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April Outreach: NAMI San Diego
The San Diego affiliate of NAMI began in the early 1970s as a group called “Parents of Adult Schizophrenics.” These parents met around their kitchen tables to give each other support in this era during which parents were thought to be the cause of their children’s mental illness. In 1978, the chapter incorporated. That same year, the California Alliance on Mental Illness (now NAMI California) was also incorporated while the following year the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) was incorporated and is now headquartered in Arlington, VA. Our San Diego group became San Diego Alliance for the Mentally Ill in the 1980s and NAMI San Diego in 2000.
Today, our affiliate has over 400 members.
While many NAMI affiliates have only a phone number, NAMI San Diego has an office that houses paid operations staff and the volunteers who staff the phone service. NAMI San Diego has a Helpline which is located in the Albright Center. It was named after a client, Jim Albright, who, in 1984, raised the need for a center to Dr. Robert Moore, Medical Director of Mesa Vista Hospital. Dr. Moore arranged for the Vista Hill Foundation to make a monetary contribution that was matched by a federal block grant back through the County of San Diego in 1985.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness in San Diego (NAMI San Diego) is the community’s voice on mental illness. We are a part of grass-roots, nonprofit, national NAMI organization, and also an affiliate of NAMI California. NAMI San Diego was founded in 1978 by family members of people with mental illness.
We have a threefold mission:
Support people with mental illnesses and their families by helping them find coping mechanisms for their daily struggle with brain disorders.
Educate people who have mental illness, their families, and the general public about mental illness with the goal of dispelling ignorance and stigma.
Advocate for more research and an improved system of mental health services across the nation.
At the heart of NAMI San Diego’s mission is the sharing of information and striving to end the stigma associated with mental illness. To this end, we offer a Helpline, support groups, educational meetings, newsletters, a lending library and a number of classes on mental illness held at various locations throughout San Diego County.
April Redwood Review
A Sanctified Art
Janine Hand & Kathryn Lillich
A Sanctified Art first graced our bulletins and social media during Lent of 2021. We’ve also been incorporating their poetry and children’s bulletins into our ministries. For the holy seasons of Lent and Easter, we’re sharing a number of resources and artwork the creators developed for their newest collection “Wandering Heart.”
The cover of this Redwood Review is from the artwork for Lent 5, “Seventy-seven Times,” created by The Reverend Lauren Wright Pittman, founding creative partner and Director of Branding for A Sanctified Art. The theme “Teach Me” was inspired by Matthew 18:15 – 22.
Read the full artist statement on page 4.
Sunday Forum: A Journey with Mark
Join us after the 9:30am service on Sunday mornings for A Journey with Mark. “Mark is the shortest of the four gospels, only sixteen chapters long. It is tightly written, and the reader can move through it quickly. Yet, Mark is complex and nuanced. We can read and reread the text, constantly finding new things in it.”
Youth Sunday 2024
Join us for our annual Youth Sunday service Sunday, May 12 (Mother's Day)! We’ll gather to honor our graduating seniors and hear from our youth preachers as they reflect on their journey of faith. We’ll also recognize the dedication and faithfulness of students in grades 6-12 by presenting them with inscribed Bibles. If you would like an inscribed bible, please email Mary Via by May 1.
Seniors On the Go: Art Alive
Join Seniors On the Go at this year’s Art Alive, the San Diego Museum of Art’s signature annual event. Saturday April 27 from 11am-12pm, followed by no-host lunch at the Prado Balboa Park. This year the museum is celebrating the Art of India by featuring a cast of lead artists, designers, and musicians that are all of South-Asian descent.
Art Alive is free to members of SDMA (make sure to register for the 11am time slot). Tickets for non-members are $40.
NAMI Walk 2024
NAMI WALK APRIL 27: Join St. Peter’s Outreach as we participate in NAMIWalks, Saturday, April 27 from 7 – 11am. Click here for more info.
Sunday Forum: A Journey with Mark
Join us after the 9:30am service on Sunday mornings for A Journey with Mark. “Mark is the shortest of the four gospels, only sixteen chapters long. It is tightly written, and the reader can move through it quickly. Yet, Mark is complex and nuanced. We can read and reread the text, constantly finding new things in it.”
ST. PETER’S WALKERS
APRIL 17: Dave and Martha King lead a relaxing walk after the 9:30am healing service. Meet on the patio at 10:30am and bring a bagged lunch. We’ll wrap up by 12:30pm.
Sunday Forum: A Journey with Mark
Join us after the 9:30am service on Sunday mornings for A Journey with Mark. “Mark is the shortest of the four gospels, only sixteen chapters long. It is tightly written, and the reader can move through it quickly. Yet, Mark is complex and nuanced. We can read and reread the text, constantly finding new things in it.”
Lent Forum
Mother Paige and Mark Patzman lead a study after the 9:30am service using Prof. Amy-Jill Levine's exploration on the Passion of Jesus. Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story and shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience. This week we focus on Lent 6: “Risking Temptation.”
Easter Brunch
Join us for this St. Peter’s favorite: the Easter Brunch! Held after the 9:30am service on Easter Sunday, it’s one you don’t want to miss. Delicious food, friendly people, and (Lord willing) the California sunshine will bring you joy this Easter morning.
Easter Brunch
We'll celebrate our annual Easter Tea/Brunch on Sunday March 31 after the 9:30am service. Thanks to Pat Carson and Molly Stone for coordinating one last time, and thank you to those who have stepped froward to learn the ropes! If anyone else wants to jump in, contact Vicki Harney.
Easter Sunday
He is risen! We'll celebrate Christ's resurrection at our regular 8am and 9:30am morning services. There will be no Sunday forum following the services.
Easter Vigil
As we wait for the resurrection of our Lord, we'll celebrate the Easter Vigil service. We being outside on the patio at sunset (7:08pm), and slowly transition into the church. It's a good idea to bring your jackets to this beautiful service!
Good Friday Traditional Service
The Friday before Easter Day is the day when the church remembers Jesus’ crucifixion. In the Episcopal Church, it’s a day of fasting, discipline and self-denial. In the early church, candidates for baptism fasted for a day or two before the Paschal feast. In the west, the first of those days eventually acquired the character of a historical reenactment of the passion and death of Christ. The liturgy of the day includes John's account of the Passion gospel, a solemn form of intercession known as the solemn collects (dating from ancient Rome), and optional devotions before the cross (commonly known as the veneration of the cross).
Stations of the Cross
“The Stations of the Cross (or The Way of the Cross) is a prayerful devotion that recalls the series of events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion and burial. In the early centuries of the Christian faith, pilgrims to Jerusalem often visited the places connected to the final hours of Jesus’ earthly life. Over time, Christians unable to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem developed the practice of recalling those events using images and “stations” to imitate the Jerusalem pilgrimage and to meditate on the final hours and events of Jesus’ life. There are fourteen traditional stations. Eight stations correspond to events found in the Bible, and the remaining six stations are either based on inferences from the Bible or on pious tradition.” - from saeccp.org
Good Friday Spoken Service
The Friday before Easter Day is the day when the church remembers Jesus’ crucifixion. In the Episcopal Church, it’s a day of fasting, discipline and self-denial. In the early church, candidates for baptism fasted for a day or two before the Paschal feast. In the west, the first of those days eventually acquired the character of a historical reenactment of the passion and death of Christ. The liturgy of the day includes John's account of the Passion gospel, a solemn form of intercession known as the solemn collects (dating from ancient Rome), and optional devotions before the cross (commonly known as the veneration of the cross).
Maundy Thursday Prayer Vigil
To be vigil is to be wakeful for a purpose - to prepare for a holy occasion. “Could you not keep awake for one hour?” Jesus asked his followers. This practice signifies the hours where Christ and his apostles went to the Garden of Gethsemane as Christ prayed that the cup of suffering might pass from him. We invite all church members to come and pray silently and keep watch at the altar of repose and in the presence of the reserved sacrament during the hours that Christ would have prayed in the garden.
Maundy Thursday Service
After the Agape meal, you can join us in the church for our traditional Maundy Thursday service at 7pm.
Agape Meal
On Thursday before he was arrested, Jesus gathered with his friends for a meal and the proclamation of a new commandment to love one another. Remembering that night, we will gather to break bread and to pray together during an Agape Meal or "love-feast." All are welcome (including families with children) to join us at 5:30 pm in the Parish Hall. This will be a potluck supper, so please consider bringing meatless dishes to share, i.e. bread, soup, salad, fruit, cheese, hummus, olives. Please contact Mary Via for more information or to RSVP.
Palms To Go
We'll take our palms to the streets! We loved “Ashes to Go” so much that we're doing it again, this time with palms. See Fran Friesen Sundays on the patio or contact the office for more info.
Lent Forum
Mother Paige and Mark Patzman lead a study after the 9:30am service using Prof. Amy-Jill Levine's exploration on the Passion of Jesus. Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story and shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.
Palm Sunday
We'll have our regular weekend services on Saturday March 23 at 5pm, and Sunday March 24 at 8am and 9:30am. Then it's on to some new Palm Sunday adventures!
Theology Book Club
Join us March 20 from 6:30 – 8:30pm as we delve into a new book exploring different aspects of theology, spirituality, prayer, history, and other topics relevant to our spiritual journeys. We meet the third Wednesday monthly in our library for light fellowship and reflection on the book and the themes presented. We have a Zoom option for those who can’t make it in person. March's book is Transformed Lives: Making Sense of Atonement Today, by Cynthia Crysdale.
Senior Lunch: St. Peter's Travelers Part 2
Join the party on March 19 from 11:30am – 2pm for Part 2 of St. Peter's Travelers!
Annie and Alan Clopine show us Ambergris Key, Belize, a snorkeler's paradise. See the Great Blue Hole!
Peter Hall shares his journey of intermittent walks along the Camino de Compostela from Portugal through the Pyrenees in Northern Spain.
Judy Martin takes us to Santiago, Chile via walks in Patagonia on the Argentinian and Chilean sides. Join in viewing photos of her walking group of active Seniors 60-82.
David and Martha King cross the Isthmus in Panama on the train used by the builders the Canal, cruise a jungle river, and hike in Guatemalan archeological sites.
Chef Dustin Karagheusian from Viewpoint Brewery joins us with a Spanish and South American menu sampler. $20.00 per person.
Special Lent Forum
Join us following the 9:30am service when Rabbi Ron Shulman of Congregation Beth El, La Jolla, will reflect with us on contemporary antisemitism and the internal mood of the Jewish community in the post-October 7th world.
Warmly welcomed by Congregation Beth El in August 2017, Ron Shulman is delighted to serve as their Senior Rabbi. Rabbi Ron Shulman brings us his warm, sensitive nature, and thoughtful insights. He encourages us to find personal meaning through Jewish celebration, exploration, and participation in our synagogue community.
Prior to coming to Congregation Beth El, Rabbi Shulman served as Senior Rabbi of Chizuk Amuno Congregation in Baltimore, MD, and as Rabbi of Congregation Ner Tamid in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York ordained Rabbi Shulman and later conferred upon him an honorary Doctor of Divinity. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from the American Jewish University in Los Angeles where he also taught courses in Homiletics and Bible as a Lecturer in Professional Rabbinic Studies.
Ron Shulman is a graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He earned certification as a Fellow in the Kellogg School of Management for Jewish Leaders at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and as a Policy Conflict Resolution Fellow at the University of Maryland in Baltimore.
Rabbi Shulman is a member the San Diego Jewish Academy Board of Directors. He is a past president of the Baltimore Jewish Community Relations Council and was a member of the San Diego Union-Tribune Community Advisory Board. He has also served as a member of the JTS Chancellor’s Rabbinic Cabinet. Rabbi Shulman is the author of original prayers and reflections, Jewish educational curricula, newspaper Torah columns, and other writings.
Rabbi Shulman grew up in Encino, California. Ron and his wife, Robin, were members of the educational and religious staff of Camp Ramah in Ojai, California for many years.
Vida Joven Trip
Join us March 16, 2024 as Beth Beall drives us across the border to explore Vida Joven together and meet the children. Spanish isn’t required. You’ll find that there are plenty of ways to connect with the kids: board games, soccer, puzzles, play-doh, sidewalk chalk, Lego’s, more. Just be your wonderful self! Lunch will be served, and we can share this meal together. Questions? Email the outreach committee.
Sea Grove Walk
Join us on March 13 from 10:30am – 12:30pm for the first of many monthly scenic walks en route from our church to Sea Grove Park and surrounding areas. Led by our own Martha and Dave King, we’ll meet on the second Wednesday of the month at the church.
Bring a bag lunch for a patio picnic after our walk.
Lent Forum
Mother Paige and Mark Patzman lead a study after the 9:30am service using Prof. Amy-Jill Levine's exploration on the Passion of Jesus. Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story and shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.
March Redwood Review
Welcome Gigi Miller!
We are delighted to welcome Gigi Miller to St. Peter’s as our new Deacon Intern. Gigi grew up in Washington DC, attended college at UCLA where she got a degree in sociology. She moved to San Diego with her husband Rich in 1984 where they raised two children, Kelsey and Will, in Encinitas...
Lenten Evensong
Join us at 5pm for an evening of quiet contemplation and gorgeous music as part of your Lenten observances, featuring hauntingly beautiful arrangements of Psalm 130 and a wonderful setting of the Magnificat by Frank Henry Shera.
Interested in joining or supporting our music ministry? Contact music director Adam Davis.
Lent Forum
Mother Paige and Mark Patzman lead a study after the 9:30am service using Prof. Amy-Jill Levine's exploration on the Passion of Jesus. Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story and shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.
Guest Preacher: Kathy Wilder
This weekend we welcome back Kathy Wilder as our guest preacher. Kathy Wilder (she/her) is the Executive Director of Camp Stevens, your diocesan camp and retreat center in Julian, California. She recently completed her doctorate researching small nonprofit employee resilience. Kathy is a lifelong camp and youth development professional who has dedicated her life to advocating for justice and compassion. Kathy and her wife the Reverend Hannah Wilder, Vicar of St. Mary's in-the-Valley, Ramona, live at Camp Stevens with their three dogs, one cat, and all of the camp staff. They love visiting their son Owen, recent Cal Poly San Luis Obispo grad, in San Diego and going on family adventures. Please bless and thank Kathy for being with us this weekend.
To learn more about Kathy and Camp Stevens, click here.
Lent Forum
Mother Paige and Mark Patzman lead a study after the 9:30am service using Prof. Amy-Jill Levine's exploration on the Passion of Jesus. Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story and shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.