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The herculean Scott Branson turns 50! Come out and celebrate tonight at Barleys with a cold beverage and a slice. 200 East Jackson Ave in the Old city. 6:30-9:30
There will be a pizza dinner next Sunday (July 21) after the service. If you would like to bring a fruit or vegetable finger food (we won't be having utensils) please do so! Pizza and drinks provided. Bring a few dollars to contribute toward the cost.
What are you doing on Saturday, July 27? For a really good time, help the Spidells move from Hardin Valley to Parkridge! Call Tammie at 865/978-0833 for more info.
We are teaming up with the student Bible study we host to hold a yard sale on Saturday, August 27th at our house at 7245 Winchester Drive 37919 to benefit the Humphrey Family. If anyone from All Souls would like to contribute items or help with the sale, they can contact Melanie Leach at 705-9482.
Check out the article in the Bearden Shopper-News on Coach Doug and the Emerald Youth swim Team!
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Amy Benner, Bryden Banister, and Brittany Nauta at the
Smoky Mountain Invitational last weekend |
Good news on Chelsea Tolliver, who is recovering at her home in Knoxville with her parents. Surgery went well, and they are weaning her off medications one at a time. Please pray for no more seizures! Thank you!
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LB Bryant's got no hair but a real pretty head
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Hello friends! Please don't text the church, as we dont have a texting plan :) Calling or email works best. Thank you!!
From Will Johnson: There's a wonderful teaching opp in South Africa for recent American college grads. For every American teacher they receive, 5 orphans are sponsored to go to school. If there's anyone in your community for whom this might be of interest, please pass this on. Distribute to whomever you like. They can inquire with Blaire Benson, the contact on the flier.
Raise the Children (RTC) promotional flier
RTC Job Description
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| Dan and Mary Butler are in Morocco! Please pray for effective ministry time, FUN, and safe travels! |
Global SEEDS Work Day Saturday July 27
A few weeks ago many of you heard Dan Butler give an update about 10 to the City and how we, as a body, are helping Global SEEDS in their work with refugees in the city. Here is an opportunity to be more involved with Global SEEDS. On Saturday July 27, we are having a work day at 617 Deery Street, the Global SEEDS office. There will be various carpentry projects and some handyman type projects. We need skilled workers, helpers, encouragers and others who want to pitch in. We have other things going on too. We will get started about 9 and go to 3ish. Come all day or for a little while.
Contact Roy Payne at 423-316-0439 with questions or email him at rpayne@globalseeds.org
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| Caroline and Andrew Smith |
The Smiths are having a housewarming party! Go to their house at
729 Gratz Street in 4th and Gill area on Saturday night, 7:30pm - 12:30am. They have food! But you might bring some too so they dont run out.
Check out Terry Shaw's News-Sentinel article on the community mural project at the I-40 underpass near Glenwood ave. The article features the winsome words of our own Steve Loy, and is a wonderful picture of communities coming together to bring beauty and unity to an otherwise dingy area of Knoxville. Well done, guys!
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| Paul Hassell with the Climb for Captives |
Praise God for a wonderful and successful journey to the top of Mount Rainier for Paul Hassell and the Climb for Captives team. Here is an update from Paul:
Amazing! We put 9 of 14 of our team on the summit. It was the clearest and best climbing day of the entire season on Rainier. All returned to the bottom together and in good health. On the fundraising end, folks contributed beyond our goal, so we set a new goal, and then even that goal ($75k) was exceeded. Super thankful! There will be much to share. But the team went into recoop and reconnect with families mode. As for Nora and I, we are capitalizing on being on the Pacific coast. Not returning home till July 23rd.
NEWS FROM THE SHEPHERDING TEAM
Two years ago we took a step of faith as a congregation and decided to give 10% of our annual budget to ministries in the city. A year later, you gave so generously that we had enough to accomplish this tithe to the City with some one-time funds left over. The Shepherding Team has spent quite a bit of time this year praying about and discussing how God might want us to use these extra funds as good stewards of His grace.
We considered having another congregational discernment process like we did with 10 to the City last Fall, but since we had just finished one and since these were one time funds we did not think that was the right direction to take. As we prayed, it became clear to us that "our core business is family". So we asked ourselves, how can we use the extra funds to strengthen what matters most to us?
Our first step was to send a team of six members of our Congregation to the School for Spiritual Direction in North Carolina. The members that went were Jill Branson, Susanne Hassel, Rebecca Loy, Buddy and Kathie Odom, and Doug Banister. We were particularly interested in this one week training program because it has been developed and is led by nationally respected author and teacher, Dr. Larry Crabb. The purpose of the School is perfectly aligned with what we mean when we say family as summed up in this Larry Crabb quote:
"A real Church aims toward spiritual community, where souls connect, where shame weakens, where sin surfaces, where failure meets grace, where irritation softens, where holy desire grows."
As a next step in strengthening this family, the Shepherding Team decided to contract with Buddy Odom of Echo Resources for the next 5 months to scout out ways within the Congregation that we can connect in a more intentional and relational way. Buddy is uniquely qualified for this short term assignment - for 10 years through Echo Resources, Buddy has been providing spiritual direction, mentoring, coaching, and leadership development for Knoxville-area pastors and Church leaders. He is in close relationship with, and has received a great deal of training and mentoring over the years from Dr. Crabb.
As a third investment in strengthening our family, we plan to send even more of our members to the School for Spiritual Direction starting next Spring.
We believe that these short term investments will help serve as a catalyst toward building a more mature and connected culture of Christ-centered community. For those of you wanting to know more about the background of our approach or the specifics of the engagement with Buddy, we urge you to talk with Laurens Tullock or any other member of the Shepherding Team or review the following documents that are linked to the Newsletter this week:
1. Minutes of the June 4, 2013 Shepherding Team Meeting, particularly focusing on the attachment entitled "Proposed Community Catalyst Contract" which summarizes two months of Shepherding Team discernment leading up to the June 4 Shepherding Team meeting with Buddy Odom.
2. Agreement between All Souls Church and Echo Resources, dated June 26, 2013.
