FORMATION
CHRISTIAN FAITH FORMATION IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IS A LIFELONG JOURNEY WITH CHRIST, IN CHRIST, AND TO CHRIST.
(Developed by the Standing Commission on Lifelong Christian Formation and Education in conjunction with the Proclaiming Education for ALL Taskforce, Christian Educators throughout The Episcopal Church, and the Office of Adult Faith Formation for The Episcopal Church.)
(Developed by the Standing Commission on Lifelong Christian Formation and Education in conjunction with the Proclaiming Education for ALL Taskforce, Christian Educators throughout The Episcopal Church, and the Office of Adult Faith Formation for The Episcopal Church.)
Announcement of our new Vicar
We are elated to announce the call of our new Vicar, the Reverend Catherine Amy Kropp, to Christ Memorial Episcopal Church.
We just welcomed her on November 1, 2023, and her first Sunday with us was November 5. The Celebration of New Ministry will take place with Bishop Fitzpatrick at some point in the future.
Catherine Amy comes to us from the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska where she has served as Associate Rector, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Anchorage, focusing on pastoral care and children and youth ministries, as well as a traveling priest in villages throughout Alaska. Most recently she has managed projects and grant-writing and served as an instructor for Dancing With the Spirit, a traveling ministry connecting Alaska Native elders and youth, promoting spiritual, physical and mental wellness through the joy and love of music, and preserving Alaska Native language, culture and music. She recently returned from an international volunteer mission in north Lebanon, serving with Relief & Reconciliation at their Peace Center, a safe house for vulnerable youth.
Catherine Amy is a registered Maine Guide and former high school math and science teacher with experience in outdoor education and leadership. She has guided groups of all ages on spiritual pilgrimages in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Alaska, and the Northwest Territories.
She graduated from Yale Divinity School with two degrees, Master of Divinity (2017) and Master of Sacred Theology (2019). She has a passion for the sense of interconnectedness pertaining to social, ecological and racial justice, and she loves to explore the cosmic dimensions of Christianity within spiritual formation and parish ministry. She also has a Diploma in Anglican Studies from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and a Masters degree in history from University of Cambridge (M.Phil. 1994). Her undergraduate studies included forest ecology and took place at the University of Maine.
In addition to enjoying the outdoors, she plays cello and piano, loves to learn new instruments, such as the guitar and ukulele, and study languages.
You may recognize Rev. Catherine Amy as she came to Christ Memorial as part of our Clergy in Residence program this past year when we discovered a mutual sense of call and shared ministry. As you might guess, we are thankful she has agreed to share her many gifts with us, and we are excited about our future under her leadership.
CMEC Search Committee
Dale Sands, Chair
Melody Lotspeich
Branch Lotspeich
Judy Wakumoto
Carla Stadtmiller
CMEC Bishop’s Committee
Rebecca Hullum, Bishop’s Warden
Maggie Lea, Junior Warden
Craig Wall, Treasurer
Leona Blankley
Phyllis Somers
Bill Schilling
Debra Sands
Suzie Hanchett
Helen Mitsui
We just welcomed her on November 1, 2023, and her first Sunday with us was November 5. The Celebration of New Ministry will take place with Bishop Fitzpatrick at some point in the future.
Catherine Amy comes to us from the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska where she has served as Associate Rector, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Anchorage, focusing on pastoral care and children and youth ministries, as well as a traveling priest in villages throughout Alaska. Most recently she has managed projects and grant-writing and served as an instructor for Dancing With the Spirit, a traveling ministry connecting Alaska Native elders and youth, promoting spiritual, physical and mental wellness through the joy and love of music, and preserving Alaska Native language, culture and music. She recently returned from an international volunteer mission in north Lebanon, serving with Relief & Reconciliation at their Peace Center, a safe house for vulnerable youth.
Catherine Amy is a registered Maine Guide and former high school math and science teacher with experience in outdoor education and leadership. She has guided groups of all ages on spiritual pilgrimages in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Alaska, and the Northwest Territories.
She graduated from Yale Divinity School with two degrees, Master of Divinity (2017) and Master of Sacred Theology (2019). She has a passion for the sense of interconnectedness pertaining to social, ecological and racial justice, and she loves to explore the cosmic dimensions of Christianity within spiritual formation and parish ministry. She also has a Diploma in Anglican Studies from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and a Masters degree in history from University of Cambridge (M.Phil. 1994). Her undergraduate studies included forest ecology and took place at the University of Maine.
In addition to enjoying the outdoors, she plays cello and piano, loves to learn new instruments, such as the guitar and ukulele, and study languages.
You may recognize Rev. Catherine Amy as she came to Christ Memorial as part of our Clergy in Residence program this past year when we discovered a mutual sense of call and shared ministry. As you might guess, we are thankful she has agreed to share her many gifts with us, and we are excited about our future under her leadership.
CMEC Search Committee
Dale Sands, Chair
Melody Lotspeich
Branch Lotspeich
Judy Wakumoto
Carla Stadtmiller
CMEC Bishop’s Committee
Rebecca Hullum, Bishop’s Warden
Maggie Lea, Junior Warden
Craig Wall, Treasurer
Leona Blankley
Phyllis Somers
Bill Schilling
Debra Sands
Suzie Hanchett
Helen Mitsui
Join Our Online Book Study via Zoom
Book: Falling Upward; A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
by Richard Rohr
Online Book Study via Zoom with visiting Pastor, The Rev. Scott Lee.
Thursdays from August 24 – October 5
Class Schedule:
1. August 24 – Introduction and Chapter One
2. August 31 – Chapters Two and Three
3. September 7 - no meeting
4. September 14 – Chapters Four and Five
5. September 21 – Chapters Six and Seven
6. September 28 – Chapters Eight, Nine and Ten
7. October 5 – Chapters Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen
8. October 12 – Coda and Reflection
To join the zoom class meetings go to our website, christmemorialkauai.org and click on 'connect to Sunday worship' at 9:00 am on Thursdays.
Stay tuned for our latest offering.
by Richard Rohr
Online Book Study via Zoom with visiting Pastor, The Rev. Scott Lee.
Thursdays from August 24 – October 5
Class Schedule:
1. August 24 – Introduction and Chapter One
2. August 31 – Chapters Two and Three
3. September 7 - no meeting
4. September 14 – Chapters Four and Five
5. September 21 – Chapters Six and Seven
6. September 28 – Chapters Eight, Nine and Ten
7. October 5 – Chapters Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen
8. October 12 – Coda and Reflection
To join the zoom class meetings go to our website, christmemorialkauai.org and click on 'connect to Sunday worship' at 9:00 am on Thursdays.
Stay tuned for our latest offering.
CENTERING PRAYER - Postponed until further notice.
Centering Prayer is a wonderful way to quiet our minds and be present to our God. There are many gifts that come with a centering practice: relieving stress and anxiety, creative inspiration, awakening of the senses, and a sense of becoming one with Mary, Jesus and our God.
Most of us know Dr. Matt Miller from Sunday worship as the guitarist with the beautiful bass voice, who wrote several music settings to the Advent scriptures. Dr. Matt graduated from UCLA with a PhD in Medieval English Literature in 1993, and decided the most useful thing he could do would be to teach people literacy skills. He did so until 2016, working at various locations including Island School and Kauai Community College. Now he is doing something even more useful — teaching Centering Prayer, a discipline he says is “paradise.” |
