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develop the gifts God has given you for service
We are calling all of our present leaders — and those considering taking an active role in our church — to join us for this special annual event!
Questions?
CONTACT ALESHA AT: aleblanc@incarnation.org
2013 VESTRY
Bishop Burton, Rector, Charles Powell, Senior Warden, Kathy Boyett, Junior Warden; Orrin Harrison, Chancellor; Jim Grau, Assistant Chancellor, Mark LaRoe, Foundation President, Dow Crocker, Treasurer; Liz Johnson, Clerk; Chris Adams, Michelle Anderson, Lynn Bissett, Carla Bush, Jacqueline Hill, Carol Roehrig, David Aughinbaugh, Gil Besing, Holland Gary, Joe Harper, George Longino and Chase Skorburg.
2013 DIOCESAN CONVENTION DELEGATES
Cathy Ammermann, Kathy Boyett, Jr. Warden, Pam Quarterman, Bruce Clark, Sam Kincaid, Andrew Leonie, George Longino, Bill Murchison, Charles Powell, Sr. Warden
The Parish Staff Courtney Barrow Jill Bellew Jacob Bottom Justin Brooks Tiffany Brooks LaShon Christen Pam Coghlan Michelle Cox Sheri Crandall Micah Crissey Haley Dettra Scott Dettra Melinda Draper Laura Fredericks Kyle Goodier G. Noel Gross Shelley Eisenlohr Steven Haal Gay Hayslett Mark Howell Carol Kadel Martha Lang Alesha LeBlanc Kaycee Logsdon Anne Mackintosh Dusty Matthews Steffanie Methvin Charlie Moore Lynn Neill Erin Pendleton Keith Quarterman Graham Schultz Robert Vasquez Kasey Weadon Ryan Waller Marie Walls Maci Young
Graphic Designer Incarnation Academy Business Mgr. Mission:75204 Project Manager Director of Contemporary Music Uptown Ministries Admin. Assistant Student Ministries Admin. Ass Director of Student Ministries Director of Development Children & Family Min. Admin. Asst. Incarnation Academy Head of School Assistant to Fr. Wheatley Music Director Bookstore Co-Manager Middle School Assoc. Minister Middle School Assoc. Minister Web & Media Services Controller Director of Communications Assistant to the Rector Manager of Technology Resources Front Office Manager Director of Missions & Outreach Assistant to Fr. Hermerding Music Dept. Administrator Outreach Admin. Assistant Bookstore Co-Manager Dir. of Children & Family Ministries Youth Choir Director Business Office Manager Mission & Outreach Project Mgr. Director of Ministry Support Assistant Organist Facilities Manager High School Assoc. Minister Young Adults Minister Assistant to the Vice-Rector High School Assoc. Minister
SUNDAY SERVICE TIMES 7:30am Traditional, no music, Church 9am Family Traditional, Church Uptown Contemporary, Chapel 11:15am Full Choral, Church Uptown Contemporary, Great Hall 5pm Solemn Choral Evensong & Holy Communion, Church 5:30pm Uptown Contemporary, Chapel
WEEKDAY SERVICE TIMES 8am Morning Prayer & Holy Communion, Chapel Noon Holy Communion with Anointing for Healing, Wednesdays only in Chapel 4:40pm Evening Prayer, Chapel Confessions are heard by appointment, with any Parish Priest
A Message from the Editor “Church of the Incarnation God Bless” These solitary words, memorialized in crayon (see cover) on a single sheet of paper, offer a validation of our current ministry that should ignite within us a passion to persevere. In 1878, the Bishop, the Rt. Reverend Alexander C. Garrett, conceived an idea through which our present parish came in to existence. While the members of the Diocese had raised money for him to take a well-deserved vacation, it seemed better to him to purchase a small plot of land, and there establish a mission, later becoming the Church of the Incarnation. I wonder if he had any idea, that well over a century later, a little boy in Honduras would commit to print a word of thanks, echoing to the good Bishop’s actions so long ago? However, it is difficult to proffer such a question without also wondering what will have become of our actions when the clock, once more, has struck another 100 years? Bishop Garrett, I doubt—while filled with hope—could have scarcely imagined the sheer number of lives, changed as a result of the actions of his day. He was in the midst of so small a group who were faithful to the call of God and His ministry upon their hearts. As we head back to schools, jobs and careers, imagine what could happen, should our Incarnation parish rise up united, to follow in the footsteps of those who went before us—now is your time for action!
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THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION
Features
Departments September-October Parish Calendar
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What Are The Clergy Reading?
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Destination: Seville, Spain
PHOTOS: Parish Life
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Water, Water Everywhere, And Lots and Lots to Drink!
Births & Deaths
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Meet Our New Staff Members
Altar Arrangements
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Lift High the Cross Update
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Thanks Be To God: The Frog Open A Rousing Success!
FULL-TIME CLERGY Rector | The Rt. Rev’d Anthony J. Burton Vice-Rector | The Rev’d T. Gregory Methvin Associate Rector, Pastoral Care & Senior Adult Ministries | The Rev’d. Harry H. Hill Associate Rector, Worship & Young Adults | The Rev’d Paul Wheatley Associate Rector, Small/Growth Groups| The Rev’d Joseph Hermerding 20s/30s Ministry | PART-TIME CLERGY Assisting | The Rev’d Robert H. Johnston III Deacon | The Rev’d Dorothy Budd Deacon | The Rev’d Judy Frizzell RETIRED CLERGY Assisting | The Rev’d Frederick C. Philputt Assisting | The Rev’d Thomas G. Keithly Assisting | The Rev’d Grover C. McElyea
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Streams of Living Water
The Angelus (USPS 003430) is published bi-monthly by the Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75204. Periodical postage paid at Dallas, TX. Postmaster, send address changes to: Angelus, Church of the Incarnation, 3966 McKinney Avenue, Dallas, TX 75204. Telephone: 214-521-5101 Fax: 214-528-7209 Bookstore 214-522-2815 Marmion Library: 214-217-5625 Nursery: 214-522-0160
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wednesday, november 27 golf club of dallas
Green fees, cart and lunch buffet are included! Tournament proceeds go to support Ben Milam Elementary School.
Contact Erin Pendleton for more info:
EPENDLETON@INCARNATION.ORG
LUN WE N TEE EED RS 15 EAC HD AY!
HAMMERS
Help repair and spruce up the homes of low income homeowners, most of whom are elderly and/or disabled.
HELP US HELP THEM: September 14 & 21 | 8am-4pm Exterior Painting Light Carpentry Yard Clean Up
Contact Jacob for sign up at: jbottom@incarnation.org Children & Family Ministries present
The Silver Saints
Fall Luncheon
r Movie Ni gh do o t u t O
September 19 11:30am – 1pm | Great Hall
Join us as Bishop Burton will speak about his life before we were a part of it. Michael Tillman will play his guitar as we eat and socialize!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 6 – 8:30pm | WEST LAWN If it rains, we’ll meet in the Great Hall
Curious & want to know more? For more details, visit us at www.incarnation.org
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STREAMS OF LIVING WATER Incarnation works to bring much-needed water to the townspeople of Siguatepeque, Honduras By Bill Murchison
veteran missioner larry tate with one of the children
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ell, maybe it’s not the biggest well: which is itself a big deal only if you judge by size and not results. To the community gathered in and around Iglesia San Juan el Apostol in Siguatepeque, Honduras—worshipers, patients at two different health clinics, young school children—the water well sunk and completed this summer during a Church of the Incarnation mission trip is about as big as deals ever get.
It means: • Pure water rather than the municipally furnished variety—skimmed from surface water and subject to various contaminations. • Vast improvements in health. • Water availability at all times, as opposed to availability dependent on the quirks and crotchets of the municipal system. • Electricity sufficient to run school classroom computers.
“It’s going to change people’s lives,” predicts Steve Rodgers—pictured above, kissing the new water tank— Incarnation communicant and veteran missioner, who coordinated the drilling project. Rodgers should know. He got bitten by the water-well bug on the second of Incarnation’s mission trips to Honduras, in 2002. All told,
the need. Incarnation communicant Sue Dockery, widow of the Rev. William D. Dockery, a onetime Nearly a billion of the Incarnation Watching local women senior warden, trudge to isolated wells, world’s people, according solicited and carrying away bucket loads to the New York Times, lack received from of water to use at home, Mr. and Mrs. sold at least two missiondrinkable water, a factor Harris W. ers—Rodgers and a close responsible for 3.3 million Clark, of Dalfriend, Tom Richards—on deaths a year. las, a pledge of the need of helping bethe necessary stow clean water on those funds. without it. Nearly a billion of the world’s people, according to the Next came the job of building the New York Times, lack drinkable water, team. Rodgers began with a tested a factor responsible for 3.3 million friend—a Honduran drilling contracdeaths a year. tor of eastern Mediterranean extraction, Tony Hasbun, ”a big old gruff Rodgers’ experience in Honduras guy with a heart of gold,” immensely helped turn him into a genial crusader helpful on previous Incarnation water for clean water, collaborating with Indrilling missions. (“Martha Lang calls carnation and also with Living Water him ‘The Godfather’,” jokes Rodgers.) International, a faith-based non-profit In the run-up to the commencement organization that works in 24 counof drilling, “our man on the ground,” tries. Living Water says 80 percent of Rodgers says, was a local dentist, Dr. human diseases, including dysentery Marlon Toledo. Dr. Toledo worked and malaria, are water-borne. the occasionally labyrinthine municipal bureaucracy as if performing It was the Episcopal Bishop of Hona titanium implant. He secured the duras, the Rt. Rev. Lloyd Emmanuel feasibility study for the project. He Allen, who suggested Siguatepeque’s got paperwork and forms filled out San Juan el Apostolo (St. John the correctly and on time. “He made it Apostle) church as a likely location for happen,” says Rodgers. water-centered activity. Siguatepeque, a 17th century city of 75,000, rapidly Tony the Godfather provided a threebecoming a center for eco-tourism, man crew. On a Friday early in June sits halfway between the capital city came delivery and set-up of the drilling of Tegucigalpa and Honduras’ second rig – a top-of-the-line Ingersoll. Drilllargest city, San Pedro Sula. Bishop ing commenced the next day. At 300 Allen, Rodgers recalls, “took me aside” feet, the rotary bit struck water that at a meeting in mid-2012, “and told celebrated its release by leaping six to me he wanted to see if we could do a eight feet into the air. well at Siguatepeque; he wanted the kids at the school to learn the value of On Tuesday drillers cased the well, personal hygiene; he also wanted pure providing the water a secure and water for the clinics,” which, under permanent exit route. Next day, atparish auspices, serve women and tention turned to the installation of AIDS patients. A March 2013 visit an electric transformer big enough to there by four Incarnation members, run the pump and then some. Among including Rodgers and missions coordinator Martha (Mrs. Douglas) Lang, Continued on pg 18 confirmed Bishop Allen’s appraisal of he’s helped drill seven wells in the tiny, poverty-ridden Central American country.
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S EP T E M BER-OC TOBER
PARISH CALENDAR Monday, September 2
Sunday, September 15
Mission & Outreach sunday
OFFICE CLOSED FOR LABOR DAY
Discover how Church of the Incarnation reaches out to the local communities and schools. Learn how you can get involved! See ad page 17.
Saturday, September 7
LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
SPECIALH PARISNT! EVE
-8:15am Registration -8:30am Breakfast -Noon Finish Time Our special keynote speaker will be Fr. Clay Lein, founding rector of St. Philips in Frisco. Also, 19 breakout classes are being offered, in 2 session time-slots, covering a host of ministry leadership training options. This is the perfect stepping-stone to a deeper engagement within our parish!
To register, simply go to our homepage at www.incarnation.org, and click on the Leadership Summit Event banner. See ad inside cover. Sunday, September 8
sunday school & evensong resumes Sunday, September 8
middle school parents meeting
11am in The Porch A presentation of fall programming and key calendar dates, as well as introducing new staff. Sunday, September 8
confirmation parents meeting
11am in the Family Ministries Room For 6th grade parents. Learn important dates, requirements and expectations for the Confirmation program. Saturday, September 14
hearts & hammers work day
Since 1986 the mission of Hearts & Hammers has been to repair the homes of low-income homeowners, most of whom are elderly and many of whom are disabled. Volunteers will work under the guidance of professional construction workers to repair, paint and beautify a home for a needy homeowner. To volunteer for this crucial outreach ministry, contact outreach@incarnation.org. For more details on Mission & Outreach initiatives visit incarnation.org/outreach. See ad on page 5 for details
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Sunday, September 15
high school parents meeting
11am in The Flat A presentation of fall programming and key calendar dates, as well as introducing new staff. Sunday, September 15
student ministries kick-off party
Stay tuned for details, or email lchristen@incarnation.org for questions. Tuesday, September 17
organ recital: stephen tharp
7:30pm in the Church Hailed as “Shapely, poetic and virtuosic”, Mr. Tharp is one of the most well-respected concert organists of our time. See ad on page 16 for details and ticketing information. Thursday, September 19
silver saints luncheon
11:30am - 1pm in the Great Hall See ad on page 5 for details Saturday, September 21
hearts & hammers work day
See previous description listed for September 14 Sunday, September 22
baptisms at both 11:15AM services Friday, September 27
middle school @ austin street shelter
5:30pm - 8:30pm Feeding the homeless — students have the chance to give back and serve in the Dallas community. Sunday, September 29
belize mission trip info meeting
4pm in the Great Hall Dining Room. Please email outreach@incarnation.org for questions.
Sunday, September 29
high school scavenger hunt
Stay tuned for details, or email lchristen@incarnation.org for questions. October 4-6
family retreat at lake torretta
Contact cfm@incarnation.org for questions. Registration deadline is Aug 30.
What are the Clergy Reading?
Saturday, October 5
The Golden Key
blessing of the animals
by George MacDonald
10am on the West Lawn - bring your pets to be blessed by a priest! Sunday, October 13
middle school’s great pumpkin chase!
4:30pm - 8pm | Meet in the back church parking lot Students are divided up into teams in search of the Great Pumpkin! This treasure hunting race takes our explorers across the Dallas area where one clue builds upon the next until the treasure is found! Tuesday, October 15
concert: armonia celeste
7:30pm in the Church Armonia Celeste is an ensemble specializing in rarely heard repertoire from the Italian Renaissance and early Baroque. See ad on page 19 for details and ticketing information. Friday, October 18
family movie night
6pm on the West Lawn We’re watching THE INCREDIBLES! See ad page 5. Sunday, October 20
the gathering
6:30pm - 8pm in The Flat HIGH SCHOOLERS: Join us for a night of adventure, worship, and meeting new people. Bring a friend and come to the Gathering!
This is one of the most beautiful, and most perfect, stories ever told. I am reading it to my children before bedtime right now—I want them to soak in the transcendence and the mystery as well! Father Joe
This story is written by the man whom C.S. Lewis considered his “master.” Episcopalian author Madeleine L’Engle writes, “Surely, George MacDonald is the grandfather of us all—all who struggle to come to terms with truth through fantasy.” In this short children’s book (which can be downloaded for free, both the text and an audiobook, from the internet) MacDonald explores deep mysteries of the universe and the Christian faith. It is the story of young boy named Mossy and his unlikely companion, a somewhat rowdy and unkempt girl named Tangle. Together they journey through Fairyland seeking a door for Mossy’s golden key. As they do, Fairyland reveals to them mysterious and unexplainable beauty in the form of “thick” or “substantial” shadows. Mesmerized by their beauty, Mossy and Tangle begin to seek with all their hearts for “the land from whence the shadows fall”. It is a land that possesses the reality of which the best signs and symbols on this earth are mere types and shadows. It is the same search that leads us to the altar for the sacraments every Sunday!
Exclusion and Embrace
Sunday, October 27
high school @ austin street shelter
3:45-7pm | Meet in the back church parking lot Feeding the homeless—students have the chance to give back and serve in the Dallas community.
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM CHILDREN & FAMILY MINISTRIES: Find your place to serve in Children & Family Ministries at Incarnation! We are looking for adults who love kids and want to use their time and talent for the Lord! Would you consider teaching Sunday School? Greeting? Helping maintain Sunday School classrooms about 1 hour per week? Helping with family events? We would love to have you join our team of dedicated volunteers. Please contact Steffanie Methvin with any questions or to sign up to serve!! smethvin@incarnation.org.
Father Paul
by Miroslav Volf
2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as, in and of itself, evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking, that addresses the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.
Destination: Seville, Spain High School España Project Mission Trip by Carl Hammack
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ur plan was to take a group of our High School EYC and leaders to Seville Spain to work with a group of Christian missionaries. Our contacts in-country for our trip were Dr. Chris Matthews and Dave Action, a member of the International Mission Board. Our work was located in two separate
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locations in the suburbs of Seville. One location was the Theological seminary Dr. Matthews leads. The work included scraping, priming, painting and cleaning three stories of exterior walls of the seminary. At the second location, which is a store front church, we scraped and painted the worship space, a children’s classroom and the welcome café space.
Father Joe Hermerding worked with us at the seminary. He also worked with the staff to catalogue a collection of books older than 1934 that will be used by doctoral students for dissertation research. Speaking of books for the library, our group purchased seventy five books the seminary had requested and transported them with us to the seminary. We also transported 5,000 copies of the Gospel of John
tract in Spanish the seminary ordered and uses in its ministry.
Christopher Columbus.
thing together. All the people in the student ministries office, student interns, parents, volunteers and the EYC youth themselves make these trips possible. Many thanks also to the trip leaders. It means so much to have people who make the trip, spend long hours in a cramped airplane seat, sleep on uncomfortable beds, walk miles a day and eat different food and are always mindful of all the details.
One more item of history is the city of Seville is located in the southwest Italica that was literally across the street of Spain. We took the opportunity from our hotel. This Roman city was to learn more about that part of the founded an estimated 200 years before country. One of our short trips was Christ. The Apostle Paul is believed to to the city of Cordoba, a city to the have visited Italica in his travels. Only east of Seville that has an interesting about 20% of the ancient city has been cultural history. Of particular interest unearthed and studied. The excavated is the church in the center of Cordoba. coliseum seated approximately 25,000 It was originally built as a Christian people. church around 600 a.d. as the Christian Visigoth Church of St. Vincent. It is important to report that our During the next several centuries the young people are an important part of Islamic groups and the Christians took our church: I can say without hesitaturns oction, to use an old expression, cupying once again they have “done us “...thank you personally for the area. proud.” Letters from the people The we worked with confirm this. In the hard work and cheerful church a letter to Bishop Burton, Dr. giving of the team sent over now Matthews writes “On behalf of by Incarnation. The group standthe Al Andalus Theological Semiing in nary faculty, students and staff, ellen beecherl and kate mcdowell did an amazing amount of Cordoba I would like to take this opporwork…” was built tunity to thank you personally Why go on these trips? There are as by the for the hard work and cheerful many reasons as young people. One Islamic people beginning in the late giving of the team sent over by the story I will always remember regards a 900s. When the Christians retook Church of the Incarnation. The group trip to the Dominican Republic. We the area in 1236 a.d., it was decided did an amazing amount of work….” A were building furniture for a small to reestablish the facility as a Roman similar report came from Dave Acton church—the activity created an interCatholic church and a sanctuary was at our other work site, “We would est with the children in the area and built in the middle of the existing like to thank you and your entire they came to watch. One thing lead to building. congregation for sharing your young another and some of the young people people with us this past week! They from our church engaged the children We took a second afternoon trip to the were a joy to work with. Their willing Continued on pg 18 medieval city of Ronda, which is south and gracious spirits were matched by and east of Seville, and has a 1,000 foot their hard work and gorge—caused by an earthquake— desire to do a good which separates the “old town” from job. Their leaders are the “new town”. Their “new” bridge true servants both to that connects the two parts of the city the youth and to our is only 200 years old. The church in church family.” “Your Ronda has been holding daily services group arrived ready to since the 1200s. Bull fighting reportwork and didn’t stop edly originated from this area. until everything was done!” The metropolitan area of Seville, a population of 1.5 million people, has These trips are not much to see including not one but two the result of just one Calatrava bridges. Our guide told us person’s efforts. Many that the cathedral is the third largest people are involved in the world. One of the attractions in and work countless Sam wieland and aaron leonie prepping the walls for a new coat of paint the Cathedral is the tomb of hours to put everyTHE ANGELUS | SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2013
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PHOTO CREDIT: Spain photos, Mary Katherine Mountjoy Frog Open photos, Jim Rogers
1. Honduran man and his oxen 2. Caroline Burton, Michelle Sanders, Mary Katherine Mountjoy and Alex Biegel in Spain 3. Carl Hammack smiles for the camera during a work day in Seville 4. Incarnation staffer Sheri Crandall teaching the kiddos in Honduras 5. THE FROG OPEN: Michelle & Richard Anderson, Fred Seipp and Father Greg Methvin preparing to tee off 6. We’re looking to beat last year’s Turkey Cup turnout! See 2013 tourney details on pg 5 7. Bishop Lloyd Allen and Father Paul in Honduras 8. Michelle Sanders and Ellen Beecherl are all smiles in Seville! 9. THE FROG OPEN: Barbara Kincaid, Paula Harrison & Debbie Aughinbaugh on the course 10. Honduran woman waiting with her child for their turn at the clinic.
Water, water everywhere, and lots and lots to drink!
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ur very full Honduras mission team met with success on so very many levels this June! Yes, our water drilling success brought potable water to an Episcopal church, school and free medical clinic! Our medical/dental/pharmacy team saw over 500 Honduran brothers and sisters in a very remote community. Our Christian Education team shared Godly Play and true Christian fellowship with school children. Each day our team worshipped together, shared meals and worked very hard together. What a joy. It doesn’t get much better than this! We owe a debt of gratitude to our team leaders Larry Tate and Melanie Brewer who spent a full year lovingly planning and leading our Honduras mission efforts. Scott Bissett and Father Paul Wheatley led our worship team in glorious fashion. The homily, below, Scott shared with our team, at our first Morning Prayer service, was especially insightful. I asked to share it with our readers:
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I think of obedience as a kind of discipline. I say I think, because I usually adhere to it in proportion to the degree I want to obey. Growing up we learned to obey our parents, civic authorities, even God under a feeling of duress, of fearing punishment, or maybe we saw obedience as a tool to manipulate those powers in order to get something. We fed the monster, hoping to be the last consumed. For a moment, put aside the feelings of duress and manipulation. There’s a positive side of obedience long in the shadows, perhaps because we dread to try it, fearing disappointment or dreading the whispers that we are once again manipulating God. Forget it. It’s about putting hands on. Today’s scripture is from Acts 5:1232: Peter and the apostles are going about doing signs and wonders among the people. They are of one accord. Many people are added to their numbers as a result. Jealousy overcomes the authorities, and they take Peter and the apostles and put them in jail. During the night, an angel of the Lord opens the prison and has the apostles released to go out to speak the Word
to the people. Orders are given that the apostles are to be brought before the authorities. Upon finding that the apostles are not in prison, but back out spreading the word, the authorities are perplexed. Without violence, the apostles are brought back to the authorities and are admonished not to spread their message—but Peter and the apostles answer, “We must obey God rather than men.” It is a remarkable statement given with great assurance. Many people think these men were special blessed, but I think they were just blessed. Whether they were specially blessed or not, I have no doubt that there was not a morning that came, when one or more of them wanted to be somewhere else, wanted a different assignment for the day, wanted to be in a different area, wanted to sleep in their own beds and eat their own food. Whether they spoke openly about these desires or not, the point is that they carried on in obedience—flesh and blood men like us. So. What was the driving force? What happens is that upon obedience, the authority figure of Jesus (or the “monster” God we are trying to appease) changes. The authority fig-
ure of Jesus changes, but not because we have given our consent to obey. Our perception changes because we change. French philosopher and Christian mystic Simone Weil, while working for the French Resistance in London, was approached by Charles de Gaulle and others and was asked to compile considerations for the eventual reformation of French social and political life after the war and occupation were at an end. In a short treatise dealing with the subject of obedience, she said, “Consent is the mainspring of obedience. Consent cannot be given by a slave, only can it be given by a free man. Consent is the essence of obedience.” Jesus gave consent to the will of His Father. Jesus was liberated from this world – in it but not of it. Jesus became a man of peace in this world. Continued on pg 16
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MACI YOUNG, High School Associate Minister Maci was born and raised in Plano Texas. She has spend the past four years living in Baton Rouge attending Louisiana State University, GEAUX TIGERS! Currently Maci is continuing her education at Texas Woman’s University and hopes to purse a career as a nutritionist in the Dallas community.
GRAHAM SCHULTZ Assistant Organist
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About Graham Beginning in August, Graham Schultz joined us as the full-time Assistant Organist, here at Incarnation.
NEW STAFF!
Graham most recently served as the Lloyd Cast Organ Fellow at the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, NY where he assisted in overseeing the nation’s oldest continuously performing Choir of Men and Boys. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying under Todd Wilson. Graham is thrilled to be joining the ranks of the ever-talented musicians at the Church of the Incarnation. One of his chief objectives is to develop and foster the musical opportunities for the children of our parish. Please contact him immediately at gschultz@incarnation.org if you know a child who loves to sing!! Graham is quite excited to return to these proper Southern climes, as he is originally from the great state of Arkansas. When not working, he enjoys historic architecture, roller coasters, and the Arkansas Razorbacks.
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An Introduction from Scott Dettra I am very pleased to welcome Graham Schultz as our new Assistant Organist. Graham comes to us from the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, New York, where he held the organ fellowship for the past three years. In addition to taking on much of the service playing duties, one WEL C SE of Graham’s primary responsibilities will be to direct our growing chorister program. Please say hello and make him feel welcome!
KYLE GOODIER, Middle School Associate Minister
Kyle was born and raised in the suburbs of Dallas and is currently 22 years old. He is in the last year of his Undergrad at Liberty University and majoring in Religion with an emphasis on Biblical Studies. Kyle plans on pursuing priesthood in the coming years, but is currently focusing on leading youth.
Kasey Weadon, High School Associate Minister
Kasey is currently in his third year at Criswell College where he is working on his BA in biblical studies with a minor in biblical languages. Kasey has a passion for ministry, and is seeking to further his education to become a professor of New Testament.
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ATCH US GROW: A Report from the Building Committee by Andy Welch, Building Committee Chair
Church of the Incarnation will soon commence one of its most glorious undertakings to date! The Campaign Leadership Team, comprised of our clergy, church staff and a group of parish leaders, has been diligently working to fulfill the pressing needs of the parish and recently completed an unprecedented capital campaign in May of 2013. An integral part of this process has been the critical work of the Building Committee. Two years ago this Committee initiated a strategic planning process. Today, this group provides oversight and direction to our expanding campus and construction of an education building, welcome center and new worship space. I am pleased to share the following update on our current activities: •
Our architects (H&H Architects) are finalizing the Design Development phase of plans for our three new facilities and connector system. The design development drawings define the structural foundations of the buildings as well as specify the architectural components and infrastructure of the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. These plans will be shared with our construction consultants for updated pricing estimates.
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Austin Commercial has been retained as our Owner’s Representative. They are assisting us in all areas of the construction project, with particular emphasis on cost estimation, constructability guidance and selection and management of all construction consultants.
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J.P. Barry Contractors is assisting the Committee with cost estimation and constructability guidance.
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Masterplan has been retained as our Planning/Zoning Expeditor. They are working with the City of Dallas to help us complete the requirements and submit documentation needed to fulfill our construction vision. They are spearheading our revisions to the Planned Development (PD) for the property. This includes landscaping, parking, building heights, setbacks and access.
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Brockett-Davis-Drake has been retained to assist us with Civil Engineering. They are updating our tree and land surveys in addition to developing site utilities. All of this information will be used by Masterplan as part of our PD for the property.
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SWA has been retained as our landscaping consultant. They are providing detailed landscape documents for submission to the city that reflect the vision of the PD 193 ordinance of the City of Dallas. The PD 193 ordinance was implemented by the City of Dallas to preserve this area of Dallas and recognize it as architecturally important and significant. The ordinance is meant to preserve an urban setting, promote and protect pedestrian environments through strict landscape and streetscape requirements. In addition, they will be also be developing an overall landscaping master plan for our entire campus as well as landscape concepting and development for the new buildings. While our current budget does not anticipate completing the entire master plan (plantings, etc.), we wanted to complete the master planning exercise for future consideration.
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Datum Engineering is assisting us with structural engineering for the new buildings and completing studies for a steeple upgrade option.
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Purdy/McGuire is assisting us with mechanical, electrical and plumbing for the new buildings.
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Acoustic Dimensions has been retained as our acoustics/audio visual/lighting consultant. They are providing guidance and information on room acoustics, lighting, audio/visual needs and equipment for our new facilities.
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The Building Committee has been assisting members of the Finance Committee to interview several banks regarding a construction loan. We anticipate finalizing terms and selecting our lender within the next 30-45 days.
Progress continues as we prepare for this transformative parish project. On November 10, the parish will celebrate our official groundbreaking — we hope you will plan to be a part of this historic day for our church! Continued support of Lift High the Cross is making all this possible; if you would like to join the 600+ families and friends taking part, please visit website listed below, or call the Development office at (214) 521-5101.
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Andy Welch, Chair Jim Barrow Kay Beecherl
Gil Besing Allan Dickason Phil Montgomery
Keith Quarterman Lou Schaufele Thomas Taylor
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Rt. Rev’d Anthony Burton, Rector Father Greg Methvin, Vice -Rector Jean Barrow, Campaign Chair
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You and I came to Honduras out of obedience. You and I gave consent to the invitation and are no longer slaves. John 15: “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing, but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give you. This I command you, that you love one another.” Peter and the other apostles responded to the authorities, saying, “We must obey God rather than men.” You and I are here because it was asked somehow, somewhere, in some fashion: “Who shall go for us?” And we answered, “Send me.”
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MUSIC SUNDAY FOR ALL GODLY PLAY CLASSES! 10:20am – 11:05am Meets the LAST Sunday of each month, in regular Godly Play classrooms We realize that another powerful way for children to connect with God is through music, so once a month all of our Godly Play classes will come together to learn fun praise songs and make a joyful noise! Drop off will be in child’s regular Godly Play classroom, the same as each week (see procedure above). Children will hear a short lesson and then travel to room 220 for music. Pick-up instructions will be available at the first class.
STEPHEN THARP, Organist TUES, SEPT 17 at 7:30PM ORGAN RECITAL BY STEPHEN THARP
Stephen Tharp is one of the most well-respected concert organists of our time, having played more than 1,300 concerts across 41 worldwide tours. He has been hailed as one of the finest organists in the world today, and his performances are noted for their shapely, poetic, and virtuosic playing. A reception will follow the recital to meet the artist. GENERAL ADMISSION: $10
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BIRTHS & DEATHS BIRTHS June Post printing 6/27 Rafeal Valbuena, Jr. July 7/11 Elizabeth Anne Leary 7/31 Eloise Diane Hart August None at time of printing DEATHS June (Post Printing) 6/24 Richard Rufus Kimble July 7/12 Lisa Coffman 7/18 LaRue Cohen Diaforli 7/28 James Martin McLaughlin August 8/11 Jane Babin
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other benefits of the new equipment is power capacity to fire up computers at St. John the Apostle’s fast-growing school (now kindergarten-through-third-grade).
in games. Everyone seemed to have a good time. At the end of the day one of our young people said, “These children have nothing—no toys, no sports equipment, not even shoes to wear but yet they are happy.” I thought to myself, what a sermon.
As the job concluded, a security shelter with eight-foot-tall cyclone fence rose over and around the well. By Thursday all was done. It was time to give thanks. Missioners gathered for prayers led by Padre Luis Alfonso, St. John the Apostle’s priest, and a previous collaborator with Incarnation on Honduras mission projects. A plaque in Spanish was placed at the well site, commemorating Fr. Bill Dockery and Mr. and Mrs. Clark for their distinctive roles in the project. Water is its own kind of miracle. A wonder of more worldly origin was the $7,500 budgetary surplus the project produced—the result of careful management. So ample are water supplies that the parish may elect to share its bounty with others, at nominal rates. For Steve Rodgers, one more well is one more step in the right direction – toward a time when the miracle of water spreads blessings and bounty: nothing else.
I believe Bishop Burton gave one the best answers to the question of motivation to join in these trips, when he recently wrote, “These trips are life-changers for the kids, they help mature them as Christian disciples, and expand their understanding of the world around them and the needs of the poor. It is significant to note that when our seniors are heading off to college, they invariably say that mission trips were one of the most important experiences they had growing up in our church.” Special thanks also goes to the folks who stay at home: parents, prayer partners, and other members of our church family. You all literally and figuratively are with us when we board the plane, work each day, and are there when we return. God Bless you for all your support of our high school young people. You all are the best!
ALTAR ARRANGEMENTS are given to the glory of God... July 7 In loving memory of Louis A. Beecherl, Jr., Mark Kelsey, and Nigel “Rod” Stewart. July 14 In loving memory of William G. Akins, M.D., Mary Happle Akins, and A. P. Shiro III; in celebration of the baptism of Nicholas Ripken Rothe; and in celebration of the wedding of Tessa Ann Morgan and Matthew Earle Halstead on July 13th July 21 In celebration of the baptism of William Holland Peeples, Jr. on July 14th, and in loving memory of Elizabeth Hunt Harrington.
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July 28 In loving memory of Kay Robert Tharp, and in celebration of the birthday of Kris Graves. August 4 In memory of Robert Reid Caldwell, Carston T. Dubber, Edward Hight Smith, and Iname Hight Stafford; and in celebration of the wedding of the Jennifer Leigh Hankinson and Paul Taylor Smiley on August 3rd. August 11 In loving memory of Vera Louise Gaston, and in celebration of the wedding of Carrie Christine Boren and Gregory Lee Headington on August 10th.
August 18 In celebration of the 30th wedding anniversary of Lisa & George Longino, the 41st wedding anniversary of Mary & Roy Taylor, and the wedding of Elizabeth Anne Barnett and James Longstreet Miers on August 17th. August 25 In loving memory of Jacqueline Sullivan Borrett and Jeffery Glenn Fields.
Join a rich tradition at Incarnation by donating altar flowers as a commemoration both in the memory of loved ones, and also blessed events that happen in our lives! www.incarnation.org/donate-flowers
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THANKS BE TO GOD The Frog Open a Rousing Success!
Whodathunkit — May 13th turned out to be “National Frog Jumping Day”— and what an incredible choice for our ‘Frog Open’ golf tournament in memory of parishioner Tim “Frogie” Doreen! It was a bluebird day with lots of golfers, and fun and fellowship in large doses. What a fitting tribute for someone who loved God, ministry, and golf... in that order. Tim would have enjoyed the event most of all. The tournament was undoubtedly a success, raising over $20,000 for our Outreach Department...thanks be to God! Thanks also very much to all who contributed to the event’s success, and especially to Tim for the inspiration! -Tournament Chairs: Steve Rodgers and Tom Richards
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Save the Date: November 27 | Golf Club of Dallas
Seldom are we provided the opportunity to spend time with friends and family while helping others at the same time. The Ben Milam Turkey Cup is one of those rare opportunities. The Ben Milam Turkey Cup originated eight years ago after Incarnation adopted Ben Milam Elementary School, the site of the church’s first Day of Service, as it started Mission 75204. At the time, Ben Milam had an enrollment of over 300 students and had no playground equipment. For that first Day of Service, Incarnation funded the purchase and installation of new playground equipment, converted a storage room to a teachers lounge, provided a fresh coat of paint for the school’s interior and installed full landscaping. The events of the day energized both the school and the church volunteers. The Turkey Cup was originally established to provide an opportunity to enjoy camaraderie and fellowship with friends and family in a round of golf while raising funds to help sustain the good work at Ben Milam Elementary School. The tournament, a Texas scramble, has raised over $40,000 for the school. The funds are maintained by the church and disbursed to the school based on an application process, and have provide Ben Milam students with classroom computers, uniforms and after-school care. Entry fees are $150 and hole sponsorships are available for $250. For additional information or to sign up, please contact Erin Pendleton at ependleton@incarnation.org or Mark Morganfield at markmorganfield@gmail.com.
ARMONIA CELESTE TUES, OCT 15 at 7:30PM ELEGANT & SUBLIME MUSIC BROUGHT VIVIDLY TO LIFE
Delighting audiences around the country with their spirited performances, Armonia Celeste is an ensemble specializing in rarely heard repertoire from the Italian Renaissance and early Baroque. They will present a program titled Music from the Court of Queen Christina of Sweden, built to reflect two aspects of her life: the court and the chapel. GENERAL ADMISSION: $10
STUDENTS & SENIORS: $5
A pre-concert lecture will be offered at 6:45pm.
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