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EYC News
Rusty Booth, Youth Minister
The EYC groups along with the 20s and 30s group
will be holding a nonperishable food drive during the
month of March to benefit the Lorton Action Com-
munity Center (LCAC). Everyone is encouraged to
participate to help reach the goal of two tons of col-
lected food. If during the month of March, every per-
son brought one can of food every time coming to the
church, either for services, meetings or special events, Walking the Mourner’s Path
the food insecurity in the local community could be Are you or someone you know seeking comfort
eased. Food drive boxes will be positioned in the church,
and healing following the death of a loved one?
parish house, and Vestry house to receive donations.
Starting on April 5, Pohick Church will of-
LCAC distributes more than eight tons of food
fer Walking the Mourner’s Path, a Christ-based
a month to help 220 families a week with their food
ministry that seeks to serve individuals who are
needs. Many of these families with children would have
grieving. The program consists of a series of eight
to skip meals without the food assistance of LCAC. In-
dividuals and groups are needed to help fill the LCAC 90 minute, small group workshops which will be
pantry with nonperishable food and diapers. held in the Vestry House on Thursday evenings
During the Lenten season, consider feeding the from 7:30 pm until 9:00 pm.
hungry a priority and together a difference can be made For further information about the program and
in the lives of families in the community. the registration process, contact Nancy Bireley at
703-491-2471 or by email at judandnance@out-
look.com or Mary Howard at 703-407-1615 or
Martha Guild
email at marythompsonhoward@outlook.com.
The Martha Guild will NOT meet in March
so the members can participate in the Lent-
en Suppers and Programs. The next Martha
Guild meeting will be Wednesday, April 4 at
Send News!
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7:30 pm in Classroom A. All than March 15. Forward input by email in Word com-
women of the church are wel- patible format to Lori Buckius, raebuck@aol.com.
come to attend! Contact Con-
Design concerns and items for the
nie Myers at 703-201-2204 Sunday Service Volunteers page
or jetskiing@hotmail.com for should be addressed to
more information. Carmel Hodge, cchodge@aol.com.
Pohick Episcopal Church March 2018 • Page 3
Music Notes
Linda Egan, Minister of Music
Music Schedule • March 2018
Sunday, March 4 • Lent 3
9:00 am Choir of Pohick, St. Cecelia
Silence (for Lent)
St. Alban Choir
What is silence? 11:15 am Gloria Jackson, soprano
The space between words?
The breath at the end of sentences? Sunday, March 11 • Lent 4
The rests in music: a quarter rest, a half rest, 9:00 am Choir of Pohick, St. Francis Choir
a whole rest? 11:15 am TG Powell, mezzo soprano
This monthly report is part of the Vestry’s ongoing effort they say, “they are churches. If this dispute arose
to inform and update the Parish about the ongoing con- between two secular organizations, the party
troversies within The Episcopal Church (TEC) and the standing in Petitioners’ shoes
Anglican Communion. These controversies largely involve would have prevailed. Thus,
the blessing of same-sex unions, ordination of non-celibate far from yielding to the First
homosexuals, interpretation of Scripture, and breakdown
Amendment,” [keeping the
of traditional boundary lines between Provinces.
government out of religious
The long-running property dispute in the Di- disputes like this] the decision
ocese of South Carolina is now in the hands of actually violates it.”
the United States Supreme Court. Both the Episcopal Church
In 2012, the Diocese of South Carolina voted in South Carolina - the group
to “disassociate” itself from The Episcopal Church which wants to remain with The Episcopal
over issues of church polity and human sexuality. Church - and The Episcopal Church itself have
It sought to retain parish and diocesan properties indicated they do not intend to file a response.
and funds, and the name “The Episcopal Diocese The Supreme Court is scheduled to consider the
of South Carolina.” Episcopalians who wanted to request to hear the case at its conference in mid-
remain with the national church reorganized as March.
“The Episcopal Church in South Carolina.” Al- The Supreme Court has great leeway in decid-
most six years of legal battles have ensued. Last ing which cases it will hear. Thus far it has de-
summer, after a long de- clined to become involved in the various property
lay, the South Carolina disputes that have arisen within The Episcopal
Supreme Court narrowly Church since the consecration of Bp. Gene Rob-
ruled that property and inson in 2003. It is generally more likely to hear a
funds belonged to those case when lower courts are split as to how to apply
who wanted to remain the law. The disassociated diocese’s petition went
with the national church. out of its way to cite how different courts across
In February the disassociated group appealed the country have applied the “neutral principles”
the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. doctrine in recent years.
The controlling Supreme Court decision in It takes the votes of four justices to agree to
this area of law is a 1979 case Jones v. Wolf, often hear a case.
referred to simply as “Jones.” In it, the Court said In 2009, the Supreme Court declined to hear
church property disputes should be decided un- the case of St. James the Great Church in New-
der “neutral principles of law, developed for use in port Beach, California, where California courts
all property disputes.” This approach, it said, was had ruled that the property belonged to the Dio-
“completely secular” in operation. cese of Los Angeles. St. James’ petition likewise
But, as the Diocese of South Carolina points claimed the California Supreme Court had mis-
out in its petition asking the Court to hear its ap- applied Jones, and that it was being applied differ-
peal, courts in the intervening years have been di- ently by different courts.
vided as to what “neutral” means, or how to apply A separate case over trademark issues – basi-
these “neutral principles of law.”
“Petitioners are here for one simple reason,” Continued on page 7
Pohick Episcopal Church March 2018 • Page 7
Update on Issues in the Anglican Communion, one another and to pray that God will lead us to a
continued from page 6
common mind. “
cally, which group gets to use the name “Diocese It said the moratorium will remain in place.
of South Carolina” - is pending in federal courts. • This month, Abp. Justin Welby will mark
The judge had put the matter on hold, and ordered the fifth anniversary of his enthronement. He has
the two sides to try to settle the dispute through faced many challenges during those five years, pri-
mediation. That apparently was unsuccessful, and marily involving issues of human sexuality - the
the judge last month lifted the stay, allowing the role of gays and lesbians in the life of the church,
case to move forward. the role of women in ordained and consecrated
***
Elsewhere…
• Gafcon - the theologically conservative
Global Anglican Futures Conference - has its
first woman bishop. Actually, it has had one for
almost a year now. The Rev. Elizabeth Awut was
consecrated as assistant bishop of the diocese of
Rumbek last April. But no public announcement
was made about it until February. ministry of the church, and deep divisions within
As a Gafcon statement belatedly noting the the Anglican Communion over these issues. But
consecration said, “From the beginning of the when asked in an interview with the Church
Gafcon movement there have been a variety of Times as to which issue was the most difficult to
understandings among our members on the ques- deal with, he cited something else entirely: Safe-
tion of consecrating women to the episcopate. guarding of children and adults from abuse.
Recognising that this issue poses a threat to the “It’s the hardest because you’re dealing with
unity we prize, the Primates agreed in 2014 to do the Church’s sin,” he said. “You’re dealing with
what was within their power to affect a voluntary profound human weakness. You’re dealing with
moratorium on the consecration of women to the the consequences in damaged people, in people
episcopate. who’ve been terribly, terribly hurt. And it’s heart-
Abp. Deng Bul, primate of South Sudan, told breaking. .
the Gafcon primates the decision to consecrate “I think we’ve sought to address it, both in
Bp. Awut was a “personal” one, and “an extraor- mechanistic ways but also spiritually, in prayer, in
dinary action taken in the midst of civil unrest in attitude and culture. We’ve sought to address it in
a part of his country where most of the men were every way we can.”
engaged in armed conflict.” • Should the more theologically conservative
But he also told a radio interview he had long parts of the Anglican Communion have a greater
wanted to be to appoint a woman as bishop and say in choosing Abp. Justin’s successor when the
was pleased with the innovation. time comes? He was named Archbishop of Can-
The Gafcon statement said the primates terbury by Queen Elizabeth, who under English
“chose to not allow this anomaly to change the law serves as Supreme Governor of the Church of
course followed since 2014.” A task force studying England. His name was recommended to her by a
the issue of women in the episcopate will con- “Crown Nominations Commission,” or “CNC.”
tinue its work, “and the Provinces were urged to
continue the study of Scripture, to consult with Continued on page 8
Page 8 • March 2018 Pohick Episcopal Church
COFFEE HOUR
7:45 M/M Bireley M/M Sunderland M/M Jacobus M/M Jacobus TBD
9:00 M/M Myers M/M Ayorinde Persigeh/Dudley Derbes/TBD TBD
11:15 Darling/Antonelli TBD TBD TBD TBD
GREETERS
7:45 M/M Holben D. Smith B. Wagner M/M R. Jones S. Remaly
9:00 M/M Botts Schmid/Pasour M/M Ayorinde C. McCullough M/M Kullstam
11:15 P. Walden M/M Ickes Darling/Antonelli D. Sebastian B. Atkinson
DOCENTS
9:00 P. Kind J. Bartholomew N. Sage H. Parker H. Parker
11:15 D. Hamly B. Bland G. Delaune C. Darling H. Foresman
LAY READERS
7:45 Sunderland (P) Thorson (P) Sunderland (R) Thorson (R) Sunderland (R)
Thorson (R) Pasour (R) Booth (P) Booth (P) Foresman (P)
9:00 Prior (P) Faber (P) Sage (P) Egan (P) S. Harding (R)
Sage (R) Egan (R) Prior (R) Arning (R) M. Harding (P)
11:15 Nelson (R) S. Harding (P) Elston (R) Walden (P) Pasour (R)
Arning (P) M. Harding (R) Ayorinde (P) Pasour (R) Arning (P)
The Sunday Service Volunteers Schedule is also available at Pohick Church’s website, www.pohick.org, under “Ministries.”
Pohick Episcopal Church March 2018 • Page 11
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