This Week at St Timothy's
Episcopal Church
July 18, 2018
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O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
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Lord Jesus Christ,
who hast built thy Church
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets:
mercifully grant that building upon thee, the chief
cornerstone, with beauty and substance,
we may raise here at St Timothy's a
faithful people and a holy temple to thy glory.
May we and generations yet to come learn to praise thee
more and more in spirit and in truth.
Amen.
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Adoration: Liturgy, Prayer, & Devotion
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Looking to Sunday July 22, 2018
The Feast of St Mary Magdalene
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Preacher: Fr Steve Rice
Celebrant: Fr Steve Rice
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Due to worship in Drake Hall and the Chapel, recording was not possible.
Previous week's homilies can be found
here.
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Summer is here and travel plans are ready! We all deserve time away and rest to heal body and mind. If you are in town, however, let's make a commitment this summer to be in church. Let's set a goal to average 300 in worship this summer.
Summer average beginning June 3: 269
Average Attendance for the year: 311
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From the Choir Loft | Christin Barnhardt
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This Sunday, please pay special attention to the News & Notices for notes from Vivien Hines, Ella McFerrin, and me about our incredible experiences with music last week. Vivien and Ella participated in an RSCM (Royal School of Church Music) training course at Duke University. From Ella:
To sum up the week I had a phenomenal time and I am encouraging current and future singers to come in years to come! Lastly, I would like to thank everyone who took their time to drive to Durham to hear me and Vivien sing Evensong. Thank you!
I spent ten days studying choral conducting and chant at St Stephen's House in Oxford and will publish a series of reflections in the New & Notices to share some of my experiences of a life-changing week.
At 9am, the choir will sing a Hymn 673 "The first one ever, oh, ever to know." This hymn, tune name Ballad, sounds like a folk song. The composer, Linda Wilberger Egan (b. 1946), has provided a thorough account of the composition’s creation. “The ballad was written after the first year [1980] of a three-year study of the Gospels,” she writes. “That year I was reading to discover Jesus’s relationship with the women he encountered, and their function in his ministry. That year was also the first year of the Rev. Elaine Kebba’s ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church, Swarthmore, Penn. Because of their contact with her, many women here had begun to expand their views of their own ministries. This song is a simple explication of three of the texts I had been thinking about. . . . It is an attempt to remind people of what they already know about three famous events in Jesus’s life.”
From C. Michael Hawn in his "History of Hymns"
Each stanza begins with “The first one ever, oh, ever to know.” Stanza one explores the Annunciation from the angel Gabriel to Mary as told in Luke 1:26-38, thus Mary is the first to know of the birth of Jesus.
Stanza two alludes to the story of the Samaritan woman at the well as told in John 4:7-26. This woman perceived that Jesus was the Messiah.
Ms. Egan notes: “Later in that year [1980] I became a musician for the Well Woman Project [of] the Diocese of Pa. Venture in Mission. Among its purposes is a search for liturgical expression consistent with the spiritual experience of women as well as men. . . . We take the woman at the well as a symbol because she listened to Jesus, she perceived that he was a prophet, she talked theology with him, and she preached about him so convincingly to the people of her city that they all came to see him.”
The third stanza reflects on the Resurrection morning when the three women, Mary, Joanna and Mary Magdalene, discovered that the tomb was empty (Luke 24:1-11). They were the first ones to experience the Resurrection and spread the Good News.
The musical medium for these narratives is a folk ballad form that became common in the 1960s and is reminiscent of songs by folksingers such as Joan Baez. It is an ideal style for conveying a narrative.
The composer has employed a medieval dance form, the estampie, to convey rhythmic energy. The modal character of the melody also adds to the folk song flavor.
The first half of each stanza sets up the scene of each narrative and may be best sung by a soloist. The second half of each stanza is an affirmation or berekah (Hebrew word for “blessing”) for those who follow the witness of the women in the narratives.
Voluntaries:
Toccata sesta, Girolamo Frescobaldi
Fugue #4 in F Minor, George F. Handel
Hymns:
Be thou my vision, No. 488
O Christ, the Word Incarnate, No. 632
O Food to pilgrims given, No. 309
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, No. 390
See you Sunday,
Christin
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Every single day we pray for those on our parish prayer list. You are welcome to add names each Sunday to the list in the narthex or you may do so online by clicking
here. Please note this list is not a request for pastoral care. To speak to a member of the clergy and/or request counseling, visits, and/or a sacrament, please call or email Fr Steve Rice or Fr DJ Griffin directly.
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Our altars in the Church and Chapel are adorned weekly with flowers beautifully arranged by St. Timothy’s Flower Guild. Frequently the flowers are given in honor and/or memory of loved ones. The suggested donation to sponsor the flowers is $60. Is there a date coming up when you would like to honor someone or remember someone with a flower dedication? If so, please contact Ellen Turner at ellen@sttimothys.ws.
Also, are you interested in assisting the Flower Guild in arranging the flowers? If so, please contact Lea Thullbery at lea@sttimothys.ws.
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Hospitality for Officers on Sunday Mornings
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Please help welcome our Winston Salem police officer to services on Sunday mornings. Follow the link below to sign up to provide a snack. The officers enjoy homemade baked goods or breakfast items such as bagels, muffins, or pastries. If items contain nuts please label them. Snacks should be delivered to the basket at the welcome counter in the narthex on Sunday mornings. If you have questions please contact Megan Farrell at mrfarrell@triad.rr.com or 336.408.7779. Thank you for extending a warm welcome to our officers!
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Formation: Study, Learning, & Knowledge
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The Reasonableness of Faith | Fr DJ Griffin
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“Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15). This verse emphasizes the importance of being able to defend our faith as good, reasonable, and true, against attacks on its claims. This is a part of apologetics, which is a word for the art of showing why it’s reasonable to believe the claims of the Christian faith. But I think many of us wonder how to go about this. We’ve had conversations with a few people on what this means and how to go about it.
I think it can be hard for us to defend or explain our faith for several reasons. Sometimes we know why we believe, but we can’t articulate that to others. There are also a lot of arguments that people have made against particular points of Christianity over the centuries, and, if we’re not familiar with these arguments, we might not know how to respond to them on the fly. There’s also they ever-present fear of seeming too pushy or preachy.
But it’s important for us to be able to understand and explain the faith. It’s important for us to know what we believe is reasonable, and, God willing, it may convince others to see the reasonableness. The purpose, though, is not to argue someone into belief. Only the Holy Spirit can truly change a person’s heart. The point is to show that it makes sense to believe this faith. And we’ll find our own faith strengthened by the endeavor.
With that in mind, for the next two weeks, I’d like to publish two articles on the reasonableness of the central doctrine of our faith: the Resurrection of Jesus. As St. Paul wrote, “If Christ is not risen, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 14:15). This doctrine, above all, is what our hope hinges on. If we want to given an account for the hope that is in us, we need to given an account for the Resurrection.
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VBS 2018--July 29-31 | "Believing Takes Practice"
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July 29-31
Join us for 3 nights of formation as we journey as God's people discovering the gifts we have been given to build up God's Kingdom. This will be an intergenerational VBS (all ages!) based on Madeliene L'Engle's beloved classic, "A Wrinkle in Time". Sign up here https://goo.gl/forms/GtdOifkxpT1IpvIr2 Families are invited to participate together if possible--and friends and neighbors are welcomed to join in too!
VBS Schedule:
Sunday, July 29 4-6pm
Monday, July 30 5-7:30pm (snack dinner at 5pm)
Tuesday, July 31 5-7:30pm (snack dinner at 5pm)
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St.Tim's & Anthony's Plot/Freedom School at Seven Springs!
Thursday, July 26th 12-3:30pm
Kids and youth (K-12) are invited for an afternoon of swimming, boating, fishing, and games with our friends from Anthony's Plot. Younger children can come with parents. Carpooling to Seven Springs is encouraged and adults are welcomed to stay! Address is 118 Alder Lane, Mocksville, NC.
Parish-wide Pool Party & Potluck
Sunday, August 19 4-6pm
Peace Haven Pool ($2/person)
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Why do we report giving and attendance?
Following Jesus Christ is about faith and not figures. However, figures do shed some light on how we are living out our faith. There are many places in the Gospel where Jesus makes the connection between one's spiritual health and their relationship with monetary wealth. Generosity is a gift of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5.22). By reporting the giving, we shed light on the practicalities of supporting ministry and mission and these numbers remind us of our responsibility in generously giving to the spread of God's kingdom. The same is true with attendance. We have to be present to receive the Sacraments. Our priorities are best demonstrated by our bodies. If we want to see what matters the most to a person - we look at where their spend and where they stand.
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Giving for the Week of July 15, 2018
Offering: $
16,558.85
Weekly Need: $18,099.81
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See below for more information regarding online giving.
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This new portal is easier to use and, once you create an account, you can keep up with your giving history. You can also give via check online.
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Give by Text -
336-697-6543
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This is amazing. I never have cash or a check, but I always have my phone. You can now give to the work of St Timothy's just by texting. Here's how it works:
1. Text an amount to
336-697-6543
2. You will be sent a link to set up your debit/credit card (take a few seconds)
3. Once complete, your transaction will go through and you number will always be associated with the card.
Plus, you can text "Funds" to see a specific fund. If you want to sponsor a lamp, you can text "25 st timothys" and it will go the St Timothy's Lamp, etc. If the fund isn't recognized, you'll get a list of all the funds and you text back the number of the fund you wish to give to
PS: This is not connected to your phone bill. It it connected to a card of your choice.
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Holiness of Beauty | Capital Campaign
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Campaign Video from Camp Taji, Iraq
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The Church was constructed in 2000 at a cost of $1,200,000. Adjusted for inflation, that number is $1,791,391.00, $77,959 less than what we’ve raised so far. Well done! We still have a relatively low number of pledges and gifts. Imagine what we can do.
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Starting this summer and continuing all summer long, you can join us for Lemonade on the Lawn between the 9am and 11am masses. Stop by the lemonade stand outside Gribbin Hall and enjoy fellowship with our parish family. If you'd like to help host, sign-up at
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0F4BA9A92BA3FB6-lemonade or contact Kristen Machado at kpmachado@gmail.com
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Write to Graham Green
Our own Graham Green is a Lt Col in the Army National Guard and is currently deployed in Iraq. We are proud of Graham, his wife, Shannon, and children Garrison and Julia. We will continue to surround them with prayer. He is able to receive letters at the address below. Please use the address exactly as it is printed.
LTC Graham Green
HHC 449th CAB
Camp Taji
APO, AE
09378
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Attendance and Stewardship
July 15, 2018
Morning Prayer: 3
7:30 Low Mass: 51
9:00 Low Mass: 150
11:00 Solemn Mass: 50
Sunday Mass Total: 251
Offering: $
16,558.85
Weekly Need: $18,099.81
Average Sunday Mass Attendance: 311
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The
altar arrangements are given to the Glory of Almighty God and in memory of my father, Max Hurley by Shannon Hurley and in honor of Bill & Barbara Pitt, Carl & Marie Stewart, and Michael & Gwenn Clements by Claudette Weston.
The
Our Lady of Walsingham Lamp is given in honor of Chuck & Marsha Ware and the renewal of their marriage vows by Tony, Christine, & Lily Jordan.
The
Sanctuary Lamp is not sponsored at this time.
The
St. Timothy Shrine Lamp is not sponsored at this time.
The
St. Michael the Archangel Lamp is given to the Glory of God and with prayers for the protection of LTC Graham Green and all those in our armed forces by the women of St. Timothy’s.
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