St. David's Weekly News, August 18, 2022

In this Edition:

This Sunday: Baptisms at the Creek
School Supplies Collection
Save the Date! Sept. 17 Fundraiser
Beacon Interfaith Housing Update - Picnic Aug. 30
Invitation to Good Courage Farm
Weekly Offerings and Prayers of the People

This Sunday: Baptisms at the Creek

Shall we gather at the river...

Yes!

Sunday, August 21

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

One service at 9:30 am

At Minnehaha Creek by the gazebo on Minnetonka Blvd.

We will worship creekside for baptisms, renewal of baptismal vows, Holy Eucharist, and special music. Join us...bring a chair, if you are able, and bring a friend too!

Click Here to see parking and directions for Sunday.

We will continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube to accommodate for those who choose to stay home.

We are collecting school supplies for the rest of the month of August!

There are collection boxes inside the vestibules for your donations.

Save the Date: September 17th 5-8pm

Picnic Fundraiser at St David’s - All ages welcome!

Save the date September 17th 5PM - 8PM for an outdoor fundraising event to benefit our beloved St. David's programs, ministries, and outreach.

There will be fun games, great music a live auction and we'll draw winners for our benefit prizes! (Have you bought your tickets yet?)

Stay tuned for more details next week!

This will be a fun celebration for all ages and a way to make some money for our church!

Picnic, Potluck and FUN - September 17th 5-8PM

Beacon Interfaith Housing

Reflections on Beacon Interfaith Housing at Cranberry Ridge

St. David’s has been a part of the planning team to help this family housing initiative becomes a reality. The conversation to build Cranberry Ridge started in 2016 with several congregations in the western suburbs, led by Wayzata Community Church and Beacon. At that time, in Plymouth alone, 3300 families lived in poverty, of those 409 were homeless.

After years of planning, advocacy, and obtaining the needed funds, construction began in May 2021 to build the 45 apartments for working families who earn less than $52,000 a year for a family of four. Twelve of the homes will be for families who make less than $31,000 a year for a family of four. Underground parking, community lounge, a playground and a youth program space will be among the amenities offered at the building. Support services are provided by Interfaith Outreach and Support Services in Plymouth.

Please join me in welcoming families to Cranberry Ridge by attending the community picnic on August 30 with details and registration below. All are invited!

Carol Johnson

Beacon’s Cranberry Ridge Community Picnic

August 30 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join Beacon and residents of Cranberry Ridge for a picnic and celebration of these new homes in Plymouth. We will join together for an evening of delicious food, games, relationship building, and previewing of the playground which will be enjoyed for decades to come.

This is a family friendly event, so please indicate how many from your family will attend. Also, please let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Register for the event on Beacon’s website with this link https://www.beaconinterfaith.org/event/cranberry-ridge-community-picnic/

Cranberry Ridge is located at 18255 - 45th Avenue N, Plymouth, MN 55446.

Please contact Ricky at rkamil@beaconinterfaith.org if you have questions or specific accessibility needs. Thank you!

An Invitation from Good Courage Farm

Food for All:

Partner with Good Courage by helping to grow and share the farm's organic produce

Good Courage Farm, located 68 miles from the Twin Cities, is a fully-functional farm that is in partnership with the Episcopal Church. The farmers use organic and increasingly regenerative methods to grow lots of perennial food crops. The 18-acre farmstead is home to cats, dogs, ducks, goats and a few stray peafowl, as well as a myriad of other creatures - songbirds, frogs, grasshoppers, bats and more!

Located in Hutchinson, a major part of Good Courage Farm's mission is to share the food that they produce and they donate a large portion of their crops to Minnesota food pantries, including First Nations Kitchen - one of their major food partners.

Two of the major crops donated to First Nations Kitchen are apples and potatoes. The farm is looking for some volunteers over the next few weeks to aid in some work directly relating to the crops to be donated to First Nations Kitchen. Volunteers can work partial or full days, lunch and lemonade are provided - and you can spend your breaks petting the goats, watching the peahens trying to get into the barn, or being amused by the team of adolescent tuxedo ducks. This is truly a magical place, and they need our help!

Reach out to Laura Natta via text or telephone to support the vision and seed the future - and help First Nations Kitchen at the same time. 417-849-3474.

Pie and Prayer Services at Good Courage Farm are held on Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm and Saturday mornings at 9:00am. This is a beautiful time of prayer and worship, chanting Psalms, reflecting in the Gospel, and eating homemade pie!

To learn more about Good Courage and Pie + Prayer, Click Here.

Safe Church Trainings

Monday Morning Meditation - 9:00 in Oratory Room

Saturday Morning Prayer at St. David's 7:45 AM

Compline held each night at 8:00 PM

What else is going on at St. David's?

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Prayers and Passages

We pray for healing of body, mind or spirit for those we love, especially Andy Albee (Norman Walton's son), Richard Austin (father of Holly Lamond), William Cadwell (son of Philip Cadwell), Josh Claxton (friend of Mary Mann), Christina Dorr Drake (daughter-in-law of Nan and Guy Drake), Mark Enos (friend of Keith Gause), Karen Flood (friend of Cliff Crockford), Betsy Hake, Allison Hatcher, Ann Henjum (daughter of Bob Triebenbach), Sharon Herpers, Denny Johnson, Owen Kuyper, Joan MacDonald, Josie Meyer and family (friend of the Handley-Jurkovich family), Eric Paavola (son in law of Norma Walton), David Pearson, Marge Saunders, Jean Scheu, Eric Silberman and family (son-in-law of Pam Schroeder), Amara Strande (daughter of the Rev. Dana Strande), Johannah Surma (daughter of Karin Lindquist and Andy Scheu), Huu Vu (Friend of the Harvala Family).

We pray for those who have died, especially Kathy Welter (relative of Norma Walton). We pray for victims of genocide in Ukraine, and for all who die in war.

For the world and its leaders, our nation and its people.

We pray for those who commit acts of violence in war, that they may be healed from the trauma of violence and find new life in peace. We pray for all who suffer or serve in war, especially in Afghanistan and Ukraine.

We pray for all who have been born.

We pray for an end to racism and all systems of oppression.

We pray in thanksgiving for all the blessings of this life.

We pray for those serving in the military, Will Culliton, Aprille Lopac, and Kaelyn Wahlberg.

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Websites

St. David's Episcopal Church: http://www.stdavidsparish.org

The Episcopal Church in Minnesota: http://www.episcopalmn.org

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