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To read the sermon preached at the Sesquicentennial, click here. |
Videos of the event are available! |
For the Program, click here. |
Join Episcopalians from throughout Lane County
for a re-enactment and celebration of the
first Episcopal service held in Lane County, 150 years ago.
 On
Sunday, October 3, 2004, we will look back 150 years to that Sunday in 1854,
when congregants assembled in Eugene City’s “temporary Courthouse” for a
service of Holy Communion with Missionary Bishop Thomas Fielding Scott as
celebrant. Bishop Scott had only been in the Oregon Territory since April. His
charge consisted of the states of Oregon, Washington, and parts of Montana and
southern British Columbia. The Rev. St. Michael Fackler preached the sermon to a
congregation numbering between 20-30 hardy pioneers. The names of these first
congregants are not known but Mary Skinner, wife of Eugene City’s founder, was
surely one of them. Writing in his journal, Bishop Scott commented, “officiated
at Eugene City four times and we now have an edifice underway. By the kindness
of Mr. Skinner, one of the proprietors of the town site, we have been presented
with a valuable site of an acre of ground for Church and School or Parsonage.”
(Source, Louise M. Clark, the Diocese of the Oregon Trail, 1959.) |
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THE SERVICE: 10:00 am—Parishioners gather in the courtyard between the museum and the auditorium. 10:30 am—The service begins with a procession of pioneers and clergy. The order of service will be taken from the 1789 prayer book which Missionary Bishop, Thomas Fielding Scott, most likely would have used on that day. Bill Woolum, an LCC instructor and lay preacher will deliver a composite of sermons by the Reverend St. Michael Fackler who preached that Sunday 150 years ago. THE CELEBRATION: Noon— Sunday dinner and activities in the auditorium and in the courtyard. Delicious buffet of carved baron of beef, hunter chicken, vegetarian strata, new red potato salad, and a fresh fruit medley. Games from the era for children! Displays by each parish! Filling of a time capsule! A real covered wagon! Slide Show! Parish choirs singing hymns of the era! And more!
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St. Andrew—Cottage Grove, St. John the Divine—Springfield, St. Andrew—Florence
Church of the Resurrection, , St. Mary, St. Matthew, St. Thomas—Eugene,