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Page 1: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Advent Christmas 2015 Volume 46 Issue AdventChristmas 2015 Volume 46 Issue 3

MAGAZINE OF HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

PLUSChristmas RecipesRejoice Always Convention RoundupSt Francis Anew

Festiv al 20

A col yte

Celebrat

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Advent Christmas 2015 Volume 46 Issue

bullChallenging Academics bullCompetitive Athletics

bullPerforming and Visual Arts bullForeign Language Instruction

bullReligious Education bullAdvanced Technology

bullVideo Production Activities bullGlobal Studies

bullExciting Enrichment Opportunities bullCommunity Service

Inspiring curiosity kindness and dignity

in a caring Christian community

Now Enrolling Pre-K through8th Grade Students for the 2016-17

Academic Year ndash Call Today

2101 S Hubert Avenue Tampa

(813) 258-5508 bull wwwsmedsorg

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F983154983149 983156he B983145h983152Greetings From Bishop Smith

My dear friends

When I was a rector in South BendIndiana the congregation I served de-

termined to relocate I was concurrently

working on a Doctor o Ministry degree

so I chose as my thesis topic ldquoCongrega-

tions who relocaterdquo I thought it would

be a difficult topic to study but discov-

ered in the late 1990rsquos 12 percent o all

congregations relocate over the course

o their histories

We now celebrate with St Francis

ampa as it undergoes a relocation

transition into a new creative uture

I we surveyed all o the congregations

that comprise the Diocese o Southwest

Florida we would find a number o

congregations that have relocated or a

wide variety o reasons Te key or suc-

cess in congregational relocation is the

desire to create a new uture

Tis issue o the Southern Cross

has a number o examples o congrega-tions clergy and lay leaders that reveal a

continued energy to create a new uture

Tat is o course in the very nature o

the Church Godrsquos desire or us is to be

changed or transormed which means

a new uture always lies beore the bap-tized and aithul congregations

As you explore the pages o this

issue o the Southern Cross I think you

will agree with me that it is both stimu-

lating and creative or Godrsquos uture

Te story o Fr Livan and St Francis is

again a story o wonderul celebration

A priestrsquos sel-description o

spiritual direction and desired growth

speaks well o the individualrsquos need tointentionally participate in the creation

o a new uture

Just as clearly the inormation

regarding the master site plan o Day-

Spring reveals the Diocese moving or-

ward to create space or better ldquopeople

developmentrdquo through all o the exist-

ing and new programs at DaySpring

Finally the display o the 2016

calendar shows our Diocese moving

orward with energy and purpose I

personally find it an exciting diocese

be a part o

Remember as Christ ians we pra

with daily regularity ldquothy Kingdom

come thy will be donerdquo as we recitethe Lordrsquos Prayer Te very prayer Jes

taught us both reminds and inorms

us that God calls us and equips us or

new creative uture What a blessing

be so called X

Bishop Dabney Smith is Fifh Bish

o the Diocese o Southwest Florida

Godrsquos desire or usis to be changed or

transormed

Procession at the last serviceat the old St Francis

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4

I983150 983156hi Iue

Features

Rendering for proposed program centerDaySpring Episcopal Center

229

8

10 St Francis Moves A New Garden or St Francis at St Chad

14 47th Convention RoundupElections and other news

17 DaySpring Plans Move ForwardProgram and youth first priority in new plan

18 CalendarDaySpring and Diocesan calendar or AD 2016

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2926

Christmas doors St Edmundrsquos the Martyr Arca

Briefs Thistle Farms Clergy Notes helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 7

Meet the Priest The Rev Christian Maxeld helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 8

Youth Summer Camp Plans helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 9

Art Altar for St Chad by Martha Goodwill helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip22

Advent Rose Sunday The Rev David Danner helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 23

Campus Ministry Urgency at SCF by Billy Pardy helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 25

Food Christmas Recipes by Jan Nothum helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 26Parish Life Good Shepherd Venice helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 29

Parish Life Action on Alcohol by the Rev Canon Michael P Durning helliphellip 30

Parish Life St Chad Library by Jennifer Rich helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 31

Obituaries helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 32

Glancing Back Convention 1975 helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 34

Departments

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6

Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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Y1048687uth Early Camp Registration Opens

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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April 2016

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February 2016

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November 2016

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January 2016S M T W T F S

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Advent Christmas 2015 Volume 46 Issue

bullChallenging Academics bullCompetitive Athletics

bullPerforming and Visual Arts bullForeign Language Instruction

bullReligious Education bullAdvanced Technology

bullVideo Production Activities bullGlobal Studies

bullExciting Enrichment Opportunities bullCommunity Service

Inspiring curiosity kindness and dignity

in a caring Christian community

Now Enrolling Pre-K through8th Grade Students for the 2016-17

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F983154983149 983156he B983145h983152Greetings From Bishop Smith

My dear friends

When I was a rector in South BendIndiana the congregation I served de-

termined to relocate I was concurrently

working on a Doctor o Ministry degree

so I chose as my thesis topic ldquoCongrega-

tions who relocaterdquo I thought it would

be a difficult topic to study but discov-

ered in the late 1990rsquos 12 percent o all

congregations relocate over the course

o their histories

We now celebrate with St Francis

ampa as it undergoes a relocation

transition into a new creative uture

I we surveyed all o the congregations

that comprise the Diocese o Southwest

Florida we would find a number o

congregations that have relocated or a

wide variety o reasons Te key or suc-

cess in congregational relocation is the

desire to create a new uture

Tis issue o the Southern Cross

has a number o examples o congrega-tions clergy and lay leaders that reveal a

continued energy to create a new uture

Tat is o course in the very nature o

the Church Godrsquos desire or us is to be

changed or transormed which means

a new uture always lies beore the bap-tized and aithul congregations

As you explore the pages o this

issue o the Southern Cross I think you

will agree with me that it is both stimu-

lating and creative or Godrsquos uture

Te story o Fr Livan and St Francis is

again a story o wonderul celebration

A priestrsquos sel-description o

spiritual direction and desired growth

speaks well o the individualrsquos need tointentionally participate in the creation

o a new uture

Just as clearly the inormation

regarding the master site plan o Day-

Spring reveals the Diocese moving or-

ward to create space or better ldquopeople

developmentrdquo through all o the exist-

ing and new programs at DaySpring

Finally the display o the 2016

calendar shows our Diocese moving

orward with energy and purpose I

personally find it an exciting diocese

be a part o

Remember as Christ ians we pra

with daily regularity ldquothy Kingdom

come thy will be donerdquo as we recitethe Lordrsquos Prayer Te very prayer Jes

taught us both reminds and inorms

us that God calls us and equips us or

new creative uture What a blessing

be so called X

Bishop Dabney Smith is Fifh Bish

o the Diocese o Southwest Florida

Godrsquos desire or usis to be changed or

transormed

Procession at the last serviceat the old St Francis

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4

I983150 983156hi Iue

Features

Rendering for proposed program centerDaySpring Episcopal Center

229

8

10 St Francis Moves A New Garden or St Francis at St Chad

14 47th Convention RoundupElections and other news

17 DaySpring Plans Move ForwardProgram and youth first priority in new plan

18 CalendarDaySpring and Diocesan calendar or AD 2016

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25

2926

Christmas doors St Edmundrsquos the Martyr Arca

Briefs Thistle Farms Clergy Notes helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 7

Meet the Priest The Rev Christian Maxeld helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 8

Youth Summer Camp Plans helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 9

Art Altar for St Chad by Martha Goodwill helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip22

Advent Rose Sunday The Rev David Danner helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 23

Campus Ministry Urgency at SCF by Billy Pardy helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 25

Food Christmas Recipes by Jan Nothum helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 26Parish Life Good Shepherd Venice helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 29

Parish Life Action on Alcohol by the Rev Canon Michael P Durning helliphellip 30

Parish Life St Chad Library by Jennifer Rich helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 31

Obituaries helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 32

Glancing Back Convention 1975 helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 34

Departments

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6

Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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Y1048687uth Early Camp Registration Opens

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

S M T W T F S

1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 1

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S M T W T F S

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March 2016

S M T W T F S

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August 2016

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April 2016

S M T W T F S

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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November 2016

S M T W T F S

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January 2016S M T W T F S

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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11

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 3: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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F983154983149 983156he B983145h983152Greetings From Bishop Smith

My dear friends

When I was a rector in South BendIndiana the congregation I served de-

termined to relocate I was concurrently

working on a Doctor o Ministry degree

so I chose as my thesis topic ldquoCongrega-

tions who relocaterdquo I thought it would

be a difficult topic to study but discov-

ered in the late 1990rsquos 12 percent o all

congregations relocate over the course

o their histories

We now celebrate with St Francis

ampa as it undergoes a relocation

transition into a new creative uture

I we surveyed all o the congregations

that comprise the Diocese o Southwest

Florida we would find a number o

congregations that have relocated or a

wide variety o reasons Te key or suc-

cess in congregational relocation is the

desire to create a new uture

Tis issue o the Southern Cross

has a number o examples o congrega-tions clergy and lay leaders that reveal a

continued energy to create a new uture

Tat is o course in the very nature o

the Church Godrsquos desire or us is to be

changed or transormed which means

a new uture always lies beore the bap-tized and aithul congregations

As you explore the pages o this

issue o the Southern Cross I think you

will agree with me that it is both stimu-

lating and creative or Godrsquos uture

Te story o Fr Livan and St Francis is

again a story o wonderul celebration

A priestrsquos sel-description o

spiritual direction and desired growth

speaks well o the individualrsquos need tointentionally participate in the creation

o a new uture

Just as clearly the inormation

regarding the master site plan o Day-

Spring reveals the Diocese moving or-

ward to create space or better ldquopeople

developmentrdquo through all o the exist-

ing and new programs at DaySpring

Finally the display o the 2016

calendar shows our Diocese moving

orward with energy and purpose I

personally find it an exciting diocese

be a part o

Remember as Christ ians we pra

with daily regularity ldquothy Kingdom

come thy will be donerdquo as we recitethe Lordrsquos Prayer Te very prayer Jes

taught us both reminds and inorms

us that God calls us and equips us or

new creative uture What a blessing

be so called X

Bishop Dabney Smith is Fifh Bish

o the Diocese o Southwest Florida

Godrsquos desire or usis to be changed or

transormed

Procession at the last serviceat the old St Francis

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4

I983150 983156hi Iue

Features

Rendering for proposed program centerDaySpring Episcopal Center

229

8

10 St Francis Moves A New Garden or St Francis at St Chad

14 47th Convention RoundupElections and other news

17 DaySpring Plans Move ForwardProgram and youth first priority in new plan

18 CalendarDaySpring and Diocesan calendar or AD 2016

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25

2926

Christmas doors St Edmundrsquos the Martyr Arca

Briefs Thistle Farms Clergy Notes helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 7

Meet the Priest The Rev Christian Maxeld helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 8

Youth Summer Camp Plans helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 9

Art Altar for St Chad by Martha Goodwill helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip22

Advent Rose Sunday The Rev David Danner helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 23

Campus Ministry Urgency at SCF by Billy Pardy helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 25

Food Christmas Recipes by Jan Nothum helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 26Parish Life Good Shepherd Venice helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 29

Parish Life Action on Alcohol by the Rev Canon Michael P Durning helliphellip 30

Parish Life St Chad Library by Jennifer Rich helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 31

Obituaries helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 32

Glancing Back Convention 1975 helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 34

Departments

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6

Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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Y1048687uth Early Camp Registration Opens

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 1

11 12 13 14 15 16 1

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March 2016

S M T W T F S

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August 2016

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April 2016

S M T W T F S

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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28 29

November 2016

S M T W T F S

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

10

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 4: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Features

Rendering for proposed program centerDaySpring Episcopal Center

229

8

10 St Francis Moves A New Garden or St Francis at St Chad

14 47th Convention RoundupElections and other news

17 DaySpring Plans Move ForwardProgram and youth first priority in new plan

18 CalendarDaySpring and Diocesan calendar or AD 2016

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25

2926

Christmas doors St Edmundrsquos the Martyr Arca

Briefs Thistle Farms Clergy Notes helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 7

Meet the Priest The Rev Christian Maxeld helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 8

Youth Summer Camp Plans helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 9

Art Altar for St Chad by Martha Goodwill helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip22

Advent Rose Sunday The Rev David Danner helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 23

Campus Ministry Urgency at SCF by Billy Pardy helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 25

Food Christmas Recipes by Jan Nothum helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 26Parish Life Good Shepherd Venice helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 29

Parish Life Action on Alcohol by the Rev Canon Michael P Durning helliphellip 30

Parish Life St Chad Library by Jennifer Rich helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 31

Obituaries helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 32

Glancing Back Convention 1975 helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 34

Departments

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Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 1

11 12 13 14 15 16 1

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March 2016

S M T W T F S

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April 2016

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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Baseball

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 5: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Christmas doors St Edmundrsquos the Martyr Arca

Briefs Thistle Farms Clergy Notes helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 7

Meet the Priest The Rev Christian Maxeld helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 8

Youth Summer Camp Plans helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 9

Art Altar for St Chad by Martha Goodwill helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip22

Advent Rose Sunday The Rev David Danner helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 23

Campus Ministry Urgency at SCF by Billy Pardy helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 25

Food Christmas Recipes by Jan Nothum helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 26Parish Life Good Shepherd Venice helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 29

Parish Life Action on Alcohol by the Rev Canon Michael P Durning helliphellip 30

Parish Life St Chad Library by Jennifer Rich helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 31

Obituaries helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 32

Glancing Back Convention 1975 helliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphelliphellip 34

Departments

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6

Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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Y1048687uth Early Camp Registration Opens

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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Baseball

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 6: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Bishop Te Diocese of Southwest FloridaTe Rt Rev Dabney Smith

Editor Garland Pollard

Contributing Writers Te Rev David Danner Te RevCanon Michael Durning Dominick Maldonaldo MarthGoodwill Jan Nothum Pete Muller William PardyJennier Rich Anne Vickers

Photographers Anne Vickers Garland Pollard

Advertising Inquiries Garland Pollard 941-556-0315 ogpollardepiscopalswflorg

Subscriptions Te Southern Cross is mailed toparishioners o the Diocese o Southwest Florida rommember parish lists Email your address tosoutherncrossepiscopalswflorg to subscribe or updatedelivery preerences

Editorial Submissions Letters Te editor welcomessubmissions o articles or every section o the magazineincluding eatures news and departments Email editorepiscopalswflorg Manuscripts must be in Microsof wor

ormat We invite letters to the editor on subjects o interto the entire Diocese

Identification Statement Te Southern Cross is publisheby the Diocese o Southwest Florida Department oCommunications USPS permit No 946

Diocese o Southwest FloridaDaySpring Episcopal Center8005 25th St EastParrish FL 34219941-556-0315

web wwwepiscopalswflorg

email editorepiscopalswflorgwitter episcopalswfl

ISSN 2372-7861 (print version)ISSN2372-8159 (online version)

On the Cover Te acolytes o StFrancis ampa at the Diocesan Acolyte Festival thisSeptember

Year 46 | Issue 3 | AdventChristmas 2015

X

First Published AD 1970

A DIOCESAN-WIDE YOUTH EVENT

Rootinrsquo Tootinrsquo

Hootenanny

Calling all middlehigh school youth young adults and youth leadersCome dressed in your best country

attire to line dance the day away Foodamp drinks No charge

Hosted by Youth Leadership TeamDiocese of Southwest Florida

Who Barney amp His Band Urban Gypsies of Florida

When January 23 2016 noon to 4 pm

Where St Stephenrsquos School Gymnasium315 41st St W Bradenton

RSVP With Michelle Mercurio atmmercurioepiscopalswforg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 1

11 12 13 14 15 16 1

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March 2016

S M T W T F S

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S M T W T F S

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Baseball

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Noted Entrepreneur ampPriest Becca Stevens at

St Albanrsquos Jan 26S PEE BEACH ndash Te Rev Becca

Stevens an author Episcopal priest and

ounder o Tistle Farms a community o

women who have survived prostitution

trafficking and addiction will speak at St

Albanrsquos on uesday Jan 26 at 6 pm

Tistle Farms employs residents andgraduates o their two-year residential

community program Te project houses

a natural body care line a paper and sew-

ing studio Tistle Stop Caeacute and its new

global initiative Shared rade

Stevens started the Tistle Stop Caeacute

to empower women survivors But when

she discovered a connection between caeacute

workers and tea laborers overseas she em-

barked on a global mission called ldquoSharedraderdquo to increase the value o women sur-

vivors and producers across the globe Her

book Te Way o ea and Justice Rescu-

ing the Worldrsquos Favorite Beverage rom Its

Violent History recounts the victories and

unexpected challenges o building the caeacute

Attendees will also hear rom two

graduates who will share their experiences

and how they have changed their lives

through the work o Tistle Farms which

is located in ennessee near Nashville Ste- vens preached at the Episcopal General

Convention in Salt Lake City last summer

At the talk guests will enjoy a Social

Justice ea and taste Tistle Farms tea

enjoy desserts and gain awareness about

what can be done today to have a residual

impact on issues that are impacting wom-

en across the world $5 Donation at door

RSVP to St Albanrsquos at stalbanstam-

pabayrrcom or 727-360-8406X

Episcopal Camps amp

Conference Centers

Holds Annual Meeting at

DaySpring This January

PARRISH ndash Te annual meeting o

the Episcopal Camps and Conerence

Centers will be held at DaySpring begin-ning January 24 to 29 Tis is the first time

DaySpring has hosted the ECCC which

includes about 100 camps and orma-

tion centers across the US Speakers in-

clude Jerry Huncosky CEO o Frost Val-

ley YMCA a 5000 acre property in the

Catskill Mountains

Te Rev Kyle Bennett rector o St

Markrsquos Marco Island will speak about

special needs ministries at our churchescamps and conerence centers And Lynd

Matt Director o Development or the

Diocese o Massachusetts will speak on

und-raising

Questions Email AshleyEpisco-

palCCCorg with any questions about the

conerence

B983154iefly Clergy Changes

HE REV DR Gina Walsh-

Minor is the new priest-in-charge

at St Alred Palm Harbor TeRev Walsh-Minor has served the

Diocese o New Jersey since 2003 as

vicar at St Clementrsquos St Mary the

Virgin Keyport and Interim Rector

St James Long Branch as well as

interim director o human resources

at the Riverside Church in New York

Te Rev Edward C Gleaso

became the eighth rector o rinity

by-the Cove Episcopal Church o

Saturday Oct 24 2015 Te Re

Gleason began his ministry at rinity

by-the Cove as an associate rector

Te Rev Daniel Moore is now

associate rector at rinity-by-the-

Cove Moore is a recent seminary

graduate having received his M Div

and certificate in Anglican Studies

rom the Duke Divinity School in

May 2015

Te Rev David Bumsted accepted a call to Emmanuel

Episcopal Church Orlando He had

been associate or youth ministry at

Church o the Redeemer Sarasota

Te Rev Robert Baker

ordained last January is the assisting

priest at St John ampa

Te Rev Matthew Grunfeldo

the Diocese o Alabama will serve as

the new priest in charge o Church othe Annunciation Holmes Beach

Te Rev Dr John S Adler

is the new vicar o St Raphael Ft

Myers Beach He replaces Te Rev

Don Nicholson who died in Augus

X

Traniti983151n

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

Meet 983156he P983154ies

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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April 2016

S M T W T F S

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

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8

Q How did you and Kate decide to

answer the call to Naples

AOrdained ministry or me has involvedserving as youth young adult and amily

minister and also serving as rector and

priest-in-charge As I was sensing Godrsquos

call to move I ound mysel being drawn

once again to a larger parish with a staff

where I could ocus on youth and amily

ministry For us this search or a larger

parish meant looking south and though

we never would have thought we would

move as ar south as Naples we are so

blessed to be serving the St Johnrsquos amily

Q Did you grow up in the Episcopal

Church

A I was raised American Baptist and my

Christian walk brought me to Lutheran

and Evangelical Covenant churches

beore the Episcopal Church o top off

my denominational circuit ride studying

at Nashotah Houses Seminary gave me a

rich Anglo-Catholic experience

Q What is unique about St Johnrsquos

A One o the things I find really unique

about St Johnrsquos is the way so many people

in the church are sensitive to in tune with

and growing in God through the work

o the Holy Spirit St Johnrsquos is a loving

and welcoming community actively

seeking Godrsquos will and desiring His work

in both their parish and in their personallives Coming to St Johnrsquos my eyes have

been opened even urther to the work o

the Holy Spirit through the disciplines

o healing and contemplative prayer

ldquoSeasonrdquo was a new concept or me and

while I understood it in theory being

here and experiencing ldquoseasonrdquo- and what

that means or a parish- continues to be a

learning experience

Q What are some books that inspired

or continue to inspire you

A Besides ldquoCalvin and Hobbesrdquo (which

occasionally does make it into a sermon)

I enjoy reading the witness o the churchathers and the early church as well as the

writings o CS Lewis

Q What do you and Kate like to do in

your off time

A Kate and I enjoy taking advantage o

this lovely area as much as we are able We

take our dog Gracey to the dog park and

to the beach and I enjoy skating on my

long-board with Gracey as she pulls medown the road We also enjoy taking as

much advantage o the coast as we can by

paddle boarding skim boarding and just

plain sitting at the beach as well as the pool

Q In a recent sermon you preached on

mistaking allies for enemies and the

ability of daily prayer to keep us rely

on Godrsquos word and Holy Spirit How

you keep a prayer life and do you h

any suggestions for us

A I have been blessed to have oun

spiritual director early on in my mini

in Southwest Florida who has guided

through healing prayer and helps to gme accountability in setting aside time

personal prayer and contemplation Be

a minister I find that I am in the Scriptu

a lot praying prayers all through my

and leading a spiritual lie but whe

need accountability (and I believe thi

the same or many) is in carving out d

quiet time out o our busy days just to si

quiet contemplation personal prayer

listening When I do carve out the timy days are better my sermons are be

I am better and I am better to those arou

me ndash all o which brings glory to God

easy to be busy with the day-to-day du

and activities o lie It takes disciplin

place God above sel but the blessing

receive when we do so is incredibleX

Here The Rev Christian Maxeld of St John Naples conducts a childrenrsquos sermon

The Rev Christian Maxeld St Johnrsquos Naples

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

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April 2016

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February 2016

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Y1048687uth Early Camp Registration Opens

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PARRISH - Even bigger and better

camp sessions are coming this summer

to camp at DaySpring Tere is

something or everyone A chance to

meet new riends to have more un

than ever imagined to experience

community and the abundant love

o God and to return home a new

creation ready to serve others and the

church

Counselor raining

June 12-15

Session 1 Break Out

June 15-18

Rising 3rd ndash 5th Grade $390

A new and exciting elementary age

Christian experience with all the un

camp activities at DaySpring

Session 2 Middle School Camp

June 19-24

Rising 6th-8th Grade $390

Full camp activities and program or

middle schoolers Special addition o

Canon Michael Durning as chaplain

Session 3 High School Camp

June 26-July 1Rising 9th-12th $390

Canoeing high rope sports and zip

line with even more additions or 2016

Session 4 Mission Camp

July 10-15

Middle and Senior High $390

B983154iefly

eams o middle and high

school students and adults rom

congregations come to camp learn

about and experience various

missions in the Diocese We had a

great mission in 2015 Donrsquot miss it

this year

Session 5 Elementary Camp

July 17-223rd to 5th Grades $390

All the traditional and un camp

activities at DaySpring

Session 6 Youth Ministry Leadership

Camp and Conference

July 24-29 $390

eams o senior high and adults will

participate in leadership training that will

make a difference in their congregationand community Great way to raise up

the leadership o young people or your

parish or mission Note there will be adult

leader training as part o this eventX

Contact Te Rev John Palarine at

941-556-0315 or

jpalarineepiscopalswflorg

Happening andNew BeginningsCan Change Lives

Happening is a weekend experience

or high school aged youth that has

changed the lives o many through

the power o Godrsquos love and the Holy

Spirit Our diocesan youth ministry

offers Happening every year It is led

by young people or young people

and is very powerul It also makes

an impact on the congregations

upon the young peoplersquos return rom

this weekend During a Happening

weekend participants will experience

the love o Christ through music talk

prayer worship and a community

led by ellow students all o which is

supported by clergy and lay adults

Godrsquos love can change lives

Next Happening

February 26 ndash 28 2016

New Beginnings is a special weekendor Middle Schoolers It also shares

the love o Christ in powerul ways

but it is aimed at the needs o those in

this age Te unique thing about New

Beginnings is that it is meant to be a

group experience Adult leaders bring

their group and share in the weekend

and then are encouraged to take the

experience back to their congregation

Donrsquot miss this opportunity to buildyour Middle School Ministry through

this amazing experience that changes

lives and congregations

Next New Beginnings

March 11-13 2016

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

S M T W T F S

1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 1

11 12 13 14 15 16 1

18 19 20 21 22 23 2

25 26 27 28 29 30 3

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S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

March 2016

S M T W T F S

1 2 3 4 56 7 8 9 10 11 12

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20 21 22 23 24 983090983093 26

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 10: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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10

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AMPA - On July 28 2015 Bishop

Michael Garrison reading a procla-

mation on behal o Bishop Dabneyyler Smith deconsecrated the St

Francis church building at 6907 N

Nebraska Ave in ampa

Te Rt Rev Garrison read the

words ldquodo hereby revoke the said

Sentence issued by my predecessor

and do remit this building and all

A New Garden for St Francis

objects remaining in it or any lawul

and reputable use according to the

laws o this landrdquo

Afer that pronouncement St

Francis which dates rom 1952 as

a mission church would no longerhave a home at 6907 N Nebraska Av-

enue in ampa Te congregation will

be worshipping at the St Chadrsquos Epis-

copal Church location or 12 months

while they determine the details o

their new location which will be lo-

cated urther west in the heart o the

HispanicLatino community in a

pa in a building that more closely

their needs

St Francis will be sharing sp

with St Chad the ampa church

by Te Rev Christian VillagomeSt Chad organized in 1953 w

remain a separate mission thou

sharing acilities

Afer weeks o packing and m

ing the contents o over 50 years t

Sunday was a day o celebration a

ceremony Te hallways were pack

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

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March 2016

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April 2016

S M T W T F S

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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November 2016

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

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Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Last Day on Nebraska

Facing page the nal service Fr Livanaddresses the congregation AboveFr Livan leads the acolytes in prayerbefore worship Right parishionersparade out with ags representingtheir many countries of origin Belowa group of youth share their feelingsabout St Francis

with amilies o all ages tending to

their weekly tasks while the choir

was practicing ahead o the service

singing ldquoGloria a Dios Gloria a Dios

Gloria al Padrerdquo

Getting the word out about their

new location was not difficult

ldquoOh all the members alreadyknow In the Latino community ev-

erybody knows ndash you tell one per-

son and the rest gets aroundrdquo said

church leader Dominick Maldonado

who serves on the Diocesan Stand-

ing Committee and has become an

evangelist in the Diocese o South-

west Florida or attracting Spanish-

speakers to the Diocese ldquoEveryone

has the address and we have the

same phone number so we wonrsquot lose

contact We immediately began to

evangelize at the new location ndash in

the new neighborhood saying lsquoHi we

are here Irsquom coming over or coffee

Come Comersquo We know we are going

to grow I have one concern ndash we will

fill that church soonrdquo

ldquoI eel a little sadness because my

daughter has ound a lot o riends

hererdquo said a nostalgic Luz DaryldquoWersquore carrying our riends to the

new church building But itrsquos sad say-

ing goodbye Even the little tables in

the ladies room ndash I miss themrdquo

ldquoWe were there (28 o us) or an

open house In our church even your

purse has a spot ndash we wondered how

will we fit ndash Well wersquoll have to sit

next to each other and wersquoll hold the

pursesrdquo She smiles brightlyEven the youth were nostalgic

ldquoIrsquove been coming here since I was

littlerdquo said German Perez a teenager

active at the church ldquoIrsquom sad to see us

leave but it will be exciting going to a

new environment - to experience our

Continued on page 13

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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8005 25H SREE EAS

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12

gree in amily medicine and in 1999

he completed his residency as an in-

ectious disease specialist

He lef Cuba and travelled to

Uruguay as a missionary where he

completed his seminary work in

Montevideo Uruguay His dedica-tion and commitment to the most

vulnerable led him to become medi-

cal director o a residential acility or

people living with HIVAIDS the

majority o which had a long history

o substance abuse His wie Lazara

Judith who also worked in the medi-

Here Fr Livan greets Fr Hector Lopez the previous vicar who arrives to celebrate with the congregat

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BORN AND RAISED in Havana

Cuba Fr Livan (pronounced Lee-van)

Echazabalrsquos first calling was as a physi-

cian attending the Instituto Superiorde Ciencias Medicas de La Habana

the oldest medical school in Cuba

Fr Livanrsquos calling to serve God came

in 1992 attending the Evangelico de

Matanza Seminary (Evangelical Teo-

logical Seminary) o Matanzas

In 1994 he graduated with a de-

cal field as a registered nurse join

him While there Fr Livan ou

himsel having to advocate or t

group o people that were very mu

discriminated against or many r

sons Fr Livan lived with his wie

Uruguay or 13 years where thdaughter Nicole was born

In 2006 Fr Livan first served

the diaconate and in 2007 he beca

an ordained priest During those

years in Uruguay Fr Livan worked

various hospitals perorming em

gency medicine amily medicine a

Meet Fr Livan Shepherd of St FrancisPhysician Priest Leads Spanish-speaking Congregation in ampa

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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1 2 3

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S M T W T F S

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April 2016

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February 2016

S M T W T F S

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November 2016

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January 2016S M T W T F S

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Deacon Retreat Back to School

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Facts on St Francis

St Francis began as a mission

May 1 1952 under the old

Diocese o South Florida around

the same time St Raphaelrsquos Ft

Myers Beach St Albanrsquos St

Pete Beach and the old Glades

Cross Mission in Everglades City

began It has lsquomissionrsquo status as

the priest is appointed by Bishop

Smith in consultation with

wardens Because Fr Livan leads

a lsquomissionrsquo his title is vicar not

rector

inectious disease medicine in addi-

tion to his service as a priest

In 2005 Fr Livan travelled or

the first time to the United States

at the invitation o the Dioceses o

Colorado and Southeast Florida and

ollowed up with additional trips

In 2011 Fr Livan was invited to StFrancis Episcopal Church in ampa

where he presented a workshop on

Pastoral Health Tat was the begin-

ning o his relationship with St Fran-

cis At the same time o his visit Fr

Hector Lopez the long-time Vicar at

St Francis was about to retire Te St

Francis vestry invited Fr Livan to an

interview and presented him to the

Diocese In 2012 Bishop Smith ap-

pointed Fr Livan as Vicar o St Fran-

cis Episcopal Church

Both the vestry and congrega-

tion have welcomed their Cuban-

born priest with open arms and are

working very well together Fr Li-

van immediately began to share his

vision and teachings o God Te

youth liked their priest and began

to get involved so did the women

and men Over the last three years atSt Francis he has worked extremely

hard with the vestry to rebuild the

congregation He also began a second

mission in Spring Hill at the home o

parishioner Hector Chamorro When

the group grew they approached Fr

Lance Wallace Rector at St Andrews

Church in Spring Hill Fr Wallace

welcomed the meeting with open

arms lots o love or the past year FrLivan has been travelling every Satur-

day to perorm mass at 6 pm

Some o his challenges include

improving his English and attending

school he is planning to take his medi-

cal boards so that he can perorm his

second love o his proession in medi-

cine His most pressing challenge isfinding a new location or St Francis

Episcopal Church Tis year the church

and the property on N Nebraska Av-

enue were sold and now the church is

sharing space with St Chadrsquos

Fr Livan would like to express

his most sincere gratitude to Bishop

Smith and the entire Diocesan staff

or all their help and support to both

him his amily and St FrancisX

About the author Dominick Mal-

donado a parishioner at St Francis

serves on the Standing Committee as

a lay member He was a leader o the

first Spanish Cursillo in the Diocese

this year

aith growing in a different place

Te community loves the

leader Fr Livan Echazabal the e

ergetic center o the congregatio(see sidebar) A native o Cuba F

Livan came to St Francis with h

wie Judith and daughter Nicole

During the service Fr Liv

warmly welcomed words ro

the congregation including lon

time parishioner Jose Orozco wh

wrote a poem to memorialize t

day Also part o the service we

the congregationrsquos elementa

school children who shared the

thoughts and a song Bishop M

chael Garrison greeted the co

gregation in Spanish and preach

the Gospel story o Jesus spea

ing as he walked across the wat

and the disciples sat in their boa

scared

ldquoIt is I Do not be araidrdquo

Bishop Garrison cheeru

noted the colorul procession the flags symbolizing the many n

tions represented in the St Franc

community symbolizing that w

are all related to one another

ldquoWe come rom many cou

tries and culture but as we sin

we are one body o Christ an

Christ lives oreverrdquo said Bish

Garrison

As those gathered snapped phtos o the large Crucifix careully an

lovingly taken down and prepar

or move let us remind ourselv

that Jesus is with us in this new a

venture A mover summed it

best ldquoWe take care o Him becau

He takes care o usrdquoX

continued rom page 11

Moving St Franci

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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20

continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 14: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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14

October DiocesanConvention is 47thin Southwest Florida

Conventionon Mission

Seminarians were introduced to the Convention They are fromleft the Rev Marcia Tremmel Margaret Sullivan Robert Douglas

Daniel Lemley Christian Wood and Chase Ackerman

HE 2015 ANNUAL Convention

o the Diocese was held Oct 16-17

2015 in Punta Gorda Te event is the

annual gathering and business meet-

ing o the Episcopal Diocese o South-

west Florida Fridayrsquos events includeda ministry air speakers and Holy

Eucharist eaturing Abagail Nelson o

Episcopal Relie amp Development

Te plenary speaker or the 2015

Diocesan Convention was Brian McLaren

McLaren an author public theologian

and leading figure in the ldquoemerging

Watch SessionsOnline

Te full Saturday businesssession of convention isonline as well as handoutsstories and the annual

Convention Guidebookwhich includes budgetselections reports speakersand contacts Go toepiscopalswflorg and visitthe CONVENION tabatop the home page

churchrdquo movement attends St Markrsquos

Marco Island He is the ounding pastor

o Cedar Ridge Community Church an

innovative nondenominational church in

the Baltimore-Washington region

On Saturday voting clergy

and delegates rom the Diocesersquos 77

congregations gathered to vote on the

2016 budget consider resolutions and

hear Bishop Dabney Smithrsquos conventionaddress which this year was taped ahead

o time

Visit episcopalswflorgtvhtml or

both business sessions o the Saturday

Annual Convention Te first session

includes the Annual Convention Address

o the Rt Rev Dabney SmithX

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

S M T W T F S

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4 5 6 7 8 9 1

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 15: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Each o the our General Conven-tions that I have been privileged to attend

has aced critical issues related to the mis-

sion o Te Episcopal Church Tis Con-

vention is no exception and will include

the election o our next Presiding Bishop

We are particularly honored to have our

own Bishop Dabney Smith as one o the

our Bishops who has been nominated or

this position And our own Anne Vickers

is running as a rustee o the Church Pen-

sion Board

X

Bishoprsquos Appeal Awards Announced

At the 47th Annual Convention o the Diocese o Southwest

Florida grant recipients or Episcopal

Charities o Southwest Florida were

announced Awards were as ollows

bull $4483 St Raphael Ft Myers Beach

Leap o Faith Afer School Program

bull $3000 St Chad ampa Food Pantry

and Community Program

bull $7062 St Edmundrsquos the Martyr

Arcadia DeSotoCares DayCenter or the homelessbull $4455 St James House o Prayer ampa Cornerstone

Kids Afer School Reading Enrichment Program

bull $3000 All Souls North Ft Myers Food Pantry and

Outreach Services

bull $3000 St Wilred Sarasota Beneva Christian Food

Pantry Cooperative X

Each year landmark eventsin the history of the

Diocese are celebratedThis year All Souls North

Ft Myers celebrated itsmove from mission statusto becoming a full parish

Above parishionersparade through the

convention hall At topright The Rt Rev MichaelGarrison assisting bishop

as he prays during the

censing of the altar

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16

Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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Standing Committee and OtherElections at Convention

bull Kevin M Fitzgerald St Markrsquos Marco Island was re-elected to a

three-year term as lay representative to the Standing Committee

bull Te Rev Dr Randall Hehr Holy

rinity Clearwater and Te Rev

Cesar Olivero St James Port

Charlotte were both elected tothree-year terms as presbyter

representatives to the Standing

Committee

bull W Blanton Garnett o the

Cathedral Church o St Peter and

Allen O Getz o St Andrew ampa were elected as at-large

representatives to Diocesan Council

bull Virginia Harper Iona Hope Ft Myers and Te Hon Doug

Spangler Church o the Redeemer Sarasota were elected to

three-year terms as lay representatives to the Disciplinary Boardbull Te Rev Charles Roy Allison St Maryrsquos ampa was elected to

a three-year term to Disciplinary Board by acclimation as clergy

representative

bull Mr Aaron Welch Christ Church Bradenton was elected to a

three-year term as trustee to University o the South X

Standing Committee from left The Very Rev Cesar Olivero The Rev Dr Randall HeThe Rev Fredrick Robinson The Rev Charles Connelly Mr Dominick Maldonado

Glenna Hileman Mr Wayne Ford Mr Kevin Fitzgerald The Rev Lance Walla

Deanery Representatives to Diocesan Council

PUNA GORDA 983085 Diocesan Council

which meets six times a year on Satur-

days is the legislative and financial bodyo the Diocese It handles finance prop-

erty and governance manners or both the

Diocese and her 77 congregations Te

47th Convention ratified the ollowing

deanery representives to council

bull In the Manasota Deanery

Jody Maxwell o Church o the

Redeemer was elected She will

replace Kraig Koach who is

rotating off the council

bull In the Venice Deanery Donna

Francisco o St Nathaniel

North Port was elected She will

replace Robert Wood who has

served his third term

bull In Naples Te Very Rev

Edward Gleason was re-elected

to represent the Ft Myers

Deanery

bull In Ft Myers Te Rev CharlesCannon was re-elected to

represent the Ft Myers Deanery

bull In Clearwater the clergy

representative re-elected was

Te Rev Wayne Farrell rector o

All Saints arpon Springs

bull In ampa Hal Wiley was

elected or a first term as a lay

representative to council Wiley

attends St Johnrsquos ampabull In the St Petersburg deanery

the Rev Robin Whitlock rector

o St Augustinersquos Episcopal

Church was re-electedX

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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PAID

Manasota FL

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Site Plan for DaySpring Episcopal Center Renovation

PARRISH - Development and planning

work continues at DaySpring Episcopal

Camp and Conerence Center including

design work or the initial phase o the

project

Tis December the new master plan

or DaySpring will be presented to Mana-

tee County or their planning purposes

including roads wetlands zoning build-

ing sizes and building locations Part o themaster plan approval or officials is phase

one o the DaySpring project which will

include a new program center and a pool

ldquoTe first step is to be sure that our

ull master plan is approved by the countyrdquo

said the Rev Ed Henley o the DaySpring

Development Committee Te DaySpring

committee has been working or two years

to get to the point where a project could

be presented to Manatee County It is now

meeting weekly to iron out the exact cost

and details o phase one

Te master plan process or D

Spring began in 2013 with the decis

that DaySpringrsquos acilities needed an ov

DaySpring

Master Plan

Above a rendering for the front of the proposed program center building which would replace the deteriorating portable builthat has served as the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo Below aerial view of the area showing the existing youth cab

continued on page 14

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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December 2016

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February 2016

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November 2016

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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18

2016 Diocesan Calendar

Key Diocesan events or 2016 are listed below Visitepiscopalswflorg or exact details times and other eventsEvents at DaySpring Episcopal Center unless noted

Diocesan Events

Tursday Feb 11 Chrism Mass Cathedral o St PeterTe Rev Dr Stephen Peay

Saturday Feb 27 Deaconsrsquo Retreat DaySpringLt Col Sarah Shirley USSCOM

uesday March 1 College o Presbyters DaySpringWeds March 2 Retired Clergy Lunch DaySpringMarch 11-13 Clergy Spouse Association WeekendSaturday May 7 Vestry RetreatSaturday June 4 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralSept 678 Fall Deanery Convocations Across DioceseSept 121314 Fall Clergy RetreatFriday Sept 23 Baseball with the Bishop ropicana FieldSaturday Sept 24 Acolyte Festival CathedralOct 1415 Diocesan Convention

Charlotte Harbor Event amp Conerence CenterSaturday Dec 3 Diocesan Ordinations CathedralFri Dec 9 Church Employee Gathering

DaySpring 11 am Eucharist amp Lunch

Wednesday services at 11 am lunch or $10 ollows

Wednesday Jan 6 Te Rev Daniel MooreWednesday Feb 3 Te Rev Becky Robbins-PennimanWednesday April 6 Te Rev Christian MaxfieldWednesday May 4 Te Rev Michelle Robertshaw

Wednesday Sept 7 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Oct 5 Fall Eucharist and LunchWednesday Nov 2 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Wednesday Dec 7 Fall Eucharist and Lunch

Episcopal Visitation

Our bishops regularly visit the 77 churches in our DioceseVisit wwwepiscopalswflorg or the yearly calendar or theRt Rev Dabney Smith and Assisting Bishops Te Rt RevrsquosMichael Garrison and Barry Howe

School for Ministry Development

Saturday Jan 9 Opening o Epiphany erm Quiet DaySaturday Sept 3 Opening Michaelmas erm Quiet Day

Special Weekends

Feb 4-7 2016 Cursillo 132Saturday March 5 Altar Guild Annual MeetingSaturday April 9 Daughters o King Spring RetreatMay 19-22 2016 Cursillo 133 (Spanish 3)Sept 29-Oct 2 Cursillo 134Saturday Oct 29 Daughters o the King Fall Assem

Saturday Nov 12 ECW Annual Meeting

Specialized Parish Training

uesday Jan 19 WordPress raining Dayuesday Feb 2 Parochial Report Audit Workshuesday April 19 Digital Evangelism Day May 19-21 EM Mentor rainingSept 24 25 QuickBooks amp ACS User Dauesday Oct 25 Benefits amp Budget Workshop

Youth amp CampsJanuary 23 Hootenanny at St StephenrsquosFeb 26-28 Happening (High School)March 11-13 New Beginnings (Middle School)June 15-18 Session 1 Break Out Elementary CamJune 19-24 Session 2 Middle School CampJune 26-July 1 Session 3 High School CampJuly 10-15 Session 4 Mission CampJuly 17-22 Session 5 Elementary CampJuly 24-29 Session 6 Youth Leadership CampSept 24 Acolyte Festival Cathedral

Nov 13-15 New Beginnings (Middle School)

Calendar at Right

= Major Church Holidayswith Liturgical Colors

26

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

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LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

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8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

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US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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continued rom previous page

haul Te existing master plan or the con-

erence center last visited in 2000 was out-

dated and not suited or the current vision

and mission o DaySpring In 2014 the

Diocese hired the master planning firm

Kaleidoscope to assess needs Teir report

issued in December o 2014 identified

specific uture space and program needs

or DaySpring Te report also stressedthe importance o the Episcopal mission

o DaySpring Supporting and strengthen-

ing the local parish should be a critical and

relevant ministry and outreach to Episco-

palians should be primary

Afer approving the findings the

Diocesersquos DaySpring Development Com-

mittee began a design process including

a specific master plan and the details o a

possible phase one or the project Part othe planning process was a neighborhood

meeting where initial drawings and site

plans or DaySpring were presented

Phase one was identified to be a

program center building to replace the

decrepit triple-wide portable structure

called the ldquoNew Pavilionrdquo and a pool Te

Views of the proposed phase one of improvementDaySpring At top the new pool including shaded zero-enarea handicap ramp access and deeper lanes for relays

view of covered porch and colonnade overlooking laSignicant site work is required for proper placemen

buildings parking and utili

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 21: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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EARLY ON A recent Saturday

morning 11 ldquoyouth groupersrdquo and

three adult chaperones set out or

DaySpring Camp and Conerence

Center

It was a beautiul morning

and even the sound o complain-

ing teens having to get up so

early couldnrsquot put a damper on the

drive ahead We had been plan-

ning the Ropes Course adventure

or months Te weather was

perectnot too hot since the

nip o Fall was in the air As we

traveled the 50 minute ride chatter

increased and sleepy youth began

to wake and become excited or

what was to come some had done

a Ropes Course some not

Te Ropes Course is designedspecifically or the group Tere are

ldquolow ropesrdquo activities and then the

ldquohigh ropesrdquo No one has to do the

high ropes but everyone partici-

pates in the low ropes Our two

acilitators divided the group into

two smaller ones and spent a good

hour on the low ropes activities

which bond the participants and

strengthen them as a team Teylearn quickly that therersquos no letter

ldquoIrdquo in ldquoteamrdquo

Next it was onto the high

ropes Climbing up there is no

small eat Most o our youth

did go up the high ropes Tose

that didnrsquot were part o the as-

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new building will be located near the our

youth cabins at DaySpring becoming the

ocal point or large groups and youth

events Henley says this building will be a

vast improvement over the current one

which two decades later is alling to piecesldquoTe existing building is well beyond

its useul lierdquo says Henley ldquoItrsquos tied us over

or a number o yearsrdquo While the building

and pool are phase one o the DaySpring

project they are really finishing an unfin-

ished project

ldquoWe needed to complete that activities

area that had unctioned or a long time

with a temporary buildingrdquo said Henley

Te new building will be much more use-

ul to groups as the current portable build-

ing only has one large room

Visitors to DaySpring and poten-

tial guests have long decried the lack o a

pool at DaySpring Years ago campers and

groups relied upon a residential pool on

the property but it was too small to saely

accommodate anything more than small

groups In addition it did not have handi-

capped accessibility

Te current design pictured at lefwill include a handicapped access point

and a graduated area so that small children

can play While the lack o a pool has been

a drawback in bringing groups to Day-

Spring Henley believes it was right not to

try to build one until it was part o a larger

master plan

ldquoTe pool will be a real highlight in

the activities areardquo says Henley

Lead architect or the project is JeddHeap o Fawley Bryant Architects As the

building is currently being conceived it will

eature a large 5000-square-oot multi-use

recreationmeeting hall two classrooms

or smaller groups and a kitchen

ldquoIt really will put a very useul build-

ing into the mixrdquo said HenleyX

Everyday DaySpring YouthVisit from Holy Trinity

sistants known as the Belay eam

that secured the ropes or the

climbers Te person as high as

thirty eet in the air had to trust

that the Belay eam would do

their job perectly It wasnrsquot un-

common to hear the youth up top

shouting ldquoAre you sure yoursquove got

merdquo more than onceA little over three hours later

we had a wonderul lunch in the

dining hall at DaySpring Ten it

was on to the Canopy Walk whic

is a new element at DaySpring

Tere you walk up wooden stairs

to a walkway built in the trees sor

o like a treehouse

We also got a look inside St

Tomas Chapel a landmark transported rom Saety Harbor many

years ago

Te youth are now anxious

to plan another date and they

especially want to do more low

ropesX

continued rom page 14

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 22: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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22

An Altar for St ChadMike Rivera literally built an altar for Tamparsquos St Chad Martha Goodwill

tells of an artist who literally takes us back to the time of Christ

HE LAS IME I saw Mr Mike

Rivera he was on a high lif replac-

ing and painting the wood soffits and

gutters o St Chadrsquos Parish Hall It has

always been that way or Mike at St

Chadrsquos (and around the Diocese) I

there is a job that needs to be done

Mike will figure out how to do it

Tat is how the altar and other

sanctuary urnishings came to be

created at St Chadrsquos Rivera spent

months staring at the altar rom his

pew during Sunday morning servic-

es It was just too high and too wide

and it took up too much room

So in 2001 when their new priest

Fr Christian Villagomeza acceptedthe call to St Chadrsquos Rivera knew he

had to do something about that altar

So he set about building the church

a new altar He used the old altar or

the structure o the new altar It is

built out o oak and travertine mar-

ble as are all o the candle sticks the

tabernacle chairs and lectern

Rivera did some research on

travertine and ound that it was anold material about 2000 years old

and would have been orming at

the same time that Christianity was

orming He thought this made trav-

ertine a very appropriate material or

St Chadrsquos new altar

Riverarsquos talents were already

known around the Diocese In 1993

Mike was asked to build all the al-

tar urniture or St Maryrsquos in BonitaSprings when their new sanctuary

was constructed

Even beore St Maryrsquos and long

beore St Chadrsquos were blessed with

Riverarsquos gifs he was our first director

at DaySpring

For nine years Rivera oversaw

the construction o almost all o the

buildings we see today During the

excavation o the dining hall they dugup many large boulders Rivera had

the idea to save at least one o these

and had it moved He told the crane

operator to take it down around the

pond as ar as he could make it in the

damp soil Where the crane operator

dropped the boulder is where Rivera

built the outdoor chapel that we

enjoy at DaySpring

Rivera also built the rames

the stained glass windows in the o

door chapel Tese windows w

originally in St Tomas Chapel

because o the thickness o the a

glass and the oaks surrounding

chapel the interior o the chapel w

just too dark Te frac12rdquo thick glass pi

es and the cement grout make th

windows perect or the outdoor c

pel

Rivera has never had any orm

training in liturgical arts

He served in the ampa Fire D

partment or 25 years working hour on48 hour off shifs Tis

him with two days off to pursue o

er interests He owned a plane pa

shop or a while and worked in co

struction remodeling and home

pairs You can learn a lot in 80 yea

he says I know many are thank

that he never stops learning X

Ar1048692

View of the altar at St Chadrsquos

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

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Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

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Advent Rejoice Always This Gaudete Sunday

LErsquoS SAR WIH a quiz Back

in Sunday School you probably mem-

orized the shortest verse in the Bible

What was it (John 1135) ldquoJesus weptrdquo

And do you know the second shortest

It is Tessalonians 516 ldquoRejoice al-

waysrdquo Actually this is a trick question

since the shortest verse depends on

which version o the Bible yoursquore using

Whatever the version or language

the command ndash and it really is that a

command ndash the words o St Paul to

ldquorejoice alwaysrdquo might strike us as just

another one o the many Biblical in-

junctions which we can label ldquoeasier

said than donerdquo Afer all we know that

ldquoJesus weptrdquo So was he rejoicing then

Paul doesnrsquot say ldquoRejoice sometimesrdquoor ldquoRejoice when times are good and

the economy is strongrdquo He simply says

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Letrsquos take a deeper look

at what he might be saying to us

Since the 9th century ndash1200 years

ndash Paulrsquos injunction to rejoice has ormed

part o the liturgy on this third Sunday o

Advent In earlier times Advent was re-

garded not only as a solemn season but

as somber penitential time much likeLent o the medieval mind the com-

mand to rejoice in the midst o these

dark days was so extraordinary that it

had to be marked in some tangible way

Hence the pink candle on the Advent

wreath and or churches that could a-

ord such luxury the vestments and all

the hangings were changed to pink or

this third Sunday Te day came to be

called Gaudete Sunday rom the Latin

word meaning to rejoice Te soon-

to-be-ulfilled promise o redemption

in the birth o the Christ Child indeed

gives us cause or joy

Christmas 1980 ound me working in

a community clinic in oronto Although

part o a large mental health acility its cli-

entele was little different rom what you

would find i you dropped in to Resurrec-

tion House in Sarasota Tis time o year

choirs rom local churches service clubs

and schools ofen visited the clinic to sing

holiday music and aferwards mingle with

the homeless so that they could eel that

they had done their duty One could learna lot by watching the reaction o the clinicrsquos

clients to what was being sung Songs like

Jingle Bells Frosty the Snowman and White

Christmas were always met with great en-

thusiasm with those present joining in

But it was the hymns which held

real power ofen resulting in a deep

sense o awe On one occasion there

was a request rom the audience or O

Holy Night As the choir began to singthis rail wreck o a man joined in with

the most pure baritone voice that any-

one could imagine Almost immedi-

ately the choir ell silent as he contin-

ued on ldquoIt was the night o the dear

Saviorrsquos birthhelliprdquo ears streamed down

his cheeks as he sang ldquoLong lay the

world in sin and error pining ill

appearrsquod and the soul elt its worth

thrill o hope the weary world rejoi

For yonder breaks a new and glo

ous mornrdquo When he finished there w

proound silence I think we were

araid to speak to shatter the mome

or he captured the deepest longing

everyonersquos heart or a Savior

Tere are many opportunities d

ing the Christmas season to experie

joy But the writer o Tessaloni

would have us experience joy all y

long He would have us experience

when the carols and the lights and

nativity scenes have all been put aw

How do we do that We do it by obse

ing the rest o the sentence rom I Tsalonians Te two words ldquoRejoice

waysrdquo represent only the first phrase

a sentence with three parts Te en

sentence reads like this ldquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasing give thanks in

circumstances or this is Godrsquos will

you in Christ Jesusrdquo Tese are the th

keys to having the Christmas spirit

your lie at all times rdquoRejoice alwa

pray without ceasingrdquo and ldquogive thain all circumstancesrdquo

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Paul is saying

us first o all that joy is a primary ch

acteristic o a Christian I you do

have a sense o joy in your lie you n

to examine your Christian aith to

i perhaps you have a problem that y

The third Sunday of Advent is Gaudete Sunday or Rose Sunday The Rev DavidDanner tells the meaning of the day which actually applies to our whole year

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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8005 25H SREE EAS

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Non Profit Org

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Manasota FL

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24

are not acknowledging

We must note however that joy

does not come rom having lie all fig-

ured out Rather joy comes rom living

in the knowledge that we are loved by

God Tere is a charming story in James

Boswellrsquos Lie o Johnson One day John-

son met a man named Edwards whomhe had not seen or over orty years

since their days together at Oxord

Tey talked o many things Speaking

o what he had done since they had

last met Edwards said ldquoYou are an

eminent philosopher Dr Johnson I too

have tried in my time to be a philoso-

pher but I donrsquot know how cheerul-

ness was always breaking inrdquo Tere are

many people who rob themselves o joy

because they think they need to under-

stand the ups and downs the twists and

turns o lie Let me assure you that will

never happen Instead we live by aith

Just as joy does not come rom

having lie all figured out neither does

it come rom always living in the sun-

shine C S Lewis wrote o the differ-

ence between joy and pleasure Joy

Lewis said comes rom within It is

steady and abiding Pleasure on theother hand is extrinsic and comes and

goes in response to whatever is happen-

ing in our environment We all have our

small pleasures and thatrsquos fine But one

day they will ail us Joy will never ail

us Joy resides within and undergirds

us regardless o what is happening on

the outside It is the ree gif o God that

comes with aith in Jesus Christ

ldquoRejoice alwaysrdquo Te next verse tellsus ldquoPray without ceasingrdquo In other words

Paul is telling to cultivate a sense o Godrsquos

presence within us ndash a presence that we

can carry with us always I we have a sense

o Godrsquos presence in our lives at all times

we will be able to rejoice Tat is how we

can pray continually Prayer is not a mere

ritual in which we repeat the same words

over and over ldquoForgive us our sinshellip take

care o my amilyhellipGod is great God is

good let us thank him or our oodrdquo Paul

doesnrsquot mean or us to mouth ormulas all

the time And he certainly doesnrsquot mean

or us to bow our heads and close our eyes

while wersquore driving When he says ldquopray

without ceasingrdquo he is telling us to dwell in

God

Years ago journalist Skip Turman

told o meeting a remarkable Wash-

ington DC cab driver named Percival

Bryan Bryan came to the US in 1924

as a stowaway on a banana boat rom

Jamaica Bryan had the quirky habit o

asking each passenger to sign a guestbook Afer 40 years eight cabs and

over 160000 passengers Bryanrsquos auto-

graph collection ound its way into the

Anacostia Community Museum

Bryan was remarkable or his

riendliness and poise One night two

passengers robbed him But beore the

ride was over not only had they given

back the money they had both signed

his guest book ldquoWhat keeps you go-ingrdquo asked Turman Bryan said ldquoMy

riends but most o all God Every

morning I get down on my kneeshellipI

ask God to ride with me protect me

and let me share mysel with othershellipI

tell you sometimes I eel very richrdquo

Percival Bryan is with God now

but those autographs speak o a m

who knew how to rejoice always and

pray without ceasing God was his co

stant companion Tatrsquos the second

or keeping the Christmas spirit all y

long Cultivate a sense o Godrsquos pr

ence and carry it with you everywh

you go ldquoRejoice always pray withceasingrdquo and here is the third key ldquog

thanks in all circumstancesrdquo

In seminary I took a course rom

proessor who had spent over two ye

in a Nazi prison camp He told us h

over time 8 to 10 prisoners orme

community o Christian believers T

tiny cell was able to meet or prayer a

simple worship a couple times a we

He told how on Christmas Day 1

they managed to secure some br

and wine and celebrated Communi

Catholics and Protestants togeth

Tey had no Bibles but recalled

words o Scriptures as best they co

rom memory Tis proessor who w

at the time a Lutheran pastor reca

the simple verse rom todayrsquos epi

ldquoRejoice always pray without ceasi

give thanks in all circumstancesrdquo a

offered words o hope to his ellow poners in the orm o a simple serm

Years later this man told his stude

ldquoTe Gospel is no less true when

cumstances are most terrible I we i

merse ourselves in this truth we sh

never find ourselves saying we have

reason to celebraterdquo

ldquoRejoice always pray without ce

ing give thanks in all circumstanc

this is Godrsquos will or us Listen to message o these three short verses a

I promise you the spirit o Christm

will be with you throughout the year

About the Author Te Rev Da

Danner is rector o All Angels by the S

Longboat Key

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

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PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

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MAIL A CHECK

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DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

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PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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BRADENON - he pulse o Campus

Ministry o State College o Florida has been

revived as our open doors have welcomed

more students than ever to participate in

Christian ellowship and reach out to the

campus his semester we have truly been

able to reap what has been sewn in prayer and

vision o the campus ministry at SCF Having

established our internship program and

implementing an assisting chaplain role we

were ready to begin a ull academic calendar

year 2015-16 with great hopes Our hope and

vision o witnessing a Christian community

rise out o the student body is becoming an

astounding reality

Each all brings a large influx o new

students As a team we excitedly met this

new influx with open doors We launched

a ree coffee outreach or the simple pur-pose o generosity We are quite intention-

al in providing an excellent cup o coffee

both in how it tastes and how it carries

or the student on the go It is a small yet

comorting reminder that they are cared

or Tanks to this simple outreach we re-

ceive regular traffic rom across the cam-

pus Indeed even the nursing dental and

physical therapy students who typically

stay within their buildings now regularly venture over to our side o campus We

have given over 600 cups o coffee away

And this has given us the opportunity to

engage many different students in ways we

would never have imagined

Our outpost on campus has inspired

students to launch and participate in

ministries We have ormed relationships

with our student leaders We have been

able to walk with these young leaders

and encourage them with their minis-

try while also showing support and help

to acilitate with any practical needs We

have our groups led entirely by students

which meet on a weekly basis Tere is a

bible study a campus ellowship a prayer

gathering and lastly some young men

are meeting or the purpose o holding

each other accountable and becoming up-

standing and Godly men Tere is overlap

o turnout varying in these groups as well

as other organizations within the student

body including student government

Tis activity has also extended into

our weekly worship and Eucharist as

more and more curiosity has attractedinterest in our tradition o Communion

With such marvel among the students Fr

Bryan OrsquoCarroll has had many opportu-

nities to invite students in to celebrate the

sacraments He has also taken the time

to explain the liturgy the conession the

prayers the peace and indeed the memo-

rial o our redemption During a service I

participated in a ew weeks ago a student

leaned over and quietly said to me ldquoHeythis is really deep you say this stuff every

time you take communionrdquo

Statements like these have led into

incredible discussions encouragements

and teaching opportunities Each week

afer our Eucharist students are gather-

ing to discuss deep theological principles

In these dialogues themes continue

emerge around the varying manipulati

o biblical understanding doctrinal p

ciples and ultimately what it really me

to be ldquoin Christrdquo

While the world repeatedly s

people the notion aith and spiritua

should be tailored to onersquos own person

ity we are sitting in the midst o ldquocultu

and we are finding young people are lo

ing or something outside themselves T

same old religion and the same old wo

get old ast in this generation Tey w

change Tey want to be changed So

are repeatedly pointing them to Jesus

Te culture is ever changing I I h

to use one word to describe the mission

our ministry it would be urgency T

is such a longing or the Gospel messin our day and age Tere are so m

lies floating throughout culture ruth

almost completely subverted and sub

gated to fit anyonersquos desire Te prim

concern o Campus Ministry at SCF is

Gospel o Jesus We bear witness to a

lision o Heaven and earth ound solel

the Lord Jesus and His redemption r

sin and suffering Te Gospel is our d

ing uel We recognize the students in midst will be subject to competing id

and so it is our main desire to inspire th

imagination and hope with the per

and work o the Lord Jesus And we th

you or allowing us to do just that X

I you would like to know more ab

SCF contact me at billypardyicloudco

The Gospel Says lsquoGorsquoThe Diocesan mission at State College of Florida is reaching out with urgencyBilly Pardy reports on the evangelism there which begins with hospitality

Cam1048688983157 Minitry

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Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

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DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

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26

Fo983140 Episcopal Christmas FavoritesThe Diocesan collection of Christmas recipes is a treasure trove of culinary

history Jan Nothum nds some favorites from times past that are just as

appealing today as when they were made generations ago

HE HOLIDAY SEASON is upon us

ar more quickly than many o us are pre-

pared Tis special time provides us many

opportunities or reflection thanksgiving

celebration expectation and much rejoic-

ing Tere is time or gathering together

and time or quiet sel meditation ake in-

tentional advantage o all the various ways

to spend your time over these weeks and

make the most o these special days

Many o us mark the season with the

gif o hospitality whether hosting prepar-

ing serving or as a guest What ollows is a

collection o recipes rom the ever grow-

ing cookbooks provided by congregations

Tis collection is not comprehensive by

any stretch just a ldquogifrdquo rom the ood ar-

chives o our past

Percolator PunchldquoPerect at Christmasrdquo

1 (46 oz) pineapple juice unsweetened

1 (48 oz) cranberry juice cocktail

2-12 cup water

12 tsp salt

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp whole cloves

6 sticks cinnamonPut all liquids in bottom percolator

add cloves cinnamon salt and sugar in

the top Perk and serve hot Serves 20 -

25 punch cups

From Betty Lou otten Burnt

Cakes St Alredrsquos Episcopal Church

Palm Harbor FL 1988

Pralines3 cups sugar

1 cup buttermilk

14 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1-12 cup chopped pecans

2 tbsp butter

1 tsp vanilla

In a large pot combine sugar but-

termilk salt and soda Cook to the

sof ball stage (238 degrees) stirringconstantly Add nuts and bring to 238

degrees again Add butter and vanilla

and let cool slightly Ladle out rapidly

a spoonul at a time onto waxed paper

Te candy will be caramel color

Recipe rom All Angels Fare All An-

gels By Te Sea Longboat Key1988

Five Cheese Ball(makes 3 balls)

1 cup grated Cheddar cheese

1 cup grated Monterey Jack

Muenster cheese

1 cup grated Swiss cheese

1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese

14 cup crumbled bleu cheese

2 bsp sof butter or margarine

14 tsp salt1 tsp instant minced onion

12 cup dry white wine

In a large bowl beat all ingre

ents until smooth and well blend

Shape into balls logs or pack in

a jar or crock Cover and rerig

ate until ready to use or reeze W

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 27: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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Pecan Pie1 unbaked pie crust

14 cup Butter

1 cup Brown Sugar

14 tsp Salt

keep about 3 weeks rerigerated or 6

months rozen I desired roll balls in

chopped nuts wheat germ parsley or

paprika beore serving

From Laurie Segraves Recipes

rom St Paul St Paulrsquos Episcopal

Church Naples FL 1981

Cranberry Fruit Salad1 tbsp unflavored gelatin

14 cup cold water

1 cup cranberry juice cocktail

12 cup sugar

12 cup ground resh cranberries

2 bsp lemon juice

2 bsp grated orange rind

1 navel orange sectioned

12 cup chopped apple

Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over cold

water Bring cranberry juice to boil Add to

gelatin and stir until dissolved Add sugar

stir until dissolved Cool Add remaining

ingredients Chill until firm Serve with

mayonnaise diluted with one part sour

cream to two parts mayonnaise Garnish

with slivered almonds

From Mary E Richardson Re-

deeming Recipes Women o the Church

o the Reedemer Sarasota FL 1982

Christmas Doughnuts1 pound butter

1-12 pounds o sugar

6 eggs

1 quart o milk

Nutmeg and cinnamon

Set a sponge with hal the milk

when very light warm the other pint

and melt the butter in it Add the otheringredients and mix Let rise again roll

out and ry in hot lard

Recipe by Mrs ES Warner Palma

Sola rom Cullinary Cullings rom

Competent Cooks Christ Church

Guild Bradenton 1901

Sweet Potato Muffins12 cup butter

1-14 cup sugar2 Eggs

1-14 cups canned mashed sweet

potatoes

1-12 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

14 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

14 tsp nutmeg

1 cup milk

12 cup finely chopped pecans orwalnuts

12 cup chopped raisins

Cream butter and sugar Add eggs

mix well Blend in sweet potatoes Mix

in dry ingredients which have been

sifed together alternately with milk

Do not overmix Fold in raisins and

nuts Grease muffin tin and fill 23

Bake in 400 degree oven or 25 minu

Tese may be rozen and reheatedRecipe rom Mrs George Wainsc

inspired by Christiana Campbellrsquos

ern Williamsburg Published in rin

By Te Stove rinity By the Cove Epis

pal Church Women Naples 1987

Pumpkin Cake RollFilling

1 cup conectioners sugar

2 (3 oz) cream cheese4 bsp margarine

12 tsp vanilla

Combine filling ingredients a

beat smooth

Cake

3 Eggs

1 cup sugar

St Peterrsquos Plant City Pecan Pie

3 Eggs - well beaten

1 cup light corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Prepare unfilled pie shell Cream butter

and brown sugar Add salt Add remaining ingredients and mix well Bake

40 - 50 minutes until edge o filling is set and center is sof

Recipe by Margaret Stevens 100 Years o Cooking St Peterrsquos Episcopal

Church Plant City 2008

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 28: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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28

23 cup pumpkin

1 tsp lemon juice

34 cup all-purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp ginger

12 tsp nutmeg

12 tsp salt1 cup chopped walnuts

Beat eggs on high speed o mixer or

5 minutes Gradually beat in sugar Stir in

pumpkin and lemon juice Stir together dry

ingredients Fold into pumpkin mixture

Grease and lour a sheet o oil and place in 15

x 10 x 1 inch pan op with nuts Bake in 375

degree oven or 15 minutes urn out on tow-

el sprinkled with conectioners sugar Starting

at narrow end roll towel and cake together

and cool Unroll and spread illing over cake

then re-roll and inish cooling

Recipe by Nancy Mello Celebration

Cookbook St Nathanielrsquos Episcopal

Church North Port 2007

Grandmarsquos Molasses Krinkles34 cup shortening

1 cup brown sugar cream together

1 egg

4 tbsp molasses2-14 cup sifed flour

14 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground ginger

12 tsp ground cloves

Blend all together and pinch off

dough about 1 tsp at a time and make

into small balls Dip on side o each

ball in sugar and put on cookie sheetsugar side up Bake 10 - 15 minutes in

375 degree oven

From Elizabeth Forsyth Our

Daily Bread Cookbook Episcopal

Churchwomen Calvary Episcopal

Church Indian Rocks Beach1966

Apple Nut Cake3 bsp margarine

1 cup sugar (brown or white)

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

3 cups diced firm apples

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking soda

12 tsp salt

12 tsp cinnamon14 tsp nutmeg

12 cup nuts (chersquos choice)

Cream margarine Add sugar egg

and vanilla Cream together and mix

in apples Sif dry ingredients Blend

into batter with nuts Bake in a greased

8x8 inch pan or 40 - 45 minutes in a

350 degree oven Cake is moist and

stays moist op with Cool Whip or

Whipped CreamFrom Edna Day Redeeming Reci-

pes Te Women o Church o the Re-

deemer Sarasota 1982

Chocolate Peppermint SquaresMakes about 3 dozen pieces

2 oz unsweetened chocolate

12 cup butter

12 cup sifed flour

dash salt

1 cup sugar

2 Eggs

Melt butter and chocolate over hot

ter Beat eggs until rothy and stir in sugar

chocolate Add lour and salt Mix thoroug

Pour into greased 9 inch pan Bake in 350

gree oven or 20 - 25 minutes Cool Mpeppermint mixture with

3 bsp butter

1 cup sifer Powdered Sugar

1 tbsp milk

14 tsp peppermint

1-12 oz unsweetened chocolate

Work 2 tablespoons sofened bu

into powdered sugar add milk and p

permint and stir until smooth Spread

o cake with a thin coating peppermmixture Rerigerate cake Melt choco

and 1 tablespoon o butter over hot

ter Drizzle over cake Rerigerate at lea

minutes Cut into small squares

All Angels By Te Sea Episco

Church Longboat Key FL 1988X

The Diocese is attempting to collect all of the cookbooks from our parishes from the lastcentury Pictured here are a selection of the cookbooks which now reside in the DiocesanArchives Do you have an old cookbook Email Jan Nothum at jnothumepiscopalsworg

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 29: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

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New Field for Good Shepherd A series of repairs improvements and updates has brought new life

to the Venice parish Good Shepherd Pete Muller reports on the

renovation which will be consecrated this February

P9831371048690ih Life

VENICE - Te Episcopal Church

o the Good Shepherd ounded in

1988 as a mission congregation

has announced the completion o a

$400000 building renovation

Te project which began last

spring included a newly designed and

expanded sanctuary as well as extensive

interior and exterior repairs and im-

provements

Te Rev Gary A Wilde rector o

Good Shepherd said parishioners will

celebrate completion o the project with

an open house or riends neighbors

and the general public on November 1

Bishop Michael Garrison will con-secrate the new sanctuary in February

Architecture and construction was

provided by Stroop Design and Con-

struction o Sarasota Te parish fi-

nance committee responsible or raising

unds or the project is headed by Steve

1993 on its present site at 1115 Cen

Road Te original structure consis

o a chapel and screened-in courtya

Eleven years later office space cla

rooms and a library were added and

courtyard was enclosed or use as a pish hall

In 2005 Good Shepherd comp

ed the transition rom mission to p

ish status in the Episcopal Diocese

Southwest Florida

Te original 76-member congre

tion now has 343 membersX

Eibling John Buntel is project manager

or the parish and coordinated on site

daily with the primary contractor and

all subcontractors until final clean-up

ldquoTis beautification o Good Shep-

herd Church is a testament to the pa-rishioners themselves who provided

the unds and my gratitude or their

generosity is unboundedrdquo Fr Wilde

said

Te church began its lie with wor-

shippers meeting at the nearby YMCA

until construction o a building in

Pictured here the expanded sanctuary that will be consecrated in February

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30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3136

A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3236

32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 30: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3036

30

Call for Action on AlcoholThis issue of The Southern Cross comes to us between last summerrsquos GeneralConvention and ldquothe holidaysrdquo The Rev Canon Michael Durning writes

that it has something to say to us about alcohol and how we order our lives

P9831371048690ih Life

HE GENERAL CONVENIONaddressed several actions recommended

by the Legislative Committee on Alco-

hol and Substance Abuse One resolution

recommended that those discerning or

ordination be questioned at the beginning

about how alcohol abuse and substance

addiction have affected the ordinandrsquos

amily system A second resolution ac-

knowledged that the Church has been

part o the problem (in some ways) and

offered our points o action

bull Conront and repent o the

Churchrsquos complicity in a cul-

ture o alcohol denial and en-

abling

bull Speak to cultural norms thatpromote addiction

bull Promote spiritual practices

as a means o prevention and

healing

bull Advocate or public unding

and health insurance cover-

age or prevention interven-

tion treatment and recovery

and collaborate with qualified

community resources offeringthese services and to respond

with pastoral care and ac-

countability

A third resolution proposed pol-

icy updates and recommended that

this policy be presented in all jurisdic-

tions Our Diocesan Council received a

draf policy update at its October 2015

meeting I hope you ask your DiocesanCouncil representative about it

Te awareness o how alcohol a-

ects the Church seems to be ever-wid-

ening At a recent gathering a group o

clergy requested that time and space be

set aside or a 12-step meeting A simi-

lar request was made regarding uture

Diocesan Conventions As a priest in

this Diocese I welcome the courage

and the honesty o our clergy who areseeking ways to gather that are sae sup-

portive and riendly to recovery

Te ongoing impact o the General

Conventionrsquos work will I am sure take

some time to play out In the meantime

ldquothe holidaysrdquo will offer ample oppor-

tunity to consume Set beore all o us

Here The Most Rev Katharine Jefferts-Schori addresses the House of Bishops at GeneConvention Issues of alcohol and substance abuse were the subject of resolutions

will be the usual cookies pumpkin p

egg nog mulled cider spiced wine cbeer hot toddies Irish coffee ad n

seum I intend to enter into this end-

year madness with a new perspect

Tis year I will rememberhellip

bull hellipthat I have colleagues rie

and amily who are deeply struggl

with their own recovery

bull hellipthat Jesus had difficult thing

say to those who served as a stumbl

block to othersbull hellipthat 88 thousand people died

the US last year due to alcohol abus

bull hellipthat alcohol abuse is an affr

to the dignity o every human being

Most o all I will remember that

long-expected Jesus o Advent was bo

to set Godrsquos people reeX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3136

A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3236

32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 31: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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A Fine Anglican Research LibraryThe St Petersburg parish St Bede has a standout library of Anglican theology and history

Jennifer Rich reports on its history and its lay librarian Helen Bohman

S PEERSBURG 983085 Ask Helen

Bohman and shersquoll tell you she isnrsquot a

librarian She likes finding books but

not lending them out Shersquos too much

o a mother hen

ldquoTere are two types o librarians

one who likes to collect books and give

them out Te other thinks the books

should be chainedrdquo she laughed

Te ormer St Petersburg College

English proessor loves books and that

love has led her to help establish one o

the best libraries in the Southwest Dio-

cese at St Bedersquos Episcopal Church in

St Petersburg

Te library started in the 1950s

shortly afer the church was ormed hasgrown rom a collection o devotional

and Sunday School material donated by

parishioners to a solid research library

Highly regarded volumes like the

Anchor Bible Dictionary and commen-

taries on the individual books o the

Bible line the shelves o the one-room

library

ldquoTis is going to be an Anglican li-

braryrdquo she said with a determined toneldquoI want to make sure the bones are good

and then Irsquoll begin to move in the essen-

tial urniturerdquo

Ironically her love or book collect-

ing started when she was in sixth grade

and was sent to the school library as

punishment

ldquoI pulled a three-volume series on

Scotland out and saw a picture o Sir

Walter Scottrsquos libraryrdquo Bohman said

ldquoI decided I wanted one just like it so I

skipped lunch and saved that and my

trolley are and bought booksrdquo

Afer a uesday spent in the li-

brary the 86-year-old cradle Episcopa-

lian goes home to her personal library

which she had built years ago as a 40-oot addition with a spiral staircase and

8-oot high stacks housing thousands o

volumes

Bohman took over St Bedersquos library

afer her sister Caroline Whitman Ev-

erett the ormer librarian died in 2005

Former rector Te Rev Boyd Carson

knowing Bohmanrsquos passion or boo

immediately began hinting that

should continue in her sisterrsquos ootste

ldquoHe nagged at me or two years

ore I gave inrdquo she said She started

weeding out less important materia

make room or serious Christian th

logians like CS Lewis and Freder

Buechner

ldquoI I donrsquot like something it dev

ops eetrdquo said Bohman with a twin

in her eye and a characteristic chuc

ldquoEverything I put in are the classicsrdquo

Te result according to Priest-

Charge Frederick Mann is ldquoone o

most comprehensive church libra

Irsquove seen except or a cathedral libraryMann who is the ormer dean

St James Cathedral in South Be

Indiana and once had a 900-volu

personal library o his own thinks

Bedersquos library is unusual given the

o the church and its resources

ldquoMost church libraries have bo

on a variety o subjects but this is m

o a research libraryrdquo he said ldquoIt wo

be a great resource or someone doa project and needing Biblical researc

Bohman is still cataloguing a

her wit is ofen reflected in the proc

ldquoWhen I got to the section on sain

marked it BS or biographies o sain

she said with a smile ldquoNobody has e

said a wordrdquoX

P9831371048690ih Life

Helen Bonham in the St Bede Library

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3436

34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 32: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

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32

The Rev Bill BurdenS PEERSBURG - Te Rev Wil-

liam Robertson ldquoBillrdquo Burden an assistantat the Cathedral Church o St Peter has

died Born in Rockord Illinois in 1943

Te Rev Burden assisted seasonally at the

Cathedral Church o St Peter beginning

in 2010 Burden received a BA rom Bos-

ton College MDiv rom General Teo-

logical Seminary and MA rom Loyola

University Canonically resident in the

Diocese o Chicago he served most o his

priesthood at rinity Episcopal Church in

Aurora Illinois rom 1972-2005 He also

served at All Saints in Chicago and Christ

Church Winnetka Illinois

Susan Shaw DoingF MYERS - Susan Shaw Doing

81 o Fort Myers wie o Te Rev Rob-

ert Doing died Oct 27 2015 Te Do-

ings were married 61 years A Requiem

was held at All Soulrsquos North Fort Myers

on Sunday Nov 15

The Rev John HartnettS PEERSBURG - Te Rev

John Hartnett rector o St Vincentrsquos

and a long-time rector o St Giles Pinel-

las Park died Saturday August 15 2015

just beore noon Te Rev Hartnett

served the Diocese o Southwest Florida

rom 1990 until his death

Born in Carroll Iowa on August13 1950 he attended the University o

Iowa or his undergraduate degree and

attended Nashotah House rom 1983-

1986 He was made deacon in Chicago

in June o 1986 and priest in San Diego

in December 1986 He served as Assis-

tant Headmaster o All Saints San Di-

ego rom 1986-90 He came to Florida

to serve at St Giles Pinellas Park where

he was rector rom 1990 to 2008 In

2008 he moved to St Vincentrsquos in St

Petersburg At the Diocese he served

as chair o the Evangelism Commission

rom 1992-99 as well as the Church

Growth and Development Commis-

sion rom 1997-98

ldquoFr Hartnett took a special inter-

est in evangelism and renewal serving

as Spiritual Director or several Cursilloweekends and as a member o Cursillo

Secretariatrdquo said the Rev Canon Mi-

chael Durning Canon to the Ordinary

He is survived by his wie o 41

years Wendy Sue MacInnes Hartnett

and sons Michael Hartnett and Jeffrey

Hartnett and daughter-in-law Jennier

Orville Charles Mizer

AMPA - Orville Charles Mizerhusband o ormer Daughters o the King

President and current Episcopal Church

Women President-elect Leila Mizer died

suddenly July 27 2015

He joined the United States Navy im-

mediately afer his high school graduation

in 1956 He was a Senior Chie Petty O-

ficer and served as a Medical Field ech

cian He took advantage o educational

portunities afforded to him and earne

Masterrsquos Degree in Public Administrat

rom the University o Oklahoma in 19

As a civilian he worked as a med

records supervisor and technology s

cialist or several insurance companiesretired rom that job in 2001

He was reared Roman Catholic

was received into the Episcopal Church

1994 He volunteered at St James Ho

o Prayer Episcopal Church as reasu

Secretary Newsletter Publisher and Jun

Warden He was a ounding membe

the Brotherhood o St Andrew and ser

as President Vice President and Secreta

Cynda MortS PEERSBURG ndash Cynda M

62 died on Saturday May 16 20

Born Oct 25 1952 in Fort Wayne

was a daughter o Willard Muzzy a

Sue Allman Muzzy She graduated r

West Noble High School in 1971 a

then rom Ball State University wit

degree in Journalism

She began working at T

News~Sentinel Fort Wayne in the Ftures department in 1973 On June

1973 she married Kevin Mort

Cynda worked at the Elyria Chr

icle elegram the ampa ribune a

the St Petersburg imes In 2001

began a journalism track at Melr

Elementary John Hopkins Mid

School and Lakewood High Schoo

St Petersburg

She is survived by her husband TReverend Kevin Mort two sons Zach

and Andrew mother Sue Muzzy Stell

and brother Larry (Sue) Muzzy Kev

parents Joseph and Marilyn Mort o

diana his brother ristan o Indiana

his sisters Joni Walter and Janeen Mein

both o Indiana

Obtua1048690ie

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3336

The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3436

34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 33: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3336

The Rev Don NicholsonF MYERS BEACH - Diocesan

House is saddened to report the death o

the Rev Donald Robert Nicholson 80

Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos Church Fort Myers

Beach on the evening o Monday August

10 2015 Nicholson joined the Marines

out o high school and or 14 months hewas a guard at Te White House during

the Eisenhower Administration

He received a BA degree rom

George Washington University in 1960

and an SB degree rom the Berkeley Di-

vinity School at Yale in 1964 In 1999 he

received a degree rom the Academy o

Chinese Healing Arts as an Acupuncture

Physician He was ordained Deacon the

same year and a Priest in 1965 by Bishop

Harry Lee Doll

He transerred to the Diocese o

Maryland in 1964 where he served as Vic-

ar Church o the Holy Spirit Aberdeen

He then moved to the Diocese o Western

Massachusetts in 1968 where he served as

the Assistant at St Peterrsquos Springfield In

both Boston and Baltimore he identified

himsel as a ldquostreet priestrdquo who worked to

bring the disenranchised into church

Nicholson came to Southwest Floridain 1997 where he assisted at Christ Church

Bradenton He also served at St Peterrsquos Ca-

thedral and St Albanrsquos St Pete Beach In

2008 he was Interim Rector at Church o

the Good Samaritan Clearwater His most

recent assignment Vicar o St Raphaelrsquos

Fort Myers Beach included the 60th an-

niversary celebration o the parish and its

designation as historic by the town o Ft

Myers Beach Don Nicholson and BeverlyHunt married November 27 2004

The Rev Ray PerssonPARRISH - Diocesan House is

saddened to report the July 10 2015

death o Te Rev Raymond Edward

Persson at the age o 71

Persson was ordained to the

diaconate in 1991 by Bishop Rogers

Harris and was assigned to St Johnrsquos

Clearwater

His ministries included Kairos a

prison ministry and Epiphany a pro-

gram or juvenile offenders Ray and

his wie Beverly moved to Buckeye

Arizona in 2008

Hamilton lsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr

BRADENON - H HamiltonlsquoChiprsquo Rice Jr Esquire who served as

County Attorney or Manatee County

rom 1983 to 1997 died June 11 2015

Born Aug 25 1935 he practiced law in

Manatee County until retirement

Born in Kentucky anyone who

knew Chip Rice reerred to him as a

lsquotrue Kentucky gentlemanrsquo He served in

the United States Army and the Army

Reserves Chip shared his time talentand wisdom through his involvement

with many non-profit organizations

serving Manatee County including

serving as Senior Warden at Christ

Episcopal Church He was Chancel-

lor Emeritus o the Diocese and o the

Manasota Deanery

Chip Rice is survived by his w

Lester his son H Hamilton Rice

and daughter-in-law Kim Rice

daughter Margaret Rice Owen st

son Phil Bartles Jr step-daugh

Sarah Kathryn Bartles and son-in-l

Bret DeBenedictis and grandchild

Brent Haire aylor Ravenna Lind

Rice race and Ronan DeBenedictis

Martha Scovanner

LARGO - Martha Scovanner beloved wie mother and teach

died March 22 2015

Preceded in death in 1996

Daniel her husband o 51 years

is survived by three sons Wes

(Cathy) Dennis (Jane) and Doug

(Mary) seven grandchildren a

our great-grandchildren

A gifed and popular teacher

over 40 years she taught Latin aFrench at Largo High A mem

rial service was held on April 18

Church o Te Ascension Clearw

ter where Daniel was Associate R

tor and she sang in the choirX

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3436

34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 34: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3436

34

HE SOUHERN CROSS reports

on the Seventh Convention held in Clear-

water that October Sadly all the clergy and

delegates were sent out o the Sheraton

Sand Key because o a bomb threat Clergy

took the opportunity to take a group pho-

to on the fire truck as police and firemen

searched unsuccessully or a bomb Said

one clergyman ldquoIrsquove worked in New York

City and Washington and live in New Jer-

sey and have never had such an experience

and certainly never expected this in quiet

Floridardquo Te convention is still mourn-

ing the death o the Rt Rev William Lo-

tin Hargrave who died Oct 15 1975 in

Cocoa Beach A memorial is established

in his name the diocese also designates

the Manatee Junior College Chaplaincy

Home as the Williiam L Hargrave Chap-

laincy HomeAt the convention the Ven Herbert

E Beck is installed as the first Archdeacon

and the Rt Rev Richard Martin visited

rom national church headquarters saying

that Te Church Center acts as ldquocontrol

towerrdquo to remind aircraf o other aircraf

around it Te Rev Stackley Hurst Di-

ocesan Missioner speaks on evangelism

ldquoEvangelism is the lay personrsquos ministry

itrsquos a local task basicallyrdquo Te Rev TomasRedern Jr and the Rev LeRoy D Lawson

are in charge o the Commission on Min-

istry and the Rev Alexander Comort is

chairman o Te Court Array

Tat December St Tomas Snell

Isle and St Raphael Catholic Church join

in a production o Godspell Mrs Marilyn

L a r s e n

choir di-

rector di-

rects

In ECW News Mrs Robert W urn-

er III reports on the ldquofine Christian educa-

tion materialrdquo collected by Laura Hooker

and a booklet on talents by Marge Blox-

ham Tat year Te Rev Richard Wil-

liams resigns as rector o St Christopherrsquos

ampa to move to Jacksonville

A symposium on womenrsquos ordination

is held with lead speaker Te Rev John A

Bendon o the Episcopal Counseling Cen-

ter Te Rev Gerald Lowe retires as rector

o Church o the Annunciation Holmes

Beach

Other news rom 65 20 and 10 years

ago in December

1950

Meetings are held across the Diocese

o South Florida or the Diocesan Com-

mittee on Laymenrsquos Work Representatives

are Mr Emery L Puckett presiding at St

John ampa and a ldquoMr Cookerdquo presiding

at Church o the Redeemer Tat Decem-

ber Bishop Louttit visits St Johnrsquos ampa

on Dec 10 and St Bartholomewrsquos and

St Ambrosersquos Church on Christmas EveNew Yearrsquos Eve has the Bishop at St Luke

Ft Myers On Sexagesima Sunday on Jan-

uary 28 he was to visit St Markrsquos Venice

Tat all St Andrewrsquos ampa hosts

the provincial synod their main topic was

support o the Episcopal Hour radio show

1995

Tat year seminarian Vladimir

Nikolaevich Kapustin in St Petersb

Russia is supported through the Soc

or Promoting Christian Knowled

USA arm St Markrsquos Venice is celeb

ing the expansion o their parish in

wind up o a campaign called Te L

Line o Love Te campaign underta

in February March and April o 19

raises $1350000 or the project In

campaign 55 percent goes to constr

tion 25 percent to the preschool 3 perc

to cover campaign costs and 10 percen

tithed to the Diocese

2005

en years ago Jan Nothum arrive

assistant to then-Bishop John Lipscom

Meanwhile parishes are rallying to aid

trina victims in New Orleans and Wi

victims in the Diocese o Southeast F

ida Tere is some minor damage to p

ishes in Southwest Florida including to

roo o St Markrsquos Marco Island In yo

mission upcoming events are New Begnings 39 and Happening 55 Ter

also an Advent Camp at DaySpringX

Looking Back is taken rom the arch

at Diocesan House I you have questi

about your archive or can donate item

interest contact the Communications

fice at 941-556-0315

Glancing B983137c983147 1975 Bomb Threat

Makes Fire Truck Photo

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3536

I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

lsquo W e h a v e

t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

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HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

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I Would Like To Be a Part of the 2015 Appeal

EAR HERE

Assist DaySpring

Endowment orDaySpring is a sacred place that seeks toenrich and empower its visitors in Christthrough prayer worship and ellowship Yourgif to DaySpring however large or smallwill help support DaySpring in perpetuity

Assist EpiscopalCharities ofSouthwest FloridaEpiscopal Charities is the unding supportorganization or congregation-basedcommunity outreach and special needs

Support the 2015 Bishoprsquos Appeal

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t h i s t r e a s u r e rsquo

GIFT LEVELSAfer prayerul consideration Iwe wish to contribute

$5000 $1000 $500 $100 $50 $20 $__________

USE MY GIFT For Episcopal Charities Endowment Fund

For DaySpring Endowment Fund

Share my donation equally between the two unds

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS I would like to include the Diocese in my estate plan

My company matches the matching orm is enclosed

Donate my gif in honor o _______________________________

NAME _____________________________________________

ADDRESS ___________________________________________

CIY _____________________ SAE ____ ZIP __________

PHONE ____________ EMAIL _________________________

PARISH ____________________________________________

MAIL A CHECK

Please make payable to Diocese o Southwest Florida8005 25th St East Parrish FL 34219

DONATE ONLINE AT EPISCOPALSWFLORThe Diocese of Southwest Florida has a safe secure online donat

page at episcopalswflorgappealhtml

LETrsquoS TALK MORE Please contact me at the above address about the plans or

DaySpring Episcopal Center

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg

Page 36: Southern Cross, Dec. 2015

7232019 Southern Cross Dec 2015

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullsouthern-cross-dec-2015 3636

HE SOUHERN CROSS

HE DIOCESE OF SOUHWES FLORIDA

8005 25H SREE EAS

PARRISH FLORIDA 34219

Non Profit Org

US Postage

PAID

Manasota FL

Permit No 946

Acolyte Festival Procession Sept 26 2015 Cathedral Church o St Peter St Petersburg