OCT 2012 pdf version of The Cyrenian, Vol. 1, No. 2

St. Simon the Cyrenian Episcopal
Church
Sunday Service Hours:
10:30 a.m.
Sung Eucharist
10:30 a.m.
Sunday School
12:15 p.m.
Fellowship Hour
Summer Hours: 9:00 a.m. Sung Eucharist
135 Remington Place
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Phone: 914-632-5911
Fax: 914-632-5932
Email: [email protected]
We’re on the web
www.stsimonc.org
Parish Leadership
The Rev. Keith Lane, Priest-in-charge
Lorna Lewis, Senior Warden
Richard Francis, Junior Warden
Vestry Members: Donna Blackman, Glendine
Kirton-Ellis, John Forde Loleta Howell, Rufae
Jones, Amos Kiyingi, Ardon Michaels, Alwyn
Rawlins, Sylvia Rogers, Merlene Skeete , Sharon
Weekes-Threash, Varene Walker.
Clergy and Parish Staff:
The Rev. Paulette Remppel, Deacon
Jackie Dixon, Music Director
Keith Patterson, Sexton
Missy Kisob, Administrative Assistant
EFM (Education for Ministry)
EFM resumed on September 13, 2012. We welcomed
first year student Shiana Lee from Church of the
Ascension, Mt. Vernon, and Beverly Maybury of St.
Simon’s. The EFM program is a three year course and
our group has students at all three levels of study.
~ Recipes ~
We need your recipes……
St Simon’s plans to publish a recipe book of favorite
dishes – appetizers, entrees, desserts, drinks. We
could do so by sharing our repertoires of culinary
delights and by tapping into the archives of friends and
family. Photographs can accompany your submissions.
Deadline is March 31, 2013.
The Cyrenian
St. Simon the Cyrenian Episcopal Church · New Rochelle · New York
Volume 2
October 2012
Since coming to St Simon’s for the first time late this summer, I can without hesitation, testify that my prayers
have been answered with more abundance and veracity than anything I could have imagined.
To understand the implications and meaning of my words, it is necessary to go back several years to the first
stirrings of the thought that I might have a call to the priesthood. I felt our Lord ever so patiently yet persistently
tugging me to serve His people as a Parish Priest. I wasn’t at all sure of what that would look like, or for that
matter, how it would come about, but I was willing to follow where ever He was leading me. As things began to
move forward in my call I would often hear from friends and family who would ask the same question: “What sort
of parish would you like to serve.”
This was, of course, was a very loaded question that belies the truth of ordained life. The truth being that unlike
the secular world, as a priest you don’t get to choose where you’re going to be called to serve. As in the process
of discernment to the ordination, you move forward in your goal only with the consent of the People of God in
conjunction with the will of the Holy Spirit. In answer to the people who asked me about where I wished to serve,
my reply was that I prayed that God wanted me to serve at a church where I could make a difference; that I could
serve God at a congregation that was taking their walk with Jesus to the core of their identity; a parish that was
not just talking the talk, but walking the walk. I didn’t know what that parish would look like or where that parish
might be, but I knew that I would know it when I saw it. And I have seen it here at St Simon’s, praise be to God!
I can say without reservation that my hopes and prayers have been answered in being called by St. Simon’s to be
your Priest- in-Charge. In this, our Centennial Year, I am honored to find myself in service to the people of God at
St Simon the Cyrenian. At a time in our country when we are experiencing the kind of economic distress not felt
since the great depression, to know that St Simon’s is a living legacy of perseverance and accomplishment for 100
years bringing the good news of Jesus Christ to a wounded world. This Parish has stood as an icon of Christ in the
face of racism and countless other challenges that the people of St Simon’s have not only overcome, but have
thrived in doing so.
This is the legacy of a community that I am proud and honored to now be able to call my own.
The more I get to know the people of St Simon’s the more I am convinced that together we will move forward
with the same energy, commitment and creative drive as we have in the last 100 years. To be a beacon to all
people in search of God’s glory, not only in New Rochelle, but to the whole body of Christ astride the world.
Yours in Christ
The Reverend Keith Lane
Profile of a Parishioner
A New Beginning at 100 Years
Adelaide Summers Campbell
The Reverend Keith Lane – Our Priest-in-charge shares with us
Adelaide Campbell is the third of seven children born to Uriah E. and Lillian
Summers of Larchmont, New York. She received her elementary education
at Chatsworth Avenue School and graduated from Mamaroneck High where
she was very active in sports, music and a member of the glee club.
Adelaide became well trained in typing and bookkeeping and, in
1942, armed with these skills, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she
began her career in Payroll and other departments of the United States
Government. While working in the Department of Defense, she received
further training on administration procedures at Fort Lee, VA for her
particular work, and made a steady rise in service and responsibility. She
remained in the Defense Department for twenty-one years.
Mrs. Campbell returned to New York with her family in 1963 and transferred to the U.S. Mission to the
United Nations, a division of the Department of State. She served under several U.S. ambassadors
including George Bush and the late Adlai Stevenson.
Adelaide retired from the Mission in 1973, but she was often called back for General Assembly Sessions in
New York City between 1973 and 1979, and was sent to Geneva, Switzerland where she attended the Law
of the Sea Conference 1 1979.
After retiring from Government service, Adelaide worked part time as a Word Processing operator for the
Pepsi Cola Company in Purchase, New York. She remained there for six years then took a part time
position as clerk/bookkeeper for Employee Plan Administration Inc., a private firm in Scarsdale, New York.
Also, Mrs. Campbell was the Parish Secretary for Church of the Ascension, Mount Vernon for many years.
Mrs. Campbell has been a constant, faithful member of St Simon the Cyrenian Church from childhood,
then upon her return from Washington D.C. She served as part-time Church Secretary and Treasurer since
the 1970s. She has enjoyed a very active and happy church life. Her energy and ambition have enabled
her to accept more than her share of responsibility in the various activities and functions of the church.
This also attests to the fact that loves the Lord, and loves her church.
Adelaide married Arthur B. Campbell of Christiansburg, Virginia and had two sons, Arthur, Jr. and Charles,
who were acolytes in the church. Charles was also a member of the choir. Her husband and sons passed
on but her daughter in law, Peggy and grand children Arthur Bennett III and Robyn Noelle visit her
regularly. During their visits, they worship with her at St Simon’s.
Despite her ‘retirement’ from her responsibilities at St. Simon’s, Mrs. Campbell can be found busily
tallying numbers in the Parish House each Tuesday.
I am a lifelong New Yorker. I was born and raised in the Bronx. I met my
wife, Marion, in high school and we have been married for over 40
years. Marion and I have lived in Manhattan for many years. Our son,
Peter and our daughter-in-law Shiree have blessed us with a grandson,
Hunter.
After leaving the Army I began a career in finance as a credit analyst,
first at banks and later at law firms. I came to The Episcopal Church
some fifteen years ago by way of the Church of St Luke in the Fields. My journey to the Episcopal Church
came about as a result of a search for greater meaning and purpose in my life; what I discovered there,
was something greater than anything I could have ever imagined: I found God. My journey towards God
moved me to serving the parish in many capacities: as a volunteer at their feeding program for people
who were suffering from AIDS, serving at the altar, as well as the honor to be elected to the Vestry. It
was as a result of these experiences that I began sensing the movement of God in my life and an ever
increasing call to ordained life; which in due course was confirmed by my parish.
I received my bachelor’s degree from The New School University and my Master of Divinity Degree from
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church. I was ordained to Holy Orders in 2011.
Before accepting the call to serve at St Simon’s I was an assisting Priest at The Church of the Intersession
in Manhattan, in addition to serving as a Supply Priest in the Dioceses of New York, Long Island and New
Jersey.
In my off time I enjoy movies, reading, collecting art, music of all types (as long as it’s good music) and
playing golf, if badly. However, my deepest source of joy comes from serving God in all people.
It is crystal clear to me that everything I have done to this point in my life has prepared me to serve God,
which I am passionately looking forward to doing at St Simon the Cyrenian.
The St. Simon’s family extends a warm welcome to our Priest-in-charge and thanks to our search
committee: Ardon Michaels (chair), Loleta Howell (consultant), Gloria Barker, Jackie Dixon, Ione Edwards,
Amos Kiyingi and Monica Parris, for their diligence and caring in the performance of this ministry.
Reverend Lane and his wife met the congregation on September 9 th. His entire family attended service
when he preached his first sermon at St. Simon’s on September 16 th.
…Our Youth
Summer at St. Simon’s
Anika Hall, a student at New York University College of Arts and Science (Bachelor of
Arts Candidate of 2013) is studying abroad this semester. She is in Accra, Ghana. You
can follow her experience on her blog at:
http://bajeinfamy.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/the-guilt/
Raise our Voices: Looking towards 2012’s Election
Besides the Parish Picnic and outdoor worship at D’Onofrio Park, we looked forward to the International
Food Fair August 25 was a beautiful day, tailor made for outdoor activities – browsing wares, eating food,
spending time with friends, family and loved ones and some of our homebound. If you could not attend
the International Food Fair here are some of the dishes you missed.
Photography could not capture the taste and aroma of the many dishes. We thank you all, especially our
patrons and donors.
The gift we received on November 4, 2008 was one that feeds our senses on many levels. This happiest
event, Barack Obama’s election, appears to be a reflection of the mood of this country. Bravely thinking
of what needs to be done, our forty fourth president brings to mind the comradeship of sharing, racial
interaction, hope for shifts in tradition and strength.
If one feels weak or disenfranchised, there’s opportunity to escape a victim mentality and long range
relief from this country’s economic malaise. Not because he is a man of color, his importance is his
language, his ability, his leadership he uses to put us at ease as we stop, listen and contemplate.
A sampling of pudding. A tasty
dessert
Fish cakes made by
Marvine Downes
Tasty bean dish shared by Salome
Kajubi that is best accompanied
by curried chicken
Barack Obama’s election brings a reminder to us all, whether or not he was our choice, of how energy and
caring packaged in a powerful voice of awareness can introduce a new type of politics.
As we reflect upon the exciting, happy promising significance of our first black president’s inaugural, I
pause. In veneration, I think we should all raise our voices in support. Shouldn’t all U.S. citizens lift up
prayers as we contemplate our roles in effort to help President Obama to put in action his inspirational
messages of mortality and empathy? How can we make strides to aid him, ourselves, our families, and
our country, and the world?
Satisfied customers
One vendor displayed wares on the
grounds.
Written on January 20th 2009 by Barbara Lockwood Russell
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105)
Tasty fried cassava (yucca)
prepared by Amos Kiyingi
Samosas contributed by one of
our local Indian restaurants
What part does the bible play in your spiritual growth? In this book are living words of God which speak to
us and can lead us into a deeper commitment to Jesus Christ.
The Parish Bible Class meets every Friday, noon to 1:15pm in the Parish Hall.
The Study of the Bible in a group setting is truly rewarding and we invite your participation.
Questions? Call Beryl Battle (914) 939-7645
Loleta Howell (914) 667-8134
Samplings of mauby, sorrel, lemonade and
fruit punch from Monica Parris and Glendine
Kirton-Ellis
Our Youth
New Rochelle High School Chorale in Europe – Courtney Mills
On my trip to the 2012 Olympics we went to Paris, England, and Iceland. This trip was a once in a life time
experience. On this two week trip, we did a variety of sightseeing, shopping, eating and singing. I enjoyed
going to the Queen’s palace in England because we saw the crown jewels and took many pictures. We
also went to Wembley Stadium and watched one of the women’s soccer games. In England, we saw Big
Ben, Parliament, Trafalgar Square, and The Tower of London. In Normandy, we visited Omaha Beach and
had a memorable performance there. The visit to Normandy Beach was very sad because we saw the
graves of many soldiers who had died fighting in the war. The next day, we traveled to Paris and saw the
Eiffel Tower, the ‘Arc de Triomphe’, the ‘Centre Pompidou’ and lastly, we visited the Louvre.
Throughout the trip, we had nine challenging performances but we were very successful. The most
exciting performance was when we finally got the chance to sing at the Olympics. There were so many
people watching our performance and it was nerve wrecking.
In conclusion, this wonderful journey gave me many memories that will last me for many years to come.
I am very grateful that I came back home safely and I feel blessed that I was able to go and represent the
New Rochelle High School Chorale. I would like to thank my church family for the support they gave me.
Courtney graciously shared some of her photographs with us. Our website is linked to a
brief clip of the group’s performance at the London Olympics which was aired by NBC-TV.