La Iglesia Episcopal de la Resurrección

“Come and See”

Retiro espiritual en Holden Village/ Retreat at Holden Village

“Our sons and daughters will have visions and dreams creating new communities for the common good, for all cultures and all languages.”

Day Camp 2013, July 29 – Aug 29, will provide tutoring for children, ages 3-13, in writing, reading, and math, to keep their skills current and provide more success in school. Meals and field trips, day care for younger siblings are all sponsored through La Iglesia Episcopal de la Resurrección.

Volunteer Opportunities

Summer Day Camp – Resurrección 2013

We are looking for teachers, classroom aids, cooks, drivers and youth groups to help with the Summer Day Camp at Iglesia de la Resurrección, Mt Vernon. The Day Camp is designed for school-age children of low income farm-workers in the Skagit Valley area to receive tutoring, educational field trips and childcare for their younger siblings just before school starts.  Volunteers are needed for one to four weeks, Mon-Fri, 8:30am – 1:00 pm from July 29-Aug 23.  Volunteers for crafts come once a week.  Drivers are needed only on field trip days.

Last summer, together with Church of the Redeemer-Kenmore, a 2-week Day Camp was developed and was a remarkable experience for the 60 children participating and  the dozens of volunteers from Resurrección, Redeemer, St. Paul’s- Mt. Vernon, St. Aidan’s-Camano Island, Christ Church-Anacortes.

This year we are planning a 4-week Day Camp to serve 100 children, ages 2-13 from the church and community.   Breakfast and lunch will be served along with crafts, field trips and tutoring in reading, writing, and math. In order to meet the needs of these children volunteers are being sought from all churches in the Diocese of Olympia.  Local housing is available for volunteers coming from afar.

All who participated last year felt it was a life-changing experience. “In serving these children, we are serving Christ himself.”  Please consider what you and your parish may be able to contribute for this summer’s Day Camp at Resurrección.

For further information please contact:

Rev Emilio Benitez:balam21@hotmail.com

Rev Mark Blindheim:markblindheim@gmail.com

Rev Robin Ringland:robinringland@gmail.com

Website:http://resurreccionepiscopal.org

Volunteer Registration

Volunteer Opportunities

Envía tu Espíritu, Señor, y renueva la faz de la tierra

17 “Sucederá que en los últimos días, dice Dios,
derramaré mi Espíritu sobre toda la humanidad;
los hijos e hijas de ustedes
comunicarán mensajes proféticos,
los jóvenes tendrán visiones,
y los viejos tendrán sueños.
18 También sobre mis siervos y siervas
derramaré mi Espíritu en aquellos días,
y comunicarán mensajes proféticos.
19 En el cielo mostraré grandes maravillas,
y sangre, fuego y nubes de humo en la tierra.

ORACIÓN DE SAN FRANCISCO DE ASÍS.

¡Señor, haz de mí un instrumento de tu paz! Que allí donde haya odio, ponga yo amor; donde haya ofensa, ponga yo perdón; donde haya discordia, ponga yo unión; donde haya error, ponga yo verdad; donde haya duda, ponga yo fe; donde haya desesperación, ponga yo esperanza; donde haya tinieblas, ponga yo luz; donde haya tristeza, ponga yo alegría.

As of March 1, 2012, La Iglesia de la Resurreccion will be under the leadership of the Pastoral Team of Francisco Lopez, Pastoral Leader, the Rev. Robin Ringland, Deacon and Baudelina Paz, Children’s Ministry Leader. Sunday Eucharist services will be celebrated by ELCA Pastor Emilio Benitez until a new priest is called.
The Rev. Josefina Beecher is retiring on disability and leaving Resurreccion in the able hands of Francisco, Robin and Baudelina. Francisco and Baudelina have both been with Resurreccion since it’s start in 2003. Deacon Robin did her internship as a postulant in 2009 and was assigned to Resurreccion after being ordained. Francisco has assumed more and more responsibility and has become more involved in the day to day ministry of Resurreccion and in the Diocese and in the community. He is talented, wise and compassionate. He first started to play guitar for Resurreccion and continues to volunteer playing guitar for Sunday services. He also has been trained as a community organizer and has become familiar with resources and services in the Skagit Valley area for the benefit of the Latino community. He also is active in the Diocese as the co-chair of the Indo-Hispanic Ministry Committee and as a representative on the Multi-cultural Ministry Commission. Robin has taken the youth and families of Resurreccion into her heart and has been an important bridge between Resurreccion and congregations around the Diocese. Baudelina was baptized and celebrated her Quinceanera at Resurreccion. Since then she has been active in the Youth Group, including going on our Mission Trip to San Francisco in 2010. She has been a Youth delegate to Convention and then a non-voting delegation from Resurreccion this past year. She now is a member of the Resurreccion Bishop’s Committee. She has been trained in Godly Play and has taken the Safeguarding God’s Children training. She recognized the importance of children to this community and has taken on the responsibility of guiding that ministry.
The Bishop’s office will be in conversation with the Resurreccion staff and Bishop’s Committee as a search begins for a Spanish-speaking priest to come to Resurreccion. There is no definite time-frame for that search at this time. We are very grateful that Pastor Emilio Benitez of our sister Lutheran congregation, El Camino de Emaus in Burlington is willing to provide sacramental ministry in the interim.
Please keep Francisco, Robin, Baudelina, Emilio and the entire congregation in your prayers and stay tuned for further developments in this thriving congregation.

El 4 de diciembre, 2 domingo de adviento, tuvimos la visitacion de nuestro obispo diocesano, Greg Rickel. El nuevo Comite del Obispo lo recibio y compartieron un comida con el. Despues fuimos a celebrar las Santa Eucaristia y bautismos de 7 ninos, primeras comuniones de 8 ninos, confirmacion de dos jovenes, y recepciones de 5 personas, miembros del Comite del Obispo. Se lleno la iglesia con unos 250 fieles y lo pasamos muy bien. Gracias, Senor Obispo, por visitarnos y compartir con nosotros!

This summer we were delighted to be able to send 4 campers to Camp Huston. The main project for our Young Adults and Youth Group this year was raising money to send younger members of the congregation to Camp Huston. They raised enough money during the year to send two campers and with help from Christ Church, Anacortes, and the Bishop’s Camp Huston Scholarship fund, we were able to send two more. All of these kids, 9 to 11 years old, not only got to have a great camp experience but also got a full week off from working in the fields with their families. They really had never had a summer vacation before, much less had the opportunity to go to camp. The staff at Huston did an excellent job of helping our kids to integrate into the Huston community. Many thanks to Chelsea and all the others. I somehow got convinced to  be the Huston Chaplain that week, which was an amazing experience for me as well! It was a blessing to learn from the deep spirituality of these children as we prepared worship together every day.

This year we had two Eastside parishes, St. Thomas, Medina, and St. Michaels’s and All Angels, Issaquah, bring pilgrims to the Skagit Valley. We were pleased to welcome Brian Gregory with the group from St. Thomas. Together we had fun, fellowship and served. The trips began on Sunday night with Eucharist in Spanish and a meal at Resurreccion. The pilgrims learned about issues facing the Hispanic farm worker population. We visited and worked at Viva Farms, a new project for new farmers using sustainable farming practices and teaching farm workers how to become farm owners. Parishioners Salvador and Ismael were grateful for the labor of the pilgrims and shared fresh produce with them. We also served the farmworkers living in low-income farmworker housing in Burlington by presenting a 4 day Vacation Bible School. The pilgrims had at least as much fun as the little children who stay at home while their parents work in the fields. In the evening our High Schoolers and college students came by the pilgrims’ camp to share a meal and talk about the things they have in common and the things that are different in their lives. Friends were made and some friendships renewed. Our kids really enjoyed the time they got to spend with the mission kids.
Please ask us about a mission trip for your church if you haven’t had a chance to see a very different world in your own backyard.

This summer we had some wonderful volunteers in our office. We had a volunteer training at the beginning of the summer for four volunteers. Two of those attending the training just came because they wanted to know more about our ministry. Our own deacon, Robin Ringland was there, as she had more time to spend with us when her teaching year was over. Cyd Sanborn from St. Paul’s Mount Vernon joined us as she has volunteered to help us with some grant writing – Thank you, Cyd!  and then we had Andy McDermott, whose mother attends Celebration Lutheran in Anacortes. Andy was an incredible gift to us. He was able to do everything Francisco and I do. He is functionally bi-lingual and because he doesn’t like to take ‘no’ for an answer he was able to get help for people from agencies who do not respond well to a limited English speaker. He was able to finally get a driver’s license clearance for a man here in Skagit who applied to renew his license and was unable to do so because they told him his license was suspended in New Jersey. He had never been to New Jersey and had pay stubs to verify that he had been in Washington at the time he supposedly had committed the infractions in New Jersey. I had already been working on this for several months but it was Andy who was finally able to break through the impasses. Unfortunately Andy had left for Mexico when the man came in to show us his new Washington driver’s license. Thank you Andy!
Our other volunteer was Patience Xu (see photo). Patience came to volunteer with us from China where she is a school teacher. Every summer she takes a break from her state teaching job and volunteers with some non-profit organization. Last summer she spent teaching in a summer school program for migrant workers in China. These are families that migrate from rural areas to work in urban areas, usually in factories in the city. They have some things in common with our migrant workers and some huge differences. The children of migrant workers there are put in special schools separated from the resident population and not integrated into the general population. Like our migrant farmworkers (most of whom do not migrate anymore) they maintain cultural and family ties back to their home towns and desire to return there. It was an amazing cross-cultural experience for our kids to have Patience with us for six weeks. She helped out in the office, giving out diapers and reading and playing with the children. She also accompanied the Mission trips both working in Salvador’s field and playing and teaching at the Raspberry Ridge farmworker housing complex. She helped out with our Sunday School program, teaching the children origami and paper-cutting and tai chi. I have a wonderful picture in my head (unfortunately not in my camera) of her leading a group of Mexican kids in a line across the parish hall doing tai chi. Thanks, Patience!