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.

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, March 29, 2026

The Sunday of the Passion

Palm Sunday

Worship in English at 10 am

(grab your palms and gather outside - as able)

Worship in Spanish at 1:30 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 bulletins for Sunday have been posted under "Downloads".

The Sunday Adult Formation Class

will be on a hiatus for a few weeks.

Please watch here for updates

on new topics after Easter.

Here's What's Happening!

Coming up ...

Sunday, March 29th - 11:30 - 1:30 - Palm Sunday - If you're a reader for the 10:00 Palm Sunday service, please arrive at 9:00. Between the 10:00 and 1:30 services we will share a meal together and finish stuffing eggs for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Easter:)

That's it for now, but as always if you have any questions, comments or wonderings, don't hesitate to let us know.

Peace, love, grace and grooviness, now and always,

Beth & Judah

15 of our folks participated in the Hunger Walk on Sunday, March 15.

Way to go, St. Bede's!

Children's Formation

for Children Age 3 - Grade 5

We have two offerings of Children's Formation on Sundays.

The first is during 10 am worship where children begin worship with their families for a short time and are then invited to process out with their teachers to the Godly Play room (M-102), usually during the Hymn of Praise or other hymn. During the time of the Sermon and the Prayers of the People they hear a special story and engage in activities tailored just for them. The children return to church at the Passing of the Peace to join their families and the congregation for Communion.

The second formation time is between the 10 am and 1:30 pm worship, during which time there are also formation offerings for adults and youth. We gather around 11:30-11:45 am in the Commons, and then move to classroom M-102 in the Mission Wing. This formation time focusing on learning about the stories of the People of God and growing in understanding about what we do in church worship.

All 3 year olds through 5th graders are welcome to join us. Older children are welcome as helpers and younger children may join with a parent, grandparent, or other caregiver. Both classes are taught in English.

If you have questions, please contact Molly Graves at mgraves@stbedes.org.

We will use this model for the start of the Christian Formation year and, in the weeks ahead, we will be inviting parents, grandparents, and guardians of young children into conversations about how we can shape our Children's Christian Formation program to better serve the needs of our community.

Prayer Vigil for Extra-Ordinary Times

We are holding a weekly, half-hour prayer vigil for the country on Sundays after 10 am worship, in room M108. Feel free to come by for a short time or for the entire time.

Contact Becca Love at rachelrebeccalove@gmail.com with any questions.

Holy Week & Easter Schedule

The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday, March 29

(begins outdoors with the Liturgy of the Palms)

10 am - Holy Eucharist

1:30 pm - Santa Eucaristía

Maundy Thursday, April 2

7 pm - The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday

with Communion & Foot-Washing

Bilingual in the Nave

Good Friday, April 3

Noon - The Liturgy of Good Friday, 

English in the Nave

 7 pm - Via Crucis / Stations of the Cross -

Bilingual, Outdoors

Holy Saturday, April 4

(begins outdoors)

8 pm - The Great Vigil of Easter

with

the First Eucharist of Easter

Easter Day, April 5

10 am - Festal Holy Eucharist

11:00 - Noon - Festive Easter Reception, Commons

1:30 pm - Santa Eucaristía

Easter Egg hunts will follow

10 am and 1:30 pm Worship

Easter Flowers and Music

Dedications

If you would like to give a gift

in honor or in memory of someone

for the Easter flowers and music,

special giving envelopes are in a basket

on the table in the Commons.

Please fill out the front of the envelope

and place in the offering basin on Sunday morning,

or send to the parish office

no later than Monday, March 30

in order to be listed in the Easter bulletins.

You can also email Laura

(lpittman@stbedes.org)

in the parish office

with information about your Easter dedication.

Please be sure to include the dedication

as you would like it acknowledged in the bulletin

and indicate whether you are giving

in memory or in thanksgiving.

You can make your contribution either by check

or give online through Realm.

If you pay by Realm,

please be sure that you also email your dedication to Laura.

Sign Up for

Easter Flowers Delivery

and Share Some Easter Joy

with Others

It is one of our Easter traditions at St. Bede's to offer small cupholder-size Easter flower arrangements for parishioners to share with St. Bede's members who cannot attend Easter worship and with others who might need a little Easter Joy. These little bouquets will be prepared and ready on Holy Saturday (April 4) for delivery to parishioners from that afternoon through Wednesday, April 8. 

A sign up sheet has been placed in the Commons to sign up for one or more flower deliveries. Please look over the list of those in our parish whom we have identified for a flower delivery. Feel free to sign up for one or several folks to deliver flowers to between Saturday, April 4 and Wednesday, April 8.

There will be a few extra arrangements, so you are welcomed to add another name of a person you will deliver flowers to - maybe a friend or a neighbor. There is space to add more names on the sign-up sheet.



If you have questions,

please email Laura in the church office:

lpittman@stbedes.org

Bishop Wright has issued a a pastoral letter entitled: Immigration: Dignity, Solidarity, and Support. This letter calls on us all to view our current immigration crisis through the lens of faith and to seek dignity and compassion for all of God's beloved children.

As of Thursday, March 19,

we have received 85 pledges

totaling $444,000.

If you have not received your packet

and would like to receive a packet,

please contact the parish office

and we will send one to you.

Thank you to all who have

faithfully returned their pledges

of financial support to St. Bede's.

If you have not yet made your pledge,

we would love to hear from you

so that we move forward with our

2026 budgeting process.

Please prayerfully consider

your response to all that

God has shared with you.

Newcomer and Visitor Coffee

Welcome to all Newcomers and Visitors to

St. Bede’s Episcopal Church!

Sunday, April 19

11:30 am

Room C101

New or visiting St. Bede’s? Join us for the Newcomer and Visitor Coffee on Sunday, April 19 at 11:30 am. We’d love to get to know you! It’s a relaxed opportunity to get to meet clergy, other members of St. Bede’s, connect with other newcomers, and learn more about life at St. Bede’s. Please let us know you’re coming by signing up on the sign-up sheet on the round table in the Commons.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and head to room C101 near the kitchen. We will have treats waiting for you, as well as lots of conversation.

We hope to see you there!

Finding Healing

for Our Divided Country



Now meeting weekly

on Monday evenings on Zoom

from 6:30 to 8 pm.

In person every Thursday morning

9 to 10 am

at Mint Coffeehouse

3926 Lawrenceville Hwy in Tucker

A discussion group, grounded in prayer, for those who have questions, concerns, and emotions that feel too big, and need a safe place to process with others.

We will see what participants need from this group. Perhaps it will just be a place to express what you are feeling, or maybe some will want to know what action can be taken.

And we will pray together.

Some questions to consider:

How are you doing, and what are you feeling?

Where are you in terms of processing changing public policy?

How can we live the values of our faith

in the face of conflicting public policy?

Facilitators: Muriel Diguette and Molly Graves

Please contact Muriel Diguette at digfam@att.net

if you are interested in joining.

Outreach Opportunities

Ongoing Soap Drive

Please place new wrapped bar soap in the basket labelled “Bar Soap and Toiletries” in the Connect Center outside the kitchen

 

March 22 - April 12

$25 Gas Card Collection for El Refugio

April 18

Trip to El Refugio

May 11

NETWorks "Putting Out Hunger" Golf Tournament

June 7

Outreach Committee Meeting

11:30 am

Room C101

October 18

Prepare and serve lunch for Church of the Common Ground

Questions? 

See Anita Montelione or Karen Werner

Gas Cards Needed!



On Saturday, April 18th, a small group of bilingual St. Bedians will make their way to El Refugio and Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia to visit detainees. When we are there we also spend time with the families who stop by the El Refugio house for lunch and a place to rest while awaiting their appointed time to visit their family member. Some who come from farther away arrange to spend the night--all of it at no cost. 

We always take $25 gas cards that are passed out to families who visit the house. So much has been taken from these families in the past year that a gas card is a precious gift and a reminder that we love our neighbors. Please pick up a gas card the next time you fill your tank. 

You can also give cash or write a check to Karen Werner, Sheila de la Cruz or Claudia Fedarko, and we will buy the gas cards for you. Thank you so much!

NETWorks Food Ingathering

We collected a grand total

of 1,658 pounds of food for NETWorks

during our Spring Food Drive!

Thanks to Steve Hadler and Paul Werner for delivering it on Tuesday.

NETWorks distributed close to 500,000 pounds of food in 2025, serving 114,760 people in our community. And nearly 1 in 5 children in our community are hungry. 

Thank you St. Bede's for your ever generous support. 

This was a fantastic effort by everyone!

Karen Werner and Anita Montelione, Outreach Co-Chairs

Early Bird Registration is now open for the NETWorks "PUTTing Out Hunger" Golf Tournament!

Election News

Did you know?

Monday, March 2, 2026, was the first day to request an absentee ballot. The last day to request an absentee ballot is May 7, 2026. Absentee ballots for the May 19 primary will begin being mailed on April 20, 2026. Early voting begins Monday, April 27, 2026, and runs through Friday, May 15.

Each election, officials encourage voters to mail in their ballots well ahead of time or return ballots to drop boxes or directly to voting locations to ensure they are received on time. 

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

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 unexpected power,

You rode a borrowed donkey and turned the world upside down.

Teach us to follow your way of gentleness and courage.

May we lead with love: lifting up the overlooked,

challenging the powerful, and making space for everyone.

Amen.



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 -11:30 am in room M108.

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

Fourth Thursday Prayer Shawl Meeting: 6:30-8 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.

Wednesday Night Adult Bible Study

Join with others for a study of The Wisdom of Solomon.

All are welcome.

6 – 8 pm

on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month

in the Commons Hallway Classroom

(across from the Julian of Norwich Center)

6:00 light supper

6:30 Bible Study

Contact Fred Murphy for more information.

Mostly Mysteries

Book Discussion Group

Next meeting in person:

Monday, April 20

at 1 pm in Room M108

Our April book selection

is

Theo of Golden

by Allen Levi

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

New Digital Assisted Listening System

for St. Bede's Nave

Thanks to a a generous grant, we have upgraded our Nave sound system with a new digital assisted listening server. This digital server will stream the Nave audio directly to your smartphone and, from there, it can be delivered through wired headphones, Bluetooth devices, or, if you have smart phone enabled hearing aids, the audio can be streamed directly into the hearing aids. Our hope is that this system can improve speech intelligibility for any who have a difficult time hearing or understanding the spoken word in the Nave.

The FIRST STEP to use the new system is download the "ListenWIFI" app onto your smartphone by clicking on one of the links below. The app is free and does not require any type of registration or password (thank goodness!). The app will not work until you are at St. Bede's and connected to our Wi-Fi network.

The SECOND STEP is to arrive at St. Bede's and connect to the new "St. Bede's - Guest" Wi-Fi network which is an open network that requires no password (thank goodness, again!). The system will not work if you connect to the old "stbedes" password protected network.

Please let us know if you need help connecting!

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:

Susan Cáceres

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

Jim Helms

Martha Robert

Claude Oakley

Miriam Needham

Claiborne Jones

Margie Klein

Michele Heller

Lynn Williams

Jim Handsfield

Barbie Olsen

Dixie Snider

David Boyd

Debhani Hernandez

Al and Regina Studwell                      

Sarah Jane and Jim Ohl

Mary Rodriguez

Helen Abraham

Cameron Maddox  

Aree Bancroft

Nancy Waring

Frances Bowen

Ann Foote

Sue Ellen Lampros

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

Zoe Bushart, granddaughter of Jim and Doris Bushart

Jackie Heyda, friend of St. Bede’s

Sonya Abdelhady, friend of Larry Bing

Larry Wilson, friend of Larry Bing

The Reverend Richard Smith, friend of Nancy Bruce

Jeremy and Aila Craig, family of Helen Loeb

Carol Wilkes, friend of Larry Bing

Spenser Simrill, friend of Lynnsay Buehler

Melanie Millsaps Johnson, friend of Lynnsay Buehler

Lea Robinson, friend of St. Bede’s

Lawrence Pinson, father of Laura Sellers

James Smythe, great nephew of Molly Graves

Larry Sullivan, friend of Joan Greer

John Borden, friend of Joan Greer

Kayt Hoch, daughter-in-law of Martha and David West

Reagan Koski, friend of Beth Cannon

Bill Edgar, father of Beth Cannon

Carol Guthrie, sister of Ann Foote

Andy Matia, friend of Ann Foote

Mary Robert, sister of Martha Robert

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

We pray for those who have died:

Kim Custin, family of Lynnsay Buehler and Rob Townes

Alma Dawson, aunt of Orisha Parsons

Serleen Elaine Jordan Walker, aunt of Raymond Walker, III

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

Josh Bowers

Jonathan

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week

3/27 Fran Snider

3/30 Geoff Flanagan

4/2 Sarah Warlick

4/4 Iñaki Guevara

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from Bishop Rob Wright

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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

Save the Date for

Spring Sessions at Camp Mikell

April 7-9, 2026 Mindfulness at Mikell

Calling All Parents and Grandparents: Is there a child in your home or community who would benefit from getting out into nature, building community, encountering God, and learning about themselves?

Camp Kanuga has been a trusted and transformative summer camp program for 95 years, with Episcopal roots, accredited by the ACA, and open to rising 2nd- through 10th-graders. Located in Hendersonville, NC and operating between June 4th and August 3rd, it’s a place where kids gather and experience belonging, grow in their faith, and have a lot of fun.

The Camp Kanuga team would love to hear from you and talk more about how it may be a good fit for your family. Visit CampKanuga.org to connect and learn more.

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

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