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Third Thursday: GraceBuilders 39ers • Sunday School
Outreach • Pastoral CareReligion & Violence
School NewsCalendar Highlights
News of Bygone DaysWomen's RetreatNeedlework Guild
Tiffany/Gorham WindowsMemorials/HonorariumsLooking Towards Sunday
Athletics • Youth Activities
The MessengerGrace-St. Luke’s Episcopal ChurchVolume 62, No. 1 Jan. 2015
Inside This Issue20-30@GSL ................................................................ 439ers ......................................................................... 4Altar Flowers............................................................. 11Athletics ..................................................................... 7Bread & Butter Pickles .................................................. 8Bygone Days ............................................................ 12Calendar Highlights .................................................... 12Christian Education ..................................................... 9Exchange Club Thank-you ............................................. 7EYC News ................................................................... 7From the Rector .......................................................... 3Lay Schedule ............................................................ 11Looking Towards Sunday ............................................ 11Member News ........................................................... 11Memorials and Honoraria ............................................ 11Needlework Guild ........................................................ 8Outreach Ministries ...................................................... 6Pastoral Care Corner .................................................... 7School News ............................................................. 10Third Thursday ............................................................ 4This Sunday's Texts ................................................... 11We have seven...Make that one... Tiffany ........................ 5Women's Retreat ......................................................... 4
On the cover: Edith Heller, chair of the GraceBuilders project, will join Tim Bolding and Gayle+ as the program for the January 2015 Third Thursday dinner (see. p. 4).
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Sunday Service Times8 am Holy Eucharist8:45 am Breakfast9:30 am Christian Education (Sept.–May)10:30 am Holy Eucharist5:30 pm Holy EucharistNursery available for all services except the 5:30 pm service.
Office Hours8:00 am to 4:00 pm Monday–Friday
StaffThe Rev. Richard Lawson, RectorThe Rev. Gayle McCarty, Associate RectorChristi Authement, Athletics & Fellowship Dir.Beulah Brown, SextonBeth Claybrook, Financial AssistantWesley Emerson, Organist/ChoirmasterSharon Campbell, Children's Education DirectorConnie Johns, Membership & NewcomersEva Loftin, Assistant Nursery DirectorChapman Morrow, Parish Development OfficerLucy Owens, Communications DirectorHarriet Roberts, Adult Education DirectorDebbie Smith, Music AssociateLinda Stine, Finance & AdministrationMary Margaret Winn, Youth Minister
2015 Vestry Grant Adams, Juan Fuentes, Edith Heller, John Huber, Hal Medling, Jim Mercer, Rob Norcross, Virginia Rowland, Donna Sanders, Cynthia Saatkamp, King Self, Josh Shipley, Maura Sullivan, Betsy Wilson, Ken Woodmansee and.
Vestry and Executive Committee The vestry meets the third Tuesday of each month in Trezevant Hall. The Executive Committee meets the Friday before vestry at 7:45 am in the Peete Conference Room. These meetings are open to the parish. Vestry members are also available to convey matters of importance from parishioners to the vestry. Watch your eNews and eMessenger for the links to the vestry minutes. To be added to the eNews/eMessenger distribution lists, contact Lucy Owens, [email protected]. Vestry email: [email protected]
Messenger DeadlineThe deadline for the February issue of The Messenger is 9 am, January 15! Contact Lucy at 272-7425 or [email protected] with any questions.
Support Groups at GSLMeeting from 12:20–12:40
AA meetings: Tuesdays, 6:30 pm
Narcotics Anonymous: Sundays, 8 pm
Al Anon: Thursdays, 10:30 am
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: Mondays & Thursdays, 8 pm
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From the Rector: Religion and ViolenceSome say the etymology of the word religion lies with the Latin wordreligare, which means “to tie, to bind.” If so, the roots of religion have to do with restoring the relationship between
what has been separated, whether two human beings or two groups or, existentially, Almighty God and human nature. Religion in this sense has to do with reconciliation.
Would that all religious people lived religiously! I have been told that Ghandi—the great Hindu—said once that he had no problem with Christ, but a lot of problems with the behavior of Christians.
The question of why religion so often inspires separation and violence—not reconciliation—is perhaps the most urgent question we face. Globally, there are examples of religiously sanctioned violence, not least in the terrorism of ISIS. Closer to home, people of faith and good will are asking profound
questions about the use of force and when it is justified, especially with regard to law enforcement.
For these reasons, I am so intrigued by our series on “Religion and Violence” in the Rector’s Forum. We have three remarkable guest speakers, including our own parishioner, Dr. Andrew Michta (who teaches at Rhodes). I am thrilled that we will host a seminary classmate of mine, the Reverend Dr. Deonna Neal, who is the former chair of ethics at the Air Force Academy. Dr. Michta will address the global scene, and Dr. Neal will discuss the ethical doctrine of just war (that is, the rationale behind the use of force in extreme situations). Dr. Stephen Haynes from Rhodes—a friend of our school and parish, as well as a prominently published author—will introduce and conclude the series.
I encourage you to invite friends and neighbors. This series promises to be engaging for anyone of good will who wonders what religion should really be about.
The Reverend Richard Lawson
Rector’s Forum
Sundays at 9:30 am in Trezevant
Jan. 4 Religion and Violence with the Reverend Dr. Stephen Haynes, Professor, Rhodes College Jan. 11 Just War: When is Force Justifiable with the Reverend Dr. Deonna Neal, Former William Lyon Chair in Professional Ethics at the Air Force Academy
Jan. 18 NO CLASS/MLK weekend
Jan. 25 Religion and Violence in Today’s World with Dr. Andrew Michta, the M. W. Buckman Distinguished Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College, a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Feb. 1 Nonviolence & Pacifism: When is Nonviolence Justifiable? with the Reverend Dr. Stephen Haynes, Professor, Rhodes College
Feb. 8 From ISIS to Ferguson, Missouri: Christian Perspectives with the Reverend Dr. Stephen Haynes, Professor, Rhodes College
Stephen Haynes
Deonna Neal
Andrew Michta
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20s&30s is taking a hiatus during January, but stay tuned for info about lunches and “this round’s on Me” beginning again in February!
For more information, please contact: Mary Margaret Winn ([email protected]) or Fr. Richard Lawson ([email protected]).
If you would like to have your email added to the evite list, please contact Lucy Owens at [email protected]. All are welcome!!
Connecting for Fellowship, Food,
Fun, and God!
20-30@GSL
39ers Welcome the Rev. Eyleen Farmer on Jan. 9 Program: Justice and Bees
The 39ers will meet for their January meeting on the 9th. We will gather at 11:30 am for social time with wine and cheese and conversation on happenings of Christmas and the New Year. A light lunch will be served at noon for $6. The program following will feature the Rev. Eyleen Farmer. The topic will be Justice and Bees. Come hear the story about Thistle Farms and the Magdalene Community in Nashville. This will give you food for thought. Reservations to Lucy by noon on Jan. 7, [email protected] or 272-7425. All are welcomed to attend.
Third Thursday Dinner Group
Start out 2015 on a positive note by marking your calendar with all our Third Thursday dates through May:
January 15, February 12 (note that this is the 2nd Thursday!)March 19, April 16, and May 21
Then make plans to come in January to hear Gayle+, Edith Heller, and Tim Bolding share a few success stories from the GraceBuilders project and other GSL Outreach programs. Come find out the how the gifts of time and talent from the GSL community have and will touch the lives of many in Memphis area and beyond.
Third Thursday dinners are designed to include empty nesters and anyone else who wants to spend a fun evening with others. Come socialize over drinks and appetizers at 6:30 pm in Trezevant Hall. Dinner is at 7, and the program follows. You’ll be home by 8:30 having had a wonderful time for a most reasonable fee.
Make your dinner reservations no later than Tuesday, Jan. 13, by calling Lucy Owens at the church office (272-7425) or by email at [email protected]. In keeping with church policy, your reservation is your agreement to pay. You can pay in advance online at www.gracestlukes.org/events/third-thursday
GSL Women’s Retreat: "Letting Go for Lent"Feb. 27–Mar. 1Facilitator Linda Douty
Lent is about more than giving up chocolate!Lent can be the beginning of a New You!
Lent is a time to take stock—a time to offer ourselves to God’s guidance and to participate in our own spiritual deepening. And that means discovering what is standing in our way and letting it go.
We never seem to run out of things to let go:* Sometimes we need to let go of a person in order to move on* Sometimes we cling to a role that no longer suits us* Sometimes it’s a point of view or a pattern that blocks our
growth* Sometimes our limited dreams keep us from joining the Divine
dream for us* Sometimes we must let go of who we think we are in order to
become who we truly are
Weaving together the letting go stories in her own life with those of others, Linda will help us dig out not only our humorous control issues, but our more serious barriers to a deeper relationship with God, self and others.
As we explore new and unusual Lenten practices that assist the let-ting go process, we will be set free to participate fully in the resur-rection of new life on Easter morning.
Plan to join us. Registration will begin January 10!
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We have seven …. make that one … Tiffany.
One recent morning, I opened an email from a scholar documenting Tiffany windows. The night before, I had gone to bed as a member of a church chock full of glorious Tiffany windows.
This morning, not so much.
For those of you who weren’t yet aware that we have seven Tiffany windows at Grace-St. Luke’s, don’t worry about it. We don’t. We have one. Turns out a guy named Gorham took the other six in 1907. It has recently come to light, or dark if you prefer, that while the Ascension Window is indeed the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and installed under his personal supervision above the altar of Grace Church, the other windows we have long thought to be Tiffany, and authenticated as such, are actually the work of the Gorham Company of New York. The Ascension Window is the large window on the back or south wall of GSL above the balcony, providing a stunning view for those who leave the altar after receiving communion. The ad to your right from The Churchman in September of 1907 clearly shows five of our windows in production for Grace Church. Since one is an angel window, we must naturally assume (here we go again) that Gorham also did the other angel, the sixth window, as part of the same commission. Gorham and Tiffany were major competitors and their work has many similarities in design and technique. Well, duh. Interestingly (he said, saving face), the designer of The Last Supper mosaic above our altar was commissioned by Gorham in 1924 for Grace Church.
Anyway, Tiffany remains in the building, holding sway above our front doors. His old competitor, Gorham, gets the chapel and Trezevant Hall.
All seven windows remain glorious.
I’m reminded of something Bishop Johnson said to me recently, “All stories are true. Some are factual.”
Ascension Window
TrezevantWindows
ChapelWindows
OutreachMinistry
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GSL OUTREACHLOVING SERVICE TO OTHERS
by The Rev. Gayle McCarty
In the past two months, you have generously supported the many offerings provided by the GSL Outreach Committee. At the Thanksgiving Day service, you honored the 75th anniversary of Episcopal Relief & Development and Betty Johnson’s 13th year serving as the Diocesan Coordinator for this ministry with donations totaling $1022. This amount will be doubled under the ERD’s 2014 Matching Gift Challenge.
The Crossmen continued their partnership with Outreach with our annual Thanksgiving Basket project. This year’s 41 recipients were fami l ies ident i f ied by parishioner, Jenay Gipson, who teaches at Lester Elementary School in Binghampton, and by Onie Johns of Caritas. We extend a huge thank you to Ed Hord, Hal Melding and Lance Martin for their
joyful leadership as chairs of this offering along with Feed the Needy who makes all this possible.
Once again, you all embraced our annual Angel Tree Drive which benefited 60 children at the Exchange Club Family Center of Memphis. Chairs, Julia McDonald, Juli Hurdle & Katie Savage did an amazing job coordinating this drive & Mary Margaret Winn & the EYC wrapped all the gifts & books. Thanks to your big hearts, many children had a Merry Christmas this year!
At the time of this writing, the GSL Food Pantry Honorarium/Memorial drive is ongoing & proving to be a promising December fundraiser for our in-house ministry. Thank you to Erin Shoughrue & Juan Fuentes who assisted me in spearheading this offering.
Heartfelt thanks to the many volunteers who assisted with all of these holiday offerings & to each of you who supported them. Because of you, GSL’s Outreach keeps extending its reach into the wider community and the world by living into the Christian call to be an instrument of healing in our broken world.
Food Pantry Facts by Juan Fuentes
Thank you for your generous support in our December Honorarium/Memorial holiday drive. Your support al-lows us to continue providing for those in need in our community. May God bless us always!
November Statistics
Number of Families served: 96 households which include 114 adults, 104 children, and 21 seniors.
Volunteer hours: 31.2 hours which included 7 hours distributing food, 8.5 hours in food bank pick-ups and shelving, 9.5 shopping and shelving, 6.2 hours clean-ing and organizing (not including the hours spent by volunteer packers).
Year-to-date Statistics: 1,930 individuals served which includes: 688 households (880 adults, 897 chil-dren, and 153 seniors).
Mark your calendar! The last Sunday in January—January 25—is FOOD PANTRY SUNDAY! We are asking you to bring tuna, soap, toilet paper, tooth paste, tooth brushes.
Volunteers are always needed! To volunteer, call Happy Jones at 901-276-2136 or email [email protected].
“It is one of the most beau-tiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
THANK YOU! - 5th Graders, GSL Schoolfrom the GSL Food Pantry Ministry
We are grateful for your holiday food drive. You all did a great job collecting non-perishable foods and you collected what we really need-ed—peanut butter, tuna, canned meats, and much more. This will help the Food Pantry feed families for at least a few months, depending on how many families we get assigned to us. Our deepest gratitude to Ms. Colleen House-holder for supervising the project, Mr. Mike Boyer for organizing it, and all the 5th grade students for your hard work collecting, separating, and helping bring the food to the Food Pantry. We appreciate and thank you! You Rock!
Happy New Year! January is a busy month for youth, so stay up-to-date on our many offerings and events!
Sunday, Jan. 4—Feast of Lights: Begin the new year with a candlelight Epiphany service of lessons and carols. Hosted by St. Mary’s Cathedral and the Diocesan Youth Council, we will join friends from around the diocese for the youth event (4 pm), Epiphany service (6 pm), and burning of the greens (7 pm). Youth are asked to bring scarves, coats, hats, and gloves for a cold weather clothes drive. There will be food and games before the service. Hope to see everyone there!
Sunday, Jan. 11—Anglican Communion Sunday: Come cel-ebrate the Anglican Communion at EYC! We will have a unique gathering of games and activities from around the world and finish with an international dinner. (Jr. 5:30, Dinner 6:30, Sr. 7)
Friday, Jan. 16- Sunday, Jan. 18— Diocesan Youth Ski Trip: We are going back to Hidden Valley, MO for another fun week-end of skiing and fellowship! We are staying at a local Episcopal Church, skiing for two days, and spending time with youth from all over the diocese. For information and forms, please visit the website or email Mary Margaret. The final deadline for registration is Wednesday, Jan. 7.
No EYC on Sunday, January 18
Sunday, Jan. 25—Jerusalem in 3D: EYC will go to The Pink Palace to watch the amazing short film about The Holy Land. We will conclude with a tour of the museum and dinner.
Contact: Mary Margaret ([email protected]).
EYC Newsand Events
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Pastoral CareCorner
New Year for Pastoral CareBy The Rev. Gayle McCarty
The New Year is a time for new beginnings for each of us and for the GSL Pastoral Care ministry. We say THANK YOU and Godspeed to Debbie McCanless as she ends her term as co-coordinator of Pastoral Care and takes a break from service in this ministry. We will miss Debbie & her many pastoral gifts. As she begins a new chapter in life waiting to be written, we send her off with the words from a song, As You Go on Your Way, by John Ylvisaker:
As you go on your way, may God go with you.May God go before you to show you the way.May God go behind you to encourage you;beside you to befriend you;above you to watch over;within you to give you peace.
We welcome Juan Fuentes as the new co-coordinator. Amanda & I look forward to stepping into the days ahead with Juan knowing that 2015 will be a transformative year of delight and discovery as to what God has planned for us in Pastoral Care.
It is a joy to serve with you all!
Spring Soccer
GSL Church sponsors a spring soccer program for JK–4th grades. It is a 6 game “mini-season” with games April 10–May 29. The season is designed to continue skill development during the spring. We strive to keep teams together from the previous fall and no assessments are needed.
By design, a parent liaison directs this program. Please email Christi at [email protected], or call (825-7353) if interested in the parent liaison position.
Spring soccer registration is January 1-31 and can be accessed through the GSL Church website at www.gracestlukes.org/youth-sports/spring-soccer. beginning Jan 1. Please refer to the website listed above for ALL information regarding spring soccer. Registration does fill up quickly, so please register sooner than later!
Church Athletics
Thank you, from the Exchange Club
Family CenterOn behalf of the children being served at the Exchange Club Family Center, I would like to thank GSL for selecting the Center as the recipient of the “Angel Tree” donations. Also, I want to thank the wonderful church members who took an angel and made the holidays a happier and more exciting time for 58 children! –Barbara King, Executive Director”
Linda Niell and Beth Claybrook bring their Angel Tree gifts on
Collection Sunday
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Bread & Butter Picklesby Harriet Roberts
I have had a few wonderful dreams in my life where a person—who has died—comes back to me. In these dreams (which I just love) I am able to talk to that person who has been profoundly and achingly missing from my life. The dreams are so real and so precious that when I wake—in my semi-somnambulance—I am sure I can still feel their presence. I am sure that I will remember their words or their touch or their very warmth. Snuggled under the covers, and with my eyes tight shut, I try to hold on to their visit as long as I can. But, inevitably, the specifics of the encounter vanish before my feet even hit the floor.
But, I have found that I can also make that same wonderful feeling occur when I make pickles.
Every July, I break out my canning equipment and I make my grandmother’s pickles. It has taken gardening Stephen and canning me a few years (OK—about seven years, actually) to correctly determine the number of cucumber vines necessary to yield the right number of cucumbers: Too few vines and not enough are ready at the same time, but too many and our production is potentially so prolific that I cannot keep up. But, to be honest, even if we didn’t eat them, I would make pickles because the process brings me into the presence of my sweet grandmother, Tati*, who died a very long time ago. Making pickles has become a rapid and sure-fire way to blast myself into Tati’s very aura. When she and my grandfather had a farm, pickles were central to their summer routine.
In fact, Tati made them every single summer until she was no longer physically able. I have vivid memories of watching her as she stood facing the picture window in the kitchen cutting cucumber slices for hours. She always wore a blouse and a skirt, white Keds, and an apron tied around her waist. Watching her prepare the cucumbers was almost a religious solemnity for me. We, as children, were booted out of the house every day after breakfast and we were expected to play on the farm. So,
my memory was formed as I was herded out the kitchen door. When we came back in for lunch we always smelled the pickles cooking and saw the jars lined up on the kitchen table to cool. It seemed that Tati made pickles day after day after day always using the same recipe:
Tati’s Bread & Butter Pickles15 cups sliced pickling cucumbers 3 onions, thinly sliced 1/4 cup coarse salt 4 cups cracked ice 2 1/2 cups cider vinegar 2 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 teaspoon celery seed 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
Directions:Combine cucumbers, onions, salt and ice in a large bowl and mix well.
Put a weight on top of the pickles and allow to stand 3 hours. (I use an inverted plate with a gallon bottle of vinegar or water on it).After 3 hours, Rinse and drain thoroughly.To the cucumbers and onions add the vin-egar, sugar, turmeric, celery seed and mustard seed in a large pot.Place pot on medium low heat and bring almost to a boil, but do not allow to boil.Remove from heat.Seal in sterilized jars, 10 minutes in a hot water bath.
Even the actual pickle-making process at the farm was predictable. Cutting the cucumbers took forever until, in the late 70’s, my grand-mother acquired a brand new gadget called a ‘Cuisinart’. What used to take her hours took her minutes. About this reality she was quite rightly ecstatic! There were years when the cucumbers didn’t come in well and there was much conversation about whether my grand-parents would have enough to last through to the next crop. There was a summer when my grandfather was sick and pickles did not seem important. Though, when he was better, I believe they started every single lunch by saying how much they missed the pickles.
My grandparents—who clearly liked routine—had pickles with their sandwiches every day for lunch.
When I make them, I am not like my grand-mother. For example, I don’t use a Cusinart. I use a mandolin to cut the slices and I say a prayer of thanksgiving each time I wash it
and put it away since I know how lethal those things can be. I also have changed the recipe a bit: I add ¼ teaspoon of red pepper flakes and (because my sister and I particularly liked the way the mustard seeds pop when you bite them) I add a whole can of mustard seeds to each batch. I think Tati would approve. Or, at least she wouldn’t mind. I even delight in the fact that Classico pasta sauces come in jars which are perfect (PERFECT) to use for pickle making. I have used new jars, old jars, large jars, small jars, nostalgic blue jars (they looked weird), and recycled jars.
I have even been making pickles long enough to know which of my friends like them (some of them beg for a case) and which of my friends take them politely, but just stick them on a shelf in their pantry.
As I think about it, I love that my grandparents were such creatures of habit and I have tried to implement the same traditions. I fail. But for the two consecutive days I am actually able to serve sandwiches and pickles for lunch I am embraced by wonderful, happy memories.
Who knew pickles could be so nostalgia provoking?
What do you do to connect yourself with your most precious memories? Who comes to you in your sweetest of dreams? How do you keep family members alive in your heart? What traditions do you suppose will last after you can no longer carry them out? Sometimes, when I am standing over a hot water bath, I wonder about these things.
*’Tati’ is Arabic for grandmother. My uncle and his family were stationed in the Middle East during the 60’s and 70’s. His children called my grandmother Tati and it stuck.
Needlework Guild
Sunday, Jan. 114–7 Pm
Room 212
Harriet [email protected],
Adult Christian Education OfferingsSee "Rector's Forum" on page 3
December Christian Education Offerings for Children and Youth
9:30 until 10:15 am
Nursery (1st floor Nursery area with the Nursery Staff )Infant Room (Newborn to Walking)Toddler Room (Walking to Potty Training)
Little Lambs Pre-Atrium (1st floor Nursery area with the Nursery Staff )Big Kid Room (Potty Training to Atrium-Ready)
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Level I (Location: Atrium I) 3–6 yrs. (Pre-K, JK and SK)Lead Catechist: Jennifer Balink; Assistant: Julia Ramos
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd - Level II (Location: Atrium II) 6–9 yrs. (1st, 2nd and 3rd Grade) Lead Catechist: Eva Loftin; Assistant: Marie Arkle
Holy Men, Holy Women (Location: Room 212)4th–5th GradeStaff: Julie O’Bryan
EpiscoTalk 1016th–8th Grade; Time: 9:30–10:15 am
Leaders: Daniel Williams, Shannon HoffmanLocation: The Red Door, Red Room
High School Huddle (Starting Nov. 16)9th–12th GradeTime: Breakfast, 9:00–9:30 am and Rector’s Forum, 9:30–10:15 am
Location: Trezevant Hall
Children’s Activity TableDuring Coffee Hour after the 10:30 am serviceLocation: Room 212 &/or the Lobby of McClure
Jan. 4 Beaded pipe cleaner snowflakesJan. 11 BingoJan. 18 No Sunday School / No CATJan. 25 Paper Valentines for MTAM Valentine Meal
Children’s Education: Sharon [email protected], 272-7425, ext. 24
Adult Education: Harriet [email protected], 272-7425, ext. 15
Christian EducationSharon Campbell, Director of Children's Education
Harriet Roberts, Director of Adult Education
La Posada 2014by Sharon Campbell
Another fabulous La Posada has come and gone, and a GREAT time was had by all!
Candles flickered, Christmas carols rang, and happily costumed children bustled around the sanctuary behind Mary and Joseph as they searched old Bethlehem for a place to stay. Processing into Trezevant, we were greeted by the peaceful ambience of piano and guitar wafting through the air, and under the enchanting glow of Christmas lights, we followed the kind innkeeper to her stable for the closing carol and prayers.
A tremendous Mexican feast complete with tacos, tamales, rice, beans, and all the fixings was followed by piñata time, where wee kids to big kids took a swing at cracking open a colorful striped horse, a giant party hat, and a bedazzled Christmas tree. When the last piñata was nothing but a dangling shred of cardboard and tissue, and not a stray candy remained, we knew this had been a successful La Posada.
It takes the generosity and dedication of many parishioners who give their time and talents to prepare, set up, put on, and clean up such a grand event. I won’t know every name to include here, but our sincere gratitude goes to all who helped in every way, especially to the Queen of La Posada, Mrs. Donna Sanders. Donna and all her helpers are dear to our hearts, and we thank each of them for their parts in creating one of our most delightful and memorable Christmas traditions here at Grace St.-Luke’s.
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No Classes January 18
Trezevant Hall was decorated beautifually for La Posada
with many creches displayed.
Mark was the perfect shepherd with his shepherd's crook, sheep and long robe, head mantle & belt.
Happy New Year! GSL is back in session starting Jan. 5, and we hope everyone enjoyed a wonderful Christmas holiday. I want to thank the church clergy and staff for the beautiful all-school Christmas Chapel service held before we closed for the break in December. That is always such a wonderful way for us to celebrate Advent together and help our students focus on the real reason for the season!
Our first week back at school kicks off with Basketball Homecoming on Friday, Jan. 9. We will have FIVE games going on in the Anchor and Saints Gyms, plus the presentation of all of our 8th graders and their families. This is a special annual tradition for the graduating class and it will be an exciting night at GSL!
We are also in the crunch time for admissions, so PLEASE continue to help us spread the word about our exceptional program here at GSL. We have admissions testing going on every weekend, but it’s not too late to inquire, visit, and apply! So tell your friends with little ones to email [email protected] if they would like to take a closer look at GSL.
There are also some important January events that are open to the public, and I hope you will join us! See details below.
Toddler Sewing Club for 2s and 3s: Tuesday, Jan. 13, at 9 am in the Anchor CenterIf you have a toddler in your life, please come join us for age-appropriate sewing activities your child or grandchild will love! RSVP: [email protected].
10th Annual Lisa Lassandrello 5K Remembrance Race Saturday, Jan. 24, at 9:00 am at GSL SchoolThis event is held in memory of long-time GSL administrative assistant Lisa Lassandrello, who worked at GSL for 19 years until her death in 2004 after a brave, year-long battle with cancer. This is a fun family event benefiting GSL, St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School, and Wings Cancer Foundation, on a beautiful, flat race course through Central Gardens! Register today at www.racesonline.com to join us. Run or walk, all are welcome! Many thanks to this year’s sponsors: (Gold) Eclectic Eye, Montgomery Martin, Tri-State Truck Center, and Sodexo; (Silver) Breakaway Running, Kappi & Tom Beazley, Nancy Taylor, Barbara & Mike Daush, DECA Global, Knowledge Tree, and the Herbert and Woodmansee Families.
Italian Dinner Hosted by the Eighth GradeThursday, Jan. 29, in Trezevant HallThis delicious dinner is an annual GSL tradition, and proceeds help defray the cost of the eighth grade students’ year-end class trip to Nantahala. So please come by and enjoy the fun with your school family and friends. Dine in or take-out will be available. Tickets on sale online; see our website for more info.
School Newsby Thor Kvande
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Musician and GSL parent Luther Dickinson, one of the church’s guest presenters at a Rector’s Forum earlier this fall, performed at the Preschool in December.
Students from GSL’s After School Care program helped decorate the office Christmas tree.
Junior kindergartners held a bake sale to raise funds to donate to a Salvation Army Angel Tree family in need at Christmas.
Altar Gifts are offered in Loving Memory of
Jan. 4 Florence Boyce Battle, Walter Preston Battle, and James McGowin Rowland
Jan. 11 Robert Couch, Jr., Cecil R. Whitlock, Mary Ruth Whitlock, John Wesley Long, Florence Rose Long, Delbert Spurlock, Meacy Spurlock, James W. Whitlock, and Dorothy L. Whitlock
Jan. 18 Pat Reid, Bill Reid, Tannen Reid, Deborah Conn, Arliss Hederick Tuttle, James Charles Rowland
Jan. 25 John Ethridge McCall, Edith Washington Bailey, Ernest Eugene Bailey, Mary Chunn Wilkinson, Charles Locke Wilkinson, Edith Bailey Wilkinson, William Neilson Wilkinson, Ernest Bailey Wilkinson, Chunn Wilkinson Babendreer, James Sprague Washington, Ella Washington Schaefer, William Neilson Wilkinson, Jr., and Charles Chunn Wilkinson
Memorials& Honoraria
Given in Honor ofThe marriage of Sandy Baker and the Rev. Jerry Crook from Nora &
Dan Conaway, Wynn & Gwin Scott, the Carr family, and Mackie & Jane Gober
Happy Jones & Fred Terry, Betty Peyton, Debbie Sweeney, Libba Allen, and Edith Heller (for MTAM) from Ruthie Lentz
Jesse, Rowan, & David Graber and Steve Davis from Margaret Newton Davis
GSL 20-30s Ministry from Elizabeth Morrison
Food Pantry Drive Honoraria Given in Thanksgiving forMr. & Mrs. John Colmer, Mary & Howard Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Jerry
Read, the Crumbaugh family, Dr. & Mrs. Steve Bledsoe from Minetry, Whit, and Pets Crowley
Gayle Evans from Nora & Dan ConawayMr. & Mrs. George Johnson from Jim & Anne BeatyFood Pantry Volunteers from Chapman Morrow and Betsy BlackThe Rev. Gayle McCarty (thank you for all your hard work @ GSL
Outreach) from Juan Fuentes & Robert Thompson The Rev. & Mrs. Jerry Crook (for their wedding) from Mr. & Mrs.
W. N. Trotter and Bill & Julie DenmanRuthie Lentz and Gayle McCarty from Earl DonelsonLarry & Debbie Whitlock from Bill & Julie DenmanE. Walker Mulherin, Jr. (for his birthday) from Mary MulherinMrs. Sue Hays (for Christmas) from Walker HaysOutreach Committee from Samaritan Counseling Center and
Debbie McCanlessMs. Aynsley Hartney, Ms Cecilia Hartney, Ms. Mary Gara Nix,
Mr. Gray Nix, Ms. Grayson Lusk, Ms. Phoebe Lusk, Ms. Kate Rasberry, Mr. Connor Rasberry, Mr. Michael Mark from David Brown & Steven Hoover
Greer & Bryce Perkins from Beth PerkinsJuan Fuentes & Gayle Evans from Happy JonesFather Joseph from James Drummond & Allison JonesThe Staff of Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (for Christmas) and
Food Pantry Volunteers (for Christmas) from Ann & John DillardJet & Betsy Tate for their 41st wedding anniversary
Given in Memory ofCorinne Wilson from Thad Cockrill, Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael
Murphy, and Mackie & Jane GoberParrish Taylor from Lee & Kay Beisler, the Carr family, Robert E.
Loeb, Mackie & Jane GoberJanet Tate from Mary Ann Clarke and Mackie & Jane GoberAnna Waller from Cissy & Waldrup Brown
Food Pantry Drive MemorialsJohnny Davis & Corbett Davis from Jana & Andy LamaNnaMary Scott & Bergen McCormick, Aunts Charile F. Culver & Jeanne
Culver Moore, and Grandmother F. Vivien Culver from Eunice TenentAnn Krause & Ronald Lehmann (for their birthdays) from Ken &
Janet Savage Julian & Jeanne Darlington from Virginia DarlingtonElizabeth Speer McGehee & John Lucius McGehee III from Lucius
& Holley McGehee
MembershipNews
Faithful DepartedBetty Calandruccio, died Dec. 7, 2014, burial Dec. 13, 2014Transfers InEd & Margaret Markham from: St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Gilroy, CAStephen Carroll Bush and sons John & Henry from Church of the
Holy CommunionTransfers OutKay Williamson, Robert Cyril Burleigh, Jr., and Marietta Eggleston
Burleigh to Church of the Holy CommunionBaptized MemberErle Walker Mulherin
The Messenger | January 2015 | 11
Looking Towards Sunday ~ January
Revised Common LectionaryTrack 1 Year B
Second Sunday after Christmas Day: January 4 Jeremiah 31:7-14 • Psalm 84 or 84:1-8 Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a • Matthew 2:13-15,19-23First Sunday after the Epiphany: January 11 Genesis 1:1-5 • Canticle 3 or 15 or Psalm 29 Acts 19:1-7 • Mark 1:4-11Second Sunday after the Epiphany: January 18 1 Samuel 3:1-10 • Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 • John 1:43-51Third Sunday after the Epiphany: January 25 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 • Psalm 62: 6-14 1 Corinthians 7: 29-31 • Mark 1:14-20
LaySchedule
The lay schedule can be found at www.gracestlukes.org/files/upload/january15lay-schedule.pdf.
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The Messenger of Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church (USPS 778-900)-pub-lished monthly by Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1720 Peabody Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38104. Periodicals postage paid at Mem-phis, TN. POSTMASTER: send address changes to Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 1720 Peabody Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104, (901) 272-7425, email [email protected]. Lucy Owens, Editor.
Calendar Highlights
Jan. 1-31: Spring Soccer RegistrationJan. 1: Church Office ClosedJan. 4: Christian Ed. ResumesJan. 9: 39ersJan. 13: Finance MeetingJan. 15: Third ThursdayJan. 16: Executive MeetingJan 16-18: Youth Ski TripJan. 18: No Christian Ed. ClassesJan. 19: Church Office ClosedJan. 20: VestryJan. 21: Outreach MeetingJan. 25: Food Pantry Sunday
January Calendargracestlukes.org/uploads/files/january2015calendar.pdf
Master Calendar: www.gracestlukes.org/events/. (The Master Calendar icon is on the left.)
neWs oF byGone days50 years ago (1965): The magnificent stained glass window, "Christ Blessing Little Children," which is given in memory of Mrs. Marion Kavanaugh McKee, by Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Armstrong, Jr., and friends of the late Mrs. McKee will be dedicated at the 11:00 a.m. service on Sunday, January 31st. Designed by the Paine-Spears Studios, Paterson, New Jersey, this window ia a notable addition to our series on the life of Christ. Only one nave window now remains to be installed and it is in the process of a design being selected... Two baptistry windows in the narthex have been commissioned, and are now being made.
25 years ago (1990): Welcome 1990- As the new year dawns, communicants at Grace-St. Luke's are already looking forward to a Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration which will begin before the year ends. And it promises to be far more than a usual fiftieth -- for two important reasons. On Thanksgiving Day, 1940, the first service of the merged churches, Grace and St. Luke's, was held at 1720 Peabody, bringing together two churchses with long and significant histories all their own. The first service for Grace Church, Calvary's first mission, had been held in 1850, for St. Luke's, a later mission, in 1892. But somehow, new history begins when old churches merge: St. Luke's fiftieth anniversary went unobserved in 1942; Grace Church's hundredth unobserved in 1950. So it seems TIME to celebrate our history at last -- one which now reaches back one hundred and forth years.
