you can mail in your pledge, give online, or text GIVE to (850) 403-6673.

Sunday 10:30 AM service streamed on Facebook Live or YouTube 

Click here to listen to last week's sermon.

A hybrid class that will meet in the Parlor and on Zoom (Passcode: 331820). This class explores the history, imagery, theology and significance of different phrases found in our Sunday Eucharist worship service.

As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

Our neighbors without homes are in great need of toiletries, including bars of soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, disposable razors, hand sanitizer, wash clothes, socks, and hand cream. Please click here for more information on how to help.

As Fr. Michael has discussed, we are all excited to be making a return towards normal worship services. With that in mind, please take a look at the link here that details some of the ways to serve in helping with those services. If you are interested in any of these ministries, please sign up and we will follow up with more details!

The first day of school is just around the corner! Christ Church wants to help your family start this year off right with our annual Blessing of the Backpacks on Sunday, August 15. Families are invited to worship at the 10:30 AM service (Children's Chapel is offered during this service for littles through 5th grade). Following the service at 11:30 AM in the courtyard, Fr. Michael and Rev. Katie will bless the backpacks, our students, and wonderful teachers. Children & Family Ministry will have a special surprise for our students — of all ages!

We are continuing to have Children’s Chapel during the summer months. Each week we will have a lesson, refreshments, and a creative activity of some type. You may drop your children off at the entrance to the Parish Hall and pick them up there after the 10:30 service. The Chronicle will have information if this changes.

The Epic Book Club is meeting again in person! We meet on the first Wednesday of the month at 3:00 PM in the Parlor. The August book discussion will be This is Happiness by Niall Williams. Please click here to be added to the email list for updates, and/or join our Facebook group (EPIC Bookclub of Christ Episcopal Church).

A hybrid class that will meet in the Parlor and on Zoom (Passcode: 331820) at 9:30 AM beginning Sunday, August 1. This class explores the history, imagery, theology and significance of different phrases found in our Sunday Eucharist worship service.

For over 20 years, the life and martyrdom of Jonathan Myrick Daniels has been remembered through an annual pilgrimage to Hayneville, AL. Due to ongoing pandemic precautions, the 2021 event will be a virtual celebration of Daniel's life and work. The celebration will be streamed on the Diocese of Alabama's website and social media. To learn how to view the broadcast, visit the website shown above. More information is available here.

Each week our worship service is enhanced with beautiful fresh flowers. After the Sunday services, the altar flower arrangements are reworked into smaller arrangements. These arrangements are delivered to members of our parish family that are unable to attend a Sunday service. The altar flowers are a memorial, a thanksgiving for an anniversary, a birthday, a new birth, or a thanksgiving for God's blessings. The donation is listed in the weekly bulletin. Forms to participate in this ministry are available here and on the information table in the Parish Office.

Christ Church is here for you. There are many ministries to love and support the people who are the church. We continue to support one another, especially during this pandemic. If you are interested in assisting with staying connected to our church family, please email Rev. Katie or call her at the Parish Office, 850-432-5115. It is easy to feel alone or disconnected right now, so reach out to one of the priests or someone at the church to say hello. Contact Rev. Katie if you or anyone you know has any needs. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call our pastoral care emergency line to speak directly with one of the priests: (850) 462-5137.

We would like to give thanks for these special days and to add your name to the published prayer list in the Chronicle. Please print your name on the calendar on the information table in the Parish Office foyer. The calendar is checked weekly before the prayer list goes to print.

I. For Those in Need. Including the poor, the unemployed, the lonely, the hungry, the homeless, the abused, the sick and dying, and those who grieve. For those suffering in body, mind, or spirit—including Members: Jen Cagle, Jane Dickerson, Dick Pace, Leonora Edwards, Nancy Stafford, Bruce & Meg Melvin, Laura Wolfersperger, Dee Whisenhunt Family & Friends: Bobby, Bonnie, Jane, Janice, Maja, Shelly Parker, Greg Taylor, Rob Wilmer, Kelly, Trisha Bothwell, Nicole Keating. 

II. For Those in the Armed Forces, especially—Erik Barton, Stewart Bova, Danica Roark Domokos, Sam Gaston, Robert Geiger, William Harper, Harry B. Harris, Benjamin Jensen, Joshua Justin, Art Lantigua, Hillary Leonard, Ben Mathis, Kathryn Martin, Sean McAbee, Julie McGill, Kyle Roberson, Peter Shelton, Evan Valdyke, Wesley Valdyke; and all those who serve this nation in harm’s way.

III. For All who have Died. May their souls and the souls of all the departed rest in peace.

IV. In Thanksgiving. For those in our parish celebrating birthdays and anniversaries—Pam & Dave Tanner.

To submit a prayer request, email prayer-request@christ-church.net and let us know if this is for the public prayer list or for our confidential intercessory prayer list. You may also fill out the prayer request form online at our website (found on the Pastoral Care page under “Ministries”). All published prayer requests on this list also go on the confidential intercessory prayer list. Please note that names remain on the prayer list for 4 weeks and on our confidential intercessory prayer list until you ask to be removed. Please resubmit your request if you or a loved one needs to remain on the list. This helps keep our prayers current. Names in bold print indicate new additions to the prayer list.