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Saint David’s Episcopal church
The Messenger
October 2019 Volume 2019, Issue 6
CONTENTS
From the Rector
Stewardship Kick Off Supper
Huntington Common
Centering Prayer Workshop
Blessing of the Animals
Fire/Emergency Drill
Harvest Fair
Outreach-Laundry Love
Thoughts on 3 Big “E”s
An Evening of Music
October Calendar
Special Dates
Clergy & Staff
Rector:
The Rev. Andrew D’Angio White
Deacons:
The Rev. Kris Conley
The Rev. Gail Chandler
Pastoral Musician:
Tom Kovacevic
Verger:
William G. Rhines
Parish Administrator
Catherine N. Zub
Sexton
Ed Verge
138 York Street
Kennebunk, ME 04043
207-985-3073
[email protected]
www.stdavidskennebunk.org
From the Rector - Ready for Anything
Over the last year, a dedicated group of parishioners, led by Gail Freeman, have
been looking hard at how we can make our community and church building safer.
They’ve explored and made recommendations in several areas of emergency
preparedness, including medical, fire/evacuation, and intruder. Through the
generosity of Fred Madore, we now have an AED (automated external
defibrillator) in the Great Hall, and seven people trained to use it.
Being prepared to handle emergencies isn’t just prudent; it’s faithful to who we are
as followers of Jesus. We are called to be ready to serve whenever we’re needed,
and handling a medical or other emergency is one way to serve. That’s why we’re
having a fire drill on Sunday, October 6 at both services. With the assistance and
guidance of Kennebunk Fire & Rescue, we’ll be practicing how we can safely exit
the building in the event of an emergency. Instructions are in these pages and will
also be in the bulletin that Sunday and the Sunday before. This is a good thing; we
practice now so that if ever we do need to evacuate, we know what to do.
All of these preparations and talk
about safety cannot help but bring to
mind the dangers around us; we live
in an age where incidents of vio-
lence, even in religious settings, are
not unknown. We want to be safe in
this world, but we must not make
ourselves so “safe” that we cannot
do our ministry. It’s worth
remembering the words of the resurrected Christ: Do not be afraid. We can be
prudent, we can be cautious, but we are not afraid, not really, because we know the
deepest truth about this world is that God loves it, and all of us, desperately. All of
our work on preparing for emergencies comes out of being faithful to who we are
as Christians and who we are as the current stewards of this wonderful place called
St. David’s.
With gratitude for all you do and all you are, I am
Your brother in Christ,
Andrew
… we are not afraid, not really,
because we know the deepest
truth about this world is that God
loves it, and all of us, desperately.
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Stewardship Ministry Kick Off
Supper with Bishop Thomas
OCTOBER 3 at 6PM
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Plan to join us on Thursday, October 3rd at 6PM
as we kick off another year of financial steward-
ship at St. David’s. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Brown
will be with us to share his thoughts on Steward-
ship. Sign up on the board in the Great Hall to help
with the meal, set up or clean up. The Nursery will
be staffed for the event.
Introduction to Centering
Prayer Workshop
Saturday, October 5, 2019
9AM –3PM
“Be Still and Know that I Am God” Psalm 46:10
Deacon Darrell Blackwell will present the
video teachings of Fr. Thomas Keating in the
Sanctuary at St. David’s.
Registration begins at 8:30. $20 suggested
donation. Luncheon included.
For more information or to register please
contact St. David’s office at 985-3073.
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5 11AM
St. David’s Budget Box 2 Bragdon LN
Bring your cat, dog, hamster, ferret or animal
companion for a special blessing.
Children may bring a stuffed animal.
Please have all animals on leashes or in carriers.
A Ministry of St. David’s Episcopal Church,
Kennebunk stdavidskennebunk.org or 985-3073
for more info
Huntington Common
Playgroup on Second
Thursdays!
Children and babies from St. David's who are
not yet in school (along with their caregivers)
are invited to join one another on the second
Thursday of each month from 9:45-10:30 at
Huntington Common for a playgroup. Children
will join in singing songs, reading stories, and
getting their wiggles out, while the residents
watch on and play simple games with us. Our
next playgroup is Thursday, October 10, and
children are invited to wear their costumes for
pre-Halloween fun! If you have questions or
would like to join in this ministry, please
contact Sara D'Angio White at 502-7742 or
[email protected] .
Mischief at the Huntington Playgroup!
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On October 6, 2019, we will be practicing fire safety awareness and conducting fire drills during both
services. The following information will acquaint you with the activities for the drill, as well as what to do in
event of an actual fire.
Look to the members of the St. David’s Emergency Response Committee (name tags have red borders) for
instructions during any emergency. Please follow their directions - they have received training and have
researched and discussed efficient and safe procedures to be followed in the event of an emergency. In
addition, always follow directions from Fire Department personnel when they arrive on the scene.
As you will see from the CALMS acronym below, understanding and practicing how you will respond in a
fire before there is an actual fire is a smart and safe approach to escaping a fire.
C –consider and choose your exit
The following are available exits to the exterior:
When facing the altar, the double doors behind the choir;
The double doors through which you enter the church;
The single-entry door by the church offices.
A – access the exits
Locate your closest exit and leave by it. If you get to any double door first, push it fully back until the
arm engages in a locked open position
L – leave the church, leave your children
Exit the building calmly and promptly. Sunday School teachers and your children will be exiting
through the single exterior door located by their classroom. This is the shortest hall and you want your
children to go outside not toward the interior church looking for you. Additionally, we don’t want
adult bodies impeding their progress toward the outside. Let your children know that you will meet
them by the Evacuation Meeting Place sign in the parking lot.
M – meet in the parking lot
Proceed to the Evacuation Meeting Place sign posted at the rear of the parking lot. Gathering at this
spot can help us ensure all have evacuated.
S – stay at meeting place until all clear is given
The driveway is the single entry and exit to St. David’s and it must be kept clear until fire trucks and
emergency vehicles arrive to address the fire or during a drill. You will be told when it’s safe to
leave the St. David’s property or return to the sanctuary in the case of a drill.
Fire/Emergency Drill Procedures
Get To Know These Symbols
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11th Annual
Harvest Fair
Saturday, November 2
9AM-2PM
Now that the days are getting shorter and our company has all gone home, it’s time to turn our attention to
the Harvest Fair!! The various committees have been busy throughout the year in preparation for this big
event. Once again our offerings will include the silent auction, raffle baskets, baked goods, homemade jellies
and chicken pot pies, a Table of Treasures, Jewelry Table, Handmade Items Table,, delicious lunch, and live
music. This year we will be including a Tools & Technology table and once again we will be adding more
room to display our wares.
Like to bake? Many goodies are needed for the Bake Table.
Do you knit, crochet, embroider, sew, make home décor items, woodwork, paint, etc.? The
Handmade Items Table would be happy to offer your handiwork.
Are you creative? Put together a theme basket for the raffle.
Have some clean, slightly used items for the home that you wanted to part with? Donate them to the
Table of Treasures.
Want to help prepare and serve food? The luncheon crew could use your help.
Still have that power tool that you haven’t used since you got that sore arm? The Tools and
Technology Table could use it.
Enjoy talking to people? Consider staffing one of the tables on the day of the fair.
If you would like to share your time or talents or offer items to one of our tables, please contact Cathy,
Rick, or one of the committee co-chairs. Be sure to let your friends, family and neighbors know the date so
they can plan on attending this fun-filled event and experience the fellowship and enthusiasm that we share at
St David’s. We look forward to continuing to build on the fabulous success of last year and invite you to be
part of this team of dedicated workers. A list of committee chairs will be posted on the board in the Great
Hall and more information about the fair will be published as we get closer to the date. And be sure to read
the Messenger, Instant Messenger, and Sunday Bulletin for updates and committee specific needs.
Rick Lombardi, Harvest Fair Chair – [email protected]
Sharron Eastman, Silent Auction Chair – [email protected]
Billy McSherry, Tools and Technology Table – [email protected]
Nancy Clinton, Raffle Baskets – [email protected]
Lori Parkinson, Table of Treasures – [email protected]
Ellen Tacy, Handmade Items – [email protected]
Carolyn Kershaw, Bake Table - [email protected]
Cynthia McDonnell, Chicken Pot Pies - [email protected]
Linda Rhines, Jams and Jellies - [email protected]
Dave Bowen, Lunch at the Fair – [email protected]
Maroo Eyemontt, Jewelry Table – [email protected]
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Outreach News
Laundry Love
On Tuesday September 17, St. David’s held its 18th
consecutive, monthly Laundry Love event at Booms
Laundry in Biddeford. Here’s what happens on a
typical Laundry Love night:
St. David’s volunteers gather at Booms at 3:45 pm to
set up. A dozen guests are already in line, some
having arrived an hour earlier. We know most of our
guests. A few are homeless, some have their children
with them, many arrive by foot carrying their laundry
or hauling carts, but all come because Laundry Love
offers a chance to get their clothing and bedding
washed and dried for free. Laundromats are often
beyond the very limited budgets of our guests who
don’t own washers and dryers.
Following a prayer of thanksgiving for this ministry
of hope and love, the evening begins promptly at
4:00. Each guest is greeted, given a number, and
assigned a volunteer. Guests always handle their own
clothing. Volunteers help locate available machines
and then slide the requisite quarters into slots to get
the machines tumbling. By 5:30, Booms Laundry is
packed and bustling with energy - all the machines
are in use. By the time the last load is in the washer at
7:00, volunteers will have helped 30-35 households,
dispensed at least 1600 quarters ($400!), and
countless detergent pods and dryer sheets. Most
importantly, we have joined together with our guests
in one of life’s essential tasks: doing the laundry. In
these moments together, we have the opportunity to
experience each other’s humanity and our oneness.
On Laundry Love evenings, St. David’s also
provides:
Activities for children. Deanna McNamara,
Children’s Librarian at Biddeford’s McArthur
Public Library brings games, books and
puzzles to keep youngsters entertained.
Clothing from Kennebunk Cares Closet.
Guests can indicate their specific clothing
needs which are given to KCC to fill, and later
delivered personally to guests by St. David’s
volunteers.
Healthy snacks and drinks.
Special one-time services. At our June event,
for example, a U.S. Census Bureau
representative provided guests with
information and applications for employment
opportunities.
St. David’s Laundry Love could not happen without
so many organizations and individuals who see the
importance and potential of this special ministry: our
funders and our partners, our volunteers and our
guests, and most basically, the owners of Booms
Laundry. We are grateful to all.
Laundry Love is an expensive program to operate.
Each month, we spend $400 on washer/dryer costs
alone. Everything else is donated - laundry pods,
dryer sheets, set-up materials, food and water, etc.
The Outreach Committee is actively seeking funding
for 2020. We need your continued support at this
critical juncture.
Please mark offerings and rolled quarters “For
Laundry Love.” If you can donate laundry pods or
loose quarters, you will find containers near the
Outreach Bulletin Board in the Great Hall. Questions
or suggestions? Please contact Nancy Clinton at
[email protected] . Thank you!
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Friday, October 25, 2019 at 7:00 PM
You are invited to
join us for an evening
of Musical Theatre!
Presented by
parishioner Jacklyn
A. Belmonte, the
evening includes vocal selections from Broadway
classics as well as new shows that have made
their mark. Performers include vocalists Laura
Burch, Ryan Lane, and Suzanne Menard, with
Jacklyn A. Belmonte on Piano and Carl Menard
on Percussion.
St. David’s Great Hall will be set up “cabaret”
style, with tables and chairs. You are invited to
bring snacks as you please, with St. David’s
providing coffee and water. This musical
evening is presented through a free will donation.
We hope to see you there!
An Evening of Musical
Theater
One of the most important big “E” words in my life
is Episcopalian. It’s an identity which brings me a
great deal of joy. I love the liturgy, the Good News
of the gospel, the sermons, the celebration at the
table, the prayers, the music, (or not ... when Rite I is
celebrated), the people, the traditions, and the list
goes on and on. God, and the presence of Jesus
Christ, come to life and restore me and dwell in me
as an Episcopalian. These are all blessings which
make me a grateful big “E” Episcopalian.
At our last vestry, meeting Fr. Andrew had us
explore how we brought our faith to those outside the
doors of St. David’s. I jumped on the fact of our
many Outreach programs: Hands Across Our
Community, Soup Lunch, St. Elizabeth’s, and Seeds
of Hope. Others added Laundry Love, the Sock and
Lunch Box drive, and all the many ways we support
victims of disaster either globally, nationally, or
locally. But all these wonderful things that we as a
community of the faithful do as Outreach circled
around to another dreaded big “E” word:
Evangelism.
Our many efforts certainly were good and Christian,
but how had we brought Jesus Christ and the gospel
to those to whom we provided aid? Were they in
Episcopal churches across the country? The answer is
they aren’t; a sad statistic of decline. Why are we
Episcopalians so reluctant to talk about our faith with
others? Is it some kind of particular Episcopalian
properness or the idea that our relationship to Jesus
Christ is too personal to share with others? Perhaps
we are afraid that if we talk with those outside our
Episcopal tradition, people will be judgmental or
laugh or mix us up with those who profess their faith
in public arenas by knocking on the doors of our
homes. Maybe such honesty is just too scary.
Whatever the reason, the big “E” of evangelism is a
problem for many of us.
I know and believe there are people out there
searching for meaning beyond the day to day
business of living. There are spiritual people
yearning for spiritual relationships and communities.
As baptized Christians we are charged, and have
agreed, to find them; that big “E” evangelism. It was
in thinking about this I came up with my third big
“E”, the Evite, not in the computer-generated
form, but as a way of reaching out - the
combining of our Episcopalian faith and our call
to evangelism. “E”vite, (invite) a friend or
someone you know to be seeking a relationship
with God and Jesus to come to church. Someone
lonely? Evite. Ill or grieving? Evite. Seniors or
young families? Evite.
There is room in God’s kingdom for all; invite
someone to church and be there to welcome them.
St. David’s is a wonderful place to be on any
Sunday morning. Let’s not keep it a secret!
Kris Conley
E– piscopalian
E— vangelism
E— vite
Thoughts on Three Big E’s
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 Centering Prayer
9:30 NAMI 6:30pm AA 7pm
2 Healing Service 9am
Bible Study 9:30
Adult Class 1-2:30
Girl Scouts 4:15
AA 7pm
3 Piano 2-4pm
Stewardship
Kick Off
Supper 6PM
AA 7pm
4
AA 10am
5 Centering Prayer
Workshop 9-3
Blessing of the
Animals 11 AM
(Budget Box)
AA 7:30pm
6 HE 8/10:30
*
*Fire drill
SS 10:15
AA 7PM
7 Needlers 9:30 Music Together
9:30 Chatham Village
7pm
8 Centering Prayer
9:30 Vestry 7pm AA 7pm
9 Healing Service 9am
Bible Study 9:30
Adult Class 1-2:30
AA 7pm
10 Piano 2-4pm
Choir 7pm
AA 7pm
11
AA 10am
12
AA 7:30pm
13 HE 8/10:30
SS 10:15
AA 7PM
14 Needlers 9:30 Music Together
9:30
Indigenous
Peoples’ Day
OFFICE
CLOSED
15 Centering Prayer
9:30 Men’s Lunch
120pm NAMI 6:30 AA 7pm
16 Healing Service 9am
Bible Study 9:30 Adult Class 1-2:30 Girl Scouts 4:15
Outreach 4:30
AA 7pm
17 Piano 2-4pm
Choir 7pm
AA 7pm
18
AA 10am
19 Altar Guild 9:30
AA 7:30pm
20 HE 8/10:30
SS 10:15
AA 7PM
21 Needlers 9:30 Music Together
9:30
22 Centering Prayer
9:30 CSFP 9:30 Comm. Lunch
10:45 AA 7pm
23 Healing Service 9am
Bible Study 9:30
Adult Class 1-2:30
AA 7pm
24
Piano 2-4pm
Choir 7pm
AA 7pm
25 AA 10am
An Evening
of Music
7PM
26 Annual Convention
Portland
AA 7:30pm
27 HE 8/10:30
SS 10:15
AA 7PM
28 Harvest Fair
Set Up –all
week Needlers 9:30 Music Together
9:30
29 Centering Prayer
9:30 NAMI 6:30pm AA 7pm
30 Healing Service 9am
Bible Study 9:30
Adult Bible Class
1-2:30
AA 7pm
31 Piano 2-4pm
Choir 7pm
AA 7pm
HARVEST
FAIR!
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