Welcome to St. Bede's E-News! 

We hope that this weekly offering will keep you up-to-date
on the latest information from the parish
and from around the Diocese of Atlanta and wider Church. 

Our e-newsletters are now being archived on our website. 
You can go to www.stbedes.org and look under the Connect With Us tab
at the top of the home page to find past newsletters.

The deadline for submission to the E-Newsletter each week is Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.
Please send your submissions ready to go into the newsletter,
text and images attached in an email to the Parish Administrator.
Muriel's email address is mdiguette@stbedes.org


Sunday, March 6, 2022
The First Sunday in Lent


Please join us as we gather together
to worship God this Sunday!


Worship in the Nave
in English at 10 am
Masks are required in the building at all times.

We will also be streaming this liturgy live
on


Worship in the Nave
in Spanish at 5 pm

Register for 5 pm Worship by emailing Fabio Sotelo






YOUTH GATHERING

Sunday, March 6th
9 - 9:45 am in Room M-110
(the room at the end of the Mission Wing hallway)

Join is this Sunday as we gather before morning worship in the Mission Wing to check-in and catch up. We had originally planned to participate in the Hunger Walk, but no one was available on Sunday afternoon to walk and Beth has hurt her leg (yikes!), so we'll gather earlier on Sunday to catch up and plan for future events. If you'd still like to make a donation to help fight hunger in our community, you can do so through the link below.
Calling all visionaries!

As we look forward to what Children's and family ministries will be in the coming year, we'd love to hear what God might be calling you to create with us. 

Maybe you would like to help curate or manage a lending library to help parents build faith at home?

Maybe you would like to be trained as a Godly Play teacher in preparation for the time when we will rebuild those circles? (training coming up Feb 25, 26, and March 5)

Maybe you would like to join the planning team or VBS team, supporting parents and teachers with curriculum, events, and resources?

Reach out to Alyssa at asali@stbedes.org to ask questions or get involved!



Family Ministries Micropractice 

Join our households with
birth through elementary aged children
in this simple intentional practice
as we bring our learning from the lectionary
into our everyday lives.


The 2022 Annual Pledge Campaign
for St. Bede's

THANK YOU, THANK YOU,
THANK YOU!

Thank you to all who have already 
prayerfully considered and returned 
your 2022 pledge of financial support to St. Bede's.

As of March 3, we have received pledges 
from eighty-five folks/families totaling $414,000.

If you have not already made a financial pledge 
to support St. Bede's for 2022,
we would love to hear from you. 
We hope that you will prayerfully consider
your pledge to St. Bede's
and return your pledge card
or use the link below to pledge online.





If your pledge packet never arrived in the mail, 
please call or email the church office
and we will get one sent out to you as soon as possible.


Thank You!
Gathering Going Forward
Guidance for the Parish


The Gathering Going Forward Group continues to encourage all eligible St. Bede’s parishioners to get vaccinated and keep up-to-date with 3rd doses (for the immunocompromised) and boosters - which have now been authorized for all adults. We would love to be a parish that models Christ’s call to love our neighbors and the most vulnerable among us by being a community that is as fully vaccinated as it can be.

Please remember that the Delta and Omicron variants of the COVID-19 virus spread more aggressively and can be spread by both unvaccinated and vaccinated people (even if they do not know that they are transmitting the virus and have no symptoms themselves). Vaccination is the best and most effective mitigation strategy and even it should still be combined with secondary layers of protection such as masking when indoors or keeping appropriate distance when outdoors.


SO REMEMBER:

GET VACCINATED - AND BOOSTED!
(as you are eligible and able)

WEAR A MASK IN PUBLIC
(even if you are vaccinated)
AND CONSIDER UPGRADING
TO WELL-FITTING
MEDICAL GRADE MASKS
SUCH AS N95, KF94, or KN95 MASKS
(cloth masks do not seem to offer
sufficient protection for you or for others
against the latest variants)
 
KEEP WASHING YOUR HANDS

SOCIALLY DISTANCE AROUND OTHERS
Healing Our Racism
Book Discussion Group
Monday, March 28.

Meeting Time:
4th Monday of each month at 2:00 pm 
on ZOOM

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.

Please join Muriel Diguette and other members/friends of St. Bede's to discuss current books pertaining to the issues of racism and white privilege.

Email Muriel for the Zoom link to join the discussion.

We will meet the 4th Monday of each month at 2:00 pm.

If you want to go ahead and order books for future discussions:
 
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Race Matters by Cornell West
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon


Mostly Mysteries Book Group
March 28th at 7pm on Zoom
 
Meeting Time:
4th Monday of each month at 7:00 pm 
on ZOOM

The Mostly Mysteries Book Group is continuing to meet on Zoom. If you would like to take part, please contact Connie Coralli and she will send you the link.

The February selection is A Little Bird by Wendy James.

A homecoming snares a young woman in a dangerous tangle of lies, secrets, and bad blood in this gripping novel by the bestselling author of An Accusation.

Running from a bad relationship, journalist Jo Sharpe heads home to Arthurville, the drought-stricken town she turned her back on years earlier. While some things have changed―her relationship with her ailing, crotchety father, her new job at the community newspaper―Jo finds that her return has rekindled the grief and uncertainty she experienced during her childhood following the inexplicable disappearance of her mother and baby sister.

Returning to Arthurville has its unexpected pleasures, though, as Jo happily reconnects with old friends and makes a few new ones. But she can’t let go of her search for answers to that long-ago mystery. And as she keeps investigating, the splash she’s making begins to ripple outward―far beyond the disappearance of her mother and sister.
Jo is determined to dig as deep as it takes to get answers. But it’s not long before she realises that someone among the familiar faces doesn’t want her picking through the debris of the past. And they’ll go to any lengths to silence the little bird before she sings the truth.

If you are interested in receiving the Zoom link, please email Connie Coralli

St. Bede's Prayer List


Prayers have been requested for:

Jai Haithco, son of Robin Brown-Haithco
Danny Fenwick, brother of Fran Snider
Clifton Lewis, brother-in-law of Dixie Snider
Pollyann Matson, friend of Nina Daniel
Micki Bruce, mother of Terry Cannon
Tracy Cannon, sister of Terry Cannon
Richard Louis Shapiro, brother-in-law of Suzanne Shapiro
Catherine Stewart Shapiro, sister-in-law of Suzanne Shapiro
Joy Sims, daughter of Nina Daniel
Jack Raymer & Ginnie Ferrell
Brian Couch, friend of Lisa Main
Myles Metcalf, nephew of Susan Reef
Carmen Graciaa, friend of Laura Martin
Jim Poulos, husband of Carol Kempker
Helen Abraham
Mac Thigpen
Fay Key
Lisa Maloof, daughter in law of Anita Maloof
Kevin Maloof, son of Anita Maloof
Donareen Oakley
Bill Edgar, father of Beth Cannon
Sarra David
Rosalene Larson, mother-in-law of Michael Daniel
Aree Bancroft
Laura Ribas
Jane Wiggins
Hilda Bell
Willie Diaz
Tim Waring
Ray Lampros
Maggie Williams
Mary Rodriguez
Hollis Pickett
Margie Klein, mother of Jody Klein
Lynn Edgar, mother of Beth Cannon
Nancy Waring
Kerry Penney
Andy Matia, friend of Ann Foote
Jim Ohl
Frances Bowen
Max Carpenter, grandson of Sarra David
Judy Penney, sister-in-law of Kerry Penney
Sydney Lund
Ann Foote
Cameron Maddox

 

For those who have died:

Paul Tretchick, father of Heidi Klein



We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week: 
 
3/6:   Krystyna Wilson
3/7:   Sylvia Abraham
3/8:   Cesar Vergara
3/9:   Sherry Witt
3/9:   Kalen Fraser
3/9:   Yadeli Hernandez
3/9:   Alexander Medina
3/10: Connie Coralli
3/10: George Shingler
3/11: Carlos Marin
3/11: Randy Telesfor-Leon
3/11: Jonathan Santana
3/12: Paul Werner


Community Emergency 
Assistance Fund

In addition to all of the wonderful ways that the Community Engagement Team is leading us in supporting community ministry partners (locally, churchwide, and globally) during this critical time, the Vestry has established a Community Emergency Assistance Fund to help people within the greater St. Bede's community with food assistance during the current public health crisis. This fund will be administered confidentially by the clergy in a similar way as their normal discretionary funds, but will be used exclusively to help with food assistance during this crisis. 

If you would like to contribute to this fund you may do so through Realm Giving and selecting "Community Emergency Assistance Fund" from the "Fund" drop-down menu. You may also mail a gift to St. Bede's designated for "Community Emergency Assistance Fund".

We have collected around $10,500 and distributed over $9,000 in assistance though food and utility support for individuals and families so far during the current public health crisis. The current balance of the fund stands at around $1,600 and new needs continue to present themselves. A dedicated group of members work with Fabio to help identify need and deliver food. Thank you to all who have contributed!

If you have questions about this offering to the greater St. Bede's community or if you are in need of food assistance or know someone who is, please contact either the Rev'd Caroline Magee or the Rev'd Fabio Sotelo.
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(without the apostrophe) 
and choose the one located in Atlanta.

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