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Expect a new direction at this years Flower Festival,as the 118th celebration addresses with renewed vigor ourChristian imperative or stewardship o the Earths resources.

The history is known to most; Henry Shaw, civic ather,entrepreneur, botanist, Episcopalian, land owner, slave owner,ounder o the Missouri Botanical Gardens, bequeathed undsto the diocese to celebrate each year the glory o Gods creation.

The botanical gardens supply owers to bedeck the cathedral.The bishop (also a trustee o the gardens by his position) andprovost choose the years homilist. This year, a working group

rom the cathedral, Church o St. Michael and St. George, andGrace, Kirkwood, will be handling estival details.

The Rev. Becca Stevens, chaplain, St. Augustines Chapel atVanderbilt University, and ounder o the Magdalene projectand Thistle Farms in Tennessee, is this years estival homilistand will preach at all our services over the two day estival.

She has chosen the topic considering the thistle. I havebeen arming thistles to make paper or a couple years now,and Im learning that when we can see the beauty in a feld othistles, it is easier to remember there is nothing in creationlet to be condemned, said Stevens. Our call is to love oneanother, I believe that means learning to love without judg-ment, remembering we all share the qualities o thistles, as

well as all the other owers in Gods amazing creation.

This years street air will mix entertainment with edu-cation: booths on green products, energy efciency audits,recyclables or arts sake, organic plants, ecology in Arica;storytelling, music, great ood rom Eat Here St. Louis anddrink rom Schlays Tap Room.

Scheduled green innovators include: EarthWays Center,a division o the Missouri Botanical Gardens, which promotespractical examples or a green home and liestyle; ThistleFarms; ArtWorks, creative bike racks and other goods made

with recycled materials by city youth; designer Tom Manchewith green products or the home including urniture andabric. Also in attendance will be diocesan members involvedin community gardens and those working to organize a greennetwork in the diocese.

Hybrid car rodeo: several diocesan members (including

Bishop Smith) drive hybrid cars and estival organizers inviteowners to drive in, park in a designated area, and share yourfrst-hand experience.

Saturday is alsoOpen Streets in St.Louis (one o our

weekend days). Lin-dell rom Forest Parkto Grand and Locustrom Grand to Broad-

way will be closed toauto trafc and opento cyclists, skaters,

pedestrians, joggers,walkers, and wheelchairs rom 8 a.m. to1 p.m.

Global ClimateChange is a hostedconversation using the World Ca style o dialogue on ques-tions that matter. Parallel conversations will be happeningaround the Earth; at the end o each conversation, well con-sider our own carbon ootprints, and how we might reducethem. Each conversation will last no longer than two hours.

Each estival day endswith music. On Saturday,becoming a estival tradition,

is a concert by CollegiumVocale. This group presentvocal chamber music romthe Baroque (and sometimesearlier), oten with accom-paniment o historical in-struments. Sunday eveningat 5:00 p.m., the CathedralChoir under the direction oCanon Precentor WilliamPartridge leads Evensong.

This year theyll be joined bythe Choir o First Congrega-tional Church, Clayton, RonHall, music minister. I you have not experienced this very

Anglican service o sung evening prayers, there is no fnertime than at the cathedral amid the beauty o the owers.

Youth Project!Were growing a tree in the Nave of

Christ Church Cathedral, and we needyou to help with the leaves. On a realleaf or a colorful paper cut-out, sharea favorite green tip or practical advice,with your rst name, age, and parish.All of the leaves will be attached to alarge 3 dimensional painted tree, andorganizers hope this inspiring tree willbe displayed at additional parishes, acelebrate of collaborative work. Needmore info? Coordinator Sandy Coburnsemail is [email protected]

Becca Stevens isfounder and direc-tor of Magdalene,a residentialcommunity forwomen who havesurvived prosti-tution and drugabuse. In 2001,she began Thistle

Farms, a non-prot businessof Magdalene, inwhich the women

make and sell natural bath and body prod-ucts; proceeds support the community.Magdalene now sustains ve houses.

Becca maintains a commitment to thetruth that love is the most powerful force forchange in the world.

Her latest book published by AbdingdonPress is Funeral For a Stranger.

We would go down ostensibly for the "serviceproject," there was always something we were"doing." One year it was working with the women ofMagdalene painting one of the new houses, an-other year it was getting the lavender farm ready forwinter. But the "project" was always just a pretextfor the conversation, something that would put ourstudents and these amazing women ... and Becca ...

together so they would talk and share the stories oftheir lives.

The rst time we went down, we were painting ahouse together and there was a cooler on the frontporch full of drinks for anyone. I watched all after-noon as the porch became a sacred place, whereour students and these amazing women would graba step and a drink, and just start talking. Sometimesit would be 5 minutes. Sometimes they would forgetabout the work and hours would pass sharing livesand stories.

One night each trip, Becca and Marcus (herhusband, a Grammy winning country music song-

writer) would have us over to their house for dinner.We'd just hang out, and you'd see this holy chaos oftheir lives because they never made any attempt todraw boundaries between what was theirs and whatwas the community's. At some point, Becca wouldstart talking and the students would gather aroundher like children in front of a great storyteller. Shetalked about what came to her naturally, her life,

love, Godand how she saw all of it come together,in these women at Magdalene, or in the people ofEcuador (where they founded a school named afterher mother), or in her children, or in all creation.

Sometimes Marcus would take us to the base-ment and play and sing for us. I had one student tellme after one of those nights, "you know, you alwaystalk about nights you wish would never end ... I re-ally wish this night would never end."

I'm in touch with a lot of my former students andthey still talk about those trips as some of the deep-est, most profound experiences they had in college.

-the Very Rev. Mike Kinman

In a recent newsletter, Christ Church Cathedral Provost Mike Kinman sharedthe inspiration he and his students got from visits with Stevens, and the

women of Magdalene community. Here is more of that story...

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Making Disciples Build ing Congregations For the Life of the World

We asked Martha K. Baker, author, preacher, book reviewer orEpiscopal Lie, Trinity-St. Louis parishioner, and outgoing Edi-torial Board member, to gather some quotes on being an Easterpeople, and she graciously sent this wonderul collection. Whilethe new magazine ormat o Episcopal Lie no longer carries bookreviews, you can still ollow Marthas writing at The BeatitudesSociety, www.beatitudessociety.org.

From Nora Gallagher's latest book, The Sacred Meal: What ithe risen Christ does not die out, as in being lited into the heav-ens, but rather dies in, that is, dies into the whole o the world?

And this rom R.S. Thomas, who once likened his prayers togravel ung against God's bedroom window. "I would have re-rained long since, but that peering once through my locked fngersI thought that I detected the movement o a curtain."

From Andrew Rumsey, vicar o Gipsy Hill in South Londonin the recently published: Strangely Warmed: Refections on God, Lieand Bric-a-Brac: Like a window, or a lens, aith isn't something you

should look at so much as look through. Whenever you look at it,it just seems smudged and rather odd, because religion is a meanso viewing the world, not an end in itsel, thank goodness. Indeed,there is a strong case or saying that the closer you get to JesusChrist, the more invisible your religion should become.

And the inimitable Frederick Buechner: He rose. A ew sawhim briey and talked to him. I it is true, there is nothing let tosay. I it is not true, there is nothing let to say. For believers andnon-believers both, lie has never been the same again. For some,

neither has death. What is let now isthe emptiness. There are those who,

like Magdalen, will never stop search-ing it till they fnd his ace.Barbara Craton, writing on Acts

2:44, "All who believed were togeth-er and had all things in common....":Rather than a socialist recipe or theages, this description o economiclie among the earliest Christians isintended to show us that they wereprooundly changed. Nothing intheir lives was untouched by their new lie in Christ. The most mun-dane aspect o human lie was subject to redemption.

And rom Richard Valantasis and Douglas Bleyle, ounders othe Institute o Contemplative Living: Think about it. I everythingand everyone and every circumstance o your lie, whether apparentlygood or apparently bad, is leading you toward an ultimate reunion

with God, then we come to experience our lives as something mys-teriously unolding even when lie conounds us. The sense o theunolding mystery, o fnding God olded into our daily lives, givesan entirely dierent perspective through which to understand andexperience our daily living. Nothing that happens in the day may anylonger be seen as simply indierent or even troublesome, because ev-erything and everyone is moving inexorably toward union with God.Our embodied state as humans makes this perspective a difcult oneto achieve; but the bodiless beings have this perspective by nature andthey choose in their natural state to see and experience God directly.So can we, i we try.

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light.Isaiah 9:2; Matthew 4:16

The Diocese o Haiti has observedLent in a very dierent way this year.

When Bishop Duracin and I spoke justbeore Ash Wednesday, we talked abouthow this year would be dierent. Henoted that the people o Haiti wouldneed to practice saying Alleluia, so that

when Easter came they could enter inwith joy. In the midst o grie and dark-ness, it can be exceedingly difcult tobelieve that resurrection is a possibility.

Nora Gallagher makes a similarpoint in her book, Practicing Resurrec-tion.

We are not born with the ability toinsist on resurrection everywhere weturn. It takes the discipline and repeti-tion that orms an athlete in this case,a spiritually ft Christian. We practiceour aith because we must it withersand atrophies unless its stretched. Wemust continue to give evidence o the aith that is within us.

Easter prods and provokes us with an immense stretchingexercise. God has renewed a lie given to the evil o this world onbehal o those with no other helper. That earth-shattering andtomb-shattering rebirth has planted the seeds o hope in eachone o us. Yet those seeds do not produce ruit without struggle.

The people o Haiti are fnding new lie in the midst o

death and struggle. As a nation and a people they have repeat-edly practiced resurrection through centuries o slavery, oppres-sion, invasion, corruption, and privation. The joy o their artorms music and painting in particular gives evidence o thehope that is within them as a people. They know, deep in theircultural DNA, that God is continually bringing new lie out odeath. Yet each person must discover and nurture that hope. Itis made ar easier in community.

The shared hope o a community is essential. Most humanbeings cannot long survive the evil and death o solitary con-

fnement or a concentration camp. It is the sharedsense o suering and the shared nurture o eventiny embers o hope that oers lie. The greatestcruelty o places like Guantanamo and Abu Ghraibis the removal and destruction o such hope. Theabsence or disconnection rom other people assources o hope leads to suicide and even that mys-terious ailment in young children called ailure tothrive.

The Christian community is about shared hopein resurrection. The citation at the head o thisarticle frst buoyed hope among a people exiled in aoreign land, without the support o amiliar lead-ers or places o worship. That people developed a

community that could practice its aith in a strangeland, insisting that God was present among themeven in exile. Jesus insists that that light is presenteven in the midst o Roman oppression, and that he

will gather a community to remember that light andpractice seeing and discovering it.

The Christian community is meant to be amutual hope society, with each one oering courage to another

whose hope has waned, insisting that even in the darkest onight, new lie is being prepared. That work is constant it

will not end until the end o all things. And still the communitypersists, year in and year out, in time o earthquake and war andood, in time o joy and new birth and discovery. Together wecan shout, Alleluia, he is risen! Indeed, he is risen, Alleluia!

even when some among us are not quite so confdent as others.For indeed, the body o Christ is rising and risen when even asmall part o it can rejoice and insist that God is renewing theace o the earth and light has dawned upon us.

Alleluia! Keep practicing that joyul shout. Someone needsto hear its truth. Alleluia!

The Most Rev. Katharine Jeerts SchoriPresiding Bishop

The Episcopal Church

Easter Message

From the mosaic oor of Worcester CollegeChapel, Oxford, U.K., c.1791, depicting StAugustine, perhaps writing We are an EasterPeople and Alleluia is our Song.

Photo by Lawrence OP/Flickr



3/8

Beore summarizing my thoughtson this past year at CEC, I have toadmit something. Im a BIP kind o

person. (BIP = Butts in Pews). For 15years, my career has been about makingsales, objectives, problem solving, andincreasing productivity. Thanks to serv-ing on Vestry and building a relation-ship with Father Bob Towner [rector oChrist Church], my outlook on thingshas improved and sotened. However,the skills Ive gained orm my careerhave proven useul when doing Gods

work.This leads me to my epiphany! For

many years I have elt that I wasnt do-ing what God wanted me to do with mylie. I have always elt a strong calling to

counseling or social work. And, again,I must admit, this caused me to eelunsatisfed in my day job and in my

work on the vestry. I elt I was spinningmy wheels, and this was not what Godhad intended. Recently, I got to knowa new parishioner whose job includessocial work at Southeast Hospital.

Ater listening to her experiences, whatshe has to deal with daily, I came to theconclusion that I dont think I could doher job, or a similar one. I wont go intoall the reasons behind this statement,but will say that it caused my A-HA!

moment.I AM DOING GODS WORK.Plain and simple. Im doing what God

wants me to do even though my dayjob title is Project Manager. I real-ized that the job Im in today is a goodone, it allows me to help provide or myamily AND give to my church regular-ly AND give to other charitable causes.I had a complete and total paradigmshit.

Im sharing this because in a wayit makes me think about CECs jour-ney over the last our years. Duringmy frst year on vestry we were pretty

ocused on increasing our numbers. Wehad a lawsuit and possible renovation

pending. We were ocused onmission over those years, butgrowing was still there as a

goal. Then, over the last coupleo years our ocus shited. Mis-sion became the 100% totalocus. When this happened,CEC became rejuvenated!

When we stopped worryingabout the things that were notin our immediate control andstarted ocusing on helping ourneighbors, many things hap-pened. We actually did see aninux o newcomers and wereable to provide over $22,000

worth o Food Ministry withZERO dollars in the budget.God provides!

2009 was a literal wrap-up. We saw the fnal rulingand closure on the lawsuit.

We have a beautiully reno-vated sanctuary. We have agreat website. We have a ullyunctioning mission. We actu-ally received more money inpledges than the previous ew

years (even with the economicstrains). 2009 by all accounts

was a GREAT year.2009 is an exceptional

spring board into 2010. Imvery excited about CECsLeadership Retreat, and whatour church amily brings to thetable. This is a very dierent

year we are heading into. Somany things we were waitingon are no longer issues. Weare already deep in ocus onmission. So, whats in store or2009?

More mission. More op-portunities to do Gods will.

More internal care or ourchurch amily. More creativethinking on undraising with amissional twist. More, More,

More! Join in!

Sage council, creative brainstorming, ideas and strategies or theshort and long term: the work o the advisory Editorial Board can bechallenging. We have been blessed to have so many step up to thisministry with grace, and want to thank retiring board members or

their service.Outgoing board members include: the Rev. Emery Washington,Sr.; the Rev. Bob Towner; the Rev. Joe Chambers; the Rev. CanonRalph McMichael; Ms. Martha K. Baker; Ms. Jodie Allen Kuhn.

In the second year o her term, the Rev. Beverly Van Horne,vicar, Trinity Church, Jeerson County, remains on the board.

Incoming board members include: the Rev. Jason Samuel, rec-tor, Church o the Transfguration, Lake St. Louis; the Rev. TeresaK. M. Danieley, rector, St. Johns, St Louis; Mr. Jerry Martin, Dioc-esan Council member, parishioner at St. Pauls, St. Louis; Mrs. Susan

Moenkhaus, parishioner and newsletter editor, St. Timothys, CreveCoeur.



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The Companion Diocese Relation-ship Committee has called members othe diocese to prayer during the upcom-ing elections in Sudan, and has orga-nized a couple o ways to participate as acommunity.

On Saturday, April 10, at noon,please join us or a Prayer Service andHoly Eucharist at St. Timothys Epis-copal Church, 808 N. Mason in CreveCoeur.

Last mission trip we welcomednew partners rom the Blackmore ValeDeanery, in Salisbury, U.K. to ongoing

work with the Diocese o Lui. Work-ing groups rom each place have keptin touch, sometimes meeting via Skype(rhymes with type). Skype connects twoor more computers on the internet toone another to share video and audio,

fles, and text chat.Blackmore Vale partners plan on

attending the service on the Saturdaythrough Skype. There are also plans ora concurrent service in the Cathedralo Lui. Southern Sudan is eight hoursahead o Missouri Central Time, sonoon in Missouri is 8:00 p.m. in Lui.

During the days that the polls areopen or the Presidential and Parlia-mentary elections in Sudan, memberso the Diocese o Missouri will keep aprayer vigil or the saety o our brothersand sisters in Lui. This vigil will be held(in Missouri times) rom 4:00 p.m. onSaturday, April 10th through 4:00 p.m.on Tuesday, April 13th.

Weve set up an online sign-up loca-tion, using Qlubb.com. It seems a handyutility or organizing, is password pro-tected, and ree. You can get directions

via email to [email protected], orby calling the communications ofce at314-255-1387. We realize not everyoneis online, please eel ree to phone in

your vigil watch time. Well also havepaper sign-ups at the service Saturdaynoon.

Sudans history is complex, and

Sudanese o all political persuasionsare preparing or these elections, thefrst democratically held in twenty our

years. You may recall Bishop Bullens stories about the secondcivil war, and the loss and aith o that time when we enteredour relationship with Lui Diocese. The North/South Com-prehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 endedSudans 22-year long civil war between north and south, in

which an estimated two million people died. The treaty wasa triumph or thegovernment o Su-dan and the peopleo the south, withsome autonomy tosouth Sudan anddivision o wealthand political powerbetween the tworegions within aunifed Sudan. TheRev. Canon JohnDanorth, ormerSenator rom Mis-

souri, was the Special Envoy or Peace in Sudan that helpedbroker the treaty. The CPA called or these elections inpreparation or next years reerendum (2011) in whichsoutherners will decide between secession or unity with thenorth.

Sudan is one o the most diverse countries in Arica. Ourriends in the Diocese o Lui have been struggling to getback to where they were beore the many years o civil war.Pray or Lui, Pray or Peace, Pray or the Sudan.

I you would like to continue this conversation with members othe Companion Diocese Relationship Committee, our mission-ers to Lui, or our mission partners in Blackmore Vale, pleaseadd your voice to the blogs online atluinotes.blogspot.comorstl2lui.blogspot.com.

Noon, Sat. April 10Prayer Service and EucharistSt. Timothys, 808 N. Mason Road,

Creve Coeur, (314)434-5906

4 pm Sat., April 10 through

4 pm Tues., April 13

Prayer Vigil- Everywhere

Photos from the November 2009mission trip, taken by WarrenIngham-Barrow, missioner fromBlackmore Vale. Bishop Bullen(middle picture) and friends fromLui Diocese.

When

Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, he asked Peter,James and John to stay awake with him while he prayed. Whenever aperson is faced with a difcult situation, it helps to know that others arepraying, too.

On our most recent trip to Lui, one of the missioners became veryill, most likely with giardia, (a parasite) which not only messes with a

persons digestion, it also makes a person feel depressed and anxious.The missioner felt not only physically miserable, but emotionally terri-ed. She had a long night ahead of her. We asked if she wanted us topray with her. The bishop took the lead, and we all laid hands on herwhile he prayed. Then, I asked her if she would like someone to sit withher through the night. With tears, she said yes.

We quickly agreed to take an hour each during the night. We puta chair outside the door of her room, and put a candle on a table, so ifshe woke up, she would see the light of that candle. We made it throughthat night, and the medicines began to work. She felt a little better inthe morning, although it would be weeks after we got home that she

Watch with me one hour

would feel back to par.At a retreat we had in February, she remarked on how the whole

event had changed her perspective on prayer. When the bishop hadprayed for healing, and we all had la id our hands on her, she said shefelt connected to the whole of Christian history.

Anointing and laying on of hands is a very ancient rite for healing.

She said that before Lui she hadnt understood what it meantnow, sheknew that it meant others were with you in the crisis. She also said shewould never go through the Maundy Thursday Vigil the same way again.

I know from my two trips to Lui, we are a people who think we cando things on our own. But, when it comes right down to it, none of uscan get by alone. Sitting through a long, lonely night under Africanskies makes a person realize how connected we are to one another.The biggest discovery that we can make in mission, certainly the big-gest discovery that any of the missioners has made in Lui, is that prayermakes community and community requires prayer. On this side of theocean, we think we can do without either, but we cannot.

excerpt rom Church o the Advents newsletter, The Scroll (April 2010), by the Rev. Dan Handschy,rector o Advent, and chaplain to the missioners on our most recent trip in November 2009.

Southern Sudan: a crisis in numbers

2,500 Inter-ethnic clash fatalities in 2009

400,000 People displaced by these clashes

7 States, out of 10, where clashes occurred

2.7m Small arms in circulation

4.3m People who will need some food aid in 2010

1.5m People facing severe food insecurity

85% Proportion health services provided by NGOs

85% Rate of illiteracy

57.9 Life expectancy at birth

14.8% Global acute malnutrition rate

2,054 Maternal mortality rate

48% Population lacking clean water

15.8% Primary school enrollment

Sources: Ofce of UN resident/humanitarian coordinator, Small Arms Survey, UNDP



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Making Disciples Building Congregations For the Life of the World

St. Martins Ellisville, will hold Water or Sudan Walk-athon on Saturday, May 8, 2010. The walk consists o threeroutesa one mile un run/walk, and a three or fve mileroute through Ellisville. This annual event supports MDGgoals to raise awareness and provides unding to bring clean,accessible water to the people o Lui in the Southern Sudan.Runners, bicyclists, riendly dogs on leashes, and strollers are

welcome. Check in is at the church, 15764 Clayton Rd., at8:00 a.m., and the walk starts at 8:30 a.m.

Walkers and runners are encouraged to recruit sponsorsto pledge a per mile donation or to make a direct monetarycontribution to the Water or Sudan Walkathon. Contri-butions can be mailed to St. Martins Episcopal Church orpledge orms and contributions may be turned in on the dayo the walk.

Adult and youth participants over 14 will receive a ree2010 Walkathon T-shirt i pre-registered beore April 18.

I your parish needs additional inormation, Bloemker,senior director Kevin Williams, or the Very Rev. Ron Cling-enpeel can be reached through the main camp email address:[email protected].

The registration ee or 2010 is $300 per camper, with a$25 discount or returning campers, and a $25 discount oramilies sending more than one child to camp. No child willbe turned away due to need, we have a generous scholarshipprogram. Registration and application or scholarship are dueby May 15, and available online at www.camp-phoenix.org.

The early registration ee or adults and youth, 14 and older,is $15.00. Late registration (ater April 18) will be $20.00.Children are ree. Pledge and registration orms are online at

www.stmartinschurch.org.Much o our water ocus has been on drilling deep

wells, most o Lui diocese now has access, and organiza-tions like the World Bank continue with drilling programsacross Sudan. As we come to the completion o this stage oour work together with the Diocese o Lui, we can shit our

resources to building up the church and its inrastructure.The last monies were raising will go toward one more well,probably in Lakamadi archdeaconry, mission team leaderDebbie Smith said. Ater that, we hope to be able to use our

water money or running water in the vocational school anddiocesan center, and or irrigation in new dry season gardensnear the river. I guess the connection or us is that all projectsrequire water.

Pictures from last years walkathon. View more photos atSt. Martins site on Flickr: www.ickr.com/stmartinschurch.

The Commission on Dismantling Racism o the Episco-

pal Diocese o Missouri invites you to a two day training thatwill challenge, enlighten, stretch, support, and broaden yourunderstanding o racism.

In response to a mandate rom the 73rd General Con-vention in 2000 (Resolution B049), the Commission oerstraining on recognizing and eliminating institutional racismin the Church.

The training uses reading, prayer, acilitated role play,small group interaction, discussion, reection, and multime-dia to initiate a continuing discussion on what the Bishopso the Episcopal Church have named as a spiritual malady

which inects us all.The workshops are ree and include lunch and reresh-

ments. Space is limited to thirty participants and training willoccur with a minimum o fteen registrations.

We strive to explore the current dynamics o racism,

coness our complicity with that evil, declare a covenant witheach other to work to eliminate racism wherever we fnd it inchurch and society, and invite all Episcopalians to join us in amission o justice, reconciliation and unity.

The training is required or all clergy and senior war-dens, and strongly recommended or all lay leaders. Thetraining is open every member and all Christians who wish todeepen their understanding o racism, prejudice, and privi-lege. The diocese underwrites the cost o training, so that itremains ree or participants.

More inormation and registration orms are availableonline at diocesemo.org or rom the Ofces o the Bishop,314-231-1220.

Quotes from The Sin of Racism: A Pastoral Letter from theHouse of Bishops of The Episcopal Church, March 1994



6/8

Diocesan Communications:from News to Conversation, and beyond

NEWS Pronunciation: nz, nyz

Date: 15th century

1 a : a report of recent events

b : previously unknown information

c : something having a specifed inuence

2 a : material reported in a newspaper or

periodical or on a newscast

b : matter that is newsworthy

Seek printed tabloid pick up in parish, or mailed to home, no cost six times a year archived online 11 x 17, full color includes: message fromthe bishop, parish and pro-gram spotlights, diocesanprogramming

Sunday Seek bulletin inserts your parish prints, or your newsletter syndicates, or diocese prints/mails to parish six times a year archived online 5.5 x 8.5, b&w includes: message from thebishop, short info on upcomingdiocesan programming

In PRINT:

EMAIL or ONLINE:

iSeek weekly newsletter by email archived online includes: an overview of dioc-esan news with summaries andsome events from our calendar,prayers, transitions, and blurbsnot found on the website parishes might consider print-ing a copy for the bulletin board

Website News/Calendar diocesemo.org subscribe using RSS or email,and receive as they are pub-lished, not waiting for weeklysummary in iSeek full text news articles this is the news (feed) which issyndicated into our social mediasites and mobile applications comments now possible

LISTSERV:

a listserv is another name for an email list instead of one person collecting and distributing, members of the community post their news listservs can be public or private, moderated or not the diocese now offers listserv capacity for these functions (and some diocesan organizations):

4LOW (for the life of the world list) is a resource sharing and opinion seeking list for the dioceseTo subscribe, send an email to [email protected] be asked toverify your email address by returning the message (reply-to) with the subject line intact.Youll send emails to the list through the address: [email protected]

HOTPOTATO is a discussion destination for deeper topicsTo subscribe, send an email to [email protected] be asked toverify your email address by returning the message (reply-to) with the subject line intact.Youll send emails to the list through the address: [email protected]

EVANGELISM THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

an up-to-date list of diocesan outposts across the internet is now available at our own website. Youll ndour locations for blogs, photo sharing, video sharing, Facebook, wikis, tweets, feeds, and publications at

http://www.diocesemo.org/aboutus/communications/

and now for mobile users,Theres an app for that

Diocesan news, calendar, and feeds from publications, photos, videos, Twitter (prayers and breakingnews) are all bundled into a handy mobile phone application. Approved for all Android phones (available inAndroid marketplace) and in the developer queue at Apple. Our website will carry news of the iPhone appwhen it becomes available in iTunes.



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Making Disciples Building Congregations For the Life of the World

The 15th Annual 30Hour Famine week-end atChurch o the Advent isscheduled or Friday, April 23through Saturday, April 24.Participants will gather at 6:00p.m. on Friday, spending thenight at church. The amine

ends with a parish sponsoreddinner at 6:00 p.m. on Satur-day.

There is no registrationee, but participants are askedto bring canned ood itemsor the local hunger ministry

Feed My People and collect pledges or hours o participation.These unds will go to World Vision. Organizers report thisyears goal is $500.00.

World Visions 30 Hour Famine is a worldwide move-ment o students who are serious about serving God andfghting hunger, on an empty stomach. For 30 hours, par-ticipants get a taste o hunger by not eating, something morethan a billion people around the world experience everyday. And by doing undraising activities, community serviceprojects, and learning more about the acts o world hunger,students are changed in amazing ways as they help others and

save lives.Please contact Nancy Birtley at 636-296-8307 or [email protected] to RSVP or the amine, or receive moreinormation.

Episcopal Church of the Advent, 9373 Garber Road, Crestwood,MO 63126, ph. 314-843-0123, www.advent-episcopal.org

Sarah Clingenpeel, Eric Lehr, Maya Jackson, Jason Wiggins, Philip Arnold, Chris Connor, and Hei-di Clark. Not pictured team members include Eli Nanny Holmes, Peter Linck, and Mya Stanley.

The Journey to Adulthood class at Christ Church Ca-thedral wanted to respond to the unolding post-earthquakecrisis in Haiti, youth reaching out to youth. J2A LeaderHeidi Clark worked her contacts to fnd an appropriatepartner in Haiti, the St. Vincents School or HandicappedChildren. Founded in 1945 by the Episcopal Order o theSisters o Saint Margaret, St. Vincents is the primary schooland medical acility in Port-au-Prince with a mission tohandicapped children, and is under the aegis o the Epis-copal Bishop o Haiti. Mark Adkins at Credo in Memphisconnected us to Dr. Susan Nelson, who pointed us in the di-rection o St. Vincents. We could not have done this withouttheir grace-flled degrees o separation and willingness tohelp, said Clark.

The partnerships continued as the youth collected undsand items or the 50 brightly colored bags assembled. Inaddition to much needed personal items, the youth wantedto make sure there were plenty o stued animals, toys, andbooks. They also sent a couple o boxes or the school withclothing, ashlights, batteries, classroom-sized toys and ascooter.

Lou Clauss, Emmanuel-Webster Groves parishionerand owner o the PostNet in St. Louis, helped with packingmaterials, customs orms, and shipping rate council.

We can't wait to hear rom St. Vincent's, and hope ourwork will not only bring us together as riends, but bring alittle lie and happiness into their world, added Clark.

Each month this year (with a summer hiatus inJuly and August) the Episcopal School or Ministryis sponsoring an online book discussion using titlesrom The Ancient Practices Series, Thomas Nelsonpublisher.

Online discussions allow you to be cozily en-

sconced in your uzzy slippers while discussing withdiocesan brothers and sisters hours down the road.

Weve set up a virtual classroom space at no-media.com or discussions, which happen the last

Monday o each month at 7:30 p.m. There is spaceto continue the conversation the next week, or those

who want to participate in some way but are not ableto make the Monday time.

Father Rod Wiltse is acilitating each conversa-tion, and entering the bold new world o translatingmore amiliar ace to ace dialogue into text based chat. To partici-pate, send your email address to Fr. Rod at [email protected].

In her oreword to Fasting, series general editor Phyllis Ticklewrites that there are seven ancient practices, or disciplines, thatcome to us out o Judaism and directly through the teachings othe early church. Fasting is ar and away the most misunderstood,maligned, and misused, in her opinion. But asting...ah, asting.Fasting hurts. Fasting can become exaggerated into an excessiveand neurotic indulgence. Fasting, submitted to theological andscriptural scrutiny asserts that soul and body are, and that neitheris without the other. For many Christians, that itsel is a disturbingprecept better let unexplored. This is not a book or the cow-ardly.

McKnight makes the case or asting as a body plea.Many young Christians today worship in ways I never did. Theyraise their hands, they dance, they sway, and they act out thewords o their worship. I am aware o my discomort with their

practices because I was nurtured in a disembodied orm o worship andthe Christian aith. But this new generation seems to be catching on tothe biblical perception o the whole person wholly engaged with God. Ibelieve there is a growing surge o whole body spirituality at work theChristian West today, and current worship practices are part o thatresurgence.

Future titles or the book club will include:May - The Sacred Mealby Nora GallagherJune - The Pilgrimage by Diana Butler Bass

September - The Liturgical Yearby Joan ChittisterOctober - Tithingby Douglas LaBlanc

November - The Great Emergence by Phyllis Tickle

The Summer term at the Episcopal School for Ministrybegins Saturday, April 17th. Courses being offered are:

Liturgy with professor Ralph McMichael, the Dean of the School;Preaching with professor Barbara Willock;Christian Spirituality with professor Rod Wiltse.

The School meets at Eden Seminary on ve Saturdays, one each month:

17 April from 11:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. with lunch.15 May from 09:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. with lunch.12 June from 09:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. with lunch.17 July from 09:00 a.m. to 03:00 p.m. with lunch21 August from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The fall term begins at 11:00,

followed by lunch and an afternoon program until 3:00 p.m.

To register or for more information, contact Cory Hoehn in the Ofces of theBishop, (314) 231-1220 ext.1383 or [email protected] Prayer is offered each Saturday of each term at 07:45 a.m.The Holy Eucharist is celebrated each Saturday of each term at 11:15 a.m. (First and lastSaturdays of each term are exceptions). You may also register for the full three year programwhich includes Friday evenings from 06:00 p.m. to 09:30 p.m. of each school weekend.



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A Call to all Visual Artists of the Diocese

We are seeking your artwork or publication in Seek and online. Photog-raphers, digital artists, textile artists, painters, illustrators, sculptors; digitalphotographs o any genre o work will be accepted. The Editorial Board andOfces o the Bishop will choose one or two selections or each Seek issue.

Our frst theme is Celebration. Artwork chosen or publication will includea brie bio o the artist, and statement about the work and its relation to thetheme. Artists selected will receive our thanks and a small token o apprecia-tion rom the Ofces o the Bishop.

Submission deadline for Celebration artwork is Friday, May 14, 2010.Digital fles may be emailed to communications director Beth Felice [email protected], or phone us to make other arrangements, 314-255-1387.

Future themes planned are:Good News, submission deadline June 18, 2010;Reconcile, submission deadline September 17, 2010;Whole heart, November 12, 2010.

Celebration

Ange au tombeau du Christ (The Angel atChrists Tomb), detail from the Chapel of theResurrection, Abbey of Mozac in Auvergne,France. Photo from Jochen Jahnke.

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