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1 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, Noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. |
2 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA, Noon NA 7 p.m. |
3 AA 8 p.m. |
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5 X Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30 |
6 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Feast of the Transfiguration Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. |
7 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m. |
8 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, Noon No Holy Eucharist |
9 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA, Noon NA 7 p.m. |
10 AA 8 p.m. |
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XI Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30 |
13 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. |
14 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA 8 p.m. |
15 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, Noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. Feast of the Assumption |
16 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA, Noon NA 7 p.m. |
17 AA 8 p.m. |
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XII Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30 |
20 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Vestry 5:30 p.m. |
21 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Project 8:30 a.m. AA 8 p.m. |
22 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, Noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. St. Bartholomew (transferred) |
23 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA, Noon NA 7 p.m. |
24 AA 8 p.m. |
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XIII Pentecost Coffee 10 a.m. Holy Eucharist 10:30 |
27 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. |
28 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. EFM 6:30 p.m. AA 8 p.m. |
29 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. Bible Study, Noon Holy Eucharist 6 p.m. Martyrdom of John The Baptist |
30 Morning Prayer 7:45 a.m. AA, Noon NA 7 p.m. |
31 AA 8 p.m. |
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The Word
Greetings
in the Name of our Lord, Jesus Christ!
I have the privilege to write to you having now
served in this parish for one year. What
have I learned in one year? First, I
have learned how welcoming and helpful the people of this parish are; how
fellowship is real. I’ve also learned
that folks in general want to help, to express a lively faith.
Opportunities for growth in faith
and works abound. At the Vestry retreat
held in April, we looked at how the church fulfills her mission, classifying
areas of mission under the acronym of SWEEP:
Service, Worship, Education, Evangelism, and Pastoral Care. This month the Vestry is focusing on discerning
what it is that God may be calling us to in further service. Through the generosity of Joe and Betty Trulove, we are blessed to now be putting the Dobson house
into shape as a church annex. So the
question we can ask–whether about the house or the parish in general–is what
are we being called to do?
At this month’s Vestry meeting
we’ll focus on turning the “Brainstorming” column in the chart above into “Next
Steps”. We’ll study and pray about what
one or two real kinds of service we may be called to outside our own parish,
whether this involves the use of the church annex or not. If you have a strong feeling about a call to
service, then let’s hear about it. Come
to the Vestry meeting on Monday, 20 August, at 5:30 p.m.
The other thing we need to
remember about service is that at some point each one of us needs some
help. We need to feel free to ask. St. Paul reminds us that we are all members
of one Body in God’s Church, and as members of each other we need to feel free
to ask for help, whether it is something simple or not. Ask for someone to come
visit you if you can’t get out, or to run an errand, or to help with lawn care
if your back isn’t in its best shape. If
you are in the hospital, ask the hospital to contact the parish.
Let’s also always ask for each
other’s prayers and pray for each other.
Let’s continue our ministry of intercessory prayer. Starting this month we are going to have a
prayer request list posted at the back of the church nave, for all persons to
be prayed for in the coming month. The
list will be restarted every month, so if you want to keep someone in our
prayers, make sure you add them to the list every month. (You can call the office to do this.)
Serving each other, praying for
each other, serving and praying for all those in the community around us, it is
in these works of faith that we fulfill the mission of the Church, “to restore
all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.”
Yours in Christ Jesus,
Vestry
Highlights
Treasurer's
Report: $16,636.73 Operating
Account, $53,122.96 Capital Account.
The Capital Account balance does not
reflect expense of replacing A/C ($5500.00).
Warden's Report: Jim
Chandler advised the Vestry the A/C was replaced and is in good working
order. Evans Plumbing and Air Conditioning did the work for the
church.
Rector's Report: The wooden church sign will be
re-painted/repaired with service signs added.
The three stained glass windows
behind the altar require repair and covering. Bill Sugg will get additional
quotes for the job.
Father Karl told the
vestry beginning the first Sunday in Advent we will have a revised Lectionary
per General Convention (more of the Bible will be
in the new Lectionary).
The vestry tabled buying new books
and opted for inserts in the Gospel and Lectionary Books.
Work has started on the Church Annex
and a dumpster will arrive soon.
Project 20/20
Update:
Kristen Stevens presented the final
plans for the parking lot, parking and covered walk ways. The vestry liked the
plan and approved it with a unanimous
vote. All members of the vestry were present.
The vestry discussed
the prayer list and decided to start the list over each month.
Please remember to re-add family and
friends at the first of each month.
Vestry High-lights submitted by the Church Clerk,
Marion Kohut
Grace Notes
The month of August includes three major and a
number of lesser feasts. Monday, 6
August is the Feast of the Transfiguration, commemorating the time when Jesus was
transfigured before Peter, James and John; when His glory was revealed and God
the Father commanded, “This is my beloved Son ... listen to him” (Mt. 17.1-8; Mk. 9.2-8; Lk.
9.23-27). This is not a moveable feast,
and so will be observed on Monday. (There
will be no Wednesday eucharist
on 8 August.) On Wednesday the 15th we will observe the Feast of St.
Mary the Virgin (also called the Feast of the Assumption), when we offer our
devotion to the human being closest to our Lord, and the tradition that at her
death Mary was assumed into heaven.
On Wednesday
the 22nd we’ll commemorate St. Bartholomew the Apostle (transferred
from 24 August). Bartholomew’s day is
unfortunately best remembered for the massacre of over 5,000 French Huguenots
(Calvinists) in 1572; another sad tale of blood shed over disputes over
religious doctrine and discipline, but we can remember also that tradition
teaches that Bartholomew brought the Christian faith to India, before being
martyred in what is now Armenia.
Considering the distances involved, it is clear that this apostle took
seriously our Lord’s command to “go ... and make disciples of all nations ...”
(Mt. 28.19).
Lesser feasts in August are many,
including Sts. Joseph of Arimathea, Dominic, Clare,
Bernard. Louis and Augustine of Hippo. But, let’s not forget Laurence (10 August), a
third century Roman deacon roasted alive on a gridiron, and so invoked by
modern wags as the patron saint of football!
We begin the
month with two famous twentieth century hymns, Tell out, my soul, the
greatness of the Lord! (437), which paraphrases the Magnificat
from Luke 1, and All my hope on God is founded (665), written by a
physician who became poet laureate of England (Robert Seymour Bridges) and a
composer (Herbert Howells) famous for his many choral settings.
Since hymns
are selected to correspond to the lessons, we actually get to sing an Advent
hymn in August, singing “Sleepers, wake!”
A voice astounds us (61) on 12 August, to the famous harmony setting
of J. S. Bach. August will have more of
a nineteenth century evangelical flavor in hymnody, including Stand up,
stand up, for Jesus (561) and Onward, Christian soldiers (562) on 19
August, and communion hymns which will include Just as I am (693) and Rock
of ages (685). The tune for Onward
Christian soldiers was composed by Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert &
Sullivan fame, but this was not the first tune to which the words (written in
1864 by S. Baring-Gould for a children’s festival) were set, that coming from a
Haydn symphony. For reasons which have
not been elaborated, our hymnal (and those in
What the saints established
That I hold for true.
What
the saints believe
That believe I too.
Long
as earth endureth
Men that faith will hold,—
Kingdoms,
nations, empires,
In destruction rolled.