Photos from the Weekend

Canon Theologian, The Rev. Dr. Gil Stafford, presents

“Jesus: His Mind, His Mystery, His Magic.” Photos by KCH.

Announcement time!

The Rev. John Fife after his sermon

Food packs ready to go

Humanitarian supplies.

Announcements for Week Ending 6/4/2016

Search Update: 
On Saturday, May 22, the Nominating Committee completed the second round of Skype interviews. After careful discernment, they submitted their recommendation to the Vestry. Please hold the Vestry in your prayers so that God's will may be done. Keep on praying! --Senior Warden John Hsieh

A Reminder: As part of the routine maintenance of our graveyard, faded or oversized decorations (exceeding 5" x 5" x 5") will be removed this week, beginning on Monday, May 30th. we appreciate your cooperation.

This Sunday (May 29) is Border Sunday! After worship, please join us in the Parish Center to prepare migrant food packs for Tucson Samaritans, enjoy the usual coffee hour treats and conversation, and after the 10:15 AM Mass, savor a pupusa prepared by a Guatemalan family seeking asylum. Sponsored by your Social Action Committee.

Sign up to visit Operation Streamline with the Social Action Committee on June 28th! Every weekday at the Federal District Court in Tucson, up to 70 immigrants receive prison sentences after being charged with the felony of "re-entry after deportation." This is your chance to witness en masse legal proceedings.

Putt-ing Kids First event June 10th! 

Please join the Blair Charity Group for a fun-filled family evening at Golf & Stuff on June 10 from 6 PM to 10 PM. The all-inclusive price covers all attractions, food and beverages, and supports the mission of the Blair Charity Group, and Arizona Basketball Academy, and its summer camps and monthly clinics. Their two camps this summer will serve over 200 Tucson-area kids in a program that combines basketball skills taught by current and former University of Arizona Basketball team members as well as current and former NBA players, with a unique approach to incorporating life skills training. They offer these camps and clinics to kids at no cost and their fundraising efforts support that mission. Please see Peg Van Norman for tickets of purchase online at http://blaircharitygroup.org.

Guatemala Project Sendoff fiesta is here on Sunday, June 18th at 5 PM, including the blessing of a Jeep Cherokee donated by a Tucson Samaritan who attends Southside Presbyterian, greetings from indigenous friends, and welcome to Domingo Alvarez Ajanel, health leader and president of the 22 associated rural communities with whom we work.Thanks to parishioner Robert MacArthur, who donated frequent flyer miles to make Domingo's trip from Guatemala possible.

Baccalaureate Mass - St. Michael's School

Photos from the School's Baccalaureate Mass, Thursday, May 26th. Photos by KCH. The eighth graders graduate today, May 27th.

Procession of graduates followed by the servers and clergy.

Reading of the Gospel.

The banner of St. Michael leads the recession.

Casa Maria this Friday - Special Instructions!

Friday May 27th - Casa Maria sandwich making.
St Michael's Parish Center   602 N. Wilmot

Please bring 1 dozen peeled hard boiled eggs
Please bring medium sized boxes for transporting the lunches.
If you can deliver sandwiches once or twice a year please let us know!
    

Due to 8th Grade graduation on Friday night, parking will be very limited!  Please read the following suggestions carefully. Choose the one that works best for you:

**Come EARLY, 4:15-4:30 and park in the alley east of the church
**Park at the Library and walk up the alley to the parish center
**Park on Brian Kent St. north of the church and walk south through the carport of the HOUSE of PRAYER, 6310 E. Brian Kent, to the church
**Park across the park on Corinth Ave, there's a paved sidewalk across the park to the alley
Questions? Contact Sue Peyron. Thanks for your understanding and flexibility!



NEXT CASA MARIA:  FRIDAY June 24th
Mark your calendars for 2016!   Casa Maria is every 4 weeks...

May 27th
June 24th
July  22
Aug 19th
Sept 16th
Oct 14th
Nov 11th
Dec 9th

Jan 6th 2017
Feb 3rd

Two Important Events Coming Up Next Week! Welcome Our Guest Clergy!

Canon Theologian, The Rev. Dr. Gil Stafford, will be presenting, “Jesus: His Mind, His Mystery, His Magic.” Stafford will draw upon the writings of Marcus Borg, Cynthia Bourgeault, Amy-Jill Levine, Carl Jung, Richard Rohr, and John Shelby Spong. Each session will include ample time for questions and dialogue.
sessions: Tuesday, May 24 ~ 10 am - Noon: Clergy
                Saturday, May 28 ~ 10 am - Noon; Laity
                               May 28 ~ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Deacons
Discussions are held in the Smith Parish Center. Attendance and all materials are offered without charge.
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​Migrant Sunday May 29:   Sermon, socks, water, pupusas!
Reverend John Fife, Pastor Emeritus of Southside Presbyterian Church, will preach. Become a good Samaritan by bringing in water...gallon jugs and 24-pack pints...as well as new cotton socks. Migrants in the desert need your help as the temperatures begin to climb! The risk of dying from dehydration and from blisters is high. On the same day, the Social Action Committee will organize our annual filling of snack packs for the Samaritan desert walkers' distribution to migrants. And at coffee hour, a Guatemalan family of nine, who fled their home and have applied for political asylum, will sell their home made pupusas . Please come with your appetite and help the Ortega family.

​Peace and many Blessings,
Nancy​

Reception for Dr. Douglas Leightenheimer and Our Other School of Music Graduates

Dr. Douglas Leightenheimer with Alan Schultz. Photo by KCH.

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N. Wilmot Road at 5th St., will congratulate its Director of Music, Douglas Blair Leightenheimer, with a Festive Brunch on Sunday, May 22 in the Smith Parish Center, after the 10:15 AM High Mass. On May 12, 2016, he officially became Dr. Leightenheimer, obtaining his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona's Fred Fox School of Music. He presented his doctoral lecture recital, “From Couperin to Vierne: Liturgical and Stylistic Connections between the French Baroque and French Romantic Organ Mass,” at the University of Arizona on January 15.

The reception is also in honor of the three graduating seniors in the St. Michael and All Angels Choir: longtime choir member Jeffrey John Simpson, Janis Lynn Hedin, and Sandy Delozier. All graduated from the Fred Fox School of Music.

Jeff Simpson was a featured performer of Alan Schultz's Oratorio at Christmas.

Douglas Leightenheimer is a native of Portsmouth, Ohio, and a 1982 graduate of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He earned the Master of Music degree in church music from Westminster Choir College in 1984. Before arriving in Arizona, Leightenheimer served as director of music ministries for Venice Presbyterian Church in Venice, FL. for more than 12 years, and then as director of music at First Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, NC for 15 years. At First Presbyterian he had extensive experience playing a 1928 E. M. Skinner pipe organ (Op. 713), an earlier version of St. Michael’s glorious 1959 Æolian-Skinner organ. In 2012, he left Wilmington to pursue his doctorate at UA.

Upon the retirement of the previous choir director at St. Michael's, Jane Haman, in the fall of 2012, two parishioners recommended UA doctoral student Leightenheimer to fill the position. After an audition process, St. Michael’s was delighted to welcome Leightenheimer as its new music director, choir director and organist.

Doug at the organ, August 2015. Photo by KFB.

A board member of the Southern Arizona chapter of the American Guild of Organists, Douglas Leightenheimer has also served on the executive boards of the Sarasota-Manatee (Florida) and Wilmington (North Carolina) chapters of the same organization, including two terms as dean for each group. He is also a published composer and recitalist. In April 2013 and April 2014, he performed the Mildred Flood Mahoney Memorial Organ Series Concert at the University of Arizona. Recent solo performances include the 2015 summer series at Catalina United Methodist Church in Tucson. During UA's 2016 spring semester, he served as an assistant conductor with the University Community Chorus.

For more information please contact the church office at 520-886-7292, or see the church website at http://smallangelstucson.org/arts-and-culture/music/.

Announcements for Week Ending 5/21/16

The Wednesday Adult Education Class is beginning a new topic. We  are using Professor Charles Mathewes’ lecture course entitled “Why Evil Exists.”  Prof. Mathewes, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia (and an Episcopalian) discusses approaches to the problem of evil beginning with ancient Babylonian creation myths through the end of the 20th century.  The class meets Wednesdays at 10 am in the Womble Library.  You are invited to join us.

One of the lodges at Chapel Rock. Photo by KFB.

Wanted!  St. Michael's children for Chapel Rock Summer Camp! St. Michael's families for Family Camp! Check it out online at chapelrock.net/camps.  The children's and youth camps run monthly during the month of June. Family camp runs July 7-10. Registration ends at the end of May so act soon.The Diocese and our own parish can help with financial assistance.  Please contact our office as well as the Canon for Children's Ministries at (602) 254-0976.

Migrant Sunday May 29:   Sermon, socks, water, pupusas! 

Reverend John Fife, Pastor Emeritus of Southside Presbyterian Church, will preach. Become a good Samaritan by bringing in water...gallon jugs and 24-pack pints...as well as new cotton socks. Migrants in the desert need your help as the temperatures begin to climb! The risk of dying from dehydration and from blisters is high. On the same day, the Social Action Committee will organize our annual filling of snack packs for the Samaritan desert walkers' distribution to migrants. And at coffee hour, a Guatemalan family of nine, who fled their home and have applied for political asylum, will sell their home made pupusas. Please come with your appetite and help the Ortega family. 

Taizé Service will be held on Tuesday,  May 17th. You are invited to join us for forty five minutes of prayer, scripture readings and music.  Just a perfect way to spend your early evening time.  Bring a friend!

PARISH LIFE AT THE DAKOTA CAFÉ ~ THURSDAY, MAY 19 AT 6 PM ~ In Trail Dust Town on Tanque Verde on the West side before you reach Kolb.  Sign-up sheets in back of church. All are invited.

Doctor Douglas Leightenheimer!

Congratulations are in order for our Director of Music, Douglas Blair Leightenheimer. As of May 12, 2016, he officially becomes Dr. Doug Leightenheimer, obtaining his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Arizona's Fred Fox School of Music. On January 15th, 2016 he presented his doctoral lecture recital, “From Couperin to Vierne: Liturgical and Stylistic Connections between the French Baroque and French Romantic Organ Mass,” at the University of Arizona.

There will be a reception in his honor on Sunday, May 22nd in the Smith Parish Center, after the morning masses.

Dr. Douglas Leightenheimer and Alan Schultz. 

Photos by Ke Chiang Hsieh.

Nominating Committee Report - May 2016

Rector Search Update

submitted by Ke Chiang (John) Hsieh, Senior Warden

On 11 May, our Nominating Committee, led by Co-chair Debbie d’Amore – our condolences go to Chair Ohia Hodges on her grandmother’s death – met with Canon Russ Smith, the Diocesan Consultant, who brought a list of applicants, whom the Bishop has vetted. After studying the accompanying documents, our NC began interviewing the applicants on 14 May, using a set of probing questions based on your inputs to the two Discoveries and Dreams sessions and the extended written survey. We thank math teacher, Mr. Matt Santucci, for providing technical support needed for the online interviews. For confidentiality, nothing concerning the applicants, numbers or names, will be released. Based on the interviews, the NC will nominate two to three finalists for the Bishop and the Vestry to discern and choose. Your continuing patience, trust and prayers are greatly appreciated. Let us hope that at the end of this arduous process, our new Rector may emerge with God’s blessings.