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SAINT TIMOTHY'S CONTACT INFORMATION

CHURCH OFFICE HOURS:

Mon-Fri: 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Phone: 919-787-7590

Fax: 919-787-7271

Church Email [email protected]

Church Website www.sttimothyschurch.org

Father Jay C. James Rector

[email protected] or [email protected]

Father Richard C. Martin Assisting Priest

[email protected] 919-489-0513

Father Henry Presler Associate Priest


Father Michael Carreker Associate Priest


Debbie Nicholas Parish Administrator


Sarah Culton Christian Education Coordinator

christianed@ sttimothys.org 919-787-7590

Dr. Patrician Warren Choirmaster


John Herrmann Organist


Charles Wiggins Sexton

St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church

4523 Six Forks Road

Raleigh, North Carolina 27609

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Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church

Mission Statement

Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church is a traditional,

welcoming, and Scripture-based place of worship

that leads to salvation through the celebration of the

sacraments, service, fellowship, and outreach.

The Monthly Newsletter for

Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church

May 2015

Dear Members and Friends of Saint Timothy’s,

The common prayer tradition is something to which we

are deeply devoted here at Saint Timothy’s. It is so much a

part of who we are as a parish whether we realize it or not.

We have our souls nurtured and fed by it and I pray that

Saint Timothy’s remains rooted and grounded in the

common prayer tradition for many more decades and

centuries. By the common prayer tradition I mean the

principles upon which our Book of Common Prayer is

founded. This means that we are bound together as a

worshiping body by a common liturgy. This unity binds us

together by common teaching, standards for worship and

theology. We reflect the unity in the Body of Christ by our

common liturgy. It is our Book of Common Prayer that

presents and preserves our common liturgy and is the mark

of our unity with other Episcopalians in our country and

other Anglicans in our world-wide Communion. There are

obvious and necessary differences in translations and

differences in contemporary language amongst Prayer

Books in various parts of the Anglican Communion, but the

uniting factor is the common liturgy.

Unfortunately, over the latter part of the twentieth century

in this country, and in a number of other provinces of the

Anglican Communion, the Book of Common Prayer has

been subjected to severe changes. The effort on the part of

liturgical commissions and committees has been to make the

Prayer Book more “relative” or “reflective” of contemporary

attitudes and societal, and even political, shifts. These

changes, I think, have eroded, or neglected, some of the

basic principles upon which Thomas Cranmer and other

reformers compiled the first Book of Common Prayer. Some

changes even allowed us to depart from our true common

prayer tradition. One principle affected is conforming of our

worship and prayers to the doctrine of Holy Scripture. The

language and the images presented to us, as we worship and

pray publicly and privately with The Book of Common

Prayer, are intended to form our hearts, minds and souls to

the teaching and images of the Bible. Some of our

contemporary versions of The Book of Common Prayer

cannot do that because the lectionaries skip portions of

Scripture that contain essential teaching. They also, on

occasion, would not have us read some books of The Bible

continuously in an ordered way, and thereby deemphasize or

misinterpret Biblical teaching. The Bible and its teaching are

intended to save our souls and therefore how we read

according to the Prayer Book tradition becomes most

important in the development of our spiritual lives.

One of the most attractive, comforting and welcoming

aspects of our life together as a parish family is the way we

worship. We make every effort in our worship to honor God

the Holy Trinity by respecting and preserving the common

prayer tradition. We try as best we can to reflect the beauty

and dignity of the Christian religion. Every attempt is made

to present the saving teaching and principles from the Bible.

It is indeed our worship Sunday by Sunday and on Holy

Days that feeds us and strengthens us to grow closer to

Christ and send us into the world to be faithful disciples of

His. This worship is our best thanksgiving to God and we

should do all that we can to take part in it and bring others

here to reap the benefits of our common liturgy.

One of the practical efforts we are making, out of respect

for the way we worship, is to present Prayer Books and

Hymnals that are in good condition. It is a good thing that

our hymnals and Prayer Books are worn and torn because it

reveals a worshiping church. It is not a good thing to allow

them to continue to look worn, torn and with pages missing

because this makes the witness that we do not care about the

worship we present. To rectify this we have begun a project

to replace all of our worn hymnals and Prayer Books. All of

us are given the opportunity to help in the project. We

should all have received a mailing during the fourth week of

April announcing the project and outlining what we can to

help replace our aging hymnals and Books of Common

Prayer. We can order a hymnal, a 1979 Book of Common

Prayer or a 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and dedicate the

books or books in honor, in memory or in thanksgiving for a

loved one or a particular blessing we have received. A

special book plate will be placed inside each cover showing

the dedication. We can order as many hymnals or Prayer

Books as we would like. An order form was included to help

state the number of books ordered and the total amount due.

The order forms with a check of the correct amount can be

returned to the Parish Office. The order form is also availa-

ble on the Church’s website at www.sttimothyschurch.org.

This project should allow us and the visitors to Saint

Timothy’s to continue the faithful worship and praise we

have offered for decades and hold up our end of the common

prayer tradition.

Yours faithfully in the Risen Lord Jesus Christ,

The Reverend Jay C. James

Rector

http://www.sttimothyschurch.org

CONFIRMATION CLASSES, for those

desiring Confirmation or to be received into this

Communion, are continuing on Sundays through the

month of May at 10:00 a.m. in the parlor. The Bishop

will be making his annual visitation and confirming

our confirmands on Sunday, June 7th. We hold the

Confirmation Classes for all those wanting to be

confirmed or received in this Communion. They are

also for those who would like to sit in on the classes

and review some basics of the Faith or do extra

reading on the topics covered in the classes. Here are

the dates of the classes and the topics:

May 03 Church Architecture and Teaching

May 10 A Rule of Life

May 17 Christian Stewardship

May 24 The Christian Duties

May 31 The Daily Office

Jun. 06 Confirmation Rehearsal

Jun. 07 Bishop’s Visitation and Confirmation

The Youth Group is excited to wrap up a successful year in May.

Our meetings will be in the parish hall on May 3rd, and in the

parlor on May 19th.

We will have a party to celebrate the end of the year on

May 19th and look forward to seeing everyone there!

DAUGHTERS OF THE KING

Our April meeting had a very interesting program

presented by two ladies from The Bethesda Chapter

of the Daughters of The King at Christ Church,

Raleigh. They told us about their meetings and

programs which were extremely interesting to us in

the St. Mary's chapter. This was very helpful to us as

we continue on our journey, finding our way, as a

new chapter of the DOK. We co-hosted, with the

Men's Fellowship, the Between The Services

Breakfast on April 19th. It was well attended and the

food was delicious. Thanks to the men for providing

the pancakes.

On May 2nd we will be having our second annual

retreat, at the church. Our diocesan president for

Province IV of the DOK, Susan Cardwell, will again

visit us to be a part of this day. We look forward to

being with her. The next day, May 3rd, we host a

Newcomer's Reception from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the

parlor. We're hoping to become acquainted with

those who have visited St. Timothy's during the past

year. May will be a busy month.

We will be adjourning for the summer and will

resume our regular monthly meeting in September.

That same month begins a new study and

discernment period for all parishioners who would

like to become new members of our chapter. This is

exciting to see our group grow as our service

increases within the parish. We welcome these ladies

with open arms. Please see a member of the chapter

if you are interested in joining or if you have any

questions.

FHS,

Ann Jones

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1 Saint Philip and

Saint James

12:00 Holy

Communion

2 9:00 Daughters of

the King Retreat

3 Fifth Sunday of

Easter

9:00 HC

10:00

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Class

11:00 HC

4:00 Newcomers’

Reception

4:00 Youth Group

4 5 6 9:00 Staff Meeting

10:30 Holy

Communion and

Healing Service

6:30 Bible Study

7 8 9

11:00

Requiem for

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10 Sixth Sunday of

Easter

9:00 HC

10:00

Confirmation

Class

11:00 HC

11

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the King

12

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10:30 Holy

Communion

6:30 Bible Study

14 Ascension Day

12:00 Holy

Communion

15 16

17 Seventh Sunday of

Easter

9:00 HC

10:00

Confirmation

Class

Church School

Meeting

11:00 HC

4:00 Youth Group


10:30 Holy

Communion

6:30 Bible Study

21

3:30 Pastoral Care

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6:30 Vestry Meets

22 23

10:00

Acolyte

Rehearsal

24 Pentecost Sunday

9:00 HC

10:00

Confirmation

Class

11:00 HC

25 Memorial Day

Parish Office

Closed

26 27 9:00 Staff Meeting

10:30 Holy

Communion

6:30 Bible Study

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6:30 Vestry

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Stewardship

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10:00

Youth Sunday

Rehearsal

31 Trinity Sunday

9:00 HC

10:00

Confirmation

Class

11:00 HC

Men’s Fellowship

Cook-Out


10:30 Holy

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Healing Service

6:30 Bible Study

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At Saint Timothy’s we have a deliberate plan of teaching our children some of

the great hymns of the Church, and of course we also benefit by having our

faith lifted up and confirmed by singing those same great hymns.

On Pentecost, our children will sing Crown Him with Many Crowns, a hymn

of exhortation to one another to place our worship and honor in the right

Person. It is also one of those ‘sneaky theology-pedagogy’ hymns as I think of

them—it never hurts for the truths of our faith to be deposited in our hearts and

brains! But it is also wonderful poetry. Let’s proclaim it to one another and

praise our God with joyful hearts and voices.

Crown Him with many crowns, The Lamb upon His throne;

Hark! How the heav’nly anthem drowns All music but its own!

Awake, my soul and sing Of Him Who died for thee,

And hail Him as thy matchless King Through all eternity.

Crown Him the Son of God Before the worlds began,

And ye, who tread where He hath trod, crown Him the Son of Man;

Who ev’ry grief hath known That rings the human breast,

And takes and bears them for His own That all in Him may rest.

Crown Him the Lord of life! Who triumphed o’er the grave,

Who rose victorious in the strife For those He came to save.

His glories now we sing, Who died, and rose on high,

Who died eternal life to bring, And lives that death may die.

Crown Him of lords the Lord, Who over all doth reigh,

Who once on earth, the incarnate Word, For ransomed sinners slain,

Now lives in realms of light, Where saints with angels sing

Their songs before Him day and night, Their God, Redeemer, King.

Crown Him the Lord of heav’n! Enthroned in worlds above;

Crown him the King, to whom is giv’n The wondrous name of Love.

Crown Him with many crowns As thrones before Him fall,

Crown Him, ye kings, with many crowns, For He is King of all.

If you enjoy singing we would love to have you join our choir. Please contact Patricia Warren if

you are interested at [email protected]

Browning Altizer

Baby Isaac

Doris Brock

Father Carreker

Tom Casey

Kathleen Collins

Jennifer Davis

Peggy Diamond

Thomas D. Donegan, Sr.

David Elsea

Isabelle Graham

Charles Hensley

Sara Jenkins

Leslie Kincheloe

Martha Lewis

Tillie Marshall

Father Martin

Mary McDaniel

Shelby Norwood

Boo Parker

Rorin Platt

Father Presler

Peggy Privette

Herbert Scott

Alice Seale

Ed Smothers

Mimi Spears

Barratt Sturtevant

Lessie Truelove

Jennifer Wainaina

Roger Watson

Alexander Wheat

Anna Martin 05/02

Brock Boren 05/03

Timothy Morris 05/03

Septimus George 05/05

Ikechukwu Ifedili 05/06

Joanna George 05/07

Michelle Casey 05/09

Velma Stewart 05/09

James Marshall Bodiford 05/11

Mary McDaniel 05/11

Katherine Sholtis 05/12

Dean Payne 05/13

Tom Sturtevant 05/13

Sam Searcy 05/14

Emily Yost 05/19

William Mason 05/20

Teni Coker 05/21

Geoffrey Richardson 05/21

Gilberta Perry 05/23

Alex Perry 05/23

Barbara Woodlief 05/26

Alexander Yost 05/27

Kreager Taber 05/28

Alex Yost 05/28

Brody Culton 05/29

Farah Williams 05/29

Danny Bratzke 05/31

Mr. & Mrs. Randall Whichard 05/12

Mr. & Mrs. Rick Smothers 05/21

Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Louder 05/26

Dr. Taylor & Mr. Covington 05/27

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Silberman 05/30

Pastoral Care and the Daughters of the King have developed blue Prayer Request/Praise Report

cards that can be found in the holders on the back of

the pews. If you fill out a card, place it in the collection

plate during the offering. All cards will be forwarded

to Father James. There will be two additional choices.

Your request may also be sent to Pastoral Care/

Daughters of the King for prayers and/or listed in the

Sunday Bulletin and Tidings. Of course, you may still

contact Father James personally with any request.

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Upcoming Special Events

Sunday, May 10th: Mother’s Day!

Sunday, May 17th : Teachers’ & VBS Meeting 10am

Sunday, May 24th: Church School sings ‘Crown Him with Many Crowns’ during the 11am service

Sunday, May 31st : Last day of Church School! We will be recognizing all the teachers and VBS volunteers in Church

during the 11am service and the Men’s Fellowship will be hosting a cookout following.

Monday, June 1st: VBS Registration Fee Due

Everest VBS June 5th -7th : Don’t miss it!

Our Church School year is coming to an end, May 31st. We have had a great year learning hymns participating in

community outreach through our Service Sundays, baking pretzels during Lent, and making wonderful friends. Our

program would not be as successful without its committed team of teachers who give generously of their time. We want to

thank all our volunteers who show their love of God, our church, and our children week after week.

Volunteer and enjoy these fun events with us through VBS and again next year as a Church School teacher! We hope that

you will consider whether this may be one of your gifts. We have teams of teachers for every grade level, so you do not

have to commit to every Sunday and a clear curriculum is provided to help guide you through the lessons. If you would like

to ‘shadow’ a teacher one Sunday in May, please let me know and I will be glad to set it up.

Everest

Vacation Bible School

June 5th - 7th

Embark on an icy expedition where kids overcome

obstacles with God's awesome power. Anchor kids in

rock-solid Bible truths that will guide them through

life's challenges.

Expedition Itinerary:

Base Camp Gathering: Fri., June 5th 5:30pm – 8:00pm

Adventure Day: Sat., June 6th 9:30am – 2:30pm

Summit Celebration: Sun., June 7th 10:45am - 12:30pm

This VBS adventure is open to children in Pre-K through the 5th grade. Middle School and High

School children are encouraged to volunteer! REGISTER AND PAY ONLINE today by visiting

www.sttimothyschurch.org or during coffee hour. There is a $15/child fee to attend VBS which

will be due by June 1st.

If you have any questions about Church School or VBS, please contact me, I am happy to help!

Sarah Culton, [email protected]. 919-634-1940

http://www.sttimothyschurch.org

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