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Advent Advisor October 2013

The Church of the Advent

The Rev’d. J. Robert Spainhour

Priest in Charge

Mr. Doug Chesson, senior warden

Mr. Rex Raiford, junior warden

Mr. Stephen Batten, parish administrator

124 West Church Street

P. O. Box 463

Williamston, NC 27892

Telephone 252.792.2244

Fax 252.792.2244

E-mail [email protected]

www.williamstonepiscopalchurch.com

Diocese of East Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee

Bishop Provisional

Diocesan House

705 Doctors Drive

P. O. Box 1336

Kinston, NC 28503


Fax 252.523.5272

www.diocese-eastcarolina.org

Trinity Center

P. O. Drawer 380

Salter Path, NC 28575


Fax 252.247.3290

E-mail [email protected]

www.trinityctr.com

The Prayer List is found on a notebook

marked “Prayer Lists” found on the table in the

narthex of the church. Names may be added at

any time by writing them in the notebook or

calling the church office.

Prayer List

Jackie Boykin

Milton James

Keathley Malone

Joyce Ward

Donald and Beverly Mills

Ed Harrington

George McClancy

Bill Smith

Kathleen Johnson

Abby Cameron

Ellen Miller

Loretta Harrell

Donna Mills

Vernor Godwin

Grace Anderson

Summer Anderson

Birthdays in October

1, Sara Lewis Peel

3, Chloe Tuttle

3, Will Greene

8, Bill Webb

14, Jean Miller

14, Howard Mann

21, Betty Peel

22, Ann Slade

30, Valerie Cook

Dear Departed

Brenda Trinks, mother of Kim Michel

Jane Topping Lindlsey

Rouse Fleenor, uncle of Nita Smith

Volume 41, Issue 5

252.792.2244

[email protected]

CHURCH OF THE ADVENT

Advent Advisor

October 2013

Welcome to The Rev’d.

J. Robert Spainhour

The Vestry and Wardens of The Church

of the Advent are excited and proud to an-

nounce the arrival of Fr. Rob in Williamston as

he begins his service to our parish as Priest in

Charge.

Fr. Rob comes to Advent from St.

James, Wilmington where he served as Associ-

ate Priest to the Rector and Priest at Saint

Mary’s Episcopal/Lutheran Church, Burgaw,

NC. Prior to St. James, Fr. Rob was Rector of

St. John’s Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC

and St. Christopher’s, Elizabethtown, NC. Fr.

Rob worked bivocationally as a principal at

Pender High School and East Bladen High

School.

Please plan to attend a Celebration of

Shared Ministry to be held during the 11 a.m.

Service of Holy Eucharist on Sunday, October

6, 2013 followed by a parish luncheon in the

Parish Hall. Fr. Rob will be living at the rectory on

West Franklin Street. His Sabbath day will be

Mondays.

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The marriage of Dr. William F. Coppage and Miss

Mary Charles Godwin on April 26, 1947

Pictured from left to right: Homer Barnhill, Nancy Kiekhefer, Joe Bateman, Liz Cone, Ross

Coppage, Alma Godwin Byrum, William Coppage, The Rev’d. John Hardy, Mary Charles

Godwin Coppage, Bennie Godwin, Marion Pender Llewyllen, J.O. “Blue” Manning, Jr.,

Katherine Manning Skinner, Edwin Robinson, and Marjorie Dunn Drake. NOTE: If you

look closely, you can see what the chancel looked like prior to the fire of 1961. The lectern is

an eagle holding the Bible on its wings and the credence table is anchored by the marble me-

morial plaque to The Rev’d. Thomas Benbury Haughton that is now mounted in the narthex.

Outreach provides food

boxes for seniors

Each day the local Senior Center en-

sures that over 250 participants receive one

meal a day, either by feeding at the Center or by

home delivery.

But some days the Center is closed due

to holidays or bad weather and the feeding pro-

gram is interrupted.

Therefore, the Center’s staff prepares

and delivers a box of food to each participant

with enough foodstuffs to provide ten meals that

meet the Recommended Daily Allowance for

nutrition.

Although the Center receives food for

the boxes through the Albemarle Food Bank,

the Food Bank does not provide any meat.

Parishioners will find requests posted in

the narthex. The collection will continue

through October with delivery to the Center

during the first week of November.

Any foodstuffs not used in the boxes

will go into the Center’s pantry or to the Social

Services pantry.

Schola Cantorum visits

Advent

On October 13, 2013, Schola Cantorum

will present a service of Choral Evensong at the

Church of the Advent. Evensong will begin at

5:30 in the church and will be followed by a

light reception in the parish hall.

Schola Cantorum is a group of volun-

teer master choristers drawn from throughout

the Diocese of East Carolina. They perform in

churches throughout East Carolina and the na-

tion. Advent’s own Christine Chesson is a for-

mer member of Schola as is The Rev. Adele D.

Hatfield, our former organist and choirmaster

currently serving as Co-Rector of St. Peter’s

Episcopal Church, Mountain Lakes, New Jersey

Evensong is service of sung Evening

Prayer Similar to Morning Prayer in structure,

Evensong is a traditional service throughout the

Anglican Communion. Please make plans to

join us for this special evening in our worship

life.

Meeting

moved

The regu-

larly scheduled

October Vestry meeting has been rescheduled

and will be held immediately after church on

Sunday, October 20.

All Vestry members are pleased ask to

be in attendance to discuss our upcoming Stew-

ardship Campaign, upcoming Advent events

and planning for the 2013-14 church year.

Wednesday Holy

Eucharist resumes

Fr. Rob will resume our Wednesday

5:45 p.m. service of Holy Eucharist on Wednes-

day, October 16.

Fr. Rob

plans to honor the

calendar of saints by

using the lessons

from Holy Women,

Holy Men at these

services.

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A note to the parish

Our Dear Friends,

Lucy and I have recently returned from

a fifteen day adventure in Europe.

We began with three days in Prague, a

seven day cruise down the Danube which in-

cluded numerous daily tours in the Czech Re-

public, Germany and Austria and ending with a

three day stay in Budapest. It was a delightful

and exciting trip.

We were able to embark upon this trip

because of your great kindness, thoughtfulness

and generosity when you presented us with a

very special retirement gift. We were humbled

at the time and are very grateful for providing

us this opportunity. We have decided that if

we ever have a second home, it will be in the

Austrian country-side near Salzburg, at least

for the four months of summer!

We are very pleased for our parish

family that a new priest is among you to serve

as pastor to the Advent family. I know you

will warmly welcome Rob and wish each of

you and Rob God’s blessings and our best

wishes for your marvelous new relationship.

We are very grateful to have each of

you as our friends.

With great affection,

Lucy & Jim

Three feasts observed

in October

The Episcopal Church recognizes three

(3) principal feast days on the calendar of the

church year during the month of October.

The Feast of Saint Luke the Evangel-

ist is observed on Friday, October 18. Almost all that we know about Luke

comes from the New Testament. He was a phy-

sician (Col 4:14), a companion of Paul on some

of his missionary journeys (Acts 16:10ff;

20:5ff; 27-28). Material found in his Gospel

and not elsewhere includes much of the account

of Our Lord's birth and infancy and boyhood,

some of the most moving parables, such as that

of the Good Samaritan and that of the Prodigal

Son, and three of the sayings of Christ on the

Cross: "Father, forgive them," "Thou shalt be

with me in Paradise," and "Father, into thy

hands I commend my spirit." The Acts of the

Apostles is also attributed to Saint Luke.

Saint James of Jerusalem, the

Brother of Our Lord Jesus Christ is honored

on Wednesday, October 23. He was for many years the leader of the

Christian congregation in Jerusalem, and is gener-

ally supposed to be the author of the Epistle of

James, although the Epistle itself does not state this

explicitly. He was martyred in Jerusalem in 62 A.D.

There will be a 5.45 p.m. Holy Eucharist on this day

in the church.

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles of

Our Lord are remembered on Monday, Oc-

tober 28.

Simon and Jude are traditionally listed

as the tenth and eleventh apostles. Some ancient

Christian writers say that Simon and Jude went to-

gether as missionaries to Persia, and were martyred

there.

UTO Fall Ingathering

Sunday, October 20

Our parish will celebrate the United

Thank Offering fall ingathering this year on

October 20, 2013 during our 11:00 a.m. service

of Holy Eucharist.

United Thank Offering (UTO) is a min-

istry of the Episcopal Church for the mission of

the whole church.

Through United Thank Offering, men,

women, and children nurture the habit of giving

daily thanks to God.

These prayers of thanksgiving start

when we recognize and name our many daily

blessings.

Those who participate in UTO discover

that thankfulness leads to generosity.

United Thank Offering is entrusted to

promote thank offerings, to receive the offer-

ings, and to distribute the UTO monies to sup-

port mission and ministry throughout the Epis-

copal Church and in invited Provinces of the

Anglican Communion in the developing world.

If you are unable to attend church on

October 20 and wish to contribute to UTO,

please feel free to put your UTO envelope in

the alms basin on any Sunday this month. If

you need an UTO envelope or want to learn

more about UTO, contact our parish UTO

chairwoman, Frankie Biggs at 792.2227.

Piano & Organ Concert

Bob and Susan Davis will present a Pi-

ano and Organ Concert on Sunday, October 6 at

4 p.m. at Memorial Baptist Church. Williams-

ton. This concert is given in thanksgiving to

God and in celebration of the tenth anniversary

of Bob’s successful liver transplant. (Susan is

the daughter of Betty Lou Taylor)

Are you an Organ Donor? You could

save a life if you are.

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Mr. Stephen Batten attended the

September meeting of the Albemarle Deanery

at St. Andrew’s by the Sea in Nags Head, NC

on September 19. Stephen also attended a

working meeting of a subcommittee on the

Search and Nominations Committee for the

VIII Bishop of East Carolina in Greenville on

September 24 in Greenville at the home of Dr.

and Mrs. Richard and Cheryl Taft.

Miss Amanda Smith continues to

receive accolades for her work as a teacher.

Amanda was selected as the Teacher of the

Year at Beaufort Early College and runner-up

to Best Teacher in Beaufort County.

Mr. Jess Miller’s “freezer pleaser”

was a resounding success and he extends his

thanks to all in the Advent family that

supported his project to raise funds for his

Eagle Scout project.

Mrs. Ann Slade sends her thanks to all

in the Advent family for their thoughts, prayers

and well-wishes.

Mr. Anthony McNeile has once again

crossed the great pond and is reported to be in

the environs of Martin County. Welcome back

Anthony!

Miss Anna Chesson is currently

entertaining an exchange student from

Germany. Wilkomen to all our visitors.

Items featured in “News & Notes” are

drawn from a variety of sources. If you would

like something noted here, please contact

Stephen at the church office, 792.2244 or at

[email protected].

Diocesan Mission Train-

ing Conference

November 16, 2013 at Trinity Center

You’re invited to the Diocesan Mission

Training Conference! Have you ever thought

about going on a team mission trip to our com-

panion diocese, the Dominican Republic? If yes,

then you will want to attend this event!

Registration is $10 and lunch will be

provided!

To register, please go to the Diocesan

website, click on Our Events, and find the Di-

ocesan Mission Training Conference event page.

There you will find a link to the registration

form.

Questions? Please contact Richard Taft

at 252-714-0814.

Welcome to The Episco-

pal Church!

What is the Episcopal Church, and

what do Episcopalians believe? The Episcopal Church (TEC) is the of-

ficial organization of the Anglican Communion

in the United States and in surrounding coun-

tries such as the Dominican Republic, Panama,

and Haiti. Most of the earliest colonists to

America were Anglican Puritans, and the An-

glican Church became the established church of

Virginia, Maryland, New York, North Carolina,

South Carolina, and Georgia during the colonial

period. After the American Revolution, the An-

glican Church in America formed an independ-

ent body in 1789 and called it the Protestant

Episcopal Church. On the website, TEC is de-

scribed as a “middle way between Roman

Catholic and Protestant traditions.” Like the

Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church upholds

the sacraments as essential to salvation, and like

Protestant churches, it denies the supremacy of

the Pope as the vicar of Christ on earth.

The word “Episcopal” comes from the

Greek word that is usually translated “bishop”

and points to the church's understanding that a

bishop is the primary shepherd of the church.

Under the Episcopal form of government, the

bishop's authority is equal to that of the Apos-

tles and follows a line of succession by the lay-

ing on of hands in ordination. Priests come un-

der the authority of the bishops and are respon-

sible for the teaching and administration of the

local churches. Throughout the history of TEC

their doctrine and practice have been generally

in line with that of the Anglican Church.

What Do Episcopalians Believe?

We believe there is One God who cre-

ates all things, redeems us from sin and death

and renews us as the Children of God. As Epis-

copalians we promise to follow Jesus Christ as

our Savior and Lord. We believe the mission of

our church is restoration of all people to unity

with God and each other in Christ.

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