May, 2016 - The Church of the Holy Innocents

The
Bell Tower
The Church of the Holy Innocents Newsletter
May 2016
Volume 12 - Number 5
Inside this Issue
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From the Rector
The Birthday of the...
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Parish News ...cont.
ECW
Souper Bowl
May Schedule of Events
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from the Rector
The Rev. Donald Lowery
From the Rector...cont.
Parish News ...
Youth Group
Healing Service
Holy Communion
Baccalaureate
Treasurer’s Report...
Deacon”s Bench...
May Birthdays
and Anniversaries
Remember in Your Prayers
Special Dates
Unified Serving Schedule
Spotlight On...
LYRA ...
The Church of the Holy Innocents
210 South Chestnut Street
Henderson, North Carolina 27536
Telephone: 252-492-0904
E-mail: hinnocents@centurylink.net
Church Web Site Address:
www.churchofthe holyinnocents.org
Visit us on Facebook
The Birthday of the Church
with a Party at Holy Innocents
to Celebrate!
The Feast of Pentecost is on
Sunday, May 15th, this year. In Christian
tradition, Pentecost is considered the
Birthday of the Church. On this festival,
50 days after Easter, the Holy Spirit was
poured out on the apostles, both male
and female, as they prayed in Jerusalem.
The Risen Lord Jesus poured out the
Holy Spirit on the apostolic witnesses as
he had promised in order to empower
them to proclaim the Gospel, the Good
News, to all the peoples of the Earth. So
empowered and filled with divine
enthusiasm 120 faithful witnesses began
the work that Christians continue to do
this day. The out pouring of the Holy
Spirit is celebrated in our church
building in the stained glass window
over the Font. If one looks up high to
the small Rose window, one sees the
Apostles and the Virgin Mary receiving
the Holy Spirit.
The three lancet
windows below depict the seven
sacraments of the church. The two great
gospel sacraments of Holy Baptism and
Holy Communion are there. The five so
called lesser sacraments are there as
well.
These
are
Confirmation,
Ordination, Reconciliation or Confession
(optional in the Episcopal Church,
mandatory in the Roman Catholic
Church), Marriage and Unction or
Anointing of the Sick. Last Rites is a
subset within Anointing for the Sick.
We pray for recovery, and for the dying,
we pray for a peaceful death and the
ultimate healing that can only come in
eternal life when all the ills of this world
are healed by our Risen and Saving
Lord. The whole life of the church flows
from the gift of the Holy Spirit. Rightly
we celebrate Pentecost as the Birthday of
the Church.
On Pentecost this year we will
have a special celebration. First, we will
have a bilingual, combined service (at
10:30 am) joining the congregations that
generally meet separately for the English
service at 10:30 am and the Spanish
service at 12:30 pm. Afterwards we are
having lunch on the grounds. The
church will provide meat, iced tea,
water, soft drinks, ice and a birthday
cake.
From the Rector cont. pg. 2
MAY 2016
Parishioners will be asked to bring sides
to share, that is, things like cole slaw,
potato salad, pasta salad, other kinds of
salads, favorite vegetables, chips, any
sort of dish one might bring to a covered
dish or picnic and small desserts to
supplement the birthday cake. I am
going to ask the Latino congregation to
bring their favorite sides, and honestly,
because I love them, especially
homemade tamales. God willing it will
be a festival that celebrates the unity that
Jesus Christ through his Holy Spirit gives
us in the midst of our diversity. If it
rains, we will decamp to the lower hall
and pick up the fiesta in a safe warm
place. Come to the Birthday Party for
the Church and bring a friend. It will be a
festival day. †
The 245th Anniversary of The
Battle of Alamance
The Rev. Donald Lowery
Many people have forgotten that a
short war was fought in North Carolina
before the American Revolution.
Exorbitant taxes (raised in part to build
Tryon Palace and some colonial
churches) and the manipulation of the
property law by corrupt judges and
lawyers in the back country of North
Carolina drove many citizens to despair.
Granville County, of which Vance
County was then part, was one of the
back country areas where political
corruption affected many people,
especially small farmers. Many of the
farmers were driven off their land which
was then confiscated and sold to wealthy
planters. Finally, it came to a pitch battle
in which militia from Eastern North
Carolina, led by Governor Tryon fought
the frontier farmers who called
themselves Regulators (from their desire
to Regulate or Reform the Colonial
Government) on May 16th 1771. The
Regulators were not well organized and
were defeated. Some fled west and
resettled in the mountains of North
Carolina, which in those days included
what would become Tennessee. Others
were captured and jailed for treason. In
the end most were pardoned, though
seven were hanged for treason in
Hillsborough, not far from St. Matthew’s
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Father Don Away
Episcopal Church.
The Rev. Donald Lowery
On May 14th, at the Alamance
Battleground North Carolina State Historic
Site there will be a commemoration of this
battle. I have been invited to participate as
a dissenting minister of the era, that is, to
reenact a non-Church of England minister
explaining a religious issue for the revolt.
Many on the frontier were not members of
the Church of England in North Carolina
but were taxed to support it because it was
the Established Church. The Episcopal
Church was formed out of the ruins of the
Church of England in the colonies. To give
a local connection, one of the churches the
Regulators were angry they were taxed to
build is old St. John’s. One of the judges
they were angry with was Richard
Henderson, a member of old St. John’s and
owner of Ashland Plantation which still
stands on Satterwhite Road. So I will be
explaining to visitors why folks were mad
at the church, in its colonial format, of
which I am both a member and ordained
minister. I love irony. (The park is located
at 5803 North Carolina 62, Burlington, NC
27215) †
Parish News…
My mother was placed in a care
home for persons with Alzheimer’s
disease and other forms of dementia in
late February. My father suggested I not
come visit her until after Easter to give
her a chance to settle into the routine of
the center. This has gone well and I am
going to see her for the first time in
her new living setting on Mother’s Day,
May 8, 2016. I am driving to Maryland
Thursday so I can attend a special fundraising dinner at the Episcopal Church
where my parents and sister are
members. Then I will spend Mother’s
Day at church in the morning and
visiting mother that afternoon. I will
return to Henderson either Monday or
Tuesday. †
The Rev. Donald Lowery
Holy Communion will be
celebrated on the Wednesdays of May
with the first Wednesday including the
Healing Service. The service is at
5:30 p.m.. This is followed by a class
about the Beliefs of the Episcopal
Church a few minutes after 6:00 p.m. in
the Ingle Ladies’ Parlor. The same
material as the Wednesday class is
presented on Sunday at 9:45 a.m. †
The Rev. Donald Lowery
The Youth Group will not meet on
May 8th as I will be in Maryland visiting my
mother, as well as my father and sister. We
will meet on the other Sundays of May,
though I am aware many will be away on
Memorial Day weekend. I will be around
for any who are in town. †
Baccalaureate Service
The Rev. Donald Lowery
Holy Innocents will host the
Baccalaureate Service for Kerr-Vance
Academy on May 27, 2016. †
MAY 2016
Schedule of Events
M. Nelson
Church Usage
SCHEDULE
~Lower Hall~
Honoring Our Graduates
Do you have a special person
graduating from high school or college
this year? If so, we’d love for you to
share their accomplishment with us so
that we can include them in an article in
the June issue of our newsletter.
Please contact Susie in the
church office at 252-492-0904 or email
hinnocents@ centurylink.net by May 26
with
the
following
information:
graduate’s name, school, relationship to
you (child, grandchild, niece, nephew),
and photo (if you’d like one included).
MONDAY
AA
Cub Scout Pack
( w/ Tommy)
5:30 to 6:30
7:00 to 8:00
TUESDAY
NA
NA
AA
7:00 to 8:00
WEDNESDAY
7:00 to 8:00
FRIDAY
5:30 to 6:30
SATURDAY
Betsy Seifert, President
Attention all ECW Members!
NOTICE: Our church email address is
hinnocents@centurylink.net. Whenever
your email address changes, please be
sure to send your new address to the
church so that we can update our records.
Our next meeting is at 10:00 a.m.
on Tuesday, May 24th. We have invited
Randolph Wilson, Director of Rebuilding Hope, to join us so that we can
present him with a donation for his
organization. After meeting with Mr.
Wilson, we’ll discuss our decision to
have our bazaar on October 15, 2016 —a
Harvest Bazaar.
We plan to go out for lunch
after our meeting! Please join us!! †
The final totals are in. We raised
$391 and 18 cans of food for ACTS during the Souper Bowl (on Super Bowl
Sunday). That increased our amount
from 2015 by over $150.
At the national level, 6790 organizations raised $10,287,118 (cash & food)
for local charities in the 2016 Souper
Bowl of Caring.
8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
10:30 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
12:30 PM, La Misa Servicio
Wednesday– May 4
5:30 PM, Communion & Healing
Service/Enquirers Class
Sunday – May 8
8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
10:30 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
12:30 PM, La Misa Servicio
Wednesday– May 11
3:00 PM, Nursing Home Ministry
5:30 PM, Communion/Enquirers
Class
Sunday – May 15
8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
Bilingual Combined Service
(10:30 AM & 12:30 PM)
10:30 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
After Service Lunch on Courtyard
Sunday – May 22
8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
9:45 AM, Enquirers Class
Summer
Newsletter items are due:
May26th
Thanks for your help!
We did it!!
Sunday – May 1
Wednesday– May 18
5:30 PM, Communion/Enquirers
Class
(June/July/August)
Yolanda Yoder
Choir Weekly Practice Schedule
Hand Bell Choir — Wed. at 6:00 PM
Parish Choir
— Sun. at 9:30 AM
MJNELSON@nc.rr.com
Printed copies of the newsletter are
located in the Bell Tower for you if you
have problems with email access and are
also available to view and print from the
church website:
www.churchoftheholyinnocents.org
Thanks for your support!
(Ladies Parlor)
10:30 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
12:30 PM, La Misa Servicio
Tuesday – May 24
10:00 AM, ECW (Ladies Parlor)
Wednesday– May 25
3:00 PM, Nursing Home Ministry
5:30 PM, Communion/Enquirers
Class
Sunday – May 29
8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite I
9:45 AM, Enquirers Class
(Ladies Parlor)
10:30 AM, Holy Eucharist – Rite II
12:30 PM, La Misa Servicio
All services are conducted in the
Church, unless otherwise noted.
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THE BELL TOWER
Treasurer’s
Report
Bob Nelson, Treasurer
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THE BELL TOWER
The Deacon’s Bench
by the Rev. Harrel Johnson
May 2016
In a few short weeks we will be celebrating the Church’s birthday. We will actually have a party to do this, but
at this party it is we who have received the gifts. It was at the Church’s first birthday - the day of Pentecost that Jesus gave his disciples a gift. The gift was a baptism with the Holy Spirit. We all love to get gifts. We
do not always like to write thank-you. The bigger the gift however, the more likely we are to thank the
giver. However, the biggest and most important gifts that we have ever received have come from a giver
that is largely taken for granted and seldom thanked. These are the gifts we have received from God. And,
whether you realize it or not, what you are, what you have accomplished and what you will accomplish in
the future is a gift from God.
St Paul tells us in I Corinthians, chapter 12:
"There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives this
ability to all for their particular service. The Spirit’s presence is shown in some way in each person for the good
of all. The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a
message full of knowledge. One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives
the power to heal. The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking
God’s message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and
those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the
ability to interpret what is said. But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person." (I Cor. 12: 4-11 Good News Translation)
The central message of this scripture is clearly that God is the giver of our talents, and He has distributed these
talents among us in various degrees according to our gifts.
You all have different abilities. You all have different skills. You all have different talents. You know that. Not
everyone excels in all things. Everything you have, whether it’s a skill, a talent or even a disability, is a gift
from God. God has granted to each one of us, a unique ability to do something; something that no one else can
do quite like you. Many of you will use your God-given gifts to succeed. Let us all however not forget to give
thanks for the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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MAY 2016
Birthdays
Kathleen Burwell............................. 5/03
Nancy Whitt .................................... 5/03
Graham Ellis .................................... 5/06
Steve Flannagan .............................. 5/07
Helen Flannagan .............................. 5/07
Dianne Floyd ................................... 5/08
Richard Young …………………....5/08
Ann Ellis.......................................... 5/10
Barbara Hight .................................. 5/10
Betsy Catlett .................................... 5/18
Peggy Mason ................................... 5/20
Anniversaries
Remember In
Your Prayers
Pray for Healing and Comfort:
Cynthia Shaw, Trayce Wheless, Barbara
Collins, Staci Barnett,
Hazel Peck,
Barbara Madigan, Mary Ann Hill,
Melody Shearin, Carolyn Lowery, Mary
Shearin, Meghen Bunn, Vivie Drake,
Francis Saunders, Lisa Adcock, C.G.
Williams, Bobby Woodward, Bettie
Cooper, Griselle Woodward, Graham
Shearin, Rorin Platt, Tommy Greenway,
Hannah Youngblood, Marshall Cooper,
Veneal Williams, Janet White, Tracy
Clawson, Stephen Nichols, David Adcock and John Foster.
Griselle & Bobby Woodard……… 5/10
Susann & Kirk Elliott ..………….. 5/11
Katherine & Scott Williamson ........ 5/15
Betsy & Donald Seifert ................... 5/21
Jean & Rick Palamar ....................... 5/25
Sofia & Harrison Ford ..................... 5/29
Special Dates

National Day of Prayer

Mothers Day

Ascension of the Lord
Ma y 5 , 2 0 1 6
Ma y 8 , 2 0 1 6
Ma y 5 , 2 0 1 6

Armed Forces Day
Ma y2 1 , 2 0 1 6

Memorial Day
Ma y 3 0 , 2 0 1 6
Altar Flowers

Ruth Hartness
5/01

Linda & Porter Shaw
5/08

TBD
5/15

TBD
5/22

Marsha & Bob Nelson
5/29
MAY Unified Serving Schedule
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MAY
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COFFEE WILL BE SERVED IN THE GREAT HALL AFTER THE 10:30 AM SERVICE ~
bearers
acolytes
LC Olmert
(Book)
crucifer
Lehman Ford
layreader/
chalice bearer
8:00 am - Lucy Gray
10:30 am - Nick Long
Uriah Ford
8:00 am - Bob Nelson
10:30 am - Richard Davis
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LC Olmert (Book)
Tucker Olmert
Brennan Olmert
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Genie Parish (Book)
AJ Holloway
(Banner); Ethan
Holloway (Kite);
Jason Elliott
(Tintinabulus)
Mary Beth Paris
Sarah Rose Parish
Lorena Negron
Juliana Negron
Uriah Ford
Lehman Ford
(2nd Cross)
8:00 am - Hut Wester
10:30 am - Tom Church
Chap Burnette
Beau Burnette
AJ Holloway
8:00 am - Lucy Gray
10:30 am - Ruth Hartness
Genie Parish
8:00 am - Rick Palamar
10:30 am - Nancy Whitt
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Lehman Ford
Uriah Ford (Flags)
ushers
Craig Clodfelter
Mike Rainey
Tracy Madigan
altar
guild
vestry
greeter
Anora Rainey
Catherine
Olmert
Shirley Young
Margaret
Williamson
Shirley Young
Anne Almand
Mariana Davis
Richard Davis
Mariana Davis
John Foster
Craig Clodfelter
Mike Rainey
Tracy Madigan
Craig Clodfelter
Mike Rainey
Tracy Madigan
Craig Clodfelter
Mike Rainey
Tracy Madigan
Craig Clodfelter
Mike Rainey
Tracy Madigan
NOTE: IF YOU ARE SCHEDULED TO LAYREAD AND HAVE A CONFLICT, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR OWN
REPLACEMENT AND NOTIFY THE CHURCH OFFICE.
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THE BELL TOWER
Vocal Ensemble
From
St. Petersburg, Russia
The Church of the Holy Innocents
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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PHONE: 252-492-0904
E-MAIL: hinnocents@centurylink.net
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS
210 South Chestnut Street
Henderson, NC 27536
The Church of the Holy Innocents
All are welcome to join us as
we joyfully greet each person present at our worship.
May our love and respect for one another be
steady and true as we strive to follow Christ our Lord..