The   Holy VVVrinity ÿHerald     

April 2007

 

The Vicar’s Diary

@ Sorry, but the good Vicar didn’t get the Editor a report this month. …

Parish Website: www.holytrinitybonham.org

New on the website are the March newsletter and more pictures. Also find a guide to the liturgy of the Mass, a description of the servers of the Mass, Vestry members and members of the Altar Guild, Daughters of the King, and lots more.  Email your late-breaking news to Gary Vernon, our webmaster at webmaster@mail.holytrinitybonham.org.

Vestry Report

@ Sorry, but the good Warden didn’t get the Editor a report in time to make it into this newsletter.

Community Outreach: CPR Class; “Amazing Grace” movie at the Parish House

@ Editor’s Note:

1)       I have been in touch with an instructor of the American Red Cross about holding a CPR class at Holy Trinity one Saturday after Easter, possibly in May. The 6-8 hours class will be limited to 8 people.  Teenagers and their friends are welcome and encouraged to get this life-saving skill. Both child and adult CPR will be certified. Please sign the notice in the Parish House or contact me at HOLYTRNTYEDITOR@aol.com if you are interested in getting your certification in CPR. When we fill a class, I will schedule with the instructor. Membership at Holy Trinity is not a requirement.

2)    Free movie, free popcorn!! When the “Amazing Grace” movie is available on DVD, we will rent a large screen TV from Rent-A-Center Bonham and a DVD player and enjoy watching the movie together at the Parish House.  Friends and neighbors are welcome to join us. Date TBA.

 

Communicants Profiles:

The Kinkade Family

Larry and Sharon Kinkade live just outside Gober, Texas on FM 68. This has been there home since marrying on November 10, 2000.  Larry and Sharon were both born and raised in the Fannin County area. @ Larry has successfully avoided the Editor’s camera. Sorry.

 

Larry graduated Dodd City High School in 1983 with a scholarship to play basketball. Also active in the FFA, he developed a love of Rodeo and horses. Larry chose to work in agriculture and farming in lieu of college sports and basketball. Larry currently works for a local construction and development company with job sites mostly in the D/FW Metroplex. He is often called by the locals to work their cattle or assist a cow with a difficult birth. Larry’s hobbies include horseback riding, team roping, being a good husband and loving father to all of his children, and especially keeping up with Payton DeAnn the four year old “love of his life”. Larry’s pets are a big yellow horse named Rio and a snaggle -toothed cow dog named Rowdy.

 

Sharon was scheduled to graduate High School in 1985 but graduated early from Grayson County College in 1983 with studies in General Business. Since 1992 she has worked in the Medicare Health Insurance Industry and is now a Fraud Investigator with the Benefits Integrity Unit of a large Wisconsin based corporation charged with safeguarding the Medicare Trust Fund against fraud. Sharon was a single mother of two for many years. That being said her hobbies are whatever her children are involved in. Sharon enjoys spending time with Larry and all the kids, good books, good movies and flower gardening. Her favorite author is John Grisham. Sharon’s pet is a big fat Chinese Pug dog named Tank.

 

Interestingly enough…Larry and Sharon met at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in 1998. Larry was looking for a Catholic Church to bring his two young children for worship and Sharon who had joined Holy Trinity in 1996 was the Assistant Treasurer and also taught the Sunday morning children’s classes.  As the saying goes…..the rest is history!

 

The Kinkades are now blessed with five children ranging in ages from 4 to 22 years in addition to one son-in-law and one adorable grandson. They are listed in order: Heather, Dakota, Kasidy, Koltin, Payton, Michael, and of course new grand baby Westin.

 

After being away from our church family for several years and after much encouragement from Michael David Risser-Gant, we are happy to be back at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Bonham, and as our oldest son Dakota so rightfully stated …back at home.

 

The Whitlocks…..Don and Jean

Don was born and reared in Ambrose, Texas (between here and Sherman) many, many years ago. He and his family share cropped land there. He drove a Dr Pepper truck and hauled hay until he met a gentleman at Barbara’s Burgers there in Bells that asked if he would like a job at Whites (some will remember White’s Auto that started out as one retail store in Oklahoma and blossomed into a chain of over 150 company stores and over 600 associates stores. Don started in Wichita Falls changing tires and installing seat covers.  Over the 35 years he was with Whites, he worked up to Vice President over the Dealer Division (associate stores). He remained with Whites until Canadian Tire (from Canada which bought out Whites) declared bankruptcy. At that time Western Auto hired him to convert the Whites dealers to Western Auto. They kept him for 3 years. He decided not to work for a corporation again. That’s when we started looking for a place to put in our own business which ended up being a pawn shop in Bonham. We chose Bonham because of the lake. We lived in a very small trailer at our farm in Ambrose (which we bought from his Uncle at a time when we had absolutely no money and wondered how in the world we would pay the debt) until we built our home on the lake.

Jean was born and reared in Mooresville, NC (more years ago than Don). She has worked as a payroll clerk for a small loan agency, secretary for a government agency and a glass company, various jobs for airlines and travel agents, stay at home mom, insurance agent, real estate agent, and most recently as a  self employed pawn broker. As you can tell, she had a hard time finding her niche. At one time when Jean asked Don what she should do, he replied… I don’t know you’ve tried everything! Guess she just bores easily!

Don and Jean met in Houston, Texas in 1962 while Don was an Assistant Store Manager at Whites and Jean was a flight attendant with Delta. They married in June 1963. Have two wonderful daughters – Stephanie and Jeanna, two really terrific son in laws Kevin and Brian and 5 extra special grandchildren, Lindsay 17, Sean 14, Brantley 9, Carlyn 7 and Lawson 4.

Don and Jean recently sold the pawn shop and have retired. They love traveling, especially cruising and camping. Family is a very important part of their life and they enjoy spending time with them. They feel extremely blessed and are happy to have Holy Trinity as a place of worship.

@It’s also fun to note that it appears to be a family tradition for the women in the Whitlock family to ‘get ‘em young and raise ‘em like you want ‘em”. Jean is older than Don, their oldest daughter, Stephanie is a little older than her husband, Kevin, and Jeanna, their youngest, is a month older than Brian. Now, Lindsay, their oldest granddaughter thinks she "has to" marry someone older ... it's tradition. Jean has told them .... oldest gets to be the boss!

 

Church of the Holy Trinity Story – Part II

@ I have not had time to find a copy of the book by Tom Scott on the history of Holy Trinity or to go through the files at the parish house.

 

Anglican Religious Communities – Part II

The Episcopal Church canonically recognizes 11 seminaries, 16 traditional orders and 11 Christian communities for men, women, or both. Religious Orders and Communities serve the greater church in several ways.  Many offer retreat houses and individual spiritual direction. Each community has a rule of life and is committed to prayer, life in community, and hospitality.

 

& What we are: One holy, catholic and apostolic church…

   - Part I

The Episcopal Church was originally and officially known as the Protestant (not Roman Catholic or Orthodox) Episcopal (paradoxically meaning not Protestant) Church in the United States of America. As such the Protestant Episcopal Church USA is but one branch of the Anglican Communion which originated as the official Church of England during the Reformation. Christian churches around the world owe their origin to the Church of England which is at once a political entity and a theological entity dealing with Christian faith and God’s relationship with the world.  

 

The Anglican Church is, therefore, a group of Christian churches including the Churches of England and Ireland, as well as the Protestant Episcopal Church USA. Anglicanism was established with the colonization of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.  As a worldwide family of churches, the Anglican Communion has more than 70 million adherents in 38 Provinces spreading across 161 countries and located on every continent. Although the churches are autonomous, they are uniquely unified through their history, theology, worship and relationship to the ancient See of Canterbury. (continued next issue)

               

¼The Archbishop of Canterbury:

  http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org

The Archbishop of Canterbury fills a unique position in the worldwide Anglican Communion. As primus inter pares (first among equals) of the Bishops, he serves the Anglican Church as its spiritual leader and supervisor of all 108 Bishops within the Anglican Communion.

 

Her Majesty the Queen is the Supreme Governor of The Church of England. She appoints Church of England Archbishops (there are two!), its Bishops and the Deans of its Cathedrals on the advice of the Prime Minister. Two Archbishops and 24 senior Bishops sit in the House of Lords and make a major contribution to the work of the Parliament.  They engage in debates about legislation and national and international affairs.

 

There are three instruments of communication in the Anglican Communion: the Lambeth conference which meets once every 10 years, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the Primates Meeting. The Archbishop of Canterbury, recognized as the focus of unity for the Anglican Communion, calls the Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of Primates, and is President of the ACC.

 

A “Primate" is a senior Archbishop or Presiding Bishop of a Province in the Anglican Communion. In some provinces the Primate is also called Archbishop and/or Metropolitan, while in others (EC-USA) the Presiding Bishop.  Each region (Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Middle East) elects its own representative to the Standing Committee, which operates as the governing board of the Primates.

 

Archbishop Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams was born in 1950 in Swansea, into a Welsh-speaking family, ordained to the priesthood in 1978, ordained as Bishop of Monmouth in 1991, elected Archbishop of Wales in 1999, and enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in 2002. He has numerous doctorate degrees and professorships from a life of spiritual study and teaching. He is the author of many books on the history of theology and spirituality as a result of his studies and experiences as well as two books of poetry.  He married in 1981 to Jane Paul, a lecturer in theology at Cambridge University where they met. As newlyweds, Rowan and Jane spent brief periods teaching theology and traveling in India where Jane grew up, and in Southern Africa. They have two children, Rhiannon (b. 1988) and Pip (b. 1996). Jane teaches at Trinity College, Bristol.  The Williams reside at Lambeth Palace which has been owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury since the 1600s.

 

 

 

PRESIDING BISHOP KATHERINE JEFFERTS SCHORI – who she is……..

Katherine Jefferts Schori, 53, was born in Pensacola, FL, grew up in the Seattle area, and later moved with her family to New Jersey. She holds B.S. degrees in biology from Stanford University, an M.S. and Ph.D. in oceanography from Oregon State University (1983).  Her career as an oceanographer preceded her studies for the priesthood. She was not ordained to the priesthood until 1994 and went on to earn a M.Div. and an honorary D.D. from Church Divinity School of the Pacific. She is an active instrument-rated pilot, a skill she applied to travel between the congregations of the Diocese of Nevada when, as assistant rector of the Church of the Good Samaritan in Corvallis, Oregon, she was elected Bishop in 2000. She was ordained to the episcopate on February 24, 2001 for a term of 9 years. She and her husband, Richard Miles Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician (topologist), were married in 1979.They have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 25, who is a first lieutenant and pilot in the U.S. Air force.

 

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_ENG_HTM.htm is a report of Bishop Schori’s response to the declaration by the Primates at its meeting in Tanzania in February 2007 that the EC-USA is to abstain from legal consecrations and clerical blessings of same-gender relationships, and from sanctioning partnered gay and lesbian priests as bishops.

¼ Diocese of Dallas: Our Bishop

  - James Monte Stanton, Diocese of Dallas

& A Bishop is the chief sacramental officer, guardian of the faith, and chief pastor of a diocese elected for life with a mandatory resignation at age 72. The office of Bishop is largely ceremonial and endows that person with only limited authority and power. (Roman Catholic and United Methodist Bishops have far more power than ours.)         

 

Episcopal or Anglican Bishops are the pastor of every parish in the Diocese and are, therefore, technically not to be considered a visiting dignitary or guest when visiting at least every 3rd year. The Bishop’s primary pastoral relationship is with the clergy of the Diocese who serve at the will of the Bishop as his or her personal representative of his or her ministry. The Bishop has the authority to appoint and consecrate assistants called a Canon. The Diocese, like the Anglican Church and each of its Provinces is governed and administered by a Standing Committee who are elected by both clerics and lay delegates to the Diocesan Annual Convention.

 

Perusal of the website of the Diocese of Dallas will find Bishop Stanton’s spiritual influence, wisdom and steadfast leadership throughout every diocesan program and project. Bishop Stanton is accessible and very approachable on any issue set before the people of this Diocese. Members are encouraged to monitor the Diocese website often to learn more about this man of faith who leads us carefully and prayerfully through the contemporary issues of our faith.

¼ http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net

ALTHOUGH THE 110th Congress has brought to Capitol Hill 43 Jews, two Buddhists and a Muslim, Washington remains a disproportionately Christian town. More than 90% of federal legislators call themselves Christians, making Congress more Christian than the United States itself. The president is an evangelical Protestant. Catholics enjoy a majority on the Supreme Court. Biblical references — from the Jericho Road to the golden rule to the promised land — permeate political speech. Yet U.S. citizens know almost nothing about the Bible. Although most regard it as the word of God, few read it anymore. Even evangelicals from the Bible Belt seem more focused on loving Jesus than on learning what he had to say. In a religious literacy quiz administered to undergraduates for the last two years, students say that Moses was blinded on the road to Damascus and that Paul led the Israelites on their exodus out of Egypt. Surveys that are more scientific have found that only one out of three U.S. citizens is able to name the four Gospels, and one out of 10 thinks that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.

The First Annual Holy Trinity Irish Potato Beauty and Fashion Show brought out the best in creativity among Holy Trinity communicants. All were too beautiful to judge. L-R: Dick Purdue’s Stick Pin potato, Charlene Dalton’s red new potato babies in the bath tub, Beverly Rainbolt’s St. Patrick, Cowboy and Indian potato, Pat Ward’s nun, cowboy and “floosie” with an Easter  hat. The baked potato lunch that followed was delicious and lots of fun. The few potatoes left over were taken to the firemen and paramedics at the Bonham Fire Station and enthusiastically accepted by the men there.  Next St. Patrick’s Day, we expect to have dozens more potato entries since those who didn’t participate now know they missed the fun of dressing a potato. The benefactor of the Irish Potato contest and pay-what-you-can baked potato lunch was the Building Fund ($91).  Added to the $165 for the Shrove Tuesday pancake dinner, the Building Fund is looking UP!

NEWS  (members are encouraged to submit any news about themselves or their families they would like to share with us: vacations, visiting relatives, hobbies, interests, etc.)

Kim Jenkins, Charlene and Bill Dalton’s daughter, is again appearing onstage at the Red River Theatre Performing Arts Center at the Old Windom School, this time not as a nun as was her role as the Mother Superior in Lilies of the Field, but in a supporting role in the rollicking female version of Neil Simon’s Broadway comedy, The Odd Couple.  Performances are the two weekends after Easter. Kim is interested in initiating a Christian Readers Theatre group among Holy Trinity members.