All Saints' Youth Ministries...
Weekly News and Stuff to Ponder (see below...) 
                                           ACOLYTE ALERT
                      Need Acolytes for 2 Important Services Sunday
Sunday is Geoffrey's last Sunday with All Saints'. I realize it is late in the year, but we need more acolytes for both services. If you are coming anyway, please sign up to serve in his last Sunday with us. (What an honor!) We only have 3 at 1115 and 0 at 9:00 (as of Tuesday evening).   SIGN UP HERE.

YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
FORMATION: SundayFormation will be on hiatus for the summer. Go wish Geoffrey and his family well during the reception between services. 

Summer Acolytes!
Hey all acolytes, former acolytes, and even graduated acolytes! Please sign up for at least 3 summer service slots. We move to summer schedule (8,10 and 530 services) starting next Sunday. (Acolytes are just at the 10 AM service) 

Grady Breakfast- Tomorrow (5/19) at the usual spot (IHOP on Ponce) Bring $5.00 for breakfast. (I said 10 last week, but that was wrong!)

Summer mission opportunity:
High Schoolers AND Middle School (Rising 7th-8th grades) can work here in Atlanta for atlSERVE | July 10-15 working with Emmaus House and Meals on Wheels Atlanta and will be staying in The Attic for the week. R egister here for ATLServe.  
 
Acolyte Captains for 2016-2017
All Seniors who have at least 1 year of experience acolyting are invited to apply to be acolyte captains. Lead groups of your peers in keeping the services at All Saints' running smoothly. Commitment usually winds up being about once a month (on average) and at least 1-2 services during Holy Week and Christmas. Apply here! 


ADULT TYPES: Youth Formation Leadership?? - Consider applying to formation leader for All Saints' youth for 2016-2017. Apply right here, in fact! There are varying levels of schedule commitments varying from one week to two, seven-week terms. Training, support and reflection included.  Contact The Rev'd Tim Black at [email protected] for more information or to apply.  
Sermons from Jenny, Joseph and Conrad  
If you were not here last Sunday, you missed a great day. Three Seniors (Jenny Russ- AGS, Joseph Allan- Westminster, Conrad Newton- Grady) preached the Gospel!  Listen to their sermons online.  

                                       Summer Swim Buddies Program
Our Refugee Ministries Swimming Buddies program helps to keep children fed and supervised during the summer in addition to providing a much needed leisure activity that helps with trauma diminishment and water safety.  The kids look forward to it all year long.  For more information and to sign up to help, please email Louisa Merchant, All Saints' refugee ministries coordinator at [email protected]

Saturday Swimming Buddies :11:30-2:30 June 25 th at Pine Lake,
August 13 th at Pine Lake
Weekday Swimming Buddies: 11:00-2:00 : Thursday June 9 at Milam Pool , Thursday July 14 th at Pine Lake , Tuesday July 26 th at Splash Pad
Special teen trip:  Saturday July 30 th 10-2:30 Clayton County International Beach


                              A DEPARTURE and a REMAINDER

 Jesus said to the disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. John 16:12-13

You may or may not have noticed, but The Rev'd Geoffrey Hoare's last Sunday with is this Sunday. 

While I am happy for them (Sage, his wife, got a promotion with ATT), I already anticipate missing them all. I will miss having Ruthie and Allison around for youth stuff. (Friday night Attic invasion will not be the same without them!) I loved getting to know Joanna during our pilgrimage to Turkey, and will miss our talks and her honesty and sense of humor. I will miss the support and encouragement Sage has always offered me in youth ministry. 

Geoffrey has been a great friend, teacher, mentor, pastor and priest for me (and I am sure for many of you as well). He was behind my being called as Associate Rector to All Saints'. I would not be with you right now were it not for him. I will always be grateful for being a part of his ministry here at All Saints' Atlanta. His influence will always be a part of my ministry. I will miss him terribly. 

I find great hope in Jesus' words and in God's church, however.

Churches can sometimes become more about the pastor or priest or youth minister or choir director than about God. Our worship and our life together is always about communion with one another and with God in Jesus Christ through The Holy Eucharist. So our being restored to unity with one another and God is never about the person standing in the pulpit or behind the altar but about what God is doing in us, around us, and through her church. Our being able to carry out our mission in the world is always possible, because we are all empowered to be priests and ministers in the world with what God does for us in our church.

We get some wisdom from Jesus for this time of departure. The Spirit of Truth, Jesus tells his friends, will always be with them, even when he is not physically present. God's presence will not depart, even when God's son leaves the earth, he tells them. We take from that, then, that even though we may be sad that someone as important to our life together as Geoffrey Hoare leaves us, God will continue guiding us, inspiring us, and helping us to continue the good work that God began in us with and through Geoffrey. 

Even when someone we love leaves us, the Church, (and more importantly God's presence) remains! 

Tim

 
 
 


   

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