Sabbatical Newsletter, Issue 4, June 7, 2022
A Sabbatical Prayer
Guide us, Lord, as we all journey through the months ahead together. Help us to walk trustingly in faith with our parish family and to serve one another humbly. May we always be aware of your presence and direction in all we do. Amen.
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With only a month until our sabbatical time begins it’s time to meet the clergy who will be joining us to preach and preside this summer and fall!
July 3, 10, 17, 24
The Rev. Julian Eibin
The Rev. Julian Eibin
Fr. Julian Eibin was born in Amersham, England and grew up in the Polish refugee community of Hodgemoor Estate in Buckinghamshire, some 40 miles west of London.
The family emigrated to the US in 1962 when Julian was 11 and settled in Frederick County where Julian’s dad’s sister moved after WW2. His aunt Pola met his uncle Raymond in Tehran where he was stationed with the US Army. She spent two years in a Siberian labor camp with her young boys Julian and Richard. After being released in Uzbekistan she and the boys ended up in Tehran where both boys died and are buried. Julian attended Frederick County schools and graduated from St John’s Literary Institute.
Julian has been a parish priest in the Episcopal Church for 38 years serving congregations in Utah, Connecticut, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. He was Rector of Transfiguration, Braddock Heights in the 1990’s. He served as the Interim Rector at St Mark’s Orchard Park. He retired from active ministry in 2018. In retirement, he continues to serve the church as a part time interim. Most recently, he served as Interim Rector at St Mary’s, Abingdon MD.
Julian received his BA in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s Seminary College in Catonsville MD, MA in Theology from Catholic University in Washington DC and an Advanced Certificate in Congregational Development from Seabury Western Seminary in Evanston IL. He is trained as an intentional interim through the Interim Ministry Network. He has a certificate in storytelling from The John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown NC.
Julian lives in Harrisburg with his wife Deb, a retired hospice social worker. They have 5 grown children between them, 11 grandchildren and year old adorable Golden Retriever puppies, Teddy and Molly. When Julian is not working, spoiling his grandchildren, or learning to be a puppy parent he loves to putt around with his (work in progress) HO model train.
Julian has been a parish priest in the Episcopal Church for 38 years serving congregations in Utah, Connecticut, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. He was Rector of Transfiguration, Braddock Heights in the 1990’s. He served as the Interim Rector at St Mark’s Orchard Park. He retired from active ministry in 2018. In retirement, he continues to serve the church as a part time interim. Most recently, he served as Interim Rector at St Mary’s, Abingdon MD.
Julian received his BA in Philosophy from Saint Mary’s Seminary College in Catonsville MD, MA in Theology from Catholic University in Washington DC and an Advanced Certificate in Congregational Development from Seabury Western Seminary in Evanston IL. He is trained as an intentional interim through the Interim Ministry Network. He has a certificate in storytelling from The John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown NC.
Julian lives in Harrisburg with his wife Deb, a retired hospice social worker. They have 5 grown children between them, 11 grandchildren and year old adorable Golden Retriever puppies, Teddy and Molly. When Julian is not working, spoiling his grandchildren, or learning to be a puppy parent he loves to putt around with his (work in progress) HO model train.
July 31
The Rev. Mark Winward
A native of East Hartford, CT, Father Mark Winward is a Captain in the Navy Chaplain Corps and currently serves as the Command Chaplain for U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, MD. Ordained in the Diocese of Southern Virginia in 1997, Father Mark did theological studies at Cambridge University, UK, earned his Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to serving as Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Saco, ME, and numerous military assignments over the last 36 years, he has served on the faculty of both Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA and Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, FL. Father Mark has been married to his beloved bride, KC, for 34 years and has two adult sons, Christian and Matthew.
The Rev. Mark Winward
A native of East Hartford, CT, Father Mark Winward is a Captain in the Navy Chaplain Corps and currently serves as the Command Chaplain for U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, MD. Ordained in the Diocese of Southern Virginia in 1997, Father Mark did theological studies at Cambridge University, UK, earned his Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, and Master of Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to serving as Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Saco, ME, and numerous military assignments over the last 36 years, he has served on the faculty of both Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA and Joint Special Operations University in Tampa, FL. Father Mark has been married to his beloved bride, KC, for 34 years and has two adult sons, Christian and Matthew.
August 7, 14, 21, 28
The Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud
On October 3, 2011, the Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud became Interim Director of Worship at the Cathedral, as position she held through April 28, 2012, when she accepted a call to serve as interim rector at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Virginia. She had returned to the Cathedral as a priest part-time in November 2010. Before that, Canon Sulerud had been serving the Diocese of Washington as canon for deployment and vocational ministry, a position she assumed in October 2005. Canon Sulerud had also served for a year prior to that as interim precentor at Washington National Cathedral, beginning in the fall of 2004, maintaining responsibilities as canon for stewardship for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Bishop John Bryson Chane appointed Canon Sulerud to the diocesan staff in 2002. From 1995 to 2002 Canon Sulerud served as rector of Church of the Ascension in Silver Spring, Maryland. Prior to that, she had been assistant rector at Grace Church in Alexandria, Virginia, and assistant chaplain for the upper school at Saint Stephen and Saint Agnes School, also in Alexandria.
Canon Sulerud is currently a member of the General Board of Examining Chaplains, the board responsible for administering the General Ordination Examination each year. She has served as a spiritual director at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and as a co-trainer of seminary supervisors in the Field Education office at VTS. She is active as a consultant nationally in the areas of stewardship and congregational development with a special emphasis on developing faith communities around a rule of life.
She has recently authored “The Soccer Ball,” a meditation published in the Washington Window (fall 2004); an article on stewardship for Vestry Papers (fall 2003); and the booklet Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Stewardship and Were Afraid to Ask (Feb. 2005).
The Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud
On October 3, 2011, the Rev. Canon Mary Sulerud became Interim Director of Worship at the Cathedral, as position she held through April 28, 2012, when she accepted a call to serve as interim rector at Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Virginia. She had returned to the Cathedral as a priest part-time in November 2010. Before that, Canon Sulerud had been serving the Diocese of Washington as canon for deployment and vocational ministry, a position she assumed in October 2005. Canon Sulerud had also served for a year prior to that as interim precentor at Washington National Cathedral, beginning in the fall of 2004, maintaining responsibilities as canon for stewardship for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Bishop John Bryson Chane appointed Canon Sulerud to the diocesan staff in 2002. From 1995 to 2002 Canon Sulerud served as rector of Church of the Ascension in Silver Spring, Maryland. Prior to that, she had been assistant rector at Grace Church in Alexandria, Virginia, and assistant chaplain for the upper school at Saint Stephen and Saint Agnes School, also in Alexandria.
Canon Sulerud is currently a member of the General Board of Examining Chaplains, the board responsible for administering the General Ordination Examination each year. She has served as a spiritual director at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) and as a co-trainer of seminary supervisors in the Field Education office at VTS. She is active as a consultant nationally in the areas of stewardship and congregational development with a special emphasis on developing faith communities around a rule of life.
She has recently authored “The Soccer Ball,” a meditation published in the Washington Window (fall 2004); an article on stewardship for Vestry Papers (fall 2003); and the booklet Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Stewardship and Were Afraid to Ask (Feb. 2005).
September 4, 11, 18, 25 & October 2
The Rev. Mary Davisson
The Rev. Mary Davisson
Mary Thomsen Davisson grew up in Baltimore. After doing undergraduate work at Brown, completing a Ph.D. in Classics at Berkeley, and teaching two years at U.Va., she returned to Baltimore with her husband. Here they raised their three children while she continued to teach at Loyola University and publish scholarly articles about Latin poetry.
Mary received her M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary in 2004, was ordained to the diaconate, and was appointed Assistant Director of the Baltimore International Seafarers’ Center. In 2005, she was ordained to the priesthood and became Director of BISC. During her tenure there, she was privileged to work with a dedicated group of volunteers and part-time chaplains, visiting and transporting up to 20-some cargo crews each week, as well as addressing pastoral and advocacy needs. Mary retired from BISC on June 30.
We are thankful that we’ve been able to pull together a variety of faithful men and women to be with us and know you will welcome them warmly. Stay tuned to these Tuesday emails as upcoming issues will include information about leadership and pastoral care while Kristin+ is away, a fun summer project for the whole congregation, and our first congregational renewal event. Remember to sign up below for our Leave-Taking Sunday picnic.
In peace,
Dave Rak, Annie Horrigan, Joan Fader, Lynda Ellis, Lucy & Blix Winston, Kristin+
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