T HE ILLUMINATION N EWS FROM ST. DAVID S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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1 T HE ILLUMINATION N EWS FROM ST. DAVID S EPISCOPAL CHURCH St. David s Episcopal Church 1015 Old Roswell Rd. Roswell, GA Wednesday Night Series in Lent The Work and Ministry of the Holy Spirit Acts 1:8 You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you We will look at three levels of power internal, external, heavenly power. Starting Wednesday, Feb. 13, Feb. 20, Feb. 27, and March 5 Dinner starting at 6:00 p.m., Program at 7:00 p.m. Speaker: The Reverend Alan W. Hansen, President and CEO of ACTS 29 Ministries The Rev. Alan W. Hansen is a cradle Episcopalian called to ordained ministry in He was ordained in He is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and is married to his wife of 27 years Teresa, with whom he has three children. Father Hansen has served congregations in Kentucky and Florida and has transitioned two parishes that had plateaued and were in decline. In both cases, the parishes enjoyed numerical, spiritual and financial growth. In 2002, Father Hansen was called as President and CEO of ACTS 29 Ministries based in Atlanta, GA. ACTS 29 has a 33-year history of bringing renewal, growth and new life in the Holy Spirit to congregations throughout the United States and abroad. Today, Father Hansen leads numerous ministry events that include evangelism, discipleship, prayer, men's ministry, vestry retreats, seminary training, regional events and healing ministry. ACTS 29 also hosts YouthQuake, the largest youth event in the Anglican world. ACTS 29 Ministries continues to be a powerful resource for congregations looking to go deeper in their spiritual journey. For more information about ACTS 29's resources and events, log onto Dinner served between 6:00 and 6:45 p.m. Program: 7:00 8:00 p.m. All reservations can be made online at Dinner reservations:...are required by the Monday of each program week by calling , ext. 130 or by going online (see above). Childcare reservations:...are required by the Monday of the program week by calling , ext. 130 or by going online (see above). Please tell us the names of the children and their ages. Inside this Issue Pg. 2 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper & Parade Pg. 3 Parish Life Pg. 3 Couples Night Out at Stoney River Pg. 4 Special Honduras Mission Collection Pg. 5 Honduras Fundraiser Pg. 6 HomeStretch Pg. 7 Children & Youth news Pg. 8 Ash Wednesday Services What does SHROVE mean?? On Shrove Tuesday, many Christians make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God s help in dealing with. 1

2 S AINT DAVID S EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Illumination Vol. 33, No. 3 January 23, 2008 Twice Monthly Newsletter of St. David s Episcopal Church Rector The Rev. Fr. Paul S. Winton psw@stdavidchurch.org Newsletter Editor Linda Thomas linda@stdavidchurch.org 1015 Old Roswell Rd. Roswell, GA (office) (fax) Church Office: 9:00am - 5:00pm Church office office@stdavidchurch.org Church Web Site: St. David s Preschool Peggy Fallon, Director Preschool Fax: preschool@stdavidchurch.org In the event of a Pastoral Emergency after hours, call the church office at , follow the voice prompt, hit the #6 on your keypad, leave a message, and the Priest on call will return your call. The next issue of the newsletter will be mailed on Feb. 6. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb. 1, CALENDAR a.m./ p.m. Saturday, Jan 26 8:30 Men s Bible Study-House Sunday, Jan 27 2:30 EpiscoPALS-PH 3:00 New Member Reception-at Betty Dunning s home 4:30 EYC Monday, Jan 28 9:00 Holy Eucharist 7:00 EFM-Bethany 7:30 Brotherhood of St. Andrew Tuesday, Jan. 29 7:00 Bible Study-Men & Women at Sinclair House Wednesday, Jan 30 10:00 H.E./Healing service 10:00 Women s Bible Study- Sinclair House 11:00 Construction Mtg. 6:30 Guild of St. Phoebe-House 7:00 High School Girls Bible Study-Sinclair House Thursday, Jan 31 10:00 Holy Eucharist-Nave 7:30 Choir Rehearsal-Choir Rm Friday, Feb 1 6:30 Young Men s Bible Study- Sinclair House 9:00 Holy Eucharist-Nave Saturday, Feb 2 8:30 Men s Bible Study- Sinclair House Sunday, Feb 3 5:00 3 for All/Super Bowl Party for Youth at Underwood s Monday, Feb 4 9:00 Holy Eucharist 7:00 EFM-Bethany Tuesday, Feb 5 5:30 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper & Parade-PH Wednesday, Feb. 6 Ash Wednesday (see schedule on back cover) 11:00 Construction Mtg. 12:00 Club Titus-PH 7:00 High School Girls Bible Study-Sinclair House Our church calendar is continuously updated on our website at Worship Schedule 7:45 a.m. H.E. Rite I 9:00 a.m. Family Svc., H.E. Rite II 10:15 a.m. Sunday School 11:15 a.m. H.E. Rite II 1:15 p.m. Mass in Spanish 6:00 p.m. Chapel Service Lectionary for Jan. 27 Isaiah 9:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23; Psalm 27:1, 5-13 Lectionary for Feb. 3 Exodus 24:12-18; 2 Peter 1:16-21; Matthew 17:1-9, Psalm 2 or 99 Tuesday, February 5 Pancakes from 5:30 7:30 pm Children s Activities at 6:30 pm Meal cost: $4/adult, $1/child Children: bring your decorated wagon or tricycle or scooter to be in the Parade! Also, please wear a costume for the parade! 2 January 23, 2008

3 PARISH LIFE Mark Your Calendars! Adult Inquirer s Class The Class started on Sunday, Jan. 20, at 10:15 a.m., in the Parish Hall. The dates for the class are as follows: Jan 20, 27 Feb 3, 17, 24 Mar 2, 30 Apr 6, 20, 27 All classes will be held in the Parish Hall, led by the clerics of St. David s. Confirmation with Bishop Alexander as Celebrant and Preacher will be held on Sunday, May 4, at 4:00 p.m., here at St. David s. The Guild of the Christ Child Meeting All expectant and new parents are invited to attend our monthly Guild of the Christ Child meetings. Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 20 at 11:00 a.m. in the Nazareth room. Childcare is provided for older siblings and/or newborns, if desired; however, newborns are welcome to stay with their mommies. This entire meeting will be an open forum for the moms to talk and share ideas. Members are encouraged to invite friends who are expecting or are new mothers. We hope you will join us. Please call Lisa, facilitator, at or Sarah McVay at if you have any questions. Jeffords Hall Fundraiser: Have you hugged an Episcopalian today? Beginning Sunday, February 3, these wonderful unique Episcopalian aprons will be on sale in the church hallway. The cost $15 ea. or 2 for $25. The aprons will also be available for purchase during the week by contacting Becky in the church office at , ext Betty Dunning at left modeling the aprons! Couples Night Out to start in February The next Couples Night Out, will be held on Friday night, February 15, and you will go to Stoney River Restaurant at the intersection of Hwy. 9 and Crossville Rd./Holcomb Bridge Rd. Childcare will be provided at the church, and the cost for this care will be $10 per child with a maximum of $20 per family. Childcare will open at 6:10 p.m., and we will meet at the restaurant at 6:30 p.m. Please call the church reservation number at , ext. 126, by Monday, Feb. 11, to reserve your spot and to inform us of your childcare needs. Blood Drive on January 27 St. David s will sponsor a LifeSouth Blood Drive on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008, from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in the Chamber parking lot (next door to our main parking lot). All donors receive a recognition item and a cholesterol screening. Donors must be at least 17 yrs. of age, weigh at least 103 pounds, and show a valid photo I.D. Look for sign up sheets in the hallway. Fall 2008 Registration Fall 2008 registration is just around the corner! Church Member registration is on Monday February 4 th. During the month of January, we are inviting families with small children to tour the preschool and learn about offerings we ll have for next fall. If you re interested in visiting, just drop by on Tuesday/Wednesday mornings at around 10 a.m. starting on January 15 th. If you have questions, please call the preschool office: (770) or send an preschool@stdavidchurch.org Spread the word to neighbors and friends! Peggy Fallon, Director Greetings from the Nursery! Father Julio s Ordination was a beautiful service. Thanks and blessings to the following folks who helped out in the nursery that evening: Orlon Daniels, Grayson Falcon, Chris McVay, and Jennifer Sweigart. We are blessed to have such faithful and caring people watching over our little ones! 3

4 HONDURAS MISSION TEAM The Honduras Mission team will be collecting the following items to take down with them on the March/April trips. Look for the collection box in the church hallway. Clothing: The children at the residential home range in age from ages 3-4 years old to 18 yrs olds. We have about 6 teen age girls and 3 teen boys. The teen boys are all on the small/medium size. Pajamas, sweatshirts, long sleeve shirts are great, in addition to the summer weight clothes, as it s a little cooler at this new site, than where the children were living at Las Tapias. LAMB is now also supporting a nursery with 9 babies. Infant and toddler clothes are also welcome! School supplies: think arts and crafts crayons, pencils, finger-paints, playdoh, clay, glue, construction paper, etc. Also can use Spanish books and workbooks as well as 1st grade level English books. We don t particularly need to worry about standard lined paper. It s cheap down there and can be heavy to transport. Medical supplies: over the counter medicines, like cough syrup, children s Tylenol, bandaids, etc. Another Fundraiser for the Honduras Mission Team? Why? Our team has grown from 26 to 44 members this year, including 9 teenagers! We are from 6 parishes in the Marietta Convocation: St David s 23; St. Aidan s 9; St. Peter and St. Paul, St. Clement s, Holy Family, St. James 2 or 3 each, other churches 4 We have personally contributed and helped raised our individual travel cost of $1200. For 4 years here at St. David s, we received $9,000 each year from the Outreach budget. We are not funded this year. Left to raise is $14,000 toward our building project ($20,000): completing the cottage we started last year, and starting the work on a playground. All the parishes listed above are currently planning fundraisers before our March and April week trips, so we are hopeful about reaching our goal. If you have already supported one of the fundraisers this year, we are very grateful! If you haven t, or would like to again, here s your chance!!! Remember the Adobe Bricks? Look for our model cottage in the Hall on February Sundays. We hope you ll bring your children to the table and help them buy a brick so that they can feel a part of our Mission. Who knows, it may be planting a seed for a future mission trip for them. Come to the table in February and meet our 2008 Team. We look forward to greeting you! Bonnie Underwood and Edith Cobourn co chairs 4 January 23, 2008

5 HONDURAS FUNDRAISER 2008 HONDURAS MISSION TRIP FUNDRAISER STARTS FEB. 3 Beginning Feb. 3 Feb. 24, please purchase an Adobe Brick and help send our Mission team back to Honduras in 2008! Look for the Honduras table in the hallway! Will you help build this house? ADOBE BRICKS...walls...roof...windows...door...foundation The Rev. Fr. Julio Lema s Ordination on Jan

6 HOMESTRETCH Poverty amidst wealth... a harsh reality A single mother working full time at $10 per $1,600 hour Rent for 2 bedroom apartment in Fulton $834 County Utilities $198 Childcare costs $203 Food costs with food subsidies $334 Discretionary income for clothing, $31 transportation, etc One unexpected setback - HOMELESS As you travel around N. Fulton County, you pass affluent neighborhoods with large, beautiful homes. You share the roads filled with designer label cars and shop in exclusive stores. You work hard to provide your children happy, healthy lives. Your hard work pays off; success and prosperity abound. And yet, poverty abounds as well, perhaps hidden from view but all too real. Did you know that: There are an estimated 4,000 homeless people in Fulton County (Fulton County Pathways Survey 2005) The poverty line for a family of 4 is $20,650 There are 140,000 persons in poverty in Fulton County 52,000 are children (US Census Bureau) Georgia state law exempts employers from meeting federal minimum wage rates, now set at $5.15 vs. Federal rate of 5.85 in 2007 (U.S. Dept of Labor) Atlanta has the highest rate of child poverty in the nation and Georgia is ranked 36. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2004 A new report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development found that 6 million impoverished households used most of their monthly earnings for housing or lived in substandard conditions in 2005, an increase of 16 percent, since Federal housing assistance reaches only about one in four income-eligible households. "The demand for assistance goes significantly unmet,"said Sunia Zaterman, executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities. Exacerbating the problem, affordable housing is becoming scarcer. For every new affordable housing unit constructed, two are demolished, abandoned or become expensive rentals, according to the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Other affordable apartments are lost when building owners opt out of a HUD "Section 8" program that guarantees rent payments to owners who lease to low-income tenants. These sad facts make our HomeStretch ministry all the more important. HomeStretch offers hope and a way to a better life by providing transitional housing to homeless families. Experience proves that providing safe, affordable housing along with advice and guidance from volunteer teams significantly improves a family s ability to overcome homelessness and poverty. We currently have one team in place but we have an urgent need for more volunteer teams. Please prayerfully consider joining the HomeStretch ministry. For more information contact Amanda Scott, , abscott@us.ibm.com The Rev. Fr. Julio Lema s Ordination on Jan January 23, 2008

7 CHILDREN & YOUTH NEWS Rotation Sunday School From Jan. 13 Feb. 10 our children will be studying a miracle story of Jesus, Feeding the This story is recorded in all four Gospels, the only miracle story that is. In John, there is the young boy who shares his five loaves and two fishes with the multitudes. With the blessing of Jesus, not only is the crowd fed, but 12 baskets of food is gathered, certainly proof that our Lord not only wants us to get just enough but to have bounty in our lives. Our children will probe what hunger in the world means, and through the Heifer Project, will take action to feed others. They will act out this story and make fish. They will be interviewed about what their hillside experience was in Video Alive. In Puppetry, the children will imagine how it must have been to be one of those loaves of bread, or fishes. The Computer class will review the whole story, older children will compare how the story is told in each of the Gospels. It is easy to get side-tracked on miracle stories, wondering how on earth did it happen. In our society, we have even become a bit blasé about miracles. Our teachers will reinforce that Jesus miracles happened to show the love of God, and reveal who Jesus really is! Spend some time this week discussing this story with your child, they may surprise you. Epiphany Celebration Thank you! Susie and Ellen want to thank all of the children who shared their talents, the parents for getting them here, and those who helped the children find costumes and get dressed on Saturday during dress rehearsal and on Sunday, prior to the celebration service. We particularly want to thank our wonderful cast for their part in telling the story of Jesus birth: Mary Carlisle Christian, Joseph Will Beecham, Baby Jesus Cannon Mueller, Angel Gabriel Renee Patrick, Innkeeper (s) Jacob Sutton, Innkeeper s wife Sydney Versteeg, Shepherd s Angel Jessica Bonin, Shepherds Madison Stevens, Abby Jones; Herod Brice Percynski, Magi Creighton Buchanan, Julia Couch, Isabel Jacob; Prophet Hayden Goldberg, Star (dancing) Jessie Couch, Narrators: Will Bruggeman, Olivia Hunt and Lola Fayemi. Youth wish list The Parish at St. David s is VERY good to their youth VERY, VERY GOOD! But anyone who has ever had a child knows how their list of needs seems to be never ending! Since the youth ministry is always needing things, we decided to post our wish list on the youth bulletin board in the main hallway of the church. We are looking for all kinds of things, from people willing to host parties to new four-square balls. Please be sure sure to check out the list on your way our of church this Sunday, and the Sunday after that, and the Sunday after that, and the Sunday after that Thanks for your help! Youth Sunday at St. David s It s that time of year again when when the youth get to be in charge of a service and lead the worship. On February 24 th at the 9:00 a.m., service the youth will be leading music, doing the readings, and even giving the sermon! And, just as in pervious years, Fr. Ken Struble will be joining us and celebrating the eucharist. We will also take a special collection for Camp Mikell to send back with Fr. Ken. Please join us, as the youth look forward to taking the lead and sharing their faith with the rest of the church. 7

8 St. David's Episcopal Church 1015 Old Roswell Rd., Roswell, GA Mailed January 23, 2008 Return Service Requested Postmaster: Important dated Church Material; please do not hold. NONPROFIT ORG. U. S. Postage Paid PRSRT STD Permit No. 40 Roswell, GA Services on Wednesday, February 6 7:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist & Ash Wednesday Liturgy 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist & Ash Wednesday Liturgy (with nursery) 12:15 p.m. Holy Eucharist & Ash Wednesday Liturgy (with nursery) 4:30 p.m. Holy Eucharist & Ash Wednesday Liturgy 6:00 p.m. Mass in Spanish & Ash Wednesday Liturgy 7:15 p.m. Holy Eucharist & Ash Wednesday Liturgy 8 January 23, 2008