Join our new
20's and 30's
social and discussion
group!

 

 

---

Pilgrimage to Israel 2009
(click for details)

---

 

• This Week at St. James' July 1-8, 2008  Sunday, July 6 - Summer Church Schedule:     7:45 a.m. Rite I   8:10 a.m. breakfast (as usual)   9:00 a.m. Sunday School classes    9:00 a.m. Choir rehearsal to prepare for St. James' weekend  10 a.m. Rite II     Saturday night service and Wednesday Healing Service will continue at 5:30  p.m.

  This Week at St. James'. Keep our youth in your prayers this week - they are on a mission trip down in Macon, GA with Gina Duncan and Joseph and Suzanne Shippen.  They will return on July 4th. Thursday, July 3, 7:30 p.m. Pride Eucharist with Bishop Whitmore at All Saint's in Atlanta. The Men's Club will be selling parking space on Friday, July 4.  Please plan to support the Men's Club by coming down to celebrate the holiday, watching the parade (starts at 10 a.m.) and shopping on the Square at the various vendors.  It is always a lot of fun!  There will be concerts on the Square at noon, 7 p.m. & 8 p.m. You are all more than welcome to gather at the church and watch the fireworks too - the best view is from the back porch (facing the Polk Street parking lot). Fireworks start about 9:30 p.m.     We had a wonderful response to our Bone Marrow donor search - 108 people signed up to become bone marrow donors!  If you were out of town and would still like to participate, we have some extra kits available.  It is a mouth swab, so no pricks or needles, just pay $25.00, swab the inside of your cheeks and you are done!  You can find out what being on the registry entails and who is eligible by going to www.marrow.org. (please note: go to org, not com) Note from Karen & Randy Payne: Randy and I want to thank everyone who participated in the marrow donor drive last Sunday. We appreciate those who decided to join the registry as well as those who offered their financial and personal support. The drive resulted in over 100 people getting listed on the national registry and Randy and I are extremely grateful for St. James' part in making the drive happen.  Thank you again, Karen Payne   Our first Pray and Play was terrific.  It was a round-robin tennis tournament on Sunday morning at Laurel Park.  Bill Evans came and said morning prayer, then promptly kicked everyone's tail on the courts!  We had plenty of players with all range of experience and next time would like to fill up six courts, rather than 3. We had great weather (overcast and cool) and plenty of food to eat! Planning another one in August - let me know if you are interested. The July Server schedule is here: http://www.stjamesmarietta.com/wordupdates/images/July_2008_servers.pdf DID YOU KNOW that you can pay your pledge on-line?  If you cannot make it to summer services, please continue to pay your pledge - just go to this link.  If you have any questions, call the church office - 770-428-5841 and speak to Andrea. https://public.serviceu.com/payment/default.asp?OrgID=9400&PaymentID=1688 Food Drive continues through the summer - look for grocery cart in foyer of Parish Hall. Special thanks to Don McQueen, who comes once a week to take the items over to MUST.  Believe me, that cart fills up every week.  Thank you! For those of you who asked, the book Karen mentioned on Saturday night is called The Five Books of Moses by Everett Fox (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1).  Keep these dates open: July 13 - 11 a.m Farewell party for Joseph & Suzanne Shippen, Parish Hall. PRAY AND PLAY OFFERINGS: July 13, White Water Rafting down the Ocoee River, need your money, if you haven't already paid. Currently the cost is $38.00, if we get more than 20 rafters, the cost will go down to $34.00 per person.please pay the church before July 8, which will reserve you a spot in the raft. Would like to have more rafters.  Please let me know if you are interested in going, but the reason why you are not signed up (money, bad weekend, transportation, scared to death of white water, etc) - I will try to help resolve issues.   July 20, 10 am. Parish Family Pool Party -Walker's Ridge Subdivision Marietta, 2111 Breconridge Road.  11 a.m. Hamburgers & hot dogs on the grill. Bring sides to share. Because the bulletins do not have room for birthdays & anniversaries, we are listing them here. Birthdays:  July 1 - July 8 Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Jared Fortenberry, Eleanor All, Sol Putzel, Ann Tennant, Jeanne Chadha, Jon Tucker, Brandes Stoddard, Jane Stoddard, Karen Griffin, Carla Mills, Clay Robblee, Alex Clay, Charley Heilker, Jennifer Oberholtzer, Amanda Breeden, Eric Biddy, Jack Frazer, Amanda Gantek, Grace Cornish, Kate McConnaughey, Carol Fenley, Katie Dater, Pat Zander, Kimberly Watson, Patrick Mangold, Zach Schroeder, Charles Setzer (90)!!!, Evelyn Sohn, Starr Johnson, Stephanie McKinnell, Tyler Wood, Abednego Gyamfi. Anniversaries: July 1 - July 8 Susan & Richard Mangold, Joanne, & Bob Walsh, Jill & Brady Knight, Oleada & Bill Warden, Peggy & Lee Cleveland, Betty & Leon Haverly, Christine & Rob Galpin,  Anne & John Hayes. We are keeping track of our attendance this summer, particularly watching how many attend the 10 a.m. service and comparing it to the past two years 9 & 11:15 a.m. services combined.  We thought everyone would like to see the numbers.  This past Sunday, June 29, we had 254 people in attendance (plus 17 playing tennis!) the same Sunday in 2006, combined 9 & 11:15 there were 227, and in 2007, 245. Running club continues, Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. - meet in the small parking lot. Tai Chi will resume on July 26th! Found:  No claims to toe ring or bracelet, now I have LOTS of umbrella's from Sunday.  Not sure if they were left after the service, but they were found in the Parish Hall, so they could have been left from the bone marrow donor search. Also, Polaroid photo of St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Carrollton, GA.  Michael Campion went through some effort to identify the church in the picture - will someone now please claim it? Let us know what's on your summer reading list! Thank you,