Dear Friends of St. Andrew’s,

Welcome to another beautiful summer in our historic chapel at St. Andrew’s.

We are pleased and grateful to announce some wonderful guest ministers will be celebrating with us this year. We encourage you learn about, and meet them starting June 28 to July 26.

Please know all are welcome to join us at our summer chapel, and we look forward to seeing you.We invite you to celebrate with us. After our services please join us for coffee & refreshments.

Some exciting news: Your Executive & Chapel Committees have been quite busy preparing for the season.

Executive Committee – Strategic PlanningLed by Tony Codding with his strategic planning success in several of his past positions with non-profit organizations, we did a thorough assessment of our strengths and weaknesses, and goals for the future. Special thanks to Tony for his outstanding leadership, good humor, and patience.

Following are some outcomes of this process:

We created a mission statement for St. Andrew’s:St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea is a historic seasonal chapel that strives to provide inspirational and inclusive worship, fellowship, and outreach support in the greater community.

New initiatives:We identified 4 major tasks that will impact what we do, and lay the groundwork for the next few years.

1. Promotion & CommunicationTo better serve our members and visitors for our Sunday services, weddings, outreach, & fellowship

2. Financial DevelopmentTo look at our operating budget, capital needs, endowment development for the future; and outreach to support our greater community

3. Volunteers & Continuity with CommitteesExplore ways to invite more people to share in the ministries at St. Andrew’s, and provide good continuity each year.

4. Hospitality & Special EventsExpand our fellowship with additional events and social gatherings from time to time.

WebsiteWe are very pleased and grateful to have a new (gracious donation) Website: standrews-by-the-sea.org.

Updates to come over time. We welcome any photos of people from a wedding, baptism, funeral or other service. If you have pictures, please send to: info@StAndrews-by-the-sea.org.

Weddings St. Andrew’s is a wonderful setting for a wedding, and now we have more wedding information on our new website. Weddings are an outreach service, and they also provide important support for our yearly operating budget. For more about weddings at St. Andrew’s, please visit our website.

Window Restoration Update:

The large Tiffany, circular stained glass Hoffman Window (rear of the Chapel) has been repaired. The Reed Window, Angel with Scepter (rear of the Chapel, Gospel side) is being restored and soon will be re-installed.

We look forward to seeing you this summer for worship and fellowship in the beauty of our historic chapel by the sea.

Your Executive Committee

St. Andrew’s¯by¯the¯SeaAn Episcopal Summer Chapel

30 Church Road, Rye Beach, NHServing the Seacoast since 1876

June 28 Rev. Stephen B. Klots Chaplain, South Kent School, South Kent, CT Primary Position: Chaplain

Steve oversees the school’s spiritual and religious life, which includes all-school and voluntary services, as well as other religious services as necessary. Additionally he serves as a pastoral presence on campus, especially for boarding students who come from all over the world, and teaches religious education.

He is also a member of the English Department and Coordinator for The Call to Service, the community service component of our curriculum. This includes getting students to engage in off-campus service projects (such as trips to the Church Street Eats soup kitchen at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, to work with organizations like Rebuilding Together), and supervising student involvement in our on-campus service program--the “jobs” program (which is akin to the chores students have to do as part of this community).

Steve is also the Cross Country Coach, and is a former president of the New England Preparatory School Track Association. He assists the hockey and lacrosse coaches, and he has in the past been the head coach of JV Basketball and JV Lacrosse.

July 5 Rev. G. Richard Siener, D.D. – Celebrant, Priest Associate, St. John’s, Portsmouth, NH

Dick is a graduate of the University of Bridgeport and the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale with a Master of Sacred Theology degree and a Doctor in Divinity degree (honoris causa). He retired in November 1997 after serving twenty-three years as Rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Exeter. Presently serving as a part time Associate Priest at St. John’s, Portsmouth,

NH., Dick has served on the Board of Directors of Seacoast Hospice, a trustee of Exeter Health Resources, RiverWoods Retirement Community in Exeter and the Board of Directors of New Outlook Teen Center in Exeter. Dick has been a resident of Exeter for forty years. His ministry at St. John’s centers in leading a Centering Prayer Group, visiting parishioners particularly the elderly, teaching in the Adult Education Ministry, and sharing in the Sunday Worship.

July 5 Mr. Russell D.Weatherspoon – Preacher, Phillips Exeter Academy, Religion Dept., Exeter, NH

Russell is a graduate of Brooklyn College (CUNY) and Harvard University with a Masters in Education. He was appointed to Phillips Exeter Academy in 1987.

Russell enjoys teaching the Harkness method, the centerpiece at Exeter as students realize their potential

and become responsible for their own education. As a member of the Religion Department he teaches courses in religion, ethics, philosophy and psychology. He has advised The Legacy, the creative journal of the Afro-Latino Exonian Society; coached girls JV basketball, and served as dean of residential life, and interim dean of multicultural affairs. Russell is also the campus minister for Sumer School. He sees these roles as integral to his job as a “supportive presence” at the school.

Russell is married to Jackie, and has 4 grown children and 8 grandchildren. His interests include reading, listening to music, travel, Brooklyn history, and the fire service.

Please note:8 AM Services are Communion Rite 1, 10 AM Services are Rite II with music. July 26 will have music at both services.

Please see our website at StAndrews-by-the-sea.org

for August & September services

July 12 Rev. Donald P. Hart Retired Bishop of Hawaii, Sharon, NH

Bishop Hart was educated at South Kent School, Williams College, and The Episcopal Theological School, in Cambridge, Ma. After his curacy in Chestnut Hill, Ma, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were appointed missionaries to Alaska. They served in several small Native American villages, as chaplain to native people in

Anchorage, and as rector of St. Matthews, Fairbanks. This experience, of nearly 20 years, in multicultural ministry became essential when, in 1986, Don was elected Bishop of Hawaii, with its 40 congregations, plus the Territory of Guam. All of these congregations are a rich mixture of people from many backgrounds, ethnicities, and spiritual roots. He resigned his jurisdiction in the mid 1990s, and after a Proctor Fellowship at his Seminary, continued as assisting bishop in Connecticut, Maryland, and Southern Virginia. He and Elizabeth retired to Sharon, NH, and are involved at St. James, Keene (where he was rector when elected bishop), and with other nearby congregations. They have two grown children and two grandchildren.

July 19 Rev. Randy Dales Retired All Saints Church, Wolfeboro, NH

The Rev. Canon Randolph Dales retired as Canon to the Ordinary in 2013 after serving in the Diocese of New Hampshire for forty-four years.  He was the Rector of All Saints Church, Wolfeboro, NH, from 1978-2012. 

During his years in Wolfeboro he co-founded Hospice of Southern Carroll County and the LIFE Ministries Food Pantry and represented the diocese in eleven General Conventions of the Episcopal Church. In retirement he acts as the Chaplain to the Retired Episcopal Clergy of New Hampshire and as Assisting Chaplain at the Holderness School.  He currently serves as a member

of the Board of Trustees of the Diocese and on the Board of Trustees of Holderness. Randy is married to Lynn Tyler and has four grown children.

July 26 Rev. Becca Stevens Chaplain, St. Augustine’s Chapel, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Founder of Magdalene Program & Thistle Farms Special ‘Mind, Body & Tea’ event, 4:00 pm, St. John’s Portsmouth, NH

On Sunday, July 26 we are very fortunate and grateful to have Becca Stevens visiting with us from Nashville, TN. She will be preaching, and her husband, Marcus who is a Grammy award-winning musician will be leading us in our music at both services.

Becca Stevens is one of the premiere speakers in the United

States proclaiming love as the most powerful force for social change. She is an author, Episcopal priest and Chaplain at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She is the founder of Thistle Farms-Magdalene, a community of women who have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction. She founded the residential community in 1997, and the social enterprise in 2001. Thistle Farms employs residents and graduates of Magdalene, and houses a natural body care line, a paper and sewing studio, Thistle Stop Café, and its new global initiative, Shared Trade. She demonstrates that love is good business and raises millions of dollars annually. In the anti-human trafficking movement Stevens believes in a housing first model with economic independence for survivors.

Most recently she has been featured in the PBS documentary, “A Path Appears.” She is a prolific writer and has been featured in the New York Times, on ABC World News, NPR, PBS, CNN, and Huffington Post and named by the White House as one of 15 Champions of Change for violence against women in 2011. She was named 2014 Humanitarian of the Year by the Small Business Council of America. Her newest book is, “The Way of Tea & Justice: Rescuing the World’s Favorite Beverage from its Violent History.” She lives in Nashville with her husband, Grammy-winning songwriter Marcus Hummon, and their three sons.

St. Andrew’s¯by¯the¯SeaAn Episcopal Summer Chapel

30 Church Road, Rye Beach, NHServing the Seacoast since 1876

Rev. Becca Stevens – Special EventSt. Andrew’s will be hosting Becca for a special Mind, Body & Tea Event on Sunday, July 26 at 4:00 pm at St. John’s, in Portsmouth. All are welcome, so please spread the word to come and hear this author, humanitarian and internationally acclaimed speaker. Since there is limited seating, please remember to register on our website.

Becca is doing some amazing work in her ministries with Thistle Farm and the Magdalene community for women. This will be a very special opportunity to hear her story and all that she is doing.

For more information, please visit her website at Thistlefarms.org.

We can all support the good work of Becca’s ministries through donations and product purchases at the July 26 event at St. John’s. We’re also very pleased to learn Bishop Hirschfeld will be coming Sunday, July 26 to help support her work, and her visit to New Hampshire.

Volunteers Needed:We can use your help. Please consider volunteering some of your time for this special event. As they say, many hands make for light work. Please contact Mary Fuller at 603 498-3606, or by email at Mary.Fuller@comcast.net, a member of the Executive Committee, or go to our website at www.StAndrews-by-the-sea.org.