Ongoing Events

Service Times

8 a.m. Sunday Service

This is a simple communion service without music using Rite II. The quiet service will appeal to some every week and to others occasionally as a quieter way to worship.

10 a.m. Sunday Service

The 10 a.m. service is supported by the St. Augustine Choir. Sunday School begins at 10 a.m., except on some Holy days and special occasions. The FISH Youth Group meets during the school year at 6 p.m. for formation and worship. They will resume meeting September 8 ^th.

Centering Prayer

One of the themes that is emerging in our ongoing practice of Centering Prayer is the awareness that God just wants to spend time with us. In response to the enthusiasm growing around this feeling, our Centering Prayer gatherings are now offered Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at noon. We hope that you will join us and see how contemplation can enrich your own experience.

Adult Formation Classes



Thank you...

 

When Canon Andrea was here with us in August, she talked about how we can remember the saints we’ve received our faith from and invited us to name them during our prayers. I have my own list of names, including some people you may know and many you probably don’t. How many hours could we spend together talking about all of the people we might name - grandparents, teachers, mentors, pastors and friends. How wide would our smiles be as we reflect on the gifts we received from so many blessed companions in our lifetimes.

 

On Saturday, September 7 ^th, your vestry is hosting a dinner to celebrate the community we’ve made together at St. Augustine. We’ll have a chance to share food and conversation, and to celebrate the ministries we’re engaged in. We can celebrate the vibrant programs for kids, the gifts we give internationally through meal packing events and our Haiti partnership, the opportunities for renewal and support that come with Al-Anon and Centering Prayer, hosting Rotary trainings, Safe Church workshop s, The Gathering Inn Dinners and even polling on election days. This community has so much to celebrate!

 

Please join me in prayer as we look at all God is doing in, among and through us. We are part of that great relay race, passing on the faith from generation to generation, and neighbor to neighbor. May Christ fill our hearts with gratitude, our mouths with the words to express it, and order our steps to carry it forward in faith.

 

With love,

Fr. Tom+

Many hearts fill our Church with love!

Gathering in Gratitude

Fall Stewardship Kickoff

Please join us on Saturday, September 7 ^th  at 5:30 p.m. for a wonderful dinner, fellowship and sharing about our Church community life. The Vestry is hosting this event. Children of all ages are invited to join their families at this dinner. Please let us know if you need childcare.

 

The Vestry will share with parish members information necessary for all of us to do our part in being good stewards for St. Augustine. We will take a look back at the year in review and also a look toward the future.

 

Mark your calendars for this event. Plan to be an important part of the future of St. Augustine.

Transition Update

As we know, St. Augustine Church is in transition. Pastor Liz has accepted a new call, and we are now preparing ourselves for the search for a new rector.

Canon Andrea McMillin, Canon to the Ordinary, will work closely with the Interim Team, the Profile Team and the Applicant and Review Team through the transition process as we develop our Parish Profile and with our eventual work in reviewing applicants.

This is an exciting time, and each Team will maintain transparency throughout the process…to that end you will receive regular updates through a variety of sources, including the Canterbury Tales, Church Bulletin, mailings, website and church announcements.

Accomplishments…

The Rev. Tom Gartin, Assistant Rector

The Rev. Maryellen Garnier, Associate Rector

Kathy Dillon, Senior Warden

Chris Deering, Junior Warden

Bob Deering, Treasurer 

Peggy Doyle, Chair

Carole Peterson, Chaplain

Kathleen Quigley

Joan Howe

Fred Buhler

Jeanne Rochelle

Reese Allen

Camille Grabowski

Sarah Eccles

Moving Forward We Will…

Mark Your Calendars – Saturday, October 19 ^th

Church Tea!  

Invite Your Girlfriends, Neighbors and Relatives

Last Year Three Generations Attended

J oin us for our biannual Church Tea, Saturday, October 19 ^th , 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Sunday, September 8 ^th . The Tea will be held at St. Augustine. The tickets are $25 each with proceeds benefiting the Church aesthetics projects.

This year, the event is a traditional English tea with a Halloween theme. There will be lovely door prizes and, back by popular demand, Christine Hohmann and her mother telling scary “Ghost Stories.”

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Linda Bittman at:



[email protected]

Hosting Coffee Hour is Easy!

All of us enjoy Coffee Hour after church. However, we need more volunteers to sign up to provide snacks. It is easy! Find a partner to share the experience. Keep it simple.

Although occasionally those who host provide a generous offering, that is NOT the expectation. Snacks can be simple finger foods such as: cookies, crackers, cheese, chips, veggies, fruit . . . you get it. You will need about 100 pieces.

TIP: Check out the big box stores for large packages.

Come early to set up, stay late to clean up. You do not have to worry about coffee and tea as those are provided by the Hospitality Coffee person. Look for the sign-up sheet at the Welcome Center. Thank you for volunteering. If you have questions, please contact Camille Grabowski at:

[email protected]

Altar Flowers

We are now ordering fresh flowers for the altar from the Rocklin Flower Shop on the corner of Stanford Ranch and Park Drive. If you wish to donate for altar flowers, please sign your name and the occasion (thanksgivings, memorial, anniversary, birthdays, etc.) on the sign-up sheet in the display rack near the office.

Please make checks payable to St. Augustine for $40 with ‘Altar Flowers’ in the memo line. Names of those giving flowers for special occasions will be acknowledged in the bulletin on the appropriate date.

 

Thank you.

If you have questions or need more information, please contact Ginny Dearing at:

[email protected].

The Gathering Inn Hosting Program

Are you looking for a way to serve? Sign up at the Welcome Center to help with this ministry. This is an amazing way to volunteer. The next dinner is Wednesday, September 11 ^th.

The Gathering Inn Hosting Program is a fabulous outreach ministry. Over 30 Church members volunteer throughout the year to help with the work involved in serving our Gathering Inn guests. Volunteers are needed each second Wednesday of the month for meal preparation, set-up, serving and clean-up. Over 70 guests arrive each second Wednesday of the month for a hot meal and a safe place to sleep.

The menu includes Jack Dillon's special barrel chicken, green salad, rice with chopped vegetables, rolls and homemade desserts. Volunteers begin working Wednesday afternoon to set up Canterbury Hall and the sanctuary and to prep the meals.

After dinner, the guests watch a movie in the sanctuary. Families with children usually sleep in the Nursery or Sunday School rooms. Single men sleep in the sanctuary, while single women sleep in Canterbury Hall. Mats are provided by The Gathering Inn staff. The guests watch a movie in the sanctuary before they settle down for the night.

By 6 p.m., everything is ready for the guests who arrive by bus or van. They drop their bags and duffels in the Sunday School rooms and take a seat. After grace is said, guests line up to get their food which is dished out buffet-style by Church volunteers.

Guests are assigned tasks by The Gathering Inn monitors who accompany them. In the morning, guests serve themselves a granola bar and coffee and juice for the children. They clean the kitchen, sweep the floors, scrub the toilets and reset the sanctuary.

Around 5:30 a.m., a St. Augustine volunteer comes to check our facility and lock up. Everyone is gone by 6:30 a.m., and our Church is back to normal. You would never even know anyone had been there!

Rick and Janice Stenzel are in charge of this ministry. If you have questions, please contact Rick or Janice at:

[email protected]

[email protected]

The Gathering Inn Donations

The Gathering Inn continues to need for High Energy detergent as well as bleach, bath towels, hand towels, wash cloths, fitted twin sheets and gently used pillows. TGI is also accepting men's undershirts (T-shirts and tank tops), men's shorts, women's jeans sizes 2-8 or juniors size 11 and women's summer shorts.

Please place your donations in the grocery cart at the entry to Canterbury Hall. Every item is greatly appreciated. Beth Sulc will deliver the items to The Gathering Inn. If you are interested in helping deliver donations, please contact Beth at:

[email protected]

Thank you for your generosity!

Outreach Ministry

In the spirit of our Church tradition, the mission of Outreach Ministry is to love others as God loves us. We do this by serving those in need and inviting others into transformational experiences of serving others.

 The Center at St. Matthew’s is a thriving Mission Church in the Arden Arcade area of Sacramento which has a bilingual Episcopal mission congregation at its heart. Utilizing non-profit partners, it primarily serves this refugee and asylum seeker community’s needs, including a food bank operated by River City Food Bank, ESL classes taught onsite in portables through Highland Community Charter School, and pre-school provided by Let the Children Come. Your donations have allowed the Outreach Ministry to donate $2000 toward this worthy organization.

As part of our ongoing support to Acres of Hope, a healthy living program for homeless women with children, Chef Jack Dillon (with assistance of sous chefs Camille Grabowski and Barbara Sawyer), cooked up some of that famous barrel chicken and made Acres of Hope’s annual barbecue a hit again this year.

 

Interested in serving others in a proactive way? Consider joining our team. Our team meets the first Sunday of the month after the 10 a.m. service. All are welcome to attend.

St. Luc School (Haiti) Benefit Dinner

Saturday, October 5 ^th

6 - 8:30 p.m.

Join us for a fun October evening. Doors open at 6 p.m.. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. A live band will be playing your favorites from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

The Haiti Team is working on some amazing and fun raffle items. This promises to be a very relaxed and fun evening. All proceeds go to support our ministry at St. Luc School in Haiti.

Adult tickets are $30 and children (seven and under) are $10. Call the church and reserve a nursery spot if needed. Cash bar will be available.

St. Augustine began a partnership with St. Luc Episcopal School in April of 2016 with a trip there to make our first connections and to begin building relationships.

Haiti Partnership – St. Luc School - Thomassique, Haiti

St. Augustine Church began a partnership with St. Luc Episcopal School in April of 2016, beginning with a trip there to make our first connections and to begin building relationships. The Haiti Partnership is a long-standing program that connects Episcopal Churches and Schools in the United States with Episcopal schools in Haiti, supporting their educational programs and goals.

Our combined efforts so far have supplied uniforms and tuition for the over 100 students at St. Luc, teacher salaries and training, clean water on site and a daily meal for students. We were also able to help partner in the purchase of a lot adjacent to St. Luc to allow for expansion of the school. The St. Augustine Team has also created a non-profit (HEAD, Inc – Haiti Education and Development) in order to broaden fundraising options.

Please join our Haiti Partnership Team on the third Wednesday of the month at 6 p.m. for our monthly meeting. All are invited to come and hear about our Partnership goals and plans! 

Tails will wag and noses will bump when Father Tom blesses the pets of our congregation on Sunday, October 6 ^th at the 8 and 10 a.m. services.

All pets will receive a blessing, but we always seem to have a preponderance of dogs. Cats come in a close second, usually depicted on cell phones tenderly brought forward by their masters.

In the past, we have had some unique offering - hamsters, guinea pigs, lizards, snakes, turtles, toy plastic dinosaurs and even a horse.

What a delightful way to acknowledge the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals!

St. James Food Pantry Ministry

Thank you to all who have generously donated food to support the pantry. The pantry in Lincoln is low in supplies. They are distributing a good bit of food every week. The need is not diminishing, and they have expanded their outreach into the community.

Thank you for the rice, raw pinto beans, tortillas, canned chicken/tuna and cereal. We can also use healthy fruit cup snacks or drinks with moderate sugar would also be very helpful. Other items are appreciated as well.

St. James is grateful, and we are responding with the specific items of food requested. Your continued support is appreciated and important. Food scarcity is a very real situation and is 24/7.

The grocery cart is located at the entrance to Canterbury Hall. Thank you for your donations.

Jim Quinney

Please make sure your items are not past the expiration date and are unopened.

St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room

A group of volunteers from St. Augustine Church serves meals at the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room the third Thursday of each month. They volunteer from approximately 9:15 a.m. until 1:45 p.m., helping prepare, cook and serve a warm meal for those in need.

Approximately two to three hours of standing are involved. All food is provided, and no cooking experience is needed.

Volunteers include Jack Dillon, John Redmond, Rob and Deidre Shonk, Catherine Beckman, Jim and Stephanie Tilton, Jim and Carla Dolislager, Rick and Janice Stenzel, Lyn Fuson, Steve Broce, Linda Peterson and Kathryn Jordan. 

Volunteers for Thursday, September 19 ^th are Jack Dillon, Steve Broce and John Redmond.

  Please contact Rob Shonk if you are interested in working in this important ministry:

[email protected]

 

Meal Train Ministry

The Meal Train Ministry is an online calendar that organizes delivery of meals for parish families in times of need. Barbara Woolman is in charge of the Meal Train Ministry. If you are interested in providing meals for parish families, please contact:

[email protected]

916-771-8830

Youth Group News & Updates

The FISH Youth Group, grades 6 - 12, is on break now. The group will begin meeting Sunday, September 8 ^th at 6 p.m.

FISH Calendar

The Sunday School teachers and children are busy having fun and learning about many new concepts. During the month of August, they learned about prayer. They talked about different things they can pray about, they made prayer bracelets, and they filled out a prayer plan. The students also learned that they are called upon to pray for EVERYONE, and they can pray anywhere at any time.  

The teachers are looking forward to inviting the parents of the Sunday School program to volunteer as the assistant once every six weeks. Sign-ups are available through our Shutterfly page under volunteer. Any member of the congregation who is interested in being an assistant is also asked to sign up on the substitute list.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our church youth!  

If you need more information, please contact Natalie Cooper or Kara Diaz at:

[email protected]

[email protected]

News from the Nursery

Jordan Craft and Siena Giampaoli are the Nursery Attendants.

Our Nursery is a very active place, which is awesome. Please know you are welcome to bring your child back into the nursery after communion if you choose. Please let our Nursery Assistants know if you plan to do this so they are prepared. Our attendants do take turns for communion, but there is always someone in the Nursery.

Please contact Kathy Dillon or Fr. Tom if you have questions:

[email protected]

Children's Choir

The Children's Choir rehearsals resumed August 18 ^th following the 10 a.m. service, concluding by noon. Rehearsals will take place on the first and third Sundays (September 1 ^st and 15 ^th).

The choir sings periodically during the 10 a.m. service throughout the school year. All children from kindergarten through 5 ^th grade are welcome. Give it a try!

We are looking for more children to share their enthusiastic voices in the awesome Children's Choir.

Questions? Contact Amy Quinney at:

[email protected]

or

916-257-2343

Daughters of the King

The St. Augustine Chapter of Daughters of the King meets on the second Sunday of each month, following the 10 a.m. service.

New officers were elected at the August 11 ^th meeting. Carol Ann Hackley is our new president; Deidre Shonk, vice president; Barbara Woolman, secretary; and Sharon Mershon, treasurer. They were were installed by Fr. Tom at the August 18 ^th church service.

The theme for the September 8 ^th DOK meeting will be “Attitude of Gratitude,” in preparation for National Gratitude Day (September 21 ^st).

“In the wake of recent attacks in Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso, there is a human need to do something. Random Acts of Kindness are positive actions done without thought of recognition or acknowledgement. Like the ‘pebble in the stream,’ they create concentric circles of good deeds,” said Carol Ann. 

DOK members were encouraged to report back on Random Acts of Kindness at the September 8 ^th meeting, perhaps giving others ideas to pass it on.

Province VIII, which covers the western states, will host a two-day retreat September 20 ^th and 21 ^st at Faith Episcopal Church, Cameron Park. Former Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefforts Schori will be the keynote speaker on Saturday.

Joanne McCormack, our former president, is also the president the Diocese of Northern California. Member Penny Hart is vice president. There are currently 19 DOK chapters in the Diocese of Northern California. A 20 ^th chapter will be instituted at Incarnation in Santa Rosa in September. The Diocese of Northern California is part of Province VIII, which includes eight western states.

The next meeting for the St. Augustine chapter is Sunday, September 8 ^th.

If you are interested in becoming a Daughter or would like more information, please contact our Chapter President, Carol Ann Hackley at:

[email protected]

Brotherhood of St. Andrew

The Brotherhood of St. Andrew holds its regular monthly meetings at 9 a.m. in Canterbury Hall the fourth Saturday of the month. Coffee and breakfast are served. All men and youth are welcome and encouraged to attend a meeting.

Even if you are not a member of the Brotherhood, and just have an interest in what we do, you are welcome to join us for breakfast. Rob Shonk is the Director. If you would like to learn more about the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, please contact Rob or Secretary John Redmond.

The Brotherhood is preparing for its second Episcopal Men’s Conference, which will be held at Trinity Cathedral in Sacramento on September 21 ^st 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brotherhood Executive Director Tom Welch and Vice President Jack Hanstein will be in attendance. Tom Welch will be the guest speaker and will speak on men's ministry in the digital age. Parking is $5 at the garage across the street from the cathedral.

Topics include:

The Conference is open to all men and youth. Registration is $20, and includes Continental breakfast and lunch. For more information, contact Rob Shonk.

The Brotherhood is also planning its second Spaghetti Feed/Bingo Night, which will be held Saturday, November 16 ^th .

The next Brotherhood meeting will be held September 28 ^th , 9 a.m. in the Sunday School room.

The dedicated group who knit and crochet our prayer shawls consider it a privilege to share their talents making these garments of comfort and compassion.  Patterns and yarn are available to our members.

Some choose to do all their knitting/crocheting at home, and some enjoy coming to our monthly meetings on the second Monday of the month at 1:30 p.m. at the Church.  

Please contact Greer Nave if you are interested in giving a shawl to someone or joining the group:

[email protected]

Companion's Corner

Sh'ma

Little did I know in August what was to follow as I wrote about my concern for our national discourse. Gilroy, Dayton and El Paso followed in short order. 

I want to share a declaration of faith from our Jewish friends called Sh’ma. Observant Jews consider the Sh’ma to be the most important part of the prayer service in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation is a mitzvah (religious commandment). It offers some antidote to the national discourse and actions of late.

“Loving life and its mysterious source with all our heart and with all our spirit, all our senses and strength,

We take upon ourselves and into ourselves these promises:

To care for the earth and those who live upon it,

to pursue justice and peace, to love kindness and compassion.

We will teach this to our children throughout the passage of the day —

as we dwell in our homes and as we go on our journeys, from the time

we rise until we fall asleep.

And may our actions be faithful to our words that our children’s children may live to know:

Truth and kindness have embraced, peace and justice have kissed and are one.”

(From The Book Of Blessings: New Jewish Prayers For Daily Life, The Sabbath And The New Moon Festival by Marcia Falk)

May we find both solace and courage in this prayerful dedication.

Blessings,

Carole Peterson

I will guide you and teach you the way you should go.

I will give you good advice and watch over you with love. 

Psalm 32:8 NIRV