. . . from the Rectors Desk
ORDINATION PROCESS
As you will see elsewhere in this edition, we look forward to welcoming Hall Kirkham as our new Assistant Rector. He received his Master of Divinity (M.Div.) from Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, this week. The M.Div. is awarded based upon the academic course work of a theological school. Some who receive the degree are not seeking ordination and apply their theological training to a wide range of non-ordained ministries.
Those who do seek ordination are on a "parallel track" of discernment and formation which begins before and continues during the seminary years. Hall is sponsored in this process by Christ Church, Cambridge and is currently what is known as a "Candidate for Holy Orders" in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. On Saturday, June 7 at 10:30 AM at the Cathedral, Hall and several others will be ordained Deacon (at which time the written title "The Rev." becomes appropriate!). During his first six months, Hall will be assisting at liturgy in every respect except as celebrant of the Eucharist. In January, he will be ordained Priest, at which time he is authorized to provide ordained leadership in the same way that I am. Throughout, of course, his ministry is just that - ministry!
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This Week
Sunday, May 18
8:00 A Holy Communion
8:30 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:45 A Prayer Circle
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Holy Communion
10:00 A Church School
11:15 A Coffee Hour
11:15 A Junior Choir Rehearsal
4:00 P Spiritual Journey Group
5:30 P BBQ for Confirmation Families
Monday, May 19
9:20 A Flower Guild Field Trip
8:00 P AA
Tuesday, May 20
7:30 P Outreach Meeting
Wednesday, May 21
11:00 A Staff Meeting
Thursday, May 22
4:00 P Prayer Group
7:30 P Adult Choir Rehearsal
Friday, May 23
Saturday, May 24
11:00 A Bruce Symonds
Memorial Service
2:00 P Nathan Jordan Baptism
Sunday, May 25
8:00 A Holy Communion
8:30 A Adult Choir Rehearsal
9:00 A Adult Bible Study
9:45 A Prayer Circle
9:30-11:30 Nursery Care
10:00 A Holy Communion
11:15 A Coffee Hour
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Enews Notes and QuickLinks
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The Week Ahead . . .
Adult Bible Study meets each Sunday at 9:00 a.m. in the Bidwell Room. On May 25th, the Rector will lead a conversation on Matthew 7:21-29.
Outreach Committee Meeting this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome.
The Spiritual Journey Group will meet next Sunday at 4 in the Bidwell Room.
BBQ Sunday, May 18 for Confirmation Families - 5:30 at the Rectory.
From the Flower Guild:
Field Trip to Garden-in-the-Woods, Framingham, MA, Monday, May 19, 9:20 - 2:00
Admission to the Garden: $8; seniors $6.
More info: Carolyn Ellis 781-899-5880
Members of the parish are welcome to attend the memorial service for Bill Symonds father on Saturday, May 24, 11 a.m.
The Drop-In Discussion Group will meet on Wednesday, May 28, at 9:30 in the Bidwell Room to discuss Secrets of Prayer, a Multifaith Guide to Creating Personal Prayer in Your Life by Nancy Corcoran, CSJ. The author, a dynamic speaker, will address the Weston Interfaith Group at St. Peter's on June 12. In this book she brings prayer down to earth and encourages us to use all our senses to experience it. All are welcome.
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MEET HALL KIRKHAM
I am excited to inform you that Hall Kirkham will be joining St. Peter's staff as Assistant Rector on or about July 1. Originally from the Cleveland area, Hall graduated Amherst College and completed an M.Sc. at the University of Edinburgh and an M.B.A. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. For eleven years, Hall was Investment Consultant / Managing Director at Cambridge Associates. He provided investment planning, implementation and monitoring to endowed non-profits and engaged in marketing for new business. He entered theological study at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, in the fall of 2005 and received the M.Div. on May 15, 2008.
Hall has youth ministry experience at both Christ Church, Cambridge and St. Michael's, Milton, and he is a folk and rock singer and guitarist. He is also involved with prison ministry as part of Samaritans, Inc., and suicide prevention outreach work. He looks forward to the creative challenge of ministering to our young members, an increased ministry to marginalized groups, creative thinking and support for in youth ministry, and the nurturing of our entire parish community.
He and his wife Marjorie have a seven-month-old daughter, Victoria, and reside in Cambridge.
I am grateful to the parish family for the generosity - in every sense of the word - which has made this important and exciting step forward possible. Please join me in offering a warm welcome to Hall and his family.
-- Stephen
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Hiring our Assistant Rector
The Wardens and Vestry are delighted to share the news about our new Assistant Rector, Hall Kirkham. We can't wait for everyone to meet him. Please read Stephen Voysey's more detailed biography of Hall and general specifics of his arrival. Marshall and I would like to briefly outline the discernment and interview process for this big decision. Stephen received approximately 20 applications from candidates all across the country which he summarized for the Wardens. We then interviewed candidates that seemed to "fit" the needs of the parish at this point in time. The best candidates met with our Interview Team: Richard Batchelder, Michele Davidson, John Jacobs, Mary Pughe, Stephen Voysey and the Wardens. As all members expressed much enthusiasm for Hall, we arranged a for a group of our young people to have dinner with him at the church. This fine group is to be commended for their willingness to help, with little advance notice. The group included Matt Jacobs, Anna Keery, Chris and Caleb Kussmaul, Anna Lachenauer, John McDaniel and Emelie Reeves. After their dinner and conversation with Hall, they filled out a quick "Impressions Survey". Results and remarks were tabulated and sent to the Interview Team Prior agreement within the team was to offer the call to Hall if there was a very positive response from our young team. Very positive would under describe their response!!!
Coincidentally, Stephen was at a conference with Hall the next day, where he made our offer in person. We were thrilled with his immediate acceptance, as his personal discernment had led him to believe St. Peter's was his call.
Marshall and I extend grateful thanks to both interview Teams for your involvement in this very important step into the future of St. Peter's. We thank all of you for holding us in your hearts and prayers during these past weeks. We are thrilled to have Hall among us, and believe the synergy between Hall, Stephen and lay leaders will become joyfully infectious!
Thanks be to God,
Janice and Marshall
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Outreach Update
B-SAFE Program, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, June 30-July 03
This summer, St. Peter's will serve as a partner church for one week as part of a larger effort of the Episcopal Diocese to serve over 350 children and teens at 6 sites in the Boston area in a six week summer day camp. The B-SAFE program provides academic enrichment, sports, field trips, good food, community, and a safe place for kids, plus jobs for older teens.
Last summer, over 40 parishioners participated in a week-long sponsorship of B-SAFE, and it was a wonderful, enriching experience. Partner churches provide a week of food (lunch and snack) at one site plus organize and fund a field trip on the last day of the week (which will be Thursday, July 3). St. Stephens will provide for 60 middle school students, and jobs for 10 counselors. Please help make this program a success, while investing in the lives of youth, and give some time. Contact Ron Corley or call me at 617 512-9610 to volunteer of get more information.
PLEASE CONSIDER GIVING US A HAND! IT ONLY TAKES A FEW HOURS TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE! You can help shop, prepare a lunch or snack (evening or AM), help deliver and serve the food, or help on the field trip.
Book Collection for the Lawrence Family Development Charter School in Lawrence, MA
Carter Hulings, a sophomore at Weston High School, is in the process of becoming an Eagle scout in Weston's Troop 153. As part of his Eagle project, he is holding a book drive throughout the Weston community to help get the school the books it desperately needs for its school library to truly aid in the learning process. Please consider donating unwanted or unneeded books to this important cause. A box will be near the coat closet in the parish hall.
If you would like more information, you can contact Carter or at 781-864-9188.
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 Bishop Masereka Christian Foundation (BMCF)
The BMCF was established in 2001 to help serve the children and adults in Kasese, western Uganda, where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has spread through more than 15% of the population. The BMCF provides scholarships for orphaned children, as well as community education and care for the sick through the BMCF Medical Clinic. Following the Bishop's visit to St. Peter's this past fall, we have committed to a long-term relationship with the BMCF by funding scholarships for 10 children and youth, many orphans, through your outreach giving.
The importance of this ministry was emphasized by Dr. Christiana Russ, who spoke movingly on May 4th at St. Peter's of her work at the BMCF. You can personally help in this ministry by providing a link between St. Peter's and the children we are sponsoring. We are looking for ten adults in our community who would be willing to become "pen pals" with these youth, who range in age from 13 to 19. The ONLY requirement is that you write to your child several times a year until he or she graduates from secondary school, about two to four years from now. Not all of their stories are easy to hear, but all are inspiring in their own way. One of the children we are supporting, Doreen Biira who is 17, writes in her bio " I have been benefiting from the Bishop Masereka scholarships for the last two years. This has made a change in our family since all of my bigger sisters and brothers could not make it to senior four because of lack of money. I am hopeful that I will continue with my studies and I become somebody in the future." Because of St. Peter's support to BMCF, she and nine others WILL have the opportunity to finish school. Please consider signing up to be a pen pal with one of "our" children. For more information, please contact Ann Lombard at annlombard@comcast.net or at 781-891-8290.
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Flower Guild
 Preparations
for Confirmation at St. Peter's, May 31: Weeders needed for the Memorial Garden. Let me know if you are interested. We need to do a
spring weeding and should have the garden in good shape for the
Confirmation service and all the visitors to St. Peter's. Arrangers
needed for Confirmation flowers, May 30.
Annual Field Trip to Garden-in-the-Woods, Framingham, MA, Monday, May 19
9:20 AM Meet at St. Peter's to carpool
10:00 AM Guided tour of New England's premier wildflower garden
Lunch together (local restaurant) if there is interest
2:00 PM Return to St. Peter's
Admission to the Garden: $8; seniors $6.
Summer Flowers: For our more casual summer services, we make vase arrangements of garden flowers for the pedestal under the pulpit and for the chapel altar. If you have an abundance of flowers to share, please let me know.
For more info: Carolyn Ellis 781-899-5880
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Schubert Mass in G on Sunday, June 1
On Sunday, June 1, the Adult Choir will be singing Schubert's Mass in G Major accompanied by Anna Teng and Ethan Bauer, violin, Sarah Shin, viola, and Alicia Palmisano, violoncello, from the Rivers Conservatory. Here is some information about these young musicians:
Anna Teng is a freshman at the Rivers school. She has been playing the violin since second grade. This is here second year studying with Magdalena Richter, and her fifth year taking lessons at the Rivers School Conservatory. She is a member of the BYS orchestra of the BYSO. In her free time, she loves to draw, and read.
Ethan Bauer is 14 years old from Needham, MA. and has been playing the violin for the past 8 years. This spring, on May 31st, he will have the honor of performing in Jordan Hall the violin solo part in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola. For the school year 2007/2008
he served as associate concertmaster for the Eastern Senior District Orchestra. He went on to be accepted in the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra Festival at Symphony Hall for 2008. In 2006/2007 and 2005/2006 he served as concertmaster for the Massachusetts Southeastern Jr. District Festival Orchestra. Ethan has been a competition prize winner and has played as a soloist with the Longy Chamber Orchestra, the New England Conservatory Baroque Chamber Ensemble, and the Rivers Chamber Ensemble. He has been a member of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra for the past five years. Ethan studies violin with Peter Zazofsky and attends the Rivers
School in addition to the Rivers School Conservatory Program. This past Spring he traveled with the Rivers Chamber Ensemble when they held concerts in France and Switzerland. This summer he will perform with the Boston Youth Symphony when they go on a two week tour to Germany, The Czech Republic and Austria. Ethan is one of the founding members of T-MEC, Teen Musicians Entertaining the Community. They put on concerts throughout the year for residents in assisted living facilities.
Brunhilde Engelhardt, Music Director
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Who Does What At St. Peter's Church
320 Boston Post Road, Weston, MA 02493 | www.stpetersweston.org | 781-891-3200
(Click on any name that is underlined to send an email.)
Acolytes: Stephen Voysey (891-3200)
Church School: Peggy Batchelder, 781-736-0280
Choir: Brunhilde Engelhardt(891-3200)
Coffee Hour: Lynn Maruskin (899- 6290)
Junior Choir Director: Kristen Dirmeier
e-mail Newsletters: John Marchiony & Keith Ward
Finance Chris Phaneuf (891-3200)
Flowers: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Lay Liturgical Ministries: Bill Symonds
Men's Group: John Marchiony Rob Rodgers
Music: Brunhilde Engelhardt(891-3200)
Newcomers: Betsy Gibson, Michelle King, Suzie Reeves
Outreach: Ron Corley; Rosanne Iacono (891-3236)
Lay Pastoral Care: Flora Booth (899 -2006) and Mary Pughe (894-5961)
Property: Carolyn Ellis (899-5880)
Stewardship: Marty Rodgers
Associate Priest: Rev. Anne Gardner
Ushers: Ed Vydra (894-7131)
Youth: Margaret Randle
Members of the Vestry:
Janice Corley (891-3236), Senior Warden; Marshall Bartlett, Junior Warden; Chris Phaneuf, Treasurer; Richard Batchelder, Clerk; Members: Carolyn Ellis, John Jacobs, Tom Keery, Marty Rodgers, Anne Ruggles, Maggie Tyler-Rubenstein, Keith Ward
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Something to Think About This Week
Strangers are just friends we haven't met yet.
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