Kingston Crier February 2019

P. O. Box 471 Mathews, VA 23109

804-725-2175 kingstonparish@verizon.net

www.kpepiscopal.org

The Rector’s Visions

Jesus said to them: “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.

Then there came cell phones and the buzz of constant information on screens and cars to race about in. And, for some, retirement without clear definitions of time – no clock to punch.

How do you go with Jesus away to a deserted place? We do it together in worship and in our education programs, I think. But we each need more time than that, time alone with God for Sabbath when we can be still and know God and the goodness of God’s image in us without a list of things to do.

Jesus modelled this for us beautifully. He is forever disappearing to be alone in prayer. And when he is present with people he is PRESENT.

I find this back and forth between action and prayer and reflection always a work in progress. The occa-sions when I really find it, I am blessed and so are the folks who get to see not just me fully PRESENT, but God working through me.

What does that look like for you? How do you find the balance of grounding yourself in God and stepping out to do the work God calls us each to do?

And a few words about your priest and this Sabbath:

He doesn’t get it right much, but he is forever trying.

He tries to take Fridays off as full days for something other than “church work.” Honor that day for him when you can, but if you have a very serious need, don’t hesitate to reach out to him.

Sometimes parishioners say they were struggling through something, but they didn’t come to me be-cause they knew I was busy. I am busy…overwhelmed much of the time. And God’s call to me is to be present with you when you are struggling with something. You and I both honor God’s call when you make an appointment to talk about your struggles or I bring you communion or we go out for coffee or lunch together.

By the same token, I am very busy. This seems to mean more and more that if you want to talk with me, it is best to make an appointment. If you just stop in the office to talk or hold up the line on the way out of church to talk, I am likely to not be fully PRESENT – because I can’t be.

Finally, I am so grateful for the ministry God has given us to share. May we always seek to find time for ourselves, our God, and each other. Time is strangely limited and yet with God eternal. May we find many ways to share that eternity together.

God’s Peace,

Gary+

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Diocesan Listening Session March 4 at St. Margaret’s School

Listening Sessions are being made available around the diocese for us to visit with our bishops and other diocesan leaders and share our heart-felt desires for our Diocese and for our future Bishop. The one closest to our area will be held on Monday, March 4th from 3-5 PM at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in Tappahannock. This will preempt our Mon-day class.

If you are unable to attend, this same session will be broadcast via Facebook Live. If you are interested in attending and would like to carpool, contact the office or Fr. Gary.

Kingston Parish Women’s Meeting

All the women of our parish are invited to the annual Women’s meeting on Saturday, Feb-ruary 23rd at 11:00 AM. We will discuss this year’s Soup With Love, choose new leaders for the year and enjoy a delicious luncheon prepared by Lynn May and Cindy Machen.

Please let us know if you plan to attend so we can make sure to have enough food. Call the office at 725-2175 or email Karen at kingstonparish@verizon.net.

Isn’t she beautiful?

Bathroom Renovation

What began as a dream of a few women a few years ago is now a reality. We have an almost completely renovated Ladies’ Bathroom in the Parish House. Now visitors who use our facilities will do so in style. We want to thank the original renovation team: Nina Buzby, Sally Bridgforth, Suzy Jones, Jane Reed and Josie Thorpe, who, with MUCH help from Vicki Carter, planned the original designs and started the process.

Thanks also to John Lee Machen, who, as Junior Warden during this three year period, took their plans and put legs and feet to them. Thanks to Charlie and Vicki Carter, who helped in so many ways we can’t list them here. Thanks to our ves-try, who approved and guided the process. Thanks to all of you for your patience during this time. Be sure to express your own appreciation to these individuals for their hard work to beautify our Parish House.

Members of our Children’s Sunday school class: Paige Morris, Carter Hayes, Lyman Hayes and Luke Morris

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Christ Church Flower Calendar

The following dates and names are scheduled for flowers at Christ Church. Please look for your name and call Mairi with any corrections. If you would like to fill in one of the free dates, please contact Mairi as well, scotslass6@gmail.com. February 3 Krinski/ Eaton February 10 Jennette February 17 FREE February 24 FREE March 3 Whitman March 10 through April 7: LENT (no flowers) April 14 Palms April 21 Easter Sunday, lilies in church April 28 Taylor May 5 J.R. Lawson May 12 Viens May 19 French May 26 LaFriniere June 2 possible Parish Picnic June 9 Hammond June 16 Lamport/VanOver June 23 Hammond June 30 Lamport July 7 Ambach July 14 Yent July 21 Warren July 28 Thompson August 4 FREE August 11 Reed Lawson August 18 Gilbert August 25 Whitman Sept 1 Shanks Sept 8 Taylor Sept 15 Higdon Sept 22 Guy Sept 29 Hubbard Oct 6 Bowles Oct 13 Yent Oct 20 Ellis Oct 27 McElroy Nov. 3 Black Nov 10 Viens Nov 17 FREE Nov 24 Yent Dec 1 through 22 ADVENT (Greens on altar) Dec 22 greening of the church for Christmas Eve. Dec 29 still decorated for Christmas

Hanging of the Greens at Christ Church: A group effort.

Easter Lilies at Christ Church

Mairi Furniss will keep the memorial list for East-er lilies the same as last year unless she hears oth-erwise from you.

If you would like to order a lily in memory or in honor of your loved one and have never done so, please contact Mairi at scotslass6@gmail.com.

Please make sure you have paid Kingston Parish for the poinsettias and wreaths you ordered for the Christmas season. Poinsettias were $8 and wreaths $25. Make the checks out to Kingston Parish and in the memo write “CC Christmas greens.”

Beloved, let us love one another,

because love is from God; every

one who loves is born of God, and

knows God.

1 John 4:7

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Wabingston Epiphany Service

We had a wonderful time at the January 6th evening Epiphany service and supper. Members of Abingdon and Ware joined Kingston for worship and brought their Christmas greens for the bon-fire. The weather could not have been more perfect. The incessant wind took a break that evening and resumed by the next morning.

It is our hope that you will take advantage of every opportunity provided us to join with our sister churches for worship, fellowship and comaraderie.

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Vestry Notes (from January 21, 2019 Meeting)

We have been asked by the Historical Society to participate in a Historical Church Tour June 15th. We will need docents to be at Christ Church from 10 am to 4 pm.

The 2019 Budget was approved for presentation at the annual meeting next Sunday.

The Baptized For Life workshops continue. Their findings will be presented to the congre-gation in the near future.

Trinity Church is being inspected and prepared for possible use by St. George Anglican Church.

Fr. Gary is talking with a potential interim priest for his sabbatical.

The Shrine Mont Wabingston Retreat is set for the last weekend of July.

A children’s Sunday school class has begun. Vicki Carter, Nan Cross, Carole Gregg and Ra-chel Morris are team teaching using the Living the Good News curriculum.

African Team Ministries Craft Display

(Items for sale February 3-10)

Craft items made by artisans in Africa are on display at the Parish House for purchase. The money made is used to provide irrigation systems and clean well water in Kenya, a country that has been suffering a drought for years.

You may pay by cash or check or credit card. Slips are available for credit purchases and an envelope is on the table for you to insert payment. Make checks out to African Team Ministries, NOT Kingston Par-ish. Purchases will not go on your giving statement.

Items will be on display the Sundays of February 3rd and 10th and through the week between. Thank you for your support of this ministry.

Upcoming March Events:

Sunday, March 3: Celtic Service at 5:30 PM at Kingston Chapel

Monday, March 4: Listening Session in Tappahannock

Wednesday, March 6: Ash Wednesday services, 12 PM at Christ Church, 7 PM at Kingston Chapel

Saturday, March 9: Lenten Quiet Day at Kingston Chapel

Sunday, March 10: The First Sunday of Lent. Daylight Savings Time Begins

Wednesday, March 13: Soup With Love begins

Outgoing Vestry Members: Thank you, Tom Reed, John Machen, Jr. and Mary Ann Carr!

Change of Address

Judy and Buzz Busby 19 Fish Hawk Drive Amelia Island FL 32034.

Phones and emails the same.

Phone Directories

Phone directories with other updates were distributed at the annual meeting January 27th. If you didn’t get one, please contact the office or come by for one.

GUEST Program

Abingdon is hosting the homeless the week of February 4-11. We are invited to help out by staying overnight and/or providing food for the meals.

To sign up to help, go to this address:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c4daea62fabfe3-Abingdon

If you have trouble signing up online, just call Karen in the office (725-2175) and she will help you.

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February Birthdays

Pat Neiger 1 Bill Higdon 3 Kathy Yent 4 Cabell Chase 4 Ellis Chase 4 Karen Ransone 7 Yanni Vaziouracis 7 Lisa White 9 Amy Gregg 18 Edwin Hudgins 20 Amy Chase 20 Patsy Hemp 21 Signe Langschultz 25 Joyce Deputy 25 Mary Chapman 26 Nina Buzby 27 Jeanine Booker 27 Bert Cross 28 John Robert Fisher 28

Serving in the Military or Diplomatic Corps

Jody Bridgforth Colin Bucknor BJ Cavazos Shawn Davis Yvette Gaither Joe Kraynak Megan Kraynak Hib McNeilly Joey Plotino Jennifer Schmidt Zach Schmidt George Truscott William Truscott

Parish Prayer List

Pray For Our Parishioners Pat Dickey for recovery from broken hip (office) Paul Gibson for heart issues (by Jan Mohr) Bill Higdon for heart issues (by Jane Cargill) Peggy Hudgins for pulmonary fibrosis (office) Suzy Jones for infection in vertebrae (office) Martha Anne King for cancer (by Mary Chapman) Martha Knight (office) Cheryl Lamport for broken ankle (office) Bill Leary for heart problems (by Sharon Leary) Deirdre McElroy for cancer (office) John Page Rawlings for prostate cancer (by Becky Mayfield) Susan Rawlings for cracked pelvis from severe fall (by Becky Mayfield)

Pray For Our Family and Friends Don Altman for lung cancer (by Bill Leary) Traci Beck for thyroid cancer (by Marilyn Overstreet) Cheryle Brown for lung cancer (by Sylvia Shinault) Keith Brown for knee surgery (by Ethel Brown) Peggy Carr for breast cancer (by Gay Butler) Nancy Chiafulio for two brain tumors (by Martha Knight) Larry Clerico for aggressive cancer (by Kathy Yent) Howard Doak (by Julie Crabill) Terry Dobson for brain surgery (by Lynn May) Nancy Donnelly (by Kathy Yent) Mary Doyle for hydrocephalus (by Valerie Lewis) Krystal Elms for stage 4 lunch cancer (by Mairi Furniss) Glenda Flippin for ovarian cyst (by Jay Black) Barbara Fumagalli for overall poor health (by Mary Kathryn Diggs) Taylor Wells Gearhart-for myaconic dystrophy (by Nina Guy) Doris Gibson for shingles in her eye (by Paul Gibson) Kendell Gleason for serious medical condition (by Jim Husband) Pat Graveline for colon/liver cancer (by Joe Mereness and Richard Scott) Janet Griffin for cancer (by Valerie Lewis) Suzanne West Guy for Parkinsons (by Nina Guy) Joan Marie Harper for breast cancer (by Steve and Julie Crabill) Pat Harper (by Julie Crabill) David Hawkins for complications from diabetes (by Rosemary Eaton) Linda Hawkins for mass on spine (by Rosemary Eaton) Ron Hoover for cancer (by Lisa White) Susan Kensey (by Shannon Kirschbaum) Georg Kidd for a neuro-muscular disease (by Kathy Yent) Lori Kincade for blood cancer (by Shannon Kirschbaum) Terry King (by Mary Ann Carr) Andrea Krause for breast cancer (by Gay Pfister) Jamie Lowman for cancer (by Josie Thorpe) Brian Lucy for a blood disorder (by Kathy Yent) Charlotte Martin - Multiple Systems Atrophy (by E. Brown) Elizabeth McIntyre for AML (by Eleanor Woollard) Michele Meanley for cancer (by Kathy Yent) Linda Monk for metastatic lung cancer (by Kathy Yent) Jack Mullen for lung cancer (by Bill Mullen) Kathy Nelson for pulmonary fibrosis (by Kathy Yent) Kay Nissen for brain tumor (by Jan Mohr) Bob Oberman for cancer (by Betty Salley)

William Anne Pamplin for cancer (by Reed Lawson) People of Nicaragua (by Doug Geddes+) Elizabeth Perkins for brain tumor (by Pat Elliot) Deborah Phillips+ for Crohn’s Disease (by Betty Salley) Stefanie Powers (by Lisa McCann) Stanley Rhines for heart surgery (by Peggy Hudgins) Norris Richardson for Parkinsons (by the Warrens) Erin Robertson for AA neuropathy (Warrens)Mark Robins for brain cancer (by Tom Ingram) Gary Wayne Sadler (by Josie Thorpe) Walt Sampson for cancer (by Reed Lawson) Ginger Shackelford for Hodgkins lymphoma (Kathy Yent) Rosie Small for cervical/uterine cancer (by Gay Pfister) Marsha Threlkeld for breast cancer (by Debbie Lambert) Joe Tomlinson (by Josie Thorpe) Harry Ward for brain tumor (by Jay Black) Jennie Whittle for return of cancer (by Mary Chapman)

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The Kingston Crier, February 2019

Kingston Parish

PO Box 471

Mathews, VA 23109

Address Service Requested

KINGSTON PARISH P. O. Box 471

Mathews, VA 23109 804-725-2175

www.kpepiscopal.org kingstonparish@verizon.net

In The Diocese of Virginia and the Middle Peninsula Region

The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan The Rt. Rev. Robert Ihloff, Bishop Associate

The Rev Gary Barker, Rector Phone: 757-371-9382 Email: barkergaryj@gmail.com

THE VESTRY

Valerie Lewis Senior Warden Marti Bowen Mary Kathryn Diggs Outreach Jackie Ingram Hospitality Shannon Kirschbaum Fellowship Jan Mohr Rachel Morris Communications Ray Stubblebine Hunt Thompson Stewardship

Tom Reed Treasurer Carol Swartz Recorder

TRUSTEES Vicki L. Carter Timothy W. Hudgins John Machen, Sr.

DIOCESAN COUNCIL & REGION II

Mary Chapman, Lay Delegate Reed Lawson, Alternate

STAFF

Eleanor Woollard Director of Music Lois Trowbridge Organist Karen Jones Parish Secretary Vicki Carter Bookkeeper

KINGSTON PARISH PRESCHOOL

725-3211

Rachel Musick Preschool Teacher Lily Poulson Extended Care Teacher

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

Sunday 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite I at Christ Church 9:15 a.m. Sunday School in the Parish House 10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist Rite II at Kingston Chapel Wednesday

12:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist each Wednesday in the Meditation Chapel - Healing Ser-

vices the first Wednesday of the month