This week in the Summer of Awesome! The summer of awesome is a time to connect with others, a time to enjoy each other's company, a time for rest and renewal. It is a time to be rather than a time to do. |
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Assisting in Worship on Sunday
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Ushers
9am- Lydia Carr and Juleigh Ruby
11am- Michelle Mayes
Chalice
9am- Mike Mattson, Mike Burke, Courtney Reid
11am- Jack Clark, Barb Dufford
Prayers
9am- Lydia Carr
11am- Matty Zaradich
Reading(s)
9am- Liza Reynolds
11am- Lynda Hazen(1st) and Michelle Mayes (2nd)
Acolytes
9am- Charlotte Maddox, Sam DuBose, Angelica Flint
11am- Eric Edstrom, Sam Wischnewsky
Coffee Hour
Pam Palmentera
11am Altar Guild
Barb Dufford
Counters
Michelle Mayes and Lynda Hazen
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Office and Staff
Contact Info | All Saints'
Episcopal Church
Parish Office Phone:
773-561-0111
Fax:
773-561-1998
The Rev. Bonnie A. Perry,
Rector: bonnie@
allsaintschicago.org
The Rev. Fran Holliday,
Associate Rector:
fran@
allsaintschicago.org
Beau Surratt,
Associate for Music and Administration:
beau@
allsaintschicago.org
Jack Clark,
Seminarian:
jack@
allsaintschicago.org
Ravenswood
Community Services
Office Phone:
773-769-0282
Wendy Vasquez,
Executive Director:
wendy@
ravenswoodcommunityservices.org
The Rev. Fran Holliday,
Program Director: fran@
ravenswoodcommunityservices.org
Liz Embler,
Volunteer Coordinator/
Julian Year Intern liz@
ravenswoodcommunityservices.org
Jack Clark,
Program Assistant: jack@allsaintschicago.org |
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Dear Friends,
I hope that all of you are having a wonderful summer and taking some time for rest and relaxation. This Sunday we have a wonderful opportunity for you to be fed spiritually as we celebrate our Bluegrass Mass. Our very own Colby Maddox and his band Sunnyside Up will be with us. The Rev. Dr. Frank Yamada, President of McCormick Seminary will be our preacher.
Please mark your calendar for Wednesday August 31 at 6:30 p.m. We will be celebrating the "Summer of Awesome" as it comes to a close with a Potluck Dinner and Eucharist. This is an event for families, friends and children of all ages.
It is not to early to mark your calendar for upcoming events in the fall!
Sunday, September 18 is our Backpack Blessing at the 9 and 11:00 a.m. services.
We will also have the next All Saints Café that day and volunteers are needed to help prepare and serve a 5 star restaurant meal to our neighbors in need. Please contact the RCS volunteer coordinator Liz Embler at liz@ravenswoodcommunityservices.org.
If you should need anything, please do not hesitate to call the church office or you may contact me on my cell phone at 312-401-2058.
See you Sunday,
Rev. Fran Holliday
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Potluck Eucharist
Wednesday, August 31 at 6:30pm | |  Please join us as we bring the Summer of Awesome to a close by sharing a Potluck Meal and a Eucharist together.
We'll gather much like we do on Maundy Thursday, around delicious food prepared by members of the All Saints' community. We'll sing together, eat together, spend some time talking about Scripture and share together in the Eucharist-- in Communion--in God's holy meal of thanksgiving.
We'll make the liturgy together.
We'll make a dish together
If you'd have some time to get together a little earlier in the day, the staff will be making a dish together to contribute to the gathering. Contact Beau Surratt at beau@allsaintschicago.org if you'd like to help cook.
Bring yourself, your family and friends, and a dish to share. The church staff will provide the rest.
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Summer of "Awesome Yoga"
Three Monday Nights in August | | 
August 1, 8 and 15, 6:30-7:45pm in the Parish Hall
Certified Yoga teacher and All Saints' parishioner Ruth Frey will teach Gentle Yoga on Monday nights in August.
Join your friends and neighbors to
stretch, breathe and relax in the All Saints' parish hall during this summer of awesome. Bring a yoga mat if you have one or a blanket or sheet if you don't. 6:30 to 7:45 pm on August 1, August 8 and August 15.
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| Attention, All Saints' Ladies! | | 
ECW Retreat Planning Meeting
Last year's All Saints' ECW (Episcopal Church Women) fall retreat was an amazing opportunity to carve out Sabbath in our busy lives and connect with the fabulous women in our parish. ECW Fall Retreat 2.0 planning has begun! Do you have any ideas for this year's October 15-16 getaway? Please come to our first planning meeting on Wednesday, August 17th at 8pm! We will meet at Julius Meinl at Lincoln and Montrose; please RSVP to Elizabeth Shapiro, ecw@allsaintschicago.org!
Boat Trip! Ladies! Sail away with ECW on our last Summer of Awesome outing! Join us on Thursday, August 25th as we cast off from Navy Pier and head out on Shoreline Chicago's nighttime architectural cruise! We will be meeting at 8:15pm at the Shoreline Chicago dock on the southwestern end of Navy Pier. Tickets range from $25-30, and scholarship funds are available. To purchase tickets in advance and get more information, please email Elizabeth Shapiro at ecw@allsaintschicago.org, or call 773-680-0987. |
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Wheel of Awesome: Summer Salons
CHILDCARE AVAILABLE | | 
Bring your lawnchair, open mind and heart, and longing to connect deeply with others. Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30 pm (June 29th-August 17th) on the northeast lawn of the church we will join in small groups to discuss spiritual topics of relevance to our lives. Each week we will spin the wheel to see where our discussion will land: "How does social networking impact our spiritual lives?" "Can we unplug and still connect?" "What REALLY counts as sin?" "Is a playful piety an oxymoron?" "What do the Bad Girls of the Bible have to say to us today?"
No Wheel of Fortune experience necessary to participate. No previous lawnchair theology required. No lawnchair required -- bring a blanket. Come, relax, make new friends, and enliven your faith this summer!
Childcare is available. If you want to know more,
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| Several ways to get your All Saints' news | |  Via Facebook and Twitter Up-to-the-minute updates and interesting things from all sorts of sources are posted via our Facebook and Twitter accounts. The best part about social media is that all of us can post items and engage in conversation about what is posted! You can also view our recent Facebook posts on each page of our website at http://www.allsaintschicago.org.
Via This Weekly Newsletter and Midweek Updates Each Friday afternoon, we send out this email newsletter that contains information about everything we know of that is coming up at All Saints'. The deadline for submitting items for this newsletter is Wednesday at 5pm. Additional reminders and other news not included in the Friday email are occasionally sent out mid-week on an as-needed basis. You can sign up for this email list by using the link at the bottom of the newsletter, at our website here or by emailing Beau in the office at beau@allsaintschicago.org. Via the Website Information about some upcoming events is conveyed via the scrolling pictures on the homepage of our website (all of them are links to more information), www.allsaintschicago.org. The weekly email newsletter is also posted on the website here and the calendar is here. Other resources, such as information about various ministries, staff contact info, pledge and donation info and liturgical ministers schedules are also available via the website.
In Print
If you're a person who prefers to get the news in print, we have a way for you to stay updated as well! We've always provided a print version of the All Saints' news in the weekly worship booklet, but recently, in an effort to save paper, the environment and money (not necessarily in that order) and to avoid duplication of work, we've begun to provide a limited number of paper copies of our email newsletter to satisfy our need for a paper newsletter. As you leave church on Sunday or during the week, you can find (color!) copies of the email newsletter at the main Hermitage Ave. entrance to the church, at the entrance near Bonnie and Beau's office and at the ramp entrance to the church. Feel free to take one so you can stay informed of all the latest news from All Saints'.
Feedback? As always, if you have feedback about ways we could communicate more effectively at All Saints', especially as it concerns the day-to-day news and notifications, please speak to Beau Surratt or any member of the staff or email Beau at beau@allsaintschicago.org. |
| Please, no more bags! | |
The Ravenswood Community Services (RCS) food pantry has enough plastic bags to last us until the second coming! Thank you for your bag donations, please note that we are no longer accepting bag donations!
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| Chef Needed! | | 
Three times a year, Ravenswood Community Services (RCS) transforms its weekly Community Kitchen into the "All Saints' Cafe," an amazing fine dining experience for our hungry neighbors. More than 100 volunteers come together to plan, shop, decorate, cook and serve this remarkable meal inspired by Chicago's top restaurants.
The All Saints' Café team is looking for a volunteer chef to lend his/her talents to this fall's edition of the Café, tentatively scheduled for September 11 (the date is flexible, depending on chef availability). Volunteer chef duties include working with the volunteer team to establish a theme, develop a menu, write a shopping list and oversee prep and cooking the weekend of the café. Click here for more information about the volunteer chef position or contact Fran Holliday by email or at 773-769-0282.
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| Summer of "Awesome Music" |
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Sunday, August 7
Bluegrass Mass with Colby Maddox and Sunnyside Up
Sunday, August 14
Gwen Pippin and The "Amen, brother Ben!" Singers from the Old Town School of Folk Music
Sunday, August 21
Penny Johnson, Pianist, at the 11am service, playing a piece by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin
Sunday, August 28
Kathy Flint, Cellist Juleigh Ruby, Lori Gee, Beau Surratt and Ken Jones in a quartet, singing Thomas Tallis's "If Ye Love Me," a beautiful (and relatively popular) piece from 16th century Tudor England.
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Community Prayers and In Thanksgiving
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Our prayer list began anew on August 1. If there are names of people whom you'd like for the community to remember in prayer that you'd like to remain on the list or be added to the list, please emailprayerlist@allsaintschicago.org or call the office at 773-561-0111.
For our prayersStan Strickland, Carolyn Cooney, Margaret McHugh, Michael Krause, Brian Meyer, Meredith's Brother, Carol Smith, Randy Davis, Pat Ford, Madeline, Andrew and Owen, The family of Steve Pocztowski, Jennifer Christy, Steve and Ann Walk, Jane and Bryan, Judy Jones, Marian
And also
For all individuals and families in our city affected by violence
For our brothers and sisters in Southern Sudan
The people of the Middle East
The people of St. Luke's, New Orleans
The people of the Diocese of Renk, Sudan, especially St. Peter's, Geiger
The people of the Diocese of Southeast Mexico, especially Santa Maria Virgen, Xalapa
Blessings
We rejoice with Tim and Sandra Gray, whose son, Henry Louis Lehr Gray, was born on July 28!
Birthdays
8/7- Jeff Catalano, Julie Cutler, James Mattson
8/9- Karen Howe
8/10- Brenda Tkacz
8/11- Sandra Gray
8/12- Isabel Hoskins, Michelle Hughes, Rebecca Russell, Bobbie Sanjuro-Torres
Anniversaries
8/7- Tom Heaney and Nancy Kaszak
8/12- Mike Kozubek and Mary Swanton
8/13- Mark Miliotto and Beth Taylor
For Those Who Have Died
We remember John Gabriel, brother-in-law of Dave Howe, who died on July 30.
We remember all of the people killed in Southern Sudan this week.
We remember all of the people killed in Iraq and Afghanistan this week.
May their soul and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
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Calendar for the Week
All people are welcome at all scheduled meetings at All Saints'.
Calendar items indicated in red refer to miscellaneous space use
rather than scheduled All Saints' meetings and events.
Items in blue refer to office information and deadlines.
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Friday, August 5
7:00p Space Use- Meeting in Parish Hall
Sunday, August 7- Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
8:00a Inclusive Language Eucharist (Church)
8:45a Childcare for children 3 and under (Nursery)
9:00a Bluegrass Mass (Church)
10:00a Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
11:00a Bluegrass Mass (Church)
12:00p Going Away Party for Hilary Waldron (Parish Hall)
4:00p Space Use- Reading Room
6:30p Yoga in the Parish Hall
4:00p Community Eucharist (Church)
5:30p Community Kitchen/Pantry (Everywhere)
Wednesday, August 10
12:30p RCS Cooking Matters Classes (Kitchen and Basement Classroom)
5:00p Deadline for Friday Email and Sunday Bulletin Submissions
7:00p The Wheel of Awesome: Summer Salons (Front Lawn)
Friday, August 12
7:00p Space Use- Meeting in Parish Hall
Saturday, August 13
8:30a RCS Market Pantry (Ravenswood School Parking Lot)
10:00a RCS Cooking Team in Kitchen
10:00a Buildings and Grounds Committee Meeting (B&B Lobby)
Sunday, August 14- 9th Sunday after Pentecost
8:00a Inclusive Language Eucharist (Church)
8:45a Childcare for children 3 and under (Nursery)
9:00a Holy Eucharist: Rite II (Church)
10:00a Coffee Hour (Parish Hall)
11:00a Holy Eucharist: Rite II (Church)
Please contact Beau in the Parish Office at beau@allsaintschicago.org or 773-561-0111 to have an event or meeting added to the church's calendar. All meetings/events MUST be added to the calendar to ensure that the meeting/event has space reserved for it.
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beau@allsaintschicago.org
Announcements need to be received by close of
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Sunday bulletin. We reserve the right to edit all
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