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St. Bede's Episcopal Church Parish Profile :: June 2013

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<strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong> <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>Church</strong><br />

Santa Fe, New Mexico<br />

<strong>Parish</strong> <strong>Profile</strong> :: <strong>June</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

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<strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong> <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>Church</strong>,<br />

1601 South Saint Francis Drive (entrance from San Mateo) Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505<br />

505-982-1133 :: stbedes@cybermesa.com :: www.stbedesantafe.org<br />

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Table of Contents<br />

Welcome 4<br />

Our History 5<br />

Our <strong>Parish</strong> 6<br />

A Worshipping Community 6<br />

Pastoral Care Beyond our Community 7<br />

Involvement in the Interfaith<br />

and Ecumenical Community 8<br />

A <strong>Parish</strong> of Two Worshipping Communities 9<br />

An Enthusiastic and Informal Worship <strong>St</strong>yle 10<br />

A Welcoming and Social Community 11<br />

Financial <strong>St</strong>ewardship at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong> 12<br />

Financial Trends 12<br />

Anticipated Compensation for Rector 13<br />

Dealing with Conflict and Change 13<br />

Vestry and <strong>St</strong>aff 14<br />

Our Next Rector 15<br />

Living in Santa Fe 16<br />

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Welcome!<br />

Welcome to <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>Church</strong> in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico,<br />

and to our parish profile. We are a cheerful, friendly and welcoming church<br />

community, committed to a full and active spiritual life. Our mission is to<br />

bear witness and to continue in the teachings of Jesus especially as we care<br />

for one another within and beyond our church community.<br />

Though a relatively small parish, <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong> is diverse and inclusive in its<br />

membership, welcoming all worshippers, with a middle-way style of liturgical<br />

churchmanship, balancing our faith on a resilient three-legged stool of<br />

scripture, tradition and reason.<br />

We have been without a permanent rector since mid-2011, and look forward<br />

to renewing our momentum in the coming months. Our children and youth<br />

programs need renewal, and we hope to encourage growth with a younger<br />

age demographic, expanding from the more senior population of many<br />

retired folks that is the pillar and strength of our Sunday morning<br />

congregation of about 110 attendees.<br />

The second pillar of our diversity and perhaps our future is our Spanish<br />

language parishioners (ca. 15 attendees) who worship Sunday evenings. The<br />

two subsets of our congregation are well integrated within the paradigms of<br />

two languages and cultures, and the first Sunday of every month is dedicated<br />

to a bi-cultural "potluck Eucharist" evening in which the two groups worship<br />

together and celebrate our common Christian heritage.<br />

We seek a devout rector, an excellent preacher, who will bring together the<br />

skills of our people with sensitivity, encouragement, and collegiality, building<br />

upon our strengths, under an umbrella of expert and experienced leadership,<br />

management, vision and planning.<br />

We invite qualified applicants to submit their resumes electronically to the<br />

Rev. Canon Kathleene McNellis – kmcnellis@dioceserg.org.<br />

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Our History<br />

"For as much as devout and faithful people have taken in hand to build on<br />

this ground now marked with the symbol of Christ, a House to be dedicated<br />

to the glory of God, to be known as <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s, wherein the Gospel shall be<br />

truly preached, the Sacraments duly administered, and the service of<br />

Prayer and Praise offered in this and coming generations: Therefore I<br />

break ground for this church; in the name of the Father and of the Son, and<br />

of the Holy Ghost. Amen.”<br />

The Southwest <strong>Church</strong>man, January 1965<br />

With these words Bishop Kinsolving turned the first shovelful of earth for the<br />

breaking of the ground for <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s, the youngest of the diocesan missions,<br />

on Sunday afternoon, October 27, 1964, at Santa Fe.<br />

Before ground was broken, the first service was held on July 15, 1962. The<br />

name chosen for the new mission was <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong>; the meeting place the Odd<br />

Fellows’ Hall; the Vicar, the Rev. William E. Crews. <strong>St</strong>arting with some forty<br />

families, within a year the congregation had grown to 100 families and the<br />

need of permanent quarters became apparent. Construction started<br />

immediately after the groundbreaking and the first building was dedicated in<br />

October 1965.<br />

Bede Translating the Gospel of John by J.D. Penrose 1862-1932<br />

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Our <strong>Parish</strong><br />

A Worshipping Community<br />

We express our core values of spiritual exploration and learning, connection,<br />

prayer, and welcoming inclusivity in a variety of ways. We hold an Adult<br />

Forum each Sunday. Recent topics from fall of 2012 included the Connecticut<br />

school shootings, the Sharia, children’s literature and Christianity, and civil<br />

rights in Santa Fe.<br />

We celebrate Holy Eucharist with Healing Prayers weekly, and hold Morning<br />

Prayer, lectio divina, and Bible study one day each week. Members of the<br />

Prayer Shawl ministry knit shawls for those in need of comfort. The 60+ers<br />

meet monthly with food, fellowship, and a speaker; all ages are welcome.<br />

Bede’s Backers marshal assistance for parish members during difficult times.<br />

Lay Eucharistic Ministers provide Eucharist to those who request a visit and<br />

are unable to attend church.<br />

We express prayerfulness through service on the Altar Guild, Flower Guild,<br />

altar bread baking, choir, and activities of ushers and lay readers.<br />

Our library contains about 1,500 books.<br />

Priest-in-Charge M. Nicolette Papanek, Preaching<br />

With Acolytes Bud Redding, David Glass, and Michael Patterson<br />

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Pastoral Care Beyond Our Community<br />

The three components of outreach, a core value at <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s, are the giving of<br />

time, talent, and treasure. <strong>Parish</strong>ioners regularly express this value by<br />

offering time and talent in activities such as the Juárez house build, in which<br />

we have assisted in building twenty houses for the poor in Juárez, Mexico.<br />

<strong>St</strong>. Beders participate in a<br />

housebuild at Juárez, for a<br />

local Mexican family.<br />

in Juárez, Mexico<br />

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Kairos is the prison ministry whose volunteers visit residents at Guadalupe<br />

County Correctional Facility to tell them Jesus loves them.<br />

Evening Meal at the Shelter<br />

We collect food each Sunday for distribution to the<br />

hungry. We also work at the Interfaith Community<br />

Shelter, which provides meals, clothing, showers,<br />

and a safe bed for homeless people, particularly<br />

during the winter season. <strong>Parish</strong>ioners at <strong>St</strong>.<br />

Bede’s helped found this facility.<br />

The third component of outreach, treasure, has for years been expressed by<br />

setting aside a portion of our budget for purposes such as grants to youth<br />

counseling services, fine arts programs for children, Native American<br />

services, and many others. Demographic and financial issues, including some<br />

nonrecurring expenses, have forced us to reduce these grants temporarily.<br />

We are eager to learn new ways to make our outreach more effective.<br />

Involvement in the Interfaith and Ecumenical Community<br />

We are proud to be a church incubator, having fostered Santa Maria de la<br />

Paz, a Roman Catholic <strong>Church</strong>, and <strong>St</strong>. Elias, a Greek Orthodox <strong>Church</strong>, by<br />

providing meeting space in their early years. Both are now on their own and<br />

successful.<br />

<strong>St</strong> Elias Greek Orthodox <strong>Church</strong><br />

Santa Maria de la Paz Catholic Community<br />

HaMakom Jewish congregation began in 2002 and continues to meet at <strong>St</strong>.<br />

Bede’s. Our library serves as the synagogue for HaMakom, which also is free<br />

to use all of our available space as needed.<br />

Rabbi Malka Drucker Instructs in the Torah<br />

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We worship jointly with Christ Lutheran <strong>Church</strong> in an annual choral<br />

evensong and engage in pulpit exchange with the United <strong>Church</strong> of Santa Fe.<br />

A member of our congregation serves as Diocesan Chancellor (legal counsel)<br />

and another as a member of the Diocesan <strong>St</strong>anding Committee.<br />

We express our commitment to peace and justice through participation in the<br />

Peace Walk and the Gay Pride Parade.<br />

We participate in the community program to prevent bullying in the schools.<br />

We are a <strong>Parish</strong> of Two Worshipping Communities<br />

<strong>St</strong>. Bede’s, a congregation with relatively few young people, has traditionally<br />

replenished its numbers through people who retire and move to Santa Fe. As<br />

demographic and financial issues begin to cut into this process, another<br />

mode has opened up.<br />

An influx of Hispanic Santa Feans near <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s inspired creation of a<br />

ministry that would meet the needs of this population. For years, people had<br />

been bringing babies to <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s for baptism but had not returned. Fr. Juan<br />

Oliver, a retired bilingual priest at <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s began inviting those wishing<br />

baptism or confirmation to join a group of explorers who meet with the priest<br />

for about three months, giving them time to know the congregation and the<br />

church and its services. They are invited to join and assist in the functions of<br />

service. As a congregation of Hispanics formed, services were initially held on<br />

Sunday afternoons but were moved to Sunday evenings to accommodate<br />

work schedules of the congregants.<br />

Altar de muertos. All Souls' Eve coincides with the Mexican<br />

celebration, Dia de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead.<br />

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The growing Spanish-speaking congregation is on average much younger and<br />

contains many children. Integrating these congregations is a challenge that<br />

will be met. We share a monthly bilingual potluck and Eucharist and have<br />

jointly celebrated Dia de los Muertos and Virgen de Guadalupe.<br />

We have included a representative of our Spanish-speaking population on<br />

the Vestry and another on the Discernment Committee. We recognize that<br />

there are many opportunities yet to be explored.<br />

An Enthusiastic and Informal Worship <strong>St</strong>yle<br />

In the spirit of the <strong>Episcopal</strong> middle way, <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s is liturgically neither<br />

high church nor low church. We celebrate Holy Eucharist at 8:00 a.m., 10:30<br />

a.m., and 7:00 p.m. each Sunday in a semi-round worship space. The<br />

morning services are Rite II. There are no sung hymns at 8:00 a.m., but the<br />

organist plays a prelude and postlude. At the 10:30 service, the choir sings an<br />

anthem and leads hymns from the 1982 hymnal and occasionally from Lift<br />

Every Voice and Sing. A committee writes the prayers of the people to reflect<br />

concerns of the parish and the wider world.<br />

10:30 am Holy Eucharist (l. to r.) Associate Priest Mother Madelynn Johnston,<br />

Retired Rector Father Richard Murphy, Bishop Michael Vono,<br />

Deacon Owen Kunkle, Acolyte David Glass<br />

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The 7:00 p.m. Santa Misa, in Spanish, is attended by our growing Hispanic<br />

population. The first of these services each month includes a bilingual service<br />

and potluck dinner with the entire population invited.<br />

Other services once each week include Contemplative Prayer, Holy Eucharist<br />

with healing prayers, and Morning Prayer. Special services occur during Holy<br />

Week, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and there is an annual Navajo service.<br />

The choir leads Evensong several evenings each year.<br />

A Welcoming and Social Community<br />

Our Membership Development Committee greets newcomers at each Sunday<br />

service and provides blue ribbons for them to wear so parishioners can<br />

identify and welcome them at the service and during the coffee hour<br />

afterward. The clergy conduct a newcomers’ orientation several times a year,<br />

explaining the different ministries of the church and providing contact<br />

information. We update our ministry catalog regularly with the ministry<br />

leaders’ phone and e-mail information. A Ministries Fair, usually held in the<br />

fall, acquaints parishioners with opportunities to serve. Our monthly<br />

publication, The Beacon, lists upcoming events and appeals for volunteers, as<br />

does the weekly church bulletin. The Common Room is full of notices and<br />

sign-up sheets for our parish and for community events. Our coffee hour<br />

serves as a time for fellowship and for one-on-one recruiting. We have<br />

learned that it is harder to refuse a request with a mouthful of donut than<br />

with an empty stomach.<br />

The Flower Guild Produce the Finest Arrangements in Town!<br />

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Financial <strong>St</strong>ewardship at <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Bede's</strong><br />

Our traditional stewardship at <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s has included an annual fall drive,<br />

including a written appeal along with testimonials in Sunday services, pledge<br />

cards, and follow-up phone calls. The recently completed campaign produced<br />

more revenue than the prior year’s but with fewer pledges. We have an aging<br />

congregation that has been affected by the economic situation and by the<br />

large number of people on fixed incomes. Within this environment, we are<br />

encouraged by the response of the congregation, but the need for<br />

improvement is also evident. We clearly need guidance on new methods to<br />

better support our physical plant, our clergy and staff, and our exceptional<br />

programs of outreach and in reach. Our congregation has been unflagging in<br />

its generous contribution of time and talent, as described in earlier sections,<br />

but there is no margin for error in the challenging process of funding<br />

ourselves.<br />

Financial Trends<br />

Shown here are our beginning-year budget totals for 2011, 2012, and for the<br />

current <strong>2013</strong> year. Surpluses or deficits are as of the end of the budget year:<br />

ST BEDE'S FINANCIALS $ 2011 2012 <strong>2013</strong><br />

Budgeted Income 326,000 333,000 327,100<br />

Year End Performance - Surplus (Deficit) 3,010 (24,777) -<br />

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Anticipated Compensation for Rector<br />

Salary offered is $80,000 per year which includes housing.<br />

In addition, pension and health benefits to be paid by the parish.<br />

Dealing with Conflict and Change<br />

When it went poorly. The perceived need for more space led to a feasibility<br />

study of our capacity to raise enough money to build. We hired a consultant<br />

to assist. The consultant concluded that we could not raise the necessary<br />

money and made unnecessarily candid remarks about individuals. Feelings<br />

were bruised. The project was abandoned.<br />

What we learned. Adequate communication in such a complex project is<br />

essential, as is the need to keep a clear and cogent goal and engage in honest<br />

and frank discussion. Inclusion of all interested parties must be maintained.<br />

We must resolve contrasting points of view with love.<br />

When it went well. By agreement between the two congregations, HaMakom,<br />

a Jewish congregation, uses the facilities of <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s. We share signage.<br />

HaMakom and <strong>St</strong>. Bede’s members are invited to each others’ events. This<br />

has been a sound relationship for ten years.<br />

What we learned. From the beginning, all parties celebrated the<br />

arrangement and the opportunities. Communication is excellent and results<br />

in a sound and shared relationship that benefits all.<br />

<strong>St</strong>. Bede’s flies a rainbow flag expressing our diversity and that we embrace<br />

all people regardless of race, sexual orientation, or details of theological<br />

understanding. A few years ago, people who resented this stance committed<br />

serious vandalism on the church facility. The community’s response was an<br />

outpouring of support, including an ecumenical service followed by financial<br />

contributions to help cover the cost of repairs. Our rector announced that he<br />

wished to talk to the perpetrators, not to punish but to reconcile. This<br />

conversation took place, though we do not know any details. There have been<br />

no further problems. We are proud of having helped lead the community to a<br />

different place.<br />

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Vestry and <strong>St</strong>aff<br />

The <strong>2013</strong> Vestry<br />

Judy Spain, Senior Warden<br />

Ed Nordstrom, Junior Warden<br />

Ben Cox<br />

Kevin Daly<br />

John Draper<br />

Abel Hernández<br />

Ann Moon<br />

Sandy Pitre<br />

Catherine Willmott<br />

Rudy Busé, Treasurer<br />

Miff Dikeman, Clerk<br />

The vestry meets monthly.<br />

Each vestry member<br />

undertakes a personal interest<br />

in specific administrative areas<br />

of the parish through the<br />

functions of policy, oversight<br />

and resources, in support of<br />

the management function of<br />

the Rector or Priest-in-Charge.<br />

Thirty-four committees of<br />

clergy and lay persons further<br />

manage affairs of the parish.<br />

Clergy<br />

M. Nicolette Papanek<br />

Priest-in-Charge<br />

M. Madelynn Johnston<br />

Associate Priest<br />

Also serving as Vicar of<br />

<strong>St</strong>. Jerome's <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>Church</strong>,<br />

Chama, NM<br />

<strong>St</strong>aff<br />

Jerome Nelson<br />

Director of Music<br />

Ruben Gonzales<br />

Administrative Assistant<br />

Germán Barrera<br />

Sexton<br />

Volunteer Clergy<br />

Fr. Randall Lutz<br />

Assisting Priest<br />

M. Kim Martinez<br />

Assisting Priest<br />

Fr. Juan Oliver<br />

Assisting Priest<br />

Deacon Owen Kunkle<br />

Santa Fe Opera Guest Soloist Nicole Rodin with<br />

Jerry Nelson at the Allen Rennaisance Organ.<br />

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Our Next Rector<br />

Outgoing<br />

Scholarly<br />

Spanish speaking a plus<br />

Joyous<br />

Devout<br />

Approachable<br />

With a Sense of Humor<br />

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Living in Santa Fe<br />

Santa Fe, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains with an average of 325 days<br />

of sunshine and blue sky, is a most popular travel destination and retirement location.<br />

To fully appreciate why living in Santa Fe is so appealing, please browse these links:<br />

Wikitravel – Santa Fe<br />

Santa Fe Cam<br />

About.com: Top 12 Santa Fe Places<br />

Santa Fe Reporter Restaurant Guide<br />

Santa Fe Community College<br />

Santa Fe Official Site<br />

Santa Fe National Forest<br />

Cerrillos Hills <strong>St</strong>ate Park<br />

The Santa Fe Opera<br />

The Santa Fe Symphony<br />

<strong>St</strong> John's College Music on the Hill<br />

Canticum Novum Chorus and Orchestra<br />

Lensic Performing Arts Center<br />

Museum Hill<br />

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture<br />

San Miguel Mission<br />

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum<br />

<strong>St</strong> <strong>Bede's</strong> Website<br />

Santa Fe Real Estate: Realtor.com<br />

The Santa Fe New Mexican Newspaper<br />

Santafe.com: live, work, play, stay<br />

Santa Fe Convention & Visitors Bureau<br />

Santa Fe Indian Market<br />

Santa Fe Public Schools<br />

Ski Santa Fe<br />

Valles Caldera National Preserve<br />

Bandelier National Monument<br />

Santa Fe Desert Chorale<br />

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival<br />

Sangre de Cristo Chorale<br />

Museum of International Folk Art<br />

New Mexico Museum of Art<br />

Museum of Contemporary Native Arts<br />

New Mexico History Museum<br />

<strong>Episcopal</strong> Diocese of the Rio Grande<br />

Holy Family <strong>Episcopal</strong> <strong>Church</strong><br />

<strong>Church</strong> of the Holy Faith<br />

Canyon Road<br />

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