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Dear Saints, soup, a salad or some bread. I hope you will plan on joining us.

In Christ’s love and with mine,

Mtr. Travis+

W H AT ’ S I N S I D E

Letter from the Rector --------------------------------------------------- 1

March — April Birthdays ------------------------------------------------ 1

Update from Kevin and Susan Huggins --------------------------- 2

Harrison 60th Wedding Anniversary Party ------------------------ 3

Kleehammer Wedding Anniversary --------------------------------- 3

Joe Arnett — Celebration of Life ------------------------------------- 4

March Service Schedule ------------------------------------------------ 5

April Service Schedule -------------------------------------------------- 6

Monthly Newsletter of All Saints Anglican Church, Tallahassee FL

The Rev. Travis Boline, Rector email: tboline@tallsaints.com/ (850) 325-1200

Parish Office: 3945 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee 32303/ (850) 325-1200

Sunday Eucharist: 10:45 A.M., North Monroe St., Tallahassee 32303

Saints Alive Editor: Sue Klos (email: ksklos@yahoo.com/ (850) 445-6629)

Deadline: the third Sunday of February, April, June, August, October, and December

SAINTS ALIVE Mar. - Apr. 2019

Vol. #14 No. #2

Lent is upon us! It’s the season for reflection upon the state of our souls and to grow in our intimate relationship with the Lord.

The study that I have chosen for this year’s Lenten Soup Supper and Study is Henri Nouwen’s Life of the Beloved. Nouwen was a Dutch Catholic priest whose writings have had a large impact on my own

spiritual formation. I’m excited to share this particular study with you this year.

Henri says the world is filled with voices that whisper or declare that we are not good enough, not smart enough, and not successful enough. So one of our great temptations is what Henri calls “the trap of self-rejection.” His response, which becomes the theme of this book, is to reject those lies about ourselves and to hear the voice of God telling us over and over, “You are the Beloved.”

Nouwen takes the term “Beloved” from Matthew’s gospel (3:13-17) when Jesus was baptized by his cousin John in the Jordan. When Jesus rose from the water, the Spirit of God descended on Him like a dove and He heard His Father speak from heaven, “This is my Beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Our five-week study will examine what it means to be the Lord’s Beloved and how to live our lives in this truth.

The series will begin on Wednesday, March 13th. Our evening will begin at 6:00 pm by sharing a simple meal (soup, salad and bread) and the study will begin approximately 6:30 and last for one hour. There is a sign-up sheet available in the Parish Hall to indicate how you can help with the food by bringing either a pot of

March Birthdays

01 – Teri Raciappa 03 – Mike Stephens 03 – Betty Willard 11 – Jean Williams 11 – Frankie Allen 14 – Jordan Stevenson 16 – Lloyd Harrison 28 – Vic Aderhold

April Birthdays

09 – Donna Kay Floyd 09 – Sarah Stephens 10 – Justin Glenn 14 – Randall Rauh

22 – Becky Buchanan 23 – Cheryl Jackson 29 – Virginia Dumond

All of you are invited to the First Friday Birthday Celebration on the first Friday of the month at TGIF (Capital Circle N.E.) at 12:00 p.m.

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An Update From Kevin and Susan Higgins

Dear Partners and Friends,

While some of you know the headlines, that Susan and I are staying with Global Teams -- with Susan focused on developing Global Teams’ international partner care capacity and Kevin on Muslim work in South Asia -- not everyone has the full picture. The description below names organizations and people you may or may not know, but I am trying to show the length of history we have in the Episcopal/Anglican mission world, the widening of those circles as Global Teams grew increasingly multi-denominational, and our involvement with the organizations with which we are now linked.

Getting Started...

I have been part of New Wineskins (originally the Episcopal Church Missionary Community) for a long time. In 1980 the youth group I was leading helped send out mailings for Walter and Louise Hannum, the founders of ECMC and New Wineskins. When Susan and I went to Uganda in 1984 to work with Somalis, our pre-field preparation was facilitated by the Hannums. That training was held on the campus of the U.S. Center for World Mission, now Frontier Ventures (FV), also the home of William Carey International University (WCIU). These twin connections to Anglican mission focus emerging in the United States and the work of the Center for World Missions in Pasadena have been entwined in our lives for a long time.

Next...

After graduating from Trinity School for Ministry in 1986 and spending a few years in Pittsburgh, we worked among Muslims in South Asia. I visited the Center from time to time, occasionally speaking at morning meetings. I have written for and been blessed by various ministries of the Center, including the International Journal of Frontier Mission and the Perspectives Reader (The Perspectives movement was birthed from the Center here). During this time, Susan and I also regularly attended New Wineskins conferences.

When WCIU began to develop an area of focus around translation, I was among those who helped give input and encouragement (I received my PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary in the area of translation in 2012, comparing Muslim and Christian approaches to translation in Urdu). I have mentored several MA students for WCIU as well.

While staying engaged with the movements in South Asia, I led Global Teams for 18 years. We saw a lot happen in those South Asian movements, two of which were written about in the recent book A Wind in the

House of Islam, and I have shared about those movements in workshops at New Wineskins. When Anglican Global Missions Partners (AGMP) formed, we (myself and Global Teams) were there. My connections to Frontier Ventures, WCIU, and the New Wineskins network run long and deep.

After several years knowing a change was coming for us, we began the process that led to my move to Pasadena in August 2017, taking on the role of WCIU President and a member of the “Office of the General Director” (OGD) for Frontier Ventures, along with two others. In the past few months, the OGD and both boards discerned and then unanimously affirmed the Lord’s leading to ask me to serve as Frontier Ventures’ General Director (while remaining as WCIU President).

Future...

There is no space here to go into all that I think our future holds. But let me mention one.

There has been a recent sharpened focus within the broader Unreached Peoples effort. That sharper focus has been around the Frontier People Groups, the 10 million people with less than 0.1% believers of any sort and no known movement to Christ. Of the 31 largest Frontier People Groups, 24 are in South Asia, 18 in India alone. And of those 24, Frontier Ventures and WCIU members have organic relationships with the “field” in eight, including five in India.

I have encouraged us within Frontier Ventures and WCIU to believe God for movements to Jesus within four of the 31 largest Frontier People Groups by July 2020. How is that possible? The answer connects to another crucial development in mission: movements.

In physical and/or cultural proximity to many of the largest FPGs there are already movements to Jesus which are mature and thriving. In several cases, there are already leaders from those movements who have begun to look at the FPGs around them and are praying and planning for ways to reach them.

Over the next months, Global Teams, Frontier Ventures, and WCIU will combine to catalyze collaboration -- especially collaboration with local, indigenous movement leaders -- focused on innovation of new approaches, mobilization at a more local level, and training as needed to see breakthroughs happen.

This is a wonderful example of how God uses Global Teams and Frontier Ventures: identifying and overcoming barriers so that we might see Kingdom breakthroughs.

There are many challenges ahead of us and a lot is changing in Global Teams, Frontier Ventures, and WCIU. But we see a new era of collaboration, innovation, mobilization, and training ahead of us as well.

Thank you (again!) for joining in the journey.

Kevin and Susan

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60th Wedding Anniversary Party

Lloyd and Judy Harrison

40th Wedding Anniversary Party

Jerry and Karalee Kleehammer

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Joe Arnett Celebration of Life

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All Saints March 2019 Service Schedule

3rd ASH

WEDNESDAY 10th 17th 24th 31st

Chalice Frankie Allen Matthew Thursby

Mike Stephens

Ken Klos De Rauh Frankie Allen

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Stephens

Crucifer/ Acolyte

Mike Stephens

Vienna Pozniak

Edwin Blackburn

Renee Bell Mike Stephens Vienna Pozniak

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Greeter Chris Thursby

Doug Boline Bob Bell Mel McCarthy

Chris Thursby

Doug Boline

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Usher Ken Klos Alan

Watkins Bob Plant Ken Klos Alan Watkins Bob Plant

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Audio De Rauh Edwin

Blackburn Sue Klos

Matthew Thursby

Vic Aderhold De Rauh

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Sue Klos

1st Reader JoAnne Arnett Aaron

McNeece Matthew Thursby

Justin Glenn JoAnne Arnett Aaron

McNeece

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Thursby

Old Test Exodus 34:29-

35 Joel 2:1-2,

12-17 Deuteronomy

26:1-11 Genesis 15:1-

12, 17-18 Exodus 3:1-15

Joshua 4:19-5: 12

Psalm 99 103:8-14 91:9-16 27:10-18 103:1-12 34:1-8

2nd Reader Henri Thursby Sarah

Stephens Frankie Allen Henri Thursby Sarah Stephens Frankie Allen

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Epistle 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13

2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10

Romans 1:4-13

Philippians 3:17-4:1

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Gospel Luke 9:28-36 Matthew 6:1-

6, 16-21 Luke 4:1-13 Luke 13:22-35 Luke 13:1-9 Luke 5:11-32

Refreshments Williams Bell Covered dish McCarthy Boline!

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Altar Guild Sue, Renee and Karalee

Bonnie and Vienna

Susie and Henri

Sue, Renee and Karalee

Bonnie and Vienna

Susie and Henri

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Children's ministry

Renee and Sue

Bart and

Karin Henri and

Jenny Bart and Karin

Karalee and Jenny

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Vestry Counters Cheryl and Bonnie

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All Saints April 2019 Service Schedule

7th Palm Sunday14th Maundy Thursday

18th Good Friday/ Tenebrae 19th

Easter 21st

28th

Chalice Matthew Thursby

Mike Stephens Ken Klos De Rauh Frankie Allen

Matthew Thursby

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Crucifer/Acolyte Edwin

Blackburn Renee Bell Mike Stephens Vienna Pozniak

Edwin Blackburn

Renee Bell

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Greeter Bob Bell Mel McCarthy Chris Thursby Doug Boline Bob Bell Mel

McCarthy

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Usher Ken Klos Alan Watkins Bob Plant Ken Klos Alan

Watkins Bob Plant

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Audio Vic

Aderhold Edwin

Blackburn Matthew Thursby Sue Klos De Rauh Sue Klos

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1st Reader Justin Glenn Matthew Thursby

JoAnne Arnett

Matthew Thursby

Justin Glenn

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Old Test Isaiah 43:16-

21 Isaiah 52:13-

53:12 Exodus 12:1-14

Isaiah 51:9-11

Acts 5:12a, 17-29

Psalm 126 22:1-11 22:1-11 118:14-24 111

2nd Reader Henri

Thursby Sarah Stephens Frankie Allen

Sarah Stephens

Frankie Allen

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Epistle Philippians

3:7-16 Philippians 2:5-

11 1 Corinthians

11:23-34

Colossians 3:1-4

Revelations 1:9-19

Gospel Luke 22:39-23:1

-47 Luke 22:14-30

Luke 24:1-12

John 20:19-31

Refreshments Plant Klos

Easter Lunch

Arnett

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Altar Guild Sue, Renee and Karalee

Bonnie and Vienna

Susie and Henri

Bonnie and Vienna

Susie and Henri

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Children's ministry

Sue and Karalee

Jenny and Henri Bart and

Karin Henri and

Renee

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Vestry Counters Vienna Pozniak and De Rauh

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