FOR THE
LOVE OF MIKE
Volume 61 Number 5
The Episcopal Church of Saint Michael
Pacific View Drive at Marguerite Corona del Mar
...From the Desk of the Rector
BELOVEDS IN CHRIST,
E aster is not only a day, it is a
Season! It begins on the Sunday,
April 24 in 2011, and continues for a
“Great Fifty Days” until the Day of
Pentecost, June 12 in 2011. All of May
2011 is Easter Season!
Easter Season is the most joyful and
festive season of our Christian year.
Worship features the prominent return
of “Glory to God…” (BCP 356) and
the “Alleluia “ (“Praise the Lord”)
expressions of joy and praise. White,
symbolizing gladness and holiness is
the liturgical color and standing as best
we are able during worship symbolizes
rising and resurrection. The Paschal
Candle, an ancient symbol of the risen
Jesus, is beside our altar throughout
the Season as are white flowers,
especially Easter lilies.
During Easter season we three
Hayneses look at our photograph taken
annually on Easter Day in front of the
gorgeous, flowered cross by the main
entrance into our sanctuary and have
ample opportunity to reflect on
meanings of Easter 2011 for us and
directions God might be leading us.
Our attitudes, common during Easter
season, include “What is God going to
do next?” and “What am I going to do
now?” On Pentecost, marking the
birth of the church and the coming
with power of God’s Holy Spirit,
answers include “go tell the gospel,
prophesy, heal, teach, serve, love.”
Please, pray the collects for The
Great Vigil of Easter on pages 288-291
and of our Easter Season on pages 222-
226 in our Book of Common Prayer.
Re-discover how compelling, beautiful
Continued on page 3
BUILDING OUR FAITH: L
FAITH: OVING CHRIST AND SER
LO
MAY 2011
California 92625
DIOCESE OF LOS
ANGELES DECLINES
TO ENDORSE
ANGLICAN COVENANT
[The Episcopal News, Los Angeles] --
Thanking the Anglican Communion for
“taking this time of discernment” to
develop the proposed Anglican
Covenant, elected representatives of the
Diocese of Los Angeles have issued a
response declining to endorse the
document.
"We cannot endorse a covenant that,
for the first time in the history of The
Episcopal Church or the Anglican
Communion, will pave the way toward
emphasizing perceived negative
differences instead of our continuing
positive and abundant commonality,"
states the response, signed jointly by
the diocese’s bishops and General
Convention deputation.
A video report documenting the
process by which Diocesan Convention
initiated the response is here. Presiding
Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, House
of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson,
and Executive Council member Rosalie
Simmonds Ballentine jointly requested
that each of the Episcopal Church’s 110
dioceses provide responses by April 24
in preparation for review by General
Convention’s 2012 meeting in
Indianapolis.
Full text of the response follows here:
The bishops, clergy and laity of the
Diocese of Los Angeles, at the request
of Katharine Jefferts Schori, our
Presiding Bishop, Bonnie Anderson,
President of the House of Deputies, and
Rosalie Simmonds Ballentine, Esq.,
Executive Council member and Chair
of the Executive Council D-020 Task
Force, have actively engaged in
Continued on page 7
VING OUR COMMUNITY
SERVING
& All Angels
949.644.0463 www.stmikescdm.org
What Brings You Back?
Please Let Us Know.
By Clyde Dodge
Commissioner for
Communications
O n Thursday evening, March 10, I
was at work, and in between
tasks I decided to jump over to
CNN.com to check on the news.
CNN.com is an informative website
that updates hourly with new headline
news, so it’s worth revisiting multiple
times in the course of a day.
As I arrived at the home page, I
noticed an alert about a very large
earthquake being reported in Japan,
where it was already Friday afternoon.
So I turned on the TV and switched
to CNN. What I saw was mind-
boggling. I sat transfixed as cameras
caught the arrival of the tsunami in
real time. Had I not been checking
CNN.com on a regular basis, I would
have missed much of this coverage.
What is it about a website that draws
us back to itself repeatedly and
regularly? We have asked ourselves
that question about Saint Michael &
All Angels’ website and its (former)
sister site, loveofmike.net. We want
people to come back to the website
often, because we don’t want
parishioners to miss anything
important.
We are in the process of
consolidating the two websites into
one all-purpose destination that will
meet the needs of our parishioners.
As part of the process, we are
gathering input from you about what
you would value seeing on the
church’s website, stmikescdm.org.
Continued on page 7
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MAY 2

PARISH NEWS AND NOTES

A CONTRIBUTION WAS MADE TO Anniversaries in May FORWARD MOVEMENT

THE RECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY PUBLICATIONS
FUND by Peggy & Bob Montgomery, Birthdays
by Michael & Roxanne Hammer Please check the display of helpful
Carpenter in thanksgiving for the 2nd - Peter Coppen material in the tract racks just inside
Celebration and Blessing of their Nancy Lyons
Michael”s Room (on the right going
7th - Matthew Shaw
Marriage, and by Jeanne and the Rees 9th - Russ Hardt in). Items are priced as marked and
family in thanksgiving for Russell. 10 - Teri Corbet you may drop your donations in the
These funds extend our Parish’s 12th - Judy Brady box provided,
mission of outreach, providing for such 14th - Richard Wallis “God, Grief and Anger”, by The
needs as can be helped by financial 17th - Melinda Rader Rev’d David M. Baumann, is a
assistance. 18th - Mary Caldarone pamphlet that can give loving aid to
19th - Karren Schaeffer those who are trying to deal with the
24th - Keith Nelson serious illness or death of a loved one.
* * * 25th - Sherry Crail It helps us understand the place of
UNITED THANK OFFERING 28th - John Reed prayer in our grief. “A prayer is a
SPRING INGATHERING Sunday, 29th - Cal McLaughlin request to God, a loving self-offering,
June 19, 2011 is the spring UTO a personal ‘entering into’ a situation,
Baptisms
Ingathering date. Please bring your Blue not a command. If we understand
Boxes to church and help celebrate 1st - Alexandra Magenheimer our prayers for the sick and dying in
Father's Day by supporting programs 14th - Norm Bianchi this way, then we can let God deal
for families in the U.S.A and abroad. 16th - Marlene Pope with each situation as he knows
Blue Boxes for your much needed 23rd - Richard Zevnik best.”
nickels, dimes and quarters are located
on the credenza in Michael's Room, Weddings * * *
along with Blue Envelopes for "folding"
money and checks. All monies collected 10th - Russ & Robin Hardt
are given in the form of grants to worthy TRIADA GUITAR TRIO: The
causes. Check out the variety of Friends of Music invite you to come
completed projects listed in the Blue and hear the Triada Guitar Trio at
UTO Brochures. Remember, UTO
* * * 4pm on Sunday, May 1st. We are
everyday! most pleased to welcome them back
AIDS WALK ORANGE COUNTY: after their wonderful and well-
Sunday, May 1st at The Disneyland received program last year. the
* * * Resort. Please support Team Saint concert is free, and we will gather
PLEASE CHECK the lost and found Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church. for a reception after the program to
box next to the tract rack in Michael’s To join the walk or to make a donation, meet Nikola, Vasil and Petar
Room. visit www.stmikesaidswalk.com. Chekardzhikov, the three brothers
* * * who comprise the trio.
* * *
LABYRINTH: If you are interested in
OUR PHONE TREE MINISTRY helping with our Labyrinth Project,
HAS BEEN REVITALIZED! Every please contact Lynn Headley, FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE
parishioner will be contacted by phone once 714.963.5932, or Peggy Montgomery, is a publication of
a month or so and given a chance to talk 949.644.2239. Saint Michael & All Angels
about needs and suggestions, to learn about Episcopal Church,
opportunities for service, or to just visit. * * * Corona del Mar, CA.
So far eighteen members have agreed to DO WE HAVE YOUR MOST Copy deadline is the second
Wednesday of the month.
be on this committee. Please contact Ruth RECENT EMAIL ADDRESS? Please
We welcome letters and articles.
Poole, 949.644.9263, if you would like to contact Susan Beechner at Online at www.loveofmike.net
be a caller. sbeechner@stmikescdm.org with Editor: Susan Beechner
changes or additions.

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Junior Warden...............................Lynn Headley Mission......................................Michele Duncan
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Christian Education.................... Anne Conover [clydedodge@roadrunner.com 949.375.1530 Stewardship...............................................open
[anabananacaddie@aol.com] 949.721.1050 Evangelism.............................Murry McClaren
Clerk of the Vestry..........................Gail Haghjoo [murrymcclaren@ca.rr.com] 714.979.6978 Worship......The Very Rev’d Canon Peter D. Haynes
[gail@hallresearch.com] 714.966.0314 Fellowship..............................Mary Ellen Sindt [phaynes@stmikescdm.org] 949.644.0463
Building and Grounds.................. .....Mike Ortt [belle107@roadrunner.com] 949.640.2395
714.323.8189
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“From The Rector’s Desk” from page 1
and full of hope our Christian story is. Ours is God who
“wonderfully created and yet more wonderfully restored
the dignity of human nature” through Jesus Christ who
“humbled himself to share our humanity” that we “might
share in his divine life.” In Christ, God “delivered us from
our enemy” and by his sacrifice has “taken away the sin of
the world.” By the death of Jesus, God “has destroyed
death and by his rising to live again, has won for us
everlasting life.” Through Christ “all things are being brought
to perfection.”
God, who from all eternity is love, out of that love has
created us for love and has identified with us even in our
failure to live into that love. As the Bishop Charles Henry
Brent’s Collect for Mission on BCP 101 puts it, “Lord Jesus
Christ, you stretched out your arms of love on the hard
wood of the cross that everyone might come within the
reach of your saving embrace: So clothe us in your Spirit
that we, reaching forth our hands in love, may bring those
who do not know you to the knowledge and love of you…”
God has called us into a new covenant with himself – “a
covenant of reconciliation.” We have been “reborn into the
fellowship of Christ’s body,” the “wonderful and sacred
mystery” that is the Church. As members of this Body of
Christ we share in his ministry of reconciliation learning to
love and serve one another as he has loved and served us;
and by offering reconciliation, love and service to the world.
During this Easter Season, may we each receive the grace
to know and feel the goodness of our dignity restored, our
sins forgiven, and our lives sharing in God’s divine life.
And may we worthily offer our sacrifices of thanksgiving
to the one who sacrificed himself for us.
“Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer
Death is strong, but Life is stronger
Stronger than the dark, the light
Stronger than the wrong, the right…”
“Let every person count themselves immortal
Let them catch the revelation of Jesus
in his resurrection.
Let them say not merely ‘Christ is risen,’ but
‘I shall rise’.”
---Phillips Brooks
Yours, in Christ -
MAY 2011
MAY 3
From The Anglican Communion News Service
The Bible Tops Facebook Charts
F igures recently published by www.allfacebook.com
revealed that more people are actively engaging with the
The Bible than any other page on leading social media site
Facebook.
It seems that the world's best-selling book is also making
a massive impact in the digital world. With more than 6
million 'fans' it has beaten other hugely popular pages
including those of sports teams like Manchester United and
celebrities like Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga.
The Anglican who oversees The Bible's Facebook page,
United Bible Societies' Jane Pleace, expressed her excitement
at seeing the Bible's message spreading across this leading
social media platform.
"'As many churches grapple how to get people to read the
Bible, United Bible Societies is helping nearly seven million
people read the Bible daily, using the social networking site
Facebook," said Jane, the organisation's Europe & Middle
East Fundraising Co-ordinator.
"'The Bible' page has over 6.7 million fans and nearly one
million of them get involved each week by writing comments
on the page wall and re-posting Bible verses on their personal
pages. With their help, United Bible Societies has shared
Scripture over 239 million times on Facebook in the last
month alone! It’s wonderful to see people leaving comments
saying how they’ve been touched by a particular Bible
passage we've posted on our page.
The Bible page is helping to reach a new generation with
the gospel message. 51% of Bible page fans are under 25
years old.
Jane explains, “Young people come to the Bible page with
questions about the Christian faith. They ask deeply
thoughtful, intelligent and searching questions about the
teachings in the Bible. We have the opportunity to address
each question individually. We pray for these young people
and we’ve been blessed to see some of them come to faith.”
The page also attracts its fair share of atheists and Muslims.
The community of volunteers who contribute to the page
welcome everyone. “We love to debate with people who
hold different viewpoints,” says Jane, “we try to
demonstrate God’s love for all people in our responses by
showing a genuine interest in everyone. I’m proud of all the
volunteers who respond to provoking questions with good-
humour and a generous spirit. For some people, this is their
only contact with Christians, so it’s important they know
we are a loving and accepting community. ”
United Bible Societies exists to provide the Bible to everyone
in their chosen language. The United Bible Societies is the
collective name for the fellowship of 145 individual Bible
Societies working in over 200 countries and territories. From
wherever and however they operate, Bible Societies all share
the mission of placing the Word of God in the hearts and
minds of the people they serve.
For further information visit:
www.facebook.com/TheBible
www.facebook.com/UnitedBibleSocieties
www.biblesociety.org
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MAY 4

SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS

EPISCOPAL CHURCH
PRAYERS & PASSAGES OREMUS
FOR THIS LIFE
A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF HEALING
THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION Thank you Lord, for this good
Our mission is to seek and share food. Today we thank you too for La Juan
Jesus Christ as spiritual food mothers who spend so much time Bob
for life’s journey. preparing our meals. Bless them on Nancy
3233 Pacific View Drive this special day. Help us to look after Jim
Corona del Mar, CA 92625 one another every day and so serve Joan
949.644.0463 you. Through Jesus Christ our Sally
949.644.9247 FAX Lord. Amen. Charles
www.stmikescdm.org --From “The Lion Prayer Peggy
The Very Rev’d Canon Collection” Lisa
Peter D. Haynes, Rector John
[phaynes@stmikescdm.org] Marion
Stephen Black, Sylvia
Minister of Music CHRISTIAN Teri Corbet Helen
[sblack@stmikescdm.org] EDUCATION Mary Betty
Teri Corbet Roberta
Minister of Christian Education Marena
[tscorbet@stmikescdm.org] May finds us getting prepared for our Dick
The Ven. Canon Terry Lynberg annual Youth Service and Recognition Sam
Assisting Priest Sunday, which this year will be on Norm
The Rev’d Ronald C. Bauer Sunday, June 5th . Harriet
Assisting Priest This is when the Sunday School Pat
The Rev’d Canon Ray Flemming performs all aspects of the 10am Elizabeth
Assisting Priest worship, with the exception of the Laura
The Rev’d Jefferson Hulet Consecration. Marcia
Assisting Priest The children will be the involved in Janet
Susan Beechner, Parish Secretary all parts of the service, and it promises
to be lively and uplifting.
[sbeechner@stmikescdm.org] GUIDANCE
Donnie Lewis, Bookkeeper We will recognize the children who
have reached “milestones” in their faith, Mary
[dlewis@stmikescdm.org]
such as memorizing the Lord’s Prayer, Nancy
knowing the Peace, and the Apostles’ Marguerite
WORSHIP SCHEDULE Creed. We will also be learning about Sam
Sunday Promises. Sue
Holy Eucharist 8 a.m.
If you need to get in touch with me Elizabeth
Choral Eucharist 10 a.m.
Adult Education 9 a.m.
for any reason, I am in my office after Cathy
the 10am worship service on Sundays, Donna
Sunday School 10 a.m.
and you can contact me by phone at Gina
Nursery Care provided from 9:30 949.644.0463 ext. 13, or email me at Samra
Tuesday tscorbet@stmikescdm.org.I’m always Ashley
Matins 7 a.m.
happy to hear from you! Ray
Peace Mass 7:30 a.m.
Thursday
Eucharist with Healing - Noon REPOSE
OCCASIONAL QUOTES
John Adler
ABOUT SAINT MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS Blair
CORONA DEL MAR
"The deepest level of
We are a Christian Community of communication is not
communication, but communion. It THANKSGIVING
the Anglican Communion who come
to hear God’s word and receive and is wordless. It is beyond words, and
- for birthdays: Harry Selling
share the Lord Jesus Christ. it is beyond speech, and it is beyond
Our purpose is to have Christ live concept. Not that we discover a new and Mary Ellen Sindt
in us in order that in Christ we may unity. We discover an older unity. My
live faithful and productive
dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are - in loving memory of: Ken Ruedy,
Christian lives.
already one. But we imagine that we George Short, Carlene Brophy,
Our commitment to the Gospel is Anna Hirka and Allan Stover
evangelical; our liturgical tradition, are not. And what we have to recover
catholic; our theology orthodox but is our original unity. What we have
open to thought, reflection, and to be is what we are." - with the Zevniks
spiritual endeavor.
We care about the world
and strive to serve Christ in it.
Thomas Merton Call Esther McNamee
for prayer requests at 949.640.1749
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JAZZ VESPERS
The wonderful first-Sunday-at-Four
worship program our Friends of
Music bring to us every June, is now
available on a compact disc. This
CD was recorded April 18, 2010, and
features the familiar and talented
quartet of Putter Smith on bass,
Theo Saunders on piano, Kendall Kay
on drums, and Fr. Norm Freeman
on vibes. They perform “Teach me
tonight,” “Someone to watch over
me,” “You’ll never walk alone,” “Too
marvelous for words,” “Sunny” and
more . . . all for only $15 in our
Parish Office.
HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE:
W e have recent;y learned that The
Rev’d Canon John Peterson,
former Secretary General of the
Anglican Communion, former Dean of
St. George’s College in Jerusalem,
archeologist and a good friend of our
rector will be joining our pilgrimage.
In past years we have used John’s
book “A Walk in Jerusalem: Stations
of the Cross,” to accompany our own
devotions during Lent. If you walk the
Stations in Jerusalem with John, as we
plan to do, you will never forget it.
We still have space available on the
Parish Holy Land Pilgrimage to the
land with Jesus’ footsteps from July
3 to 17. Our guide will be Canon Iyad
Qumri who was with us on our
previous pilgrimage.
We plan to begin the journey in
Jordan, visiting The Rose Red City of
Petra and Mount Nebo where Moses
viewed the Promised Land, and then
cross over into Israel-Palestine, visiting
all the amazing holy sites, worshiping,
learning and praying.
The itinerary will include visits to
Bethlehem, Jericho, Galilee and
Capernaum; the Stations of the Cross
in Jerusalem and end with a visit to
the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Please let Peter+ or Lynn Headley
know you are interested.
LOAVES AND FISHES
During the month of May we will
collect money for college scholarships
for the young people who help at the
soup kitchen. Checks should be made
payable to Saint Michael & All Angels,
with Loaves and Fishes on the memo
line. (Tax ID #95-2123746)
MAY 2011
MAY 5
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COUNCIL ON AGING – ORANGE COUNTY
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providing a planning guide for families:
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Council on Aging, 1971 E. 4th St. Suite 200, Santa Ana 92705
We are very pleased to announce that our highly successful Senior Guide
OC 2011 is now even more widely accessible! The Senior Guide OC 2011
Online Edition is now available on the Council on Aging Orange County
website at www.coaoc.org.
The Anglican Studies Series (Morehouse Publishing):
What Is Anglicanism? by Urban (“Terry”) Holmes
The Spirit of Anglicanism: Hooker, Maurice, Temple by William J. Wolf
Anglican Spirituality by William J. Wolf
Anglican Moral Choice by Paul Elmen
Anglicanism and the Bible by Frederick Houk Borsch
Theology in Anglicanism by Arthur A.Vogel
Anglican Theology and Pastoral Care by James E. Griffiss
Other Anglican Background Reading:
Anglican Spirit by Michael Ramsey
Anglicanism by Stephen Neill
Study of Anglicanism by Stephen Sykes
The Protestant Face of Anglicanism by Paul F. M. Zahl
The Anglican Spiritual Tradition by John Richard Humpidge Moorman
Commentary on the American Prayer Book by Marion J. Hatchett
Glorious Companions: Five Centuries of Anglican Spirituality
by Richard H. Schmidt
Anglicanism and the Christian Church: Theological Resources in Historical
Perspective by Paul Avis
Reconciliation by Martin L. Smith
Gospel Conspiracy in the Episcopal Church by Michael Marshall
Anglican Identities by Rowan Williams
The Anglican Tradition: A Handbook of Sources by G. R. Evans
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House Churches Deepen
Community, Provide
Intimate Hospitality
By Pat McCaughan
[Episcopal News Service] Regular
Thursday evening worship involves "the
Lord's Supper in three courses" at Holy Spirit
Episcopal Community, a house church in
Silver Lake, California, in the Diocese of
Los Angeles.
House churches, or small groups of
believers who gather and worship in homes,
sometimes by necessity and other times
independent of mainstream religious
institutions, are considered to emulate the
earliest Christian community, and more
recently are growing in popularity as a way
to reach out to the unchurched.
At Holy Spirit, Fabian Rodriguez serves
up the evening's first course, arranging crab-
broccoli dip and other appetizers, salads and
freshly baked chicken pot pie on the altar.
For Rodriguez, 38, a chef, it felt
comforting to offer a homemade meal to "a
community where I feel accepted, where I
feel so comfortable that even when I'm
uncomfortable I'm allowed to express it in
a safe environment.
"It's hard, when somebody is taken for
no reason," Rodriquez told the gathering
March 3 during the evening's "second
course" -- Scripture readings, reflection and
Eucharist.
"It's hard to listen to all the animosity, the
emotions ... then to find myself opening the
door [after the testimony] for the sister" of
the accused. "There is a lot of fear and
struggle to be present with God. It's really
challenging."
For Larry, another of the group of about
20 worshippers, the Exodus story (24:12-
28) of Moses on Mount Sinai, enveloped in
a cloud while speaking to God, recalled his
past year of fighting cancer.
"I can relate to Moses walking into the
cloud. I did not know what was in store for
me," he said. "When I was first diagnosed
they told me I had three months to live. It's
now been 15 months and the cancer has
disappeared, as far as they can tell. I had no
choice but to walk through the cloud, but
experiencing the unknown is not always a
bad thing, at least in my case. God was
there, waiting for me."
Holy Spirit and other house churches can
offer intimacy and a deepened sense of
community, said Randy Kimmler, associate
for vocations for the Los Angeles diocese
and a founder of the five-year-old alternative
community.
"It grew out of a Lenten study group
meeting at my house in Silver Lake five years
ago," recalled Kimmler during a telephone
interview. "There is no Episcopal Church
in Silver Lake; our goals are hospitality
and community."The service draws as
many as two dozen worshippers and
outgrew his living room. It is held in an
apartment clubhouse and incorporates a
rotating schedule of: clergy who preside
over the Eucharist; lay and ordained people
who offer meditations and hosts who
provide the evening's refreshments, all
of which are placed on the altar. After the
initial meal, the altar is cleared for
communion and later it is cleared again,
for the third course, dessert and coffee
and additional fellowship, he added.
At St. John's Church in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, The Rev’d Joe Parrish said the
congregation is exploring a return to its
historic roots and possibly meeting in
homes again.
"Our church is 306 years old; it was
the second building in the same place over
three centuries," he said during a recent
telephone interview from his office. "The
first building was an Anglican church
founded in 1706, and it was British
property. When the revolution came,
General Cornwallis took the church and
didn't allow any worship services so the
people went to house churches.
"We had seven to eight years in house
churches and when [George]
Washington recaptured the building in
1782 we got it back ... and perked right
along as if nothing had happened."
Fast forward to 2011, and one of the
congregation's most pressing challenges
is to heat the 8,000-square-foot structure
with a 750-person seating capacity,
Parrish said. "The oil company has run
us out, not General Cornwallis. We can't
afford to heat the place. We have to have
midweek activities outside the church.
It's forcing us to consider meeting at
people's homes."
Heating costs average about $1,200 for
Sundays alone during the winter, he
added. "We bailed out in the winter by
going to the parish hall and converting it
to a sanctuary and worship space. This
year, we saved $20,000 on our oil bill."
Parrish said that, at least for the present,
simple economics dictate seeking
alternatives for the socially active
congregation. "We're knee-deep in social
service issues. We feed about 120 people
weekly, operate a day shelter and do major
outreach but we're doing this out of
necessity; we can't afford to do it in the
church on weekdays."
Recently, St. Andrew's Episcopal
Church in Pearland,a Houston suburb in
the Diocese of Texas, gave new meaning
MAY 2011
MAY 6
to house churches and also invented a new
name, "Andy2Go."
Via Andy2Go, the congregation hosted 12
services at 11 venues, mostly parishioners’
homes, over a three-day weekend from
March 4-6, that "was far beyond anything
we could imagine. It was incredible,"
according to The Rev’d Jim Liberatore,
rector.
Part of the inspiration for the event
happened because "God says, in so many
places in the Bible, to go. He doesn't say
'stay' very often," Liberatore said. "We
normally have about 210 on an average
Sunday. We had 393 at our venues and over
80 were visitors."
About 43 people attended the 11 a.m.
March 6 outdoor service at the Pearland
home of Katie Cordes, 33. "We had a bounce
house, sandwiches, chips, fruit drinks and
popsicles. The food was in the driveway
and the kids brought scooters, bikes and
rode around and played together. It was
wonderful, very kid-friendly and unique. I
actually met a couple from my church that
I didn't know, that was really neat," she said.
"It was nice to eat together, too," she
added. "Usually after church the kids are
starving and cranky so we have to rush off."
Debbie Allensworth, 42, said she knew
about two-thirds of the 27 people who
attended the 4 p.m. meeting at her home.
"We had all ages come to our house, and
we worshipped in the backyard. Fr. Jim was
on the porch and we sat on the grass," she
recalled. "The worship was a lot more laid-
back than in church. It felt more intimate
and it was nice having the kids incorporated
in parts of the service, like chalicing, where
they normally wouldn't get a chance to do
that. We had a great time."
The casual atmosphere included "kids on
a trampoline, the swing set, a dog in
someone's lap. We had music and a 20-
minute worship service. When it was over
we ate appetizers and sandwiches and for
the next hour everybody hung out and got
to know each other while the children
played."
Allensworth, a mother of four, said she
wasn't sure what it would be like hosting
the event, but it helped that another family
organized refreshments. "I've known them
a long time but it was my first chance getting
to work closely together with them," she
recalled. "It was nice to get to talk to
somebody I don't see very often. Many of
the families I've know for a long time but
we never had any interaction before this."
-- The Rev. Pat McCaughan is a
correspondent for the Episcopal News
Service. She is based in Los Angeles.
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Covenant from page 1
discussion, discernment, study, prayer
and dialogue concerning the proposed
final draft of the Anglican Covenant.
The study culminated at our Diocesan
Convention, held December 3 and 4,
2010, with round-table discussions in
which more than 800 delegates,
representing our 147 congregations,
participated.
This discernment leads us to
recommend that The Episcopal Church
not endorse the final draft of the
Anglican Covenant but that we patiently
continue the conversation out of our
bonds of affection and mutual loyalty
to the entire Communion, for the
following reasons:
One of our chief strengths as
Anglicans has been our ecumenical
availability to Christians who find in us
the essence of the faith once delivered
to the saints, along with latitude in
“things indifferent.” We have been a
tradition of bridges, not walls. Ours is
a tradition that has upheld seven
Ecumenical Councils, three historic
Creeds, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and a
liturgical heritage blessed by the Book
of Common Prayer expressed and
celebrated through a wonderful variety
of cultural influences. Our tradition
holds Holy Scripture as containing all
things necessary for salvation, the
Nicene and Apostle's Creeds, the two
sacraments instituted by Christ himself:
baptism and communion and the
Historic Episcopate essential to our
faith. It is a tradition of reason that
values the scholarly pursuit of truth
which has allowed our Anglican ethos
to be the middle way of a catholic and
reformed faith “not as a compromise
for the sake of peace, but as a
comprehension for the sake of truth”
(Collect for the Feast of Richard
Hooker). Our hope is that our prophetic
witness of openness to the Spirit’s
actions might not be foreclosed by a
desire to stake out too narrow a spiritual
turf on which to stake our flag, but
rather a desire to continue to be obedient
to the Spirit’s call on our church.
The Episcopal Church was founded
in democracy and has enjoyed a polity
which is free and democratic since
1789. This long-standing course
cannot be reversed. We do, however,
acknowledge, honor and support the
differences in polity and governance
that distinguish the various churches of
the Communion. We believe respect
for those differences is a crucial
component of our tradition that
should undergird any Anglican
Covenant. For that reason, we
support Sections One and Two of the
Covenant, which positively affirm the
foundation of our faith, our common
Anglican vocation, and do not
challenge our unique polity.
We are concerned about the
omission of the laity from Section 3.
As St. Paul teaches, we are all of us
the Body of Christ and individually
members thereof (I Corinthians 12).
There are four orders of ministry in
the Church – bishops, priests,
deacons and lay people, who also
minister as members of the baptized
people of God. Such an ecclesiology
should both undergird the theology
expressed in the Covenant and the
church structures developed as
means of connecting and serving the
churches of the Communion. A
Covenant to which we could
subscribe would need to re-imagine
the Instruments of Communion to
provide a stronger representation
from all the orders of ministry.
Section 4 is of greatest concern. It
creates a punitive, bureaucratic,
juridical process within the Standing
Committee of the Anglican
Communion, elevating its authority
over the member churches despite
previous affirmations of member
church autonomy (see, e.g., Section
4.1.3). It contains no clear process
for dispute resolution, no checks and
balances, no right of appeal. The
concept of mediation, introduced in
Section 3.2.6, is not mentioned in
Section 4. The covenant’s focus on
“maintenance, dispute and
withdrawal” bodes of an immobilized
church mission instead of one that is
flexible and prophetic. For these
reasons, we cannot agree to Section
4.
We cannot endorse a covenant that,
for the first time in the history of The
Episcopal Church or the Anglican
Communion, will pave the way
toward emphasizing perceived
negative differences instead of our
continuing positive and abundant
commonality. We strongly urge more
direct face-to-face dialogue, study,
prayer and education before the
adoption of a document that has such
historic significance in the life of the
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Anglican Communion and The
Episcopal Church. Our differences
should not be seen as something that
must be proved wrong or endured but
rather a motivation to dig deeper into
discerning God’s purposes for God’s
church.
In conclusion, the Diocese of Los
Angeles thanks and commends the
entire Anglican Communion for taking
this time of holy discernment and
suggests that the period of discernment
continue so that no hasty decisions are
made that would undermine the
process of conversation and reception
by all the churches of the Communion.
We pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates
our future steps so that we all may
celebrate our common bonds of
affection while respecting our varying
cultures, ethos and polity within the one
body of Christ.
Respectfully submitted,
The General Convention Deputation
and the Bishops of the Diocese of Los
Angeles
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invitation via email to participate in an
online survey about the website. For
those who do not have email, we will
have paper copies of the survey
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in May in the back of the church. We
ask that you complete the survey and
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MAY 8

I want to thank Emily Valentine,

SHARPS Caddie annerl, Ryan and Caitlin SHELLMAKER
STEPHEN DISCOVERY WALK
AND BLACK Hane, and Nathan Sindt in our
FLATS children’s choir for their singing from
the beginning of February right up to Do you like ...

I t has been quite a musical journey
in the last couple of months, starting
with Lent, when we sang familiar
Lenten hymns, chanted the well-
known penitential psalms together,
and experienced the spare and
haunting drone accompaniments of
the Trisagion and the Sanctus.
From there we proceeded through
Holy Week, beginning with the
chanting of psalms, canticles, and the
Lamentations of Jeremiah at
Tenebrae, and continuing with music
unique to Maundy Thursday and Good
Friday.
Then on Holy Saturday we
celebrated the Easter Vigil by
‘resurrecting’ the organ, after nearly
a week’s silence, with a beautiful and
exuberant ringing of bells and chimes.
And finally on easter Sunday,
glorious music from Handel’s Messiah
- including the beloved Hallelujah
Chorus - with organ and strings.
Easter Sunday. Their Mozart canon
was beautiful!
And I also would like to thank
Mary Bailey, Merilee Bennett,
Barbara Black, Rusty Vail, Michele
Dulson, Jerry McMillan, Josh
Stansfield, Daphne Sweeney,
Camilla Wallis, Susan Zevnik,
Richard Zevnik, Susan Van Wig
and Karren Schaeffer in the Parish
Choir for their diligence and dedication
in preparing all the music for the
Triduum liturgies and Easter Sunday.
There was a great deal of music to
learn, and they prepared it with great
care and attention. Consequently, the
parish heard some fine and inspired
singing! As J. S. Bach would have
said: Soli Deo gloria!
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at
The Marine Study Center
on Back Bay Drive (off Jamboree
Road, next to the Back Bay Cafe)
Invite your mother, father, brothers,
sisters, family and friends
to join you
on Saturday, May 14th,
9:00 a.m. to Noon
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Inside the May Issue:

Page 1: What Brings You Back?
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Page 5: Parish Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage

Page 8: Sharps and Flats

Important Notice
Summer W orship Schedule:
Worship
During July and August, Sunday worship will be at 9 a.m. Only