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The

Great Fifty Daysend on

Pentecost

Please bring your Of-

fering of $0.20 a day,a total of $10.00 each,to church on Pente-cost Sunday for thespecial Ingathering!

AND WEAR RED!

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Thanks to Don and Shirley Mahlum for do-nating and installing the two towel racks inthe bathroom downstairs. They really helpus with many jobs around St. Philips!

Bio on Janice Saulewicz Our New Junior Warden!

As Peggy James mentioned in Sundays service, I was elected by the vestry to be thenew Junior Warden at St. Philips. She asked me to share a little bit about myself toall of you. So here goes!

Who am I?

I was born in Pt. Arthur, Texas, May 2, 1948. As many of you know, my dad was astructural iron worker, so when I was growing up, we went where his work was. In1963 my sisters & I came to live with our dad and mom Norma. And Ive been heresince!

Work history

I retired from Qwest (formerly U S WEST, & Pacific NW Bell) with over 34 years of service and had many wonderful occupations, none of them in traditional telephony. Iworked on 2 nd generation computers (that means the very first computers) for manyyears and have always been involved in computer technology of some sort. But I alsohave been a facilities manager, a professional instructor & developer of many workcourses, and a disaster recovery & business continuity professional for Qwest.

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Schooling

I graduated from Nathan Hale High School in Lake City in 1966. In 1996 I completedmy adult teachers certificate in Adult & Continuing Education from the University of Victoria, BC. For three years I taught for the University of Washington in their HumanResources Certificate Program.

Family

I have two sisters, Yvonne (in Bellingham) & Glenda Jenkins (some of you know her from Lakewood School). I have been happily married to my wonderful husband Tonyfor 30 years. We have a son Tony, who lives in Florida with his fianc Heather.

Church history

In 1964, I was confirmed at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Seattle, by Rt. Rev. IvolIra Curtis & Rev. Irwin McKinney.

Philosophy

It has been a joy to worship here at St. Philips. I am truly honored to be surroundedby so many wonderful, caring people who selflessly give of themselves. I continue to

learn so much from all of you. I consider myself a follower of the teachings of Jesusand do my absolute best to love God & love one another. I know Ill make some mis-takes, but I promise to be the best Junior Warden I can be.

Janice Saulewicz

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29 August Annual Church Picnic Peggy James

Peggy and Phil James will host the annual church picnic 29 August at their five-acre home in Arlington on the Stillaguamish River. A long beach area extends fromtheir property to the Cicero Bridge which provides a great walking area, swimming,inner tubing and boating.

Phil has set up regulation badminton and volleyball courts. Phil will chal-lenge anyone to defeat him. Volleyball games always involve ages six to over sixtyand lots of laughs. Horseshoes, Croquet and Bocce activities are also available.If you want to camp Saturday night let us know.

If anyone wants to help with grilling let Peggy know! More details and mapswill be provided. Address: 30302 Hillis Rd. Arlington, Wa. 98223. (Seven miles eastof Arlington; cross Cicero Bridge, make immediate left on Hillis Rd. and home is firstdriveway on left)

Map will be available in August News-letter!

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Ariel view from Google Maps of Peggy & Phil James property!

At our last vestry meeting, we discussed the importance of protecting our church assets.Heres an article from the Herald that may be helpful to you at home. Janice Saule- wicz, Vestry Member

From our Resident Disaster Preparedness Expert: Published: Sunday, May 15, 2011

Why it's worth keeping records of belongingsBy Sarah Jackson , Herald Writer

If you love your home, it's hard not to worry once in a while about it being burglarized or damaged in afire.

Homeowners can, of course, take several safety steps to minimize the risk of fire or theft.

One often overlooked property protection measure, however, is documentation of your belongings,which is actually quite easy.

All you need is a digital camera to take photos or videos of your property and prized possessions. You

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June Schedules:

Date Reader EM Altar Guild Counters

June 12 Pentecost Larry Wilson Janice Saulewicz Dorothy Armstrong Carolyn ForbesPat Wilson Sharon Billings Jacquelyn Trout Corleen Wilson

June 19 Trinity Carolyn Forbes Larry Wilson Janet Labdon Pat WilsonCharlotte Champers Pat Wilson Sharon Billings Dorothy Armstrong

June 26 Emily & Fred Bob TichbourneDorothy Armstrong Diane Jones

July 3 Jim Wilson

Larry Wilson

June Birthdays & Anniversaries

June 4 Bob Tichbourne June 2 Jim Corleen Wilson

June 23 Charles Forbes June 7 Don & Shirley Mahlum

June 26 Faith McKay

June 30 Dottie Kirk

July 1 Arleen Stuvland July 1 Charles & Carolyn Forbes

July 1 Corleen Wilson

July 3 Sarah Craig

Sunday Group watchingHistory of Christianity

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should also write down serial numbers of anything you might want to track down if you lost it to theft.Burglars are most likely to take small, expensive items that are easily traded for cash: jewelry, laptops,DVD players, game consoles, watches, guns and small electronic devices, according to the crime preven-tion team with the Everett Police Department .

After a theft or fire, which can be traumatic experiences, it is often extremely difficult to determine whatmight have been stolen or lost.

Detailed records of your things can help police find them if they're stolen. They can also help you fill out in-surance claims. If you use digital files to document your belongings, don't save photos, videos or serialnumbers to your home computer, which could be stolen or lost in a fire.

Set up a web-based email account with Gmail , Yahoo or Hotmail and email the digital files to those ac-counts so you can retrieve them from any computer, anytime.

To learn more about protecting your property, check out The Herald's new Beat the Burglars series on Si-rens, The Herald's crime and courts blog at www.heraldnet.com/sirens .

Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.

Preparedness Article Continued

History of Christianity and Coffee

After Sunday church service we sit in the library, drink coffee, have snacks andwatch Diarmaid MacCulloch narrate the History of Christianity. Last Sunday we viewedEpisode 3 Orthodoxy: From Empire to Empire. Diarmaid took us on buses and trainsto see historical sites of Istanbul, Moscow and other areas where the Eastern OrthodoxChurch prevailed and told us of its struggle to survive.

One of the worst times for Russia was under Ivan the Terrible who began his reignat 16 years old. For thirty- seven years Ivan committed atrocities at an insane leveland then was concerned about his soul. St. Basil in his peculiar way stood up againstIvan and even thrust meat at Ivan during mid lent

Then came Peter the Great who thought of the church as a useful tool to control

the empire. The biggest challenge to the church was Lenins scientific social commu-nism where there was no place for God. And then there was Stalin whose motherwanted him to become a bishop but he liked to dynamite cathedrals in Moscow.

The series is entertaining because of the many sites that Diarmaid visits. His his-torical narration has a lot of spicy details. Its a great history of that part of the worldthrough the history of Christianity. Join us for a lively viewing after service!

Peggy James

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It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Janice (Jan)McNair, on May 26 from cancer. She was a treasured friend to many, a valu-able volunteer and a wonderful caring person.

Please consider honoring Jans memory by attending her Memorial Service,at 1pm, Thursday, June 9, 2011, Christ Episcopal Church in the UniversityDistrict at

4548 Brooklyn Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105 (206) 633-1611.Donations in her memory may be made to Christ Episcopal Church Seat-tle; Seattle Genealogical Society or American Cancer Society.

Donation Links:

Christ Episcopal Church- 4548 Brooklyn Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105Seattle Genealogical Society - PO Box 15329, Seattle, WA 98115-0329 or

give online http://www.Justgive.org and type in Seattle Genealogical Soci-ety ; then scroll down the next screen until Seattle Genealogical Society ap-

pears, click on it for the secure donation page.

American Cancer Society Link : https://www.cancer.org/involved/donate/donateonlinenow/index

Cards for her brother Bill McNair may be sent to:

William E McNair (Kathy)

6801 Greenwood Ave N #309Seattle, WA 98103

Please remove this email address (janvolunteer@gmail.com) from your ad-dress list as this account will be closed down in the next two weeks.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

Friends of Jan's

St Philips Help List As you all know, weve made some major cost cutting to our church budget. One of these areas is hiring a professional gardener to mow, prune, and weed our property.

Because of our very wet & cold weather, our yard has become very overgrown withweeds. We need help volunteering to weed our landscape!

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Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana From Mike & Carol Wray

This is a much requested recipe on the site given its name! Someone who used to work at the Olive Garden sentin the original recipe and I've adapted it to serve just 6-8. Try it since it is really yummy!

It is a very good soup and hits the spot on cold winter days. I've included this and a few other Olive Garden-inspired recipes on the site for all of our visitors that enjoy eating at the restaurant chain. In my opinion, making

these recipes at home makes them even better than the ones you eat at the restaurant! :)

Makes: 6-8 servings

INGREDIENTS

1 lb ground Italian sausage

1 tsp crushed red peppers

1 large diced white onion

4 Tbsp bacon pieces

1. Saut Italian sausage and crushed red pepper in a large pot. Drain excess fat, refrigerate while you prepareother ingredients.

2. In the same pan, saut bacon, onions and garlic over low-medium heat for approximately 15 mins. or until the

onions are soft.3. Add chicken bouillon and water to the pot and heat until it starts to boil.

4. Add the sliced potatoes and cook until soft, about half an hour.

5. Add the heavy cream and just cook until thoroughly heated.

6. Stir in the sausage and the kale, let all heat through and serve. Delicious!

Because of everyones very busy schedules right now, please feel free to show up andweed on your own time calendar. Bring your own weeding tools and weed as much asyou want. Be sure to put the weeds into the Green container. Heres hoping we canmake a big dent in the weeds at St.Philips!

Janice Saulewicz, Vestry Member

2 tsp garlic puree

10 cups water

5 cubes of chicken bouillon

1 cup heavy cream

1 lb sliced Russet potatoes, or about 3large potatoes

of a bunch of kale

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News from the Wider Church

King James Bible endures for 400 years

First editions on display in

KansasBy Melodie Woerman, May 31, 2011

It has been called one of the two greatest works of the English language, rivaled only by Shake-speare. For many, it is the only Bible they con-sider "authentic." It was seven years in the mak-ing, the work of a 54-member committee, butwithin 90 years it had come to be known simply

as "the Bible."

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the printing of the King James Bible, a work of religious, political and linguistic force that continues to shape thethinking and vocabulary of much of the English-speaking world.

Two copies of first editions of the Authorized Version, as it was known when printed in 1611, are in the Epis-copal Diocese of Kansas at the Quayle Bible Collection at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, alongwith first or early editions of works that led up to the creation of the Bible authorized by King James I of Eng-land.

Kay Bradt, director of library services at Baker and the wife of Episcopal priest the Rev. George Wiley, servesas curator for the collection. She said the two originals there are known as the "He" and "She" Bibles, based ondiffering translations of Ruth 3:15 one says "he went into the city," and the other, "she went into the city."That difference comes, she said, because different printers produced the first runs of the newly revised transla-tion.

The confusion on their part is understandable, she said. "The Hebrew says 'he,' but the context indicates itshould be 'she,'" Bradt said.

These first editions are quite rare, with fewer than 50 of the "He" Bibles and fewer than 150 of the "She" ver-sions still in existence.

The collection also has a copy of the infamously nicknamed "Wicked" Bible, an edition printed 20 years later in which the printer glaringly omitted "not" in the seventh commandment, rendering it "Thou shalt commitadultery." Most of the 1,000 copies were destroyed, making this version very rare.

Bradt said errors in these Bibles were common, even in first editions, given that all the type was set by hand."They would print some copies, find errors, change them, and then print more," she said.

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That didn't help the printer of the Wicked Bible, though. He landed in debtors' prison, she said, unable to pay thefine levied against him for his mistake.

Centuries of precursors

The King James Bible didn't spring just from the linguistic skills of the 54 learned men who produced it. Rather itwas the result of more than 200 years of English translations of the Scriptures, and the Quayle Collection includesall of them, including many first editions.

John Wycliffe translated the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible into English in the late 1380s, an act that had theearly reformer branded a heretic after his death.

As Reformation ideals spread across Europe, one of its adherents, William Tyndale, asked to translate the Bibleinto English but was denied the right to do so. He then fled to Belgium, where in 1526 he produced an EnglishNew Testament; copies of it were smuggled into England in bales of cloth.

He translated the entire Bible into English in 1530, but its Protestant leanings were too much for King Henry VIII.In spite of his eventual break with the Church in Rome, Henry feared the egalitarianism advocated by reformers.

In 1536 Tyndale was strangled and his body burned at the stake.

Tyndale's influence

But the influence of Tyndale's Bible already was being felt. After Henry's break with Rome in 1531, he commis-sioned his own English Bible, known as the Great Bible because of its size, which was produced in 1538.

He wanted a text that would promote knowledge of the Scriptures among his subject but wouldn't introducewholesale reformist ideals that were taking root elsewhere in Europe.

Myles Coverdale, who had done his own translation in 1535, gave Henry such a Bible, basing his version on Tyn-

dale's work but removing things the king found too Protestant, like the use of "congregation" for "church," and"senior" instead of "priest."

Henry ordered that his Bible be placed in every church and chained to the lectern so it would be available at alltimes for those who wanted to read it for themselves.

After the tumultuous reign of the Roman Catholic Queen Mary I, Elizabeth I wanted an end to factional religiousstrife and hoped to advance that with her own Bible translation, which appeared in 1568.

Known as the Bishops' Bible, it struck a balance between Henry's Great Bible and an English version produced in

1560 by English Protestants who fled to the continent during Mary's reign, known as the Geneva Bible.It did, however, introduce some odd variations. The Great Bible translated Ecclesiastes 11:1 as "Lay thy breadupon the waters," but the Bishops' Bible offered the peculiar "Lay thy bread upon wette faces."

Like the Great Bible, the Bishops' Bible was printed in large-format lectern editions. But the Geneva Bible wasbecoming a favorite among the people, with its smaller size, study aids like maps, and its novel idea of breakingup the biblical text into chapters and verses. It also was printed in easier-to-read Roman type, not the fancy OldEnglish print style of the large lectern Bibles.

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On display are the two first editions of the King James Bible, as well as copies of the Great Bible, the Bishops'Bible and other predecessors of the King James, as well as a page from a Gutenberg Bible, fragments of claytablets and papyrus scrolls, and other rare works.

The Quayle Collection is located at the south end of Baker University's Collins Library at 518 8th St. in BaldwinCity, Kansas, south of Lawrence.

-- Melodie Woerman is director of communications for the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. This article first ap- peared in The Harvest, the diocese's bimonthly newspaper.

JAPAN: Anglican church announces project to support disaster victims

By ENS staff, May 31, 2011

[Episcopal News Service] The Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican Communion in Japan) has launched its "Let Us

Walk Together" project in support of the victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that wrought destruc-tion along Japan's east coast and left about 30,000 people dead or missing.

The magnitude-9 earthquake, the strongest to hit the country, seriously damaged the Fukushima nuclear plant,resulting in radioactive pollution that has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.

The NSKK steering committee, which met in late April, recently issued a mission statement announcing the pro- ject that commits to rebuilding the lives and communities of the disaster victims, in particular the elderly, chil-dren, those with disabilities, foreign residents, low-income people, and refugees.

"Many have lost family and friends, homes and savings. Many still have no choice but to stay in emergencyshelters," said the Most Rev. Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu, NSKK primate, in a recent statement.

"The steering committee ... [is] calling for help in supporting the victims of the disaster not only from the vari-ous churches and related groups of the NSKK, but also in cooperation with other church denominations andoverseas churches as well," said Uematsu. "We humbly ask for your understanding and support, and especiallyyour prayers for the success of this undertaking."

The "Let Us Walk Together" project will be based in Sendai, where an NSKK office for disaster response wasopened on May 6.

In addition to conducting support activities through the Sendai office and in other disaster-stricken areas, this project will conduct public relations, liaison, and accounting functions with the cooperation of NSKK provincialoffice staff, an NSKK release said.

"We will carry out activities supported by the prayers and monetary contributions of Anglican churches through-out Japan and the world," the release said. "We will respond to such prayers and support through our reportingand publicizing of relief conditions and relief activities."

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The San Diego chaplain's most recent tour of duty in Iraq included a considerable amount of both explosions andshootings, prompting a serious "reflective mode" as he observes the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. "I'm reallydealing with life and resurrection. Remembering all the lives and how they served, to me, is crucial," he said during aMay 25 telephone interview.

Like his former battalion commander who died when his vehicle hit a land mine. "He was a good brother in Christ. Ishould have been there with him, but I was taking care of another situation. You just deal with those things as theycome through but it doesn't make it any easier."

And the Iraqi translator. "Her name was Sarah, like my daughter. She was killed when a bomb went through her face,literally, and blew her apart. She kept our guys alive and gave the ultimate sacrifice, trying to keep peace for her peo-ple."

Blessing, rector of St. Andrew's Church in La Mesa, California, in the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego, said that he'llpause this Memorial Day to remember not only the dead but also the living, and their huge sacrifices.

Like the Muslim imam "who helped us so much he had to flee Iraq. Thankfully, we got him out. He now lives in thePacific Northwest. He is one of the wonderful brothers I love and cherish."

The 52-year-old Blessing is no stranger to war. He returned from his third deployment to St. Andrew's for Easter week services after nearly a year at the Contingency Operation Base (COB) Adder, "essentially a quarter-mile away fromwhere Abraham's house was located in Ur of Chaldea," he said.

"It was a rough deployment. We lost two guys in our immediate brigade. This time I was responsible as senior chap-lain for about 14,000 troops and contractors at the COB in Southern Iraq."

He supervised 18 chaplains and about 20 chaplain assistants as part of the Long Beach, California-based 224th Sus-tainment Brigade. He solidified a team approach to empower others "to touch far more lives for the Kingdom of God,without question," he said.

Each deployment has included its own challenges and graces. Blessing, a noncombatant who does not carry a weapon,has held the hand of dying soldiers, assuring them of God's presence and love. The Washington native has duckedmortar fire, double-checked the contents of body bags and faced tough questions of faith his own as well as those"I knew that I was ready to meet Jesus, there's no question, but what became important was coming back for my fam-ily, my wife and kids, for my church, standing by them -- that was the crucial thing. That was a gift of the violence."

For former Iraq War chaplain, Memo-rial Day invokes 'crucial' memories

By Pat McCaughan, May 27, 2011

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. BobBlessing describes war's defining momentswith only a slight trace of humor:"Relationships count, and if nobody'sblowing you up or shooting at you it's agood day."

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As much as I had prayed and sought God, as much as I had walked with God, as much as I had communicated withGod, the violence still tweaks anybody who is susceptible to it.

"At least 30 to 40 percent of the troops going to Iraq have it (PTSD)," added Blessing, who sought treatment for theanxiety disorder. "The ones who care have a tendency to be traumatized even more. It messes with you."

He grew up in the Seattle area and was active in youth ministry. After high school he spent a year in France, "involvedin church planting, and as time went on, I realized that's what I wanted to do."

He graduated in 1980 from the University of Washington. He earned a master of divinity degree from the Church Di-vinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

Contact with troops while serving in the Anglican Church of Korea inspired him to join the U.S. Army Reserves. "Iwas in the mission field in Asia and connected once in a while with military in Korea, and visited troops. That's whatgot me interested in the military," he said.

A few years later, "I went active duty," he recalled. He estimates that he has spent about five years of his 23-year mar-riage actively deployed and serving in what he views as another kind of mission field.

"For the chaplain, the priest, it's just caring for people that are truly interested in their faith and want to figure outwhere God is in the midst of the violence around them, where God is in the midst of their lives.

"The majority of them are 18 to 20-year-olds; it's a great ministry to people with a lot of inquiries into the faith lifeourney. It's intense; it's a great opportunity. That's why chaplains love it.

"There's such a great need with the young men and women of our nation. It's such a privilege to support them, care for them and be with them in their time of crisis. When you send your sons and daughters out and terrible things happen,you need to know people are there, standing by them."

He feels blessed with both a family and a congregation that support and stand by him; an interim served in his absenceat St. Andrew's, where Blessing was called as rector in 2006.

"Sometimes this five years away from my family has made my kids angry," he said. But he added that communicatingwith them via Skype helped during his last tour.

In fact, on one occasion, "I remember the rockets coming in," he said. "Everybody else was cutting and running for the bunkers but I jumped on the floor with my Kevlar on and continued my conversation with my wife.

"Now, that was real communication," he said jokingly.

Living with the realities of war also forced real communication, he added, sobering again.

"The death and dying and the suffering, the hardship and discipline challenge you in your capacity as you are called tobe a pastor," he said. "We saw what was important defined so clearly that normal church drama, normal drama in lifeis only important as it relates to building relationships.

"Relationships are what count, not the size of your bank book, or your car, or the size of your church, or whatever

As much as I had prayed and sought God, as much as I had walked with God, as much as I had communicated withGod, the violence still tweaks anybody who is susceptible to it.

"At least 30 to 40 percent of the troops going to Iraq have it (PTSD)," added Blessing, who sought treatment for theanxiety disorder. "The ones who care have a tendency to be traumatized even more. It messes with you."

He grew up in the Seattle area and was active in youth ministry. After high school he spent a year in France, "involvedin church planting, and as time went on, I realized that's what I wanted to do."

He graduated in 1980 from the University of Washington. He earned a master of divinity degree from the Church Di-vinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

Contact with troops while serving in the Anglican Church of Korea inspired him to join the U.S. Army Reserves. "Iwas in the mission field in Asia and connected once in a while with military in Korea, and visited troops. That's whatgot me interested in the military," he said.

A few years later, "I went active duty," he recalled. He estimates that he has spent about five years of his 23-year mar-riage actively deployed and serving in what he views as another kind of mission field.

"For the chaplain, the priest, it's just caring for people that are truly interested in their faith and want to figure outwhere God is in the midst of the violence around them, where God is in the midst of their lives.

"The majority of them are 18 to 20-year-olds; it's a great ministry to people with a lot of inquiries into the faith lifeourney. It's intense; it's a great opportunity. That's why chaplains love it.

"There's such a great need with the young men and women of our nation. It's such a privilege to support them, care for them and be with them in their time of crisis. When you send your sons and daughters out and terrible things happen,you need to know people are there, standing by them."

He feels blessed with both a family and a congregation that support and stand by him; an interim served in his absenceat St. Andrew's, where Blessing was called as rector in 2006.

"Sometimes this five years away from my family has made my kids angry," he said. But he added that communicatingwith them via Skype helped during his last tour.

In fact, on one occasion, "I remember the rockets coming in," he said. "Everybody else was cutting and running for the bunkers but I jumped on the floor with my Kevlar on and continued my conversation with my wife.

"Now, that was real communication," he said jokingly.

Living with the realities of war also forced real communication, he added, sobering again.

"The death and dying and the suffering, the hardship and discipline challenge you in your capacity as you are called tobe a pastor," he said. "We saw what was important defined so clearly that normal church drama, normal drama in lifeis only important as it relates to building relationships.

"Relationships are what count, not the size of your bank book, or your car, or the size of your church, or whatever

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"I knew that I was ready to meet Jesus,there's no question, but what became im-

portant was coming back for my family,my wife and kids, for my church, standing

by them -- that was the crucial thing. Thatwas a gift of the violence."

-- The Rev. Pat McCaughan is a corre- spondent for the Episcopal News Service.She is based in Los Angeles.

Chaplain continues

A tale of Yarn, or a yarn of a Tale

On the weekend of May 19, Rev. Mary, Marnie and I participated in Destination Yarn 2011, ajourney encompassing 25 local yarn shops from Birch Bay to Kent and Federal Way. Each shophad a free one skein pattern (with yarn for sale to make it), a raffle and a stamp for our pass-ports. Visiting all of the shops made one eligible for large prizes, and so, of course, that wasour aim.

On Thursday we began by going south on I405 to Kent, then Federal Way and north on I5 to Se-attle and Bainbridge Island, visiting 11 shops and taking 9 hours (yes, 9 hours).

On Friday we went north to Birch Bay via I5, then south along route 20 to the Mukilteo ferry

and home. Another 9 hour day, visiting 9 shops.You will note that that is only 20 shops, and so, since Mary had vestry on Saturday, we wentout on Sunday to visit the last 5 shops, in Seattle, Mill Creek, and last but not least in Everett,where Mary won the daily raffle(yay!) a very nice bag of goodies.

Did we win anything else? No. Did we shop? Of course! Did we buy anything? Well, yes, butnot large quantities of yarn. (We found some interesting patterns beyond what was free.).What we really found was diversity. Each shop was different from all of the others. None of the shops carried the same thing and yet all had a widely varied selection.

What they had in common was large collections of various yarns. The Wallingford shop forexample, carries free trade yarns. Others had fibers like bamboo and nettles, an education tome on what can be used! Still others are clearly centers of community with knitters aroundtables or in conversational groupings of furniture.

All in all, a wonderful journey, Im looking forward to next year.

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From the Rector

Dear Friends,

On June 19th we celebrate Trinity Sunday, Fathers Day, AND most importantly, theministry and accomplishments of Ben (Benjamin, his mother Merlinda would say) Wil-liams! I sent a letter about Ben last month asking for your contributions for a scholarshipfor this outstanding young man and you have been very generous, not a surprise to me!I do not know at this moment how much has been raised as donations are still comingin. (I will publish the total amount in next months Philippian.)

I have consulted with Bens parents and unbeknownst to him, we will be honoringhim on June 19th at the 9 am service with a special Coffee Hour following. In talkingwith Merlinda, I found our Ben has been honored at school as well with a number of awards!

They include:

The Presidents Education Awards Program:

Outstanding Academic Excellence Award

Outstanding Student in Art

Outstanding Student in Spanish

Student of the Year

I cannot begin to say what a joy it has been to have Ben inour midst, to watch him grow and flourish into the talentedyoung person he is. I hope you can all join me on the 19th tohonor him!

Pax,

Rev. Mary

Ben at his SrProm

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