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Adventurer
Lent
OF
THE
CATHEDRAL
CHURCH
Vol. 39, No. 12 OF
THE
ADVENT
•
BIRMINGHAM,
www.AdventBirmingham.org
News & Events
At Noonday this Week: Wesley Hill,
Robert Smith, and Malone Gilliam
Dr. Wesley Hill, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry in
Ambridge, Pennsylvania, will preach Monday and Tuesday, March 23 and 24, at 12:05
p.m. The Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, Jr., Professor of Christian Preaching at Beeson Divinity
School in Birmingham, Alabama, will be the
noonday preacher Wednesday, March 25.
The Rev. Malone Gilliam, Associate Rector at
St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville,
Tennessee, will preach Thursday and Friday,
March 26 and 27. For more information, see
pages 2 and 3.
Fred Teardo to Perform Symphonie de la
Passion on Palm Sunday
Advent organist Fred Teardo will perform
Maleingreau’s Symphonie de la Passion on
Palm Sunday, March 29, 2:30 p.m. in the
Nave. This work contains four dramatic
movements that vividly depict various scenes
from Christ’s Passion. See page 3 for details.
Fontaine Pope Joining Small Groups Staff
Fontaine Pope will begin serving part-time
as Co-Director of Small Groups in April. See
page 3 for more information.
This Sunday:
March 22, 2015
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Services:
7:30 a.m. Holy Communion
9:00 a.m. Holy Communion
11:00 a.m. Morning Prayer
Canon Smalley will preach
at all morning services.
5:00 p.m. Evening Service
Preacher: Canon Leighton
AL
Week of March 22, 2015
A Word from Canon Leighton
During a recent visit
from my parents, my
father and I reminisced
about a rainy day almost 22 years ago.
We found ourselves in
Three Rivers Stadium,
in a congregation of
tens of thousands of people, listening to
Billy Graham preach the Gospel. At the end
of his sermon, “Just As I Am” began to
play, and we walked slowly with hundreds
of others down to the field. My father
prayed for me, and then we parted ways.
As a supervisor of counselors for the
event, his job was to keep tabs on a few
dozen people who were praying with those
responding to the Gospel. He recently
“’fessed up” that he couldn’t help lingering on my abhorrently pink anorak, easy to
see through the Pittsburgh drizzle. For him,
part of the joy of the event was in getting
to minister together to those in need.
Looking back, I remember feeling honored to get to witness how God was working powerfully in someone else’s life. At 14,
I had experienced God’s grace repeatedly in
my own times of need, very often through
the vehicle of other people. But during that
summer of 1993, I had the opportunity to
be an instrument of peace by walking with
others as they heard the Gospel, repented,
and received mercy.
I don’t necessarily feel like I am an “evangelist,” even though I get to get in a pulpit
and preach. I have all too often waffled between fear and insensitivity in approaching
others, one-on-one, to talk about what Jesus has done for me. But serving as a counselor in 1993 gave me the courage to trust
that God will work through me even when
I don’t feel qualified or worthy.
As St. Paul wrote, the Father of all mercies “comforts us in all our affliction, so
that we may be able to comfort those who
are in any affliction, with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by God”
(2 Cor. 1:3-4).
This August, Billy’s son, Franklin Graham,
will lead Birmingham in an evangelistic Festival of Hope. In preparation, Advent will
host the “Christian Life and Witness” class
on three Saturday mornings this spring. To
learn more, see page 2 of this Adventurer. If
you feel called to be an instrument of peace
to those in need who will be responding to
the good news, please consider joining me
by attending the class.
- Deborah
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” - Romans 10:15
Adult Education: 10:10 - 10:50 a.m.
The Dean’s Class (Refectory) - Acts 11: Back to the Future The End of Cultural Christianity - Dean Pearson
Newcomers’ and Inquirers’ Class (Living Room) - The Bible:
A Good Look at the Good Book - Canon Smalley
This Is Really Happening!: A Class for Parents of 6th
Graders (Chapter Room) - Jane and Don Menendez
Christ Is Better: Hebrews (Assembly Hall) - Mark Gignilliat
Dante’s Inferno: Knowing Ourselves and Knowing God
(Day School Library) - Dennis Sansom
Trinity Bible Study – Paul’s Magnum Opus: An Open
Study of Romans (Diocesan Conference Room) - The Weak
and The Strong - Jon Harbuck and Steve Tilghman
Children’s & Youth
Education:
Classes are offered for 3-years
and older. See Sunday’s service
leaflet for details. Nurseries are
open 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Lectionary:
Psalm 51:1-13 or
Psalm 119:9-16
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Hebrews 5:5-10
St. John 12:20-33
The 9:00 a.m. service is broadcast live on WERC 960 AM, 105.5 FM, and www.WERCFM.com.
Sermon texts and recordings are available at www.AdventBirmingham.org.
Cathedral Church of the Advent • 20th Street & 6th Avenue North • (205) 251-2324 • www.AdventBirmingham.org
G E T INV OLV ED! SEE WH AT’S G OIN G O N!
serving & outreach
Festival of Hope
Advent to Host Class in Preparation for Festival
Churches and pastors around the Birmingham
area have been praying and working together for
the last several months to prepare to sponsor an
evangelistic Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham this August at UAB’s Bartow Arena. Advent is
pleased to share in this sponsorship by hosting three
sessions of the “Christian Life and Witness” course
over three Saturday mornings this spring (April 18
and 25, and May 2) from 9:00-11:00 in the Nave.
A visiting pastor from the Billy Graham Evangelistic
Association will teach the class, providing a wonderful opportunity to equip those present for effective evangelism and discipleship. This free course is
open to anyone over 13 and promises to revitalize
our relationships with Christ, while equipping us
to share that relationship with others effectively.
Counselors who will pray with those responding to
the Gospel at the August festival will be selected
from class attendees. For more information, contact
Canon Leighton (226-3511, Deborah@Cathedral
Advent.com).
spiritual growth
& fellowship
Seniors’ Ministries
Friday Feast at Lenten Lunches March 20
Advent Seniors will attend the Lenten Preaching
service with Bishop Mike Hill on Friday, March 20,
12:05 p.m., and then eat lunch in the Refectory. The
shuttle will leave Shades Valley Presbyterian Church
(2305 Montevallo Road, 35223) at 11:30 a.m. Call
Katherine at 443-8559 for more information.
Fellowship Groups
Happy Mediums Dinner this Sunday
Happy Mediums (Advent 40-somethings) will
meet for dinner and fellowship this Sunday, March
22, 7:00-8:30 p.m. at the home of Sally and Bo
Lineberry (2973 Briarcliff Road, 35223). Canon
Schneider will speak. Cost is $15/person, BYOB.
Contact Sally Lineberry (970-3218, Sally.Lineberry@
gmail.com) for details.
Pastoral Notice: If you are going into the hospital, have need of prayer or counsel, or have a
family member unable to attend church, please
call the Pastoral Care Office at 226-3500.
March 22, 2015
worship
Lenten Noonday Preaching
Wesley Hill to Preach Monday and Tuesday
Dr. Wesley Hill, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at
Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, will
preach Monday and Tuesday, March 23 and 24, at 12:05
p.m.
Wesley Hill discovered a love for Scripture and theology
while an undergraduate at Wheaton College, and was confirmed in the Church of England while in graduate school at
Durham University. His teaching and research interests are
shaped by the conviction that the study of Scripture and attention to the church’s creedal and doctrinal traditions belong together in the
theological task.
Dr. Hill is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality, Paul and the Trinity, and the forthcoming Spiritual
Friendship. He co-founded the website SpiritualFriendship.org and writes regularly for Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and First Things.
Beeson’s Robert Smith Returns to Speak Wednesday
The Rev. Dr. Robert Smith, Jr., Professor of Christian
Preaching at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, will be the noonday preacher Wednesday, March 25.
An ordained minister, Robert Smith was Pastor of New
Mission Missionary Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, for
20 years. He taught at The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary before his call to Beeson.
A popular teacher and preacher, Dr. Smith has spoken
at more than 95 universities and seminaries around the
world, and he won teaching awards at both seminaries at which he has served.
He is the author of the award-winning book, Doctrine that Dances: Bringing
Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life, which Preaching magazine in 2010
named as one of the 25 most influential books on preaching in the last 25
years. His research interests include the place of passion in preaching and the
literary history of African American preaching. He and his wife Wanda are the
parents of four adult children.
Men’s Ministry
Cookout Set for March 26
Advent men are invited to a cookout on Thursday, March 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m.,
at the home of Michael Sansbury (4310 Old Leeds Road, 35213). The guest
speaker will be the Rev. Malone Gilliam, one of our Lenten preachers and Associate Rector at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tennessee. His topic
will be Time Keeps on Slippin’, Slippin’, Slippin’: Can Busy Guys Grow in Christ?
Take a Hike this Spring
You can register on our website for the Men’s Spring Hike, set for ThursdaySunday, April 16-19. The Men’s Hike is a unique approach to a church retreat.
This four-day, 30-mile backpacking trip is a great way to unplug from the smart
phone and the board room, and connect instead to God and other men of your
church. It is physically challenging, spiritually enriching, and a ton of fun. Come
experience it with us! Register: AdventBirmingham.org/ministries/men. Questions: [email protected]).
Cathedral Church of the Advent
Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me,
for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!
Psalm 25:7
Lenten Noonday Preaching
Nashville’s Malone Gilliam to Preach Thursday and Friday
The Rev. Malone Gilliam, Associate Rector for
Family Ministries at St. George’s Episcopal Church
in Nashville, Tennessee, will preach Thursday and
Friday, March 26 and 27, at 12:05 p.m.
Malone Gilliam also serves as Chaplain to St.
George’s Kindergarten. A graduate of Trinity
School for Ministry, he previously served as Pastoral Associate for Pastoral Care at Church of the
Holy Cross in Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.
Prior to his call to ordained ministry, Mr. Gilliam had two different careers: working in corporate meeting planning in the Southeast, and then with Advanced Micro Devices, an
integrated circuit manufacturer in Austin, Texas. Among his influential “mentors from afar,” he includes the Torrence brothers, Thomas
and James; C.S. Lewis; Malcolm Smith; and Brennan Manning. He is
married to Mary, and they have four daughters.
Advent Small Groups
Fontaine Pope Joining Staff as Co-Director
We are very happy to announce that Fontaine Pope (right) will join us part-time in April
as Co-Director of Small Groups. She will also
be coordinating special events for the parish.
Fontaine has been a member of Advent for
22 years. She has served in many capacities,
including working on staff in Children’s Ministries, co-chairing our Lenten Lunch ministry,
and serving on the Vestry. She will be a wonderful addition to the current staff, and she is
excited to work with our growing Small Groups ministry!
education
An Evening with Wesley Hill
Lenten Preacher to Speak at Cranmer House March 23
We hope you can join us Monday evening, March 23, 7:00-8:30
p.m. at Cranmer House for “An Evening with Wesley Hill: On Washed
and Waiting, thinking about friendship theologically, and more.”
Andrew Pearson will interview Wesley Hill, Assistant Professor of
Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry. Dr. Hill is the author
of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and
Homosexuality and of the forthcoming Spiritual Friendship: Finding
Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian (due in April).
From his own experience, Dr. Hill offers warm, compassionate,
articulate, and faithful consideration of some important questions,
certainly questions facing the church and culture generally, and
many families and friends specifically.
Please feel free to invite friends - all are most welcome. Cranmer
House is located at 2828 Culver Road, 35223. Questions? Please
contact Gil Kracke (226-3516, [email protected]).
www.AdventBirmingham.org • Phone (205) 251-2324
making music
Cathedral Concert Series
Fred Teardo to Perform Symphonie de la Passion
On Palm Sunday, March 29, at 2:30 p.m., our Director of
Music and Organist Fred Teardo will perform the immensely
powerful Symphonie de la Passion, written by Belgian organist Paul de Maleingreau in 1920. The Symphony contains four
dramatic movements that vividly depict various scenes from
Christ’s Passion, and, like many of Maleingreau’s compositions, draws heavily on Gregorian chant. It is dedicated to the
celebrated 15th-century Flemish painter Rogier Van der Weyden, whose art inspired Maleingreau. Please join us (note earlier starting time) for a meditative performance of this rarely
heard work to start off Holy Week. Parking will be available
in the Financial Center parking deck.
book store
Books by Wesley Hill
Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness
and Homosexuality - How do the gospel, holiness, and indwelling sin play out in the life of a Christian struggling with samesex attraction? And how do brothers and sisters in Christ show
love to them? In this book that is part memoir and part theological reflection, Hill offers wise counsel that is biblically faithful, theologically serious, and oriented to the life and practice
of the church. Also available in late April is Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a Celibate Gay Christian.
This book reimagines friendship, particularly for single, celibate
Christians, as a robust form of love worthy of honor and attention in communities of faith.
Easter eggs symbolize the
empty tomb of Jesus. Though
an egg appears to be like the
stone of a tomb, a bird hatches
from it with life; similarly, the
Easter egg, for Christians, is a reminder that Jesus rose from the
grave, and that those who believe will also experience eternal
life. Come see what we have to
remind us of Jesus’ resurrection.
We still need Sunday volunteers. Please call Cindy Funderburk at 3223-2959.
Store hours are MondayThursday, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.;
Fridays during Lent, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m.; and Sunday, 8:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Contact us: 3232959, [email protected]. Visit us: EpiscoBooks.com.
March 22, 2015
diocesan staff
The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan, Bishop of Alabama
The Rt. Rev. Santosh K. Marray, Assistant Bishop of Alabama
advent staff
The Very Rev. Andrew C. Pearson, Jr., Dean of the Cathedral
The Rev. Canon R. Craig Smalley, Canon Pastor and
Day School Chaplain
The Rev. Canon Joseph A. Gibbes, Canon for Christian Education
The Rev. Canon Deborah R. Leighton, Canon Missioner and
Director of Women’s Ministries
The Rev. Canon Matthew C. Schneider, Canon for Parish Life and
Evangelism
The Rev. Katherine P. Jacob, Deacon
Stephen J. McCarthy, Jr., Curacy Fellow
memorials:
transitions:
Andrew William Stumpf: (Endowment Fund)
by John M. Ashurst, Jr.; May Belle Scott • (Music
Gifts Were Given In Memory Of:
Discretionary Fund) by Samuel E. Urmey
The Rev. Mark Howard Wilson: (Outreach) by Mr. Sally Heath Ellis: (Music Discretionary Fund) by
and Mrs. Don Menendez
Katy Ottensmeyer and Lucy and Noel Merrill
Ronald Bruce Barze, Sr.: (Outreach) by Mr. and Mimi Arrington: (Women’s Ministries) by Nan
Broughton
Mrs. Don Menendez
Alice Derrick Reynolds: (Outreach) by Rhett Tha- In Honor of John Goodman: (Cathedral Choir
Fund) by H. H. Goodman
gard
Birth: Samuel Scott
Patterson, son of Michael and Rebecca, on
February 23
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Regular worship
schedule
Allen Ross Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 7 a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- Dr. Wesley Hill 12:05 p.m.
An Evening with
Wesley Hill - Cranmer House - 7 p.m.
Men’s Hike Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 6:30 a.m.
Women’s Bible
Study - Conference
Room - 11 a.m.
Noonday Preaching - Dr. Wesley Hill
- 12:05 p.m.
Holy Communion Chapel - 11:30 a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- The Rev. Dr. Robert
Smith - 12:05 p.m.
Lectionary Bible
Study - Undercroft
- 3:45 & 4:45 p.m.
Sunrise Sinners Refectory - 7 a.m.
Women’s Bible
Studies - Cranmer
House - 7 & 9:45
a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- The Rev. Malone
Gilliam - 12:05 p.m.
Men’s Bible Study Cranmer House - 7
a.m.
Women’s Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 9:15 a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- The Rev. Malone
Gilliam - 12:05 p.m
Making Palm
Crosses - Refectory
- 9 a.m.
Mar 29
30
31
Apr 1
2
3
4
Palm Sunday
Holy Communion
at all services
Allen Ross Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 7 a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- Cameron Cole 12:05 p.m.
20s Bible Study
- Cranmer House 7:30 p.m.
Men’s Hike Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 6:30 a.m.
Women’s Bible
Study - Conference
Room - 11 a.m.
Noonday Preaching
- Dr. Mark Gignilliat
- 12:05 p.m.
Holy Communion Chapel - 11:30 a.m.
Noonday Preaching - The Very Rev.
Frank F. Limehouse
- 12:05 p.m.
Lectionary Bible
Study - Undercroft 3:45 & 4:45 p.m.
Maundy Thursday
Sunrise Sinners Refectory - 7 a.m.
Women’s Bible Studies - 7 & 9:45 a.m.
Noonday Preaching - The Very Rev.
Frank F. Limehouse
- 12:05 p.m.
Good Friday
Men’s Bible Study Cranmer House - 7
a.m.
Women’s Bible
Study - Cranmer
House - 9:15 a.m.
The Liturgy for
Good Friday - noon
Women’s Sacred
Saturday - Cranmer
House - 9:30 a.m.
Organ Concert:
Symphonie de la
Passion - Nave 2:30 p.m.
Every Sunday: Breakfast - Refectory, 8:00 a.m.
Monday-Friday: AA - Coe Conference Room, noon
Monday-Friday (except April 3): Lenten Lunches, Refectory/Clingman, 12:05 p.m.
coming up:
•Men’s Cookout: Thursday, March 26, 4310 Old Leeds Road, 6:30 p.m.
•Maundy Thursday: April 2 - Choral Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar,
Nave, 6:00 p.m.
•Good Friday Children’s Program (5K-4th grade: April 3,
Refectory, noon
•Sunday of the Resurrection: Easter Day - Sunday, April
5 - Festal Eucharist at 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., and 11:00
a.m.; Evening Service at 5:00 p.m.