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springfieldcurrentSummer 2012 Volume 19, Issue 3 A newsletter of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield

2 Springfield Current

springfieldcurrent Newsletter of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield

The Episcopal Diocese of Springfield821 S. 2nd StreetSpringfield, IL 62704 Phone: (217) 525-1876Fax: (217) 525-1877www.episcopalspringfield.org

Publisher:The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, Bishop

Editor:Betsy Schroeder

Chair, Department of Communication:Pete Sherman

Submissions:We welcome original letters, articles, art and photos relevant to the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield. All submissions should be sent via email to, [email protected]. The editor reserves the right to edit all material for clarity, length and accuracy. Articles should be between 300-400 words in length.

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ON THE COVERFr. Halt, St. Mattew’s, Bloomington, with Fr. Clement at the Livingston Stanley Monument in Africa - read more on page 4

ContentsCOLUMNS

From the Bishop 3

By the River Ruzizi 4

Around the Diocese 6

Council Reports 8-18

Prayer Calendar 19-24

Diocese of Springfield ~ Calendar for 2012 Meeting, Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign (3 p.m.)13 Bishop w/Redeemer, Cairo14 Bishop w/St. Stephen’s, Harrisburg19-20 135th Synod, St. Matthew’s, Bloomington21 Bishop w/ St. Andrew’s, Edwardsville28 Bishop w/ St. Barnabas’, Havana

NOVEMBER 201201 ALL SAINTS DAY04 Bishop w/ St. Andrew’s, Carbondale06 Trustees Meeting, Diocesan Center (10 a.m.)08-10 Clergy/Musicians Retreat, Cathedral, Springfield (1 p.m.)11 Bishop w/St. Thomas’, Glen Carbon17 Diocesan Council, Diocesan Center (10 a.m.)18 Bishop w/All Saints’, Morton25 Bishop w/Christ the King, NormalTBD Happening

DECEMBER 201202 ADVENT, Bishop w/St. Paul’s, Pekin09 Bishop w/St. Thomas’, Salem16 Bishop w/St. Paul’s, Carlinville23 Bishop w/Christ Church, Springfield24 Bishop w/Cathedral, Springfield25 CHRISTMAS DAY

JULY 201217 Finance Department Meeting, Diocesan Center (10 a.m.)

AUGUST 201224 Diocesan Council, Diocesan Center (10 a.m.)26 Bishop w/ St. Bartholomew’s, Granite CityTBD New Beginnings

SEPTEMBER 201202 Bishop w/ Trinity, Lincoln09 Bishop w/ Trinity, Mt. Vernon16 Bishop w/ Trinity, Mattoon16 Darrow Deanery Meeting, St. George’s, Belleville (2 p.m.)16 Northern Deanery Meeting, All Saints’, Morton (2:30 p.m.)23 Bishop w/ St. Matthew’s, Bloomington23 Eastern Deanery Meeting, Trinity, Mt. Vernon (2 p.m.)23 Hale Deanery Meeting, St. Mark’s, West Frankfort (2 p.m.)23 Northwestern Deanery Meeting, Trinity, Jacksonville (2:30 p.m.)30 Bishop w/ St. Michael’s, O’Fallon

OCTOBER 201207 Bishop w/ St. Laurence, Effingham07 Northeastern Deanery

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From the Bishop

The Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins

dioceses. This rite, or anything like it, will not be authorized for use in the Diocese of Springfield. That said, I am not unaware that there are some in this diocese, clergy and laity, who find my position dishearten-ing. It gives me no joy to be the source of disappointment or pain to anyone. I honor the witness of faithful lesbian and gay Episcopalians in the diocese. They enrich our life together, and it is my desire to be a pastor to all, especially those who are hurt by decisions I must make. I pledge a special effort to stay connected and in dialogue with those who feel marginalized by my words or actions. I wish there were an easier way through this.------------------------- I cannot describe how excited and encouraged I am by the conversations I’ve been having with congregations all around the dioceses about our mission strategy vision. Together, we are embracing a future that will demand a great deal of us as our surrounding culture plunges into secular-ization. I believe the Holy Spirit is leading us into the path through which we will be able to negotiate that change as faithful disciples of Jesus and faithful witnesses to the gospel. As you receive this issue of the Cur-rent, I am beginning my annual sabbath rest. I look forward to this time of recol-lection and refreshment. Brenda and I will be visiting with family members and spend-ing some time in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I’ll be back in the office on August 22. Faithfully in Christ, +Daniel

Having just emerged from the 77th General Convention of the Epis-

copal Church, and in the midst of this uncommonly hot and dry weather (please join me in prayer for rain and for more moderate temperatures, for the sake of all whose livelihoods depend on agriculture), I have much to share with you. First, let me offer just a few reflec-tions on General Convention. Your deputation worked very hard, and conducted itself with distinction. I could not be more proud of our lay deputies: Elisabeth Langford (Trinity, Jacksonville), Kevin Babb (St Andrew’s, Ed-wardsville), Gerry Smith (Christ the King, Normal), with the fourth slot shared by Rick Velde (Christ Church, Springfield) and Joe Patterson (St Paul’s Cathedral); and our clergy deputies: Shawn Denney (St Luke’s, Springfield and Archdeacon), Kip Ashmore (Trinity, Jacksonville), Geoffrey Scanlon (Holy Trinity, Danville), and Gene Tucker (Trinity, Mt Vernon). The work of a Deputy is, quite frankly, grueling, with early morning committee meetings, long legisla-tive sessions, and several evening commit-ments. If their experience was anything like mine, they returned home sleep-deprived and slightly disoriented. When you see any of them, please express your hearty thanks. We were also represented in the ECW Triennial by Jan Goosens (St Thomas’, Glen Carbon), Chris DeWitt (St John the Baptist, Mt Carmel), Deacon Ann Tofani (St Mary’s, Robinson), Roberta Clark (St Michael’s, O’Fallon), and Mother Sherry Black (St James’, Marion). I also spotted Linda Toberman from St James’, Marion helping out in one of the exhibi-tor’s booths. Significant steps were taken toward a structural reform of historic proportions. The level of pain felt across the Episcopal Church resulting from precipitous decline in membership has reached critical mass. The convention authorized the creation of a Special Task Force of around twenty people that will operate outside the usual governance structures of the church. Its job will be to re-imagine the mission, administration, and governance of the Episcopal Church. Part of this will involve a special gathering, to which every diocese will be invited to send one bishop, one priest, one lay person, and one other

person who must be younger than 35. While the 2015 General Convention will still need to approve any changes this task force proposes, the special gathering will effectively be a constitutional convention. Everything--our entire constitution and canons, and everything else about our common life--is on the table for review. This process evokes both hope and fear. I believe we are in for lots of surprises, some of which may be pleasant, and oth-ers less so. I choose to live in hope. But I am already holding this process in my prayers. The growing movement to rethink the traditional sacramental order of Bap-tism first, then Eucharist, hit a brick wall. The resolution that was reported out of the Evangelism Committee, and subse-quently passed by the House of Depu-ties without amendment, left the door implicitly ajar for the uncanonical practice, followed in many places, of formally invit-ing all who are in attendance to recieve Holy Communion, regardless of their baptismal status. The House of Bishops, however, slammed the door hard, remov-ing any ambiguity, and sent it back to the Deputies on the afternoon of the last day of convention, where it was concurred and therefore formally adopted. I voted with the overwhelming majority of the bishops on this, and was pleased to see my colleagues stepping up and exercising the teaching author ity that comes with the office. A provisional liturgical form for the blessing of marriage and marriage-like re-lationships between persons of the same sex was authorized for use. This was, of course, simultaneously completely predict-able--no one doubted it would happen--and the most intensely contested act of the convention. It carried by roughly a 3:1 margin in both houses. It should come as no surprise that I voted with the minority, as did our entire deputation. I must say that, for the most part, the conversation was carried on in a respectful manner, and with a minimum of chest-thumping by the victorious side after the results became clear. For this I am grateful. I am also grateful for clear provisions that protect the conscience of bishops and dioceses in this largely “progressive” church, as well as clergy and parishes in “progressive”


By the River Ruzizi By the Rev. David J. A. Halt, obl. OSB St. Matthew’s, Bloomington

Stepping onto the mobile stairway, I confronted a wall of humidity so thick that if I had a penknife I

could cut out a slice and hold it in my hand. I left Bloomington in a sweater, for it was January, and arrived here, below the equator, just after sunset to find the sweater not just superflu-ous but also living into its name. As I drank in the air the smell of massed humanity washed over me, and yet the tropics could still be faintly tasted. I could just make out, five kilometers away, the mountains of the Congo, and my mind drifted to the terror and romance of Joseph Conrad and The Heart of Darkness then flitting to the famous meeting of Stanley and Livings-ton that took place a mere 13 miles from this spot. Africa! I had arrived in a place I had never wanted to visit. Growing up

in the Free Methodist Church, I was enthralled by the stories of the mis-sionaries, but loved to sing the prayer chorus, “Please don’t send me to Africa!” Now, here I was, an American germaphobe stepping onto the soil of a small East African nation. Was this God’s idea of a divine joke? Yet, this was not a joke. Linda Thomas, a member of St. Matthew’s, made this journey to Bu-rundi a year before to visit the work of her sister in this country, a member of the bottom billion, and upon her return she insisted that I make the trip a year later. Linda’s sister, a devel-opment specialist, volunteers with a Roman Catholic NGO focusing on de-velopment and sustainable agriculture. My invitation was to “come and see” the work being done, and determine whether a partnership could be

formed between St. Matthew’s, the NGO, and/or the Anglican Church in Burundi. Furthermore, my invitation derived from my “expertise” in rabbit production with the proposal that I help develop a program to introduce small animal husbandry in the up country for both food security and market. As I prepared for the visit, I became interested in discerning if there as a way that we could collabo-rate with a Burundian Anglican parish for Christian connection and mission. Why Burundi? Burundi, a nation the size of Maryland, is among the poorest in the world. It is landlocked, and dependent upon its neighbors for the transport of any goods pro-duced and imported. Bordering Lake Tanganyika on the north and east, its primary trade route lies across the lake and into Tanzania. The civil strife

Transport in Burundi, Africa


in neighboring Congo continues to have an impact on Burundi as refu-gees seek peace within its western borders. Burundi also has the dubious distinction of being the almost forgot-ten victim of the Hutu-Tutsi genocide that took place in the 1990s, in which 300,000 Burundians lost their lives, and many more became refugees. To-day, there is a formal peace agreement and reconciliation work is ongoing in local population centers. The Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa (pygmies) make up the tribal identities, with the Twa being the smallest minority and suffering the worst poverty rates. Subsistence agriculture, tea, coffee, and palm oil production make up the primary industries. These industries, with the lack of energy resources that requires even the wealthy to cook with charcoal, have led to significant deforestation and soil erosion. Bicy-cles and feet are the primary methods of transporting good and people in this mountainous country, and many of the unemployed (unemployment is exponentially higher than in the US) yearn for a bike in order to gain the dignity of work. I had only to look into the eyes of the unemployed and the exhausted bike transporters to see the difference that work makes. The average Burundian lives on less than $2 per day and inflation has pushed the exchange rate to 1400 Burundian Francs (FRAMBU) to the dollar. To put this in perspective, that most ubiquitous of American products, Coca-Cola, sells for 1000FRAMBU, and a small bony chicken for the pot will set you back 9600FRAMBU.Despite these economic challenges, the people of Burundi are kind, generous, and filled with a joy that is difficult to find even in our most pros-perous homes. During my two-week stay, I was able to work closely with COPED, the Catholic development agency. I trained their staff on the use of video recording and projecting equipment that can be used to present their pro-grams in the villages. The idea is for

the instructors and experts to re-cord short videos on agricultural techniques and entrepreneurial skills, and for these to be shared with local populations. Due to improvements in technology, a projector the size of a deck of cards and battery powered, can be coupled with a laptop comput-er and used in places where electricity is non-existent. Religious program-ming can also be shared via this media. In developing the rabbit project, I collaborated with a Polish carpenter to design and build a sanitary rabbit hutch produced cheaply from lo-cally available and sustainable building materials. Bamboo, palm fronds, and small lumber from quick growing trees was used in construction, and where nails are unavailable and expensive, the parts can be connected with vine or grass rope. The only tools needed are a small saw and/or a machete. This prototype was taken up country to a demonstration farm, and copies are being produced for the local project.

We were also able to engage an Anglican Parish and a Roman Catholic Parish in the “city” of Bururi to work cooperatively on introducing this hus-bandry to their members. The initial breeding stock, from Poland, should arrive at the demonstration farm this summer. Through the auspices of COPED, I was able to meet with Archbishop Bernard Ntahoturi, Primate and Bishop of Matana, and learn of the mission work of the Anglican Church in Burundi. These include an AIDS ministry, economic development, ag-riculture, and one of my favorites, the Mothers’ Union. The Mothers’ Union (equivalent to ECW) engages in lit-eracy programs and works to develop both community savings programs and microfinance. He invited me to begin conversations on a partner parish re-lationship, and in the up country, those conversations began with a commu-nity in Kagombe. This Eucharistic continued, next page


Around the DioceseBishop Parsons Celebrates 90th Birthday at St. Paul’s

The Rt. Rev. Donald Parsons, As-sisting Bishop to the Diocese of

Springfield, was celebrant on his 90th birthday at this year’s Palm Sunday service at St. Paul’s Church, Pekin. Nearly 100 members of the yoked parishes of All Saints’, Morton, and St. Paul’s, plus family and friends, were in attendance. Later at a potluck in the Under-croft, one of St. Paul’s four nonagenar-ians, Harriet Harris, paused with the Bishop for a photograph (above). Harriett has been treasurer at St. Paul’s for nearly 40 years. She is also active in restoring and maintaining the church gardens in recent years. Another active nonagenarian, Caroline Edmunds (not present on Palm Sunday), is an acolyte at the Tues-day morning Mass and a faithful prayer witness. The two women are regular attendees and lifelong members of St. Paul’s. Two formerly active nonagenar-ians, Winnie Sanborn and Elaine Velde, stay connected to St. Paul’s through St. Paul’s Eucharistic Visitors.

manuel of COPED, I visited the Catholic church of Esprit-Saint, and was invited to vest and sit on the dais for Mass. The joy and presence of the Holy Spirit were palpable. As the Gospel was proclaimed the church was silent, and after the acclamation, the several thousand present erupted in spontaneous applause for the words of Jesus. Ap-plause also interrupted the Mass at the elevation of the Sacrament. At the conclusion of the Mass, after I brought greetings from America, the children came forward to dance and sing. It was a powerful experience and I found that here are a people who, despite the challenges of life, or because of them, deeply love Christ. Years ago, I smugly sung a challenge to God. Last January an American germaphobe landed in Bujumbura on a sweltering muggy night, wondering what he had got-ten himself into. Now, this Christian prays that he might return, and take others, to that place by the river Ruzizi, to work, and to build partnerships for the work of Christ among those who have taught him so much. My song has changed, “Please send me to Africa!” Let me know if you want to go along.

Fr. Halt is the Rector of St. Matthew’s Bloomington, a Benedictine Oblate of St. Meinrad, and blogs at benedictbiret-tasandbeets.blogspot.com.

Community (incidentally the or-ganization of the Diocese follows the pattern suggested in the new Diocesan Vision), is building a new church for its communicants. In conversation with the priest, a local farmer, we chuckled at the disparity when he mentioned that his church was small with only 1000 on a Sun-day, and St. Matthew’s is considered large, in Springfield, with 130! The new church is lacking a roof, and due to finances the community can-not afford to complete the project. I asked the cost and the figure for a metal roof was $1500, or half our current budget for outreach proj-ects! We continue to talk and pray about a possible partnership. Yet, the visit was more than work, it was a life changing experi-ence and made so by the building of relationships; no, friendships. It was truly connectional, and I will cherish the friendships made with brothers and sisters in Christ. Their exuberance, their faith, will continue to affect me here in the Diocese of Springfield. The title of this article names the river that flows to the west of the capital, Bujumbura, but I hope it conjures the image of the Psalms. In Psalm 137, the exiles of Judea hang their harps and weep by the rivers of Babylon. By the river Ruzizi, I wept, not out of despair, but out of joy for these brothers and sisters. On that day, Sunday, with Fr. Em-

By the River Ruzizi, continued

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Diocesan Council Reports As submitted for the May 19, 2012 Council Meeting

Darrow DeanerySt. George’s Episcopal Church - St. George’s has been experiencing several changes since we last reported to the Bishop and Diocese. From the last few months of the year, we have seen a num-ber of new families, singles and house-holds (of various kinds) attend and join the Parish. This has occurred at both our Sunday services, as well as our Wednes-day Healing Eucharist, which meets at 9:30. Christmas services showed a 25% increase from last year, and Sunday at-tendance since then has shown steady growth. I credit this to several factors including advertising at Scott Air Force base, clear ads stating our being Epis-copalian (younger folks are not inter-ested in our old fights), ministries at St. George’s of music, renewal, youth, Sunday School, and outreach, solid Adult Educa-tional programs, our relationship with St. Mark Lutheran, and many other factors. Our chief priority is our worship, which has been strengthened by the assistance of Deacon Jody (Coleman), particularly on Sundays. (She has pastoral and liturgi-cal gifts which have aided us. It’s good to have a deacon!) Our Lenten services were in the traditional language of Rite I, with the Great Litany sung on the first Sunday of Lent. The Thursday evening Lenten program utilized an excellent PBS show about “God in America” with many religious issues played out over our past four hundred years still with us today. We had large attendances at both our Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday worship. Our Easter attendance, especially, was up over the past few years. Deacon Jody prepared our confir-mands of 10 folks of all ages, and 8 were confirmed by Bishop Martins when he and Brenda visited in late April. (Two per-sons were ill and will be confirmed soon on a Wednesday morning in June.) We worked the poor Bishop (and Brenda) to death! He presented his faith journey to those preparing to be confirmed, on Saturday, then, met with the Vestry in an

informal reception and dinner at Betsy and Frank Roger’s house. On Sunday (Easter III), the Bishop spoke to our large adult forum about his vision for the Dio-cese, and led very joyful worship with his preaching and celebration of the Eucha-rist. The Bishop and Brenda stayed good humored and kind throughout! Todd Hall has become a very wonder-ful place for spiritual retreats of all kinds. Recently the Board overseeing this center announced receiving the first distribution from Charles Todd’s bequest of $100,000. We now hope to expect as much as a to-tal amount of seven figures from the Todd estate, funds much needed for emergency and planning for the future. Our longtime administrative assistant, Janet Koch, retired at the end of March after 23 years! She has worked with a number of clergy in that time, and pro-vided security to many during times of change. So, her leaving was a big deal! We followed a careful process of my appoint-ing a small committee (Vestry mem-ber Betsy Rogers, Senior warden Dan Duncan, and Treasurer Ruth Ann Weber) to screen applicants. We received over 300 applications for the 30 hour a week job. The committee put forward three folks-all with fine qualifications, and I chose Becky Harrison, an active mem-ber of her United Church of Christ in Lebanon, who has had a great deal of experience as both a Council member of the UCC as well as administrative posi-tions in churches as well. She started in mid March to overlap with Janet. A gala reception for Janet was held April 29.

Respectfully submitted,Fr. Dale Coleman, Rector,

St. Thomas’, Glen Carbon & St. Bartholomew’s, Granite City - Last Sunday was my first at Granite City and Glen Carbon. I am to be Instituted on Saturday June 23 at 11 a.m.

Warmly,Tony

St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Edwardsville - Lenten Wednesdays, included four evenings of Holy Eucha-rist and Holy Unction, potluck dinner, followed by a discussion of the Book “A Practical Christianity: Medications for the Season of Lent” by The Rev. Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Episcopal Church, San Francisco, California. The Rector’s Class (on Sundays) studied the watched and discussed the DVD, “Who was Jesus?” On March 8th, Fr. Pence gave a talk to the ECW on his mission experiences in the Dominican Republic a few years ago. The Parish Life Committee sent out a survey for the entire parish to fill out in terms of questions to parishio-ners regarding their opinions related to increasing fellowship and spiritual growth opportuities in the congregation. St. An-drew’s sponsored a Quilt and Fabric Art Show on March 10th and the turnout was wonderful! Lots of visitors came by to have a look.The Outreach Committee has too many events to mention in this report. Needless to say they are very committed and hard workers.

April, 2012 - A 51 inch plasma television was donated to the church in memory of Mother Bennett’s father, who died on March 2nd. This generous donation, by a friend of her father’s, along with a blue ray DVD player, will add many wonder-ful possibilities to our adult education gatherings. In fact, as a follow up to the Rector’s Class (“Who was Jesus?”), im-mediately after Easter we began to view and discuss “From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians” a special PBS Frontline (four hour) presentation. The Rector announced that Con-firmation classes will be given this fall on Saturday afternoons September 8th through October 13th, from 4pm - 6pm, Holy Week was solemn and glorious, beginning with Palm Sunday, the Great Triduum as well as a wonderful Easter day.

May, 2012 - Our annual “Mayfest” was held on Saturday, May 5th, from 9am -


5pm. This included a booksale, with a preview Friday night before. The book sale included over 10,000 books. Mayfest also included Artisan and craft booths, free gardening classes, children’s activi-ties, the “Red Door Cafe”, live music and a raffle.

The Parish Life Committee is work-ing out details for a wine tasting event to take place in the fall. Our organist/choirmaster, Henry Evans, is giving an organ recital on Sunday, May 20th, at First Presbyterian Church in Edwards-ville. The Parish picnic will take place on the Day of Pentecost. The Rector’s Class and Church School will then go into recess until next fall. And the next week, the first Sunday in June, we will move to our summer schedule of one combined Eucharist at 9am every Sunday through Labor Day.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. Virginia L. Bennett, Rector

Eastern Deanery

Deanery Doings - The Eastern Dean-ery’s clergy will meet in Clericus on Tuesday, May 22nd. Venue for this meet-ing is St. Thomas Church in Salem. The members of St. Thomas have graciously offered to provide supper for those who attend.

Respectfully submitted,The Very Rev. Gene R. Tucker, Dean

St. John’s, Albion - The people of St. John’s continue their faithful attendance and participation in liturgy, service and outreach, with weekly Sunday Eucharist and bi-monthly Sunday School lessons. We began our observance of a Holy Lent on Ash Wednesday. Stations of the Cross were prayed each Thursday evening, led by Deacon Howard, and on one Thursday by one of our laymen, with attendance by church members, family and friends. Just before Holy Week, St. John’s was blessed to host the joyful marriage of the daughter of our Bishop’s Warden and Treasurer.

During Holy Week we celebrated Palm/Passion Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, the Great Vigil of Easter and Easter Sunday services. The Saturday evening celebration of the Great Vigil was the first at St. John’s that our mem-bers can remember. Easter Sunday Eucharist was followed by a festive Easter brunch, and Easter baskets were provided by the church to the residents of Rest Haven, Albion’s nursing home. The generosity of our brothers and sisters at St. John the Baptist permitted the people of St. John’s to make a signifi-cant gift in response to the request from St. Stephen’s for donations for tornado relief in Harrisburg, as well as a mod-est donation for the destroyed Roman Catholic church in Ridgway. We continue to improve and repair the fabric of the church and plantings of a dogwood, roses and plants in the church yard. We have now received the official Certificate from the National Register of Historic Places, which has been framed and now hangs in the parish hall. Our continued thanks go to Judith Puckett for her work in that regard. Our home bound continue to receive the sacraments in visitation by Deacon Howard. Our members con-tinue to volunteer their ideas efforts and hopes for the work of spreading the Good News of Christ.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. G. William Howard, III, Assisting Deacon

St. John’s, Centralia - St. John’s mid-week services and study hour, both of which take place on Thursday evenings, have been very well attended in the past quarter of the year. For our study session, we’ve been using a wonderful book entitled “The Bible’s Best Love Stories”, by Allan Wright. Each session offers a brief summary of the lives of two persons in the Bible, along with reflec-tions on the account of the love shown between them, looking particularly at the ways in which God’s presence and God’s love were evident in their relationship. A series of questions asks us to reflect on

the ways that God’s love is demonstrat-ed in our own lives in ways that are to be found in the biblical characters’ lives. We continue our outreach efforts, making monetary grants to the Friend-ship Meal feeding program, which is an ecumenical ministry of Centralia area churches. Financial grants were also made to the local Salvation Army and to St. Stephen’s Church in Harrisburg for relief of those who suffered losses in February’s tornado. Members also sup-port the Friendship Meal with their pres-ence, and we continue to collect non-perishable foodstuffs and paper products for the local BCMW Food Pantry. Some time ago, St. John’s bell broke one Sunday morning. A replacement has been found for it in a local antique shop. Following some repairs, we expect it to be installed sometime this summer. A committee has been formed to plan and host a Block Party in the fall, which will allow Centralia area residents an opportunity to get to know more about the wonderful riches our church has to offer. Another committee is identifying projects which need attention in the building and its grounds. Deacon Sylvia Howard ensures that members who cannot worship with us regularly are visited on a regular basis. These visitations allow them to par-ticipate in the sacramental life of the congregation. Deacon Sylvia is assisted in this ministry by Ms. Carol McCrary, Eucharistic Visitor. This local church enjoys the deep and abiding support of its members, who seek to live out the gospel’s imperatives in word and in deed.

Respectfully submitted,The Very Rev. Gene R. Tucker, Priest-in-Charge

St. Laurence, Effingham - St. Lau-rence hosted the funeral of a former long time parishioner, Mrs. Peggy Pulliam during Lent. We have no special plans for the summer months. We’re using Rite 2 Eucharist until Christmas when we change back to Rite continued, next page



Eastern Deanery, continued1 Eucharist until Easter. After Sunday Eucharist we enjoy a short coffee hour before Pastor Fackler goes to Evergreen Nursing Home to provide Eucharist for six patrons living there.

Respectfully submitted,Mrs. Carolyn Pogue, Bishop’s Warden

St. John the Baptist, Mt. Carmel - St. John’s has been truly blessed. We con-tinue to share our blessings by provid-ing monetary support to our local food pantry, the Senior Citizens Center, and several other ministries in our com-munity. Additionally we have a monthly ingathering of food stuffs for the food pantry. The construction in our basement is finally nearing completion. A major remodeling project was necessary in the kitchen and restroom after we suffered flood damage over 2 years ago. We have a clean-up day planned to finish the de-tails and get things back in order on the shelves and in the cabinets. The elevator should be back in service soon too. We are looking forward to our first parish dinner in our new remodeled fa-cilities when Bishop Daniel Martins visits us in June on the eve of our patron’s feast day. Additionally the vestry has started an inspection check list of the building and grounds. Hopefully this list will allow us to be proactive with future projects and the maintenance items. All in all it is a very positive time in the life our church and we are looking forward to the green season of Pente-cost.

Respectfully submitted,Ms. Chris DeWitt

Trinity, Mt. Vernon- Though Lent seems like a long time ago, Trinity recalls with joy its partnership with St. Mary’s Catholic Church throughout Lent in hosting weekly services of Stations of

the Cross. As has been the practice in years past, both churches alternated in hosting these services, week by week, and leadership of the services was also shared between both parishes. Trinity Church’s Sunday morning study offerings conclude the academic year on Sunday, May 20th. Our Sun-day School, which is lead by Mrs. Tracy Adams, continues to use the excellent materials of the David C. Cook curricu-lum to guide its work. The Bible Study, lead by Mr. Barney Bruce, has devoted the entire year to an extensive study of the Book of Exodus. Both study offer-ings are well supported by parishioners. Trinity continued to offer two mid-week study offerings in the past quarter: A Tuesday evening group met to consider the work of the New Testament scholar Raymond Brown’s book “The Churches the Apostles Left Behind”. Our Wednes-day morning Informal Discussion Group continued its study of the Letter to the Hebrews. The Tuesday evening group has concluded its study sessions until the fall, but the Wednesday morning group will continue to meet throughout the summer. The St. Anne’s Guild, Trinity’s ECW chapter, hosted a very successful Rum-mage Sale on Saturday, May 5th in the Parish Hall. Though there were a number of garage sales and rummage sales tak-ing place elsewhere in the community that day, patronage was still good, and net proceeds of about $1,400.00 were realized, which will support the outreach ministries of the Guild. A Book Sale is planned for Saturday, October 13th. It has been the tradition of the Sun-day morning Bible Study group to take a field trip at the conclusion of the aca-demic year. This year, on Wednesday, May 16th, a group of over 20 parishioners visited the Frei Stained Glass Studios in St. Louis, Missouri. A delayed Rogation Sunday work-day will take place on Sunday, May 20th, following the morning service. (Due to Mother’s Day, the observance is delayed

one week.) We intend to tackle mainte-nance projects both inside and outside the church. We rejoice in the upcoming ordina-tion to the Sacred Order of Priests of the Rev. David Peters, which is planned for Sunday, June 17th in Washington, D. C. Deacon Dave came through the ordi-nation process as a member of Trinity Church. Gifts from his Trinity family will represent us as he is ordained.

Respectfully submitted,The Very Rev. Gene R. Tucker, Rector

St. Mary’s, Robinson - St. Mary’s, Robinson is small in size, but big in spirit. We grow closer to God as we worship, pray, study and fellowship together. In addition to our 8:00 a.m. Sunday service we gather each week on Wednesday evenings for a service. During Lent on Wednesday’s our services were Stations of the Cross with all present partici-pating. During this Easter season we celebrate with the Liturgy of the Word and Communion from the reserved sac-rament (LOWAC). These services have all been well attended. Once a month Father Gene Tucker comes and provides Holy Eucharist for us. We follow our weekday worship services with a study and sharing time and end with Compline. Our next study on Wednesday evenings will be on the Lesser Feasts and Fasts. Lent began with our Ash Wednesday service. Also each family was presented with the book, “From Darkness to Light” for their Lenten devotional study. Holy Week was a busy week as we began with The Sunday of the Passion on Palm Sunday and followed it on Wed. with Stations of the Cross. Maundy Thursday we had a foot washing as part of the liturgy. Good Friday blessed us all as we were profoundly struck by the selfless act of love that our Savior pro-vided for our salvation. Saturday evening we celebrated The Great Vigil of Easter with much joy, and followed that service


us as we march onward in the church of God. On behalf of St. Thomas parishio-ners, I also extend our thanks to Bishop’s Warden Al Lever and Mission Warden Danny Shuler for their constant care and overseeing of daily operations.

Respectfully submitted,Ms. Liz Hinman

Hale Deanery

St. Stephen’s, Harrisburg - The Har-risburg Ministerial Council has received close to $20,000 for the relief of storm victims in Harrisburg. A special committee has been set up under the leadership of the citizens of Harrisburg. One of St. Ste-phen’s members serves on the committee. All donations to St. Stephen’s designated for storm relief have been combined with those of churches in Harrisburg. Three men of the Hale Deanery participated on a Kairos Team and spent four days at the Menard prison. This is the third time that the team has blessed in bringing the Good News of Jesus Christ to the inmates of Menard Prison. And, the Holy Spirit is bringing new light and new hope with the walls of Menard. The team would love to have more church members join them in this minis-try Matt 25: 33-40.

Respectfully submitted,Fr. Tim Goodman

St. Mark’s, West Frankfort - Atten-dance, especially the young adults and children, is increasing. Nancy Summers and Linda lark have revitalized the Sun-day School and the results can be clearly discerned. After each class, the kids provide a snapshot of the day’s lesson and activities to the congregation. Thanks to a special offering taken on Church Camp Sunday, tuition is available for two of St. Mark’s kids to attend camp- one a first timer. St Mark’s said goodbye to two long-time parishioners, Rosena Hogg and Dorothy Ellen Hogg Donkin. They will be missed.

Respectfully submitted,Fr. Jon Griffin continued, next page

with a party in the undercroft. Easter Sunday saw no decrease in attendance as we once again rejoiced in the blessings of God. In April we had a parishioner attend Curisillo. She shared with us all the joy and love that she felt and encouraged all to attend a Curisillo when possible. It was a wonderful learning experience where the Spirit of God was truly present. St. Mary’s outreach has included a generous gift to Harrisburg to assist with their recovery from the tornado that did so much damage to their community. Our monetary support was needed, but we also spiritually supported our broth-ers and sisters in Christ with our prayers and thanksgivings. Several parishioners have faced medical problems. We have supported them with meals and sacra-ment. As a small congregation we are blessed with generous individuals who support needs on a local, deanery, dioc-esan, national and international level. The outside of the church is being spruced up. The porch and ramp have been sprayed with sealer. The lawn is mowed weekly by a parishioner. The sign which was damaged by high winds has been repaired. There is still work to be done. As weather and the spirit permit we will see to it. The love of Jesus Christ sustains us and motivates us to share with each other and others outside of our faith community. We are blessed and working to bless others in His name.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. Ann H. Tofani, Assisting Deacon

St. Thomas, Salem - St. Thomas Epis-copal Church has had a very busy spring! Bishop Daniel Martins and Archdeacon Shawn Denney met with the Bishop’s Committee February 16 to discuss the future of St. Thomas and enjoined the committee and parish to help others, especially the un-churched, discover the life-changing love of Jesus Christ. Since that time, two all-church meet-ings have been held: March 15, and May 10, for this very purpose. The group has discussed the mission of the church, growth of St. Thomas and outreach to the un-churched. Dialogue has centered

on problems and issues that people in our area are facing, why people do not attend church and ideas for sharing Jesus Christ with our neighbors. Additional dis-cussion focused on our relationship with the Diocese, the Christian message and St. Thomas members’ spiritual feelings. The third all-church meeting will be held August 23. Bishop Martins will present “Proclaim-ing Good News 101” to assist St. Thomas in its efforts to conduct an outreach ministry. The programs will be held August 25 and September 22, both from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. St. Thomas will invite members of Trinity Episcopal Church, Mt. Vernon, and St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centralia, to attend these meetings as well. In other news, St. Thomas is proud of parishioner Earl Moldovan, who received the Civic Achievement Award from the Greater Salem Area Foundation and Salem Chamber of Commerce at their community service awards banquet on March 9. St. Thomas ECW has hosted several events, including a Valentine’s Day dinner and program and St. Patrick’s Day cel-ebration. On May 30, the group will host an English Tea in honor of member Joan Baker’s two English sisters visiting Amer-ica and will welcome members from Trinity and St. John’s Episcopal Churches. Through the SCHS (Salem Commu-nity High School) Closet, St. Thomas has and continues to provide students at the school with miscellaneous toiletry items, haircuts, sweatshirts, etc. The parish provided two students, girl and boy, with special attire for the recent high school prom. Giving anonymously to these stu-dents is a joyful program for St. Thomas! Easter Week was truly a meaning-ful, personal journey for each of us at St. Thomas. With Palm Sunday’s procession with palms, Maundy Thursday’s inclusion of washing feet, the Vigil of the Blessed Sacrament, Good Friday, and Saturday evening Easter celebration, congregants experienced the basis of our faith, the Good News of the risen Christ. We extend many thanks to Father Gene Tucker for serving as interim priest for St. Thomas. With his deep under-standing of scripture and love of Jesus Christ, he has contributed so much to


Diocesan Council Reports As submitted for the May 19, 2012 Council MeetingHale Deanery, continuedSt. Andrew’s, Carbondale - St. An-drew’s has created a medical supply center for those who have need of walkers, crutches and other ambulatory equipment while they are rehabilitation. A catalog of items is being made available to other churches in the community who wish to cooperate and refer potential patients. St. Andrew’s has completed a cook book and is preparing it for publishing. The project has been in the works for awhile and has great anticipation. Following a successful Lenten Series of Evensongs with Epiphany Lutheran Church and St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, the three churches celebrated Ascension Day on May 17 with Evensong. The Adult Study on Christian Authors completed its series on J.R.R. Tolkien and will be continuing with George Washing-ton Carver. St. Andrew’s honored its long-time Music Director and Organist, Bonnie Lindquist, on Pentecost Sunday. May 27 was her last Sunday before retiring from the position.

St. James, Marion - St. James Marion has had a busy quarter. We have contin-ued our Appreciative Inquiry journey, and at the last AI team meeting we came up with the following Provocative Propos-als--we have identified these specific areas of affirmation and opportunities for growth: 1. We are a warm and welcoming Episcopal community. 2. We are responsive to the needs of our community (expected and unex-pected) 3. We value Christian education. 4. We value learning and growing from our fellowship. 5. We embrace the richness of the traditional Episcopal liturgy in the wor-ship of our Lord Jesus Christ. 6. We intentionally connect with other Episcopal congregations (following our ECW), acknowledging that we

are the Episcopal Church in Williamson County. Appreciative Inquiry is always a work in progress, and as such we will continue meeting with our AI team to develop these proposals as we go forward as the Eucharistic Community in Marion, Wil-liamson County, IL. We also had a wonderful slate of ser-vices for Holy Week, from Palm Sunday, to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and culminating with the Feast of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday. We are deeply grateful and appreciative for the hard work of our Altar Guild, not just during Holy Week, but every week. It is a joy to celebrate the Eucharist where you know everything is going to be set up perfectly. Special thanks to Madolyn Copeland and Gary and Barb Gilbert for making it all happen! St. James’ has taken the lead with the combined Hale Deanery ECW, lead-ing the way forward for our deanery churches working together, with women from 4 of the deanery churches partici-pating. Many of these women attended the ECW Lenten Retreat, they have had a Tea and (virtual) Travel to Russia, a Pop-corn Matinee of Jesus Christ Superstar, a program on Birds and Scripture, and many other wonderful events--lots of great fellowship, fun and food!! In February St. James participated in Souper Bowl Sunday, and we continue in our regular support of Marion’s Light-house (homeless) shelter, as well as the Marion Ministerial Alliance’s soup kitch-en. Several of our members were actively involved with Menard Kairos #3 in April. We are a small, but very active church family.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. Sherry Black

Northeastern DeaneryTrinity Episcopal Church, Mattoon - There are four specific issues which war-

rant consideration here at Trinity Church The first issue is across the street from the Trinity Episcopal Church building. It was originally the First Pres-byterian Church of Mattoon and when that congregation built a new facility on Charleston Avenue in the late seventies the building was purchased by a Bap-tist congregation. It was used until that congregation relocated outside the city. Since then the building has been vacant and gone into private ownership. The city has raised serious issues with the cur-rent owner as the building deteriorated. Recently the last stained glass windows were removed and the city made it clear the open windows must be boarded and unauthorized access to the empty build-ing prevented. The current owner recently took me through the vacant building, the only time I’d ever been in it. At one time it was quite a building and that time was several, several years ago. Presently it is a disaster. There is a twenty foot wide hole in the roof and for years the weather has pummeled the interior of the building. As we walked through the building the owner kept telling me to watch my step as I might fall through the rotten floor.I have lived in cities where empty build-ings became a dangerous location in the neighborhood: drug activity; potential fire situations and a hideout for criminal activity. The building continues to dete-riorate. The owner wants to turn the property over to the city and Mattoon has indicated it doesn’t want the proper-ty. The ultimate question is who will pay for the demolition of the building.Across the street is Trinity Episcopal Church which was purchased in 1906 and six years ago we celebrated one hundred years in our building. In the last few years we have put several thousand dollars into tuck-pointing the bricks and into the maintenance of our windows. The second issue has to do with fewer people, but in two important places: our services and our undercroft.


member to attend. Services all week were well attended, the Great Easter Vigil was beautiful and holy, and our Feast of the Resurrection on Easter morning saw a joyfully full church, with young families as well as seniors in attendance. Most of these services have been chronicled visually on our church Face-book page. We were delighted when one of the pictures from our page, a picture of the baptism of baby Crecenciana Leigh Lopez, baptized Easter Sunday morning was also shared on the well-known Fa-cebook page “Unapologetically Episcopa-lian,” even appearing for one day as their featured cover photo. Father Scanlon has begun using Facebook as a means of communicat-ing parish news to both members and followers near and far. In addition to the ordinary information such as worship times and special functions, Father also uses the Facebook venue to lead our own congregation in daily readings and prayers, and gives teachings about feasts, seasons, and saints. He also shares appro-priate music links, and we’ve had visits and comments from around the country, as well as around the world. he Vestry has been working on plans to continue improving the building and grounds, beginning a special fund for a new roof, and working on the garden areas with special parish work days. The Children of Mary are leading us in our continued adoption of our block for a city clean-up project. We also have sum-mer plans to kick off monthly dinners for the neighborhood, looking at the three closest senior housing units, as well as continuing to serve the community with our food pantry. We are also looking into having Saturday Open Houses, to allow the community a chance to get to know us. We are in a perfect physical position for this in Danville’s downtown, directly across the street from the Farmer’s Mar-ket and public library. May 6th was another occasion for celebration, as we began Mary’s Month of May. We had another outdoor pro-cession, with the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham, flower girls, and our own two year future acolyte, little Nicolas Lopez, carrying a banner of Our Lady continued, next page

One family with three children is at-tending another church where there are other children. In two other families, who have been active for a number of years, the children have grown and are involved in other activities. Their attendance can-not be taken for granted. We now have only one family with a son in elementary school. The undercroft? An increasing number of our people cannot use the two stairways to get to or from our un-dercroft. One might think, well, put in an elevator. Ah, remember we’ve been here for over a hundred years and in the early twentieth century some buildings were constructed without the thought of an elevator. Several people in the congregation have been involved with the renovations of older buildings in the community and the construction of an elevator is in the same category of a diocesan bishop working without a salary. The third issue has to do with our location near Eastern Illinois University in Charleston and the nature of our campus ministry. At one time the diocese committed five thousand dollars to cam-pus ministry at Eastern and this enabled the clergy to maintain a presence on the campus. One of the other campus minis-ters in the diocese decided that money could be used elsewhere and its eventual elimination restricted Trinity’s campus ministry program and the full-time clergy position at Trinity. Three times in the last six years Trinity provided a two thousand dollar scholarship for an Eastern student to participate in the History Department’s summer dig at Walhain Castle in Belgium. Eastern Illinois University has exclusive rights to this site and Belgium public-ity has generated both local interest and students from Belgium universities participating in the program, which is directed by Dr. Bailey Young of Eastern’s History Department and active in Trinity Church, Mattoon. There’s a fourth issue and it has to do with what happens around the altar and it’s a problem in many of our con-gregations. The faithful woman who led the Altar Guild retired and has not been replaced. One of the men has helped

with changing the altar frontal, but the congregation doesn’t buy the explanation that an extremely cute angel descends to clean the chalice. Maybe it counts the wafers, but doesn’t get the communion wine ready. Something else happens around the altar. We have two men who function as eucharistic ministers. Two men. They try to provide coverage, but sometimes one or both need to be out of town and they find it special to sit oc-casionally with their families during wor-ship. As with some other congregations we could use volunteers who feel called to an altar guild ministry or service as eucharistic ministers. Should that happen we’ll find something else for that cute angel to do.

Respectfully submitted,Kenneth Truelove, Supply Priest

The Church of the Holy Trinity, Danville - The Church of the Holy Trin-ity, Danville spent the winter and spring months growing in numbers, as well as planning for the future. As our member-ship numbers increased last year, we saw an increase in the number of seats on our vestry. Weekly attendance at Mass has increased over the previous year, and we kept a Holy Lent, with the congre-gation as a whole keeping a common Lenten Rule. Father Scanlon continued to use the seasons of the church year to teach some, and refresh others, about the importance of Lent in our faith. We have several new attendees who participated in various services during Holy Week for the first time. Some were unfamiliar with The Triduum, and had never had occasion to venerate The Holy Cross before, nor had they received ashes prior to their first Ash Wednesday with us at Holy Trinity. That Ash Wednesday, both of our newborns received ashes. Various parish-ioners also used these church resources to invite others to learn. One visiting family came from over 30 miles away twice that week, and brought with them an adult daughter from Washington, D.C. The weather allowed an outdoor procession for Palm Sunday, and was pleasant enough for our newborns, sev-eral toddlers and our 101 year-old



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leading the way, while the congrega-tion joyfully sang favorite Marian hymns. Later that day, 14 members of our parish reciprocated in ecumenical unity when we attended St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church’s Mary Talk and Holy Hour. Father Timothy Sauppe and his congregation always attend our Walsingham Festival, and we were happy to visit them. They thanked us profusely, and said we sound-ed like a visiting choir! May 14 was the 145th anniversary of the dedication of the church. Our build-ing is the oldest on Vermilion Street in Danville, and our presence has lent stabil-ity to the community for many years. We will continue our celebration when we have our annual visitation from Bishop Daniel on our Feast of Title, The Feast of the Most Blessed Trinity, June 3, 2012. With the Celebration of the Feast of the Ascension, followed closely by Pen-tecost, then our Feast of Title – with the Bishop and the Feast of Corpus Christi, with another Procession and Blessing of the City, we are gearing up to a busy period, and Thank God for it!

Respectfully submitted,Marti Coffman

St. John the Divine, Champaign - The process of selecting a new rector for the Chapel of St. John the Divine is ongoing. The Search Committee is now preparing for visits to candidates, and the possibility of having a rector in place by the beginning of fall term seems realistic. We continue to be grateful for Fr. Rob Nichols during this transition time. Lenten activities this year included Stations of the Cross each Wednesday evening, followed by a soup and sandwich supper and discussion time. A series of noon time organ concerts during Lent has become a St. John’s tradition, and all four concerts were well attended this year.

During Eastertide two couples re-newed their wedding vows. LaVerne and Joseph Smith and Jim and Mary Jones cel-ebrated more than 50 years of marriage. We were pleased to welcome Rebecca Crummey as celebrant on May 5. She was raised at the Chapel and is now Canon at St. John’s Cathedral in Denver. The Vestry will soon be presented with a plan for some cosmetic and functional changes to the ground floor of Canterbury House. The building contin-ues to get regular use by church func-tions as well as by community groups, and the furnishings are showing their age. Alcoholics Anonymous, a children’s self defense class, and others take advantage of our campus location for meeting space. In addition to Wednesday night activities for college students, usually pizza, discussion and Eucharist, Fr. Rob has begun a Sunday evening “Bible in the Pub” discussion group. His leadership and the location have gathered an interested college group during the spring semester. Rogation Sunday will include a Bless-ing of the Morrow Plots, the experi-mental fields on the University of Illinois campus. As this is also graduation day, the thurifer-led procession may provide some discussion among campus guests. One wedding is scheduled for late May and two other couples are in counsel. The end of the academic year will is an annual time of transition at St. John’s, as college students graduate and move on to new challenges, and as academic individuals and families leave for new opportunities. We bid them Godspeed. Summer is an important planning for fall activities for newcomers to the commu-nity and campus.

Respectfully submitted,Ruth Wene, Rector’s Warden

Emmanuel Memorial Church, Champaign - Since our last report to the Diocesan Council, Emmanuel Memo-rial Church has been blessed in many

ways. For these and all of God’s blessings, we are most grateful. After trying a new format and cur-riculum for Church School for two years, we have returned to a former curriculum and format. This curriculum is Bible- based, teaches the Sacraments and basic tenants of the Christian Faith, the Liturgy of the Church and Church seasons and practices. The parents and guardians of the Sunday School children have been delighted with this new/old approach and as a result attendance at Church school has increased. We are blessed with a faithful, cheerful, dedicated, and extreme-ly creative and talented group of teach-ers. We find that this new/old approaches dove-tails nicely with acolyte training, Confirmation Classes, Children’s Chapel and Youth Group. We feel truly blessed and are especially grateful to the parents and guardians who made their voices heard and guided us back to this new/old approach. The Sunday School year ended with an “Art Show” of projects created by the children as a part of their lessons. It was a joy to behold. The children (and us older folks) were delighted and it was wonderful to watch the children teach the adults about the Christian Faith as they explained their art projects. Perhaps the adults learned and gained the most! Youth Group, acolyte training, and Children’s Chapel are all thriving. It was wonderful to hear the acolytes giving the Bishop pointers on his recent visit to Emmanuel. “He isn’t doing it right,” whis-pered one acolyte. No damage done; the Rector shusshed the child and gently ex-plained that there is more than one way to say Mass. The return of the Brat and Beverage dinner in celebration of Bishop and Brenda Martins’ visit was a huge suc-cess with over seventy in attendance. We would especially like to recognize the members of the Vestry who in this and many other instances have stepped up to (and rolled up their sleeves) to show leadership by sweat equity and example. As we have been discussing at several recent Vestry meetings, Vestry isn’t just


pouring over financial statements once-a-month. It is leadership by example. Truly, we are blessed. We have been blessed in our minis-try of Outreach. Our Sack Lunch Pro-gram which feeds persons at the Church Door five days a week is going gang bust-ers. We have enlisted the assistance of multi-generational groups of volunteers to create the sack lunches to be given out. Sunday School children, the Youth Group (who figured out how to make creating sack lunches into a Relay Race), the Vestry, our elders, our Guilds have all pitched in to help. This provides all of these individuals with the opportunity to see Ministry-in-action. During Lent, parishioners were challenged to donate “Lenten-self-denial” offerings to a whole variety of worthy outreach projects. As a result, a little more than $ 4,000 was raised to assist those in need at home and abroad. We continue in the 35th year of delivering a week’s worth of groceries to a needy family each weekend – all of the items are donated by parishioners. We have been blessed with the op-portunity to open our church doors to worthy outside groups on a daily basis. At the recent “Roger Ebert Film-fest” we opened our parish hall to the Elder Hostel to provide lunch and dinner to over 100 persons at each meal. They also made use of our parking lot for patron parking. Already we have been contacted by the Champaign Park Commission to use our parking lot and restrooms for several downtown festivities. Truly, we are blessed. Through the careful stewardship of the Vestry and Parish Trustees, we find ourselves in solid financial shape. Every penny is squeezed until it cries “Uncle!” In these trying financial times, we are grateful to these good stewards and to our parishioners who are faithful in their giving. All of this is fueled by the greatest thanksgiving of all – The Holy Eucharist. Attendance at Holy Week and Easter services rose by 93 persons. This is where it all starts and ends. As we are fed by our Loving God through His Son, so we give in His Name. And then we return again and again to give thanks, and once again to be fed with His most

precious Body and Blood. Truly, we are blessed!

Respectfully submitted,Kevin Thomas, Rector’s WardenRandy Kobel, Parish WardenAlan Herbst, Obl. SSJE, Rector

Report Respectfully Submitted, The Very Reverend Geoffrey E. L. Scanlon, Dean

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Christ Church, Springfield - Christ Church continues to offer two Holy Eucharist, Rite II worship services every Sunday (at 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.) with childcare provided during both services. On the last Sunday of every month we provide a Morning Prayer I and Holy Eucharist I service at 10:15 a.m. The Prayer Group continues to meet every Monday morning at the home of one of our parishioners. Further discipleship, equipping, and various other ministries:

• Acolyte Training – In our contin-ued goal to build-up a team of acolytes who are well-trained and enjoy serving Jesus Christ and His church, an aco-lyte ministry training was conducted in March to serve as a refresher course for existing acolytes, and as an instructional course for new acolytes; • Contact Ministry – team invites guests to visit our Welcome Center after service for refreshments and a gift. A follow-up visit to any local guests is made within 36 hours, to bring them a loaf of fresh-baked bread; • Discipleship I – weekly Sunday Biblical teachings; • Lay Eucharistic Visitors Cell – (6 members) – met in May for continued training; • Rector’s Reflections – current series in the Tidings Newsletter teaching on the evangelization of Postmoderns through holistic cell groups; • Sunday School – youth are cur-rently studying the Word of God and have been involved in several community outreach programs, including UNICEF and raising food and monetary support

for the Inner City Mission, a Youth Sun-day event was held on Mother’s Day with youth reading the lessons, proving the sermon, greeting the parishioners, and ushering. Youth outings planned for this summer include a trip to Six Flags and a camping/fishing trip; • Sunday School Cell Group Facili-tator’s Leadership Community Training – (4 participants) – bi-monthly meetings involving vision, huddle, and on-going skill training. An annual appreciation dinner honoring the Sunday School teachers is planned for June of this year; and • Vestry – meets monthly with each meeting consisting of the Upward, Inward, Outward, and Outward (U.I.O.F.) values of cell life. Additionally, the Parish Garden is open for the summer from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for guests wishing to visit and enjoy their lunch. An Interim Music Di-rector/Organist was hired to replace Mr. Larry Moose, who had been with us for over 30 years in this capacity. The final phase of our church interior renovation project (replacing the flooring) should be completed this year. To date, plaster on the interior walls of the church has been repaired, the walls repainted, and new lighting has been installed.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. Dr. Gregory A. Tournoux, Rector

St. John’s, Decatur - On Saturday the 18th of February St John’s celebrated the marriage of Elizabeth Rutherford and H. Edward Phillips, Jr. On the 19th we dedicated a new Purple Lenten Array of Altar and Clergy Vestments in memory of Bob Oakes. The men of the church came together, under the leadership of Bob Ellison, on the 21st for the traditional Shrove Tuesday pancake supper with do-nations going to the Good Samaritan Inn. With the beginning of the Lenten Season the service of Stations of the Cross was observed each Friday at 6:00pm. There was a Wednesday evening teaching series and Soup Supper follow-ing the Wednesday Holy Eucharist begin-ning on the 29th of February. Increased attendance moved these mid-week continued, next page


Diocesan Council Reports As submitted for the May 19, 2012 Council Meetingweek Eucharists from the Chapel to the Nave with the supper and teaching series in the Parish Hall. On Sunday, March 4th, Bishop Mar-tins made his second official visitation of St. John’s. Bishop Daniel Celebrated the Holy Eucharist at 7:30 and at 10:00am and Confirmed John F. Wylder at the 10:00am Mass. That next week, St. John’s gathered $1,068 for tornado relief to Harrisburg, IL and surrounding counties. On Tuesday, March 13th, St. John’s hosted the Decatur area Ministerial Alliance for its monthly meeting. We lost long time member, Marjo-rie Bowers, (widow of former Rector Fr. Darwin Bowers) on March 26th. The community came together to celebrate Marjorie’s life on Thursday the 29th of March. Holy Week was a glorious time with an observance of Tenebrae on Wednes-day the 4th of April, followed by a dinner together at a local restaurant. Maundy Thursday and Good Friday prepared us for the Great Vigil of Easter on April 7th and two Celebrations of the Feast of the Resurrection on the 8th. On Saturday, April 28th, St. John’s held its first Craft Sale to benefit the work of Good Samaritan Inn. Another Craft Sale is now planned for the fall.

Respectfully submitted,The Rev. Richard A. Swan, Priest in Charge

St. Luke’s, Springfield - St. Luke’s continues to show signs of vitality and growth. This spring brought a spate of visitors to the Sunday services with a number of them continuing to attend. Particularly encouraging has been the level of stewardship, which enables us to fund completely our programs and to set aside funds for future expansion. We completed our Church School year on the first Sunday in May and will take a break until fall (primarily to allow preparation for and the carrying out of our summer program). The adult class, which meets every Tuesday, and

the youth group will continue to meet through the summer. The women’s group has been meeting again following a brief winter hiatus. A contract has been signed to restore fencing removed prior to the de-molition of the house behind the church. This wrought iron style fencing will be along the west boundary line of the lots behind the church (recently established by survey). The proposed construction site is settling well and should soon be ready for a construction project. Ar-rangements have also been made for reinstallation of deteriorating railings on the church’s two ramps. We are looking forward to an excit-ing summer at St. Luke’s. Three youth from St. Luke’s will participate in Work Week at Harrisburg in June. Lucas and Mary Ann Denney will be joining the congregation at St. Stephen’s to assist them as they provide a daily meal to Work Week participants. We expect 10 campers and a counselor from St. Luke’s to attend the 2012 Episcopal Church Camp at Lake Bloomington in July. The Church will again to supply all fees and costs of transportation for the campers. Our annual Vacation Bible School is scheduled for the week of June 18-23rd. We are again installing a tent behind the church (which proved a great advertise-ment last year), and are again limiting en-rollment to those completing 5th grade and under. Youth from St. Luke’s who are over the age threshold will assist as vol-unteers. Our field trip will again be to the YMCA indoor water park in Taylorville. Our Sunday meal program contin-ues throughout the year, with a number of wonderful volunteers assisting in the program. On average, we have been feed-ing about 25 children each Sunday, plus a few hungry adults. In all and through all – God pro-vides!!

Respectfully submitted,The Ven. Shawn W. Denney, Vicar

St. Paul’s, Carlinville & St. Peter’s,

Chesterfield, a.k.a. The Episcopal Parish of Macoupin County - St. Paul’s-Carlinville: Weekly worship ser-vices continue on Wednesday evenings and Sunday mornings. The merger of the two services, while a positive idea in the minds of most parishioners, has gone relatively smoothly (but we are still working out some of the rough edges). We have combined a group of people used to early morning, music-less, Rite II service with a group of people used to late morning, music-filled, Rite I service. We completed a Lenten Study Group. Still no Sunday School program for children but then we only have two children in attendance. They presently get their Christian Education down the block at the United Methodist Church. The church gathered for the Requi-em Mass for Fr. John Bettmann celebrat-ed by Bishop Martins on Thursday, May 3. The preacher was the Rev. Dr. Anthony Holder. Anglicans met for the final meeting before summer break on May 15. We have completed some needed repairs to our sidewalk and now look to needed repairs on the roof. The church continues to offer its facilities for use by the local AA group and has recently done the same for the Carlinville Birth-3 Program. St. Peter’s-Chesterfield: Weekly worship services have been moved to Saturday evening at 6 p.m. A new church sign was purchased from memorial funds. The Bishop’s Committee recently approved repairs to the roof and these repairs were completed the week of May 22. The Bishop made his annual visita-tion to St. Peter’s on Saturday, 28 April.

Respectfully submitted, The Rev. John R. Henry, Rector and Vicar

Trinity Church, Jacksonville - In addition to regular Sunday worship, we observed the Season of Lent at Trinity Church with a Friday evening program of Evening Prayer, soup and salad supper,


with the package we are offering. In fact, Carl Slaughter of St. Paul’s in Alton told me he and his church were moving in the same exact direction as the diocese, in terms of using not only Wordpress but the template company we chose to go with. He now is using our new webhost and template service instead as he de-velops a new website for St. Paul’s. Carl, who has a lot of website development experience, also has offered his technical

The Springfield Current is a minis-try of the Department of Com-

munication in the Diocese of Spring-field. Voluntary contributions help to support its being published, printed and distributed. If you would like to contribute to this ministry, please send your gift to the Diocesan Center, 821 S. Second Street, Springfield, IL 62704. Recently, we’ve received gifts from the individuals and families listed herein.

EPISCOPAL PARISH OF ALTONAnonymous

ST. GEORGE’S, BELLEVILLEFrank & Mickey Cattaneo

ST. ANDREW’S, CARBONDALEDr. Blanche C. SloanPatricia A. Guyon

ST. JOHN’S, DECATURThe Rev. & Mrs. Richard A. Swan

TRINITY, JACKSONVILLEMargaret Bellatti

TRINITY, MT. VERNONDonald R. Fletcher

CHRIST THE KING, NORMALNed & Flo Monger

Springfield Current ContributorsST. MICHAEL’S, O’FALLONNels & Ann Wilt

ST. CHRISTOPHER’S, RANTOULAnonymousLoralee Pena

CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PAUL, SPRINGFIELDBill & Ann PiperDave & Jean Diamond

CHRIST CHURCH, SPRINGFIELDBarbara MinderJames CorneliusAnne DeleyRobert L. Mueller

ST. GEORGE’S, BELLEVILLEShirley Helber

ST. JOHN’S, DECATURFrancis & Mary Peters

ST. LUKE’S, SPRINGFIELDHarold & Susan Meek

ST. MARK’S, WEST FRANKFORTDwanda Bright

and the Stations of the Cross. We also blessed and distributed “Mite Boxes” on the First Sunday in Lent (more on that later). Beginning with Palm Sunday, we kept Holy Week with daily Eucharist, and the Proper Liturgies for specific days. We kept a full Triduum, with liturgies for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, the Great Vigil, and Easter Day. On the Second Sunday of Easter we gathered and blessed the offering of the Mite Boxes that we’d been filling during the Season of Lent. This was a part of the Church School’s Lenten Outreach Project, which also included a “Guess the number of jelly beans” raffle of the Fourth Sunday in Lent, and a Bake Sale on the Fifth Sunday in Lent. Combined with the Mite Box offering, the Church School raised $1,003.00, which was sent to Heifer International for the purchase of farm animals. We were very excited that the amount raised allowed us to purchase, among other animals, a water buffalo. Thanks to a very generous designat-ed gift, we were able to purchase a new computer system for the Parish Office to replace our aging one. In terms of adult education, in April we finished our course on “Monastic History & Spirituality” in Trinity Fellow-ship; and we began a study of St. John’s Gospel in our Sunday morning Adult Academy.

Respectfully submitted,The Very Rev. Christopher L. Ashmore, Rector, Trinity Church

Communications Committee

We currently are nearing our official launch of the new website. The bulk of the website work is complete. Most of the remaining work involves resolving kinks, making final content decisions, and mastering the Wordpress platform so that we and the Diocesan office staff are fluent enough to be a helpful resource for others as we fan out. A couple churches have indicated in-terest in developing a Wordpress website

services as well. So, we’re developing a good in-house support system. Finally, I would like to thank ev-eryone for their patience for this long rollout. It is taking a little longer than we thought. But we are also saving a lot of money. Regardless, we’re going to end up with something very nice.

Respectfully submitted,Pete Sherman, Chair

THANK YOU!!



Trustees The Trustees met on April 17, 2012 in Springfield. The Trustees received a presentation from our investment advi-sors at Bush O’Donnell, Mark Reed and John Brown. As of the end of the first quarter of 2012 the balance of the endowment was $2,112,959.25 and the balance of the combined account was $2,126,607.00. The year to date rate of return on the endowment was 7.1% and on the com-bined account was 6.9%. The current as-set allocation in both accounts is slightly over 70%, stocks between 3% to 4% cash, 2.6% master limited partnerships, between 20% to 22.5% bonds. Concern was expressed by some Trustees that our returns are lower than benchmark indices, including the Diocese Blended Index and the S&P 500. The advisors have also been requested to provide us with risk adjusted rate of returns. The Trustees are mindful, however, that our investments are made with an em-phasis on preservationof capital, a long term horizon, and a need to generate dividends to support the annual budget.Further discussion was had with respect to a written investment policy. The Chair will be drafting a proposal based on sug-gestions from the Trustees for circulation in the near future.

Respectfully submitted,Bruce Bonds, Chair

Episcopal Church Women Retreat: The annual ECW Lenten Retreat was held at Todd Hall Retreat Center in Columbia, IL on March 16, 17, & 18th, 2012. The focus of the retreat was Celtic Spirituality and our retreat leader was the Rev. Norma Barr. This was one of our largest retreats ever with 46 women attending. The highlight of our Saturday evening was a hymn sing with Mr. Henry Evans playing the pipe organ in St. Cecilia’s Chapel. On Sunday we cel-ebrated The Holy Eucharist. Our priests, Mollie, Norma, and Sherry, celebrated

and our deacons, Ann and Ann, served. We gave thanks to our awesome God for the weekend and for all of our blessings. The 2013 ECW Retreat will be held at Todd Hall and we invite you to mark your calendars for March 15, 16, and 17th, 2013. Bishop Martins will be our retreat leader. We encourage you to reg-ister early by contacting Rev. Ann Alley at [email protected] and join us as we learn, fellowship, and celebrate together. Annual Meeting: The annual meeting of the ECW was hosted by St. Paul’s in Pekin. Our business meeting included the election of Rev. Ann Alley as president and Linda Toberman as vice-president. Reports were received from the Dean-ery Representatives, Church Periodical Club Chair, and United Thank Offering Chair and President Chris DeWitt. The program titled “Un-puzzling Your Rela-tionship” was given by Rev. Ann Tofani. A wonderful lunch was provided by the women of St. Paul’s. Eucharist followed with Mother Mollie Ward as preacher and celebrant. Outreach project: The 2011–2012 outreach project is “Smile Train”. “Smile Train’s” mission is to provide free cleft lip and/or cleft palate surgery for millions of poor children in developing countries and free cleft-related training for doc-tors and medical professionals. For more information go to smiletrain.org. As of March 15th we have collected $3,025.00 towards our $10,000.00 goal. Donations should be forwarded to: ECW Outreach c/o Judy Ellison, 122 Hightide Drive, De-catur, IL 62521. When the ballots from the churches of the Diocese were totaled at the annu-al meeting, it was announced that Chris-tian Appalachian Project and chairs for St. Cecilia’s Chapel will be the 2012- 2013 Outreach projects. The Christian Appala-chian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit organization providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services in Appalachia. St. Cecilia’s Chapel is at Todd Hall Retreat Center in Columbia.

Chairs, which range in cost from $100 - $200 each, are needed in the chapel to accommodate persons with special needs. Contributions will be solic-ited for both projects with undesignated monies divided evenly between the two projects. The new projects will officially start after a presentation at the 2012 Synod. Planning Meeting: The date and loca-tion for the 2012 planning meeting will be announced soon. Website: We invite you to see our website at http://ecwboardspringfield.wordpress.com/

Respectfully submitted,Chris DeWitt, Past President

Department of General Mission Strategy

The Department met on April 19 to review the progress of working groups and plan clergy days related to the strat-egy development and implementation. A clergy day is planned for Saturday, June 2, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm. The focus will be on mission strategy. Potential topics for additional clergy days include revital-ization of ministries, a day for church mu-sicians and clergy, education, lay ministry formation, coaching and implementation and lay leadership. Two working groups are meeting, one on planning and developing a tem-plate for parish/mission surveys. The other is focusing on the revitalization of liturgy and evangelism. Working on planning is Deacon Bruce DeGooyer, Mark Waight and Fr. Shawn Denney. Fr. Brian Kellington, Fr. David Halt and Marti Coffman are working the revitalization of liturgy and evangelization. DGMS will meet again on September 6 at 11 am.

Respectfully submitted,The Very Rev. Keith Roderick, Chairman


to contribute to the church camp fund, so that in the future costs to campers can be minimized. As of the writing of this reports of the church camp trea-surer has received $426 and there is a pending amount of $482 that I know of for a total of $908. The Youth Department is currently reviewing all youth programming to see

Report of the Standing Committee

The Standing Committee met on March 8, at 11 a.m., at the Diocesan Cen-ter. The Standing Committee gave its unanimous consent to a request from the Diocese of Texas to elect a Bishop Suffragan. Written evidence of consent was subsequently forwarded to the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Texas. The Standing Committee gave its unanimous consent to the Ordination of the Rev. David W. Peters, Deacon, to the Priesthood. Following the completion of regular business, the Standing Committee held an executive session with Bishop Martins in its role as his Council of Advice. The next scheduled meeting of the Standing Committee is Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 10 a.m., at the Diocesan Center.

Respectfully submitted,The Ven. Shawn W. Denney, President

Youth Department The Youth Department has good news and bad news for this report. The bad news is that we had to cancel both New Beginnings and the Happen-ing scheduled for this he good news is that we are planning for a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral sometime dur-ing 2013. The pilgrimage will be open to students who are entering ninth grade, are in high school, and those just gradu-ated from 12t grade. Bishop Martins will lead the group, and a few adults will help chaperone the group. This year the Work Week team will be working in Harrisburg to help repair tornado damage. They will work with the team that is leading the tornado repair in that area, and they will be fed some meals be the church in Harrisburg. Mrs. Mary Ann Denney will be helping facilitate those meals. Church Camp is coming up at the beginning of July. Registration forms have been sent to all churches. Church Camp Sunday was held on April 28th, and all churches in both dioceses were asked

how our current programs fit into a Christian formation template. After our review is complete, we will know where we need to add programming in order to better fit the needs of the youth in our diocese.

Respectfully submitted,Kathy Moore, Chair


CalendarPrayerSunday, July 1 Pentecost 5ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Church of Pakistan (United) The Most Revd Samuel Robert Azariah Bishop of Raiwind & Modera-tor of the Church of PakistanDIOCESAN CYCLE: St. George’s Episcopal Church, Belleville, The Very Rev Canon Dale Coleman, Rector; St. Silas Church, Barbados, The Rev Fredrick Corbin, Priest-in-Charge; Birthday of the Rev. Allan L. Feltner, West Branch, Michigan and the Rev John R. Henry, Carlinville; Birthday of Linda, wife of the Rev. Harold F. Toberman, Marion; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Participants.

Monday, July 2ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dominican Republic - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Julio Holguin DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Sheryl (Sherry) L. Black, Whittington, IL; Birthday of The Rev. Canon Elliot H. Black-burn, Mason City, IA; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Participants.

Tuesday, July 3 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dornakal - (South India) The Rt Revd Dr Bachu Satyanandam Devamani DIOCESAN CYCLE: Trinity, Lincoln, Admit-ted to the Diocese, 1871; Wedding anniver-sary of the Rev. Frank P. and Estella Munoz, San Diego, CA; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Participants. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Wednesday, July 4 [Independence Day]ANGLICAN CYCLE: Down & Dromore - (Armagh, Ireland) The Rt Revd Harold Creeth Miller DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Paul’s, Alton, Con-secration of present church building, 1857; Birthday of the Rev. David J. Boase, Alton; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Partici-pants. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Thursday, July 5ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dublin & Glendalough - (Dublin, Ireland) The Rt Revd Michael Geof-frey St Aubyn Jackson DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. J. Victor Sheldon, Landstuhl, Germany; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Participants. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its delibera-tions.

Friday, July 6ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dunedin - (Aotearoa NZ & Polynesia) The Rt Revd Dr Kelvin Peter Wright DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Debbie, wife of the Rev. David M. Adams, Charleston, S.C.; Pray for Church Camp Staff and Partici-pants. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Saturday, July 7ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dunkwa-on-Offin (Ghana) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Edmund Dawson Ahmoah DIOCESAN CYCLE: Pray for Church Camp Staff and Participants. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in India-napolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Depu-ties as they participate in its deliberations.

Sunday, July 8 Pentecost 6ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Angli-can Church of Papua New Guinea The Most Revd Joseph Kopapa Archbishop of Papua New Guinea & Bishop of Popondota DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. John Episcopal Church, Albion, The Very Rev Gene Tucker, Priest in Charge and the Rev. Bill Howard, Assisting Deacon; St. John’s Parish Church, Barbados, The Rev Canon Geoffrey May-ers, Rector; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Donald E. and Delores Coventry, Deca-tur. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Monday, July 9ANGLICAN CYCLE: Durgapur - (North

India) The Rt Revd Dr Probal Dutta DIOCESAN CYCLE: Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Tuesday, July 10 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Durham - (York, Eng-land) The Rt Revd Justin WelbyDurham - Jarrow - (York, England) The Rt Revd Mark Watts Bryant DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rt. Rev. Peter H. and Melinda Beckwith of Springfield; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Daniel and Joyce Karanja, Blythewood, SC; Birthday of the Rev. Steven T. Thorp, Rantoul; Birthday of Janet, wife of the Rev. Maurice C. Lee, Atlanta, GA. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Wednesday, July 11ANGLICAN CYCLE: Dutse - (Kaduna, Nige-ria) The Rt Revd Yesufu Lumu DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Mark E. Evans, Lincoln, and the Rev. John D. Richmond, Bartonville. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Thursday, July 12ANGLICAN CYCLE: East Carolina - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Clifton Daniel DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Steven T. and Jael Thorp, Cham-paign. Pray for the 77th General Convention meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and for our Bishop and Deputies as they participate in its deliberations.

Friday, July 13ANGLICAN CYCLE: East Kerala - (South India) The Rt Revd Dr Kayalakkakathu George DanielSouth Kerala - (South India) The Rt Revd Dharmaraj Rasalam


DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Thomas D. Patton, Chicago.

Saturday, July 14ANGLICAN CYCLE: East Ruwenzori - (Uganda) The Rt Revd Edward Bamucwanira DIOCESAN CYCLE: Lord, we ask for pro-tection, but even more for guidance.

Sunday, July 15 Pentecost 7ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Episco-pal Church in the Philippines The Most Revd Edward Pacyaya Malecdan Prime Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Philippines DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Carlinville, The Rev John R. Henry, Rector; Holy Cross Church, Barbados, The Rev Kim Welch, Priest-in-Charge.

Monday, July 16ANGLICAN CYCLE: East Tennessee - (IV, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Charles von Rosenberg; Tennessee - (IV, The Episco-pal Church) The Rt Revd John Bauerschmidt DIOCESAN CYCLE: O God, we ask for power, but even more for grace.

Tuesday, July 17 ANGLICAN CYCLE Eastern Himalayas - (North India) Vacant DIOCESAN CYCLE: Rev. Carl R. Bloom, Chandler, AZ, Ordination to the Priesthood; Birthday of Ann, wife of the Rt. Rev. Donald M. Hultstrand, Greenville, SC and Alexandria, MN.

Wednesday, July 18ANGLICAN CYCLE: Eastern Michigan - (V, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Steven Ousley DIOCESAN CYCLE: Almighty God, make us gentle and courteous in word and deed.

Thursday, July 19ANGLICAN CYCLE: Eastern Newfoundland & Labrador - (Canada, Canada) The Rt Revd Cyrus Clement James Pitman DIOCESAN CYCLE: Savior of the world, by your cross and precious blood you have redeemed the world.

Friday, July 20ANGLICAN CYCLE: Eastern Oregon - (VIII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Bavi Edna Rivera DIOCESAN CYCLE: Heavenly Father, may we rediscover those deep things on which our life depends.

Saturday, July 21ANGLICAN CYCLE: Eastern Zambia

(Central Africa) The Rt Revd William Mchombo DIOCESAN CYCLE: O Lord, the day be-gins, I give thee thanks.

Sunday, July 22 Pentecost 8 ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for L’Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda The Most Revd Dr Onesphore Rwaje Archbishop of L’Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda and Bishop of Gasabo DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centralia, The Very Rev Gene Tucker, Priest-in-Charge; St. Gabriel Church, Barba-dos, The Rev Canon Geoffrey Mayers.

Monday, July 23 St. Mary MagdaleneANGLICAN CYCLE: Egba - (Lagos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Emmanuel Adekunle DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Deborah, wife of the Very Rev. Gene R. Tucker, Mt. Vernon.

Tuesday, July 24 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Easton - (III, The Epis-copal Church) The Rt Revd James Shand DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Revs. Brian T. and Laurie R. Kellington, Pekin.

Wednesday, July 25 St. James the ApostleANGLICAN CYCLE: Eau Claire - (V, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Edwin Leidel DIOCESAN CYCLE: God, fill us with your grace, for the sake of your anointed Son.

Thursday, July 26 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Edinburgh - (Scotland) The Rt Revd Brian Smith DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Kathryn, wife of the Very Rev. Christopher L. Ashmore, Jacksonville.

Friday, July 27 Parents of the Blessed Virgin MaryANGLICAN CYCLE: Edmonton - (Rupert’s Land, Canada) The Rt Revd Jane Alexander DIOCESAN CYCLE: Save us and help us, we beseech thee O Lord.

Saturday, July 28ANGLICAN CYCLE: Egba West - (Lagos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Samuel Ajani DIOCESAN CYCLE: Grant us the grace of your holy spirit to devote our heart to you.

Sunday, July 29 Pentecost 9ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Scot-tish Episcopal Church The Most Revd David Chillingworth Primus of the Scottish Episco-pal Church & Bishop of St Andrews Dunkeld

& Dunblane DIOCESAN CYCLE: Chapel of St. John the Divine, Champaign, the Rev. Rob Nichols, In-terim Rector; St. Julian Chapel, Barbados, The Rev Canon Geoffrey Mayers; Rector. Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Mark E. Evans and Sandy Moore, Lincoln.

Monday, July 30 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Egbu - (Owerri, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Professor Emmanuel Iheagwam DIOCESAN CYCLE: O God, give us work ‘til our life shall end, and give us life ‘til our work is done.

Tuesday, July 31 ANGLICAN CYCLE: The Most Revd Dr Mouneer Hanna Anis President Bishop, Jeru-salem & the Middle East & Bishop in Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa; Egypt - (Jerusalem & Middle East) The Rt Revd Bill MuskDIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Brant V. and Stephanie Hazlett, Mt. Carmel.

Wednesday, August 1ANGLICAN CYCLE PRAY Eha - Amufu - (Enugu, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Daniel Olinya DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. John D. and Barbara Richmond, Bartonville.

Thursday, August 2ANGLICAN CYCLE: Ekiti - (Ondo, Nigeria) The Most Revd Samuel AbeEkiti Kwara - (Ibadan, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Andrew Ajayi DIOCESAN CYCLE: God, protect us with your strength.

Friday, August 3ANGLICAN CYCLE: Ekiti West - (Ondo, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Samuel OkeEkiti Oke - (Ondo, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Isaac Olubowale DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Mary Beth, wife of the Very Rev. Dr. Keith R. Roderick , Carbondale.

Saturday, August 4ANGLICAN CYCLE: El Camino Real - (VIII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Mary Gray-Reeves DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Dr. Desmond C. Francis, Normal.

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CalendarPrayerANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for the Church of the Province of South East Asia Singapore - (South East Asia) The Rt Revd Dr John Chew DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Bartholomew Epis-copal Church, Granite City, The Rev Anthony F. M. Clavier, Vicar; St. Margaret’s Church, Barbados, The Rev Canon Geoffrey Mayers, Priest-in-Charge; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Charles J. and Gina Reischman, Pigeon Forge, TN; Birthday of Greg Shaw, husband of the Rev Mary Christine “Mollie” Ward, Bloomington.

Monday, August 6 The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus ChristANGLICAN CYCLE: El Salvador - (Central America) Vacant DIOCESAN CYCLE: Feast of Title, Church of the Redeemer, Cairo; Feast of Title, Christ Church, Springfield.

Tuesday, August 7 ANGLICAN CYCLE: El-Obeid - (Sudan) The Rt Revd Ismail Abugigin Kawo Gibreil DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Revs. Dale D. and Joan Coleman, Bel-leville.

Wednesday, August 8ANGLICAN CYCLE: Eldoret - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Christopher Ruto; Eldoret - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Thomas Kogo; Embu - (Kenya) The Rt Revd Henry Kathii DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Mark S. and Kathleen Winward, San Clemente, CA.

Thursday, August 9ANGLICAN CYCLE: Ely - (Canterbury, Eng-land) The Rt Revd Stephen David ConwayEly - Huntingdon - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd David Thomson DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Suzanne, wife of the Rev. John F. Wall, Fredricksburg, VA.

Friday, August 10 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Enugu - (Niger, Nige-ria) The Rt Revd Dr Emmanuel ChukwumaEnugu North - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt

Revd Sosthenes Eze DIOCESAN CYCLE: Feast of Title, St. Lau-rence’s, Effingham.

Saturday, August 11 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Esan - (Bendel, Nige-ria) The Most Revd Friday Imaekhai DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. T. Larison and Patricia Phillips, Champaign. Birthday of Theresa, wife of the Rev Kenneth E. Truelove, Champaign.

Sunday, August 12 Pentecost 11ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Church of South India (United) Karnataka Central - (South India) The Rt Revd Suputhrappa Vasantha KumarDIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Christopher Episco-pal Church, Rantoul, The Rev Steven Thorp, Vicar; St. Mark’s Church, Barbados, The Rev Cortez Nurse, Priest-in-Charge; Birthday of the Rev. Brant V. Hazlett, Mt. Carmel.

Monday, August 13ANGLICAN CYCLE: Etche - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Precious Nwala DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Joan M. Coleman, Belleville.

Tuesday, August 14 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Etsako - (Bendel, Nige-ria) The Rt Revd Jacob Bada DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Paul R. Dicks, Pewaukee, WI.

Wednesday, August 15 Saint Mary the VirginANGLICAN CYCLE: Europe - (II, The Epis-copal Church) The Rt Revd Pierre Whalon DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Matthew’s, Bloom-ington, dedication of original church building, 1876.

Thursday, August 16ANGLICAN CYCLE: Evo - (Niger Delta, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Innocent Ordu DIOCESAN CYCLE: Lord, keep us in your power.

Friday, August 17ANGLICAN CYCLE: Exeter - (Canterbury,

England) The Rt Revd Michael Laurence Lan-grish; Exeter - Crediton - (Canterbury, Eng-land) The Rt Revd Robert John Scott Evens; Exeter - Plymouth - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd John Frank Ford DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. James O. Cravens, Lincoln.

Saturday, August 18ANGLICAN CYCLE: Ezo - (Sudan) The Rt Revd John Kereboro Zawo DIOCESAN CYCLE: Heavenly Father, set us free from every bond of prejudice and fear.

Sunday, August 19 Pentecost 12ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Church of the Province of Southern Africa The Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba Archbishop of Cape-town and Primate of Southern Africa DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. James’s Chapel, McLeansboro; St. Aidan Church, Barbados, The Rev F Errington Massiah, Rector; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Timothy and Mary Hal-lett, Bloomington, IN; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Tom and Sue Davis, Kell; Birthday of the Rev. Arnold R. Hoffman, St. Louis.

Monday, August 20ANGLICAN CYCLE: Faisalabad - (Pakistan) The Rt Revd John Samuel DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. James W. Evans, Buffalo, NY.

Tuesday, August 21 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Florida - (IV, The Epis-copal Church) The Rt Revd Samuel Howard; Assisting Bishop of Florida - (IV, The Episco-pal Church) The Rt Revd Charles Keyser DIOCESAN CYCLE: May we know Lord that your love has forgiven us.

Wednesday, August 22ANGLICAN CYCLE: False Bay - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Merwyn Castle DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Elisabeth, wife of the Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Langford, Springfield; Birthday of Betsy, wife of the Rev. Harry G. Newman, Springfield.

Thursday, August 23


ANGLICAN CYCLE: Suffragan Bishop for Federal Ministries - (The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd James Magness DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Jeffrey F. Kozuszek, Centralia.

Friday, August 24 St. Bartholomew the ApostleANGLICAN CYCLE: Fianarantsoa - (Indian Ocean) The Rt Revd Gilbert Rateloson Rako-tondravelo DIOCESAN CYCLE: Admission of Diocese of Illinois by General Convention, 1835; Feast of Title, St. Bartholomew’s, Granite City; The Rev Gregory L Flentje, ordination to the Diaconate, The Rev Jon E. Griffin, ordination to the Priesthood.

Saturday, August 25ANGLICAN CYCLE: Pray for the Crown Appointments Commission as it seek to dis-cern the person God has chosen as the next Archbishop of Canterbury.DIOCESAN CYCLE: Jesus, Bread of Life, help us to walk in your ways.

Sunday, August 26 Pentecost 13ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for Iglesia An-glicana del Cono Sur de America The Most Revd Hector Zavala Muñoz Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone & Bishop of Chile DIOCESAN CYCLE: All Saints, Morton, The Very Rev Brian Kellington, Priest in Charge, and The Rev Laurie Kellington, Assisting Deacon; St. Anne, Barbados, The Rev Canon Geoffrey Mayers, Priest-in-Charge; Birthday of the Rev. Richard Bennett, Normal.

Monday, August 27ANGLICAN CYCLE: Fond du Lac - (V, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Russell Jacobus DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. and Brenda Martins of Springfield.

Tuesday, August 28 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Fort Worth - (VII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd C Wallis Ohl DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Donald H. and Rikke Langlois, Chandler, AZ; Birthday of the Rev. Gerald W. Raschke, Springfield.

Wednesday, August 29ANGLICAN CYCLE: Fredericton - (Canada, Canada) The Most Revd Claude Weston MillerDIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Arnold and Sharon Hoffman, St.

Louis.

Thursday, August 30ANGLICAN CYCLE: Freetown (Sierra Le-one) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Julius Lynch DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniver-sary of the Rev. Dr. Gregory A. and Nada Tournoux, Springfield.

Friday, August 31ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gahini - (Rwanda) The Rt Revd Alexis Bilindabagabo DIOCESAN CYCLE: Lord of creation, show us your purpose for our life that we may truly live in your will.

Saturday, September 1ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gambia - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Dr Solomon Johnson DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of Jacque, wife of the Rev. Canon William H. Moore, Jr. Wal-lace, NC; The Rev James H. Fedosuk, ordina-tion to the Priesthood.

Sunday, September 2 Pentecost 14ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Episco-pal Church of the Sudan The Most Revd Dr Daniel Deng Bul Yak Archbishop of the Epis-copal Church of the Sudan & Bishop of Juba DIOCESAN CYCLE: We pray for all priests and lay people in the Diocese of Springfield who loving labor unceasingly for the glory of our Lord, the King of Kings.

Monday, September 3ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gboko - (Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Emmanuel Nyitsse DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Carl R. and Valerie Bloom, Chandler, AZ

Tuesday, September 4 ANGLICAN CYCLE: George - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Brian Marajh DIOCESAN CYCLE: I am here abroad, I am here in need, I am here in pain, I am here in straits, I am here alone. O God, aid me -- Celtic Charm

Wednesday, September 5ANGLICAN CYCLE: Georgia - (IV, The Epis-copal Church) The Rt Revd Scott BenhaseDIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Matthew’s, Bloom-ington, Admitted to the Diocese of Illinois, 1853; Birthday of Joyce, wife of the Rev. Daniel N. Karanja, Blythewood, SC.

Thursday, September 6ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gippsland - (Victoria, Australia) The Rt Revd John McIntyre DIOCESAN CYCLE: Holy Spirit, guide us in

our work for the Church.

Friday, September 7ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gitega - (Burundi) The Rt Revd John Nduwayo DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rt. Rev. Daniel H. Martins, XI Bishop of Springfield.

Saturday, September 8ANGLICAN CYCLE: Glasgow & Galloway - (Scotland) The Rt Revd Dr Gregor Duncan DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rt. Rev. Peter H. Beckwith, X Bishop of Springfield; The Rt. Rev Donald J. Parsons, ordination to the Episcopate.

Sunday, September 9 Pentecost 15ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Anglican Church of Tanzania The Most Revd Valentino Mokiwa Archbishop of Tanzania & Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. James Church, Mari-on, The Rev Sherry Black, Assisting Priest; St. Joseph’s Parish Church, Barbados, The Rev F. Errington Massiah, Rector; Wedding anniver-sary of the Rev. Allan L. and Sue Feltner, West Branch, Michigan.

Monday, September 10ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gloucester - (Canter-bury, England) The Rt Revd Michael Francis Perham; Gloucester - Tewkesbury - (Can-terbury, England) The Rt Revd John Stewart WentDIOCESAN CYCLE: Give us insight, Lord, to understand and feel as others feel.

Tuesday, September 11 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gombe - (Jos, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Henry Ndukuba DIOCESAN CYCLE: O God, give us the courage to do the things we talk about and to practice the faith we preach.

Wednesday, September 12ANGLICAN CYCLE: Grahamstown - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd Ebenezer Ntlali DIOCESAN CYCLE: Lord Jesus Christ, teach us to walk in your way more trustfully.

Thursday, September 13ANGLICAN CYCLE: Guildford - (Can-terbury, England) The Rt Revd Christopher John Hill; Guildford - Dorking - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Ian James Brackley DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Laurence Episcopal Church, Effingham, The Rev. James D. Fackler, Supply Pastor; Diocesan Synod of Illinois continued, next page


CalendarPrayerWednesday, September 26ANGLICAN CYCLE: Highveld - (Southern Africa) The Rt Revd David Bannerman DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Bartholomew’s, Granite City, Consecration of present church building, 1906.

Thursday, September 27ANGLICAN CYCLE: Ho (Ghana) - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Matthias Mededues-Badohu DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, O’Fallon, the Rev. Ralph McMichael, Priest in Charge; St. Ambrose Church, Bar-bados, the Rev Canon Wayne Isaacs, Priest-in-Charge, St. Michael’s Parish; The Very Rev Dale D. Coleman, ordination to the Priest-hood.

Friday, September 28ANGLICAN CYCLE: Honduras - (IX, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Lloyd Allen DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Mark S. Winward, San Clemente, CA.

Saturday, September 29 Saint Michael and All AngelsANGLICAN CYCLE: Hpa-an - (Myanmar) The Rt Revd Saw Stylo DIOCESAN CYCLE: Feast of Title, St. Michael’s, O’Fallon; Birthday of Eleanor, wife of the Rev. Charles F. Caldwell, Naples, FL; The Rev Steven T. Thorp, ordination to the Priesthood.

Sunday, September 30 Pentecost 18ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Church in Wales The Most Revd Dr Barry Morgan Archbishop of Wales & Bishop of Llandaff DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Christopher Episcopal Church, Rantoul, The Rev. Steven Thorp, Vicar and the Rev. Ann Alley, Assisting Deacon; St. Barnabas Church, Barbados, The Rev Mark Harewood, Rector.

ratified the establishment of the Diocese of Springfield, 1877; Holy Trinity, Danville, Admit-ted to the Diocese of Illinois, 1866.

Friday, September 14 Holy Cross DayANGLICAN CYCLE: Guinea - (West Africa) The Rt Revd Albert Gomez DIOCESAN CYCLE: Holy Spirit, give us hearts to understand.

Saturday, September 15ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gujarat - (North India) The Rt Revd Vinodkumar Malaviya DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. John’s, Centralia, Admitted to the Diocese of Illinois, 1859; St. Thomas’, Salem, Admitted to the Diocese of Illinois, 1859; Redeemer, Cairo, Admitted to the Diocese of Illinois, 1864.

Sunday, September 16 Pentecost 16ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Church of the Province of Uganda The Most Revd Henry Orombi Archbishop of Uganda & and Bishop of Kampala DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. John’s, Decatur, The Rev Richard A. Swan, Priest in Charge; St. Clement’s Church, Barbados, The Rev Keith Griffith, Priest-in-Charge; Birthday of the Rev. Philip M. Lewis, Mt. Pleasant, SC; Birthday of the Rev. Richard A. Swan, Decatur.

Monday, September 17ANGLICAN CYCLE: Gusau - (Kaduna, Nige-ria) The Rt Revd John Garba DIOCESAN CYCLE: O Lord God, your will is holy, loving and wise.

Tuesday, September 18 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Guyana - (West Indies) The Rt Revd Cornell MossDIOCESAN CYCLE: Lord, continue to bless us with your love.

Wednesday, September 19 – Ember DayANGLICAN CYCLE: Gwagwalada - (Abuja, Nigeria) The Rt Revd Tanimu Aduda DIOCESAN CYCLE: Birthday of the Rev. Wayne S. Shipley, Carlinville.

Thursday, September 20 – Ember Day

ANGLICAN CYCLE: Haiti - (II, The Episco-pal Church) The Rt Revd Jean DuracinDIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Harry G. and Betsy Newman, Springfield; Birthday of Marv, wife of the Rev. Richard A. Swan, Decatur.

Friday, September 21 St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist – Ember DayANGLICAN CYCLE: Hanuato’o - (Melane-sia) The Rt Revd Alfred Karibongi DIOCESAN CYCLE: Feast of Title, St. Mat-thew’s, Bloomington.

Saturday, September 22ANGLICAN CYCLE: Harare - (Central Af-rica) The Rt Revd Dr Chad Nicholas Gandiya DIOCESAN CYCLE: David J. Boase, Alton, ordination to the Priesthood.

Sunday, September 23 Pentecost 17ANGLICAN CYCLE: PRAY for The Episco-pal Church in the USA The Most Revd Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop of TEC DIOCESAN CYCLE: St. Stephen’s Harris-burg, The Rev Timothy Goodman, Priest-in-Charge; St. Lucy’s Parish Church, Barbados, The Rev Curtis Goodridge, Rector.

Monday, September 24 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Hawaii - (VIII, The Episcopal Church) The Rt Revd Robert Fitzpatrick DIOCESAN CYCLE: Wedding anniversary of the Rev. David M. and Debbie Adams, Charleston, S.C.; Wedding anniversary of the Rev. Paul R. and Christine Dicks, Pewaukee, WI; Birthday of the Rev. Cn. Dr. George E. Pence, Edwardsville; Birthday of Gina, wife of the Rev Charles Reischman, Pigeon Forge, TN.

Tuesday, September 25 ANGLICAN CYCLE: Hereford - (Canter-bury, England) The Rt Revd Anthony Martin Priddis; Hereford - Ludlow - (Canterbury, England) The Rt Revd Alistair James Magowan DIOCESAN CYCLE: Trinity, Jacksonville, Consecration of present church building, 1921.


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