EPIPHANY STAR Page 3 Episcopal Church of the Epiphany 1101 Sunset Drive P. O. Box 116 Guntersville, AL 35976 256-582-4897 www.episcopalguntersville.org January 2019 FLOWERS AND CANDLES 2019 ROOM IN THE INN returns to Epiphany on Friday, January 4th. RITI at Epiphany gives us the opportunity to offer our homeless Lady Neighbors a warm, safe place to sleep and a nourishing Fellowship Meal. There are a number of volunteer jobs that are part of making RITI a truly welcoming experience for our Neighbors. Please consider joining us! If you have been part of the Epiphany Team in the past and want to continue volunteering please let me know. Many thanks, Jan Maxwell, 256-582-4228 or jan.max05@gmail.com. The Altar Guild is planning for flowers and candles for 2019. This is a beautiful and thoughtful way to celebrate, and remember those in our lives who mean so much to us. Place your order now by contacting Kelly Auman at aumankelly@gmail.com. If a flower date you would like is already spoken for, check that same date on the candle list. Bishop s Visit & Confirmation Jan. 6th, 2019 Epiphany Sunday - 10:30 Please join us in welcoming our new members to the family of Epiphany. We will have a Continental Style Breakfast beginning at 9:00 in Sanderson Hall. There will be one service on this day at 10:30 in the Nave. Immediately following the service we will have a potluck luncheon to celebrate those confirmed & Bishop Sloan s visit. Please plan to share a dish with our church family on this day. Below you will find what is asked for your family to bring. Please drop your dish off in the kitchen Sunday morning when you arrive and write your name, dish and any instructions on the sticky notes provided. The kitchen ministry will provide the ham, drinks and bread. Please prepare enough for your family plus one. If you have any questions please contact Tiffany Martin at 256-673-0091 or momstr@icloud.com. Please provide a dish using your families last name : A H I P Savory Dish (Casseroles, Mac & Cheese, Deviled eggs, etc) Vegetable Dish (Green Beans, Corn, etc) Q- Z Dessert (Cakes, Pies, Cobblers, etc)
Epiphany Star Page 2 Welcome to a New Year! After the busy-ness of the Christmas and New Year s holidays, many believe that January is supposedly a dead time of the year. That is simply not so in God s church and certainly not here at Epiphany! On Sunday, January 6 th we will welcome Bishop Kee Sloan for his visitation and a service of Confirmation. This year we have ten new individuals being Confirmed or Received into the church. Please make plans to join us and celebrate with these new members! The day will include a Potluck Lunch in honor of our Bishop and new Confirmands (see elsewhere in this newsletter for what to bring). In the week following the bishop s visit, our Financial Assistant (Traci Lamb), Treasurer (Lamar Auman), Assistant Treasurer (Shari Harrison), Finance Ministry members and the current Vestry will be hard at work developing the Parish Program (also known as the budget) for 2019. These leaders work very hard for all our sakes at Epiphany, and deserve our prayers. Voting on the Parish Program at the January Vestry Budget meeting is the final act of the Outgoing/Retiring Vestry members, who are completing their term of service. Please join me in giving special thanks for the leadership, dedication and hard work shown by Doug Cooke, Rick Cooley, Jack Frost, Sam Harrison, and Jan Maxwell. There experience is greatly appreciated and their presence will be sorely missed! I pray for their wisdom and discernment as they explore new ways to serve in our community. In the third week of January, your new Vestry will gather together with other leaders in the parish for orientation and training, which will help prepare them for a new year in the life of the church. Please keep them in your prayers as they live and work more fully into their new duties and responsibilities. On the final Sunday of the month, January 27 th, we will gather as a community between the morning services for our Annual Parish Business Meeting. We will hear reports from all the many ministries we engaged in 2018, hear a presentation on the budget, and look to the future and what 2019 might bring. As you can see, January is a busy time in our community. I am excited to see and hear what God has in store for us! Happy New Year! Blessings & Peace, Father Aaron+ Christmas Season, 2018 VESTRY LIAISONS Sr. Warden-Rick Cooley Jr. Warden-Marsha Babb Building & Grounds Rick Cooley Melanie Dorman Ray Klaver Faith Formation Sam Harrison Tiffany Martin Parish Life Marsha Babb Tiffany Martin Kitchen Melanie Dorman Ray Klaver Tiffany Martin Memorial Garden Melanie Dorman Sam Harrison Ray Klaver Office and Communication Marsha Babb Doug Cooke Jack Frost Rosalind Hall Outreach Rick Colley Jack Frost Jan Maxwell Pastoral Care Doug Cooke Jack Frost Stewardship Marsha Babb Sam Harrison Jan Maxwell Worship Doug Cooke Jan Maxwell
Epiphany Star Page 3 EPIPHANY SEASON WITH EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES RETURNS During the season of Epiphany, beginning Sunday, January 13, at 9:30 am, your adult Christian Formation Ministry will present the 2019 version of a series of lessons from Episcopal Migration Ministries. Grounded in the lectionary texts for the season of Epiphany, we will explore God s call to support this important ministry of the church. As ever, this time of year is when Episcopal Migration Ministries helps us pause to remember our own sacred story and the history of the ministry. We remember the Holy Family s flight to Egypt to escape King Herod s massacre, when they became refugees desperately seeking safety. We remember those in the Diocese of Southern Ohio who spoke out in support of refugees eighty years ago, during the heightened anti-immigrant and anti-refugee attitudes that permeated popular culture and politics at the time. We give thanks for their courage and their witness. And we wonder: could they have ever known that their efforts would grow to become Episcopal Migration Ministries? Could they have ever dreamed that The Episcopal Church would continue what they began, resettling more than 95,000 refugees in the last thirty years alone? Their legacy has blessed countless lives new Americans, their children, their children s children with hope, opportunity, love, and life itself. Please join us for this update on Episcopal Migration Ministries and the challenges we face as our government continues to lower the number of refugees that will be permitted into the United States. ANIMATE: BIBLE In the Episcopal Church, we value, Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. Have you ever wanted to know more about the Scripture leg on our three legged stool? If so, join us on Sunday mornings at 9:30 starting Jan 27 for Animate: Bible. We will discuss and learn from people like Rachel Held Evans, Eric Eines, Phyllis Tickle, and Nadia Bolz- Weber. Optional journal for class is available at: https://www.wearesparkhouse.org/store/ category/286834/animate-bible
Epiphany Star Page 4 Happening #74 March 1-3, 2019 How will you serve? HAPPENING is a Christian experience for high school youth in 10 th through 12 th grades. During the weekend, the participants spend time seriously considering the person and teaching of Jesus Christ in a relaxed, fun, informal and loving atmosphere. They are provided with opportunities to share, discuss, learn and live with fellow Christians in an environment of acceptance and understanding. The staff of a Happening is made up primarily of teenagers who lead the weekend and take care of the Happeners. The adults are logistical support; serving as cooks and chaperones. Priests are present during the weekend as Spiritual Directors, giving some of the addresses and serving as chaplains. Epiphany is very fortunate to be the host parish for Happening #74. This wonderful experience for these young people from all over Alabama brings a great responsibility for our parish. We will need your help in several areas, but the most challenging will be arranging for showers for each Happening participant as well as each staff member. Not only do we have to find a way to get each person showered on Saturday and Sunday mornings, we have to do it with some time constraints. Epiphany parishioners who live within 15-20 minutes from the church, please consider volunteering to pick up youth and/or staff on Saturday and Sunday morning, take them to your home for a shower, and return them to the church. We are projecting anywhere from 75 to 100 participants and staff. Please Mark your calendars January 27 th Following our Parish Business Meeting and during coffee hour you will have the opportunity to learn how you can serve as Epiphany hosts Happening #74.
Epiphany Star Page 5 Happy New Year! January 6 Children s Sunday school resumes at 9:30a.m. Children s church & Youth Sunday school will remain on hiatus, during Bishop Sloan s visit. EYC resumes at 5:00p.m. January 9 Wednesday dinner and programs resume. 5:30p.m. Holy Eucharist 6:00p.m. Dinner 6:30p.m. Programs Weekly January Sunday School Sundays 9:30 a.m. 6 - Bishop Sloan visits, Youth Confirmation, 6th - 12th grades Youth Loft Woodall Commons EYC Wednesdays 6:30p.m. 7:30p.m. EYC resumes - 5:00p.m. 20 NO EYC 6th - 12th grades Youth Loft Woodall Commons EYC Sundays 5:00p.m. 7:00p.m. 6th 12th grades Youth Loft Woodall Commons EYC Episcopal Youth Community Diocesan Youth Events 2019 Summer Camp Registration is now open Sawyerville Day Camp 2019 Many camps fill up fast! Youth staff registration opens January 14, 2019. For more information go to https://www.sawyerville.org/staff- Register Here
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Epiphany Star Page 8 CODE: CC Children s Church; DOK Daughters of the King; EYC Episcopal Youth Community; DAV Disable American Veterans; HE Holy Eucharist; Men s B&B Men s Breakfast & Bible Study; Lib ; MMBS Monday Morning Book Study; RITI Room in the Inn; SH Sanderson Hall; SS Sunday School; VYP Very Young Persons; WC Woodall Commons; SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 Office Closed New Year s Day 2 Choir Rehearsal 6:30pm 3 4 Room in the Inn 5 Rick Cooley Tara Smith 9 Healing Service 11:30 Centering Prayer 12:30 Eucharist 5:30 Nursery 5:30 Dinner 6:00 Programs - 6:30 10 11 Men s B & B 7:00am Heritage Room 12 Brotherhood 8:00am 6 The Epiphany Discretionary Fund Sunday Bishop Kee Sloan Visits Continental Breakfast 9:00 Bishop s Time 9:00 SS & Nursery 9:30 HE with Confirmation10:30am Potluck Lunch 11:45 EYC 5:00 7 MMBS 10:00am 8 Ladies Bible Study 11:00am EFM 6:00pm Finance Budget Meeting 6:00pm 13 HE 8 & 10:30 Breakfast 8:45 SS & Nursery 9:30 EMM 9:30 Animate: Faith 9:30 Outreach 9:30 CC 10:30 EYC 5:00 Celtic Service 5:00 Doug Dixon Melanie Dorman 14 MMBS 10:00am Mary Davis 15 Ladies Bible Study 11:00am DOK 11:30am EFM 6:00pm Bill Barker Anita Duncan Mitch Harbin Birthdays Buildings & Grounds Meeting 6:00pm 16 Healing Service 11:30 Centering Prayer 12:30 Eucharist 5:30 Nursery 5:30 Dinner 6:00 Programs - 6:30 Vestry Budget Meeting 6:30pm 17 Beans & Rice Epiphany Café 10am 12pm SH/Kitchen 18 Men s B & B 7:00am Heritage Room 19 Vestry /Parish Leadership Orientation & Training Woodall Commons Vestry /Parish Leadership Orientation & Training Woodall Commons Nicole Willoughby Rachel Morris 25 Men s B & B 7:00am Heritage Room 26 Brotherhood 8:00am Cole Nichols 20 HE 8 & 10:30 Breakfast 8:45 SS? & Nursery 9:30 EMM 9:30 Animate Faith: 9:30am CC 10:30? EYC 5:00 21 Office Closed MLK Day 22 Ladies Bible Study 11:00am EFM 6:00pm Annual Reports Due Paula DeArtiaga Randal Hardin Ellen Perryman 27 HE 8 & 10:30am Breakfast 8:45am Annual Parish Business Meeting 9:15am SS & Nursery 9:30am CC 10:30am Shelly/Happening Information EYC 5:00am 28 MMBS 10:00am 29 Ladies Bible Study 11:00am DOK 11:30am EFM 6:00pm Billy Blevins 23 Healing Service 11:30 Centering Prayer 12:30 Eucharist 5:30 Nursery 5:30 Dinner 6:00 Programs - 6:30 30 Healing Service 11:30 Centering Prayer 12:30 Eucharist 5:30 Nursery 5:30 Dinner 6:00 Programs - 6:30 24 Newsletter Articles Due Clark Alves Vincent Meleski 31 January February 1 New Year s Day 13 Celtic Service 1 Room In The Inn 9 Beans & Rice/Epiphany Café 6 Discretionary Fund Sunday 15 B&G Meeting 3 Discretionary Fund Sunday 12 Buildings & Grounds Meeting 8 Finance Budget Meeting 18 & 19 Vestry Leadership Training 5--Stewardship Meeting 14 Finance Meeting 10 Vestry Budget Meeting 21 MLK Day Office Closed 6 Outreach Wednesday 19 Vestry Meeting 12 Epiphany Café/ B & R 24 Newsletter Articles Due 8-10 Diocesan Convention 21 Newsletter Articles Due