The Summer of Awesome--The Home Stretch

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.

What's Inside?

Beer and Hymns

Yoga at All Saints'

Chef Needed

Attention, Ladies!

School Supply Drive

Potluck Eucharist

News from Southeast Mexico

Wheel of Awesome: Summer Salons

Inquirers'/Newcomers' Conversations

News?

No more bags

Summer of "Awesome Music"

Prayers and Thanksgivings

Calendar

Quick Links

All Saints' Calendar

All Saints' and RCS Check Requests

All Saints' Sermons on the Web (now with audio!)

Assisting in Worship on Sunday

Ushers

9am- Juleigh Ruby

11am- Bill McHugh and Penny Johnson

Chalice

9am- Jack Clark, Norm Linde

11am- Connie Wilson, Bill Shropshire

Prayers

9am- Juleigh Ruby

11am- Bill Shropshire

Reading(s)

9am- Chris Nelson

11am- Bill Shropshire(1st) and Scottie Caldwell(2nd)

Acolytes

9am- Linnea Jones, Bryce Flint, Isabel Conde

11am- Naomi Mayes, Evan Calabrese

Coffee Hour

Julie Allen

11am Altar Guild

Connie Wilson

Counters

Beth Lee and Christy Drackett

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

Dear Friends,

A special shout-out to our very own Alex Gee who was selected as a Stephen J. Brady Stop Hunger Honoree. This honor recognizes dedicated students from across the United States who are making a difference by fighting hunger in their local communities. Alex was awarded a $1,000.00 grant by the Sodexo foundation and has asked that it be donated to Ravenswood Community Services (RCS), the food pantry and community kitchen here at All Saints'.

Congratulations, Alex, and thank you from all of us at RCS.

This Sunday we have more wonderful worship music. Gwen Pippen and the "Amen, Brother Ben!" singers from the Old Town

School of Folk Music will be with us.

Please mark your calendars now for our annual "Backpack Blessing" which we be held at the 9 and 11:00 a.m. services on Sunday September 18.

See you all on Sunday,

Rev. Fran Holliday

Beer and Hymns Friday, August 26 at 7pm
Beer. (and other equally attractive non-alcoholic beverages) Hymns. Beer and Hymns. Friday, August 26 at 7pm at The Grafton, 4530 N. Lincoln We'll get together, enjoy food and beverages (dutch treat) and sing hymns. This is guaranteed to be the most fun you've ever had on a Friday night. RSVP via the Facebook event here.

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.

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.

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.

Ravenswood School Supply Drive, Sponsored by the All Saints Youth Group! (ASYG)

Our youth group would like to ask for your participation in a school supply drive for Ravenswood School!

WHO: Many of the 6th, 7th and 8th grade children will come to Ravenswood school without any basic supplies to start the school year. In fact, most of the middle schoolers are on free or reduced lunch, which means they live in a low income household. There are about 40 children per class, and we'd like to set them up for a great start to the school year!

WHEN: In the next 4 weeks, we'd like to collect the needed supplies so that we can present them to the Ravenswood School representatives at the Backpack Blessing on Sunday, September 18.

WHAT WE NEED:

Spiral Notebooks

Composition Notebooks

Loose Leaf Paper

Two Pocket Folders

Pens

Pencils (#2)

Index Cards

Hand Held Pencil Sharpeners

Scotch Tape

Glue Stick/Elmers Glue

Highlighters

Binders

Three Hole Punch

Rulers

Scissors

Small Staplers

Pencil Bags/Cases

Copy Paper---Lots and lots of copy paper!

WHERE: Please drop off your donations in the back of the church near the front doors. There are several containers that say RAVENSWOOD SCHOOL DONATIONS.

Thank you so very much for your time and efforts in supporting this most important neighborhood ministry.

Please contact Beth Lee at Blee@jny.com with any questions!

Peace,

ASYG

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.

If you'd like to help shape the liturgy- the framework and common prayer for our time together, contact Fran Holliday (fran@allsaintschicago.org) or Jack Clark (jack@allsaintschicago.org)

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.

News from Santa Maria Virgen and the Diocese of Southeast Mexico

Dave and Karen, facilitators of our partner parish relationship in the Diocese of Southeast Mexico, have asked us to keep our relationship with Santa María Virgen and the rest of the Diocese of Southeast Mexico in our prayers this Sunday. See below for highlights of their trip so far and read more on our website.

We have now been in Mexico nearly three weeks. Highlights of our trip include:

A visit to Mission San Pedro in Arroyo Zacate, where we attended a baptism and Sunday Mass and visits to two missions in Chiapas, one in San Cristobal and the other in the small, mainly indigenous village of Yochib. We continue to be impressed with the work that the clergy and lay Anglicans are doing in the Diocese of Southeast Mexico under very challenging conditions.

In a couple of days we will continue on to Xalapa to meet with Bishop Benito and our friends at Iglesia Santa María Virgen. On Sunday, we will be in the congregation when Bayron Chanchanac, a former Roman Catholic priest, will be received into the Anglican Communion. In six months or so he will be received as an Anglican priest and will take over as the new leader at Santa María. Please keep him, Bishop Benito and the faithful of Santa María Virgen in your prayers.

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,

adultformation@allsaintschicago.org or call Jeanne Wirpsa @ 773-316-6936.

ADULT FAITH EXPLORATIONS:
Inquirers/Newcomers Conversations

Are you new to All Saints' and/or the Episcopal Church? Do you just want to find out more about our faith tradition? Would you like to join the Episcopal Church?

Join Bonnie and others for a whirlwind tour of the Anglican/Episcopal tradition, and what it might mean to be people of faith in our own time.

We'll gather on 5 Wednesday evenings, beginning September 7, at 7pm for a light dinner and our weekly session, ending promptly at 8:30.

ALL are welcome. If you're interested in participating, please RSVP. Questions and RSVPs can be sent to Beau in the Parish Office at beau@allsaintschicago.org or 773-561-0111.

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!

Summer of "Awesome Music"

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

Erin Marshall, Soloist, singing the Welsh hymn "Calon Lân," a hymn often associated with Welsh rugby union, being sung before almost every Test match involving the Welsh national team.

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.

Community Prayers and In Thanksgiving

If you'd like to have someone included in our community prayers,
please email prayerlist@allsaintschicago.org or call the Parish Office at 773-561-0111.

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 prayers

Stan 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

Birthdays

8/14- Annie Logue, Penny Penniston, Anton Pulung-Hartanto, Ashley Thom

8/15- Barbara Dufford, Ethan Hughes

8/16- Anne Cadigan, John Dickson, Rosie Hernandez, Todd Hoskins, Lauren Yekulis

8/17- Zoe Wechsler

8/18- Maureen Kupstas

8/20- Shelly Burke, William Hulst, Gabriel Lopez

Anniversaries

8/16- Jerry and Stephanie Eichhorst; Harriet and Neal Lee

8/17- David and Karen