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9373 Garber Road, Crestwood, MO 63126 314-843-0123 www.advent-episcopal.org [email protected]

August 2011

In this issue:

Reections on Joplin Journey.................1Christian Formation as...........................2

Divinization - Dan Handschy

New Look for Christian Formation.....3

ECM BIrthday party...............................3Newsbites and Calendar...................6-7

An Eagle Project-Adam Witte...............8

Who at Advent is from the Delta.......9

Liturgical Ministies................................10

Making Disciples Conference.............11

Immersed!-Deb Goldfeder..................12

Daughters of the King.........................14

Editor: Marla Dell

In September

Coming to a Church Yard Near Us!

The After-hours Community

Band, of which Bill and Rene

Sanders are members, will be

performing for us in Septem-

ber. Please watch for further

details on the date and time in

the e-mail blasts and the Sundayservice leaet. This has become

a yearly event that the neigh-

borhood residents enjoy as

much as we do. Bring your lawn

chairs, sit a spell and enjoy some

snappy tunes.

Advents new youth group initiative centers on the idea o tak-ing our young people out o the classroom and becoming more o-cused on hands-on interaction with our community. o begin this newdirection, Sally and I took our children, along with Adam Witte, to Joplin.

Everyone is amiliar with the horric events surrounding thetornado that destroyed eight square miles o central Joplin last Mayand the tragic deaths o at least 150 people. Te images are still resh:Te bodies laid out along the ootball eld because there were no otheracilities to handle the inux Te hospital, with extensive damage toevery wing ... Te local high school, with the letters blown o theentry sign, leaving only the O-P rom Joplin High the duct-tapedH-, -E sandwiching them, spelling H-O-P-E. We knew that see-ing these things rom the comort o our amily room would notprepare us or actually being there.

We arrived in Joplin late on a Friday aernoon. We were tomeet a larger group sent rom the diocese, led by our newly appointeddiocesan youth leader, Jon Stratton. St. Philips Church had agreed to

provide shelter or the group during our stay. Te local YMCA oeredshowering acilities to us. A couple rom Jeerson City arrived to pre-pare meals or the group, and they were joined by the St. Philips MensClub and other volunteers rom the congregation. It was a very well-planned and well-executed trip, and thank-yous are certainly due toJon and all the men and women who took such good care o us. Aspecial thanks goes to Beth Felice, who was instrumental in taking usrom an unocused idea to nding a way to actually making it happen.

Tis was my rst trip o this kind. I didnt go to New Orleans.Ive never built homes in Nicaragua or shoveled debris in Haiti. I wont

dwell too long on the impressions or reections gathered during thistrip, but I will say that the experience was unlike any other Ive ever had.

We arrived two months aer the tornado. Many o the hal-standing structures had already been bulldozed, and much o the de-bris had been carted away. We were taken to a neighborhood where the

A Familys Reections on a Journey to Joplin

continued on page 4

Fr. Dan will be on vacation from July

25 through August 15. Fr. Nathaniel

will lead services for the three Sun-

days that Dan will be on vacation.


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From the Rectors Desk

Christian Formation as Divinization

Last month, in my column, I

talked about the Eucharist as diviniza-tion. In the Eucharist we oer o allour lies work to God and ask Godto transorm it into sustenance orourselves and the Church, the Bodyo Christ in the world. Trough ourworship, our oering o the gis oGods earth back to God, God accom-plishes the apokatastasis panton, therestoration o everything. God takesour oerings into the divine sel, takes

us into the divine sel ever more andmore, until all is restored. Our wor-ship is a part o what God is doing inthe world.

For the coming year, we arelooking at a new ormat o ChristianFormation. Tis ormat involves someevent, some active engagement, eitherin a service project or a learning op-portunity, and then reection aer-

ward. I am very excited by this newmodel. Most people are not sit stilllearners, able to sit in a classroom andabsorb content in any meaningul kindo way. Even learning math, peoplehave to do problem sets i they wantto achieve any level o comprehension.

Tese events will be problemsets or homework in being Chris-tian. Imagine we take a trip to the

Zoo. Everyone would read the story oNoahs Ark beore we go. Ten, turnthe kids loose; maybe have a docentgo with us and talk about the dier-ent species, or habitat, the ood chain,whatever. Ten gather aerward, andask the kids what was their avor-ite part, the weirdest animal. Tenponder how the Zoo might be like

Noahs Ark. Ask

ourselves howwe might bethreatening thehabitat God in-tended or theseanimals, and theZoo is tryingto preserve thespecies. Whatcould we, as Christians, do to change ourhabits to help God like Noah did? I can

guarantee the next time we all sing God othe sparrow, God o the whale, it will hit uswith a dierent orce.

Someone also suggested that wemight make a trip to a shoe actory as anevent, and at rst I wondered how that couldteach us what it means to be Christian. TenI remembered a passage in Ecclesiasticuswhich talks about the potter who makes thewater jars that make civilization possible,

and the blacksmith who makes the plow thatmakes agriculture possible. All o them areneeded or the city. We could learn abouttheir work conditions, and we would bereminded o how much we take our shoes orgranted.

Reection like this would help us seethe role we play in the restoration o the all.As we came to Eucharist, we would have aclearer sense o the kinds o things we might

pray or, the things we might work or, theoering we make. I think this new programrepresents the best in missional thinking,not just because we might do things like rakeleaves in elders yards as one o the events, butbecause it will help us see what God is do-ing in the world, restoring everything to thedivine glory, and help us know how we canparticipate in that divinization.

Daniel J. Handschy


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Look or something new this all or Chris-tian Formation. Rather than the usual classroom/content model, were trying something complete-ly dierent. During the program year, there willbe seven or eight events, probably on a Saturday,ollowed by an opportunity or reection. Teseevents and the reection will be intergeneration-al: kids o all ages, parents, adults, all are invited.

Events might be something like cook-ing a meal at Ronald McDonald House, rakingleaves or elders in the neighborhood, or a tripto the Zoo. Aer each event, we will gather andponder what we might learn about God and ourChristian lie through what weve done. For ex-ample, we might read the story o Noahs ark be-ore a trip to the Zoo, and then talk about all the

A New Look for Christian Formation

dierent species that God has created, and howthe Zoo helps to preserve species, just like Noah.

Lucy Levandoski and Becky Vogel willhave oversight o the whole program, but each

event will be planned by its own person or team.A group o people gathered on July 18 and brain-stormed a bunch o great ideas or events and re-ection, and several people volunteered to leadan event. I you have an idea or an event thatyou just cant wait to get church people involvedin, or would like to try your hand at leading anevent, contact Lucy (314-843-3443 or [email protected]) and Becky (636-343-0373 or [email protected]). Tey will be able to get resources to helpany event-planner.

Church o the Advent has a tradition o helping children held in pre-trial detention celebrate theirbirthdays in August. Tis year the birthday party is on August 12th. Te Dianis will meet those o you whowant to carpool at 6:00 PM in the parking lot o the church. You may also decide to meet us at the Deten-tion Center on Enright near Vandeventer around 6:30 PM. We will play Bingo with about thirty childrenin the center, interact with them and serve them ice cream and cake. We are nished around 8:00 PM.

Every time I go there I nd mysel wondering what these kids think o when they are told a bunch omiddle aged and older people are coming to give them a party. Ten some kid will tell you that they havenever, ever had a birthday party beore. Another child may ask you to pray or them as they ace the judge.I could tell you it is lie-changing but or whom? We all come away changed. I invite all o you to come to thisannual event. It is a small time commitment or us but it may mean everything to one child. Come and see.

Deb Goldeder

Birthday Party with Episcopal City Mission, August 12

On the weekend o July 15-17, a group o teens rom theDiocese o Missouri travelled to Joplin to help with debris clean-upaer the terrible tornado there earlier this summer. Tree o Ad-vents kids joined the eort: Ben and Clare Diani and Adam Witte.Dave and Sally Diani drove the kids down to Joplin and helped withthe clean-up eort. Te youth rom our Diocese stayed at St. PhilipsEpiscopal Church in Joplin. Watch or an opportunity to hear thekids talk about their experience in Joplin.

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bulldozers hadnt yet completely clearedthe debris. Tere were maybe twenty volunteers in our group and our taskwas to clear away the rubble rom the

yard and concrete pad, a sae distancerom the ruins o the partially standinghouse.

It was plain the neighborhoodhad been a poor one. Tere were nobasements. From the toys scatteredabout the yard, it was clear that thishome belonged to a young amily.Tere is a special, horrible eeling asso-ciated with nding a stued animal inthe remains o a home where you cansee little hope that the amily survived.

We were worked hard in that100 degree heat. wenty o us accom-plished in eight hours what one manwith a bulldozer could have done intwo, but the day was only partiallyabout the clean-up. We made a dier-ence, the way any collective group o

tiny eorts can make a dierence, but itwasnt really about cleaning up Joplin.For the eight hours we worked, and ormany hours aerward, it was about re-ecting on how thin is the thread o ourlives, how soon it can all change, andhow very much we all have to be grate-ul or. Joplin is, simply put, a prayer.

Advent can be proud o its chil-dren. Adam, Ben, and Claire represent-

ed us well. Tey worked hard, nevercomplained, even in the heat, and mostimpressively, absorbed the lessons Jop-lin taught. I this is to be the directiono our new youth ministry, then I thinkwe are starting a program we will all beproud o. Dave Diani

At the end o May, the bandinstructor at Rockwood South MiddleSchool sent out an email asking or do-nations o summer clothes and toiletries

or the students o Joplin High SchoolWe learned at that time that the highschool was severely damaged by themassive tornado that struck on May 22Band directors around the state werebeing asked to help with the relie eortI remember sending in a couple bags oitems with Ben and Claire the next day

Little did I know that twomonths later, I would be standing in theparking lot o Joplin High School view-ing the incredible devastation. It wasapparent that little had been done torepair the buildings, and I learned thatdistrict ofcials had not yet announcedtheir plans or the school year. It wastting that all o us, but particularly theyouth in our group, were able to actu-ally see how their peers in Joplin havebeen aected by the tornado.

Sending in donations is a nething, but nothing compares to the ex-perience o being there. o be there wasto understand why our donations werenecessary. I believe that all o us werechanged by what we saw in Joplin, andI am grateul to the diocese or organiz-ing such a meaningul experience.

Sally Diani

It was a hot and humid sum-mer day down in Joplin, MissouriTere were piles o rubble as ar as theeye could see. Hundreds to thousandso lots were destroyed because o thetornado, a ull eight square miles odestruction. Tere were at least ypeople on the two adjoining lots and in

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one day we couldnt nish the job. I wecant simply take the rubble o one smallproperty, how much time will it takeAmeriCorps and its volunteers to cleanup the destruction?

Some residents o Joplin came tospeak with us aer our workday to tell us

stories about the tornado and its aer-math. Tey told us that the people wholive in the southern hal o Joplin couldntget their mail because the post ofce wasdestroyed and they cant get mail romthe post ofce on the north side o thecity because many o them have no prooo their identity. So, obviously, there isstill a lot o work to be done, and the onlything that keeps me rom volunteeringthere all summer is my pre-existing plans.

I you are debating whether to goor not, just remember that your help isneeded and one person can make a di-erence. Ben Diani

When we went through the placewhere the tornado hit, I was devastated.Tere was not one whole structure thatwas ully standing. You could just imag-

ine what the people who lived there weregoing through. Maybe through the grieo losing people that you love, throughlosing your home and most o your be-longings, or just knowing that the placethat used to be your home city will neverbe the same.

Everyone that was helping outwent to the church where everyone slept,ate, and did the Morning Prayer. We atedinner and made sure to get a good nightsslept because everybody knew that tomor-row was going to be very hot and the workwas not going to be easy. We woke up inthe morning, did our morning prayer,

and headed out. We had to wear a maskbecause o all the dust that was going tobe ying through the air, as well as gloves,hard-soled shoes, and saety glasses. Aerwe got to the house that we were pickingup, I got disappointed that picking up de-bris or only this house was all that I wouldbe able to do or the tornado victims o Jo-plin, Missouri. Jon Stratton, the guy whomade it happen, made sure that we were

all properly hydrated and ed at the site.

About halway through the vehours that we worked, we went back to thechurch or lunch. Aer lunch, anybodywho thought the heat was too much wentto design care packages or those who re-ally needed them. Jon told us that each othe jobs was equally important, so I wentwith him because it was about 100 degreesoutside. Aer we ran out o just about ev-

erything or the care packages, we had tostop and go back to the church because itwas the end o our working time anyway.Te next day we had to go back home.

I am really glad that I got to helpout even i it was just a small raction owhat needed to be done. It was also a learn-ing experience. I saw how much people ac-tually do to help other people in need. Isaw all those pictures on V o the debriscome to lie and I also elt really sad whenI had to go home. Especially because eventhough we did a whole lot o work on thathouse, it didnt look like we did a thing.

Clare Diani


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Prayer Shawl GroupTe Prayer Shawl Ministry received

several donations recently. Cash in our desig-nated basket, non-church member donationsand checks rom Advent members were gen-erously given. We thank you or this blessingand now we will be able to make many moreshawls. On Sunday, July 17th, we had a bless-ing o the shawls on the church altar, and ourshawls were distributed that day. Our nextmeeting will be Wednesday, August 17th at1:00 pm at the church. Please contact MaryPeck (314-894-5260) i you have questions orwould like to give a shawl.

Advents GardenCheck out the garden and lend a hand, shov-

el, or whatever on Wednesdays. Questions:let Elaine Naes know. She can be reached at314-843-1773, or [email protected]

Lunch and Learn welcomes Esley HamiltonAcclaimed as the regions most prominent and energetic preservation histo

rian, Esley Hamilton returns to talk about the architecture o St. Louis churches, andAdvent, at the monthly Crestwood Parish Nurse Lunch and Learn program. Regular9:30 exercise is ollowed by the program at 10:30 a.m. Free and open to all, lunch isprovided. Please RSVP to Deb Goldeder, [email protected].

ECM Birthday PartyOn August 12, or those who want to carpool with the Dianis meeting a

6:00 PM in the parking lot o the church or meet us at the Detention Center on Enright near Vandeventer around 6:30 p.m. See details on page 2.

An Afternoon Concert to benet SAJE MinistriesTe third and nal concert o the season will take place at St. Elizabeth o

Hungary Church, 1414 S. Sappington (Crestwood) at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Augus14th. Perorming will be the Peipert Family musicians, with chamber music or vio-lin, ute, and cello. Concert ollowed by reception, ree, goodwill oering or SAJE

30 Hour FamineUnortunately we had to cancel the 30

Hour Famine this year. We have very busyyouth and it was impossible to nd an openweekend to arrange or the amine. Pleastune in or uture youth projects to help ouworld community.

2011 Fair St. Louis Booth It was hot, and it rained.... a lot!Tanks to all those who came out to help withFair St. Louis on July 2 and 3. Te concert andreworks were canceled on July 3rd but westill managed to raise over $4000 or AdventWooHoo! Beth Mazdra

Thursday Exercise ClassesEvery Tursday morning at 9:30, a

sta person rom Crestview Retirement Center leads an exercise class at Advent. Teseclasses are part o the Crestwood ParishNurse program. Attendance has been growing steadily. Enjoy light rereshments aer exercise, and check in with each other. Join us!

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Advent Church WomenTe next ACW meeting is August 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the parish hall. We will

be planning our Annual September breakast. Please bring ideas or guest speakers.All ladies o Advent are welcome. I you have questions, contact Clare Kujath, 314-846-2737 or [email protected].

Prayer Shawl GroupAugust 17th 1:00 p.m., at the church, see page 7.

Advent Men Dine OutTe Advent men will eat out on Tursday, August 18, 6:00 PM at Mile 227 ap

and Grill, Viking Lodge Building, Watson Rd. and Lindbergh Blvd., 10709 WatsonRoad. Wear your biker gear and ride your bike. Tis will be a new experience or us.Call Don Dippel, 314,487-0299 or inormation.

Third Thursday LadiesWe will meet at Sesame Chinese Restaurant 10500 Watson Road, close to Lind-bergh and Watson Road intersection on Tursday, August 18 at 6:00 PM. Pleasejoin us or a un night out and get to know some o the other women o the church.Call Carol Kardell by August 15th so that she can make an accurate reservation.

Missional Congregations MeetingTe Missional Congregations Group will meet at Advent on Wednesday, Au-

gust 24, at 6:00 pm. Bishop Smith will meet with the group that evening. Tere havebeen exciting things happening in the seven congregations in this group (including

Advent) over the last year. Anyone rom Advent is invited to attend. We will have alight supper at 6:00, and then the meeting begins at 6:30 pm. (Wednesday eveningEucharist will be cancelled that evening).

Contextual Bible StudyLook on page 11 or more inormation about the Making Disciples work-

shop, Love Heals on Saturday, August 27, rom 8:30 am 3:00 pm at Christ ChurchCathedral. Te aernoon session will be on contextual Bible study, which ts verynicely with the Christian Formation program we have planned or 2011 2012. Reg-istration is $20 per person or $100 or a congregation sending 10 people. Wouldnt

it be great i we could send 10 people! I you can go, please speak to the rector.

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September Vestry MeetingTe Rev. Bob owner and one or two people rom the Vestry o Christ Church,

Cape Girardeau will join us or an open Vestry meeting on Monday, September 12.Over the last several years, the Red Door Church has made a signicant commitmentand contribution to downtown Cape Girardeau, and they have an inspiring story totell. Te meeting will begin with supper at 6:00 pm, and presentation andquestions at 6:30 pm. Please make plans to attend.

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Have you noticed anything new inthe vegetable garden lately? As part omy quest or Eagle Scout a new handi-cap accessible raised garden bed was

installed in late June in the vegetablegarden.

When I joined Boy Scouts 5 years agoone o my goals was to be an EagleScout. Only 1% o boys who jointhe Boy Scouts ever make it to Eagle.I watched the older boys who wereworking towards that rank and I madeup my mind thats what I wanted to be.Over the past ew years I have workedmy way up the ladder, have gone to 4Summer Camps and have earned the

21 required merit badges. Oneo the last things I needed todo was to perorm an Eagleproject.

An Eagle Project is anactivity that benets an or-ganization other than Boy

Scouts. Some o the projectsmy riends have done are land-scape around Long School,put signs up at Fenton Park,and build animal shelters ata local animal rescue. Teboy working on the projectneeds to organize and super-vise the project, not do thework directly. I was thinkingabout a number o things but

I couldnt decide what to do.One day Beth Felice came upto me and suggested buildinga handicap accessible raisedgarden bed in the back sosome older olks at Advent orSAJE who are in a wheelchairor who have trouble bending

over could work in thegarden growing vegeta-bles or owers. I talkedto Father Dan about the

idea and he thought itwas great.

I took them up onthat idea and drew upa plan. Te plans wereapproved by Boy Scoutcouncil and I was on myway. I realized I needed alot o lumber so I talkedto a manager at HomeDepot in Sunset Hillsand he arranged orHome Depot to donateall the wood. I contactedmanagers at GardenSupply Co. and St. LouisComposting and got adiscount on all the resto the supplies I needed.On June 8th and June

10th boys rom roop580 rom Long Schoolgathered at Advent andwe assembled the bedand lled it with dirtand compost. We laterplanted the owers. Teproject was completed.

So whats next or the garden? Next springanyone who eels the urge to get their hands

dirty or show o their green thumb can plantsome owers or veggies. Whats next or me?I need to get a ew letters o recommendation,write a paper about my lie ambitions (not easyor a 14 year old) and then sit or an Eagle Boardo Review. Wish me luck. Ill keep you posted.

Adam Witte

More pictures online: www.fickr.com/diocesemo

An Eagle Project


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Billie Hall was born in the little town o Drew,Mississippi located in the Mississippi Delta area. Shesays she comes rom a loving and close-knit amilywhich includes her brother, Jim Meadows rom Loui-

siana and her two sisters-in-law, one living in Missis-sippi and the other in Louisiana. When Billie and heryounger brother were small, they used to ght a lot.As adults, Billies younger brother has become morelike an older brother providing greatly appreciatedsupport.

Growing up in the Forties and Fiies, Billiesays she had a wonderul childhood. In the early Six-ties, Billie was busy attending Delta State Universityin Cleveland, Mississippi where she met her husband-

to-be, Jack Hall Jr. Jack was an Episcopalian andBillie was a Baptist Billie and Jack both graduated andbecame elementary school teachers. Later on, theyboth earned Masters Degrees specializing in ReadingSkills rom Mississippi State University in Starkville,Mississippi. Billie also has a specialist degree romWebster University.

Te arrival o the Chrysler Plant in Fentoncreated a demand or teachers as the surroundingareas grew in population. Te opportunity or bet-ter paying jobs brought Jack to the St. Louis region.

Aer their marriage, Billie joined him in St. Louis.When they married in 1963, they had a trinity o cler-gy presiding at their wedding ceremony. Tey workedin northern Jeerson County until they retired. Billiemisses the teaching o the children, but not the paperwork and the stress.

Te Halls reared two daughters. MelissaHyatt (Je is her husband) o St. Charles who has twochildren, ages 6 and 8; and Crew Schuster, o Belton,Missouri near Kansas City, whose husband, Don,

had a son when they married. Matthew is twentyand attends Mizzou. Te Advent legacy continued asboth girls were conrmed at Advent and Father Danperormed their wedding services.

Shortly aer arriving in Jeerson County,Jack brought Billie to Advent. Billie was conrmedinto the Episcopal Church right here at Advent andher Baptist parents were present to add their support.

Who at Advent Came from the Mississippi Delta Area?Billie speaks ondly o the late Jean Rush and also thewonderul Eileen and Don Dell who all oered helpand riendship to her in the early years at Advent.During her nearly 48 years at Advent, Billie has been

very involved in the church and managed to have unat the same time. At onetime or another, she hasserved on the vestry, taughtSunday school, and beenPresident o the WomensClub. She also was on thesearch committee thathelped bring Father Dan toAdvent.

Billie wants thebest or Advent. She wouldlike the walk with usconstruction to continueas much as the budget willallow. Also she is really glad to see so many youngeradults (under 50) slowly taking on more o the churchresponsibilities. One o Billies unknown jobs is mail-ing out prayer cards which are notes lled with careand concern or anyone who needs a message o hope.I you want someone to receive a card, just notiyFather Dan or Cookie and they will let Billie know.

Last but not least, Billie hopes every visitor to Adventis greeted warmly and encouraged to sign the guestbook.

Billies love o learning is still ront and center.She is an enthusiastic member o the Adult orum onSunday mornings. She also keeps busy with her hob-bies o reading, gardening, cross stitching, paintingand making cards. She spends a lot o time attendingsporting events that her grandchildren are participat-ing in. She mentioned soccer, baseball

and lacrosse. Billie describes hersel as having a zestor lie. I certainly agree, but she also has an abun-dance o integrity, compassion and humor. Shes noshrinking violet and speaks her mind on any numbero topics. Advent is ortunate to have such a genuinehuman being as part o our church amily. Billie saysshe could not survive without us.


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Invites you to the Making Disciples Conference 2011

Love Heals: Rediscovering Gods Promises

8:30 am3:00 pm

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Christ Church Cathedral, 1210 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri

Does a community help love heal? Does reading scripture in community

change how we hear it? Can it change how we live in the world?The morning session will be led by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest, author, and founder of

Magdalene/Thistle Farms, communities for women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution,

and addiction. Two graduates of Magdalene will join her to explore ways we can develop a context of

community that allows loves healing power to take root and grow.

The afternoon session will be led by Jeff Moore, D. Min., Ph.D., and Sr. Minister of Webster Groves

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), who has worked with Contextual Bible Study groups in the

United States, Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean. Contextual Bible Study is a group process

that takes seriously the history and complexity of Scripture while honoring the importance of who we

are, when and where we live as readers and interpreters. Our afternoon time will include an

introduction to Contextual Bible Study, and an opportunity to reflect upon the important issues raised

by Becca Stevens and her colleagues during the morning session.

Cost: $20 per person. Congregations may send a group of 10 persons for $100

To register, send the following registration form and a check for $20 made payable to the Episcopal

School for Ministry, to Debbie Wheeler, c/of the Cathedral Bookstore,

1210 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO 63103.

Questions? Contact Pamela Dolan ([email protected]) or Beverly Van Horne

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Do you remember your bap-

tism? I do because I was about nine

years old when it happened. I can see

the baptismal font and the late afternoon

sun through the stained glass illuminat-ing the dust motes dancing around the

empty pews of a private baptism. What

I dont remember is the water. Was

my hair damp? Shouldnt I remember

that? Clearly I wasnt immersed in the

water. I would have remembered that. I

remember seeing the baptismal pool at

the Sandy Mush Baptist Church (Im not

making that up!) and would imagine how

it would feel to go down into that pool

and be dunked backwards by Preacher

Johnson and just cringe at the thought!

No, I wasnt immersedat least then.

Oh, to be clear, Episcopalians

dont re-baptize anyoneone and

donebut think about baptism and what

that means for a moment. We die to

one life and are raised to another, we are

named and we may have new clothes for

the occasion. But it isnt necessary to be

immersed in a pool of water to get the

job done.

Ive been thinking about immer-

sion since being told that I would have

to complete a transcultural immersion in

order to complete the requirements for

a doctorate in ministry. I was given the

choice of going to Liberia or to Congo so

I chose the Congo. Since I returned from

there, many people have asked me about

it: was it dangerous? was it hot? was it

hard? and I had to come up with some

answer that made sense. It was nice,

didnt seem adequate. Many have said,

Didnt all that time in Lui count? Not

really. We had to be immersed together.

Most of the time in the Congo

was spent in the Bishops meeting room

on the second oor of the United

Immersed! by Deb Goldfeder

Methodist Church ofces in Kamina in

Katanga Province. We were there to take

two courses in one week so, needless to

say, we spent a lot of time in that upper

room. On breaks, I would lean over the

balcony railing and stare down at life on

the road in Kamina but we only got out

on eld trips to very specic places. We

went to a market once but it was a eld

trip so we had to stay together then, too.

I am someone who is always looking at a

fence and wondering what is on the other

side of it and not wondering if the fence

is strong enough to keep others out.

How was I supposed to be immersed in

a culture if I was sitting in a classroom

looking at Powerpoints? But I didnt saythat to my instructors. I was in class with

four Congolese classmates, one Ugandan

and another American woman so there

was immersion there but still.

Our visit was very important

to our classmates and to the people of

Kamina. We were met by the local televi-

sion news team and interviewed on the

tarmac but never got to see ourselves on

TV because the electricity was off for two

days afterward. The bishop there keptsaying that we brought honor to the com-

munity by coming so far to take a class in

Kamina. In Africa, I am coming to know

that you always honor visitors before

they depart, too. Nobody just drops you

off at the airport! They pulled out all the

stops in Kamina, though.

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Plans for the going-away party

started practically when we arrived. I

was unpacking in my room when some-

one called me into the living room of the

Methodist Guest House. I asked what it

was all about but was told, Never mind.Just let this guy measure you. Oh. So

a man I had never met before took my

measurements by the light of a ashlight.

Not what I would consider normal but,

when you are in Congo. I had pretty

much forgotten about that night by the

time the party started ve days later.

And what a party it was! There

were choirs, bands (with electric guitars

and keyboards), traditional musicians with

homemade marimbas, there were dancers

who sang and interpreted Bible stories,

soloists, a choir that sang, My Bonnie lies

over the ocean, and, nally, the hunters.

The hunters were a little scary

and a lot funny. They had painted their

faces and wore grass skirts. Their danc-

ing acted out a hunt and, from time to

time, they came out and grabbed some

muzungu (white person) and made

them dance. They even did it to me! Mydancing must have been okay because the

Bishop came up and gave me money. It

was the rst time I was ever given a tip

for dancing!

Suddenly all the white people were grabbed and taken

away from the party. Women surrounded me and

started to change my clothes! They took my muzungu

clothing and dressed me as a proper Congolese woman.Of course we had to return to the party and dance for

the amusement of all the Congolese people.

The week was over all too soon but on the way home

I thought about immersion and baptism, about being

given new clothes and, in some way, a new identity but

that time in Congo cant compare with my time in Lui

where I was immersed all the way and sputtered to

new life thanks to the Moru people. I was not only

dressed in new clothes when I returned but I had been

given a new name besides.

I might have been sprinkled in the Congo but I was

IMMERSED in Sudan and born again to new life there.

Thanks be to God!


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