Bell Tower - The Church of the Holy Innocents

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The
Bell Tower
The Church of the Holy Innocents Newsletter
Volume 11 — Number 6,7 & 8
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From the Rector
From
the Rector
General
Convention of ...
June and July
Summer 2015
from the Rector
The Rev. Donald Lowery
From the Rector ...cont.
From the
Rector ...cont.
Parish
News…
Parish
YouthNews…
Group
Vacation
Time Services
Weds.
Evening
Youth Group
Rector
Away
Deacon’s
Bench
Wolfe
Scholarships
Deacon’s Bench ...cont.
Community Report
News…
Treasurer’s
Ascension Day Service
June Schedule of Events
Parish News…cont.
July Schedule of Events
ECW / Tabitha
Scholarships
Deacon’s
Bench...
ECW News
June Schedule of Events
Vestry Notes…
July Schedule of Events
Bees Knees
August Schedule of Events
June
Birthdays/Anniversaries
Christian
Formation…
Unified
Serving
Schedule
Vacation
Bible
School
July
JuneBirthdays/Anniversaries
and July Birthdays and
Unified
Serving Schedule
Anniversaries
Remember In Your Prayers
August
Special Birthdays/Anniversaries
Dates
Unified Serving Schedule
Spotlight
on... Schedule
Unified Serving
for June and July
The Church of the Holy Innocents
The 210
Church
of the
Holy Innocents
South
Chestnut
Street
210
South
Chestnut
Street
Henderson, North Carolina
27536
Henderson,
North252-492-0904
Carolina 27536
Telephone:
Telephone: 252-492-0904
E-mail: [email protected]
E-mail:
Church [email protected]
Web Site Address:
www.churchoftheholyinnocents.org
Church Web Site Address:
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diocese has a convention that consists of
clergy and lay delegates.
The lay
delegates are selected out of each parish
by the vestry. At the national level, our
supreme governing body is the General
Convention. It consists of two houses,
just like our state legislature and the
Congress of the United States. The
House of Deputies consists of four lay
persons and four clergy elected from
each diocese. The House of Bishops is
made up of all the bishops in the
Episcopal Church. In the end, final
authority for the governance of the
Episcopal Church rests with the General
Convention
General Convention meets every
three years. This year it will meet from
June 25 until July 3, 2015 in Salt City,
Utah. It should be very interesting for
vast groups of Episcopalians to descend
on the center of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known
as the Mormons. I wish I could be a fly
on the wall to listen to the comments on
both sides of that divide.
General Convention of the
Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church is both
hierarchical and democratic. Episcopal
means, governed by bishops and indeed
we are. The church is divided into
jurisdictions known as a Diocese and
each diocese has a bishop. In fact, if it is
a large diocese, either in number of
members or geographical size it may
have more than one, with one bishop in
charge and others working under that
bishop’s authority to provide assistance.
We have our Diocesan Bishop, the Right
Reverend Michael Curry and a Suffragan
who assists him, the Right Reverend
Anne Hodges-Copple. In the United
States, over the whole pile of bishops is
our Presiding Bishop, the Most
Reverend Katherine Jefferts-Schori.
At this convention, ++Katherine
Jefferts-Schori completes her term as
Presiding Bishop. A new Presiding
Bishop will be elected by the House of
Bishops and then ratified by the House
of Deputies. As I think most of you are
aware, our own Bishop, the Right
Reverend Michael Curry is one of four
candidates for the position.
Many
believe he is the candidate most likely to
win the election. However, one can
never really predict. Almost no one
considered Katherine Jefferts-Schori to
be a viable candidate, yet she swept the
convention off its feet. We must pray
that God’s will be done and God will
raise up for us the leader who can help
the Episcopal Church minister the Good
News of Jesus Christ in the Twenty-First
Century. The election will be held on
June 27, 2015.
At the same we are also synodical
and democratic. That means that each
From the Rector cont. pg. 2
Summer 2015
What happens if Bishop Curry is
elected? He will return to the Diocese of
North Carolina to wind down his
Episcopate. Bishop Curry would be
enthroned as Presiding Bishop on
November 1, 2015 in the National
Cathedral in Washington, DC. If he
were to be so called, the Standing
Committee takes over the management
of the Diocese until a new bishop is
elected and 2016 would be devoted to
our own new search for new Bishop for
the Diocese of North Carolina. While I
am not the stuff of which bishops are
made, I do have several people in mind
whom I will suggest to the search
committee as possible candidates for the
position. We will see what happens,
June 27 will tell all. †
normal Schedule
August. †
should
resume
in
Rector Away
to our
I will be on retreat at the Hermitages
in Valle Crucis, NC, June 15 – 19. I will
then proceed to Beech Mountain where I
will conduct the marriage of Nicole Lynn
Huber and Joel Thomas Cheatham, IV.
After the wedding I have accepted an
invitation to spend June 21st, 22nd and 23rd
with Scott and Marcia Hartness at their
mountain cabin.
High School Graduates
Matthew Williamson
graduated from
Vance County Early College High School
and Vance-Granville Community College
with an Associate of Arts Degree. He is the
son of Katherine and Scott Williamson and
the grandson of Hazel P. Peck and the late
Thomas D. Peck, Jr. He will be attending
East Carolina University this fall.
Lorenzo Antonio Ortiz graduated from
I will leave town again on July 1 – 8 Kerr-Vance Academy. He is the son of Ana
to visit my parents and sister in Maryland. Maria and Genaro Ortiz. He will be
My mother has been very ill and in hospital attending William Peace University this fall.
and so I may extend that trip depending on
what I find when I get there, though I will
to our
be back for Sunday, July 12.
College Graduates
Parish News…
I will be attending my Lowery
Family Reunion on the weekend of July 17,
18, and 19.
Luke Stark graduated from College
of Charleston
with a
Masters
of
Accounting
degree.
He
is
the
son
of
Sharon
Then, God willing my life should
and Bill Stark and he will be employed by
return to normal. †
McGladry, LLC. Luke received his
undergraduate degree from COC and was
one of our Wolfe Scholars!!
The Youth Group will meet in
June except on June 21, when I will be
Anderson Stark graduated from
away.
the Kenan - Flagler Business School at
UNC- CH with a degree in Business
The Youth group will not meet on
th
Administration. She is the daughter of
July 5, 12 or 19 . We will resume Wolfe Scholarship Awards
Sharon and Bill Stark and a Wolfe Scholar.
regular meetings on July 26th. †
Marsha Nelson, Chair Anderson will be employed by Oracle.
The Wolfe Scholarship Committee
met in the Hughes House on May 20, 2015
to select scholarship recipients for the 2015
-2016 school year. The Wolfe Committee
members are Tom Church, Anne Almand,
The Rev. Donald Lowery Lisa Miravalle, Marsha Nelson, and Frank
Folger.
Four students were selected to receive
We will hold Communion with Wolfe Scholarship Awards as follows:
Healing Service on June 3rd. June 10th Nicholas Andrews(Lenoir-Rhyne University)
and 24th will be Communion. All these
(Junior year)
services are at 5:30 p.m. No classes are Alexis vanVenrooy( Bryn Mawr College)
attached afterwards during the summer.
(Senior year)
Please note, I will be out of town on
Samuel (Sam) Long (UNC-Chapel Hill)
th
June 17 so there will be no Communion
(Junior year)
service that day.
William Parish (Lenoir-Rhyne University)
There will be no healing service
or communion services in July. I will be
in and out of Henderson during July. A
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(Sophomore Year)
Congratulations to each of you !!!
Kathryn
Blackburn
graduates
from Appalachian State University this
summer and then she will be going to
Dental Hygiene School at GTCC in
August. She is the daughter of Kate
Blackburn and a Wolfe Scholar. †
HI Grounds Committee
John Foster
If you have any suggestions regarding
the appearance of our church’s grounds,
please share your thoughts with Grounds
Committee member John Foster. Thanks! †
THE BELL TOWER
DiOCese News…
Treasurer’s
Report
Bob Nelson, Treasurer
Sweet Potato Ball
The Sweet Potato Ball, a festive
evening of music and dancing to raise
money for the Episcopal Farmworker
Ministry, will be held in the new Great
Hall of the Chapel of the Cross, Chapel
Hill, on Friday, June 5 from 7:30 to 10:30.
50 in 50 Campaign
Music will be provided by the
Headliners, with a special guest appearance by The Soul Concern, the rock 'n roll
band of the rector, Stephen ElkinsWilliams, from his seminary days, reuniting for this one occasion after 40 years!
Light hors d'oeuvres will be served by the
Catering Company of Chapel HIll, and a
cash bar will be provided by the Carolina
Brewery.
A limited number of tickets are
available at www.thechapelofthecross.org/
event/spb or by calling 919-929-2193.
Tickets are $50 apiece, $25 of which goes
directly to the Episcopal Farmworker
Ministry in Newton Grove. If your
household buys two, you will fulfill
Bishop Curry's request for Harvest for
Hospitality.
(Harvest for Hospitality)
As we travel this summer, please
remember that the church still has to
pay its bills. Pledge checks and special donations can always be mailed
in to the office at :
210 S. Chestnut Street
Henderson, NC, 27536
As of May 26, we have raised
$291.18 at Holy Innocents’ for the 50 in
50 campaign. Thank you
for your
support for this worthy fundraising event
for the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry!
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THE BELL TOWER
ECW
&
Tabitha Guild
Both groups will resume
meetings in September. Details
will be in September newsletter.
Note ...
The next church newsletter will
be issued in September. Please email
newsletter items to:
[email protected]
If you are traveling this summer,
you can download the church news
letter from the church web site at:
The Deacon’s Bench
by the Rev. Harrel Johnson
Summer 2015
Since we are getting ready to take a bit of a vacation, this edition of the Deacons Bench is just a tad longer than my usual monthly submission. I write this on the
eve of Pentecost. That time in our liturgical calendar that is often called the Church’s
birthday.
There’s no better time to celebrate the diversity of the Kingdom of God than
on the Day of Pentecost. Separately, our differences are too diverse to list, but put
together, our individual uniqueness creates a beautiful kaleidoscope we call the Body
of Christ.
Sadly, today we see people and nations torn apart by racism, religious chauvinism, man-made borders and cultural bigotry. We have become a culture of usversus-them, where the “other” is to be feared and never trusted. This is not a new
occurrence, but one would have hoped that humanity would have learned from its
past mistakes and recurrent genocides over the ages; however, here we are in the 21st
century, repeating history again with chilling efficiency and cruelty.
Pentecost is a reminder that God’s Holy Spirit is given freely to all people with
no respect for race, culture, socioeconomic standing, gender or any other distinguishing mark used by people to differentiate one person from another. In God we are one.
On the Day of Pentecost, reported in the Book of Acts, people gathered in Jerusalem from all corners of the Roman Empire. They represented competing economic interests, diverse cultures, a myriad of languages and different religious traditions.
Nevertheless, God’s grace was given freely to all who heard the message preached by
St. Peter, and thousands converted to Christ. These aliens who converged on Jerusalem returned to their homes and spread the message of Christ, and the church began
to spread like a wildfire engulfing dry brush.
From its inception, the church was a diverse group of people who hailed from
a variety of cultures and languages. It was in the midst of this great diversity that God
sent the Holy Spirit upon his church and started a movement that would change the
history of the world forever.
The message of Christ hasn’t changed, but those who claim to be his followers
have often failed miserably in living up to that message. The greatest temptation facing Christians isn’t necessarily losing their passion, but rather, losing sight of the fact
that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female. In God’s kingdom
there are no illegal aliens or undocumented workers. We who have died with Christ
in baptism are resurrected to be a new people bound in love and service to one another.
The Holy Spirit is given freely, without respect for citizenship or socioeconomic class, and God continues today to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
The Holy Spirit works as a transformative agent in the lives of believers. Just
as Jesus glorified humanity when he ascended to the Father, the gift of the Holy Spirit restores our relationship with God.
The Holy Spirit compels us to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving our
neighbor as ourselves. One way we do this is by reaching out to the unloved, the hard
to love, and the rejected in our midst and loving them, emulating our Heavenly Father’s love for us who are called by His name.
May the gift of the Holy Spirit given at Pentecost renew us today and stir up
within us those spiritual gifts which God has so richly and freely given to us when we
were baptized into Christ’s holy church.
Have a nice summer !!
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Summer 2015
June 2015
Schedule of Events
July 2015
Schedule of Events
August 2015
Schedule of Events
DAILY MORNING PRAYER
Monday - Thursday (weekly)
7:30 am, Hughes House
No Adult Forums and Children’s
Sunday School Classes in June.
Classes will resume in September.
Sunday School Classes in July.
Sunday School Classes in August.
Wednesday – June 3
5:30 pm, Communion &
Healing Service
Sunday – July 5
8:00 am, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
10:30 am, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
12:30 pm, La Misa Servicio
Sunday – August 2
Sunday – July 12
Wednesday – August 5
5:30 pm, Communion &
Healing Service
Sunday – June 7
5:30 pm, Communion Service
Sunday – June14
(No Communion Service)
Sunday – June 21
Sunday – July 26
Wednesday – July 30
Sunday – August 9
Sunday – August 16
Sunday – June 28
All services are conducted in the
Church, unless otherwise noted.
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Sunday – July 19
THE BELL TOWER
Remember In
Your Prayers
June Birthdays
Karen Rollinson………….…………...6/04
Lehman Ford ................................... 6/05
Anora Rainey ................................. 6/05
Zoey Elizabeth Rollinson ………....6/06
Sharon Stark ................................... 6/10
Tim Seitzer, Jr. ................................ 6/11
Bettie Cooper .................................. 6/11
Bill Stark ......................................... 6/14
Alexis Van Venrooy ....................... 6/21
Margaret Williamson ...................... 6/22
Amy Johnson …………………….. 6/28
Lisa Miravalle.……………………..6/30
June Anniversaries
Pray for Healing and Comfort:
Cynthia Shaw, Helen Church Miles,
Trayce Wheless, Barbara Collins, Staci
Barnett, Harry Collins, Mary Ann Hill,
Barbara Madigan, Melody Shearin, Carolyn Lowery, Belinda Catlett, Hazel
Peck, Mary Shearin,
Peggy Polak,
Marion Devoe, Frances Saunders, Vivie
Drake, Graham Shearin, Rorin Platt, Bill
Duff, Tommy Greenway, Lisa Adcock,
Barbara Foster, Al Thompson, Hannah
Youngblood, Marshall Cooper and Jean
Gaddy Scholl.
Mary & Graham Shearin................. 6/02
Martha & John Zollicoffer .............. 6/04
Gillie & Tom Church ...................... 6/06
Betsy & Bob Herford ...................... 6/11
Karen & Tony Rollinson, Jr...……..6/11
Betsy & Al Catlett .......................... 6/13
Stephanie & Cliff Rogers ................ 6/20
Jean & Don West ............................ 6/24
June Special Dates

Fla g D a y,
Ju n e 1 4 , 2 0 1 5

Fat h er ’s D a y,
Ju n e 2 1 , 2 0 1 5

Fir s t d a y o f
S u m mer ,
Ju n e 2 1 , 2 0 1 5
JUNE Unified Serving Schedule
— lemonade
will be served on the lawn after the 10:30 am service —
June
Acolytes
Crucifer
Lay Reader /
Chalice Bearer
Ushers
Altar
Guild
Flowers
7
LC Olmert
Jason Elliott
Uriah Ford
8:00am - Rick Palamar
10:30am - Nick Long
John Van Venrooy
Mariana
Davis
Honor Graduates
14
Lorena Negron
Juliana Negron
Genie Parish
8:00am - Hut Wester
10:30 am - Ruth Hartness
John Van Venrooy
Mariana
Davis
Betsy & Al
Catlett
21
Ethan Holloway
AJ Holloway
8:00am - Lucy Gray
10:30am - Richard Davis
John Van Venrooy
Shirley
Young
Griselle
Woodward
28
Brennan Olmert
Tucker Olmert
Lehman Ford
8:00am - Alton Stainback
10:30am - Nancy Whitt
John Van Venrooy
Shirley
Young
Ida Cranz
note: if you are scheduled to serve and have a conflict, please contact your own replacement & notify the church office.
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Summer 2015
July Birthdays
Kathy Taylor……………………....7/08
Jan Cheatham……………………...7/10
Craig Clodfelter ............................... 7/11
Kathryn Blackburn .......................... 7/17
Ida Cranz ......................................... 7/19
Bob Nelson...................................... 7/20
Judy Finch ....................................... 7/23
Lou Almand .................................... 7/23
Jean West ........................................ 7/26
July Anniversaries
Remember In
Your Prayers
Barbara Madigan, Melody Shearin,
Carolyn Lowery, Belinda Catlett, Hazel
Peck, Mary Shearin,
Peggy Polak,
Gaddy Scholl.
July Special Dates

Ind ep e nd e nc e D a y,
Ju ly 4 , 2 0 1 5

Sai n t J a me s - Ap o st le
Ju ly 2 5 , 2 0 1 5
Marsha & Bob Nelson ..................... 7/04
Valerie & Don Gwynn .................... 7/24
JULY Unified Serving Schedule
— lemonade
Jul
Acolytes
Crucifer
Lay Reader /
Chalice Bearer
Ushers
Altar
Guild
Flowers
5
Mary Beth Parish
Sarah Rose Parish
AJ Holloway (flag)
Genie Parish
8:00am - Nick Andrews
10:30am - Ruth Hartness
Nick Long
Anora
Rainey
Marsha & Bob
Nelson
12
Lorena Negron
Juliana Negron
Uriah Ford
8:00am - Hut Wester
10:30am - Richard Davis
Nick Long
Anora
Rainey
Anne Bliss
19
Ethan Holloway
AJ Holloway
8:00am - Steve Flannagan
10:30am - Nick Long
Nick Long
Mariana
Davis
Jane Zollicoffer
26
Jason Elliott
Lehman Ford
8:00am - Lucy Gray
Nick Long
Mariana
Davis
Valerie & Don
Gwynn
note: if you are scheduled to serve and have a conflict, please contact your own replacement
and notify the church office.
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Summer 2015
August Birthdays
Marsha Nelson………………..…... 8/04
Stephanie Rogers………………..... 8/08
John Gwynn………………………..8/09
Brennan Olmert…………………... 8/10
Tucker Olmert……………………. 8/10
Catherine Olmert…………………. 8/14
Matthew Williamson……………... 8/15
Harrel Johnson ………………...….8/17
Martha Zollicoffer………………... 8/18
Jan Colvin…………. ……………. .8/18
Sam Long …………………………8/21
Mary Beth Seitzer…………………8/25
Shirley Young …………………… 8/26
Anderson Stark ………………….. 8/28
Maurice Floyd …………………... 8/30
Remember In
Your Prayers
Anniversaries
Barbara Madigan, Melody Shearin,
Carolyn Lowery, Belinda Catlett, Hazel
Peck, Mary Shearin,
Peggy Polak,
Gaddy Scholl.
Linda & Porter Shaw …………….. 8/03
Ginger & John Dow……………... 8/07
Anne & Lou Almand ……………...8/09
Marcia & Scott Hartness……….. .. 8/10
Barbara & Frank Madigan……….. 8/16
Barbara & Chip Hight……………..8/18
Anora & Mike Rainey……………. 8/23
Special Dates

T he T ran s fi g ura tio n
Au g u st 6 , 2 0 1 5

Sai n t Mar y t he Vir g i n
Au g u s t 1 5 , 2 0 1 5

Sai n t B ar t ho lo me w - Ap o st le
Au g u s t 2 4 , 2 0 1 5
AUGUST Unified Serving Schedule
— lemonade
Aug
Acolytes
Crucifer
Lay Reader /
Chalice Bearer
Ushers
Altar
Guild
Greens/
Flowers
2
Mary Beth Parish
Sarah Rose Parish
Genie Parish
8:00am - Rick Palamar
10:30am - Nick Long
Greg Taylor
Shirley
Young
Roberta Scott
9
Lorena Negron
Juliana Negron
Uriah Ford
10:30am - Ruth Hartness
Greg Taylor
Mariana
Davis
Barbara & John
Foster
16
Ethan Holloway
AJ Holloway
8:00am - Steve Flannagan
10:30am—Richard Davis
Greg Taylor
Anora
Rainey
Anne Almand
23
Jason Elliott
Lehman Ford
30
Mary Beth Parish
Sarah Rose Parish
Genie Parish
8:00am - Hut Wester
10:30am-Tom Church
8:00am - Lucy Gray
10:30am - Nancy Whitt
Greg Taylor
Anora
Rainey
Ruth Hartness
Greg Taylor
Mariana
Davis
Anora & Mike
Rainey
note: if you are scheduled to serve and have a conflict, please contact your own replacement
and notify the church office.
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THE BELL TOWER
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Our 2015 College Graduates
Luke Stark (COC)
(Masters of Accounting)
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Genie Parish
Marshall at KVA Graduation
Selected for Vance County
School of Excellence
Leadership Program
Anderson Stark ( UNC-CH)
(Business Administration)
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Uriah Ford
Recipient of
Rotary Youth Leadership
Award
CONGRATULATIONS
to
Our 2015 High School Graduates
Lorenzo Antonio Ortiz
(Kerr-Vance Academy)
Matthew Williamson
(Vance County Early College High School)
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PHONE: 252-492-0904
E-MAIL: [email protected]
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
210 South Chestnut Street
Henderson, NC 27536
All are welcome to join us as
we joyfully greet each person present at our worship.
May our love and respect for one another be
steady and true as we strive to follow Christ our Lord..

Bell Tower - The Church of the Holy Innocents

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