June 29, 2023 | VOLUME 35, ISSUE 24

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost:

July 2, 2023

SCRIPTURE READINGS

Jeremiah 28:5-9

Psalm 89:1-4,15-18

Romans 6:12-23

Matthew 10:40-42



Preacher: The Reverend Jennifer Wagner Pavia

Saturday, July 15, Neighbors 4 Neighbors, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., St. Bede's parking lot.

Sunday, July 16, 1:00 PM: A Time for Sharing & Remembrance to honor Gloria Bando at the home of Kimberly Bouzguenda

Dinner and Assembly for the Backpack Project: Date to be determined, near the end of July, beginning of August.



Bible and Breakfast

Tuesdays | 9:30 AM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Midweek Eucharist

Wednesdays | 7:00 PM

Sanctuary

Adult Forum

Wednesdays | 7:45 PM

Luther Hall & Zoom

Please join us for a time of remembrance and sharing to honor our sister, Gloria Bando. 

HOSTESS: Kimberly Bouzguenda 

DATE: Sunday, July 16 

TIME: 1:00 PM

LOCATION: Kimberly's home

4472 Walnut Avenue 

Long Beach 90807 

Light refreshments will be provided. 

RSVP appreciated: 651-278-7113 

For the last several years, St. Bede’s has partnered with First AME Church on a back-to-school backpack project for children in foster care, and this summer we are doing it again.

We plan to fill 45 backpacks (15 for elementary school-age children, 15 for middle school and 15 for high school), and we’re collecting monetary donations to buy the supplies that will go inside.

If you’re writing a check, please make them payable to St. Bede’s with “Backpack Project” in the memo portion (at the lower left corner of the check.) You can bring the checks (or cash) to church, mail the checks to church, or send your checks to Alice Short (3156 Coolidge Ave. Los Angeles 90066). In addition, you can donate via the St. Bede’s Vanco e-giving and payment process site.

We’d be grateful if you could make your donations by July 16, and we plan to schedule our “assembly dinner” at the end of July or the start of August. 

Questions? Please reach out to members of the Mission Committee.

Ash Perrine, member of the Vestry and Mission Committee and our liaison to Neighbors 4 Neighbors, was celebrated on June 25 in Luther Hall. Ash,who is planning to move to Portland, Oregon, was a breath of fresh air at St. Bede's. We will miss him and hope to see him again when he visits Mar Vista.

Please don't forget to support FRIENDs of MUSIC's

2022-2023 season!

On Sunday, June 25, lucky attendees had the pleasure of attending a performance of the Brahms Requiem at St. Bede’s—part of the 2022-23 Friend of Music season. The performance was conducted by Dr. James Vail and featured The Laudamus Te Singers, St. Bede’s Choir, soprano Mariana Ramirez, bass-baritone Chung Uk Lee, orchestra, and organist Frank Basile. The verdict? Sublime.

Are you planning to attend worship online and want an easy way to make a pledge payment? Do you want to ditch the checkbook and set up reoccurring payments? Are you looking for a convenient way to make a one-time special gift to St. Bede's?

Did you know you can make donations online to St. Bede's, securely and easily?

Visit the St. Bede's website and at the top of every page, look for the "Donate" button. When you click on the "Donate" button, you will be transported to St. Bede's Vanco eGiving and Payment Process Site.

Vanco is an industry leader in online payments. More than 40,000 churches, faith-based groups, nonprofits, schools, and educational organizations trust Vanco to securely complete transactions every day. Vanco complies with PCI Level 1 standards, the highest security standard in the payment processing industry.

You are invited to set up one-time or recurring gifts using credit, debit, or bank transfer on Vanco's secure payment processing platform. Giving online through the Vanco site saves time and the hassle of remembering to bring your offering. In addition, you decrease the expense incurred by St. Bede’s from handling and processing checks and cash.

At LA Pride parade, Episcopalians welcome former presiding bishop, celebrate ‘family ties’

By Bob Williams

[The Episcopal News] For Ethan Ide – a Babson College rising sophomore and lifelong member of All Saints’ Church, Beverly Hills – joining some 80 fellow Episcopalians in this year’s L.A. Pride parade on June 11 was enriched by family ties.

“My parents marched in the parade with me, as did my godparents,” said Ide, who told The News he came out as gay while in sixth grade. “Family support is huge for me. My sexuality in church has never been an issue, and the march was a great example of that.”

“We’re certainly proud of Ethan and the work that he’s doing to make a safe space for other young people who didn’t have the same safe space as he did,” said Ide’s dad – filmmaker Brian, noting his son’s current initiative to found a non-profit supporting LGBTQ+ youth in the Boston area.

“He realized very early that he was blessed growing up in a church like All Saints’ and in the Diocese of Los Angeles, and now that he’s travelled, he has realized that not everyone has grown up in the same environment he did,” said Brian Ide, joined along the parade route by his wife and Ethan’s mom, Karen Woodward Ide, and godparents, Debbie and Chris Winchell.

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Rediscovery of African American cemetery connects St. John’s Cold Spring Harbor with its complicated history

By Caleb Galarga

[Episcopal News Service] In 2016 shortly after the Very Rev. Gideon Pollach arrived at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, while on a tour of the church’s property, he learned of a “slave cemetery” located on church grounds.

The mention struck Pollach, who before becoming rector of St. John’s served as a trustee of an African American cemetery at Fort Ward Park in Alexandria, Virginia, where he’d served eight years as the chaplain of an Episcopal high school.

“I immediately realized, gosh, this is a very sensitive issue that should be handled with great care, treated with great dignity and honored with great respect,” Pollach told Episcopal News Service. Then, he said, as admitted in a March 2018 blog post on St. John’s website, searching for the cemetery “moved into the deep background of my mind.”

St John’s is one of the 10 Diocese of Long Island churches participating in the Uncovering Parish Histories project, which provides research assistance to parishes investigating their history of involvement with slavery, the slavery-driven economy, anti-slavery and abolition movements, and later forms of racial justice or injustice. Up to 200 enslaved and freed African Americans are believed to be buried in what is now called Harbor Road Burying Ground.  

Episcopalians of color assemble at ‘Why Serve’ to learn about vocational opportunities, build relationships

By Shireen Korkzan

[Episcopal News Service – Sewanee, Tennessee] Dozens of Episcopalians of color gathered June 22-25 at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, to learn about ministry opportunities at various levels in The Episcopal Church and how to lead congregations in a tech-forward future.

The Episcopal Church’s department of Ethnic Ministries hosted Why Serve, which was attended by lay Asian, Black, Indigenous and Latino Episcopalians who are currently discerning whether to pursue lay or ordained leadership roles. The event consisted of various workshops and presentations by missioners of African Descent, Asiamerica, Indigenous and Latino/Hispanic ministries addressing what the discernment process entails and the differences between lay and ordained ministries.

The Rev. Ronald Byrd, missioner for African Descent Ministries and a member of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s staff, told Episcopal News Service that Why Serve changes its curriculum every year based on which missioner is selected to run the program.

“People of color have been marginalized in The Episcopal Church and have not had opportunities for access to leadership positions in the church,” he said. “Why Serve was designed to provide a pathway for learning for discernment and about opportunities to serve God and God’s people.”

The Rev. Anthony Guillen, missioner for Latino/Hispanic Ministries, told ENS he believes The Episcopal Church needs to pay attention to the lack of ethnic vocations currently available to persons of color.

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