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

by Wednesday morning. Text and images should be attached to an

email to the Parish Administrator.



Laura's email address is lpittman@stbedes.org

There's a lot going on at St. Bede's!

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A Special "Thank you!" from Chad...

Thank you all for your patience and prayers for the past two weeks as my family recoverd from COVID and as I dealt with a significant health issue and hospitalization for my Mom. Your prayers and love were deeply felt and appreciated and the Vaughns worshipped with you all via YouTube on both Sundays with tears in our eyes of joy and appreciation for this amazing and special community of faith and love that is St. Bede's. Thank you! Chad

Sunday, August 23, 2026

The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Worship in English at 10 am

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 is on hiatus for the summer.

We look forward to resuming in September after Labor Day!

Look elsewhere in E-News for ongoing formation offerings.

Sunday, August 23

All youth are welcomed to join us after worship for a day of planning events for the season!

Children's Formation

for Children Age 3 - Grade 5

Seasonal Changes to Children’s Formation



Children's Formation is on hiatus for the summer. We look forward to resuming after Labor Day. During the summer worship, children are welcomed to enjoy the prayground area with supervision.

We need additional teachers/helpers for this age group. Please contact Molly Graves at mgraves@stbedes.org to volunteer or for more information about our children’s faith formation program.

VBS Outreach Wrap-Up

This week, we delivered 400 breakfast bars and a large box of toys and coloring supplies to Casa Alterna which they will give to people waiting in line, sometimes for hours, at the ICE Atlanta Field Office downtown. Anton Flores-Maisonet, Casa Alterna's Executive Director, was very appreciative of our donation as he said the number of people in line at ICE has grown recently. Thank you to all the VBS participants who donated so generously to this outreach project!

Prayer Vigil for Extra-Ordinary Times

The prayer vigil for our country will return on the first Sunday of every month: June 7th, July 5th, August 2nd, September 6th, October 4th, November 1st, and December 6th. We will use the Book of Common Prayer to help guide our petitions for peace, justice, and flourishing in our country.

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

SAVE THE DATE

Bishop Rob Wright to visit St. Bede's

on Sunday, September 13

Rite of Reception into the Episcopal Church

If you have recently come into the Episcopal Church and have participated in one of our Episcopal 101 classes, you may wish to be formally "Received" into the Episcopal Church by Bishop Wright during his visit.

You can participate in this rite of "being received" even if we have already transfered your membership from your former parish/congregation or denomonation.

If you have questions, please reach our to Chad or Laura in the office to see if this is the "right rite" for you!

The opening reception was well attended. Our Delkalb CEO, Lorraine Cochran-Johnson, and our  DeKalb County Super 7 representative, Dr. LaDena Bolton,  were both there almost the whole time. And our Tucker Mayor, Anne Lerner, also attended as well as two of Tucker’s City Council members! The art this time is wonderful. Take some time to enjoy it. 

The jewelry and the pottery in the glass case will be there through September as well. If there’s any interest in any of this, just leave a check with Laura Or text Lois Shingler at 404-593-9001

Many, many thanks to everybody who brought food for hors d’oeuvres, helped clean up and set up!

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.

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

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

September 6 – 27

Church of the Common Ground

Diabetic Sock Drive

October – November

Emmaus House Home for Thanksgiving

October 11

Outreach Committee Meeting

11:30 am in Room C101

October 18

Prepare and serve lunch for Church of the Common Ground

December 6 – January 3

Baby Jesus Baskets

Questions? Please contact Karen Werner at wernerksw@comcast.net

Community Support

The Outreach Committee is beginning a new partnership with Los Amigos de la Communidad Georgia. This organization was founded several years ago by parishioner Maria Cristina de la Cruz and two partners. They serve the Latino community.

The Outreach Committee has sent them a $1,000 donation to support their work with families who are struggling to provide food for their families, pay rent and other bills after losing their breadwinners to detention and/or deportation. We hope to work more closely with them in the near future and are excited to support our neighbors in need.

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 who listens,

Thank you for brave voices of love.

When someone is hurting or left out, help us show brave love, too.

May we listen like Jesus, change when we need to,

and share your life-giving love with 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.

(This group is on hiatus for the summer.)

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 as we explore the Gospel of Matthew and have fun.

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, September 21

at 1 pm in Room M108

Our September book selection

is

Ransom

by Daniel Silva

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

For questions, please contact Cathe Echterhoff at jechterhof@aol.com

The Two Marys: Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music

St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

Saturday, August 29 at 7:30 pm

This program explores two of Christianity’s most beloved women through the expressive language of seventeenth-century music. Works honoring Mary, the Mother of Jesus, celebrate her compassion, humility, and enduring place in Christian worship, while settings inspired by Mary Magdalene illuminate the steadfast devotion of the disciple who remained beside Jesus through his suffering and became the first witness to the risen Christ. Together, these complementary perspectives reveal the richness of Baroque composers’ engagement with faith, hope, love, and the human experience.

For those who approach these works from a faith tradition, we invite you to reflect deeply on the texts as they unfold. For all listeners, regardless of background, we hope this music offers an opportunity to experience the expressive beauty of a period that forever changed the language of Western music.

Admission: $20 general admission. Payment by cash, Venmo, or PayPal at the door.

The Cathedral of St. Philip

2744 Peachtree Road, Atlanta

Friday, September 18, 2026

7:30 p.m.

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:

Margie Klein

Martha West

Cheryl Murphy

Lewis Anderson

Rebecca and Mark Engsberg

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

Susan Cáceres

David West

Jim Murray

Dixie Snider

Claude Oakley

Miriam Needham

Claiborne Jones

Michele Heller

Lynn Williams

Jim Handsfield

Barbie Olsen

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:

Grace, friend of Julia Dalbom

Stayce Bushart, sister of Jim Bushart

William Gunter, brother of Doris Bushart

The family of Rebecca and Mark Engsberg

Susan Forte, sister of Cheryl Murphy

Donna Horack, friend of Beth and Terry Cannon

Harrison Jobes, nephew of Beth and Terry Cannon

Carlos, friend of Claudia Fedarko

Joselina, friend of Claudia Fedarko

The People of Cuba

Susan Vail Casey, sister of Tom Vail

Zoe Bushart, granddaughter of Doris and Jim Bushart

Aila Craig, family of Helen Loeb

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:

Sue Engsberg, mother of Mark Engsberg

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

Alex Larrivey

Josh Bowers

Jonathan

We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:

8/22 DeWayne Bernard Smith

8/23 Heidi Klein

8/23 Karen Downen

8/23 Susan Reef

8/24 Karen Werner

8/24 Lynn Williams

8/26 Harrison Fair

8/26 Luz Zuñíga

8/29 Ray Callaway

8/29 Peaches Flanagan

The flowers on the altar for Sunday August 23

will be given to the glory of God and

in gratitude for the life of her husband,

Jack C. "Jay" Shapiro,

by Suzanne Shapiro

May his memory be for a blessing.

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