Celebrating Earth Day · Iglesia Pentecostal Poder de Dios The Rev. Angelo Crespo 224 -440 2356 Celebrating Earth Day: On April 22nd, Earth Day, we held our annual Spring Grounds

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May 2017

Celebrating Earth Day

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Christ Episcopal Church

410 Grand Avenue

Waukegan, Illinois 60085

Church Phone (847) 662-7081

Church Fax (847) 662-7173

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.christchurchwaukegan.org

Office hours: M-Th 10:00 AM—3:00 PM

And by appointment

Rector’s day off—Friday (office closed on Fridays)

Christ Church Leadership

Rector The Rev. Eileen M Shanley-Roberts

[email protected] 847-894-7986

The Rev. Jose Arroyo, Vicar Sagrada Familia/Holy Family

Assisting with Spanish language ministries


Parish Administrator Fran Colboth 847-662-7081

[email protected]

Senior Warden Al Nelson [email protected] 847-746-8510

Junior Warden John Moore


Co-Treasurers Debbie Williams


Cindy Tippet


Clerk of the Vestry Mark Agin


Vestry Members Sandy Dalgaard


William Dierks


LaVera Davis


Sue Grisham


Mary Neely


Matt Nordigian


Quentin Schwarz


Bill Weber


Ministry Partners:

ElderCARE

Jackie Lynn, Executive Director


Waukegan to College

Elyse Danckers, Executive Director


Laura Rios, Program Director


Clean Power Lake County

Celeste Flores , Organizer

502-395-8683

Julio Guzman, Organizer


Undercroft Gallery

Ali Albakri, Curator


Lake County United

Amy Lawless Ayala, Lead Organizer


Iglesia Pentecostal Poder de Dios

The Rev. Angelo Crespo 224-440-2356

Celebrating Earth Day: On April 22nd, Earth Day, we held our annual Spring Grounds Clean-up. About 22

people participated. Our usual crew of Al Nelson, Quentin Schwarz, Charlie Schaller, Sue Grisham, Mary Neely, John Moore, Mark and Sandy Dalgaard, and Mark and Zachary Andersen were joined by parish member Joel Dahl, who cleaned the teak benches, Michelle Andersen’s dad, Cal, who helped Mark with tree maintenance, and a group of students from Lake Forest Country Day School, which included Grayson and Cole Salata and their mom, Jodi, Aiden and Brendan Murphy and their mom, Susan, Gino Farrell, and Gardner Brown. Not pictured, but making the beautiful day even more rewarding were Sammie McMinn and her friend, Teri Backus, who provided the workers with a delicious lunch. Apologies to anyone I may have missed, and special thanks to Sammie and Mary for the photo documentation. Much was accomplished. Much remains to be done, but that’s the way of yard work, it never ends. I hope you will take a few moments to admire the work done and thank those who spent a beautiful Saturday morning at church.

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CHRIST CHURCH VESTRY MINUTES:

04/11/17

Attendees: Eileen Shanley-Roberts, Rector; Al Nelson, Sr. Warden; John Moore, Jr. Warden; Mark Agin, Clerk of the Vestry; Sandy Dalgaard; Bill Dierks; Sue Grisham; Mary Neely; Matt Nordigian; and Reyna Montes de Oca. Eileen+ opened the meeting with prayer after which she introduced, and the Vestry heartily welcomed, our new-est member, Reyna Montes de Oca, a parishioner repre-senting our new Sunday 5 p.m. Missa en Espanol ser-vice. The March Vestry Meeting Minutes were then unani-mously approved. Rector’s Report:

Pastoral Updates: Fran’s recovery is going well and she hopes to be back within the next couple of weeks. Bill Dowden, Ed Huesing, and Jere Lapish are rehab-bing at Manor Care, home, and Rolling Hills respective-ly. And Dorothy and Malcolm Layson hope to join us for the noon Good Friday Stations of the Cross and Lit-urgy service. Eileen+ asked for us to keep all of them in our prayers. As Eileen+ reported last week, Dick Boom-er passed away. His cremains will be interred in the Chapel Altar July 1 next to Lura’s. Holy Week Schedule:

Simple agape meal at 6 p.m. on Maundy Thurs-day followed by a bilingual service with foot washing, stripping of the altar, and the all-night Vigil in the Chapel.

Good Friday services begin with Morning Prayer at 7 a.m. (Chapel), noon Stations of the Cross and Liturgy for Good Friday (Chapel), and a bilingual Liturgy of Good Friday service in the Church at 7:00 p.m.

Easter Vigil on Saturday at 7:30 beginning with the lighting of the new fire.

- Easter Sunday services are at 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

The Easter letter is in process. And we have a brand new stove in the kitchen thanks to Community Meal grants and donations! All the Commu-nity Meal teams and everyone else who uses our kitchen are happy campers! Buildings, Grounds, and Property Updates: John Moore reported to us on the status of roofing, elevator, our rental properties, and the upcoming grounds cleanup.

Although we have received bids from contractors for replacing the Parish House roof ($64K, $78K, and $88K), the Vestry in March voted to contract with Eco Shield for both the Parish House and Church roofs pending Matt’s reference check. Matt reported that he did get glowing reviews from the church that contracted with Eco Shield to work with their insurance company and to use their crew to perform the work. Based on his report, and a favorable one from the Davis’ who con-tracted with Eco Shield for work on their home, we will proceed with contracting with the firm per our March vote.

We have received independent contractor bids for installing an elevator, two of which included architectur-al plans, one didn’t, and another bid is pending. Realisti-cally we are looking at somewhere between $600-700K after all is said and done. In the meantime we are still working with Legat to finalize a design that will be pre-sented to the Vestry for review, discussion, and a deci-sion on whether or not to proceed. If we decide to pro-ceed then there will be an all Parish presentation by Legat. A meeting with the Waukegan Historical Preser-vation committee would follow should the parish vote at that time to proceed with the project.

Painting and floor cleaning at 319 West is targeted to be completed this week. It was decided to use ReMax to rent the home for a month’s rent ($1250) that includes screening of renters. Subsequently we’ll assume manage-ment of the property instead of using the services of the firm that handles 323 West rentals. A new water heater was installed in 323 and Robinson Heating is working to schedule the installation of the new A/C units there within the next month. The Winston rental on Hickory had water leakage in their basement as a result of our recent heavy rains. John is going to review the grading on the north size of the lot. He feels it may need to be lowered to prevent any future recurrence. Grounds cleanup, scheduled for Sat, 4/22, was an-nounced at all three services this past Sunday. Eileen+ also plans to share our plans with Waukegan 2 College and our Pentecostal congregation hoping for their par-ticipation again this year. Financials: Eileen+ reported that Debbie is working to-ward finalizing and closing out our 2016 financials with-in the next week or so and shortly thereafter bringing our 2017’s up-to-date. Al announced that he has re-ceived additional pledges bringing our total to ~$175K. Communication: Mary reported that from 3/17-4/7 our Facebook site had 128 visits and 213 engagements. Overall there have been 1967 visits YTD.

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101 Reasons to be Episcopalian #55 Another reason to be Episcopalian is that the altar is

not fenced. In my days as a Presbyterian “seeker” I fre-

quently attended both Roman Catholic and Episcopal litur-

gies: at the former I was explicitly refused communion; at

the latter I was welcome to receive. As Woody Allen didn’t

quite say, I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that wouldn’t

take me as a non-member.

Deborah Smith Douglas,, Diocese of The Rio Grande

Welcome New Vestry Member

Welcome to our newest vestry member, Reyna Montes de Oca. Reyna is a native of Mexico who has lived in Waukegan for over 25 years. In Mexico, she was an elementary teacher, but in the US she

works in home health care, mainly at Lake Forest Place. Reyna speaks Spanish and English fluently and worships at our 5:00PM service. She has 2 children, a daughter who is a recent college graduate, and a son in 9th grade who is part of the Schuller Scholars program. Reyna has been involved in Waukegan to College since its beginning. Reyna began worshipping at Nuestra Senora de Guada-lupe when her daughter was preparing for first commun-ion. As a result of that formation, she was received into the Episcopal Church, which she feels is a much better fit for her. She is passionate about formation and helping people gain a deeper understanding of their faith. If you see Reyna around, be sure to say hello.

Various Updates Fran returns to work on May 2. She may have a reduced schedule for a couple of weeks. We will see how it goes. Thanks to Mary Neely for filling in while Fran recovered.

319 West Street has been rented! First, the thank yous—John Moore really embraced this project. Thanks to his project management and team of volunteers (Pam Moore, Don Craig, Abigail Shanley-Roberts, Andrea), we were able to get the house ready for under $5000.00. The new tenants will take occupancy June 1. They are Casey and Sarah Bushman and their daughters Hattie and Grace. Ca-sey is a youth pastor for the Chinese Christian Fellowship in Wilmette. Sarah is a stay at home mom and community volunteer. We are very excited to welcome them to Waukegan. Graduations: Jacob Andersen graduates from Warren H.S. on May 21. Maddy Beach graduates from Tremper H.S. on June 3rd. Abbe Shanley-Roberts graduates from 8th grade June 8th. Athletic Accomplishments: William Grenier competed in the USBC single handed bowling tournament. Reid Pumala and team were NSYHockey League champi-ons. Ben McLaughlin took 7th at the IKWF state wrestling tournament. Jacob Andersen was recognized for his tennis victory over Lake Zurich. Emily Shanley-Roberts has qualified for nationals in Team Racing and Women’s Intercollegiate Sailing.

Building Community: A lot of discussion ensued about what we could do to get our parishioners to attend church on a day other than Sunday. We agreed that while we do a lot to build community from without that we haven’t done much to do so within, spiritually or socially. Suggestions for further consideration included an ice cream social on Father’s Day, June 18, an all parish cookout, dinner cou-pled with Bible study or possibly watching and discussing CNN’s “Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, and Forgery” which was highly recommended by Bill Dierks. Eileen+ asked that we engage other parishioners for additional sugges-tions of intergenerational spiritual or social activities that would help bring us closer together as a parish family. There being no further business, the meeting was ad-journed. Respectfully submitted, Mark C. Agin

Coming Events

May 7th—ElderCARE presents “Who Cared for You: A

Celebration of Seniors.” More information on the back.

May 21—The 5:00 PM service is planning an ecumenical

social gathering following the service. Details will be shared

as they are available.

June 4—Pentecost.

We will be starting classes for First Communion, Confir-

mation, and Reception in the Episcopal Church this

month. All classes will be in English. We also have young

ladies preparing for their Quinceaneras. If you are interest-

ed in participating in any of these classes or know someone

who is, contact Eileen+ for dates and times.

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May Celebrations Birthdays 5/2 James Conzelman

5/2 Edith Strazer

5/3 Judy Bjoring

5/5 Zachary Andersen

5/5 Robert Dixon

5/5 Joshua McCaffrey

5/6 Ashley Snyder

5/7 Nancy Ashley

5/7 Shirley Barker

5/8 Janelle Athans

5/8 Julia Athans

5/8 Madeline Burkert

5/8 Brianna King

5/10 Nicholas Tippet

5/11 Jayden Johnson

5/11 Jan Nelson

5/11 Jason Niemi

5/14 Elizabeth Pumala

5/15 Todd King

5/19 Norma Goldman

5/19 Alicia Nordigian

5/20 Judith Tabachnik

5/22 Sheri Thomsen

5/23 Carol Niemi

5/24 Carly Schaefer

5/27 Kaitlyn Dalgaard

5/28 Thuli G Gomez

5/28 Karen Salmi

5/31 Jakob Dalgaard

Baptisms 5/4 Dominic Vasquez

5/13 Joshua Winans

5/15 Tina Elloian

5/18 Nicholas Bennett

5/18 Ryan LaForge

5/18 Susan McBride

5/19 Hudson Foreman

5/19 Myka Wydra

5/23 Edward Jallah Jr

5/28 William Grenier

5/28 Kim Nichols

5/30 Alexandra Nordigian

Weddings 5/17 John & LaVera Davis Jr

5/26 Michael & Hendris Grenier

5/31 William & Charlene Weber

Looking Ahead to Crop Walk THANK YOU for being part of CROP Hunger Walk 2016. The money has been turned in and the results tabulated. Please share the enclosed information with the people who helped and thank them for their support. 2016 RESULTS: Our 2016 total amount is $36,765, which places our CROP Walk at 37th in the nation. We had 125 walkers from congregations and other organizations regis-tered on Walk Day. $9.191.25 will be returned to us for dis-tribution to the following Lake County Organizations: Calvary Community Care, Christ Episcopal Church Community Meal, COOL Food Pantry & Transitional Housing, First Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church Soup Kitchen, First United Meth-odist Church Free Meal, Holy Family Soup Kitchen, Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Food Pantry, PADS Lake County, Inc., and Shi-loh Baptist Church Soup Kitchen & Food Pantry. 2017 PLANS: CROP Hunger Walk 2017 will be held on Sunday, October 15, 2016. This year, the walk will be returning to St. Anasta-sia's. We are planning to do the Photo station again this year, so plan on stopping to take a photo with your team before starting the walk. Also, watch for information about a Walk on the Web workshop over the summer to help you learn more about using the CROP Hunger Walk website and raising funds online.

Faith and Film

The Brand New

Testament

God is not happy. His son has left home, his wife bus-ies herself doing embroidery, while his young daughter Ea's only desire is to escape the confines of their small Brussels apartment. Every day, God amuses himself by creating misanthropic rules to plague humanity. Turns out, God is a capricious jerk. Ea finds a way to escape and sets out to find her own apostles and write a new book of the Bible. Ea's gospels are deliciously eccentric, and the varied stories of the new apostles are both charming and amusing, all whilst offering a heavy dose of morality. 2015 Norwegian International Film Festival, winner: Most Enjoyable Film; 2016 Palm Springs Inter-national Film Festival, winner: Best Narrative Feature.

French and German languages. 113 min.

May location TBD Gathering time with finger foods

from 6:00 to 6:30 PM. Film begins at 6:30 All Wel-

come. Please call the office for details on hosting 847-

662-7081.

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Prayer List for May

In Our Prayers:: Gloria & Harrison Addison, Alexandra, Brenda Alexander, Benjamin Morse Archer, Bill & Nancy Ashley, Bernard & Shirley Barker, Vel Brewer, Family of Richard Boomer, Cindy Brown, Kathy Brown, Gwen Burn-side, Aimee Chamernik, Emily Cliff and Cliff and Kim Families, Fran Colboth, Annette Cosentino, Brian Crawford, Joel Dahl, John Davis, Kim Davis & Family, Daywalt Family, Henriette DelPierre, Daniel Detwiler, William & Jane Dowden, Kathy Errich, Ian & Evan Dustan, Elaine, Paul Elloian, Family of Ron Thomsen, Kevin Timmons, Shirley Figeas, Frank, Mike Fritz, Gail, Georgina, Jerry Gibbs, Chris Gibbs, Jean Gray, Ben & Linda Hale, Ethan Haufe, Claudia Hembd, Sharon Hessling, Ed Huesing, Jessica Hudrick, Connie & Matt Hughes, Mike Hussey, Jack, Jennifer, Johnny, Dorothy & Sarah Kaufman, Debbie King, Kris, Jere Lapish, Malcolm & Dorothy Layson, Al Lewis, Todd Linna, Shirley Lord, Diane Macier, Mark, Mic & Tina Mathews, Sean McBride, Sue McBride, The McCaffrey Family, Jay McClasky, Don & Jodi Moon, Emmett Moulton Jr, Jan Nelson, Alberta Opal, Susan Paulson, Chase Petersen, A. J. Peterson, Joe Pfetzer, Louise Powell, John Powell, Julie Robson, Bill Sanscrainte, Kathryn Scarlett, Donna Schelfaut, Don Stressler, Jeff Swanson, Polly Sykes, Cindy Tippet, Gretchen Wagner, Evelyn Washington, Trey White, and Anne Wills.

If you’re admitted to the hospital, please notify the church office so that your church family may pray for you.

It will also assure a visit by our clergy or someone from the church.

Lessons for Sundays in April

Proper First Lesson Psalm Second Lesson Gospel

Easter 4 Acts 2:42-47 23 1Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Easter 5 Acts 7:55-60 31:1-5,15-16 1Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 Easter 6 Acts 17:22-31 66:7-18 1Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 Easter 7 Acts 1:6-14 68:1-10,33-36 1Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11 John 17:1-11

May 21 Crucifer Casey Schaefer 2nd server Carly Schaefer

Torches Cami Schaefer and Bradley Brown Chalice Bearer Bill Ashley

Lectors Bill Ashley, Andrew Gomez LEV Bill Weber seeing Louise Powell

Larry Sedar seeing Ed Huesing Ushers: Jerry Gibbs, Larry Sedar

Greeters: Bill and Kim Dierks Prayer Partner Jerry Gibbs

Coffee Hour Bill and Kim Dierks

May 28 Crucifer Jacob Andersen 2nd server Clarice Brown

Torches Melissa and William Brown Chalice Bearer Sue Grisham

Lectors Charlie Schaller & Ross S-R LEV Keith Feathergill to Rolling Hills

Dalgaards seeing Ed Huesing Ushers John Davis and Sue McBride

Greeters: Bill and Nancy Ashely Prayer Partner LaVera Davis

Coffee Hour Abbe S-R

May 7 Crucifer Abby Nordigian 2nd server Ava Nordigian Torches Bryana Gomez and Shane Garrott Colboth Chalice Bearer Mark Agin Lectors Al Nelson Zachary Andersen LEV Jerry Gibbs seeing Barkers and Ed Huesing Mark Agin seeing Bill Dowden Greeters Jill Athans and Jerry Gibbs Ushers Julia and Janelle Athans Prayer Partner Judy Bjoring Coffee Hour Jill Athans May 14 Crucifer Ricky McLaughlin 2nd server Derrick McLaughlin Torches: Ben McLaughlin and William Grenier Chalice Bearer: Mark Agin Lectors Bill Weber, Cindy Tippet LEV Larry Sedar seeing Ed Huesing Al Nelson seeing Opal, Lord, Lapish Greeters: Mark Andersen and John Davis Ushers Amar McLaughlin and Larry Sedar Prayer Partner Cindy Tippet Coffee Hour Mark Andersen

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Christ Episcopal Church

410 Grand Avenue

Waukegan, Illinois 60085

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Celebrating Earth Day · Iglesia Pentecostal Poder de Dios The Rev. Angelo Crespo 224 -440 2356 Celebrating Earth Day: On April 22nd, Earth Day, we held our annual Spring Grounds