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Facts on Episcopal Church Growth
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Volume 2, Issue 19
Covering the week of May 8 thru May 14
 This Sunday is Pentecost!!!
This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost, one of the three spokes of the Christian Year.  While most of us are very familiar with the other two - Christmas and Easter - Pentecost has remained a poor stepsister in the attention given to it by the present day church.  The most likely reason is that it has never been commercialized in our culture.  Nevertheless, Pentecost demands our attention.  It was on this day that God gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Two lessons this Sundayreport the coming of the Holy Spirit.  The first is from the second chapter of Acts.  Fifty days had passed since Jesus' resurrection.  The appearances were over and the resurrected Christ had ascended to the Father.  The disciples following his directions, were waiting together in Jerusalem.  All of the sudden the Holy Spirit came with wind and fire.  Explosive energy blew open the doors and windows of the room and empowered the disciples to go forth into all the world, witnessing to what God had done in Jesus Christ.

The second lesson is from the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John.  It takes us back to the evening of the Resurrection.  Again, the disciples were gathered together.  The Resurrected Christ came and stood among them.  Then, just as God had breathed life into Adam and Eve at creation, the Resurrected Christ breathed new life into the disciples.  This time the energy was focused on forgiveness.  The disciples needed it and so do we.  Forgiveness is necessary for new life to take hold.

The inability to forgive and receive forgiveness holds us captive to the past.  It weighs down our spirits and makes it almost impossible for us to move forward.  And it does not just affect us.  Like a disease, it finds its way to the people around us.  The Risen Christ offers a way out of this dilemma.  He offers God's great gift of the Holy Spirit - in this case the gift of grace, which can free us from all that keeps us captive.  Once we are free, we are ready for the explosive energy of the wind and fire.  Then we can leave self behind and move outward to share the Good News.

The gift of the Holy Spirit is God's ongoing gift.  It is given to us in Baptism and sustains us all through our lives.  The Holy Spirit keeps us intimately connected to God and to one another.  It draws us together and then sends us out.  It comforts us and then opens up all kinds of new possibilities.

Because the commercial world has not yet figured out its importance, the Feast of Pentecost may seem like a poor stepsister to Christmas and Easter.  But for us it is an essential and wonderful feast.  Help us celebrate this Sunday by wearing something red.  Come ready to be refreshed and inspired by God's great gift of the Holy Spirit.  One never knows what may happen.

Thelma Smullen +

Note: During Paul's sabbatical Thelma will be at Redeemer on Sunday's, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Her email is tsmullen@redeemeronline.com.

Oil on Canvas by Istvan Dorffmaister 1782, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Worship This Week
Saturday and Sunday
May 10 and 11, 2008

Day of Pentecost Sunday
Year A, RCL

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May 10, 2008
Confirmation 10 am - Church
The Rev. Charles Messer
Scheduled to serve
CHALICISTS: Anne Carroll, Melissa Heaver, Anne Pidcock and Nina Wakefield
READERS: Drew Jiranek and Ellen Wallack
INTERCESSOR: Charlotte Blaylock
ACOLYTES: Isabel Heaver, Catherine Hebert and Conor McGee
USHERS: Porter Siems and David Wallack
ALTAR GUILD: Emma Rhoderick and Ginny Siems
FLOWERS: Pam Meier
                                                                              

Faith At Five | Contemporary Service

Saturday at 5 pm - Chapel
The Rev. Charles Messer                                                 
Robert Chrystal, Worship Team Leader
Come as you are. No books needed.
Contemporary Christian Music and Worship
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Sunday at 8:00 am in the Chapel
Holy Eucharist, Rite 1
The Rev. Charles Messer
No hymns today
Scheduled to serve
CHALICISTS: Jo Ann Roswell
READER: Sally Murphy
ALTAR GUILD: Sally Murphy and Jo Ann Roswell
FLOWERS: Pam Meier
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Sunday at 9 am in the Church
Holy Eucharist, Rite 1
The Rev. Charles Messer
(Junior Choir)
Hymns: 782, stanzas 1 & 2 Wonder, Love & Praise; 516, stanza 1 & 2; 506, stanzas 1 & 2 (Music is Hymn 368)
Songs by Junior Choir
Ring out your joy - Aniceto Nazareth
Ho, Ho, Ho, Hosanna - Jason Daniel
Scheduled to serve
CHALICISTS: Jennie Rose , Alice Weber and Judy Wright
READER: Robin Fidler
INTERCESSOR: Ray Fidler
ACOLYTES: Emma Messer, Allie Pierson and Anne Viccellio
USHERS: John Gephart and Mark Sandberg
ALTAR GUILD: The Burkett Family
FLOWERS: Pam Meier
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Sunday at 11 am in the Church
Holy Eucharist, Rite 2
The Rev. Charles Messer
Adult and Youth Choir
Hymns: 225, 516, 506 (Music is hymn 368)
Gloria: S 278
Sanctus: S 125
At the Psalm - Risen Lord - Barry Rose
Offertory Anthem: Dum complerentur - Tomas Luis de Victoria
Communion anthem: Savior, like a shepherd lead us - William Bradley Roberts
The Lord bless you and keep you - John Rutter
Prelude: Fantasia super: Komm, heiliger Geist (Come, Holy Ghost, Lord God) - Johann Sebastian Bach
Postlude: Finale (Symphony No. 1) - Louis Vierne
Scheduled to serve
CHALICISTS: Caroline Coleman, Sherrill Nash, Jim Strassberger, Laurel Strassberger and Doris Walker
READERS: Patty McLean and Paul Grimm
INTERCESSOR: Torie Harlan
ACOLYTE: Jay Sandberg
USHERS: Supervisor: Bob Venables; Ned Campbell, Charles Flagle, Bill Gammon, John Griffith and Bill Hazlehurst
ALTAR GUILD: Pat Kaestner, Phyllis Spence and Margaret Daley

FLOWERS: Pam Meier
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Sunday at 5 pm in the Chapel
Healing Service and Holy Eucharist
The Rev. Charles Messer
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Tuesday, May 13
12 Noon - Holy Eucharist - Chapel
The Rev. Charles Messer
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Wednesday, May 14
7:30 am - Holy Eucharist - Chapel
The Rev. Sandra Lawrence
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Adult Education Offerings

In the Forum:  The Historical Jesus (part 2 of 3) - The Gospels are not biographies but religious exhortation.  The Rev. James Blackburn (Parish Hall)

In Families of Faith: Exposing Virtue - We will explore how attention to life giving spiritual ideas and practices might address modern anxiety in the fact of overwhelming problems such as poverty, inequity and exological degradation.  (Woman's Council Room)

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Enjoy Fellowship

and

Refreshments

in the Melrose Cafe

(Choir Room)

Parish News and Notes
CONFIRMATION
This Saturday at 10am marks the beginning and end of a spiritual journey for youth and adults who will be confirmed and received into Christ's One, Holy and Apostolic Church.  The Rt. Rev. Martin Townsend, former Bishop of the Diocese of Easton, will officiate.  For twenty-seven 9th graders this is an end of a long process.  The confirmation program is a two-year based program for grades 8 and 9 that culminates with confirmation by the Bishop for 9th graders who choose to make their adult affirmation of their Baptismal vows.  We give thanks to Patty Eager who has taught this class of confirmands for the two years.  Besides confirmation, adults who have been confirmed Roman Catholic desiring to make the Episcopal Church their home will be received.  We congratulate those who will be confirmed an received and pray God's blessings on their ministry that is to come.

Members of the Confirmation Class
Sara Robin Bailey                                            Emily Elizabeth Muhvich
Augusta Lee Carroll Bruch                             Palmer David Murray
James Thomas Carlson                                  Carlin DeLancey Ober
William King Carter                                         Grace Margaret Ogburn
Taylor Pierce Classen                                     Louise James O'Neill
William Rinehart Gilbert                                 Sarah Anne Pidcock
Laura Elizabeth Greenbaum                          Elizabeth Marie King Siems
Thomas Benjamin Heaver                             David Joseph Socolar
Elizabeth Anne Hebert                                   Wilmer Curtis Stith V
Alice Drake Jiranek                                          Nancy Parran Swindell
Charlotte Heptinstall Brokaw Jones            Elliott Loring Wakefield
Samatha Farrell McGee                                  Sarah Elizabeth Wallack
Olivia Kirk Millspaugh                                      Margaret Brent White
                                                                            Anna Victoria Windsor
Adult Confirmands
Christopher Scott McPherson
Rachel Yvonne Stephens

Candidates for Reception
Albert Jay Boggs
Patricia Mae Eisenhart Eager
Kathryn Scherer Gallagher

                                                                                                                                                     

BLOOD DRIVE

Monday May 12th 1:00 0 7:00 p.m in the chapel.  Rejuvenate yourself and someone else.  Give the gift of life this Spring -  donate blood.  If you don't have an appointment, please feel free to come anyway.  Thank you!
                                                                                                                                                      

Funeral services for Carolyn K. Carlson will be Friday, May 9th at 1:00 pm in the Church.

Memorial service for Raymond C. Bryant will be Friday, May 9th at 3:30 pm in the Chapel.

Christ will open the kingdom of heaven to all who believe in his Name, saying, Come, O blessed of my Father; inherit the kingdom prepared for you.

Vestry Members
George Wills , Senior Warden          Rick Buck, Junior Warden
John Griffith, Treasurer                     Paige Marvel, Registrar

2009 Ellen Chatard, Allene Pierson, William Gamper, Chris Lord

2010 Will Morton, Muffie Sandberg, Ted Smith, Nancy Hubble

2011 Tom Frazier, Patty McLean, Linda Boyd, Chris Pistell
Paul Tunkle
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Paul Tunkle+
Rector, Church of The Redeemer
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