Hosanna Haisch was honored yesterday at the Lake County Council for Seniors, Senior Volunteer Recognition Luncheon at Maravella's in Fox Lake. Didn't know if you knew that or not. ElderCARE's volunteer is the tall white haired man, Dick Haas.

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A Nun Grading Papers

> CAN YOU IMAGINE THE NUN SITTING AT HER DESK GRADING THESE PAPERS, ALL THE

WHILE TRYING TO KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE AND MAINTAIN HER COMPOSURE!

> PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE WORDING AND SPELLING. IF YOU KNOW THE BIBLE EVEN

A LITTLE, YOU'LL FIND THIS HILARIOUS! IT COMES FROM A CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

TEST.

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> KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING 25

STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN

RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN.

> 1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE > 2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK.

NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.

> 3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT

>4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENI-TALS

> 5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH

> 6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTIENES WITH THE AXE OR THE APSOTLES

> 7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.>

> 8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TOMOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

> 9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.

> 10. THE SEVENTH THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.

> 11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.

> 12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND

STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.

> 13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE

FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.

> 14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.

> 15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.

> 16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED THEY FOUND JESUS IN

THE MANAGER.

> 17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.

> 18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.

> 19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY

DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.

> 20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE EN-TRANCE

> 21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.

> 22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.

> 23. ONE OF THE OPPODDUMS WAS ST.MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN

OPPOSSUMS WAS ST.

> 24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MAR-RAIGE

> 25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALL MONOTONY

More About Email and Passwords

Last month I was feeling rather proud of my-self. I thought I had finally gotten my Yahoo ac-count all straightened out after it had been hacked in April. My original contact list became irretrievably lost. Mostly that was a non-issue since

I had printed out a hard copy; the only email address I no longer had was for one of my cousins. I guess I will have to call her on the telephone or write her a letter. (What strange, old-fashion ways to communicate :). One of the last things I did was to find out how to reopen my Sent file which had been turned off when I was hacked and discov-ered that my computer was still sending out spam. To all of you who were spammed from my computer, I apologize. I took my contact list down and sent the CPU off to Ron For-cier at The Upgrade Shop so he could test it in my compli-cated ways than I can. It is now as clean as he and I could make.

That brings me to today’s subject; passwords. I am hopelessly old fashioned; while I do shop online (real stores are such a hassle) I make very few other financial transactions online. Companies want me to go paperless. I say, “No, thank you.” I want my bills on paper, delivered to me by the United States Post Office. That way I know I will inspect them in order to detect errors.

Those of us who belong to AARP probably read the arti-cle in the AARP Bulletin about passwords. I kid you not, according to that story the most common password is 12345. Others are more numbers in that sequence, sequen-tial letters of the alphabet starting with the letter “a”, the word “password,” and for some unknowable reason the words “shadow” and “monkey.” If this describes you, for shame. The internet is a dangerous place.

Strong passwords are just your first line of defense when you use your computer. Right now my Yahoo pass-word is 17 character long. I have it, along with other pass-words, written in a very old three ring notebook so I can remember them. Particularly, if you make financial transac-tions on line, each account should have its own unique password stored somewhere safe. In fact, thinking up in-sulting passwords has become something of a game for me. When I think one up I write it down in that same notebook

I have the full Norton antivirus program on my com-puter—it came free with Comcast internet connection. I also run the free version of Super AntiSpyware. Tuesday through Saturday, the first thing I do when I boot up my computer, is run that program. Some days there are over fifty definitions of bad stuff; malware, Trojan horses, key-loggers, etc. installed on my computer to prevent it from being infected.

Please remember to practice safe computing, and if your password is “qwerty” ( another popular one) the least you could do is to start at the other end of the keyboard so that you have “poiuy.” (See top line of letter keys.)

Christ Episcopal Church

410 Grand Avenue Waukegan, Illinois 60085

Church Phone (847) 662-7081 Church Fax (847) 662-7173 E-mail Address: parishoffice410@gmail.com church website www.christchurchwaukegan.org

Staff The Rev. Eileen Shanley-Roberts, Rector Shanleyroberts@gmail.com cell phone: 1-847-894-7986 Mr. Matt Nordigian, Treasurer

matt.nordigian@gmail,com

ElderCARE@Christ Church 1 (847 406 4683) Newsletter Editor: Gretchen Wagner gwagner37@yahoo.com

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

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Senior Warden Greg Thompson 847-336-2514 gregory.thompson46@gmail.com Junior Warden Tina Mathews 847-244-1947 mictina@comcast.net Treasurer Matt Nordigian 847-782-7415 matt.nordigian@gmail.com Mark Andersen 847-360-0595 Mark.A.Andersen@us.ul.com Jill Athans 847-872-1231 timnjill@comcast.net Mark Dalgaard 847-217-4535 MDalgaard@sbcglobal.net Jerry Gibbs 847-336-8876 jerryjgibbs@yahoo.com Andy Gomez 847-872-6724 gomeza@sbths.org Matt La Forge 847-951-3169 fastfeet452@yahoo.com John Moore 847-623-8970 jmoore3854@aol.com Alexandra Nordigian 847-782-7415 laughinglexi93@aol.com Debbie Williams 847-360-9246 debericwill@comcast.net Tim Athans (Youth Rep) 847-872-1231 timmyjr@comcast.net Clerk of Vestry Julie Lundquist 847-249-2914 juliealundquist@yahoo.com

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July Senior Warden Newsletter

I just finished participating in the Radical Welcoming Seminar which was sponsored by the Diocese and hosted by Christ Church in Memorial Hall on Satur-day June 16th. What a wonderful event. Over fifty people showed up from all over the diocese, and the enthusiasm was unbelievably inspirational. I would like to give a special thanks to Debbie Williams, Mark Dalgaard and Tina Mathews for the help they pro-vided in setting up Memorial Hall, serving food, clean-ing up afterwards and resetting the room. This event could not have been so successful without their help. The lead speakers were Stephanie Spellers, Priest & Lead Organizer at The Crossing-Boston and also Edi-tor for Emergent Resources @Church Publishing Inc. and Dent Davidson from St. Paul and the Redeemer in Hyde Park. Stephanie and Dent engaged us from 9:30 to 4 p.m. with a combination of thoughtful discussion, small group interaction, song and prayer that was en-tertaining, inspiring and thought provoking. As indi-cated above, the key theme was something called Radical Welcoming. So, what is a Radical Welcome? The definition is as follows:

“Radical welcome is first and foremost a spiritual

practice. It combines the Christian ministry of wel-

come and hospitality with a faithful commitment to

doing the theological, spiritual and systemic work to

eliminate historic, systemic barriers that deny the

genuine embrace of groups often oppressed and mar-

ginalized in mainline churches (especially young peo-

ple, the poor, poor seniors, varying sexual orienta-

tions, people of color, people with disabilities).”

Although I think some would argue that the members of Christ Church do a pretty good job of the Radical Welcome, I don’t think anyone would disagree that we could do even better. As you practice radical wel-come, you join Jesus in stretching your arms out and embracing “The Other”. You share the gifts of your tradition and culture, even as you allow your heart and your congregation’s life – its ministries, its iden-tity, its worship, its relationships, its leadership – to be transformed by “The Other’s” presence, gifts and power among us. During the seminar, Eileen+ and I agreed that this concept is worth presenting to the congregation for

discussion. Part of the discussion would just be to educate us all on what a Radical Welcome is. One way to do this might be through a series of Adult Forums that would begin in the fall. Over time, however, the hope would be for the congregation to embrace the concept and begin developing innovative ways to im-plement the Radical Welcome. So, look for some Adult Forums on this topic in the fall, and please consider attending. I think it will make for some very interesting discussions. Greg Thompson Senior Warden

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PRAYER LIST FOR JULY 2011

Gloria & Harrison Addison, Anita & Warren, Bill & Nancy Ashley, Joe & Terry Backis, Harvey Biddlecom, Vel Brewer, Mary & Russ Campbell, Aimee Chamernik, Ann Marie & Jay Chamernik, Rev. Jane Clark, Daywalt Family, Daniel Detwiler, Don & Dorothie Dorband, William Dowden, The Dustan Family, Paul Elloian, Dennis Frelich & Family, Gail, Georgina, ethan-Haufe, Tae Holmes, Jack, Jenifer, Bernard Johnson, Jackie Kim, Debbie King, Nancy Keoegstein, Kris, Malcolm & Dorothy Layson, Al Lewis, Todd Linna, Julie Lundquist, Doris Lyon, Diane Macier, Paul & Donna Manahan, Sean McBride, The McCaffery Family, Jay McClasky, Liz Misunas, Jodi Moon, Jan Nelson, Bob and Amy Onan, Karen Paddock, Susan Paulsen, Louise Powell, Connie Reynolds, Julie Robson, Patty & Charles Schaller, Donna Schelfaut, PFC JR. Schelfaut, Michael Schostak, Greg & Colleen Sonnen, Dee Stateler, Chuck Suda, David Thomsen, Vi & George Van Pelt, Kim Wallace &Family, Alice Weekly, and Richard Weekly

In June we began our summer experiment of offering a Sat-urday evening service. Thus far, I would count it as a success. Our attendance has gradually increased,. We are figuring out music—and are taking the opportunity to use the Listening Hearts Song Book as well as some other contemporary mu-sic.

As promised, this is a very informal service. We don’t vest. Acolytes and servers are recruited as needed, though I do like to make sure I have one to count on for the coming week. Everything needed for the service is found in our worship booklet, with the exception of the Psalm, which has required us to use the Prayer Book!

If you find that you need to be away on a Sunday morning, or are just interested in trying something new, stop by the chapel on Saturday evening at 5:00 p.m. Even with the re-cent heat wave the chapel has stayed reasonably comfortable, and the evening sun illuminating the Barwell window is spectacular.

We will continue to offer this service through Labor Day weekend and will then evaluate whether or not to continue through the program year. If enough people are interested, we will continue.. If our numbers increase we will move to the main church. Eileen

Faith & Film This fall Christ Church will be holding a new forum called Faith & Film. Films often raise questions or reflect ques-tions of transformation and the values of people of faith. Viewing and discussing particular films through the lens of faith is the objective of this forum. The concept is for peo-ple to watch the film on their own and then to come to-gether for discussion. The discussions will take place on either Saturday or Sunday late afternoon roughly once a month. Please contact the church office (or me at greg-ory.thompson46@gmail.com) if you are interested in par-ticipating in this forum, and leave your contact information (e-mail preferred). As we approach the fall, a list of films along with the date and time for the first film discussion will be sent to interested people. Greg Thompson – Senior Warden

Accessibility Update The accessibility committee interviewed many parishioners and the most common problem was getting from the park-ing lot to the ramp on the southeast corner of the church especially in winter. We have contacted Alderman TenPas and he said the City would place a handicap parking space on MLK Avenue near the ramp. A second idea was pre-sented to install a handicap ramp going down to the door for the undercroft between the church and parish hall. As an alternative replacing the window on the south side of Memorial Hall at the stairway landing near the woman’s washroom with a door would also work. This would be closer to the parking lot and that door would be only 30” below grade instead of 50”. If parishioners have a prefer-ence as to the location of this handicap ramp please let a committee member know. We will be looking for grants and funding this year and hope to install the ramp next year. The church has received the handicap parking signs and hopes to install them along with re-marking the handicap parking spaces shortly. The stair handrail going down to Memorial was also extended. If anyone has comments or suggestions please let a committee member know. John Moore

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Memorials "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord; he that believeth in me, thought he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

The Book of Common Prayer Burial 1

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Visit Guest Book Atkinson, Daree Caroline Age 98 of Gurnee formerly of

Waukegan where she had lived on Hickory Street, passed away at her home in Gurnee Meadows were she had been a resident for many years, on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 at home surrounded by family and friends. Born April 8, 1914 in Lowber, PA, she married Phillip Sayle who passed away in 1952 and remarried Alfred Atkinson in July 1966. She

was being cared for by her granddaughter Gale Dulian. Daree had been employed at the Tannery and was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Waukegan. Her hobbies included crocheting for nursing homes, playing bingo and pinnacle, and she enjoyed doing needlepoint boxes that had a cross message in it and a saying about what a hug means to her. She gave these boxes away to those who touched her heart. She is survived by two step children, Alfred (Jean) Atkinson of Gurnee and Burt (Donna) Atkinson of Waukegan and numerous grand-children; great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Phillip Sayle in 1952 and Alfred Atkinson in 1980; three sisters and one brother. Friends may visit with the family on Friday, June 8, 2012 from 5-8pm at the Salata-Gurnee Funeral Home; 4190 Old Grand Avenue, Gurnee. Fu-neral services will be held Saturday, June 8, 2012 at 10:00am at Christ Episcopal Church, 410 Grand Ave., Waukegan. Interment will follow at Northshore Garden of Memories, North Chicago. Donations may be made in her memory to either Christ Episcopal Church or Mid-west Palative Care, Libertyville. Visit our website at www.salatagurneefuneralhome.com.

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