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My dears,
There is so much goodness going on at St. Barnabas and in our wider community! People often say, “It will slow down after Christmas,” or “It will slow down after Holy Week,” or “It will slow down in the summer…” And it doesn’t! It doesn’t slow down around here and that is some really good news! You’ll find details below for the events of the next couple of weeks, and as you might imagine, there are a few things I’d like to highlight!
I am so excited to be traveling to our cathedral with the St. B group! Cathedral Day reminds us of our connection to the whole diocese and is always a time of joy and reunion. All are welcome! St. Barnabas will be celebrating mightily as Bishop Skelton confirms Roy Clark, Sue Lukins, Bonnie Peterson, and Pat Todd, and receives Collin Chavez and Caitlin McCarron into the Episcopal Church! While I know most of you won’t be making the trek to Seattle that day, I ask your prayers for the church and for these dear souls for whom this is such a special day. We will celebrate them on Sunday at coffee hour. You’ll also be hearing a quarterly financial update from Finance Chair Borgan Anderson at Sunday’s coffee hour.
You may notice that our long term prayer list has changed, but don’t be alarmed! The people who pray daily for those on our prayer lists still have all the names of those who have been on that list since we began it…it’s just gotten too long to print each week. If you are not one of our daily pray-ers and would like to be, please email Drucy (info in the Prayer Chain section) and she will add you to the praying list.
And finally, don’t miss Schola Nova this Sunday at 6 p.m.! Schola Nova is comprised of women from many different island churches and choirs who come together to offer a beautiful, contemplative sung service. Themed for the Easter season, this month’s Vespers will center on new life in Christ. If you’ve attended Vespers with Schola Nova, you know what a treat it is. If you haven’t, join us—you’ll be glad you did!
Can’t wait to see you in church on Sunday!
Faithfully,
Karen†
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Saturday | April 27
Cathedral Day!
9 a.m. | Confirmands, Clergy, Representatives Meet Up | St. Mark’s Seattle
10:30 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Confirmation, Lunch | St. Mark’s Seattle
3 p.m. | Ellie de la Vergne Memorial & Reception | Sanctuary & Parish Hall
Sunday | April 28
8 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Rite I | Sanctuary
Post–Service Coffee Hour | Parlor
10 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Rite II | Sanctuary
Post–Service Coffee Hour | Finance Presentation | Parish Hall
6 p.m. | Vespers with Schola Nova | Sanctuary
Monday | April 29
2 p.m. | Reiki Team Gathering | Library
9 p.m. | Compline | Zoom
Tuesday | April 30
9 a.m. | Centering Prayer | Sanctuary
Noon | St. Barnabas Staff Meeting | Zoom
Wednesday | May 1
7 p.m. | Bishop Candidate Meet & Greet | Grace Church
9 p.m. | Compline | Zoom
Thursday | May 2
9 a.m. | Healing Eucharist | Sanctuary
1:45 p.m. | Senior Ministry | The Madison House
2 p.m. | Shakespeare Discussion Group | Library
4:30 p.m. | Vestry Meeting | Zoom
7 p.m. | The Parish Choir Rehearsal | Choir Room
Friday | May 3
9 p.m. | Compline | Zoom
Saturday | May 4
9:30 a.m. | Wisdom Day | Parish Hall
2 p.m. | Outreach Meeting with Rev. Michael Ambler | Library
Sunday | May 5
8 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Rite I | Sanctuary
Post–Service Coffee Hour | Parlor
9 a.m. | Bishop Candidate Post–Meeting Discussion | Parish Hall
10 a.m. | Holy Eucharist, Rite II | Sanctuary
Post–Service Coffee Hour | Restoration Laos Presentation
with Rev. Michael Ambler | Parish Hall
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Join us for Cathedral Day on Saturday, April 27 at St. Mark’s Cathedral! St. Barnabas will present four candidates for Confirmation and two for Reception into the Episcopal Church at Cathedral Day!
Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians throughout our diocese. It’s a time for connecting across congregations and experiencing all your cathedral has to offer. To find out more about Cathedral Day, to register, or to livestream the service click here.
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Memorial Service for Ellie de la Vergne
to be Held on Saturday, April 27 at 3 p.m.
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We invite all who knew and loved Ellie de la Vergne to join together in celebration of her life on Saturday, April 27 at 3 p.m. A memorial service will be held in the Sanctuary, followed by a reception in the Parish Hall.
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Coffee Hour This Sunday:
St. Barnabas Financial Update–Q1 2024
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The Finance Committee will give brief update of St. Barnabas’s 2024 first quarter finances at Coffee Hour after the 10 a.m. service on Sunday, April 28. A link to the presentation will be available in the weekly newsletter next week!
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Vespers with Schola Nova on
Sunday, April 28 at 6 p.m.
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The St. Barnabas Schola Nova invites you to join us for Vespers on Sunday, April 28 at 6 p.m. This short service marks the transition from day to evening, providing a time for us to pause for reflective prayer and praise. Please join us for contemplative music and readings at this midpoint of the Easter season.
Schola Nova sings evening Vespers monthly at St. Barnabas. If you are a treble singer interested in participating, please contact Music Director Sheila Bristow at sheila@stbbi.org.
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Diocese of Olympia Bishop Nominee
Meet & Greet at Grace, Bainbridge
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I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found... | |
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We are in spring cleaning mode at St. Barnabas! In the process of sprucing up the place, we have come across several items that have been left behind by members and folks who use our facility. We will have a table set up in the Parish Hall for the next two Sundays—April 28 and May 5—filled with these items. Please stop by and see if your long lost serving dish, pitcher, or tea towel has been hiding out at St. B! Any items remaining after Sunday, May 5 will be donated.
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Restoration Laos | Sunday, May 5
Freeing Land and People in Laos from the
Explosive Remains of the Vietnam War
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Laos is the most heavily bombed country per capita in the history of the world. During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 270 million bombs on this tiny, impoverished country, targeting the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Thirty percent failed to detonate. Eighty million are still there, waiting to fulfill their mission of killing...in farms, villages, and schoolyards across Laos. Read more...
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Friends, Islanders, Congregants, Lend Me Your Ears! | |
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Did you know that we have a Shakespeare discussion group at St. Barnabas? We chat and share opinions on a given play—usually once monthly. No quizzes, papers or grades! Our next meeting is on Thursday, May 2 at 2 p.m. in the church library when we’ll discuss Julius Caesar. If you’re pondering whether this might be something you’d enjoy, please email mogodman@gmail.com who will be happy to answer questions (and welcome you to the group if that’s what you’d like!).
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Help Us Help Helpline House!
(Try saying that five times fast!)
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Outreach would like to invite the parish to take part in a personal hygiene drive for those in need through Helpline House. We will continue collections through Sunday, May 5.
There will be a box in the parlor to collect items during the week, as well as a basket at the base of the baptismal font in the church to collect items on Sundays. Any and all will be appreciated, however the most needed items are listed below. Please donate as you can!
Thank you,
Outreach Committee
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| full bars of soap | hand sanitizer | | toothpaste and brushes | dental floss | | mouthwash | hand lotion | | chapstick | new combs and hairbrushes | | shampoo and conditioner | feminine hygiene items | | bandaids | personal mirrors | | personal packs of tissues
toilet paper | nail files
razors and shave cream | | |
A huge shout out to all who washed windows in the Parish Hall last Saturday! Allowing more natural light into the space has made a significant difference in the look and feel of the hall. Kudos to Phil Fergusson for organizing such a valiant effort to maintain our facilities and brighten up our hall. | |
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Journey with Jesus
Eastertide Series by Michael Fitzpatrick
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Campus Stewards Committee Formed | |
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A new committee has formed dedicated to looking after the long term care of our aging buildings and grounds. Our goals include:
- Create a ten year master plan, identifying needed projects and priorities for work to be accomplished.
- Provide an accessible repository for historical records of buildings, grounds and systems, maintenance records and responsibilities.
- Develop the basis for a reserve fund to be able to provide for regular repair and maintenance items that are outside the typical operating budget in perpetuity.
- Review our facilities for structural safety; environmental impact; program functionality; and landscape and grounds highest and best use.
Read more...
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St. Barnabas is a vibrant and active congregation, blessed with many and varied things happening on any given day! In an effort to streamline how members get information to the church office for publication, we have created a form for announcement submissions. When you would like to share information with the congregation, please use this form to help us help you! Publication avenues may include:
- Weekly eNewsletter (email)
- Bulletin inserts (single page of text to be passed out by ushers on Sundays)
- Colorful flyers for the bulletin boards in the parlor and stairwell
Announcements must be submitted by Wednesdays at 4 p.m. The Weekly eNewsletter typically goes out on Friday mornings, and will also be available via QR code in the Sunday bulletins moving forward so individuals can access information easily. The Wednesday deadline will also allow enough time to prepare flyers and bulletin inserts. Thank you for helping us to keep the St. Barnabas community informed! Questions? Contact Parish Administrator, Etienna Wright, at etienna@stbbi.org.
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With the goal to provide a space where church members can engage more readily with one another between Sundays and church events, we have created a St. Barnabas Bainbridge Island Members Facebook Group! This is a private group in which Facebook users must be approved to gain access. What can you do in this group? We’re so glad you asked! Read more...
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This time of year the sounds and the smells and the sights weave together to remind us of the reality of resurrection. The breathtaking beauty of every living thing emerging from its wintry cave: buds burst open in vividly colorful displays, birds swoop and chirp, bright green leaves and needles push into view from nowhere, and everything smells fresh and earthily fragrant. The unfolding beauty inspires awe and gratitude—we cultivate and care for these trees and shrubs and crops and creatures, but we can’t make them. At the same time, destructive human actions occur rampantly throughout fragile environments, for all sorts of reasons, stressing ecosystems’ ability to recover. What is our relationship to the environment in which we live? Do we love the Earth? Does the Earth love us?
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect,” said Aldo Leopold, famous restorative conservationist from Baraboo, Wisconsin. He also said, “The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively, the land…A land ethic changes the role of [humans] from conqueror of the land community to plain member and citizen of it. It implies respect for his fellow members...”
“A community to which we belong.” Aldo Leopold saw belonging in community as the remedy to an abusive relationship with the land. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweet Grass, suggests a list of loving behaviors:
· Nurture health and well-being
· Protect from harm
· Encourage individual growth and development
· Desire to be together
· Generously share resources
· Work together for a common goal
· Celebrate shared values
· Interdependence
· Sacrifice for one another
· Create beauty
These expressions can be observed between people who love each other. Dr. Kimmerer suggests that we make the leap to see it as love that is reciprocal between people and a garden or, again, the water, the plants, the creatures, the land.
We are grateful to God for all these good gifts. Gratitude harmonizes with and enhances the advice of these and other environmental luminaries.
The land community doesn’t issue membership cards, but I’m going to wander outdoors and try to see myself as a citizen of it. What behavior should I be aspiring for? Perhaps a worthy goal is to behave in such a loving way toward the Earth that the Earth loves us back. A mutuality of stewardship. Oh! But the Earth is already doing her part. Now it’s up to us to make it mutual, living into our role as resurrection people.
Faithfully submitted,
Barbara Bolles
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Praying For Each Other:
The St. Barnabas Prayer Chain
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Is there someone you would like us to pray for? Would you like to pray for others in our community? The St. Barnabas Prayer Chain consists of a group of volunteers who believe in the power of prayer and who willingly and regularly pray for others. Drucy Burnet Hodge (drucy15@msn.com or 206/780-2904) coordinates our chain, receiving requests for prayers, and sends those prayers out to the ones who pray. If you would like us to pray for you or someone you love, please contact Drucy. Prayer requests can be as simple as giving a first name and asking for prayers or more detailed, if you’d like. Parishioners remain on the prayer list for a month, non-parishioners for two weeks. The long-term prayer list is periodically reviewed and revised. If you would like to join us in praying for the people on our Prayer Chain, please email Drucy at drucy15@msn.com, and ask to be added to the list.
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Our Prayer List This Week:
*St. Barnabas parishioners
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We pray for healing, peace,
and comfort for:
*Heidi
Jeffery
*Sheila
*Rebecca
*Sally
Dolores & *Linda
*Peggy
*Ken & *Stephanie
*Barbara
For those who have died:
*Delores
*Ellie
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Long term prayers:
*David
*Carole
Angela, Garry, & Robert
Mollie & Cyrus
Christopher & Melissa
Barbara & Leon
Vince & Sean
Harry, Marisa & Margaret
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Deacon Dan Fowler and other
volunteers from St. Barnabas
lead Devotion Services at
area senior living centers
on Bainbridge Island.
All are welcome to
come and join us!
The Madison House
Every Thursday at 1:45 p.m.
Fieldstone—May 8
Memory Care 1:30 p.m.
Assisted Living 2:00 p.m.
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Social Justice:
A Calling Consistent with our Mission
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A couple of years ago at St. Barnabas, our congregation described our identity with three words: love, seek, serve. As we concluded our experience with Sacred Ground, the Episcopal anti–racism training, we woke up to a calling to advocate for social justice, and recently we wrote it into our Strategic Plan.
Coming up May 4, an important opportunity to develop the ability to recognize, interrupt, and confront racism will be hosted by Bainbridge Island’s Race Equity Advisory Committee. It is a one–day, in–depth bystander training offered by a national equity and inclusion consultancy called Healing Equity United (HEU), and it is free to attend.
HEU’s bystander training is designed to “empower individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to actively combat racism and oppression in their personal lives, workplaces, and beyond.” Through a two–part workshop with breakout groups and exercises, the training is designed for both BIPOC and white people who want to develop their skills in interrupting and confronting racism when and where it happens.
- Part 1 focus: What is racism?
- Part 2 focus: How to be an active bystander
Where: Bainbridge Island City Hall
When: Saturday, May 4, in two sessions:
- 10 a.m–Noon morning session*
- Noon–1 p.m. independent lunch hour
- 1–3 p.m. afternoon session
Offered at no charge by our city, this is a timely offering that answers our continuing need to “take it to the next level” as we said we desired to do at the end of our Sacred Ground training.
*Please note that morning session attendance is required to participate in the afternoon session.
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Normal office hours are from 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Tuesday–Friday. Please be in touch via email or phone 206/842-5601 and we’ll get back to you as soon as we’re able!
For general inquiries please email info@stbbi.org
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Pastoral Care, The Rev. Karen Haig, revkaren@stbbi.org or 206/755-2168, Deacon Dan Fowler, danf2828@gmail.com or 206/724-8951, or The Rev. Nancy Tiederman, 206/948-3333, nancytiederman10@gmail.com
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Contemplative Ministry, The Rev. Patricia Robertson, revprome@hotmail.com
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Music, Sheila Bristow, music director and organist, sheila@stbbi.org
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Parish Administrator and Family Ministry Coordinator, Etienna Wright, etienna@stbbi.org
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Articles for the weekly e-news, ministry materials, or supplies, reserving rooms, or Zoom time, etienna@stbbi.org
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Financial issues, Jessica Edmonds, contract bookkeeper, jessica@narrowsbookkeeping.com
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Buildings and Grounds, George Cole, sexton, gcconsult23@gmail.com
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Suggestions or comments, Steve Schmitz, people’s warden, esallen1zero5@gmail.com
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Policy issues, Gigi Norwine, rector’s warden, gigi.norwine@yahoo.com
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To be added to the prayer chain, Drucy Burnet Hodge, drucy15@msn.com
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Outreach Ministry, Bill Galvani, billgalvani62@gmail.com
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Parish Life, Lisa-Marie MacKenzie, mackenzie.lm@gmail.com
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Community Liaison, Barbara Bolles, bainbridgebarb@gmail.com
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Caring Community Network, home communion, and meals, Angie Bickerton, angieralph@msn.com
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Reiki Ministry, Ric Cederwall, ric@stanfordalumni.org
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