Summer 2025

Written By Jane Culliton

Our Mission is to be an inclusive community of faith focused on healing, nurturing, and deepening relationshp with God and all creation.

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Our Mission is to be an inclusive community of faith focused on healing, nurturing, and deepening relationshp with God and all creation. 〰️

 Congregational Collect 

Developed by the Building Bridges; Healing Divides Team

Divine Creator, source of all love, source of all hope, source of all forgiveness. You have called us together and brought us to this time so that we may embody your loving call. Open our hearts to hear your voice and live fully in your presence within the community of all creation. May the breath of the Spirit endow us the grace to live these words we pray. Through Christ, who walks beside us in love, one with the Divine Creator and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

The Church of the Resurrection, Roslyn welcomes all on Sundays for worship at 9:00 am (Summer Schedule) both in person and on Zoom. Please be sure to share your email address with any of us if want to be included in the Zoom invitation and are not on our email list. If you have any urgent need, you will find an emergency contact number through our church’s answering machine at (509) 649-2283.

Upcoming Worship Services

9:00 am Sunday Worship

June 29 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament 

July 6 Holy Eucharist 

July 13 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament 

July 20 Holy Eucharist with Healing Anointing

July 27 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament 

August 3 Holy Eucharist 

August 10 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament 

August 17 Holy Eucharist with Healing Anointing

August 24 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament

August 31 Holy Eucharist

September 7  Holy Eucharist

10:00 am Sunday Worship

September 14 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament

September 21  Holy Eucharist

September 28 Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament

Additional Worship Opportunities 

Episcopal Church Women (ECW)

Carol Baxter, President

Baptism

The ECW hosted a baptismal luncheon in May.  Brandon and Kelsey Synder, parents of their new son, Lane, brought forth their newest member to join our church family, with the added blessing of Bishop Gretchen Rehberg presiding. Welcome, Lane!

Rummage Sale

We also held our yearly Rummage Sale on May 23 and 24.   Another great event was made possible by wonderful donations from our congregation and surrounding community.  We were loaned the use of a popcorn machine for the event which supplied free popcorn for all.  It was a big hit.

Outreach

Scholarships

The Church of the Resurrection awarded three scholarships to the Graduating Class of 2025. Tom Baxter presented the Alfred and Margaret Choyce Memorial Scholarship to Tyler Bator and Doris Simpson.  Kaylen Halverson, not pictured, received the Arlene Schuman Scholarship. These scholarships are a part of our annual Outreach Program, and we are grateful for their generous grantors.

Buildings and Grounds

Well, the vegetable garden has been planted, and the surrounding flower gardens and lawn have had their first round of weeding and mowing.  The raspberries are in bloom as are the irises and other ground cover.  Spring has sprung.  

Washington Outdoor School

The Washington Outdoor School is out for the summer.  Leadership Camp begins June 23-26th.  Summer Camp begins June 30-July 3rd.  Garden Day Camps are tentatively scheduled for June 27th- August 8th. 

Congratulations to our scholarship recipients: Tyler Bator, Doris Simpson and Kaylen Halverson (not pictured).

  • Facial tissue

  • Toothbrush and toothpaste

  • Band-Aids

  • Sunscreen

  • Lotion

  • Lip Balm

  • Handwipes

  • Feminine hygiene products

  • Dried fruit

  • Disposable handwarmers

Collections and Donation

Our Outreach Program continues to collect food for the Hope Source  Food Bank. We will also accept a moderate amount of clothing, etc. We also remember to help with food for our family fur pets. Dog and cat food is always in need as well. 

Well, the vegetable garden has been planted, and the surrounding flower gardens and lawn have had their first round of weeding and mowing.  The raspberries are in bloom as are the irises and other ground cover.  Spring has sprung.  

Additionally, we continue collecting items for first aid/hygiene kits to donate to Hope Source. We are asking for these items for donations. You can bring them to the church or contact Carol Baxter at (856-981-9296):

 

Community of Hope International (COHI)

Karen Gee

The Community of Hope International is a lay pastoral care organization of the Episcopal Church grounded in Benedictine spirituality. It empowers lay people to serve others through compassionate listening and encouraging each other to listen in love, to be a non-judgmental and listening presence to those we encounter on a daily basis.

Due to the various areas of the state that our members live in, including Tennessee, our monthly meetings continue to be held on Zoom.  We open with prayer, then The Rule of Benedict ‘s chapter for the day on which we are meeting is read. We have been doing Lectio Divina with the readings. Time is then spent debriefing our experiences and feelings since our last meeting and welcoming guidance from each other.   We call our group Circle of Care.  It truly is. We close in prayer.

Resurrection is again blessed to host a lunch meeting with our COHI members July 12, 2025, in our Church Hall.  It is always a real joy to have the face-to-face contact rather than meeting on Zoom. 

If anyone is interested in an upcoming COHI training, or wants more information, check out the diocesan website https://www.spokanediocese.org  or email one of us.

Summer Update from Creation Care

Kat Kaatz

We kicked off the gardening season with a visit from Swiftwater Learning Center students, followed by “One Great Hour of Weeding” after Coffee Hour this spring. Students helped weed and clean up the vegetable garden as well as divide irises in the planter by the south door. As usual, they were very friendly and hardworking. Church members did more weeding after Coffee Hour, which was very helpful. Nevertheless, there were still weeds!! A big thank you and shout out to Carol Baxter and Fred Correnti for completing the weeding in the beds on the north and west sides of the building and spreading compost. The beds are beautiful and in tip-top condition. Friendly neighbor Fred also completed installing drip irrigation in the herb garden to the east, along the fruit trees, and in the gardens to the north. Hopefully, these hoses, on timers, will save us a lot of water. We are now using an oscillating sprinkler only on the raised beds and on the lawn.

Worship and Music Team

Brian Sellers-Petersen and Susan Johnson

Wednesday Compline has shifted back to 5:00 pm in the Meditation Garden as well as on Zoom. Also known as Night Prayer, we use the Book of Common Prayer from the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, that incorporates inclusive and expansive language.

We continue our Tuesday Zoom Centering Prayer Group at 5:00. To quote from Contemplative Outreach, Centering Prayer is a receptive method of silent prayer in which we experience God's presence within us, closer than breathing, closer than thinking, closer than consciousness itself. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship (https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/).

Our Centering Prayer group has expanded beyond our own congregation to include participants from across the state, even from other states. We are grateful to share time of contemplative silence together. If you are interested in knowing more about Centering Prayer or would like to be included in our email list, contact Susan Johnson.

We are pleased to host a Summer Solstice Gathering on Sunday, June 22, at 5:00 pm. All are welcome!

Website News!

Tom Baxter

We are closing in rapidly on the "Publishing" (going live) of our new website.  Jane Culliton (our website building expert) has been working diligently to help us transform our old website into a new and vital means of communication for both our membership and the world around us.  Kate Rogers and I have been assisting Jane weekly with adjustments and input for the site.  Our job has been to update, and in some cases eliminate, ten-year-old information.  We are also looking to organize the information so it is easier to find for someone new to our congregation.

Our criteria for the site has been to make it more active (less stagnant media), more eye-appealing, and more timely.  I believe we are doing a great job in meeting those objectives.  We will also have a more interactive calendar of events to help everyone keep track of all we have going on.  From a website manager perspective, the new website tool (Squarespace) is much easier to use and should allow me to keep the site updated weekly.

I will be presenting  a live view of the new website during Coffee Hour (10:30 am) on Sunday June 22.  I am looking forward to your feedback on our work so far.

Reflections from Kate, Your Bishop's Warden

Kate Rogers

Greetings! As we move toward autumn and reflect on the summer, let us give thanks. Summer has brought us a new Terra Divina service that we offer at the Creator’s Law Sculpture in Roslyn Park/Runje Field, now to be held every 4th Sunday of the month. We also recently experienced a beautiful outdoor service at Salmon La Sac, followed by a potluck lunch and a delightful walk. Additionally, we are making plans for a combined service with Grace Episcopal during summer, 2026. It, too, will most likely be held at the Roslyn Park/Runje Field. We continue to “try new things” in the Holy Communion from the Reserved Sacrament services which offer something more accessible to those who are unaccustomed to our Episcopal Liturgies, while continuing to provide a spiritual worship service for those of us who respond familiarly to the words of the Book of Common Prayer.

 

Last quarter, I wrote about the first step regarding where our church falls on three indicators of a thriving rural organization as written by The Lewis Center for Church Leadership:

1.     A thriving rural church has a clear theological identity.

2.     A thriving rural church has a commitment to community.

3.     A thriving rural church practices good stewardship.

 

This quarter brings us to the second step: A thriving rural church has a commitment to community.

 

Rural churches often have a history of a long presence in the community. They have seen how the community has changed and grown over the years. A vital congregation takes that a step further, connecting the story of the community to the story of God. At the Episcopal Church in Roslyn, we have made this connection through the mission statement that Spirit has given us and through our stated value of welcoming all. We eagerly look to uncover potential opportunities and see ourselves as assets to the community. From an action viewpoint, we welcome back the Washington Outdoor School (WOS) as they bring youthful laughter and learning to the church and the community environs. 

A congregation committed to the community knows that community well. And, because of their theological and spiritual formation, they know their responsibility to the community. Through involvement in the Building Bridges; Healing Divides (BB;HD) program, we are learning more about the needs of the community through ethnographic interviews during which we learn about the spiritual longings of the people in our community and how they may be looking to nature as a way of meeting those longings. We make an effort to include young families as well as various income levels and demographics.

The Summer Solstice outdoor service led by Brian Sellers-Petersen is a tangible result of these interviews. Due to the initial attendance of approximately 23 people, the gathering has progressed to what we have named Terra Divina (Sacred Earth), an outdoor service held the 4th Sunday each month. All are welcome. Please join us.

Blessings and Peace, Kate

Diocese of Spokane Corner

2025 Episcopal Diocese of Spokane Prayer

Creator of all, you speak life into being and call us into holy community. Open our ears to listen, enliven our curiosity to learn, and hasten our courage to respond. Teach us how to listen and love as you do, joining with all of creation as we proclaim and embody your Good News in all that we undertake. May the Spirit’s breath empower us to live these words we pray, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Jane Culliton