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Dear Friends, Neighbors and Members of St. Cyprian's,
This morning soon after I arrived at Turk & Lyon, Kristina Lacayo one of our summer interns and her brother showed up to begin preparation for tonight's Free Community Dinner. The bounty of ingredients they had picked up the day before gleaned from a local Farmers Market cried out for washing and chopping. As we cut cucumbers and onions, we talked about a number of activities going on in the neighborhood and the shared recognition that sometimes valuable time, energy and resources can be unintentionally misdirected towards breaking something down rather than building something up. But then again, it all depends on the recipe and what's attempting to be created ---- the cucumber salad we're serving tonight wouldn't be much good if the vegetable wasn't first cut up into edible pieces. But then if I've spent an hour cutting up cucumbers for a salad, and you want to use them for a soup & someone else is allergic to them all together --- we're going to have some issues.
Our immediate neighborhood known as the North Panhandle is a distinctive part of the unique District 5 which includes the Haight-Ashbury, Japantown, Fillmore, Alamo Square, parts of Hayes Valley and inner Sunset. Most everyone I meet who lives, works or passes through this area has strong opinions, impressions, tastes, passions, desires and/or ambitions for the center of the city of Francis. This is one of the beautiful aspects of living and working here. However, this often makes for tension, confusion, and frustration especially when you add in the enormous disparities in income, opportunity, education, and the broad range of cultural backgrounds, ages, political commitments, affinities and tactics. We all like the word "progressive" to describe what we're about, this Vicar especially --- but one person's progress can sometimes sadly turn out to be another person's nightmare.
All of us in D5 probably would do well to take a few more deep breaths and spend a few more hours at the Zen Center, Panhandle Park, Kabuki Springs, or any number of church sanctuaries or yoga studios to really think about the ways we spend our time, energy, creativity, energy and resources. What are we attempting to create together? Have you asked the other cooks in the kitchen to find out if they don't already have plans for those mushrooms, are you planning to steal them anyway? What about using the peppers instead, they may have a few bruises but nothing a little extra time and creative chopping skills couldn't fix.
See you soon at Turk and Lyon! Peace,
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Cyprian's Scholars:
The Hambrick Family Scholarship Fund
5 local students receive scholarships totally $2500
The Hambrick Family Scholarship was created by Diane Hambrick LeBlanc and Vivian Hambrick-Ryan in memory of their late parents Dr. Edward & Mrs. Vivian Hambrick, longtime members of St Cyprian's Episcopal Church. They were lifelong proponents of higher education as the way to personal growth. The $500 is to be used for books, tuition support or other school related expenses.
Many thanks to the committed work of the Hambrick Family
Scholarship Committee:
Shirley Matthews
Quijuan Maloof
The Reverend Eric Metoyer
Diane Hambrick-LeBlanc
Vivian Hambrick-Ryan
Adrian Williams
Dorothy Tsuruta
The St. Cyprian's community is invited to hold in prayer the recipients
of these scholarships as they begin school this month.
Jamesha Threat attending Dillard University
Damonta McFarland attending Skyline College
Geoffrey Simpson, Jr. attending Skyline College
Taylor Christian attending the American University in Paris
Javonte Holloway attending the University of California, Merced
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Thank you San Francisco Day School!
Many thanks to our North Panhandle neighbors and friends at SF Day School who arranged for St. Cyprian's Community Kitchen to receive two discarded items from their kitchen, a huge fridge and stainless steal worktable. Special thanks to Danny De Leon for thinking of us, and coordinating this contribution to our dream of a new space to share food and build community
at Turk & Lyon.
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Upcoming Events at Cyprian's
Free Community Dinner
presented by St. Cyprian's Kitchen Team, cyprian's arc and the Wigg Party
TONIGHT, August 16, 7pm to 10 pm
Produce from merchants & gardens; live music
Arrive early if you'd like to help
RSVP and info: events@cyprians.org
Parents Night Out presented by cyprian's arc
TOMORROW NIGHT, August 17, 6pm to 9pm
Cyprian's next Parents Night Out is Friday, August 17. It's going to be another great evening with a feature film for the kids. Arts and crafts, game time, and pizza for dinner fill out the evening while parents take a stroll, grab a bite, or do nothing at all on their own.
Interested or know friends who might be? Here's how it works:
Child-care provided by USF graduates and other experienced child-care providers with at least one adult for every five kids and a supervisor present at all times. - Kids ages 6-12 (talk to us about younger kids)
- 15 kids max
- 6pm to 9pm
- $30 per child
Pre-registration required for next Parents Night Out by Monday, August 13 - events@cyprians.org
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Help make worship happen at St. Cyprian's Want to read, greet folks, acolyte, and/or lead a prayer in church on Sunday at St. Cyprian's? email Hannah & she'll set you up:
hcornthw@gmail.com or click here & sign up online.
Want to sing or play an instrument?
Email on Sunday music coordinator, Nikola:
nikola.printz@notes.sfcm.edu
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FLOWER DONATIONS
For more information email Dustin Cole dustindc@gmail.com
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St. Cyprian's& Cyprian's arc have active Facebook pages where you can read more about what's happening at Turk & Lyon. Please "Like" our pages and share with your network.
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Weekly E-Mail Archives
In January, 2011 St. Cyprian's began sending weekly e-newsletters. You can find an archive of all these messages here. Forward messages and invite friends, neighbors, and distant congregants to join our list. |
St. Cyprian's is a congregation emboldened by the opportunity to engage with our energized urban neighborhood to create a community
where everyone matters.
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