. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 September 2016 Inside this Issue Senior Warden Report Quarterly Financials Who’s Doing What This Month Missions, Outreach, and Upcoming events Sunday Services: 10:00am Holy Communion ____________________________ St. Luke’s Episcopal Church 1101 Sulphur Spring Rd. Manchester, MO 63021 636-227-1227 www.stlukesec.org e-mail: [email protected]Senior Warden Update Our discernment journey continues. The Discernment Committee worked very hard and did an excellent job of interviewing candidates for Rector of St. Luke’s. They recommended two candidate to the Vestry for consideration. For health reasons, one of the candidates withdrew from consideration. After going through the interview process and much prayerful consideration and discussion the Vestry decided to continue the search process. The Vestry met with Canon Joe chambers of the Diocese of Missouri to discuss our options. These options are 1) enter into a contract for a Priest in Charge and after a period of time, usually two years, we can offer them the Rector position or enter into a new search, 2) enter into another Interim Priest contract and continue our search, and 3) utilize Supply Priests until our search is successful. At a special meeting of the Vestry on Sunday, August 14 th , the Vestry decided to pursue the Priest in Charge option and will immediately begin the interview process. It is hoped that we will be able to fill the position within two or three months. Over the past eighteen months, St. Luke’s has not been on hold but moving forward. We have continued upgrading our facility with painting the inside and outside, the sidewalk to our entry has been replaced, we are in the process of upgrading the landscape in front of the church. We have had to replace two air conditioning units and a water heater. I am sure I have not listed all the projects as they have been numerous. Our outreach programs have continued and new members have joined our Praise Ensemble. Parishioners have stepped forward taking on leadership positions and involvement in all of the above projects. Our Interim Priest Mother Doris Westfall did an excellent job helping us explore our past, present, and our vision for the future to prepare us for this transition. A challenge we humans have is waiting, most of us are not really good at it and in our fast paced society we want it now. I shared with the Vestry the following story from the book When the Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd. She tells of sharing the story of Jonah in the belly of the whale to a six-year-old vacation Bible school class. The children fell into a discussion about how they would manage to escape if swallowed like Jonah. “I’d start a fire in the whale’s stomach and he’d cough me out!” Declared one fellow. “I’d stomp on his tongue till he spit me out,” said another. The suggestions grew wilder by the minute. Suddenly a thoughtful little girl spoke up: “I’d call my daddy and wait till he got me out.” All these years later her simple wisdom still resonated in me: call on God and wait. God has a Priest for St. Luke’s, we just have to pray and wait until He brings he or she forward. Roger Koch Senior Warden . . The In-Between Times
Altar Flowers: Given by Stacy Androuais in Thanksgiving for her Anniversary
September Birthdays
6 – Omazuru Nzewuihe
10 – Kathy Novak
18 – Veryl Alexander
20 – Nathan Ward
22 - Beth Booher
23 – Grace Ray
28 – Terry Nolan, Victoria Whiting
29 – Melissa Mester
Anniversaries
September
4 – Roger & Marion Lyons-Koch
5 – Jim & Marcia Imrie
22 – James & Stacy Androuais
September Events at St. Luke’s Saturday, September 10 Sunday, September 11
10:00am, St. Luke’s 9:00am, St. Luke’s
ECW Breakfast Sunday School resumes
Monday, September 19 Tuesday, September 20
7:30 pm, St. Luke’s Newsletter Articles Due
Vestry Meeting
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Monthly Ministries September Mission/Ministry of the Month: Circle of Concern
Circle Of Concern serves west St. Louis County, a part of the St. Louis metropolitan area known for
beautiful homes, corporate headquarters, good schools and a thriving business community. West County is also
home to tens of thousands of families that struggle every day to make ends meet. Lay-offs, underemployment,
illness or injury, age and more – many families in the thick of West County prosperity find themselves urgently
in need of assistance. Circle Of Concern can help. We are, first and foremost, a food pantry. In 2013, we fed
27,382 individuals with 44,927 bags of groceries – enough to put a bag on every seat in Busch Stadium, with a
few thousand to spare. At Circle, feeding families is just the beginning, though. We also offer financial support,
scholarships, job mentoring, children’s programs and holiday events.
Meal-A-Month requests for September Canned Tuna & Tuna Helpers
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Hamburger Helpers
Cereal
Applesauce
Preschool Help
The preschool is in need of volunteers to help on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the afternoons from 11:30AM
-3:00PM. We require two adults to be present at the preschool at all times, and currently, there is only one
teacher available during these hours. The responsibility is very simple: be there as a second adult in case
emergencies arise. No teaching is required. If you can help, please sign-up on the calendar sign-up sheet
found on the sign-up board. Please see Roger Koch, Chris Sturgeon or Julie Sturgeon with any questions.
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September Prayer of the Month
Prayer for Discernment
God our Father,
you have a plan for each one of us.
You hold out to us a future full of hope.
Give us the wisdom of your Spirit
so that we can see the shape
of your plan in the shape
of your plan in the gifts
you have given us,
and in the circumstances
of our daily lives.
Give us the freedom of your Spiprt,
to seek you with all our hearts,
and to choose Your Will aboce all else.
We make this prayer through Christ our Lord.
Amen
Notes from the Church Office
OFFICE HOUR REMINDER
Just a reminder…. Regular
office hours resume September
6, 2016. Office hours are
Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Friday from
8:30am – 1:30pm.
Volunteer Schedules/Calendars
Any group leader who
makes a calendar or schedule,
please don’t forget to get Beth
a copy of the calendar for use
in creating the bulletins and
weekly inserts.
Newsletter Articles
Newsletter articles for
the August newsletter are due
to the office by Tuesday,
September 20, 2016.
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN - Oct. 19-23
St. Luke's will once again support
the Feed My Starving Children
initiative hosted by Good Shepherd
Lutheran Church. This year's
packing dates are scheduled for
October 19-23. We will attempt to
register St. Luke's for the
11:15AM-1:30PM time slot on
Saturday, October 22. We hope
you'll consider saving this date and
joining us for this rewarding
volunteer event.
For those who are unable to
volunteer, we will do another
fundraiser as we did last year.
Details on this, as well as the
volunteer opportunity, will be
provided over the next few weeks
as plans come together. Anyone
with questions or ideas may share
them with Julie Sturgeon.
Junior Warden’s Report
NOTICE!!!!
The job list for the fall is posted in the narthex! Please take a card and write your name where the card was. Return the card when the job is completed. Thanks for your help!
Kaye Weerts, Junior Warden
Community Concerns Luncheon
The Community Concerns Committee will host a luncheon at church on Sunday, September
18th after the 10:00am service. All donations received will be given to the Task Force on
Hunger. We hope all can attend this annual event.
The Community Concerns Committee
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ECW Updates
Date Time Event Location Coordinator
September 10, 2016
10:00 AM Breakfast followed by a holiday craft St. Luke's Parish Hall Kaye Weerts
October 22, 2016
TBD Feed My Starving Children Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church, Ballwin Julie Nguyen
November 12, 2016
TBD TBD TBD Coordinator and idea needed
December 1, 2016
6:30 PM Our 10th Advent Tea St. Luke's Parish Hall Wendy Wirkus - Kaye Weerts - Mary Miller
December 18, 2016
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bake Sale At the church Coordinator needed
January 14, 2017
9:30 AM Breakfast and Planning for 2017 St. Luke's Parish Hall Wendy Wirkus
Focus on Core Values: Faithfulness
St. Luke’s fifth core value is Faithfulness and states: “We share the unwavering belief that
Christ died, rose from the dead and will come again.”
The parishioners of St. Luke’s are firm in their adherence to promises and their observance
of duty. From the June 18th devotional in “Our Daily Bread, when it comes to problems,
the way out is to trust God on the way through.” Our belief is that God will lead us
through all our challenges and transitions to achieve His goals. We truly believe that all is
possible with God’s help.
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September 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Service
Schedule
10:00am Holy
Communion
AA Group
meetings
Sunday 8:00pm
Friday 8:00 pm
1
6pm Praise
Ensemble
2
8pm AA
3
4
8pm AA
5
Office Closed
6
Regular Office
hours resume
7
8
6pm Praise
Ensemble
9
8pm AA
10
ECW Breakfast
10:00am
11
Sunday School
Starts 9:00am
8pm AA
12
13
14
15
6pm Praise
Ensemble
16
8pm AA
17
18
8pm AA
19
Vestry Meeting
7:00pm
20
Newsletter
articles due!
21
22
6pm Praise
Ensemble
23
8pm AA
24
25
8pm AA
26
27 28 29
6pm Praise
Ensemble
30
8pm AA
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David Pendleton Oakerhater (September 1)
“God’s warrior” is an epithet by which David Pendleton Oakerhater is known among the Cheyenne Indians of
Oklahoma. The title is an apt one, for this apostle of Christ to the Cheyenne was originally a soldier who fought against the
United States government with warriors of other tribes in the disputes over Indian land rights. By the late 1860s Oakerhater
had distinguished himself for bravery and leadership as an office in an elite corps of Cheyenne fighters. In 1875, after a
year of minor uprisings and threats of major violence, he and twenty-seven other warrior leaders taken prisoner by U.S.
Army, charged with inciting rebellion, and sent to a disused military prison in Florida.
Under the influence of a concerned Army captain, who sought to educate the prisoners, Oakerhater and his
companions learned English, gave art and archery lessons to the area’s many visitors, and had their first encounter with the
Christian faith. The captain’s example, and that of other concerned Christians, from as far away as New York, had their
effect on the young warrior. He was moved to answer the call to transform his leadership in war into a lifelong ministry of
peace.
With sponsorship from the Diocese of Central New York and financial help from a Mrs. Pendleton of Cincinnati, he and
three other prisoners went north to study for the ministry. At his baptism in Syracuse in 1878 he took the name David
Pendleton Oakerhater, in honor of his benefactress.
Soon after his ordination to the diaconate in 1881, David returned to Oklahoma. There, he was instrumental in
founding and operating schools and missions, through great personal sacrifice and often in the face of apathy from the
Church hierarchy and resistance from the government. He continued his ministry of service, education, and pastoral care
among his people until his death on August 31, 1931.
Half a century before, the young deacon had told his people: “You all know me. You remember when I led you out to
war I went first, and what I told you was true. Now I have been away to the East and I have learned about another captain,
the Lord Jesus Christ, and hi is my leader. He goes first, and all he tells me is true. I come back to my people to tell you to
go with me now in this new road, a war that makes all for peace.”
