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July 30:
Pentecost 8 / Proper 12
Vestry Member of Day:
Michael Black
Coffee Host:
Steph Johnson, Stefani Carroll
Altar Guild:
Team 3
Due to Sanctuary Renovation, all services will be held in the Parish Hall until further notice.
8:00 a.m., Holy Eucharist, Rite I
Lay Eucharistic Ministers - Nancy Lutsko
Usher - Dave Armstrong
10:00 a.m., Holy Eu
charist,
Rite II
Lay Eucharistic Ministers - Nancy Lutsko,
Allan Dear, Jeani Synyard
Lay Readers
- Marcie Dennard, Emily
Rogers, Nancy Lutsko
Acolytes - Nancy Lutsko, Alexandra
Peeples, Kate Hanson
Ushers - Charlie Cosey, Carl Copeland,
George Mellors
6:00 p.m. Vespers
Scriptures
First Lesson - 1 Kings 3:5-12
Psalm - 119:129-136
Second Lesson - Romans 8:26-39
Gospel - Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Wednesday
Holy Eucharist
6:00 PM - Parish Hall
Thursday Holy Eucharist
7:00 AM - Parish Hall
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Clergy and Staff of
Christ Episcopal Church
The Rev. Dr. Dave Johnson
Rector
church office (229) 242-5115
Assistant to the Rector
church office (229) 242-5115
Kim Dudley, Parish Administrator
church office (229) 242-5115
bookkeeper's office (229) 242-0616
Millie Johnson
Director of Children's Ministry
church office (229) 242-5115
Angela Duncan, Music Director
church office (229) 242-5115
Kathy Armstrong, Choirmaster
church office (229) 242-5115
Office hours: Monday - Thursday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Friday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Hope you all are doing well! We are very excited about the completion of our new east parking lot-it looks great-as does the recovering of the west lot. The sanctuary renovations are nearing completion, and we should resume holding worship services there sometime in August. As soon as we know the exact date we will let you know. In the meantime we will continue to hold all services in the parish hall. Thanks for your prayers and patience-the project is coming along really well-it will be well worth the wait. Take care and I'll see you soon!
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Sunday, August 20, 2017 beginning at 11:15 a.m.
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Kick-off Party will be held on
August 20, 2017 immediately following the 10:00 worship service. Everyone is welcome, this is a church wide event. The Men in Blue will be cooking. There will be there will be a water slide a bouncy house and kiddie pool for the little ones. Fun for "Children of All Ages".
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EYC Middle School - Back to School Party
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Sunday, August 13, 2017 from 4 - 7 p.m.
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On Sunday, August 13th, the EYC Middle School group will be having a back to school pool party at Sallie Honeycutt's home. The party will be from 4-7 PM. There will be food and drinks available, bring a friend! Please let Philip know if you plan to attend.
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ECF - Episcopal College Fellowship
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ECF - The semester starts 8/14 and we are excited to have back our college students. We are looking for volunteers to bring food for our Thursday night dinners. If you would like to bless the college ministry with food, please. See Philip after the 10AM service.
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
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On August 10th we will help over 2500 students move into on campus housing at VSU. We are looking for 8-10 volunteers to help move students in. Every volunteer will get one of our new ECF t-shirts.
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Lunch Bunch Needs Volunteers
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We are expanding our lunch bunch ministry. Lunch Bunch is a great ministry that feeds children in our community every 1st and 3rd Saturday. This fall we would like to expand the ministry to every Saturday. This means we need volunteers! We will have six teams available and you may sign up for a team and volunteer one Saturday every six weeks. Please see Philip Ryan, Pepi Nelson, or Sandy Sandbach for questions or to sign up.
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Leidy and her family are in their house!
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The happiest of news to report from the Dominican Republic today - on Wednesday, July 26, Leidy and her family moved into the house in El Pedregal that our Home and Go Teams made possible for them! Leidy sent this message to everyone at Christ Church and our partner churches:
Thank you very much!
We are very pleased to be in our home
which is also your home.
-- Leidy Rosario
In other news, the mission trip summary report is being edited now and should be ready for the Friday Bulletin on August 4. The permanent photo album for the 2017 trip is ready now and is available at this link. There might be a little editing to refine the chronological order of the photos and maybe to add in a few more images during the next week. This permanent album replaces the Facebook album that was created during the mission trip.
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Break Bread Together, a local meals-on-wheels type program sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Valdosta, Georgia, is currently looking for volunteers to help with deliveries of a hot, balanced, noonday meal to low income, usually elderly, homebound recipients in Valdosta with no one in the home to care for them. A delivery route takes about 30 minute. You can pick as many days, or times during the month you would to help. If you would be interested in helping deliver meals, please contact Beth Mathis at 249-0779 at First Presbyterian Church.
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Father Dave's New Book Release
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Release Date: July 25, 2017
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For the last several years Dave Johnson and Justin Holcomb have been working on an academic volume for NYU Press,
Christian Theologies of the Sacraments, which was released on July 25, 2017. It is a compendium of essays from various scholars (including Ashley Null, Michael Horton, etc.) tracing the development of various perspectives on the sacraments throughout church history.
From NYU Press: "The NYU Press is proud to announce the release of
Christian Theologies of the Sacraments by Justin S. Holcomb and David A. Johnson. Holcomb and Johnson delve into the ancient debate regarding the nature and purpose of the sacraments, which has elicited a lively discussion among theologians. In this extremely cohesive and well-crafted volume, a group of renowned scholars map the theologies of sacraments offered by key Christian figures from the Early Church through the twenty-first century."
The jacket endorsement from Paul Zahl: "Behold: an instant classic compendium and textbook on the Christian sacraments. Justin Holcomb and David Johnson have created a coup with this beautifully organized, edited, and accessible 'time-line' of essays on the historic disagreements concerning the means of grace, from the earliest days of the Church to the political theologies of today."
-Rev. Dr. Paul F.M. Zahl, Author of
Grace in Practice
Dave's author page on Amazon can be found
here.
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New Online Photograph Albums
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30 Debi Saeger
1 Searcy McClure, Beverly Williamson
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Baptismal Anniversaries this week
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3 Emily Saeger
4 Gail Hobgood, Matthew Wilkin, Amy Wisenbaker
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Wedding Anniversaries this week
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29 Aaron & Josie Parten, Bill & Helen Tucker
Please contact the church office to update our records if we missed your Birthday, Baptismal Anniversary, or Wedding Anniversary.
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Thaddeus Agar, Amanda, Kathy Armstrong, Tal Barnidge, Tom Call, Caty Carter, Robert Church, Danny Clark, Bev Cowart, Jerry DeMott,
Janet Dickman, Blake Ellis, Karen Gunter, Johnny Hagan, Zach Hagan, Iris Hall, George Halls, Cheryl Hatcher, Tommy Hatcher, Gary Honeycutt, Buddy House,
Emily Joiner,
Jerriann Levy, Bobbie Ann Mitchell, Annie Reid, Debbie Richardson, Reva Rollins, Henry and Sarah Parrish, David Sandbach, Sr., Jack Spencer, Kathie Stevenson, Mike Willis, Nancy Zaccari, Ron Zaccari
Family of Searcy McClure
Family of Karen Hipsher
Family of Jack Spann
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