If you have any questions, please contact Denise Dorsey at ddorsey1731@gmail.com or (706) 969-0514.

The first Station is located just outside the front door of the parish hall, or at our web site www.resurrectionsautee.com. I want to thank the Formation Team and for everyone who recorded each Station. I hope you take the time to both come and share in the Stations of the Cross as well as invite others who are seeking and wondering at this time.

Many of you have asked about our ministry on the Ouray and Uintah Indian reservation in Utah. Here is a wonderful video to give you a sense of our work. The Episcopal Diocese of Utah has won an Award for Excellence for a short video titled Culture and Faith at the Episcopal Communicators Conference in 2020. The video is centered on St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church where Jim and I served for 14 years from 2002 to 2016 when we retired back to Sautee.

 

You will get a sense of the history beginning at the turn of the 20th century. The church building was built with $500.00 from the government and completed in 1905 although the ministry was started in 1897 in a building called St. Elizabeth's Hospital, long destroyed.

 

All the old buildings you see in the video were burned to the ground along with the government school buildings with exception of the church. The church is the only remaining original building in Whiterocks. It has been added to a few times.

 

The people wanted visual symbols of their culture in the church building. Inside the church you can see the 48 inch Ceremonial Drum Altar which Jim and a native friend made early on in our time there. It is wrapped in red Pendleton wool fabric. The only time it is used as a drum is on Good Friday and it is struck 33 times, one for each year of Jesus' life at the end of the Stations of the Cross. I designed 3 stained glass windows that were installed in the late years. The transom window with the bear and the Medicine Wheel is featured in the video. The bear is a symbol of the Ute people.

 

The Arts Kids program I started in 2008 with support from our partner St. Luke's in Park City, is featured and it has grown beyond anything we had envisioned. Jim and I are grateful that my successor the Rev. Michael Carney has continued the programs and the ministry we built over the 14 years we lived in Whiterocks--population 325 Utes, however, people come from many surrounding towns to the church. Michael has to play the piano as well as lead worship. I was fortunate to have Jim play the guitar every Sunday for 14 years. Sue+

People of good will who desire to challenge and educate themselves are invited to join in a weekly Zoom book study on Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The book is the #1 New York Times Bestseller How to Be an Antiracist by award winning author Ibram X. Kendi. The book may be purchased on Amazon. A link to the meeting can be found on Resurrection's Web site, resurrectionsautee.com.