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st. lukes episcopal church • 435 peachtree st. ne • atlanta, ga 30308 • 404.873.7600 • www.stlukesatlanta.org
A twice monthly newsletterJuly 1, 2016
Parish News ................................... 2Pastoral Care .................................. 3Summer Food Drive........................ 4Calendar ......................................... 4Birthdays ........................................ 5Outreach ......................................... 6Photo Gallery.................................. 7Summer in the City.......................... 8
Atlanta Ice Cream Festival
at Piedmont Park
Bowling at Midtown Bowl
Willie Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory at the Fox Theater
Dates & Details on page 8
After being ordained as a deacon in 2010, I received a gift from the Rev. Sally Johnston, my soon-to-be rector at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Columbia, SC. This was the first church where I worked after graduating from seminary, and the church where I was before coming to St. Luke’s.
The gift was something called the Traveling Deacon Stole: a stole (that’s the long piece of cloth that priests and deacons wear around our necks during the service) that was made with the intention of being passed along from deacon to deacon at, or
shortly after, their ordinations. Prior to her ordination to the diaconate, Sally had received it from a priest, and that priest had received it from another priest, who had received it from a priest…you get the idea.
After receiving the Traveling Deacon Stole and wearing it as a deacon, I passed it along to a classmate of mine from seminary. The stole has continued to be passed along, and it is now in possession of a deacon – the sixth since I had it – who will be ordained to the priesthood shortly; that soon-to-be-priest plans to pass it along as well.
I don’t think that any of us has thought of the stole as “ours,” but rather as a gift that we’ve been entrusted with and held onto for a little while before allowing another to take possession of it. It reminds me of a Neil Young lyric, “This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / Just taking care of it now” (from the song, “This Old Guitar”).
As you all know, I will shortly be finishing my time as a priest at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church as I will be starting a new call as the Middle School Chaplain at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School this fall. And as I prepare to make this transition, I feel a bit as if the role in which I’ve served here at St. Luke’s is like the Traveling Deacon Stole: that working with this parish’s youth and young adults has been a gift entrusted to me for a time, and soon it will continue under someone else’s guidance. While I and others may have been, and will be, “in charge” of this ministry, in a greater sense, this ministry belongs to God.
I am now and will continue to be deeply grateful that God has given me such a gift for a time, just as I am thankful to the St. Luke’s family for so much. And with such gratitude in my heart, I have faith that this ministry will continue in the eager and thankful hands of another whom God has called.
Peace, Blessings, and Joy,
Staff InformationSt. Luke’s Episcopal Church
404-873-7600
RectorThe Rev. Dan Matthews, Jr.
Beth Kraft, Rector’s Executive Assistant404-873-7610 | [email protected]
2016 Vestry
ClergyThe Rev. Elizabeth Shows CaffeyLiturgy and Senior Pastoral Care
404-873-7612 | [email protected]
The Rev. Heather ChaseChildren’s Christian Education/Formation404-873-7622 | [email protected]
The Rev. Lauren R. HolderOutreach and Pastoral Care
404-873-7690 | [email protected]
The Rev. Dennis Patterson, Jr.Christian Education & Parish Life
404-873-7609 | [email protected]
The Rev. David WagnerYouth and Young Adults
404-873-7633 | [email protected]
StaffMark Simmons, Director of Stewardship &
Membership404-873-7624 | [email protected]
Dr. Arlan J. Sunnarborg, Director of Music404-873-7620 | [email protected]
Charles Higgs, Music Associate404.873.7634 | [email protected]
Colleen Kingston, Assistant for Children’s Music404-735-1933 | [email protected]
Valerie Freer, Receptionist/Admin. Assistant404-873-7600 | [email protected]
Michelle Jemmott, Manager of Office Admin.404-873-7616 | [email protected]
Jean Lamer, Accountant404-873-7617 | [email protected]
David Lowry, Parish Administrator404-873-7663 | [email protected]
Amanda Vaughn, Liturgy Assistant404-873-7614 | [email protected]
Hala Hess White, Director of Communications404-873-7630 | [email protected]
Brian Hummel, Manager of Facilities Support404-873-7647 | (c) 404.291.0059
Kate Kennedy - Sr. Warden
Mignon Crawford, Treasurer Cap Putt, Finance Chair
Robert Long, IV, Chancellor
Debbie BachmannArdith BarrowRussell CurreyHal DanielScott Inman
Phil LamsonSue McAvoyBecky MickBrian OpsahlSusanna Roberts
Greg Vaughn - Jr. Warden
Parish News & Announcements
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HOLY COMFORTER MINISTRY Join us Wednesday, July 20 at 6 p.m. to serve dinner to the congregation of Holy Comforter. Holy Comforter is a parish in Ormewood Park in which about 60% of the congregation live with mental illness. Questions? To learn more about this ministry, contact Barry Bynum (404-317-3777/[email protected]) or Connie Wooten (770-399-0483/[email protected]).
The Women’s Cancer Support Group will meet Thursday, July 7 at noon in the Library. Please contact Meg Moye at TACC (404-876-6266, ext. 2003) if you would like to attend. Friends are welcome.
The Grief Support Group will meet Thursday, July 14 at noon in the Library. Please contact Meg Moye at TACC (404-876-6266, ext. 2003) if you would like to attend.
The Church of the Common Ground (CCG) offers the Common Soles foot clinic on the front steps of St. Luke’s on Tuesdays from 1-3 p.m. throughout the warm weather months. Volunteers are welcome to be a faithful presence offering water, prayer, conversation and clean socks. For more information: CCG at 404-873-7667.
Join us on Friday,
July 8 at 7 p.m.
to watch Hector
and the Search
for Happiness,
the story of a quirky psychiatrist,
increasingly tired of his humdrum
life, who embarks on a global quest
in hopes of uncovering the elusive
secret formula for true happiness.
Faith and Film is a monthly oppor-
tunity for St. Luke’s adults to share
a movie, snacks, fellowship, and a
lively discussion of issues of faith
raised by the film. Those who attend
bring a snack to share and a bever-
age. All St. Luke’s adults are wel-
come. For location, contact Donna
Church (404-522-3889 | dchurch@
mindspring.com).
Best Wishes Join us after the 11:15 a.m. ser-vice on Sunday, July 3 for a reception in honor of The Rev. David Wagner and his wife Beano. David is leaving St. Luke’s to become chaplain at Holy Innocents Middle School. David has served St. Luke’s faithfully and, while we are very sorry to see him leave, we wish him well as he follows God’s call.
EfM Groups Forming for Fall
Education for Ministry (EfM) is enrolling new participants for both the Monday evening group and the Tuesday morning group to begin in September. EfM is a four-year extension program offered through the School of Theolo-gy at the University of the South. Participants meet once a week for four years to study scripture, church history, and engage in the practice of theological reflection. This method of reflection finds the intersection of our faith, culture and personal lives in order to iden-tify the points of tension and wholeness. Graduates leave the program with a greater understanding of their own calling within the church and the world. For information on the Tuesday morning group contact Kate Kennedy ([email protected]). For information on the Monday evening group, contact Micki Geshwiler ([email protected]).
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Be with us, God of tears, You who have known suffering within your very self.
Teach us to weep. Teach us to see and hear each other’s tears.
We are one people, formed in God’s image.We are divided by our past, by our present, by our fears, by our wounds, by our silences.We are one people.We struggle to be one.
Help us to see the face of God in one another. Make of us your holy people. Through our
baptism into Christ’s death and resurrection, may we live justice; may we find hope.
Christ Jesus, stay with us.Spirit of the living God, Help us to live.Teach us to weep.Help us to dry one another’s tears.
“Here are my servants, whom I uphold as my chosen ones, in whom my soul delights I have put my spirit upon them: they will bring forth justice to the nations.”
Be with us, God of tears, You who have known suffering within your very self.
Teach us to weep. Teach us to see and hear each other’s tears.We are one people, formed in God’s image.
We are divided by our past, by our present, by our fears, by ourwounds, by our silences.
We are one people. We struggle to be one.
Help us to see the face of God in one another. Make of us your holy people. Through our baptism into Christ’s death and resurrection, may we live justice; may we find hope.
Christ Jesus, stay with us.Spirit of the living God, Help us to live.Teach us to weep.Help us to dry one another’s tears.
“Here are my servants, whom I uphold as my chosen ones, in whom my soul delights I have put my spirit upon them: they will bring forth justice to the nations.”
“I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning.”
“O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.”
We move, slowly, into holy friendship.Help us to live as friends of Jesus.On common ground, on this land we live together. On this land, we welcome in Christ’s name new friends.
They bring the riches of faith and the mem-ories of ancestors from other lands. We live
as friends of Jesus and friends of all God’s people. On common ground, on this land, We break bread.
Reconcile us, O God of mercy. Teach us your way.When we stumble, help others to forgive us.When we are broken teach others to bind our wounds.Christ Jesus, Let us fear neither the truth nor each other.
“And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the dwelling of God is with people, and God will dwell with them, and they shall be God’s people and God’s very self shall be with them, and be their God.”
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neithershall there be any more pain: for the former things are allpassed away.”
Help us to see the
face of God in one another.
God is with us even when tragedy strikes and evil is present.
St. Luke’s and All Saints’ welcomed several hundred people to a service of prayer, healing and remembrance the day after the killing of nearly 50 people in Orlando, Florida last month. This Litany was among the prayers said that evening.
Almighty God, who created us in your own image: Grant us grace fearlessly to
contend against evil and to make no peace with oppression; and that we may
reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice in our
communities and among the nations, to the glory of your holy Name; through Jesus
Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now
and for ever. Amen.
C a l e n d a r
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PRParkins Room
SLR
St. Luke Room
LI
Library BT
Bell Tower
HRHamilton
Room
CHChurch
WCWilmer Chapel
PHParish Hall
CRChoir Room
GGarden
OSOffsite
NNursery
RSRector ’s
Study
CCMCrossroads
Kitchen
SUNDAY, JULY 10 8 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite I8:40 a.m.|Nursery opens9 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite II10:15 a.m.|Coffee Hour|PH11:15 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite II12:15 p.m.|Coffee Hour|PH12:30 p.m.|Evangelism Committee|HR
MONDAY, JULY 119:30 a.m.|Tellers|PR12:30 p.m.|Tai Chi Class|SLR4:30 p.m.|Finance Committee|PR6 p.m.|Executive Committee|RS
TUESDAY, JULY 128:30 a.m.|Standing Together Steering Committee|Rm 2019:30 a.m.|Staff Meeting|PR10 a.m.|Church of Common Ground Staff|Room 20110:30 a.m.|Clergy Meeting|RS1 p.m.|Common Soles 1 p.m.|Evangelism Steering Committee|SLR3 p.m.|Continuum of Care|HR
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 Deadline for the August 1 Shepherd’s Voice 10:15 a.m.|Dream Group|LI
THURSDAY, JULY 14 10 a.m.|Staff Weekend Update|PR10 a.m.|Stained Glass Tour|CH12 p.m.|Grief Support Group|LI++7 p.m.|Tower Bells Rehearsal|BT
SATURDAY, JULY 2 9 a.m.|Flower Guild|Church9 a.m.|HY-DY Yoga Teacher Training|St. Luke Room
SUNDAY, JULY 38 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite I8:40 a.m.|Nursery opens9 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite II10:15 a.m.|Coffee Hour|PH11:15 a.m.|Holy Eucharist, Rite II12:15 p.m.|Farewell Reception for David Wagner|PH
MONDAY, JULY 4Church offices closed.
TUESDAY, JULY 5 9:30 a.m.|Staff Meeting|PR9:30 a.m.|Tellers | Room 20510:30 a.m.|Clergy Meeting|RS1 p.m.|Common Soles
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6 9:30 a.m.|Shepherd’s Voice Mail Prep|Room 20110:15 a.m.|Dream Group|LI
THURSDAY, JULY 710 a.m.|Staff Weekend Update|PR7 p.m.|Tower Bells Rehearsal|BT
FR IDAY, JULY 87 p.m.|Faith & Film|OS
SATURDAY, JULY 9 9 a.m.|Flower Guild|CH9 a.m.|HY-DY Yoga Teacher Training|SLR
Most Requested
Items at MAC
also needed especially during the summer months:
box fans and deodorant
A complete wish list for the food pantry is online:stlukesatlanta.org/mac
Mac & cheese Peanut butter & jelly Breakfast/snack bars
Cereal Canned meat
Canned pineapple
Midtown Assistance Center provides services to help prevent homelessness and hunger among the working poor in our community. St. Luke’s is one of its found-ing churches. In July, we’re filling the Outreach baskets with items to stock the food pantry at MAC.
Members of the congregation (high school age and above), friends, and visitors are all cordially invited to sing as part of the choir without a long-term commitment. This is a great op-portunity to make new friends, enjoy the music in a different way, and enhance the liturgy. The three basic prerequisites are: 1) some ability to read music; 2) some previous choral expe-rience; and 3) the ability to match pitch. No advance sign-up is required but you must attend the rehearsal on Sunday one hour before service time in the Choir Room. That’s 8 a.m. if you’d like to join the choir for the 9 a.m. service, and 10:15 a.m. for the 11:15 a.m. service. If you have questions or would like more information, contact Charles Higgs ([email protected] | 404-873-7634).
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From time to time, St. Luke’s publishes names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and photos of church members in the church bulletin, newsletter, directory and other church communications. As a policy, we will not use names with photos of children.
If you do not want us to use your infor-mation in communications, please email David Lowry, Parish Administrator at:
1 Susan Reid Caroline Rogers 2 Paulette Stewart Cindy Tabb Rob Dennis David Culp 3 Hal Daniel Stacey Lorish Allyson Stewart 4 Katherine Arrington Howell Hollis Greg Rush Kathy Colbenson Hal Lawton Catherine Benedict Link Healan 5 Doris Smith Jo Hunsinger Libba McDonald Dawn Patterson Mark Stowers Blair Sullivan 5Chelsea Futterman Lily Muscarella 6 Bill Kinney Elizabeth Bouldin Shane Phillips Trey Vaught Hunter Budd Robert Rickman
7 Mike Howland Karen Vaught Lisa Dobbs Tracey Fooshee Jimmie Lebbos Luke Guberman8 Vic McNeil Elizabeth Stone Betsy Moore Joshua LaBruyere 9 Palmour McIntire Geraldine Bray Nancy Burnett Lori Rush Laura McDuffie Jonathan Okpala-Ezecha Laura Moore Susan Pound 10 Chip Patterson Luke Greene Scott Muir Paloma Osborne Fletcher Anderson11Marilyn Zapf Cornelia Bell 12 Mildred Miller Astrida Greco Pete Colbenson Jennifer Hill Ann Kimsey Wes Gaillard William Ezigbo
Wesley Ezigbo 13Lindsay Futterman Eva Petiot Asher Ebner 14 Cindy Skidmore Jane Hansen Jason Barringer Liz Bennett Lara Wooten Olden-burg Hank Samuels Clayton Harrington15 John Kelly Anne Mellen Clay Stone Gina Mooney Jones Allie Rust George Dobbs 16 Seth Mellen Billy Benedict Sallie Wilgus Ginna McFarling Brooks Rosenberg Dreagon Gilley Katie Watt Tinsley Julianna Strack Joseph Earles Abigail Tashlein 17 Glynn Jones Barbara Speaks Charles Slick Will Law Maggie Duncan
Eva Pound Arje’ Johnson 18 Rollin Mallernee Rhyne Cannon Ashby Lord Julie Shipp Ligia Perry Robert Jimison Virginia Thom Reynolds Jennings Conor Burby Audrey Bachmann Brody Bachmann Collin Bachmann Audrey Dean 19Earlyn Turner Kurt Ude Madelyn Turner Dean Griffin Chloe Raitt 20Patrick Wooten Robbie Whyte-Pierce Cynthia Alford Gloria Oraka Jackie Saylor Em Fougerousse21 Anne LeVan Ginny Ezigbo Sallie Duncan Philip Law Mara Jones Nelson Jones WillTemple
July Birthdays
22 Joe Thome English Toole Benning Ashley Taylor Marian Kalvert Maggie Norris Ike Hammond Anna Davis 23 Alan Yurchuck Barbara Pettway Terri Robertson Elizabeth Ledbetter Arch Davis Nadia Schenck 24 Paige Jones Jane Peacock Adelaide Cloyd Chris Cann Susanne Gibboney John Robert Kennedy William Lancaster25 Randy Sewell May Hollis Kippy Richberg Chris Phillips Anna Graettinger Miles Patterson26 Cherlyn Mitchell 27 Paige Girardot John Carel Audrey Mellen Leonard Hayes
We celebrate the lives that make up the community of St. Luke’s Church.
Deaths
Kaleb Mason 28 Portia Coyne Chad Hutchison Rebecca Graham Ryan Overbay Eden Rowe 29 Zane Dodd Tad Zelski Kathy Moore Tom Chapel Timothy Gunter Laura Kopp Andrew Copley Katie Lindsley Evan Cunningham 30 John Davis Patsy Alston Carole Gaillard Joni Tabb Gregory Johnson Andrew Miller Emma Jones 31 Shepard Ansley Jan Tillett Robert Hogg Winde Sullivan Griffin Fry Patrick Anderson James LaBruyere Hayleigh Messina
William Garrisonuncle of Dennis Patterson, Jr.
Chuck Jonesbrother of Susan Willson
Peggy Foxaunt of Robert Kennedy
Births
Blake Lewis Ammons
Young
son of
Peden and Liz Young
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WE’RE BUILDING A HOUSE!St. Luke’s is excited to announce its fifth Habitat build this August and September. We are participating in Habitat’s Interfaith Build, which means we will join with other faith communities in our city. Because this build is interfaith, volunteers will work on Sundays. We have currently committed to sending 5 volunteers one Sunday, and 5 volunteers another Sunday, though specific dates are still being selected. Volunteers must be 16 or older. Each volunteer will be asked to contribute between $50-100 to cover building expenses, and St. Luke’s will cover the distance. Scholarships available. Please let Mo. Lauren Holder know if you are interested, and stay tuned for more details this summer!
SUMMER READING: JUST MERCYAuthor and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson will be visiting St. Luke’s on September 29, and we’re doing our homework. The Outreach team is inviting St. Luke’s to read along with us this summer. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction. Archbishop Desmond Tutu says, “Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all. Just Mercy should be read by people of conscience in every civilized country in the world to discover what happens when revenge and retri-bution replace justice and mercy. It is as gripping to read as any legal thriller, and what hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation.” You heard the Bishop—go grab Just Mercy and read with us this summer! Email Mo. Lauren Holder ([email protected]) for more information.
Crossroads has a new executive director. Tony
Johns, chief operating offi-cer of City of Refuge, begins his tenure as executive director July 1.
“We are simply thrilled with this ap-pointment,” notes St. Luke’s parishioner and Crossroads board chair Wayne Vason. “Over the past 16 years, Stan Dawson and his team built a gratifying reputation for combining compassion, accountability and dignity in service to the homeless among us. Tony Johns’ record with one of our key partners, the City of Refuge, along with his lifelong pattern of service to others, have prepared him superbly for this opportunity.”
Tony has significant experience in operations, fundraising and program management gained within a variety of nonprofit and faith-based organizations in Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, California and Utah, many of which serve the needs of the homeless. Over the past seven years with City of Refuge in northwest Atlanta, Tony
has been director of community involve-ment, chief development officer and, most recently, chief operating officer.
He joins a talented, hard-working staff at Crossroads, led by Dominic Heard in the months since Stan’s retirement, and he seems to understand what a unique orga-nization he is joining. “I have experienced first-hand the impact of Crossroads’ work with some of the most vulnerable people in our community,” Tony says. “I am humbled by the board’s vote of confidence and look forward to working with the committed staff and volunteers as together we collab-orate with others in service to people in need.”
The search for a new executive director for Crossroads encompassed over 100 area leaders, many with direct experience serv-ing the disadvantaged. “After several rounds of interviews with a number of highly inter-esting candidates,” says Wayne, “the search committee concluded unanimously that Tony Johns combined just the right blend of experience, passion and ministerial ground-
ing to help lead our organization to even greater impact in service to our guests and to the larger community.”
A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, Tony is an ordained minister with the Church of God. He, his wife Ange-la and their two children reside in Douglasville.
In 2015 Crossroads:
•Served over 4,200 homeless persons, almost half of whom were women and children•Provided 60,000 meals from Clyde’s Kitchen, open six days a week•Secured 6,500 MARTA passes for employment and emergency medical purposes•Provided mailing addresses and state I.D.s or birth certificates to nearly 3,500 guests.
New Executive Director at Crossroads
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The Abundant L i fe of S t . Luke ’ s
“Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, St. Luke’s welcomes you.”
Pastoral Crisis or Concerns?Call Beth Elliott at 404-873-7610, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., weekdays: X To connect with our Pastoral Care staff for such things as illness, hospitalization, miscarriage, divorce, unemployment;X To add a name to our parish prayer list or;X To have someone placed on the St. Luke’s Intercessory Prayer list to be prayed for daily.
After-hours & on weekends, call the church at 404-873-7600 to get the name and number of the priest on call.
May God bless you and comfort you in your difficult times as well as your joyful ones.
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Wednesday, June 28by noon.
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Bowling at Midtown Bowl Saturday, August 6
10 a.m.-12 p.m
Movie at the Fox TheaterWillie Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory Saturday, August 20
Join adults and kids of all ages as St. Luke’s goes to the 6th Annual Atlanta Ice Cream Festival. We’ll gather in the meadow at Pied-mont Park from 11 AM to 1 PM to visit, listen to music, watch the children play and, most important, eat lots of ice cream. Admission is free and your only expense will be deter-mined by the amount of ice cream you can eat! Sign up online or at the Reception Desk by Wednesday, July 20.
When is the last time you picked up a bowling ball? That’s why we thought it would be fun to sponsor a morning get-together at Midtown Bowl. No skill is necessary and all you need to bring is a fun-loving attitude. Bumpers, which take away the gutters, are an option so we wel-come adults and kids to join us for a great time. Please sign up online or at the Reception Desk by Wednesday, August 3.
Details as we get closer -- we might meet for supper first. We’ll let you know!
PLEASE Sign Up on Sundays
in the Reception Area or online:StLukesAtlanta.org
Take the edge off of Atlanta’s long, hot summer by hanging out with friends from St. Luke’s.
Atlanta Ice Cream Festival at Piedmont Park Saturday, July 23
11 a.m.-1 p.m.
