[ecm] Episcopal Campus Ministries says "Happy New Year!"

Mon Jan 15 18:01:11 EST 2007

Hi all.  Welcome back to the winter wonderland!

            If you've been away for winter break, I trust you're staying
warm.  It is CHILLY around here.  And classes resume tomorrow.  Hope you're
rested and ready.

            This semester we'll have a couple of regularly scheduled
offerings each week - 

Every Sunday at 5 pm you're invited for dinner at St Paul's.  We'll start
our evening with a Beatles Bible Study - what's the intersection between the
words of faith and the lyrics of L & M?  Invite friends, should be fun.

Every Wednesday at 7 pm we'll celebrate the Holy Eucharist at St Paul's as
led be students.  Matt Rogers, PhD candidate in Atmospheric Science, is
putting together a band - do you play an instrument?  Drop me a line here.
Or talk with me about leading prayers, reading scripture, giving a homily or
helping to plan.

            You might enjoy hearing Jim Cotter, a poet, writer and priest in
Wales, who will be speaking at St Paul's on Saturday, Jan. 27.  At 9 am
he'll teach from his latest book Out of the Silence. Into the Silence about
prayer.  It's a fresh take on approaching God each day.  He'll give readings
from his works that evening at 7 pm at a wine and cheese gathering.  Both
are at St Paul's, and though a $20 donation is requested please don't let
that keep you away.  He'll preach and lead the Adult Forum the next day at
St Paul's.  Check him at www.cottercairns.co.uk
<http://www.cottercairns.co.uk/>  

            I have a new thing you may be interested in - I'll be the
back-up host for "Interfaith Dialogue," heard every Thursday at 7:30 pm on
88.9 KRFC-FM Community Radio.  On January 18 I'll interview the Rev. Rich
Thompson, the guiding force behind this new program.  My other visits:
January 25 with the Rev. Jim Cotter; Feb 15 with Sivea Key, board member and
group leader of the Institute of Living Universal Values; Feb 22 with Ben
Bleckley, local organizer of the ONE campaign to end poverty in the world;
March 1 with the Rev. Peggy Christiansen, director of the Geller Center for
Spiritual Development; and March 8 with David Fisher, co-leader of a
progressive church service called Revolution.  Tune in & let me know how I
sound.

            Looking for a summer job?  Check the Diocese of Colorado site
http://www.coloradodiocese.org/03_faithformation/camps.html for info about a
position with Trinity Ranch.

            A local business is looking for some help moving a single room
office from Denver to Fort Collins.  Contact me here for details on working
for 1 day near the end of January.

And here's something from our colleagues at UNC:

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Want to learn more about the Rwandan genocide?

Why not hear what happened from a person who was there?

Come and hear Onesphore Rwaje, an Anglican Bishop of Rwanda, talk about his
own experience. 

Bishop Rwaje will be visiting UNC on Thursday January 25th and will speak at
the University Center at 7pm. Free refreshments afterward. 

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This event is sponsored the Anglican/Episcopal Student Fellowship of UNC.

Jim Smith, Asst. Campus Pastor of the Episcopal Student Fellowship of UNC
says:  The presentation will be at the University Center (UC), room
Columbine B. The UC is located on 11th Ave. Take 34 to Greeley and stay on
the bypass until you get to 11th Ave. Go north, left, and stay on 11th for
about a mile or so, the UC will be on the right hand side. To park, make a
right turn at the light just before the UC and then an immediate left into
the parking lot. For a visual visit  <http://www.unco.edu/uc>
www.unco.edu/uc I really hope to see you there so my co-minister and I,
Jacob Dunn, as well as the students in our group can meet you and the
students in your  group. After the presentation, perhaps the people from ECM
can come over to the Lutheran House, which is where our office is and where
we meet, and we can give you a tour and network a little.

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            A friend in Tennessee forwarded this on to me this week .

            An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the
ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.  One of the pots had a
crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full
portion of water.

            At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the
cracked pot arrived only half full.  For a full two years this went on
daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

            Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.
But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable
that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

            After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it
spoke to the woman one day by the stream.  "I am ashamed of myself, because
this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your
house."

            The old woman smiled, "Did you notice that there are flowers on
your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side?"  That's because I
have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of
the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.  For two years I
have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

            "Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this
beauty to grace the house."

            Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it's the cracks and
flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and
rewarding.  You've just got to take each person for what they are and look
for the good in them.

Yours in Christ,

Rob+

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The Rev. Robert Lundquist, Episcopal Chaplain

1208 W Elizabeth St, Fort Collins, CO  80521

   970-482-2668                 FAX 866-261-3507

 970-7515 cell & text       rector at stpauls-fc.org

     www.stpauls-fc.org/College_ministry.htm   

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