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Jan 1, 2021
From left Michelle Tambascio, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation program associate, Ron McEntire, St. Lukeâs Episcopal Church minister of music, and the Rev. Luke Fodor in front of the organ that will be restored at the church. Anyone interested in donating toward the restoration can contact the church office at 483-6405.
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Every Sunday St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s 1957 Aeolian-Skinner organ brings an orchestra of sound into the church leading voices to sing and hearts to soar.
And yet, after 63 years of faithful service, certain essential elements are failing. After nearly a quarter century of use without significant repair, the organ console is suffering from several mechanical failures as the keys are worn, and the pedals and several pistons intermittently “act up.” Additionally, the computer software installed in 1996 used to control all the switching required for more than 2,000 pipes instead of miles of cable, has become inter
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St Lukeâs Episcopal Church in Jamestown has utilized its space in a multitude of ways to help local community organizations continue their services amid COVID-19. Pictured is a Census training in August.
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The Rev. Luke Fodor knows that it will still be some time before the halls of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Jamestown will be filled with worshippers.
But, while COVID-19 has prevented big services, the congregation’s pastor will not let it prohibit it from being of service.
“We’ve wanted to find ways to continue to be of service,” he said.
Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection
The Episcopal Church of St. Luke the Beloved Physician is seen soon after its completion in 1879. At far left is the Cooper residence, where Robert Louis Stevenson met Mrs. âLibbyâ Custer.
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Mrs. Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson, or “Maggie,” was the daughter of a high-ranking official in the Scottish Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Dr. Lewis Balfour. Consequently, churchgoing was in Maggie’s blood, and in 1887, there was only one legitimate outlet in Saranac Lake to satisfy that urge St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, established 1879. And so it was that the mother of Robert Louis Stevenson joined that congregation for the duration of the layover in these mountains by the Stevenson expedition: a group of five travelers comprised of Maggie and her son with the newly famous initials RLS, his wife Mrs. Fanny Stevenson, her son Lloyd Osbourne and their maid Valentine Roch; and temporarily Sport, a good
Churches around the San Diego region prepared for a Christmas like no other as the coronavirus pandemic surges, filling up hospital beds and driving unemployment.
Rather than choirs belting out Silent Night to packed pews, many congregations planned modest outdoor gatherings and live-streamed services.
It’s been particularly tough for the largely Sudanese and Congolese congregation at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in North Park. Since the spring, about a third of the 200-family congregation has grappled with job loss, many struggling to pay rent and relying on food donations. At least one person contracted the coronavirus.
However, the church, its members and a nonprofit partner, RefugeeNet, have pulled together over recent months to support the most vulnerable members of the congregation, many of whom work in high-risk settings such as hotels, nursing homes and casinos. They’ve helped fellow churchgoers fill out unemployment forms, driven them to doctor’s appointments, ev