E-Blast for July 12, 2019

Children’s Summer Sunday

School - It’s time to Celebrate God’s Creation!

We meet at 10:00 a.m. as one large class in the Weeks Room and the theme is Creation Care. We will talk about “water stories, “plant and food stories” and animal stories” as well as open with music, mindfulness and prayer. Children rejoin their parents during the peace and stay upstairs the remainder of the service. Teachers needed for the summer!

Calling ALL Bowlers,

young and old alike!

Sunday, August 25, 2:00-4:00 p.m., we will gather at Lucky Strike Bowl, at 4015 E. Speedway Blvd., and bowl a few games together. There will be prizes for children’s high and low score as well as for adult high and low score. Find that old bowling shirt and let’s have some fun at Lucky Strike Bowl! Please call the church office to register so we know how many lanes to book. Questions? Talk to Pr. Kimberlee.

NEEDED: Pantry volunteer to work once a week from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The person must be willing to use a computer and interact with an interesting mix of guests. Reliable transportation to GSP and a working phone is also required. Please contact Pam in the office if you are interested.

Episcopal Climate News quote of the week: The Rev. Dr. James Cone

“The logic that led to slavery and segregation in the Americas, colonization and Apartheid in Africa, and the rule of white supremacy throughout the world is the same [logic] that leads to the exploitation of animals and the ravaging of nature. It is a mechanistic and instrumental logic that defines everything and everybody in terms of their contribution to the development and defense of white world supremacy.

People who fight against white racism but fail to connect it to the degradation of the earth are anti-ecological—whether they know it or not.

People who struggle against environmental degradation but do not incorporate in it a disciplined and sustained fight against white supremacy are racists—whether they acknowledge it or not. The fight for justice cannot be segregated but must be integrated with the fight for life in all its forms.”

- The Rev. Dr. James Cone, 1938-2018, in a 2000 essay called “Whose Earth is it Anyway?” Dr. Cone, known as one of the founding voices of Black Theology, taught at Union Theological Seminary, which is now home to Episcopal Divinity School.