We will not have Children's Chapel this Sunday, due to Labor Day weekend.

There is no youth group this Sunday, due to Labor Day weekend. Enjoy your long weekend, and we'll see you next week!

Our all-volunteer choir provides musical leadership for the 10:00 a.m. liturgy and feast days with rehearsals on Wednesdays from 6:45-8:30 p.m. The first rehearsal of the season is September 7. Membership is open to fully vaccinated adults and youth.

Email: Julie Ryder

Our celebration of the Season of Creation this year begins Sunday, September 11 and continues through the celebration of the feast of St. Francis on October 2.

Our celebration will include liturgies honoring creation, bread baked from locally sourced flour, locally sourced flowers at the altar, opportunities for service, and of course the Blessing of the Animals during worship on October 2. 

Join us during the Season of Creation for a four week series entitled: "Listening to the Voice of Creation." This series will be led by the Reverend Nicole Lambelet, as well as Hannah Shultz on 9/18 and Gayla Tillman on 9/25 from one of our partner organizations Georgia Interfaith Power and Light (GIPL). During the four week study participants can expect to discuss the twin tasks of ecological contemplation and action pertinent to the life of faith. 

Scenes from Creation

This year we want to incorporate art into the season of creation. Rather than inviting an outside artist to show in the gallery in September, we are inviting you to bring a photograph that you have taken of a favorite scene from creation. In order to hang it in our gallery, the art ministry asks that you bring it framed with a wire for hanging (not saw-tooth hangers) to fit on the gallery hanging system. Submissions need to be a minimum size of 5 x 7, mats are encouraged, but not required.

You can deliver your framed photography between the afternoon of September 6 and morning of September 8 to be hung in the afternoon of the September 8. Please label your name and the place or name of the subject of the photograph on the back, so we can create a list for the table. We look forward to seeing the many ways you have captured the wonder of God’s creation. 

Children's & Youth Choirs return

Tuesday, October 4

Look for details in upcoming newsletters or email Julie Ryder.

Volunteer!

Children & Youth Ministries is seeking willing volunteers to invest in and spend time with Epiphany's younger members! If you're interested in hearing more about these opportunities, please reach out to Emily Elder.

Epiphany’s Racial Justice Group and members of Holy Trinity Parish's Beloved Trinity invite you to participate in the Sacred Ground dialogue series, which is part of the Episcopal Church’s Becoming Beloved Community initiative on racial reconciliation.

Sacred Ground is an 11 session dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. The series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus in Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific Islander American histories as they intersect with European American histories. The curriculum confronts the historical roots of systemic racism and examines how that history still shapes American institutions and social interactions today.

If you have interest in participating in a Sacred Ground small group over the course of the academic year with members of Holy Trinity, please email the Rev. Nicole Lambelet.

You can help with one or more of the following activities:

• Wednesday - Food Shopping
• Thursday - Chopping Veggies
• Friday - cooking from 2:00–5:00 p.m., serving from 5:00–7:00 p.m. or helping clean up after the volunteer dinner at 7:00 p.m.

Click here to participate with this ministry >>

Epiphany's Racial Just Group (ERJG) is hosting a private screening of the film Code Noir including a discussion with cast members and the creative team after the film. 

Code Noir tells the story of General Alex Dumas, the first person of color in the French military to become general-in-chief of a French army. Born of a French aristocrat and an enslaved Haitian woman, Dumas was a hero of the French Revolution and father of the famous novelist, Alexandre Dumas. Join us to hear his story, examined through the lens of the justice system. We'll screen the movie, and then enjoy a discussion with the cast and creative team of the film, including Epiphany member Carolyn Cook. Light refreshments will be served.

The cost of the screening has been covered so there is no charge to attend. However, in order for Eventbrite to register and process your ticket a donation of at least $1.00 is required. While only $1.00 is required to register, we encourage you to consider a small additional donation in support of the Theatre du Reve theater company that created this fascinating film.

Please join the Earth Guild for its monthly meeting on Tuesday, September 20 from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. upstairs in Room 201.

Email: Frances Finnegan

The next Epiphany Racial Justice Group (ERJG) Sunday Service visit will be to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, September 25. Their website advises that the service starts at 10:00 a.m. and masks are required. We will meet in front of the church at 9:45 a.m. 

Mark your calendars for the next Only One Earth Event, our annual River Clean Up with our Ismaili friends and others on September 25, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. More details coming soon!

Katharine's Biography

Katharine Hilliard-Yntema was ordained as a Deacon in the Diocese of Atlanta in 2011 and served at Holy Comforter, St. Timothy's and most recently at St. Bartholomew's. She retired in December 2021. Prior to her calling, she practiced psychiatry in private practice, foster care, areas of mental health, and correctional detention centers. She has been active in leading worship and singing in skilled nursing homes since 2005. She continues volunteer activity in the Arts Program of the Holy Comforter Friendship Center (http://www.friendshipcenter-atlanta.org), with weaving and other textile crafts, creating items for sale from donated materials. She is a life vowed member of the Society of Saint Anna the Prophet following vows of Simplicity, Creativity and Balance. She has a lifelong interest in nature and nurturing native plants in various green spaces.

Acolyte Q & A Sessions

September 11 & 25 at 9:00 a.m.

Are you, or do you know someone interested in becoming an Acolyte? If so, information sessions will take place on Sunday September 11 and Sunday September 25 at 9:00 a.m. Acolyting is open to all those in 4th Grade and above (including adults).

Email: Linda Ryder Wolf

Young Adults - Cobbler, Crisps, and Compline

September 11 at 7:00 p.m.

Young Adults will meet September 11 at 7:00 p.m. for Cobbler, Crisps, and Compline in the Courtyard. Email Nicole if you are willing to bring ice cream or make a cobbler or a crisp for this event.

Email: The Rev. Nicole Lambelet

Our next Chez Epiphany Cooking Class will be Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. in the church kitchen with Joel Fowler. The theme this time is Japanese food! Note that, in addition to other dishes, the menu will include sushi—BUT it won't be exclusively raw fish sushi. There will be plenty of non-raw toppings for those who prefer otherwise.

The cost is $30 per person (slight increase due to more expensive Japanese ingredients), which includes the class and the dinner we have together from what we cook. Hope you can make it!

Episcopal Church Women (ECW) 

Second Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m.

The ECW resume their monthly resume their monthly meetings on 2nd Tuesdays in September. All women of the parish are invited to attend the monthly program at 10:30 a.m. in the parish hall.

Email: Robin Hairston

The Living Contemplatively Spirituality Group meets together on Zoom on Thursdays at 10:00 a.m. This time they are reading and discussing The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister.

Contact: The Rev. Amy Dills-Moore

Dismantling Racism training is offered by the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing. Currently, the training is only being offered online via Zoom from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. In-person trainings have not yet resumed.

Click here for dates and to register >>

Safeguarding Training: Click the link to register for Safeguarding God's Children (SGC) or Safeguarding God's People (SGP) trainings. The link below is for the Zoom trainings. In-person trainings are restarting. Check with the parish office for any available dates if that is your preference.

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Morning Prayer takes place every weekday at 9:00 a.m. on Zoom. Login at 8:45 a.m. for coffee hour. Contact the parish office for the link.

Tuesday Morning Prayer/Holy Eucharist: The Men’s Breakfast Group meets each Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. for Morning Prayer (Holy Eucharist 1st Tuesdays) followed by a time of fellowship before heading on their way for the day. Contact: John Yntema.

Wednesday Services: Wednesday Noonday Prayer takes place at 12:00 p.m. in the nave. A Healing Service with Eucharist follows at 12:15 p.m.