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POHICKPOST

Let your light so shine (Matt. 5:16)

APRIL 2011

Pohick Episcopal Church9301 Richmond Highway Lorton, VA 22079

elephone: 703-339-6572 Fax: 703-339-9884

From Te RectorTe ReverendDonald D. Binder, PhD

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It was a bright May morning in Jerusalem when ourgroup o a dozen pilgrims entered the Old City to re-trace the ancient Stations o the Cross. As students on amonth-long study tour at Saint Georges Anglican Col-lege, we were nearing the end o our time in the HolyLand. From Bethlehem to Galilee to the gates o Jeru-salem, we had retraced the steps o Jesus. Tis morning,

there remained only a ew last steps to ollow.Walking quietly through the narrow stone streets,

we carried in our midst a large wooden cross. Trough-out our morning, it would serve a sobering symbol oour journeys ateul destination. Entering the MoslemQuarter, we passed through two chapels: the Chapel othe Flagellation and the Chapel o the Condemnation.Nearby, a rst-century pavement called the Lithostratosmarks the traditional site where Pilate sat in judgmentover Jesus. Tere we gathered to begin our solemn trek.

As we listened in silence, one o our members read

rom Johns Gospel the passage where Pilate pronounc-es the atal sentence over Jesus. In our ears, we couldhear echoes o the angry mob. In our minds, we eachpictured the sight o Pilate washing his hands o thedeadly deed in ront o the noisy throng.

We responded to those sorrowul words with prayer.We prayed or those in authority: or rulers and politi-cians, judges and magistrates. We prayed or those con-demned: or prisoners and captives and those unjustlyaccused. Lastly, we prayed or ourselves: that when wepass judgment on others, we might remember the wit-

ness and humility o Christ.

As was to be true throughout our morning, prayerserved as the vital link between the events o that rstGood Friday and the events o our time. Prayer wasthe bond that united those nal ootsteps o Jesus withthe ootsteps we dared to tread that day - and each onethereater.

Leaving the courtyard o the rst station, we passedby native Crown o Torns. Teir spike-like thistles re-minded us o the injury and insult borne on the brow oour Lord. As Jesus took up his cross at the second sta-tion, we also raised up our wooden likeness. wo by two

we took turns carrying it between stations. One hoistedthe crossbar over his shoulder, while the other held upits trailing bottom end.

Passing between the third and ourth stations wesang the hymn, Behold thy Mother:

At the Cross her station keepingStood the mournul mother weeping,Close to Jesus at the last,Trough her soul, o joy bereaved,Bowed with anguish, deeply grieved,Now at length the sword hath passed.

One o the women who held up the oot o the crosslater remarked how the beam seemed to be aimed like asword at her heart. She recalled the prophesy to Maryyour heart shall be pierced (Luke 2:35).

At the th station, where Simon o Cyrene tookthe cross rom Jesus, we turned onto the Via Dolorosathe Way o Sorrows. A long narrow street, several o thestations along its walls are inconspicuous. Some o ourgroup had been down this way beore. But in our hurryto get into the various souvenir shops, we had passed by


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the stations without notice. As we walked along that morning, then as pilgrims, I wondered how many other times inmy lie I had been blind to the suering around me.

When we had journeyed the length o the Via Dolorosa, at the ninth station, it came my turn to take the crossLater that day I would write in my journal:

I was particularly moved when I got to carry the cross rom the Cardo all the way into the Church o the HolySepulcher. Tere were a lot o onlookers, mostly children, who usually glanced at us and then passed by, continuingtheir chatter. Te shopkeepers continued to try to make bargains with us, and the soldiers were always nearby.

As I carried the cross, however, I was mostly impervious to this. I was lited into the role and elt the pain on myback as the cross weighed down upon my shoulders, pressing my eet into the lumpy stone beneath. Calvary - with alits horrors - loomed directly ahead.

Our solemn procession passed through the doors o the ancient church that housed the last ve stations. Near theentrance, we set aside our cross and stood at the place where the soldiers stripped Jesus o his clothing. Indeed, ourwhole journey on the Way o the Cross had been a ceremonial stripping. Along that way, Jesus had been stripped ohis reedom, his ollowers, his amily. At the tenth station, his captors stripped rom him the last o his worldly pos-sessions. All that remained to him was his lie. Tis he placed nally in the hands o his Father.

So also was it or us pilgrims that morning. Having walked the streets bearing the weight o the cross, we toowere let stripped. Te wants and desires o the previous days were shed along the way. Tey meant little to us at ourjourneys end. As we ascended the stairs to the Chapel o Calvary, all we could see was the vision o our Lord, nakedas the soldiers nailed him to the tree.

In sorrowul silence, we knelt beore the altar and reached down our hands to touch the rock that held Jesus in hislast hours. Tere, and at the nearby tomb, we had reached our end, and our beginning. We had touched the oundationo our aith. We could only leave there knowing that our journey had just begun.

Tis month as we together read the Passion Narrative on Palm Sunday, as we strip the altar on Maundy Turs-day, and as we walk the Stations o the Cross on Good Friday, these images will continue to dance in my mind. Butwhether one has made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to walk the Via Dolorosa, it matters not. Jerusalem lives in each ous. Te Stations reside in our hearts. It remains only or us to rediscover them, to explore them.

Tis month as we commemorate the sacred events o Holy Week, I invite each o you to join in this pilgrimageAs you do, my prayer is that, like I powerully experienced that Spring morning, you too will indeed nd that the Wayo the Cross is none other than the way o lie and peace.

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From Te Assistant Rector

Te ReverendLyn Youll Marshall

Te bus journey to Guelph takes two hours romoronto. I know the area well. My mother lived here oralmost twenty years, but it was never really home or me,or, I think, or her. But on the outskirts o town, there isLoyola House, a Jesuit community where I have spentlong and healing hours at a place that eels more likehome. I have looked orward to this trip or months.

When I arrive, an Anglican (Episcopal) priest is atthe door to greet people. She is a priest at the churchthat my mother attended beore she withdrew into herisolated world in the nursing home. Te priest greets

me warmly. She knew my Mum. She knows my sister.She knows that my brother-in-law brought my moth-ers ashes earlier in the day and that the ashes now sit inmy room.

Te rooms are sparse, but warm and comortable:a single bed, a desk, a wash basin, and two chairs. Tebathrooms are down the hall. Te ashes sit on the deskin a cardboard box, and they are surprisingly heavy. Iplan to take the ashes to England in the summer. Teywill nally be laid to rest in the countryside alongsidemy ather. I will say the words o the Committal that

have yet to be prayed: In sure and certain hope othe resurrection to eternal lie through our Lord JesusChrist, we commend to Almighty God, my mother; andwe commit her body to the ground; earth to earth, ashesto ashes, dust to dust.

On the rst evening, we meet or Eucharist. I lovethis sanctuary, which is light and prayer lled. We intro-duce ourselves but most o us will not remember names.Ten, we gather with our assigned spiritual director. Wesay, briey, why we have come, and agree on the timethat we will meet individually with her each day. Te

only conversation or the next 8 days will be conversa-tion with her. Computers are silent, cell phones turnedo, no television. Our spiritual advisor hands us a sheetwith some scripture readings that we might want toponder as we are invited into eight days o silence. Iknow immediately the passage that speaks to me, to mysoul that craves or silence:

Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves andrest awhileMark 6:30Te next morning I arrive early or our meeting. I

am lled up with stu that I want to tell her. She prays

and invites me to speak, which I do. Words pour outShe listens. Ater 40 minutes our allotted time is near-ing an end.

She reads a piece o scripture rom Deuteronomy 1vv 29-31. I know that I have read it. I have read through

the whole Bible. But, I did not hear it until that mo-ment. And, she tells me that she thinks it would bemost benecial at this point to not have to do anythingI can sit, walk, sleep, and stare out o the window or aslong as I want.

I am hugely relieved. No duties, no assignments, noexpectations. I sit, walk, sleep, and stare out o the win-dow or as long as I want. I read and re-read the passagerom Deuteronomy:

I said to you, Have no dread or ear o them. TeLord your God, who goes beore you, is the one who

will ght or you, just as he did or you in Egypt be-ore your very eyes, and in the wilderness, where yousaw how the Lord your God carried you, just as onecarries a child, all the way that you traveled until youreached this place.Tere have been so many changes in my lie over

the last three years, some very good, but others notgood. But, I am certain that God has brought me tothis place. I am as certain as I have ever been that Heis a God who heals, a God who calls, a God who cre-ated the beauty that surrounds me. I stare out over the

snow covered hills. I gaze into the re in the evening. Iwalk in the snow and watch the creek begin to ow asthe temperature warms up. I listen or the birdsong. Myheart praises Him with my own songs quietly sung andpsalms whispered.

O Lord, you have searched me and known me. Youknow when I sit down and when I rise up; you dis-cern my thoughts rom ar away. You search out mypath and my lying down, and are acquainted with allmy waysPs 139 vv 1-3I love to sit in the evening with others, gathered

around the re. I have no need or desire or conversa-tion. I am lled with good ood, with prayer, with quietEarly in the morning, I sit with my coee watching thebirds at the eeder, marveling at the beauty o this placeas the morning mist rests on the hills in the distance.

Te heavens declare the glory o God and the rma-ment proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours orthspeech and night to night declares knowledge. Tere isno speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard

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MusiC noTes

Linda Wilberger Egan, Minister o Music Tis month, a number o sixteenth notes (short

ones): April 8-9 members o the Bell Choir will attendthe American Guild o English Handbell Ringers AreaIII Festival in Richmond at the Convention Center. Wewill rehearse and ring a Genesis Division concert onSaturday, April 9, rom 2:45 pm until 3:15 pm underthe direction o Charm Peterman. We will also have theopportunity to take classes in special techniques, andto hear the Massed Festival Concert at 4:45 pm. Canyou imagine the sound o hundreds o handbell ringers?ruly amazing! You are welcome to come to the con-certs.

On Palm Sunday, the Choir o Pohick will be joined

by Susan Rider, trumpeter or the Presidents Own, orthe 9:00 am and 11:15 am services. Susan lives in Lor-ton, and has played at Pohick on a number o occasions.

Many avorite Lenten and devotional hymns aresung at the Good Friday service, which is 12 noon to 3:00pm. Tere is really good preaching then too by the neclergy who preach here each Sunday. And what couldbe more warming to the heart o a longtime Christian,than to see all the baptisms on Holy Saturday? Considerattending these services this year.

Tis Easter, April 24, the Choir o Pohick and theSt. Cecelia St. Alban Choir will join to sing the Hal-lelujah chorus rom Handels Messiah. Each year the StCecelia St. Alban Choir works hard to learn one choramasterwork to sing with the Choir o Pohick. Tose o

us raised in childrens and youth choirs remember howthe works we learned early have stayed with us or a lie-time. We want to give these choristers the same git.

Te two choirs will rehearse together on Palm Sun-day, April 17, ater the 11:15 am service or a hal hourAll singers in both choirs need to plan to be there. Par-ents o choristers in the St. Cecelia St. Alban Choirplease note that the schedule is dierent rom the usuaschedule or this month only.

MANY HANKS to all Choir o Pohick singerswho have volunteered to sing or the Wednesday Lentenaize services; to Heather Seaton, who composed An-

swer me when I call or the Choir o Pohick to sing onMarch 20; and to the Bell Choir ringers, who ring ortwo services on the ourth Sunday o every month (ex-cept on Easter), come what may!

SAVE the DAE! Sounds o Pohick, the annuaconcert o all the musical groups at Pohick, is comingthis year on Saturday, June 4 at 4:00 pm. Come or aconcert o wonderul music in the Church, ollowed by areception in the Common Room.

Prayer shawlMinisTry

How to Request a Prayer Shawl Know o someone who would benet rom a prayer shawl?Feel ree to contact any o the priests at Pohick. Shawls arereely available to members o the parish, relatives, and riends.A small stock o prayer shawls are kept in Rev. Binders ofcecloset. Ater selecting a prayer shawl, send an email or a note toRev. Binder, [email protected]. He will then let the prayershawl ministry know i replacement shawls are needed. Tereis no charge or the prayer shawls, however, a donation to theministry will cheerully be accepted. As with other ministries

in the parish, simply write a check to Pohick Church and writePrayer Shawl Ministry in the memo line or attach a note. Each shawl is accompanied by the ollowing prayer:May Gods grace be upon this shawl...warming, comorting, enolding and embracing.May this mantle be a sae haven...a sacred place o security and well-being...sustainingand embracing in good times as well as difcult ones.May the one who receives this shawl be cradled in hope,kept in joy, graced with peace, and wrapped in love.Blessed Be!

lenTenCaMPaiGnToCoMbaThunGer

ake the Challenge! Last month a Lenten Campaign was launched to combathunger in the community. Te intention is to raise unds orNew Hope Housing and Lorton Community Action Center.Te unds will help provide ood or the increasing numbero those most at risk in the community. During Lent, it is ap-propriate to prayerully consider the impact o hunger in thecommunity. Te proposal to the Pohick congregation is togive up an evening meal out or an elaborate meal at home,and donate the unds that would have been spent as a con-tribution to the two organizations. ry using this alternativemodest meal at home as an opportunity to discuss the impacto hunger in the community and to appreciate the gits that

have been given. I each amily in Pohick participates oncein March and once in April, the impact to these organiza-tions will be substantial. o participate, make a special checkpayable to Pohick and indicate on the memo line that it is aLenten contribution or LCAC/NHH ood programs.

Every individual has the potential, and baptismal call,to change the world. Gods contemporary angels can heala hurting world. Te Holy Spirit bestows the resources, thewill and the responsibility at baptism. A hungry child, astruggling woman, and a humbled ather are all waiting oran angel. Each Pohick amily can take on the challenge to bethat angel!


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Tis monthly report is part o the Vestrys ongoing efortto inorm and update the Parish about the ongoing contro-versies within Te Episcopal Church (EC) and the An-

glican Communion. Tese controversies largely involve theblessing o same-gender unions, ordination o non-celibatehomosexuals, interpretation o Scripture, and breakdown otraditional boundary lines between Provinces.

Te Archbishop o Canterbury has ollowed upon Januarys meeting o the Primates o the AnglicanCommunion with a letter to those primates, which hereleased to the wider communion. Speaking to boththose audiences, he said:

Te recent Primates Meeting in Dublin did notset out to oer a solution to the ongoing challenges o

mutual understanding and o the limits o our diversityin the Communion. But it is important to note care-ully what it did set out to do and what it achieved. Inrecent years, many have appealed to the Primates to re-solve the problems o the Communion by taking deci-sive action to enorce discipline on this or that Province.In approaching the Dublin Meeting, we believed thatit was essential to clariy how the Primates themselvesunderstood the nature o their ofce and authority. Ithas always been clear that not all have the same view not because o dierent theological convictions alone,

but also because o the dierent legal and canonical rolesthey occupy as Primates. Some have a good deal o in-dividual authority; others have their powers very closelylimited by their own canons. It would thereore be dif-cult i the Meeting collectively gave powers to Primatesthat were greater than their own canons allowed themindividually, as was noted at the 2008 Lambeth Coner-ence (Lambeth Indaba 2008 #151).

Te unanimous judgment o those who were pres-ent was that the Meeting should not see itsel as a su-preme court, with canonical powers, but that it shouldnevertheless be prooundly and regularly concerned withlooking or ways o securing unity and building relation-ships o trust. And one reason or the act that it did notoer any new schemes or this was that those presentwere still committed to the Covenant process and hadno desire to interrupt the signicant discussions o thisthat are currently going on...is also important to recog-nise that the Primates made no change to their exist-ing commitments to both the Covenant process and themoratoria requests. Te purpose o the Dublin meetingwas, as I have said, not to oer resh solutions but toclariy what we believed about our shared purpose and

identity as a Primates Meeting. I think that this claritywas achieved, and achieved in an atmosphere o very de-manding and searching conversation, which intensied

our sense o commitment to each other and the Com-munion.

Reerring to primates who boycotted the meeting, inlarge part because o the presence o Presiding BishopKatharine Jeerts Schori o Te Episcopal Church andArchbishop Fred Hiltz primate o the Anglican Churcho Canada, Archbishop Williams said, We were pain-ully aware o those who did not eel able to be withus, and held them in prayer each day, seeking to remindourselves o the concerns that they would have wantedto put on the table. We were all agreed that the Meeting

inevitably represented unnished business, and wereall committed to pursuing the conversations needed toconsolidate our ellowship. We shall continue to seekways o meeting at every level that will prevent our be-ing isolated rom each other in suspicion and hostility.Tose primates who did not attend the Primates Meet-ing in Dublin were largely rom the Global South Anglican provinces in Arica, South America andSoutheast Asia which hold to traditional interpretationo the Bible and human sexuality. About a month aterthat meeting, nineteen bishops rom Arica, the United

States and Canada gathered in Dar Es Salaam, anzaniato worship, pray, and listen to each other on those andother issues o concern. Our Bishop Shannon Johnstonwas one o two bishops rom Te Episcopal Church toattend.

A statement aterwards said, We have been engagedin a process o patient and holy listening, as Anglicanscoming rom a wide diversity o contexts and theologicapositions, who have chosen to listen to one another...Wehave ound that in the wider context o conicts aroundsexuality in the Anglican Communion, the conict hasprovided us an opportunity to build bridges o mutuaunderstanding to us as we choose to turn ace to acewith each other. We know that this topic requires thebest o us in our dialogue: our mutuality and humilityand prayer in listening and in speaking as we seek to-gether or Gods wisdom.

We are aware that when we talk, the words we usemay not be heard in the same way as we intend and wedo not always understand language in the same way. Weare engaged in a quest or language that will bring us

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to common understanding and to better dialogue. Tatdoes not mean that we agree or that we seek an agree-ment on particular issues. What we do intend is to take

our responsibilities o episcopal leadership in the lie andwork o the Church with seriousness, to engage in ourcalling to bring the local to the universal and the uni-versal to the local, to connect brothers and sisters acrossProvinces.

Te session was organized by the Anglican Churcho Canada and unded by that Province, Te EpiscopalChurch, and rinity Church Wall Street.

In other recent developments: Te Anglican District o Virginia, which consists

largely o churches in Northern Virginia that broke

rom the Diocese o Virginia in 2006 announced plansto vote on whether to become a diocese in the AnglicanChurch o North America, and elect a bishop. ADV cur-rently describes its status as one o afliation with theConvocation o Anglicans in North America (CANA),a missionary branch o the Church o Nigeria and otherAnglican Archbishops. Te Anglican Church in NorthAmerica (ACNA) in turn describes itsel as a Prov-ince-in-ormation in the global Anglican Communion,initiated by the request o the Global Anglican FutureConerence (GAFCon) in June 2008 and ormally rec-

ognized by the GAFCon Primates It has not beenrecognized as a province by any organization represent-ing the entire Anglican Communion, and most o itschurches are locked in a legal dispute with the Dioceseo Virginia over property ownership.

Te rst o those property cases has been settled.Responding to a joint request rom Te Diocese o Vir-ginia and Church o Our Saviour, Oatlands, a FairaxCounty Judge dismissed the lawsuit involving parishproperty with prejudice, meaning the Diocese o Vir-ginia can reinstate it i Our Saviour ails to live up toterms o a settlement announced in February. Te parishagreed to end its eorts to claim ownership o the prop-erty, and the Diocese agreed to lease it to them or thenext ve years.

Nearly 200 clergy and lay delegates to Te Epis-copal Churchs General Convention gathered in At-lanta or an update on eorts to develop liturgical andtheological resources on blessing o same-sex unions.A resolution passed at the last General Convention in2009 directed the Standing Commission on Liturgy andMusic, in consultation with the House o Bishops, tocollect and develop such resources, and report back on

Update on Issues in the Anglican Communion,continued rom page 6 the matter to the next General Convention. Tat resolu-

tion also directed the Commission to devise an openprocess or the conduct o its work; the Atlanta sessionwas an eort comply with that open process require-ment, and engage deputies in the issue well in advance o

the General Convention. House o Deputies PresidentBonnie Anderson said the session was historic: neverbeore have only deputies met in a large gathering out-side o General Convention or the specic purpose ochurch business and to discuss a topic due to be takenup the next meeting o convention.

Te Rev. Dan Martins was consecrated as Bishopo Springeld, Illinois. Martins is a theological conser-vative (and regular blogger) who had served in the Dio-cese o San Joaquin as a majority there was taking stepsto break away rom Te Episcopal Church). During the

consecration process, he wrote a group in Springeldwhich claimed to represent the dioceses disenran-chised moderate majority that I cannot imagine cir-cumstances in which I would seek to lead the Dioceseo Springeld out o the Episcopal Church...Should Iever come to believe that my own soul is atally com-promised by my association with the Episcopal ChurchI would leave it simply as an individual. Tat group inturn urged strongly urged dioceses around the countryto grant the consents necessary or his consecration. Hiselection did receive the necessary consents; Presiding

Bishop Schori presided at his consecration March 18thIt is important to remember that despite all these controversies, thework o the Church - globally, nationally, and locally - goes onWe have provided backpacks, school supplies, Tanksgiving dinnersand Christmas dinners to the Lorton Community Action CenterPlans or a tenth mission trip to New Orleans are underway. Asour Rector has said, we will continue to go back as long as we areable and as long as the need to continues to be so great. Te Carpen-ter rom Nazareth, we eel, would not have it any other way.

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Sunday Monday uesday Wednesday Tursday Friday Saturday

MARCH 27 28 29 30 31 APRIL 1 2Lent 3a7:45a HE I9a HE II10:15a Christian Ed,Inquirers Class11:15a HE II12:30p St. Cecelia St.Alban Choir5p Youth Con. Class6:30p EYC (Jr&Sr)

5:30-7:30p LCAC 9:30a Sta Mtg.2:30p HE/FX7p utoring

6p St. FrancisChoir6:30p Potluck &studies8p HE/LOH

6:15p Bell Choir7p EFM7:30p Choir oPohick8:30p AA

April FoolsDay

8a BSA9:15a Fair Meet-ing

3 4 5 6 7 8 9Lent 4a

7:45a HE I9a HE II10:15a Christian Ed,Inquirers Class11:15a HE I12:30p St. Cecelia St.Alban Choir5p Youth Con. Class

5:30-7:30p LCAC 9:30a Sta Mtg.

2:30p HE/FX7p utoring

6p St. Francis

Choir6:30p Potluck &studies8p HE/LOH

6:15p Bell Choir

7p EFM7:30p Choir oPohick8:30p AA

Youth Retreat

All Groups

Youth Retreat

All Groups8a BSA9:15a HistoricFoundation

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Youth Retreat All GroupsAfrican eam Ministries

Jewelry SaleLent 5a7:45a HE I

9a HE II10:15a Christian Ed,Inquirers Class11:15a HE II12:30p St. Cecelia St.Alban Choir5p Youth Con. Class

9:30a Sta Mtg.2:30p HE/FX7p utoring7:30p VestryMeeting

6p St. FrancisChoir6:30p Potluck &studies8p HE/LOH


Deadlinefor

Pohick Post

8a BSA

17 18 19 20 21 22 23Palm Sunday

African eam MinistriesJewelry Sale

7:45a HE I9a HE II10:15a Christian Ed,Inquirers Class, FairaxVisit/5th-12th11:15a HE I12:30p St. Cecelia St.Alban Choir

9:30a Sta Mtg.2:30p HE/FX

6p St. FrancisChoir8p HE/LOH

Maundy Tursday7p EFM7:30p HE andVigil8:30p Choir o

Pohick8:30p AA

Good Friday12p-3pGood FridayObservanceand Stationo the Cross

Holy Saturday8a BSA10a BaptismRehearsal4p Holy Baptism

24 25 26 27 28 29 30Easter Sunday

5:30a Easter Vigil7:45a HE I9:15a HE II10:30a Easter Egg Hunt11:15a HE II

9:30a Sta Mtg.2:30p HE/FX7p utoring

6p St. FrancisChoir7:30p HE/LOH


8a BSA10a BrotherhoodConvention

Pohick Church Activities

April 2011

Contact the Parish Secretary, Vonne roknya, [email protected], to list group meetings or events on the calendar.


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SUNDAY SERVICE VOLUNEERS

Te Sunday Service Volunteers Schedule is also available at Pohick Churchs website, www.pohick.org, under Ministries.

3 APRIL 10 APRIL 17 APRIL 24 APRIL 1 MAY

7:45Bob DaviesAlan Mayberry

ony MarsicoMike Zane

Ken EvansLane Phillips

Dan MuirDon OConnell

Jim BartholomewMike Vaughn

9:00 Matt Gurrolaerry MullinsRita SmithWes Speer

Dennis MyersJohn PasourDebbie PasourBill Patton

Joe Moran, Beth Alt-man, Jim Foster, JanHoheins, WarrenPrados, Stew Remaly

Jim Heller, Dru Hodg-es, Susan Homar, PehrPehrsson, EdwardenePitcock, Fuzzy Turston

om BlandDon CookJim HayesGreg Wilson

11:15 Angela EdgemonSteve Edgemon

Nancy SageDon Homar

. Mayberry, S. Caesar,M. Harding, B. Hosp

. Rivenbark, K. Kirkland,R. Nelson, A. Westover

Bill BlandMike Wooten

7:00 Jim From Angela Edgemon Femi Ayorinde Neil Sunderland Jim Bartholomew

1:00 om Buckner Mike Elston Kristina Myers om Rivenbark Michelle Booth

12:15 Pitcock/Schmid Bartlett/Remaly Heintze/Jacobus M/M Turston BD

AM N. BireleyJ. SunderlandB. WagnerR. eale/M. MerriamJ. MacDonaldA. CannonC. Heddleston

J. WellsN. SageH. ParkerJ. BuckleyC. FosterC. HanchinR. Stankwitz/N. Conte

J. WellsN. SageH. ParkerJ. BuckleyC. FosterC. HanchinR. Stankwitz/N. Conte

BJ McPhersonJ. HolmA. PowellJ. SchmidE. PitcockA. MarsicoD. Pasour/S. Caesar

BJ McPhersonJ. HolmA. PowellJ. SchmidE. PitcockA. MarsicoD. Pasour/S. Caesar

AM S. Homar K. racy Flower Guild Flower Guild BD

7:45 R. Romine R. Romine R. Romine M/M Evans M/M Evans

9:00 Buckius Family M/M Mayberry M/M Pasour Edgemon/Vestry M/M Remaly

11:15 M/M Turston S. Caesar M. Yezek K. Kirkland M/M Heintze

AM BD BD BD BD BD

7:45 M/M Bill Stewart Bill Wrench Becky Wagner M/M Don OConnell Marleen McCabe

9:00 M/M Per Kullstam Sean Hartig Dot McCreery Stephen Garcia M/M Gerry Gray

11:15 M/M Don Homar M/M Haue C. Hodge Joyce Brown Anne Cannon

7:45 Marsico (P)Wagner (R)

Cenci (P)Muir (R)

Wagner (P)Springer (R)

Sunderland (P)Marsico (R)

Wagner (R)Springer (P)

9:00 Ayorinde (R)Pasour (P)

S. Harding (R)M. Harding (P)

Pasour (R)Gastrell (P)

Cenci (P)Heddleston (R)

Homar (R)Elston (P)

11:15 Cenci (P)Sassin (R)

Elston (P)Homar (R)

Hayes (P)Nelson (R)

Sassin (P)Ayorinde (R)

S. Harding (P)M. Harding (R)

OPEN - UP

LOCK - UP

TELLERS

NURSERY

ALTAR GUILD

FLOWER GUILD

COFFEE HOUR

USHERS

GREETERS

LAY READERS


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Te upcoming month is going to be very busy or

the youth program. In addition to regular EYC meet-ings, the Spring Retreat and the youth Mission ripyard sale are coming up soon.

Te EYC Youth Spring Retreat is April 8-10, 2011Te cost is $35 per teen and $25 or subsequent teenrom the same amily. Te retreat is or all youth ingrades 5-12. Come enjoy the mountain weather, andget to know Jesus!

Te Mission rip yard sale is May 7, 2011, rom7am - 12 noon. EYC will start accepting treasures inthe Common Room on April 25. Place all items insidethe blue taped area. I a pickup is needed or majoritems, call Rusty Booth at 703-339-6572 or email [email protected]. All proceeds will go toward the costo the Youth Mission rip this summer.

Te search has started or next years EYC advisorsAnyone that would like to make a dierence in a teenslie, consider volunteering in Pohicks youth ministryprogram. For those interested in being considered oran Advisor position, please contact Rusty Booth.

More inormation about all upcoming events isavailable on the EYC Bulletin board in the CommonRoom and in the church school classrooms.

eyC newsRusty Booth, Youth Minister

sPrinGis CoMinG!

GeT readyFor seasonal allerGies During this time o the year, the axis o the earth isincreasing its tilt toward the sun and the length o daylightrapidly increases. Te hemisphere begins to warm causingnew plant growth to spring orth, giving the season itsname. ulips, daodils, and pansies will be blooming, andtrees will pollinate.

Each spring, summer, and all, tiny particles known aspollen are released rom trees, weeds, and grasses. Pollenis just one o the many airborne particles in the environ-ment. People inhale more than two tablespoons o airborneparticles every day, and many develop allergies. Millions oAmericans suer rom pollen allergies.

Te most common grasses responsible or allergenicpollen are imothygrass, Kentucky bluegrass, Johnsongrass, Bermuda grass, orchard grass, and sweet vernal grass.rees that produce allergenic pollen include oak, ash, elm,hickory, pecan, box elder, and mountain cedar. Florists, gar-deners, and others who have close contact with owers arelikely to become sensitized to pollen rom owers.

Allergy is a sensitivity to a normally harmless substance,which does not bother most people. Along with pollen, itcan be ood, dust particles, drugs, insect venom, or moldspores as well as pollen. Scientists think that people inherittendencies to be allergic. Another actor in developing al-

lergies is the exposure to allergens at certain times whenbodys deenses are lowered or weakened.Hay ever, also knows as allergic rhinitis, is an inam-

mation o the mucous membrane that lines the nose andsinuses. Tis condition results in a runny nose and conges-tion, and it can be caused by respiratory inections as wellas pollen allergy. Allergy is characterized by inammation,increased mucous secretion, and a host o other symptoms.Some o the more common symptoms o hay ever aresneezing, coughing, itchy eyes, nose, and throat, allergicshiners (dark circles under the eyes caused by increasedblood ow near the sinuses), watery eyes, conjunctivitis (aninammation o the membrane that lines the eyelids, caus-

ing red-rimmed, swollen eyes and crusting o the eyelids),post nasal drip, and mental dullness and atigue.Some people with pollen allergy can develop asthma,

a serious respiratory condition where lung airways becomeblocked or narrowed causing breathing difculty. Whileasthma may recur each year during pollen season, it caneventually become chronic. It does aect 50% o the 20million asthma suerers. Te symptoms o asthma includecoughing, wheezing, shortness o breath, and excess mucusproduction. Asthma can be disabling and can sometimesbe atal. I wheezing and shortness o breath accompanythe hay ever symptoms, it is a signal that the bronchialtubes have also become involved indicating the need or

healTh newsCarol Heddleston,Parish Nurse

medical attention.When it appears that the symptoms are caused by an

allergy, the patient should see a physician who understandsthe diagnosis and treatment o allergies. Te physician wilwork under the hypothesis that a seasonal allergen likepollen is involved and run some tests ater the initial vis-

it. Skin tests and blood tests can be perormed. Tere arethree general approaches to the treatment o pollen allergyavoidance o the allergen, medication to relieve symptomsand immunotherapy or injection treatments (allergy shots)Although no cure or pollen allergy has been ound, one othese treatment strategies or a combination o them canprovide various degrees o relie rom allergy symptoms.

Maundy ThursdayLiturgy & Vigil 7:30 pm

Good Friday Observance 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Easter SundayEaster Vigil 5:30 amFestival Eucharist

7:45 am, 9:15 am and 11:15 am


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VESTRYGRAM

Pohic

kChurchStaf

Rector:

TeRevdDonald

Binder,PhD

Assistant:

TeRevd

LynYoullMarshall

PriestAssociate:

TeRevdDr.Ruth

E.Correll,Ed.D.

Seminarian:

DanielCenci

MinisterofMusic:

LindaEgan

Directorof

ChristianEd:

FrancesSessums

YouthMinister:

RustyBooth

ParishSecretary:

Vonneroknya

FinanceAdmin:

MikeMorgan

Sexton:

JohnSessums

elephone:703-339-6572Fax:703-339-9884

ChurchOfceEmail:[email protected]:www.pohick.org

o:TeVestry

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ate:_____________________Subject:_____________________

From:

Pohick Church

9301 Richmond Highway

Lorton, Virginia 22079-1519

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Te Purpose of Pohick Church is to be a nourishing community where Christs love is experienced and taken beyond its walls

Poh

ickChurchVestry

Sr.Warden:NeilSunderland

Jr.W

arden:MikeElston

Treasurer:RobertaFede

Reg

ister:

ChrisBrown

Members:FemiAyorinde,Jim

Bartholomew,MicheleBooth,

omBuckner,Angela

Edgemon,JimFrom,Andrea

Gurrola,RodgerJones,

KristinaMyers,om

Rivenbark,LeslieSchwoppe,

SarahWooten

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