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Messenger A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FROM ST. MARK’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SAN ANTONIO FEBRUARY 2011

VOLUME 100

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New Director of Music and Organist

By The Rev. Mike Chalk, Rector

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am very excited to announce that Joseph Causby has been called and accepted the position of Director of Music and Organist at St. Mark’s. Joe, a native of Morganton, North Carolina, is the Organist and Choirmaster of Houston’s historic Trinity Episcopal Church. He is responsible for a growing music program in an active downtown parish. Joe is also the organist for the Houston Bach Society.

As the first American organ scholar of Durham Cathedral in 2008-2009, Joe played the organ for daily services and conducted the Cathedral Choir of men and boys. He accompanied the Choir for a live BBC broadcast, performed with the Choir at the Sage Gateshead, one of the UK’s newest and leading performance venues, and toured with the Cathedral Choir in France. In July of 2009, just before leaving Durham, Joe gave a solo performance as part of the cathedral summer organ recital series.

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Joe holds a Bachelor of Music in organ performance and sacred music from Appalachian State University (Boone, North Carolina) and a Master of Music in organ performance from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University (Houston). Upcoming concert performances include solo recitals at the Collegiate Church of St. Mark, Warwick UK; the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC.

Joseph Causby will begin his new ministry with St. Mark’s on May 23, 2011.

In addition to organ performance, Joe is a PhD candidate, studying the Anglican choral tradition as found in America. His dissertation, under the supervision of Professor Jeremy Dibble of Durham University (Durham, England) centers around the history of the choir of St. Thomas’ Church, New York City and its founder, T. Tertius Noble.

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I want to thank the outstanding work of the Choir Search Committee ably chaired by David Frego. This committee devoted countless hours, researching resumes, meeting regularly, and making visits to the final candidates’ churches.

Members of the Choir Search Committee are Kathleen Vale, Kelly Ranson, Ann Coiner, David Morgan, Bunny Matthews, Laura Stokes, Grace Ohlenbusch, and Dina Aboul Saad. David Phipps represented the vestry and Kristin Roach served ex officio as a staff liaison.

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The Messenger is published monthly and is available in magazine format online at www.stmarks‐sa.org

Parish Clergy The Rev. Michael D. Chalk Rector The Rev. Jonathan Wickham Assistant Rector Assis ng Clergy The Rev. Dr. John Lewis Co‐director, The Work+Shop The Rev. Dr. Jane Pa erson Co‐director, The Work+Shop Making a Gi of Their Service The Rev. Mary Earle Assis ng Priest The Rev. Cliff Waller Assis ng Priest Staff Jennifer Allison Children’s Ministries Co‐Director Todd Allison Youth Director Priscilla Briones Accoun ng Janet Carrizales Nursery Coordinator Bill Edwards Parish Administrator Elaine Enloe Clergy Execu ve Administrator Database Manager Sandy Falkenberg Cherub Choir Conductor Emmet Faulk Community Forma on Director CAYA Worship Coordinator Dr. David Heller Interim Organist Heather Herschell Children’s Ministries Co‐Director Melanie Lizcano Communica ons Director Ruby Merrill Facili es Manager Pat Hutchison Noble Community of Care Kris n Roach Interim Director of Music Sara Talley Asst. Director Youth Ministries

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 315 East Pecan St. San Antonio, TX 78205 www.stmarks‐sa.org

Special Guest Speaker, Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent of The NewsHour at St. Mark’s in March

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t. Mark’s is honored to have as our special guest speaker, Ray Suarez, an esteemed journalist with The NewsHour.

He came to The NewsHour from National Public Radio where he had been host of the nationwide call-in news program “Talk of the Nation” since l993.

Mr. Suarez is a member of St. Columba’s Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. and is a sought after speaker at major conferences of the Episcopal Church. I have been inspired and informed by his presentations most recently at The Consortium of Endowed Parishes Conference in New Orleans.

He is the author most recently of a book examining the tightening relationship between religion and politics in America,

The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America.

Suarez was a co-recipient of NPR’s l99394 and l994-95 duPont-Columbia silver Baton Awards for on-site coverage of the first all-race elections in South Africa and the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, respectively.

Suarez holds a B.A. in African History from New York University and an M.A. in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. A native of Brooklyn, New York, he lives in Washington, D. C. with his wife and three children.

Ray Suarez will speak Saturday, March 26 beginning at 8:45a.m. on the topic of The Church and the Common Good: What is the Role of the Church in Our Shared Public Life? Following his lecture, Suarez will lead a distinguished panel on this theme. Our panel participants are Mr. Rick Casey, Columnist, Houston

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Ray Suarez joined The NewsHour in October 1999 as a Washington-based Senior Correspondent.

Chronicle and host of a new show on KLRN, Ms. Jill Oettinger, CEO, Good Samaritan Community Services, and Ms. Nancy Reed, President/CEO, Communities in Schools of San Antonio.

On Sunday morning, Ray Suarez will lead the adult Christian formation class at 10:10 where he will share his story and his regard for the Episcopal Church.

Registration is free but is required.

This event is presented not only for St. Mark’s but the city of San Antonio. Invite your friends and be a part of an important weekend at St. Mark’s.

Liturgy Notes

Giving

Planned

Planned Giving: A Gift for the Future It is appropriate during the season of Lent to fulfill a responsibility that is directed to me as your Rector in The Book of Common Prayer:

As Rector of St. Mark’s, planned gifts have served as a great blessing. These gifts have provided funding for items that are beyond our normal operating expenses. I am pleased that 49 individuals and families have joined the Everett H. Jones Legacy Communion, that is, these people have made a planned gift to St. Mark’s Church.

The Minister of the Congregation is directed to instruct the people, from time to time, about the duty of Christian parents to make prudent provision for the wellbeing of their families, and of all persons to make wills, while they are in health, arranging for the disposal of their temporal goods, not neglecting, if they are able, to leave bequests for the religious and charitable uses. (BCP p. 445)

St. Mark’s joined the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes several years ago to discover how we could build our endowment program. I will attend the 2011 conference in Chicago February 23-26 because I believe a great endowment is essential for our church. If you would like to speak with me, Martha Steves, Darin Digby or Cathy Dawson about planned giving, please do so.

The fact that 70 percent of Americans die without a will is unacceptable. Procrastination is routinely practiced when it comes to making a will for a variety of reasons but must be overcome.

Ash Wednesday Quiet Day April 9 at 10:00-11:45a.m.

Led by The Rev. Mike Chalk

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to your kindness...Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

--Psalm 51:1

The theme of our Ash Wednesday Quiet Day is “Self-Examination: The Path of Spiritual Growth.” The text for our time together is the powerful Litany of Penitence as found in the Ash Wednesday service (Book of Common Prayer p. 267) and Psalm 51 that precedes the litany. Our Quiet Day will encompass short meditations with time for silence and solitude. We will meet in Jerusalem Chapel and you are asked to call the church if you plan to attend.

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“Observe the Holy Lent”

By The Rev. Jonathan Wickham, Assistant Rector

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which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith.

sh Wednesday, which this year falls on March 9th, marks the beginning of the season of Lent.

Having been hushed by quiet waiting of Advent, strengthened

by God’s presence with us in the Incarnation at Christmas, and then empowered to follow Jesus’ life pattern through Epiphany we now turn our attention to the trial, suffering and resurrection of Jesus in Holy Week.

I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by selfexamination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and meditating on God's holy Word.”

The liturgy for Ash Wednesday includes the following invitation:

“Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were

prepared for Holy Baptism. It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church. Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the Gospel of our Savior, and of the need

ST. MARK’S CALENDAR MEETING Attention all Ministry/Committee Chairs!

April 2, 2011 in Tom Gish Hall 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.

Questions?

Contact the church office at (210) 226-2426.

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During this season of individual and community selfreflection we are formed, and re-formed, as God’s people deeply committed to being Christ’s risen hands in the world. But this process works only if we take it seriously and give it the time and attention needed. So I encourage you to observe a Holy Lent: come to church, worship with your community, attend formation classes, say your prayers, take on new habits of faith, and may we all find ourselves renewed in our identity as the Body of Christ.

THE GIFTED YEARS CLASS WITH BETTY ANNE CODY For anyone in life transitions, for all who seek a deeper life with God, Richard Rohr offers his new book, THE NAKED NOW. Taking all distractions off of God's gift for this moment, this NOW of life, he leads the reader to focus on the immediate gift of God, the Present. Rooting us here, he takes us into a more mature grasp of what it means to open our lives to the Holy Spirit, whose job it is to guide us closer to the meanings of our individual lives and of our life together.

Although we have looked since 2004 on the later years and their opportunities, this book has a wider focus, so we open our class to include anyone in a changing time in life and any seekers who long for a deeper sense of God's purpose. As we read this book and take in its wisdom, we will also be sharing our impressions of the writings and of what we are learning about our own Journeys through the layers of this life. We hope you will be with us for this time together. Elizabeth Cauthorn has ordered the books and will have them available in our bookstore.

TUESDAYS 10:00 TO 11:30a.m.

MARCH 8, 15, 22, 29 & APRIL 5, 12 DEAN RICHARDSON ROOM, ST. MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.

Volunteer Opportunities St Nicholas Guild needs poly fiberfill left over from past craft projects to stuff the small pillows they make for patients at the American Cancer Society If you can thread a needle or sew a stitch, they could also use your help.

Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month from 10 AM to about 12:30 PM, usually at the Church. The Feb. 21 meeting will be held at Judy Rux’s home (Presidents’ Day). Bring a sack lunch and come prepared to laugh. Contact: Judy Rux, 499-0707.

Pray-ers, sponsored by Daughters of the King, but open to all, want your prayer concerns. We would like to welcome you on Tuesday mornings at 10 AM in

Room 102. We pray for the sick and elderly, the needs of the parish, and the country and world, as well as for personal concerns. You may convey these to Alice Cummins, 822-9308, the church office, or any member of the group.

First Thursday Haven for Hope Cooks need someone to pick up food for cooking from the San Antonio Food Bank on the Monday before the first Thursday of the month at 9:30 AM. This usually involves a couple of cases of canned goods, frozen meat, dry products, such as rice or pasta, and sometimes a bag of onions, so if you grocery shop for a family, you probably

have enough room in your vehicle. The food needs to be delivered to the Church kitchen. For more details call Judy Rux at 499-0707.

St. Mark’s Sunday Receptionist: If you are interested in volunteering on Sunday mornings from 8:30-11:15a.m. as a receptionist, please contact the Community Formation Director, Emmet Faulk at 210-226-2426 or email at efaulkjr@stmarks-sa.org. Volunteers will be accountable to answer phones, help direct people around the building and be the face of St. Mark’s on Sundays.

Ministry News Lenten Luncheons Continues to Serve the Community

By Julie Van Zandt, Lenten Luncheons Chair

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days a week for four weeks total. No longer are there a “few stalwart males” helping, but rather a near equal split between male and female. Women, once the backbone of the volunteer base are now in the workforce. Service is, gasp, cafeteria style. Many, many current St. Markʼs members still miss that special personal service of waiting on and chatting with customers. The menu has been pared down for simplicity and there is awareness of the need for less caloric food. Chief ingredient in the homemade spaghetti sauce is tomatoes. Dressing is on the side for a mixed salad topped with cranberries.

he 59th Lenten Luncheons opens for business on Thursday, March 10 at 11 a.m. Lunch is served for $10 a plate on Thursday and Friday for four weeks in Lent from 11:00a.m. to 1:00p.m. Friday, April 1 is the final day. All proceeds go to local charities, several of which have already picked their day to serve in March. We need both volunteers and diners, so please do come join us.

Lenten Luncheons has a rich history here at St. Markʼs.

How you and other customers participate comprises its history and shapes its future. The lunches began in 1951 and they have adapted, sometimes painfully, to the changing times. Hallie Spice, the chair in 1951, would surely not recognize the Lenten Luncheons of today.

The LL growing pains were difficult and fractious at times. But there are some constants that have held the threads together; and no, it is not JUST the signature hot buttered “melt in your mouth” Pioneer biscuits. In 1950 when Bishop Gosnell At its inception, LL was a proposed the idea, he said simple waffle and sausage LL was to be a “bringing menu. As the menu grew to together and sharing several salad choices, experience.” That same multiple main dishes and a search for community is a myriad of desserts, so did LL pillar today, which is the customer base. Books significant, juxtaposed the from prior LL chairs virtual, removed, reported 10,000 customers.

Facebook world. Another Hours of operation were Ann Madison and Madelyn Hauser prepare Pioneer biscuits for constant is donation of Wednesday through Friday customers. proceeds to local charities. for six weeks. Everything It is also noteworthy that the roughly 500 customer was made from scratch-- mayonnaise to shrimp salad. To questionnaires from 2010 diners unanimously stated ensure freshness, shrimp were shipped in barrels from they also came because the people were nice. So it was the Gulf then cleaned, cooked, peeled and deveined by not just Rubyʼs fish, biscuits or dessert but about the the volunteer crew. Prices in the 80ʻs ranged from $2.25 community you created and gave to. for a green salad to $6.75 for a main course. Diners were served mainly by members of the Women of St. Markʼs Ladies and gentlemen, of LL pat yourselves on the back Ministry. These ladies, many petite and some older, for surviving the changing landscape. balanced large circular trays on one shoulder. The humungous trays held plates piled high with Chicken a la King, fish or spaghetti. Holy Communion was held in Bethlehem Chapel from 12:10 to 12:30 each day.

The streamlined version of today's LL looks vastly different. Services are no longer held on LL serving days, much less in the Chapel. The Women of St. Mark's ministry has been closed due to lack of attendance. There is a fixed price menu of $10. Lunch is served only two

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2011 Lenten Luncheons Volunteer Form Thursdays & Fridays: March 10 through April 1 Name:_________________________________________ Need Nursery: (Please circle) YES

:____________________ Email:____________________________ Steering Committees: If you would like to join one or lead one, please let us know!

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Days Available to Volunteer Thursday Week #1 10 March 17 March 24 March 31

Chair & Co-Chair: Julie Van Zandt, Mary McClung Volunteer Chair: OPEN Communications/Marketing Chair: Melanie Lizcano Finance Chair: Gail Mydlow Front of House Chairs: Kathy & Park Lawrence, Dee & George Whiteside (waiters, bussing, customer care) Back of House Chairs:

Friday 11 18 25 April 1

Job Preference: (Please circle) All jobs are on Thursdays and Fridays unless noted otherwise.

Food Prep (Tuesday) Biscuit Baker Biscuit Passer/Server Desserts Plate Scraper Bus Tables & Reset

Serving Line Chicken & Shrimp Salad Maker Dinner Salad Maker Wait Persons Greeters Drinks

Drinks Chair: Outreach Liaison Chair: Judy Rux

Please complete the form and either mail it to the church (Lenten Luncheons mailbox) or leave at the front desk. Forms are available online or at the front desk. Questions? Contact Julie Van Zandt at 210-734-2392 or jvanzandt@satx.rr.com.

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Kitchen Corps' Summit III Friends,

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I was heartened to see so many of you in the kitchen following the commissioning of our new "tilt brazier" at services on January 16th. For those who haven't heard, St. Mark's finance committee provisioned funds for the purchase of this large scale piece of cooking equipment to allow us to significantly increase our food production to the residents of Haven for Hope. Presently, we hope to achieve 4,000 servings per month by year's end. In time, with enough volunteer support that number could double.

aturday, March 5, 2011 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am in Gosnell Hall we'll hold our third Kitchen Corps Summit. Those of us who have become known as "St. Mark's Foodies" first met on December 6, 2008 at a formation meeting which focused on issues common to all food ministries at St. Mark's, including food safety, facility use and organizational matters. We also discussed our new alliances with the San Antonio Food Bank and Haven for Hope and our anticipated expansion of the impact St. Mark's could potentially have on fulfilling our commitment to our homeless and underserved neighbors and as part of our mission as a downtown church. Through thoughtful discussion in small groups, we began planning our volunteer opportunities, reviewing our ministry and mission purposes and organizing groups to move forward.

Here are some comments from Sandra Woodall, captain of the first team to use our newest ministry tool:

"The tilt brazier was great! With it we were able to prepare 500 portions in 2 batches as opposed to the 4 we needed formerly, even using the biggest pots in the kitchen. With the help of the tilt brazier, 3 people were able to finish 500 portions in about 2 1/2 hours. It is a marvel of modern, kitchen engineering."

Last year, on February 6, 2010 we held Kitchen Corps' Summit II. With our state of the art kitchen having been in use for more than a year, we met again to get feedback on what each of the various ministry/activity groups under the Kitchen Corps umbrella had been doing and what they had in mind for 2010. After getting updates on all of the food ministries operating at St. Mark's, we spent time talking about winding down our Ruby's Kitchen sack lunch program for the homeless and underserved and our commitment to assist with the feeding ministries of the San Antonio Food Bank and St. Vincent de Paul Society at Haven for Hope.

If you are interested in being part of a new hot food team, please contact me at jmcclung@lospatios.com, or call 210-861-5377. I would be pleased to provide more information.

In addition to our hot food program here at St. Mark's kitchen, we also have numerous volunteer teams that serve at the Haven for Hope campus. If your calling to serve is best met by being on a volunteer team that works on the Haven for Hope campus, please contact Pat Bridwell at lewbrid@aol.com. She would be most pleased to explain how those teams work.

This year we'll once again hear from each of our existing feeding ministry groups - Cafe Kairos, Lenten Luncheons, Sunday Breakfasts, Receptions, Cooking Teams at St. Mark's and Haven for Hope alliances - after having an opportunity for each group to discuss and assess for themselves where they are in the ministry cycle and evaluation process. Some of the ministry groups have been in existence for many years; others are relatively new and have sprung up in part from having available the great kitchen facilities we enjoy. Come share your ideas with us.

Finally, a reminder to you all that the third annual Kitchen Corps Summit will be held the morning of Saturday, March 5, 2011. You will be receiving more detailed information in the next week or two. Attending this event is a great way to learn about the breadth of all our food ministries at St. Mark's.

John McClung Kitchen Corps Co-Chair

If you're actively involved in any of St. Mark's food ministries, please make every effort to attend. If you're not currently involved but would like to learn more, please also come. You can register by visiting www.stmarks-sa.org.

Child care will be available if you respond no later than February 27, 2011.

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The Haven for Hope team in full uniform, make time from their busy schedule to take a photo.

Photo taken by Patrice Oliver

Christmas to the Street at Haven for Hope Outreach Last month Todd Allison and Sara Talley, Director and Assistant Director of Youth Ministries, respectively, wrote about the wonderful experience shared by all who helped make the 6th annual Christmas to the Street Community Barbeque and Outreach Event at St. Mark's on December 17th and 18th such a huge success. As Todd reported, after nearly four hundred lunches were served at St. Mark's on Saturday, December 18th, we kicked off our 1st annual Christmas to the Street Barbeque in Prospects Courtyard at Haven for Hope by serving dinner to about three hundred fifty more men and women. This will give you a bit of the "flavor" of our evening there.

Armed with the delicious barbeque meal prepared by our amazing youth group members, and 18 other volunteers from the "No Ties Allowed" men's fellowship group and others caravanned by car over to Haven for Hope, led by Chef Mario

Perez, Executive Chef for St. Vincent de Paul Society, and his assistants. St. Vincent de Paul Society, through "St. Vinny's Bistro" as it is known at Haven for Hope, is responsible for preparing and serving food to the residents in Prospects Courtyard. We had so much food it took Chef Mario's van and three other cars belonging to our St. Mark's workers to transport it to Haven for Hope! We were prepared to feed the residents in Prospects Courtyard, which is made up of persons who have not yet made the decision to move on to the campus or through meetings with an in-take person to evidence certain actions before they will be permitted to enter the program on campus.

Upon arriving, we quickly went to work setting up buffet tables, decorated with paper tablecloths and the beautiful poinsettias and centerpieces used earlier at St. Mark's for lunch. The tables were set

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up inside the main building in front of the chapel and adjacent to the dining area where residents normally dine. We next set up the buffet line with the bountiful amounts of food and provided two servers for each of the food items and drinks being served, plus one server each for condiments and cookies made by St. Mark's members. Others were available to mingle with the guests and assist with keeping the food line moving. The spirit of cooperation was high and, as we worked with Chef Mario's staff and several residents who volunteered to work in the kitchen, it was apparent a "special meal" was about to be partaken by all.

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residents. Over and over again the residents enthusiastically thanked us and gave blessings for the delicious food they were being fed and for our presence in their midst. Christ was clearly in the midst of us all, bringing us together as family and reminding us once again of the true meaning of Christmas. After we finished feeding everyone, one of the Haven for Hope staff and Chef Mario approached us and said the residents were asking if it was possible to be served seconds. We told them that we had brought the food for them and were not taking anything back! Thanks to the super St. Mark's cooks and bakers, the residents were eager to eat more of the delicious food. We eventually served virtually everyone at least two servings and still had enough food left over for St. Vinny's to serve the remaining barbeque for sandwiches at lunch another day. It felt as though we were reliving the feeding of the 5,000; the more food we gave out, the more we seemed to have left!

Courtyard residents are learning about the faithful community made up of many persons who want to help them improve their lives by beginning to address their most basic needs - food and shelter. For this night, St. Mark's, too, was sharing our love of Christ and making Him known to others.

Christmas to the Street at Haven for Hope wouldn't have happened without the coordination efforts of Todd Allison and the fantastic work of the youth group and everyone Todd and Sara identified last month. In addition, special thanks go to Phil Norman, Bill and Kathy Wassberg, Monica Fernandez, Pat and Craig Donegan, Kathy Mulligan, Caroline Rickards, Patrice, Joey, Anna and Jennie Oliver, Tookie Spoor, Gail Harwood, Sally and Rhew Dooley and Karen Burpo for being the hands and feet to put our service into action. Thanks also to Patrice Oliver for being our photographer!

There are many St. Mark's teams working with St. Vincent de Paul and the San Antonio Food Bank at Haven for Hope on an ongoing basis. We serve lunch or dinner one time a month each and would love for any of you who are interested in getting involved to join us. Please contact Pat Bridwell at lewbrid@aol.com or 930-7199 if you are interested in learning more.

When we finished serving everyone, we helped carry the remaining food back into the kitchen and cleared off and dismantled the tables and decorations. About three and one half hours after we'd begun, we were packing up to leave, amid continuing thanks for delivering a warm, delicious meal to many persons who have often not known where their next meal will come from. Thanks to Haven for Hope and St. Vincent de Paul, Prospects

2011 Vestry Members

Kathleen Weir Vale, Senior Warden

Gary Egmon, Junior Warden 2011 Vestry Members: David Ross David Dean Len Briley Julie Van Zandt Patrice Oliver Robin Voight

Elizabeth Breazeale Brenda Kingery Jennifer Merritt Jim Bliek Susan Beardslee Tom McGehee Chuck Harvey 10

The following letter was written from a parent whose children are in St. Mark’s Parents’ Day Out Program. The letter expresses her gratitude to the PDO staff and the impact St. Mark’s has made in her family’s lives.

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Youth Ministry 3rd Annual Youth Ministries Food Bank Fund Drive Beginning March 8 through April 17

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ver the last couple of years the Youth of St. Mark's, with the support of the parish, have been able to provide over $400,000 in food services to those in need in San Antonio and throughout Southwest Texas. It is our hope to continue the success of our previous two fund drives in 2011.

Here is how it works: For every dollar donated the San Antonio Food Bank, through their partnerships, is able to obtain $13 in food. But your donation goes

Hunger Facts: 5.7% of Texas’ population experience hunger on a regular basis – more than one million people.

further. Thanks to the continued support of very generous benefactors all donations to St. Mark's will be matched and any donations directly from a youth

or child's own money will be quadrupled. This matching gift is up to $10,000.00. This means that your dollar is actually worth $26 or as much as $52!

The youth have decided to make this year's Fund Drive a Lenten offering beginning with the annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper on March 8.

After that, listen for the 'Wahoo's!' and look for the table in the courtyard every Sunday until Palm Sunday.

Sr. High! Happening #118 March 4-6, 2011 are spiritual renewal weekends for high school students in grades 10 through 12. The diocese sponsors three weekends each year in various locations. The next Happening is March 4-6 at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, San Antonio. Space is limited so please contact Todd or Sara if you are interested. You can also signup online at http://dwtx.org/index.php/diocese/Happening.

Youth Night Out!!! Let's Go Bowling! March 9 at 5:30p.m. - 8:00p.m.

Meet at AstroBowl (3203 Harry Wurzbach Rd, San Antonio, TX 78209) at 5:30pm on Wednesday, March 9. $20 gets you shoes, 3 games, and we will grab dinner onsite. For more details check with Todd and Sara.

COMING THIS SPRING! Way of the Cross; April 22 Youth Retreat; April 29-May 1 Senior Recognition; May 15 Acolyte Training; May 22 Summer Outreach Weekend; June 3-5

FOLLOW ST. MARK’S YOUTH MINISTRIES ON FACEBOOK FOR UPCOMING EVENTS.

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Memorials ST. MARK’S MEMORIAL FUND: Don Baca by Dody Oppenheimer Elmer Dolch by Lois Dolch Rebecca Duncan by Moray Duncan Murry & husband, Gary Murray, Joan Shearrer, George & Ada Wesch George Judson by Judy & Jimmy Cavender, Dody Oppenheimer, J. Marvin Smith III, MD, Cliff & Bebe Waller Maidie Liebman by Margie Boldrick, Dody Oppenheimer Wally McGee by Margie Boldrick, Dody Oppenheimer Grace Perretta by Drew & Elizabeth Cauthorn HAVEN FOR HOPE: George Judson by Robert Gilliam, Mollie & Bartell Zachry STREET ENDOWMENT FUND: Joe Street by Mabrito Dental Partners LLP, Dody Oppenheimer Billie Street Jeffers by Virginia Street Koehl SPECIAL GIFTS: A gift to St. Mark’s in thanksgiving for Gene Colbert’s 87th birthday by Doug & Mary Earle A gift to St. Mark’s in thanksgiving for the ministries of John Lewis & Jane Patterson by Kathie & Russell Sherman A holiday gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Martha Steves by Ronald & Gene Calgaard A gift to St. Mark’s in thanksgiving for Cliff Waller by Nancy Scott Jones A gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Cliff Waller by Mollie & Bartell Zachry A gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Cliff Waller by Linda Jacobs A gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Cliff Waller by Catherine Vetters A gift to Rejoice in honor of Cliff & Bebe Waller by Beth Forsen A gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Cliff Waller by Lincoln & Barbara Yu A gift to St. Mark’s in honor of Rich Butler, her brother, by Bette Butler A gift to St. Mark’s Mission Fund by Linda Woods A gift to St. Mark’s in thanksgiving for Cliff & Bebe Waller by Elizabeth & Drew Cauthorn A gift to St. Mark’s Altar Guild for purchase of fair linen by the estate of Paula Crowe

In Compassion: Tara Lodek (February 10) Bert Honea, father of Mary McClung (February 13) 13

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Music from St. Mark’s Daniel Kobialka, Violinist/Composer with Kristin Roach, pianist at St. Mark’s Sunday, March 20, 11 at 4:00p.m.

State Universities of Hayward and San Francisco, Notre Dame de Namur University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as well as Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley.

Daniel Kobialka

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r. Kobialka was the Principal 2nd Violinist with the San Francisco Symphony for over two decades, occupying the Dinner and Swig Families Chair. In addition to his many performances worldwide, he is the founding concertmaster and annual soloist with the Midsummer Mozart Festival under George Cleave, with whom he has recorded the Mozart’s Violin Concerto No, 1.

At age 15, he made his concerto debut at Carnegie Hall, and in the same year appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Four years later, he made his critically acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall. A graduate of the Hartt College of Music, University of Hartford. Mr. Kobialka received his masters degree and Doctorate of Musical Arts from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His contributions to education over the past four decades have given him professorships at Catholic University of America, California

Mr. Kobialka’s interest in contemporary music was sparked while he was a boy. One of his high school friends, and associates with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, where Kobialka was the founding concertmaster and soloist, was John Adams, now one of Americas foremost contemporary composers. Other important influences on Mr. Kobialka’s musical talents were his “privileged relationships” with such legendary musicians and composers as Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Vivian fine, and Henry Brant.

Through some of these experiences, Kobialka’s concepts of “Spatial” music began to take shape. “I want to further develop music that builds on the concepts of the ancients Pythagoras and others and incorporate non—Western tonalities, such as the musical approaches of Japan and Java. I want to create music that surrounds and envelops, that intensely and accurately elicits a response in the listener. I also want to make spatial music that utilizes the unique characteristics of the venue to best advantage.”

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on a balcony, behind the audience, above the audience. “I want listeners to share in the musical experience, not sit back in their seats and watch the tuxedoed musicians, isolated on a stage, do their work.” Kobialka has pioneered in the development of the ZETA-Polyphonic violin, a MIDI synthony instrument which can be played and heard in a very large space. The world premiere of Kobialka’s Concerto for the ZETA- Polyphonic Electronic Violin, commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, was performed in March 1991 in the Symphony’s “New and Unusual” Concert Series.

Kobialka was involved in a compositional trilogy with the famous composer-accoustician Loren Rush, and composer- pianist Jan Mattox, of the “Good Sounds Foundation. “The trilogy is based on the theories of Pythagoras with a variety of tempered instruments and tuned pianos within his 5 and 7 systems of tuning.

He has commissioned over 30 works from such composers as Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Wuorinen, William Bolcom, Wayne Peterson, and Henry Brant. Mr. Kobialka has premiered both solo works and concertos for violin, including Ben Weber’s Violin Concerto, dedicated to him, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the late Robert Shaw. With the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, he gave both the American premiere of Toru Takemitsu’s “Far Calls, Coming Far,” and the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s “Rhapsody”, a work written especially for Mr. (Continued on page 15)

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Kobialka. He also premiered Henry Brant’s “Litany of Tides” with the San Jose Symphony and George Barati’s Violin Concerto with the Santa Cruz Symphony. Some of the other composers who have written and dedicated works for Mr. Kobialka include George Rochberg, Meyer Kupferman, Lou Harrison, Vivian Fine, Henry Brant, Fred Fox, Arthur Custer, Theodore Antoniou, Marta Ptaszynska, and Benjamin Lees.

Mr. Kobialka served as concertmaster for the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” which opened the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mr. Kobialka is widely sought after internationally as a performer and

lecturer, as well as composer. He has performed at major events in Europe, Taiwan, and Japan, where his recordings are number one sellers. The Japanese government awarded him a Medium Term Grant to study Japanese traditional and contemporary music.

During this same period Daniel Kobialka performed a newly commissioned work of Benjamin Lees, Sonata No.3 for Violin and Piano, in its world premiere at the International Cultural Center in Tokyo. He also gave a lecture recital at the Fukushima Music Arts Festival.

One of his most recent appearances was documented on a commercial Video release by Prem Promotion Ltd. of Tokyo Japan. Mr. Kobialka was also invited by Seiji Ozawa to be a principal violinist in the Nagano

Winter Orchestra, comprising of musicians from all parts of world to perform for the Opening Ceremonies of the Nagano Olympic Winter Games in Nagano Japan, February 1998.

The recording of Mr. Kobialka’s “Autumn Beyond”, coupled with Henry Brant’s “Solar Moth”, was included on the New York Times’ list of The Years Best Recordings for 1983, and many of his other recordings have become perennial best-sellers in both the classical and alternative markets. In order to freely pursue his own interpretations of the classics, as well as his profound interest in more avant garde music, Mr. Kobialka founded his own record label, LiSem Enterprises Inc., which has sold well over a million units since its inception in 1981.

On behalf of everyone in the Parish Choir, we extend our most heartfelt thanks to all those who made Sunday’s High Tea such an exquisite event. To Ann Coiner, and Ed & Ann Keetch, who organized and prepared much of the food and drink; and to those who contributed to the lavish spread – Chica Younger (brown sugar cake), Ed Rieke (trifle), Carolyn Parchman (picadillo), Martha Ann Franco (chicken salad sandwiches), Nancy Scott Jones (heart and macaroon cookies), Jim Bliek (pate and tarts), the Haff family (scones, tea and drink service), Anne Rochelle (cheeses), Grace Ohlenbusch (sandwiches); and to Ruby Merrill, the entire team of sextons, and Maddy and Laura Stokes who kept everything running smoothly, we are deeply grateful. Also, to all of the St. Mark’s family and friends who attended, we thank you for your support as we prepare to be in residence at Exeter Cathedral in July 2013.

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