St. Luke’s Episcopal Church The Northern Light September 2017 The Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac: Being Communies of God’s Mercy and Delight I !" Opportunies to Serve p. 2 From Mother Barb p. 3 Fall Learning Offerings p. 4 Foyers Second Serving / Book Group p. 4 Eischen’s Pilgrimage / Ellio’’s 50th p. 5 Meeng Those We Worship With p. 6 CHIP / Birthdays and Anniversaries p. 7 Directory Changes p. 7 Earth Care Workshop p. 7 September Calendar / Lay Ministry insert Connued page 2 Managing Change in Congregations The Commission on Congregaonal Vitality will be hosng a workshop on managing change in congregaons, to be repeat- ed in each of the deaneries. This workshop, presented by Leslie Gunter, the Rev. Diane Murray, and the Rev. Ralph Os- borne, is designed for both clergy and lay leaders. The work- shop in each locaon will begin at 8:30 with a connental breakfast, with program beginning at 9 am. The day concludes by 3 pm. A registraon fee of $15 per person includes the con- nental breakfast, lunch and materials. Dates and locaons are: Cathedral of St. Paul, Fond du Lac Sept 16; St. Anne’s, DePere, Sept 30; St. John, Wausau, Oct 7 To register go to h’p://diofdlccv.weebly.com/ workshops.html A Message to the Church from the Presiding Bishop Michael Curry: Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? In this moment – when the stain of bigotry has once again covered our land, and when hope, frankly, somemes seems far away, when we must now re- member new martyrs of the way of love like young Heather Heyer – it may help to remember the deep wisdom of the martyrs who have gone before. The year was 1967. It was a me not unlike this one in America. Then there were riots in our streets, poverty and unbridled racism in our midst, and a war far away tearing us apart at home. In that moment, the Rev. Dr. Marn Luther King Jr. wrote a book, his last one, with a message that rings poignant today. It was tled, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” One of his insights then was that a moment of crisis is always a moment of decision. It was true then and is true now. Where do we go from here? Chaos? Indifference? Avoidance? Business as usual? Or Beloved Community? I’m a follower of Jesus of Nazareth because I believe the teachings, the Spirit, the Person, the life, death, and resurrec- on of Jesus have shown us the way through the chaos to true community as God has intended from the beginning. Through the way of love, he has shown us the way to be right and reconciled with the God and Creator of us all. Through his way of love, he has shown us the way to be right and reconciled with each other as children of God, and as brothers and sisters. In so doing, Jesus has shown us the way to become the Beloved Community of God. St. Paul said it this way: “In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself” and now he has entrusted us with “the message of recon- ciliaon” (2 Corinthians 5:19). I know too well that talk of Beloved Community, which Jesus was describing when he spoke of the kingdom of God in our midst, can be dismissed as nice but naive, idealisc yet unrealisc. I know that.
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St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
The Northern Light
September 2017 The Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac:
Being Communi�es of
God’s Mercy and Delight
I� ��� � !"
Opportunies to Serve p. 2
From Mother Barb p. 3
Fall Learning Offerings p. 4
Foyers Second Serving / Book Group p. 4
Eischen’s Pilgrimage / Ellio'’s 50th p. 5
Meeng Those We Worship With p. 6
CHIP / Birthdays and Anniversaries p. 7
Directory Changes p. 7
Earth Care Workshop p. 7
September Calendar / Lay Ministry insert
Con�nued page 2
Managing Change in Congregations
The Commission on Congrega�onal Vitality will be hos�ng a
workshop on managing change in congrega�ons, to be repeat-
ed in each of the deaneries. This workshop, presented by
Leslie Gunter, the Rev. Diane Murray, and the Rev. Ralph Os-
borne, is designed for both clergy and lay leaders. The work-
shop in each loca�on will begin at 8:30 with a con�nental
breakfast, with program beginning at 9 am. The day concludes
by 3 pm. A registra�on fee of $15 per person includes the con-
�nental breakfast, lunch and materials.
Dates and loca�ons are: Cathedral of St. Paul, Fond du Lac
Sept 16; St. Anne’s, DePere, Sept 30; St. John, Wausau, Oct 7
To register go to h'p://diofdlccv.weebly.com/
workshops.html
A Message to the Church from the Presiding Bishop Michael Curry:
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
In this moment – when the stain of bigotry has once again covered our land,
and when hope, frankly, some�mes seems far away, when we must now re-
member new martyrs of the way of love like young Heather Heyer – it may help
to remember the deep wisdom of the martyrs who have gone before.
The year was 1967. It was a �me not unlike this one in America. Then there
were riots in our streets, poverty and unbridled racism in our midst, and a war
far away tearing us apart at home. In that moment, the Rev. Dr. Mar�n Luther King Jr. wrote a book, his last one, with a
message that rings poignant today. It was �tled, “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”
One of his insights then was that a moment of crisis is always a moment of decision. It was true then and is true now.
Where do we go from here? Chaos? Indifference? Avoidance? Business as usual? Or Beloved Community?
I’m a follower of Jesus of Nazareth because I believe the teachings, the Spirit, the Person, the life, death, and resurrec-
�on of Jesus have shown us the way through the chaos to true community as God has intended from the beginning.
Through the way of love, he has shown us the way to be right and reconciled with the God and Creator of us all.
Through his way of love, he has shown us the way to be right and reconciled with each other as children of God, and as
brothers and sisters. In so doing, Jesus has shown us the way to become the Beloved Community of God. St. Paul said it
this way: “In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself” and now he has entrusted us with “the message of recon-
cilia�on” (2 Corinthians 5:19).
I know too well that talk of Beloved Community, which Jesus was describing when he spoke of the kingdom of God in
our midst, can be dismissed as nice but naive, idealis�c yet unrealis�c. I know that.
The Vestry
Betsy Rogers, Sr. Warden
Doug Schwartz, Jr. Warden
Norma Bramsen (2018)
David Skidmore (2018)
Ralph Blankenburg (2019)
Steve EllioF (2019)
Judy Bush (2020)
George Hughes (2020)
Vestry minutes appear
monthly on our website at
h'p://stlukes-
sisterbay.org/
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Please don’t wait to be asked if you want to get involved. We invite you to pray
about serving and see what you discover. You can let any vestry member or
Mother Barb know you are interested. Training is provided.
• Counters for Sunday Offering.
• Reading the lessons and/or the Prayers of the People during Sunday worship.
• Serve as a chalice bearer -- they offer the cup of wine, the blood of Jesus Christ.
Some also assist at the table during communion.
• Altar Guild — they prepare for worship services including communion bread and
wine as well as flowers. Added bonus, great gatherings with scrump�ous food.
• Lay Eucharis�c Visitor (LEV) – they take commun-
ion to parish members at Scandia.
• Providing transporta�on to church for members
who live at Scandia. Speak with Gwynne Schultz,
Deacon Joy or Mother Barb.
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But I also know this. The way of Beloved Community is our only hope. In this most recent unveiling of hatred, bigotry,
and cruelty, as Neo-Nazis marched and chanted, “The Jews will not replace us,” we have seen the alterna�ve to God’s
Beloved Community. And that alterna�ve is simply unthinkable. It is nothing short of the nightmare of human self-
destruc�on and the destruc�on of God’s crea�on. And that is unthinkable, too.
We who follow Jesus have made a choice to walk a different way: the way of disciplined, inten�onal, passionate, com-
passionate, mobilized, organized love intent on crea�ng God’s Beloved Community on earth.
Maybe it is not an accident that the Bible readings for the Holy Eucharist this Sunday (Genesis 45:1-15; Isaiah 56:1,6-8;
Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32; and MaFhew 15:21-28) all point toward and bear a message of God’s passionate desire and
dream to create the Beloved Community in the human family and all of the crea�on.
This Sunday and in the days and weeks to come, as we gather in community to worship God and then move about in
our homes, neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, social circles and more, we will be faced with a choice. I ask and invite
us as congrega�ons and individuals who are together the Episcopal Church of the Jesus Movement to inten�onally,
purposely, and liturgically rededicate ourselves to the way of Jesus, the work of racial reconcilia�on, the work of heal-
ing and dismantling everything that wounds and divides us, the work of becoming God’s Beloved Community. Re-
sources that can assist us in doing this work are included with this message, including an adapted version of the Be-
coming Beloved Community vision that our church’s key leaders shared this spring. I urge you to spend �me reflec�ng
with them individually and in your churches.
Where do we go from here? Maybe the venerable slave songs from our American past can help us. In the midst of their
suffering, they used to sing …
Walk together children
And don’t you get weary.
Cause there’s a great camp mee�ng
In the promised land.
We will walk there … together. We will make this soil on which we live more and more like God’s own Promised Land.
So God love you. God bless you. And let’s all keep the faith!
The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church
A Message to the Church from the Presiding Bishop
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Continued from page 1
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Much is happening around St. Luke’s !!
New sound system. The vestry has deliberated for a number of months about
puMng a sound system into the Canterbury Room. They voted to do so and
the new system is now in place. Members of the congrega�on most likely to
use the new system aFended a “tutorial” on its use. For right now, you’ll no-
�ce a couple of speakers near the ceiling and a pull-down screen against the
west wall. The system will facilitate events including classes, presenta�ons
and the movie series.
Fall is almost here (can you believe it?) and we’ll be resuming our schedule of classes. This year the lec�onary class will
meet on Wednesday mornings at 10. The lec�onary group takes an in-depth look at the upcoming Sunday scrip-
tures, including looking at the history and theology of a given passage. Needless to say, that makes listening to the
sermon on Sunday a much more rewarding experience. This class isn’t sequen�al, so feel free to drop in on any
Wednesday.
The Thursday morning class will again meet at 11. This year, Roger Johnson will lead the first six weeks. The class will
take a serious look at reading the Bible. Roger has an MA degree in theology and a life-long interest in biblical studies .
Following Roger’s contribu�on, the class will con�nue with a study on the people of the Bible. See page 4 for fur-
ther details on Roger’s class.
A Burial Service was conducted for Barbara Kleid on August 19th
. Barbara had spent many summers in Door County, but
had more recently lived in Texas. I ask for your prayers for the repose of her soul and the comfort of her family.
LITURGICAL MINISTRIES. Periodically, we ask if anyone is interested in helping with one or more of the ministries.
These include reading, ushering, being a chalice bearer and serving as a Lay Eucharis�c Minister to take communion
to those unable to join us at the Sunday service. It also includes, of course, what some people call the 8th
sacra-
ment in the Episcopal Church, hos�ng coffee hour! We do have a need right now, especially for hosts and ushers
and also for Eucharis�c Ministers (also known as LEVs). As our deacon, Joy is in charge of this group and will give
any training necessary. Basically, it involves visi�ng several people aSer the Sunday service, offering them prayer
and the Eucharist. I would ask you to prayerfully consider whether this ministry or one of the others noted is some-
thing you feel called to do.
When I was in Rhinelander in August, Carol Amadio was our supply priest. I think most everyone in the parish knows
Carol and is fond of her. Many of you also know that she is living as a hermit. On August 30th
, Bishop Gunter will
visit Washington Island and, in the context of a Eucharist, receive a renewal of Carol’s vows. Carol has wriFen
about this voca�on as follows:
“A hermit is a person who has taken monas�c vows and has agreed to live according to a rule or plan of life. Some
people have never heard of hermits or may think that they only lived a long �me ago, or are strange recluses.
There are, however, thousands of people living as hermits throughout the world today. While solitude, silence and
prayer are part of their way of life, both historical and modern hermits also serve the churches and communi�es in
which they live….A hermit ordinarily lives what is referred to as a ‘hidden voca�on.’ That means such a life is lived
quietly. However, when a hermit’s vows are made or received it is necessary that they be made publicly….” Carol
has invited members of her parish family to aFend this service. I will be aFending, so if you are interested, please
let me know.
From Mother Barb
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St. Luke’s Foyer Dinners Goes For Seconds
Does the idea of sharing an informal meal with some oth-
er parishioners appeal to you? If so, you might be inter-
ested in Foyer Groups, a program that brings eight to ten
people together for a potluck dinner. Groups typically
meet quarterly for a year. Members take turns hos�ng --
typically the host prepares a meat dish and others con-
tribute side dishes, salads, desserts, and appe�zers.
These meals can be as simple or extravagant as each
group would like. Both year-round and summer people
are most welcome to take part, with seasonal people par-
�cipa�ng as their Door County schedules permit. The
par�cular benefit of foyer groups is the year-long oppor-
tunity to build and strengthen friendships.
Foyer Groups began a year ago at St. Luke’s, with three
groups. We’re ready to begin a second “round” – please
sign up in Clipboard Alley, and we’ll assign everyone to
groups. For more informa�on, call Betsy Rogers,
854.4165.
Deadline to sign-up: September 10, 2017
Book Group
On Thursday, September 14 at
noon in the Canterbury Room,
the St. Luke’s Bookclub will be
discussing Dreamland: The
True Tale of America's Opiate
Epidemic by Sam Quinones. All are welcome.
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big
Pharma, an explosive and shocking account of addic�on
and black tar heroin in the heartland of America.
With a great reporter's narra�ve skill and the storytelling
ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones
weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok
whose uninten�onal collision has been catastrophic. The
unfeFered prescribing of pain medica�ons during the
1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to
market OxyCon�n, its new, expensive--extremely addic-
�ve--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of
black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and origina�ng from one
small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any
drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized ci�es
across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeata-
ble marke�ng and distribu�on system. Together these
phenomena con�nue to lay waste to communi�es from
Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico.
Coffee Hour News Did you know that the coffee consumed
at our Coffee Hour supports Fair Trade?
Recently the Kitchen CommiFee has start-
ed ordering coffee from Equal Exchange.
We found their policies suppor�ng Fair
Trade, small farms and economic jus�ce
consistent with the values we espouse at
St. Luke’s. An added bonus is that Equal Exchange will
donate 15 cents to Episcopal Relief and Development for
each pound of coffee we purchase. Drink up!
Canterbury Cinema Our popular Canterbury Cinema is set to return for yet
another season. They gather for a light meal and movie
on the second Wednesday each month beginning in Oc-
tober going through May. In Lent, they meet weekly.
Watch for further details and remember to sign-up. If
you have ques�ons, contact Mike and Marcia Eischen or
John and Norma Bramsen.
Fall Learning Offerings Reading the Good Book Well: Not Your
Grandmother’s Bible Study!
Someone has said the Bible is an “R-rated” book, intend-
ed for mature audiences. This will be a six week Bible
study, designed to illustrate key insights from READING
THE GOOD BOOK WELL, wriFen by my great friend, Jerry
Camery-HoggaF. The goal is to enable par�cipants to
interpret biblical passages with greater interest and in-
sight, and to increase their appe�te for being
“addressed” by scripture itself. It will be an interac�ve
study, so bring your sense of humor and a curious
mind. Roger Johnson
Following this class, the group will con�nue their explor-
ing of people in the Bible.
Wednesday Leconary Conversaon
This year the lec�onary class will meet on Wednesday
mornings at 10. The lec�onary group takes an in-depth
look at the upcoming Sunday scriptures, including look-
ing at the history and theology of a given passage. Need-
less to say, that makes listening to the sermon on Sunday
a much more rewarding experience. This class isn’t se-
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Here We Go Again: Praying With Mike and Marsha
We are planning another backpacking pilgrimage and we would like to take you
along in our prayers. Our route in early October will take us to Italy for a nine
day walk on The Way of St Francis. Like our past pilgrimages on the Camino de
San�ago in northern Spain and Portugal, we ask for your prayers as we trek
October 2-10 on a route that takes us through Assisi and past holy sites associ-
ated with this remarkable saint.
Francis is popularly remembered for his communion with God’s good earth,
especially animals. However, a study of his life reveals a man called by God to
life “on the edge of the inside of both church and society” (Richard Rohr, Eager
to Love, 2014, Franciscan Media Press). Francis and Clare’s very simple lifestyle
outside the system of produc�on and consump�on, plus a conscious iden�fica-
�on with the marginalized of society put them outside the systems of both
church and society. In this posi�on, you do not “do” acts of peace and jus�ce
as much as your life is itself peace and jus�ce. It was a radical perspec�ve about the meaning of being the church. We
hope to be inspired by their lives.
We will walk independently. The distance we will walk each day is 7-12 miles, as we've adjusted the route for our aging
knees, feet, and endurance.
We plan on staying in hotels, convents, and other pilgrim accommoda�ons. As we stop to rest and for meals we will
offer to God the names on our prayer list. We will also ask for your daily prayers for our spiritual journey and health.
Give your name to us on Sunday mornings, or send a note to [email protected].
Mike and Marcia Eischen Photo: A welcome mileage marker 100 km from San�ago, Spain
Margaret and I were married on August 12, 1967 in the Episcopal
Chapel of Christ The King in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with the Rev-
erend James Howard Jacobson officia�ng. He was the headmaster
and rector of Northwestern Military and Naval Academy
(Milwaukee Diocese) which since merged with St. John's Military
Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin. The school is now known as St.
John's Northwestern Military Academy (Milwaukee Diocese).
At the Lake Geneva campus, Margaret was the Academy's Regis-
tered Nurse, and I was an English instructor (1964-1969). We
loved Northwestern, the staff, the cadets, and Father Jacobson
who led a brief morning chapel service (required cadet, faculty,
and nurse aFendance) Monday through Friday of every
week. With organ accompaniment, we belted-out those grand
hymns from the Episcopal Hymnal. The cadets weren't especially
"religious," but they could raise the roof of the rotunda with their
singing! Father Jake's" daily homilies were succinct and thought-
provoking; nuggets to ponder through the day. On Sundays there
was a reverent 1928 Prayer Book service with op�onal aFend-
ance. Steve Ellio4
Steve and Margaret Elliott Celebrate 50th Wedding
Anniversary at St. Luke’s During Sunday Worship
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Preparing for Sunday:
Sunday Readings with Commen-tary
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