Coffee Hour Sign Up: July & August
We are taking sign ups for coffee hour during the months of July and August. The Sign Up sheet is by the coffee outside Church on Sunday. You can also email the office to sign up for a Sunday.
Someone please sign up for July 23, 7:45 & 10:15. This will cover all the Sundays Fr. Bob is away on vacation.
Sign Ups Needed: 7:45 Service: July 23, August 6, 13, 20, 27
10:15 Service: July 23, August 6, 13, & 20
Summer Sunday School:
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd finished last Sunday. For Sundays during the summer, Gillian Cox Askew will lead a Sunday School class for children in Church during those Sundays. It will include Bible stories and craft activities.
Emmaus Road: Monday, June 26, 7:00 p.m.
Emmaus Road concludes the book, Simple Gifts: Living Lessons From a Shaker Villiage, by June Sprigg. For July and August we will be looking a movies as a source of reflection on our lives. At this coming meeting we’ll discuss and choose the movies we’d like to see this summer. Please join the conversation and help pick out what we’ll see.
Religious Potential of the Child: Thursday, June 21, 7:00 p.m.
Fr. Bob will lead a group in reading The Religious Potential of the Child, by Sofia Cavalletti. This is the foundational text for our spiritual formation program for our children called The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. This reading group is for people seeking to understand more deeply how the life of faith develops in children and how adults can facilitate, that is cooperate with God in what he is doing in the depths of their children. The group will meet in Fr. Bob’s office. This coming Thursday we’ll have an overview of the book and some demonstrations of the insights contained in it. Fr. Bob has books available. Get a hold of him if you need one.
The Financial Page
We are coming close to the end of the 2nd Quarter. During the week after Sunday, June 25, Giving Statements will be mailed out to give you a record of your giving to COA so far this year. If necessary, please bring your pledge up to date so the parish finances are sufficient to meet our expenses in the summer.
Food For Thought
That bastion of Liberal, Secular Humanism, The New Yorker, in their current issue has an in depth article on St. Augustine and the development of the idea of Original Sin, and why our sexuality is so fraught that we’ll never get it right until the Parousia. It’s a very good piece and once again, a normal, general interest magazine simply assumes that in our culture, educated people whether religious or not, have the background knowledge to participate in this conversation which has been so influential in the development of Western thought. The article is entitled, The Invention of Sex and it will be on the Food For Thought Table this Sunday. (And Fr. Bob will probably have some supplementary comments in Tales of Anglicanism)
Looking Far Ahead: Annual Parish Retreat: October 13-15 2017
Once again we’ll have our Annual Parish Retreat the Second Weekend in October at Camp Thousand Pines in Crestline. This is one of the most fun events of our parish life. Participants have the option of staying at the camp. We have rooms for each family group. People may also stay in Crestline and come on site for the program. Camp Thousand Pines is also close enough (1 ¼ hour from COA) that people can come up for the day. The Annual Parish Retreat gives us a chance to spend quality time with each other and deepen our connections in a deeper way than our regular parish activities. Everyone always has a wonderful time at the Parish Retreat so we make the announcement now to give everyone the best possible opportunity to attend.
SO PUT THIS ON YOUR CALENDAR SO YOU KNOW IT’S COMING AND SO IT DOESN’T SNEAK UP ON YOU.