The AC will be purring along contentedly and we invite y'all to bring a Frisbee or other fun Wham-O item to play with after in our lawn or parking lot.  As our Grant Streeters have discovered, we have a nice, fun environment to just enjoy the summer nights with.

This past week I was edified, as our evangelical pals say, to see a lot of love in action from our parish as well as from our partner church, St. John's.  A funeral service was held for Cynthia Vicknair Davis, whose family attended St. Michael's in the 1970's.  With little time, little personnel available to put on something of this magnitude and our vicar miles away, we managed to pull off a full service and reception for more than 100.  It took a heckuva village.  The usual suspects--Verena, Lonnie and Eva worked in conjunction with the tireless Barbara Fester and pals from St. John's, who rushed over to help put things together.  Gwen O'Neill, organist over at St. George, provided the music.  Rev. Lois celebrated the service and was "there" for the grieving family.  Rev. Amanda was involved thousands of miles away by keeping in close touch and putting people and ideas together.  Victor and Pedro had their first adventure of changing the dossal cloth--behind the Cross in the church--from green to white for the service and back again--at the direction of Gordon who dictated what should happen via texts and emails from Texas.  All this and more was done for a family that probably were strangers to most of us here at this point, yet once St. Michael's, always St. Michael's. It was amazing on a lot of levels--fans and cold water for everyone in the church, and no one the wiser about what a herculean task this was to coordinate in a few days.  Thanks to all.  It was something to be proud of, really.  And special thanks to Barbara who approaches these things with gusto and good cheer.

Flowers in the church  this Sunday are from the family of Cyndi Davis in honor of her life.  

If you have prayer needs--please let us know (in the Narthex book, via email to me, Diane or Carolyn, any of our clergy, occasional or otherwise),  We remember you in church, at  Wednesday Morning Prayer, and take it from me, people remember these requests and pray for you and your needs/situations on their own.  

Please worship in our remarkable little church the  Sunday and come back for a great celebration of the 4th, on the 3rd!

For those that we haven't seen in awhile for whatever reason, we miss you.  Come on by this weekend!