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EPISCOCHAT a Newsletter for
Women in the Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida
Volume III
Issue 3
July, 2015
ECW President Winsome Stern
Dear Sisters in Christ, How time flies, summer is already here and many of you are busy planning activities for a well-deserved vacation. It has been two months since our informative and enjoyable 45
th Annual Meeting at the Cathedral Church
of St. Luke, on April 18, 2015. The day started at 8:30am.with registration, fellowship and continental breakfast for 83 registrants representing 18 churches in all five deaneries in our diocese. They car-pooled or came by van, what a wonderful response especially as the meeting had been postponed from October 2014. I look forward to even greater numbers for our next meeting scheduled for November 7, 2015. The meeting was called to order by President LaVerne Collins at 9:00am and our Chaplin, The Rev. Amanda J. Bordenkircher opened with the Invocation and the ECW prayer. Then followed the presentation of Board nominees, voting and approval of new officers and va-cant deanery director positions (see-2014-2015 Board listed separately). The meeting continued with the presentation/approval of the minutes and treasure’s report as well as approval of the Revised By-laws which can be viewed on our website. We were blessed to have The Rt. Rev. Bishop Gregory O. Brewer as the celebrant at Holy Eucharist. Bishop Brewer gave an inspiring sermon, installed the new officers for 2014-
2015 and blessed the ECW Book of Remem-brance of our deceased sisters. Following the service Bishop Brewer provided us with an opportunity for Q & A’s, for which there was much participation. Our guest speaker was The Rev Amanda Bordenkircher, Vicar of Corpus Christi, Okahumpka. Mother Amanda spoke eloquently and energetically on our theme - “Fruits of the Spirit”, stirring-up our spirits to a new understanding and application in today’s world. Not only were ours spirit and souls refreshed but our physical being was satisfied by a delicious meal catered by “Anointed Catering”
In response to the request for nominees for the diocesan “Distinguished Woman” award, we had three excellent candidates: Louise Adams - St. Mary’s, Belleview; Mary Daniels –The Church of the Advent, Dunnellon; and Mickie Solari - Holy Apostles, Satellite Beach. All three ladies were honored but the ultimate prize went to Mickie, who will represent the Diocese of Central Florida at the 48
th Triennial
Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah (June 24- Jul 2) as one of three delegates attending. This should be an exciting time as the General Convention (meeting concurrently) will be electing our next Presiding Bishop. We can be proud, that two of the four candidates nomi-nated are from Province IV. Continued on page 4.
Contents
UTO 2
Parish News 3,4
Province IV ECW Officers 5
Gallery 6
Chaplain’s
Corner &
CPC 7
DOK 8
Gallery 9
Who We Are 10
ECWBoard 11
United Thank Offering UTO 2
The United Thank Offering of The Episcopal Church awarded 55 grants for a total of $1,558,006.85 for the
mission and ministry of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The announcement was
made during the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church, meeting June 25- July 3 in Salt Lake
City, UT.
The United Thank Offering is a ministry to promote thankfulness and mission in the whole Church. Known
worldwide as UTO, the United Thank Offering grants are awarded for projects that address human needs
and help alleviate poverty, both domestically and internationally in The Episcopal Church.
The 2015 grants were awarded to projects in46 dioceses, which included 34 dioceses located in the
United States, five non-domestic dioceses, five companion dioceses, and two grants to the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary Society: one each for missionaries serving internationally and Young Adult Service
Corps (YASC).
The Diocese of Central Florida – was awarded a grant of $46,464.00 for the Itolwa Water Well Project,
Companion Diocese of Kondoa, Itolwa, Tanzania. The proposal was submitted by St. Richard’s Episcopal
Church, Winter Park in partnership with the Diocese of Kondoa, Tanzania. The purpose is to bore and build
wells at two Anglican Church sites in Itolwa. The wells would benefit the entire village, a significant portion
of which is Muslim. In addition, the wells would make it easier, more efficient, and safer for women who are
the major water bearers - freeing them to grow crops and tend to other responsibilities.
UTO Award for the Diocese of Central Florida at Triennial Conference
United Thank Offering Awards $1.5 Million in Grants
Triennial Delegates with Bishop Brewer
Episcochat News
St. Augustine of Canterbury
No "Summer Siesta" for St. Augustine's Episcopal Church Women! Please join us for our "Let's Do Lunch" series... July 18th at The Eagle's Nest & on August 15th at C.J. Cannon's. All luncheons start at 12 noon and there will be carpooling from the Church. Please sign up on the sheet in the Narthex for each of these events or call Billie at 772-466-9105. These gatherings keep us connected for the summer and also offer an opportunity to invite our friends and neighbors to join us for some casual fun and fellowship. A great way to recruit! Our monthly meetings will be back in our parish hall start-ing with a special start to the new season on Saturday, September 19
th at noon. We will begin with a Holy
Eucharist service followed by lunch and a tribute to the ECW leaders and friends. Save the date. Invite your friends! We will be sponsoring "An Autumn Bazaar" on Satur-day, October 17th from 9 AM - 1 PM. This event is open to everyone. Now is the time to reserve your table(s) and start your handiwork if you are one of our creative participants! Call me at 772-579-0315 with questions. This is not a Flea Market or Rummage Sale. Watch the weekly bulletin and the Canterbury Tales for details on more exciting plans for the future! Wishing you a blessed and fun filled summer! Carol Paris, ECW President 772-579-0315/[email protected]
The new Northeast Deanery Director, is Riek Fitzpatrick. She is a member of St. Jude's Episcopal Church in Orange City., where she also serves as the Treasurer of St. Jude’s ECW.
With the help of Joan Gardner, who was the previous Director, we will to host the NE Deanery meeting at St. Jude in Orange City. A date will be set for it in the near future.
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Confirmation Sunday - May 10, 2015What a wonder-ful day to be at St. Mary’s! Bishop Greg Brewer was on hand as Maggie &; Ethan Simon, Rochelle Rod-ney, Kristiana Gomez, Seth Griffin, and Kenadi Moody were confirmed. Keelin Morris and Rebecca Bennett were baptized and Dan Bennett reaffirmed his faith. Carol Lewis and Leo Bedarian were re-ceived as members of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Welcome Home to Christ’s Healing Love The Spaghetti Dinner & Bake Sale was a wonderful night. The event was hosted by the youth of the church as a fundraiser to go to Camp Wingmann. We would like to give everyone who came out to sup-port us and those who helped make the dinner a suc-cess a great big thank you!
New Northeast Deanery Director
St. Mary’s in Belleview, FL
Episcochat News
President Winsome Stern continued...
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The Annual ECW Province IV Conference, held at the Kanuga Conference Center, Hendersonville, N.C. June 1-3, 2015 . Province IV is comprised of nine southeast States with twenty dioceses. Five Board members (four delegates) were privileged to attend. The program was educational informative, spiritual and enjoyable with a variety of Workshops, namely “Diocesan Presidents “,”Church Periodic Club (CPC) “, “United Thank Offering( UTO)”, “ Christianity of Yoga”, “Spiritual Healing” and ”Spiritual Direction is a Good Thing”. There were opportunities to meet our sisters within the Province as well as those from other dioceses in Florida. The Guest Speaker/ Chaplain was the Rev. Susan Gaumer from the Diocese of Louisiana. She had a unique, prayerful approach on her talk on “Mary of Magdela: Our kind of Apostle” and how scripture speaks to us now. Rev. Susan encourages us to practice the art of meditation and listening in order to allow the Holy Spirit to respond to our prayer requests and guide us. The ability to listen should also be practiced as we interact with each other for better understanding/communication.
The Province IV Representative on the National ECW Board (out –going), Kathy Gosselin gave an up-date on plans for the Triennial Meeting as well as recommendations for communicating with the National Board. The 2015-2018 Province IV Board ( see page 5 ) was installed at the Closing Eucharist service dedicated to the martyrs of Uganda. I take this opportunity to encourage all women’s groups, not only ECW, to share your stories articles and pictures with us, for our newsletter the “Episcochat” so that we can learn from each other. I also invite you to plan to attend our next annual meeting in November
Wishing you all a very enjoyable summer and praying we will return in the fall refreshed and energized to spread the Good News as we answer God’s call to do His will. God’s love & peace, Winsome
ECW President
Diocese of Central Florida
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PROVINCE IV ECW OFFICERS 2015-2018 President: Pat Rutenberg, 3663 Woodland Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919 865-604-5479 [email protected] Diocese of East Tennessee Province IV Representative to National ECW Board: Mary Beth Welch 86 Huckleberry Road, Ellisville, Mississippi 39437 H: 601-763-5200, C:601-433-1112 [email protected] Diocese of Mississippi Province IV UTO Representative: Joyce Landers
618 Lawson Drive Troy, Alabama 36801 334-672-3061 [email protected] Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
Province IV CPC Representative: Suzanne Harrow 2508 Sheraton Drive, Augusta , Georgia 30906 H 706-7933578, C 706-4950773 [email protected] Diocese of Georgia
Secretary-Treasurer: Alsie Churchman 6360 Station Mill Drive, Peachtree Corners, Georgia 30092, H:770-263-6937
C: 770-530-8486 [email protected]
Province IV face book page (like it or post) https://www.facebook.com/prov4ecw c/o Andrea Peacock 256-329-0667 [email protected]
Diocese of Alabama
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September 18, 2015 to
ECW President 2015 Winsome Stern, right ECW President 2014 LaVerne Collins,, left
Bishop Gregory Brewer
Mickie Solari, left Distinguished Woman Central Florida 2015
South-east Deanery Table ECW Annual Meeting
St. Mary’s, Belleview at ECW Annual Meeting
ECW Central Florida Board Of Directors 2015
Episcochat Gallery
Chaplain’s Corner
I want to thank each parish that took on the task of collecting for CPC and every parishioner who do-nated to this worthy cause. We exceeded last years giving! As you all know we help children, mis-sions and seminarians throughout the world. as they spread God's word using resources provided by the Church Periodical Club. I am very appreciative of every person who gave and I am especially appreciative of those of you who took on the responsibility of being your parish coordinator. It could not be done without you, so a great big THANK YOU! Next year will be even better we pray. In His Love, your Diocesan CPC Chairperson, Lois McGlashon
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Church Periodical Club
As well as serving as Vicar to Corpus Christi Okahumpka, I also serve as chaplain for
hospice. Recently I took part in a memorial service. At the end of the service we were handed a small pa-per butterfly, which when I looked closely had flower seeds imbedded in the paper. We were instructed to soak it in water, put it some soil, either indoors in a small pot or outdoors, to continue to water it and wait. In due time the seeds would germinate, and produce beautiful blue forget me not flowers. I have to confess, I thought it was a beautiful idea but when I looked at the seeds and thought back over several of my seed sewing exploits in the past I was not so confident that the promised blue forget me knots would appear. I also have to confess that this touching gift lay buried at the bottom of my bag for a couple of weeks. In all the business of life I forgot I had even been given this gift. By the time I found it I wondered if it was worth all the effort. Would it even grow anything - but somehow the promise of pretty blooms kept nudging me to do the necessary work. It reminds me of our life as Christians. We are soaked in the waters of baptism and then called to commit those seeds that God has deposited within us to the dark soil, trusting that with the watering of the Holy Spirit, in due time they will bloom. May God bless you in all that is entrusted to your hands. Mother Amanda
The Order of the Daughters of the King® News
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Nearly thirty CFL Daughters arrived at Zermatt Resort near Salt Lake City on June 18th and 19th to attend the Triennial. This meeting is a time of worship, learning at workshops and fellowship for Daughters. Daughters from outside the United States came from 16 countries.
The Opening Eucharist was glorious with Jr. DOK Chaplain Deborah Jackson, International Chaplain Rt. Rev. Bill Skilton, Rt. Rev. Scott Hayashi, Bishop of Utah, Bishop Slyvestre Romero, DOK Chaplain concelebrating.
The CFL Daughters were happy to greet Rev. Connie Sanchez and Rev. Maria Cartagena from companion diocese in Honduras. (See photo: back row - Kathy Worcester, Margaret Roberts, Barbara Spencer, Beth Bellner, Kathy McDaniel, Betty Doan, Krisita A. Jackson. Front Row: Canon Nelson Pinder, Miriam Weston, Rev. Connie Sanchez and Rev. Maria Cartagena
During the Province IV dinner on June 19th, Agnes Wichmann was installed as Corresponding Secretary. Picture l to r - Anges Wichmann, President Susan Towson and Chaplain Bill Skilton.
Mother and Daughter Mary and Kate Gillette standing in front of the Zermatt Resort.
Gallery Annual Meeting
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Episcochat 10
Who We Are
We are Episcopal Church Women of all ages, ethnic origins and socioeconomic backgrounds who hold a variety of views. However, the common denominator of our members is love of God and the wish to do His work.
Mission &Vision
Mission – Centered in congregations, the Episcopal Church
Women (ECW) empowers women to do Christ’s ministry in
the world.
Vision – Our vision for all women of the Episcopal Church is
that we become a vibrant blend of all ages, coming together as a peacemaking, healing part of the Church. We aspire to be a Godspark-shining and sharing the love of Christ.
Find us on the Web: http://
www.ecwcentralfl.org/ and
Facebook: ECW Diocese Central
Episcopal Church Women’s Prayer
Almighty God, we pray that You will bless our work in mission and ministry in the world. Help us to pray fervently, labor diligently and give liberally to make known the power of your love given through your Son Jesus Christ. Let us not forget the lessons from the past nor fear the challenges of the future. Anoint us with your grace and shine in our hearts as we reflect your light throughout the world. Amen.
Vice President Mildred Bowman
The new Vice President of the Central Florida ECW is Mildred Bowman. She has had a long and diverse calling as an Episcopal woman. Born and raised in New Berlin, NY, she became a choir member and a Sunday School teacher. For several years she was a Diocesan and District ECW member in Central NY. Midge has been a Nominating Chairperson in Provence 11 and a UTO Coordinator. This busy lady had been a Delegate to the Central NY Triennial, and an Anglican Encounter Delegate in Honduras and Brazil .She has been a Central Florida Triennial Delegate and in the past has served as both Central Florida ECW President and as Vice President. Midge is currently a member of Cathedral Contemplative Prayer Group and Concert Committee. Where does this busy lady find the time? We are so pleased and honored that she has agreed to serve as Vice President once again.
Episcopal Church Women
Diocese of Central Florida
Board of Directors 2014-2015
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OFFICERS
President
Winsome Stern
2880 SW 162nd Lane
Ocala, FL 34473
352-347-3457
352-454-9090 (mobile)
St. Mary's, Belleview
Vice President
Mildred Bowman
300 E Church Street #1518
Orlando, FL 32801
407-515-8114
407-902-1454 (mobile)
Cathedral Church of St. Luke
Secretary
Brenda Perry
1329 Laurel Drive
Daytona Beach, FL 32117
386-253-9272
386-681-8040 (mobile)
St Timothy’s, Daytona Beach
Treasurer
Gertrude McLeod
Mailing Address:
Holy Faith Episcopal Church
6990 US Hwy 1
Port St. Lucie, FL 34952
Home address:
377 N.E Floresta Drive,
Port St. Lucie FL 34983
772-336-0871
Holy Faith, Port St. Lucie
United Thank Offering Coordinator
Jackie Stewart
609 Roma Street
Daytona Beach, Fla 32114
386-253-3503
St Timothy’s, Daytona Beach
Asst. UTO Coordinator Carol Paris
6756 Mar Pacifico Court
Fort Pierce, FL 34951
772-409-4538
772-579-0315 (mobile)
St Augustine of Canterbury,
Vero Beach
Church Periodical Club Coordinator
Lois McGlashon
P.O. Box 3033
Haines City, Fl. 33845
863-421-2235
St. Mark's, Haines City
Central Deanery Director
Jacqueline Bailey
152 Lago Vista Blvd.
Casselberry, FL 32707
407-339-7881
407-222-3878 (mobile)
[email protected] Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist,
Orlando
Northeast Deanery Director
Riek Fitzpatrick
1012 Collins Ave.
Orange City, Fl 32763
386-951-4129
St. Jude’s, Orange City
Northwest DeaneryDirector
Elizabeth Herrick
8556 SW 61 Ct,
Ocala, FL 34476
352-291-4878
362-299-6278 (mobile)
Advent, Dunnellon
Southeast Deanery Director
Valerie Lewis Coles
133 Cambridge Ct.
Indialantic, FL 32903
321-676-7887 (home)
321-258-0876 (cell)
St Sebastian’s by the sea,
Melbourne Beach
Southwest Deanery Director’
Helen Laughton
2692 Abell Road
Lake Placid, FL 33852
954-224-5283
St. Francis of Assisi,
Lake Placid
Ex-Officio Members ...3
1LaVerne Collins Past-Pres.
1013 Nash Loop
The Villages, FL 32162
352-391-5840
352-603-9900 (mobile)
St. George The Villages
2Diocesan DOK President
Krisita Jackson
5457 Gambier Court
Orlando, FL 32839
407-888-2198
407-484-4491(mobile)
Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist,
Orlando
3Altar Guild Direct. TBA
Parliamentarian
Betty Palmer
1615 Avery Road NE
Palm Bay FL 32905
407-923-4597
Church of Our Savior,
Palm Bay
Chaplain
The Rev Amanda J. Bordenkircher
352-787-8430
Corpus Christi, Okahumpka
amandajbordenkircher
@gmail.com
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