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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
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Sunday, July 28, 2024
Tenth 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
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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".
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VBS Outreach and Wrap-Up
We had a lively, engaging, creative, and delicious week of VBS, July 15-19, with attendance ranging from 50 to over 60 people each night. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who attended!
Special thanks to all the helpers who made the dinners, storytelling, music, crafts, games, and bilingual communication so wonderful!
During VBS, we collected items and financial donations for NETWorks Cooperative Ministry’s Back to School store. We boosted the donations already received from St. Bede’s Outreach by 190 items, including 6 backpacks, and $465.00! Thank you to all who contributed for being good neighbors to the children in our community.
Our other outreach project was partnering with El Refugio to write cards to people who are in ICE detention at Stewart Detention Center. On Sunday, July 28, the card-making supplies will be on a round table in the Commons. Stop by if you’re at church on Sunday, create a card (we have examples) and write a note of encouragement to our brothers and sisters who are living in detention (we have sample messages too).
With gratitude for the loving and generous community of St. Bedes,
Molly Graves, Judah Sali, and Junior Abraham
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ESOL Fall Semester Teachers Meeting
St. Bede's has had a successful ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) program since January 2013. Since the pandemic, we have made our classes smaller, and our students are thriving with the extra attention. If you are interested in teaching, please come to the upcoming Fall's ESOL meeting this Saturday, July 27 at St. Bede’s Episcopal church in room M110.
Saturday, July 27th
at 10 am
St. Bede's Episcopal Church
Henderson Mill Road
Atlanta 30345
We will have light refreshments and make plans for our fall semester.
Please contact Orisha Parsons (404-824-4904) for more information.
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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.
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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.
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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:
God of love,
Through Jesus’ words and actions, you have shown us who you are.
May we never forget our bodily needs and big feelings matter to you.
You are with us, both on peaceful mountains and in stormy seas.
Amen
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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.
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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.
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Mostly Mysteries
Book Discussion Group
Next meeting:
Monday, August 26 at 7:00 pm on Zoom
August's selection is
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro
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.
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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!
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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 +
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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
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
Marsha McOsker, friend of Helen Loeb
We give thanks for those serving our country in the military:
Josh Bowers
Will Grimm
We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:
7/26 David Boyd
7/27 Mike Flanagan
7/28 Stan Meiburg
7/28 Victoria Aguilar
7/29 Sean Bevacqua
7/30 Bill Studwell
7/31 Emma Brantley
7/31 Cindy Platto
8/1 Julia Lee
8/2 Beth Walden
8/2 Clara Branch
8/3 Kerry Penney
8/3 Joyce Lee
8/3 Ximena Lima
The flowers on the altar for Sunday, July 28 will be given to the glory of God and in celebration of the birth of their granddaughter, Olivia Maria,
daughter of Naser and Manal Ackall,
by Issa and Helen Ackall
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From around the Diocese
and the wider Church...
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Bishop Wright's Weekly Podcast
Did you know that Bishop Rob Wright has a weekly podcast? You can take a spiritual "deep dive" each week with Bishop Wright and his special guests and grow deeper in faith and understanding as you listen and learn.
Explore For People, Bishop Wright's Podcast, Here
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Pathways
the magazine of the Diocese of Atlanta
The new Pathways is now available online! Through original photography, articles, and interviews, Pathways shares inspiring stories from Middle and North Georgia — examples of spiritual growth.
Read Pathways Here
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Would you like to keep up with news from around the broader Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion? Episcopal Journal and Cafe is a convenient place to find out things going on around the Church. You can even subscribe to get news sent to your email inbox.
Click Here for Episcopal Journal & Cafe
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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
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