St. Paul's Memorial Church Newsletter
Telephone: 295-2156 www.stpaulsmemorialchurch.org September 16, 2010
Pastoral Emergency: 806-9069
Rector’s Blog – Join in the conversation with Rector Jim. You are invited to join each day in conversation on Rector Jim's blog Fiat Lux. Jim updates it every day. You can reach it by clicking http://spmcrector.blogspot.com/
The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost – September 19, 2010
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist I with Homily
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist II with Hymns and Sermon
5:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist II with Homily
100th Anniversary Celebration – Please join us this Sunday, September 19th, for our Centennial service and luncheon.
Sign-Up September - St. Paul's has a wide array of ministry opportunities available to all members. During the month of September, the committees especially invite you to sign up to participate in these ministries for the coming year. Please stop by the tables in the Parish Hall before and after each service during September.
REKINDLING OUR LIGHT: An Interfaith Gathering of Remembrance and Renewal - Join with friends and neighbors for a very special community night on Wednesday September 22 at 5:30pm. As part of a collaboration between local clergy and the UVa Women’s Center, representatives of various faiths will offer prayers for light, hope, peace, and life in response to the violence of the past year. Dinner will follow in the parish hall. For more information, contact Ann Willms at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Don’t Miss It! Gardening and Prayer: Adult Education Forum featuring UVA Prof. Vigen Guroian, noted Orthodox theologian, avid gardener, author of Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening-- Sept. 26 after 10am worship, the Parish Hall.
Personnel News - Alice Fitch is our new Office Coordinator. She is in the office from Monday through Thursday from 9 am until noon.
Stewardship
We are fortunate to have a wonderful group of dedicated stewards participating on the stewardship committee this year. Each was asked to write a brief statement about why they chose to serve St. Paul’s in this way. Here is one of them:
I’ve always liked the saying attributed to Winston Churchill: “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Giving never seems to diminish people, but rather to make them larger. (And at 5 feet, zero inches, I appreciate that!) Serving on the stewardship committee provides me the opportunity to appreciate the grace of those who have given – time, love, money, talent, even life itself-- so that this world might be a better place. It also allows me to contemplate the opportunities I, and all of us, have to be part of something larger than self. Within this St. Paul’s community, I see extraordinary chances to nurture mind, spirit, and body – both our own and those of others beyond these walls.
Being a practical, thrifty sort, I am always aware of the financial requirements of simply maintaining an institution. Perhaps the work of the stewardship committee will stretch me and become more about vision than maintenance. I hope that it will be about what I and all of us can become – of “the lives we can make” though our varied, individual ways of sharing what we have and are.
Stuart Dopp
Community Night Book Group with Paula Kettlewell - We will be reading Journey to the Common Good: Faith, Anxiety and the Practice of Neighborliness by Walter Brueggemann. A leading Old Testament scholar presents a Biblical counter narrative to today’s political and economic conditions and policies calling us to “… journey together to the common good.” Sessions will be held on five consecutive Wednesday evenings starting on September 22nd at 6:45 pm in the Library at St. Paul’s. Each session will last roughly an hour.
United Nations Association - The local United Nations Association cordially invites parishioners to our next meeting which will feature Journalist and Author, Helena Cobban, on her recent book "Re-Engage! America and the World after Bush". This meeting will be on Sunday, September 19 at 3:00 pm at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 717 Rugby Road. Just come on over after the St. Paul's Luncheon. The meeting is free and the public is invited. Refreshments will be served.
IMPACT
IMPACT wants to hear from YOU! IMPACT's 33 congregations are now conducting listening sessions to identify justice issues in the city and county. Come share your thoughts, experiences, and prayers, and help us live out God's call to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with our God." (Micah 6:8)
Thursday, September 23 (7pm @ St. Paul's Memorial): Intercongregational Listening Session with Evergreen Ministries and First United Methodist Church
Tuesday, September 28 (7pm @ John Frazee's house - 1404 E Market St): Coffee / dessert
RSVP to John Frazee at
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or 434-242-0103
VESTRY NOMINATIONS - The Vestry Nominating Committee is now seeking nominations for the St. Paul's Vestry Class of 2013. We invite your help in creating a slate of 6 candidates during the period September 5, 2010 through October 3, 2010. Nomination Forms, explaining the process and eligibility requirements are available on the bulletin boards in the parish hall, the office and the Chancellor Street entrance. In addition you may send nominations to
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or call the church office.
The Vestry is the primary lay oversight body in an Episcopal parish. It has fiduciary responsibility for the budget and the provision of clergy for the congregation. The St. Paul's vestry consists of 18 members elected by members of the parish for a term of three years. Six new members are elected each year. Vestry elections will begin Friday, January 14, 2011 and end at the adjournment of the Annual Meeting on January 16, 2011.
Music Education - Don Loach, our Music Director Retired, is teaching a course this fall called Art of Listening to Music: Developing Musical Perception. If you'd like to develop your listening skills further you should register for the course. It will meet eight consecutive Thursday evenings from 7 to 9 PM in Room 201 of Clemons Library at the University beginning September 23. The topics include Sound and Texture, Time and Movement, Melody and Melodic Coherence, Organization, Harmonic Frameworks; Fundamentals of Tonal Harmony, Sectional and Continuous Organization, and finally a study of German and Franco-Russian styles in the late 19th century up to WW I. To register online go to http://www.scps.virginia.edu/sis/newstudents.htm, or phone 982-2779 for help; you may need it. The fee is $190. The course number is NCFA 125. If you took a course last academic year, you register as /returning.htm, or phone 982-2779.
New Nursery Coordinator Needed - Our fabulous nursery coordinator, Glynis Welte, is "retiring" from her role in our nursery to take on a full-time position as the Gordon Avenue Library Children's Librarian. Congratulations to Glynis! We are very grateful to her for the creativity and enthusiasm that she brought to the nursery program, and for her warm and energetic leadership. We are now looking for someone to take on this rewarding position. Being the Nursery Coordinator involves working with our nursery staff each Sunday, teaching the 2-3 year old class, coordinating child care for special events, and helping our youngest members and their families feel welcome at St. Paul's. If you are interested in learning more about the position, please contact Alice Fitch, St. Paul's Office Coordinator, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or (434) 295-0156.
CROPWALK 2010 - $150 can buy a hundred chicks and two wire chicken coops, providing two families with a reliable source of eggs, protein and income. $120 can enable three women to attend a literacy class for a year and change their lives forever. $200 can provide a struggling farm family with a draft animal to significantly increase their food production and also carry produce to market. Money well spent.
These are some of the many benefits for the world’s poor generated by the interfaith Crop hunger walks conducted in 2000 American communities each year. The walks are sponsored by Church World Service for international relief and development, disaster response, and local hunger-fighting. The almost $300 million raised in the last 20 years has been a humanitarian blessing to countless families.
Charlottesville/Albemarle’s annual 10 kilometer (6 mile) Cropwalk will take place on October 10 starting at First Presbyterian Church at 1:30 p.m. Please consider supporting a St. Paul’s walker with a contribution or joining us for the fun of all or part of the walk. For information call Wilma Bradbeer, 293-2640 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Region XV Episcopal Church Women will be holding a “Meet and Greet” session at Church of Our Savior on September 19th from 2 – 4 pm. The purpose of this session is for women to find out what resources are available to them through the Diocese. It will also provide a time for each church to showcase what they do in regards to outreach and fundraising.
Right next door The Schoolhouse Thrift Shop will be open for a tour at 3 pm. This is a Region XV outreach ministry where there are volunteer opportunities available.
