Calendar - August 2008

August 3, 2008—Pentecost 12, Proper 13

Nehemiah 9:16-20
Psalm 78:14-20, 23-25
Romans 8:35-39
Matthew 14:13-21

 
Altar Flowers:   Chris Dollard, Sandra Curtis
Communion Bread:  Pam Berthelot
Maggie’s Sexton:  Open- Chad Cumming ;   Close– Tom Strother

 

8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Greeters Dave & Linda Fritz Skip Cochran & Jan Thames Melanie MacNicol Gwyneth Erxleben Lector Milwee Family Jan Stannard—1st Lesson Donnal Walter—Psalm Abbie Jones—2nd Lesson  Judy Trice—1st Lesson Bill Trice—2nd Lesson Intercessor  Milwee Family Skip Cochran Chad Cumming Jr LEM       Visitor         Sacristans  Chloe & Paul Langston  Nancy Daniels NEEDED Joyce Graham Sandra Curtis Acolytes None St Matthew Team: Pete, Sean & Thomas Alexander St Matthew Team: Scott Smith Sarah Cumming NEEDED Oblationers None Skip Cochran & Jan Thames Chad Cumming Jr. Family Ushers Drew Phillips Skip Cochran Dick  Babeu  Michael Campbell NEEDED Sound None None Austin Grimes

Sundays, beginning June 1, 2008

6:30 p.m.

A true “come as you are!” If you’re coming back from a weekend at the beach or from work in the garden, wear your swimsuit and coverup or garden clothes! Music will be very simple and easy to sing.

This worship service will follow the Lecto Divina style:  rather than a formal sermon, there will be a reading of the scripture, a silent time to contemplate the reading, a second reading of the scripture, then a brief discussion of what God is telling you through that reading. The service will conclude with Holy Eucharist.

Children are invited to attend the service.
There will not be childcare.

“In Lecto Divina, the idea is to read a short passage of scripture and let a word or phrase catch your attention. Lecto Divina is not scripture study. It is a form of prayerful meditation where you literally try to let go and let God lead you to something. The hard part for somebody like me is to not analyze the passage, but to let it flow over me, to float on God’s Word and to be still and listen.

I once read that a passage of scripture you read in Lecto Divina can be likened to being in a dark room. There are many doors in this room, but God wants you to walk through a particular one at this particular moment in your life. So, how do you find your door? As you read the words from scripture, it is like following your way along the walls of this dark room, feeling for the edges of the door. When your attention becomes focused on a word or phrase, you have found your door. Now, you have to find the doorknob. Slowly, or quickly, depending on how God wants to gift you, you dwell on your word or phrase and the doorknob is discovered. It may take deeper
probing and letting go, but eventually the door will open, and you step through to something meant for you to learn.

(Note: Not every session of Lecto Divina will yield results. You have to let go and trust God that on some days, He will feed you the sweet fruit of consolation. It is up to God, not you. Don’t force anything. Persevere.)”

Borrowed from http://jounal.cowpi.com/2006/03/go

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Episco-Lunch

WEDNESDAYS in downtown Little Rock at the Rivermarket  May-September

Come have lunch with us from noon-1pm inside the Rivermarket on Wednesday.  Why the new day?  Well, there were so many of us last time we could not find somewhere to sit because of the farmer's market.  If you and some friends are looking for a group to eat lunch with come meet us at around noon.  Email Randall Curtis if you're coming and we will look for you.   We will be sitting inside with a nerdy Episcopal Shield--Table tent. 

August 10, 2008—Pentecost 13, Proper 14

Jonah 2:1-9
Psalm 29
Romans 9:1-5
Matthew 14:22-33

 
Altar Flowers:  Jennifer Rogers, Kathleen Connery
Communion Bread: Richard Schreiber
Maggie’s Sexton:  Open-Bob Alexander;   Close-Alf Williams

8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Greeters NEEDED Alan & Leigh Ann Bennett Toby & Kerri Sernel Brooke Augusta Owen Vivian Blair Lector Bob Joblin Mark Fortune—1st Lesson Elizabeth Coop—Psalm Griffin Coop—2nd Lesson Austin Grimes—1st Lesson Ann Grimes—2nd Lesson Intercessor Bob Joblin Lisa Bruno Chad Cumming Sr LEM        Visitor