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Building on eight seasons of talent and tradition, All Saints’ will offer Bach to the Future in the summer of 2013. The two one-week sessions offer music and fun for children in kindergarten through the sixth grade. Each session will include plenty of singing and music-making, drawing, and dancing. The children will also explore history and languages, and interact with singers and instrumentalists from the Carmel Bach Festival!
For more information, see the All Saints’, Carmel, website.
Monterey Deanery Meeting
Saturday, May 4, 2013 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
St. George’s Episcopal Church
98 Kip Drive, Salinas 93906
Download the Agenda
“Implementing Mission”
Welcome and opening prayer and meditation – the Rev. Lawrence Robles
Self-Introductions (who you are and where you are from)
Reports:
• Board of Trustees – Win Fernald
• Standing Committee – the Rev. Richard Leslie or the Rev. Bob Ott
• Treasurer
• Secretary
Diocesan Web Site – Jeff Diehl
Ministries to Veterans
Program:
• Mission at St. James, Monterey – the Rev. Jeff Kohn
• Missio Engage at St. John’s, Aptos – Jon Showalter, the Rev. Rob Neville
• Thoughts on more effective networking – Steve Dodds
• Building Networks, beginning with prayer – the Revs. Bob Ott and Blaine Hammond
Announcements: Parish and Diocesan
Future Meetings:
• August 10 – St. John’s, Del Monte/Monterey
• September 14 – Epiphany, Marina – Pre-Convention hearings and business
Benediction – the Rev. Blaine Hammond
Directions:
From Laurel Drive and Highway 101 . . .
-Take Laurel eastbound 0.7 miles to North Main Street.
-Turn left, heading north on Main Street.
-Follow Main Street for 0.6 miles.
-Then turn right on East Alvin Drive heading east.
-Follow Alvin Drive for 0.5 miles to Kip Drive.
-You’ll find us just east of North Salinas High School.
**Fried chicken will be available at St. George’s for purchase as part of a fund raising event.**
Iglesia Episcopal Cristo Rey will have a Gran Venta de Patio or Big Yard Sale on Saturday, July 20, 2013, from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. at 437 Rogers Street, Watsonville.
Spaces are available for $10.00.
For information call: 831/724-5338 or click here.
Tacos and other food and drinks will be on sale, too.
See you at Cristo Rey on Saturday!!
On Saturday, June 8th from 12:00pm – 4:00pm St. Mary’s is having a one-day temporary yarn store mega-stash sale! An incredible amount of yarn as well as books, kits, magazines, buttons, needles and finished sweaters too! Sold as lots of 8-12 skeins; many in original packaging! Mostly $2 a skein/ball. This amazing one-day only sale is not to be missed!
Yarn featured includes Rowan (14 types), Peer Gynt, Falcon, Jamiesons, Alice Starmore, Jaeger, Takhi, Annie Blatt, Bernat, Pingouin, Jo Sharp, Panda, Fleischers, Sofil, New Zealand Aran, and many others!
For more information call 831-373-4441 or click here.
Come and enjoy the Santa Lucia Campground with the Big Sur River running through it! We are located next door to the River Inn. Meet new spiritual friends and learn new ways to grow deeper into your Christian journey. Enjoy our outdoor chapel, the smell of breakfast in the outdoors, and evening barbecue with singing around the fire. Tent camping is available on site. You can also commute (a 35-minute drive south) from the Monterey Peninsula. Some housing is available for out-of-town guests. The Festival begins at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, June 7, and ends after a Communion Service and lunch on Saturday, June 9. The $245 fee includes all meals, the program and its presenters, camping, quiet time to hear the water running off the rocks, and laughter to raise your spirits. Stay on Sunday afternoon for jazz, horseback riding at the beach, hiking, or a possible tour of Point Sur Lighthouse.
See here for more information on the Festivals of Christian Spirituality.
Get it Done!The Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) replaces earlier documents that were known as living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. The AHCD represents an important legal document that helps to resolve critical healthcare questions and facilitate decisions at a time when an individual no longer has the capacity to make his/her own decisions.
It is a critical document for people with dependents. Some examples might be getting knocked unconscious in a pick-up basketball game, at the gym or just slipping in the produce isle. As individuals possessing spiritual awareness and being socially and morally responsible to our families, we must embrace our right to control important decisions about our health, and possibly the last chapter of our life, by putting pen to paper. Any of us could be incapable of making our own healthcare decisions due to a temporary condition.
And to help us overcome the reluctance to undertake an advanced health care directive, we have scheduled the AHCD workshop for Sunday, June 9, from 1 to 3 pm. If you don’t have an AHCD, we urge you to attend.
The task of creating an Advance Directive and sharing it with family and physician is not an easy one. Doing this requires one to think about individual priorities concerning quality of life and the potential of death. Treatment options, and their possible influence on quality of life measures, need to be fully understood and considered. The implications of choosing or refusing specific forms of care must be evaluated. In designating an agent or proxy to make decisions for you at some critical future time, you must choose someone who knows you well, who cares about you, and who can make difficult decisions when called upon to do so.
[from the York School website] Just days into Winter Break, Montana heard the devastating news about the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy. Overcome by sadness, Montana looked for a way to channel her grief. Donating to the scholarship fund and carrying out 26 Acts of Kindness helped, but she still wanted to do more. Then Montana was reminded of the healing power of music and she went to work with her younger sister, who likes to write harmonies, and her dad, who plays the guitar, to write a song that expressed her sadness.
Next, Montana engaged Mr. Walker to write the choral arrangement for the song. “I love to see kids come up with creative projects and this one turned out to be a good professional challenge for me as well. I haven’t written an arrangement of someone else’s work since graduate school.”
Using his arrangement, Mr. Walker worked with York’s choir through multiple practices to perfect the song so that it could be recorded and shared. After Monday’s successful recording session, Montana will now send the song to Newtown’s School Superintendent who has agreed to share it with the Sandy Hook Community. The song has also been released in video format created by Kevin Brookhouser using an audio recording made by Noah Reeves.
“It’s been a healing process; I feel like I’ve done something and the school community will be able to listen to this and know a bunch of teenagers across the country are still thinking about them,” says Montana of the project.
Click here to see KSBW’s coverage of the story.
The Baumer Quartet, an affiliate of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music, will be performing a benefit concert at Church of the Good Shepherd on Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Baumer is dedicated to educating and inspiring young musicians. As an outreach to youth in Monterey County, they launched the MCMW, a one-week, tuition-free program in June 2012. It was such a success that they are pleased to again offer the program this June, and it will be tuition-free!
Participants are selected after submitting an audition with two contrasting pieces or movements. Upon acceptance into the program, the students are given a music assignment that they are to prepare prior to the start of the Workshop. During their week of coaching they will practice and rehearse daily to develop a higher level of critical listening to achieve a higher performance standard. They will develop communication and interaction skills required for a string quartet. Finally, students will experience the joy of sharing music, working together as a team, and will discover a greater self confidence in performance, a heightened awareness of public performance and the audition process. The Workshop will conclude with performances by the students and the Baumer Quartet. The program is supported by grants, donations, and numerous in-kind donations. The proceeds of the June 14 performance will benefit the Workshop.
Please support the Baumer Quartet’s efforts and save the date—-June 14! Admission is $20 and youth 21 and under are free.