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This Week
On Our
Parish Calendar
Wednesday, October 26
  5:15 p - Chorister Rehearsal
  7:00 p - NA (Cottage 303)

Thursday, October 27
  9:00 a  - Holy Folders
12:00 n  - Holy Rosary
12:30 p - Bible Study
  1:30 p - English Tea (all welcome)
  7:00 p - St Columba Choir
  7:00 p - NA (Cottage 303)

Saturday, October 29
  6:30 pm - Holy Oldies

Sunday, October 30
   7:45 a - Rite I Mass
   9:00 a - Low Mass
 10:10 a - Sunday School
 11:15 a - Choral Mass
 12:30 p - Family Promise Set-Up
 12:30 p - EYC Meets
(no evening EYC)
  7:00 p - NA (Cottage 303)

October 30 - Nov 6
Family Promise Week

Tuesday, November 1
  7:00 am - All Saints Day Mass
  3:00 p    - Tai Chi Class

Wednesday, November 2
  7:00 p - All Souls' Day
                 Requiem Mass
  7:00 p - NA (Cottage 303)

 Thursday, November 3
  9:00 a  - Holy Folders
12:00 n  - Holy Rosary
12:30 p - Bible Study
  1:30 p - English Tea  (all welcome)
  7:00 p - St Columba Choir
  7:00 p - NA (Cottage 303)

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The 23rd Week after Pentecost
26 October 2016
Holy Oldies Party
Saturday, October 29  |  6:30 pm

      Our next Holy Oldies party will be this weekend:  Saturday, October 29 at Aberdeen Club House, 4550 Westminster Lane, Suwanee 30024. The theme will be "All Hallow's Eve" and costumes are entirely optional. There is a $5 door charge and everyone is asked to bring an appetizer to share.  Soft drinks and water are provided; other beverages are BYOB.  Email Judy Moorman if you have any questions ( click here).
      All parishioners 50+ (or who's spouses are 50+) are welcome to attend  and friends are most welcome!

All Saints' & All Souls' Day Commemorations
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All Saints' Day Mass
Tuesday, November 1   |   7:00 am
& Sunday, November 6  
Plus - Memorial Prayer Garden Dedication
     
      We will celebrate the feast of All Saints on November 1 and again on November 6.  Our first celebration will be a said Mass on Tuesday morning, November 1 at 7:00 am.  The  following Sunday (11/6), we will celebrate All Saints' again at 7:45, 9:00 and 11:15 am.       
      In addition, at the conclusion of the 11:15 Mass on November 6, we will move outside to consecrate our new Prayer Garden which will become a garden of Resurrection as we begin to inter ashes of loved ones whom we have entrusted into the care of Almighty God.  After the ground is consecrated, we will inter the ashes of Andy Barnard, Jim Lambert,  and Ken Sayce.
 
All Souls' Day Requiem Mass All-Souls-Day
Wednesday, November 2   |   7:00 pm
      Our annual commemoration of all the faithful departed will take place on Wednesday, November 2 with a beautiful sung Mass.  We will remember before God loved ones who have gone before us in faith and now sleep in the peace of Christ.  While the deadline has past for having a name printed in the bulletin, you can still add a name to the prayers read aloud.  Simply call the parish office by Monday, October 31 or email Daniel directly (click here).
Family Promise Host Week
October 30 - November 6
5:00 pm - 7:00 am, daily

     Our first host week for Family Promise is finally here!!  Beginning this Sunday, St. Columba's will host several families each night during for the coming week who are part of Family Promise, an outreach ministry helping homeless families get back on their feet and move into permanent housing of their own.  We will set up this Sunday after Mass, around 12:30 pm.  Please feel free to join in the set up for our first week of Family Promise.  
     Guests arrive around 5:00 pm each evening and leave by 7:00 am each morning.  If you are interested in helping with this outreach ministry, please contact Missy Thompson or Kathleen Kraynick for more details (click here).  
     We are so blessed to be one of the 12 sponsoring churches from Forsyth County of Family Promise.  Thank you to Kathleen Kraynick and Missy Thompson for coordinating this life-giving ministry!
** The dedicated spaces we set up will be restricted for their use only during the week they are here.  So other events and ministries may need to relocate to other areas that week.  If you have any questions, please speak with Father Tripp. 
EYC Time Change
Sunday, October 30   |   12:30 pm
Quarterly Outreach Project

     Everyone in EYC and their parents should have already received the announcement via Remind101 and special email:  EYC will meet early this coming Sunday, October 30.
     We'll gather at 12:30 for our quarterly outreach ministry service project.  We'll help set up the guest spaces for Family Promise at church.  
     So there will NOT be an evening EYC meeting.  We return to our regular schedule next week (11/6).  
 
EYC Schedule Change - October 30
12:30 pm - Family Promise Set Up
Bishop Whitmore To Retire
Bishop Whitmore and Mrs. Whitmore
at Rainbow Village Event
Final Visit to 
St. Columba
Sunday, November 20

     Bishop and Mrs. Whitmore will be leaving the Diocese of Atlanta and moving back to Wisconsin at the end of the year.  Before Bishop Whitmore came to Atlanta to become our assistant bishop, he served as the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.  As he retires from Atlanta, they will return to Wisconsin and live closer to their families.  
     Before moving, however, he wants to make one more Sunday visitation to St. Columba's.   It so happens that November 20 will also be Bishop and Mrs. Whitmore's 50th wedding anniversary.  So we are planning a special celebration for them both.
     So please mark your calendar now and plan to be part of the gala celebration!  More details will be forthcoming, but this is a Sunday you do not want to miss!
 
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     Also in the works, Father Tripp, Daniel, Father Ben, Father Chris are schemingly planning a diocesan wide celebration for the Whitmore's.   A festive choral evensong and reception in thankging for the ministry they have shared with us in Atlanta - Mrs. Whitmore as the chair of Rainbow Village Board of Directors and Bishop Whitmore as assistant bishop extraordinaire.  
     The tentative date is the late afternoon of Sunday, December 4 and the location will be St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Atlanta.  Music will include
Magnificat and  Nunc Dimmitis in A-Minor written by our very own Daniel Hahn and a grand reception will follow.  Stay tuned for a formal announcement and schedule - but for now, save the date!
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St. Columba's
Episcopal Church
939 James Burgess Road
Suwanee, Georgia 30024

770-888-4464