This Week at Epiphany, April 13-19
Cliff West
THIS WEEK AT EPIPHANY, April 13 - April 19, 2008
A PDF version of these announcements may be viewed and printed on the Church of the Epiphany Web site by using the following link: http://www.churchoftheepiphany.org/periodic/ThisWeek/EpiphanyThisWeek.pdf
Celebrant — The Rev. Amber Stancliffe Evans
Deacon — The Rev. Hailey McKeefry Delmas
Preacher — The Rev. Amber Stancliffe Evans
Acolytes — Sam Taylor, Rebecca Mulready, Catherine Luckenbach, Sarah Klieves
Acolyte Parent — Starmie Taylor
Altar Guild — Nancy Newman, Deb Dei Rossi
Lay Readers — (8) Jim Schuyler (10) Kent Holubar, Lisa Thompson
Eucharistic Ministers — (10) Dede Lehmkuhl, Nancy Winningham, Victoria Brown
Eucharistic Visitors — Dede
Lehmkuhl
Oblation Bearers — The Grodem Family
Ushers — (8) Bob
French, (10) Emil Torrez,
Jack Marquis
Greeter — Jane Grodem
Coffee Hour Hosts — Jack and Sue Marquis, Cliff
Brown
Godly Play PreK/K: Feast in Parish Hall
Godly Play 1st/2nd: Feast in Parish Hall
Godly Play 3/4/5: Feast in Parish Hall
Middle School: The Circle of the Eucharist — Carole Luckenbach
Nursery Teens — Emma Howland, Stephanie Blake, Elisabeth Wilkinson
Nursery Parent — Eirene Chen and Steve Cottrell
The altar flowers are given to the
Glory of God
with thanksgiving by Melissa Smith.
Sunday, April 13
Today is the Feast: The Circle of the
Holy Eucharist.
The Children’s Worship will be lead by Nina
Brooks in the Parish Hall.
Help with the Feast
Adults and youth, would you like to help provide gentle
guidance and more helping hands at The Feast, our monthly Children's Worship?
The Feast is about 8 times a year in the Parish Hall, during regular worship.
It's a lot of fun, and there are a lot of kids. The Feast gives both parents
and Godly Play teachers the freedom to enjoy worship on those Sundays. But we
need your help to make it possible. Please make a gift of your time every few
months to the children, parents and teachers of Epiphany. It's a great way to
enjoy the company of children for just a little while! Contact am...@churchoftheepiphany.org
VESTRY NEWS - RECTOR TRANSITION
It is a tradition in the Episcopal Church to wait until the resigning rector leaves office before forming a search committee and interviewing interim candidates. For those of you who are long time members at Epiphany, you are familiar with the process. To the newer members we say, don’t be intimidated. There are well established procedures for the hiring of a new rector and at Epiphany we are experienced! Your vestry is confident that our excellent staff and clergy can maintain the high quality, day-to-day operations at Epiphany while we search for our new rector.
Over the next several weeks, the vestry will be hard at work. We have received the names of several interim-rector candidates. Our intention is to interview and hire an interim within a month. Ideally, the interim rector will be in place by the beginning of June.
At our March vestry meeting, we formalized the structure of the Rector Search Committee. It will be a twelve member committee plus one non-voting vestry liaison. Now, the vestry needs to populate the committee. We are continuing to collect names of church members who have expressed an interest in serving on the search committee. Please, if you have an interest in serving, or would like to nominate someone, submit your name today! All church members interested in serving should also complete our search committee questionnaire. This will help us assess skills and talents. Questionnaires are located at the back of the church, in the church office and online.
The vestry would like to have the names of some of our newer members on the list. Your input is important to the church. Placing your name on the list and submitting a completed questionnaire does not commit you to anything at this time. It simply means that you are interested and would like to have a discussion about what is involved. The cut-off date is April 14. Please submit your name to Nancy Winningham, Clerk of the Vestry, or Craig DeBrine, Sr. Warden; contact information is on the back of the service bulletin.
The vestry appreciates your patience over the past six weeks and thanks you for your support and encouragement.
Quest For Adults The series is held on Sundays through April 20 from 5 to 7 pm in the chapel. Shelley Denney and Kelly Bravo will continue the journey of exploration. The course is open to longtime Episcopalians and new members. Contact Shelley h...@earthlink.net
Human Rights letter signing
The next Human Rights letter-signing activity will be today,
April 13. Please stop by the table and sign letters on behalf of prisoners of
conscience and victims of torture. A special emphasis of our letters this month
will be on the human rights violations in China
and Tibet.
Thanks for your support!
Upcoming Events
Rebuilding Together
The project begins soon. Come and join us next Saturday, April
19, to prepare Lillian Yee’s house for painting and the garden for
sodding, both to be done on National Rebuilding Day, April 26. We need a few
more people willing to share their time and energy for this one morning to prep
walls for painting, stack boxed possessions and load debris into a dumpster.
Starting at 8 am, we plan
to be finished by 2 pm at
the latest. Drinks and food are provided. To sign up, contact Judith Eby (650) 594-0785
Jud...@phortech.net or add
your name to the sign-up sheet in the Parish Hall.
WOMEN’S
ONE-DAY RETREAT
New date -April 26 In addition to
our annual weekend women's retreat in the fall, a new one-day retreat is being
planned for Saturday, April 26. women of the parish are welcome for a full day
of reflection, community and some fun. The cost is $30 for lunch and dinner.
The sign-up sheet is in the Parish Hall. More details will follow. If you have
any questions please contact Lisa Thompson
(650) 593-3295
lisacth...@aol.com
IHN SUPPORT
Guests from IHN are coming to Epiphany for the week of April
27 - May 4. This is a great opportunity for your family to give back to our
community and help others who are temporarily without a home. I am looking for
people who would like to host, prepare dinner for our guests and visit with
them; and then someone else to spend the night and help our guests in the
morning. I need volunteers for Sunday, 4/27, Wednesday, 4/30, and Saturday,
5/3. I am also looking for volunteers on Sunday morning, 5/3, at 8 am to help breakdown the tents.
Please email or call me, Rebecca Bates (650) 593-5399 rebl...@earthlink.net
Confirmitzvah
— You’re Invited
It's A Rite of Passage Service at 7 pm Friday, May 16, 2008 at Epiphany, followed by a
reception in the Parish Hall. At this service, the 6 participants will embrace
their identity as persons responsible for their own spiritual lives. Each youth
with share a bible passage and what it means to them. Then they will journey together
the next day to Grace Cathedral for confirmation. This is Epiphany's first
Confirmitzvah, and we hope the community will show up in force to celebrate the
commitment to study, prayer and spiritual reflection made by the youth in the
last year.
Travel to El Salvador
Epiphany is putting together a group of 7-10 adults to travel
to El Salvador
this summer to strengthen our ties to that diocese and the parish of La Divinia
Providencia in particular. While in El Salvador, we will have the
opportunity to participate in a service project, perhaps related to opening the
school at LDP, as well as a workshop for Sunday school teachers from across the
diocese. The dates for the trip are July 6-13.The ability to speak Spanish is
not necessary. Information about the trip and its estimated costs can be
obtained from Nina Brooks. If you are considering the trip, contact Nina. (650) 631-4244
nmbr...@sbcglobal.net
Blood Drive in May
Epiphany will be hosting a blood drive in the Parish Hall on Sunday, May 4 from
1 to 5.
Come make a difference by giving a pint of blood. Questions? Want to reserve a
time?
Contact Rev. Hailey McKeefry Delmas (650)596-5714 hai...@cyberdeacon.com
More Notes of Interest
MEMORIAL PIANO
The Vestry members along with Cortlandt Bender, Minister of
Music, are pleased to announce the purchase of the Kent Nowels Memorial Piano. This instrument, a 1927 Steinway
Model A, is made possible by a generous gift to the congregation from Kent’s
estate. Its quality is unsurpassed in instruments of its size. This piano will
replace the one on loan from the Nowels Family. A story about our new
instrument will appear in the May Beacon.
This historic piano will serve the congregation well for years and years.
Opportunities for Children & Youth
SEEKERS on Sunday— Come join the fun!
5:00-6:30 Junior Seekers
6:30-7:00 Pizza Dinner
7:00-9:00 Senior Seekers
Contact Amber at am...@churchoftheepiphany.org
Opportunities for Adults
Wednesday Eucharist and Healing
Epiphany's best kept secret! A beautiful, intimate service of prayer and healing in the middle of your week. Join us in the Chapel at 10 am.
Bad Girls of the Bible
The next meeting will be Wednesday April 16—at the same
time as the Men’s Dinner. We have changed the time and date to every
other Wednesday at 7 pm in
Room 108. Some of us have found this new time more convenient. This Bible study
has been an incredible tool in learning more about a shared spiritual path.
Please join us! Upcoming dates: April
16 and 30
For more information please contact Mary Birss at mary...@comcast.net or (650) 598-9206
Men's Group
Tuesday morning meetings have resumed at 7:30 am at Broiler Express. Please let Cort
Bender csbco...@comast.net know
if you will be attending so that he can have materials available.
Next Men’s Dinner: Wed.,
April 16, at 7 pm
Adult Forum
Join us for discussion of the day's bible lessons every
Sunday morning in the Library, from 9:05 to 9:50 am. Childcare is provided upstairs in the Toddler
Nursery.
Epiphany Book Group
The next meeting is April 13 at the Haas home, 1081 Crestview Drive, San Carlos at 5:30 pm. Our selection is The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph Marshall.
Contact Ginny Grant ginny...@yahoo.com
(650) 593-6217
or Cort Bender csbco...@comcast.net
(650) 591-5356
Calendar
Sunday April 13
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Adult Forum
10:00 am Holy Eucharist
4:00 pm Daisies — Parish Hall
5:00 pm Quest — Chapel
5:00 pm Seekers — Parish Hall
5:30 pm Book Group — Haas Home
Monday April 14
3:30 pm Prayer Service at Bayview Villa
7:00 pm Alcoholics Anonymous — Lounge
6:30 pm Vestry Search Committee — Library
7:00 pm Spanish Class — Room 108
Tuesday April 15
7:30 am Men’s Group
7:00 pm Eagle Scout Review — Room 108
7:00 pm Worship Meeting — Library
Wednesday April 16
10:00 am Holy Eucharist and Healing
7:00 pm Bad Girls of the Bible — Room 108
7:00 pm Men’s Group Dinner — Parish Hall
Thursday April 17
3:30 pm Joyful Noise Choir
4:00 pm Good News Choir
7:00 pm Choir Rehearsal — Sanctuary
8:00 pm Alcoholics Anonymous — Parish Hall
Friday April 18
Saturday April 19
9:00 am Pipe Band Practice — Parish Hall
6:00 pm No Reservation Practice — Parish Hall
Sunday April 20
8:00 am Holy Eucharist
9:00 am Adult Forum
10:00 am Holy Eucharist
5:00 pm Quest — Chapel
5:00 pm Seekers — Parish Hall
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Office Phone: (650) 591-0328 Fax: (650) 591-6472
Church Office Hours:
Monday through Thursday 9 am - 3 pm
Friday 9 am - 12 noon
