{"id":334,"date":"2015-06-08T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frtonynoble.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:43:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:43:45","slug":"my-ministry-at-all-saints%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frtonynoble.org\/?p=334","title":{"rendered":"My Ministry at All Saints\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Changing and Remaining<\/p>\n

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A History of All Saints\u2019 Church San Diego<\/p>\n

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Chapter 16<\/p>\n

Arriving at the Future<\/p>\n

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The drama of 1999-2002 emphasized the changes that had taken place in the All
\nSaints\u2019 community since the days of Father Satrang.
\nFor one thing, the community wasn\u2019t as large as people had thought. The parish\u2019s
\nannual report to the diocese for 2001 revealed that it had only 195 members in good
\nstanding, down from 644, as estimated in the year before. (Some vestry members
\nhad speculated that there were 250; others realized that they had no idea.1) That was
\na shock–but the change in numbers should not be misinterpreted. It hadn\u2019t
\nhappened because hundreds of people had suddenly left the parish; it happened
\nbecause the rolls had finally been purged of people who had drifted away over the
\ncourse of many years but whose absence had not been recorded or (perhaps) noticed.
\nThe phenomenon was probably similar to the one that was finally noticed by the
\nrector and congregation in the early 1930s.
\nAccording to the parish records for 1991–to cite a typical year–there had been 19
\nbaptisms and four confirmations in that year; seven people had transferred in from
\nother Episcopal churches, 18 had transferred out, one had been identified as inactive,
\nand five had died. These were extraordinarily small numbers for a parish that said it
\nhad started the year with 783 communicants. Any community would count itself
\nfortunate if fewer than 1 % of its members died in a given year. Any urban church,
\nsuch as All Saints\u2019, particularly a church with a good representation of very mobile
\nmilitary families, would count itself equally fortunate if fewer than 3 % of its
\nmembers stopped attending in a given year. Clearly, no one was keeping track of the
\nmany people who had silently left, as people very often do from churches.
\nAllegedly, just one person did that in 1991. From 1992 through 2000, nobody did,
\nso far as the official reports were concerned. Apparently little effort was made to
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\nA more realistic, though still an overstated, idea of membership is offered by an
\nestimate unearthed from the parish data base (mid-2001): \u201c235 active members; 209
\nin good standing.\u201d A second way of looking at the size of the congregation is to
\nconsider attendance at scheduled services. It was 28,788 in 1986, Father
\nMcClaskey\u2019s first full year as rector; 23,532 in 1991; 17,878 in 1996; and 14,160 in
\n2001. A third way of picturing the congregation is by considering pledges of
\nfinancial support. For 1986, there were 305 pledges; for 1991, there were 247; for
\n1996, there were 143. In 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the controversy over
\nFather McClaskey, the number had fallen to 99 (for 2002). Yet the proportion of
\ncommunicants who pledged financial support had risen steeply. In 1986, soon after
\nFather Satrang\u2019s retirement, it had been 37%; and by 1991 it had sunk to 31%. But
\npledges for 2002 stood at 51%.3 Comparing the distribution of pledges for 1991 and
\n2002, one sees a reduction in the proportion of small pledges and an increase in the
\nproportion of large ones, although \u201clarge\u201d for All Saints\u2019 still means \u201clarge\u201d in
\nmiddle class or working class terms.4 The community was smaller in population but
\nlarger in individual commitment.
\nIn early 2002, Bishop Hughes appointed Father Douglas Woodridge as interim rector
\nof All Saints\u2019. In the late 1960s and 1970s, Woodridge had served as curate under
\nFather Satrang; it was he who had blessed the baby elephant. He had then become
\nthe rector of St. Michael\u2019s, Carlsbad. He had retired and moved to Oregon, but he
\nwas willing to come back to help All Saints\u2019. An apartment was rented for him in
\nthe neighborhood. His mission was to help the congregation heal its wounds and
\n\u201clook to the future.\u201d Woodridge served until Thanksgiving, 2002, when he returned
\nto Oregon, after which several local priests provided ministry. The vestry told
\nWoodridge that its own most important concerns were \u201chealing,\u201d \u201creconciliation,\u201d
\n\u201cmore communication\u201d within the congregation, and \u201coutreach to the surrounding
\ncommunity.\u201d He advised vestry members to lead by example, \u201ccommunicate with
\npeople\u201d themselves, and \u201cspend some time each day with God.\u201d5
\nIn 2002, Sunday attendance stayed up, and offerings were recovering nicely, but All
\nSaints\u2019 remained in a state of financial \u201causterity.\u201d6 And it still had to find a
\npermanent rector. During the past five decades, it had not been required to go
\nthrough this process. In 1951, it had accepted, by acclamation, the services of young
\nFather Satrang, who had shown up on its doorstep with little to recommend him, at
\nthe time, except his Anglo-Catholicism. In 1985, it had accepted, by acclamation,
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\nto deal with the complicated and interesting and ultimately educational process of a
\nmodern church \u201ccalling.\u201d
\nExpertly assisted by Deacon Jenny Vervynck, a canon of the diocese, the parish
\nperformed a self-study and self-description that could be read by candidates for the
\njob. According to the documents, the parish wanted to maintain its practice of
\n\u201cclassical Christian spirituality,\u201d while committing itself to reaching out to its
\nneighborhood and becoming more of a \u201ccross section of the community.\u201d7
\nEven before Father McClaskey officially left the parish, the vestry had been trying to
\nbring All Saints\u2019 closer to Hillcrest and the adjacent neighborhoods, sending out
\nspecial Easter invitations to all people with 92103 zipcodes.8 Now, outreach and
\nevangelism committees designed advertisements to be inserted in the local papers,
\nand a door-to-door canvass of the neighborhood to let people know about All
\nSaints\u2019. The parish began an annual custom of participating in the neighborhood\u2019s
\nCity Fest event on Fifth Avenue. The committees\u2019 target audiences included the gay
\ncommunity, single parents, and singles in general (\u201cfeed them and they will come\u201d).
\nThe parish newsletter summarized the idea as \u201ccarrying out God\u2019s command to
\nconnect the Holy Truth of God found at All Saints\u2019 with the diverse communities
\nunder All Saints\u2019 geographical and social influence.\u201d9
\nThe vestry had a new interpretation of \u201cfaith financing\u201d: \u201cWe do believe in Faith
\nFinancing but the Finance Committee would have a lot more faith if the budget was
\nat least a balanced one.\u201d Yet the vestry wasn\u2019t stingy: it interested itself very
\nactively in maintaining the church\u2019s property for succeeding generations, expending,
\nfor example, $42,000 on a major repainting of the church and parish hall.10 The
\nfinancial responsibilities of All Saints\u2019 were eased when its mission of Christ the
\nKing became at last an independent parish, having achieved financial selfsufficiency
\nin 2001. All Saints\u2019 vestry gladly voted to transfer its property at 1460
\nMidway Drive, Alpine, to Christ the King.11 All Saints\u2019 began 2003 with 160
\nmembers in good standing, pledges that were higher than anticipated, and Sunday
\nattendance still \u201cholding steady.\u201d12
\nAfter evaluating at least 16 candidates for the rectorship, the calling committee
\ndecided on Father Anthony Noble, an Australian Anglo-Catholic. Father Noble
\nagreed to come, after experiencing three \u201csigns\u201d that he should accept the
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\nannouncement to the congregation used the expression “good luck,” Father Noble
\nmade a counter-announcement: “We’re Christians; we don’t believe in luck.”) He
\nbegan work at All Saints\u2019 on October 1, 2003.
\nTony Noble was born in Salisbury, South Australia, in 1947. He was trained as an
\naccountant and followed that profession both in Australia and, for a year during the
\nmid-1970s, in England. He then (1976-1978) attended seminary at St. Barnabas
\nTheological College in Adelaide, South Australia, and was ordained deacon (1979)
\nand priest (1980). He worked in several parishes in the diocese of Adelaide, then
\nbecame vicar of St. Mark\u2019s, Fitzroy, in the diocese of Melbourne (1985-2003)–an
\nolder, inner-city church. The ministry of St. Mark\u2019s included a center for the
\nunemployed and street people, and under his leadership developed Australia\u2019s first
\nparish ministry for people with AIDS (1986). He successfully completed a
\ncomprehensive restoration of the historic church building.14 St. Mark\u2019s was a
\nsmaller parish than All Saints\u2019, but under his leadership it did great things. Father
\nNoble promised the congregation of All Saints\u2019, \u201cAs your priest I will be
\naccessible–and hopefully one that you can easily relate to. We Aussies are casual
\nand outgoing. You will already notice that I like to be called Father Tony–but I
\nwon\u2019t say G\u2019day, even if you want me to!\u201d15
\n\u201cFather Tony\u201d immediately became known as an outgoing, enthusiastic, and efficient
\nmanager and priest. Efficient management doesn\u2019t always correlate with
\nenthusiasm, but in this case it did. To visitors from the neighborhood, with which he
\nwas immediately on congenial terms, he advertised the church not only as a defender
\nof tradition but also as the place \u201cwhere we have more fun than the other churches
\ndo.\u201d His Australian brashness seldom concealed itself, but that was part of the fun.
\nVisiting England, he located a nineteenth-century brass tabernacle (the object on the
\naltar in which the consecrated hosts are placed after mass), and arranged for it to be
\nshipped to All Saints\u2019, which had been using a wooden one. The metal tabernacle
\nwas extraordinarily heavy and required special arrangements for transportation and
\ninstallation. It arrived at the port of Long Beach, but the shipping company delayed
\nsending it to San Diego. After several fruitless phone calls, Father Tony told the
\ncompany, \u201cI\u2019m an Australian. We get things done!\u201d The tabernacle immediately
\nappeared at All Saints’.16
\nThe energetic new priest found it easy to restore the congregation\u2019s sense that All
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\nhumor made him very popular. \u201cNew\u201d people began coming to All Saints’, and
\n\u201cold\u201d people stayed. All Saints\u2019 remained a bastion of theological tradition; indeed,
\nFather Noble significantly increased Anglo-Catholic and especially Marian
\ndevotionalism, organizing pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in
\nEngland and adding the Angelus to the end of regular services. But there was no
\nlonger a perceived barrier between All Saints\u2019 and the surrounding community. At
\nthe same time, he was a convincing and trusted raiser of material support. In 2006,
\nthe church was forced to comply immediately with a municipal order to retrofit the
\nParish Hall for earthquake safety. Seventy thousand dollars were required to
\nstrengthen the structure with steel supports at roof level. Enthusiastic parishioners
\ncontributed the funds within six weeks.
\nOne of the new rector\u2019s biggest tasks was finding a solution to the problem of the
\nschool. At the beginning of 2006, the preschool was doing very well; it had 39
\nstudents, the great majority of them newly enrolled, and was more than breaking
\neven financially. The academic school was not. An effort was made to offer fewer
\nclasses by combining grades, but the situation remained unsustainable. Serious
\nmarketing efforts had attracted only four new students for the current school year;
\nonly 5% of the students who toured the school eventually enrolled in it; and the
\nprojected enrollment for 2006-2007 was only 49. Deficits were enormous; the most
\nfavorable projection for 2005-2007 was a deficit of $200,000.17 These were heartbreaking
\nfigures for many people in the parish, especially those who had worked
\ncourageously to keep the school going. But there was only one choice available.
\nAdvised by the rector, the vestry decided that the school should close in June 2006.
\nThe preschool, which had become financially self-supporting, continued. It is now a
\nsignificant source of church income. It uses the facilities that Father Satrang had
\nconstructed in faith many years before, though it gives them a somewhat different
\neducational role.
\nIt has been said that the parish, including members who had sent their own children
\nto All Saints\u2019 School, finally realized that for many years the church had been
\n\u201ceducating other people\u2019s children.\u201d Most parents who sent their children to the
\nschool were \u201cunchurched,\u201d or members of other churches, and stayed that way.18
\nBut to most people in the parish, closing the school was a heavy blow. For over half
\na century, the school had provided its students with a sound education–a caring,
\nChristian education. The priests and people of All Saints\u2019 had worked selfsacrificially
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\nthe Parents\u2019 Association had provided exceptionally energetic support. But a small
\nprivate school could not compete with large, tax-funded institutions, or with private
\nschools supported by rich people. All Saints\u2019 had maintained its school for more
\nthan half a century, but it could maintain it no more, without threatening its own
\nexistence. The school was closed. In former years this might have produced a rift in
\nthe congregation. In 2006, it did not. The church took new pride in its unity, and
\nnew interest in the intensification of its spiritual life.
\nOne of its challenges was the strengthening of its music program. The spiritual life
\nof a church almost always has something to do with the inspiration of music, and
\nthis has been particularly true of All Saints\u2019. Two of its rectors, Father Murphy and
\nFather Stevens, were directly involved with the church\u2019s music. No rector has been
\naccused of slighting it. Like most leaders of All Saints’, Father Satrang thought there
\nwas an urgency about good music in the church. In 1963 he put a notice in the
\nservice bulletin begging for eight or ten more volunteer choir members. All you
\nneeded, he said, was \u201ca good average voice with some knowledge of music.\u201d But:
\n\u201cPlease . . . There are so many lovely anthems that cannot be sung until the choir has
\ngrown.\u201d The bulletin from a Sunday service in late 1952 lists seven hymns and an
\nanthem, besides the prelude and postlude. 19 That\u2019s a lot of music; but music, of
\ncertain kinds, is a distinguishing characteristic of Episcopal worship, and the higher
\nchurch a parish becomes, the more distinctive its music tends to be. All Saints\u2019 is
\nvery high church.
\nThe organist and choirmaster under Father Noble was Robert MacLeod. In his late
\nteens, MacLeod had visited an evensong at All Saints\u2019 and had loved the church ever
\nsince. He had served briefly as All Saints\u2019 organist in the early 1970s, and he had
\nreturned to the position, after work in other churches, in April 1997–a fine choice by
\nFather McClaskey.20 MacLeod wanted to give his beloved church the quality of
\nmusic appropriate to its architecture and ritual.
\nHigh-church Episcopal music emphasizes complexity and sophistication. A
\ndedicated volunteer choir can do impressive things, but a choir that includes
\nprofessional voices can attempt much more. All Saints\u2019 had no professional singers
\nuntil 2000, when a parishioner, the late Jack Merkel, provided money to employ one
\nsinger, a soprano.21 During the next several years, MacLeod won support from the
\ncongregation (and emphatically, Father Noble) to employ three more excellent
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\nchoir, began to exploit the tradition of serious church music in ways that All Saints\u2019
\nhad never heard before. The choir showed what even a small church can do when it
\nvalues its musical traditions and is determined to make the most of them.
\nAccording to MacLeod, the 1973 organ is a good instrument, with a good \u201csweet\u201d
\nsound, although its power might be increased by the addition of pipes or
\ncontemporary electronic aids. Since the organ chamber is full, the second alternative
\nis the one that recommends itself to the future. Nevertheless, the musical quality of
\nthe church has been greatly enhanced during the past few years–not only by the
\nexpert work of MacLeod and the choir, but by the simple expedient of removing the
\ncarpeting from the aisles of the nave and chancel, a project championed by Father
\nNoble.
\nNo one knows when carpeting was first installed at All Saints\u2019, though (as we have
\nseen) it was a feature of the chapel in 1908 and the new church in 1912.22
\nCarpeting was an amenity that became predictable in American churches in the
\ntwentieth century. But it was a mixed blessing–carpets deadened the sound of the
\nchoir. So, by the end of 2010, the church had been freed from its carpeting, the floor
\nand the pews had been refinished, and the choir had begun to project itself more
\nforcefully down All Saints\u2019 long nave. The amazing reverberance of the original
\nbuilding was then revealed. Nobody had realized how many \u201cs\u201d sounds there were
\nin the hymn book, or how splendidly the choir could project.
\nA comparison of All Saints\u2019 condition at the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2011
\nshows solid progress. The number of communicants had fallen slightly, from 188 to
\n167 (after bottoming out at 157 at the end of 2004), but the church had reached a
\nsustainable level, with new people coming in to replace the inevitable losses.
\nAttendance at scheduled services was up–to 15,500 in 2010, compared with 14,160
\nin 2001. Income from unrestricted pledges had risen from $92,000 to $197,000, and
\nreceipts from the collection plate had risen from $1700 to $5800–great
\nachievements, especially for a congregation that was hit very hard by the economic
\ncrisis of 2008 and its aftermath, and had not fully recovered.23
\nCareful management had been required to make the congregation\u2019s money go as far
\nas possible, so it is good to note that in 2010, the parish recorded revenues of
\n$146,000 from its properties, mainly its preschool and the space in the former
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\n2001-2011 period its total revenues had almost doubled, from $284,000 to $524,000.
\nSince 2001, total expenditures had risen from $344,000 to $495,000, but the budget
\ndeficit for 2001 was $60,000, while the budget surplus for 2010 was $29,000.24
\nIt was easy to see what had happened. The parish had united to maintain itself–by
\nindividual contributions (often sacrificially made), by wise husbandry of resources
\nbequeathed by earlier generations, and by the hard work of self-management. A
\nhigh-church Episcopal parish requires the dedicated work of a very large proportion
\nof its communicants–vestry members, acolytes, members of the altar guild, greeters,
\nlectors, choir members, Sunday school teachers, volunteers for almost every
\nconceivable project. The people of All Saints\u2019 kept doing the work, willingly and
\nsuccessfully. They showed that an Episcopal church is not a structure of authority
\nbut a structure of spontaneous order and commitment.
\nThe parish therefore found itself in good shape when the next change occurred.
\nEarly in his tenure at All Saints\u2019, Tony Noble had recovered quickly from a bout
\nwith cancer, but in 2010 he took some time off to recuperate from stress; and,
\nmindful of his health, on December 7 of that year he told the vestry that he would be
\nretiring on March 6.25 In his Advent sermon on December 12, he emphasized the
\ntheme of Christian joy and urged the congregation to join him in making the final
\nthree months of his work at All Saints\u2019 a period of celebration. At his retirement
\nparty on March 5, 2011, his ministry was celebrated by a throng of friends.
\nIn spring 2011, Father Wayne Sanders, then in retirement, accepted All Saints\u2019
\ninvitation to return to the parish as interim rector. As this book is written, the parish
\nis preparing to search for its next spiritual leader, and it is looking forward to
\ncelebrating the centennial of its church in 2012. The mood is confident. The past
\ncentury has demonstrated All Saints’ ability to remain, and prevail.
\nOnly stories that have an ending can have a climax. All Saints\u2019 has survived and
\nprospered, often against great odds. That makes an interesting story, but it does not
\nmake a conclusion. This book now ends; the story of All Saints\u2019 continues. If the
\npast has any predictive power, All Saints\u2019 will continue to enact a story of faith,
\nhope, and love–and also of risk and daring, foolish mistakes and providential
\nvictories, fervent devotion and productive eccentricity, and the confidence that
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\nAll Saints\u2019 has never been rich or powerful. Many times, it has appeared to be
\ndying; several times, it has appeared to be dead. From its own point of view,
\nhowever, that simply proves its vitality. St. Paul wrote about this seeming paradox.26
\nHe was describing himself and his friends in the early Christian church, but the
\ndescription will do well enough for all such communities as All Saints\u2019–
\ncommunities that continue \u201cas having nothing, and yet possessing all things . . . as
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Parochial Report for 2001; V <\/span><\/span>1 <\/span><\/span>4\/10\/2001; minutes, parish meeting, 6\/11\/2000.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2 <\/span><\/span>See the Annual Reports, presented at the Annual Meetings for the relevant years;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

and minutes, parish meeting, 6\/11\/2000.<\/p>\n

3 <\/span><\/span>The proportion for 1996 is impossible to calculate, because the stated number of<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

communicants, 695, is exaggerated.<\/p>\n

4 <\/span><\/span>V 8\/14\/2001; Annual Reports for relevant years; \u201cAnalysis of All Saints\u2019 Episcopal<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Church Stewardship Status\u201d (pledges for 2002).<\/p>\n

5 <\/span><\/span>\u201cFrom the Interim Rector,\u201d <\/span><\/span>WF <\/span><\/span><\/em>3\/02; Interim Rector Letter of Agreement,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3\/14\/2002; V 3\/12\/2002, V 3\/17\/2002, V 11\/12\/2002.<\/p>\n

6 <\/span><\/span>V 9\/10\/2002; Budget Summary, All Saints\u2019 Parish Semi-Annual Meeting,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

6\/23\/2002. In August 2002, over 600 people attended mass, and August is ordinarily<\/p>\n

a bad month for church attendance.<\/p>\n

7 <\/span><\/span>Position Profile, 10\/17\/2002.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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8 <\/span><\/span>V 4\/10\/2001.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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9 <\/span><\/span>V 7\/9\/2002, V 9\/10\/2002; Outreach Committee outline; Bill Moreno, “Evangelism<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mission of All Saints\u2019 Church,\u201d <\/span><\/span>WF <\/span><\/span><\/em>3\/2002.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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10 <\/span><\/span>\u201cStewardship Report,\u201d <\/span><\/span>WF <\/span><\/span><\/em>3\/2002; V 12\/10\/2002.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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11 <\/span><\/span>V 3\/11\/2003, AM 1\/ 27\/2002; grant deed, recorded 12\/30\/2003.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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12 <\/span><\/span>V 10\/8\/2002, V 12\/10\/2002.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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13 <\/span><\/span>\u201cAre You Any Closer to Calling a Priest Yet???\u201d, <\/span><\/span>WF <\/span><\/span><\/em>4\/03; Tony Noble, interview.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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14 <\/span><\/span>Tony Noble, interview and personal correspondence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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15 <\/span><\/span>Tony Noble, column, <\/span><\/span>WF <\/span><\/span><\/em>9-10\/2003.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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16 <\/span><\/span>Tony Noble, interview.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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17 <\/span><\/span>Business Administrator\u2019s Reports, 5\/10\/2005, 1\/10\/2006; V 2\/8\/2005.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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AM 1\/ 24\/96. According to a friendly e <\/span><\/span>18 <\/span><\/span>stimate in 1980, \u201cof the 148 [students]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

presently enrolled–8 are from the Parish, 20 are Episcopalians and balance from all<\/p>\n

over. Most come because of the Day Care from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.\u201d–the provision for<\/p>\n

students to stay and play or study after school (V 3\/18\/80).<\/p>\n

19 <\/span><\/span>Service bulletins, 9\/1\/63 and 11\/30\/52.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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20 <\/span><\/span>V 4\/8\/97.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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21 <\/span><\/span>AM 1\/ 21\/2001, 1\/ 27\/2002.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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22 <\/span><\/span>In addition, it is recorded that in 1940 the parish received the gift of a carpet for<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

the sanctuary, and in 1948 the gift of a \u201cbeautiful new carpet\u201d for the aisles (rector\u2019s<\/p>\n

Annual Report, AM 1\/16\/41; V 4\/14\/48).<\/p>\n

23 <\/span><\/span>Annual Reports, AM 1\/ 27 \/2002, AM 1 \/ 30\/ 2011; Parochial Report for 2004,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5\/10\/2005, vestry records. The number of communicants stated in the report for<\/p>\n

2001 is probably somewhat too high, because this was the first report after the<\/p>\n

difficult attempt to remove from the statistics several hundred parishioners whose<\/p>\n

absence should have been noted before. And probably the report\u2019s statement of the<\/p>\n

deficit for 2001 is somewhat too low, because of confusing accounting practices<\/p>\n

related to the parish school.<\/p>\n

24 <\/span><\/span>S<\/span>ee Annual Reports for the relevant years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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25 <\/span><\/span>Tony Noble to parishioners, 12\/7\/2010; \u201cFrom the Rector,\u201d service bulletin, 12 \/<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

12\/2010.<\/p>\n

26 <\/span><\/span>2 Corinthians 6:9-10.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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