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Sharing the Message of Christ in Our Lives as St. Andrew Presbyterian Church | OCTOBER 2018

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2 Messenger | October 2018

Dedication/Anniversary Weekend

To be the body of Christ, living in Christ’s love, serving as Christ served.

Dear Friends and Members of St. Andrew,

It is with great excitement and anticipation that St. Andrew Presbyterian Church has settled into its new building at 140 Gathering Place Lane! For the past several months, we have been getting to know our new neighbors, and we have been figuring out how best to respond to service opportunities throughout Iowa City, University Heights, Coralville, North Liberty, and the rest of the Johnson County

area.

From October 18-21, we will host a series of events to celebrate St. Andrew’s 60th anniversary as well as to dedicate our congregation’s new home. We are sending invitations throughout Eastern Iowa for the community to join us for any or all of the activities. The celebration will kick-off with a Community Open House from 4:00 pm to 8:30 pm Thursday, October 18 — think of it as a church-style House-Warming

Party (with chili while it lasts).

Tours will highlight the many classrooms and meeting spaces we have available, including the

following:

Atrium: This bright and airy space doubles as both a meeting space and entrance. It is the perfect architectural centerpiece. The Atrium greets all who enter with welcoming

natural sunlight.

Sanctuary: The worship space features the half-century-old Casavant organ that previously filled the University of Iowa’s Clapp Recital Hall. Although the Flood of 2008 damaged the former Voxman Music Building beyond repair, the organ has been removed and restored over

the past few years.

Youth Room (aka, The Hub): The stage, coffee counter, cafe seating and game area provide meeting space for all ages. The indoor space opens to a patio that connects with our fire pit, gaga pit, and future

playscape area.

Children’s Ministry Area: This bright-colored, child-friendly area provides directional design features for parents to easily find right-sized rooms for infants, toddlers, and K-6 youth. It also includes several multi-use classroom spaces and a central space for

larger gatherings.

Multipurpose Room: Equal to a full-sized gymnasium, the MPR easily accommodates large-scale receptions and conferences as well as sporting events for all ages. We are excited to share that additional upgrades to this

area are in process.

We hope you also will consider attending some of our other events as we celebrate throughout the

Homecoming weekend:

A Saturday morning tailgate in our lower parking lot, which will be followed by watching the University of Iowa Homecoming game in The Hub and patio area. (Including the first run on St. Andrew’s “4-Something” course around the church property — which will end up being somewhere between 4 and 5

miles.)

A Saturday evening organ recital featuring Shelly Moorman-Stahlman, a former director of music at St. Andrew and a

graduate of the UI organ program.

Special worship services at 8:30 am and 11:00 am Sunday morning, with the official Building Dedication Ceremony starting at 10:00 am. A full list of events is available at www.saintandrew-ic.org/about/dedication-2018 and on the St. Andrew Facebook

page. We hope you see you in October ... and beyond.

Sincerely,

Jeff Charis-Carlson, Peggy Hausler, Matthew Penning,

Marylu Watkins, Nelda Wittig, and Heather Woodin

Anniversary/Dedication Planning Team

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa

Homecoming Events Schedule

photo by Jan Waterhouse

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St. Andrew Happenings

Save the Dates for Fall Disability & Faith Workshop & Worship Services October 6 & 7

St. Andrew’s AIM Ministry (Access & Inclusive Mission) is sponsoring a Fall Disability & Faith Workshop on Saturday, October 6, 2018. The workshop will be held at the Coralville Public Library in Meeting Room A from 8:45 am—11:45 am. This event is free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be provided. Contact: Marcia Murphy at [email protected] .

The presenter, Jolene Philo, is the author of five books for the special needs community, including Does My Child Have PTSD? and What to Do When Your Child Is Hurting from the Inside Out. She is currently collaborating with Dr. Gary Chapman on a book about using the five love languages in special needs families. She also connects with parents of kids with special needs at her blog, DifferentDream.com. With her daughter, she co-hosts the Home Again Podcast, which explores intergenerational living.

Jolene speaks about writing, special needs parenting, special needs ministry, and post-traumatic stress disorder around the country and internationally. She and her husband live in Polk City, Iowa.

Then on Sunday, October 7, we will have our annual Disability Inclusion & Awareness Celebration Worship at both 8:30 & 11:00 am. From 7:45 to 12:15 that day, the More God, Less Psychiatric Illness Devotional with companion, Be Still music CD will be on sale in the Atrium. Look for Marcia Murphy there with a display. All proceeds go to the St. Andrew Mental Health Initiatives Ministry. The booklet contains essays and poems written by Marcia and other St. Andrew members. The CD was created by music director, Matthew Penning (vocals, instrumental), with contributions by Kristen DeGrazia and Lora Morgan Dunham, vocals. You may purchase a devotional booklet w/CD for $7 or

separate CD only for $5.

Questions? Contact Marcia at [email protected].

Clean-Up Day: October 6

The Building Team has decided to schedule a general clean-up for October 6 at 9:00 am (with October 13 as a rain date).

The plan is to have as many people participate as possible to make the work go faster. Please report to Dave Nicholson or Nancy Barth for your assignment(s). The project is to make the church presentable for the celebration. The precise tasks are to be determined but will no doubt in-volve weeding, mulching, planting, trimming and mowing. It is a work in progress so the tasks may change between now and then.

Questions? Contact Bruce Walker at [email protected].

Reserve your spot by signing up in the

Atrium and bring

roasting sticks!

Call Ruth for directions: 319/330.8923

mailto:[email protected]

http://differentdream.com/






Remembering Gerhard Krapf:

A History Behind St. Andrew’s ‘New’ Organ by Jeff Charis-Carlson

The Organ

Back in 2013, the University of Iowa presented St. Andrew with an amazing opportunity: To salvage a historic organ from a flood-

damaged building and thus save a nearly $2 million instrument from being sold for scrap.

To the broader Iowa City community, the offer seemed primarily a chance to preserve the Clapp Organ — the informal name for the instrument that had been housed in the university’s Clapp Recital Hall since 1972. The hall had been named for the composer

Phillip Greeley Clapp who directed the university’s music department decades earlier.

To the organ-building community worldwide, the instrument was known officially as Casavant Opus 3105 (1971), referring to the Canadian-based company that designed and installed the organ in a brand new Voxman Music Building located along the Iowa River. By 2013, however, Opus 3105 — an organ that had accompanied and been played by musicians from around the globe — had been sitting silent in an empty room for the

five years since the river flooded in 2008.

For St. Andrew, relocating and restoring the Clapp Organ offered a way to weave the congregation’s past into its future plans for a new building on the western edge of town. And with Opus 3105 now almost fully installed in the church’s new sanctuary, the congregation has a chance to reflect on the legacy of the person most directly responsible for the organ’s very existence: Gerhard Krapf, the German-born musician, scholar and St. Andrew elder who arrived in Iowa City in 1961 to start an organ program at the

University.

That’s why, in conjunction with next month’s dedication events, the St. Andrew Organ Team will start referring to this instrument

as the Krapf Organ.

It was Krapf who persuaded University of Iowa administrators and state lawmakers in the 1960s to provide the public funds needed to purchase a recital-quality instrument for the program. It was also Krapf who insisted that this new instrument be designed according to the principles of the Organ Reform Movement — using centuries-old tracker technology, rather than electronic signals, to physically connect each key on the

manuals with the stops on the pipes.

While Krapf was overseeing the final design and installation of the new UI organ, he also was serving as an elder at what was then called St. Andrew United Presbyterian Church. After being elected to the Session in 1970, Krapf persuaded his fellow elders to set a special meeting with the congregation to approve the purchase of a new organ for St. Andrew. The meeting was later canceled, however, because a budget

deficit delayed such plans for another decade.

There was no way for Krapf to know at the time that the instrument he was bringing into existence as part of his day job — an organ suitable for playing music from a variety of times and places — would eventually be used to accompany the congregation of his church home.

The history of this organ also reminds us how Krapf, during his time in Iowa, passed on to hundreds of students the inspiring — but painful — lesson he learned firsthand while coming of age under the rise of the Adolf Hitler: That sacred music has power to change the world, especially during those times when the world seems to have gone mad.

Gerhard Krapf, 1924-2008

Gerhard Krapf, a German-born

musician and scholar, directed the

University of Iowa’s Organ Department

from its founding in 1961 until 1977. At

the time he was overseeing the

Installation of the new Casavant organ

in Clapp Recital Hall, he also served as

an elder on the Session of what was

then called St. Andrew United

Presbyterian Church.

photo by David Engen



Remembering Gerhard Krapf:

A History Behind St. Andrew’s ‘New’ Organ by Jeff Charis-Carlson

As Krapf grew up in the Germany of the 1920s and 1930s, he learned much from the example set by his father, a pastor who was a member of the Confessing Church that arose in opposition to the Nazis. But Krapf also credits his musical education with

strengthening his faith and helping him endure as his nation fell under the sway of totalitarianism.

It was Krapf’s experience serving at 15 and 16 as the substitute organist in his father’s church — playing for regular worship services as well as during the memorial services for parishioners who didn’t come home — that taught him how to hold on to his

humanity after he was drafted at 17, sent to the eastern front, captured by the Russians and held as prisoner of war until 1948.

Within five years of being repatriated to his home town of Offenburg, Krapf set sail to the United States to continue the organ studies that had been delayed by the war. Less than a decade later, he arrived in Iowa City with a young family in tow, ready to put his musical and

theological vision into practice.

Throughout his long career, Krapf stressed that the sacramental role played by a church musician was every bit as important as the sermon

delivered by a pastor.

He considered himself to be part of the ministerial profession.

It was Krapf’s commitment to teaching and mentoring that led to Opus 3105’s becoming one of the most continuously played organs among the thousands installed by Casavant. The instrument required an overhaul in the late 1990s after nearly three decades of heavy use by

University of Iowa faculty, students, and guest performers.

Krapf left Iowa City in 1977 to begin a new organ program at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. While there, he again worked with Casavant to construct a new recital-quality, tracker

instrument. He died in 2008, less than a month after the Iowa City flood.

Despite Krapf’s absence, the many connections he helped forge in Iowa City continued. When the Kelting family offered St. Andrew a large donation in 1980 for the installation of a new organ, church leaders worked with Casavant to design an instrument to fit the new sanctuary at 1300 Melrose Avenue. That instrument — which is about one-third the size of the Krapf Organ — was sold in 2015 to St. Paul Lutheran Church

in Aurelia, Iowa.

And over the decades, St. Andrew’s organists have continued to build on the church’s connections with Krapf’s successor at University of Iowa, Delbert Disselhorst. Shelley Moorman-Stahlman completed her Doctor of Music degree while serving as St. Andrew’s first full-time director of music, Ed Moore taught classes at the university while on staff at St. Andrew, and Matthew Penning’s relationship with University of Iowa organists made St. Andrew an attractive new home for a well-used and well-loved

instrument.

Given Krapf’s musicality and ministry mindset, it’s fitting that the instrument he helped conceive was used in active worship for the first time on Easter Sunday 2018. And as St. Andrew now prepares to re-dedicate Casavant Opus 3105 (1971), it’s equally fitting to start referring to the organ informally by the name of the teacher, mentor, scholar, war-survivor, and worship-leader whose ideals can be

seen (and heard) in every one of its 3,796 pipes.

From 1972 until 2008, University of Iowa students,

faculty, and guest musicians made the Krapf Organ

one of the most heavily used organs ever used by the

Canadian-based Casavant Fréres. After floodwaters

inundated the Voxman Music Building and Clapp

Recital Hall in 2008, the organ sat silent for five years.

Starting in 2013, staff and volunteers from St. Andrew

Presbyterian Church worked with Dobson Pipe Organ

Builders to remove and restore the instrument. It was

installed in St. Andrew’s new sanctuary in late 2017

and was played in worship for the first time on Easter

Sunday 2018.

Gerhard Krapf served on the St. Andrew Session from 1970-72.

He left Iowa City in 1977 to start a new organ program at the

University of Alberta in Edmonton.

The Organ continued



Cover Story

At Home in Christ by Sarah Dyck

As I write this, it is September 19. It is a day that marks a somber time for those of us who love the music and lyrics of singer, songwriter, and poet Rich Mullins. Rich died in a car accident on this day 21 years ago. For those of you who do not recognize his name, you’ve very likely sung his music during worship. He’s the Awesome God and Step by Step guy.

Rich was a vagabond. He never settled anywhere for very long. For instance, just when he began to get established in Nashville, and Awesome God was topping the charts, he picked up and moved to Wichita, Kansas to spend time with a spiritual mentor and friend. Needless to say, this upset quite a number of people...record executives, musicians, friends, etc.

But Rich knew that if he settled in a place in this world and focused on that as his home, he would truly be lost. Rich knew that his true home was in Christ. He even wrote a song called Home where he emphasizes that when everything is shaken in life, all that remains is all he ever really had--Jesus.

Scripture permeated Rich’s lyrics and guided his life, and John’s gospel was one that frequently showed up in his songs. There are two places in John’s gospel where Jesus talks to the disciples about home. In John 14, Jesus says he is going to prepare a place for them (John 14:1-4), and then in John 15, he talks to them about what it means to abide in him (John 15:1-10).

In John 14:1-4, Jesus is telling his disciples that he is preparing a place for them where they will always belong

with God. He’s letting them know that he is not abandoning them but getting a place ready for them that is to be their home. Then, in John 15, he uses the image of a vineyard. He explains that the only true home is when we are a part of him.

4 Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless

you are joined with me.

9-10 I’ve loved you the way my Father has loved me. Make yourselves at

home in my love. If you keep my commands, you’ll

remain intimately at home in my love.

That’s what I’ve done—kept my Father’s commands and made myself at

home in his love.

—John 15:4, 9-10

As you have noticed by now, this issue of the

Messenger is primarily dedicated to the St. Andrew

Anniversary and Homecoming celebration. And what a party it will

be! St. Andrew is blessed to have the people and facilities to continue to be an amazing witness to the grace and love of Jesus Christ in the Iowa City area. God has entrusted this congregation with an undertaking that I am sure it can handle with his help. It’s exciting to see what will happen next!

So, let the party begin! God wants us to enjoy the gifts that God has given. And I have no doubt he has set before this congregation the imagination and resources needed to help others come to a place of belonging, of home, in him at 140 Gathering Place Lane.

Live in me. Make your home in me

just as I do in you. In the same way that a

branch can’t bear grapes by itself

but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t

bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

John 15:4 The Message



Were God’s people happy and excited when they finally arrived on the doorstep of the Promised Land?

Not according to Numbers 13! I know, I have written about this previously. And yet I keep on going back to the stories when I try to find a reference point for the journey of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church.

Moses sent spies into the Promised Land – a group who represented the whole of Israel. And they returned with a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them. They also brought some pomegranates and figs (Numbers 13:23). Did these signs of abundance create excitement, happiness? No. Not even when the spies reported, it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. (Numbers 13:27)

The only thing the Israelites could see was problems. “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.” (Numbers 13:31) The people are strong – there are even giants. “To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.” (Numbers 13:33).

And so, they did what any normal person would do. Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become booty; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain, and go back to Egypt” (Numbers 14:1–4).

Let us celebrate our Coming Home later this month. And take this story to heart!

A Note from Pastor Danie

we seemed like grasshoppers …

Rev. Dr. Daniel deBeer

Interim Senior Pastor



Get Out Your Running Shoes On October 20 by Mike Anderson

Some Celebration Weekend Events in Detail

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,

they shall mount up with wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary,

they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to chart a 4.1-mile loop around St. Andrew’s building at 140 Gathering Place Lane. Our plan was to host an “All-4-One” group run during the Homecoming Tailgate on October 20 — with a 1-mile

walking route on our property and a 4.1-mile run/walk on the sidewalks and trails around our property.

But mapping a precise 4.1-mile loop proved awkward because, to make the distance work, we would have to start and

finish along different points on Camp Cardinal Boulevard.

One route from our door took 4.2 miles, another took 4.8 miles, another took 4.65 miles. Always more than 4 and less than

5. Always 4-point-something. … They were always "4-something."

And that’s when it hit me: Every time we leave our doors, it’s “for something”.

So now, our plan is to offer a maiden run on St. Andrew’s “4-Something” course. We’ll take off from the building at 9:30 am October 20, with plans for everyone to return in time for the 11:00 am kickoff. We also will offer a family-friendly

1-mile walk/run on our property.

For more information about the run or the morning tailgate in the parking lot, contact [email protected].

4-Something October 20, 2018 9:30 am




Some Celebration Weekend Events in Detail

Homecoming Parade Meet-Up by Jeff Charis-Carlson

Join your St. Andrew family on Friday, October 19 for a meet-up at the University of Iowa Homecoming Parade in

downtown Iowa City.

Several St. Andrew members will be staking off ground near the intersection of Clinton and Washington streets — close enough to watch the parade as well as allow children to play in the grassy areas of the Pentacrest. The parade is scheduled to begin at 5:45 pm (https://homecoming.uiowa.edu/parade), but people will be

gathering throughout the afternoon.

To show of your St. Andrew pride, make sure to wear your Homecoming 2018 shirts as well. The deadline has passed for ensuring a specific shirt, but many T-shirts and sweatshirts are still available while they last. Short-sleeve T-shirts range from $7-$9, long-sleeve T-shirts from $9-$11, crewneck

sweatshirts from $18-$20, and hoodie sweatshirts from $22-$24.

Contact [email protected] to see what options are available in your size.

Dedication Concert

https://homecoming.uiowa.edu/parade

https://homecoming.uiowa.edu/parade




Stewardship 2019

1 Peter 4:10—Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.

The birding enthusiasts in Johnson County regularly count more than 50 species of birds in one day's outing. Club members love to search the waterways, the grasslands, the woodlands, and their own back yards for rare and recurring species. They list shore birds, waterfowl, raptors, hummingbirds, songbirds, and more. One could say the

birders recognize a MANIFOLD list of birds.

In 1 Peter, the word MANIFOLD translates the Greek word — poikilos — meaning diverse and abundant. Like the many species of birds, the apostle Peter highlights grace in many forms. Some grace comes in physical or financial resources; some comes in talents or relationships. Other grace unfolds through suffering and perseverance. Even in

poverty, we find gifts of grace.

Each year, we use the fall stewardship drive to link our annual church budget to our faith community. THANK YOU for the many ways your gifts support the ministries at

St. Andrew.

Here is what’s coming up next:

Adult education 1) On October 28, the Finance and Stewardship Teams will give a joint presentation about our budget plans for 2019. 2) On November 4, we’ll host a

panel of outside financial experts talking about faith and

money management and charity giving.

Sunday Desserts We’d like to invite you to a small group dessert hosted jointly by the stewardship team and other church ministries. Each dessert program will be approximately the same; you only need to attend one. They all happen from 4:00 to 5:30 pm in “THE HUB.” 1) Stephen Ministry and the Building Team on Sunday, October 28 2) Mission, Outreach, & Service and the Transition Team on Sunday, November 4 3) Children’s & Family Ministry and the Personnel Team on Sunday,

November 11.

Commitment Services on Sunday, November 11. Please pray about your stewardship commitment for 2019. Ask, “God, how can I use my personal and financial gifts to serve others through the ministries of St. Andrew?” We hope to receive the majority of pledges by November 15.

We need many different gifts to grow and nurture our church family. Like bird enthusiasts, we search for grace and blessings amongst each other.

Yours, The Stewardship Team

Christina Donelson and Bruce Walker, co-chairs


Our Church Finances: In Numbers……………...And In Words


Financials

Administration/Leadership Pastors

Rev. Dr. Daniel “Danie” deBeer, Interim Pastor [email protected]

Rev. Kyle Otterbein, Associate Pastor [email protected]

Rev. Mark Martin, Pastor Emeritus [email protected]

Office John Benson, Finance Administrator [email protected]

Sarah Dyck, Office & Communications Admin. [email protected]

Children, Youth, & Families Randy Hausler, Director of Youth Ministries [email protected]

Heather Woodin, Director of Children’s

& Family Ministries [email protected]

Music Matthew Penning, Director of Music Ministries [email protected]

Lee Rabe, Assistant Director of Instrumental Min. [email protected] Laura Kastens, Director [email protected] Nelda Wittig, Director [email protected]

Non Profit Organization

US Postage Paid Permit Number 66

Iowa City, IA

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MMESSENGER ESSENGER October 2018

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church 140 Gathering Place Ln, Iowa City, IA 52246

www.saintandrew-ic.org

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319/338.7523

Worship Times: 8:30 am + 11:00 am

Sunday School: 9:45 am

Our purpose is to be the body of Christ, living in Christ’s love

and serving as Christ served.

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St. Andrew's Session generally meets at 7:00 pm on the third Thursday of most months. The remaining dates for 2018 are October

25, November 29, and December 20. To look at the minutes from any Session meeting, follow this link

(saintandrew-ic.org/about/session).

Per Capita & Mission

We want to thank all of you who

contributed your $37 in per capita to

provide funding for mission!

Every dollar paid directly supports the

mission of the church by giving

additional budget dollars for

Mission, Outreach, and Service (MOS)

to distribute. —MOS Team












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