ALL ANGELS BY THE SEA
WEEKLY TIDINGS
June 17, 2021
SUNDAY SERVICES
Fellowship is back! After the 10 am service, coffee and treats will be available in the narthex. 
Masks are optional for those who have been fully vaccinated. 
Communion bread will be offered inside during the service. 

To live-stream - go to AllAngelsLBK.org, click on the "All Angels Enter Here" picture and you will be routed to our YouTube channel.
Zoom - go to https://zoom.us/j/5955701807 and watch and listen live. Be sure to stick around after the service for our coffee hour chat-with-your-neighbor time.

The 10 am service will begin with the lighting of the altar candles. If you are participating at home, you are invited to light a candle with us to create a sacred space of worship at home.

The bulletin can be found on the All Angels Website: 
or at the following link: Bulletin for Sunday, June 20

Altar Flowers

The flower guild announces that we are accepting donations for weekly fresh Altar Flowers. Flowers may be in remembrance of a loved one or in thanksgiving for a special event or special blessings. 
Suggested donation remains at $75. Your dedication will be posted in the bulletin on the Sunday chosen.

There are several ways to designate your gift:
  1. Sign up on the poster on the gallery table for the date you want. Follow up with step 2.
  2. Send a check made out to All Angels by the Sea to the office with "Flowers in the memo line. Please include a note indicating the wording you would like in the bulletin and the date you would like the remembrance. 
  3. Stop by the office or call the office at 941-383-8161 with donation information and a check as in step 2.

Thank you for your generous support of flowers at All Angels.
Altar Flowers for Sunday, June 20
are given by Tom and Alison Jones
 in celebration of their wedding anniversary
Scripture Readings, June 20

1 Samuel 17:32-49
Psalm 121
2 Corinthians 6:1-13
Mark 4:35-41

THANK YOU OF THE WEEK
Ethan Marshall would like to thank Carol Erker, Jane Perin, and everyone who helped with the celebration of his graduation from High School at Coffee Hour this past Sunday. Thank you! 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Last Sunday's Service
Organ Concert
PRAYERS
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day,
at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time. 
Prayers for our People

We pray on behalf of all whose needs of body, soul and mind are great. Especially we lift before you the needs of: Downs IV, Holden, Stan, Doris, Brian, Lou and Andrew. Grant healing and recovery for Tom and Beverly. Give peace and strength for those going through cancer treatments, especially Downs III, Joy, Victoria, Andres, Alex, Colleen, Jack, Connie and Douglas. Visit and comfort all who are under the care of skilled nursing, especially Bob, Timothy, Don and Barbara. Be near to all who are in hospice care especially John. 
PARISH ACTIVITIES
Summer Choir
Are you looking for a a new experience this summer? I recommend The Summer Choir. No audition, rehearse at 9:20 each Sunday morning. No long term commitment. Can't attend every Sunday? No problem. Come when you can. More information? Call me at 941 896 5541, or email dhooey@verizon.net or see me after church. You will receive a very warm welcome! 
Dale
Celebrate America's Independence

Thursday, July 1
starting at 10:30 in the morning
Ron Bopp 
and his 
Dubbele Harmonette
(two small pipe organs producing unique sounds)
11:00 Patriotic Organ Music
in the Sanctuary
Bring your neighbors!  
Organ Concerts
Join us every Thursday at 11:00 am for our Organ Concert in the Park.

Upcoming Concerts:
June 24 Organ Reflections on Selected Psalms
July 1 Patriotic Sing-Along for Independence Day
Song sheets will be provided. Invite your friends!
Art Gallery
Our "New to You" art sale continues online. To see what is available for sale, please visit our website: www.allangelslbk.org

Our gallery artist for the month of June is Chris Collins.
Discussion Groups
You may have seen the signs on St. Armand that address concerns about private homes becoming motels. The question of rentals and single-family homeowners are on the thoughts of residents on Longboat and Anna Maria. 
For the Marshalls, the house we share a back fence with recently sold. Our fear was that it would be purchased by a corporation who would rent it. Instead, some very nice homeowners from Virginia moved in. Nevertheless, housing is a concern around here. Some of us may even find referendums in our local elections about restricting the number of rentals in a particular community. 
This article sheds some light on what rentals mean to the housing market and perhaps will help us make voting decisions in the future. 
The Bible has something to say about this topic as well so I look forward to talking with you about it.
There is a change this next week - we are going to offer in-person discussions as well as on-line. If you are interested in meeting in person, meet in my office by 10 am on Tuesday or Thursday. Otherwise, I'll see you on-line!
Here is the link https://zoom.us/j/5955701807


Online Giving
If you would like to give to the offering plate electronically, you can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:
REFLECTION
The Second Sacrament
 
Coffee hour at All Angels is back! After a long pandemic-driven hiatus, we are now gathering after the service to catch up with one another and enjoy a treat. Because it follows Holy Communion, Coffee Hour is lightheartedly referred to as the second sacrament of the Church.
 
There are some Episcopal churches that seem to have more people at Coffee Hour than at the service. That happened to us this past Sunday, when we had a Coffee Hour that celebrated Ethan’s graduation from High School, because many folks from the 8 am service returned to congratulate him. For other churches, the Second Sacrament is brunch after service. Good luck finding a table at a café at 11 am on Sundays in those communities.
 
In All Angels’ history, before we built the separate church building, the Parish Hall served as sanctuary and fellowship center. From what I have been told, the Altar was on one end of the building and the coffee was on the other. Once the service concluded, Coffee Hour started and it was in the same location. Similarly, Christi and I attended an up-and-coming Episcopal church in Redmond Washington. We were meeting in a secular fellowship hall. It had the same set up as the Parish Hall of All Angels. The chairs we sat on for the service were moved to round tables after the service for refreshments. Later on, when they built a church, they designed the sanctuary to exit directly into the Parish Hall for the second sacrament.
 
For the past few weeks, we have been offering Coffee Hour outside in our newly remodeled Angel Fountain Courtyard. It has been a huge blessing. We have been enjoying one another’s company while enjoying the renovated outdoor space. We also have had some new folks showing up for church. Having Coffee Hour directly in the exit path of the church has allowed me to fellowship with them and just about everyone else too.
 
This past Sunday, Ethan’s graduation cake did something that can only happen in Florida – it started melting. I’ve never seen a cake melt. But then again, I’ve never been able to bend a chip until moving here. Melted cake is quite tasty and it was a sign of the high dew point, humidity and temperature of mid-June in SW Florida. For as much as I enjoy Coffee Hour being directly between the church and the parking lot, we have to take it indoors for the summer. Attending church during the pandemic meant walking straight out to one’s car. As such, our church culture of making a left turn and going into the Parish Hall after services has been interrupted. As such, having Coffee Hour front and center, and unavoidable, has been a blessing. But then, with summer starting this Sunday, more than just the cake would melt if we met outside.
 
I am proposing a change for the summer – let’s offer coffee and treats in the narthex just like we did in our past. We can take our treat and have fellowship in the narthex, or the Gallery, or outdoors. This way, we will be sure to remember to stick around for Coffee Hour, and we will not faint from the heat and humidity. Plus, we can take time to enjoy the art from our Gallery artist, Chris Collins. By the fall, our culture of the Second Sacrament will be in the Parish Hall.
 
Regardless of where we enjoy fellowship, and how many are able to show up for in-person services, the important thing is that we’re back sharing in Holy Communion and communing with one another.

-Fr. Dave