The Season After Pentecost
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If you admire the art of Lyn Martin, are an appreciator of children’s books, or would simply enjoy vicariously accompanying a young boy and his grandfather to Paris, get yourself out to Barnes and Noble this Saturday – July 14 – between noon and 2:00 p.m. Lyn, along with author Janie Dempsey Watts, will be signing copies of the recently-published
Pap Pap Goes to Paris
. This richly illustrated tale will make a wonderful gift for the children in your life and a delightful tale to have on hand for young visitors... or to enjoy yourself when your exotic summer plans devolve into a trip to Costco in Fort Oglethorpe!
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Lyn Martin Book Signing
Book Review Class
EfM Registration Deadline
Fair Trade Items in Bookstore
Report on Recent Outreach
General Convention Information
Joseph Campbell RoundTable Info
Meetings This Week
Serving on Sunday
Lectionary
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You may have thought it was Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, or even Henry Ford that brought our modern existence into being, but our Celtic ancestors got there first. Come hear all about it as Paul Thomas talk about Arthur Herman’s
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
during the Book Review class on Sunday. The program begins at 9:00 a.m. in the Barth Room; coffee and doughnuts will be available in the kitchen for those whose tummies are as hungry as their minds.
The blurb on the back or the book offers this description:
Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics -- contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. This book is not just about Scotland: it is an exciting account of the origins of the modern world. No one who takes this incredible historical trek will ever view the Scots -- or the modern West -- in the same way again.
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Education for Ministry is a program offered through the University of the South Divinity School. Equipped with biblical and theological education, church history and material pertaining to the “big questions” gained throughout four years of study, participants emerge prepared to carry out their own ministries in the world.
Registration for the 2018-2019 EfM program is open from now until July 27, 2018
. Please call Janet McCollough at (423)653-9881 for more information.
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Fair Trade Items at Bookstore
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The bookstore just got a shipment of fair trade goods including jewelry, shopping bags (batik and recycled saris), jungle-beast napkin rings, and a lovely chain of euphonious bells. Come take a look if you’d like some pretties for yourselves or for a gift.
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When you tuck some bills into the offering on first Sundays for the Rector’s discretionary fund, or bring a case of chicken noodle soup or a check for the food pantry, you may not realize what that donation does in the community. Here’s a brief report on the adventures of your gifts since the end of May:
Food Vouchers
– From June 5-28 (the billing cycle and the actual month don’t quite match up), Grace gave vouchers for 33 boxes of food, which allowed 78 people (35 adults and 43 children) to obtain staples and fresh food from the Food Bank. Among these folks was a grandmother with health challenges who is living on nothing but Social Security and who had just taken in 7 grandchildren after their mother was incarcerated. Since Grace had become a “Milk 2 My Plate” provider last month, she was also able to get a milk voucher.
Discretionary Funds
– Since May 1, our clergy have helped 9 with their funds: $297 in utility assistance (electric and sewer bills), and $225 in rent assistance.
Food Pantry
– We’re just beginning to keep records on Food Pantry use, so these figures are low; we’ve helped at least 10 people since the end of May with bags of food, some toiletry items and one blanket. Some are those with large families who run out of food and need supplements before they are eligible for another voucher; some are referred from United Way and some simply ring the doorbell and ask.
Your gifts have provided material support for people who have had to decide between rent money and medications for life-threatening conditions, grandparents who have stepped up to care for children whose parents have vanished; veterans whose disabilities keep them either permanently or temporarily out of the job market, working people who have been sidelined by illness and can’t keep the electricity on and whose loss of paycheck keeps them from being able to pay some crucial bill or another.
Troubles are endless, and Grace could not take care of them all even if we had the entire federal budget at our disposal -- but we have been able to help a number of people through some difficult times. With your help, we will keep doing what we can for those who are in need. Thanks for all you have done – Grace’s generosities are possible because of your compassion for of all of God’s children.
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All Things General Convention
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Joseph Campbell RoundTable Activities
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If you missed the February program on
Narcissism with Janet Kemp and Patricia Gordon, it will be repeated at CHIONS on Saturday, July 14th, 10:30-noon at the Unitarian Church on Navaho.
Weekly Video Series
Each Monday through Labor Day, a group is watching
Transformations of Myth Through Time.
This series is Campbell at his finest. These videos are hard to come by. Fortunately, they were available through the PBS catalog many years ago, and I still have mine.
The video sessions begin at 7 pm, and we wrap up at 8:30. As a RoundTable event, there is no charge to attend, though donations are welcome, which are shared between the Campbell foundation and Grace Church.
The Power of Myth
The video series recently completed
The Power of Myth.
If you missed it, the series is currently available on Netflix. It's copyright is with Bill Moyers, and is not always avail except through Moyers' foundation. Highly recommended.
August Speaker Program
We are honored to have Herb Barks, former headmaster of Baylor school. Among other life paths as ordained minister, he is a published author. A more detailed bio will be presented in early August. The date of that presentation will be August 20 at 7 pm.
Fifth Fridays
Meeting together to watch "Mythic Movies" has been discussed as long as the RoundTable has been in existence. We have now finally watched the first of the "Fifth Friday" programs which was
Bladerunner.
Plans are to meet August 31 for last year's film,
Bladerunner 2049.
I guarantee the discussion will be lively!
These sessions will begin at 6:30 p.m. and usually end around 9:30. There is no charge, though canned and boxed food donations for the Grace Food Pantry are welcome. For these sessions, we will meet on the fourth floor in the youth room. Park behind the church and come in the handicapped door.
2019
Our tenth year meeting as a RoundTable begins in November, and the Roundtable speaker presentations first began in January, 2009. For our tenth year, while keeping the speaker/presenter format, the focus will be on Campbell's written work. A reading list will be shared soon. For those who would like a head start, some of the upcoming books will be:
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Myths of Light, The Outer Reaches of Inner Space, Goddesses, Romance of the Grail.
While it won't be necessary to read the book in its entirety, some familiarity would be preferable for discussion.
Many thanks for the RoundTable community, for your support and interest, and helping us grow and last this long!
Diana Peterson
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Joseph Campbell Video Series (Merritt Room) -- Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Centering Prayer (Barth Room) -- Friday, 1:00 p.m.
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At the 10:00 a.m. service:
Lectors, Nora Kile, Vivian Dodds; Intercessor, Rebecca Cook; Chalice, Rosy Milburn, Breezie Finley; Oblations, Jeff and Laura Bertrand; Acolytes, Blair Callaway, Ouisi Hamilton, Jackson Ricketts; Lead Usher, Renée Tracy; Greeters, Pat Milburn, Merilee Milburn; Webcast (camera, sound), Augie Sevart, Bill Boren
Lectionary Readings
Amos 7:7-15, Psalm 85:8-13, Ephesians 1:3-14, Mark 6:14-29
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