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Dear Parish Family and Friends,

Lately I find myself looking for signs of joy. This is not a conscious or intentional effort, but I find myself paying attention when someone is joyful. Joy is attractive, not so much in the sense of being pretty, but in how it at-tracts my attention and makes me want to be around people who are joyful. Joy in others has the power to awaken something in me, something I had forgotten, but now remember, something that renews and refreshes.

It helps to be clear about what joy is and is not. C. S. Lewis saw distinction between joy, pleasure, and happiness. His book Surprised by Joy is a wonderful ex-tended meditation on the word. The title itself is a joyful pun, and reading (or rereading) it leads us deep into the word’s meaning. Merriam-Webster defines “joy” as:

1a: the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires: delight

b: the expression or exhibition of such emo-tion: gaiety

2: a state of happiness or felicity: bliss 3: a source or cause of delight

Lewis himself defines it this way:

I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy (in my sense) has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them: the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want it again...I doubt whether anyone who has tasted it would ever, if both were in his power, ex-change it for all the pleasures in the world. But then Joy is never in our power and Pleasure often is.

Church can be one of those places we find joy. I am grateful to our Greeters and Ushers for helping to make arrival at the church door a joyful experience. We have

some younger members who fill these roles from time to

time. The way they do their work and the responses they engender in parishioners and visitors alike are a source of joy for me and for others. We have some who are so excited that they go nearly down the walk to the parking lot to greet people and to hand out bulletins. Others walk down to the handicapped parking spaces at Kimberly Drive to assist our more frail or senior congregants with the walk to the church door. Recently, one young greeter waited in the narthex (with her mother’s permission) af-ter the service had begun in order to welcome anyone who came late. How can we not be charmed by such en-thusiasm? Having experienced it, how can we stay away simply because we don’t feel like it or because it seems to be it too much trouble?

One actually grows spiritually when one stops and rec-ognizes joy in oneself or others. By participating in that joy, it becomes possible to face things we could not oth-erwise face, to address problems for which we had previ-ously seen no solution. There is a quality of unselfcon-sciousness about joy. In forgetting ourselves, we are free to experience life as God intended. We find ourselves blessed with a glimpse of something transcendent, and the more we share those glimpses with others, the more joy we find around us, and the more we have to share.

In his book, C. S. Lewis draws us through his own story into a deeper, spiritual sense of the word “joy,” and at the end, he gives us a glimpse of that eternal life to which Christ invites us and makes accessible to us through his own life, death, and resurrection. We have a copy of Surprised by Joy in our St. Stephen’s library, or perhaps you have your own copy, acquired long ago and now forgotten on a bookshelf or in a box. Pick it up and have a joyful read, before the summer is over!

Keep the faith. Share the joy. See you in church.

Faithfully,

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church 82 Kimberly Drive, Durham, NC 27707

From the Rector

August 2018

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Financial Update

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From the Priest-in-Residence

Dear Friends,

By the time you read this, Betsy and I will have just returned from almost two weeks in the Pacific Northwest. We will have spent most of the time with my siblings and their spouses, and we are looking forward (at this writing) to relaxed family time together.

First we will fly to Victoria, BC to meet my sister and her husband, who live in the Bay area in California. After tea at the famous Empress Hotel and some sightseeing, we will take the ferry to Vancouver, BC to stay for several days. That has been a spe-cial place for me ever since a life-changing experience at a hospital there as part of a chaplaincy training program nearly forty-five years ago. I am grateful to be able to revisit a place that had such a profound influence on my faith and on my understand-ing and practice of pastoral care.

Next we will visit my brother and his wife in Bellingham, Washington. He has ar-ranged for a friend of his to take us all on a day long boat trip before the six of us board the ferry to Orcas Island for a few nights. When Betsy and I were first married forty years ago and living in Seattle, we loved to ride the ferry serving the San Juan Islands. Such beautiful country!

Finally, we will stay several nights in Seattle, catching up with Jesuit friends as well as parishioners at our first St. Ste-phen’s, the parish in Seattle where we joined the Episcopal Church and worked as co-youth ministers. A lot has changed since then – both for us and for the parish, and it will be good to revisit such good memories of our early days together.

We look forward to being back with you in August. I will be taking the services on both the 5th and the 12th to give Fr. Bob and Sue time for their own refreshment. See you then!

Faithfully,

Youth Activities

To the Family and Friends of the Children and Youth Program, Kanuga brings together a wide variety of adults who work with youth ranging from priests to parents to committed vol-unteers trying to fill in programming gaps. Above all else, we have one thing in common: we're here for the kids. I have had the immense pleasure of meeting incredible adults who are continually seeking to improve current faith formation practices as well as work toward a better, brighter tomorrow. During our time together, I get to ask questions and seek feedback from those facing the same challenges as I. We explore our own shortcomings and failed attempts while em-bracing and uplifting one another. Through this spirit of collaboration, we are able to brainstorm ways to best serve kids as they navigate an ever-changing world and ever-evolving church communities. Due to the pressures and commitments of being a youth in today's society, it can become easy to solely focus on the time ahead; you do the best you can with what you have, but imagine and work towards a faith-filled future. During his open-ing remarks, Father Charlie Deaton said, "You hear, 'The youth are the future.' No they are not. They are the church of now." That seemingly innocuous comment seems evident, but in practice, it is easy to forget that we are a community and a congregation existing in the now. When we wait for kids to grow up, to learn, and to become adults, we miss out on invaluable experiences and opportunities. I have been reflecting a lot on what it means for the youth to be the church of now. How am I best serving them so that they see themselves as a part of each Sunday service? How do they envision their roles as members of the Body of Christ and how do we encourage them to interrogate their roles at St. Stephen's? Father Deaton said, "Every Sunday should be Youth Sunday," and I am working on understanding what that looks like. Following Youth Week, I feel invigorated and ready to get to work. I am blessed to work for an incredible parish with amazing staff, supportive congregants, and eager youth. I look forward to another programming year and hope to focus not primarily on the future, but live in the now. Together we can show the youth that they aren't just the future, but also the now. Yours faithfully,

Stephanie

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Thursday Saints– July 2018

During the summer months, I will be creating crossword puzzles based on the lives of the four saints being commemo-rated. For August, those saints are: August 2 – Samuel Ferguson, Missionary Bishop for West Africa, 1916 August 9 – Herman of Alaska, Missionary to the Aleut, 1837 August 16 – Samuel Johnson, 1772, Timothy Cutler, 1765, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1790, Priests August 23 – Rose of Lima, 1617 August 30 – Charles Chapman Grafton, Bishop of Fond du Lac, and Ecumenist, 1912 The solution will appear in next month’s newsletter. You can also complete the crossword here (as well as view the solution): https://www.shareapuzzle.com/play/93992/August2018SaintsPuzzle.htm

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To the St. Stephen’s family: Looking back over my summer newsletter articles for the past five years, the summer months are usually filled with planning the upcoming program year and reflecting on the nature of Christian formation. This year is no exception. Along the way, I’ve found myself coming across numerous articles online that are all some variation of “Why We Still Need Christian Education” or “Why Formation Matters.” These posts have been useful tools for thinking about why it is we do what we do, but after about the fifth one, I found myself thinking: How did we get here? How did we reach the point where we are arguing over the necessity of lifelong Christian formation—not the substance of it, but whether we even need it, in the first place? Formation is central to the identity and mission of Christianity. Even a cursory glance at the New Testament reveals that one of the primary actions of Jesus and the way in which the gospel spread was teaching. In fact, “Teacher” was one of the more common names used by the disciples when referring to Jesus. It has not been one of the more popular names for Jesus for theologians writing over the centuries, but, for obvious reasons, I have always been drawn to it. However, one of the theologians who wrote a great deal about what it means to call Jesus “Teacher” was Augustine. References to teaching, learning, and education are found throughout his many works. Early on, he wrote a short treatise on education, De Magistro (On The Teacher). These ideas were expanded upon in a later manual for Christian formation, De Doctrina Christiana (On Christian Doctrine or On Christian Teaching), where he explored the primary goals for teachers, rooted in the model of Jesus. Augustine wrote: “Our real Teacher is he who is so listened to, who is said to dwell in the inner person, namely Christ, that is, the unchangeable power and eternal wisdom of God” (De Magistro 11.38). The idea of Christ as teacher was so important to Augustine that it informed his understanding of the Incarnation: Christ, “for our salvation … [took] upon himself our nature in order to teach us” (De Vera Religione 55.110). Therefore, one way in which we live out the incar-nation now is through acts of teaching in Christian community. He writes further: “Teaching is a necessity. People, after all, are able both to act and not to act upon what they know,” and the ultimate goal in teaching people is to “move them to act” (De Doctrina Christiana 4.12.27-28). And how are we to act? What is the mission to which we are to dedicate ourselves? “Good honest morals belong to loving God and one’s neighbor, the truth of the faith to knowing God and one’s neighbor” (De Doctrina Christiana 3.10.14). Therefore, in the practice of Christian education, love is our ever-immediate action, our sole purpose, our primary ethic. Though other theologians have taken up the important work of exploring Christ as Teacher, we have lost sight of it a bit. However, I think there is another way of thinking about it that might help us recover its centrality. In the Eucharist, there is a moment of remembrance, a memorial that takes place—often referred to as the anamnesis. In Eucharistic Prayer A, it’s at this moment: “We celebrate the memorial of our redemption, O Father, in this sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Recalling his death, resurrection, and ascension, we offer you these gifts” (BCP, p. 363). Anamnesis can also be thought of more broadly:

Anamnesis is an active form of memory that connects the past to the present in a way that allows us to become a present participant in the past events. Have you ever smelled perfume that reminded you so strongly of a person that you could almost hear her voice speaking to you or hear the pattern of her footsteps nearby? You look around, feeling her presence as if she were with you. That is akin to anamnesis: a remembrance of a past event in a way that it becomes present to you today. Anamnesis is likewise remembering something that has yet to hap-pen, the future kingdom of God that has yet to be realized (Jenifer Gamber, Y our Faith, Y our Life, p. 195).

What if we thought of Christian education as an act of anamnesis? What if we thought of it as a memorial, recalling Christ as our Teacher? What if we viewed it as becoming a present participant in a centuries-old tradition of formation, as a way of continuing the ongoing work of the kingdom of God? What if we viewed it as more than mere attendance in Sunday School and as active participation in a community committed to loving God and neighbor? So, as we approach another Start-up Sunday on September 9, marking the beginning of another program year, I encour-age you to think about how you might participate in Christian education at St. Stephen’s. It is a way of drawing closer to one another and to God, offering our time for mutual formation as disciples of Christ, Our Teacher. Faithfully,

Jeremy

Christian Education and Programming

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Music Notes

The New Season of the Concert Series Brochures are now being prepared for the 2018-2019 season of the St. Stephen’s Concert Series. There will be five concerts on Sunday afternoons at 4:00PM. Among the artists who will be returning from previous seasons will be pia-nists Andrew Tyson and Meng-Chieh Liu, organist Timothy Olsen, violinist Nicholas Kitchen, cellist Yeesun Kim, and the Borromeo String Quartet. New to the series will be the Rose Ensemble, an exciting Minnesota based early mu-sic group. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “… they sing and play with a lusty ease that blows the dust off old music.” With eleven critically acclaimed recordings to its credit, this 22 year old group of singers and instru-mentalists has thrilled audiences across the United States and Europe with diverse repertoire spanning 1,000 years and over 25 languages Here is a schedule of the concerts. October 7, 2018. The annual Frank H. Kenan Memor ial Organ Recital will be given by Dr . Timothy Olsen, Kenan Professor of Organ at UNCSA. Organ sonatas by Mendelssohn will be bookends for his program titled “Laudate Dominum in organo et choro,” which consists of five works involving hymn tunes. The audience will be asked to sing English versions of two of the hymns: the Lutheran chorale Jesu, meine Freude, on which a chorale-partita by Johann Walther is based, and the Passion Chorale, Herzlich tut mich verlangen, used in a chorale-prelude by Brahms. The featured work will be a five movement setting of the Latin Pentecost hymn Veni Creator Spiritu (Come Holy Spirit) by Nicolas de Grigny. Last year’s organ recitalist, Raymond Hawkins, will chant the Latin hymn and assist Dr. Olsen with stops. A screen at the front of the nave and a TV camera located in the balcony will allow the audience to watch Dr. Olsen and his stop assistants. December 2, 2018. Nicholas Kitchen, violin, Yeesun Kim, cello, and Meng-Chieh Liu, piano will present an all Schubert program consisting of three sublime pieces of chamber music: the C major Fantasie for violin and piano, the “Arpeggione” Sonata for cello and piano, and the great B-flat major Piano Trio, D. 898.

January 6, 2019. “Our own” jet setting, continent hopping, Andrew Tyson will pre-sent an eclectic recital that features two awesomely virtuosic works from the Romantic period, Liszt’s Vallée d’Obermann and Chopin’s Sonata in B minor. Four charming pieces by François Couperin will open the recital, followed by three selections from a 20th century masterpiece, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen. Respighi’s lovely Notturno will complete the program. April 7, 2019. At this concer t we welcome back our “quartet in residence” — we can wish, can’t we? — the “rock star of chamber music,” the Borromeo String Quar-tet. Their program will be announced at a later time. At their last concert at St. Ste-phen’s, Mai Motobuchi, the quartet’s violist, was unable to play because of a serious nerve injury to her right arm. She has recovered this summer and is now playing as beautifully as ever.

April 28, 2019. Nine members of the Rose Ensemble, led by Founder and Ar tistic Di-rector Jordan Sramek, will present “Welcome the Stranger: the Promise of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica.” Dr. Sramek describes this program as follows. The year is 1618 and a mythical gathering of Milianese Benedictines is about to take place. Virtuosic compositions by local nuns are intermingled with medieval plainchant and Renaissance motets of the Cas-sinese monks of Staint Simpiciano. Music is shared and communities are welcomed. Music by three women composers, Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662), Caterina Assandra (1590-1618), and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-1678) is highlighted, and additionally there is a new work honoring St. Scholastica by Minnesota composer Abbie Bitnes. Not the usual description of a concert! At the concert there will be speaking between pieces and audience members will receive an “open letter” from Dr. Sramek detailing historical background and the research underlying the program. In the meantime you may want to read about the rain brought about by St. Scholastica at her final meeting with St. Benedict. There was lots of rain. A concert you will not want to miss.

Andrew Tyson

Dr. Jordan Sramek

Dr. Timothy Olsen

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Music Notes Continued Some Special Music at the 10:30 Services This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, the larger than life composer, con-ductor, author, lecturer, and pianist. On August 5 at the Offertory our choir director, Dan Monek, will sing “A Simple Song” from Bernstein’s Mass. On August 12 I will take a one Sunday vacation and Matthew Cates, who played the organ on Youth Sunday in June, will be my substitute. If he can find capable stop assistants, you can expect him to rattle the pews with music by Duruflé and Reger. Our church’s “Start Up Sunday” will take place on September 9, but, for the adult choir, start up Sunday is August 19. The first choir rehearsal of the Fall season will take place on Wednesday, August 15 at 7:00PM. If you are a singer who would like to join the choir, there’s no better time to do so.

Joe Kitchen

Rose Ensemble Borromeo String Quartet

Renewal Works Is Coming! What is RenewalWorks? It is a process focused on spiritual growth for a congregation and individuals in that congrega-tion. The Purpose of spiritual growth is a matter of taking the steps needed to deepen relationship with God, with neighbor, with the world, and with ourselves. The Process of RenewalWorks starts with each of us taking a Spiritual Life Inventory of where we stand in terms of spirituality and where we want to go. Answering questions that we may have never thought about or tried to answer. All of our anonymous inventories are aggregated and com-pared to a large, national data base of Episcopal churches who have completed the RenewalWorks process. An analy-sis of St Stephen’s Church is presented and then workshops are formed to determine the best ways to move toward our collective and individual goals. The whole process is guid-ed by the experienced RenewalWorks staff. How do you Participate? First, by completing the Spiritual Life Inventory, which will be available in September. Sec-ondly, by studying the RenewalWorks analysis when it is available in December and by being involved in the work-shops. Thirdly, by determining how you are going to use this valuable information to further your spiritual growth as an individual and as a part of the greater body of St. Ste-phen’s. There is more information at the website, http://renewalworks.org/.

Parish News

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Word of Thanks

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Lay Pastoral Care If you have a prayer request for a loved one or yourself and would like to be included in the Prayer Network’s daily prayers, please contact Holly Latty-Mann, Martina Gardner-Woods, Claire (cmd@med.unc.edu) or the Church Office. For prayers in the Sunday service’s Intercessions (Prayers of the People), please contact Claire, Father Bob or the Church Office. To request a Eucharistic visit or oth-er needs for yourself or loved one, please contact Claire or Father Bob.

July 2018 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Parish News

Calling All Parents! You’re invited to an information ses-sion on Sunday, August 26 from 9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. in the Davis Room. We’ll give a brief overview of all the pro-grams for children and youth for the upcoming year:

Sunday School Children’s Chapel Children’s Music Youth Confirmation Acolytes Service/Outreach Opportunities Programs for Parents and more!

A light breakfast will be provided. Hope to see you there!

On Friday, September 14 we will be hosting a par ty at the church to celebrate Fr. Bob’s birthday. There will be live music, beer, wine, soft drinks, hot dogs and hamburgers. Look out for notices as to how you can help and sign up to attend. In lieu of gifts we are asking that you make a dona-tion for a special project at the church to be announced soon. Save the date!

Library Update

John Deere—John Deere is back up and running for the third time this year. The drive belt had failed. Because the mower failed in the low grassy area at the corner of Rugby and Hope Valley Road, extracting it for repairs was tricky. The traffic on Hope Valley made removal a bit dangerous. We had to employ a flat bed tow truck with all of the emergency lighting. It was able to extend the flat bed down the slope and near JD to winch it out.

Memorial Gardens—The new circular driveway has proved popular not only with parishoners but others who drive around the circle without stopping. Apparently they are able to capture Poke-e-mons by making a pass around the drive.

Gazebo—Repairs to the aged mortar are under way. In the coming weeks sealant and minor repairs will be made to the wood members.

HVAC—Another one of our aging units failed. The end of the administration building from the choir room up to the office began to warm up. This time it was just a failed drive belt and clogged filters.

Four PTAC (through wall) units in the pre-school failed one night. There was a local power surge which wiped out the circuit boards. The units are so old that the manufactur-er no longer even has the part numbers. Comfort Engineers has devised a method to replace the boards with a series of relays for far less money than replacing the units. Repairs should be completed in time for the Duke String School to occupy the building on July 29.

Cottage Drive—The cottage drive repairs have been com-pleted. BP Grading did a wonderful job in short order.

Kitchen—The commercial grade refrigerator that had been in service since 1993 gave up this past spring. Re-pairs which would have required changing the refrigerant to meet new standards were not practical. Michael Brewer and Burke Raper are working out the details for a new re-frigerator and ice maker which has been on lease for years.

Special Projects—Our Junior Warden, Michael Brewer, and I are working in conjunction with the Property Com-mittee on organizing work Saturday mornings. Two or three times a year we will recruit some volunteers to ad-dress an area that needs special attention. Options are be-ing considered for a tentative first gathering on Saturday, September 8.

From the Sexton

Don’t forget that the parish library has DVDs as well as books to check out for end-of-summer fun. Look for them on the second shelf of the bookcase next to the checkout stand. A few titles reveal the wide range of subjects: Gone with the Wind, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Charlie Wilson’s War, and The Prince and Me (no, it’s not Harry and Meghan).

The Young at Heart group will have their Annual Planning Meeting August 15 at Red Lobster at 11:30 a.m. Make sure you each bring an idea for a new adventure. Please contact Marlene Morrison with any questions. 919-489-8237.

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Dates to Remember Prayer Requests

For restoration of body and spirit:

and also for friends and family members of St.

Stephen’s parishioners:

Allison, daughter of Cis

Alton, fr iend of Alice and Jeanne

Anna and family, niece of Kathy

Betsy, step-daughter of Scott

Dutch, sister -in-law of Cis

Edwin, brother of Clyde

Fagan-Solis family, relatives of Kate

Iris, mother of Jeanna

Jane, niece of Scott

Jim, fr iend of Sue & Bob

Jon, grandson of Scott

Kathleen, fr iend of Pr iscilla & Derek

Leslie, great-niece of Derek

Marc, son of Lucy

Meghan, niece/goddaughter of Nancy

Nicholas, fr iend of Sue

Owen, step-brother of Tom

Pieter, fr iend of Wendy

Ray, son-in-law of Mary Ann

Ruth, fr iend of Ginger and Sally

Walt, father of Julie

Worrell & Gwendoline, parents of Wendy

In the diocesan cycle of prayer:

Week of August 5: St. Andrew’s, Rocky Mount; St. Mark’s, Roxboro

Week of August 12: St. Luke’s, St. Matthew’s/San Mateo, and St. Paul’s, all in Salisbury

Week of August 19: St. Thomas’, Sanford; Trinity Church, Scotland Neck; St. Mary Magdalene, Seven Lakes

Week of August 26: St. Paul’s, Smithfield; San Jose Mission, Smithfield

Wanda Henderson 8/1 Ian Shearer 8/2 Sumner Virkler 8/2 Mary Galvez 8/3 Bobbie Nielsen 8/7 Jacob Maynor 8/7 Elaine James 8/8 Mari Shinohara 8/8 Jim Bailey 8/9 Mary Lewis Haywood 8/9 Dr. Mayrant Simons, Jr. 8/10 Jason Kendall 8/10 Collier Keedy 8/13 Jack Markham 8/14 Janie Ziegler-Anderson 8/14 Page Wilson 8/16 Dr. Sam Yancey 8/17 Jennifer Brewer 8/17 Dr. Frank Ramos 8/18 Carolyn Borden 8/18 Justin Grau 8/18 Marian Tyson 8/20 Kathy McKee 8/22 Stephanie Metzen 8/22 Jimbo Huckabee, IV 8/23 Bruce Allen 8/23 Margaret Vermillion 8/24 Blair Corney 8/24 Jane McPherson 8/25 Milton Barber, III 8/26 Dorothy Kitchen 8/27 John Bugg 8/27 Anne Zollicoffer 8/27 Ellie Galvez 8/27 Louise Pannill 8/28 AJ Dean 8/31 Ella Virkler 8/31

Ginger & Bill King 8/5 Beverly & The Rev. Dr. Ray Howe 8/13 Linda & Chuck Cushman 8/13 Spot & Joe Vicars 8/15 Suzy & Dr. John Goree 8/16 Sarah & Daniel Hudspeth 8/16 Leigh & Tim Ballou 8/20 Margaret & Dr. Jim Rouse 8/24 Susan & Ted Griffin 8/25

Araba

Benji

Bob

Carol

Cerue

Charles

Cis

Doc

Dottie

Harry

Howard

Jess

JoeAnne

John

June

Louise

Lyn

Milton

Orlando

Pamela

Ron

Susan

Sylvia

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Ministers The Eleventh Sunday

After Pentecost August 5

The Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost

August 12

The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost

August 19

The Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

August 26

8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I 8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: Rite I

Celebrant Stephen Elkins-Williams Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor

Preacher Stephen Elkins-Williams Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor

Eucharistic Minister

Claire Doerschuk Nancy Ciaffone Claire Doerschuk Nancy Ciaffone

Reader Bobbie Nielsen Mark Kay Gobris Nancy Ciaffone Sally Markham

Intercessor Jack Graham Matt Breuer Bill McPherson Claire Doerschuk

Usher(s) J. Page Wilson Louise Pannill Nancy Yount

Debbie & Matt Breuer Linda & Chuck

Cushman

10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II

Celebrant/Officiant

Stephen Elkins-Williams Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor

Preacher Stephen Elkins-Williams Stephen Elkins-Williams Robert K. Kaynor Robert K. Kaynor

Assisting Priest

— Martha Brimm — —

Deacon Justin Groth — Justin Groth Justin Groth

Subdeacon (Server)

Kate Fagan-Solis Lizzie Almasy Jeremy Godwin Lizzie Almasy

Eucharistic Ministers

Sue Kaynor Norm Woods

Sue Kaynor Norm Woods

Pat Serafin Priscilla Shows

Pat Serafin Sue Kaynor

Acolytes TBD Cameron Hayward Elizabeth Hayward

Elizabeth Hayward Will Culp

Anna Preston Cameron Hayward Elizabeth Hayward

Will Culp

Lector (1st Lesson)

John Haywood Kathy McKee Lucy Petruccelli Kit Bick

Lector (Psalm)

Bob Stevens Michele Hayward Johnya Sasso Frank Goodwin

Lector (Epistle)

TBD Cameron Hayward Elizabeth Hayward Anna Preston

Intercessor Lori Hawkins Jack Watson Michele Hayward Priscilla Shows

Ushers Gary Bressler

Sally Hunsucker Ian Shearer

TBD Kate Fagan-Solis

TBD Sumner, Henry & Drayton Virkler

Altar Guild Cindi Easterling Mari Shinohara

Cindi Easterling Mari Shinohara

Carla Bullock Nancy Ciaffone

Carla Bullock Nancy Ciaffone

Greeter(s) Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods Martina Gardner-Woods

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Outreach

Non-Profit Organization US Postage

PAID Durham, NC 27705

Permit No. 59

Return Service Requested

St. Stephen's is a parish within the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion.

www.dionc.org

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman Bishop Diocesan

The Rt. Rev. Anne Hodge-Copple Bishop Suffragen

St. Stephen’s Staff

The Rev. Robert K. Kaynor

Rector bob.kaynor@ssecdurham.org

The Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams

Priest-in-Residence stephenj.ew@gmail.com

The Rev. Dr. Derek Shows

Priest Associate

The Rev. Justin Groth, Dcn Curate

justin.groth@ssecdurham.org

Dr. Joseph Kitchen Music Director and Organist

jwkitchen@earthlink.net

Dr. Daniel Monek Choir Director

dgmonek@ncsu.edu

Jihyun Park Children’s Music Director

ms.kimj@gmail.com

Jeremy Godwin Director of Christian Education jeremy.godwin@ssecdurham.org

Stephanie Metzen

Youth Director stephanie.metzen@ssecdurham.org

Burke Raper

Business Manager burke.raper@ssecdurham.org

Susan Steel

Membership & Stewardship Coordinator susan.steel@ssecdurham.org

Tamiko Sanders

Preschool Director tamiko.sanders@ssecdurham.org

Catherine Oakley

Parish Administrator catherine.oakley@ssecdurham.org

Angelica Jackson Parish Secretary

office@ssecdurham.org

Kevin Kelly Sexton

kevin.kelly@ssecdurham.org

Clyde Stephens Parish Life and Staff Assistant

The 59th

Vestry and Officers of St. Stephen’s

Kate Fagan-Solis, Senior Warden Michael Brewer, Junior Warden Jim Stewart, Treasurer

Bob Bullock, Assistant Treasurer Lizzie Almasy, Clerk Ellen Baer Dick Boyd

Matt Breuer Sally Bugg Wendy John Ben Maynor Drayton Virkler Norm Woods

Hi guys. We served about 130 people on Saturday June 30 at Urban Ministries Community Cafe. Our volunteers who prepared and served lunch were Kara & Stella Watson, Kim our new member, and Stephanie Metzen’s mom Hedwig and me. A big thank you for taking the time on your Saturday to come downtown and serve with a smile! Our next Saturday lunch is Sept 30. We would love to see some new faces and youth are always welcome. Please let me know if you are interested in this very important ministry. Blessings,

Matt & Debbie Breuer

The Little Free Library at St. Stephen’s Episco-pal Church opened in mid July as par t of an ef-fort by the Hope Valley Neighborhood Association to promote free neighborhood book exchanges. St. Stephen’s embraces the LFL mission to encourage reading, spark creativity, and build community. Pa-rishioners and neighbors are invited to find a wel-coming place for finding, reading, and sharing books in the shade of the Sugar Maple tree at the end of the church parking lot.