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 each week for submission to the E-News is

Wednesday at 10 am.

Please send your submissions ready to go into the newsletter,

text and images attached in an email to the Parish Administrator.

Laura's email address is lpittman@stbedes.org

There's a lot going on at St. Bede's! Looking for an activity?

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

Worship in English at 10 am

Worship in Spanish at 2:30 pm

We will also be streaming our worship live

on

St. Bede's YouTube Channel

If you would like to preview the scripture lessons and hymns for the upcoming Sunday, you can find Sunday's bulletin uploaded to the parish website each week on Thursday afternoon. From the home page of the website, scroll down to the colorful "Worship" icon, and click on that. Then scroll to the bottom of the "Worship" page and you will see where the bulletin for Sunday has been posted under "Downloads".

Many thanks to all who have made

Vacation Bible School

a HUGE SUCCESS this week

- with over 60 folks attending each night!

We've shared yummy food, sang, played games,

learned about the saints, prayed, created art,

and enjoyed fellowship with one another.

And there is still room for YOU!!!

It's not too late...please join us for

the final night of VBS tonight at 6 pm!

Do you play an instrument?

Would you be interested in offering your gifts during worship at 10 am? Occasionally we look for instrumentalists to add to our worship experience, either instead of or to complement our excellent organ. If you would be interested in playing during a service, we would love to know about you and add you to our list of players. Sometimes it would be as a solo instrument or it could be with a group of players, too. It’s always fun.

Please contact John Whitt (jwhitt@stbedes.org) to let us know your interest and to get you on the call list! We’d love to hear from you!

Calling all youth from

rising 6th graders to rising 12th graders! 

You are cordially invited to join us for this summer's MOST EPIC pool party on July 20th from 11:00 - 2:30.  

Where you ask?  

At the Nottaway Pool

3153 Hathaway Ct.

Atlanta 30341

Why? 

Because it's HOT!!

May I bring a friend or more?

ABSOLUTELY!!

Will there be food you ask?

ABSOLUTELY!! We'll provide the burgers, hot dogs, condiments, drinks and paper goods. We ask that each of you bring a side and/or dessert to share (what that looks like is up to you.)

Do you have to tell us you're coming?

ABSOLUTELY!! (And of course if you don't you can still come but a headcount is REALLY helpful.) 

Please RSVP to either Beth or Judah by Friday, July 19th at noon ( I need some time to buy the food.)

May I reach out if I have questions?

ABSOLUTELY!! Holler at Beth or Judah or grab us before/after the services.

You can email Beth at bcannon@stbedes.org

The Morning Star Society recognizes gifts and planned gifts to the St. Bede's Endowment Fund, which is managed to be a permanent financial resource for the future of the parish. We are grateful to all who have taken the time to remember St. Bede's in their financial planning.

The Endowment Committee is recognizing Morning Star Society members by installing a recognition plaque in the Commons. We want to make sure that all who have remembered St. Bede's in their financial planning are recognized there - and are recognized in the way they would prefer to have their name listed.

We have posted a proof of the recognition plaque in the Commons and a copy is linked below. If you have let us know that you would like to be part of the Morning Star Society, please take a moment to review the proof in the Commons or the draft linked below and let us know if your name (or names) need to be corrected or updated. If we have inadvertently omitted your name, please let us know so that we can add it to the plaque. Please email any changes to Laura Pittman in the Parish Office: lpittman@stbedes.org

To become a member of the Morning Star Society or to learn more about opportunities for making planned gifts to St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, you may contact the Parish Office at 770.938.9797 or email Pat Pickett, Chair of the Endowment Committee at: endowmentchair@stbedes.org

Sweet(s) Summer Sundays

The Hospitality team will be taking a break this summer, but treats are always welcome during the coffee hour after our worship service. If you would like to provide cookies or any other snack to share, please sign up in the Commons.

Thanks!

– Nancy Ward nlbward@comcast.net

Invitation to Prayer Shawl Ministry

Prayer shawls are used to provide comfort, acknowledge joy or appreciation, say goodbye, or any other reason to share God’s love. They may be used in prayer, and the act of making them is prayer. Making them with friends is church.

Currently, a prayer shawl group meets one morning and one evening a month. You are invited to attend one or both meetings.

Monthly Prayer Shawl Meeting Times and Locations

First Monday Prayer Shawl Meeting: 10:00 -11:30 am in room M108. The next meeting will be on Monday, August 5.

Email Junior Abraham at jrabraham1953@gmail.com with questions.

Fourth Thursday Prayer Shawl Meeting: 6:30-8:00 pm in off site locations.

Email Cheryl and Fred Murphy at murphyfbfm@gmail.com with questions.

Note that you can participate at home on your own as well.

School Supplies Drive a Success!

On Sunday we concluded our ingathering of school supplies for NETWorks Ministry. Our heartfelt thanks to all who contributed to this important project and answered the call to love our neighbors! So many children will feel your love as they prepare for school in August. Thank you St. Bede’s! And thank you Steve Hadler and Paul Werner for delivering our filled boxes and bins. It was the most supplies they had received to date.

GAS CARDS NEEDED

Thank you to you all for supporting families who come from afar to visit their detained relatives at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia about 160 miles away from our church. Many of these families come from other states (North Carolina, Missouri, Alabama), and they are loved and supported by the warm welcome they receive at El Refugio, the non-profit organization that has a home and food for families all free of charge. Please help our effort (we are going down to El Refugio and Stewart on August 3rd) by buying gas cards that families can use to ease their economic burden. You can also donate (or give me) cash, and I will buy gas cards. There is a red box on the round table in the narthex. Any questions? Email Claudia Fedarko at hadfed@gmail.com.

As we all watch the tragic events of violence escalate in Jerusalem and Palestine, it is so important to keep the people of the Holy Land in our prayers.

In addition to our prayers, St. Bede's has also transmitted a gift of $500 to Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) for relief efforts related to the travesties of this conflict. Sadly, one of ERD's strongest and longest-standing partners in the Diocese of Jerusalem is the Al Ahli Arab Hospital - the Anglican hospital in Gaza that was severely damaged by explosion and where hundreds of people were killed. Please keep relief workers on the ground in your prayers as they attempt to offer care and relief.

Caring for God's Creation

The Centers for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM)

has a new location!

Got “stuff” you no longer use but don't want to just throw it away?  

The answer just got a lot closer to home! 

Remember reading a few months ago about CHaRM--the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials? Well, there’s a new location at 1225 Columbia Drive in Decatur that is opening on June 12 and will begin receiving your items—by appointment only!--on Wednesdays and Fridays!

Click HERE for all the info you need: 

A list of items of the items they’ll accept includes the usual recyclables plus appliances, bikes, books, chemicals, textiles, electronics, mattresses, musical instruments, and much more! 

How to book an appointment online or by calling 

Since 2010 Atlanta-based Live Thrive has worked to improve our local environmental health by encouraging reuse/repurposing of materials as well as diverting thousands of pounds of household hazardous waste and other hard-to-recycle items from Metro-Atlanta landfills, water systems, and air. Along with two CHaRM centers, the nonprofit offers educational programs and STEAM grants to local schools. Learn more about Live Thrive HERE. 

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.

You may wish to conclude this micro-practice with this prayer:

Loving God,

In your compassion, you see and hear us.

When we need help,

you’re always there with welcoming arms open wide.

Fill our hearts with compassion

so we may share your love with those around us.

Amen.

Wednesday Night Adult Bible Study

Has Resumed!

Join with others for a study of various books of the Apocrypha.

All are welcome.

6:30 – 8 pm on Wednesday nights

on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month

in the Commons Hallway Classroom

(across from the Julian of Norwich Center)

Contact Fred Murphy for more information.

Healing Our Racism

Book Discussion Group

Next meeting:

Monday, August 26 at 2:00pm on Zoom

August's selection is

How the Word is Passed

By Clint Smith

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.

Mostly Mysteries

Book Discussion Group

Next meeting:

Monday, July 22 at 7:00 pm on Zoom

July's selection is

The Echo Killing

By Christi Daugherty

Meeting Time: The 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm on ZOOM,

You're invited to join members and friends of St. Bede's to discuss favorite mysteries and thrillers.

Email Cathe Echterhoff for the Zoom link to join the discussion.

McLemore's Musings

We hope you are enjoying this feature in St. Bede's E-News - McLemore's Musings. Many of you have met the Rev'd Bill McLemore who has joined the St. Bede's community. Bill has been a priest for over 57 years and has served parishes all over the Episcopal Church. Bill is the former archivist of the Diocese of Atlanta and authored the 100th anniversary book on the history of the Diocese. Bill is also an artist and has used his artistic skills and sense of humor for many years to draw hundreds of cartoon that comically comment on life in the Episcopal Church. Each week we will share a cartoon here that Bill selects from his collection. Enjoy!

Would you like to receive

a brief Morning Devotion each day?

I have been emailing them to about 100 Episcopalians from churches I have served across the country. Currently, there are five monthly themes: Baptismal Covenant, Gospel of John, Hymns, Paul’s Epistles, and the Psalms. They only take 3 to 5 minutes of your time and they are free to all who wish to receive them. If you would like to receive them, send your email address to me at:

bmclemore@stbedes.org



God’s blessings,

Bill McLemore +

St. Bede's Prayer List

A note about our prayer list:

We have reorganized our prayer list and are trying to make it more manageable going forward. Names will remain on the prayer list for 3 weeks unless otherwise requested. If you have placed someone on the prayer list and you would now like that person removed, please notify the office. Please request removal only for names which you have placed on the list. We are always happy to request prayer for our parishioners and our extended community.

Please contact Laura Pittman in the church office to add or remove names from the prayer list.

Laura Pittman

lpittman@stbedes.org

In our St. Bede’s community, prayer has recently been requested for:

David West

Prayer has been requested on a more long-term basis for:

Carmen Camiro

Debhani Hernandez

Al and Regina Studwell

Sarah Jane and Jim Ohl

Mary Rodriguez

Helen Abraham

Aree Bancroft

Laura Ribas

Hilda Bell

Nancy Waring

Frances Bowen

Ann Foote

Cameron Maddox  

Peg Harriss

Sue Ellen Lampros

Robin Schreiber

Prayer has also been requested for these in our wider community:

Family of Barb Sims, family of Molly Graves

Brooke Chandler, friend of Larry Bing

Wright Coleman, son of Jennie Couture

Mary Ingrao, sister of Patricia Young

Hope Hudon, great-granddaughter of Jean Petersen

Stuart Allen, son-in-law of Jean Petersen

Fay Key, friend of the St. Bede's community 

Eleanor Pearlman, granddaughter of Gwen Heaton

Anne Jones, sister of Claiborne Jones

Elizabeth Graham, friend of Toni Graney

We pray for those who have died:

Allen Townes Cunningham, sister of Rob Townes 

Thomas D. Bowers, father of Jonathan Bowers

Barb Sims, family of Molly Graves

Edward Hapstak, brother of Jean Petersen

We give thanks for those serving our country in the military:

Josh Bowers

Will Grimm

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:

7/19 Jennie Couture

7/19 Yesenia Rios

7/20 Cathe Echterhoff

7/22 Barbara Helms

7/22 Julie Mizell

7/23 Raymond Walker, III

7/24 Molly Graves

7/25 Jackson Kottke

7/26 David Boyd

7/27 Mike Flanagan

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Friend in Christ,

As violence escalates in Ukraine, over one million people have already fled the country — and the borders are flooded with many more people desperate to leave.

Almost all of them are women and children who have had to seek safety on their own, leaving their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind.

As this crisis continues to evolve, we are working with Anglican agencies and our other partners to provide humanitarian assistance, and urgently ask for your help.

Your emergency gift today will support our immediate response, providing cash, blankets, hygiene supplies and other needs as this crisis unfolds.

Our faith networks are currently on the ground in the border areas of Poland, Hungary and Romania, and we will continue to coordinate with them in order to help those who have been displaced. Specifically, our partner ACT Alliance is helping families on the Hungarian border, and our Anglican partners are mobilizing both an immediate and long-term response in Poland, Romania and Hungary.

Yours faithfully,

Robert W. Radtke

President & CEO

Episcopal Relief & Development