FROM  THE  FIELD
News & Events of the Church in Georgia

July 31, 2012

 

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In This Issue
Diocesan Office Update
St. John's Moultrie
Christ Church Cordele
Ingeman Retires
St. Anne's Tifton
Fall Gathering
Flower Arranging
Cordele Relay for Life
Saints Madras and Seersucker
Gallery at St. Paul's
VBS Photos
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Hispanic/Latino Preaching Mission held 
at St. Paul's, Savannah 
San PabloFor the last three years, St. Paul's, Savannah has worked at building a ministry with the Hispanic/Latino Community in Savannah. In order to increase their efforts in Mission and Evangelism with the Hispanic/Latino Community in Savannah and the surrounding areas St. Paul's hosted a Preaching Mission during the week of July 22 - July 27. The Preaching Mission was called "Encounter with Christ 2012: Go and make disciples". Each evening the services focused on one part of our Baptismal promises as they explored how to live into the call of Jesus to "Go and make disciples."
 
San Pablo It was very exciting to have three visitors from our Companion Diocese of the Dominican Republic come to assist St. Paul's in the Mission. The Venerable Ram�n Antonio Garcia, Archdeacon of the Northern Region of the Dominican Republic, was joined by two seminarians from the Centro de Estudios Teol�gicos, Luis Garcia Correa and Jos� Martin Abreu. On Thursday evening, Bishop Skilton, retired Assistant Bishop of the Dominican Republic, joined us and gave a most enthusiastic sermon in both Spanish and English. 
 
The Misa en Espa�ol is held at St. Paul's Savannah every Sunday at 12:15pm and is led by The Reverend Charles Todd.

Diocesan Office Update

Bishop Benhase is on vacation through August 13.

 

Canon Logue is serving as a spiritual director for Happening this weekend at Honey Creek.

 

Canon Willoughby is compiling the data for the amount of each congregation's tithe for 2013 according to the average of the previous three years' Normal Operating Income as listed on Parochial Reports.

St. John's, Moultrie
Rector and Vestry Resign in Moultrie
On Sunday, July 29, the Rev. Will McQueen resigned as Rector of St. John's, Moultrie. That evening, all seven members of the vestry resigned. They worked out an orderly transition of the property back to the Diocese of Georgia. Bishop Benhase accepted the resignations and has named the Rev. Walter Hobgood as Vicar.
Christ Church, Cordele
Awards 4 Scholarships

Christ Church Cordele

Left to Right: Trent Holliday (Georgia Southern) Tripp Blackwell (Georgia Southern), Sara Crenshaw (Georgia Southwestern), Scott Reddick (Son of Dennis Reddick), Smokey Keeney (Tournament Chair), Debbie Keeney (Tournament Co-Chair)The Rev. Tom Arledge 

 

Every year, Christ Episcopal Church sponsors the Dennis Reddick Memorial Golf Tournament. The tournament gives the church the opportunity to raise money for local students needing extra money as they start their journey to college. This year the church was thrilled to award 4 scholarships. The receiptants were: Trent Holliday, to attend Georgia Southern; Tripp Blackwell, to attend Georgia Southern; Sara Crenshaw, to attend Georgia Southwestern and Shelby Walls to attend Georgia Southern.


Each student and their family members were invited to a special awards service on June 20th. The students were given their scholarships and acknowledgement. Afterwards, everyone joined in celebrating at Holmes Hall for appetizers and refreshments. They all have a great future ahead of them.
Congradulations, Good Luck & God Bless!

Christ Church, Valdosta 
The Rev. Peter Ingeman Retires
Ingemen Retirement
The Rev. Peter Ingeman retired July 29 from Christ Church, Valdosta. A reception on July 28 at Valdosta's Turner Center for the Arts for the Rev. Peter and Happy Ingeman, celebrating their ministry as rector at Christ Church, Valdosta from 2000 to 2012. Pictured above are Christ Church's Daughters of the King presenting the Ingeman's with gifts. 

Ingemen Retirement Ingeman preached his last service with Bishop Benhase celebrating. Bishop Benhase is seen embracing Ingeman during the peace (pictured right). After the service, all processed to the new education building, which was dedicated by Bishop Benhase in memory of Dr. William Montgomery Gabard (1922-2006), a beloved member of Christ Church Valdosta from 1948-2006. The building has 10,000 square feet. The rooms will be used for Christ Church's preschool, Sunday School classes, EYC meetings, and adult classes and other gatherings.

Ingemen Retirement The largest room in the Gabard Education Building was named for the Rev. Peter and Happy Ingeman in recognition of their ministry to Christ Church, Valdosta. 

After the dedication, everyone enjoyed a BBQ meal prepared by the Men in Blue, CCV's cooking team.
St. Anne's, Tifton 
3rd Annual Feast Day & Ice Cream Churn-Off
St. Anne's, Tifton
Every July St. Anne's, Tifton celebrates the Feast Day of St. Anne with festive worship and a annual homemade ice cream competition. This year three beautiful baby girls were baptized during worship, then enjoyed a down-home fish fry complete with pickin' and grinnin' by the new Minister of Music Stan Smith, his son Adam, and parishioner Albert Culbreath. All fish were caught by St. Anne's members, and Molly Berotti took home the prize for her outstanding butter pecan ice cream.

St. Anne's, Tifton
Ice Cream Judge Ricky Day hands the trophy to Molly and Lawton Berotti for their delicious homemade butter pecan ice cream. 
Youth and Young Adults 
Fall Gathering: "If you are a dreamer"

 Join us for our Fall Youth Event September 14-16. We'll explore the dream of God for us and the world by hearing poems of Shel Silverstein on topics ranging from gifts, to love, to peanut butter sandwiches. We'll also experience the wonder of the natural world and the gifts of music, worship, and play. Join us for a great weekend!

 

$110 per participant in grade 6-12. Starts Friday evening at 7 p.m. and concludes Sunday at 11 a.m.

 

 Invitation


If you are a dreamer, come in

If you are a dreamer,
           a wisher, a liar,

A hope-er. a pray-er, 
           a magic bean buyer...

If you're a pretender, 
           come sit by the fire

For we have some
           flax-golden tales to spin.

Come in!

Come in! 

by shel silverstein

 

Follow this link to register
for Fall youth Event

 

 

Come discover the dream of God
through the poetry of Shel Silverstein

Calvary, Americus 
Flower Arranging Workshop
Michael Jarvis led a great flower arranging workshop for Calvary, Americus.

Calvary, Americus
Carey Wooten working on a natural arrangement. Elise Miller is in background.

Calvary, Americus
Karen Kinnamon smiling over an arrangement she has just completed.
Christ Church, Cordele
Named 'Gold Team' at Local Relay for Life
Cordele - Christ Episcopal Church Named GOLD TEAM SPONSOR, representing they they raised over $5,000 for the American Cancer society.

Christ Church, CordeleEvery year, Christ Episcopal Church participates in the American Cancer Society fundraiser, Relay for Life. This year the overall theme at Relay for Life was "The Colors of Cancer". Betty Levins came up with the theme "Fishing For A Cure In The Deep Blue Sea' for the Christ Episcopal Church booth. The tent was decorated with wonderful paper fish art done by some of the local elementary students at Blackshear Trails Elementary School. Fishing gear and even a large fishing cage were added, everything looked great. Each team member wore blue t-shirts with the theme on it and a cute white sailor hat . They tied the water theme to Worship On The Water (their outreach ministry). Earlier in the year, the ladies of Christ Episcopal Church put on a wonderful fundraising event to help raise money for Relay for Life. Each year gets better and better! This year the members raised a total of $5,300.
Saints Madras and Seersucker 
 Trinity, Statesboro
Feast of Saints Madras & Seersucker
This past Sunday, the congregation of Trinity, Statesboro, got in on the fashion trend of celebrating "Saints Madras and Seersucker." This was part of the congregation's Fifth Sunday All-Together Sundays when the church has a single Sunday liturgy and a special coffee hour.
The Gallery at St. Paul's, Savannah
Explore the Artistic Work of Jerome Lawrence
Passionate Twilight "I am always home!" The artist cried excitedly from a window in his heart. Artist Jerome Lawrence
 
August 5 - October 28
Artist's Reception: August 5, 3-5 p.m 
 
 
How can art so filled with beauty and hope come from tragic circumstance? The Gallery at St. Paul's invites you to come explore the mystery, converse with friends and meet artist Jerome Lawrence for an awe inspiring good time!

Jerome Lawrence of Atlanta, Georgia, is living proof that the creative impulses inherent in fine art can aid in recovery from mental illness and bring beauty out of darkness. While majoring in Studio Art at Georgia State, he found himself less and less able to communicate with others in conversation or to understand what they were saying to him. He was diagnosed in 1982 as paranoid schizophrenic, but continued to paint. Whereas some paint themselves into a corner, Jerome literally painted himself out of the corner his illness had driven him to. His paints in a variety of styles; modern, contemporary, abstract, traditional, and portrait quality work.

His commissioned works are featured in collections around the Southeast, and he has exhibited at the High Museum of Art and the Carter Center, among others. The Carter Center chose one of his works for their "Christmas Card of Hope", and also invited him to serve as a panelist on mental health issues.
VBS
The photos above and below are from Holy Comforter, Martinez' VBS.  

Vacation Bible Schools in Photos
VBS We want to share your Vacation Bible School with the Diocese in photo album collecting pictures of our kid-friendly catechesis taking place around the Diocese this summer. Send your congregation's photo to [email protected].

The photos will be added to a VBS album and used at the diocesan website. You can visit this summer's VBS album online. Some of the photos will be shared here in From the Field. If you create a Facebook or other online album, you may also just send a link to that album to the address above and our online photo gallery curator, Julius Arial, will copy the photos to the diocesan album.

VBS

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