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1 T HE ILLUMINATION N E W S F R O M S T. D A V I D S E P I S C O PA L C H U R C H St. David s Episcopal Church 1015 Old Roswell Rd. Roswell, GA Update from the Senior Warden... Dear Holy People of God, As we begin the summer months, I wanted to share some parish updates. There has been much activity already this year and more to come in this busy and lively parish! Daily Directed Prayer: This is a year of key changes, including the search for a new rector and the addition of a new mortgage. Yet we face these challenges as faithful Christians, with the love and support of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Your Vestry has committed to daily directed prayer for God s guidance, support and provision for St. David s. Wendy Wittmayer has also started a prayer team to support the parish with daily prayer. Thanks be to God for the willingness of our parish to join voices in reaching out to the Risen Lord for our daily provisioning! Search Committee: The parish survey has been completed and the Search Committee is in the process of finalizing the St. David s profile. The profile will be reviewed with the parish in July. Once the profile is complete the search for candidates begins. The Diocese tells us to expect many candidates interested in St. David s. God already knows who our new Rector will be and it is our job to be in daily prayer and open to His wisdom and will for this parish. A huge thanks to our faithful Search Committee for their continuing work in this key area! Finances: We are continuing to work towards recovery. The Vestry has put together a 3 year plan to address our financial concerns: Year 1 (2010) is hard as we adjust to our current situation, Year 2 (2011) will be harder as we begin to pay principal on our new mortgage, and Year 3 (2012) will see us positioned for sustainable success. I am pleased to report that with the support of this parish, we are meeting our financial objectives as planned in Year 1. Below are some of the specific actions to help with this recovery: Re-negotiated the loan with American Trust Bank, allowing interest only payments for 18 months, and a reduced ongoing interest rate Communicated with parishioners about outstanding Jeffords Fellowship Hall (JFH) pledges and encouraged non-pledging families to make a pledge Actively planning a robust, ongoing stewardship campaign to kick off later this summer Sinclair House: we have a St. David s angel who has assisted us with a no-interest loan on this property, to assist us with cash flow, while we work through our recovery. As we are all aware, selling real estate is difficult right now, and this assistance gives us time to develop a plan for our youth who currently use Sinclair House, as well as time for the market to improve. As a reminder, summer months are typically lower months for parish giving. It is critical that you keep your pledges current. Our expenses don t take a vacation so we need your continued support this summer. St. David s accepts on-line giving, should you prefer this method. Contact Cathy Cheatwood or Linda Thomas in the church office, if you have questions or would like help with an on-line account. Rest assured that we are being good stewards of the funds we receive, from ongoing operating fund pledges, to JFH funds, with special gifts, and in designating the children s offerings...continued on page 5 Inside this Issue Pg. 3 Parish Life Pg. 4 Camp Mikell-Kid Summer Camp 1 Pg. 6 Mission Board News Pg. 7 Delegates to Diocesan Annual Council Pg. 8 Rock the Block - August Concert w/ Banks & Shane! Still time to register for VBS 2010! Go to click into Christian Education and then into VBS to download forms. 1

2 S AINT DAVID S EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Illumination Vol. 35, No. 13 June 16, 2010 Twice Monthly Newsletter of St. David s Episcopal Church Interim Rector The Rev. Kenneth Swanson kswanson@stdavidchurch.org Newsletter Editor Linda Thomas linda@stdavidchurch.org 1015 Old Roswell Rd. Roswell, GA (office) (fax) Church Office: M-Th 9:00am - 5:00pm Friday 9-11:30am 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. During the summer months, we will send out only one issue in June and one issue in July. We will return to normal schedule in August. July deadline is Friday, July 9. CALENDAR a.m./ a.m./ p.m. JFH=Jeffords Fellowship Hall, PH=old Parish Hall Saturday, June 19 8:30 Men s Bible Study-PH 10:00 Weight Watchers-Faith rm. Sunday, June 20 Father s Day 10:00 Baptism & Youth Mission Trip commissioning 2:00 BSA Venture Crew-House 3:00 Boy Scouts Jamboree Mtg. JFH front half & classrooms Monday, June 21 9:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 7:00 Boy Scouts Philmont Mtg. JFH front half 7:00 Youth Ultimate Frisbee at Wills Park Tuesday, June 22 6:30 Bible Study at Dockery s 9:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 9:45 Youth at Regal Cinemas movie and lunch 7:00 Search Comm. Mtg. - JFH Faith classroom Wednesday, June 23 10:00 H.E. Healing Service-Nave 11:00 Women s Bible Study-JFH 7:00 Stephen Ministry- Bethany Thursday, June 24 7:00 Prayer Shawl Mtg.-Nazareth Friday, June 25 9:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 12:00 Youth leave for mission trip to Nashville, TN Saturday, June 26 8:30 Men s Bible Study-PH 10:00 Weight Watchers-Faith rm. Monday, June 28 6:30 Scouts-JFH classroom Tuesday, June 29 6:30 Bible Study at Dockery s 9:00 Roswell Bridge Club-JFH 7:00 Vestry Mtg.-Bethany Wednesday, June 30 10:00 H.E. Healing Service-Nave 11:00 Women s Bible Study-JFH Our church calendar is continuously updated on our website at Summer Worship Schedule 7:45 a.m. H.E. Rite I 8:30 a.m. Breakfast in Jeffords Hall 10:00 a.m. H.E. Rite II 12:15 p.m. Mass in Spanish 6:00 p.m. Chapel Mass Lectionary for June 20 1 Kings 19:1-4, 8-15a, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39 Psalm 42 and 43 Lectionary for June 27 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14, Galatians 5:1, 13-25, Luke 9:51-62 Psalm 77:1-2, KIDS! EXERCISE ALL YOUR MUSCLES THIS SUMMER! LEARN TO PLAY BRIDGE! Atlanta Junior Bridge is pleased to bring the game of bridge to St. David's Episcopal Church FREE to kids A one week summer camp will be held at the church from Monday August 2 to Friday August 6, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. each day. The benefits of bridge to children are numerous: Bridge can improve a child s skills ranging from mathematical probabilities to social interaction and team building Bridge is rich in social and cultural interaction enabling children to make friends and meet people from all over Atlanta and the world Bridge is inclusive an activity that requires no physical skill or athletic prowess Best of all, Bridge is FUN! Camp is limited to 16 children. Call or immediately to reserve your space. To enroll or for further information... Contact: Karen Christian or kschrist2@yahoo.com Joann Urvan or jfurvan@charter.net 2 June 16, 2010

3 P ARISH LIFE Club Titus July 7 Our speaker for July 7th Club Titus is parishioner and Poetess, Sandy Miller. Come learn about the art of poetry and listen to Sandy's poems! Come on over to Jeffords Hall to find out where she will take us! Please call , ext. 125, to make your lunch reservations. Recycling at St. David s We have reinstituted our recycling program at St. David s thanks to several Parishioners who came forward to assist. Margie Sleeper is recycling our bulletins and white paper used in the office (located in work room) and Mary Pat Carter is recycling cardboard (recovered in staff kitchen). We are getting recycling bins for the kitchen and will begin recycling efforts for cans, glass and plastic. Please help us by using these sites for collection! Bell Ringers Needed The St. David s Bell Choir is looking for several new ringers beginning in the Fall. You do not need to know how to play handbells, as we will teach you, but a general knowledge of music is helpful. Rehearsals are Sunday mornings, September through May at 9:00 a.m. Open to ages from eighth graders through adults. Call Eileen Nahser at , or at Donnahser@aol.com for more details. FolkMASSters needs you!! St. David's FolkMASSters musical group would like to grow in preparation for upcoming services in July and August. If you play a stringed instrument (guitar, mandolin, banjo) or would like to sing with us, please contact Carlyn Romeyn (770) soon! Rehearsals are tentatively scheduled for June 26th, July 10th, and July 17th. Join us in making a joyful noise unto the Lord! Teens welcome! Join our Green Guild St. David's GREEN GUILD is re-organizing and seeks new participants! Please come to a brief meeting with Fr. Swanson immediately following the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday, June 27, in the Bethany Room (upstairs back hallway). Hope to see you there! Wednesday Women's Bible Study...led by Reverend Anne Elizabeth will meet June and July 11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon in the front half of JFH. Please join us each week for shared prayer, fellowship and Bible study as we discuss the weekly lectionary offerings. We hope you can come! Bring your Bible and we ll provide the coffee! Spiritual Adventures Bible Study on Sunday mornings: Come join us this summer from 9:00 9:45 a.m., Hope classroom, downstairs in Jeffords Hall, June 20, 27, July 11, 25, August 8. Each week is an independent study, so please come and go as you can on Sundays. Facilitated by Mike and Marilyn Dougherty. Our Pew Crew needs more hands! We are so thankful for the wonderful volunteers who are keeping the pew racks full and neat. They are looking for more help it takes many hands to touch all the pew racks and straighten them up each week! Call Jan Georges at , ext. 118, if you are interested in helping out. Enjoy July 4 th with Hand-Cut Steak St. David s Venturing Scout Crew #432 is holding a hand-cut Steak Fundraiser just in time for your July 4 th holiday weekend. The Crew will be taking orders after mass for handcut, center-cut Filet Mignon, NY Strip and Filet Tips for kabob s or the most succulent Ragout, Stroganoff or Stir Fry. All steaks are sold by total weight. See the church bulletin for more information on dates and times. Any questions, please contact the Venturing Crew Advisor, Robert Charlton at

4 CAMP MIKELL KID SUMMER CAMP 1 A n o t e f ro m S u m m e r c a m p a t C a m p M i k e l l K i d C a m p 1 Six years ago, Ken Struble, Director of Camp Mikell, and a former Ass t. Priest here at St. David s, asked me if I would like to be a dean at Mikell for one of the summer camp sessions. My answer was SURE! - uh - what s a dean? What I learned was that being the dean the provider of a spiritual morning program during a session of summer camp is a wonderful opportunity to express your faith, exercise your creativity, and return to your childhood! The session this summer was from May 26th to June 1st. On the Dean s staff were Peggy, Doug, Anna Fallon; Colleen and Kara Bast; Susie and Becca Clements, and Judy Beecham all St. David s parishioners. We shared a program based on the summer theme: Pieces of Peace. Using a letter a morning, we experienced: Peace through Prayer, Exercise, Art, Church, and Environment. The pictures show some of the fun we had! Other church members were present at this session: Campers: Tyler McVay, Matthew Kloess, Maggie Sutton, and Luke Nolfa Counselors: Philip Spofford, Ben Asbury, and Dolapo Fayemi Camp Nurse: Jody Butler Ewing (along with her daughters Nora, Keppy, and Mallie) And on Summer Staff: John Fallon and Brett Wilson Thank you, St. David s, for your prayers and support! Peggy Fallon Once-a-year Dean at Camp Mikell and year-round Preschool Director at St. David s 4 June 16, 2010

5 .SENIOR WARDEN UPDATE, CONTINUED to support our children s ministries. We continue to keep the tight expense controls in place at St. David s. I can personally vouch for the diligence of our wonderful St. David s staff in holding firm on expense control. Additional Revenue: if you haven t seen all the new activity at St. David s during the week, please stop by! The Roswell Bridge Club is renting space in JFH several days a week and we will sponsor children s bridge activities and a bridge camp this summer. Additionally, the Emory Summer Reading Program rents our space for summer activities. We ve seen JFH rented for graduation parties and other events. Remember this wonderful space and recommend it to your friends and colleagues. We have a marvelous opportunity to increase our revenues, while also warmly introducing others to St. David s. Detailed reports on cash flow projections and financials are available on the Vestry bulletin board in the hallway outside the Nave. These financial reports and Vestry minutes are available monthly following each Vestry meeting. Pray that God will continue to give us this day our daily bread and provide for our short term and long term needs. Facility Improvements and maintenance Angels among us: You can expect to see the fruits of gifts from other St. David s angels who have made donations of time, talent, and treasure to enhance some of our spaces. Keep your eyes open for improvements in our courtyard and Old Parish Hall over the upcoming months. There have been several maintenance projects, including replacing a portion of the roof (covered by insurance) and air conditioning repairs in the original building. We again are blessed with several angels who assist with greatly reduced rates for these types of maintenance requirements. Soon you will receive announcements about an upcoming work day to help spruce up our sacred space. Be an angel and join in to share in fellowship and help tend to the space that supports our community. There are several key facilities projects in the early planning stages, and we will keep you posted as additional opportunities arise for our parish family to help in enhancing and maintaining our space. And a big thanks to those angels who have offered to assist with new projects or already pitched in with miscellaneous work projects. You all are making a difference! Interim Rector: I cannot provide an update without noting the blessed addition of our interim Rector, Ken Swanson. Ken has quickly assimilated into our St. David s family, providing leadership, a calm presence, enlightening sermons, and engaging Wednesday night teachings. A big thanks to the interim search committee for discerning God s message and bringing Ken to St. David s. Ken s guidance and leadership are invaluable during this transition time for our parish. St. David s is a bright and vibrant parish. We are a supportive and loving church family. God has provided abundantly for us and will continue to be with us during our journey this year and for generations to come. Like all of us, our St. David s family has both challenges as well as opportunities. Thanks to our Lord Jesus Christ who is always with us during our challenging times, rejoices with us in our triumphs, and redeems us in our everyday lives. Your sister in Christ, Bonnie Underwood Senior Warden 5

6 What does the St. Francis Guild do?? Feeds day laborers waiting for work M-Th in Roswell. Meet at St. David s from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m., 4-5 people on a team with rotation of cooking responsibilities, assembly done at church. ALWAYS looking for volunteers, Friday team needed. YOUTH welcomed. FUNDED by volunteers and teamed up with Atlanta Food Bank. A very fun and extremely fulfilling volunteer opportunity for ANY age! Any questions please call Amy Cole Volunteers are needed, so jump in!! North Fulton Community Charities...Did you know? St. David s has been involved with N. Fulton Community Charities from the beginning, as a parishioner was one of the founding members over 40 years ago! NFCC gave out food parcels over 23,600 times in 2009! St. David s volunteers help staff the food pantry on Fridays St. David s collects food (Brown Bag Month) three times a year for NFCC families! St. David s feeds 40 families for Holiday dinners at Thanksgiving and Christmas. The families St. David s provides Christmas gifts for are sent to us by NFCC. In August St. David s collects school supplies for children of NFCC. And much more, see SUMMER EMERGENCY! During the summer our pantry always gets a little bare. We always need: Tuna Jelly Beans (bags of black beans) Fruits and vegetables in cans (or fresh if your garden runneth over) Soups (no cream soups please) Toilet paper Soap Please leave in the blue bin at the end of the mailbox hallway at church or bring to Elkins Rd, Roswell, and leave a note in the book that it is from St. David s. If you would like to volunteer to work in the food pantry, please contact Jill Sutton, phone or at jillsutt@gmail.com. Sign up now for St. David's annual Habitat for Humanity Build in Alpharetta. The dates are: Sat 8/7 First Nail 5 volunteers Sat 10/9 Drywall/Siding 10 volunteers Sat 10/30 Paint 10 volunteers PLUS volunteers are needed to help serve Breakfast and Lunch (Minimum age for a volunteer is 16) St. David's has a financial commitment of $5,000 this year (way down from prior years). There is a $2,500 challenge available if we can raise the other $2,500. If you are interested, contact Steve Romeyn at office: , x 102, or cell: , or at steve@windsonglife.com. There will also be a display/sign-up table in the mailbox hallway later in the summer, so be looking for it! 6 June 16, 2010

7 DELEGATES TO DIOCESAN ANNUAL COUNCIL Nomination of Delegates to Annual Council is now open: St. David's Vestry is searching for delegates and alternates to this Fall's Annual Council of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta to be held on Friday, November 12, and Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Cathedral in Atlanta. The meeting agenda includes addressing the business of the diocese and a program, topic to be determined. To be selected to serve as a delegate or alternate to Annual Council you must be a confirmed communicant in good standing of the Parish, 2. who is a regular attendant at the services of the church, and 3. must be known by the Treasurer to have made and faithfully fulfilled, during the current year, a stated financial commitment for church support. If you are interested in serving as a delegate or alternate this year, please complete the form below and return it to Linda Thomas in the church office. Call the Linda ( , ext. 104) if you have any questions. The vestry will elect the delegates and alternates from the pool of applicants this summer. Nomination Form for Delegate to Annual Council of The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta Name: Phone: Confirmed Communicant in good standing? yes no Regularly attend what service? 7:45 am service 9 am service 11:15 am service Current stated financial commitment? yes no 7

8 St. David's Episcopal Church 1015 Old Roswell Rd., Roswell, GA Mailed June 16, 2010 Return Service Requested Postmaster: Important dated Church Material; please do not hold. Rock the Block!! Get Ready!! August 14 St. David s is hosting a community fun-filled evening on August 14 th featuring the well known group, Banks and Shane. This will be a Chastain type event where you bring your own dinner, decorate your table, listen to great music and have fun dancing! St. David s members will have first chance for tickets (and best seating!) on June 20 th and June 27 th. We will be in the mailbox hallway waiting to take your ticket order and make your table selection. After June 27 th we will open up ticket sales to the public. This event is a fundraiser for St. David s and we would appreciate all members asking friends and neighbors to come! If you want to have a break from planning your meal, we will be taking reservations for boxed dinners that you can pick up here on your way in to the event. The menu will be a Caesar Chicken Salad, Fruit and Dessert. Any questions? Call Jan Georges, , ext June 16, 2010