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St. Paul’s Beautiful Needlepoint Kneelers “Morning Has Broken” Hymn 8 Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam Live 1973 version We are located on the “Five Corners of Lee’s Summit”, where SE Green and SE Grand meet 5th Street. www.saintpauls-lsmo.com The Altar Rail Needlepoint Kneelers St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Lee’s Summit, MO In the spring of l978, six months after Fr. Bob Newyear arrived at St. Paul’ s, the parish began planning Needlepoint Kneelers. Mrs. Clare Fogerty and Mrs. Esther Morse, members of St. Paul’s and lifetime Episcopalians, organized a group of interested parishioners to look at kneelers made in other Episcopal Churches in Kansas City. They researched what others had done and came up with a plan. Bug Linscott, also a parishioner and lifetime Episcopalian, plotted points and measured carefully using his garage floor, a fishing line and a little simple geometry, giving us a perfect pattern for each kneeler. Joanie Sherman of Kansas City conceived the design after talking to the initial group. They decided to use flowers in keeping with the Victorian mood of the church and to repeat the oak leaf found in the stained glass. In October of 1979, the stitching began. By Easter of 1981, a year and a half later, the last piece was finished. Each canvas was blocked and sent to the upholsterer, Stan Johnson of Kansas City. The kneelers were dedicated and first used on Sunday, June 14, 1981, Trinity Sunday, a little more than two years after the planning began. Placed in …

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