St. Timothy Episcopal Church, Chehalis WA ✠ ✠ ✠ ✠ ✠ August, 2017

How Should We Be the Hands and Feet of Jesus?

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S ERVICE is one of my earliest memo-ries of church. Though my mother

was a single mother of very modest means, she emphasized service in our household. Some of my fondest memo-ries are bagging oatmeal and rice in the back room of our church kitchen for the weekly food banks we held there. At school, we’d be helping at a school sup-plies distribution. At Christmas, it was an event helping families provide Christmas for their children. In retrospect, I think my mother’s lesson for me was that no matter how much we may have lacked in our lives, God provided all we needed and being the hands and feet of Jesus in this world is something every one of us is called to, no matter our circumstances.

Service is still something that binds me to my Creator in my church life. It is a frequent prayer for myself that God will remind me to be a servant first, to love as Jesus loved and to give as He gave. I love when I am able to be present at St. Timo-thy’s Mobile Ministry homeless feeding program on Saturday mornings for this very reason. It reminds me of that special calling that God has for all of us to be his hands and feet in this world. Feeding 50-70 people in a one-hour period is lots of work but I always leave with a tired body but a renewed spirit. We meet people who are simply overwhelmed with grati-

tude for simple things we take for granted like a slice of homemade cake or a pat of butter to put on their roll. I see people smile and I suspect for some it has been a while since they have had a rea-son to smile. But one of the beautiful things I have seen is the kindness of the people we serve toward one another. I have seen people give a blanket or sleeping bag to someone who had none, even though I am sure doing so made their own world much less com-fortable. It is a truly humbling reminder that so often what we feel are trials are re-ally such insignificant problems when compared to the plight of others.

The face of outreach at St. Timothy is beginning to evolve and we need your help to make this change. Mobile Minis-try as simply an outreach that fills bellies and spirits every Saturday morning has become a task a bit too big for us alone. With our new partners at The Gather and some new friends, we are hoping to re-duce the number of Saturdays that St. Timothy alone is responsible for feeding our guests. Our hope is that freeing up

by

CARRINA

STANTON

Senior Warden

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SPOTLIGHT ON:

Toni Schmidt An Interview

with RORY MILLER

You were born and raised in Morton. Can you tell us a little about what that was like? When I was in my early teens. I recall go-ing to the Morton Hospital at night with my mom. She was an x-ray technician and sometimes was called in after hours to do x-rays of injured loggers or people who had hurt themselves. I can remem-ber that often someone would call out to me: “Hey, nurse, can you bring me some water?” Or maybe someone would ask for a blanket. I guess that’s when I first felt the call to being a nurse.

Then there was Centralia College and Lower Columbia and your nursing schooling. Yes, it was several years later that the ad-missions person to the program told me that she had almost not admitted me. She thought that my mother, who had taken me to the interview, had wanted me to be a nurse more than I did. I was pretty shy. But I did very well in the program and that admissions person was pleasantly surprised at my success.

Can you tell us a little about the 40 years (your anniversary was on July 18, 2017!) that you spent in nursing? I started out at the old Centralia hospital in labor and delivery, then moved to Capital Hospital in Olympia, and eventu-ally returned to Providence Centralia where I moved into infant oncology. That was hard. But I held the hope that I had given these little people some comfort

during their short lives. It was hard. I am currently an Operating Room Assistant at Centralia Providence.

And what about that guy you share a mailbox with in Winlock, Karl? That’s another tale to tell. Leave it at this: he is a wonderful guy who loves me and I love him.

And kids, cats, dogs, and other critters? Two boys. Three grandkids. A dog and a cat. The horses left about three years ago; however, I still help the neighbor with their horses.

Please Join Us For the

All-Parish Picnic: August 27

S T. TIMOTHY’S outdoor service and all-parish picnic are slated for 10 a.m.

Sunday, August 27 (there will be no 8 a.m. service that day) at the church.

Bring your favorite lawn chairs or a pic-nic blanket and enjoy an informal church service with Eucharist on the church lawn followed by a potluck luncheon and fami-ly games. The church will supply the main dish and worshippers can bring a side dish or dessert to share.

Sign-up sheets will be in the parish hall a few weeks in advance of the event. If you have a fun back yard game or a pop up shade tent you would be willing to lend to the festivities it would be most ap-preciated. Please talk to any member of the vestry about this.

The all-parish picnic takes place rain or shine but will be outdoors, weather per-mitting. If it rains we will still have the same fun . . . . just inside the building!

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Hands and Feet — From page 1

TALES FROM THE MOBILE MINISTRY

“To everything there is a season…” by JEAN FAIRGRIEVE

With growth comes change, and St. Tim-othy’s Mobile Ministry is presently expe-riencing growing pains and anticipating change. When the ministry, founded by the Mason family several years ago, be-gan providing a Saturday lunch for peo-ple in need, volunteers served a meal to fifteen to thirty guests in the parking lot at the Salvation Army.

During autumn of 2016, the Salvation Army allowed the ministry to move in-doors and out of the cold, rainy weather. By November and December of 2016, the average number of guests per meal had risen to forty-five or fifty. On December 24, Mobile Ministry provided a Christmas Eve meal to over seventy people. Thanks to the generosity of our congregation, old St. Nick brought gifts to our guests that day, too!

Now the ministry is serving lunch on Saturdays at the Eat Free Cafe sponsored by Gather Church located near what we remember as St. John’s Episcopal Church in Centralia. Our guest numbers are about the same as at the Salvation Army, about fifty people per meal, but volunteer numbers have declined. As usual, when this happens, a few people are trying to do all the work and are becoming victims of “burn-out.”

Rather than give up this vital ministry, our Mobile Ministry team has decided to investigate the idea of joining with other churches and taking turns providing lunch on Saturdays. This concept is in its early days of development. Please watch for more news on this topic in the next issue of The Beacon.

some of our outreach volunteer time will open us up as a church to some new op-portunities and new causes where we can give our time in our community.

So, my question to you is this: how would you like to see St. Timothy being the hands and feet of Jesus in Lewis County? The strength of our community is in its many voices, strengths and pas-sions and we want to learn more about your views on outreach. Where do you already serve? How can we get more of our congregation involved in outreach activities? How can we remove barriers such as age, physical strength, transporta-tion and income from outreach participa-tion? I would love to hear your input on these subjects as would Pat Campbell and Jean Fairgrieve, who are currently co-coordinators of the Mobile Ministry and are right now exploring the idea of creat-ing an outreach committee that would re-search and provide outreach opportuni-ties for members of our congregation.

How do you want St. Timothy to be the hands and feet of Jesus?

WOMEN’S RETREAT The women’s annual retreat, held at St. Andrew’s House located on Hood Canal, is scheduled for September 10-12. The ladies will carpool, leaving after our reg-ular Sunday service. St. Andrew’s House is owned and operated by the diocese and designed to provide the best of Christian hospitality and quality accom-modations. The fee is $190 to be paid in advance with checks payable to ECW and given to Lynn Cole, our treasur-er. Limited funds are available for those needing assistance.

Plan to attend the retreat and come home with pleasant memories!

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WEEKLY EVENTS

Sundays (August 6, 13, 20, 27) 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist (except Aug. 27) 10:00 a.m. Choral Holy Eucharist

Alternate Mondays (August 14, 28) 9:30 a.m.- Brazilian embroidery

12:30 p.m. stitchers in parish hall

Wednesdays (August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) 10:15-11:30 Bible Study 12 noon Holy Eucharist w/healing prayers

Thursdays (August 3, 10, 17, 24) 1:30 p.m. Book Study: The Meaning of Mary Magdalene, at Station Coffee House, Centralia. (Bonnie Jean Ione, 262-3465.)

Saturdays (August 5, 12, 19, 26) 10:30 - Mobile Ministry luncheon 12 noon at The Atrium at Gather, Centralia

What’s Happening in August? AUGUST EVENTS

Saturday, August 12 9am-3pm Kids Kloset Distribution Day* Immanuel Lutheran, Centralia

Sunday, August 13 ~11:15 a.m. Vestry meeting

Tuesday, August 15 12 noon ECW – brown-bag in parish hall

Tuesday, August 22 5-7 p.m. ECM – at home of John Long

Sunday, August 27 ~11:15 a.m. ALL-PARISH PICNIC

*Kids Kloset coordinators are busy planning for the 2017 distribution. The Kloset is always in need of volunteers to help with this project. If you would like to help, whether volunteering, through prayer, or in donating towards this ministry, it would be a blessing to all involved. For more in-formation or to volunteer call Emmanuel Luther-an Church at 1-360-736-9270 or email at:

kidskloset@ilccentralia.org admin@ilccentralia.org

Service Roster for August Date Celebrant Preaching LEM Lector

Aug. 6 June Johnson Rory Miller Tom Cole (8am) Sally Favors

Bobbi Ross (10am)

Aug. 13 Steve Brill Steve Brill Rory Miller (8am) John Long

David Johnson (10am)

Aug. 20 June Johnson June Johnson Tom Cole (8am) Mary Schrader

Coy Thompson (10am)

Aug. 27 Steve Brill Steve Brill Rory Miller Lynn Cole

(no 8am) Mary Schrader

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Ushers/Greeters Altar Guild Flower Guild Nursery Coffee Hour

Mary Schrader Jan Leadbetter Esther Gregg tbd tbd

Frieda Nisbet

John Long Hayley Stockwell Gil White Colleen tbd

Christensen

Pat Hugill Janet Graham Nancy Simms Carrina Stanton tbd

Bev Campbell Shirley Roberts Vonnie Johnson tbd All-Parish

Carol Lee Rickard Picnic (potluck)

August Birthdays August 1 – Declan Begnaud

August 5 – Karen Held, Kathie Guenther

August 10 – Gil White

August 11 – Judy Gundersen

August 13 – Carrina Stanton

August 17 – Pat Hugill

August 19 – John Long

August 20 – Helen Miller, Angel Bustos (child)

August 21 – Richard Nisbet

August 22 – Melanie Case

August 23 – Kent Simms

August Anniversaries August 1 – Don & Judy Shields

August 5 – Neil & Bev Campbell

August 8 – Ken & Pat Hugill

August 12 – David & June Johnson

Mark Your Calendars and Help Us Spread the Word

We will be hosting an end-of-life plan-ning event 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9 at St. Timothy. This event will be a way to get information on a variety of subjects including: funeral and life cele-bration planning, end-of-life care options and medical subjects, will creation, end-of-life financial matters and giving op-tions, and much more. This is a non-denominational event, but there will be information available specifically relating to the Episcopal Rite of Burial and other helpful information for parishioners. We will also be having a Bloodworks North-west mobile blood drive (with free pie for those who donate!) and a bake sale raising money for the Visiting Nurses Founda-tion and Providence Centralia Healthcare Foundation.

Please mark your calendar and help us spread the word. Tables for the event are free for those offering information or a suggested donation of $15 for vendors. Anyone interested in reserving a table should contact Carrina at (360) 910-1379 or sttimothychehalis@gmail.com.

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T HERE are two ways to view the Transfiguration. Jesus is transfigured.

In other words, we (in the person of the three apostles: Peter, James, and John) are given an insight as he is aligned with the great prophets of ancient Judaism. As Pe-ter notes in his second letter, this transfig-uration has an impact on us. Once we see Jesus in this new light, we are trans-formed. This is the other view. The trans-figuration becomes for us a moment of transformation. We cannot “look away.” We are stuck with this vision of Jesus, his mission, and his message. We have to be transformed.

As the Transfiguration was a communal event (there are three people who are in-

volved in the Trans-figuration: Moses, Elijah, and Jesus), so too is the transfor-mation a communal event (there are three apostles and, by extension now, us). From our per-

spective, this communal event puts us squarely in the position of being in a rela-tionship with those around us. It’s rela-tive: since we cannot look away from the Transfiguration, and we are now trans-formed in this new community we call being members of the Way, we are im-mediately involved in an act of redemp-tion. The Transfiguration leads to our transformation that leads to our redemp-tion. But this is not just an individual re-demption. It is communal. We are all in this together.

Trans-Figurings

by RORY MILLER

Now that we are in this together as a communal redemptive act, we begin to experience what it means to be a redeem-er. We follow the Way of the Redeemer himself and participate in how he re-deems. He redeems in community. We are the community. Thus we become co-redeemers along with Jesus. This re-demption that we are talking about is be-ing in relationship with everyone in our community. Our communities are vari-ous and diverse. No matter what or how many communities we participate in, we are busy with the work of redemption. Our task is simple: to transform everyone in our respective and varied communities into seeing, acting, and being in a way that reflects the transfiguration. We now see deeper into the reality around us. Beauty abounds. Kindness breaks out. Compassion is the way of living. And we are all doing it together.

The Prayer for the Human Family from the Prayer Book comes to mind:

O God, you made us in your own im-age and redeemed us through Jesus your Son: Look with compassion on the whole human family; take away the arrogance and hatred which infect our hearts; break down the walls that separate us; unite us in bonds of love; and work through our struggle and confusion to accomplish your pur-poses on earth; that, in your good time, all nations and races may serve you in harmony around your heav-enly throne; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

We have been saying this prayer at the end of the Prayers of the People. Think about it. There is more to this prayer than meets the eye.

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Gleanings ... From the Vestry Meeting of July 16

• Mobile Ministry met recently and are looking at alternatives for the Saturday meals including providing just sack lunches, easy-to-do menus, and con-tacting Rise Lewis County to ask that a message be sent to all the churches in that coalition asking for assistance by taking a Saturday each month.

• At our July 8 blood drive, 11 registered on-line and 10 were able to donate with one new donor.

• There were ten vendors at the Car Boot Sale, and between $350 and $400 of the profits from the vendor fees and bake sale will be donated to Kid’s Klos-et.

• Skeets Johnson provided a comprehen-sive audit, documentation, and his ob-servations and recommendations, all of which were thoroughly reviewed and approved by the vestry and sent to the diocese.

• Richard Nisbet has resigned from the vestry and it was the unanimous con-sensus to continue with just seven members at this time.

Car Boot Sale a Success! Our second annual British-style Car Boot Sale was held July 15. Junior Warden John Long reports that the sale raised between $350-$400 that will be donated to the Kids Kloset organization, which supplies school supplies for needy children in our area. That amount raised also includes proceeds from the bake sale, which was headed by our Episcopal Church Wom-en’s group, and from the leftover pies that were auctioned at church the next day.

Skeets Johnson reported that the blood drive received 16 attempted donors with 10 successful donations. All 11 people who signed up online for the blood drive showed up on time. Included were one first-time donor and 8 non-parishioners.

It is these outreach activities that give us an opportunity to have fun together, make positive changes in the world around us and introduce newcomers to the friendly and warm spirit of St. Timo-thy. Thanks to everyone who participated in these efforts. All of you helped make St. Timothy a nicer place to be.

Our Fixed Assets Project by ERLING “Skeets” JOHNSON

Some of you may have heard that we

have been evolving our accounting sys-tem. Part of the reason for doing this is

to comply with diocesan requirements ...

but also, updating the system can help

with information reporting, reliability

and analysis. One of our next steps in this process is

to add fixed asset information to our sys-tem. Having a better understanding of

our assets will help us with insurance as well as being mindful of the mainte-

nance and replacement reserves that are necessary.

This project requires us to take inven-

tory of our fixed assets, document and describe them and research values and

useful lives. If you have an interest in helping with

this project let me know. We will proba-

bly start on this in the fall. Maybe it will

be fun, or at least educational.

St. Timothy Episcopal Church STREET ADDRESS: 1826 SW Snively, Chehalis, WA 98532

MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 277, Chehalis, WA 98532 PHONE: 360-748-8232

WEBSITE: www.sainttimothychehalis.org OFFICE EMAIL: sttimothychehalis@gmail.com

WARDENS and VESTRY: Carrina Stanton (Senior Warden), John Long (Junior

Warden), Sally Favors (Member and Clerk), Mary Schrader (Member and Treasurer), Bev Jaeger, Skeets Johnson,

Karl Schmidt. MUSIC MINISTRY DIRECTOR: Julie Bliss-Tyau

OFFICE HELP COORDINATOR: Sally Favors SEXTON: Linda White

NURSERY DIRECTOR & ASSISTANT: Tawnya White and Brittany Schrader

EPISCOPAL CHURCH MEN: Rory Miller EPISCOPAL CHURCH WOMEN: Esther Gregg

ALTAR GUILD: Janet Graham & Shirley Roberts FLOWER GUILD: Vonnie Johnson

BEACON: Rory Miller (ed.), David Underwood (typeset) SUNDAY BULLETIN: David Underwood

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Wild Dogs Can’t ... . . . keep us from delivering to you a fresh new issue of The Beacon every month, with its plethora of the pleasures and perils of parish life at St. Timothy’s. The only thing that can … is a lack of material to print! We rely on you – all those of you who aren’t currently threatened by rabid canines, that is – to send your articles, pictures and whatnot to Rory Miller today!

Deadline for the September Beacon:

Thursday, August 24

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