Weekly Sunday service information and parish newsletter. |
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The Reverend Kip Ashmore, Celebrant |
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July 31 - Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
+The Holy Eucharist+
Rite I 8 a.m. | Rite II 10 a.m.
Masks are optional.
9:15 - Adults - Morning Prayer & conversation in Pearson Hall
10 a.m. service in person & streamed via Facebook Live.
Coffee hour following the 10 a.m. service.
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Sunday Readings
- Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23
- Psalm 49:1-11
- Colossians 3:1-11
- Luke 12:13-21
Gospel: The Parable of the Rich Fool. The llustration is a Rembrandt painting known as "The Parable of the Rich Fool "dated 1627, now in a museum in Berlin.
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The Week of July 31
- Sunday, July 31, school supply collection continues to end of week.
- Monday - Senior Warden Zoom meeting with parish leaders, not just vestry, 7 p.m. See below.
- Monday through Friday - Daily 8 a.m. morning prayer 8 and 5:30 p.m. evening prayer in the chapel.
- Friday - AA Meeting at 7 a.m. in Pearson Hall.
- Friday, August 5, and Saturday, August 6 - Summer Book Fair.
Looking Ahead
- Sunday, September 11, fall startup: choir and church school return.
- Relay for Life Book Sale at Parkfest, October 16
- Fall Book Fair, November 4-5 (Last sale in 2022.)
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On Monday evening at 7 p.m., I will be hosting a Zoom call for the purpose of permitting Vestry members, program/committee leaders, and other interested members of the congregation to call attention to any issues that they feel need to be addressed before the next Vestry meeting.
The purpose of this meeting to permit us to be proactive in handling matters of parish program and administration. This is not a Vestry meeting, and no Vestry action can be taken at the meeting. However, I hope that this meeting, and others to follow, will give us the chance to proactively resolve issues before they have a chance to become crises. If you would like to be included in the conference, please email me at attorneykevinbabb@sbcglobal.net.
During this interim period, pastoral care will be provided by Father David Boase and Deacon Mark Klamer. If you would like a pastoral visit from the clergy, or know of someone who could benefit from pastoral care, please contact me, and I will notify the clergy. In addition to the email address above, I can also be reached at (618) 741-6751.
Kevin Babb, Senior Warden
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Book Fair This Friday-Saturday
The August Book Fair will be held on Friday, August 5, from 3 to 8 p.m. and on Saturday, August 6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Reservations are required for Friday but not Saturday. Click here to reserve a slot on Friday.
Please consider volunteering to help or come to shop, as all sales benefit St. Andrew’s. Masks are not required but preferred. To volunteer contact Cindy Reinhardt at cynreinhardt@gmail.com . |
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Pearson Hall and Kitchen Installations Complete!
Vallow Flooring of Edwardsville recently completed the installation of carpet tile in Pearson Hall and flooring in the adjoining kitchen. The total cost of the painting plus the two flooring installations was $18,837. Thanks to the generosity of parish donors, $19,288 was raised to cover this expense. The small balance left from this work will start up funding for Phase Two renovations.
Vallow will return in mid-August to measure the other tile areas on the main level plus the carpeting in the walkway and nave so that the parish can plan for the funding of improvements in those areas. Parish donations are anticipated to cover the next stage of improvements -- no budgeted funds.
One moderate expenditure that several parishioners have requested for consideration (separate from Phase Two improvements) is a new refrigerator, possibly with an ice maker, for the kitchen. An early estimate is $1500 for a refrigerator with an icemaker and a $500 donation has been pledged.
Many thanks to the Pearson Hall Phase One Committee (Biarkis, Edwards, Hamilton, Wilson, Smithson) for their planning of this project and to the many parishioners, including Junior Warden Carl Slaughter, former Warden Walt Bohn and our youth, for the several take down and put back sessions of furniture and other items to prepare these areas for painting and flooring installation.
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Kitchen flooring in pantry |
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Volunteer to Lead the Daily Office: 8 a.m. or 5:30 p.m.
Daily Office Changes: Daily Offices are coordinated by Deacon Mark. The Monday-Friday schedule is 8 a.m., Morning Prayer, and 5:30 p.m., Evening Prayer. If you’re interested in leading Morning or Evening Prayer, please contact him or send him an email for more details. Also, the Daily Offices will no longer be livestreamed, though all are invited to stop by the church and join in prayer.
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[Mark Michael/ENS] Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in the Lambeth Conference’s first keynote address on the evening of July 29, stressed the dangers and uncertainties facing the world and the Church’s call to look outward and address deep needs. (Note: Lambeth Conference is a global calling of church bishops and meets every ten years. This year is the 15th year of the conference with 650 bishops attending in the UK. Our bishop, Bishop Brian Burgess is attending with his wife Denise.)
Backed by a large screen that flashed video images, Welby repeatedly used the image of the stalking lion from 1 Peter 5:8, part of the conference’s key biblical text, as a metaphor for a series of threats facing the Church and the world.
“As shepherds, the bishops, overseers of God’s flock, we are commanded to be aware of the roaring lions in order to keep our flocks safe. Sometimes that’s easy. At other times the lions are roaring so loudly that we see and hear nothing but danger all around us,” he said.
He urged the bishops to avoid preoccupation with internal divisions at a time when the world is rife with economic, political, and ecological crises. “Too often the Anglican Communion has been known best — where it is known at all as a Communion — for looking inwards and struggling with its own disagreements,” he said.
“There is nothing unusual about crises. For those who are faithful, they call us to deeper discipleship, to new directions of obedience and holiness. They transform us and we transform the world around us. That is the aim. But the church that turns inwards, that fails to hear the roaring of the lions, is going to fail.”
Welby particularly urged Anglicans to engage with the ethical questions posed by rapid advances in science and technology, and to take action against climate change, especially because of its disproportionate harm to the world’s most vulnerable communities. Both issues, he said, are the subject of Lambeth Calls. He added that the new Anglican Communion Science Commission is well-positioned to develop and coordinate resources for this work.
If churches fail in advocating for social equity, “The rich gain the benefits of the new technologies and science and they do as they choose. The poor are shut out of the gains and live as they can. The wealthy have choice, the poor suffer the consequences,” Welby said.
“In our vastly different circumstances we all hear lions. Some are common to us all. Some are prowling only in one province. Some are in parts of the world but not others. But they are all lions. We may not see them clearly, but we can, together, grow in capacity to deal with them.
“But we must, as God’s shepherds, hear the lions, understand them and be a global church that will face and defeat, in the power of Christ — not by power, not by might, but by God’s powerful Spirit — their empty and powerless threats, because at the end, for every one of us here and everyone in the flock, and everyone in the world, Christ is the conqueror, redeemer, and Savior of all.” (Continued at this link.)
Additional photos from Bishop Burgess are available at this Facebook link. |
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