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The Labyrinth Walk
Thursday, August 16, 2018
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The Altar Flowers are given in Honor of Mike King as he fully retires from
his dedicated service as our Bookkeeper.
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Getting to Know You (the Episcopal Church, that is)
Some of you may recognize the title,
Getting to Know You, from the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
The King and I, it's also an invitation to get to know the church better. Confirmation/Inquirer's classes start Sunday, September 9. Confirmation is the way to become a member of the Episcopal Church and St. Peter's. The Bishop confirms you, and the classes are a useful way to get to know more about the church leading up to the Bishop's visit on October 21. Even if you're not being called to confirmation-or already have been-it's a fun way to get to know the church a little bit better. We'll be meeting Sundays after the 11:00 am service in Parish Hall.
Come to the Lunch & Learn on August 19 to get more information, after the 11:00 am service.
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Stewardship Report
We have started tracking our weekly giving versus what it takes to keep St. Peter's running. Each week you will see how the past weeks have fared. For July, we started off very strong, but have seen a decline in recent weeks. This is not uncommon in the summer months, but is something we need to pay attention to. Please help us keep St. Peter's going...and growing. And thanks for your support!
Offering Date |
Offering |
Amount Given |
Amount Needed |
Difference |
Ending 8/15/18 |
Offering |
$2,456.18 |
8,455.00 |
-$5,998.82
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Ending 8/8/18 |
Offering + Direct Deposit |
$11,679.56 |
8,455.00 |
$3,224.56 |
Ending 8/1/18 |
Offering |
$5,880.00 |
8,455.00 |
-$2,575.00
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Ending 7/25/18 |
Offering + Direct Deposit |
$6,192.50 |
8,455.00 |
-$2,262.50
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Four Week Cumulative |
Operating Income |
$26,208.24 |
33,820.00 |
-$7,611.76
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Tithing to St. Peter's Using Direct Draft from Bank Accounts
Did you know that you can have your tithe to St. Peter's automatically taken out of your checking or savings account? The Bank Draft Form is located in the link below. Print this form out and give it to the church office. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Mike King at [email protected].
Use the link below to print a withdrawal form and return it to the Parish Office.
http://stpetersconway.org/wp-content/uploads/ACH-Authorization-Form.pdf
Discretionary Fund
All $1 bills in the offering plate this Sunday will go to the Discretionary Fund.
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Cottage Visits, each starting at 6:00pm
Aug 21, Drew Spurgers and Kevin Phelps - FULL
Aug 28, Doug Stroud - FULL
Sept 4, David and Marilyn Larson - FULL
Sept 10, Ted and Leigh Ann Warriner - FULL
Sept 18, Kathryn Spinks - 5 Slots open
Sept 24, Jerry and Madelyn Adams - FULL
St Peter's Sermons
All of St. Peter's Sermons are archived on our website. You can listen to the sermons by clicking the following link:
http://stpetersconway.org/worship-2/weekly-podcast/
The Sermons are also posted on the church's Facebook page each Monday.
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A Note from The Rev. Peggy Cromwell
Dear friends-
Recently, I encouraged us all to be ready to welcome anyone who might come through our doors. Please take a few minutes to view the following video from Church Next. The Rev. Canon Stephanie Spellers is Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation and Stewardship of Creation.
If you would like to get involved in the "Ministry of Welcome" at St Peter's, contact Greg or Linda or me.
Radical Welcome
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When pain is real, why is God silent?
Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. Frederick Buechner finds that the God who might seem so silent is ever near. Buechner says that loss will come to all of us, but he writes that we are not alone. Crazy and unreal as it may sometimes seem, God's holy, healing grace is always present and available if we are still enough to receive it.
Please come and explore this meaningful book by one of today's outstanding theologians with the Brown Bag Book Club. We will begin discussion on Wednesday, August 29, at noon, in the library. If you need a book, contact Linda Brown, Deacon, at [email protected].
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Altar Flowers
There are still several open dates for altar flowers in Sept., Oct., and Nov.
The sign up sheet is on the bulletin board by the restrooms. You may also call the church office to sign up. A member of the Altar Guild will contact you regarding the size of arrangement you would like to purchase. Also, please keep in mind, that it is customary to leave the arrangement at the church so that they flowers can be given to shut-ins and those that are ill.
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HELP NEEDED - Playground Remodel Work Day
The church has received a donation of $1,000 for the purpose of creating a new playground area for our younger children. This will be done over 3 workdays. The first workday will be
this Saturday starting at
10:00 a.m. The next workday will be
next Saturday, and the next will be determined based on delivery of the new playground equipment.
If you can help, please contact me via email at [email protected] or text or call me at 501-908-3172. If I do not have enough volunteers to help, I will need to postpone. The goal is to have the new playground ready for Rally Day.
Saturday, August 18th
- Installation of the new fence (black, wrought iron) and work on the yard to prepare for new equipment. Will include some spreading of ground cover and cleaning out of drainage ditches.
Thank you!
Leigh Ann Warriner, Jr, Warden
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Tuesday Noonday Prayer for Challenging Times
Join us in the Parish Hall Chapel on Tuesdays at
Noon for a brief, quiet service.
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Sunday Morning Lobby Food Schedule
August 19 Men's Group
August 26 Claire Losardo
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Education for Ministry
*Deadline for registration forms and fees: August 19, 2018
Registration fees: $375/year (Includes all reading materials).
Beginning
Monday, September 12, 2018, meeting Mondays, 2 to 4;30 pm, until mid-May.
More Information & Registration Form:
Contact Kathryn Spinks (administrative mentor) at 501-908-3607 or [email protected]
EfM
is a four year course of study for laity focusing on deeper understanding of scripture and stronger ability to think theologically, while studying Christian tradition from its beginnings to the present. Curriculum: biblical studies, systematic theology, church history, ethics, liturgics, and ascetical theology. The seminar group is the nucleus of the program, providing spiritual community for study, prayer, and reflection. Preparation involves at least 3 hours per week.
Mentors: Kathryn Spinks
Jane Harris: 501-499-0008, [email protected]
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Eucharistic Visitors Needed
Eucharistic Visitors (EVs) are licensed lay persons who take Holy Communion, following the Eucharist, to those who are either sick or shut-in. Not only is this a rewarding experience for the EV but provides an invaluable service to those who because of illness or an inability to leave home, are still given the opportunity to share this Sacrament with their church family.
While St. Peter's does NOT have many members who require this benefit on an on-going basis, our current number of EV's has dwindled and we desperately need more people to participate. If we secure a bigger group of Eucharistic Visitors, they would go no more than once a month, allowing them to fully participate in the other Sunday programs.
I firmly believe that when you share the sacrament of Holy Communion with our homebound community, you are truly on sacred ground.
Rev. Dr. Linda Brown, Deacon
Phone #: 501.590.0631
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Bible Study
Bible Study of the Gospel of John meets on Monday at 12:15pm and Thursday at 7:00pm in the Library. Check poster in lobby for details. Join anytime!
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This week's Food Pantry Need
2 cans whole kernel corn; 1 box of cereal; 2 pkgs ramen
Pantry Musings
Not long ago, a woman saw a picture of Mary holding baby Jesus, riding a donkey followed by Joseph with a caption "In the Name of These Refugees." "Aid All Refugees.". She asked, as if to dare, when was Jesus a refugee? When I responded when they went to Egypt to escape Herod's slaughter of the innocents, her response was "I'd forgotten about that." I wondered how she would have responded to the
July 4 item in the newspaper about Rector, Stephen Carlsen's display at Christ Episcopal Cathedral, Indianapolis which included images of Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus placed in a cage topped with barbed wire outside the cathedral to protest the zero tolerance policy of the Trump administration. Then on July 27 the Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported that Stephen Carlsen had replaced Mary, Jesus, and Joseph with a mirror so that congregants could envision themselves involved in the "pain felt by separated families"[In The News, July 4 and July 27]. Immigration is spoken of often in the Old Testament and it is always a political issue. Israel is overthrown by Babylon, Egypt, Persia, or someone because Israel disobeyed God and the foreign power wanted to control the pass between Egypt and the fertile crescent. Today immigrants are coming from the southern hemisphere to the north to escape political intolerance, poverty, drought, cultural intolerance or a combination of the forces into the United States and into Europe. What is our responsibility as Christians in these situations? A basic tenant of the Christian faith is to "love our neighbor as we love ourselves." Contrary to our way of thinking in this country our neighbor is not
Mr. and Mrs. Nice or
We Look Like Them, our neighbor is anyone who is in need whether you like them, or even know them. They may be your perceived enemy. I know that does not win elections, it may not even be wise policy but it is what we say that we hold to as our belief and I think that it is important for us to embrace as Christians. --Ann Drake
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The Lantern Theatre will be performing William Shakespeare's Macbeth here at
St. Peter's Parish Hall on August 16, 17, and 18 at 7:30pm.
A portion of the ticket sales will go to out Discretionary Fund.
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Parish Calendar
Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Sunday
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Monday
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August 16
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August 17
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August 18
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August 19
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August 20
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6:00pm
Servant Leadership
(Morgan House)
7:00pm
Bible Study
(Library)
7:30pm
MacBeth Performance (Choir Room Parish Hall)
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4:00pm Conway Locally Grown (Parish Hall) 7:30pm Macbeth Performance (Parish Hall)
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9:00am Food Pantry 10:00am Journey (Morgan House) 7:30pm Macbeth Performance (Parish Hall)
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7:30am Rite I 8:50am Adult Forum 1 9:00am Enriching our Worship Eucharist 11:00am Rite II 12:00pm Adult Forum 3 (Parish Hall)
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12:15pm After-Noon Bible Study (Library) 6:00pm Conway Buddhist Society (Parish Hall Chapel) 6:30pm Narcotics Anonymous (Morgan House)
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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August 21
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August 22
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August 23
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August 24
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August 25
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12:00pm
Noonday Prayer
(PH Chapel)
5:00pm
Wisdom House
(Morgan House)
6:00pm Cottage Meeting (Drew Spurgers)
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12:00pm Brown Bag Book Club (Library) 1:30pm Library Reserved 2:00pm Staff Meeting 6:30pm Narcotics Anonymous (Morgan House) 7:00pm Evening Prayer and Prayers for Healing
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6:00pm
Servant Leadership
(Morgan House)
6:30pm
Finance Meeting
(Classroom 2)
7:00pm
Evening Bible Study
(Library)
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4:00pm Conway Locally Grown (Lobby) 5:00pm FriYay (Morgan House)
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2:00pm Community Garden Meeting (Morgan House)
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August 22 EYC Starts!
August 26 Vestry Meeting 1:00pm
September 3 Parish Office Closed
September 9 Rally Day and Ministry Fair
September 15 Vestry Retreat
October 20 The Rev. Greg Warren's Ordination, Trinity Little Rock
October 21 Bishop Sunday
November 4 All Saints Sunday
November 25 Christ the King Sunday
December 2 First Sunday of Advent
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This Week's Celebrations
Birthdays
August 22 Jeff Bell
August 23 Kristina Burford
August 25 Cady Murray
August 25 Brad Teague
August 26 Emily Madden
August 28 Hayden Henderson
August 28 Dawn Sullivan
August 30 Jeff Auglur
August 30 Len Rishkofski
August 31 Ann Drake
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Prayers of the People
Prayers and Petitions:
In Loving Support for:
Mouaz; Natalie.
In Continued Prayers for:
Sara Edmondson, Helen Snipan, Jacquie Seroy, Martha Denson, Fred and Lillian Petrucelli,
Rowena Malone, Betty Long, Judith McAfee.
Thanksgivings:
We give thanks for the people of St. Peter's and visitors with us this week.
We give thanks for: Rob, Nikki, Banyon, and Jessica Reid; Tom and Elizabeth Renton; Lynne and Jackson Rich, Carter, Debra, Justin, and Chris Rickman; Marilyn and Len Rishkofski.
We give thanks for our Tuesday Noonday Prayer in the Parish Hall Chapel.
We give thanks forThe Family Life Church.
We give thanks for the Hillel Association at Hendrix.
We give thanks for The Rev. Heber Ruiz and St. Martin of Tours, Totonicapan (toe-toe-neeka-pan).
We give thanks for The Church of South India (United), The Most Revd Thomas Kanjirappally Oommen Moderator of CSI & Bishop of Madhya Kerala.
We give thanks for the Guatemala Companion Mission Trip at St. Martin in the Fields, Philadelphia.
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Ministry Team 3
Jerry Adams, Team Leader
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7:30am
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9:00am
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11:00am
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Lectors
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Pam Holt
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John Vanderslice
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Kevin Mequet Norm Moyer
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Greeters
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Pam Holt
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Lisa Crowson
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Madelyn Adams Lynne Rich
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Ushers
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Pam Holt
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John Vanderslice Stephanie Vanderslice
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Jerry Adams Gloria Parker
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Eucharistic Visitors
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Rita Mackintosh
Deana Weindorf
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Eucharistic Ministers
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George Coleman
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Tanya Buchanan Beth Brady
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Leigh Ann Warriner
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Acolytes
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AM: Mike Moses
C: Cady Gray
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AM: Mike Moses
C: Berris Teague
T1: Hutson Teague
T2: Cooper Teague
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Vestry Counters
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Chris Odom Taylor Tennison
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Altar Guild
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Team 2
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