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