THE 162ND ANNUAL ST. DAVID’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH FAIR AND

COUNTRY AUCTIONSaturday, October 5 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

St. David’s Episcopal Church of Rad-nor is proud to announce it will be host-ing the 162nd St. David’s Church Fair and Country Auction on Saturday, October 5 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event is one of the longest standing fairs in the country and its proceeds benefit St. David’s Part-ners in Ministry, which include nearly 40 local organizations and the Church’s international partners in Uganda, Guate-mala, and Haiti.

“The St. David’s Fair continues to be a way for families in the Philadelphia and

Main Line area to come together and ex-perience wholesome entertainment for a great cause,” says Kristin Nevins, Chair of the 162nd St. David’s Fair. “Proceeds allow our Church to carry out important work in local communities and abroad, including feeding local homeless, educat-ing at risk youth in Philadelphia, and sup-porting our ministry partners overseas.”

In 2012, the St. David’s Fair hosted families from the St. James School in Philadelphia, one of the Church’s part-ners in ministry. As a result of money raised at the Fair, St. David’s Church awarded the St. James School with funds

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A LETTER FROM BISHOP DANIEL...Dear Friends,

This week I want to give you a glimpse into the life of the Bishop of Pennsylva-nia. For a diocese as large and complex as ours, the Bishop usually stays pretty busy. I thought I would share with you a bit of my schedule over the last week (omitting phone

calls, private conferences, correspondence, staff conferences, time for study and writing and – important – a Sabbath rest day.)

Saturday September 28 (Morning) Breakfast meeting at the Cathedral on ongoing An-

ti-Racism education(Afternoon) A grand celebration of 150 years of witness and

ministry for St. John’s, Lower Merion. Frank Wallner, rector preached a fine sermon and all present enjoyed a delicious meal.

Sunday September 29(Afternoon) Celebration of new ministry at St. Paul’s, Levit-

town/All Saints’, Fallsington for the congregation and their new rector, The Rev. Sean Slack. Sean invited Canon Randall Chase of Massachusetts to preach. Ran is a seminary classmate of mine and we had a happy reunion. In a meeting with the vestry we spoke about mission and I asked what might be a motto to put on the church sign out front – Someone answered, “This is a church worth coming to!” A great sign to put up in front of all our churches!

Monday September 30, 2013 (Morning) Breakfast meeting of the Philadelphia Religious

Leaders Council, made up of leaders of religious traditions in Philadelphia – including, among others, Christians, Jewish, Mus-lims, Buddhist, Baha’i. In these days when we hear so much about fragmentation, it is a good sign to be in a diverse group seeking common ground. Along with the Bishop, the Rev. Ryan Whitley represents our diocese.

(Afternoon) On the train to Alexandria VA for a dinner and meet with diocesan seminarians Dennis Reid and Tyler Doherty at Virginia Theological Seminary. Overnight at the seminary. (Sadly I must miss the Diocesan Transition Team meeting this evening! Led ably by Deacon Pam Nesbitt this group of clerical and lay leaders labors diligently in planning ways in which we move ahead in our diocesan life.).

Tuesday October 1(Afternoon) Back to Philadelphia for a couple of hours in the

officeWednesday-Friday, October 2-4In the office Wednesday morning. Wednesday afternoon on

the train to New York for a meeting with the Presiding Bishop and a small committee of the House of Bishops, returning to Phil-adelphia on Friday.

Saturday October 5(Morning) Attend Diocesan Finance Workshop at St. Asaph’s,

Bala Cynwyd(Afternoon) Celebration of New Ministry for the rector Paul

DeWitt Reid and congregation, St. Paul’s, Elkins ParkSunday October 6(Morning) Visitation with the congregation of St. Mary’s,

WayneAnd so the next week begins!Being bishop of this diocese is a gift and a blessing, and I am

thankful to serve in this way. None of us can “go it alone” for long. I am also grateful for the ministry, assistance and support of a wonderful staff at Church House, for bishops Allen Bartlett, Frank Turner, Ed Lee, and Rod Michel, and for such fine dioc-esan lay leadership.

to help build their 7th grade classroom. In addition, Fair booths including Second Hand Rose, the popular high-end resale clothing shop, donated their goods to lo-cal charities and families in need.

Each year the fair draws crowds of more than 4,000 people from the church and its surrounding communities. For the kids, there’s a variety of Midway games and inflatable rides, as well as a train ride, pony rides, a rock wall, face painting, pumpkin decorating, scarecrow making and more. Children of all ages will en-joy the Fair’s tasty treats, including lunch from McDavid’s Grill, old-fashioned lemon sticks, candy apples and home-made baked goods. The Fair’s popular flea market, book, toy and sports tents are not to be missed, as well as the Sec-ond Hand Rose high-end resale clothing shop. The live Country Auction features an exciting day filled with bidding on a unique assortment of antiques, collect-ibles, furniture and art. All auction items will be available for preview at 8:30 a.m. on October 5. The live auction will begin at 10:30 a.m.

Fair admission is $2 for adults and children (children under four are free), with a maximum cost of $10 per family. Active duty Military (with ID) and their families are admitted for free. Visit www.stdavidschurch.org for more information.

EPISCOPAL CHURCH CLUB LUNCHEON

The Episcopal Church Club of Philadelphia (ECCP) held its first luncheon of the Church year on September 17th at The Rac-quet Club in Philadelphia. Honored guests included: The Rt. Rev. Clifton Daniel, 3rd, Provisional Bishop, Diocese of PA; The Rt. Rev Edward L. Lee, Assisting Bishop, Diocese of PA; The Rev. Franklin W. Allen, Rector of St. David’s Church, Radnor; and The Rev. Sean E. Mullen, Rector of St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia. The Guest Speaker was The Rev. Matthew Holcombe, Associate Rector of St. David’s Church, Radnor. Sixty two (62) lay members and guests attended the luncheon to open its 118th year of service to the Churches in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.

The Episcopal Church Club of Philadelphia (ECCP) currently

has about 255 lay members representing 61 churches in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. Membership is open to all lay members who are communicants of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The prin-cipal aims and purposes of the ECCP are to promote spiritual enrichment and Chris-tian fellowship in the Diocese, to provide seminarian scholarship grants to qualified diocesan candidates, and to support diocese understanding and involvement in matters of religious, civic, and national concern.

MISSION TO HAITI

I was 17 when Kyle Evans, my former youth director at Trin-ity Church Solebury, left for her first appointment in Haiti. At the time, I thought “I could never do that.” Five years later, after much growth and discernment, I joyfully find myself in Léogâne, Haiti, spending a year working with the Episcopal University Nursing School and L’Hôpital Sainte Croix, the nearby Episcopal hospital.

The nursing school is a desperately needed resource. There are 10,000 people for every nurse in the country and this is the only Baccalaureate level training program in Haiti. Additionally, this year they are starting the nation’s first nurse practitioner program and are in the process of building the country’s first School of Oc-cupational Therapy. L’Hôpital Sainte Croix uses about half of its capacity because it cannot pay enough staff to use the other half. At the hospital, I am working with the administration on various tasks from organizing records to preparing patients in rural areas for visits from international medical NGOs. At the nursing school, I am teaching English and Biology. The Episcopal High School at Sainte-Croix has also asked me to teach English for a few hours a week. I am taking lessons in Creole and am living with the nursing students, so I have an amazing opportunity to immerse myself in

the culture. My local parish,

Sainte-Croix, and the attached school were completely razed in the 2010 earth-quake (Léogâne was the city closest to the epicenter of the

quake and 80% of the buildings were damaged.) They prioritized the rebuilding of the school, wanting to provide the best possible future for their children, so we worship in a temporary structure full of life, music, and children. Church is what people do in Haiti. They go to services a few days a week and Sunday morning wor-ship lasts almost three hours.

I am in Haiti as a member of the Episcopal Young Adult Ser-vice Corps (YASC). We are doing jobs ranging from teaching to farming to gang reconciliation to hospice care. When we gathered for orientation, each of us shared a similar desire to fulfill our bap-tismal vow “To seek and Serve God in all people.” You can follow my story on my blog at nogreatthingshaiti.blogspot.com and from there you can also find links to all of the other YASCers blogs to see what is going on in the international Anglican community. I am very thankful for the faithful support of the Diocese of Pennsyl-vania and churches and individuals within the Diocese that have helped me in my YASC fundraising effort.

The nursing school is always looking for experienced medi-cal professionals to instruct classes, either in English or in French

PIANIST JIM MARTINEZ AND FRIENDS PERFORM AT TRINITY

MEMORIAL CHURCH ON OCTOBER 12

Jazz pianist and record-ing artist Jim Martinez will perform arrange-ments of traditional and contemporary hymns set to swing, ballads and Latin jazz in “Jim Mar-tinez and Friends: Jazz

Praise” in concert on October 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Memorial Church (TMC) in center city. Martinez has performed or record-ed with Lionel Hampton, the Stan Ken-ton Alumni, Christian McBride, Russell Malone, Roy Hargrove, and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, among many other jazz luminaries. He has recorded 12 CDs, four of which are in the genre of Jazz Praise, in which he creatively combines hymns and Jazz standards. His Amazing Grace evokes Dave Brubeck’s Take Five (Brubeck called it “wonderful.”) and his Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord echoes Dizzy Gillespie’s classic Night in Tunisia. Martinez’s in-terpretation of Nothing But the Blood of Jesus stylistically honors Vince Guaraldi’s Linus and Lucy. Martinez’s repertoire also includes tributes to Doris Day, Lio-nel Hampton, Edvard Grieg and Lionel Hampton.

Trinity Memorial Church is a popular center city concert venue, frequently host-ing performances as diverse as the classi-cal music of Astral Artists and Arab music presented by Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture.

Concert tickets are $35 and may be purchased at: www.brownpapertickets.com.

in short or long-term capacities. To learn more, visit their website at http://haitinurs-ing.org/, check out my blog at nogreatthing-shaiti.blogspot.com, or e-mail me at jburd@fordham.edu. - by Julie Burd

ST.PETER’S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA

Since 2005, St. Peter’s has had a relationship with The Canter-bury School, (an Anglican-run preschool to grade 6) in Guatemala City. This past August, our annual mission trip, led by Greg Duffy of St. Peter’s, was made up of mostly youth and included 5 from Christ Church, Philadelphia.

Upon arriving in Guatemala, the group had the hon-or of meeting with Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury twice. once in the cathedral and once at the school. The children performed dances of their culture for their visitors.

This year, the group, assisted by the school children, painted a mural on a long, bare cinder block wall and planted flowers and shrubs. These efforts complemented efforts of other years, which have included planting trees, painting the whole school (inside and out), funding a computer lab, a roof, and audiovisual equipment, planting a vegetable garden, and updating and installing new play-ground equipment. In addition, St. Peter’s provides scholarships for 10 of the 123 students who attend the school.

After their work and play at the school, the mission group headed to San Lucas Mission Toliman on Lake Atitlan, where they helped at the mission by weeding coffee seedling beds.

Over the years, the relationships built with the chil-dren and teachers of the school have been the most fulfilling part of the whole mission.

INCARNATION SILENT AUCTION TO BE HELD AT

HISTORIC SUMMERSEAT IN MORRISVILLE

Please join us on November 9, 2013 from 7-9 p.m. for our first ever Silent Auc-tion. The Auction will be held at the beau-tiful Historic Summerseat, Hillcrest & Le-gion Avenues in Morrisville, PA. Some of the items that will be available to bid on in-clude: a week’s stay at a vacation home in Colorado; Lenox pieces; Lladro figurines; jewelry; sports tickets; themed baskets and more!

Cost to attend is just $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Included with the cost of admission are hors d’oeuvres and wine. There will also be live classical music throughout the evening. Even if you are not a winner, the evening should prove to be an enjoyable, relaxing night out.

Ticket sales will begin in early October. Tickets can be purchased by going to our church website at www.incarnationepisco-pal.org or emailing to MichelleStawicki@comcast.net.

If you have additional questions contact the church office at 215-295-2259.

IN HIS STEPSFor adults and teens - Stewardship of our

Faith

On Sunday October 20th at the Adult Forum 10:45 a.m. - 12 noon in Mac-Coll Auditorium, St. Thomas Church Whitemarsh

Professional dramatist Chuck Neigh-bors will be performing his one man show In His Steps.

In His Steps is an adaptation of Charles Sheldon’s classic 1896 novel, one of the best-selling books of all time. In His Steps is a story of a group of Chris-tians who deeply impact their community when they dedicate themselves to live by one “simple” code for one year: “What would Jesus do?” No charge - free will offering to Food for Life

DIOCESE OF PENNSYLVANIA FINANCE WORKSHOP - FALL 2013

-THIS SATURDAY - October 5, 2013

St. Asaph’s Bala Cynwyd27 Conshohocken State Road, Bala Cynwyd, PA

8:30 a.m. – noon, Registration 8:00 a.m.Cosponsored by: Diocesan Council, Finance Committee Subcom-mittee on Parochial Relations, The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl-

vania, and Leadership Institute

THE HOLY HERALD

The Office of Family and Young Adult Ministry is offering a new daily devotional resource beginning in Advent. Sign up to receive “The Holy Herald,” daily devotions via text message or email! You will receive two texts or emails per day: a short Scrip-ture verse in the morning, and a prayer in the evening. Invite your whole parish to sign up! You can sign up to receive devo-tions via text message by texting @adventd to (484) 577-8156, or sign up to receive them via email by sending a blank email to adventd@mail.remind101.com. Devotions will be sent beginning December 1st. For more information on this resource, visit the info page on our website at the web address below or contact Victoria Hoppes, Associ-ate for Youth and Camping Ministries, at victoriah@diopa.org.

http://www.diopayouth.org/the-holy-herald.html

ARCADIA CHORALE PRESENTS ECHOES OF ARCADIA OCTOBER 21

On Monday evening, October 21, at 7:30 p.m., the Church of the Holy Spirit in Harleysville, PA will host a performance by the Arcadia Chorale, a chamber choir based in Northeast Pennsylva-nia. The concert is entitled Echoes of Arcadia and features music of mythic beauty, inspired by natural paradises and their inhabitants. The program includes works by Eric Whitacre, Claudio Montever-di, Stephen Chatman and Edward Elgar, and features John Rutter’s Birthday Madrigals and Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St. Cecilia. The concert is free, and a free-will offering will be taken.

The Arcadia Chorale, formerly known as the Robert Dale Cho-rale, is one of Northeast Pennsylvania’s premiere musical organi-zations and has served the region with choral concerts of the high-est quality for 35 years. The Chorale has received critical acclaim for performances of works ranging from the Renaissance to the present. The Music Director of the Chorale is Dr. Steven Thomas, who is Coordinator of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Wilkes University.

For more information regarding the Arcadia Chorale, to re-serve tickets, or to order a copy of the Chorale’s CD, please visit www.arcadiachorale.org or contact the Chorale office at (570) 871-0350. Parking information and directions are also available on the website, as is information about the Chorale’s upcoming events: NOVA: 21st Century Christmas Music on December 7-8 and the Annual Messiah Sing-Along on December 22. - CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE TO EPISCOPAL NEWS WEEKLY -

BLESSING OF BACKPACKSAT GRACE EPIPHANY

On Sunday, September 22, 2013, Father Thomas Eoyang, Rector of Grace Epiphany Church led the congregants in prayer as he blessed the backpacks of our young con-gregants as they enter the new school year. Father also led the congregants in prayer as he blessed the educators who teach and pro-vide guidance to our youth in our various children ministries, along with educators who teach in educational institutions out-side of the church.

BUILDING INTERFAITH BRIDGES OVER THE BREW KETTLE

Saint Timothy’s, Roxborough has known for years that good

beer helps builds the bonds of fellowship and serves as an effec-tive bridge to reach out to the community. Their parish beer club, the Franklin Society, has been around for seven years. They meet monthly for tasting and discussion and often brew beer to be served at parish events. They have also been involved with Philly Beer Week and in the creation of the Beer Barons to Homebrewers tour at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.

In August they found that it can also facilitate interfaith dia-logue. Partnering with Congregation Rodeph Shalom Synagogue (which also has a beer club) they brewed a ten gallon batch of beer at St. Timothy’s. In honor of their common faith they named it “Ecclesiastes 3:1- To Everything There’s a Saison.” For those who may not be familiar a saison is a Belgian farmhouse style of ale and hence the source of pun.

However, brewing it was just the beginning. On September they served it up as part of Rodeph Shalom’s Sukkot celebrations. Sukkot is the Jewish harvest festival and closes out the High Holy Days. The holiday, also known as the Festival of Booths, has its ori-gins in Israel’s agricultural past. At harvest time people would have to leave their cities and live in the fields in order to bring in the crop.

This expe-rience is r e c r ea t ed t h r o u g h creating a sukkah (a tent/booth) outside the synagogue.

Lead by the rector, Fr. Kirk Berlenbach, about ten members of St. Timo-thy’s beer club joined about 30 folks from the congregation for a festive dinner and of course, beer under the tent that had been erected in the parking lot.

Before sitting down to eat, Rabbi Eli Freedman and president of the synagogue invited Fr. Kirk join them at the front of the suk-kah as they explained the history and importance of the holiday and lead us all in prayers of thanksgiving and a blessing over the beer. As the evening passed, the congregations mingled, sharing food and stories.

In what they believe to be the beginning of a long friendship, both congregations hope to continue to deepen their bonds of fel-lowship and their knowledge of one another’s faith tradition. And to think that it all began over a brew kettle.

AROUND THE DIOCESE...

The Diocesan Convention will be held on Saturday, November 9, 2013. The Nomi-nating Committee is earnestly preparing a slate for the convention. We are looking for candidates to run to serve on the Finance Committee, General Convention Deputies, Church Foundation, Diocesan Disciplin-ary Committee, Commission on Clergy Compensation and the Nominating Com-mittee. Definition of each Committee may be found on the Diocesan web page (www.diopa.org). If you are interested, complete a Bio on the web page http://www.diopa.org/nominations-committee or contact Chair-man Cordelia Biddle: cordeliafrancesbid-dle@earthlink.net.

St. Francis-in-the-Fields is pleased to announce two online and email Adult Spiri-tual Formation opportunities. “Food for the Journey” at www.stfrancisfields.com and “With Grateful Hearts” at www.fifth-promise.org. “Food for the Journey”, the Rector’s commentary on the Gospel for the coming week is published each Tuesday. “With Grateful Hearts” is a daily prayer and study offering based on the Sunday Lection-ary. Both are also available by email sub-scription. If you would like to receive these mailings by email, contact The Rev. Glyn Ruppe-Melnyk at rectorstfrancisfields@verizon.net. Audio versions of the Sunday Sermon are also online at the parish web-site: www.stfrancisfields.com.

Grace Epiphany Church, 224 E. Gow-en Ave., Mt. Airy, is collecting winter coats for its annual Coat Drive set for Saturday, October 12. Donations may be dropped off at the church Monday through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. until Oct. 1. The coat drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 12, 2013. For more information, contact Barbara Lightfoot at 267-455-6882 or call the church office at 215-248-2950.

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