April 7, 2010
In the diocesan cycle we pray for the people of Christ Church, Cape Girardeau (1876), and Bob, their Rector
In our companion diocese of Lui, we pray for the people of B’uagyi (Bwah’-gee) Archdeaconry, and Emmuel, their Priest

IN THIS EDITION
 
Ongoing: Prayer during Sudan elections l Sudan Updates
l Discernment
The Companion Diocese Relationship Committee is calling the diocese to l Deeper Listening
l Cancer Awareness Week
prayer during the elections in Sudan this April. l New Ventures
l Newsline

Prayer Service and Eucharist, Vigil preparation. At 12:00

BISHOP'S VISITATIONS
noon we'll celebrate Eucharist on Saturday, April 10, at St.
Timothy's Church, Creve Coeur. We hope to have our friends March-April 2010 are Bishop
and new mission partners from Blackmore Vale, Diocese of Smith's sabbatical months

Salisbury, UK join us by Skype.(Skype is a free computer-to-

Sun, May 9, Christ Church-
computer video or audio chat software.) Cape Girardeau
Sun, May 16, St. Peter's-
Ladue
Prayer Vigil. Lui, Sudan, is eight hours ahead of Missouri; a Sun, Jun 6, Church of the
prayer vigil is scheduled from 4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 10, Ascension-Northwoods
Sun, Jun 13, Ft. Leonard
through 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, (Central Time). Wood
Sun, Jun 20, Trinity-Jefferson
County
We have an online sign-up sheet for the vigil. Send an email
for instructions/password, and please include your Life of the Diocese
name/parish. Not online and still want to sign up? Call 314-
255-1387 with your name/parish/phone. Sat, April 17, 9am - 1pm.
Having a Job, Living a
Vocation: finding the way to
UPDATE: If you are following current making your work, your life's
work.  The Rev. Steve Lawler, 
events in Sudan, you will note the rector of St. Stephen's, co-
increasing rhetoric and stridency in founder of Bounceback St
Louis, and Faith and
statements from most participants Spirituality advisor for the GO!
approaching the upcoming elections. Network will be the leader.
Contact him at swl@lawler.org
The pronouncements are unwavering for more information.
and dire, they hold no room for
negotiation, and this is not a two Sat, Apr. 17 The Peace Meal
Project at St. John's-Tower
sided conflict, but a complex Grove, every Saturday Serving
situation. from 4-6 p.m. To sign up as a
volunteer, please contact
Scott Splater at
Bishop Wayne Smith has often ssplater@yahoo.com or 314-
497-1050. A full shift is from
reminded us that the on-the-ground 2-6:30 p.m. and a half shift
situation in Lui is fluid. We do not would be 2-4:30 p.m. (food
prep and cook) or 4-6:30
know as we are planning each (serve and clean up).
mission trip, if some event will
change the possibility of travel: Sat, Apr. 17, 10:00 AM - 3:00
PM   ESM Spring Term Wrap-
political, weather, health. We do not up and Summer Term
know, we will not know. We open our Orientation

hearts to understanding what that

Sun, Apr. 18, Compline-CWE
not-knowing might feel like for our Trinity Episcopal Church in the
brothers and sisters in the Diocese Central West End holds a
monthly Compline service on
of Lui, and we also learn from their the third Sunday of each
deep faith in Christ which triumphs month beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Compline is a brief but
over this not-knowingness. And we beautiful service with ancient
pray. roots. 20 to 30 minutes of
music, scripture, poetry,
prayers and silence. Afterward
The new chairperson of the diocesan Companion Relationship Committee, we adjourn to a nearby
restaurant for dinner and
the Rev. Emily Bloemker, articulates this clearly, “We’re the church, we’re conversation.
not an NGO.” Our initial work with Lui diocese focused on our relationship
with them, and an immediate need for available water. As our last deep Sun, Apr. 18, 4:00 PM   
Dedication of St. Mark's
water well is being completed, our common work is refocusing on supporting Organ, Recital by Clive
the ministry of the Lui diocese. “It’s about establishing a permanent home Driskill-Smith of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford. 4714
for the diocese, a place to carry out ministry with dignity.” Make no mistake, Clifton Avenue, off
there are a lot of needs: the hospital, ongoing support of the Mothers Union, Nottingham, in St. Louis.
Flyers, links to articles, and
education, Lui diocese infrastructure, among others. Last year the more information online at St.
missioners asked Bishop Bullen outright, “It takes money to make these Mark's organ page.(And the
answer to Who are these
mission trips happen, would you rather use the money spent for our travel on folks?)
some of these identified needs.?” And he said no, the most important thing
is that you come here, that you share worship and fellowship and
relationship.

In the fluid process that is Sudan elections, it is possible for the Carter
Center to be uninvited from election process oversight on April 1, receive
close to an apology and re-invitation on April 3, to announce today that ex-
Sun, April 25, 5 p.m.
president Carter will be in Sudan during the elections; possible for a party to Evensong at Christ Church
threaten complete countrywide boycott of elections, then to clarify only Cathedral featuring the Choirs
of Grace Episcopal Church–
certain regions. In this back and forth, we pray alongside our brothers and Kirkwood
sisters in Lui diocese.
Prayers for Sudan 4/10-13
RELATED: Prayer Makes Community and Community Requires Prayer
Prayer Service and Eucharist,
by the Rev. Dan Handschy. (Also published in the April/May edition of Seek, Vigil preparation. At 12:00
mailed April 6, 2010.) noon we'll celebrate Eucharist
on Saturday, April 10, at St.
Timothy's Church, Creve
  Coeur. We hope to have our
  friends and new mission
partners from Blackmore Vale,
Discernment Conference set for June 6-8 Diocese of Salisbury, UK join
us by Skype.
If you are interested in learning about discernment for ministry in this
diocese, if you are already in the process, or if you are a priest or deacon Prayer Vigil. Lui, Sudan, is
new to the diocese and think you will be overseeing discernment processes eight hours ahead of
Missouri; a prayer vigil is
in your congregation; this conference is for you. scheduled from 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 10, through
4:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 13,
The Discernment Conference, sponsored by the Commission on Ministry of (Central Time).
the Diocese of Missouri, is open to candidates, postulants, aspirants, and
those contemplating discernment for ministry. It is also intended for clergy in We have an online sign-up
sheet for the vigil. Send an
the Diocese of Missouri who are new to the process of discernment in this email for instructions/
diocese or for those who wish to renew their understanding. If you are password, and please include
your name/parish. Not online
currently in the discernment process (you have met with Bishop Smith), this much and still want to sign
conference is required. up? Call 314-255-1387 with
your name/parish/phone and
we'll add you to the sign-up
This year's conference will be held at the Marianist Conference Center in sheet.

Eureka, and feature talks by the bishop, clergy, and laity of the diocese.
30 HOUR FAMINE 4/23-24
There will be time for questions, fellowship, and sharing.
The 15th Annual 30 Hour
Famine week-end is at Church
Cost: $185 per person including overnight accommodations or $115 for of the Advent in Crestwood.
commuters.
Please contact Nancy Birtley at
636-296-8307 or at
Scholarship help is available through the Commission on Ministry on a nancy@birtley.net to RSVP for
limited basis. Please consider asking your congregation for financial the famine.
assistance.
More info on the 30 hour
famine...
All registrations must be received no later than Friday, May 21. Late
registrations will not be accepted. Conference fee includes the dormitory MONDAY Apr 26
room, five meals, snacks, and materials. All dormitory rooms are single ESM ONLINE BOOK CLUB
occupancy.
  This month we're discussing
Scot McKnight's Fasting.
Download a registration form online, and submit registrations by no later
Monday, April 26th, 7:30 pm-
than Friday, May 21 to: Cory Hoehn, Episcopal Diocese of Missouri 1210 8:30, or until the conversation
Locust St. St. Louis, MO 63103 Questions? Please contact Cory at (314) wanes. We'll leave the
discussion open for an
255-1383 or choehn@diocesemo.org. additional week if anyone
cares to add reflections.
 
 
Deeper Listening using Dialogue and Father Rod Wiltse facilitates
the book club, email him for
Deliberation an invitation at
wiltse@charter.net.
For parishes and
committees looking
Join the Conversation
for resources to
strengthen group NEW! Awaiting your comments
on news articles, online at the
communication diocesan site, diocesemo.org
skills, the National
Coalition for Diocesan Resource Sharing E-
List. A diocese wide mail list
Dialogue and called 4LOW. (For the Life Of
Deliberation (NCDD) the World.) Share resources,
opportunities, things that
offers a website full. worked in your parish and
things that didn't; ask the
wider community their
At diocesan opinions. To subscribe, send
leadership conference and General Convention, we spent time learning about an email to 4low-
subscribe@lists.diocesemo.org
public narrative, adding some form to our storytelling and organization
presentation skills. Many of us have had some exposure to Appreciative Deeper Discussion E-List. A
moderated list to talk about
Inquiry and other dialogue techniques but are unsure of the range of these those "hot potato" issues that
methods and the specific situations for which the technique is best suited. crisscross faith and culture,
and converse about them with
a high degree of Christian
Complete article and resources... concern for one another.
Subscribe via hotpotato-
  subscribe@lists.diocesemo.org

Cancer Awareness Week, April 26 - 30, St.
Luke's Hospital
In observance of Cancer Awareness
Week, April 26-30, St. Luke’s is
hosting daily Lunch ‘n Learn Programs
in the first conference room in suite 120
of the East Medical Building.
Reservations are required and can be
made by calling 314-205-6055. Topics, speakers and times are listed below
for each date. The Cancer Resource Center, located at 100 East Medical
Building, will also hold an open house from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. all week.
HOLY WOMEN, HOLY MEN
April 8
William Augustus Muhlenberg
and Anne Ayers
Priest, 1877, Religious, 1896
II. God of justice and truth,
do not let your Church close
its eyes to the plight of the
poor and neglected, the
homeless and destitute, the
old and the sick, the lonely
and those who have none to
care for them. Give us that
vision and compassion with
which you so richly endowed
Monday, April 26, 12 to 12:45 p.m. William Augustus Muhlenberg
and Anne Ayers, that we may
“Sleeplessness & Fatigue During & After Cancer Treatment” labor tirelessly to heal those
James Walsh, PhD, Executive Director, Sleep Medicine & Research Center who are broken in body or
spirit, and to turn their sorrow
into joy; through Jesus Christ,
Tuesday, April 27, 12 to 12:45 p.m.    Amen.

“Chemotherapy 101”
Muhlenberg, William Augustus in
Julie Gill, MD, Medical Oncologist LFF, with Anne Ayers [Jan. 3,
1816-Feb 9, 1896]
Founder of the first religious
Wednesday, April 28, 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. sisterhood in the Episcopal
“Together Facing Lung Cancer” Church (The Sisters of the Holy
Communion) who worked at St.
Stephen Allen, MD, Medical Oncologist Luke’s Hospital, NYC. She
worked with William
Augustus Muhlenberg, as his
Thursday, April 29, 12 to 12:45 p.m. close associate and later became
his first biographer.
“Updates in Breast Cancer Imaging & Detection”
Carrie Morrison, MD, Radiologist & Director of St. Luke’s Breast Imaging
The resolution to General
Convention which contains the
suggested additions to Holy
Friday, April 30, 12 to 12:45 p.m. Women, Holy Men is available
“Eating Healthy: Grillin’ & Chillin’” online as a large pdf file. The
edited and official version will be
Marcie Barnes, RD, LD, CNSC published and available next
year.
 
  DIOCESAN PUBLICATIONS
New Ventures Funding
Publisher
Dr. Peg Cooper, who led the New Ventures in Community Ministries The Rt. Rev. Wayne Smith
Bishop of Missouri
Committee, delivered great news to one grantee and one applicant from this
last funding cycle. Annual New Ventures grants are administered by
Editor
Diocesan Council. Extra end-of-year money in the fund will be awarded to Beth Felice
Advent’s Parish-based Community Nursing Project (an additional $1,188.17) Director of Communications
Episcopal Diocese of Missouri
and St. Mark's Transition Cafe and Garden project ($1,500.00) bfelice@diocesemo.org
314-255-1387
314-398-2209 (cell)

The Rev. Dan Handschy reports that Advent hopes to participate in a larger IN THIS EDITION
project, a Senior Ministry network between six or seven local congregations
l Sudan Updates
(Catholic, Lutheran, UCC and Episcopal).  "We see this as a real way to l Discernment
reach into the whole community, which is what the project was designed l Deeper Listening
l Cancer Awareness Week
for," said Handschy. "The news of the extra money couldn't have come at a l New Ventures
better time." l Newsline

St. Mark's had continued on with their community garden project, and had
the "garden build" Thursday, April 8th.

 
 
Newsline
Next Clergy Day is 10 am-3 pm, Thursday, May 20. Please RSVP by May
15, by email to SWegner@diocesemo.org or by phone, 314-231-1220
(anyone answering the phone will take your reservation).

Congratulations to Kathy Sheldon on 10 years of service as Editor of St.

Thomas Church for the Deaf Tidings. Vicar Emily Hillquist Davis notes, "She
observes and records most of our activities with astounding detail and poetic
sensibility, writing our history before our eyes in a time when history and
even memory are disappearing in the hectic busy-ness of fast-paced lives.
This record is a rare gem, and we are uniquely blessed to have in Kathy a
member of such talent and dedication."

Zumba is a fun and exciting dance workout set to Latin-inspired music.

Grace Chung will teach in the parish hall at St Stephen's Thursday nights.
The session runs from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Sessions are $5.00. Those age 16 or
older may participate in these courses. Bring water, light hand weights (or
1lb cans of beans) and a small towel to class. Wear comfortable, breathable
clothing and shoes with a smoother sole (such as court or dance shoes).
More information from the Rev. Steve Lawler, swl@lawler.org

 
 

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