May, 2008
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I am one of those Episcopalians who prefer to think about evangelism in a different way than talking to strangers about Jesus. I don’t mind talking about Jesus! I’m squeamish about talking to complete strangers, who may or may not want to talk to me. When I was in my twenties, I did not like to make phone calls to inquire about anything I didn’t already know to people I didn’t already know. I ran from salespersons who looked as though they were about offer to help me!
In my forties, I made a large pieced quilt for the first time, and I asked for help and advice every step of the way: a major break_through!
Last summer I spoke about the anxieties and rewards of trying something completely new that I had never done before, when I taught sewing to young people at Camp Summer Spree. Just a week ago I had another such experience.
Some of you may know that I have been caught up in the national spectator sport of the presidential primaries. I have never been so avidly interested in the American political process before this year. While I was thinking about whether to participate in a campaign, which I have never done, one of my Maryland cousins called me to say that they were finally going to bury the ashes of her parents (Aunt Phyllis died just as I arrived in Athens) on April 18 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Well this seemed like a sign.
I called my Pennsylvania cousins to see if they would give me hospitality, but before they said yes, full disclosure demanded that I tell them the other reason I was coming since they are of very other political persuasions than I! "Beth, of course! We love you anyway!" As well, I promised I wouldn’t "evangelize" about my candidate. I visited my cousin during her midnight shift at a local restaurant, went to my father’s Lutheran church where she and her husband were married and from which most of my father’s family has been baptized and buried. We sat on her kitchen floor and had a hilarious game of jacks with Grandma Long’s set, who first taught us to play, and could beat the pants off any off us till the day she died! We shared our faith and hopes and dreams and caught up on fifteen years apart, promising it would never again be so long.
Then, every morning, I’d grit my teeth and wonder why I was doing this; I hated doing this! For 5 to 7 hours a day, I knocked on the doors of strangers to talk to them about the election. Granted we were members of the same party, but still!
However, after four days of this behavior, something began to happen that was totally unexpected. I had never liked being in Western Pennsylvania as a child. My parents grew up there and are now buried there. It seemed like a place of more darkness and shadows because of the mountains and the black coal dust and slag heaps. Also I was aware of a great deal of prejudice regarding race, class, ethnicity and religion.
Instead, here I was, learning my way around the area in a way I had never known, seeing and meeting people on the streets and in their homes, and coming to feel an unfamiliar affection and care for them all. It was as if silently, mysteriously I felt a sense of belonging with them, as
though they are mine too, just as you dear sisters and brothers have become mine here in Athens. I saw that no matter who becomes our next president, that one has the privilege of carrying in his or her heart all the people of this country: the supporters and the non_supporters; the young and the old; black, white, Hispanic, Asian and Native American; Jewish, Christian, Muslim and all other faiths; poor and rich; gay and straight; red states, blue states and purple states—the whole United States.
This must be why the Bible insists on hospitality to strangers because we meet God in the stranger. We do not just evangelize strangers; strangers evangelize us. (Maybe that is why I have been afraid of them!) And all these strangers taught me to lay aside my fears, open my heart and mind and fall in love with God’s people. These strangers helped to heal an ancient sense of alienation from my family’s roots and open my eyes to the beauty of the people and landscape in that part of the country.
I have thought often about the challenge of bringing our values into the public arena, but I had not considered that politics could be a religious experience too! The public arena, the market place, political campaigns, the secular world—all of them, as is everything in our lives, are finally one endless invitation to taste and see the goodness and love of God. Come and enter the celebration and eat the feast that has been prepared for you since the beginning of time!
All the joy and blessing of the Feast of Pentecost!
Beth
Celebrate Life
With Sandy and Drew Spires and big sister Savannah on the birth of
Caroline on April 11.
With Owen and Gavin Dixon, and Anthony Barkdoll and his children Ben, Pace and Ellie, who will all be baptized during the 10:30 a.m. service on May 4.
Festive Coffee Hour on May 4th!
Join us for coffee and treats after the 10:30 a.m. service on Sunday, May 4th. We will be joined by representatives of the Athens Mothers' Center, who will bring an array of treats prepared from recipes from their new book, Mommy, I'm Hungry: Favorite Recipes from the Athens Mothers' Center. Copies of the book will also be available for sale for that special Mothers' Day gift! Here's a description: Mommy, I'm Hungry": Favorite Recipes From The Athens Mothers' Center has 500 recipes from more than 85 family kitchens. This kid-themed and family-friendly cookbook has recipes in eight categories including Vegetarian and Kids Cooking sections. There is truly something for everyone! The cookbook is a fundraiser for the Athens Mothers' Center. (For purchasing information please visit the Athens Mothers' Center website at www.athensga.motherscenter.org.)
Ascension Day is Thursday, May 1, and will be celebrated with an
Ascension Day service at 6 p.m.
The Celebration of the Feast of Pentecost falls on Mothers’ Day, May 11. Wear red clothes in celebration!
Mother's Day
Kids and Dads - don't forget Mother's Day is coming up on May 11!
Bring some money to buy Mom flowers, and help Heifer International help mothers all over the world!
The 2nd - 5th grade kids of St. Gregory's will be selling flowers on Mother's Day, May 11, from 10:15 - 10:30 am. All proceeds will go to our Heifer International fund raising effort. Kids who want to help sell flowers should meet on the patio by the church at 10:15 on Mother's Day.
IHN
It is our turn again to provide shelter and comfort to some of our neighbors.
St. Gregory the Great will be the host parish for the Interfaith Hospitality Network the week of May 11.
Please contact Julie Phillips at 706-614-0342 or ihncoordinators@gmail.com to sign up for your time slot.
Good Women of St. Gregory’s
The Good Women will meet on May 15, for their monthly lunch at 11:45 a.m. in the parish hall.
Coffee and water are provided; please bring your brown bag lunch.
This will be last meeting before the summer break, so don’t miss it!
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
What: ACTIVITIES FAIR
When: May 18 after both morning services
Where: Parish Hall
Why: To learn more about what goes on at St. Gregory's and how you can participate.
Committee Contacts:
Buildings
Chair – Mark Reinberger
Vestry Liaison – Ross Perry
Grounds:
Chair – Robert Wyatt
Vestry Liaison – Mark Hein
Communications:
Chair – Joan Curtis
Vestry Liaison – Al Hester
Outreach:
Chair – Katie Hein
Vestry Liaison – June Ball
Inreach
Co-chairs – Renee and Shannon Baxter
Vestry Liaison – Rebecca Baggett
Christian Education:
Chair – Catherine Drewry
Vestry Liaison – Eddie Bennett
Welcoming:
Co-chairs – Alice Mohor and Letitia Smith
Vestry Liaison – Catherine Ulrich
Parish Life:
Co-chairs – Suzy Preston
and Tracy Howe
Vestry Liaison – Eddie Van Giesen
Spiritual Formation:
Chair – Elmer Clark
Vestry Liaison – Carol Hill
Worship:
Chair – David Stooksbury
Vestry Liaison – Barbara Kuhn
Stewardship:
Chair – Karen Hankins
Vestry Liaison – Ron Balthazor
Finance:
Chair – Tom Gibson
Vestry Liaison – Ed Risler
Youth News
A HUGE THANK YOU to the Van Giesen family for hosting St. Gregory's youth at Fripp Island recently. Seven middle schoolers enjoyed a great weekend at Eddie Van Giesen's mother's house there. Many thanks also to Sam Preston and Eddie Van Giesen who volunteered as chaperones, and provided transportation, and to youth leader Kristina Murray.
Pilgrims for the trip to Turkey will meet for final preparations and a cookout at the Drewry home in Crawford on Sunday, May 18, at 6:30 pm. Call or email George for directions: 706-743-3178/ 706-743-3592 george@hm-e.net
St. Gregory's Middle School Youth Group has had quite the year! We've traveled near and far, and made some great new friendships; alas, as summer returns, we bring this year of St. G's Youth Group to a close. One of our last events will be a progressive dinner, which is a "dress-up" dinner event where each course of the dinner-meal is hosted at a different house!
We need three homes (appetizers, main course, and dessert) to volunteer to host the youth group. This host should also be willing to cook and set out (buffet style) their course. Edible donations by others not hosting the youth group are generously welcome too! Parents of youth group kids are encouraged to volunteer, and anyone else who'd like to share their home or recipes! Please contact Kristina if you'd like to volunteer, or for suggestions and more information. The dinner will be held on Sunday, May 4, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Kristina: murray.kristina@gmail.com,
(404) 786-2999. Thanks!! Children’s Sunday School
Pentecost: The Spirit comes with Wind and Fire for all the World
Pentecost is the theme Sunday School for pre-K - 5th graders for the month of May. The great workshops planned include a birthday party for the church with fun games led by Renee Baxter; Jenifer Marquardt will lead cooking and eating red food; and Sherryl Fern will help the children create Pentecostal wind and fire art like wind chimes, kites, or streamers. Cindy Vail will lead the children in making Heifer International collages. Heifer International embodies the Pentecostal message of spreading the good news all over the world!
P.S. We are looking for donations of old keys to use in our wind chime project.
Gentle Readers
The rotation list for the months of May through August is in the mail. If you do not receive your copy within the next few days please contact me and I will make sure you get one.
Thanks, David Lowe
706-372-4671 or lowedavi@gmail.com
Rainforest Adventure: A Tree Top Bible Blast!
St. Gregory's Vacation Bible School will be held Monday, June 23, to Friday, June 27 this year. The hours will be from 9 a.m. to noon.
Vacation Bible School is for children aged 3 through 11. Older children are warmly welcomed as helpers and younger ones may attend with a parent.
Heifer International Project
"Feed my sheep," Jesus told his disciple Peter. Our children will be studying this and other stories about Peter in April, and following that in May with the message of Pentecost, which is to spread the good news to ALL God's people.
Heifer International Project's mission of providing animals and crops with education for sustainable agricultural practices to people in need throughout the world ties in beautifully with both these messages.
St. Gregory's is happy to be a donor church for Heifer for the months of April and May. Like Peter, we, too, are Christ's disciples, and need to feed his sheep! The entire congregation can participate by filling the Peace Pipes located in the narthex and Parish hall with quarters (a full Peace Pipe will buy a goat or sheep!), or by giving donations to parish children for their collection boxes. Checks may also be left in the collection plate, made to St. Gregory's and marked "for Heifer".
With your help, we can buy an entire ark's worth of animals to help others in need in the US and throughout the world.
Contact Catherine Drewry (drewrys@hm_e.net, 706_743_3592) for more information. We'll be collecting through the end of May. Thanks!
Highlights of April 8, 2008, Vestry Meeting:
The Rev. Beth Long in her report discussed possible participation by St. Gregory’s in the work of the Stable Foundation. The foundation has been formed to help get individuals into permanent housing before they become homeless. Church members would be asked to provide support and help. The Outreach Committee has committed $3,000 in support of the program.
The Rector gave the treasurer’s report, in the absence of Sam Preston. He reported that Sun Trust Bank’s temporarily misplacing one of the Sunday deposits in February. The bank at first indicated they had no record of the deposit of about $6,000 in checks and cash being made. The Vestry agreed that a police report would be filed, since the counters had tabulated the money and placed it in the Gaines Road branch’s night deposit. Ed Risler and Sam Preston informed the bank a crime report would be filed and asked that access to surveillance tapes at the depository be studied to show that the deposit had been made. Upon further investigation the bank found the missing deposit in a teller’s drawer where it had become stuck. The St. Gregory’s checks and cash were all in the found deposit.
Senior Warden Barbara Kuhn indicated the Vestry would review conclusions of the Mutual Ministry Review in the next several months. She also reminded the Vestry that the St. Gregory’s Activities Fair will be May 18 between the 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. services and after the 10:30 service. Vestry members were asked to make sure the various committees staff interest tables to recruit new church committee members. She noted that the Rector had completed the yearly Parochial Report. The number of individuals baptized and received has doubled during the past year, the report revealed. Sunday School attendees increased about 50 per cent in the past year. Average Sunday attendance, however, was down about 17 from the 2006 report.
Outreach Committee: Steve Phillips and Paul Lazzari made a presentation of the Stable Foundation’s work to address homelessness. They asked for monetary support and also asked St. Gregory’s to consider becoming a church care group to help families entering the Stable Foundation’s program. Several programs explaining the work of the Foundation have begun to familiarize St. Gregory’s parishioners. The Outreach Committee has made the following donations $3,000 for Camp Summer Spree; $3,000 for the Stable Foundation; $500 for the Athens Nurses’ Clinic; and $500 for the Athens Justice Project.
Christian Education: The Vestry approved the middle school youth trip to Fripp Island. Catherine Drewry in her report noted that the youth group’s pilgrimage to Turkey will be in June. Vacation Bible School is scheduled for morning the week of June 23-27, with an ecological theme. Baptism books to help children preparing for Baptism have been distributed. Children’s Church is going well, she reported.
Spiritual Formation: A proposal from Jonathan Klein and Dallas Bono for use of Trinity Grant Funds to help underwrite the St. Gregory Community Concert Series was approved with minor revisions. The Vestry also approved. Money collected from the volunteer offering will be used to provide an honorarium for the performers and to support music programs at St. Gregory’s. The Trinity Conference on Violence and Religion received good feedback, and about 30 persons attended.
Grounds Committee: Robert Wyatt and Sue Hall have worked several times a week cleaning and pruning, especially around the outdoor altar, the memorial garden, and the path leading to the Sanctuary.
Communication Committee: Chairperson Joan Curtis reported that Podcasts of Beth’s sermons are now available on the St. Gregory’s website. Richard Shoemaker will take over Website operations in May. Kline Howell was Web supervisor for many years and Communication Liaison Al Hester commended Kline for his diligent and dependable service. Phil Pollock of the Communication Committee has become a "Roving Reporter" to do feature articles about St. Gregory’s members and activities and has completed his first article.
Building Committee: David and Becky Lockman have paid to have the parish building carpet cleaned, and they were thanked by Liaison Ross Perry.
The next Vestry meeting will be May 13, 2008.
Submitted by Al Hester, Vestry Communication Liaison
A Congregation of Book Worms!
A great, big thank you to all who so generously donated books to the Spiritual Formation Committee’s book sale, and to those who enthusiastically bought them. And an equally big thank you to Rebecca Baggett, Elmer Clark, Carol Hill, and Ken Taylor, who set up, sorted and packed up all these books.
The proceeds from the sale (over $1,100!!!) will be used for programs of the Spiritual Formation Committee and to buy books for St. Gregory’s library.
If there are certain titles you think the library should have, please contact Rebecca Baggett.
Meet your Fellow Gregorians
Ron Bathazor and Jane Hudson, who have been at St. Gregory’s about eight years, are having a singular Spring. In April, Jane and Ron will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary, both birthdays, and in May, the graduation of their daughter, Kate, from Cornell University.
Some time ago, their good friend, Cecil Hudson (no relation), knowing that they were looking for a church affiliation, recommended our parish where Ron and Jane have become loyal eight-o-clockers. Ron currently serves on the Vestry.
This couple have had their share of higher education. Ron, from Commerce, GA, earned a Master of Divinity from Emory University, and a doctorate in literature from UGA. He holds an Academic Professional teaching position in the University’s English Department where he also does software development. Jane, an Ohio native, has a microbiology bachelors from Ohio State, and a Master of Public Administration from Georgia. She is retired from the local academic world, but works part-time for The Summit Agency as an executive assistant.
Ron and Jane are enthusiastic gardeners, both vegetables and flowers; Jane has taken courses in landscape architecture. Their other interests include jazz, classical music, good food and good wine. Ron, a drummer, once played with Vision, a Christian rock band.
CAMP
St. Gregory's kids love spending a week at Camp Mikell in Toccoa! Never been there? Ask some of the other kids at St. Gregory's about it - or their parents, some of whom were Mikell campers themselves! Check out the website at www.campmikell.com Nestled around a beautiful creek in the North Georgia mountains near Toccoa, Mikell can boast about it's super staff, fun and meaningful activities, great food, state-of-the-art chlorine-free pool, and cabins that are just rustic enough. Weekly programs are divided by ages, and include weeks for elementary through high school age. Special camps for performing arts and rustic outdoor camping are also available. Scholarships are available - contact Catherine Drewry at 706-743-3592 or drewrys@hm-e.net .
Intercessory Prayer
Asking for help for persons in need is part of the Prayers of the People during the lithurgy. Those persons who have a problem (medical or otherwise) and are dear to someone in congregation, are prayed for during the service.
The names included are taken from the Intercessory Prayer notebook in the right-hand niche in the narthex.
Anybody may enter the name of someone he/she cares about in the notebook. There are spaces for prayers of thanksgiving, for prayers for the dead, and spaces for those who need some divine assistance.
So, if you would like to be on the prayer list or would like to ask for some else to be on the prayer list, just write the name in the proper place in the notebook, and include the date and your name.
Ken Taylor prints out the Prayers of the People every week, and checks the notebook on Friday for any additions to the list.
The list starts over every month, so if someone needs ongoing prayers, you will have to remember to enter their name at the beginning of each month.
At St. Gregory’s we use only the first name, and do not include the reason we are praying in order to protect people’s privacy.
Our loving God God knows well what it is about.
Diocese of Atlanta Welcomes Assistant Bishop
The Rt. Rev. Keith B. Whitmore, former bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has arrived at the invitation of Bishop J. Neil Alexander and begun serving as assistant bishop for the Diocese of Atlanta.
Whitmore, 62, a priest since 1977 and a bishop for nine years, took on his new role April 15. His first Sunday parish visitation will be May 11, Pentecost, at St. Clement's Church in Canton.
Whitmore was ordained bishop of Eau Claire in 1999. He is a Wisconsin native and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wis. He has served congregations in Wisconsin, Missouri and Kansas, where he was dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina, and he serves as a trustee for the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. He and his wife, Suzie, have been married 41 years. They have two grown children.
Whitmore said in an interview posted on the Diocese of Atlanta website, "I can't begin to tell you how excited I am to be a part of this diocesan family. First, I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Bishop Alexander, whom I have admired for many years. I look forward to being a part of all we have to offer to the wider church." To read more of the interview, visit www.episcopalatlanta.org.
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta has 95 congregations, four campus chaplaincies and nearly 55,000 members in middle and north Georgia.
CALENDAR MAY 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Ascension Day
6:00 p.m. Ascension Day Holy Eucharist
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
6:00 p.m. Tai Chi (parish hall)
7:00 p.m. OA (upstairs)
Friday, May 2, 2008
St. Philip and Saint James, Apostles
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:45 p.m. Al-Anon (library)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Saturday, May 3, 2008
9:00 a.m. Private Function, church
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Sunday, May 4, 2008
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:15 a.m. Sing-along in the church
9:15 a.m. Christian Education for children, youth, and adults
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
5:00 p.m. Youth Group Progressive Dinner
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
Monday, May 5, 2008
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. EfM (upstairs)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:30 p.m. NO Yoga
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Healing Service
7:00 p.m. Choir
Thursday, May 8 2008
Dame Julian of Norwich, c. 1417
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. OA (upstairs)
Friday, May 9, 2008
Gregory of Nazianzus, Bishop of Constantinople, 389
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:45 p.m. Al-Anon (library)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Saturday, May 10, 2008
9:00 a.m. Private Function, parish hall
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday
Mother’s Day
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:15 a.m. Sing-along in the church
9:15 a.m. Christian Education for children, youth, and adults
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
IHN Week
Monday, May 12, 2008
The First Book of Common Prayer, 1549
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
6:30 p.m. MD Group (parish hall)
7:00 p.m. EfM (upstairs)
IHN Week
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:30 p.m. Yoga (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
6:30 p.m. Vestry Meeting (Christian Ed.)
7:00 p.m. Girl Scouts (upstairs)
IHN Week
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Healing Service
7:00 p.m. Choir
IHN Week
Thursday, May 15, 2008
11:45 a.m. Good Women’s brown bag lunch (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Tai chi (parish hall)?
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. OA (small meeting room)
IHN Week
Friday, May 16, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC – Workday
5:45 p.m. Al-Anon (library)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
IHN Week
Saturday, May 17, 2008
9:00 a.m. Private function, church
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Activities Fair set-up, parish hall
IHN Week
Sunday, May 18, 2008
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday
Activities Fair
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:15 a.m. Sing-along in the church
9:15 a.m. Christian Education for children, youth, and adults
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
1:00 p.m. Labyrinth, parish hall
2:00 p.m. Private function, church
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
6:00 p.m. Youth Group, at Emmanuel
Monday, May 19, 2008
Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. EfM (upstairs)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Alcuin, Deacon, and Abbot of Tours, 804
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:30 p.m. Yoga (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Healing Service
7:00 p.m. Choir
Thursday, May 22, 2008
6:00 p.m. Tai Chi (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. OA (upstairs)
Friday, May 23, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:45 p.m. Al-Anon (library)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
6:30 p.m. Private function, parish hall and church
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States, 1870
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
noon Private function, parish hall and church
Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Second Sunday after Pentecost – Proper 3
8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
9:15 a.m. Sing-along in the church
9:15 a.m. Christian Education for children, youth, and adults
10:30 a.m. Holy Eucharist
1:00 p.m. Private function, church
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist
Monday, May 26, 2008
Augustine, First Bishop of Canterbury, 605
Memorial Day
6:30 p.m. MD Group (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC
4:30 p.m. VBS meeting (Christian Education Bldg.)
5:30 p.m. Yoga (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. Girl Scouts (Christian Ed.)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
6:00 p.m. Holy Eucharist and Healing Service
7:00 p.m. Choir
Thursday, May 29, 2008
6:00 p.m. Tai Chi (parish hall)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
7:00 p.m. OA (upstairs)
Friday, May 30, 2008
9:30 a.m. AMC
5:45 p.m. Al-Anon (library)
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
Deadline for the next Gregorian Chant
Saturday, May 31, 2008
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
6:00 p.m. Evening Prayer
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Servers – Sunday, May 4, 2008
The Seventh Sunday of Easter: The Sunday after Ascension Day
8:00 a.m. service:
OT Reading – Jim Jones
NT Reading – Evan Powell
Intercessor – Evan Powell
EM – Jim Jones
Usher – TBA
10:30 a.m. service:
EM – Jeremy Hankins
EM – Barbara Kuhn
OT Reading – Karen Hankins
NT Reading – Leslie Miller
Intercessor – Alice Mohor
1st Server – Margaret Heald
Torch – Amy Kuhn
Torch – Christina Minor
2nd Server – Celeste Minor
Usher – Kathy Hale
Usher – Drew Spires
Usher – Sam Preston
Usher – Mark Hein
Counter – Mark Hein
Counter – Bill Alworth
Altar Guild – Kathy Allen, Reba Jones, Jeremy Hankins, Ken Taylor
Flower Guild – TBA
6:00 p.m. service:
EM – Jim Jones
Servers – Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Day of Pentecost: Whitsunday
8:00 a.m. service:
OT Reading – Karen kassinger
NT Reading – Don Miller
Intercessor – Don Miller
EM – Karen kassinger
Usher – TBA
10:30 a.m. service:
EM – Karen Hankins
EM – Cecil Hudson
OT Reading – Steve Phillips
NT Reading – June Ball
Intercessor – Rebecca Baggett
1st Server – McGowan Drewry
Torch – Clare Severens
Torch – AJ Preston
2nd Server – Nathan Risler
Usher – William Hale, III
Usher – George Drewry
Usher – Betty Ogden
Usher – Marilyn Atyeo
Counter – Tracy Howe
Counter – Katy Ulrich
Altar Guild – Kathy Allen, Reba Jones, Jeremy Hankins, Ken Taylor
Flower Guild – Karen Radde
6:00 p.m. service:
EM – Ken taylor
Sunday, May 18 2008
The First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday
8:00 a.m. service:
OT Reading – Jim Jones
NT Reading – Sarah Gordon
Intercessor – Sarah Gordon
EM – Jim Jones
Usher – TBA
10:30 a.m. service:
EM – Rebecca Baggett
EM – David Stooksbuy
OT Reading –Judy Lowe
NT Reading – David Lowe
Intercessor – David Fisher
1st Server – Margaret Heald
Torch – Mary Louise Kinman Platter
Torch – Aneesa Conine_Nakano
2nd Server – Susanna Conine-Nakano
Usher – David Lockman
Usher – Jason Peek
Usher – Marilyn Atyeo
Usher – Steve Phillips
Counter – Carol Hill
Counter – Leslie Miller
Altar Guild – Kathy Allen, Reba Jones, Jeremy Hankins, Ken Taylor
Flower Guild – Sandy Hudson
6:00 p.m. service:
EM – Ken Taylor
Sunday, May 25, 2008
The Second Sunday after Pentecost –
Proper 3
8:00 a.m. service:
OT Reading – Karen Kassinger
NT Reading – Cheryl Boop
Intercessor – Cheryl Boop
EM – Karen Kassinger
Usher – TBA
10:30 a.m. service:
EM – Brad Hankins
EM – Carl Hoveland
OT Reading – Karen Hankins
NT Reading – Katie Hein
Intercessor – Cecil Hudson
1st Server – McGowan Drewry
Torch – Cedric Van Giesen
Torch – Emily Watson
2nd Server – Rae Marie Kretzer
Usher – David Lowe
Usher – Jon Vail
Usher – Betty Ogden
Usher – Ed Risler
Counter – June Ball
Counter – Mark Reinberger
Altar Guild – Kathy Allen, Reba Jones, Jeremy Hankins, Ken Taylor
Flower Guild – Nancy Carter
6:00 p.m. service:
EM – Jim Jones
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