April 2017
St. Mark’s News Volume 21/Issue 4
From the Associate Rector: Sci-Fi Easter 2017 This Easter, a Time-Space Portal may or may not open in the pulpits of Christendom. Silently, on Easter morning, or at a Saturday evening vigil, the preachers who step in to those pulpits will be transported to another pulpit in a different city, state, nation, or continent. It will all happen so fast and the Time-Space Portal will disguise the preacher (and translate their languages) so that a Baptist congregation in Cleveland, OH won’t notice their scheduled preacher is preaching on the deck of an Aircraft carrier to a group of sailors, while their preacher has been transported through Space and Time from a small village church in rural Nigeria. Are you still with me? In short, every preacher is swapped, but the congregations who have gathered to hear their Easter sermon--as well as the preachers themselves are oblivious. Everyone thinks that their regularly scheduled preacher is preaching to them. Every preacher looks out and sees the same people they normally see on a Sunday morning. Every preacher preaches the same sermon they prepared. Ok, if you’re still with me, now imagine that these preachers being switched by the Time-Space Portal are not just shuffled through Space and their respective time zones, they’re also shuffled though 2,000 years of Christian history. A German Lutheran congregation from Easter 1678 has a mega-church pastor from Dallas, 1997 preaching to them while an Episcopal parish bordering the Greenbelt in Austin, TX hears a sermon intended for a small congregation huddled in a Roman catacomb during the early 2nd Century. What would you hear in that sermon on Easter Sunday? Aside from some difficult to understand illustrations and some untranslatable jokes (as all jokes are), I would guess we would hear the same sermon in every pulpit in time and space. Surely, there would be some strange exceptions as some Christian preachers have felt they needed to say something totally new and In this Issue original, but I would suspect that most congregations would hear essentially the From the Associate Rector ...... 1 same sermon that Peter preached in Acts 10. Here it is: “God anointed Jesus of A Letter from the Senior Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good Warden .................................... 2 and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are Lenten Thanks! ........................ 3 witnesses to all that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to Take Note! ............................... 4 death by hanging him on a tree; but God raised him on the third day …. He Outreach .................................. 5 commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained Parish Life ................................ 5 by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him Music Notes ............................. 6 Christian Formation ................. 7 that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his April Celebrations .................... 8 name." Caffeine Ministry .................... 10
That’s it. That’s essentially what every Christian has been hearing every Easter ROTA ..................................... 11 Sunday for 2000 years and every Sunday in between. This is the good news for the world, that through the life, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ we receive the forgiveness of sins. We say it together in our Eucharistic prayers, “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.” So it doesn’t matter if this Time-Space Portal does or doesn’t open this Easter Sunday. You’ll still be hearing the essential message of good news that every follower of Jesus has heard since that first Easter in Jerusalem.
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A Letter from the Senior Warden Dear Fellow Parishioners, At the March Vestry meeting, Mother Elizabeth announced to a saddened Vestry that she was retiring on June 4th. After a short conversation, Elizabeth left us with The Very Rev. Kai Ryan, Canon to the Ordinary from the Diocese of Texas (“Canon to the Ordinary” is Episcopal speak for Chief Operating Officer) to help us answer the question, “What next?” Mother Ryan explained the process of replacing a rector and reassured the Vestry that her experienced staff will be there to assist St. Mark’s Parish the along the way. Here is a brief outline of that process. Celebration Phase. The time we have left with Mother Elizabeth. Pre-search Phase (3-6 months). The Vestry organizes and leads this phase, which begins with the Vestry receiving diocesan training on its role in the process. This phase is a time to discern what we as a parish believe God’s call is for St. Mark’s. This may include taking surveys or group discussions. We will create a parish profile, which will be shared on a website. A search committee of 8 to 12 parishioners will be chosen. Two committee members will come from the Vestry and the Senior Warden will serve in an ex officio capacity. Active Search Phase (4-8 months). The Search Committee leads this phase. The Search Committee will be commissioned and receive diocesan training on its role in the search process. The Search Committee will conduct its work in consultation with the Diocese and will require absolute confidentiality. The committee and the Diocese will supply each other with candidates’ names. However, the Diocese has adopted a strict policy that will not allow a candidate who has served St. Mark’s as an assistant rector, curate or seminarian. The committee will interview and narrow the field to one candidate. The Search Committee and Vestry will then convene a Call meeting. The Call Phase (1-2 months). The Vestry controls this phase. The priest who is called will visit St. Mark’s and negotiations will ensue. This phase ends if the priest accepts the call. Welcome & Incorporation Phase. The Vestry announces the choice to the parish and within about a month the priest arrives. After an additional month or so, the Bishop of Texas will visit to celebrate the new rector’s ministry. The entire process will take anywhere from one to two years. The Vestry, in cooperation with the Bishop of Texas, will select an Interim Rector to serve during this time. I encourage everyone to have patience with each other and the committees. Please offer your prayers and get involved as we move through this process. For now, we have precious few days left to embrace Mother Elizabeth and let her know how much she has meant to St. Mark’s. As sad as we are to see Elizabeth go, let us strive to make her ministry’s end as joyous as God will allow. Faithfully yours, Clarence Bonnen Senior Warden
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Lenten Thanks! Lenten thanks: To the Marthas, who set the tables each week for our soup suppers To all those who brought a soup for us to enjoy To our Wednesday evening musicians To David+, Neal, and Brian for their choice of readings for the service To Mark Reed and the choir for our seasonal music and what will be lovely Requiem Mass setting on Maundy Thursday and preparation for our Easter music To Dan Aja, and his children Colt and Willow, for making the three crosses that have been on our lawn during Lent And always to the Altar Guild and staff for all they do every day, every week
Meditation Trail Clean Up April 8 Saturday, April 8 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Bring your wheelbarrows, your shovels, and your branch clippers and help us get the Meditation Trail ready for the Good Friday Stations of the Cross. You may have noticed that we already have a pile of mulch ready to spread. Lunch is provided. It is helpful to have a before lunch team, and an after lunch team. A sign-up sheet is posted near the kitchen.
Holy Week April 9 - 15 Walk the way of the cross with us during Holy Week, which begins April 9, on Palm Sunday. Weather permitting. At the 9:00 and 11:00 services (weather permitting), we will process from the lawn area into the church waving our palms and singing, All glory, laud, and honor to thee, Redeemer, King! To whom the lips of children made sweet hosannas ring. Our worship moves from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem to reading the Passion Gospel….and so begins the way of the cross. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday we will celebrate the Holy Eucharist in Grace Chapel at 6:00 p.m. Maundy Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. our worship will be in the church. Mark and the choir have been preparing for the evening’s Requiem Mass setting: Franz Schubert’s Mass in G Major. The evening concludes with the Stripping of the Altar, which is a powerful prelude to Good Friday. On Good Friday we have two services: the first at noon on the Meditation Trail (the Stations of the Cross), and the second at 2:00 p.m. in the church (The Liturgy for Good Friday). On Holy Saturday, join the Contemplative Prayer group at 8:00 and then stay on to help the Altar Guild clean the church in preparation for Easter
Easter Sunday, April 16 Alleluia, Christ is Risen; the Lord is Risen Indeed, Alleluia! Our Alleluias return on Easter Sunday, at our services at 7:30, 9:00, and 11:00. And of course, we will delight the children with our annual Easter egg hunt at 10:00 a.m. Bring your family members and friends to celebrate with us.
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Take Note! Altar Guild’s Sanctuary Easter Preparation “Party” April 15 All willing hands are MOST WELCOME to help prepare our worship space for Easter. We are gathering at 9am on Holy Saturday, April 15. Please put this on your calendars! See you then.
Easter Flower Dedications for the Altar A signup sheet to dedicate lilies for the altar on Easter is posted near the Flower Chart in the Parish Hall. The deadline to sign up is Monday, April 10. Dedications may also be emailed to the office: stmarksaustin@gmail.com. When emailing, please include what the dedication is for (in memory of, in thanksgiving for, etc.), who the flowers are dedicated to, and who is the giver.
Easter Egg Hunt We will have our Easter Egg Hunt for children (ages zero up to 5th grade) at 10:00 a.m. on Easter Sunday. Youth from 6th through 12th grade will help with the hunt. Each family is asked to bring at least a dozen plastic pre-stuffed eggs per child for the hunt. Place your donations in the plastic bins in the Parish Hall by April 15. Those without children in the hunt are encourages to donate as well.
58th Annual St. Mark’s Chicken BBQ Saturday, May 6, 2017 Mark your calendars for the city's best "smoked" chicken halves and grilled sausage links. The Men of St. Mark’s will fire up the grills, volunteers will be needed to serve food, and Green Mesquite will provide the peach cobbler. Parishioners are asked to bring a side dish to share. Stay tuned to weekly announcements on Sundays and in the Newsletter for signup sheets and more details!
Vacation Bible School Registration is now open! St. Mark’s Vacation Bible School is ONLY two months away and planning is underway! The program is June 12 16, 9:00 a.m. - noon. Our VBS is filled with fun, formation and friends! We are looking for adult and youth volunteers, (6th through 12th graders) to help with VBS. We’d love to share this great experience with both you. (Parents, grandparents and other parishioners are welcome!) Want to join the planning team? Contact Cathy Nelson: 512-444-1449. Childcare offered for young children of parent leaders. For online registration: http://stmarksaustin.org/christian-formations/vacation-bible-school/
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Outreach St. Mark’s has purchased and built a micro home for the Community First! Village, the quilters made a quilt for the home, and the home has been blessed for its resident, John. Donna Emery sent us a list of other ways that parishioners can be involved in the life of the Village: House blessings are hosted every Saturday at noon, and everyone is welcome. Sponsor a month of movies, for $3000, which allows the Village to show a free public movie every Friday night. Residents sell snacks and receive all profits from the sales. Sponsorship is not necessary – all are welcome to attend the Friday night outdoor movies. Provide dinner for @ 40 residents once a month. Prepare and serve breakfast once a month for the Community Inn. Skilled volunteers are always in demand (carpentry, electrical, plumbing, handyman, landscaping). This requires a once a week commitment. Adopt some area of the property to beautify and tend, and bring goodies for the residents in that area. Lead a weekly Bible study and/or Life Group. Participate in a street retreat.
Parish Life First Friday Book Group 11:00 a.m. in the Bennett Wing Classroom April 7
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
May 5
Our Souls at Night
Kent Haruf
June 2
My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
Monthly Men’s Group Meeting Then Men's Group meets the Second Tuesday each month @ 6:30 p.m. for dinner and fellowship. Dinner is prepared by cooking groups that rotate each month. Men's Group is open to all men of St. Mark's. To get on the email list, contact Bob Peterek: rpeterek@austin.rr.com.
St. Mark’s Altar Guild still Needs YOU We have reverent work dealing with sacred things. We have an ancient vocabulary, specific methodologies, but no secret handshake. We prepare for our community of fellow believers in honor of our most gracious Father. Think seriously about joining us. We would love to work with you. We’re cool. Contact Karen Milton for more information: ksmilton@gmail.com
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Youth activities for April April 2: Picnic @ The Greenbelt (weather permitting - bring your own lunch) April 9: BREAKFAST TACO SALE (No Youth after service) April 16: Easter - No Youth April 23: Contemplative prayer in the chapel (Lunch provided) April 30: Bowling (Lunch out)
Music Notes Holy Week at St. Mark’s will be filled with beautiful music. The Adult Choir and Choristers will sing for Palm Sunday. On Easter Day, the Adult Choir will be joined by father/son trumpet duo Ariston Awitan III and Ariston Awitan IV as we celebrate the resurrection. Plan to attend the Maundy Thursday service at 7:00 p.m. on April 13th, when the Adult Choir will perform Schubert’s Mass in G Major. Countless composers have set the words of the Mass—the liturgy of Holy Communion—to music. These settings began with the plainchant of antiquity. Different chants were used to mark special days and seasons of the year. In a similar manner, we sing varying congregational settings throughout the year in our Sunday services. As counterpoint and polyphony developed in the Renaissance, composers like Josquin and Palestrina began shaping the words of the Mass into complex choral settings for use in great cathedrals and large parishes. By the 18th and 19th centuries, some of these Mass settings became so elaborate that they began to function as independent concert works, rather than liturgical compositions. Massive works such as Bach’s B Minor Mass, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis are rarely heard in the context of a liturgy. Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major transcends this divide, and is heard frequently in both the concert hall and the church. Franz Peter Schubert (1797–1828) was a remarkably prolific Austrian composer. Although little known during his lifetime, his works were posthumously championed by the likes of Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Brahms. He is now celebrated as one of the greatest Western composers. Schubert wrote the Mass in G in 1815 for a Viennese church. Schubert is known as a master of the art song, and a songlike texture pervades the Mass. It is characterized by the classic ideals of balance, symmetry, clarity, and elegance; similar in style to the music of Mozart and Haydn. It is likely that Schubert never heard this Mass sung again after its first performance. The Mass in G was published posthumously in 1845 and is now considered one of the great masterworks of the choral repertoire. The Adult Choir will sing the Mass in G as a liturgical piece, interwoven with the service for Maundy Thursday. In keeping with the season, we will wait until Easter Sunday to sing the ebullient Gloria. Please join us for Maundy Thursday and Easter Sunday to experience the hope and peace of Schubert’s Mass in G Major.
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Adult Formation Philip Turner’s series, Patterns of Life in the Spirit, will conclude on Sunday, April 2. There are no classes on Palm Sunday (April 9) or Easter (April 16). Classes will resume on April 23, for a two-week series: Followers of the Risen Christ.
Christian Formation for Children, by Cathy Nelson, DRE At the time of writing this article, I already have noticed huge Easter bunny decorations adorning doors and lawns, and candy and decorations filling the shelves of stores. At home, I have begun to prepare for our own family celebration, counting attendees, planning a menu, and considering what decorations we might add this year. However, in the Church we continue to focus on the season of Lent. Lenten traditions such as the Soup Suppers and meditative worship, Bible studies, personal disciplines, and the Sunday service liturgy help create a quiet awareness that something very important is about to happen. Which makes slowing down and creating awareness even more important so that we can appreciate the meaning of the most important story of the Church year, the mystery of Easter. I have been reading the whole story in The Path, A Journey Through the Bible. This book from Forward Movement, edited by Melody Wilson Shobe and David Creech, is a storybook version of the Bible that has been excerpted and condensed to make the overarching narrative easier to read. Using passages from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, summaries to connect the “great landmarks” together, and text boxes with extra information, the editors have tried to make it easier “to walk through this wilderness of words and see God revealed in them and hear God speaking through them.” “It is the story of God’s relentless, unwavering, unstoppable love for his people, people who are flawed and funny and ordinary, just like you and me…It’s the story of how in the fullness of time, God came among us, love incarnate, in the person of Jesus Christ, to show us how to walk through this world with love and compassion. It’s the story of Jesus’ life, of his death, and of his resurrection. It’s the story of you and me, the descendants of these flawed, broken and beautiful characters, the inheritors of the promise of God.” Reading the whole story with your children is important too. Children better sense God’s presence and love when they explore faith stories with their parents. There are many children’s Bibles and books that retell the Biblical stories to choose from, many of which are available in stores and on the St. Mark’s bookshelves. Forward Movement also has a new children’s storybook to go along with the adult version of The Path. The Path Family Storybook uses a similar format with illustrations by Roger Speer, and it tells 25 of the landmark stories from Genesis to Revelation, complete with heroes and bad guys and God’s triumphs over evil and God’s love for his flawed, stubborn people. As you read, you and your children will discover Bible stories that will lead to interesting discussions about the God of both the Old and New Testaments. If you find some of the stories more graphic and hard to explain, keep in mind that the books of the Bible were written to tell a theological story of God’s redemption of the world that culminated in Jesus’ birth, death on the cross and resurrection. Reviewing The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It by Peter Enns, Gretchen Wolff Pritchard in The Sunday Paper’s Editorial Page, writes that the author delves “deeper into the nature of stories, the way the scriptural story retells itself and revises itself over a long history, using and re-using such images as water, deliverance, and reversals (the younger son displacing the elder); how the Jesus of the Gospels follows in the rabbinical tradition of expounding scripture but does it in uniquely daring and challenging ways; how the Bible’s refusal to be pinned down or reduced to a “rulebook” is so utterly built into its essence that we have four distinct Gospels followed by the sometimes maddeningly
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April 2017 obscure and contentious writings of Paul. Ultimately, he states (as Anglicans should know) it is Christ, not the Bible, who truly is the Word of God.” “Ending the debate, getting to the right answer, is not the prime directive in the spiritual life. You can tussle with each other and with God ... and it’s all good. ... Enter the dialogue and you find God waiting for you, laughing with delight, ready to be a part of that back-and-forth. (page 243, The Bible Tells Me So)” www.thesunday-paper.com Families are invited to participate in the Holy Week services (beginning April 9): Palm Sunday on April 9, we process around the outside of the church at the start of the 9 & 11 a.m. services. Come learn how to make palm crosses between services! Holy Eucharist services will be held Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday at 6 p.m. Maundy Thursday is a moving service, with readings about the Passover meal and Jesus’ last supper. Near the end of the service, all members of the congregation are invited to help strip the altar, carrying items out of the church in silence, in preparation for the washing of the altar. On Good Friday, (a day off for students, and sometimes parents), two services are offered, each of which lasts about an hour. Noon: You and your family are invited to come walk The Stations of the Cross outside on our meditation trail. Sharing the burden of carrying a large wooden cross, carried by parishioners, is a tangible way to experience the story of Jesus’ path to the cross. This service begins in the church and then moves outside to the Meditation Trail at the far end of the parking lot, (near the sheds). At 2 p.m. is the Liturgy for Good Friday, held in the church. And, finally, the beauty and joyous celebration of Easter will awaken your children’s senses and imaginations and hearts to the story to better know the mystery of new life that is found in the Easter story. On Easter Sunday, families are invited to join in the Easter Egg hunt @ 10 a.m.
Christian Formation Schedule (April 2, 23, and 30 at 10:00 a.m.) Godly Play, when we tell the story of the transition from the Season of Lent to the celebration of Easter, we say, “Everything is turned inside out and upside down.” And compared to an Easter bunny, the death and resurrection of Jesus is about as upside down as you can get! The stories in April for the Godly Play class for Pre-Kindergartners through 2nd Graders are The Faces of Easter, Ukrainian Folk Tale: Easter Eggs and Jesus and the Twelve. The 3rd, 4th and 5th grade class will explore the Gospel readings for the final Sunday in Lent and after Palm Sunday, reconvene to discuss the readings for the Season of Easter using the Lesson Plans that Work curriculum. “In these 50 days of Easter, celebrating what Jesus has done for us, we are invited to recognize Jesus standing beside us, as he did with Mary. What is he calling us to do? Perhaps we can train our eyes to look in the direction that this Jesus, standing beside us is looking. What might he be looking at? Do we dare follow where he is leading? Can we notice and honor the various ways Jesus “appears” to people?” The Youth Class for 6th through 12th Grades will meet in the Bennett Wing with Eric Panter and Danielle Adkins for breakfast and Bible study.
Mark your calendars for these Summer Activities too! Camp Allen Summer Camp registration is open & sessions are truly filling up fast! To register students ages 8-18: http://www.campallen.org/summercamp. St. Mark’s Day School Summer Camp Opportunties during June & July. For details: http://www.stmarksdayschoolaustin.org/summer-camp
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April Celebrations Birthdays Evelyn McMillen Clarence Bonnen Kristen Grulke Christina Papalexandrou Beth Brode Mia Denniston Christopher Mitchell George Pazdral Kelly Cromack Jaylon Loyd Gary Taylor Marcus Yax Chuck Bryant Kevin Farley Sylvia Fitz Nancy Santos Michael Stangl Carlisle Farley Vincenzo Moreno Jennifer Pollard Jesse Poynot Cole Rudy III Cindy Cabler Karen Milton Vivian Reshetnikov Julie Lambert Shannon Schulz Asher Poynot Amber Ramsey Jack Sullivan Alma Sullivan Mairin Bachschmid Samantha Harwood
04/01 04/03 04/03 04/03 04/04 04/04 04/04 04/04 04/05 04/05 04/05 04/05 04/06 04/06 04/06 04/06 04/06 04/07 04/07 04/07 04/07 04/07 04/08 04/08 04/08 04/09 04/10 04/11 04/11 04/11 04/11 04/12 04/12
Francesca Reyna Jodi Doran Patricia Rogers Caroline Blanding James Keahey Andrew Poynot Stephen Wilson Adalyn Shepard Kevin Sullivan Molly Lynd Robert Hicks Christa Tumlinson Thomas Huston Brian Parkison Adelaide Harwood Arthur Portman Mike Gonzalez Alison Nichols Adam Poynot Dee Ann Thomasson Ellie Reshetnikov Sally Russell Kenneth Hicks Henry Lambert Erin Portman Jack Whalen Vanessa Joyce Elisa Turner Emmaline Baxter-Harwell Shirley Schwartz Irma Glover Sara Thiessen Bonnie Nolan
04/12 04/14 04/14 04/15 04/15 04/15 04/15 04/16 04/16 04/17 04/18 04/18 04/19 04/19 04/21 04/21 04/22 04/22 04/22 04/22 04/23 04/23 04/26 04/26 04/26 04/26 04/27 04/27 04/28 04/28 04/29 04/29 04/30
Anniversaries Rich & Carol Oppel Reed & Jennifer Shaw David & Amanda Lindeman Paul & Clara Berndt Philip & Kelly Dixon Robert & Sally Russell Matt & Shannon Schulz Philip & Sarah Tso John & George DeMarines Dan & Cindy Bogard Jay & Jodi Doran Daniel Aja & Nicole Flores
04/01 04/04 04/05 04/06 04/06 04/10 04/10 04/10 04/11 04/12 04/16 04/19
Mike & Stacey Gonzalez Tim & Leigh Ann Hendricks Gary & Ester Taylor Thomas & Kathleen Allen Michael & Erin Portman Ryan Marquess & Shelly Botkin Thomas Hudak II & Megan Ching Danielle & Bill Adkins Stuart & Virginia Sullivan Jim & Millie Casparis John & Mai Rogers
04/19 04/25 04/25 04/26 04/26 04/27 04/27 04/28 04/28 04/29 04/29
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April Caffeine Ministry 2 9 16 23 30
Kathy and David Genet Amy Farley and Beth Holmes Pam and David Johns Jennifer Payne Jones and Laurel Kelly Laura Merritt and JP Kloninger
The parishioners assigned for Caffeine Ministry are asked to do two things: replenish cookies, if needed and wash the coffee pots and counters after the 11:00 service (and put away any extra cookies).
Seen Around St. Mark’s
Men’s Group Fish Fry
Christ Walk
Welcome to St. Mark’s!
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April ROTA
7:30
TIME
MINISTRY
April 2 5Lent
April 9 Palm Sunday
April 16 Easter Sunday
April 24
LECTOR
Jon Dullnig
See below1
Jill Collins
Margarita Moreno
Pattie Rose
LEM / ACOLYTE
Margarita Moreno
Pattie Rose
Jonea Raney
Wes Raney
Nancy Middlebrook
USHERS
Ed Shipsey Al McKinney
Beth Chenoweth Mary Smith
Judith & Jon Dullnig
Danielle Adkins Stephen White
Jonea Raney Jill Collins
LECTORS
Mike Thomasson (1) Sherrie Johnson (2)
Ryan Dempsey Meredith Shaw Passion Gospel1
Mary-Alis Kelly (1) Brian Kelly (2)
YOUTH
Gary Taylor (1) Dodie Wells (2)
LEM
Neal McGowan Becky Janes
Pam Castles Brian Prall
Bill Kibler Christine Brunson
Brian Prall Barbara Dody
Carol Oppel Neal McGowan
Abbe Kelly Will Kelly Nora Kelly Beatrice Reshetnikov Carol
Claudia Janes Clay Buckner Henry Janes Mairin Bachschmid Carol, Nancy John Edgerton Lynn Edgerton Kevin Cromack Wade Buckner Michael Meigs Diana Stangl Phil Aboussie (1) Jennifer Jones (2) Brian Prall Jay Brown Bonnie Brode Luke Thiessen Meredith Shaw Carlisle Farley Cindy
Karen Milton Michael Meigs Emma Kloninger Hunter Rogers Nancy, Kim K.
9:00
ACOLYTES
USHERS
GREETERS LECTORS LEM
11:00
ACOLYTES
ALTAR GUILD
USHERS
Abbe Kelly Ariston Awitan IV Emmaline Baxter-Harwell Will Kelly Matthew Awitan Nora Kelly Luke Breen Mairin Bachschmid Nancy Kim K., Nancy Mark Breen Mike Brode Dee Ann Thomasson Phil Aboussie Dodie Wells Ross Ramsey Amalia de la Rosa Stephanie Young Yvette Webb TBD Evelyn McMillen Chris Blanding (1) See below1 Melissa Blanding (2) Brenda White Rex White Rex White Brenda White Jay Brown Max Genet Ryan Dempsey Claire Cabler Morgan Dew Josef Genet Xander Stockstill Emma Kloninger Cindy Cindy, Jay Carolyn & James Wier Charles Brewer Bo Overstreet Bob Peterek Rick Tennant Manuel de la Rosa John De Marines Jim Nolan JP Kloninger Ryan Marquess
Ken Whalen Stephen Wilson Barbara Wilson
April 30 Youth Ensemble: 9 & 11
Mark Breen Mike Brode Ken Whalen
Laura Merritt Yvette Webb Ellie Reshetnikov Evelyn McMillen Rex White (1) Christie Stockstill (1) Sarah Bancroft (2) Ginny Acker (2) Dru Cabler Carol Oppel Neal McGowan Neal McGowan Matt Forrest Jennifer McGowan Ben Forrest Claire Cabler Sam Forrest Morgan Dew Nick Forrest Xander Stockstill Jay Cindy, Jay Henry Olivas Carolyn Wier Yvonne Chavez Frank & Jean Severn Charles Brewer Darlene Goodnight Jodi & Jay Doran Henry Olivas Debbie Thornal Pam & David Johns Frank Severn Sandy Sterzing Shelly Botkin Steve Niemeyer Jean & Frank Severn Ryan Marquess 2 Karen Milton-TC Dee Ann Thomasson-TC Judy Elkins-TC Debbie Thornal Tina Stonebarger Helen Anderson Darlene Goodnight Henry Olivas Karen Milton Dodie Wells Susie Baxter-Harwell
GREETERS
Jean & Frank Severn
Barbara Dody
Sat. 9:00
Jonea Raney-TC Jill Collins Carolyn Wier Pat Bullock
Diana Stangl-TC Evelyn McMillen Sandy Sterzing Lynn Edgerton
Jim Nolan
Shelly Botkin
Al McKinney
Cecily Bennett
Diane Brewer
April 13
April 20
April 27
May 4
Jonea Raney
Dodie Wells
Rex White
Jill Collins
Depositor WED. 6 p.m. Lector
April 5: Soup & Lenten program TBD
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Passion Gospel: 7:30: Jonea Raney, Pattie Rose, Amelia Sondgeroth, Jill Collins, Wes Raney, Jon Dullnig; 9:00: Youth Readers: Abbe Kelly, Ariston Awitan IV, Brodie Doidge, Claudia Janes, Nora Kelly, Henry Janes; 11:00.: Michael Meigs, Karen Milton, Andrew Poynot, Suzann Dvorken, Dave Elkins, Beth Holmes 2 Altar Guild Easter Prep Party, Saturday, April 15
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Vestry Clarence Bonnen, Sr. Warden Melissa Blanding, Jr. Warden
Vestry members: Dan Aja, Mike Brode, Dru Cabler, Jill Collins, John Cooper, Scott Forrest, Marjie Lawrence, Ryan Marquess, Laura Merritt, Becky Poynot, Pattie Rose, and Ann Seyler.
Committees
Staff
Acolytes: Jay Brown, Carol Oppel, Cindy Cabler, Kim Kiplin, and Nancy Bachschmid
Rector The Rev. Elizabeth Zarelli Turner
Altar Guild: Karen Milton Building Committee: Amelia Sondgeroth Christian Formation: Cathy Nelson Communications: Pattie Rose Daughters of the King: Judy Elkins Women of St. Mark’s: Diana Stangl Facilities: Ray Smith
Deadline for the May 2017 St. Mark’s News is Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Please submit your article by email as an attachment to: office@stmarksaustin.org.
Finance: Diana Stangl Outreach: Laurie Mayor Parish Life: Brenda White Pastoral Care/Health Ministry: Jonea C.S. Raney Stewardship: Amelia Sondgeroth, Dru Cabler Ushers: Henry Olivas
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 2128 Barton Hills Drive Austin, TX 78704 512.444.1449 www.stmarksaustin.org office@stmarksaustin.org
Associate Rector The Rev. Dr. David W. Peters Director of Religious Education Cathy Nelson Organist/Director of Music Mark Reed Seminarian Neal McGowan Brian Prall Head of Day School Anne Wingler Parish Administrator Joanne Foote Newsletter Editor Becky Janes
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