriptures to do the interpreting.

The scripture becomes ree to makesense o us, and the situations whichwe ace. They bring clarity into ourunderstanding o what God is doingin our contexts.

Context. Text. Action. Oncewe begin to understand what Godis doing in the context, then wecan fnd the invitation to do thething that God is doing. Remem-ber: it is always Gods mission, notours, and we are accountable to andservants o that mission. And as weengage more deeply in the context, Continued on page 3.

the interpretive loop begins again.Context. Text. Action. An ever-

changing tableau.I asked Robert Towner, rector o

Christ Church in Cape Girardeau, iI might share some o the story aboutmissional lie in that congregation,and how this interpretive templatets. It ts pretty well.

In 2001 or 2002, at a conerenceor revitalizing older, establishedchurches, which Bob attended withthe senior warden o the parish, hecame away with one important in-sight: serve the neighborhood whereyou have been planted, or else move.Thats all about context.

Christ Church was aced with

an important decision: to move tothe growing edge o town, or stayput in a downtown neighborhoodin decline. They ended up staying,not as a path o least resistance, butpurposeully. Thats when, Bob says,they started talking to their neigh-bors.

That is to say, Christ Church gotmore serious about its context.

And some texts emerged to helpmake sense out o that context, to

Bishops Address to the171st Annual Meeting of the Dio-cese of Missouri, November 20,2010, St. Charles, Missouri

It was an inormative,inspirational, joyul, tiringwhirlwind o a time; it was energizing and balanced, un,ellowship-flled satisying hopeul event. So said lay andclergy attendees o the annual meeting o the dioceseheld mid-November at the St. Charles ConventionCenter. This issue oSeek is a recap o meeting high-lights rom Bishop Waynes address to the diocese tothe resolutions passed by the 171st convention.

Also included are some thumbnail sketches o workdone this past year by diocesan organizations that areless amiliar to many. You can nd complete reports onthe diocesan website: diocesemo.org.

Photos: Standing Committee gathered to present their reportto convention; members o the Companion RelationshipCommittee talk about Lui with archivist Sue Rehkop, rep-resentatives rom Episcopal City Mission, Task Force or the

Hungry and Sustain a Faith manned inormation tables;the youth o Episcopal Church o the Ascension in North-woods captured video or a storytelling project; the new Curesin the diocese gathered or recognition; Bishop Wayne sharesobservations about last year and his vision or this comingyear in the Diocese o Missouri.

1101SeekCMYKpics.indd 1 3/8/2011 4:25:42 PM


2/8

Making Disciples Building Congregations For the Life of the World

We are all quite proud to call ourselves the little churchthat said I should

Practice stability, bloom where we were plantedand serve the neighborhood.

But all we knew to do was ramps upThe Episcopal Church Welcomes You signs

With more signs, yers, advertisements.

We learned that promotions of unpronounceable,unknown sects are not good news,And even tastefully done fail to attract.

Karen and her family joined us becauseit was the right thing to do,

Not that any, they or we, knew any more than where and why.Not how, know how.

We knew who, but they skeert us.They who are poorer, or more visibly wounded,

or less nancially able,Paralyze us with fear.

We hide this big hairy secretIn our dreams.

Karen was sitting with four others adults,

whose own kids are youth and young adults,Trying to plan a kids club, though

weve forgotten what kids love andWe are still chary to ask them face to face.

Our parish can claim only two or three grade school kidsthat we can never gather in one place.

In fact our own folks arent too surethe church is where kids belong.

Since they have too many music and theatre and travel andsports and academic appointments,

Already.But the neighborhood kids got nothing

to do after the bus drops them off,Yet. Karen sits, embarrassed and she wonders

in silence,What am I doing here? No, why?

And her answer bursts in the back door with a whoop.Heeling to tiptoe when he nds the room

full of excellent women.A spring loaded eight year old,

who tells all the girls his name is Shaq andhes fteen years old.

He slips over to the side of the pastor for a hug and a whisper.Lets get together tomorrow, Marquand.

You got it, man. See you then, he chirps,hi lo later, Father.

There, said Karen, goes the answerto my unspeakable question;

Lets plan this party.

Nine years ago, under the arc o the long rangevision team, TJ came knocking at the back door with ave gallon blue plastic jug. The city had turned o hiswater, and might he tap our supply so he could fushhis toilet? At the time he lived in the HUD approvedbuilding across the back lot o the church where allthe Episcopalians parked. Which oddly worked sincenone o the residents owned a car. In the unlikelyevent that HUD ever inspected this property, ailureto fush could have been grounds or eviction. Thus we

launched our neighborhood mission with water and theSpirit working anonymously, thus ar.

Five moves in less than ten years have not pulled TJ out oour orbit. There is no one else in this very loving parish who livescloser to my heart, my phone, and my discretionary und checkbook. He takes me into his lie week in and week out, but never onSunday. To worship he must sit in his mothers (she o ten childrenand blessed memory) church, where he knows all the songs butmust hide the many truths that do not t the lyrics. This is therule o zombie world around us. Poor and middle class dont mixon Sundays. But TJ works or us when we have money and he hasnone. Nine years and still only our o us know this beautiul, aith-

ul man. What happens when he comes around? My God, is this

meanness or blindness?Now TJ was cleaning up the parking lot in back, which wedont own but maintain, even though now we have a parking lotout on Fountain Street, because our unocial clients, anonymouslyrecovering alcoholic and addicts, preer to park out o sight. Andeveryone knows, though we cannot bear to say it, that this at least isone place that the Holy Ghost raises us rom the dead today. So, byall means, take care o the back lot.

When along comes this slinky, nosey, bouncy boy, Asking TJ,Man, what are you doing? Can I help? And can I have a job too?You dont even have to pay me.

Well, yes, i its okay with TJ, and since you ask so nice, wewill pay you too. And rom that day orward Marquand was headman o the Fountain Street clean up squad. Within days he hadrecruited two more. He hired Tom Sawyer style, and as quickly assome quit, others stepped up. A nickel per piece o paper, plastic,glass or can, collected and sorted into recyclable and land llable.

And once, ater work, while getting dreamsicles at the Cornerstore, I saw him, bane o the school principle, nightmare o hismother, transgured as a leader o his peers, the rst member othe Red Door Kids Club. Now he comes around oten. We teachone another the ground rules. Hugs are ree and so is watering theplants around the church. Litter control is paid, and hes in chargeo hiring and ring.

But it was TJ taught me that the dierence between riendshipand patronage is the riend knows who is your mother, and respectsthat too. And the patron knows your social security number.

Marquands mother lives whereTJ used to live, where Angielie andher daughter are the only ones withthe seniority to tell the landladywhats broke and needs be xed. Ayear ago, Marquand brought his

mother and his great grandmother,Mamma Grace, to the CommunityMeal. Ater we prayed one o herwilder granddaughters back homeone Sunday aternoon, MammaGrace started bringing more o heramily around or supper. Imaginemy surprise as on her bony arm shebrings her daughter, Mary Gray,a blue eyed black allen angel othe neighborhood, whom we havecounseled, prayed and paid out omany a tight corner since we decidedto become a neighborly church eightyears ago. Mary, turns out, is Mar-quands grandmother.

Though I am pretty sure we

cannot x whats broke back o the church, at long last we arebeginning to see and daring to love our neighbors. And the love oGod is taking on muscle and blood. So Karen can touch the reasonwhy we work so hard or those who do not go to Christ EpiscopalChurch, yet...Kneel in awe at the birth place o God with skin, ar-ranged by adoring kids, angels, the ass and oxen, sheep and shep-herds, innkeepers and kings, each just where she or he or it belongstogether marking the unbroken circle around the Christ. And praywith me we grown-up kids get it hal so right next year.

Robert A Towner,December, 2010

Editors note: Annual meeting is also a time for fel-lowship and sharing stories with one another aboutour lives and work in the past year. Each year thegovernance bodies of Diocesan Council and StandingCommittee make ofcial reports to the bishop and thepeople of the diocese. You can nd the ofcial reportspublished online in the convention booklet (two weeks

before convention) and then in the printed Journal(published early summer after the years audited nan-cials arrive). Council vice-chair the Rev. Robert Townerpresented, in addition to the printed reports, an engaging lookinside of the missional model congregation. When we asked ifthere was a copy of the speech, turns out it was good old-fash-ioned preaching from the heart, sans notes. Towner graciouslywrote out one of the main stories, in poesie and in prose, toshare with the diocese. You may also have seen this ar ticlefeatured on Christmas Eve on Episcopal Church Foundationsnew Vital Practices website, which offers congregational re-sources and discussions: www.ecfvp.org.



3/8

show what God was and is doingthere. Mark 6, Jesus commissioningo the twelve, with his instructions totravel lightly and to stay put in onehouse within a locale until nished,spoke to the situation. Dont go fit-ting about looking or the best housewith the best mealsbut do the workwhere you are. The parable o thesower suggested that Christ is aith-

ully sowing the word already amongneighbors, even beore the mission-aries show up. Jesus got there beoreChrist Church. Luke 14 tells aboutJesus imperative to invite guests toa banquet precisely because o theirinability to repay. And here I useBobs exact works: O course theresthe parable o the last judgment inMatthew 25, ull o ghosts o activ-ism past (present and uture), whichhaunts us all and oers us immensepromise (Oh, that I might meetHim!) even beore the eschaton.Well put, Bob.

As ar as action in these eight ornine years, there were plenty o e-

orts which ailed. But Christ Churchdid not lose its sense o purpose, instaying put. We have got to do ithere, and i we cannot see the open-ings, we havent nished exploringthe context. Again, quoting BobTowner.

So or now: they have a lie-giving ood ministry: A hot mealthe last Sunday every month, whenpaychecks run low, and a ood pantryopen every week, or a neighbor-hood with hungry people. They havethe Red Door Kids clubor theneighborhood., not or the Church.They are intentional about neighbor-hood connections, or a sae, walk-

able, beautiul neighborhood. ChristChurch is very much connected withour Dioceses partnership in Sudan.

Christ Church would be missedi it were not there in Cape Gi-rardeau.

By the way, the missional lie Iam describing does not require a loto money. It resists programs andbudgets. It is a way or the Churchto organize and live its lie. And itdepends on people-power. Sweatequity. Yours. Mine.

There are stories like this allaround the Diocese, and I encourageyou to give words to them. Think

about them in terms o Context.Text. Action. Practice telling themout loud. This is precisely the kindo work being done with the Mis-sion Model Congregations, aboutwhom I spoke in my address last

year: Advent, Crestwood; ChristChurch, Cape Girardeau; Grace,Kirkwood; St. Matthews, WarsonWoods; St. Pauls, Ironton; and Trin-ity, St. Charles are congregations ovarious sizes, in various locales, andrepresentative o the breadth o thisdiocese.

I have asked them to do onemain thing: To make the work o

mission an organizing principle ortheir congregations lie. Not as anater-thought. But a main thinginot the main thing. Their work hasbeen an experiment o sorts: But Iam condent enough now to ask allo you the same thing I have askedthese congregations: To make thework o mission an organizing prin-ciple in your lie together.

Heres what I notice as I travelabout this diocese: To a place, thecongregations who have chosen tolook outwardrather than inwardare thriving. And doing so even inthis crazy economy. The paradox isthat to ocus outward is to get well,

in our internal goings-on. To giveup our lie is to save it. The way othe cross is the way o lie and peace.These are not slogans to put inneedle-point and hang on the wall.These are the bracing and lie-givingtruths at the heart o the gospel.

One hard truth about lie inthe eastern hal o Missouri is thepresence o racism. Which is simplypart o our context. Urban, town,ruralracism and its structures arepresent, and so much a part o thelandscape that they are oten invis-ible to us, particularly those o us inthe dominant culture.

The Diocese o Missouri isblessed to have at our service anexemplary Commission on Dis-mantling Racism. I have been inconversation with that Commission,dreaming about what our next stepsmight be.

Two things I ask o you, theClergy and Delegates at this conven-tion: First, I ask you to join me inexamining context around this issueand identiying texts to make senseo it. The Commission has to take alead in this work, but I commend itto everyone in our Diocese. Contextand text have some clarity or me,but action is less than clear. Study,

listen, and dream with me.Second, I ask you to begin work

in your various communities o aithto identiy any legacies o slavery andracism in your midst, and ours. The

General Convention last year, by res-olution, has asked us to do just that.This is heavy liting, dear riends,and I stand ready to lend a hand. TheCommission on Dismantling Racismplans to provide practical resourcesor all o us, next spring and summer.

We who are the Church, aterall, are accountable to another visionrom the Book o Revelation, thatimage o the saints o God in the ageto come, praising God and Christ

the Lamb, a royal priesthood romevery amily, language, people andnation. We do not inhabit that visionperectly, and we will not so inhabitit o our own doingbut we remainaccountable to it. That vision alonemeans that we must combat racism.

That vision also has everythingto do with our vitality. Some data oryou: The Diocesan growth trend inaverage Sunday attendance remainsremarkably fat. Last reporting yearI put beore you the data rom 2008,which showed a .4% increase inSunday attendance over the previousyear. Flat.

In reporting the data rom 2009,I can tell you that we showed a .5%decrease in Sunday attendance, com-pared to the previous year. Statisti-cally fat. Better than all but a handull o dioceses but not sustainable.

For the sake o vitality, our con-gregations will do well to refect thediversity in the communities aroundthem. Another reason or attentionto racism in our contexts.

Now to extend the horizons oChurch to the Anglican Commu-nion: I need rst to report that amidthe serious tensions which continuein the Communion, the EpiscopalChurch still has a place at the table.

The table is taking on a dierentlook, and there may be more thanone table. So be it.

I believe that we will continue tohave such a place, though with dis-comort and ambiguity or usandor others at the table. I have no needprematurely to resolve this discom-ort and ambiguity.

My long-stated purpose hasbeen to work toward the ull inclu-sion o all the baptized, including ourgay and lesbian brothers and sisters,while maintaining the highest degreeo communion possible along theway. That is still my purpose. Notethis: the Episcopal Church remains aconstituent member o the AnglicanCommunion.

A related matter is the proposedAnglican Covenant, about which Ihave two points. First, by the end oJanuary, I will appoint a Diocesantask orce to study the Covenant, togather data rom the Diocese, and todistribute their learnings to us by theend o 2011.

Second, I need to let you knowmy own deep ambivalence towardthe idea o a Covenant. The Cove-nant, as proposed, presents a dier-ent style o Anglicanism rom thatamiliar to us. For example, it looks

more to the Articles o Religion, alist, and less to the voluminous writ-ings o Richard Hooker, with all hissubtleties. This Church historicallyhas paid precious little attention tothe Articles.

The Covenant looks more to theEnglish Book o Common Prayer o1662, as i rozen in time, and less (iat all) to the liturgical renewal o theprevious 150 years. This presents anodd eel to Episcopalians, since our

Church abandoned the 1662 Englishbook or a Scots-based book, in 1784.

The Covenant looks cones-sional in shape, despite denials tothe contrary. It looks more juridicaland less relational in its constructs.It suggests a centralizing authority inplace o the more amiliar dispersedauthority.

With reservations, I could beconvinced to support the Covenant,at least in its rst three sections, iit could be shown to strengthen thebonds o aection. The ourth sec-tion, where the juridical aspects areocused, remains very problematic.

I say all this, not to shut downyour own considerations about theCovenant, but simply to let youknow where I stand.

I have written already to conveymy gratitude to the Diocese and itsbodies or making March and Aprilo this years available as sabbaticaltime or me. I need to say my thanksin person to all o you who orm thecore deliberative body in the Dio-cese o Missouri. Sabbatical gave

me much-needed rest and a time orrefection. About the only tangibleoutcome was that hymn-text wesang last night, and which I pennedmostly on the beach in South Texas.The intangibles, though, have beenplenty.

I do want to re-state some othe learnings which solidied duringmy sabbatical, since I think they arepertinent.

First: The ordained lie is ull oblessingand stress. This is hardly anew learning, but I took in throughmy body what I have known or along time. I was not prepared or thedegree o tiredness I discovered inmysel, once I got to the beach andcamped there or two weeks. I amgrateul or the rest I ound, and alsoor the time and space to uncover myown weariness. I say these words, notor the sake o sel-pity, or elicitingpity rom anyone else. I write theminstead or purposes o conscious-ness-raising, and or the sake o theclergy o this Diocese. As recentlyas the 1960s, pastoral ministry wasa high-status, low-stress vocation.A couple o generations later, thosequaliers have fipped, and most othe ordained now experience theirvocation as high-stress, low-status.With the gradual demise o Chris-

tendom in recent decades, and thelower regard or religious institutionsand even distrust o them, the cultureno longer by deault will see to thecare and eeding o clergy. It is in-stead up to the people o our parishesto take up this taskand to do sointentionally, and with understand-ing. Deal compassionately and gentlywith your clergy.

And clergy: pay attention to yourown well-being.

Second : We may be livingthrough an epochal shit. PhyllisTickle and Diana Butler Bass, bothscholars o some note, addressed theMarch House o Bishops meeting onthe matter o the great emergence.As Tickle writes to make this claim,Every 500 years or so, the churchand the worldexperience huge so-cial, political, economic, and culturalshits. And both she and Butler Bassargue that we are just at the tippingpoint o such a shit.

Now, they may over-state thematter, but I do think that they areonto something nonetheless. Be very

Continued on page 4.



4/8

sure about this: We cannot recre-ate the Church or the world o the1950s. That Church and world aregone. Over and done with. More tothe point, we cannot even recreatethe Church and world o the 1990s.

A more tangible and veriableshit lies in the act o global climatechange. The beautiul ragility oPadre Island, one o the low-lyingbarrier islands o the Gul Coast,provided the backdrop or my read-ing and refection on this matter.The closing line in the rst verseo my hymn-text we sang comesdirectly rom this experience o beingon a threatened beach: The prayer toGod, the Holy Spirit: Brood oer theearth, renew its lie, and cleanse itrom our sin.

Moreover, the research and con-sultation I have done as part o theHouse o Bishops Theology Com-mittees work around climate changesuggest that the Church has beenlargely silent on a crucial matter othe Christian moral lie. This mustchange. I all the data are truth, howthen shall we live?

The vision o the new Jerusalemis to the point. For God loves this

world and works toward its renewaland salvation. There is not anotherworld or reuge, but this one, holyand blessed but wounded. There isno escape.

Over the past months, I havedelighted to see a ministry callingitsel Sustain a Faith emerge in ourDiocese. This is a group o peopledevoted to making our Churchbuildings greener, and encourag-ing all o us believers to live more

sustainable lives. It is an organizationbuilt grass-roots up, rather than topdown. Much to like about it!

Finally, and by no means least,I came to know more deeply howmuch I treasure the ministry en-trusted to me. Toward the end o thisbrie sabbatical, when I ound myselturning toward my return to mywork and ministry, I ound a sort ounexpected anticipation. The worko Bishop o Missouri is endlesslyascinating. I nd it both satisy-ingand oten indescribably di-cult. They qualities are not mutuallyexclusive and, in act, encompass thesort o language which many theolo-gians use to describe vocation.

I realize that there is no otherwork about which I pine away.And it is not being a bishop in theabstract which makes this ministrysuch a sweet spot in my lie. It is thespecics inherent in being Bishopo Missouri: this geography, thesecongregations, these people, thesechallenges and opportunities.

I realize that I do not cravesome theoretically perect diocese,as i such a thing were possible. Iam deeply, deeply content with the

diocese where I am blessed to liveand serve.

It is my joy to have all o youas partners as we seek to engage themission o God in our neighbor-hoods. Making Disciples. BuildingCongregations. For the Lie o theWorld.

The Right Reverend Wayne SmithTenth Bishop o Missouri

The Episcopal Recovery Ministry (ERM) Committeesmission is to educate clergy and lay leaders about theseverity o and presence o addiction diseases within ourcommunities.

Contact us or literature, speaker recommendations,and resources about conducting a 12-step Holy Communion. Wewould like to establish a liaison person with each parish to assistour clergy when a ellow parishioner needs inormation, a reerralresource, or guidance. We are here to help. Addictions are the onlydiseases that have a spiritual recovery.

www.MissouriEpiscopalRecovery.org

The Community o Hope (COH) is a religious community otraining and support or lay pastoral care ministry grounded in Bene-dictine Spirituality. The ourteen-week, 42-hour training is designedto awaken participants to Gods call in their lives, and to help themdiscover their spiritual gits or ministry. Within this context o Bene-dictine Spirituality, trainees explore a personal rule o lie.

Each o the ourteen modules eatures a guest lecturer with ex-pertise in a particular area o pastoral ministry. The training includestwo supervised practice visits. Condentiality and accountability are

emphasized. Ater each series o classes, the new lay chaplains are com-missioned during a Sunday morning Eucharist service at their trainingcenter.

Ater commissioning, chaplains gather monthly in small groups.These Circle o Care meetings provide opportunity or prayer, debrie-ing, ongoing support, and continuing education. The diocesan COHcommunity meets one morning each quarter to live into the Rule oBenedict through prayer, work, and study together. A ull-day annualretreat is additionally scheduled.

Opportunities or ministry are many and varied, or COH isdesigned to enhance existing ministries. Our lay chaplains provide aministry o presence visiting people in homes, hospitals (includingER, Intensive Care, and Hospice settings), nursing acilities, shelters,and jails; and lead Morning Prayer on Saturdays at the Cathedralshomeless program. Some serve, with additional training, as EucharisticVisitors. Miriam Jenkins and Gretchen Logue are currently acilitatingthe ninth class since COH began in this diocese in 2001. At the initia-tive o The Rev. Emily Hillquist Davis, Grace Church in Kirkwood hasjoined The Church o St. Michael and St. George and Christ ChurchCathedral as an ocial COH Training Center in our diocese. The Rev.Mike Wheeler, The Rev. Dr. John Kilgore, and The Rev. Todd Mc-Dowell serve as clergy advisors. Our diocesan Community o Hope ispart o Community o Hope International.

COH has trained over 70 lay chaplains rom nine Episcopal par-ishes and other congregations in the St. Louis area since 2001. In thepast year (9/1/09-8/31/10) COH chaplains made over 3600 pastoralcontacts and gave more than 2800 hours to COH activities, includingpastoral visits, Circle o Care meetings, retreats, planning, andpreparation. For additional inormation please contactthe Rev. Emily Hillquist Davis ([email protected] or 314-821-1806, x. 19)

Vision: As people living out our Baptismal covenant, we seeour diocese reconciled to God by challenging racism inourselves and society.

Mission: To dismantle racism through education,dialogue and action.

The Commission is charged by the National Church and the dio-cese to promote racial justice in the Episcopal Church

Just some o the programs oered this past year:1/3: St. Timothys, Adult Education,Traces o the Trade Mike McDowell1/10 Trinity, St. Louis Adult Ed Traces o the Trade Kate Haggans1/13 St. Peters Absalom Jones Celebration1/21 Holy Communion Adult Ed Traces o the Trade Chester Hines, Jr. and Mike

McDowell1/27 Grace Church, Jeerson CityTraces o the Trade McDowell2/28 Holy Communion, Adult Ed Traces o the Trade Hines and McDowell3/6 Race: Are We So Dierent? Missouri History Museum, McDowell3/7 Holy Communion, Adult Ed Race--Power o an Illusion Hines3/12, 13 Columbia Hope, Diocesan Dismantling Racism Training, the Revv.

Heather McCain and Emery Washington, Sr.3/14 Holy Communion Adult Ed, Race--Power o an Illusion, Hines3/21 Holy Communion Adult Ed Race The Power o an Illusion Hines4/23 Cathedral Ed Program Traces o the Trade, Mary Hovland5/16 Columbia Hope Ed Program, Defning the Terms, Haggans5/23 Columbia Hope Ed Program Internalized Oppression, Washington5/30 Columbia Hope Ed Program Race: The Power o an Illusion , Hines7/9, 10 Diocesan Dismantling Racism Training, St. Peters Episcopal

Church, Ladue, Hines, Commission

Currently, less than 20% o diocesan parishes participate in deliv-ering the commissions programs and services; we seek 100% participa-tion. I you are willing and able to serve as a contact or your parish,please contact secretary Rob Good, [email protected].

Dismantling Racism Commission maintains a lending library o re-sources or the diocesan community and others interested in the topic.The Library is located at St. Peters Church in Ladue. Commissionmember Kate Haggans has created a topical nding list and you cannd both that and an alpha by title list on the diocesan webpage, underMinistries- Dismantling Racism.

The Commission will oer two dismantling racism training work-shops this year, part o the required diocesan training or clergy and layleaders. Please watch iSeek, weekly diocesan news, or details.

The Episcopal School or Ministry is a community o aithorming disciples o Jesus or all the ministries o the baptized.Through a variety o programs, workshops, and conerences, thereare a myriad o opportunities or a deeper exploration o the Chris-tian aith and lie and or the discernment and equipping o onesplace in the mission o the Church or the lie o the world. This isa school in the ancient Christian sense: a place, a gathering o theaithul, where Christ continues to teach his disciples. The Schoolprovides ways or the baptized to learn whom they ollow, how toollow, and their ministries as ollowers.

This program or theological ormation comprises all o thebasic subjects o theology: Old and New Testaments; Tradition, in-cluding Anglican tradition; Theology; Sacraments; Spirituality; Lit-urgy; and Preaching. It takes three years to take all o these courses,which is the usual time it took or basic Christian ormation in theancient Church. From time to time the School oers a program

or Congregational Development and Eucharistic Discipleship. Inthe Fall o 2011 the School hopes to oer a Diocesan wide coner-ence on Making Disciples. Beginning in January 2011 the Schoolwill partner with the Lutheran School o Theology and oer adultlearning opportunities held on weekday evenings.

In addition, throughout the year, the School can provideworkshops that orm and equip all the ministries o thebaptized. These ministries include: vestry members, layreaders, Eucharistic visitors, choir members, ushers, altarguild members, acolytes, missioners, and teachers.

Complete course, aculty, and registration inormation online atdiocesemo.org.



5/8


A-171: Minimum ClergyCompensation, Submittedon behal o the DiocesanCouncil

1. BE IT RESOLVED that this171st Convention o the EpiscopalDiocese o Missouri set the annualstandard base compensation or ull-time clergy in 2011 as ollows:CASH SALARY $39,510HOUSING ALLOWANCE$14,240[The actual compensation should bedetermined by Resolution o the Ves-try/Bishops Committee, in consulta-tion with the clergy.]2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat the Church Pension Fund as-sessment will be paid by the congre-gation;3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat $50,000 group lie will be paidby the congregation;4. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat medical coverage or clergy andeligible dependents, will be paid by

the congregation;5. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat a standard o ten days per calen-dar year and $500 will be providedor continuing education;6. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat the standard auto allowance willbe $2,000 per year; and7. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEDthat all parishes and missions encour-age their ull-time clergy to set asidethe equivalent o two days each weekor personal time, 24 hours o whichmust be consecutive.

B-171 as amended by con-vention: Diocesan Policy on

Serving AlcoholSubmitted by Episcopal Re-covery Ministries

BE IT RESOLVED that this 171stConvention o the Episcopal Dioceseo Missouri adopt the ollowing pol-icy on serving alcoholic beverages atchurch unctions and that this policyremain in eect until changed at asubsequent Diocesan Convention:

Diocese o Missouri Policy onAlcohol at Church Functions

This policy applies to all groups

hosting events on church premises.1. All applicable ederal, state, andlocal laws are to be obeyed. Un-der no circumstances may minorsconsume, sell, or distribute alcoholicbeverages. Distributing alcoholicbeverages to those who are intoxi-cated is prohibited.2. Alcoholic beverages and oodcontaining alcohol must be clearlylabeled as such.3. Whenever alcohol is served,non-alcoholic alternatives are alwaysprovided with equal attractiveness,accessibility, and quantity. Food isprovided whenever alcohol is avail-able.4. The serving o alcoholic beverages

should not be publicized as an attrac-tion o the event.5. No event will include alcoholwithout rst consulting with andreceiving the consent o the priest incharge o the congregation or his/herdesignee.6. Responsible adults are to be incontrol o the serving o alcoholicbeverages. Drunkenness is inappro-priate and unacceptable at churchevents.

7. The urnishing o alcoholic bever-ages is limited to beer and wine.8. The priest in charge and Vestry/Bishops Committee o the congre-gation are responsible or ensuringthat this policy is disseminated andobserved.9. Chemical distribution other thanalcohol is clearly controlled underederal, state, and local laws and, as

such, is orbidden at any unction.10. Alcoholic beverages stored onchurch premises are in locked stor-age, so that they are not accessible tounsupervised minors.11. Alcoholic beverages are not to beconsumed by adults who accompanyminors o church property on aparish-related activity.12. Any outside group or groupadvertising to the public that hostsan event on church property andserves alcohol is required to obtainan event rider or certicate o insur-ance naming the church as loss payeeand showing limits o liquor liabilityequal to the churchs general liability.13. The Episcopal Recovery Ministryshall develop nonbinding guidanceor consideration by congregationsand the diocese.

C-171: Diocesan CouncilSubmitted by Metro III

BE IT RESOLVED that this 171stConvention o the Episcopal Dioceseo Missouri request that the Com-mittee on Constitution & Canonsevaluate the desirability o amend-ing Canon III.6 to provide or theelection o one lay and one clergymember o Diocesan Council eachyear or three year terms; and thatthe said committee report its nd-ings back to the 172nd Conventionor, i it so chooses, to submit such anamendment to that Convention orits consideration.

D-171:Health & DentalInsuranceSubmitted by Metro III

BE IT RESOLVED that this 171stConvention o the Episcopal Dioceseo Missouri encourages DiocesanCouncil in 2011 to consider how toassist congregations who pay their

ull assessment to the Diocese oMissouri with the costs o provid-ing health and dental insurance tothe active clergy and their amilies,including but not limited to the pos-sibility o using unds rom the Agedand Inrm Clergy Fund.

E-171: Amendments to TitleV: Ecclesiastical DisciplineSubmitted on behal o theCommittee on Constitutionand Canons

BE IT RESOLVED that, eectiveJuly 1, 2011, this 171st Conventiono the Episcopal Church in the Dio-cese o Missouri amend Title V othe Canons o the Episcopal Churchin the Diocese o Missouri:A. by amending Canon V.5 in itsentirety to read as ollows:

CANON V.5 Title IV o GeneralCanons. Those provisions o TitleIV o the Canons o the NationalChurch which are applicable to thisDiocese are hereby incorporated as

part o this Title. To the extent, iany, that any o the provisions o thisTitle are in confict or inconsistentwith the provisions o Title IV o theCanons o the National Church, theprovisions o Title IV o the Canonso the National Church shall govern.

; andB. by adding a new

Canons V.6, V.7 andV.8 as ollows:

CANON V.6 Disci-pline Structure.

Section 1. Disci-plinary Board. TheBoard shall consist onot less than sevenpersons, our (4) owhom are members o the Clergyand three (3) o whom are Laity.Sec. 2. Clergy Members. The Clergymembers o the Board must be ca-nonically and geographically residentwithin the Diocese.Sec. 3. Lay Members. The laymembers o the Board shall be AdultCommunicants in Good Standing,and geographically resident in theDiocese.Sec. 4. Election. The members othe Board shall be elected by theConvention. Each member shall beelected or a three (3)-year term;except, i a member is elected to lla vacancy, the term o such membershall be the unexpired term o themember being replaced. The term othe member shall commence on therst (1st) day o the year ollowingelection. The terms o oce o theBoard shall be staggered and ar-ranged into three classes.

Sec. 5. Vacancies. Until such time asa replacement Board member is dulyelected pursuant to Canon V.6.4,vacancies on the Board shall be lledas ollows:(a) Upon the determination that avacancy exists, the President o theBoard shall notiy the Bishop o thevacancy and request appointment oa replacement member o the sameorder as the member to be replaced.(b) The Bishop shall appoint a re-placement Board member in consul-tation with the Standing Committee.(c) Persons appointed to ll vacancieson the Board shall meet the sameeligibility requirements as apply to

elected Board members.(d) With respect to a vacancy createdor any reason other than pursuantto a challenge as provided below, theterm o any person appointed as areplacement Board member shall beuntil the next annual Convention.With respect to a vacancy resultingrom a challenge, the replacementBoard member shall serve only orthe proceedings or which the electedBoard member is not serving as aresult o the challenge.Sec. 6. Preserving Impartiality. Inany proceeding under this Title,i any member o a ConerencePanel or Hearing Panel o the Boardshall become aware o a personalconfict o interest or undue bias,that member shall immediatelynotiy the President o the Boardand request a replacement membero the Panel. Respondents Counseland the Church Attorney shall havethe right to challenge any membero a Panel or confict o interest orundue bias by motion to the Panelor disqualication o the challengedmember. The members o the Panelnot the subjects o the challenge shall

promptly consider the motion anddetermine whether the challengedPanel member shall be disqualiedrom participating in that proceed-ing.Sec. 7. President. Within sixty (60)days ollowing the annual Conven-tion, the Board shall convene to elect

a President to serve orthe ollowing calendar

year. The Bishop shallestablish the time andplace or such meetingwithin such sixty (60) dayperiod by written noticeto the members o theBoard. Such meetingshall be held within thegeographic boundaries othis Diocese.Sec. 8. Intake Ocer.

The Intake Ocer shall be ap-pointed rom time to time by theBishop ater consultation with theBoard. The Bishop may appoint oneor more Intake Ocers according tothe needs o the Diocese. The Bishopshall publish the name(s) and contactinormation o the Intake Ocer(s)throughout the Diocese.Sec. 9. Investigator. The Bishop shallappoint an Investigator in consulta-tion with the President o the Board.The Investigator may, but need not,be a Member o the Church.Sec. 10. Church Attorney. Withinsixty (60) days ollowing each annualConvention, the Standing Commit-tee shall appoint an attorney to serveas Church Attorney to serve or theollowing calendar year. The personso selected must be a Member o theChurch and a duly licensed attor-ney, but need not reside within theDiocese.

Sec. 11. Pastoral Response Coor-dinator. The Bishop may appoint aPastoral Response Coordinator, toserve at the will o the Bishop in co-ordinating the delivery o appropri-ate pastoral responses provided or inTitle IV.8 o the General Canons andthis Title. The Pastoral ResponseCoordinator may be the Intake O-cer, but shall not be a person servingin any other appointed or electedcapacity under this Title.Sec. 12. Advisors. In each proceed-ing under this Title, the Bishopshall appoint an Advisor or theComplainant and an Advisor or theRespondent. Persons serving as Advi-

sors shall hold no other appointed orelected position provided or underthis Title, and shall not includechancellors or vice chancellors o thisDiocese or any person likely to becalled as a witness in the proceeding.Sec. 13. Clerk. The Board shallappoint a Board Clerk to assist theBoard with records management andadministrative support. The Clerkmay be a member o the Board.

CANON V.7 Costs and Expenses.Section 1. Costs Incurred by theChurch. The reasonable costs andexpenses o the Board, the IntakeOcer, the Investigator, the Church

Attorney, the Board Clerk and thePastoral Response Coordinator shallbe the obligation o the Diocese,subject to budgetary constraints asmay be established by the DiocesanCouncil.Sec. 2. Costs Incurred by the Re-spondent. In the event o a nal Or-der dismissing the complaint, or byprovisions o a Covenant approvedby the Bishop, the reasonable deenseees and costs incurred by the Re-

RESOLUTIONS AP-

PROVED BY THE 171STCONVENTION of theEpiscopal Church inthe Diocese of MissouriNovember 19-20, 2010,St. Charles (from theminutes of convention,12/2/2010)



6/8

More events listed online atwww.diocesemo.org/calendar.

Submit your parish event online.

Bishop Smiths Visitations

Sunday, March 13 Calvary Episcopal Church, ColumbiaSunday, March 20 Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Town & CountrySunday, April 3 Episcopal Church of St. John and St. James, SullivanSunday, April 10 St. Pauls Episcopal Church, IrontonSunday, April 17 St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, FlorissantSunday, April 23 The Great Vigil of Easter, Christ Church Ca-thedral, St. LouisSunday, May 1 Church of St. Michael and St. George, ClaytonSunday, May 15 St. Peters Episcopal Church, Ladue

spondent may be paid or reimbursedby the Diocese, subject to budgetaryconstraints as may be established bythe Diocesan Council.

CANON V.8 Records.

Section 1. Records o Proceedings.Records o active proceedings beorethe Board, including the period oany pending appeal, shall be pre-served and maintained in the custodyo the Clerk, i there be one, other-wise by the Oce o the Bishop.Sec. 2. Permanent Records. TheBishop shall make provision or thepermanent storage o records o allproceedings under this Title at theOce o the Bishop and the Archiveso the National Church, as pre-scribed in Title IV o the Canons othe National Church.

F-171: Adjusted Term Lim-its or Wardens, Submittedon behal o the Committeeon Constitution and Canonsand the Church oSt. Michael and St. George

BE IT RESOLVED that this 171stConvention o the Episcopal Churchin the Diocese o Missouri amendSection 6 o Canon IV.5A o theCanons o the Episcopal Church inthe Diocese o Missouri its entiretyto read as ollows:

SEC. 6. The Rector shall appointannually rom the Vestry a SeniorWarden, and the Vestry shall electrom its members a Junior Warden,both o whom shall be canoni-cally qualied or oce. The termso the Senior Warden and JuniorWarden shall be one year each. Noperson who has served three con-secutive one-year terms as SeniorWarden or Junior Warden shall beeligible or urther service in suchcapacity until the expiration o oneyear; provided that, i warranted by

extraordinary circumstances and atthe special request o the Rector andVestry (or i the Parish is without aRector, at the special request o theVestry), and subject to compliancewith Section 2 o this Canon IV.5A,

a Senior Warden or a Junior Wardenmay at the completion o his or herrespective third consecutive one-yearterm as Senior Warden or JuniorWarden be reappointed (in the caseo the Senior Warden) or re-elected(in the case o the Junior Warden)to the oce o Senior Warden orJunior Warden, as the case may be,or one additional year. The Rectormay at any time commit the ap-pointment o the Senior Warden tothe Vestry. I the Parish be withouta Rector, the Vestry shall elect romits members a Senior Warden. In theabsence or illness o the Rector, orduring a vacancy in the Rectorship(except to the extent such power hasbeen delegated to an Interim Pas-tor or Priest-in-Charge by writtenemployment agreement) the SeniorWarden shall preside at meetings othe Vestry and o the Parish. In theabsence o the Senior Warden, or incase o his or her inability or ailureto act, the Junior Warden shall bethe presiding ocer. I there be noWardens present, the Vestry or Par-ish shall elect a person to preside atits meeting.

G-171 - Family Leave -Submitted by the Diocesan

Resolutions CommitteeBE IT RESOLVED that this 171stConvention o the Episcopal Dioceseo Missouri strongly encourages theDiocesan Council to develop a modelFamily Leave Policy or congrega-tions, to be presented or consid-eration at the 172nd Convention,taking into consideration ResolutionL-170 previously passed by thisconvention.

Paseo con Cristo (Walk with Christ) is an ecumenical version o the Cur-sillo Movement that was launched a number o years ago with the blessing othe Diocese o Missouri and the Presbytery o Giddings-Lovejoy. Once a yearthe Paseo community holds a three-day weekend which begins on Thursdayevening and concludes on Sunday. Fall o 2010 was their 71st weekend.

During the three days talks are given by lay persons and clergy. Paseoprovides opportunities to grow in aith and to gain a deeper understanding othe teachings o Jesus and how we can serve Him. The weekend seeks to equipus to live and share with others in a loving and caring Christian community,realizing that this can be extended into our own homes and workplaces. Paseo

encourages us to become a part o a continuing community, one that supportsand encourages us to carry out our baptismal promises.

The next Paseo is planned or November 18-21, 2011. For urther inor-mation call or email the Rev. Warren Crews at 314-918-1157 or [email protected].

Last December a group o Episcopalians met at St Peters EpiscopalChurch to start a new environmental committee within the Diocese o Mis-souri. The initial meeting o Sustain a Faith had representation rom Grace,Church o St. Michael and St. George, St Peters, Emmanuel, and ChristChurch Cathedral. Support or parishes and parishioners to help protect theenvironment through education and activities is the main mission o this newcommittee.

Sustain a Faith participated in the green Flower Festival at ChristChurch Cathedral in May 2010, oering inormation about energy eciencyat home and in parishes rom Energy Star as well as an energy expert. Theyprovided a display on the benets o buying ood locally.

During 2010 both Grace Episcopal Church and Christ Church Cathedral

had energy audits. The Cathedral qualied or a ree energy audit throughAmerenUE and currently is working on ways to implement the audits sug-gestions. Grace completed a six-month capital campaign based on their auditsrecommendation to replace the buildings original HVAC system and win-dows. Graces estimated energy savings at completion will be 30%. Realizingthe importance o sharing energy successes with other parishes, Sustain aFaith oered a table at Diocesan Convention with inormation on how everyparish can take steps to be better stewards o our environment. Commit-tee members spoke at convocation meetings and parish adult orums. SabineMeyer was the keynote speaker at the diocesan Leadership Conerence inMarch 2011, inspiring the gathered leaders with a thoughtul and challengingpresentation.

Sustain a Faith sponsored the rst diocesan wide Walk, Bike, Carpoolto Church on Labor Day Sunday. Congregations were encouraged to takea more environmentally riendly way to church. The group sponsored show-ings o two lms, documentaries ollowed by discussion, at Grace-Kirkwoodand Emmanuel Church. For more inormation about Sustain A Faith, their

upcoming events and how to join their group, visit sustainaaith.weebly.com.

The Diocesan Task Force or the Hungry continues to provide muchneeded unding to those with little to eat in 2010, supporting six places withinthe diocese that serve the hungry: Trinity Food Pantry in St. Louis CentralWest End; All Saints Food Pantry in north St. Louis; St. Stephens FoodPantry in Ferguson; Ascension Food Pantry in north St. Louis County; HolyCross Food Pantry in Poplar Blu; and the St. Johns Peace Meal Project insouth St. Louis. These organizations served a total o 28,517 people in 2009;over 5,000 more than were served in 2007.

While the number o hungry continue to increase, the economy has madeit more dicult to get unding. In 2009 the task orce was able to donate over$18,000. The total or 2010 will not be as high.

A special request to parishes in the diocese: your donations to the TaskForce help diocesan ood ministry. We ensure that money donated is beingused properly; all o the organizations to which we donate provide a detailednancial statement and other inormation every year in order to continue toreceive unding.

[email protected]

Writers

Poets

Wordsmiths

PhotographersVideographers

ArtistsShare your story o nding

Gods mission in the world with your

brothers and sisters in the diocese.

Photo by Pascal Klein, fickr.com.

CC: Attribution, Noncommercial, No DerivativeWorksCalling

diocesan

April Evensongs

Sun, Apr 3, 5:00 PM Evensong for Lent at St. Peter's, LadueMusic of Tomas Luis de Victoria, honoring his 400th anniversary. Warson and Ladue Roads

Sun, Apr 3, 10, 17, 5:00 PM Evensong in Lent at St. Paul's Church-CarondeletEvensong each Sunday o Lent with the chanting o psalms, canticles, and hymns.

Sun, Apr 3, 5:00 PM Evensong at Church of St. Michael and St. George, ClaytonSun, Apr 17, 5:00 PM Evensong for Palm Sunday at Christ Church CathedralThe Crucifxion, by Sir John Stainer. 1210 Locust, St. Louis.

Sun, Apr 17, 7:00 PM Compline, Trinity Church Central West EndMonthly Compline service on the third Sunday, Compline is a brie service with ancient roots: music,scripture, poetry, prayers and silence. 600 N. Euclid, St. Louis

Mon, Apr 18, 5:30 PM; Tue, Apr 19, 5:30 PM; Wed, Apr 20, 5:30 PM Evensong of HolyWeek at the Church of St. Michael and St. George, ClaytonThu, Apr 21, 7:30 PM Evensong at Church of St. Michael and St. George, Clayton



7/8


To Standing Committee (one clerical member and twolay members): Sally Weaver, vicar o St. Francis Church-Eureka; no picture submitted or elected lay membersRichmond Coburn, parishioner rom Church o St.Michael and St. George and Randy Mariani, parishionerrom Church o the Holy Communion, University City.

To Diocesan Council (two lay members): SimoneCamp, parishioner St. Albans Church, Fulton; VickiMyers, parishioner Grace Church, Jeerson City.

To Cathedral Chapter(one clerical and one lay mem-

ber): Emily Bloemker, associate rector o St. TimothysChurch, Creve Coeur; Joseph Lee Adams, parishionerChurch o the Holy Communion, University City.

The Diocese o Missouri Deputation to General Con-vention(2012 Indianapolis)

Lay membersL1. Mrs. Kathryn Dyer, St. Timothys, Creve CoeurL2. Mr. Michael Clark, Christ Church CathedralL3. Ms. Lynette Ballard, St. Matthews, Warson WoodsL4. Ms. Lisa Fox, Grace Church, Jeerson City

(Alternates not pictured) Jeanette Huey,Jay Kloecker, Don Fisher

ClergyC1. The Rev. Tamsen Whistler, Trinity, St. CharlesC2. The Rev. Jason Samuel, Transguration, Lake St. Louis

C3. The Rev. Doris Westall, St. Matthews, Warson WoodsC4. The Rev. Dan Appleyard, Emmanuel, Webster Groves(Alternates not pictured) Ronald Clingenpeel

News Calendar iSeek Diocese of Missouri on your iPhone or Android

Diocesan News, Diocesan Calendar, Weekly iSeek newsletter,

Lui Network, Diocesan prayers on Twitter, Diocesan news on

Twitter, Parish directory, Facebook group updates, photos from

the Flickr gallery, videos from the Vimeo gallery.

Scan this barcode

with your smartphone.

If your smartphone is able

to read QR codes, you can

use this barcode to go to

our mobile app.Your carriers data charges will a pply.

Many diocesan parishes held Blessingof the Animals services near the Feast

Day of St. Francis of Assisi in October.Pictured here is the Rev. Sally Weaver,vicar of St. Francis Episcopal Church inEureka. Their day-long celebration heldin a Eureka park featured two services,presentations and a silent auction.

Church of the Advent in Crest-wood used a grant from the

diocese to begin a parish nursingprogram. They use the term par-ish to denote the neighborhood.Partnerships with two RomanCatholic churches have made theprogram an ecumenical success,participants come from a dozenfaith traditions. Photo from a re-cent monthly Lunch and Learn

program. Learn more about the program on their website:CrestwoodParishNurse.org

This has been a time of sorrow and rejoicingfor our friends in the Diocese of Lui, SouthernSudan. Late in November the Rt. Rev. BullenDolli lost his battle with cancer and died. Hewas buried and the funeral to celebrate hislife is planned for July 2011. In early Januarythe people of Southern Sudan voted in a ref-erendum to determine if they would secedeand form a new nation. There were ferventprayers around the globe for a peaceful elec-tion including in Missouri where a cathedralservice began the prayer vigil which lastedthrough the week of elections. Pictured isthe Rev. Anne Kelsey, rector of Trinity Church,Central West End and a missioner to Luidiocese. In her recent trip she organized aproject to bring art materials to the childrenof Lui and pictured is one of the traveling

exhibits available to the diocese. In lateFebruary, the Diocese of Lui synod nominated three candidate for thenext Bishop of Lui. Among them was the Rev. Steven Dokolo, the cur-rent Secretary of Lui Diocese and known to many Missourians fromhis time studying at Eden Seminary. To read more about these storiesof partnership between Missouri and Lui visit Luinetwork.ning.com.



8/8

SeekQuarterly from the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri

Episcopal Diocese of Missouri1210 Locust StreetSt. Louis, Missouri 63103

The ice storm had passed by the evening of January 20, 2011; St. Louisschools were closed and metropolitan residents were still digging out.But in Poplar Bluff at Holy Cross Episcopal Church there was an ordina-tion to celebrate, and the whole community turned out. The Rev. AnnetteJoseph had just been called as the next leader of HC from her diocese inMaine where she had been ordained a transitional deacon. Joseph wasordained to the Sacred Order of Priests by Missouri bishop the Rt. Rev.Wayne Smith. A community dinner preceded the service and a festivereception followed. Joseph is the rector of Holy Cross Church.

Photos: Joseph processing in; l. to r. Bishop Wayne, Joseph, the Rev. Marc Smith

With snow still on the ground but the sun shiningwarmly, the morning of January 29th saw the ordina-tion of Harry Leip to the Sacred Order of Deacons. Thisordination was held at Leips parish, Trinity EpiscopalChurch in St. Louis Central West End neighborhood.Leip will work as Deacon at Trinity with rector the Rev.Anne Kelsey.Photos: l. to r. Canon to Ordinary the Rev. Dan Smith, Kelsey, Mr.Willie Meadows, parishioner at Trinity, Leip, Bishop Wayne, Arch-deacon the Ven. Mark Sluss; an incensed flled Eucharist with Leip,Bishop Wayne, Kelsey.

On December 23rd, Marc Smith was ordained to thetransitional diaconate at Christ Church Cathedral. TheRev. Marc Smith is now Deacon-in-Charge of the Epis-copal Church of the Ascension in Northwoods.Photos: l. to r. the Rev. Elizabeth Bowen, deacon at Trinity ChurchSt. Charles, Bishop Wayne, M. Smith, Archdeacon the Rev. MarkSluss; Bishop Wayne, M. Smith, Sluss.

Two days before on December 21st, the Rev. RobertArd was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests.Ard is the rector of St. Pauls Episcopal Church inthe Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis.Photos: Priests join Bishop Wayne in laying on o hands; l. to r.the Rev. Susan Naylor, deacon at St. Martins Episcopal Churchin Ellisville, Bishop Wayne, Ard blessing the assembled, Sluss.

More pictures rom these ordinations andmany other diocesan events are availableonline at www.fickr.com/diocesemo

seek, winter 2011 from episcopal diocese of missouri

Documents