| Synod News September, 2010 |
In This Column:
Just a Thought
Fallen Heroes
ACW Missionary Journey and News in Brief
Special Prayers This Month
A Heart Warming story: A Writers Thought. Circle of Life Rites Never Ends
Notre Dame Football
Just a Thought
Many of you ask why we do not update our Monthly News during the month. The main reason is this
website is published by voluntary staff who graciously give of their time. However, many of the items
placed on our site can be found elsewhere on the Internet in this age of information, we try to do our
best in sharing what we can with you. Weekly, the Archdiocese sends out emails to our members and
friends so we are fully vested and in contact with them as they allow us into their homes. Primarily our
news is (like our website) to peak your interest so that you will research it on the web for the full story.
Monthly News (as it is called) is not a news source, but a vehicle to share what’s going on in the ACW,
with you. The summer months find me traveling, my focus remains there until travel concludes in
October. If you would like to write a "Just a Thought", we will be happy to welcome a 300 or so word
thought to brighten our pages.
+ Hartley
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Fallen Soldiers
Combat is over in Iraq, (so they say), but there are those still dying. The war is intensifying in
Afghanistan, 52 have died in August. So far in this war, 5,675 have perished. This month we share this
story of the difficulties we never hear, but our soldiers go through. Trying to come home… for a
vacation
Afghanistan
Think you're stressed out about making your flight with all the new security measures that are now in
place at airports? Soldiers halfway through a 12-month combat tour, have two weeks with their
families, travel included. They gather at dawn at a Military Airport in Northern Afghanistan, for a C-130
cargo flight to Kabul, where they'll overnight in tents, get a military flight through Kuwait and on to
Atlanta or Baltimore, change planes for, uncountable exhausting hours later. When flights are
cancelled or indefinitely delayed in the morning and it's getting on toward lunchtime, flights are
overbooked(understandably), soldiers stands by in their body armor, backpacks and helmets, begin
shucking their gear and looking for a place to slump down and sleep because who knows when they
will get out of there.
Outside in fiery sunlight, a Canadian military C-130 has pulled in and shut down its engines, its
loadmasters are hollering and sweating to get cargo out & cargo in, then someone with a ton of papers
appears, ‘the manifest’, list of would-be passengers, working against the super heat & dust of midday
with the noise of the turbine engines, blasting in their ears.
No soldiers will believe they are going anywhere until wheels up, but when they finally get aboard
soldiers & journalist file in, squeeze themselves, body armor, helmets and carryon backpacks into the
plane carefully navigating tiny twin aisles wedge into the seats, squirming into their seat belts. Carryon
is held in their lap, sweaty thighs against thighs, face to face and kneecap butting against kneecap,
crammed into four long rows, and everyone's leaning back, breathing deeply. The temperature swells
and sweat slides from under helmets and down necks during long tense minutes, until new vibrations
indicate the engines are starting and the rear cargo ramp closes up with a thump. In the dark no
windows passengers sense the plane turning. Then sudden acceleration pushes everyone over 45
degrees and more thumps indicate the gear is up and BY GOSH WE ARE ON OUR WAY! HALLELUJAH.
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ACW Missionary Journey
The ACW Missionary continues this month: Queens, New York, Jacksonville, Florida, Belleville, Illinois,
Minot, and North Dakota. We invite your prayers for traveling mercies.
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New Parishes Notice
All new Parishes and Missions will be on a probationary period for one (1) year beginning the date of
their reception. This is to give all received Parishes an opportunity to evaluate their relationships with
the ACW and their commitment to building the Church for the future.
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Financial Gifts
We give thanks for the wonderful financial contributions given to us by our benefactors in Council
Bluff, Iowa drawn out over a ten (10) year span. This generous gift will subsidize our Bishops and
Missionaries and their travels on missions. (By their request, their name will not be mentioned).
We pray that we are worthy of their generosity and trust.
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Negotiations
Negotiations are ongoing to create a subsidized Health Insurance Plan for ACW Clergy and Members.
Prayerfully, this will be implemented by the year's end.
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News Letters
The first edition of our monthly news letter was mailed in August. If you would like to receive a
copy, email us at acwdiocese97@aol.com . If you wish your birthday to be placed on our list,
please contact our General Secretary, Jo Ann Lyles.
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Congratulations !!!
To Fr Daniel Mapur and his wife Elizabeth, expecting their first son December 2010.
To Bishop Francis and Charlyn upon their happy union pf marriage.
To Mr. Antonia Graham and Ms Jamelia Spratt upon their upcoming marriage September 18th
at the Pro Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Belleville, IL.
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ACW Birthdays in September
1st - Tommy Shelby III
8th- Makala Wells
9th- Sandra Joseph
13th- Jordan Pearson, Wanda Williams, Demetrius Chism
15th- Mary Tompkins, Cheryl Shanes
17th- Devin Robinson
18.th- Kathryn Ganges
24th- Kristin Chism, Waddell Williams
27th- Chester Willis
28th- Elliott Bellinger, Aiden Ganges
30th- Katherine Hicks, Stephanie Cann
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Thanks
The Parish, staff and members of Good Shepherd in Palm Bay for their wonderful reception
on our visitation, August 21st.
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Special Prayers This Month
*The Anglican Church in St Vincent ,West Indies.
*Global Ministries, Richman Hill, New York
*Returning soldiers from Iraq that will find a peaceful transition to their lives
*The Abram family of Queens, New York at the loss of a loved one
*The Watson Family Mobile, Alabama
*The Joseph Family, Trinidad, West Indies
*For the homeless in the County of Berbice in Guyana, in South America
*For the famined country of Niger in Africa
*The people of Haiti
*The City of East St. Louis, Illinois
*The Caribbean Island of Jamaica that violence will be erased
*For the summer travels of the ACW
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AACW Flags (5x8) are on sale through the Archdiocese.
$265.00 If would like a 3X5
flags in bulk of 10 are $240.00
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A heart warming story: A writers thought
Written by Ken Newton St Joseph- News Press July 18, 2010
Circle of Life Rites Never Ends
But for some stray bug in my system, I would not have been the only kid standing beside the Rev.
Stone at the front of a congregation. Friends my age had taken our instructions together, doing Bible
study in the church’s upstairs classrooms. Our baptisms were to culminate this work, done all in a row
on a circled-on-the-calendar Sunday. But I came up feverish on the morning of the service. My
classmates would do this as a group; I would do it on a later Sunday and alone.
My memories of this, more than four decades later, remain fuzzy except for one detail. The baptismal
water applied to my burr head made a sure and ticklish descent along my spine. About the time it
passed my belt, I twitched. No other United Methodist on the planet may have noticed this, but my
mother did. I shot a look her direction, and she shot back her most convincing don’t-squirm
expression.
That exchanged glance amuses me to this day. Parents and their children are meant for a lifetime of
rites, and we see them through solemnly and joyously, maybe with some laughs and tears. Not all these
passages arrive with ceremony. A child’s first steps come with prelude, but they enchant and surprise
all the same. The day training wheels come off a bicycle, and that first wobbly ride, may be only
conversation for the dinner table, but it means something all the same.
Crossing home plate at a dusty ballpark, I would look to where my parents sat, ensuring their attention.
Capped and gowned occasions of a formal education also required their presence and pride.
My father loitered at the license bureau on my 16th birthday, working through Winston’s and waiting as
I took a driver’s test. And several years later, he accompanied my mother down the aisle to front-row
seats as I got married.
Time goes by and the rites of growing up, the ballgames and baptisms, the Scout ceremonies and
honors assemblies, shift to your children. And your feelings toward these things intensify.
Everything speeds up. You see them gooey and seconds old in a delivery room and see them depart
for college, and a clock has barely ticked between.
Several years ago, my son Jon decided to spend time in Europe. I met him there, and we traveled
through Italy for a week.
That last day, I had to rise at 4 a.m. to catch a flight. Despite my protests, he insisted on walking me the
half-mile or so to the transit point, where I would catch a bus to the airport.
As we made our way, seemingly the only people awake in Venice, the briny smell of the canals thick
around us, it occurred to me his gesture was not just good manners. He wanted to see me safely there.
Another rite, looking after dad.
Three weeks ago, Jon got married. And last week, I stood with him and Marcy beside a loaded U-Haul
on their departure to a new life two time zones away.
Their adventure is part of my own, though they will see the snow-capped peaks and an ocean named
for peace. My optimism remains complete, and these rites never end.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Notre Dame Football
With new Head Coach Brian Kelly at the helm (there was nothing wrong with Charlie Wies, Tyrone
Willingham) ND ventures into another season. Not winning a National Championship since the days of
Lou Holtz in 1988, they keep showing coaches the door if they cannot win 10 games in a 12 game
season, (We thought these kids went to school to get an education). Odds are now being taken on how
long Coach Kelly will last. Unlike Charlie, he has not bought a home in South Bend, so wisely Coach
Kelly has taken a wait- and -see approach by these what -have- you -done for me lately Athletic
directors will do.
Herein is ND schedule for 2010
Sept 4 (H) Purdue // NBC
Sept 11 (H) Michigan // NBC
Sept 18 @ Mich. State // ABC OR ESPN
Sept 25 (H) Stanford // NBC
October 2 @ Boston // TBA
October 9 (H) Pittsburg // NBC
October 16 (H) Western Michigan // NBC
October 23 @ Navy // CBS
October 30 (H) Tulsa // NBC
November 13 (H) Utah // NBC
November 20 @ Army // NBC
November 27 @ USC // ABC OR ESPN
We wish the program well in their 2010 campaign.
Watch How You Go.
Just a Thought
Fallen Heroes
ACW Missionary Journey and News in Brief
Special Prayers This Month
A Heart Warming story: A Writers Thought. Circle of Life Rites Never Ends
Notre Dame Football
Just a Thought
Many of you ask why we do not update our Monthly News during the month. The main reason is this
website is published by voluntary staff who graciously give of their time. However, many of the items
placed on our site can be found elsewhere on the Internet in this age of information, we try to do our
best in sharing what we can with you. Weekly, the Archdiocese sends out emails to our members and
friends so we are fully vested and in contact with them as they allow us into their homes. Primarily our
news is (like our website) to peak your interest so that you will research it on the web for the full story.
Monthly News (as it is called) is not a news source, but a vehicle to share what’s going on in the ACW,
with you. The summer months find me traveling, my focus remains there until travel concludes in
October. If you would like to write a "Just a Thought", we will be happy to welcome a 300 or so word
thought to brighten our pages.
+ Hartley
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Fallen Soldiers
Combat is over in Iraq, (so they say), but there are those still dying. The war is intensifying in
Afghanistan, 52 have died in August. So far in this war, 5,675 have perished. This month we share this
story of the difficulties we never hear, but our soldiers go through. Trying to come home… for a
vacation
Afghanistan
Think you're stressed out about making your flight with all the new security measures that are now in
place at airports? Soldiers halfway through a 12-month combat tour, have two weeks with their
families, travel included. They gather at dawn at a Military Airport in Northern Afghanistan, for a C-130
cargo flight to Kabul, where they'll overnight in tents, get a military flight through Kuwait and on to
Atlanta or Baltimore, change planes for, uncountable exhausting hours later. When flights are
cancelled or indefinitely delayed in the morning and it's getting on toward lunchtime, flights are
overbooked(understandably), soldiers stands by in their body armor, backpacks and helmets, begin
shucking their gear and looking for a place to slump down and sleep because who knows when they
will get out of there.
Outside in fiery sunlight, a Canadian military C-130 has pulled in and shut down its engines, its
loadmasters are hollering and sweating to get cargo out & cargo in, then someone with a ton of papers
appears, ‘the manifest’, list of would-be passengers, working against the super heat & dust of midday
with the noise of the turbine engines, blasting in their ears.
No soldiers will believe they are going anywhere until wheels up, but when they finally get aboard
soldiers & journalist file in, squeeze themselves, body armor, helmets and carryon backpacks into the
plane carefully navigating tiny twin aisles wedge into the seats, squirming into their seat belts. Carryon
is held in their lap, sweaty thighs against thighs, face to face and kneecap butting against kneecap,
crammed into four long rows, and everyone's leaning back, breathing deeply. The temperature swells
and sweat slides from under helmets and down necks during long tense minutes, until new vibrations
indicate the engines are starting and the rear cargo ramp closes up with a thump. In the dark no
windows passengers sense the plane turning. Then sudden acceleration pushes everyone over 45
degrees and more thumps indicate the gear is up and BY GOSH WE ARE ON OUR WAY! HALLELUJAH.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
ACW Missionary Journey
The ACW Missionary continues this month: Queens, New York, Jacksonville, Florida, Belleville, Illinois,
Minot, and North Dakota. We invite your prayers for traveling mercies.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
New Parishes Notice
All new Parishes and Missions will be on a probationary period for one (1) year beginning the date of
their reception. This is to give all received Parishes an opportunity to evaluate their relationships with
the ACW and their commitment to building the Church for the future.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Financial Gifts
We give thanks for the wonderful financial contributions given to us by our benefactors in Council
Bluff, Iowa drawn out over a ten (10) year span. This generous gift will subsidize our Bishops and
Missionaries and their travels on missions. (By their request, their name will not be mentioned).
We pray that we are worthy of their generosity and trust.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Negotiations
Negotiations are ongoing to create a subsidized Health Insurance Plan for ACW Clergy and Members.
Prayerfully, this will be implemented by the year's end.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
News Letters
The first edition of our monthly news letter was mailed in August. If you would like to receive a
copy, email us at acwdiocese97@aol.com . If you wish your birthday to be placed on our list,
please contact our General Secretary, Jo Ann Lyles.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Congratulations !!!
To Fr Daniel Mapur and his wife Elizabeth, expecting their first son December 2010.
To Bishop Francis and Charlyn upon their happy union pf marriage.
To Mr. Antonia Graham and Ms Jamelia Spratt upon their upcoming marriage September 18th
at the Pro Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Belleville, IL.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
ACW Birthdays in September
1st - Tommy Shelby III
8th- Makala Wells
9th- Sandra Joseph
13th- Jordan Pearson, Wanda Williams, Demetrius Chism
15th- Mary Tompkins, Cheryl Shanes
17th- Devin Robinson
18.th- Kathryn Ganges
24th- Kristin Chism, Waddell Williams
27th- Chester Willis
28th- Elliott Bellinger, Aiden Ganges
30th- Katherine Hicks, Stephanie Cann
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Thanks
The Parish, staff and members of Good Shepherd in Palm Bay for their wonderful reception
on our visitation, August 21st.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Special Prayers This Month
*The Anglican Church in St Vincent ,West Indies.
*Global Ministries, Richman Hill, New York
*Returning soldiers from Iraq that will find a peaceful transition to their lives
*The Abram family of Queens, New York at the loss of a loved one
*The Watson Family Mobile, Alabama
*The Joseph Family, Trinidad, West Indies
*For the homeless in the County of Berbice in Guyana, in South America
*For the famined country of Niger in Africa
*The people of Haiti
*The City of East St. Louis, Illinois
*The Caribbean Island of Jamaica that violence will be erased
*For the summer travels of the ACW
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
AACW Flags (5x8) are on sale through the Archdiocese.
$265.00 If would like a 3X5
flags in bulk of 10 are $240.00
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
A heart warming story: A writers thought
Written by Ken Newton St Joseph- News Press July 18, 2010
Circle of Life Rites Never Ends
But for some stray bug in my system, I would not have been the only kid standing beside the Rev.
Stone at the front of a congregation. Friends my age had taken our instructions together, doing Bible
study in the church’s upstairs classrooms. Our baptisms were to culminate this work, done all in a row
on a circled-on-the-calendar Sunday. But I came up feverish on the morning of the service. My
classmates would do this as a group; I would do it on a later Sunday and alone.
My memories of this, more than four decades later, remain fuzzy except for one detail. The baptismal
water applied to my burr head made a sure and ticklish descent along my spine. About the time it
passed my belt, I twitched. No other United Methodist on the planet may have noticed this, but my
mother did. I shot a look her direction, and she shot back her most convincing don’t-squirm
expression.
That exchanged glance amuses me to this day. Parents and their children are meant for a lifetime of
rites, and we see them through solemnly and joyously, maybe with some laughs and tears. Not all these
passages arrive with ceremony. A child’s first steps come with prelude, but they enchant and surprise
all the same. The day training wheels come off a bicycle, and that first wobbly ride, may be only
conversation for the dinner table, but it means something all the same.
Crossing home plate at a dusty ballpark, I would look to where my parents sat, ensuring their attention.
Capped and gowned occasions of a formal education also required their presence and pride.
My father loitered at the license bureau on my 16th birthday, working through Winston’s and waiting as
I took a driver’s test. And several years later, he accompanied my mother down the aisle to front-row
seats as I got married.
Time goes by and the rites of growing up, the ballgames and baptisms, the Scout ceremonies and
honors assemblies, shift to your children. And your feelings toward these things intensify.
Everything speeds up. You see them gooey and seconds old in a delivery room and see them depart
for college, and a clock has barely ticked between.
Several years ago, my son Jon decided to spend time in Europe. I met him there, and we traveled
through Italy for a week.
That last day, I had to rise at 4 a.m. to catch a flight. Despite my protests, he insisted on walking me the
half-mile or so to the transit point, where I would catch a bus to the airport.
As we made our way, seemingly the only people awake in Venice, the briny smell of the canals thick
around us, it occurred to me his gesture was not just good manners. He wanted to see me safely there.
Another rite, looking after dad.
Three weeks ago, Jon got married. And last week, I stood with him and Marcy beside a loaded U-Haul
on their departure to a new life two time zones away.
Their adventure is part of my own, though they will see the snow-capped peaks and an ocean named
for peace. My optimism remains complete, and these rites never end.
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Notre Dame Football
With new Head Coach Brian Kelly at the helm (there was nothing wrong with Charlie Wies, Tyrone
Willingham) ND ventures into another season. Not winning a National Championship since the days of
Lou Holtz in 1988, they keep showing coaches the door if they cannot win 10 games in a 12 game
season, (We thought these kids went to school to get an education). Odds are now being taken on how
long Coach Kelly will last. Unlike Charlie, he has not bought a home in South Bend, so wisely Coach
Kelly has taken a wait- and -see approach by these what -have- you -done for me lately Athletic
directors will do.
Herein is ND schedule for 2010
Sept 4 (H) Purdue // NBC
Sept 11 (H) Michigan // NBC
Sept 18 @ Mich. State // ABC OR ESPN
Sept 25 (H) Stanford // NBC
October 2 @ Boston // TBA
October 9 (H) Pittsburg // NBC
October 16 (H) Western Michigan // NBC
October 23 @ Navy // CBS
October 30 (H) Tulsa // NBC
November 13 (H) Utah // NBC
November 20 @ Army // NBC
November 27 @ USC // ABC OR ESPN
We wish the program well in their 2010 campaign.
Watch How You Go.
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