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St. Bede's E-News
We hope that this weekly offering will keep you up-to-date
on the latest information from the parish
and from around the Diocese of Atlanta and wider Church.
Our e-newsletters are now being archived on our website.
You can go to www.stbedes.org
and look under the "Connect With Us" tab
at the top of the home page to find past newsletters.
The deadline each week for submission to the E-News is
Wednesday at 10 am.
Please send your submissions ready to go into the newsletter,
text and images attached in an email to the Parish Administrator.
Laura's email address is lpittman@stbedes.org
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Sunday, July 14, 2024
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Worship in English at 10 am
Worship in Spanish at 2:30 pm
We will also be streaming our worship live
on
St. Bede's YouTube Channel
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If you would like to preview the scripture lessons and hymns for the upcoming Sunday, you can find Sunday's bulletin uploaded to the parish website each week on Thursday afternoon. From the home page of the website, scroll down to the colorful "Worship" icon, and click on that. Then scroll to the bottom of the "Worship" page and you will see where the bulletin for Sunday has been posted under "Downloads".
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It's here!
Vacation Bible School Starts Monday!
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VBS 2024!
(Vacation Bible School)
July 15 - 19, 6:00-8:00pm
Join us for a bi-lingual, intergenerational event for all ages,
celebrating five Saints of the Church
We will have dinner, storytelling, crafts, games, and music
All households – neighbors, friends, and families are welcome!
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We need your help with VBS!
Do you enjoy crafts, cooking, acting, playing games,
singing, or playing an instrument?
Are you available weeknights July 15-19,
or perhaps 1-2 evenings that week?
Or maybe you can help shop for supplies in advance?
If so, we can use your help!
Sign up through the VBS registration form button above
or contact one of the VBS coordinators:
Molly Graves mollygraves724@gmail.com (404-234-3605)
Judah Sali judahs26@gmail.com
Junior Abraham jrabraham1953@gmail.com
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Do you play an instrument?
Would you be interested in offering your gifts during worship at 10:00? Occasionally we look for instrumentalists to add to our worship experience, either instead of or to complement our excellent organ. If you would be interested in playing during a service, we would love to know about you and add you to our list of players. Sometimes it would be as a solo instrument or it could be with a group of players, too. It’s always fun.
Please contact John Whitt (jwhitt@stbedes.org) to let us know your interest and to get you on the call list! We’d love to hear from you!
VBS Musicians Wanted
A particular upcoming need is for players in our ad hoc group that will provide music at Vacation Bible School. Plans are in the works and music is being chosen for that. It will be things of a sing-along nature. The commitment will be for VBS, of course, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM, July 15–19. There would also be a group rehearsal the week before to be determined. Contact John Whitt (jwhitt@stbedes.org) ASAP.
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Calling all youth from
rising 6th graders to rising 12th graders!
You are cordially invited to join us for this summer's MOST EPIC pool party on July 20th from 11:00 - 2:30.
Where you ask?
At the Nottaway Pool
3153 Hathaway Ct.
Atlanta 30341
Why?
Because it's HOT!!
May I bring a friend or more?
ABSOLUTELY!!
Will there be food you ask?
ABSOLUTELY!! We'll provide the burgers, hot dogs, condiments, drinks and paper goods. We ask that each of you bring a side and/or dessert to share (what that looks like is up to you.)
Do you have to tell us you're coming?
ABSOLUTELY!! (And of course if you don't you can still come but a headcount is REALLY helpful.)
Please RSVP to either Beth or Judah by Friday, July 19th at noon ( I need some time to buy the food.)
May I reach out if I have questions?
ABSOLUTELY!! Holler at Beth or Judah or grab us before/after the services.
You can email Beth at bcannon@stbedes.org
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The Morning Star Society recognizes gifts and planned gifts to the St. Bede's Endowment Fund, which is managed to be a permanent financial resource for the future of the parish. We are grateful to all who have taken the time to remember St. Bede's in their financial planning.
The Endowment Committee is recognizing Morning Star Society members by installing a recognition plaque in the Commons. We want to make sure that all who have remembered St. Bede's in their financial planning are recognized there - and are recognized in the way they would prefer to have their name listed.
We have posted a proof of the recognition plaque in the Commons and a copy is linked below. If you have let us know that you would like to be part of the Morning Star Society, please take a moment to review the proof in the Commons or the draft linked below and let us know if your name (or names) need to be corrected or updated. If we have inadvertently omitted your name, please let us know so that we can add it to the plaque. Please email any changes to Laura Pittman in the Parish Office: lpittman@stbedes.org
To become a member of the Morning Star Society or to learn more about opportunities for making planned gifts to St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, you may contact the Parish Office at 770.938.9797 or email Pat Pickett, Chair of the Endowment Committee at: endowmentchair@stbedes.org
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Sweet(s) Summer Sundays
The Hospitality team will be taking a break this summer, but treats are always welcome during the coffee hour after our worship service. If you would like to provide cookies or any other snack to share, please sign up in the Commons.
Thanks!
– Nancy Ward nlbward@comcast.net
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Invitation to Prayer Shawl Ministry
Prayer shawls are used to provide comfort, acknowledge joy or appreciation, say goodbye, or any other reason to share God’s love. They may be used in prayer, and the act of making them is prayer. Making them with friends is church.
Currently, a prayer shawl group meets one morning and one evening a month. You are invited to attend one or both meetings.
Monthly Prayer Shawl Meeting Times and Locations
First Monday Prayer Shawl Meeting: 10:00 -11:30 am in room M108. The next meeting will be on Monday, August 5.
Email Junior Abraham at jrabraham1953@gmail.com with questions.
Fourth Thursday Prayer Shawl Meeting: 6:30-8:00 pm in off site locations.
Email Cheryl and Fred Murphy at murphyfbfm@gmail.com with questions.
Note that you can participate at home on your own as well.
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It's Time Again for
NETWorks Ministry's
Good Neighbor Back 2 School Shop
It feels like school just got out for summer, right? However, our friends at NETWorks are already planning for their August Good Neighbor Back 2 School Shop. As usual, the shop will offer new school supplies at a very low cost, a way for our neighbors to provide for themselves in a way that respects their dignity and the structure of the family.
This year, NETWorks will be holding the Shop on August 1, 2, and 3 at the Pine Creek Center, right next door to their building. Pine Creek is at 4320 Cowan Road.
They need our help! The Shop needs donations of school supplies and volunteers to help.
We have baskets for donations in the Commons Area and will be accepting donations through Friday, July 19. Supply lists in English and Spanish are available in the Commons area or by clicking on the red button below.
If you are interested in volunteering some of your time at the The Shop, please click on the yellow button below.
If you know of a family in need whom you might like to refer to the Shop, please make sure that the family resides in the NETWorks area. A link to the NETWorks area map can be found by clicking on the blue button below.
Questions? Contact Anita Montelione at ammontel12@gmail.com or Karen Werner at wernerksw@comcast.net.
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As we all watch the tragic events of violence escalate in Jerusalem and Palestine, it is so important to keep the people of the Holy Land in our prayers.
In addition to our prayers, St. Bede's has also transmitted a gift of $500 to Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) for relief efforts related to the travesties of this conflict. Sadly, one of ERD's strongest and longest-standing partners in the Diocese of Jerusalem is the Al Ahli Arab Hospital - the Anglican hospital in Gaza that was severely damaged by explosion and where hundreds of people were killed. Please keep relief workers on the ground in your prayers as they attempt to offer care and relief.
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Caring for God's Creation
The Centers for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM)
has a new location!
Got “stuff” you no longer use but don't want to just throw it away?
The answer just got a lot closer to home! Remember reading a few months ago about CHaRM--the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials? Well, there’s a new location at 1225 Columbia Drive in Decatur that is opening on June 12 and will begin receiving your items—by appointment only!--on Wednesdays and Fridays!
Click HERE for all the info you need:
A list of items of the items they’ll accept includes the usual recyclables plus appliances, bikes, books, chemicals, textiles, electronics, mattresses, musical instruments, and much more!
How to book an appointment online or by calling
Since 2010 Atlanta-based Live Thrive has worked to improve our local environmental health by encouraging reuse/repurposing of materials as well as diverting thousands of pounds of household hazardous waste and other hard-to-recycle items from Metro-Atlanta landfills, water systems, and air. Along with two CHaRM centers, the nonprofit offers educational programs and STEAM grants to local schools. Learn more about Live Thrive HERE.
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Family Ministries Micropractice
Join our households with
birth through elementary aged children
in this simple intentional practice
as we bring our learning from the lectionary
into our everyday lives.
You may wish to conclude this micro-practice with this prayer:
God of welcome,
We celebrate and remember the universe and everything in it belongs to you.
Everyone and everything belongs in your love.
Wherever we go, whether together or apart,
may we never stop inviting others into your welcoming love.
Amen.
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Wednesday Night Adult Bible Study
Has Resumed!
Join with others for a study of various books of the Apocrypha.
All are welcome.
6:30 – 8 pm on Wednesday nights
on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month
in the Commons Hallway Classroom
(across from the Julian of Norwich Center)
Contact Fred Murphy for more information.
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Healing Our Racism
Book Discussion Group
Next meeting:
Monday, July 15 at 2:00pm on Zoom
July's selection is
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
By Nathan Thrall
Please join Muriel Diguette and other members/friends of St. Bede's to discuss current books pertaining to the issues of racism and white privilege.
Email Muriel for the Zoom link to join the discussion.
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Mostly Mysteries
Book Discussion Group
Next meeting:
Monday, July 22 at 7:00 pm on Zoom
July's selection is
The Echo Killing
By Christi Daugherty
Meeting Time: The 4th Monday of each month at 7 pm on ZOOM,
You're invited to join members and friends of St. Bede's to discuss favorite mysteries and thrillers.
Email Cathe Echterhoff for the Zoom link to join the discussion.
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McLemore's Musings
We hope you are enjoying this feature in St. Bede's E-News - McLemore's Musings. Many of you have met the Rev'd Bill McLemore who has joined the St. Bede's community. Bill has been a priest for over 57 years and has served parishes all over the Episcopal Church. Bill is the former archivist of the Diocese of Atlanta and authored the 100th anniversary book on the history of the Diocese. Bill is also an artist and has used his artistic skills and sense of humor for many years to draw hundreds of cartoon that comically comment on life in the Episcopal Church. Each week we will share a cartoon here that Bill selects from his collection. Enjoy!
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Would you like to receive
a brief Morning Devotion each day?
I have been emailing them to about 100 Episcopalians from churches I have served across the country. Currently, there are five monthly themes: Baptismal Covenant, Gospel of John, Hymns, Paul’s Epistles, and the Psalms. They only take 3 to 5 minutes of your time and they are free to all who wish to receive them. If you would like to receive them, send your email address to me at:
bmclemore@stbedes.org
God’s blessings,
Bill McLemore +
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St. Bede's Prayer List
A note about our prayer list:
We have reorganized our prayer list and are trying to make it more manageable going forward. Names will remain on the prayer list for 3 weeks unless otherwise requested. If you have placed someone on the prayer list and you would now like that person removed, please notify the office. Please request removal only for names which you have placed on the list. We are always happy to request prayer for our parishioners and our extended community.
Please contact Laura Pittman in the church office to add or remove names from the prayer list.
Laura Pittman
lpittman@stbedes.org
In our St. Bede’s community, prayer has recently been requested for:
David West
Beth Cannon
Prayer has been requested on a more long-term basis for:
Carmen Camiro
Debhani Hernandez
Al and Regina Studwell
Sarah Jane and Jim Ohl
Mary Rodriguez
Helen Abraham
Aree Bancroft
Laura Ribas
Hilda Bell
Nancy Waring
Frances Bowen
Ann Foote
Cameron Maddox
Peg Harriss
Sue Ellen Lampros
Robin Schreiber
Prayer has also been requested for these in our wider community:
Brooke Chandler, friend of Larry Bing
Tom Bowers, father of Jonathan Bowers
Wright Coleman, son of Jennie Couture
Mary Ingrao, sister of Patricia Young
Hope Hudon, great-granddaughter of Jean Petersen
Stuart Allen, son-in-law of Jean Petersen
Gayle Smith, friend of Laura Martin and Anita Montelione
Amy Preston, sister of Alyssa Sali
Reagan Koski and the Koski family, friends of the Cannon family
Family of Sheryl Slate, sister of Barbie Olsen
Fay Key, friend of the St. Bede's community
Eleanor Pearlman, granddaughter of Gwen Heaton
Allen Townes Cunningham, sister of Rob Townes
Anne Jones, sister of Claiborne Jones
Elizabeth Graham, friend of Toni Graney
We pray for those who have died:
Edward Hapstak, brother of Jean Petersen
We give thanks for those serving our country in the military:
Josh Bowers
Will Grimm
We give thanks for those celebrating birthdays this week:
7/12 Jim Ohl
7/13 Kristen Knopick
7/15 Larry Shupbach
7/16 Martha West
7/16 Wilfredo Crespin
7/19 Jennie Couture
7/19 Yesenia Rios
7/20 Cathe Echterhoff
The flowers on the altar for Sunday, July 14
will be given to the glory of God and
in memory of our husband and father, John Echterhoff,
from Cathe, Julia and Christopher Echterhoff.
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From around the Diocese
and the wider Church...
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Bishop Wright's Weekly Podcast
Did you know that Bishop Rob Wright has a weekly podcast? You can take a spiritual "deep dive" each week with Bishop Wright and his special guests and grow deeper in faith and understanding as you listen and learn.
Explore For People, Bishop Wright's Podcast, Here
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Pathways
the magazine of the Diocese of Atlanta
The new Pathways is now available online! Through original photography, articles, and interviews, Pathways shares inspiring stories from Middle and North Georgia — examples of spiritual growth.
Read Pathways Here
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Would you like to keep up with news from around the broader Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion? Episcopal Journal and Cafe is a convenient place to find out things going on around the Church. You can even subscribe to get news sent to your email inbox.
Click Here for Episcopal Journal & Cafe
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Friend in Christ,
As violence escalates in Ukraine, over one million people have already fled the country — and the borders are flooded with many more people desperate to leave.
Almost all of them are women and children who have had to seek safety on their own, leaving their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind.
As this crisis continues to evolve, we are working with Anglican agencies and our other partners to provide humanitarian assistance, and urgently ask for your help.
Your emergency gift today will support our immediate response, providing cash, blankets, hygiene supplies and other needs as this crisis unfolds.
Our faith networks are currently on the ground in the border areas of Poland, Hungary and Romania, and we will continue to coordinate with them in order to help those who have been displaced. Specifically, our partner ACT Alliance is helping families on the Hungarian border, and our Anglican partners are mobilizing both an immediate and long-term response in Poland, Romania and Hungary.
Yours faithfully,
Robert W. Radtke
President & CEO
Episcopal Relief & Development
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