In August, a group from St. Bartholomew's traveled to Lauranette, Haiti to continue our partnership with the community and Epiphanie School. Make sure to read the daily blog posts on our website. There were many memories made during the seven days spent in Haiti. We experienced new things and...
This summer six St. Bart’s musicians made what has become for them an annual trek across the country to spend a week at a Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) Summer Training Course in Newport, Rhode Island. Bass section leader Tim McLellan, the entire Strout family, Stephanie, Ian, Tessa...
Other men may share my reaction to a fellow parishioner’s suggestion that I attend the Men’s Bible Study. “I’ve thought about it but I’m not sure it’s for me. I am not a Bible scholar and have little knowledge about the history, places and people I hear about...
The Rev. Mary Lynn Coulson's sermon from Sunday, August 20. Do you ever hit snooze on your alarm in the morning? I do. Every. Single. Morning. At least five, or ten, times. The bed is just so soft and warm! When I lived in Minnesota, in the winters there was that much more incentive to...
Scott and I wanted to share our appreciation and gratitude following our last Sunday at St. Bart's. The last four months have been a whirlwind of change and activities with this move to Denver, Scott’s new job and closing my practice after living here for 21 years. We are so...
Our last day in Haiti was a day of play, and we played the role of Hinche tourist really well. After getting to sleep in for the first time all week (8:00 breakfast!), we strolled around town and to the public market with our translators for the week, and our new buddies, Larose (lah-rohss)...
Bright and early Tuesday morning we awoke to the lovely sound of dogs whining and roosters crowing. Yet our breakfast of boiled eggs, avocado, sausage, bread, and bananas quickly remedied the unruly wake up. Since it was our last day in Lauranette, Malia and I packed our belongings, organized...
After a productive Compline last night and Malia discovering suddenly that she had no idea what a mosquito looked like, we all settled down for a long night filled with shouting matches between dogs, cows, and donkeys. It didn't help that the roosters have no sense of time. We awoke to eat a...
Bishop Mathes would ask congregations a simple, but very powerful question, If your church were to close tomorrow, would your community notice? It’s a great question, but one that each of us might be inclined to pass off on the institution to solve. So, I like to bring it down to the...
The animals proclaim the day with a noisy ruckus chorus. Sun's coming up. There is music playing and the construction workers are hammering putting up scaffolding on the school building as we awaken and get ready to join the community and praise God. A few Haitians are preparing the...