Volume 43, Number 12 News for the Parish of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church December 2015

When the boiler used to heat the 1928 building exploded late one Thursday afternoon in November, the Rev. Darby O. Everhard suggested that parishioners bring blankets to the Sunday morning services first, to keep themselves warm, and then to be left behind to keep others warm. The next day, officers from the Winston-Salem Police Department’s Downtown Bike Patrol picked up more than 300 blankets to distribute to homeless people in our community.

On Tuesday, November 19, the Community Gatherings Committee hosted a Thanksgiving celebration for Kids’ Café students and their families. After guests enjoyed a dinner featuring tamales and desserts prepared by a Kids’ Café parent, Director Aliesha Oakes recognized volunteers and thanked them for their service as “homework helpers.” St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Women recently granted $1,100 to the Community Gatherings Committee to help support such events to strengthen relationships between the church and families we serve.

by Scott and Erin AdamsAnnual Giving Co-Chairs

With Advent underway, as we approach the end of the calendar year, we want to thank all who have pledged support to St. Paul’s through the One Body, Many Blessed 2016 annual giving campaign.

The Vestry and staff are presently preparing our 2016 forecast and budget, and our pledges are a critical aspect of this process. We are encouraged by the pledges that have been made to date. As of December 2, pledges totaled more than $1,510,000, or 72 percent of our $2,100,000 goal, with 395 households participating. Our goal is for 600 families to participate, so there is still work to be done.

Additionally, the opportunity for parishioners to pledge their time and talent in 2016 has inspired many to volunteer in new and exciting ways through committed service hours.

For those who have not yet responded to the campaign, we encourage you to return your pledge cards by Christmas. If you have pledged in the past, we hope you will consider

increasing your pledge. If you have never pledged before, we ask you to consider making a commitment to give something, no matter the amount. Your pledge to the campaign is the best Christmas gift you can give to St. Paul’s—a place that provides each of us with the greatest joy and fulfillment during this celebration of Christ’s birth.

As the annual campaign comes to a close, we give thanks to Dixon and the parish for the opportunity to have served as campaign co-chairs. We pray that we are able to meet the stewardship goals for 2016 so that St. Paul’s can continue to lead and be a beacon of Christ in this community and beyond. Thank you for making St. Paul’s part of your Christian journey, and we wish you a merry Christmas.

Your Christmas Gift to St. Paul’s

Vestry Meeting Highlights

by Morris FriedmanSenior Warden

Advent is a time of waiting as well as a time of preparation. It is a season of thanksgiving and celebration among family and friends. And happily, it is a season of giving.

Our Social Action Committee members buy Christmas presents and we gather together to wrap them for inmates to give to their children. At our Stop Hunger Now event, we package thousands of nutritious meals to give to hungry people around the globe. We give donations to our choice of a dozen charities and pass along alternative giving greeting cards to those we wish to honor with our gifts. Families bring gifts wrapped in white for residents of the Murdoch Center to the Family Carol Service on Christmas Eve.

We also give gifts to St. Paul’s. In fact, we give more to our church at this time of year than any other. St. Paul’s, like most churches and other non-profits, typically receives more numerous, more generous gifts

Senior Warden’s Reportduring the final three months of the year than at any other time. We give to St. Paul’s most of all during December, the month when we finish fulfilling our pledges and often make additional tax-deductible gifts before the end of the year.

Like most churches, too, we conduct our annual giving campaign during the fall and final quarter of the year. Going into December, we were well past the $1.5 million mark for the 2016 One Body, Many Blessed campaign and were steadily closing in on our $2.1 million goal. The pledge period ends officially on January 10, but knowing we are approaching the height of the season of giving, we are hopeful that all who have not yet pledged will do so in December. As your Vestry and staff work to finalize the 2016 budget, the more pledges we have in hand, the more confident we can be in our financial planning. Your pledges to the 2016 campaign are also critically important to our program and ministry planning. Shortly after we began this year’s annual giving campaign, we launched St. Paul’s 20/20, a long-range planning process to envision the future of our parish through God’s eyes. As the initiative progresses and we focus increasingly on practical outcomes, your pledge will enable us to move forward with our most ambitious plans.

As we close out the books on 2015 and plan and prepare for our new year, your Vestry and I thank you for your generous support of St. Paul’s.

The following are highlights of the November 18, 2015, Vestry meeting minutes. Treasurer Carolyn Twisdale reported that we are slightly under budget and that pledges are slightly down but coming in slowly. Expenses are up but with good explanations for all and no cause for alarm. Director of Stewardship and Outreach Sally Dudley reported that the pledge campaign is about on target. Weekly updates are being published in ParishLight, and a campaign summary will be published in ParishLife. As of November 18, we are at 65% of our goal with 346 pledges in, similar to last year at this time. 94% of pledge amounts are the same as last year or increased. There have been 18 new pledges this year. The campaign is scheduled to end January 10.

Sally Dudley also reported that St. Paul’s 1876 Society, for those who have made a planned gift to the church, has four new members. St Paul’s 20/20 committee is busy evaluating input gathered in the recent meetings and organizing for step two of the process. Junior Warden Sally Shore reported that the Building and Grounds Committee is working on developing their “wish list” of projects. Worn stair treads are scheduled to be replaced soon. The light fixture upgrade project is almost complete in the 2005 building. Bids are in for relighting the chandeliers in the nave. The new, energy-efficient lights will give 10% more lumens and will use much less electricity.

69th Annual Bazaar

St. Paul’s 69th Annual Bazaar and Luncheon was held on Wednesday, November 18, attracting numerous shoppers and diners. A preview event was held the night before, and a Children’s Bazaar was held the previous Sunday. The theme of this year’s bazaar was “A Taste of North Carolina.” Proceeds of all events will support various outreach missions and ministries selected by the Episcopal Church Women.

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by Genie Carr

When Carroll and David McCullough made their estate plan, family topped the list. Children. Grandchildren. St. Paul’s.

“St. Paul’s is part of our family, really,” said Carroll. “There was no question that they wouldn’t be up at the top with our family.”

This was especially true nine years into their membership, when their teen-age daughter Caroline died in a tragic hiking accident. “There was a total coming together of people to support us,” Carroll said. The Rev. Dudley Colhoun had just retired as Rector, and was canonically unable to participate officially except as a dear friend. The new Interim Rector, the Rev. Charlie Riddle, had not had time to get to know parishioners, “but the support of the parish was powerful,” Carroll said.

There is support all around for “happy events” too, David said. For instance, Carroll finds the “sending out” of the Lay Eucharistic Visitors each Sunday to take Communion to the home-bound very meaningful.

Neither Carroll nor David began church life as Episcopalians. Carroll grew up a Methodist, and David was a Lutheran—his father, grandfather and two uncles were Lutheran pastors. They lived in many places during David’s training and work as a urologist. Unable to find a Lutheran church with a strong children’s ministry, they joined the Episcopal church 40 years ago.

“The liturgy was so similar to the Lutheran liturgy that David felt at home,” Carroll said. “And as a Methodist” with a plainer service on Sundays, in the Episcopal Church “I buried myself in the beauty of the liturgy.” They moved to Winston-Salem in 1983 and immediately joined St. Paul’s.

St. Paul’s 1876 Society Member Profile

St. Paul’s 1876 Society honors those who have informed the church of their intentions to include St. Paul’s in their estate plans.

Regular giving to the church, and making it part of their planned giving, is natural and joyous for them. “When you do give money to the church and its needs, you feel better,” David said. “That money is well-used” for the parish and for the wider community.

They also recognize the legacy of giving from the parish’s earliest days. If there had not been that generosity then, St. Paul’s wouldn’t be what it is today. Giving “is a part of the cliché ‘attitude of gratitude,’” Carroll said. “We cannot imagine anyone not giving, or not arranging gifts for after they are gone.”

Carroll and David McCullough

TransitionsBirths

Perry Ann NelsenNovember 21, 2015

Daughter of Luke and Eleanor Rolfe Nelsen,

granddaughter of David Rolfe, niece of Susan Perry Rolfe and

Sally Rolfe

Edison Tate AllredDecember 1, 2015

Son of Tara and Phillip Allred

Deaths

Cornelia DeBoer “Connie” Moskop

October 22, 1015Mother of John Moskop,

mother-in-law of Ruth Moskop

Norman Charles Pickering

November 18, 2015Father of Judy Crow,

father-in-law of Bill Crow

Lamar Marie Swain TaftNovember 25, 2015Wife of Charles Taft

Samuel Rankin FisherNovember 25, 2015

Brother of Romey Fisher, brother-in-law of Lynn Fisher

Robert Johnson ThomasNovember 27, 2015

Father of Cindy Whaling, grandfather of Forrest,

Robert and Austin Whaling and Catherine Whaling McCoy

Daniel Gordon WalkerDecember 1, 2015

Father of Ruth Moskop, father-in-law of John Moskop

The church offices will close at noon on Thursday, December 24, and be closed on Friday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday. Normal office hours will resume at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, December 28.

The church offices will also be closed on New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1. Normal office hours will resume at 8:30 a.m. on Monday, January 4.

Holiday Office Hours

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Integon Painting Given to St. Paul’s

Sunday Service Times

On the first and second Sundays after Christmas, December 27 and January 3, Sunday morning services of Holy Eucharist will be at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. The 7:45, 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. Sunday services schedule will resume on January 10, the first Sunday after the Epiphany.

Communications Department during the 1980s and helped select artists and churches. The Ecclesiastical Arts Committee was charged with determining where to hang the painting.

“Our committee is thrilled to receive such a fine work of art,” said committee member Bill Parsley. “We’ve decided to hang it on the second floor near the reception desk for all to enjoy.”

The CD recording of the November 1 premiere at St. Paul’s of Dan Locklair’s Requiem is available now in the St. Paul’s Bookshop.

The Bookshop, located next to the second-floor conference room, is open from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Sundays.

The $10 purchase will benefit the St. Paul’s Music Ministry.

Requiem Recording Available

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Rector Dixon Kinser accepts an original painting of St. Paul’s commissioned by Integon Insurance Company in 1988 for its Christmas card. The painting was presented by Rick Pierce, a Senior Vice President with National General Insurance. Turner Coley was on hand as a former manager of Integon’s Communications Department.

From 1967 to 2000, Integon Insurance Company commissioned artists to paint pictures of churches within its operating territory. The company reproduced the paintings on Christmas cards and 11-by-17-inch prints suitable for framing. St. Paul’s was the church painted in 1988 by local artist George C. Lynch.

Recently, the corporate owner of the collection, National General Insurance, decided to donate each original painting to the featured church. Senior Vice President Rick Pierce presented the St. Paul’s painting to the Rev. D. Dixon Kinser, Rector, at an informal meeting also attended by parishioner Turner Coley, who was manager of Integon’s