Our Staff & Vestry

Vestry: Chuck Barnett - Senior Warden, Dan Ferguson- Junior Warden,

Ann Philen, Bill Ramsey, Melanie Velaski, Beth Woods, Linda Aligood, Tom Chaapel, Frank Murphy

Carol Farrel - Treasurer Viv Welch—Clerk of the Vestry

Dr. Kadisha Onalbayeva - Music Director Sally Putters - Parish Nurse

Saint Monica's Episcopal ChurchSaint Monica's Episcopal Church

MessengerMessenger May 2014May 2014

Wherever you are, be there. (Peter Jennings) So often in my work with congrega-tional leaders I hear a longing for the way things used to be. This longing is not simply for the financial stability of the past, though that is certainly a component, but for the ways of a by-gone era—a time of identity, of securi-ty, of assurance; a time that seemed to have an infinite future, grounded in recognized and predictable social pat-terns. Though today’s congregations can hardly claim the overt hostilities known to the exiles in Jeremiah’s day, the less tangible enemies of indiffer-ence and perceived irrelevance can be just as formidable. While the false prophets trade on feel-good predictions, assurances that it will all be over soon, and easy an-swers for making it all OK, Jeremiah speaks a raw truth of presence: The Lord has put you here. The Lord has put you now. The Great I Am, the God whose very name is in the present tense, wants you to be the light in this dark-ness, the unfailing strength in this chaos, the place of ref-uge in this storm. Jeremiah speaks for a God who calls us not to radical hospitality, but to radical relevance. Jeremiah tells us bluntly to stop treating our Episcopal identity, our baptism, our commitment to felt-need ministry as constraints, but rather to understand them as the very “roots and wings” which allow us to thrive. Does doing church in a new way throw out history? Does moving the frontline abandon the matriarchs and pa-

Here and Now By Lisa Meeder Turnbull from Episcopal Church Vital Practices on October 11, 2013

triarchs who brought us to this mo-ment? Does radical relevance mean caving in to popular culture? Heavens no! Jeremiah never tells the Israelites, “Stop being so Jewish; tone it down and you’ll get on better.” Instead he tells them to live life to the fullest in this place where they happen to be: Get married. Have babies. Buy a house. Settle in and get used to one another. Make it work and watch what happens. OK, so maybe that’s not the exact approach that we are likely to take with our communities, but you get the point. It’s a point worth getting. It’s a question worth taking to the next ves-try retreat, the next planning meeting, the next women’s fellowship or youth weekend: How do we answer the call to radical relevance? How do we live

as The Church of the Here and Now?

At the May vestry meeting, the vestry decided to spon-sor a Charity of the Month for our outreach programs. Manna Food Bank will be the charity for June. Please bring donations of nonperishable food or cash donations to help us with this project. Checks can be made payable to St. Monica's. We will sponsor a local school with school supplies as our July project and Favor House will be our August chari-ty. Please see Linda Aligood or Ann Philen or any vestry member if you have questions. Please join us in this effort and help us increase our out-reach to our community. We also welcome your sugges-tions of charities and plans to implement the projects.

Introducing Charities of the Month

FOOD PANTRY

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The Lord blessed us with a perfect spring day for St. Monica’s 60th Anniversary on May 4. It was a day to hon-or those who came before us and to celebrate our mission and ministry in the Cantonment community. Over the last 60 years, St. Monica’s has withstood the test of time. To mark this milestone, we kicked off a weekend long celebration with the opening of the fourth season of The Market on Saturday followed by food, fun and fellowship on Sunday. The event was a great success because of all the hard work of many dedicated members. The celebration com-mittee spent weeks combing through hundreds of photo-graphs to prepare a video which chronicled our history. Several members from the past returned to join us for this special day. Some even shared lighthearted stories and memories. The reception that followed in the Parish Hall and on the lawn was great fun with lots of wonderful food, happy people and good times to be remembered.

Saint Monica’s Day marked 60 years as a worshipping community

It is not too early to be thinking about possible hurri-canes and summer storms. There are several good publi-cations pertaining to local resources, TV and radio stations that put out good programs regarding the situation. When available they will be placed in the narthex for you to take home. Here are a few reminders for you: Do you plan to leave your home? If so notify someone where you are going and leave a phone number where you can be reached. If you are headed for a medical shelter in the area (contact the Escambia Health Department for locations), someone will need to stay with the sick person at the shel-ter to provide needed care. Some things to consider: Can the sick person sit up in a wheel chair? Is transportation to a medical shelter a problem (plan to leave early)? Do you have medical equipment that requires electricity? If so, you may need to contact the equipment company about a back-up plan. If you plan to stay home, do you have a two-week sup-ply of medications for everyone in the family? You will need to have enough drinking water on hand for at least five days. Are you receiving home health, hospice services or dial-ysis treatment? Be sure you have the name of the compa-ny and the phone number? Are you using medical supplies on a regular basis (bandages, catheter supplies) be sure to have enough to last one week? You will also need to have enough non-perishable food for everyone to last five to seven days. Be sure it doesn’t require electricity for preparation. Do you have flashlights and batteries, a battery powered radio, and first aid supplies? And be sure you have se-cured objects in the yard and protected windows and doors before you leave.

Disaster preparedness By Nurse Sally

Open 1st & 3rd Saturdays @ 8 am

Arts & Crafts, Fresh Vegetables & Fruit,

Fresh Baked Goods, Fresh & Dried Herbs

& More! See you there!

Even the youngest members of our congregation, Blake, Ashton and Christopher were kicking up their heels to the musical entertainment of Fred Woods and Tom Condon. Also pictured is Blake and Christopher’s mom, Sarah Rivera.

Everyone enjoyed searching for names of loved ones, past and present, on the Membership Quilt, and new members got a chance to sign it.

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A Holy Man

Thurgood Marshall

June 29 is Social media Sunday

-Moses wasn’t using TripAdvisor to find a nice, reasona-ble hotel in the desert -Martha wasn’t on Pinterest looking up recipes to serve Jesus -David wasn’t posting his latest psalms to his YouTube Channel -Jesus wasn’t live tweeting events (although all the Beati-tudes are 140 characters or less, making them perfectly suited for Twitter!) However, our faith has gone viral since the very begin-ning. Paul might not have had a smartphone, but he used the social media of his time: Epistles, which continue to spread throughout the world today. On June 29, 2014, we invite you to join others in being a part of making the Good News go viral by sharing the gospel and being the church online. We are using the hashtag #Episcopal on that day to share Social Media Sun-day participation in Episcopal churches. We also encour-age the use of the hashtags #ChSocM (Church Social Me-dia) and #SMSunday. The organizers at episcoshare did a little number crunching, and if even a minority of people in the church who are already using social media post about The Episco-pal Church on June 29, 2014, almost 10,000,000 of our friends and family will learn something about us and our church! They are hoping to help people of faith get be-yond their fear of using digital media and understand that these are very effective tools we can use to do what we should already be doing: inviting others, showing care and concern for people, telling friends about our church and showing them Jesus. Social media, when done right, is about the relationship, not the technology. Use the hashtags to live Tweet your thoughts about the sermon, take a “selfie” of you at church and share it on Instagram, or check in on Facebook. Invite your church friends who you see on social media to join you that day. Remember to use the #Episcopal hashtag whenever you share something #Episcopal the morning of June 29, 2014. Let us know how many of your followers saw your posts.

World Environment Day (WED), the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment, is celebrated every year on June 5. It is a widely observed global day for positive en-vironmental action. Awareness is growing that caring for the earth is an es-sential part of the human vocation. We are called in our Marks of Mission to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of our earth. WED serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something positive for the envi-ronment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet. There are many ways of changing our habits, purchases, and actions to have a far-reaching impact on environments all over the world. Consider how you might affect change by powering down your electronic devices for just one day; begin recycling or start composting; only do business with companies that have demonstrated their commitment to environmental issues; use reusable bags when shopping at the supermarket; or find alternative water sources to avoid plastic bottles. Urge others to do the same and re-member that God made the earth and we must protect and care for all the creatures that walk among us. For more information, visit the World Environment Day web site.

June 5 is World Environment Day

July 21-25

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Diocesan Administrator, Vince Currie to retire July 1

By Elizabeth MacWhinnie, Diocesan Communications Coordinator

Vince Currie, Dioce-san Administrator, is set to retire July 1 after 33 years of service with the Diocese. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Vince on a Tues-day afternoon to speak with him about his time with the Diocese and his plans for retirement. When we first sat down I remarked on the large size of his office, and he said, “Yes, well this used to be the men's bathroom at the old bus station. The urinals

were all there under the windows.” I knew then that this would be a fun interview. Vince was born and raised in Pensacola. He first at-tended Christ Church where his mother was once church secretary. Shortly after college, Vince returned to Pen-sacola with his wife Dianne and became active in the Dio-cese. He helped lead the EYC at St. Christopher's and he served on the vestry, and as senior warden. He began go-ing to Diocesan Conventions, and when the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast was formed in 1970, he was on the first Commission on Finance and was the second Treasurer of the Diocese. He was also chair of the 1980 Bishop's Nom-inating Committee. Vince was hired by Bishop Duvall shortly after the Bishop's election. Vince said he could remember it like it was yesterday. Just after the 1981 Diocesan Convention, the Bishop walked up to Vince and asked if he and his wife Dianne would be home the next evening. Vince said they would, and then, Vince remembered with a chuckle, the Bishop promptly invited himself and his wife Nancy over for dinner. At the dinner Bishop Duvall asked Vince to be the Diocesan Administrator and Vince said it would have to be a family decision. Vince was doing well with his insurance business and working for the Diocese would mean moving from Pensacola to Mobile, but Vince was intrigued by the offer and he had felt called to serve the church in this way, so with his family's support, he accept-ed the job. When I asked Vince what he would miss most about his job, he said that it would be the trust and relationships he has been able to build with the people of the Diocese. He said that when clergy or other members of the Diocese need help with a problem, they could come to him for help and guidance and trust in confidentiality when needed. Of course, Vince will still be very active in the Diocese and the National Church because he has a passion for service. He is currently the First Chair Lay Deputy to the next Gen-

eral Convention. As a matter of fact, he is the most senior deputy in the House of Deputies, having been elected to represent the Diocese at every General Convention since 1976. He served one term as Vice President of the House of Deputies. Vince is also currently serving on the Episco-pal Church Pension Fund (and will do so until 2018). Lo-cally, he is on the Lakeview Center Board and the Baptist Hospital Finance and Investment Committees. All of Vince's volunteer work seems like more than enough to keep him busy during retirement, but he does hope to spend time with the grandchildren, travel with his wife on some of her work trips, get some fishing in, and possibly start raising chickens! A few years ago, Vince was given an honorary doctor-ate at Sewanee. He said they probably gave it to him be-cause of his work at the national level, or maybe because he was the chairman of the board of Credo for 10 years, but he thinks the real reason is that if you stay in one place long enough, people are bound to recognize you. We're glad you stayed around in this place for 33 years, Vince. We recognize you. We will miss you.

Episcopalians have a great opportunity to aid and partic-ipate in the ministry for Native Americans through a spe-cial offering that will assist the ongoing mission work in Navajoland. The Navajoland Area Mission is 26,000 square miles that spreads over Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. “For over 100 years The Episcopal Church has had a presence in Navajoland,” Bishop David E. Bailey stated in an April letter sent to all congregations. “As we work to reclaim our traditional spirituality and culture, we must simultaneously address the damage incurred by our histo-ry. Some of that damage is emotional and some of it is physical.” Among the requests cited by Bishop Bailey is the con-struction of new hooghans, a traditional Navajoland dwell-ing. He is asking for funds to build the ceremonial and educational hooghan at St. Christopher Mission in Bluff, UT, one of the churches of Navajoland. Hooghans cost $25,000 to build and are used for tradi-tional ceremonies as well as educational purposes. “I hope that you will consider joining us in prayer and giving to this Special Offering which promises new life for our people,” Bishop Bailey said. Donations can be made online at www.navajoland.org or checks sent to The Development Office, The Episcopal Church Center, 815 Second Ave., NY NY 10017. For more information contact Cornelia Eaton at cea-ton@ec-n.org

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Saint Monica’s Episcopal Church

699 South Highway 95-A

Cantonment, Florida 32533

Phone: 850-937-0001

E-mail: Office@st-monicas.org

The peace of the Lord be always with you.

Birthdays in June… 3, Jim Morningstar; 8, Beth Woods; 17, Barbara Roper; 20, Bill Putters; 29, Gary Beadle

We’re on the web at Www.st-monicas.org

Rosalynda Blackburn Max & Marie Cartwright Destiny Coy Mack Farrel Diane Fink Cliff & Debbie Foggatt Mike Godwin Ron Giles John Henderson Nancy Holland Jane Hunter Laura Lowe

Bob Matlock Bill Nix Mindy O Pat Prince Leroy Robbins Tiny Robinson Barbara Roper Melton Scott Dora Seal Frank Welch Marcella Young

Brian Condon Daryl Coy Mark Feely Aaron Gaff Benjamin Gaff Tim Hartford Johnny Hurd James Klinginsmith William Knapp Jeremy Wright

June Prayer Requests Military Prayer List

Anniversaries in June… 16, Bill & Norma Ramsey; 17, Robert & Audrey Westbrook; 19, Bill & Kathy Vail; 22 Ernest & Jennifer John-son If your birthday or anniversary is not listed or not listed correctly, please let Viv Welch know.