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VOLUME VIII, ISSUE II ▪ LENT/EASTER 2013

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February 13 Services:

7 a.m., Noon, 7 p.m.

Palm Sunday—March 24 7:30, 9:00, 11:15 a.m. services

Maundy Thursday — March 28 5:30 Foot washing 6:30 p.m. Dinner

8:00 p.m. Stripping of the Altar

Good Friday — March 29 Noon, 7:00 p.m. with choir’s Stabat Mater

Easter Vigil — March 30 8:00 p.m.

Easter Sunday — March 31 7:30, 9:00, 11:15 a.m. Services

Communities Living in Prayer By the Rev. Peter W. Mayer, Rector

If there’s one word that continually comes to mind when one thinks of St. Margaret’s, it might be community. It’s the word that we’ve chosen this year as our Lenten theme. What does it mean to be in a community? What are the challenges that it presents, and what comforts does it provide? What commitments do we make to it, and how does it change us? What is distinctive about the community at St. Margaret’s? What is the core? We could spend all day on these questions, and I won’t pretend to offer any answers right now. Suffice it to say that community is really something that must be lived. That life must be lived in prayer. A community, living in prayer. That is certainly a distinction we can make about St. Margaret’s. To live into that reality this Lent, we are offering a special program called Communities Living in Prayer, or CLIP. Each day during Lent, a community will gather somewhere on our campus, or in the home of a parishioner. This community will pray for 20 minutes. The schedule of times and locations is listed below and will be available in the office and published on our website and our Facebook page. We’re excited about this because it reaches to the core of who we are as a church. We are our relationships. The stronger they are, the stronger our community is. The more rooted these are in prayer, the stronger they become. So we gather and we pray; it’s the earliest Christian story. And it’s nothing too complicated or intense. There will be times when two or three are gathered. There will be times on Mondays, following Pick and Mix, or Wednesdays following the Rector’s Lenten Study, or Thursdays around Chancel Choir rehearsal where there may be dozens. Sundays there will be hundreds! We gather and we pray, it’s that simple. As you peruse this Lenten issue of The Spire, I hope you will take time to thank God for the gift of community. You are loved, you are treasured by the people that make up St. Margaret’s. You are part of this community of Christ, living in prayer, blessing and being blessed, gathering and praying. Thank you.

Communities Living in Prayer Schedule During Lent

Monday 7:50-8:10 p.m. in the church Tuesday 2:00 p.m. at Heritage Harbor

(930 Astern Way) with Maggie Wilmore and Nancy Heacock

Wednesday 8:00-8:20 p.m. in the parish hall Thursday 8:50-9:10 p.m. in the church Friday 9:00-9:20 a.m. in Epping Forest

(329 Riverview Trail) with Nancy Kelly and Norma Laverty

Saturday TBD

Look for updates on our website and our Facebook members group page.

Rector’s Lenten Series Wednesdays, Parish Hall 6:30 p.m. Potluck dinner 7:00 p.m. Presentation 8:00 p.m. Prayer

The Rector's Lenten Study this year will focus on the Gospel of Luke. Four classes will take us through the physician's story of Jesus, which tends to focus more on social justice and inclusion at the expense of traditional religious roles and customs. This study is designed to give the participant a more thorough understanding of the Gospel lessons of Lent. Classes will begin with a potluck supper at 6:30 p.m. and close with 20 minutes of communal prayer at 8:00 p.m. Please note the dates of the four sessions, as they are not consecutive Wednesdays: February 20, February 27, March 13 and March 20.

Notes on our Lenten Liturgy By the Rev. Peter W. Mayer, Rector With the changing of liturgical seasons in the church, from Epiphany to Lent, we alter our order of service to reflect the season in which we find ourselves. Here are some changes that you will experience this Lent. We will use Eucharistic Prayer C, which places a special emphasis on creation and the natural order. One distinctive feature of this prayer is that it places the oblation (offering the bread and wine to God) before the narrative piece (the story of the Last Supper). This is a pre-1755 element to the prayer. I hope you find it meaningful. (Commentary on the American Prayer Book, Marion Hatchett, p. 376) On the first Sunday of Lent (February 17), we will begin the service by chanting the Great Litany, which is almost as old as institutional Christianity. It is on page 148 of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Singing and responding to sung prayers grew out of the Eastern church tradition, and was subsumed into the general practice of the church under Leo III (795-816). The words and prayers have changed over the years, but it’s interesting to note that the Litany was the first rite published in English, in 1544. (ibid. pp, 154-5) While we won’t do the Great Litany each week during Lent, we will begin subsequent services with the Penitential Order, found on page 353 of the BCP. That will serve as the confession for the service and will be followed by absolution. Our service will conclude with special Lenten blessings used in the Book of Occasional Services. Finally, we have given the prayers of the people to the people. I have asked Wendy Gargano, John Morton and Paul O’Donnell to compose prayers for Lent, around the overall theme of community. As I write this, the prayers are still being formed and written, but I applaud them for taking on this task. Please let us know if you feel you may be interested in writing prayers for a future season.

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Every Ash Wednesday we are reminded of our mortality. We spend forty days in the wilderness with Jesus reflecting on our spiritual lives, our prayer lives, and our relationship with God and with one another. We often take this season of Lent to plan ahead. Do you have a will? Have you talked with your children or family members about your last wishes? Many times we sit down with families to plan a funeral, and they have never had these discussions. Having these plans made ahead is an incredible gift to your family at what will be a time of great grief. Peter, Sarah, James and I are available any time to help you with these decisions. Our funeral planning guide is available online and in the office. And where will your final resting place be? Did you know that St. Margaret’s has a columbarium where your ashes may be placed? We also still have plots available in our beautiful cemetery. Niches in the columbarium are large enough to hold the remains of two individuals. The cost of a niche is $1,500 which includes the first placement of ashes. Double cemetery plots are also $1,500. Ruth McDaniel administrates the cemetery and columbarium. Please call her with any questions. Members of our Cemetery Committee include Grant Harmon, Eric Naeseth, Doris Fordham, Spencer Johnson and Phil Meeder chaired by Peter Gargano (gargano56@gmail.com). Please email Peter if you would like to join this committee that honors the saints who have gone before us. I am also delighted to report that we now have seventeen individuals or couples who have remembered St. Margaret’s Church in their wills. If you would like to be a part of the All Saints’ Legacy Society, please speak to Peter or me.

Planning Ahead By the Rev. Stewart Lucas, Associate Rector

Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and penitence, that we may remember that it is only by your gracious gift that we are given everlasting life;

through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.

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Music Notes

By James R. Fitzpatrick, Director of Music

DO NOT READ THIS ARTICLE

This month’s article should not be read by those who immediately avert their eyes when the Music Director walks into the room. After all, plausible deniability is a great defense when he sidles up to you with that earnest smile and asks if you were able to get to one of the concerts, or would like to join the choir, etc. If you read the following information, you might feel constrained to act upon it or participate in some way. Of course, if you don’t read it, you won’t know about some really cool stuff coming up or how to win valuable prizes—seriously. Continue reading at your own peril. 1. Lenten Music – Our season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday services. The noon service features a small group of singers. The 7 p.m. evening service features a full choir. The service music for all choral worship services will be David Hurd’s New Plainsong setting. Psalms will be chanted during Lent and Easter Sunday. Our combined choirs will sing the tender and lovely work Stabat Mater by Joseph Rheinberger on Good Friday as a choral response to the reading of the Passion narrative at our 7 p.m. service. Accompanied by a string quartet and organ, the choirs will sing the moving text of poems written about Mary, the mother of Christ, as she stands by the cross during his crucifixion. The poems are in Latin and often used as prayers. Rheinberger liked them so much, he set them to music twice. 2. Celtic Music – Join the Third Sunday Band on Sunday, March 17 at 9 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. for our annual Celtic music Mass, featuring guest artists Sue Tice on fiddle and Jared Denhard on Celtic Harp. 3. The Greatest Songs You Never Heard were cut from films and Broadway shows and lost, until someone at the Library of Congress pulled them out from the archives and gave them to the delightful singer, Doug Bowles. Along with the charming Kari Paludan, and brilliant pianist Alex Hassan, Doug fashioned these songs into a great revue that has played to acclaim at the Kennedy Center and other theatres around the nation. Now audiences at St. Margaret’s get to hear these catchy songs and dynamite performances when Music at St. Margaret’s presents The Greatest Songs You Never Heard on Sunday, April 14 at 4 p.m. 4. Kenyon College Chamber Singers, Wednesday, March 6, at 7 p.m. The Kenyon College Chamber Singers is a select mixed choir consisting of forty-three undergraduate musicians who regard singing as an integral part of a liberal arts education. Their diverse and eclectic repertoire ranges from Bach motets to South African folk songs. A free-will offering will be taken to support the music programs at St. Margaret's and St. Luke’s. St. Margaret’s and St. Luke’s of Eastport are jointly hosting the 43 singers as part of their annual spring tour. We are looking for volunteers from both churches who could host two or more singers overnight in their home that evening and/or help with providing a meal to the singers before the concert. Please contact either James R. Fitzpatrick at 410-974-0200 ext. 20 or The Rev. Diana Carroll at 410-921-0157 or pastordiana@stlukeseastport.org as soon as possible if you think you can help in either way. Diana+ sang with the Chamber Singers for three years while she was at Kenyon. I did not. I went to another school and it took me 22 years to graduate. 5. Blues Coffeehouse—Got the Winter Blues? Grab a guitar and sing them out at our annual Blues Coffeehouse with the Third Sunday Band on Saturday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. 6. Great prizes await the first ten people to respond to this story by calling the music office at 410-974-0200, extension 20 and mentioning an interesting fact about the text of the Good Friday musical presentation. You may leave your message on the voice mail. Personal visitation, hand-written messages, and e-mails will not be considered as valid entries. Members of the St. Margaret’s Choirs or Third Sunday Band are not eligible for these prizes unless no one else bothers to call. Then we will divide them up and send you postcards from the Caribbean. It’s all up to you. (I’m joking about the Caribbean—I think.) 7. For goodness sake, plan on hosting some of the Kenyon singers or coming to a concert or joining the choir sometime soon so you don’t have to avert my gaze anymore.

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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper Sponsored by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew

Tuesday, Feb. 12

4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

Parish Hall Tickets at the Door:

$6 for adults, $3 for children

Walk to Health By Pat Hall, Parish Nurse I have been part of a Nurse’s Health Study (NHS) for over 30 years. It is one the largest women’s research studies in the country, involving more than 238,000 nurse participants. Although a major goal of this study is cancer prevention, since its inception in 1976, the study has gained many insights into how best to maintain overall health and prevent disease. Walking turns out to be one of the easiest and most economical ways to stay healthy. In the recent past, we have focused on walking with our Walk to Bethlehem during Advent or Walk to Jerusalem during Lent. Walking is the most common form of exercise for older women (and men) and offers many health benefits. In a recent NHS publication, the research on the benefits of walking was outlined: Memory: Memory can be better maintained over time by walking 1.5 hours/week.

Healthy Aging: Walking 1.5 hours/week increased likelihood of healthy aging by 15-20%.

Obesity: Each hour per day of brisk walking offers a 24% reduction in risk of obesity.

Type 2 Diabetes: Each hour per day of brisk walking offers a 34% reduction in the risk of diabetes.

Cardiovascular Disease: Three hours of brisk walking/week offers a 35% reduction in risk of heart disease.

Benign Breast Disease: Each hour per day of walking offers a 9% reduction in risk of benign breast disease.

Breast Cancer: Walking 5 hours/week offers a 9% reduction in risk of breast cancer.

Colon Polyps: Walking 5 hours/week offers a 20% reduction in risk of colon polyps.

Colon Cancer: Walking more than 1 hour/week offers a 30% reduction in risk of colon cancer. We have no good excuses to not walk. Start thinking of ways to increase the number of steps you take each day. Your health depends on it!

Holy Hands and Hearts Day at the Bishop Claggett Center

March 16th 8:30-3:30 Fee: $40—Pre-registration is required

Come for a day filled with ministries and arts of our hands. Participate in a wide variety of workshops including weaving and prayer shawls. Speakers: The Rev. Nancy Delliplane—

Grace Memorial Church, Darlington The Rev. Loree Penner—

St. Thomas Church, Towson Deacon: The Rev. Nancy White—

St. James, Lothian Call the Bishop Claggett Center for details (301-874-5147) or visit the Bishop Claggett Center website.

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St. Margaret’s Day School News

By Tricia Hallberg McVeigh, Director Registration for fall 2013 classes has begun and SMDS is full with a wait list in most classes. Thanks to everyone who has recommended our program and sent us new families. In March our little leprechauns will travel to Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts to see the Paper Bag Players again; the Pre K and K will visit the library, and we are thrilled to have Jennifer Curtis with us presenting her book as our guest visiting author. The Kindergarten will host their annual Dr. Seuss poem contest in honor of his birthday. The Day School will be closed for Easter break from March 25th-April 2nd. Be sure to save the date of May 4th at 7 p.m. St Margaret’s Day School PTO will once again host our annual Silent Auction. This year’s theme will be “Cinco De Mayo.” If you have any items for donation, please contact Tracy Seybert at tracy_seybert@yahoo.com. If you are interested in reserving tickets or sponsoring the event, contact the Day School office at 410-757-2333. Thanks for your support of this great event that helps provide things for our school campus and playground. Summer camp registration is open. We are taking 2-year-olds through 9-year-olds this year. We will play, laugh and create for seven weeks this summer. Each session will culminate with a field trip for the older campers. Visit our website for an application at www.st-margarets.org/day_school. Spaces fill up, so get your registration in early!

Mark your calendars for our annual…

Saturday March 2

Parish Hall 6 to 8 p.m.

A Variety of Categories

Gift Certificates for Winners

Fierce Competition

Free Chili for All

You be the Judge!

Join us on Thursday, February 21 or Thursday, March 14 between 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. to help out with one of our on- going projects. No experience needed. Even an hour of your time would be appreciated. We are also in need of more volunteers who are willing to help us with putting various items into Word documents or helping to enter data into online databases. You can do this from anywhere you like. For questions or more information, please contact Barbara Breeden at bkbreeden@comcast.net or 410-757-6719.

Orders for Easter Flowers Easter Lilies and Flowers to decorate the altar and church for Easter are available as memorials or in thanksgiving. Please fill in the form below and place in the alms basin or mail to the church. Make checks out to “St. Margaret’s Church” and write “Easter Flowers” on the memo line of the check. The deadline is March 18. The cost is $25 per plant or you can make a donation for the other flowers that will be used to decorate the church. If you would like to help decorate for Easter in the church, the Flower Guild will be working on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. And if you wish to join the Flower Guild, contact chair Mollie Benz Flounlacker at mollie_benz@aau.edu.

In memory of ______________________________________________________________.

In thanksgiving for ___________________________________________________________.

by_________________________________________________________________________.

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Remember some of those, admittedly, less memorable cyber-science crime and intrigue movies where all the real action took place at a keyboard? Directors and writers struggled in cyber-thriller storytelling to make keystrokes and hacking seem exciting. The truth is, the results are exciting, but the process is like watching paint dry. Well, over here at the Department of Drying Paint and Education Facilities Planning we have had our heads down for the past couple of months, researching on the internet, talking on the phone, making visits, conducting interviews and writing up results. Not interesting stuff to watch, but we do have some interesting results and updates to pass on to you. The Architecture and Engineering Committee (A&E), with Vestry approval, has hired an architect for our project, Chuck Anthony of Charles Anthony Associates. We encourage you to look at some of his public buildings in the area: Temple Beth Shalom in Arnold, 1461 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard; The Key School, 534 Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis; Kent Island Branch Library, Stevensville are just a few examples. You can also visit his website for more examples at www.CharlesEAnthonyarchitects.com. The Vestry has also approved the hiring of Wilkerson Engineering, so the combination of Chuck Anthony, Wilkerson Engineering, and Dick Williams, our Certified LEED consultant, just about rounds out our Building Team as we move forward. The next steps for them include preliminary drawings and a wet-season perc test. Chuck Anthony has begun conducting interviews with members of the community to learn how they use the campus and buildings, and what they would like to see in a new formation building. Not to be outdone by A&E’s industry, the Executive Planning Committee tapped me to head the newly formed Capital Campaign Committee to begin assessing our financial and fundraising capabilities. Currently, a small team and I are interviewing consultant candidates for advising us on planning and executing a capital campaign. Those interviews will likely be completed by mid-February with a recommendation going before the Vestry on February 19th. When that process is complete, a core Capital Campaign Committee will be formed to launch an opinion assessment. We will need assistance on many aspects of this project, such as interviews, small-group presentations, organizing, follow-up and planning, so please think about how you might like to help. To help keep you informed, the Communications subcommittee is holding back-to-back Adult Forums on February 10th and 17th. The February 10th Forum will recap much of this information, and the February 17th Forum will provide an opportunity for the congregation to be more interactive. We will present four aspects of the Formation Building Project at four different tables, and you will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the specialists in these areas, perhaps fiddle with some building blocks, look at some “green” materials, “leaf” through some green “plantings,” discuss some fundraising strategies, and sign up for a responsibility. (We can always use the extra help). If this forum is a success, we will continue these more interactive efforts throughout the process.

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Education Facilities Planning Committee Update By Anne Sessions, Communications Subcommittee Chair

“We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us.” (Winston Churchill, 1943)

The Integrative Design Process– by Dick Williams, LEEDAP BD+C In my first article about the proposed Education/Formation building in last month’s issue of “The Spire,”

I made mention of an integrative design process. What exactly is that you might have asked? First—what it isn’t… It’s altogether different than traditional design-construction methodology where

each building professional, i.e., architect, mechanical-lighting-structural engineers, takes charge of their respective professional contributions according to goals set forth by the owner. I like the term “silo” to describe such traditional construction-design standards. Imagine each design professional in one of these?

Such standards have proved wasteful. For instance, building mechanical systems were way overdesigned because the

engineer’s “tried and true” knowledge was not exposed to another design professional whose ideas might save energy, leading to a smaller system. Overwrought mechanical systems consume energy at world-depleting levels; not to mention atmosphere-wrecking CO2 emissions.

So, a new design paradigm has come to the fore—integrative, or collaborative, design. According to the U.S. Green Building Council: “The Integrative Process seeks to answer the question, ‘how can we achieve an integrative result that augments performance, maintains cost, and in a simplified way that is replicable and measurable?’ Integrative systems design is what we do to get there—how we get there. Green buildings are the outcome.”

This process can start in a 6-8 hour workshop up-front. Key design professionals and a builder, led by the architect and facilitated by the green building consultant, gather to hash out the means by which the most sustainable building can be afforded for the owner’s budget. In the meeting you might hear talk about building orientation on the site to take advantage of passive solar heating. Someone concerned about healthy interiors might suggest using light shelves to help reflect natural daylight into the most interior of spaces. There are thousands of ideas for sustainability. Where does the builder come in? Matching ideas to budget. This is how we’ll meet our pledge of environmental stewardship. Lower operating costs, and healthier spaces in which to learn, grow and share our faith and generosity towards each other and the Annapolis community will be our gain. Meanwhile, watch for an advisory sign-up sheet naming expertise needed to help shape the building.

Update— The blog for the project is now on my website, www.dwgreenassociates.com.

(Design silos for our project?)

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Space is limited. Registration forms are available on the www.st-margarets.org website or in the church narthex and office. Childcare will be provided for pre-registered participants. Lunch and snacks included.

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Pick & Mix every

Monday evening

except Feb. 18

Feb. 17

Youth Group

Feb. 21

Stroller Service

March 6

Kenyon Choir

Concert

March 7

Stroller Service

March 8

Youth Lock-in

March 17

Youth Group

March 21

Stroller Service

Family Activities for the Lenten Season By the Rev. Sarah Lamming, Associate Rector for Youth Formation

Lenten Wreath - Family Meditation Time The Monday night Pick and Mix youth group will be putting together the materials for each family in the parish to have their own Lenten meditation wreath. Each day during Lent, a stone will be added to the wreath and participants will have a person or group within our community to pray for. The hope is that families will come together for a short time each day, forming a micro community that is a part of the bigger St. Margaret’s community. The wreaths will be available on Sunday, Feb 10th. Praying in colors There will be blank Lent 2013 grid (squares and a beehive) available for children and adults to “pray in colors’ throughout Lent. Each day, you color in a segment. Each day you write, color, and doodle about an individual or group and pray for them. Over the season of Lent you will have created a new community of prayer.

Why praying in color might be a helpful resource for you: 1) You want to pray but words escape you. 2) Sitting still and staying focused in prayer are a challenge. 3) Your body wants to be part of your prayer. 4) You want to just hang out with God but don’t know how. 5) Listening to God feels like an impossible task . 6) Your mind wanders and your body complains. 7) You want a visual, concrete way to pray. 8) You need a new way to pray. For more information go to: www.prayingincolor.com

Scouts Sunday 2013

Thanks to all our Scouts who helped serve during worship services!

St. Margaret’s Annual Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Sunday, March 31 10:15 a.m.

If you can assist with this favorite family activity, please contact the Rev. Sarah Lamming at sarah@st-margarets.org.

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Laura Smith We are a military family new to the area (from California) and are looking for an Episcopal church in the area. We are expecting a little one in the spring. I just was curious to learn about others' experiences with St. Margaret's. Are there lots of families, kids, etc? Please advise.

Alice Wilkinson Conover likes this.

Carrie Pawelchak Hi Laura my name is Carrie my

husband and I started at St. Margaret’s in March 2009 and instantly felt at home. Since then we have had two amazing little girls (1&3). Our girls have always felt loved welcomed and have lots of other kids around to play with.

November 4, 2012 at 1:14pm via mobile · Like · 2

Judy MacGregor Hello and welcome! We have

been a member for about 9 years and really love the church family. There are many families with children of all ages including babies. St Margaret's also has a day school for young children if that is an interest in the future. Extending a warm welcome for you to try a few services and get to know us. Introduce yourself as a guest to the greeter at the door. Is there any specific question we can answer beyond the fact there are many families with kids and they are very much appreciated? PS we lived in

CA 27 yrs, where did you live?November 4, 2012 at

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Jennifer Greenlaw Fleischer Our family joined St

Margaret’s precisely because of their focus on children and youth. We felt welcomed the first Sunday we attended (2 years ago) and, as parents, we were so happy to find a church home where our little ones were welcomed with open arms and where we aren't stared at when our kids are...not angelic...in church! There are plenty of kids of all ages and plenty of parents who have "been there". Plus

our clergy rock. November 4, 2012 at 1:32pm via mobile ·

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Laura Smith Judy: One additional question that we

have is which Book of Common Prayer do you use at St. Margaret's? Is it the more modern one? We are moving from Monterey, CA. But I have lived in several other areas

in California, including Fresno, Linden, and Stockton.

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Judy MacGregor Yes the most recent version.

There are a range of beliefs at our church and we are most tolerant and respectful of each other. That is what Jim and I value so much at St Margaret's. We lived in Danville before we moved to MD and our favorite kayak local in CA

was Moss Landing near you in Monterey. Where can you have baby seals and otters stare at you while

kayaking? Lovely spot. Miss it.November 4, 2012 at

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Elizabeth Maccracken Winn Generally Rite II

at the 9:00 and 11:15 services and Rite 1 at 7:30am. But nothing is static - liturgical "change-ups" seasonally and very wonderful and eclectic music. Great clergy, great congregation, great formation for

ALL ages. We will welcome you when you come!

November 4, 2012 at 2:45pm · Like · 1

Sarah Balcom Laura, I am joining the

conversation late, but let me also chime in that my husband and I love St. Margaret’s. It has always been a very welcoming and uplifting place to worship, and we look forward to raising our family here. I have been

at St. M's for 6 years now.November 4, 2012 at

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Sarah Lamming Hi Laura, I'm Sarah, the

Associate Rector for Children and Youth Formation at St. Margaret's; thank you for posting your question. As people have already mentioned we are a very child/family/military friendly place. If you have any particular questions you would like ask me my email address is sarah@st-margarets.org. We would love to

welcome you anytime.November 4, 2012 at 5:06pm ·

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Michelle Wheeler Albright Hi Laura!

Welcome to the area! I'm Shelly and my family has been coming to St Margaret’s for 3 months now. I cannot imagine that you could find a more welcoming place. We felt like part of the family the very first week there. It is a very active community . The programs they have for children are amazing. I hope you decide

to give it a try...you won't be disappointed!November

4, 2012 at 5:32pm via mobile · Like · 1

Peter Mayer Welcome! My family moved here

from Rhode Island a little over two years ago, and I can say that St. M's is an incredibly vibrant and alive congregation. You really have to see it to believe it. But don't wait until Sunday--call the office to meet one of

our clergy sometime this week! (ps: I'm the rector)

November 4, 2012 at 6:55pm · Like · 1

Laura Smith Thank you everyone for all the

information and warm welcome. My husband and I attended an Episcopal church in California pretty regularly and I ran the church website and Facebook, so we are hoping to find a church where we feel just at home. We hope to meet some of you soon.November 4, 2012 at 7:12pm · Like · 1

Our Facebook members group is

fostering a lot of dialogue among

members, as well as newcomers. Here is

a recent thread (only the first half of the

conversation)...

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GETTING TO KNOW YOU—WAZENSKI FAMILY

By Jim Knorr One would get the message from subtle hints, (like their surfinwaz@gmail.com e-mail address for example) that the Wazenski Family loves living around Annapolis, Maryland, with all the water access in the area. Mom Jennifer and Dad Michael are avid wind surfers and sons Ryan (10) and Sam (8) are already sailing school grads. Even neighbors and SMC friends have voted the Wazenski’s “Windsurfing Santa” the Best Holiday Décor for 2012!

Since the summer of 2012, the Wazenski Family has called St. Margaret’s their home church. Jennifer and Michael grew up north of Baltimore, within 12 miles of each other, and attended rival Loch Raven and Dulaney high schools, respectively, but they didn’t meet until years later. Jen ventured south to attend St. Mary’s College where she majored in Biology – then even further south to “Tar Heel” country where she received her law degree from the University of North Carolina. After a few years in D.C., she settled in Annapolis where, after working for a local law firm, she now can be found in the Maryland Attorney General’s Office at the Department of Natural Resources.

Hubby Michael, meanwhile wasn’t too far away. After attending Virginia Tech for undergraduate work, he then attained his PhD in electrical engineering from Duke University. For the past 15 years, he has worked for Northrup Grumman in Baltimore in space systems engineering. He met Jen at a Styx – Kansas Concert at Merriweather Post.

Their family has grown with the boys now attending Sunday School at SMC and school at St. Andrew’s in Edgewater. Both Ryan and Sam play on their school soccer team, but really test their mental skills playing Minecraft. Dad dabbles in soccer, too, and Mom with volleyball, when the surf’s “NOT UP!”

Mom comes with a long resume of Sunday School teaching skills, and Dad with Vestry experience at a previous Episcopal Church. They plan on attending Newcomers gatherings and being more involved at SMC. They love the openness and welcoming community here at St Margaret’s.

Directions: From Annapolis take Route 50 East across

the Severn River staying in the right lane. Take Exit 27

(Rt. 450 South-Naval Academy). Make the first right turn

onto Boulter’s Way and an immediate left onto Manresa

Road.

Musical selections begin at 11:40 a.m.—Come early—

Wear comfortable clothes and walking shoes

Participating Churches -

St. Margaret’s Episcopal

St. Martin’s in the Field Episcopal

St. Andrew by the Bay Roman Catholic

St. Mary’s Roman Catholic

Kiwanis Club of Annapolis

Calvary United Methodist

Gloria Dei! Lutheran

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2012 SMC Grant Recipient Report

Foreward by Izzy Winn, SMC Grants Administrator St. Margaret’s requires that our grant recipients report back six months and then one year after receiving grant money. Grant recipients agree to use the money as proposed in their application. Many recipients use the entire grant within the first six months. In the follow-up reports, our grantees commonly express gratitude and praise for our grant process. In June of 2012, St. Margaret’s issued 14 grants totaling $125,000 including a grant of $3000 to the Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Center. Linda Deming, the Center’s Executive Director, has graciously allowed me to share with you her six-month report as an example of a 2012 grant at work.

SMC Grant Recipient — Anne Arundel Conflict Resolution Center Prison Re-Entry Mediation Program

With our grant we expected to train more mediators to mediate the cases unique to a prison setting, be able to reproduce the numerous documents required for this program and buy the necessary supplies that are also unique to this project. Thanks to the St. Margaret’s Church grant, we have been able to do intake in each of the facilities every month in 2012. We have trained six (6) new mediators for these cases. The sessions are unique because they are done within the prison, in a locked room, with an armed correction officer just outside the door. And, because the correction officers are there to protect and maintain control, mediators are trained to obey an order without question and all emergency procedures for each of the facilities. They also must be sure they, and the outside participant, honor all rules of dress and those things that may, or may not, be brought inside the prison. Because these sessions take place a layer further in than the visitation room, the list is more severe. The paperwork for these cases is extensive. Aside from our normal forms (summary of case, feedback form for each participant, feedback form for each mediator) there are also forms for the outside participant acknowledging they have been told the rules of the facility and agree to adhere to those rules. There are also forms that go to the Maryland Department of Corrections, filled out by the outside participant(s) and the inmate assessing the process of mediation. And, because we are always involved in research projects, there are additional forms for the participants that detail all demographics and the relationship between/among participants. Although we believe mediators need to be transparent, mediations inside a prison take it a step further. The bags that hold all of our materials must be see through. There cannot be staples or paper clips in the bags, the pencils must be special ones that have bendable soft lead so they cannot be used as weapons. Markers must be scent free and folders may not have brads in the center to hold forms. Because of our frequent presence within the institutions and the positive feedback from the participants and the corrections officers, we are now allowed to mediate with inmates that may not be released within twelve months and have identified issues within their support structure that need addressing. This may be a family member that has been taking care of an inmate’s child and for whatever reason will no longer be able to do so. Or it may be a spouse, significant other, family or friend that is having a difficult time and needs to have an open, honest and frequently difficult conversation with the inmate. If these conversations take place in mediation the mediators are able to help identify the feelings, values and the topics that need to be fully discussed. Turnover among staff in a correctional institution is fairly high. If there is a changeover among correctional officer at the management level, we frequently have to have conversations and agreements explained and “re-agreed to” with the new employee. Or it may be new correction officers at the main desk who are unaware of the things we may take into the facility (watches) that others cannot. This year, for many reasons, turnover has been high. Every single penny of the grant money has been spent. Non-profits are suffering mightily because of the economy. Unfortunately, as people have less money, the need of services increases. Being aware of what can most help is a strength of the Church and the Grants Committee. Thank you for your faith and willingness to help on both the spiritual and physical levels.

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A USER’S GUIDE TO ST. MARGARET’S

GETTING IN TOUCH The Reverend Peter W. Mayer, Rector

peter@st-margarets.org The Reverend T. Stewart Lucas, Associate Rector

stewart@st-margarets.org The Reverend Sarah Lamming, Associate Rector for Youth

sarah@st-margarets.org James R. Fitzpatrick, Director of Music

james@st-margarets.org Pat Hall, Parish Nurse and Lay Pastor

pshall1@verizon.net Ruth McDaniel, Parish Administrator

ruth@st-margarets.org Laura Tayman, Administrative Assistant laura@st-margarets.org Tricia McVeigh, St. Margaret’s Day School Director

tricia@st-margarets.org Izzy Winn, Grants Administrator missions@st-margarets.org

George Saroch, Senior Warden sarochg@verizon.net

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