P.O. Box 51410, Colorado Springs, CO 80949
www.graceepiscopalcolosprings.org
grace.episcopal.church@gmail.com
719/328-1125
Book of Common Prayer, page 831
Sunday services this week will be at 12:45 pm at First Christian Church, on the corner of Platte and Cascade. Father Soper will be our preacher this week. There will be coffee hour after each service this month except July 22nd.
Music this week includes Hymns 522 (Love divine, all loves excelling), 483 (The head that once was crowned with thorns), 321 (My God, thy table now is spread) 309 (Oh food to pilgrims given) and 366 (Holy God, we praise thy name). The Offertory is Martin How's Day by Day, based on the prayer of Sir Richard of Chichester and the Communion Motet is a setting of Ave Verum Corpus by William Byrd. You will also enjoy the prelude, a setting of Rockingham (Hymn 321) by Parry, and the Praeludium in F-sharp minor by Buxtehude for the postlude.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, today we remember Ascension Church in Denver, Christ Church in Cañon City, St. Thomas in Alamosa, St. Stephen the Martyr in Monte Vista and St. Francis of Assisi in South Fork.
Please check your data on the plots this Sunday. It is not possible to send individual records via email, as some have requested.
Children's email addresses will not be included in this version. This is a clear security risk for what will be an essentially public document, once printed and distributed. If there is interest in a youth group directory with a more limited distribution, please let Mr. Hinkle know.
The Coffey family has benefited from the caring and competency at Children's Hospital more than once, and we are eager to give something back. Here is a link to our team webpage. To make a contribution, click on the link and select a team member-Alison, Steven, Kathy or Robert Coffey.
Please consider supporting Kathy, Robert, Alison and Steven, either by donating online or contributing this Sunday after the service. Look for Kathy at a table in the fellowship hall.
Paid advertisement in the New York Times, May 12, 2007
Somewhere near you, there’s a blue-and-white sign bearing the familiar slogan: The Episcopal Church Welcomes You. It represents some 7,400 congregations that trace their beginnings in North America to a small but hopeful group of English Christians who arrived May 14, 1607 at a place they called Jamestown — the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
You may know us as Washington’s monumental National Cathedral, site of historic services and ceremonies, or the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, still unfinished, but already the largest cathedral in the world.
But the Episcopal Church is also Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723 and made famous by serving as the beacon for Paul Revere’s revolution-spurring “midnight ride.” And Philadelphia’s Christ Church, home parish of 15 signers of the Declaration of Independence, host to the first General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1785.
It’s Trinity Parish on Wall Street in New York, formed in 1698, and St. Paul’s Chapel just down the street, frequented by George Washington and the spiritual healing center of Ground Zero since September 11, 2001.
It’s also Epiphany Church in Los Angeles, where Cesar Chavez rallied the United Farm workers. And Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Cumberland, Maryland, whose basement was a major stop on the Underground Railroad to freedom for enslaved African-Americans. And St. John’s Church in Greenwich Village, a meeting place for gay and lesbian action following the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
It’s a parish in Iowa; a campus ministry in Georgia; a mission in Dinétah — the Navajo Reservation; a cathedral in Utah; even a house church in Vermont.
Wherever you find us, you’ll find the Book of Common Prayer and a Christian faith that honors and engages the Bible, the tradition of the Church, and God-given human reason.
Joined in prayer, you’ll find people with many points of view — Christians who are progressive, moderate, and conservative — yet who value the diversity of their faith community.
That’s a heritage drawn from our deep roots in nearly 2,000 years of English Christianity, and shared by a worldwide Anglican Communion that unites nearly 80 million people in 164 countries through prayer and ministries committed to caring for “the least of these,” as Jesus commanded, by reducing poverty, disease, and oppression.
Episcopalians struggle with the same issues that trouble all people of faith: how to interpret an ancient faith for today… how to maintain the integrity of tradition while reaching out to a hurting world… how to disagree and yet love and respect one another.
Occasionally those struggles make the news. People find they can no longer walk with us on their journey, and may be called to a different spiritual home. Some later make their way back, and find they are welcomed with open arms.
Despite the headlines, the Episcopal Church keeps moving forward in mission — in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, as well as congregations in Belgium, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guam, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Micronesia, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Taiwan, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands. We’re committed to a transformed world, as Jesus taught: a world of justice, peace, wholeness, and holy living.
We’ve grown a lot in 400 years, since that 1607 worship service from the Book of Common Prayer was held in Jamestown — inside and out. Come see for yourself. Come and visit… come and explore… come and grow.
| 1st Sunday | 250 cans of soup |
| 2nd Sunday | 250 boxes of crackers |
| 3rd Sunday | 400 cans of pork and beans |
| 4th Sunday | 500 boxes of macaroni and cheese |
| 5th Sunday | toiletries, paper products and baby items |
We are still in need of help on Sundays transporting several parish members to services. If you could volunteer to help with this, even just occasionally, please contact Kathy Coffey at 528-5754.
| Date | Supervisor | |
| July 8 | Jan Malvern | |
| July 15 | Nick Abbott | |
| July 22 | Deborah Kirkpatrick | |
| July 28 | Marti Lindberg |
Please note that, due to the setup for Vacation Bible School, the First Christian parking lot will be closed during the mid-week services this week.
Tuesdays -- 10 a.m. -- Holy Communion with Fr. Michael. There will be no Tuesday Bible Study this month.
Thursdays -- 12 noon -- Healing Service and Holy Communion.
Our Day in Pueblo is next Saturday, July 14th. Activities include the Pueblo Riverwalk, a movie at the Drive-In and the best pizza in Colorado! Please email Jim Hinkle or contact him at 440-4432 to RSVP or for information on how to get involved in our Youth Group program.
Closer to home is the setting for August's book, Memories of a Lifetime in the Pike's Peak Region by Irving Howbert. This is a 2007 reprint of the classic 1925 autobiography of a man who arrived here as a 14-year-old boy from Iowa. He was an early public official and was an active assistant to General William Palmer in the founding of our city. The book is available at the Old Colorado City Historical Society and at the Pioneers' Museum. The Howbert family has been part of Grace Church for decades and you will find the name of the current Irving Howbert listed in our 2005 parish directory.
Please do not bring any peanuts or foods made with peanut products into First Christian as there is a child with extreme allergies.
All contributions directed to our post office box or placed in the collection basket during Sunday services are used only by Grace Episcopal and cannot be accessed by the secessionist congregation.
| General Inquires | Grace Episcopal | 328-1125 |
| Priest | Father Michael O'Donnell | 233-2386 |
| Deacon | Rev. Sally Ziegler | 648-9350 |
| Choirs (all ages) | Deke Polifka | 633-7956 |
| Altar Guild | Anna Johnson | 471-2233 |
| Ushers | Leigh MacHaffie | 579-6793 |
| Chalice Bearers | Mary Lou Porter | 599-5548 |
| Lectors | Virginia O’Conner | 685-1306 |
| Acolytes | James Duell | 471-8944 |
| Nursery | Helen Hazelton | 633-7464 |
| Sunday School | Ed Brown | 475-9490 |
| Youth Groups | Jim Hinkle | 440-4432 |
| Hospitality | Nancy Klotz | 622-1254 |
| Transportation | Kathy Coffey | 528-5754 |
| Service Sheet | Bill Hazelton | 210-4349 |
| Online Tidings | Chuck Theobald | 442-0602 |
| Contact/Mailing Lists | Dave Eschliman | 471-8334 |
| Parish Nurse | Jill Wasinger | 473-7366 |
| Webmaster | David Newton | 282-2360 |
| Vestry: | Clelia deMoraes | 633-6807 |
| Amy Duell | 471-3026 | |
| Timothy Fuller | 473-2629 | |
| Helen Hazelton | 633-7464 | |
| Bob McJimsey | 471-1765 | |
| David Watts | 389-0050 | |
| Treasurer | David Nuss | 594-2079 |
| Clerk | Conni Eggers | 592-0388 |
The next vestry meeting will be on Tuesday, July 24th at 7:30 pm, and you are invited to attend. Meetings are held at La Posada del Sol Clubhouse at 2090 Mesa, on the corner of Mesa & Fillmore. Turn in the gate at La Posada del Sol -- the clubhouse is directly ahead clearly marked.
Recent Court Filings
The lawyers have been busy this week. There are five additional filings at News and Updates on the Grace Episcopal website.
California Appellate Court Decision: On Friday, June 29, attorney Martin Nussbaum filed three documents (Notice of Supplemental Authority, Part 1 of Attachment to Notice of Supplemental Judgment, Part 2 of Attachment to Notice of Supplemental Judgment) concerning the recent California Appellate Court decision that reversed three California trial court decisions allowing secessionist Episcopal parishes to take their property with them. In a unanimous decision, the California Appellate Court supported the diocese's assertion that the property, buildings and other items did not belong to the individual congregations, but were held in trust for the diocese and the Episcopal Church. The court further determined that the Episcopal Church possesses a valid trust interest in local parish church property even when factions within a parish seek to succeed from the Episcopal Church.
According to a New York Times article (Neela Banerjee, Church Dissidents Lose Property Appeal, June 28, 2007), "State property laws vary to such an extent that legal experts say the ruling will probably not set a precedent in similar disputes around the country, where other congregations have broken with the Episcopal Church. But they also said the ruling's encyclopedic discussion of church property precedents... could make it a persuasive resource in other cases." The article went on to quote Nussbaum. "'This is a very scholarly opinion, and trial judges know when a decision is more learned," said L. Martin Nussbaum, a Colorado Springs lawyer representing the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado in a dispute with a breakaway parish. "This will have persuasion beyond its jurisdiction and will have persuasion beyond the state of California.'" Note that you must register (free) with the New York Times to read the full article.
1929 Article of Dedication for Grace Church: Last week a 1929 dedication of the "realty" titled in the Grace and St. Stephen's parish corporation that deals a serious blow to the claims of the secessionists' congregation was brought to the attention of Martin Nussbaum. Signed by the rector, the wardens, and the entire vestry in 1929, it states, " . . . we do hereby request the Right Reverend Irving P. Johnson, Bishop of Colorado, to take the said building under his spiritual Jurisdiction, and authority, and that of his successors in office . . ." It continues "we do moreover hereby relinquish all claim to any right of disposing of the said building, without due consent given by the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Diocese, according to the Canons of the said Diocese . . . " Nussbaum informed the court of the 1929 Instrument of Donation by filing a Second Supplement to the Motion for Summary Judgment and a Supplement to the Summary Judgment Brief.
You can see the document here and comment on these filings at the Grace Concerns blog at www.graceconcerns.blogspot.com.
If you would like to be mailed a copy of any of the legal filings, or the Presentment issued by the Diocesan Standing Committee, acting as the Review Committee in the matter of Rev. Donald Armstrong, please contact Conni Eggers at 592-0388. Copies are also available on the website.