Saint Luke's Episcopal Church
Deming, New Mexico
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Welcome Welcome to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Deming, New
Mexico. We strive for communion with God and with each in the fellowship
of love. We follow the Eucharist with a fellowship meal or at least
snacks during the summer, only Easter excepted. This is a continuation
of the tradition of the very early Christian churches to honor God and
one another in the breaking of the bread of the Eucharist and of the
fellowship meal. We would be pleased to have you join us in the
Eucharistic feast and in the fellowship of food. Services Sunday Communion Service at 10:30 a.m., followed by a fellowship meal in the Parish Hall. The Eucharist begins as we prepare to come to church on Sunday and does not end until we take the presence of Christ into the world after our fellowship. There is an informal Morning Prayer service on Wednesdays at 10:15 a.m., normally followed by a short Bible study and rarely by a Eucharist. Currently we are studying St. Luke's Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles and welcome suggestions as to what book of the Bible to study next. Special services are normally posted on the outside church bulletin board and noted on the church answering machine message. Contact by snail mail at PO Box 1258 Deming, NM 88031 419 W Spruce Street, Deming, NM 88030- 3640 Email at st.lukeepsicopalchurch@yahoo.com or Email the Vicar at frheacox@gmail.com. Vicar Don Heacox was raised up from the congregation of St. Luke’s to be its vicar. He became vicar on March 30, 2010, upon his ordination to the priesthood at St. Luke’s, having previous served as Deacon Pastor from the time of his ordination to the transitional diaconate on September 19, 2009, and for nearly six years before that as Lay Vicar. He received his ministerial training through the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande School for Ministry’s 2- to 3-year program conducted on line and through intensive weekends in Santa Fe by the Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge, PA. Fr Don has BS in Humanities from the United States Air Force Academy and an MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. He served in the United States Air Force in various positions in weapon systems acquisition and intelligence, retiring as a colonel. He was Director of Dayton (Ohio) Operations for a defense services firm for two years before moving to Deming to facilitate his wife’s being closer to her father in Silver City, New Mexico. He worked for two years as Executive Director of the local Economic Development Corporation, for several years as a real estate agent, and for much of the time as a free lance writer, and was a paid columnist for the Deming Headlight for nearly 20 years before retiring his column, “Inside Out.” Our Prayers O Holy God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who prayed to you that His followers might be one even as You and He (and the Holy Spirit) are one (in blessed Trinity), expand, sustain, and restore the unity of all your followers and with prevenient grace move toward that same unity and communion with you all who are isolated from your love and from those who honor Christ’s commandment to love one another, that Your Name be glorified and salvation received by all through faith in Christ. O Holy God, giver of all good gifts, who gave His only Son to heal our separation from Him, so encourage and strengthen St. Luke’s Church in Deming by the power of Your Holy Spirit, that Your love and mercy, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit might be felt by all who meet it and its members through Jesus Christ Our Lord to the glory of Your Name. Amen. |