Thirty Hour Famine
Last weekend, we had the Thirty Hour Famine at the Cathedral. That is a youth event, where the youth learn about world hunger while fasting for thirty hours. The fast is a fast from foods, but we could drink some broth and fruit juice. It also involved doing some service projects. We started fasting at [...]
Trip to Boston and Jeffrey’s Wedding
Last weekend, I was in Boston with all my friends from college because our friends Jeffrey and Julia were getting married. The wedding was in the style of the Quakers, which means it was part of a Meeting for Worship. If you don’t know, the way Quakers meet for worship is [...]
Conference for Interns in the Episcopal Church
From Friday February 20th to Sunday February 22nd, there was a conference for interns in the Episcopal Church Service Corps at Virginia Theological Seminary, in the DC suburbs. The conference was an opportunity for interns and their directors to meet together. As part of my internship, I went to this conference, and so did my [...]
TEC
From Friday January 16 to Sunday January 28, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist hosted its third Teens Encounter Christ (TEC), which is a retreat lead by youth for youth. There were about 40 youth in attendance, approximately equally divided between TECers (youth who had not attended a TEC before) and team members (youth [...]
Christmas Pageant at the Cathedral
I was in my first ever Christmas pageant a couple weeks ago, as part of the Cathedral’s pageant. I was a shepherd.
It was about the first Christmas pageant I can remember even remember seeing, and certainly the first one I had ever been a part of. I grew up Unitarian Universalist, and I suppose the [...]
Pie
The Monday before Christmas, the youth group at the Cathedral braved the snow to bake pies for the Christmas party at Crosswalk, Spokane’s shelter for teenagers. The youth group has a tradition of engaging in service projects in Advent. Other projects this year were making Christmas presents and cards for shut-ins in the congregation and [...]
Christmas Eve Dinner at Holy Trinity
On Christmas Eve, Holy Trinity had another dinner for its neighbors, with a Christmas party. We served dinner to a small army of volunteers and to somewhere between 45 and 65 of our neighbors. There were so many people walking around and coming and going that it was hard to keep an accurate count of [...]
Who I Am
I’m Julia, the Watermark Intern of the Diocese of Spokane. I grew up in Silver Spring, a Maryland suburb of DC, and I went to Swarthmore College, in the Philadelphia area. I moved here for this internship in mid-August, and I’ll be here till mid-July. People often ask me whether I’d been to Spokane before [...]
My Favorite Part of My Job
Actually I have several favorite parts of my job, but one of them is delivering fliers for Holy Trinity’s dinner ministry. We have a list of 19 social-service agencies to take fliers to, and I do most of the deliveries. I don’t have a car, so I ride my bike to all those places. [...]
