This Week At St. Matthew's
Sunday, August 9, 2020
Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
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Mondays - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesdays & Thursdays - 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday - 10:00 a.m. – Healing Service
Fridays - 6:00 p.m. - Compline
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New! -- Tea and Conversation
Outreach -- Help Provide Dinner at the Co-op August 31
Walking Group With Fr. Tommy - Tribble Mill Park
Safeguarding God's Children and Dismantling Racism Online Training Classes Info
Drive Thru COVID Testing at St. Michael & All Angels August 14
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The Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
Including Spiritual Communion**
This Sunday, August 9
10:00 a.m.
Online Video Service
Filmed in the Sanctuary
Click This Link to go to the Sunday Online service:
Sunday Worship Live Stream - St. Matthews Episcopal Church
(Please note: Last week's service will be available until the next Sunday's service begins)
or find the service on St. Matthew's Facebook Page
**During this time of pandemic, we are not able to come together as a community to share the body and blood of our Lord. You are invited to receive the sacrament spiritually. A spiritual communion is a personal devotional that anyone can pray at any time to express their desire to receive Holy Communion at that moment, but in which circumstances impede them from actually receiving Holy Communion.
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Did You See It?
A New Sunday Morning Email
We are now sending out a weekly email early on Sunday mornings that includes all the links for Sunday morning worship services and the Sunday Zoom coffee hour. We hope this helps simplify things and makes it easier to find everything you need to take part in Sunday mornings at St. Matt's. If you didn't see it, check your Spam folder and mark it Not Spam so you will receive it going forward. See you Sunday!
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Come join the fun every Sunday at 9:15 a.m.! Reconnect with your friends
and our St. Matthews Community!
Coffee and donuts welcome!
Here's How:
1. If you do not have Zoom, follow the instructions in the video below on how to download:
2. If you have Zoom, or once you have Zoom downloaded,
- a. Click “JOIN”
- b. Type Meeting ID: 5572242746
- c. Meeting Host is Liz Hendrick
- d. Type Password: StMatts
- e. You’ll be in a waiting room until you are admitted by an admin.
- f. You might have to give permission to zoom to access your video and audio.
- g. Zoom works on computers and cell phones!
Any questions? Give Mother Liz (770-820-9448) or Amanda Livermont (678-491-7457) a call.
I’m really looking forward to “seeing” everyone on Sunday.
Mother Liz+
Mother Liz+
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Prayer For The Parish
Almighty and everliving God, ruler of all things in heaven and earth, hear our prayers for this parish family. Strengthen the faithful, arouse the careless, and restore the penitent. Grant us all things necessary for our common life, and bring us all to be of one heart and mind within your holy Church; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen (BCP, p. 817)
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Birthdays and Anniversaries This Week
8/9 - 08/15/2020
Birthdays: Ron Cobb, Buddy Mixon, Becky Olbon, Eric Prichard, David Camden, Mona Livermont, Dot Shaw, ShirleyGrace Madajewski, Mercedes Sutton-Cannon, Ed Walsh
Anniversaries: Bret & Terri Hurst, Mark & Mary Jane Gordon, Stephen & Susan Crist, Chuck & Frieda Marsh
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New: Tea and Conversation Group
Beginning this coming Thursday, August 13, all are invited to bring their tea (or beverage) and join Mother Liz for a zoom conversation group. Aptly titled, “Tea & Conversation”, we will discuss how we are managing our lives during this time of creative challenge. Come, connect and converse, from
2-4 p.m. We will start with twice monthly meetings and if popular, will expand to offering this program weekly. The Zoom Info is below:
Time: Aug 13, 2020 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/93848831217
Meeting ID: 938 4883 1217
One tap mobile
+13017158592,,93848831217# US (Germantown)
+13126266799,,93848831217# US (Chicago)
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We're Taking Dinner To the Co-op August 31
The Outreach Committee is serving dinner to 250 clients at the SE Gwinnett Co-Op on Monday, August 31st. Once again we need your help! On the menu this month: Sloppy Joe sandwiches, potato salad, chips, and swiss cake rolls.
How You Can Help
Cook:
We need 8 parishioners to cook the sloppy joe mixture.
The recipe and ground beef will be provided, you will just add peppers, onions, tomato sauce and seasoning according to the recipe.
This should be done Sunday evening 8/30 or Monday 8/31 before 3pm.
Beef pickup will be Sunday 8/30 from 12-2pm.
Donate items for dinner:
Lays potato chips (Individual bags) (25 - 10-packs)
Swiss cake rolls (21- 12-packs)
Hamburger Buns (21 - 12-packs)
Item drop off will be on Sunday 8/30 from 12-2 p.m.
Donate towards purchased items:
Serve
Many hands are needed to serve our neighbors. Set up begins at 4 p.m. on Monday, August 31st and lasts until around 7:30 p.m. We have a lot of fun! Masks are required.
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Help Wanted!
Production for online worship is continuing for the foreseeable future and the need for others to help with this is ongoing. If you have any training or experience that would lend itself to this process and can commit a few hours a week, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Amanda Livermont, Steve McFarland or Jim Stallings.
There is also a need for technical support for some of our members who are unable to attend online worship on a consistent basis because of technical challenges. If you would be willing to commit 1 to 2 hours a week assisting people with getting connected, please let Tina Staples know.
If you are having any trouble getting connected to Facebook or YouTube, please send us an email and someone will call you to assist. Contact tina.m.couch@gmail.com
Many thanks to those dedicated individuals who work behind the scenes each week to make our online services possible in these uncertain times: Jim Stallings, Steve McFarland, Amanda Livermont, and Fr. Tommy, along with many lectors and Kyle's music. We could not do this without you all. Thank you!
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Monday Morning Walking Group August 10 at 7:30 a.m.
The Monday Morning Walking Group will meet at Tribble Mill Park, 2125 Tribble Mill Pkwy SE, Lawrenceville, GA 30045
Wanting exercise and some conversation? Join us every Monday morning at various parks around the Gwinnett County area.
If you are interested please contact
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Centering Prayer At St. Matthew’s Via Zoom
Each Tuesday evening a small group of folks meet for a Zoom Centering Prayer and book study. All are welcome to join. We meet from 6:30 – 8:00 pm.
We spend a few minutes saying hello to one another and getting settled in, then say the Psalm for the day. That leads us into our time of quiet for twenty timed minutes that we refer to as a “sit”. Centering Prayer is a form of Christian meditation that’s purpose is to quiet our minds so that we can just sit with Our Lord. That’s what we’re doing during this twenty minutes of silence. At the end of the “sit” we say the Lord’s Prayer together.
The next part of our Tuesday evening is spent reading and discussing a book. The books are very engaging and spiritual in nature. We are just finishing, Into The Silent Land by Martin Laird. We expect to begin An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor on Tuesday, August 11th. You don’t need to have the book to join this group. There is no homework with our book study because we read and discuss sections of the book together each night; no home reading or study is required.
If you are interested in a more in-depth explanation of Centering Prayer please consider reading any of Father Thomas Keating’s many books on the subject. You may also want to consider a Zoom meeting on Centering Prayer which is being held by St. Mary’s Suwanee on August 8, 2020 at 11 am. The link to join this zoom on CP is below.
Please let me know if Tuesday night Centering Prayer is something you might like to try and I will send you the zoom link. You can reach me by email or phone:
If you call I’m likely not to answer but I always check any messages left or text sent.
Peace and Joy be yours,
Vicki Conway
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Safeguarding God's Children Online Training
Safeguarding training is required every three years for all staff, vestry, and anyone who works with children in any capacity in the church. Currently all training is being done online. If you have never had this training, or it's been longer than three years since you did, now is a great time to renew your certification. The next scheduled online session is below:
Saturday, August 29 | ZOOM
10:am to noon
Please note: A PREREQUISITE TO THE ZOOM TRAINING, will be to complete designated SAFEGUARDING ONLINE MODULES. These will be sent to you after you register at the link above.
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DISMANTLING RACISM TRAINING ONLINE
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Dismantling Racism Training classes are now ONLINE* for the remainder of 2020. All classes will be held on Zoom until in-person classes are allowed to reconvene sometime next year.
This class is required for all parish clergy and all lay leaders, including vestry members. Click the link below for the online training class schedule.
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EMAIL SCAMS CONTINUE
From St. Matthew's: St. Matthew's also has experienced instances of scam emails coming to members. This problem seems to be increasing in this confusing time of pandemic and uncertainty. You are urged to always verify any email you receive asking for funds or other support that seems out of the norm, by talking directly to the person who is supposedly contacting you via email.
Do not click on any links in the email directly.
From the Diocese: In the past month, there has been a significant amount of scam emails sent to church members in our diocese. We first received notice about this in July and unfortunately, some of our members are still being targeted.
Scammers trick you into giving them your money or your personal information. The scammers may appear to be legitimate and may even pose as a person or organization you are familiar with. Please exercise extreme caution with these emails.
If you have received an unusual email from a parish leader or the bishop’s office requesting gift cards or money it could be part of a scam.
If you think you may have received a scam email, we recommend the following:
• Carefully check the sender’s name and email address
• Look out for misspelled words and incorrect grammar
• Do not click on any suspicious links or attachments
• Report the email as spam
FOR MORE INFORMATION FROM THE FTC ON RECOGNIZING
EMAIL OR PHONE SCAMS
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For Information on the Corona Virus,
COVID-19, go to the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) website:
LINKS FOR LOCAL INFORMATION:
Gwinnett County Information can be found here:
The county information is here (scroll down):
The day-by-day information is here (scroll down to "Situation report" - there is one "here" for the past day and one "here" for historic information; there are .pdfs):
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COVID-19 EMOTIONAL SUPPORT LINE
FEMA, GEMA and the State of Georgia DBHDD have created the State of Georgia COVID-19 Emotional Support Line (available 24/7). When you call, there will be a caring professional available to listen and they will have resources available if needed.
State of Georgia COVID-19 Emotional Support Line (available 24/7);
(866) 399-8938
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Please don't hesitate to contact either Mother Liz or Fr. Tommy
if you or your family have need of assistance or counsel.
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Prayers Requested
Please pray
- For all those individuals willing to participate in Covid-19 vaccine trials
- For an end to the pandemic: that the virus will abate in our country and the world
- For those working to find answers through treatments and vaccines.
- For those who have died in the pandemic, and for their families
- For local, state, and federal officials as they make decisions about the current health and economic crisis.
- For caregivers in hospitals and nursing homes, and healing for those who are sick
- For our shut-ins and infirm, and all those isolated from loved ones during this pandemic.
- For an end to the violence and division in our country, and for God's healing hand on our nation.
- For safety for those protesting injustice, for police and first responders, and for those whose lives and livelihood have been disrupted by violence
- That God will turn the hearts of mankind to reflect God's love in all they say and do
- For farmers and all who grow, raise, process and distribute food for our tables, and for food pantries helping to provide for those most in need
- For migrant farmworkers, among the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, front line heroes who continue to supply our tables.
- For the homeless, and all those experiencing food or shelter insecurity.
Prayer requests can also always be sent to the DOK by contacting Peggy Isaacs or Lynne Kiker, or any DOK member. Prayer requests sent to the DOK are confidential and will not be shared outside the DOK membership without your permission.
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Financial Giving in REALM
It's easy! Go to the church website, www.itsthepeople.org. Click on the blue Give Online button near the center of the page, and follow the prompts to choose the desired fund designation from the drop-down menu.
If you have trouble logging into Realm, please contact Susan Carson.
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St. Matthew's Episcopal Church | Ph 770-979-4210 | admin@stmatthewssnellville.org | www.itsthepeople.org
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