Weekly Programming

• This Sunday: Community Forum with Craig Warren
• Children and Youth Ministry

Community Events

• Kicking Off Weekly Programming
• Book Club Update
• Wonder Women Happy Hour
• Women of the Woods
• Faithful Innovation 2.0
• Evensong
• Justice Collaborative
• University Episcopal Community

Outreach

• ICA Update
• Racial Justice and Healing Summit
• Loaves and Fishes

Announcements and Reports

• September Vestry Update
• Bible Study
• Calling All Mah Jongg Players
• Upcoming Community Forums

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Weekly Programming

Church this Sunday

Holy Eucharist at 8:00 and 9:30

Community Forum, 10:45-11:30

Youth Mental Health Crisis

It’s no secret children’s mental health is at crisis levels. Barriers to care can make it frustrating for caregivers. That’s where Washburn Center stands up to serve and create access so families get care when it’s most needed. Learn from parishioner and Washburn Center CEO Craig Warren how to spot signs that may indicate when care is needed and how you and the Washburn Center for Youth can help. Learn the Washburn difference! www.washburn.org 

During forum time, we will have our first session of Youth Choir! Children and Youth of all ages are invited to grab a snack and then come back to the Sanctuary to make some music with Roger and Anna from 10:45-11:30am.

If you would like an electronic copy of this year's Ministry Guide, click here 

Click Here to view Sunday's Bulletin.

We continue to Facebook Livestream the Sunday 9:30 service and upload to YouTube.

Children’s Ministry

This Sunday we will have Godly Play during the 9:30 service. 

During forum time, we will have our first session of Youth Choir! Children and Youth of all ages are invited to grab a snack and then come back to the Sanctuary to make some music with Roger and Anna from 10:45-11:30am.

Youth Ministry 

We will have LIFT Youth Group at St. David’s on Wednesday, September 27th from 6:30-8:30pm. We will have dinner together in the Jones Room of the ICA building.

Ecumenical Youth Group Event

Saturday, September 23 for 6th-12 graders

Please join our Ecumenical Youth Ministries Fellowship (EYMF) friends (from EUMC, Mount Calvary, Trinity Episcopal & St. David's Episcopal) for a 5k paved path hike at Rice Marsh Lake Park in Chanhassen on Saturday, September 23rd. We will meet at EUMC (Excelsior United Methodist Church) at 10:00am and make our lunches together then carpool to the park. We will return to EUMC by 2:00pm. Please bring a backpack, water bottle and a beach towel to sit on. Together we'll be eating lunch, singing songs, group prayer and playing games. Hope to see you there!

EUMC’s address is 881 3rd Ave, Excelsior, MN

Save the Date - Sunday October 1st we are doing a service project for the Humane Society and then touring the Golden Valley facility at 1:00pm! All children and youth ages 6 and up can come on the tour. Children under grade 5, we ask for an adult to accompany them. Only 20 spots are available for the tour, so please sign up by emailing abrock@stdavidsparish.org 

Community Events

St David’s Book Club News

by Cathy Schwichtenberg

The St. David’s Book Club will be discussing Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus on Tuesday, October 3 from 6:30 pm – 7:55 pm.  

Meeting Link:   October Book Club

"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the 1960s and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen to her on the road to professional fulfillment is a run-in with her super-star colleague Calvin Evans (well, she stole his beakers.) The only man who ever treated her-and her ideas-as equal, Calvin is already a legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. But as events are never as predictable as chemical reactions, three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother (did we mention it's the early 60s??) and the star of America's most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth's singular approach to cooking ('take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride') and independent example are proving revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching women how to cook, she's teaching them how to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist"-- Provided by publisher.   ~hclib.org

We have an interesting line-up of selections this year and invite all St. David’s parishioners to participate. We usually meet via Zoom on the first Tuesday of every other month from 6:30 – 7:55. Here is this year’s schedule – please join us!

Wonder Women Happy Hour

Thursday, September 28th

 5 to 7 pm

Please join us for drinks, appetizers and a casual evening of fun socializing. Plan to bring an appetizer or snack to share and if you have a favorite drink, bring that too. Some beer/wine/non-alcoholic beverage options will also be provided.

Can also promise a fire in the fire pit with s'more fixings, and a Jacuzzi hot tub....so pack your suit if you wish! If you happen to have a fold-up chair already in your car, bring it to the backyard as I do not have a ton of chairs (can provide 9 at my last count). 

Hope you can make it:

Diane Curley's home

8016 Ridgeway Road

Golden Valley, MN  55426

763-232-9412

Who:    Women of St. David’s

What:  Join us for a fall color hike!

Where:  Lake Maria State Park

11411 Clementa Avenue Northwest

Monticello, MN 55362

When:  Saturday, September 23^rd 

               9:45am (hike at 10:00)

               Lunch provided (chili & cornbread)

Details: There are longer and shorter hiking options for hikers of various abilities (and just hanging out by the fire and enjoying lunch with the group is highly welcome!)

RSVP:  by 9.20.23 so we can plan for food to:

Ann Carda acarda21@gmail.com or

Karin Lindquist Lindquist.karin@hotmail.com

On Saturday, September 23, 2023 anyone interested is invited to join the Rev. Blair Pogue and lay leader Judy Johnson in the ECMN Gathering Space located at 1101 West Broadway Avenue from 10 am to 2 pm to learn more about the Faithful Innovation process and especially what congregations have been learning these past fourteen months. Those who come will also learn a few new spiritual practices they can take back to their congregation, and will hear from the congregations who have continued to listen to God and other church members, to wonder what God might be up to in the church's neighborhood and their own neighborhoods, and to engage in small, low cost experiments to learn more about what the Holy Spirit is up to in the lives of their neighbors. Please let Blair Pogue know if you plan to come by Wednesday, September 20th at blair.p@episcopalmn.org, and if you have any dietary restrictions.

Evensong for the feast of St. Francis of Assisi

Wednesday, October 4 at 7:30pm

Join the St. David’s choir for joyful musical meditations in the tradition of this mystic, preacher, church reformer, monastic founder, lover of nature, and advocate for the poor and marginalized. 

On Sunday, October 15 at 10:45AM in the Undercroft, the Justice Collaborative is hosting a presentation by Daniel Romero and Priscilla Hagerman called, "Asylees, Refugees and the Undocumented: developing a compassionate and just welcome for our neighbors." Rev. Daniel Romero, an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), is First Nation Pueblo, indigenous Aztec, and Spanish. Daniel currently serves as the Immigration Legal Services Consortium Coordinator for the Minnesota Council of Churches and as a Community Minister who works with refugees, asylees and with undocumented communities. Priscilla Hagerman is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota and serves as an AmeriCorps Legal Services Navigator with Minnesota Council of Churches – Refugee Services. She works on the Immigration Legal Services team at MCC and assists with applications for work permits, green cards, and citizenship. 

Huldah Niles, Chair, Justice Collaborative

Christian Community at College

Is someone in your family, parish or community at college in the Twin Cities this fall? If so, you can give them the gift of connection to a ready-made community. We wish it wasn’t true, but loneliness and social isolation are “epidemic”, in the words of the US Surgeon General in May of this year.

The University Episcopal Community (UEC) offers Christian fellowship through Sunday evening dinner, worship and learning and now a drop-in center at Riverside Lounge. Other special events are scheduled and all are welcome to show up and belong. The most important thing for us at UEC is how we welcome everyone–with unconditional love. We hope that this can be a space for students to grow closer to themselves, each other, and God.

Let us know who your young people are and how to get in touch by emailing Steve Mullaney, Executive Director at the UEC at steve@universityepiscopalcommunity.org.

Outreach

ICA Update

The Great Taste Coming up October 12

The 10th annual The Great Taste is coming back to celebrate ICA’s 52nd anniversary!  Hope you will consider joining the fun on Thursday, October 12th at Oak Ridge Country Club. It is a wonderful celebration of community, generosity and neighbors. The Great Taste emcee will be Belinda Jensen, KARE 11 Chief Meteorologist. To buy tickets, go to www.icafoodshelf.org/taste.

Plan Ahead for ICA Sunday on October 1

Have you noticed the ICA posters at each church building entrance? They advertise the current theme for the upcoming ICA Sunday on 10/1 which is Wake Up! What ICA needs following this theme includes:

• Oatmeal
• Cereal
• Dried fruit
• Tea/coffee
• Peanut butter
• Jelly/jam

In addition, ICA desperately needs dog and cat food donations and, always, paper bags.

If you will not be in church October 1, you can always drop off your donations at your convenience in the ICA baskets at the three church entrances.

Racial Justice and Healing Summit

The ECMN Racial Justice and Healing Commission invites you to a series of events open to any member of the Episcopal community in Minnesota this September. We know that all God's people have been affected and shaped by racism, and are all in need of healing—wherever you live, however you grew up, whatever your racial identity.

Please join us for one or all of the following events this fall at the ECCN Racial Justice and Healing Summit:

• The Night is Long But Light Comes in the Morning, an evening with Dr. Catherine Meeks

Thursday, September 28, 7:00 pm | St. John the Evangelist in St. Paul

• Retreat with the Racial Justice & Healing Commission and Dr. Catherine Meeks

Friday, September 29, 5:30 pm–Saturday, September 30, 5:30 pm |

St. John the Evangelist

Register HERE.

• Racial Justice Holy Eucharist, Dr. Catherine Meeks, preacher

Sunday, October 1, 10:00 am | St. John the Evangelist

Free. No registration necessary.

Learn more here.

Loaves and Fishes

Four Volunteers are needed for each date. Two for cooking with the L&F coordinator from 3:00-5:00 and two to package and serve from 4:30 to 6:30. 

Upcoming dates

• September 25
• October 10
• October 23
• October 31

Please contact Sue or Basil Owen to sign up. Sue’s cell is 612-716-1945. Basil’s cell is 612-716-0683 or email at bowen3@fastmail.com

See the May 25th weekly news for full update.

The St. David's Vestry met this past Monday. After enjoying a delicious dinner provided by Katherine, we reflected on a poem by Mary Oliver before launching into our business.

We have continued to structure our monthly meetings to focus on one larger discernment topic. This month's topic was discipleship and shared meals for this program year. We wanted to reflect on what we have done in these two areas in the past and think about how we can best structure for the year ahead.

We first talked about Wednesday night dinners. We ran them about once-a-month last year with a weekly offering during Lent. We acknowledged that while they were likely valued by people attending Wednesday night events (Bells, Choir, Youth Group), they did not encourage as much community building given the overlapping schedules. We also recognize that the hosting burden was falling on very few volunteers.

We then discussed the bigger community events like St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo, Agape Meal, and International Potluck. These events were generally well attended and typically included some programming as well as time for intergenerational fellowship. We then discussed evening programming in light of everyone's busy schedule and geographic spread. There was lower attendance at evening programming such as Justice Collaborative speakers.

There have been suggestions over the years to start an evening Bible Study and interest in short term Lenten Series. We concluded that for this year, we are going to strive for monthly community meals hosted by different ministry or groups within the parish with some type of programming (a mix of fun and educational) as well as a meal and fellowship. We are hoping to come up with some easy meal suggestions and a how to host guide to make it less overwhelming to host. In addition, we hope to offer some periodic educational programming (e.g. focused Bible study or topics of learning) in hybrid or zoom format to enable maximum participation.

Mark your calendars for the first community meal of the year on Wednesday November 15th hosted by the Staff and look for more details to follow. We will also be undertaking an overarching review of the calendar for the year ahead so that people can get congregation wide events on their calendars.

Thankfully, it was a quiet month for Buildings and Grounds - only a positive item to report, the repainting of lines in the parking lots (Thanks Chris, Dan and Ally!).

The Vestry received an update on the Giving Campaign which will be kicking off on October 5th. Look for exciting developments on our grounds in the next few weeks as part of this year's campaign!

The Vestry will meet next on Monday October 16th. Please reach out to the wardens or any Vestry member with any questions or concerns. 

Bible Study started up for the new season on 9/12, but anyone is invited to join at any time. We meet at 11:00 each Tuesday morning on Zoom. We're currently studying the Book of John with the Rev. Basil Owen leading the way.

See Zoom link under 'Regular Offerings'

The St. David’s Mah Jongg group will be starting up soon. We play American MahJongg two afternoons a month. The dates and times are yet to be determined. If you are interested in joining the group, please email Susan Taylor at ss2taylor@comcast.net.

Want to view the full calendar for the week? Click here to view the St. David's website complete with a calendar to keep you updated on events and offerings! Scroll all the way to the bottom to view it.