St. Paul s at Midweek

Transcription

1 The Episcopal Church Welcomes You St. Paul s at Midweek Where Grace happens & All are welcome Whoever you are, and wherever you find yourself on your journey of Faith, we welcome you to our inclusive faith community. stpauls@stpaulsepiscopalbakersfield.org th Street, Bakersfield CA July 23, 2014 Saint Paul s Episcopal Church, a part of the Anglican Communion Camino Media, south of CSUB, and east of the Edwards Theaters. The "Lunch Bunch" meets the last Sunday of each month. GOT YOUR ATTENTION??? The If you have not yet signed up for something to bring, call Philip Holt at You may bring a main dish, a side dish or a dessert. Everyone brings their own beverages (sorry be creative). Although there is no swimming pool there will be plenty of activities for the kids and lots of yard. Sidewalk chalk, hula hoop, bad mitten and other fun things will be available. Barbecue is 5 to 8 PM. Please arrive at 5 o'clock for some social time. Dinner will be served at 6:00. Philip s address is: Eversham Drive, (at the gate enter 358). This Sunday at Noon the ST. PAUL'S LUNCH BUNCH gathers. You are invited to join others at Lengthwise Brewery & Pub at the Marketplace. Lengthwise is near Haggin Oaks and Camino Media, north of Ming Ave; off The Sundays after Pentecost The Seventh Sunday July 27, 2014 Proper 12 8am Holy Eucharist 10am Holy Eucharist Childcare Summer Activity Packets are available for any children who would like to work with one during worship. "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." This Sunday s 10am Service: Celebrant & Preacher: The Rev. Dr. Tim Vivian Eucharistic Ministers: Martin Brown & Dee Whitley Lectors: Robin Paggi & Randy Schultz Verger: Philip Holt Altar Guild: Darren Blackwood & Martin Brown Crucifer: Angelika Ruelas Pianist: Jason Sliger Greeters: Robin Paggi, Desiree Giffard & Becky Rule

2 Ushers: Readings for Sunday 1 Kings 3:5-12 Psalm 119: Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33, In the Communion of Saints and all holy men and women, we remember the week of July 27: Mon, July 28 - Johann Sebastian Bach, 1750, George Frederick Handel, 1759, and Henry Purcell, 1695, Composers Tue, July 29 - Saints Mary, Martha, and Lazarus of Bethany Wed, July 30 - William Wilberforce, 1833, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury, 1885, Prophetic Witnesses Thu, July 31 - Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest and Monastic, 1556 Fri, Aug 1 - Saint Joseph of Arimathaea Sat, Aug 2 - Samuel Ferguson, Missionary Bishop for West Africa, 1916 Diocesan Prayer Cycle - We pray for the work and ministry of the Diocese of Haiti and, in our Diocese, the congregation of St Nicholas Episcopal Church, Atwater. Between the Wednesdays at Saint Paul s Thursday, July 24 9:30am Food Pantry Co-op; Grace Hall Stage 7pm INQUIRER'S CLASS: "JESUS WAS AN EPISCOPALIAN"; the Forum Friday, July 25 5pm Parish Barbecue; see front page for details Sunday, July 27 8am Holy Eucharist; the Chapel 10am Holy Eucharist with Childcare 11:15am Coffee & Goodies; Grace Hall Noon LUNCH BUNCH; Lengthwise Brewery & Pub at the Marketplace (near Haggin Oaks and Camino Media, north of Ming; off Camino Media, south of CSUB, and east of Edwards Theaters). 1-3pm Food Pantry Co-op; Grace Hall Stage 6pm Youth Group (EYF); Youth Room. Dinner will be provided. Jason and Alison invite you to come join us for fun and fellowship! Please call Alison at if needed. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! Monday, July 28 5pm Stewardship Committee; Eversham Drive, (at the gate enter 358) 6:30pm Budget & Finance; Eversham Drive, (at the gate enter 358) CHURCH OFFICE HOURS... Monday-Friday from 9am to 1pm. The office phone is Rev. Deb is away from the office beginning Friday and throughout next week. Tim s Office hours this summer are 9-11 on Thursdays. For further information on all things St. Paul s, go to our website: ersfield.org/index.html OR Coffee and Community Conversation 8 a.m. Sunday is Moving to Dagny s! Beginning Sunday, August 3 rd, the 8 a.m. service will move to Dagny s Coffees (20 th and Eye). We will not have regular worship but will rather have Sunday s readings available for discussion and discussion can go anywhere. LETS GET TOGETHER "4" BREAKFAST Plan to have breakfast at St. Paul's the first Sunday in August, August 3rd. Breakfast is served at two times: 8:45-9:30 am and 11:30 am - 12:15 pm. Holy Currencies offers this pancake breakfast to raise money to fund new ministries at St Paul's. There is no charge, but donations are welcomed and appreciated. Come join us in Grace Hall every first Sunday of the month. For more info: Elaine Berg at: elaineberghwy1@gmail.com

3 St. Paul's Planner Jesus was an Episcopalian (and you can be one too!) St. Paul s Inquirers Class If you re new to St. Paul s and/or the Episcopal Church and wish to be baptized, confirmed, or received (or have your child baptized or confirmed) --or want a refresher course--we will have a class this summer on Thursday evenings continuing tomorrow night, July 24 and through August 28th. All meetings will be in the Forum at St. Paul s at 7pm. July 24 Chapters 4 & 5 Dee Daughters of the King Dee Two of St. Paul's family are on the move and need your help! Miki is Moving and needs our help Saturday!! Please consider joining us to send off our Sister in Christ with lots of love (and a bit of muscle). Did you hear the sad news Sunday?? Miki Hall lost her job at KMC through budget cuts. The good news..she was offered a job in Santa Maria at the VA. She has to move quickly though! Because of her mom's and sister's health challenges she needs our help loading the U-haul this Saturday morning (July 26 th ). It shouldn t take more than a couple of hours. Coffee and breakfast pastries will be provided. Please arrive at 9:30 am (or a bit before for some coffee). We plan to start loading at 9:30 am. The address is 2308 Eric Way, Unit C, (Near the corner of Mt Vernon & Columbus). Telephone: Poppy is working towards further independence in his life by doing a trial run of living independently in his own one bedroom apartment. The apartment is a duplex and his sister Gina lives in the apartment next door. This is a slow process but the landlord is extremely understanding as we navigate through paperwork to coordinate his independent status with things like his special day program. (NAPD). etc. In the meantime he will need to start from scratch to furnish his new digs. If you have any extra living or bedroom furniture please keep Poppy's needs in mind. Also please pray for Poppy as he prepares for his new life path. St. Paul's Children's Art Class is growing!!! We are adding a second class of younger artists from ages 3-6. Potty trained is a requirement. The class will be from 1 pm - 2 pm on Saturdays. Suggested donation is a minimum $5 to cover art supplies for the kids. The two art classes are not drop- in babysitting spots. They are well planned and designed art classes with projects, so please contact be boswell, the lead instructor by the Wednesday night 7pm prior to the Saturday class to let her know your child will attend. Her contact info is: (661) or wdwmaker@yahoo.com. She shops for supplies on Thursdays so if you don't reserve a place for your child, there will not be supplies for him/her to make their project. There is a class size limit of 6 for be and the second instructor, Louise Cooper, who is a retired teacher and is currently one of our Icon artists. ****Don't forget the class for older kids, 7 and older, is continuing. The rules are the same for reserving space. This established class meets on Saturdays from 11 am - noon. Those who currently participate absolutely love this experience. Be sure that the kids of all ages wear clothes that are art and craft project friendly.

4 Backpack and School Supplies Drive It s that time again the advertisements have already started for Back To School! That means that St. Paul s is once again sponsoring a backpack and school supplies drive for kids at the Homeless Shelter. We are collecting new and gently used backpacks and all manner of school supplies to be distributed at the Homeless Shelter as school starts up again. It s worthwhile to remember that families come and go at the Homeless Shelter throughout the year and what may not get used as school starts in August may be just what is needed for a student who arrives there in November. Please drop off backpacks and supplies at the church, either in the office or in the narthex on Sundays. If you would rather make a monetary contribution, that will work, too. Just put it in an envelope and label it Backpack Drive. You can leave it in the office or in the offering plate or see Anne Giddings. Worship Survey This summer we will have bulletin inserts that elicit your feedback on worship at St. Paul's, specifically about Sunday's worship, and worship more generally at St. Paul's. During July, please fill out a survey once, and place it in the offertory basket. Tim They're here! Get yours today! meetings between presidents and religious figures have, on occasion, helped shape history. One such time came when an Episcopal Church bishop traveled to Washington from Minnesota to try to persuade Abraham Lincoln to make wholesale changes in the corrupt and brutal ways the federal government treated Native Americans. The entreaty may well have saved hundreds of Dakota Indians from execution and the nation from a huge injustice. Bishop Henry B. Whipple, a native of upstate New York, was an unlikely advocate for Native Americans. A missionary priest in Chicago until he was elected Minnesota's first Episcopal bishop in 1859, he didn't even know a Native American until he was 37 years old. In Minnesota, however, Whipple not only met Indians he respected, he also saw firsthand how the federal Office of Indian Affairs conducted itself, and he soon concluded that the agency was corrupt and that its agents were mostly political hacks who cared little about those they were supposed to serve. He also came to regard the traders licensed to do business with Indians as a problem: greedy, dealing illegally in liquor and abusive of Indian women. And, as with so many other social reformers through history, Whipple regarded the situation not only as an injustice but as an offense to religious principles that demanded action. For the rest of the article, see: PYTHONERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!! Monty Python LIVE (sort of)!!! St. Paul's bumper stickers are in!!!!! They are $7 each. Buy one from Elaine in Grace Hall on Sunday! How a bishop moved Lincoln, and saved 265 Dakota Indians Think religion has no place in politics? It's a good thing Lincoln didn't agree. The Founding Fathers had good reasons for explicitly barring government from inserting itself into matters of religion. But nothing in the Constitution forbids a president from consulting with clerics, and Two reprises of Monty Python Live (Mostly) will screen at 7:30 at Edwards Marketplace Wednesday, July 23 rd Thursday, July 24 th Plan to join the St. Paul s Pythoners on Wednesday, July 23 rd at Lengthwise at 6pm. From thence we will repair to the theatre for laughs, larcenies, and just plain silliness.

5 Please send your information to all three of us! Seasons -by Jack Hernandez Jack Hernandez is a local poet and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and English at Bakersfield College and Director of the Norman Levan Center for the Humanities, Bakersfield College. He has published poems in Midweek before and has published poetry in a variety of journals and books, including the Anglican Theological Review. Through many days I have learned That everything has its season And every word and work its time I have mourned in the morning and danced at night Have scattered dreams and gathered hope Have embraced voices and closed my heart Have long sought truth and lost belief Have loved like wind and rain and taken shelter Have uprooted, carelessly discarded and mended what is torn I was born to laugh and weep And feel the seasons of my life My grasping moments under the sun Please send announcements, corrections and pictures to Melinda Hill at ms48hill@hotmail.com for Midweek at Saint Paul's Fr. Vern at vwmshill@gmail.com for the weekly bulletin Lori Toia at ltoia867@yahoo.com for the website Three friends from the local congregation were asked, "When you're in your casket, and friends and congregation members are mourning over you, what would you like them to say?" Artie said, "I would like them to say I was a wonderful husband, a fine spiritual leader, and a great family man." Eugene commented, "I would like them to say I was a wonderful teacher and servant of God who made a huge difference in people's lives." Al said, "I'd like them to say, 'Look, he's moving!'"

6