The Winged Ox

The W inged Ox is the Ancient Sym bol of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician

A Newsletter for the People of The Memorial Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician June 2012 Issue 138

The Memorial Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician 150 Years of Ministry 1861-2011 1946 W elsh Road Philadelphia, PA 19115 215.969.3645 (office)
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I was hungry and you gave me food (Matthew 25:35).

SERVICES Sundays: 10:50a.m. Church School in Hall 11:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with music Followed immediately by refreshments and fellowship in the parish hall. Wednesdays: 7:30 p.m. Healing Eucharist ACTIVITIES: Contemplative Prayer W ednesdays 6:45 p.m . in the church office Inside this issue: Birthdays............................... 4 Calendar................................9 Food Bank and Garden.........6 Messages..............................7 News...................................3,4 Noahs Ark.............................8 Prayer requests.....................4 Rectors Message...............1,2 Reminders.............................2 Summer Maze.......................5 Those Who Serve..................3 Welcome Visitors.................. 2 Word Puzzle..........................8

oday when I entered the office at around 12:00 I found five very redfaced women (Nancy, Cheri, Caroline, Stacey and Barbara) cooling themselves. These members of the Womens Outreach Wing (WOW) had given their Saturday morning over to working in the garden to grow vegetables for the Somerton Food Bank. You have no doubt noticed how central food was to Jesus life and ministry. The gospels are filled with stories about food. We read of Jesus being tempted to turn stones into bread; we read that he shared table fellowship with sinners and with Pharisees; we hear of his feeding five thousand and later four thousand. Even our central liturgical celebration is a meal, modeled upon Jesus final meal with his friends before his crucifixion. The reason for this apparent preoccupation with food is simple. Many of the people with whom Jesus lived and to whom he ministered were day laborers. To be a day laborer in Jesus time meant that you were only able to work when someone offered you employment. Thus day laborers lived from one day to the next often uncertain of their livelihood and consequently uncertain whether they would be able to feed themselves and their family the next day. In addition to this problem, there were dietary rules that governed what people ate and with whom they ate. So food was on the mind of many of Jesus contemporaries. And Jesus spent so much of his time talking about food and sharing table fellowship with others because he envisioned a new social order in which people shared what they had so that all would have enough. It sounds like the simplest of ideas: If we all share what we have, then there is enough for everyone (and probably more than enough). But as simple as it sounds few of Jesus contemporaries followed his example. Paul even relates a story of the apostle Peter refusing to share table fellowship with Gentiles in the early days of the Church for fear of offending certain Jewish followers of the way of Jesus.

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Of course we have progressed to some extent. We have fewer social stigmas that govern with whom we eat (though we should not fool ourselves into supposing that there are no such stigmassome still exist). But Jesus central messagethat if we share there is enough for allremains an idea that most of us ignore. Thats why I found it so impressive to find the women of WOW not only growing healthy food to share with the patrons of the Food Bank, but giving up their Saturday to do so. That is a wonderful ministry and a clear instance of taking Jesus message to heart. I hope you will join me in thanking WOW for this excellent outreach ministry and the other ministries that they have undertakenthe cereal drive and the support for womens sheltersand that you will continue to support these initiatives. God bless. Father Tim

A New Title: Now that All Saints and St. Lukes have entered into a covenant, we will be sharing the monthly newsletter. So when we commence the newsletter again in September I would like us to have a new title to replace The Ox. My idea was The Newsletter. However, Carol suggested that others might have more creative ideas. If you have an idea for a title to our newsletter, please let me know. Contributions to Somerton Food Bank: St. Lukes treasurer, John Brambilla, has informed me that we are just a little light in our contributions to the Somerton Food Bank the last few months. If you can see your way clear to putting something in the basket every once in a while that would be a great blessing.

WELCOME VISITORS! Are you a new reader?

Come visit us! W ere so glad that you picked up this publication; we hope you will find it interesting and worth your time and we hope you will take the next step and worship with us sometime. If you are worshiping with us, we welcome you! W hatever your religious background, and however you have come to be here, we welcome you to St. Lukes. Please let us know who you are by signing our guest book (by the door) or filling out a card found in the pews. You can hand your card to an usher, or put it in the collection plate when it comes later.

NEWS
Dear Friends, As I think about the past two months at St Lukes, I just get a smile on my face. The reason for that smile is that we had a wonderful time at the fun- raiser A Night at the Races. I want to thank John, Joan and Bill Litzke for the wonderful fellowship that evening. Everyone that attended the event is hoping that we will have another Night at the Races, so Fr. Tim can try his luck again! Colleen did a fantastic job with the Flower Sale. So much work and enthusiasm went into this fund raiser. The flowers were all beautiful! John Litzke, Tom Truesdale, Katherine Gibson, Karen and Doug Vannauker, and Colleen and Jim Szczur did all of the work the morning of the delivery. Many thanks, to all, who helped and supported the Flower Sale.

REMINDERS:

Those Who Serve Sunday, JUNE 3 Chalice Bearer: S. Carmody Reader: J. Brambilla Ushers: J. Litzke, T. Truesdale Altar Guild: J. Oxenford, C. Cotugno Coffee Hour: Outdoor Picnic Counters: J & J Litzke

The Winged Ox will be on vacation until Sept 2012. Have a great summer!
Outreach

Sunday, JUNE 10 Chalice Bearer: L. Carter Reader: S. Carmody Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Brambilla Altar Guild: S&C Carmody Coffee Hour: G. Hair, J&C Szczur, K. Kenny, S. Nesbitt Counters: B & D Shifflett Sunday, JUNE 17 Chalice Bearer: J. Gardner Reader: L. Carter Ushers: J. Litzke, J. Brambilla Altar Guild: G&B Hair, J. Woods Coffee Hour: J&J Litzke, J. Gardner, J. Oxenford Counters: J. Brambilla, R. Whaley Sunday, JUNE 24 Chalice Bearer: B. Kaufold Reader: J. Iannotti Ushers: T. Truesdale, J. Litzke Altar Guild: L. Carter, R. Fischer Coffee Hour: Espositos, A. Thorpe, M. Geiger Counters: A. Thorpe, K. Gibson
The Those Who Serve schedules for July and August can be found on the church w ebsite: w w w .stlukesbustleton.w ebs.com

The Food Bank is always in need of cereal and cash donations to buy meats and maintain operating expenses. Please continue your support through the summer as hunger does NOT take a holiday! The 2 homeless shelters we support look forward every week to the Wawa gift cards provided by your donations of change! The Feed the Hungry Vegetable Garden can use more hands to help maintain the garden. If youd like to volunteer, see Stacey.

Jackie
Trip to Israel Fr. Tim is interested in getting a group of 15 or more to visit Israel. The trip would be next year in order for everyone to plan a head. The cost would be about $ 4500 and this would include air fare, lodging, food and excursions. The Diocese does offer scholarships for this trip. Anyone interested please see Jackie.

SUMMER BIRTHDAYS

PRAYERS PLEASE

June 1. Gail Hair 12. Don Shifflett Julia Gardiner 18. Edna Wilkinson 25. Tim Griffin 27. Nicole Noll July 1. Mark Kriss 2. Jennifer Fox 4. Ruth vonClef 12. Katherine Gibson 13. Walburta Nelson August 5. Laure Padian 8. Jim Szczur 9. Ruth Dalton 15. Jean Gardner 27. Herb Rolland Evan Gardner Colleen Szczur 17. Adam Fox 19. Nancy Orlando 25. Joshua Woods 26. Stephanie Remick

Members: Dorothy, Elaine, Ruth B., Nancy H., Edna, Alan, Mabel, Ruth L., Louise, William L, Robert B, Patricia L, Nancy Martha, Llyn C., Katherine G., Elsie, George R., Renne C., Aurelia T. Friends and Family: Joyce, David, Avery, Katherine, Malcolm, Amarante, Greg, David, Martha, Amy, Hendricks family, Amber, Joline, Elisa, Larry, Carol, Anthony, James, Myles family, Francis, Jim, Robert, Iris, Richard, Linda, Jessica, Julia, Osca, Billy, William, Ann Those Serving in the Armed Forces: William B. William S, Chris G.,Kevin M., Andrew R., Chris K.,John R., Chris R., Eric B., Rob D., Jerry F.,Thomas H., Tom B.,Casey R., Jermaine, Bradley, Michael, Maxx, Eric J., John T., George M., Steven M, Timothy D., Police, Firefighters, Emergency Medical Responders

SUMMER MAZE

Update: The Feed the Hungry Garden is making some great progress. Dozens of tomato plants have been planted. We still need volunteers to help feed, plant and water the garden. The produce grown in the garden will benefit Somerton Food Bank. The Home Depot at 11725 Bustleton Avenue was extremely generous with donations of plants and soil. The volunteers at Somerton Food Bank were overjoyed at this abundant blessing. The director of Somerton Food Bank (officially called Somerton Interfaith Food Bank) Dr. Matthew Cayer wrote Home Depot a letter of gratitude. In January 2012, Matthew took over the directors post from Compton Chase and has devoted countless hours of volunteer time in addition Home Depot staff with donations to his psychologist career. Matthew had practically grown up in the food bank as a volunteer there and also as a parishioner of St. Andrews-in-the-Field Church, where the food bank is located. It opened in 1997 as a St. Andrews food cupboard and continued to grow as the need for feeding the Dr. Matthew Cayer hungry grew. Today the food bank has 33 volunteers on a rotating schedule and is open 3 days a week (Mon, Wed and Fri from 9 to noon) and thrives on donations from area churches including St. Lukes. Food comes from the Department of Agriculture, Philabundance, Entemanns, as well as Girl and Boy Scout troops and donations from individuals. The food bank also spends a substantial amount of money for food, especially during times when donations are down. Donations tend to peak during the December holidays and then wane in the first half of the year. The food bank serves people in nine zip code areas. To receive food, the recipients much sign up to get on a list by showing an ID and proof of address. Financial information is also taken down. Currently there are 1,587 people on the list and growing including 628 families who depend on this feeding ministry. Recipients walk away with as many as 3 shopping bags full of food, and they are allowed to select some items off a shelf as if they are shopping in a store. The idea of shopping is to restore some dignity and autonomy to the recipient in what may feel like an uncomfortable situation. People of all ages, races, religions and nationalities come through for help and are grateful for the food banks existence. -Submitted by Stacey Carmody

Messages to the Parish From the Treasurer and Accounting Warden:

Fund Raising, Outreach, and Other Money :As we ramp-up our fundraising efforts at St. Lukes, it seems like an appropriate time to remind folks that all money that is collected for fund raising, outreach, or routine church activities should be dropped in the collection plate, with an explanation, so the counters can record the money. Any expenses associated with such events also need to be recorded, so if you need to be reimbursed for church expenses, please see John Brambilla. Do not deduct your expenses from money you collect. John will provide you with a form that you can complete and submit with your receipts. This form may be placed in the collection plate or put in Johns mailbox in the church office. This process will (i) protect those collecting money, the donors, and the church; and (ii) enable St. Lukes to accurately report our fundraising and outreach efforts in our annual report to the Diocese to demonstrate how active our parish is. If you have any questions about this process, please see John Brambilla or Colleen Szczur. Tax Receipts If you receive vestry approval to purchase items on behalf of the church, you may be reimbursed for those goods or receive credit for a charitable contribution, where allowed by law. For example, if Barbara purchases supplies for church school, she can submit the receipts to be reimbursed. On the other hand, if Barbara donated those supplies, she could submit the receipt, along with the donation form, and she would receive credit for her donation on the annual tax receipt that St. Lukes issues to donors in January. When you purchase items that have been assigned a price such as the pot pies or flowers you are supporting the church, but you are not entitled to credit for a tax deduction (because you are receiving goods in exchange for your money). When you make a free-will offering, generally your donation qualifies as a tax deduction for a charitable contribution. Always include your name and envelope number with any donation, so you can receive credit for a donation, if permitted by law. If you have any questions, please see John Brambilla or Colleen Szczur. Messages from the Vestry: Capital Improvement Fund At its May meeting, the vestry approved a motion to deposit the money raised from recent fund raising activities into the Capital Improvement Fund in anticipation of purchasing air-conditioning for the church hall. After just one month of events, which included the Easter Fun for Kids, the Night at the Races, Pot Pies and Chicken Soup Sales, and the Flower Sale, we deposited over $2,000 in the Capital Improvement Fund. You may recall that we ask each family to contribute $100 to the Capital Improvement Fund each year, or what you are able. This year, contributions will be ear-marked for this air-conditioning project. In addition to permitting year-round coffee hour and fellowship in the hall, air-conditioning will increase our ability to rent the hall, offering another opportunity to reduce our current deficit. Covenant with All Saints The Covenant Committee is pleased to announce that the Covenant Agreement between All Saints Episcopal Church in Rhawnhurst and St. Lukes has been signed by the vestries and by the Bishop. Bishop Bennison was very happy to support the yoking of All Saints and St. Lukes, which enables each of the churches to retain its own identity, while sharing certain common expenses. The vestry thanks the congregation for its support in implementing the Covenant Agreement. You may not realize it, but when you elect the members of the vestry each year, you are empowering them to make decisions on your behalf in the best interests of St. Lukes. While some vestry decisions are easier than others, the vestry prays before each meeting that God will guide the vestrys decisions, and the vestry is grateful that God guided us to this yoking opportunity.
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WORD PUZZLE

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N R S V R R T Noah's Ark : Everything I need to know, I learned from Noah's Ark ..

(John 16:7) Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. (NRSV)

Word List NEVERTHELESS ADVANTAGE ADVOCATE TRUTH YOUR WILL THAT TELL SEND NRSV JOHN COME AWAY NOT HIM FOR BUT TO IT IS IF GO DO

ONE: Don't miss the boat. TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat! THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. FOUR: Stay always ready. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big. FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done. SIX: Build your future on high ground. SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs. EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs. NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile. TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals. ELEVEN: No matter the storm, there's always a rainbow waiting. Please pass this on to people you want to be blessed. Give it! Don't just get it! Most people walk in and out of your life, but FRIENDS leave footprints in your heart.

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3- Trinity Sunday
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Have a Nice Summer!

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