A lot of things are about to happen at the same time, and it impacts us, and thrills us, at St. Francis. The first day of Spring is around the corner on March 20, then Easter on April 1. Three days later it is baseball’s opening day, Sandy reminded me this morning. May 13th is Mother’s Day, and by then we’re shining everything up, mopping the floors, power washing the labyrinth, and replenishing the sunscreen - because all those people we have missed so much, who we see only during the Summer, will be showing up. I can’t wait! It just might be nuts. The joy may be too much for us. It’s not that we have had such slim crowds that we are anxious to have some people out there. Actually, we have had amazingly good attendance all Fall and Winter. It’s just that it’s high time for everyone to be together. If you are among those who have been away, we think you will be happy with what you find in your “other” church. The choir has always been good,

but for a long time now they have been incredible. I don’t think there is a single choir down here that can touch them. The St. Clare Chapel, formerly “the porch” is a major worship space for small groups now, and is adorned with a magnificent original icon of St. Clare. The Wednesday noon Celtic Eucharist has grown significantly, with a number of liturgies from Iona on regular rotation. Penn Perry, Director of Trinity Center, reads a poem just before the beginning of many Sunday Services. That is a wildly popular new addition. And there are new people everywhere. We had the largest number of Confirmations and Receptions in the history of the parish when Bishop Rob came this year. And if you happen to be in a chapter of the Daughters of the King, you may be interested in the ministry of our new chapter. You need to bring your checkbook because before long our new cookbook will be back from the printer. You’ll want several for Christmas presents. The sand on the beach is warm. There (continued on page 2)

Everything is Lining Up: Come on Down

The Song of Saint Francis

It’s a Date!

3/2 KOSF/Senior

Center Spaghetti

Supper

3/3 Lenten Retreat

(page 7)

3/7 Lenten Supper #3

3/7 St. Clare

Coffee House

3/14 Lenten Supper #4

3/25 Palm Sunday

3/29 Maundy Thursday

Service with Choir

3/30 Good Friday

4/1 Easter Sunday

9:00 & 11:00

Services

4/6 Grenoldo Frazier

Jazz Concert

4/6 Anne Cowie

Gallery Opening

4/19 ECW Annual

Spring Meeting

Saint Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church ● Salter Path, North Carolina March 2018

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are colorful clothes on the people. I watched for a long time yesterday as a red kite meandered on the air cur-rents at The Circle. There is some-thing satisfying about a red kite against a Carolina blue sky. There are lots of dolphins and squadrons of pel-icans, and little yellow butterflies roll-er-coastering among the shrubbery. And the clouds! So come on down. Get the car ready and load it up. We’ll be looking up and down Hwy 58 for the first sight of you. I am trying to tell you that we’re hav-ing a good time but we miss you. Eve-rything is lining up for a great Spring and Summer. Get in line! Everett+

Vestry View by Terry Smith

“There are people who, in-stead of listening to what is being said to them, are al-ready listening to what they are going to say them-selves." — Albert Guinon

In my job, I do a lot of talking. I have learned that, to serve my clients appropriately, there are times I need to stop talking and start lis-tening. A person will tell you so much more than the words they use. It’s the tone, the emotion of the delivery. There may be a trail-ing thought; something left unsaid. I believe the unsaid can be heard when we listen care-fully. Consider our relationships with God. We do lots of talking to God. Are we listening for Him or already speaking our next thought? Alfred Brendel said, “The word ‘listen’ con-tains the same letters as the word ‘silent.’” Frank Lauback said, ”Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.”

I invite you to join me in a quest to listen more. We can listen with other senses besides hearing. Let’s use our hearts and minds to listen to each other.

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Everything is Lining Up: Come on

Down

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Grace Notes by Music Director, Linda Laughton

Jazz Service, Sunday, March 11. Those who have worshiped with us for the past several Sunday mornings are aware of the jazz-style service music we have been learning. The choir has worked up a jazz rendition of “Out of the Depths.” You’ll hear a jazz arrangement for piano of “Blessed Assurance” for the prelude, and a jazzy little reflection piece will serve as the meditation for the day. The hymns are traditional melodies and spirituals that lend themselves well to standard jazz-blues progres-sions. We will say good-bye to the blues on Easter Sunday, April 1, and welcome the Happy Morning with all new service music, so embrace the soulful sounds during the remaining weeks of Lent. Grenoldo Frazier Jazz Concert, Friday, April 6.

Grenoldo Frazier, the dynamic per-former and multiple Audelco award-winning composer and director, will perform a concert of jazz music Fri-day, April 6 at 6:30pm. The one-hour event will showcase Grenoldo’s soul-ful jazz voice and piano playing. A re-ception of heavy hors d’oeuvres will be served in the art gallery following the concert. The gallery will show the work of artist Anne Cowie and her students. Ms. Cowie is an abstract painter and calligrapher working in ink and paint, and a favorite among the family of St. Francis by the Sea. The art gallery opening starts at 5:30 and admission is free. The concert is a ticketed event and a major fund-raiser for the church. Tickets ($25) include the post-concert reception

and are available in advance at the church office, at First Citi-zens Bank Atlantic Beach or at the door the night of the perfor-mance.

Volunteers needed for podcast minis-try team. Happily, my husband and I will be sailing our Beneteau 411 “Wild Goose” in the lower Chesapeake Bay for a few weeks in May and June. This creates a need for some capable volunteers to produce the weekly podcasts in my absence, and to work as a team going forward in this ministry. Desire, willingness and availability are the ideal qualifications, as podcast production can be up to a three-hour creative process taking place Sunday after the service. The podcasts are typically completed and post-ed on FACEBOOK by 3:30 Sunday after-noon. Experience with a movie-making program and with a digital audio work-station would decrease training time but they are not mandatory prerequisites. The dates that are involved are Sunday May 20, 27, June 3 and June 10. Please contact me directly by phone (252) 269-9926 if you are interested.

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St. Claire Coffeehouse -

Charlie McCurry

basket for our performer). Coffee and hot

chocolate will be available for a dollar a

cup by Sweet Beans Coffee and Café ,

Morehead City. Come and enjoy a night

of music with a great singer and song-

writer and camaraderie with old and new

friends. Invite a guest to share this won-

derful community we call St. Francis.

Kate Campbell is

the kind of artist

who steps to the

beat of a different

drummer. Over

the course of 20+

years (since her

award-winning

debut album

Songs from the

Levee) she has re-

sisted the tempta-

tion to follow musical trends but instead

chooses to set the pace for her unique

musical journey. This distinction is pal-

pable in her latest release, The K.O.A.

Tapes (Vol. 1), in which many of the

basic tracks were recorded in her living

room on her on her iPhone, including the

revered Southern rock anthem

“Freebird.”

SAVE THE DATES FOR 2018 SUMMER CONCERTS:

Friday, June 1 at 6:30pm Ambrosia Duo performs “Masterpieces for Cello and Piano” fea-turing Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2; and Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C major, Opus 119 (1949). Rebecca S. Gilmore Phillips, cellist and Dr. Dan Lau, pia-nist. Friday, July 6 at 6:30pm Brierwood Ensemble performs “Music by the Sea” a recital of Romantic music inspired by nature and the sea, featuring works by Elgar, Saint-Saens, and others. Linda Estep, violin; Clark Spencer, viola; Helena Spencer, bas-soon; Christina Brier, harp. Friday, August 3 at 6:30pm Karen Hite Jacob and Carolina Pro Musica per-form a concert of Celtic to Baroque and more. Watch for more information to come. Stay tuned! --- Linda

Grace Notes by Music Director,

Linda Laughton (Cont’d from page 3)

Be sure to

mark your cal-

endar for the

next St. Clare

Coffeehouse

performance

at St. Francis.

Admission is

free (though

we’ll pass the

Wednesday March 7, 7-8pm

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The Kids of St. Francis have a lot going on. Among our youth are basketball players, dancers, actors, soccer players, runners, artists, honor students, scouts, gymnasts, vocal and instrumental musicians and more. Little wonder that trying to squeeze into their schedules is quite a challenge. However, somehow they find time for ministry and service at church. Last weekend we rented a booth at the Country Club of the Crystal Coast for the indoor yard sale. Thanks to the generous item donations from you, our parishioners, we raised $350. Youth and parents were there to set up at 7:00 a.m. and stayed until noon to help clean up. Watch for articles here to introduce our young people and our adult volunteers. This month we are highlighting two of our Youth, Ainsley Horton and Jackson Westbrook. AINSLEY HORTON

has been named our Assistant Director of Youth Ministry. In case you don't know her, she is the beautiful young lady who made the announcements on behalf of the Kids of St. Francis at Youth Sunday in February. Ainsley was the first baby to be baptized at St. Francis by the

Sea. She was baptized in 2002 when the

church was still meeting in the shopping center in Atlantic Beach. Ainsley's parents are Jami Turner and Allen Horton. Ainsley is an AP and Honors student at the Epiphany School of Global Studies in New Bern. She is a dancer and a member of the National Honor Society. She serves on the Youth and Government Conference and is a Science Olympiad. Ouch, Ainsley was the first of our youth to earn her drivers license. Somehow, in addition to all that Ainsley

finds time to participate in the life of our church. She has played Mary in the Christmas pageant, she has sung solos, served as an acolyte, helped with fundraisers and she has been an "unofficial" assistant to our youth Minister for

years. We're happy to finally make it official.

For the Kids of St. Francis Marian Goetzinger, Director of Youth Ministry

Congratulations Ainsley!

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JACKSON WESTBROOK has been named Junior Vestry Member. He will serve as a communication point between the Kids of Saint Francis and our priest and parish leaders. Jackson was baptized at St. Francis by the Sea on August 31,

2003 when he was only two weeks old. Father Renfrow Sproul baptized him at the first baptism service in our new building. Jackson’s parents are Dr. Kenneth Leigh and Meredith Westbrook. Jackson attends West Carteret High School where he is an honors student and

plays on the Junior Varsity Soccer Team and is a member of the High School Track Team. He plays on the U15 Classic soccer team for the Seashore Soccer League and is amazing with computers. He enjoys gaming, coding,

programming, and anything to do with computers. St. Francis parishioners have watched

Jackson grow up serving as one of the first youth acolytes in the new building along with his brother Tyler Westbrook and his cousin, Tanner Hahn. Jackson stood to read as our first youth lector and has been actively involved in the life of St. Francis by the Sea his entire life.

Congratulations Jackson!

MARCH Birthdays

For the Kids of St. Francis Marian Goetzinger, Director of Youth Ministry (Cont’d)

1 - Tootie Piver 5 - Jay Randall 5 - Leigh Westbrook 8 - Bowen Ellis 10 - Sharon Whitehurst 12 - Tom Tempel 12 - Jean Turner 14 - Andrew Burns 17 - Pat Shuping 24 - Layne Helwig 24 - Christina Pruitt 26 - Graham Pittman 27 - Tim Bradford 31 - Jean Nelson

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Reaching out with the Love of Christ to others in need” - St. Francis Outreach By

Barbara McCreary

Daughters of the King Request Your Help. Imagine yourself as a parishioner whose family lives far away. You are due to be released from a hospital stay to go home.

However you are not allowed to lift anything and you are not allowed to drive for two weeks. How will you manage? The Daughters of the King have agreed to coordinate help for you. Many of us are fortunate to have support systems in the form of relatives, neighbors, club members, etc. to help us in times of a crisis, but we don’t want any of our parishioners to face a situation alone. To that end, the Daughters of the King have agreed to coordinate volunteers to help with meals, transportation, and running errands. We are looking to develop a bank of

volunteers who are willing to be called

upon for a minimal commitment if such a

need arises. If you can lend a hand

whipping up a casserole or a pot of soup,

if you can drive someone to the doctor or

make a grocery run, or perhaps just sit

and provide company for awhile, please

let us know. We would then contact you

if there is a need to see if you can help at

a particular time. To add your name to

our “volunteer bank,” please e-mail

Barbara McCreary

at BLMAGM@verizon.net. For His Sake,

thank you!

Thanks to all who helped in any way with the Tastings! It was beautiful, delicious and quite elegant, if I say so myself. Money is being counted and we are doing well.

Think of all the places we can send ads for future sales both to private persons and to commercial shops. As you know, we gave a discount to advance orders. When we have reconstructed our poster, it will have the new amount on it.

SAVE THE DATE:

The Lenten Retreat is Saturday March 3 at the Trinity Center. Rev. Mary Ogus will be the speaker and her subject is "Sophia, Wisdom of God." Coffee begins at 9:30. The program is from 10:00 - 2:30 with lunch during that time. The cost is $20. Checks should be made to St. Paul's Beaufort and sent to Mary Duane Hale, 215 Ann Street, Beaufort, NC 28516

ECW Annual Spring Meeting will be held at Saint Peter's Episcopal Church in Washington, NC on Thursday, April 19, 2018. Bishop Skirving will be leading our worship and installing the new officers.

Bunco night will be rescheduled and you will be notified about that.

Bobbi Hill

ECW Chair

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St. Francis Outreach by Denise Throckmorton

SOUPER BOWL OF CARING was a

huge success. Thanks to all of you, we

were able to give $404 and 178 non-

perishable food items to Hope

Mission. THANK YOU!

FAMILY PROMISE OF CARTERET COUNTY

We are resuming our collection for Family Promise in Morehead City (men’s and women’s personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, napkins, toiletries, twin size bedding, and diapers). Additionally, if you’d like to volunteer to help out in their office, they are in need of volunteers to answer phones, help people fill out forms, take donations, sort donations, craft or read to children. As

little as an hour a week would be a tremendous help! Family Promise is a nationwide organization with 200 affiliates. It is a coalition of local churches working together to provide shelter, food, and dignity to families with children who have fallen on hard times and find themselves and their children homeless. Carteret County’s Family Promise Day Center (on Arendell Street in Morehead City) is where their “guests” can receive assistance looking for jobs, furthering their education, navigating the Department of Housing and Urban Development system, looking for affordable housing, and attending to daily needs such as laundry, taking a shower, cooking a meal, attending parenting and financial skills classes. Family Promise is equipped to help 4 families (14 people total) for a time frame of up to 90 days. Each family is vetted by Carteret County’s Social Services Department. Requirements for acceptance into the program are: they must be a family unit, must have no drug, alcohol, domestic violence, or mental health issues, and must be willing to want to better their lives. After 30 days the adult must have obtained a job. There are 13 local churches that are currently filling the role of “host church” where these families actually sleep and eat dinner within the confines of the church for a period of one week. “It’s not a hand out, it’s a hand up” – Sandy Giacobbi (executive director of Family Promise).

March 2018 Lay Ministry Schedule

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March 4 March 11

March 18

Youth Sunday

March 25

Palm Sunday

March 29

Maundy Thurs-

day

7:00pm

March 30

Good Friday

12:00 Noon

Vestry Sharon Watling

Stover Morris

Terry Smith

Layne Helwig

Ted Goetzinger

Barbara McCreary

Greeters

Tom and Elaine

Tempel

George Hirasawa

Kids

Lector George

Hirasawa

Meg Bradford

Kids Marian

Goetzinger

Marian Goetzinger

Meg Bradford

Libba Shelton

Prayers Pat Jones Pat Jones Kids Pat Jones Pat Jones Pat Jones

Crucifer Scott

Shelton

Beth Beswick

Kids Pat Jones Pat Jones Marian

Goetzinger

Chalice

Martha Edward

Pat Jones

Tim Bradford Marian

Goetzinger

Marian Goetzinger Pat Jones

Martha Edwards

Tim Bradford

Martha Edwards Marian

Goetzinger

Pat Jones

Tim Bradford

Altar Guild

Meg Bradford

Elaine Tempel

Linda Davies

Terry Griffin

Linda Davies

Terry Griffin

Linda Davies

Terry Griffin

Meg Bradford

Pat Jones

Meg Bradford

Pat Jones

Torch-bearers

Jami Turner

Martha Edwards

Scott Shelton

Jami Turner

Kids

Sharon Watling

Martha Edwards

Beth Beswick

Terry Griffin

Linda Davies

Pat Jones

Audio Stover Morris

John Marriott

John Marriott

John Clarke

Larry Castle

Gary Keeter

Nursery Beth

Beswick

Terry Griffin

Pam Ball Jeannie Baxter

Geraline Castle

Geraline Castle

Coffee Hour

Pat Jones

George Hirasawa

Kay Brackins Lisa Park

Geraline and Larry

Castle

Meg and Tim

Bradford

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Save the dates!

Rector The Rev. Everett Thomas, Ph.D.

Priest in Residence The Rev. Chris Carlin

Vergers Tim Bradford Marion Morris

Parish Administrator Open

Treasurer Dan Riddle

Sexton David Shapiro

Vestry Class of 2018 Beth Beswick

Pat Jones, Senior Warden Terry Smith

Vestry Class of 2019 Layne Helwig

George Hirasawa, Junior Warden Barbara McCreary

Vestry Class of 2020 Ted Goetzinger Sharon Watling Stover Morris

Clerk of the Vestry

Korin Gagnon

Music Director Linda Laughton

Art Gallery Director Tim Bradford

ECW Chair

Bobbie Hill

Outreach Chair Denise Throckmorton

Director of Youth Ministry Marian Goetzinger

Sunday Schedule:

9:00 am — Adult Forum; 10:00 am —Eucharist Service

Nursery available; casual dress welcome

Wednesdays — 12:00 noon — Celtic Eucharist

St. Francis by the Sea Episcopal Church is a parish in the Diocese of East Carolina

The Right Reverend Robert Skirving, Bishop