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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Volume 5, Issue 8 F ATHER S COTT S N OTES August 2014 Mark Your Calendar: Aug. 10—9:30 a.m. Catie Greene, ESC presentation Aug. 18—ESC Interns start to arrive Aug. 24—ESC Interns in church Aug. 24—1:00 p.m. Doak House Sunday Service at Casey’s Pond Aug. 31—1:00 p.m. 5th Sunday Doak House Sun- day Service at Casey’s Pond 5:30 p.m. Every Tuesday Men’s Bible Study 8:00 a.m. Every Wednes- day Coffee with Fr. Scott 1:00 p.m. Every Thursday Women’s Bible Study INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Fr. Bain’s Column Treasurer’s Report 2 Cursillo July’s 1st Friday ArtWalk 3 Women’s Bible Study Baby Bottles Total Directory Lift-Up Grocery Drive Men’s Bible Study 4 Introducing ESC Interns Birthdays Anniversaries 5 Centennial Campaign 6 Catie’s Corner ESC Interns, cont. 7 Altar Guild Schedule Catechesis 8 S T . P AUL S E PISTLE Transformed by the Holy Spirit, we worship in joy and peace, love one another as Jesus loves us, and compassionately proclaim the Risen Lord to all we meet. Dear People of God, This past Sunday we had a lovely mezzo soprano for the Emerald City Opera sing at the 10:30 am service. At the Offertory she sang “Ave Maria”. It was the tune you know. It has been sung so often (and often so badly) that it is hard to pull off well. Sandra Marante did so. The Rector was so transported by the purity of her voice and the interpretation of the music, that he couldn’t remember to turn the pages as Fr. Bain celebrated Eucha- rist. With our exquisite icon of Mary holding her son, Jesus, as the backdrop for this surprising moment of stunning beauty, I was caught up in one of those rare mo- ments of spiritual ecstasy. It reminds me of one of my favorite verses from the psalms, “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, let the whole earth tremble before Him.” Ps. 96:9. Holiness has beauty, it is known not only by behavior, but has an aesthetic quality so powerful that it causes one to tremble. God is not only terrifying in His power, God is also beautiful. Without the arts to express beauty in our worship, we would be ignoring a God given ability to recognize and celebrate beauty in all its many forms. We try to cre- ate an atmosphere of beauty in our architecture, music, vestments, stain glass, lin- ens, and silver. This is a reflection of the beauty of holiness. People can, of course, elevate outwardly beautiful human stuff until it becomes idolatrous. Then the artist and/or the art becomes the sole center of attention. What is forgotten is that crea- tivity is gift and reflection of the character of God. This is why most authentic icons are not signed by the writer of the icon. I am mindful that the valley we all enjoy has beauty that is almost intoxicating while teeing off at Haymaker Golf Course on a still summer day. It also has a beauty that is fierce and biting when a blizzard sets in. The forest fire that came near us where we lived in Larimer County, was quite frightening and threat- ening, yet the sight of flames shooting 100 ft. in the air was terrifyingly, power- fully beautiful. The beauty of holiness is such a lyrical phrase for something that is intrinsically part of the nature of God and God’s creation. It is one of the blessings of being human that we can occasionally be transported out of ourselves into a space that is something like heaven by the gift of an artist. In Christ’s Service, Fr. Scott +
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St . Paul ’s Episcopal Church

Volume 5 , Issue 8

FATHER SCOTT ’S NOTES

August 2014

Mark Your Calendar:

• Aug. 10—9:30 a.m. Catie

Greene, ESC presentation

• Aug. 18—ESC Interns

start to arrive

• Aug. 24—ESC Interns in

church

• Aug. 24—1:00 p.m. Doak

House Sunday Service at Casey’s Pond

• Aug. 31—1:00 p.m. 5th

Sunday Doak House Sun-day Service at Casey’s Pond

• 5:30 p.m. Every Tuesday

Men’s Bible Study

• 8:00 a.m. Every Wednes-

day Coffee with Fr. Scott

• 1:00 p.m. Every Thursday

Women’s Bible Study

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Fr. Bain’s Column

Treasurer’s Report

2

Cursillo

July’s 1st Friday ArtWalk

3

Women’s Bible Study

Baby Bottles Total

Directory

Lift-Up Grocery Drive

Men’s Bible Study

4

Introducing ESC Interns

Birthdays

Anniversaries

5

Centennial Campaign 6

Catie’s Corner

ESC Interns, cont.

7

Altar Guild Schedule

Catechesis

8

ST . PAUL ’S EPISTLE

Transformed by the Holy Spirit, we worship in joy and peace, love one another as Jesus loves us, and

compassionately proclaim the Risen Lord to all we meet.

Dear People of God,

This past Sunday we had a lovely mezzo soprano for the Emerald City Opera sing at the 10:30 am service. At the Offertory she sang “Ave Maria”. It was the tune you know. It has been sung so often (and often so badly) that it is hard to pull off well. Sandra Marante did so. The Rector was so transported by the purity of her voice and the interpretation of the music, that he couldn’t remember to turn the pages as Fr. Bain celebrated Eucha-rist.

With our exquisite icon of Mary holding her son, Jesus, as the backdrop for this surprising moment of stunning beauty, I was caught up in one of those rare mo-ments of spiritual ecstasy. It reminds me of one of my favorite verses from the psalms, “Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, let the whole earth tremble before Him.” Ps. 96:9. Holiness has beauty, it is known not only by behavior, but has an aesthetic quality so powerful that it causes one to tremble. God is not only terrifying in His power, God is also beautiful.

Without the arts to express beauty in our worship, we would be ignoring a God given ability to recognize and celebrate beauty in all its many forms. We try to cre-ate an atmosphere of beauty in our architecture, music, vestments, stain glass, lin-ens, and silver. This is a reflection of the beauty of holiness. People can, of course, elevate outwardly beautiful human stuff until it becomes idolatrous. Then the artist and/or the art becomes the sole center of attention. What is forgotten is that crea-tivity is gift and reflection of the character of God. This is why most authentic icons are not signed by the writer of the icon.

I am mindful that the valley we all enjoy has beauty that is almost intoxicating while teeing off at Haymaker Golf Course on a still summer day. It also has a beauty that is fierce and biting when a blizzard sets in. The forest fire that came near us where we lived in Larimer County, was quite frightening and threat-ening, yet the sight of flames shooting 100 ft. in the air was terrifyingly, power-fully beautiful.

The beauty of holiness is such a lyrical phrase for something that is intrinsically part of the nature of God and God’s creation. It is one of the blessings of being human that we can occasionally be transported out of ourselves into a space that is something like heaven by the gift of an artist.

In Christ’s Service,

Fr. Scott +

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F R . B A I N ’ S C O LUMN

Greetings from the Mission Partnership with St. Mark's Episcopal Church/Lutheran Church of Grace in Craig. Christine and I re-turned from a quick trip to Sacramento, CA, this past week where Christine was literally "up to her eyeballs" in cousins and relatives. Between all of the relatives on her father's side of the family and her mother's side of the family, all living in the California area, it was quite an experience. Christine hasn’t seen some of the cousins for over fifty years, and so it was grand to have time to catch up

and to help celebrate her uncle's 100th birthday. He is using a walker, but takes no medications at all at 100 years of age, thanks be to God!

Since our return we have been busy catching up, although we were only gone for six days, and also were fortunate enough to have our oldest granddaughter "pet and house sit" while we were gone. The rest of the Highlands Ranch side of the family came to Hayden to visit as well this past weekend.

It has taken a bit of time since Gordon Tile-ston's funeral here at St. Mark's Episcopal Church/Lutheran Church of Grace, but the opportunity arose and the weather was finally good to be able to spread the ashes of Gordon and his family from a 1951 Piper Cub over Gordon and Evelyn's ranch prop-erty. Since the ranch and flying were both ex-ceedingly important to not only Gordon, but the entire family, it seemed very fitting to

have their ashes spread from an airplane over the property.

Since we don't talk about Bible studies too often in our newsletter submissions, I thought that I might summarize some of the Bible studies that Christine and I are involved in between Steamboat Springs and Craig on a weekly basis. First of all, we have been teaching a Bible study at Doak Walker House, Casey's Pond for approxi-mately thirteen years now. We are currently having our Bible study at Doak House on Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 p.m., and are studying the readings for the upcoming Sunday each week, looking at incorporating the readings into what might be preached that week. On Tuesday evenings, at 5:30 p.m. the men's Bible study for St. Paul's is conducted in the parish library with an intimate group of men who desire to immerse themselves into the Holy Scripture. We are currently preparing to be intro-duced in detail to Saul (later known as Paul) in the Acts of the Apostles. On Wednes-day evenings, starting at 5:30 p.m. for a light dinner, St. Mark's Episcopal Church is studying the entire Bible in story form, since we found that many people needed a

little additional background in the stories of the Old Testament. All are welcome to attend and we have a delightful study three out of four Wednesdays of the month (the fourth is the monthly Council/Bishop's Committee meeting). On Thursday evenings starting at 5:00 p.m., Chris-tine and I hold a Bible study at the Haven, an assisted living facility, in Hayden. We are also studying the Bible in story format, reminding our-selves of all the glorious stories to be found in the Holy Scriptures.

I have been busy working with Larry Hitt, the Chancellor for the Episco-pal Diocese of Colorado, and the Reverend Canon Carl Andrews for starting the legal process toward federating the congregations/parishes of St. Mark's Episcopal Church and Lutheran Church of Grace into a

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The total contributions for June were over plan by $2,824, giving us a positive variance of $19,320 year to date. Net income is over plan by $19,467 for the year. Expenses are under plan by $4,846 in June, with just a few variances of note. The $914 in Building Repairs is from the reim-bursement from the insur-ance company due to the flood downstairs. Fr. Scott’s health insurance was paid July 1st, so the variance in his compensation will be made up on the July finan-cials. The overage in admin-istrative costs is due to the Easter advertising and the Names & Numbers adver-tising, which were both paid in June. Net income for the year thus far is $15,038, which is a positive variance of $22,766. Operating cash is $55,614, and cash in the Centennial Campaign ac-count is $226,785.

Rebecca Gould Treasurer

Treasurer’s Report

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E P I S CO P A L C UR S I L L O W EEK END , S E P T EMBE R 1 1 - 1 4 TH

St. Paul’s hosted the Center for Visual Arts July’s First Friday ArtWalk on July 4th. Local artists displayed their expressions and descriptions of their Sacred Art. Featured was the artwork of the late Mike Tait. Wine and appe-tizers were offered while people admired this collection in the church’s unique architectural setting.

J U L Y 4 TH F I R S T F R I D A Y A RT W A L K A T S T . P A U L ’ S

F R . B A I N ’ S C OLUMN — C ON T INUED

combined parish known as St. Mark's Church of Grace. The process will be lengthy and will involve much legal detail, but will make the combined/blended parish one in body and spirit as the Body of Christ.

Blessings, Fr. Bain

Colorado Episcopal Cursillo is pleased to announce the next 3-day Cur-sillo weekend, September 11-14, at Highlands Presbyterian Retreat Center near Allenspark, Colorado. The weekend begins on Thursday evening and extends through Sunday afternoon. This event marks the restart of Cur-sillo weekends, which have not been held for the past two years. They are in the process of forming their team, and enrolling candidates for the up-coming retreat. Cursillo

is a Christian formation ministry of the diocese. The Cursillo method embraces a life of prayer, study, and action in the world. The goal is to deepen our experience of the Christian life. The focus is on what God can do with such a life. They are actively collecting applications from Candidates/Sponsors and Team members. Application forms, which include more information, are available at www.cocursillo.org. Anyone who seeks further information about this weekend or about the Cursillo ministry in general can contact the Rev. Scott Turner at 970-879-0925 or the Rev. Don Seils at 303-523-1315. Per-sons interested in attending the weekend can contact Sean McGaughey at 720-841-5788 or Chelli McGaughey at 303-709-4903.

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Women’s Bible Study group is slowly working their way through the Gospel of Luke. The Book of Luke has more parables than any other book in the Bible. The group is working on the parable of the Prodigal Son. There is always a lively

W OMEN ’ S B I B L E S TUD Y

discussion. You don’t want to miss this great group study!

All women are invited to come join Louise Wu as she teaches this class at anytime even if you can only come to a few classes. The group meets on Thursdays from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. in the Parish Library.

MEN’S BIBLE STUDY

The Men's Bible Study group is working on the book Acts of the Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles often re-ferred to simply as Acts, is the fifth book of the New Testament; Acts outlines the history of the Apostolic Age.

It is almost universally agreed that the author of Acts also wrote the Gospel of Luke. The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist.

Modern scholars assign a wide range of genres to the Acts of the Apostles, including biography, novel and history. Most, however, interpret the genre as epic stories of early Christian miracles and conversions.

All men are invited to come and join in the lively discussions on Tuesday evenings 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Parish Library!

S E L AH ’ S B A B Y B O T T L E S C AM P A I G N T O T A L F R OM S T . P AU L ’ S St. Paul’s parishioner out did yourselves! Colleen Parker from Selah says, “Thank you to the congregation for this blessing to our ministry.” The total donated by St. Paul’s this year is the most of all times coming in at $797.07. A big round of applause for you! This is a great help to those of Routt County that Selah serves. The Power in Penny Power is awesome! Way to go St. Paul’s!!

S T . P AU L ’ S C HUR CH D I R E C T O R Y

August is St. Paul’s Lift-Up grocery donation month. There are paper grocery bags in the Narthex (entry) for you to take to the grocery store and fill. There is a list on the bag of nutritious items they need for

their “Go, Slow, & Whoa Foods” campaign. They appreciate all donations, but would like to have healthy foods. Also, there is list of personal items that are appreciated.

Please give nutritiously!

L I F T - U P G R O C E R Y D R I V E

St. Paul’s Church Directory

This is the last call to update your information and/or picture for St. Paul’s directory. Please email your information to Elsie at [email protected]. If you want to update your picture, send a fun photo

taken with your phone if you like. If you have an alternate address that you would like to have listed, please send it. We are publishing in-house this time, so we have the option of including more information.

Watch for the Directory’s arrival!

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Happy Birthday

Aug. 2—Mike Poirot

Aug. 3—Becky Brown, Amie Cooke, Emma Cooke & Mary

Wilkins

Aug. 9—Bill Schurman

Aug. 10—Toby Leeson

Aug. 11—Virginia Everard

Aug. 12—Carol Hackett & Mary Jane Short

Aug. 13—Ted Jones

Aug. 15—Judy Greenlee & Maureen Hebard

Aug. 16—Brenden Carta

Aug. 18—Nancy Kirwin

Aug. 21—Carol Poirot

Aug. 22—Connie Brown

Aug. 26—Juanita Willcutt

Aug. 27—Erik Steinberg & Fred Wolf

Aug. 29—Johnny Mason

I NT RODU C I NG S T . P AU L ’ S E S C I NT E RN S

Chris Barton—Partners of Routt County

I am 32, was born in Fort Hood, TX but raised in the northern Virginia area near Fredericksburg. My family is fairly large with 2 brothers and one sister. While being brought up in this area we attended Baptist churches in the area where I was involved in the youth group activities. I came to accept Christ at the age of 14 while at a week long summer camp with the youth group.

In the year 2000 I graduated high school and started looking forward. Originally I at-tempted working in the clinical field, but after 2 months of a radiology tech school I found out that I was not built for that field. I worked retail for about 2 1/2-3 years until moving into insurance where I discovered my talents for service. After some years with GEICO then selling cars in Fredericksburg I started back to college and graduated with my Associate's Degree from Germanna Community College. After that I started working toward my Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Mary Washington, which I have just completed and graduated in May of 2014.

I enjoy spending time chatting and joking around with people, swimming, snow-boarding, cooking, movies, games and trying new things. I really am interested in lan-guages, particularly Italian, Japanese and a few others. I was recently bitten by the travel bug and have been able to do more travelling in the last 3-4 years than I had previously. I have been to Bermuda on a cruise for my brother's wedding; Florida to visit a friend at the University of Miami; California to visit my best friend who had just finished his time with the Marines at Camp Pendleton; and Steamboat Springs, CO for my cousin's wedding. While I was in Steamboat Springs I met Father Scott Turner who introduced me to the program and suggested that I look into the oppor-tunity. I am excited to meet everybody and look forward to working with you all.

Weslie Detwiler—Boys & Girls Club of Northwest Colorado

I’m a proud Ohio native from the small town of Columbiana, which I love dearly. I recently received my Bachelor of Arts in Communication from the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. In school, I closely studied interpersonal communication, which simply means that building, forming and maintaining relationships are some of my greatest passions. With a minor in studio fine art, I also love working with my hands to create artwork from just about anything including clay, metal, fabric, etc.

I love all things lovely including visual and literary arts, wildflowers, big dogs, new places, snail mail, the ocean, friendship and corny jokes. I smile whenever I am re-minded that the goodness of all these things comes from Jesus. I’ve never traveled west, but I can’t stop thinking about the beauty of mountains and fresh air, which is a huge indicator to me that Colorado ESC is exactly where I’m meant to be!

Anna Holleman—Yampatika

My name is Anna Holleman, and I am thrilled to be a part of the Colorado ESC this year. I am from Greenville, South Carolina and recently graduated from Clemson University with a degree in psychol-ogy. I come from a diverse denominational background, including being raised in a Presbyterian church, spending half of my life at a Catholic summer camp, and attending a nondenominational church during college. I am excited to be a part of an Episcopal community this year in order to learn more about the influence of history and lit-urgy on community life.

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Happy Anniversary

Aug. 4—Suzanne & Bill Speaker

Aug. 11—Jean & Charles Swanson

Aug. 13—Ann & Eph Holmes

Aug. 14—Carol & Don Allen

Aug. 15—Karen & David Street, Flora & Fred Wolf

Aug. 22—Barb & Jim Ficke, Carol & Lou Harris, Boyda &

Bob Hood

Aug. 23—Naomi & Denny Hopkins

Aug. 27—Kate & Matt Elkins

Aug. 28—Mary & Joe Harker

Aug. 29—Anne & David Hood

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CENTENNIAL CAMPA IGN UPDATE

$100,000

$400,000

$300,000

$200,000

$250,000

$350,000

$150,000

$550,000

$500,000

$450,000

$650,000

$700,000

$600,000

$850,000

$800,000

$750,000

52 Families

Pledged $726,400 pledged

$420,092 paid

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CAT IE ’ S CORNER

I magine.

That was the word of en-couragement three years ago at our state-wide di-

ocesan convention. The keynote speaker was a young man from Utah speaking about his experi-ence as a member of the Episcopal Service Corps and how it lead him to be addressing the clergy and

laity of Colorado that day. Imagine. That’s just what the clergy and delegates of St. Paul’s, Steamboat Springs did. As a result, four young adults will be arriv-ing here the week of August 18, initiating our inaugural year of Centennial House, our Episcopal Service Corps ministry.

Over the next 10 months these four people, working in

our four partner agencies – LIFT-UP, Partners of Routt County, Boys & Girls Club, and Yampatika – will touch and influence thousands of lives, including

ours. Imagine what we might learn and become. Imag-

ine who we might meet and befriend. Imagine how we might participate in the growth and development of

these Service Corps members, and the move-ment of the Holy Spirit.

Imagine

Peace,

Catie

The Willows Townhomes

1118 Nature’s Lane

(Just around the corner of Walton Creek & Chinook Lane)

INTERNS—CONT INUED

In addition to exploring theology, I am eager to explore Colorado’s wilderness after spending twelve summers in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In my spare time, I love to take walks, drink coffee, skip rocks, and read anything by or about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I enjoy cow suits, water parks, and college football. I recently ran my first half mara-thon, and I am learning to play the ukulele.

Michael Mazzarella—Lift-Up of Routt County

Michael Mazzarella comes from Pacific Palisades, California. He is a graduate from the University of San Diego with a major in English, and spent much of his time there involved with Campus Ministry activities.

He hopes to bring this same passion to his time in the ESC, working with Lift-Up of Routt

County. He is also an avid runner and skier, and a decent ballroom dancer. In the future, Michael aspires to continue working in the nonprofit world as a grant writer.

Centennial House

CALENDAR 2014

August 18 – Service Corps Members Arrive

August 24-30 – Orientation Retreat: Cathedral

Ridge

September 2 – First Day at Work

September 7 – Commissioning of Service

Corps Members

October 2-4 – Diocesan Convention

November 27 – Thanksgiving

December 4-6 – Advent Retreat: Cathedral

Ridge

December 25 – Christmas Day

2015

February 18 – Ash Wednesday

March 5-7 – Lent Retreat: Cathedral Ridge

April 5 – Easter

July 2-4 – Year End Retreat: Steamboat

Springs

July 17 – Last day of Work

July 19 – Closing Commissioning & Departure

Ways for You to Participate: � Welcome Crew, Stock house, Steamboat tours, Meal provision

� Host Family

� Ministry Team Member

� Small Formation Groups

� Discernment Team

� Event Invites/Tickets

� House Meals on Thursdays

� Community Meals

� Community Nights

Please contact Catie Greene for more information or to sign-up.

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St . Paul ’s Episcopal Church

9th & Oak Streets

P.O. Box 770722

Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

970-879-0925

The Rt. Rev. Robert J. O’Neill

Bishop of the Diocese of Colorado

The Rev. Scott Turner—Rector

[email protected]

The Rev. Bain White—Mission Partnership Vicar

[email protected]

The Rev. Catie Greene—Assoc. for Young Adults & Youth:

[email protected]

Mrs. Elsie Wodnik—Adminstrative Assistant

[email protected]

Mrs. Teri Rose—Director of Music

A L T A R G U I L D

Altar Guild is a wonderful way to serve your church. Please talk to Jill Elder to become a member at 819-4448! August Schedule:

August 10 & 17—Ann Holmes & Linda Palmer

August 24 & 31—Jill Elder & Linda Palmer

The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program will begin on Sunday, September 21st. They meet in the Atrium (the carefully prepared environment) below the stairs to the church office beginning at 9:20 a.m. for one hour.

The CGS program is a Montessori-type of relational faith formation centered upon the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. It is an experience of love based on John 10:14 “I know my sheep and my sheep know me.” We all listen together to the words of Jesus and respond from the heart to questions that help us wonder and ponder and discover more about the Good Shepherd, who He is, what gifts He gave us, what His kingdom is like, how and why we celebrate the Eucharist, Baptism, Parables, Geography of the Land of Israel, and more. We also respond through art activities and songs and prayers and movement.

The CGS program is organized into three Levels. Level I is for children ages 3 to 6; Level II is for ages 6 to 9 and Level III is for ages 9 to 12. Our Atrium is prepared for Levels I and II at this time. The older children have a prepared curriculum called “Hands on Bible Learning.”

Your trained Catechists are Carol Poirot and Christine White. We will be entering into our 9th year here at St. Paul’s with this program. The Atrium has become a special, sacred and joyful place for the children to be.

Please contact: Christine White, (970) 276-4165 or [email protected] with any questions you may have about our program.

C A T E CH E S I S


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