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The Beatitudes   {JESUS ]  began to teach them, saying:
"Blessed are t he poor in sprit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed ar e those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the me ek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger 
and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Bles sed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy,
Blessed are t he pure in heart,
for they will see GOd.
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Correction

by Jerry L. Van Ma rter
Presbyterian News Service

A story [www.pcusa.org/pcnew s/2009/09180.htm] about a 2010
salary freeze and mandatory one-week fu rlough for GAC
employees in May (story #09180, dated March 6) reported 
that the 2009 General Assembly Mission Budget is "about
$100 mil lion."

The 2009 General Assembly Mission Budget, approved by the 
General Assembly Council in September 2008, is $110,885,317.

 
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Hard work and faith
San Jua n Island church readies 150th anniversary celebration

by the Rev . Joe Bettridge
Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church
Reprinted from  the Journal of the San Juans

FRIDAY HARBOR, WA ? As Friday Harbo r Presbyterian Church
anticipates its 150th anniversary in 2010, a bri ef review of the
church's origins seems in order.

A look ar ound the island ? floating 10 miles of the coast
of Vancouver Island b etween northwest Washington State and
Victoria, British Columbia ? rev eals a number of obvious
physical landmarks that testify to the congre gation's
longevity.

There are three church buildings still  in existence:

-The current Spring Street church (1988);

 
-The 1897 church building, also on Spring Street, that now
serves a s an office;

- and The historic Valley Church (Presbyterian)
 
located at the San Juan Cemetery (1882).

In addition, a numbe r of the town's streets are named after
prominent 19th century Presbyt erians ? names like Tucker, Blair,
Guard, Jensen and Carter.

 
Can we rely on the traditional 1860 date as the beginning
point for  Presbyterian ministry and mission on San Juan
Island? Frances Seels w rote her outstanding history of the
Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church  in 1987. The Presbyterian
Story on San Juan Island begins with the fol lowing
paragraphs:

"This story begins anno Domini 1860. It  was at about this
time, tradition has it, that a visiting missionary,  a
'colored' man from Victoria, was the first to hold services
in  a log school house at Portland Fair Hill.

"In due time he met wi th the Rev. Thomas Summerville,
pastor of a Presbyterian Church locate d in Victoria on
Vancouver Island. Thereafter, in consequence of this 
meeting, Rev. Summerville undertook to minister to the
people ac ross the channel himself, dividing his time
between Victoria and San J uan."

By 1870, there was worship every Sunday, led not by the
 
itinerant missionary from Victoria but by San Juan's own
resident . .. sandy sideburned, beloved T.J. Weekes.

Probably in the late 1 860s, young T.J. Weekes, who was born
in Kent, England, left his home  and sailed around the Horn
to land in Victoria. Here he met Thomas Sum merville. In
1870, Summerville sent young Weekes to the San Juan Islan d
Church to become their regular pastor.

I have examined th e source documents cited by Frances
Seels. In addition, I have spoken  about our common heritage
and history with the Rev. Ian Victor, the cu rrent pastor of
St. Andrews' Presbyterian Church in Victoria. I have a lso
consulted with the St. Andrews archivist, Alan Arneil.
These  gentlemen graciously gave me a copy of The Kirk that
Faith Built ? the  authorized history of the St. Andrews
Presbyterian Church in Victoria . Arneil provided me with a
copy of the Rev. Summerville's April 28, 1 867
correspondence from Victoria to the Colonial Committee of
the  Church of Scotland. In this report, Summerville
describes his extensi ve missionary trips to communities on
Vancouver Island. While he does  not mention San Juan
Island, this correspondence does establish Rev. 
Summerville's willingness to regularly minister to folks at
some  distance from Victoria.

I discussed Summerville's unrecorded vi sits to San Juan
Island with National Park Service historian Michael V ouri.
In the early 1860s, San Juan Island enjoyed a peaceful
join t occupation by British and American troops. There was
also a growing  civilian population.

San Juan Island would have been an attracti ve, if not
irresistible, destination for early Presbyterian missionary 
interest from Victoria. It is hard to imagine how the
well-trave led and mission-minded Summerville would not have
eagerly visited this  nearby and potentially fruitful
missionary field.

The Summ erville connection with San Juan Island is solidly
documented a couple  of years later when Summerville sent
the Englishman, Rev. T.J. Weekes , from Victoria to San Juan
Island.

The Mary Jane Fraser ac count also points to an 1860
beginning date for the Presbyterian story  on San Juan
Island. Mrs. Fraser was interviewed in 1936 as a part of  an
official State of Washington compilation of pioneer
reminiscen ces from territorial days and before. She
describes the arrival of "th e first minister to come to the
island" in circa 1859.

Davi d Richardson. author of Pig War Islands, relied on the
oral history of  island pioneers to set 1860 as the date for
the first worship service s on Portland Fair Hill. We know
that several years earlier there was  a considerable
fellowship of Presbyterians and Congregationalists in 
Victoria under the leadership of Rev. John Hall. It was
from thi s diverse Calvinist community in Victoria that our
first missionary ca me across Haro Straits to proclaim
Christ on San Juan Island.

 
>From the mid-1860s, the congregation on San Juan Island
continued  to relate to the Presbyterian Community in
Victoria. In particular, th e Rev. Thomas Summerville, the
founding pastor of Victoria's St. Andre ws Presbyterian
Church, encouraged the San Juan Island congregation in 
those early years.

Thus, the roots of Friday Harbor Presby terian Church derive
not from American Presbyterianism but from Victor ia, BC and
the Church of Scotland.

We have also located the  approximate site of the
schoolhouse/church on Portland Fair Hill. Thi s comes from
several sources including long time local memory, pioneer 
accounts of the walking distances to the schoolhouse and a
pictu re of the structure itself.

If you look from the beach on the ea stern side of the City
of Victoria toward San Juan Island, you can eas ily imagine
a 10-mile missionary voyage to San Juan Island in 1860
 
followed by a hike up Portland Fair Hill to the
schoolhouse/church. 

Speculation continues about the ethnicity of the "colored"
 
missionary sent to the island from the Victoria
Presbyterian group.  Though early suggestions were that he
might have been Hawaiian, Mary  Jane Fraser's account makes
clear that he was a man of black African a ncestry.

Why ponder these historical matters?

We live  in a beautiful place surrounded by sea and sky,
forests, fauna, flowe rs and farms. Everywhere we look we
see the evidence of a good and lov ing Creator. We live on
an island that is blessed with a pace of life  that
encourages serenity of soul. This too, is God's kind gift
to  us.

We also dwell in time as well as place. We are creatures
 
that experience duration. The Bible asks us to reflect on
both the  shortness and the beauty of our earthly life. We
are not the first to  live on our island, nor will we be the
last.

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Episcopal Life Daily
March 9, 2009
 
Episcopal Life Online is available at http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ elife.

Today's Episcopal Life Daily includes:

* TOP S TORY - March 22 bulletin inserts celebrate World Water Day
* TOP STORY  - The 'emergent church' - growing but hard to define
* PEOPLE - Virgi nia Bishop Lee to serve as interim dean of Grace Cathedral,
San Franci sco
* DAYBOOK - March 10, 2009: Today in Scripture, Prayer, History
 
* CATALYST - Henry Nouwen - A Book of Hours

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TOP STORIES

March 22 bulletin inserts celebrate  World Water Day

[Episcopal News Service] March 22 has been desig nated World Water Day by the
United Nations. In Episcopal Life Weekly  bulletin inserts for that Sunday,
Mary Getz of the Episcopal Church's  Office of Government Relations writes
that "water is central to our un derstanding of God's relationship to the
world, carrying the image of  renewal, promise, and hope," and that the
conservation and wise use of  water is, therefore, a duty of all Christians.
She describes steps th at can be taken to improve access to clean water for
people all over t he world. 

Bulletin inserts are available at
http://www.epi scopalchurch.org/79901_105762_ENG_HTM.htm.

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 The 'emergent church' - growing but hard to define

By Lisa B. Ha milton

[Episcopal Life] New ways of "being church" that develope d in the past
couple of decades are gathered under the term "emergent  church." 

It's also called a conversation, a movement, a phenome non - and defining it
is "like chasing mercury around a chemistry lab  table," said Phyllis Tickle,
author of The Great Emergence: How Christ ianity is Changing and Why.

Although their emphasis on Scripture , the sacraments and their relationship
to the established church vary  widely, emergent churches are linked by their
dedication to worship a nd ministry in the context of their location.

Full story: http:/ /www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_105727_ENG_HTM.htm

More Top Stori es: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/elife

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PEOPLE

Virginia Bishop Lee to serve as interim dean  of Grace Cathedral, San
Francisco

[Episcopal News Service]  Bishop Peter Lee of Virginia has accepted a call
from Bishop Marc Andr us of California to serve as interim dean of Grace
Cathedral, San Fran cisco, effective October 1. 

In a March 6 letter announcing this  next step in his ministry, Lee said,
"While I will depart Virginia wi th sadness at leaving so many whom I love, I
am excited and challenged  by the call to serve at one of the nation's
primary urban cathedral c hurches."

Full story: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_10576 0_ENG_HTM.htm

More People: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81831_ ENG_HTM.htm

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DAYBOOK

 On March 10, 2009...

* Today in Scripture: http://www.episcopalc hurch.org/82457_ENG_HTM.htm

* Today in Prayer: Anglican Cycle of  Prayer:
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm

* T oday in History: On March 10, 1748, John Newton, captain of a slave ship, 
was converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. After becom ing an
Anglican priest, Newton became a zealous abolitionist and wrote  the famous
hymn "Amazing Grace."

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CATALYST

"Henry Nouwen - A Book of Hours" from Church P ublishing, Inc., compiled by
Robert Waldron, 160 pages, hardcover, c.  2009, $25

[Church Publishing, Inc.] Henri Nouwen - A Book of Hou rs is a beautiful new
compilation based on the writings of Henri Nouwe n, one of the greatest
spiritual teachers of our time. It is edited an d compiled by Robert Waldron.

Nouwen spent his life helping peop le respond to the universal "yearning for
love, unity and communion th at doesn't go away." He probed deeply at the
meaning of living a spiri tual life that embraces pain and suffering in
ourselves and in the wor ld, yet nevertheless gives us freedom to love deeply
wherever we are. 

More than a prayer book, Henri Nouwen: A Book of Hours, if foll owed
faithfully, helps structure our daily routine with prayer; thus,  not only
sanctifying our relationship with God, but also sanctifying t he minutes and
hours of each day.

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